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RUSH: Suzanne, nice to have you. Hagerstown, Maryland. Welcome to the EIB Network.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, Rush. Listen, I don\u2019t think the media gets it. I don\u2019t think these Republican pundits get it. I\u2019m 50 years old. I\u2019ve been a Republican since I was a child because my mother was a Republican Party precinct leader, and I have never voted in a federal election for anybody but the Republican candidate, not because they were Republican, but because they were conservative. I cannot vote for John McCain. I don\u2019t care what he says between now and —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Why not? Why not? I hear so many people say that, why not?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Because, as Thomas Sowell so well put it, you know, people are looking at it, he betrayed us. You know, Hillary and Obama can go out there and be liberal and say what they are. He said he was one of us. And then, because he lost an election, he turned around, and because he hated Bush, you know, he always has to hate somebody, he hated us, he hated the conservatives, he hated the Christian right, he turned around and slapped us over and over and over again. He twice wanted to leave the party, and now the Republicans have the audacity to ask me, a person who has supported them, given them money, given them time, to support this man. I\u2019m not going to do it. I don\u2019t care what he says. He can reincarnate Reagan and run with him; I will not vote for this man for president. And this hurts. This is a hard thing, to come to this realization.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait a minute. Are you just going to not vote, or are you going to go out there and vote for the Democrats?<\/p>\n

CALLER: At this point, I\u2019m not going to vote. If I think McCain can win, I will vote for the Democrats, but I do not want him as a representative of all the things Republicans have fought for, and Rush, I\u2019m not the only one. Nobody in my family, I know a lot of people, my husband, his wife, my cousin, his wife, my grown children. Nobody gets this. You know, Thomas Sowell wrote a piece last week, and he said something which I think is really profound.<\/p>\n

RUSH: What was that?<\/p>\n

CALLER: And that was that Benedict Arnold was a war hero, too, before he betrayed his country.<\/p>\n

RUSH: (laughing) Geeez. Whoa. I didn\u2019t see that.<\/p>\n

CALLER: He wrote an article called ‘McCain\u2019s Straight Lies.\u2019 He didn\u2019t say it exactly like that, but what he said was that, you know, and this war hero stuff, when is the Vietnam War going to end? You know, I\u2019m tired of it. For God\u2019s sake, it\u2019s 2008. Can we move on? <\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, the Vietnam stuff is purposely up front to help obscure the problems in Senator McCain\u2019s record. <\/p>\n

CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That story is there to cover up or to relegate to insignificance in terms of this primary race, McCain\u2019s record on things. So that\u2019s why. And of course the media loves it.<\/p>\n

CALLER: What has he done since then? I mean, that\u2019s the point, everybody gives him a pass. I don\u2019t know at what point — how much they think we\u2019re going to take. You know, they called me for money last week and I told them no way.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Let me ask you a question.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hm-hm.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Can you name the chairman of the Republican National Committee?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Currently?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Who?<\/p>\n

CALLER: You mean right now?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: The chairman of the Republican —<\/p>\n

RUSH: National Committee.<\/p>\n

CALLER: No, I cannot.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I can\u2019t either. Can you name the chairman of the Democrat National Committee?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah. Dean.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right. (interruption) No, it\u2019s not Martinez. Martinez is a figurehead. There\u2019s an actual chairman of the Republican National Committee — I don\u2019t know who it is, either.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I was going to say —<\/p>\n

RUSH: I would have to look it up. It doesn\u2019t matter. I was just trying to illustrate a point. They\u2019re not on the field.<\/p>\n

CALLER: No, and not only are they going to lose the presidency, they\u2019re going to lose down ballots. It\u2019s bad now, and, well, my theory is in all of this, you know, is that there\u2019s not going to be anybody that\u2019s going to put up a fence. There\u2019s not going to be anybody fighting for it. McCain\u2019s more likely to build a bridge than a fence.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right.<\/p>\n

CALLER: And the people voting for Huckabee, listen, I\u2019m a Christian, I\u2019m Catholic, I\u2019m Christian right. Those people that voted for Huckabee, I understand because he\u2019s evangelical and they want one of us and they have been spit upon, but the problem is, is they not only threw their vote away, they threw away all their power because, believe me —<\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019ve got a theory about that.<\/p>\n

CALLER: — John McCain hates them, too.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I have a theory about that. Look, Suzanne, I appreciate it. I\u2019m getting close to break time, and I gotta run.<\/p>\n

CALLER: That\u2019s fine.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I love your passion. You\u2019ve led me here and you\u2019ve transitioned me here into some of my in-depth analysis. As far as the regional vote, what\u2019s been called the regional vote, the Southern vote for Huckabee, there are a number of things that go into this. And one of the things that I think is relevant here is, in fact, geography, the Southern component, the regionalism of Huckabee being an Arkansas governor. Second thing, of course, is the evangelical vote, and I think you heard the anger from Suzanne, and she said that she is Catholic, she\u2019s Christian, so she thinks she\u2019s Christian right, but I think there\u2019s starting to be in the Republican Party sort of an equivalence between blacks in the Democrat Party and evangelicals in the Republican Party in this sense. Now, we\u2019ve looked at blacks for 50 years. They keep voting for Democrats. The Democrats do nothing but destroy their families. They do nothing to increase their economic circumstances. They do nothing to redress the grievances and yet the blacks keep voting for them on the basis of the promise and the notion that Republicans are racists, sexists, bigots, homophobes, and are going to really make \u2019em be bad, so they keep hanging with Democrats, and nothing changes. <\/p>\n

Evangelicals, since 1973, have stuck with Republicans, basically on the promise, ‘We\u2019re going to do something about abortion. We\u2019re going to fix the cultural rot that\u2019s going on in this country. We\u2019re going to make sure there isn\u2019t any gay marriage. We\u2019re going to stop this overall lurch to depravity that\u2019s occurring in our culture,\u2019 and the Republican candidates have all said, ‘I\u2019m your man, we\u2019re going to do that,\u2019 and they make the right speeches, but nothing\u2019s really changing on it. And so they, the evangelicals, are a little bit quicker to realize when they\u2019re being taken for granted. So their votes, ‘Look, we\u2019re going to go with one of ours. At least we can trust this guy, plus we do hate the IRS, you haven\u2019t heard us. You keep promising tax reform, not tax cuts, tax reform and every year it gets harder and harder for us to pay our taxes and we\u2019re paying more and more and we can\u2019t get ahead because of taxes and this guy wants to get rid of the IRS,\u2019 so, bam, you\u2019ve had it and they\u2019re voting for their guy. They\u2019re voting for Huckabee. <\/p>\n

I think there\u2019s genuine support for Huckabee. I think the IRS factors a big deal in his support. I\u2019ve gotten enough e-mail to know this. There are a whole host of reasons that make up this vote, but you also have, in certain evangelicals, just no stomach whatsoever for Mormons. All of these things, it\u2019s not just one thing, it\u2019s all these things combined that I think explain the regionalism, Huckabee being from Arkansas, being one of them, dissatisfaction with all the false promises that have come from Republicans, just the lip service, opportunity to vote for one of their own finally who will not take \u2019em for granted because he is one of them. Getting rid of the IRS is huge. I\u2019m telling you, it is. Then of course the Mormon factor. So you throw all these things together, and it explains why McCain is not — look, I got an analysis here from John Judis, New Republic, a lib: ”Who Won Super Tuesday?\u2019 — It\u2019s hard to say, but if you put a gun in my head, I\u2019d say John McCain and (very slightly) Hillary Clinton, but the elections revealed weaknesses in McCain and in both of the leading Democratic candidates. McCain blunted Mitt Romney\u2019s challenge, but he failed consistently to win over conservative voters. Hillary Clinton won the big states she had to win, and arrested Barack Obama\u2019s momentum, but she is going to have problems with white male voters. Obama is having trouble with white working-class voters and Latinos,\u2019 and he goes on to run this down. <\/p>\n

McCain failed to win a majority of Republicans. McCain beat Romney in California, and that\u2019s the end of Romney. But McCain continues to depend on moderate, nonevangelical Republicans for his victories. In California, conservatives made up 62% of the primary electorate, McCain won 30% of them. In Tennessee, 73% of the voters were conservatives. McCain won 22%. In Missouri, 65% were conservatives. McCain won 25%. In these states, California, Tennessee, Missouri, McCain failed to win a majority of Republicans, and he might face a revolt of those conservatives in the fall. They\u2019re not going to vote for a Democrat, they might not vote at all. You just heard one of them on the phone from Maryland. This is John Judis in the New Republic in his analysis today. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wow, folks. I have to say to Suzanne from Hagerstown, Maryland: Suzanne, you have (laughing) — you have launched a nuke! I am being inundated with e-mails from friends, from subscribers at Rush 24\/7, saying, ‘She is speaking my language! She is right! Could we please get past Vi-et-nam? She is so right about what\u2019s going to happen down the ballot. The Republican Party in my state,\u2019 pick your state, ‘is nonexistent.\u2019 If all this is true, what do you think the reason for this is, folks? Why all of this anger\/apathy? Well, I have a theory. It\u2019s because the conservatives are the base of this party, and they have been told to suck an egg for all these years, and they have been told, ‘Just get over it when we make deals with liberals on their terms. Just get over it.\u2019 We have been told all these years, ‘Just get over it. We\u2019re going to grow the government along with the Democrats because we believe in active government to get our agenda done.\u2019 That\u2019s one of the keys, by the way, in my upcoming in-depth analysis to explain what\u2019s happening here in large measure on the Republican side. It\u2019s a sad thing to have to realize. There are too many in our party… We know the liberals and who they are, and we know the Democrats are who they are. <\/p>\n

There are too many on our side, who have simply succumbed to the notion that government\u2019s the end all. Government\u2019s the answer. Government should do this on global warming. Government should do that on people being obese. Government should do that on the price of heating oil. Too many people on our side have bought into this, and the reason for it, ironically, I think, is — well, not the reason. One of the factors is that we have promoted an active government in dealing with the war. Now, that\u2019s constitutional. That\u2019s one of government\u2019s jobs: the military, defending and protecting the country and the Constitution. In the process of speaking out in favor of executive power, presidential power to do these kinds of things in the war, the message has been sent that maybe government should do other things, too. Of course it\u2019s been creeping. It\u2019s not just that. It\u2019s been creeping 50 years of FDR and liberalism, and I don\u2019t have time to fully develop this now, but I\u2019m going to in the next hour. This is not something that\u2019s subliminal with Republicans. I mean, those of us who identified with Suzanne from Hagerstown. We see all this stuff, and it frosts us and it doesn\u2019t make any sense. We\u2019re not the party of Big Government. We\u2019re not the party of an active Big Government. <\/p>\n

We\u2019re not the party that says, ‘In order to exist, we have to prostitute ourselves; get on the floor and let Democrats run all over us.\u2019 We are not the party that says, ‘In order for ourselves to be viable, we\u2019ve gotta deal with them on their terms, and that way we can be called adults.\u2019 And we\u2019re sick and tired of how the people who seem to be triumphing in our party being precisely those people who are selling the party out, in terms of its ideology; all for the sake of being part of a growing government; a bigger government, in which there are a lot more positions of power to be dispensed by the people that win elections and dole those positions out. You couple that with the tax bite, and all of the frustrating things that are happening economically. We see so many Republicans who are just out there with their tongues hitting the floor, they\u2019re so excited to sign onto this global warming hoax — and we know why they\u2019re doing it. It\u2019s because they think a majority of the American people think that it\u2019s something to deal with, and so, ‘That\u2019s democracy, Mr. Limbaugh. We\u2019re elected officials and we gotta do what the people want.\u2019 No. If it\u2019s wrong, it\u2019s wrong, and you tell \u2019em so instead of caving and capitulating, and it\u2019s caving and capitulating that\u2019s got everybody\u2019s noses out of joint. I hear you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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