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RUSH: Bruce in Boaz, Alabama, hi. Welcome to the program.<\/p>\n

CALLER: It\u2019s an honor, Rush Limbaugh.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, thank you, sir, very much.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I wanted to take a stab at why you are the de facto candidate for the conservative party.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Go for it, sir, go for it.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I believe the lines began to be blurred as soon as George Bush the First took office when he told us to read his lips and it didn\u2019t mean no new taxes, and then as much as I love George the Second, I believe George the Second really blurred the lines on fiscal policy, and I believe that you\u2019re the most qualified voice for the conservative viewpoint, and you won\u2019t let \u2019em blur the lines even more with John McCain, and so they\u2019re trying to get you, who is a conservative by conviction, to shut up, so John McCain, who is a conservative by agenda, can get on with his agenda.<\/p>\n

RUSH: McCain is not a conservative?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I agree.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So you misspoke. Well, let me ask you a question. You seem to have got this figured out. Do you think this is accidental? So you have Bush 41, who runs as Reagan\u2019s heir and says, ‘Read my lips, no new taxes,\u2019 and then, bam, eventually we read his lips, and there are new taxes, and makes a deal, who with, Foley? And then we have Bush 43, who Peggy Noonan, in disagreeing with me, says has destroyed the Republican Party, not John McCain, because he\u2019s not governed as a conservative on many things while having conservatives in the House, he stymied them. Do you believe all that? Let me just first ask you since you pretty much made the same case, so you believe that, right?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I do believe that.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay, so the next question I have for you, is this just coincidental? Is this just accident, or do you think that there is on the part of the country club blue-blood Republican set a desire to rid the party of its Reagan conservatism?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh, absolutely. I think that is the agenda. I am a conservative by virtue of my convictions, and I listen to you because of your convictions, not because of your agenda.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right.<\/p>\n

CALLER: We are driven in the South more about what we fear than we are by anything else, which is why we\u2019d rather vote for a backslidden Southern Baptist and a non-practicing Presbyterian than a practicing Mormon. Those of us who are driven by our convictions are few and far between. It\u2019s just too much work.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yes, those driven by ideas. Let me just repeat this. This is why we\u2019d rather vote for a back-stabbing, did you say?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Backslidden.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Backslidden Southern Baptist, that would be Huckabee?<\/p>\n

CALLER: That would be Huckabee.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Than a non-practicing Presbyterian, that would be McCain?<\/p>\n

CALLER: That would be McCain.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Than a practicing Mormon, and obviously that would be Romney?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes. Because we\u2019re afraid of Romney.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I understand that.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I voted for him, but I won\u2019t admit it in church. (laughing)<\/p>\n

RUSH: I understand that. Actually, the evangelical vote\u2019s being split between Huckabee and Romney, it\u2019s not all going to the Huckster. That\u2019s an affectionate term. You Hucksters out there, you think I\u2019m insulting you, I\u2019m not, with the term. Okay, so you think that there\u2019s an ongoing concerted conspiracy — and, by the way, conspiracy doesn\u2019t mean something we don\u2019t see, it just means people are conspiring, they\u2019re working together for an objective. In this case, the objective is to simply rid the Republican Party of conservative influence and power.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes. Quick example. My six-year-old granddaughter in Virginia recently, this week, was told to take two animals, an elephant and a tiger, and to put them together and make one animal out of them, and the whole idea was to try to teach her how we must all get along. Well, I don\u2019t intend to get along with people who want to kill me and destroy my ideas, but I have convictions.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yes.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Very few in politics have convictions —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Are you telling me you don\u2019t understand the importance of reaching out to Democrats to get things done?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I don\u2019t want to reach out to them. I want to defeat their agenda that my convictions and my dreams —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Amen, bro. Amen. So your six-year-old granddaughter in Virginia was told to take two animals, an elephant and a tiger, this obviously a paper exchange, a paper exercise?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Correct.<\/p>\n

RUSH: How did that turn out?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, it turned out to be an elephantiger, so she told me on the phone, and she was so excited about getting an A and making the two animals be peaceful with one another.<\/p>\n

RUSH: She got an A for creating an elephantiger?<\/p>\n

CALLER: That\u2019s it, that\u2019s correct.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Could we pronounce it elephantiger, because some people are not going to —<\/p>\n

CALLER: (laughing) You have my permission.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That is crazy. They take an elephant and a tiger and the teacher said, ‘Come up with a brand-new animal.\u2019 Did she have to draw what the animal looked like?<\/p>\n

CALLER: She had to draw it, cut it out, paste it together, and then write a story about it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: What did it look like, did you see the elephantiger?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I saw it on my web cam, Rush, and it looked like the head of an elephant with the backside of a tiger.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Was it gray or did it have stripes?<\/p>\n

CALLER: It did.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Both? It was gray and had stripes?<\/p>\n

CALLER: It had an elephant\u2019s head, gray, and a tiger\u2019s body with stripes, and it was glued together.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So really what your little six-year-old granddaughter was being told to do was learn, there\u2019s no differences between us?<\/p>\n

CALLER: That\u2019s it. We can all get along, all the little animals — and I believe that\u2019s going to happen in heaven, but not in this earth.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, no, but that exercise, that\u2019s going to extend to people!<\/p>\n

CALLER: Correct.<\/p>\n

RUSH: The whole point of that exercise is to show there\u2019s no difference in anybody. If you can take an elephant and a tiger, put them together and come up with an elephantiger and it makes sense to somebody, well, imagine what other differences we can rectify on paper with some little creative artwork.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Absolutely. And we can have a John McCain who can reach across the aisle and he can bring us all together and make —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right.<\/p>\n

CALLER: — Demorepubs out of us.<\/p>\n

RUSH: We\u2019re no different, except the conservatives. Nobody will ever be able to draw a conservative with anybody else because they just won\u2019t mix. That\u2019s next to be taught in school.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Absolutely.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Hm-hm. Don\u2019t forget, the elephant is a GOP symbol here and a tiger is a tiger, and you know what happens.<\/p>\n

CALLER: And, Rush, you\u2019re our true Ronald Reagan voice of conviction.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, I appreciate it. I really do. By the way, you know this elephantiger, you need to go out and trademark this thing and sell it to Apple Computer. They can name their next operating system after this. I would love to see that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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