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RUSH: Here is Jennifer in Midland, Texas. Hello, Jennifer.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, Rush. West Texas dittos.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you. Thanks very much.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, it\u2019s nice to talk to you. However, I do need to let you know I\u2019m not going to faint for John McCain no matter he says.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, I don\u2019t think it\u2019s been happening out there —<\/p>\n

CALLER: No, it hasn\u2019t been happening.<\/p>\n

RUSH: — happening in the — in the Obama campaign. But you know, the fainting, it\u2019s either planted or there\u2019s a flu bug going on out there.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, there is a flu bug, and we\u2019ve been having it here in Midland. What caused me to think of this was listening to your Obama story, and I was thinking how silly it is to be so enamored of your political candidate or anybody, really, and I wondered if it might, I was thinking of the disgusting situation we find ourselves here in that the media has chosen our candidate for us, what do you think about a candidate where we already know some of his foibles before he gets there, instead of being blindsided? I\u2019m from Midland, and I love W, but, my gosh, you know, he blindsided me. I don\u2019t know if he blindsided you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, on some things, yeah. What is your question? We\u2019d much rather have somebody that we know is going to dissatisfying a little bit, than take a chance on somebody who could just be a disaster?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I mean either one is going to have the same power, whatever limitations that may be. And if you know already what a person is likely to mean… I mean is there an opportunity to gird yourself for that, to maybe, you know, find some way to rally support for the other side and just, you know, beat \u2019em into submission somehow.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, you\u2019re going to have to put some names here. Are you suggesting it would be much easier to support McCain than Obama?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, yeah. (laughter) I\u2019m not going to vote Democrat no matter what.<\/p>\n

RUSH: All right, neither am I, but I just wanted to know what you meant. So you\u2019re giving me the ‘hold your nose\u2019 argument, you know, the devil you know is worse than the devil you don\u2019t know. This is what you\u2019re saying.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, kind of. I mean I don\u2019t feel like I\u2019d be setting aside my conservative principles if he was the only person on the ballot. And the primary in March, you know —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wait, wait, wait. I understand what you\u2019re saying — <\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah.<\/p>\n

RUSH: How can you set aside your conservative principles when there\u2019s nobody to invest them in? <\/p>\n

CALLER: Right, right, so I figure —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right. That is why I have been suggesting to people, in addition to however you vote in the presidential race, pay attention to congressional and state races, especially congressional and Senate races. And the way to do that is keep an eye on the farm system. The farm system is state legislatures. Pay very close attention to the people in Texas legislature who are voting for tax cuts, have a conservative agenda, because that\u2019s where congressional candidates eventually come from, in large measure, not totally, but they do. Because if we\u2019re going to have a president who is not as conservative as you would like, and we might have one that\u2019s not even conservative at all, then you\u2019re going to need some way to stop them. And that\u2019s done with significant numbers of conservative Republicans in the House and Senate. <\/p>\n

So there\u2019s no reason to sit it out and there\u2019s no reason to think that your vote\u2019s being wasted. There are other ways to enforce, or to try to ensure, that you get as close to what you want happening. Not everything that the executive branch wants to do gets done. So there are any number of ways of dealing with this. But I understand what you\u2019re saying. I\u2019ve never urged anybody to vote for Hillary or Obama here, and wouldn\u2019t. And I don\u2019t know where that got started, unless somebody believed my fake endorsement of Obama last week. Look, I said I might support Hillary because McCain said that she\u2019d be a fine president. In fact, he was asked about that. Grab sound bite number two. McCain was asked about this by George Stephanopoulos yesterday. He said, ‘Back in 2005, Senator, you said I have no doubt Senator Clinton would make a good president.\u2019<\/p>\n

MCCAIN: She would be a good president in the respect that I think she has integrity, I think she has all of the qualities that are necessary, but she has a very different philosophical view, the liberal Democratic view than I have, which is conservative Republican.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, she\u2019d be a fine president. That\u2019s all. He had said it. I mean, if our nominee says she would be a fine president, why can\u2019t I say it? People have a conniption fit when I say it. February 8th on the website. What, was ten days ago? The Jindal interview was on the website on February 8th, ten days ago. Find the website for February 8th at RushLimbaugh.com in the archives, and if you didn\u2019t read the Bobby Jindal interview,<\/a> you\u2019ll find out what all the hubbub was about with my suggesting that he would make a fine, fine vice presidential nominee. <\/p>\n

Ben, North Georgia on a cell phone. Great to have you with us, sir. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hello, Rush. Mega dittos. I\u2019ve been listening to you since the day after Bill Clinton got elected in \u201992.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That was a very depressing day for many Americans, and we got them through that day.<\/p>\n

CALLER: But that was a brilliant broadcast that day. It was just excellent. I wanted to chime in my two cents here. I\u2019m tired of holding my nose at the polls. I\u2019m not going to vote for McCain. I plan to dig around, see who — there\u2019s usually a couple of also-rans at the bottom of the ballot, I\u2019m going to see if I can find some kind of a right-wing zealot who just absolutely terrifies the liberals with probably no chance of getting elected, but I\u2019m going to vote for him because —<\/p>\n

RUSH: You mean for president?<\/p>\n

CALLER: For president.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, okay.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I just — I can\u2019t — I\u2019m tired of voting for people who just refuse to represent me. John McCain has campaigned against Republicans every time he\u2019s got the chance. He\u2019s much more fond of reaching across the aisle, as he puts it, than —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, that\u2019s been the case the last eight years or so. His earlier years in the Senate were not that way.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes. I understand. I\u2019m gonna go by his record that I\u2019m aware of, and unfortunately that\u2019s the record of primarily the last eight years, in which he\u2019s pretty much shot us down every chance he\u2019s got. I agree with your philosophy that we need to defeat liberalism. If we really believe in what we stand for, we need to defeat liberalism, not constantly try to, you know, reach across the aisle to Ted Kennedy and his ilk. That\u2019s just not something I\u2019m willing to vote for.<\/p>\n

RUSH: It\u2019s very frustrating, I agree with you. But, look, the Republican establishment is firmly embedded in that philosophy now.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well —<\/p>\n

RUSH: The Republican — not the conservative — but the Republican establishment is embedded with the notion that we need to reach across the aisle, work with people, get things done, comity, good vibes, you know, all these wonderful things.<\/p>\n

CALLER: That reminds me of something you said on quite a few occasions, especially back when the — when Newt and the freshman class took over way back when, that the Republicans just don\u2019t seem to be comfortable being in power, that a lot of them seemed like they were just a lot happier to be doormats for the last 30 years.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You\u2019re paraphrasing it incorrectly, but you\u2019re very close. What I said was that psychology is psychology, and the Republicans were not in power for 40 years in the House of Representatives. And aside from the Reagan years as president, conservatives were not in power. What had their position been? Their position had been opposing, criticizing, reacting, you might say knocking on the door, working from the standpoint of the minority to try to stop the majority. It\u2019s sort of like a person who\u2019s been fat, overweight for a long time and loses a lot of weight doesn\u2019t believe for a long time that he\u2019s lost a lot of weight. He will stare in the mirror every five minutes to check to see if it\u2019s still off, will not really feel different. He physically will, but psychologically won\u2019t feel that different, depending on how much time the person overweight has been overweight, and if the weight loss is significant. And when the overweight person puts the weight back on, which invariably happens, the person says, ‘Well, that skinny me, that just wasn\u2019t me. That\u2019s just not who I was.\u2019 They rationalize it.<\/p>\n

By the same token, the Republicans and conservatives who had been in the wilderness for 40 years found themselves in the majority, and they were leaders. And you don\u2019t criticize yourselves. You advance an agenda. And the first couple years Newt and the boys did that, and after awhile, government shut down in 1995, some other things, they just lost a little focus. My theory was that they made a miscalculation that the \u201994 election meant that the country had gone conservative and just assumed people now supported them, and they stopped teaching conservatism along the way, which is what Reagan did as leader of a movement. He was constantly teaching and explaining conservatism as he went along. We have people now saying, ‘I am conservative. I believe in conservatism,\u2019 but they\u2019re not telling anybody what it is. And you have to do that. It\u2019s not a minority in the way most people live. It\u2019s a minority in the way most people vote. And so it\u2019s a constant, constant education process. And if that breaks down and stops, then you\u2019re eventually going to lose it. <\/p>\n

So it was an attitudinal thing. It was something they weren\u2019t conditioned to. But at the same time, Clinton was in the White House, so they got to do both things. They got to lead the House as conservatives, but they also got to rail against Clinton which is what conservatives have been doing for the longest time. And there\u2019s a body of thought that says, you know, maybe we\u2019re not cut out to lead, maybe we\u2019re cut out to share. It\u2019s a lack of confidence, perhaps. I don\u2019t know what it is, but I think part of it is — like if 70% of the electorate believes in global warming and you want to get reelected, you gotta act like you believe it, too. And that\u2019s not leadership; it\u2019s pandering. And that describes a whole lot of elected officials, too. And that\u2019s what gets frustrating to all of us, who think we could do their jobs better than they are doing it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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