{"id":28477,"date":"2008-02-25T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T04:15:09","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-19T04:15:09","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T04:15:09","slug":"fight_on_mrs_clinton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2008\/02\/25\/fight_on_mrs_clinton\/","title":{"rendered":"Fight On, Mrs. Clinton!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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RUSH: Folks, I am here to announce today that I am encouraging Hillary Clinton to fight on. I want to encourage Barack Obama to fight on. I want to encourage Ralph Nader to fight on. I want to encourage Democrats to fight Democrats. I want them to fight up to the convention. I want \u2019em fighting during the convention. I want \u2019em fighting after the convention and I want \u2019em fighting after the general election! I want \u2019em to fight among themselves all the time. The uglier, the better. The better for my side, the better for my country, if these people destroy themselves, because clearly we don\u2019t have enough people on our side willing to defeat them. That\u2019s all they want to do to us, is defeat us. But we don\u2019t have anybody who wants to defeat \u2019em. We\u2019re interested in walking across the aisle, reaching across the aisle, bipartisan solutions and so forth — which means their solutions. So if we\u2019re not going to muster anybody who wants to defeat these people, then I am going to find a way for Hillary Clinton to keep attacking Obama so she can stay in the race and win some of these primaries so the Democrat Party can stay fractured if we\u2019re not willing to do it.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: No, I\u2019m quite serious, Mr. Snerdley. I don\u2019t want Hillary Clinton getting out of the race! I know a lot of people have this romantic notion: ‘Well, it will be the end of the Clintons. I can\u2019t wait for it to happen.\u2019 Yeah, I understand that. But this guy, Obama, needs to be roughed up a little bit politically. He\u2019s been getting a free ride. He got a free ride because of Bill Clinton\u2019s ham-handed, racist approach to attacking him in those Southern states rather than attacking him on his record — which is virtually nonexistent — and on his campaign tactics. Now, you might say, ‘They can\u2019t attack him on policy without discrediting themselves.\u2019 They\u2019re the Clintons! Surely, they can come up with something, here. Obama\u2019s been free to define himself as some kind of uniting figure when, in fact, he\u2019s a blank slate. There have to be a couple issues out there that Mrs. Clinton can cream him with. She should have found them by now. Now, you might think, ‘Well, go after Michelle Obama.\u2019 Michelle Obama\u2019s a rich target, by the way. Michelle Obama is a rich, rich target. Mrs. Clinton might not be able to go after Michelle Obama, because if she goes after Michelle Obama, who\u2019s she going after? She\u2019s going after the wife of the candidate and, of course, the same thing has happened to Hillary. So she might be a little bit off-put there. <\/p>\n

This is what Hillary Clinton\u2019s lived for the last 35 years. Everything is fair game. She should have jumped on that patriotism issue. I\u2019m sitting around here, and, frankly, I am stunned at the incompetence and the ineptitude of the Clinton campaign. So you\u2019ve got Michelle Obama out there talking about, for the first time in her life, she feels proud of her country. Okay. If I\u2019m a Democrat, if I\u2019m Hillary Clinton, here\u2019s how I attack that. Hillary should have jumped on this — and, whether she believed it or not, she should have said she\u2019s proud of the New Deal. She\u2019s proud of the Great Society. She\u2019s proud of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. She\u2019s proud of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. She could have cited every liberal achievement that these people think has been the greatest thing since sliced bread, to talk about how great the country is from a liberal perspective. But for some reason, she didn\u2019t do that. She could say there\u2019s a lot more to do, too. There\u2019s a lot more to do. Many liberals and civil rights leaders have paid the price to get us where we are, blah, blah, blah. There\u2019s any number of things that she could have said, that the Obamas would have had no comeback for. But she\u2019s gotta find reasons and ways to attack him beyond form and beyond process. <\/p>\n

What Hillary said, this ‘celestial choir\u2019 business, that\u2019s nothing. That\u2019s not even a little pinch. At some point — and Hillary could take the lead on this, folks — at some point, the public, some of the public is going to demand that Obama actually put together a coherent case for national security, for homeland security, for economic growth, for entitlement reform, for family values. We don\u2019t have to wait around for Hillary Clinton to demand it because she doesn\u2019t represent us, either. But we can. But no, no, no, no! The big story here in the stack today is the Republican National Committee sending out memos on how not to attack Obama. Don\u2019t do it on the racist scale. Don\u2019t do it on a sexist scale. Go with the issues and so forth, kid gloves. They\u2019re walking around in a defensive posture. We\u2019re talking about the presidency of the United States and we\u2019re letting liberals\u2019 creation of political correctness dictate to us how we\u2019re going to attack a McGovern-style liberal right out of 1972 if he gets the nomination: Barack Obama, and the same thing with Mrs. Clinton. We know who she is. We know all about her, and guess what? Because we know so much about Mrs. Clinton, is why 50% of the country can\u2019t stand her. Gotta do the same thing here about Obama. <\/p>\n

She\u2019s the one that\u2019s gotta do that. She\u2019s the one in the best position to do that, as the opponent in this campaign. The media\u2019s not going to demand anything from Obama. He campaigns around the country as if he\u2019s Billy Graham — and they\u2019re sitting there and they\u2019re just idolizing him. The Drive-Bys are just in awe. Well, there\u2019s some evidence that the bloom\u2019s off the rose here in certain sectors of the Drive-By Media — and that is all coming up. But here\u2019s the bottom line here, folks. We are a great country, a fabulous country, with myriad responsibilities. We cannot rely on Hillary and the media to educate us about Barack Obama. She\u2019s proven herself incompetent at it. The media is running interference for him. And in the midst of all this, a lot of people on our side are urging Hillary to drop out! What in the hell for? How does that make any sense to our side? Mrs. Clinton should hammer away harder, take it to the convention if possible, fight over superdelegates, fight over seating Florida and Michigan — and I think she will. I don\u2019t want her to get out; I don\u2019t want her to quit this. This is her life! This is what she\u2019s been living for. She\u2019s not going to get out. I\u2019ll be disappointed in Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton both if she quits. If she gets out of the race, I\u2019ll be disappointed. That will be their legacy: quitters. They\u2019re looking for a legacy, they\u2019ll get one. They quit before their latest firewall states. <\/p>\n

You might be saying, ‘Rush, why…?\u2019 because, folks, I want to see their party damaged! I want to see their agenda damaged! I want as many people as possible knowing just what that party stands for, what that party has already given us and what their agenda for the future is. I want as many people as possible knowing it. That\u2019s why Obama must be unmasked. We already know it about Hillary, as I say, which is why 50% of the country can\u2019t stand her. This is serious stuff. I want to see splits in all their coalitions. I want to see the racial coalition split between the Obama supporters and the old guard, John Lewis types, because that\u2019s going to make it more difficult for them to unite for the general. I want to see the blood spill over into the congressional races. I want this party imploding, and that\u2019s not going to happen if Mrs. Clinton quits. Frankly, ladies and gentlemen, this is why politics is best practiced by those who understand it, not a bunch of navel-gazer intellectuals writing in journals of opinion inside the protected special little Beltway enclave they have. An enemy divided is weak, and I am seeing less and less evidence in our own party that we look at the other side as the enemy. In a political sense, they are. <\/p>\n

They certainly look at us that way. We have sat around and we have let them destroy Robert Bork. We didn\u2019t sit around and let them destroy Clarence Thomas, but they\u2019ve tried. They have tried to destroy every conservative leader who has popped up, from the judiciary appointments to attorney general appointments, you name it. They are out to destroy us politically. They want us a perpetual nonfactor minority. We, on the other hand, want what? Bipartisanship! For all the sordid, sick, psychological reasons. We have an inferiority complex; we feel we must show the country that we\u2019re not all these horrible things they say we are. So we\u2019re going to be nice, like Trent Lott did, and give control of the Senate — when the Republicans had won it — to the Democrats and to Tom ‘Puff\u2019 Daschle, and that engineered the switch of parties by Jumpin\u2019 Jim Jeffords in Vermont. We thought we would get praise and accolades. ‘Gee, they\u2019re really going to like us now,\u2019 and the whole point was to make us inconsequential and ineffective. So this continuing r&eacute;sum&eacute; enhancement that we somehow have the ability to reach across the aisle and come up with bipartisan solutions of these people, when the bipartisan solution is always theirs, is always in their interest. <\/p>\n

You\u2019ve gotta look at this like it\u2019s a military operation. If the enemy is breaking into factions that fight among themselves, who does that help? It helps you, helps the good guys. An enemy divided is weak. So we need Mrs. Clinton to stay in this. We need her to ratchet up the criticisms of Obama. I doubt that she will, because she can\u2019t criticize them on policy; they\u2019re one and the same. But I\u2019m sick and tired of a party that wants to pick up the crumbs of the left\u2019s losing policy arguments and make \u2019em our own. Be it CAFE standards, be it energy policy, be it environmental policy, whatever, and then after they do that…. By the way, this is what really frosts me, and I was pounding the table both nights this weekend — Saturday and Sunday nights — dropping the F-bombs, folks. It wasn\u2019t pretty. I apologized to both hostesses. They said, ‘Don\u2019t be silly. Your rants were the highlight of both nights.\u2019 I hope. But we sit around and we pick up the little crumbs of their policy things, the establishment that the premises that they establish, CAFE standards, you name it, whatever — can\u2019t drill in ANWR, what have you — and then, after all of that, we claim our conservative principles can\u2019t win elections, when they aren\u2019t even tried, when they are abandoned! <\/p>\n

And then the blue-blood country club types in the party say, ‘Conservatism can\u2019t win. You gotta do it our way. We gotta join \u2019em halfway on gun control, join \u2019em halfway on CAFE standards, join \u2019em half way.\u2019 Why? If their way is destructive to our way of life, to the future of the country as we\u2019ve known it, why meet \u2019em halfway? Why not go out and beat \u2019em, like they\u2019re trying to do to us? Almost like we surrender without a fight in all this stuff, and our demise is going to be self-fulfilling, folks. That is we are rejecting and smothering those elements of our society that make us stronger: capitalism, a bigger military. CAFE standards are a perfect example. It\u2019s a symbol. CAFE standards are a symbol of our self-imposed decline. Rather than have a bunch of bureaucrats who haven\u2019t run diddly-squat in their lives in Washington DC, tell us what experts in various fields of manufacture can and can\u2019t do, how big they can and can\u2019t be; what we need to do is unleash the private sector. We\u2019ll turn \u2019em loose. It\u2019s always worked. It\u2019s made us the greatest country in the history of the world. Let the private sector do what it does best, instead of dictating constraints under which it must operate, particularly under hoax premises and other such things. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s the same thing with health care. The whole liberal premise, you see, is a lie. It\u2019s intended to achieve one thing and one thing only, and that\u2019s expanded government, pure and simple. That\u2019s what liberalism exists for. And for government to expand, people have to lose liberty. That\u2019s liberalism, and we\u2019re losing liberty. You can\u2019t do as much with your property as you used to be able to do. But I bet your property taxes are going through the roof, aren\u2019t they? You can\u2019t really drive the car you want to be able to drive or you\u2019re soon not going to be able to. You just had your lightbulbs banned. I could go on and on and on. We are like the stupid frog that gets thrown in a pot of cold water, and the liberal comes in and turns it on warm. In a couple days we\u2019re dead. We\u2019re not in boiling water when we get thrown in. This creeps up on us. Yeah, see, the lightbulb has been banned. Where you can and can\u2019t smoke, don\u2019t get me started on this. Some of the ridiculous… While they\u2019re trying to fund health care programs with the sales tax revenue from tobacco products, and we just sit around and we let this happen. In California, by the way, you gotta go and get solar panels. They\u2019re trying to push solar energy, solar panels on your house. Guess what? If your neighbor has a redwood tree that blocks your solar panel, you can have your neighbor cut down his redwood tree! That\u2019s been mandated. Your redwood tree! Redwood trees are protected. You can\u2019t touch \u2019em, except when your neighbor\u2019s redwood is getting in the way of your solar panel. Between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m., if 20% of the sunlight\u2019s blocked by your tree, then you gotta go cut the tree. This is not the solution to our energy problem. It is nowhere near it. Neither is changing out these stupid lightbulbs. Nor is turning off turtle lights five days from now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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