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RUSH: John in Newcastle, Washington, I\u2019m glad you called, sir. Great to have you on the EIB Network.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thank you, Rush. I enjoy your program, and I just wanted to let you know that being a grandfather, I miss your talking about and getting the wisdom that you found in your grandfather.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, thank you, sir. There was more of that than I had a chance to absorb.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, you did a good job, and you called on him when you wanted to seek his knowledge, and I just wonder what you think he would make of what we\u2019re faced with, with the Republican conservatives trying to get this next election.<\/p>\n

RUSH: What would my grandfather think here?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Of McCain being the nominee, for example, and the candidates that we face?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes, and you need to support him, and I would wonder if your grandfather wouldn\u2019t advise you that we have only one Republican Party and one candidate.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah. You know something? My grandfather was not, in public, overtly Republican. In private, he was. But in public, he had clients, he was a lawyer, he had clients of all persuasions. He was publicly affiliated with the Republican Party, sat on some organizations and so forth, but you would not have known him to be a confrontational-type ideologue.<\/p>\n

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CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: My brother and I and my dad are about the only members of my family that are as vocal about politics as we are. The others feel it but they\u2019re just not quite as vocal.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And my grandfather, I haven\u2019t even thought about this, but I\u2019ll never forget, you know, my grandfather was very active in St. Louis in the legal community. I remember after one of the Democrat conventions, I guess it might have been \u201992, my grandfather called me, said, ‘I really wish you\u2019d back off on Richard Gephardt. He\u2019s a fine man.\u2019 It wasn\u2019t that he disagreed with me. <\/p>\n

CALLER: You were being a little too hard on him?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, no. Yes. But not because I was wrong, but just because it made things uncomfortable for everybody else, because, you know, the family\u2019s got a presence in St. Louis. My grandfather would probably say to me what you would say to me, ‘Look, you think this is helpful to Senator McCain?\u2019 I would say, ‘Yes.\u2019 I would try to explain to him that the worse thing I could do would be to come out now and support Senator McCain. Let me ask you, John, let\u2019s say I\u2019m gone these next two days, come back Monday — this is hypothetical here.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I come back Monday and I open the program and say, ladies and gentlemen, you won\u2019t believe, I had epiphanies over this weekend, I got a talking-to, I had some people sit me down, I saw things like I haven\u2019t seen them, and I am here today to tell you that I do believe Senator John McCain would be the best man at this time in this nation\u2019s history to be president of the United States, and give reasons, and why I had changed my mind over the course of four days after eight years of a consistent position to the opposite. What would your reaction be if you heard that?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I think it\u2019s normal. I think you will. I do wish that you do, because you reach a lot of people.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I know.<\/p>\n

CALLER: And I\u2019ve been listening to you for the last 15 years. My wife was very conservative.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yes.<\/p>\n

CALLER: She\u2019s the one that put me on to your program. She took your newsletter. And she was a wonderful woman.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You sound just like the former Secretary of State James Baker. Are you?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I\u2019m a Texan.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I knew it.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I lived in Chicago several years and was also over in Saudi Arabia. I learned a lot about the Muslim countries —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Were you in the oil business?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I was in the oil business.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Building a petrochemical plant on the Red Sea. By the way, can I say hello to my 82-year-old brother in Plano, Texas?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Sure.<\/p>\n

CALLER: He listens to you every day. His eyesight has gotten pretty bad. I would just love to, you know, be able to express my love for him.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, you just did.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, thank you, Rush.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019m sure that will help him see a lot clearer today.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes, sir. And, Rush, you are a charmer, really. You had my wife wrapped around your little finger.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, I didn\u2019t know it, that\u2019s the unfortunate thing.<\/p>\n

CALLER: And she was a beautiful woman, she was a school teacher. She died as a result of an automobile accident.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wow. Sorry to hear that.<\/p>\n

CALLER: And you remember this. When you come on the air every day, there\u2019s somebody, an old grandfather like me listening to you and just thanking you for everything you say about conservative America.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, I appreciate that. I really do. Thanks very much, John. That\u2019s very nice of you to say.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thank you, Rush.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You bet. I mean, it is, that\u2019s heart-tugging. We\u2019re still back to the question, what would happen if I were to come in Monday and do that? There would be a lot of confusion out there, and people would wonder what really happened. He is the best of the three, but I\u2019m not talking about coming out and saying that. I\u2019ve already acknowledged that. Maybe John was saying, ‘Look, stop being critical.\u2019 (doing McCain impression) ‘Yes. That would be helpful. Actually, I kinda like it when I get to come on your show and complain about what you\u2019re doing because you never, ever, invite me. So the only way I get on is when you talk for me, and that\u2019s fine, that\u2019s fine, because you\u2019ve got me down pat.\u2019<\/p>\n

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RUSH: By the way, I forgot to say one thing. My grandfather had been a judge in his life, and my uncle is a judge, and my cousin is a judge — and when you\u2019re a judge, you have a certain temperament. Even as a retired judge when you go back into practice, you have a certain temperament. My grandfather in the early nineties asked me — well, he didn\u2019t actually ask me. He sent the word through my brother that he thought I was being a little critical of Gephardt. So I talked to my grandfather about it, and he told me why, but I did not back off. That\u2019s what I forgot to add. I think it\u2019s about then we started calling him ‘Little Dick\u2019 Gephardt. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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