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RUSH: Alex in Frisco, Texas, I\u2019m glad you called. You\u2019re next.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, Mr. Limbaugh.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Hi, Alex.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi. Mega dittos. I\u2019m 16. I\u2019ve been listening to your show since I believe I was 8, so I\u2019m a huge fan.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You are a Rush Baby?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes, I am. Thanks to my dad. He and I came up with a potentially sure victory for John McCain, though it\u2019s not really a great thing, but better than Obama. He launches a series of ads that, you know, show how, you know, this is Obama\u2019s kind of change and show how he flip-flops on all the issues. It kind of destroyed John Kerry back in the last election.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, you know, here\u2019s the difference. A lot of people have suggested that Obama\u2019s flip-flopping. The problem, Kerry actually comes off as a huge lughead dope. Obama doesn\u2019t. When John Kerry says, ‘I voted for it before I voted against it,\u2019 that\u2019s made to order. Obama hasn\u2019t done that. He\u2019s said one thing last year and another thing this year, and you have to go back and contrast the two. In Kerry\u2019s case, he admitted it in one sentence that you could exploit. He thinks he\u2019s so smart, and he thinks that nobody\u2019s going to be able to keep up with him when he does dumb things and says dumb things. Now, another reason why this is a problem, it could work, but Drive-Bys are in the process of handling this. They are covering for Obama. Let me call to your attention, Alex, a story today by Michael Powell. This is a story about Obama\u2019s flip-flops. But the Times is not calling them flip-flops. The Times is referring to these as, ‘Obama recalibrating his positions.\u2019 <\/p>\n

‘For Obama, a Pragmatist\u2019s Shift Toward the Center.\u2019 And they list all kinds of issues. The Second Amendment. He\u2019s a policy pirouette. They are covering. They are saying that what you\u2019re calling flip-flops, Alex, are pragmatism, recalibrations, and maturity, and a historian in this story even admits, hey, he could be honest about these things, too. They could not be just convenience shifts. He could really mean this. At the same time, the Drive-Bys are doing stories asking for some substance from Obama. They want him to actually get serious. He\u2019s out there saying a lot of nothing. They want him to get serious. They think they got this in the bag. They want to hear what he\u2019s going to do. They want to hear liberalism out of the guy. The last line of the story: ‘Obama is an introspective candidate, and perhaps the best analyst of his own political style.\u2019 Now, stop and think of that. The Drive-Bys are allowing Obama to analyze his style. You think they would allow McCain to analyze his style or me or George W. Bush? No. They\u2019re going to sit there and be in judgment of it. ‘Obama is an introspective candidate, and perhaps the best analyst of his own political style. ‘I serve as a blank screen,\u2019 he wrote in The Audacity of Hope, ‘on which people of vastly different political stripes project their own views.”<\/p>\n

So he\u2019s basically saying I don\u2019t have to take a position because I am what people think I am. I have managed to be whatever they want me to be, and that\u2019s my secret. If they want tough on foreign policy, that\u2019s what they think I am. If they want somebody that\u2019s going to go talk to these evil despots around the world and tame them, that\u2019s what they think I am. If they think I\u2019m going to raise taxes on Big Oil and make the gas price better, that\u2019s what they think I am. I don\u2019t have to say word one. That\u2019s what this means. I serve as a blank screen on which people of vastly different political stripes project their own views. So for those of you in the Drive-Bys, you want substance, call this what it is, call the guy a blank slate and challenge him on it. Instead, the Drive-Bys are calling him a pragmatist, that he has executed several policy pirouettes, that he is recalibrating his positions. So while McCain\u2019s camp could put together these commercials that show flip-flops, the Drive-By Media reaction is going to be, politics as usual, there goes McCain, personal attacks. Of course Obama has evolved. Of course he has done policy pirouettes. He\u2019s learning as he goes. <\/p>\n

They\u2019re going to have to be other ways. For example, I think Obama is an empty suit, but a lot of people think that he is a 140 IQ Mensa. He\u2019s probably a little bit of a tutu if he\u2019s pirouetting, too. But the point is that going after this guy is going to require a different technique than the standard, ‘He\u2019s lying, he\u2019s lying, he\u2019s lying.\u2019 I think the American public are sick and tired of us saying he\u2019s lying. We said Clinton was lying, it didn\u2019t help. Because I think frankly they think all politicians lie. The way to go after Obama, I don\u2019t know how to do it, this is not my business, but he\u2019s likable, and something\u2019s going to have to happen to change that. See, Kerry was not likable, you couple that with all of his arrogance and condescending flip-flops, and he still got a tremendous number of votes. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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