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RUSH: Bill Kristol, writing today an op-ed in the New York Times, says it\u2019s time for McCain to fire his campaign. He says that what McCain needs to do is get rid of the whole campaign and start over these last three weeks and make the case for ‘a broadly centrist conservatism.\u2019 Now, you know, Bill Kristol and I know each other and I\u2019ve been a friend of Bill Kristol for a number of years. Bill Kristol, however, was one of the early supporters of Senator McCain back in the 2000 presidential race; and, of course, I was not. Moving on to this year, Bill and his friends like David Brooks and so forth (also at the New York Times) were constantly urging us to understand that McCain was the ideal candidate, because he could ‘cross the aisle.\u2019<\/p>\n

He could pick off Democrats. He could pick off moderates. He could pick off independents with his honor and his story of heroism, and all of this. These are the people that said, ‘We need to redefine conservatism.\u2019 What is ‘centrist conservatism\u2019? I don\u2019t know what centrist conservatism is. I think centrist conservatism is probably what Senator McCain believes himself to be. I know he says he\u2019s a foot soldier in the Reagan revolution. Let me ask you a question. Throughout this whole campaign… Forget the primaries, \u2019cause what happened in the primaries is an anomaly. But throughout this whole presidential campaign, when was the one time Senator McCain surged? It was when he moved not to the center, but to the right! When he chose Sarah Palin. <\/p>\n

What is it for the first time that actually excited people in the Republican Party about his campaign? It was the selection of Sarah Palin — and then they hid her for a while. Now, what I hate to see about this… I am not gloating. What I hate to see about this is, this is the exact kind of thing — this is the exact kind of campaign — that those of us who had worries about Senator McCain a year ago, six months ago, nine months ago, eight years ago. This is exactly what we saw coming to fruition. But don\u2019t forget, there was and there is a battle in the Republican Party for its heart and soul. The country club blue-blood Republican media elites are trying to wrest control of the party from the conservative base that has made the party a dominant (and even landslide victorious) party since the 1980s. <\/p>\n

So now exactly what you and I knew would happen, as was advocated by the original support of Senator McCain, now that it\u2019s happened they want to fire the campaign! These are the people ought to be so happy with the way this campaign is running, \u2019cause this is exactly what they wanted. This is the kind of campaign they wanted. They wanted somebody nice. They wanted somebody respectful. They wanted somebody with honor. They didn\u2019t want any negative ads. They didn\u2019t want any negative this or that. They didn\u2019t want any conservatism. They thought conservatism was a loser. They thought conservatism needed to be ‘redefined.\u2019 They thought conservatism had worn itself out. <\/p>\n

You and I know that conservatism will never go out of style because the fundamental and foundational building block of conservatism is liberty, individual liberty — and in this country, individual liberty will never go out of style. Now, some of these 20% who think they\u2019re the smartest people in the room — the so-called independent, moderates, undecideds, whatever you want to call them — who get caught up in specious things to determine how they\u2019re going to vote. ‘Well, this guy sounds smart. He looks nice. He\u2019s suave,\u2019 what have you. They have no idea what\u2019s in store for them. Forty percent of the country does have an idea what\u2019s in store for them. Our 40% says, ‘We don\u2019t want socialism.\u2019 The other 40% does, and here are these 20% in the middle who are going to be stunned if they end up voting in a majority way for Obama. <\/p>\n

They\u2019re going to be shocked to see what kind of country this is going to be, and then eventually somewhere down the road they\u2019ll come back and join us \u2019cause they are not going to like the encroachments on individual liberty and freedom (and income earning) and the punishment that will be aimed at people who take risks and who succeed. So the people on our side… Look, don\u2019t misunderstand. This is not gloating. It\u2019s not, ‘Nah-nyah-nyah-nah-nyah-nyah! See, I Told You So.\u2019 It\u2019s just frustration. We could all see this outside the Beltway, and the architects of this are now the ones throwing up their hands in frustration, ‘God, this is horrible. What a rotten campaign. This stinks!\u2019 Well, the fact that it took \u2019em \u2019til three weeks before the election to figure this out. It doesn\u2019t matter, folks. Don\u2019t get depressed. We still have our chances here, and we\u2019re going to take \u2019em.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Bill Kristol has a column today in the New York Times lamenting the McCain campaign. Gotta fire the McCain campaign. That\u2019s how he opens it up: ‘It\u2019s time for John McCain to fire his campaign.\u2019 Well, now, that got me to thinking about something. In the first place, David Brooks and Bill Kristol, when they both were at the Weekly Standard back in 2001, wrote a long piece. I have it here. I\u2019m not going to read it to you. We\u2019ll link to it at RushLimbaugh.com for later this afternoon. They wrote a long piece redefining conservatism, what it means. What was wrong with American conservatism was there wasn\u2019t any America in it. Conservatism was elite; it was special; it was for a select few. We need to broaden it, is their point, and they were both touting McCain as the nominee in 2000 and in 2008. They got exactly what they were going to get. This is the campaign they wanted. They wanted a campaign reaching out to try to get Democrats to vote for Republicans. They wanted a campaign trying to get independents to vote for Republicans. They wanted a campaign that deemphasized the Republican base. They\u2019ve got it and now they say fire the campaign. Fire themselves! <\/p>\n

I\u2019ve never met Brooks. I know Bill Kristol and I like him. I haven\u2019t seen him in a while, but I\u2019ve always had a very civil relationship with him. He\u2019s come under fire several times in his career, and I took up for him. But this never made any sense to me. Now they\u2019ve got exactly what they want, and it\u2019s not just these two. It\u2019s not just Brooks and Kristol. There\u2019s a bunch of people on our side, the so-called conservative media, who have been wanting to deemphasize Reagan conservatism. They said the era of Reagan is over. But notice the era of FDR is never over. Notice the era of LBJ is never over. But yet the era of Reagan is over and we\u2019ve gotta redefine conservatism. I\u2019m sorry, they got the exact campaign they wanted and now they don\u2019t like it. Well, what did they expect was going to happen when you have a campaign, a Republican campaign that is going to emphasize attracting Democrats and moderates in order to win? Now, I remember back earlier in this year when McCain pulled the nomination out of the fire, with the help of Huckabee, and I remember warning you, folks, ‘I\u2019m not crazy about this idea of going out and attracting Democrats as Democrats and going out and attracting independents as independents. Reagan moved the country to the right. Reagan didn\u2019t get Democrat votes by telling Democrats they\u2019re going to be comfortable as Democrats in the Republican Party \u2019cause we\u2019re going to deemphasize conservatism. Reagan made several million Democrats like conservatism.\u2019 So they attracted \u2019em. <\/p>\n

But the McCain campaign\u2019s strategery always was to play off the fact of how well he reaches across the aisle. Okay, so where are we? Well, I\u2019m looking into polling numbers and you got a spread anywhere from 11 to four-and-a-half or five points. As I look at the internals, I don\u2019t see a whole lot of Democrats voting for McCain. I don\u2019t see it. I never did see it, but others said they thought it was going to happen. Where are they? Where are these Democrats voting for McCain? Where are the independents that are voting for McCain? A story today, now this is the AP, so, you know, it\u2019s worth the toilet paper here that they write it on. ‘Independents Split Evenly Between Obama and McCain.\u2019 Well, if that\u2019s true then they\u2019re a wash and it doesn\u2019t matter what they do. If they\u2019re split evenly, they ain\u2019t the answer, right? My guess is they\u2019re not split evenly. They\u2019re probably tilting McCain, which is why the AP Obama wrote this BS. ‘As Election Day approaches, though, independents are sounding more like Democrats than Republicans,\u2019 well, that\u2019s because they are! It\u2019s because they are. Independents are Democrats-in-waiting. <\/p>\n

What caused McCain\u2019s surge? It was the choice of Palin. Who\u2019s Palin? She\u2019s a conservative down the line, maybe a couple detours here and there, but she\u2019s a conservative. They\u2019re trying to, by the way, diminish her by saying she\u2019s a populist. The Drive-Bys today have stories, ‘If this woman\u2019s the future of the Republican Party then the Republican Party\u2019s dead.\u2019 That\u2019s what they\u2019re writing today. Well, we can take that to mean just the exact opposite. If she or somebody like her is the future of the Republican Party, the Democrats have a lot to worry about. Okay, so McCain goes out and chooses Palin, surprise move. At that point you could say there aren\u2019t too many Democrats now that are going to cross the aisle, \u2019cause why would a Democrat, she\u2019s a rock-ribbed conservative, perception is, pro-life, Down syndrome baby. This is not the way you go out and attract Democrats, and McCain\u2019s been trying to do it, but apparently it\u2019s not working. <\/p>\n

So what is it that these guys all learned too late in the game? And, by the way, I do not think it\u2019s too late in the game. I still think this is wide open, and that\u2019s why I\u2019m talking about all this stuff today. There is a great chance if a full-fledged conservative twist, turn, whatever, in these last three weeks can make a huge difference, because if you\u2019re a Republican candidate you\u2019re not going to win without your base being fired up, and Palin\u2019s done that. And it\u2019s incumbent upon the campaign — fire the campaign, I don\u2019t know. The candidate\u2019s the campaign here. But it certainly is not too late for this. Let\u2019s listen, this is this morning in Virginia Beach. Virginia is now a swing state. We used to own this state but Obama\u2019s running TV ads in northern Virginia, which is the populated DC suburbs. They\u2019re running campaigns about how wonderful his white mother is, his white grandmother, he\u2019s running as a Caucasian in northern Virginia, and he\u2019s been doing this with local TV ads all along. Palin today at a joint rally. We have two sound bites. Here\u2019s the first.<\/p>\n

PALIN: We know that all across America right now there\u2019s a lot of anger. There\u2019s anger about the insider dealing of lobbyists and anger about the greed on Wall Street and anger about the arrogance of the Washington elite and anger about voter fraud. (applause) America, America let John McCain turn that anger into action. (applause) See, as a senator, John has confronted the corrupt ways of Washington and the wasteful spending and the abuses of power. As president, he\u2019s going to end those once and for all. (applause)<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, yeah, hubba hubba hubba hubba. Here\u2019s the second bite.<\/p>\n

MCCAIN: We have 22 days to go. We\u2019re six points down. The national media has written us off. (booing) Senator Obama, Senator Obama is measuring the drapes and planning with Speaker Pelosi and Senator Reid to raise taxes, increase spending, take away your right to vote by secret ballot in labor elections (booing) and concede defeat in Iraq, and concede defeat in Iraq. (booing) My friends, I won\u2019t concede defeat. I\u2019ll bring our troops home with victory and with honor. (cheers) My friends — (crowd chanting John McCain, John McCain) — but you know, you know what they forgot? They forgot to let you decide. My friends, we\u2019ve got them just where we want them.<\/p>\n

RUSH: In a way, he\u2019s right. In a way, we do have them right where we want them because they think it\u2019s over. He\u2019s right. They\u2019re measuring the drapes. Pelosi and Hoyer are planning a post-Obama election special session of Congress. Any time somebody with three weeks to go is this sure that it\u2019s over, this sure it\u2019s in the bag, they are ripe. It\u2019s gonna take the right approaches to do so, but they are. It is not over by any stretch of the imagination. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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