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RUSH: Folks, this is the most incredible thing. The Drive-Bys, the State-Controlled Media — predictably — are going bonkers over Sarah Palin and her book, her appearance on Oprah. We\u2019ll be talking to her tomorrow afternoon at one o\u2019clock, the top of the second hour on this program. We did an interview late last week with her for the next issue of the Limbaugh Letter. ‘The Associated Press got an advance copy of Sarah Palin\u2019s book, Going Rogue, and assigned eleven reporters, apparently, to try to find errors in it.\u2019 Did you hear about this? <\/p>\n

‘The eleven [reporters] collaborated on an article titled ‘FACT CHECK: Palin\u2019s book goes rogue on some facts.\u2019 In fact, though, the AP\u2019s catalogue of alleged errors — six in total [in a 400-page book] — is thin at best.\u2019 The Power Line Blog people found this. It took eleven people to find six mistakes. That\u2019s not even one mistake per reporter. ‘The AP starts with this one: ‘PALIN: Says she made frugality a point when traveling on state business as Alaska governor, asking ‘only\u2019 for reasonably priced rooms and not ‘often\u2019 going for the ‘high-end, robe-and-slippers\u2019 hotels. THE FACTS: Although she usually opted for less-pricey hotels while governor, Palin and daughter Bristol stayed five days and four nights at the $707.29-per-night Essex House luxury hotel (robes and slippers come standard) for a five-hour women\u2019s leadership conference in New York in October 2007. With air fare, the cost to Alaska was well over $3,000.” <\/p>\n

Now, ‘Palin says she didn\u2019t ‘often\u2019 stay at high-end hotels, and the AP counters by saying\u2019 Yes, she did, one time that we could find. She didn\u2019t say ‘I never.\u2019 She said, I didn\u2019t often; I did not often stay in these high priced hotels. So she says she didn\u2019t often stay at a high end hotel and the AP counters by saying, yeah, she did, yes, she did, one time! Yes she did, once. ‘Yes, that\u2019s why she said ‘not often\u2019 rather than ‘never.\u2019 What is indisputable is that Palin sold the Governor\u2019s private jet and flew commercial,\u2019 I even talked to her about that last week in the interview, ‘thereby saving the taxpayers a large amount of money and qualifying her as a frugal traveler. The rest are about as lame. Here is another: ‘PALIN: Rails against taxpayer-financed bailouts, which she attributes to Obama. <\/p>\n

”She recounts telling daughter Bristol that to succeed in business, ‘you\u2019ll have to be brave enough to fail.\u2019 THE FACTS: Palin is blurring Obama\u2019s stimulus plan — a $787 billion package of tax cuts, state aid, social programs and government contracts — and the federal bailout that President George W. Bush signed. Palin\u2019s views on bailouts appeared to evolve as John McCain\u2019s vice presidential running mate. In September 2008, she said ‘taxpayers cannot be looked to\u2019 to bail out Wall Street. The next month, she praised McCain for being ‘instrumental in bringing folks together\u2019 to pass the $700 billion bailout. After that, she said ‘it is a time of crisis and government did have to step in.” The AP doesn\u2019t quote Palin, so it\u2019s hard to say whether she ‘blurs\u2019 the bailouts or not. But by the AP\u2019s own account, Palin has consistently opposed bailouts, except that during the Presidential campaign, she loyally supported McCain\u2019s position on the initial TARP program.\u2019<\/p>\n

That\u2019s what a Vice-Presidential candidate is supposed to do, and this is not a ‘fact-check.” This is what vice presidents do. That\u2019s why she was frustrated as all hell, if you\u2019ll remember, running around using that word ‘maverick\u2019 all the time because the campaign wanted her to refer to McCain that way. They thought that characterization was putting McCain over the top. He\u2019s a maverick. He\u2019s a Washington outsider. He can reach across the aisle to work with the Democrats. ‘This one,\u2019 the people at Power Line write, ‘I simply don\u2019t believe: ‘PALIN: Welcomes last year\u2019s Supreme Court decision deciding punitive damages for victims of the nation\u2019s largest oil spill tragedy, the Exxon Valdez disaster, stating it had taken 20 years to achieve victory.<\/p>\n

”As governor, she says, she\u2019d had the state argue in favor of the victims, and she says the court\u2019s ruling went ‘in favor of the people.\u2019 THE FACTS: That response is at odds with her reaction at the time to the ruling, which resolved the case by reducing punitive damages for victims to $500 million from $2.5 billion. Palin said then she was ‘extremely disappointed\u2019 and it was ‘tragic\u2019 so many fishermen and families put their lives on hold waiting for the decision.\u2019 Again,\u2019 in this supposed fact-check, ‘the AP doesn\u2019t quote Palin but rather asks us to take their word for the fact that Palin ‘welcomes\u2019 the Supreme Court\u2019s Exxon Valdez decision in her book as a ‘ruling [that] went ‘in favor of the people.\u2019 <\/p>\n

‘I would bet that the AP is mischaracterizing what Palin says in her book. She criticized the Supreme Court\u2019s decision at the time, as did most Alaskans, and cited it as a Supreme Court decision with which she disagreed in the Katie Couric interview.\u2019 So this is it, folks. This is the kind of error: 11 AP reporters just like a wave of Democrat lawyers and reporters was sent up to Wasilla and Anchorage and Fairbanks when she was named the vice presidential running mate to McCain, to scour the countryside for any dirt they could find on her. Eleven crackerjack AP reporters assigned to fact-check her book! Do any other authors\u2019 books get fact-checked like this? Not that I can recall. But anyway this is the best they can do? This is the best they could find. We have a brief time-out coming up here, ladies… (interruption) Well, I know liberals took after my book, but I mean does anybody on the other side get fact-checked? Nobody does. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: Remember last week after reading Sarah Palin\u2019s book and interviewing her, I said that it was ‘one of the most substantive policy books I\u2019ve read in a long time,\u2019 and I said that the people that read this on the left are going to totally ignore it. They\u2019re gonna focus on the soap opera stuff, the ten pages or so out of 400-plus where she squares the record on the McCain campaign and what happened there. And, lo and behold! I know these people like every square inch of my continually shrinking, glorious naked body.<\/p>\n

WILLIE GEIST: Rush Limbaugh calling it ‘one of the most substantive policy books\u2019 he\u2019s ever read.<\/p>\n

MIKA BRZEZINSKI: A ‘policy book\u2019?<\/p>\n

TAMRON HALL: Rush Limbaugh says that this book is the most substantive policy book that he\u2019s read.<\/p>\n

RACHEL MADDOW: Rush Limbaugh calls it one of the truly substantive books I\u2019ve read.<\/p>\n

DAVID SHUSTER: Rush Limbaugh today told his millions of listeners this was the most substantive policy book that Rush had ever read. Now, maybe Rush hasn\u2019t read any other books.<\/p>\n

STEVE THOMMA: I heard Rush Limbaugh the other day say it was ‘one of the most substantive policy books he\u2019d ever read.\u2019<\/p>\n

LAWRENCE O\u2019DONNELL: Rush, I cannot imagine you in full recline on your Gulfstream, Cuban cigar in hand struggling to get through a more substance policy book than Sarah\u2019s index-and-footnote free, score settling campaign memoir. No mind-numbing charts or graphs, no big words, no scholarly Latin phrases like ‘caveat emptor.\u2019 And I\u2019ll bet the pictures are, like, amazing.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, that\u2019s Lawrence O\u2019Donnell. Where was he? I guess he was on MSNBC, former West Wing writer or consultant on the TV show, when Martin Sheen was the president and liberals in America actually thought they were watching the presidency when they watched that show. Let\u2019s see here. Some of these people actually admit to having heard me say this, which I don\u2019t believe. I think they all read it probably on a website or else a fax or an e-mail was sent around. Why is it that the left doesn\u2019t get this? I think there\u2019s a reason. It may be hard to explain but let me give it a shot. Sarah Palin, in this book — and you have to read somewhat here between the lines to get this, but — she\u2019s not a navel gazer. She doesn\u2019t spend a lot of time in self-analysis in this book. <\/p>\n

She doesn\u2019t spend a whole lot of time on her inner life, meaning she doesn\u2019t analyze her own thinking. She\u2019s not preoccupied with her own thinking and how her mind works and explaining why she thinks what she thinks, which is what elites are obsessed with! These elites and intellectuals are obsessed with showing you how smart they are and that they\u2019re the smartest people in the room. And they run around and they analyze themselves! They\u2019re total navel gazers. Obama\u2019s a navel gazer. Their whole objective is to make you think they\u2019re smart and they are probably some of the stupidest ‘smart\u2019 people running around in the country today, as evidenced by their policies. She is foreign to intellectuals of both parties, and people in DC. <\/p>\n

She doesn\u2019t spend a whole lot of time and space in the book recounting what she did in Alaska to fight corruption, marshal all the competing bickering forces, and solve her number-one issue: Getting the gas pipeline deal. She just explains how it happened. She\u2019s not into self-praise and a lot of these people are, and so when they don\u2019t see themselves reflected then of course it\u2019s foreign to them and they have to lash out. Here\u2019s David Brooks Sunday morning on This Week during the roundtable. Stephanopoulos. Question is asked of Brooks, ‘A little bit of bluntness there from Sarah Palin. The book is out, 415 pages. David Brooks, looks like it\u2019s a fair amount of score-settling.\u2019 Folks, I told her this in the interview last week, and I mentioned this to you on Friday when I told you what I told her, that people are gonna focus on the score-settling, and the score-settling is not score-settling per se. It\u2019s setting the record straight. And it\u2019s nowhere near anywhere the majority of the book. It\u2019s a few short pages compared to the 415. But Stephanopoulos says to David Brooks, ‘It looks like it\u2019s a fair amount of score settling and the combat with the McCain campaign aides is continued straight through the weekend.\u2019<\/p>\n

BROOKS: Yeah, she\u2019s a joke. Uh, I mean —<\/p>\n

STEPHANOPOULOS: (snickering)<\/p>\n

BROOKS: I just can\u2019t take her seriously. We\u2019ve got serious problems (snorts) in the country. Barack Obama is trying to handle war. We just had a guy elected Virginia governor who\u2019s probably the model for the future of the Republican Party, Bob McDonnell, pretty serious guy pragmatic, calm, kind of boring. The idea that this potential talk show host is considered seriously for the Republican nomination, believe me, it will never happen. Voters — Republican primary voters — are just not going to elect a talk show host.<\/p>\n

RUSH: This guy has got me on the brain. I mean, you all think he\u2019s attacking Palin? He\u2019s not. He\u2019s attacking me. And I can take it, folks.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/line> <\/line>RUSH: All right, one more sound bite on this. David Brooks just said on This Week with Stephanopoulos, (paraphrasing) ‘She\u2019s stupid, she\u2019s a joke, can\u2019t take her seriously. People in this country aren\u2019t going to elect a talk show host and she\u2019s a talk show host,\u2019 which she\u2019s not a talk show host. So Stephanopoulos said, ‘But David, why don\u2019t you take on David Corn\u2019s question about whether this is taking away from her personality. This whole Palinism that we\u2019ve seen, what impact does that have on the Republican Party going forward?\u2019<\/line><\/p>\n

BROOKS: There is a populism in both the Democratic and Republican parties which is against Wall Street, against intellectuals, against Washington, against New York, against the coasts. But if you look at the sort of populism that has won in this country, it is not William Jennings Bryan\u2019s, populism which is hostile and negative, which Sarah Palin sometimes is. It is populism that is Ronald Reaganesque, which simply that we\u2019re for small towns, but we\u2019re not angry at the big cities. The anger turns people off. Representing small towns is fine. But what she does, which is turning into a hostility toward intellectualism in general, that just doesn\u2019t work.<\/p>\n

RUSH: This guy has got thin skin. He can\u2019t take it. He literally can\u2019t take it. He\u2019s taking everything she\u2019s saying personally, and he is amplifying her meaning and taking it as a personal insult. Hostile and negative towards intellectuals like himself? This is the guy who now says we need to be more Reaganesque. This is also the guy who said the era of Reagan is over. He was one of the many people who said that. And I think, again, you have to understand that people who think of themselves as intellectuals also have a very, very, very high opinion of themselves. I mean they are conceited. They are arrogant. And if anybody sounds angry, I mean I\u2019ve listened to Sarah Palin speak, and I\u2019ve heard these two bites from Brooks and I\u2019ve heard other things that Brooks has said, Brooks is the guy that sounds mad. Brooks is the guy that sounds angry and jealous. I think he\u2019s jealous of the attention that she gets, and me, other so-called opinion makers. Because he doesn\u2019t move the opinion dial one way in any direction, and he\u2019s a static zero. <\/p>\n

If he were an opinion meter, the thing would never move, just point straight up out into nowhere, which is I guess what he wants, you know, to be considered a good moderate. But in their arrogance and in their conceit, they miss her appeal. They miss her optimism and the things that she\u2019s positive about, and they totally don\u2019t understand why people are drawn to her. And it scares \u2019em. Now, I have a challenge to the Associated Press. They sent these 11 reporters out there to fact-check her book. Hey, AP, I got an idea for you. Assign those same 11 reporters to Algore\u2019s book and see how many facts you can find, not errors. What is his stupid book, Earth in the Balance? No, no, that was the preview, what\u2019s the book or slide show out there? Don\u2019t look it up. I don\u2019t care. But whatever the current book is on global warming, they made the slide show out of and so forth and that little movie that the kids in school were required to watch, assign the same 11 reporters to that book and find out how many facts you can find. Let\u2019s go to the audiotape again. Morning Joe today, MSNBC, TIME Magazine\u2019s Mark Halperin, and the cohost, Mika Brzezinski. She says, ‘Sarah Palin taps into something, she draws the crowds. The question is what can she do with it?\u2019<\/p>\n

HALPERIN: She can sell a lot of books. Think about it compared to Howard Dean in 2004. He was exciting, too — <\/p>\n

BRZEZINSKI: Right.<\/p>\n

HALPERIN: — and he had these huge crowds, and people said, this guy is going to win the Democrat —<\/p>\n

BRZEZINSKI: Not the same. Sorry.<\/p>\n

HALPERIN: Well, it\u2019s big crowds, and it\u2019s excitement, but it doesn\u2019t translate —<\/p>\n

BRZEZINSKI: Yeah.<\/p>\n

SCARBOROUGH: This is going to enrage conservatives but, you know, I —<\/p>\n

BRZEZINSKI: Go for it.<\/p>\n

SCARBOROUGH: — I know Howard Dean. I\u2019ve spoken to Howard Dean. It is such a disservice — I think Howard\u2019s way left on that — but it is such a disservice to compare Sarah Palin in any aspect to Howard Dean. Yes, because that is an insult to Howard Dean\u2019s intelligence.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, that was Joe Scarborough. See, we have to define what is intelligent. Because Howard Dean is wrong about almost everything, as a far-left, fanatic, radical Democrat he is wrong about pretty much everything. So here is again the arrogance and the conceit and the contempt, by the way, that is associated with intellectualism, even intellectuals on the right or perceived intellectuals. I love it when people think they\u2019re intellectuals when they\u2019re not, but the template is she\u2019s automatically stupid. It\u2019s just unfair to compare her to Dean because it\u2019s an insult to Dean\u2019s intelligence. It all adds up, folks, human nature is human nature, doesn\u2019t change. They\u2019d never admit this, of course, but for some reason they\u2019re scared of her. For some reason they\u2019re scared to death of her and what she might achieve.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: And let\u2019s remember, folks, Barack Obama\u2019s policy book entitled Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream, that didn\u2019t have any footnotes, there weren\u2019t any footnotes in that book and the liberals are out there thinking he\u2019s the greatest writer since Julius Caesar. AP, if you don\u2019t want to fact-check Gore\u2019s book, how about reading the health care bill? How about reading the House health care bill, AP, and tell us what\u2019s in that, and find any facts or errors you can find there. Or go through one of Obama\u2019s books, why don\u2019t you. Hmm?<\/p>\n

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RUSH: I wonder what the wizard of smart, David Brooks, would have to say about this? There\u2019s a Rasmussen poll out, 59% of Republican voters say that Sarah Palin shares their values, not that they share hers, but 59% of Republican voters say that Palin shares their views. Now, what would Brooks say about that? And there\u2019s also this, in that same Rasmussen Report poll. There\u2019s an item near the bottom. Among the political class, just 3% have a very favorable opinion of Sarah Palin, while 64% hold a very unfavorable view. The political class meaning people in Washington, for the most part. People in elective office, people that work for people in elective office, much of the commentariat or the punditry out there. But the intellectuals and the elitists and their fear of Sarah Palin is probably equal to the same reasons that they fear me, or don\u2019t like me or whatever. To those who oppose her ideologically, they fear her gaining power and pushing her ideas because they work. They feared Reagan, too. And they said the same things about Reagan too, not quite as vitriolic, but they said Reagan was stupid, an amiable dunce, likable enough guy but they treated Reagan like an idiot. <\/p>\n

Now, if I\u2019m David Brooks or any of these elitists and I\u2019m really in tune with what\u2019s going on here, in a contest between Sarah Palin and Barack Obama, for example, or Barack Obama and anybody, Obama should lose. Obama\u2019s destroying the United States. But they love Obama in part because they think he\u2019s one of them: smart, intellectual, elite, dresses well. Brooks even writes about the crease in Obama\u2019s slacks and how he\u2019s impressed by that. I kid you not. He was impressed by the crease in Obama\u2019s slacks, as a sign of refinement. Beltway Republicans, the wizards of smart, the Beltway Republicans have been running things, they have slowly lost Republican political power, so they are afraid of their own jobs and credibility if somebody like Palin, with her conservative viewpoint rises. I have to tell you, the reason why Palin\u2019s being hit here is not because she\u2019s Palin, it\u2019s because she\u2019s conservative. She is the most conservative of the Republican candidates, or I don\u2019t even know if she\u2019s a candidate, but of all the Republican public figures that might be in politics, she is by far the most conservative and everybody\u2019s threatened by that. <\/p>\n

The ideas work. Conservatism is the number-one thing which will undermine Obama. Conservatism is the number-one thing that would undermine the Beltway Republicans, the RINO Republicans\u2019 hold on power in the Republican Party. Any conservative would do that, any conservative who sought elective office and might win, threatens everybody else, Republican or Democrat alike. So they fear the rise of a conservative. They fear the success that a conservative would implement if given the chance. As for elites, if you don\u2019t use your brain it doesn\u2019t matter how smart you are. And they\u2019re not using their brains. For intellectuals, the last organ they\u2019re using is their brain. They\u2019re reacting with their heart, or some other orifice that\u2019s getting jealous. But they\u2019re not reacting with their brains. And this is the thing that\u2019s the most amazing to me. These are supposedly the smartest people among us. These are the elites. These are the classically educated. These are the people who have a refined sophistication, and in their reaction to Sarah Palin or anybody else who\u2019s prominently conservative, they don\u2019t use their brains. They use other emotions, primarily fear and jealousy. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Andrea Mitchell, NBC News, Washington this afternoon on Andrea Mitchell Reports.<\/p>\n

MITCHELL: Let me just share with you something on page 379 in the book. This is about that weekend in July when I went fishing with Sarah Palin. ‘Secretly I must admit I really wanted to see the likes of Andrea Mitchell on my home turf witnessing how happy and peace of mind my family was. The last time I had seen Andrea,\u2019 and she goes on about having seen me in Washington. So they issued an open invitation to us in the press to go fishing with her. And she says, ‘I wanted to see Andrea and her colleagues sporting fish-slimed waders, banging around in a skiff, stuck in the mud and trying to pull themselves back over the bow. At the very least they\u2019d see there was no diva in me. But,\u2019 she writes, ‘but the weather didn\u2019t cooperate. It was sunny, hot and flat calm, so — dang it — none of them got slimed.\u2019<\/p>\n

RUSH: (laughing) Yes indeed but Andrea Mitchell, somebody had to read the book to get to page 379 to find it and tell Andrea about it or Andrea herself had to read, because there\u2019s no index in there. And that\u2019s the point. <\/p>\n

All right, Floral City, Florida. Carol, glad you called. You\u2019re next on the EIB Network. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thank you so much, Rush, for taking my call. We just love you and thank you for everything you do.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you. You bet.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019m scared to death of the Sarah Palin phenomena. I\u2019m a huge fan of hers so I don\u2019t want to get on the wrong side of you, I love her. If she\u2019s our only hope for 2012 we\u2019re going to blow a golden opportunity to defeat the most destructive administration we\u2019ve ever had. She\u2019s great, I love what she\u2019s doing, she does not have enough appeal to win. We need voters for her to actually win. We\u2019ve got to win. You mark my words, Rush, the elite media is going to start pushing her as our leading candidate so they can squash her like a bug. It\u2019s about winning and if she\u2019s our only hope I\u2019m scared to death that Obama\u2019s going to win and I don\u2019t think this country could withstand a second–<\/p>\n

RUSH: All right. Fair enough. Who else can beat her?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I don\u2019t know. I\u2019m still mourning over George Allen. I don\u2019t know. There\u2019s no one out there, that\u2019s the problem. So if we keep pushing her we\u2019re not looking for somebody else, we\u2019re going to have another repeat of Obama.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, now, you think the elite media is pushing her to be the nominee? I look at it the other way. I think they\u2019re trying to destroy her.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, they will, but they would love her to run against him because they know she can\u2019t win.<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, wait a minute, that doesn\u2019t make sense.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, nothing makes sense to me.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Here\u2019s why it doesn\u2019t make sense.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay.<\/p>\n

RUSH: If they really thought she was a guaranteed loser, they wouldn\u2019t be trying to destroy her. They\u2019d be promoting her. They\u2019d be talking about how she may be the only chance the Republican Party has, they\u2019d be doing whatever they could to put pressure on Republicans to nominate her. What they\u2019re doing is putting pressure on Republicans to abandon her, to leave her alone, and I think that\u2019s because they really — it\u2019s not even her. If there were another Republican in the mix, or was able to articulate conservative values and principles like she does, they\u2019d be attacking that person, too.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I realize that, Rush, but you don\u2019t think two years from now they\u2019ll completely turn things around? Because they\u2019re not true to anybody, or themselves, even. I just don\u2019t trust these people, so much so that nothing would surprise me.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, another problem I have with what you\u2019re saying is that you say we can\u2019t do anything successfully unless we somehow out-trick or woo the media. And that\u2019s simply not true. We defeat the media all the time. Their candidates don\u2019t win every time they run for office.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Can you think of anybody out there? I can\u2019t find a soul. I mean I can\u2019t think of a soul.<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, but I\u2019m not endorsing her, either.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh, I know that.<\/p>\n

RUSH: It\u2019s way too soon. I\u2019m commenting on things as they are today. I can\u2019t see the future. I don\u2019t even know what she\u2019s going to do. I asked her and she wouldn\u2019t say. I don\u2019t know what her plans are. You have to read between the lines in the book, and the subtitle of her book is a title, and I think this might be telling, the title of her book, the subtitle is An American Life. That just happens to be the title of Ronald Reagan\u2019s biography. I don\u2019t think that\u2019s accidental, that she\u2019s tying into Reagan. So I don\u2019t know specifically what her future is and a lot probably will be learned on this book tour, if she\u2019s able to reconnect with the base out there and how this all goes. She\u2019s going to small towns in the heartland. She\u2019s ignoring big cities like Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco. And I expect certain people on our side to say, ‘Well, hell, she can\u2019t win if she\u2019s going to ignore New York, San Francisco, LA,\u2019 which is going to be a mistake because that\u2019s like saying we can\u2019t win unless we convince enough liberals to vote for us. <\/p>\n

She\u2019s going to where the people that make this country work operate. If you want to say that there\u2019s a strategery here that leads into a future political campaign, I think you could conclude that as a guess. But nobody really knows, and nobody knows what the next two years are going to bring, nobody knows what the next two months are going to bring in terms of politics and who else is going to try getting into the race. You might have Mitch Daniels from Indiana try to get into it. Bobby Jindal. There\u2019s a whole lot of names that are not at the top of people\u2019s minds right now, other than the people that ran last time, the Romneys, Huckabees, a couple others, and they put Palin in the mix when they poll it but nobody knows what she\u2019s going to do. <\/p>\n

CALLER: I fear a cultlike following as Obama. I just feel that she can do no wrong to the Christian right, of which I\u2019m one of them —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wait a second, wait a second, Carol.<\/p>\n

CALLER: What?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, I must say, I must be honest as host. I\u2019m getting a little suspicious here.<\/p>\n

CALLER: No. I\u2019m a fan of hers, I voted for Bush twice.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019m beginning to think you may be a seminar caller out there.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Not at all. As God as my witness I am not a seminar caller. <\/p>\n

RUSH: Did you witness any of the McCain-Palin campaign?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes, I did and it was terrible.<\/p>\n

RUSH: (laughing) No, no. What was terrible?<\/p>\n

CALLER: The way the thing was run. I mean, he acted like he didn\u2019t want to win.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Let me be more specific. Did you see any of Palin\u2019s campaign appearances?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes. I thought they were great. I thought she was great.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Did you think there was a cultlike following there?<\/p>\n

CALLER: No. I just think there is now. I think since then there\u2019s a — maybe I\u2019m wrong. I hope I am wrong, Rush. God I hope I\u2019m wrong. I want to defeat this man so badly that —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Carol, I think I know what\u2019s happening to you because it\u2019s happened to even some of my closest friends.<\/p>\n

CALLER: What?<\/p>\n

RUSH: You may have missed the story, but a couple weekends ago I had nine golf buddies in town. These guys are every bit as conservative as I am. These guys send me stuff, e-mail, all this stuff all the time. These guys, I mean they know me left and right. And a couple of them were talking to me about Palin, pretty close to terms like you are, echoing the sentiments of what they hear in the media. I got so angry one night that I started throwing the napkin down on the table at dinner, and I said, ‘Why in the world, you guys hate the media, you know exactly who they are and what they do and how they undermine. Why do you accept what they say about Palin?\u2019 And this business of a cultlike figure, and you think it\u2019s cultlike, let me tell you what\u2019s really happening, Carol. The reason that people are excited about Sarah Palin is not, again, so much about Sarah Palin. They don\u2019t know her that well. What they have learned about her they like. <\/p>\n

The people that are getting excited about her are the people the Republican Party has abandoned, the mainstream, conservative base that is the majority in this country, both parties have cast them aside. She represents what they believe. She validates what they believe. It\u2019s the opposite of a cult. Sarah Palin, when she goes out there and talks, she talks specifics. She talks specifics on energy policy. She talks specifics on budget restraints and constraints and responsibility. Obama is who has the cultlike following. Obama was the one, you know, just shouting platitudes, meaningless nothings out there. His supporters had no idea what he stood for. His supporters, all they knew was he sounded smart, he had a good voice, he sounded really good when he talked, and he wasn\u2019t George W. Bush. <\/p>\n

To have a cultlike appeal you almost have to have a sycophantic media. She\u2019s got a media and two political parties trying to destroy her, and yet she still has all this support. So I think there\u2019s more to it here than what you\u2019re assessing. I think you are being affected by what you\u2019re seeing on television, \u2019cause you can\u2019t miss it, it\u2019s everywhere, it\u2019s on every network, even on Fox. There are people out there ripping Palin to shreds. And people, ‘Well, Fox is doing it, oh, it must be true, because Fox is our network and if Fox is doing it,\u2019 blah, blah. So as Pat Buchanan used to say, ‘Keep the powder dry out there,\u2019 there\u2019s a long time to go before 2012. What\u2019s more important than 2012 right now, Carol, is 2010, the midterm congressional elections. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: We go back to audio sound bite number two from today, David Brooks on Stephanopoulos\u2019 show yesterday. Stephanopoulos asked Brooks, ‘Look, 415 pages, David. It looks like it\u2019s a fair amount of score-settling in her book. The combat with the McCain campaign aides has continued straight through the weekend.\u2019 <\/p>\n

BROOKS: Yeah, she\u2019s a joke. Uh, I mean —<\/p>\n

STEPHANOPOULOS: (snickering)<\/p>\n

BROOKS: I just can\u2019t take her seriously. We\u2019ve got serious problems (snorts) in the country. Barack Obama is trying to handle war. We just had a guy elected Virginia governor who\u2019s probably the model for the future of the Republican Party, Bob McDonnell, pretty serious guy pragmatic, calm, kind of boring. The idea that this potential talk show host is considered seriously for the Republican nomination, believe me, it will never happen. Voters — Republican primary voters — are just not going to elect a talk show host.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Talk show host. Sarah Palin is a talk show host. Barack Obama is trying to handle the war. He\u2019s serious, he\u2019s serious! Barack Obama is also destroying the economy, David. He\u2019s serious. So not long ago on Andrea Mitchell\u2019s show on MSNBC talking to Jonathan Martin of The Politico, Andrea Mitchell says, ‘We know that Rudy and Newt over the weekend both praised her, but do you agree or disagree with David Brooks?\u2019<\/p>\n

MARTIN: No Republican officeholder or potential future officeholder wants to offend Sarah Palin and her followers so they are going to do this delicate dance every time the question is raised. David Brooks doesn\u2019t have to do that dance because he only speaks to his readers. Uh, but the fact is he — David Brooks — raises a fascinating question here: Should we in the media treat Sarah Palin like a conventional politician who may run for office someday or a political personality, somebody on par with a Rush Limbaugh or a Sean Hannity? That\u2019s what Brooks is getting at. And that\u2019s going to be, I think, a — a question that we have to wrestle with here in the years ahead.<\/p>\n

MITCHELL: And that\u2019s a different test.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Ahhhh! So now Brooks puts it out there, and so now the media has to wrestle with this, ‘Oooh, maybe Brooks is right. Maybe she\u2019s just a talk show host. Maybe she\u2019s just a political personality. Maybe she\u2019s not a serious candidate. We\u2019re going to have to really figure this out. We\u2019re going to have to really sit down and talk amongst ourselves and figure out just exactly how we are going to characterize Sarah Palin. Yeah! Brooks has an interesting point there, Andrea! We\u2019re going to have to sit around, we\u2019re going to have to e-mail each other, we\u2019re going to have to talk and we in the media are going to have to decide how she is going to be presented.\u2019 Now, she is a retired governor. Right? She has won elective office. Right? She\u2019s not a talk show host. Right? <\/p>\n

Does she have a talk show that I haven\u2019t heard about? (interruption) She doesn\u2019t have one? I mean, everybody else does these days. She doesn\u2019t have a syndicated radio show, right, Snerdley? Does she have a television talk show? Does she have a local access cable show in Wasilla? Does she have a video camera that she records herself sitting on her living room couch speaking and…? (interruption) All right. She goes to Facebook, that\u2019s right. She goes to Facebook, writes some stuff. She\u2019s not a talk show host, yet they\u2019re going to have to really struggle here with whether she is, because Brooks raises a fascinating question here. (interruption) No. Well, ‘the female Rush Limbaugh.\u2019 Know what they\u2019re gonna try to do, they think it will be diminishing to her to put her in the talk show host category, but…<\/p>\n

I mean, I\u2019m a talk show host, am I not running the party? I mean they have said, these same guys have said I, a talk show host, am running the party and that everybody is afraid of me, and that they don\u2019t want to offend me — and I\u2019m making all these decisions out there, so? Is it necessarily — in their own world, using their own lexicon. Is it necessarily bad for them to say that she is a talk show host? (interruption) How do you know she\u2019s not a talk show host? How? (laughing) Yeah, well, Snerdley, that\u2019s not a good test. Nobody has a plane but me. You can\u2019t use that as a test. You can\u2019t use that as a test. I mean, they might charter, but they don\u2019t have their own. So you can\u2019t… Just because she doesn\u2019t have her own plane you can\u2019t say that she\u2019s not a talk show host. Where are you getting that from anyway? All right. (laughing) I know, they are jealous of that. ‘See Rush fully reclined there on his Gulfstream with his Cuban cigar reading Palin\u2019s book.\u2019 (sigh) Okay. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: Rasmussen had a poll out there: 64% of Republicans said they would consider voting for Sarah Palin, she reflects their values. Gallup just said that 70% would consider voting for Mike Huckabee. Now, Huckabee has a talk show. Huckabee has a Saturday night talk show on the Fox News Channel. Sarah Palin does not have a talk show. So a shout-out here to Jonathan Martin at The Politico, are you and your guys going to get together and wrestle with the fact that you might also have to call Huckabee a talk show host, because he actually is. He actually has one. Now, apparently Oprah asks Sarah Palin on her show today about a talk show, does she want to have one or host one, and she doesn\u2019t answer it. So apparently that\u2019s where all this talk show stuff with Palin got started. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: Tom in Houston, welcome to the program, sir. Nice to have you here with us.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Tea party dittos, Rush.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Rush, you were right to disagree with that lady last hour who was fearful of Sarah Palin being the Republican candidate in 2012. I think that the media fears that there are many more women who would vote for a woman candidate than there were the 98% of blacks who voted for a Marxist back in November.<\/p>\n

RUSH: What is this? I\u2019ve got to find a story here before you go. I think you have a point there. I\u2019ve gotta find this. I have gotta because it\u2019s a stunning number. Not even I knew it, because I got so caught up in this concept of the gender gap, and I\u2019ve always responded to the gender gap by saying: ‘The dirty little secret is that people that win elections win it with white males,\u2019 but it\u2019s a story that the vast… How many elections in the past have been… Ah! Let\u2019s see. Well, maybe it\u2019s in this. I think it is in the last four or five elections… Here it is. Democrats have not won a majority of white women since 1964. Democrats have not won a majority of the white women since 1964. They go Republican. So the guy here from Houston may have a point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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