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Well, the big election in Delaware today is bringing out people on both sides, on the Republican side, on both sides of this. It is most unfortunate what is going on because in my mind, you know, I was telling you about this dinner party I went to on Saturday night where the host threw out the question: ‘One a scale of one to ten, ten meaning the country\u2019s finished, one meaning, hey, we\u2019re in fat city, where do you think the country is?\u2019 And a prominent person said, ‘I think we\u2019re at an eight.\u2019 I was telling the story to other people, who asked me, ‘What did you say?\u2019 I said, ‘Well, a six or seven,\u2019 but I wanted to focus on a different aspect of this, and that is, how to arrest and how to stop this. My point was that we\u2019ve never had, never, ever — I mean we\u2019ve got the Democrats ready to run off a cliff. We have got liberalism and socialism set up to be destroyed, and the frustrating thing is that half the Republicans in this country don\u2019t see it, or they\u2019re afraid of it, or they don\u2019t want to go there, and that\u2019s the thing that bothers me about it. We still have people who want to compromise with these people! We still have people who want to walk across the aisle and be reasonable and get along with them.<\/p>\n
Okay, let\u2019s just assume that it\u2019s correct. Let\u2019s assume that Christine O\u2019Donnell is down in the polls, Democrat polls, by the way, by 25 points. Okay, fine. If she\u2019s the best option we have to stop what\u2019s going on once she gets to Washington, why not try to make up the 25 points? We got socialism, communism, liberalism on the ropes. It\u2019s too risky? Let me tell you something. It\u2019s worth the risk. We\u2019re talking about saving the [blank] damn country. What do you mean, too risky?<\/p>\n
This is the problem. The professionals are saying it\u2019s too risky. It\u2019s patently obvious that there are those who don\u2019t see this the way I do; that there are those who don\u2019t see this the way you and I do. I mean we can drive around the country, we clearly see things, ‘This ain\u2019t good.\u2019 Nine and a half, 10% perpetual unemployment, the administration is saying it isn\u2019t gonna get any better. We\u2019re losing our private property rights. They\u2019re coming after everything we have. There\u2019s a soft tyranny in the country today. You can\u2019t build on your own property. You can\u2019t use a certain kind of toilet. You have to use a certain kind of lightbulb, for crying out loud. They\u2019re telling us what kind of lightbulbs we have to use. You have to drive a certain kind of car. You can\u2019t open a business without permission from the government. We\u2019re being told we have to buy health care, a direct violation of the Constitution. The Constitution is being shredded in front of our very eyes. We\u2019re being told we have to buy health care or we\u2019re gonna get a fine. We have to buy a certain kind of car. We have to buy a certain kind of lightbulb.<\/p>\n
Now Michelle Obama is on an anti-salt kick? Come on, give me a break. That doesn\u2019t matter a hill of beans with what\u2019s really at stake here. I know my problem is I don\u2019t make my living in Washington. So I don\u2019t understand. I don\u2019t understand the ebb and flow of what goes on there. I don\u2019t understand that I have to keep my hand in the till no matter who wins. See, I don\u2019t understand I have to work with whoever wins if I\u2019m to support myself. I live and work in Washington and if I\u2019m gonna live and work in Washington I have to be able to get along with whoever runs the place and I have to act like I\u2019m in league with whoever runs the place, regardless who is running the place. Well, I\u2019m sorry, if that\u2019s what it takes to understand, I never will understand. I don\u2019t want to earn my money in Washington. And I want to keep as much of my money from going there in the first place. But more and more of our money is gonna end up going there.<\/p>\n
Do you believe we\u2019re having a tax cut debate here? This ought not be a debate. With half the Democrats wanting to extend the Bush tax cuts, what in hell\u2019s bells are we doing talking about compromising with them on extending them or not extending them to certain groups of people? It\u2019s time to talk not only about maintaining these but cutting more taxes. We\u2019re losing control of the language. It used to be that responsibility was a keyword in American culture. Today it\u2019s been replaced with entitlement. I grew up, you grew up, we were raised, we were taught to be responsible for ourselves. Today, people are taught that life\u2019s about benefits. One of the conversations at this dinner party on Saturday night was about the unions and the problems we have with their pensions and the unfunded pensions and the unfunded health care liabilities of public employee unions, state and federal all across the country. I\u2019m listening to the chatter go back and forth on the minutia of policy. I had to shut up at some point for other people to talk, so I raised my hand, permission to speak, ‘Can I ask a simple question here? How many of you at this table were raised with the idea, or how many of you people at the table grew up believing that wherever you worked, they were going to pay you for the rest of your life after you quit working and they were gonna pay your retirement and they were gonna pay for your villa in the Caribbean and they were gonna pay for your health care benefits? I did not grow up that way.\u2019<\/p>\n
My point was the fundamental problem is we\u2019ve got so much of the country thinking that\u2019s what being an American is, that you go to work for someplace and you retire after 20 years and from that point out you get 80% of what you were paid or 75% or 90% plus your health care benefits, and people give me static when I point out I have done that for myself? People give me static when I have to go to the hospital and pay for it myself? ‘That\u2019s easy for you to say.\u2019 Well, I accepted the responsibility for myself. How come I\u2019m the one that\u2019s the bad guy when I assume responsibility for myself? I\u2019m not forcing anybody else to pay for whatever I need done at a hospital and I certainly am not relying on anybody for my retirement, I never have been. How come I\u2019m the bad guy? I\u2019m not talking about luck or good fortune. I\u2019m talking about attitude. If you don\u2019t have the attitude that you gotta be responsible for yourself, it doesn\u2019t matter. At least if you\u2019re raised with the attitude that you are responsible for yourself, it might have some impact in the way you motivate yourself to live your life and accomplish things. But if you grow up believing that the system owes you because the system has screwed you even before you were born then guess what? You become a liability for all the rest of us. You are not an asset. You are a sponge. We got a nation full of sponges and a political party, which is creating more of them and paying them and inventing them and inspiring them.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m sorry if you get tired of hearing this, I don\u2019t like having to turn off lights on my property eight months a year. I don\u2019t like being told I have to go out and go and get some curly cue spaghetti lightbulb in 2011. I don\u2019t like being told what I can and can\u2019t do with my property. If you believe in the Constitution of the United States of America, you have to say that where we are right now on a scale of one to ten with ten being the country being finished we\u2019re close to a ten if you believe in the Constitution. We\u2019ve lost sight about what this republic is supposed to be. You can\u2019t open a business without permission from the government? You sit around and decide whether or not to expand your business based on what the government\u2019s policies are going to be? And you know that they\u2019re not for you. You know that you\u2019re the enemy if you\u2019re a business owner. If you produce income, if you generate jobs you\u2019re an enemy of this state. This is a soft tyranny. Now, people say I have no policy ideas. No policy ideas? How about the Bill of Rights? How about the first Ten Amendments? I\u2019m in the free speech business. I\u2019m very much concerned about this.<\/p>\n
Castro, look at this: ‘Cuba to Cut 500,000 Gov\u2019t Workers, Reform Salaries.\u2019 The shift would mean that one-tenth of Cuba\u2019s 5.1 million strong workforce is going to be looking for jobs in the private sector by April 2011. There\u2019s just one problem in Cuba. There is no private sector in Cuba. It has been destroyed. There is no private sector in Cuba. They can\u2019t even repair the \u201957 Chevies that you see driving around downtown Havana. There is no private sector, so 500,000 government workers off the workforce, what are they going to do? ‘Raul Castro has warned for years that the state could no longer afford to subsidize every part of Cuban life.\u2019 Well, I have a solution. I have a solution that Cuba might want to try based on looking at Obama. What are they faced with here? Five-hundred thousand government workers will be fired; salaries are going to be reformed. Why doesn\u2019t Castro just increase spending and raise taxes to save Cuba? It\u2019s what we\u2019re doing here. We\u2019re raising taxes and we are increasing spending to save our country.<\/p>\n
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So we have professional Washingtonians now telling us that Mike Castle\u2019s the only option we\u2019ve got. Well, it\u2019s time, ladies and gentlemen, for the Limbaugh Rule to supplant and replace the Buckley Rule, because the Buckley Rule requires clairvoyance. The Buckley Rule requires people who can\u2019t possibly know the outcome of anything in the middle of September to support or not support somebody based on what they think\u2019s going to happen in early November. Christine O\u2019Donnell can\u2019t win, she\u2019s 25 points down. Can\u2019t win? If a constitutional conservative can\u2019t win in this climate coming down from 25 points, we need to find that out, find out where we are. Why not go for it? The stakes dictate it, do they not? Here\u2019s the Limbaugh Rule: In an election year when voters are fed up with liberalism and socialism, when voters are clearly frightened of where the hell the country is headed, vote for the most conservative Republican in the primary, period.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Here\u2019s who introduced this bill in Congress to investigate Bush for lying about Iraq and therefore he should be impeached. ‘Resolution resolved: President George W. Bush be impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors, the following articles of impeachment to be exhibited in the United States Senate,\u2019 resolution sponsored by Dennis Kucinich, cosponsored by Keith Ellison, Sheila Jackson Lee, Jim McDermott, Robert Wexler, Lynn Woolsey — and there\u2019s Delaware\u2019s Mike Castle, now on the Republican ticket, voting for this! We had the Republican senatorial candidate today in Delaware voting in favor of an investigation to see if Bush lied about Iraq for the purpose of then filing articles of impeachment.<\/p>\n
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It\u2019s embarrassing to me that we got a guy who voted to investigate Bush for lying about Iraq for the purpose of maybe impeaching him. The bigger risk to me is that RINOs, Republicans-in-Name-Only like Mike Castle, tarnish the conservative brand. They confuse and turn off the electorate who end up thinking, ‘Well, they\u2019re all alike.\u2019 When people say, ‘There\u2019s no difference in the Republicans and Democrats,\u2019 if they\u2019re talking about Republicans-in-Name-Only and Democrats, they may have a point. So the conservative candidate, the Buckley Rule, a conservative candidate that could win, Castle, gets elected; it just blurs for independents what conservatives are, and independents are running to the Republican Party in droves right now.<\/p>\n
Like they never have before. Now, here\u2019s the resolution. Again: ‘Resolved that President George W. Bush be impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors and that the following articles of impeachment be exhibited to the US Senate,\u2019 and Mike Castle is in there voting for it. Now, in 2008 Christine O\u2019Donnell got 35% of the vote against Bite Me, Joe Bite Me, who was running at the top of the ticket with The Messiah in 2008. Now, McCain, who is (snort) the epitome RINO — this is model Republican we were told — got 37% of the vote in Delaware in the 2008 presidential race. Bite Me outspent O\u2019Donnell $4.9 million to $116,000, and they tell us she can\u2019t win. Bite Me was an incumbent at the height of his popularity, favorite son, the top of the ticket in a year when the Democrats are winning in a landslide. Why is it so impossible to believe that she would win against a nobody in a midterm election when the Republican Party is going to have a landslide? Who is saying she cannot win?<\/p>\n
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Well, he didn\u2019t win when he ran for mayor of New York, and I\u2019m sure that he knew he wasn\u2019t gonna win but he did it anyway. So the era of Reagan is over. The very people that tell us — that now cite my good friend William F. Buckley Jr. Limbaugh Rule: In an election year when voters are fed up with liberalism, in an election year where the future of the country is at stake… Folks, it is not an overstatement to say this administration is destroying this country as it was founded. I don\u2019t need to exaggerate it. I\u2019m not exaggerating for effect. I\u2019m not trying to \u2019cause buzz\u2019 so that more people will tune in. I\u2019m not trying to \u2019cause buzz\u2019 so that our friends in the leftist media will cite it. I\u2019m not trying to tweak the media here.<\/p>\n
They are hell-bent on destroying this country as it was founded, and in a year and a half they\u2019ve gotten pretty much of that done. They have succeeded incredibly in just a year and a half, a little over a year and a half. They\u2019ve already taken over one-sixth or one-fifth of the US private sector with taking over health care. Automobile companies. Basically essentially running the student loan business and the lending business in toto. They\u2019re demanding you have to buy health insurance or you get fined, hiring 16,000 new IRS agents. And Democrats are on the run during all of this. Now it\u2019s just come to light… You know, Pelosi said, ‘Well, people will find out what\u2019s in the health care bill when it passes. We gotta pass it so people find out what\u2019s in it.\u2019<\/p>\n
Well, we\u2019ve been telling you about the new rules on 1099s. As a small business, if you do $600 of business with anybody you gotta file a 1099 with the IRS which means you\u2019re going to have to ramp up. The paperwork of filing a 1099… A 1099, I use \u2019em. I have people contract hire. I contract employees. I pay \u2019em X for doing a certain amount of work and I pay \u2019em the gross. They pay their taxes. I have to pay them a 1099 at the end of the year. I report the 1099 to the IRS. They have to pay their own taxes, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Well, under the health care rule, if you do $600 of business with anybody over the course of the year, you gotta file a 1099 for every instance above it. Every instance, including if you\u2019re a small business that has trucks and you\u2019re buying diesel! A 1099 for all the diesel you buy and at all the different stations all across the country wherever your trucks go.<\/p>\n
And the Democrats say, ‘Oh, we didn\u2019t know that was in there.\u2019 There\u2019s an effort now to get that taken out. Section 9006 of the health care bill, just a few lines buried in the 2,409-page document: ‘Mandates beginning in 2012 all companies will have to issue 1099 tax forms not just to contract workers, but to any individual or corporation from which they buy more than $600 in goods or services in a tax year,\u2019 which is every year. You talk about productivity shutdowns? You know how people try to rearrange and arrange their lives to avoid tax consequences? It\u2019s just an absolute mess. Now the Democrats, some of them are saying, ‘Well, we didn\u2019t know this was in there\u2019 and want to get it stricken and the administration says, ‘No way! No way. We\u2019re not changing anything. We are on a charted course to destroy this country as founded and we are not going to back off of it one bit.\u2019<\/p>\n
Well, to me, that\u2019s pretty radical. It isn\u2019t politics as usual. So the Limbaugh Rule: In an election year, when voters are fed up with liberalism and socialism and when the fate of the country as founded is at stake, you vote for the most conservative Republican in the primary, period. It will be a rare opportunity to move the party and the country to the right.\u2019 The Limbaugh Rule is do not play defense when your offensive hand is as strong as ours is. I look at what\u2019s happening, what we\u2019re faced with, and I listen to people debate on the margins, Christine O\u2019Donnell versus Castle. See, the issue to me is not Christine O\u2019Donnell. The issue is Castle. It\u2019s very simple. She\u2019s not the issue. Castle is.<\/p>\n
Guys like Castle will tarnish the Republican brand and the conservative brand just as McCain has done. Lindsey Graham? It\u2019s no different than that. In 2008… I\u2019m gonna go through this again. In 2008, Christine O\u2019Donnell got 35% of the vote against Biden. Biden was running at the top of the Democrat ticket as the VP candidate for The Messiah, and the beloved McCain only got 37% of the vote in Delaware. Did Biden have baggage? (snorts) Does Biden have baggage? Does Castle have baggage? Now, the point is McCain only got 37%. Should we not have even contested in Delaware? Maybe we should have ceded Deleware, not even sent McCain there. We shouldn\u2019t even have tried to win Delaware.<\/p>\n
To my mind, if the polls are right, she\u2019s down 25 points if she wins today, 25 points down the general. There\u2019s no better year than today than this year to make that up. It\u2019s certainly worth fighting for. Biden was an incumbent at the height of his popularity. He was a favorite son at the top of the ticket in a year, 2008, when the Democrats are winning in a landslide. Why is it so impossible to believe that Christine O\u2019Donnell would win against a nobody in a midterm election where the GOP is going to have a landslide? The GOP is going to have a national landslide; who\u2019s to say with ontological certitude that she\u2019s a destined loser in the midst of a GOP landslide? And who is it that doesn\u2019t want to try?<\/p>\n
Who is it that doesn\u2019t want to seek a conservative victory here given what we are up against? So the line is that Christine O\u2019Donnell has no shot of winning Delaware. Isn\u2019t that what they said about Scott Brown in Massachusetts? Martha Coakley was going to clean his clock. I mean Scott Brown had not a prayer. He had no chance. ‘The Kennedy seat? Come on, Rush, don\u2019t kid me.\u2019 Who were we told we had to support? The Scozzafavas of the world, whatever. We were told we had to support Dede Scozzafava. Who else? Any number of RINO Republicans. They said, ‘Chris Christie doesn\u2019t have a chance, have a prayer in New Jersey. Who you kidding, Rush? Or O\u2019Donnell in Delaware doesn\u2019t have a prayer. These are blue states, Rush. Come on. We need to get a Republican that can win there. These things just can\u2019t happen. You\u2019re going to have to get real, Rush.\u2019<\/p>\n
What happened to Charlie Crist? Charlie Crist was supposedly a shoe-in in Florida. Everybody said, ‘Marco Rubio doesn\u2019t have a chance, Rush. He\u2019s too young, doesn\u2019t have a chance.\u2019 Really? Who\u2019s running for the hills and now has to be honest about who he is: A Democrat seeking help from the White House? It\u2019s Charlie Crist. And of course Dede Scozzafava, that was New York 23. Remember 1992, ladies and gentlemen, the Year of the Woman. The Democrats… You may be too young to remember the Year of the Woman, but I was there. It was 1992, in Year of the Woman, the Democrats told us the Republican Party was too white and too male. Didn\u2019t have any women. That year we had to go out, we had to get women, women, women.<\/p>\n
All we were was a party of angry white males. Too many old white guys. Now this year the ruling class is telling us, ‘No, we need moderates in there. We need people who can win. Even if it is people like Castle, even if we do have to hold our nose, we need somebody who can win! We need somebody willing to walk across the aisle be reasonable, work with the Democrats. They have the power,\u2019 and now suddenly the fact she\u2019s a woman doesn\u2019t matter. As I pointed out yesterday, when everybody starts ripping into Christine O\u2019Donnell even on our side, they rip into her as a slut, as a stupid idiot, she filed lawsuits… They don\u2019t rip into her on policy. The critics of Mike Castle don\u2019t talk about whatever baggage he\u2019s got.<\/p>\n
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(Interruption) I\u2019m not dependent on them? Oh, true, I\u2019m not dependent on them. I\u2019m not dependent on the Washington political class. I\u2019m not. You know, I don\u2019t have a magazine or column read by these people who then approve me and anoint me as one of them. I don\u2019t have a blog read by these people, so I guess I don\u2019t understand it. I\u2019m out of touch from afar. I don\u2019t understand how things work in Washington. I don\u2019t understand how you really get things done there. All I know is that within two weeks of Obama assuming office he calls a meeting of the Republican leadership and he tells John Boehner, ‘You don\u2019t want to do things the way Limbaugh does. If you can\u2019t listen to Limbaugh anymore, it\u2019s not how things get done here.\u2019<\/p>\n
Really? Yet I somehow am an honorary member of the Republican class of 1994 but I don\u2019t know what goes on there and I don\u2019t know how things work there. I certainly don\u2019t derive my living by what goes on in Washington, and I\u2019m not dependent on what happens there. I\u2019m just like you. (chuckles) The further away that city is from my life the more prosperous I am. The more distant things in that city are in relation to how I live, the more prosperous I am. The closer those people get to my life the greater risk I\u2019m in. I\u2019m talking about professionally, prosperity. You know what I\u2019m talking about.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Now back to the controversial portion of the program, Charles Krauthammer — (laughing) — on the Fox News Channel last night, Special Report. During the panel discussion, the host Bret Baier speaking with Krauthammer, this is about Mike Castle and Christine O\u2019Donnell in Delaware, and here\u2019s Krauthammer.<\/p>\n
KRAUTHAMMER: The Palin endorsement I think is destructive and capricious. Bill Buckley had a rule that he always supported the most conservative candidate who was electable. Otherwise the vote is simply self-indulgence. It\u2019s a big mistake. Mike Castle is a shoe-in. He wins — they call off the fight in the first round. O\u2019Donnell is very problematic. She probably will lose. We are in a cycle where we have seen that this is not a normal Democratic administration. It\u2019s highly ideological. O\u2019Donnell is gonna lose and that could be the difference between Republican and Democratic control and make a difference about the Obama agenda in the future.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Now, as you all know, I have profound admiration and respect for Charles Krauthammer. I disagree with him on this \u2019cause I think he\u2019s right, it is highly ideological, and Castle is not that much different from the Obama administration. So Castle giving us a majority is sort of like a wet dream. It doesn\u2019t do anything. If he\u2019s going to be voting with the other side, if you\u2019re going to be voting for cap and trade, what is the point in having that kind of majority? What\u2019s the point in having a McCain majority? I said at this now famous dinner party on Saturday night, ‘Look, if our majority is made up of a bunch of Mike Castles, we don\u2019t have a majority. Conservatism doesn\u2019t. The Washington ruling class might, but conservatism does not.\u2019<\/p>\n
So here\u2019s the Buckley Rule again. The Buckley Rule, you vote for, support the most conservative candidate who\u2019s electable, the most electable conservative option against the Democrat in November. Now, Buckley voted for himself as mayor of New York against a RINO, John Lindsay. Buckley violated his own rule. He also voted for Barry Goldwater. Goldwater had no prayer. If the Buckley Rule would have been applied in 1964, we would have nominated Nelson Rockefeller. Or \u201976, in fact, Nelson Rockefeller. We would have supported Ford. In fact, Buckley didn\u2019t. Buckley supported Reagan in \u201976, not Ford, and everybody told us that Ford was the only guy that can win, Reagan can\u2019t possibly win, but Buckley supported Reagan, they were close friends. So Buckley violated his own rule in \u201976. He violated his own rule in \u201964 when supporting Goldwater, which takes us now to you start talking about the Buckley Rule, you need a crystal ball. You need to be clairvoyant. This year it\u2019s a complete mystery to most political observers how fast and how deep voter resentment is toward Democrats, Obamacare, and Imam Obama himself.<\/p>\n
These professional pollsters are not believing their own polls. It\u2019s so bad for the Democrats, so bad for Obama, they\u2019re not even believing it. They\u2019re holding out hope that their polls are not that accurate. There\u2019s going to be such a clean sweep for Republicans. In this climate to say that a conservative cannot win in Delaware who\u2019s down by 20, 25 points, in a small state, is it not worth fighting for? We\u2019ve been through this through the whole program today, and I don\u2019t want to be redundant for the entire program, but the Buckley Rule goes back to a point in time where conservatives were a very tiny minority. The Buckley Rule was written and authored at a different point in American history.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Now, look, I really am uncomfortable doing this, as you know. I\u2019ve got profound respect. Krauthammer\u2019s brain is one of the brains I\u2019d like to have if I didn\u2019t have my own. But I just think he\u2019s wrong on this whole Castle and Christine O\u2019Donnell situation in Delaware. He said the Palin endorsement is destructive and capricious, that you\u2019re not gonna get a Republican majority in the Senate with O\u2019Donnell, but you will get one with Castle, to which I said, ‘Well, what good is it? What good\u2019s a Republican majority made up of a whole bunch of Olympia Snowes and Susan Collinses?\u2019 Anyway, November 17th, 2008, Special Report, Brit Hume, Charles Krauthammer, panel discussion said this about Obama.<\/p>\n
KRAUTHAMMER: The fact is that we don\u2019t know what he thinks deep inside. But it really hardly matters. If you watch him and the way he moves to the center, he moved at almost whiplash speed in a way saying he can succeed without the left.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Again, I\u2019m not comfortable doing this. My point is Charles was wrong about Obama. Centrist, can move anywhere he wants without the left, succeed without the left? He is the left! He is the radical left and a lot of our people were taken in by the so-called academic intelligence and resume track record, ‘He\u2019s one of us\u2019 faculty lounge kind of guys, smokes cigars and cigarettes and drinks port in the faculty room. Big whoop. So here\u2019s Castle, by the way, this is last night, ABC News The Blog Note, senior correspondent Jonathan Karl talking to Castle. ‘Did you learn a lesson watching Lisa Murkowski go down in Alaska?\u2019<\/p>\n
CASTLE: Lisa went down. That was discouraging. I\u2019ve had a couple of Democratic senators tell me how much respect they had for her. She called me several days after she went down and said, you know, these people are — will come hard. Just be, you know, very careful.<\/p>\n
RUSH: She\u2019s talking about the Tea Party. She\u2019s talking about us. He\u2019s talking about conservative people. So this guy, Castle, Lisa Murkowski calls him up. ‘They\u2019re very discouraged, yeah, I had a couple Democrat senators tell me how much respect they had for her.\u2019 Well, that\u2019s wonderful. Like we really care that Pat Leahy and Harry Reid or whoever it is has a lot of respect for Lisa Murkowski. Is that what gives her legitimacy? Mr. Castle, is that what you need for legitimacy, that some Democrats like you, that Democrats have respect for you? Isn\u2019t that the root of our problem, we want to be considered reasonable by the Democrats, we don\u2019t want to be thought of as one of these insane fringe right-wingers like Limbaugh or Palin. Oh, no, no, we don\u2019t want to be thought of like that. We want to be respected by Joe Biden, Harry Reid, Patrick Leahy, and John Kerry. We want those people saying good things about us. Is that not the root of our problem? And notice, ‘these people\u2019 are gonna come after you pretty hard, these people. That\u2019s you, Tea Party. That\u2019s the guy that our people are hoping gives us a Republican majority in the Senate, a guy that talks about you as ‘these people.\u2019<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Listen one more time. Mike Castle talking about Lisa Murkowski last night, ABC. This makes the case.<\/p>\n
CASTLE: Lisa went down. That was discouraging. I\u2019ve had a couple of Democratic senators tell me how much respect they had for her. She called me several days after she went down and said, you know, these people are — will come hard. Just be, you know, very careful.<\/p>\n
RUSH: ‘These people,\u2019 you; ‘these people,\u2019 Tea Party. Yeah, Democrat senators had a lot of respect for her. Yeah, that\u2019s what we need, that\u2019s the kind of thing we need to go for, respect from Democrats. That\u2019s how we\u2019re gonna stop Obama. Yeah.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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