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\nRUSH: Amen!<\/p>\n
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RUSH: This is Key in San Francisco. Thank you. It\u2019s great to have you here. I love San Francisco. It\u2019s great to hear from somebody from there. How are you?<\/p>\n
CALLER: I\u2019m doing great, Rush. Mega dittos. Thank you for listening to me today. I firmly believe — I\u2019ve been listening to you since my college day when you were in Sacramento. I firmly believe conservatism — when articulated clearly and when practiced faithfully and without apology — wins every time.<\/p>\n
So I am incensed when I look at the current political landscape when I look at the establishment Republicans and I look at the opportunity that they are squandering. Because not since when Reagan got a chance to position conservatism against the failed liberal policies of Carter, have we ever been given an opportunity to so clearly position ourselves as conservatives and how different we are.<\/p>\n
\nRUSH: Amen!<\/p>\n
CALLER: You look across this country. You look at every major metropolitan area that has been controlled by Democrats and liberals for the last 50 years. You look at Detroit and every other area where you just have to show up and point fingers and show what liberalism unchecked can do.<\/p>\n
When you look and listen to the very polls that you just mentioned in the first hour, when you have union members who are upset with Obamacare, never has this country been more hungry and waiting to listen to and be open to an alternative to the failed liberal policies we\u2019re seeing on display each and every day. So when I see establishment Republicans just squander this opportunity…<\/p>\n
They will never have an opportunity like this again, not in my lifetime — and, Rush, I\u2019m in my early 40s. I\u2019ve got a seven-year-old; I\u2019ve got a four-year-old. They can see conservatism flourish for the rest of their lifetimes if we don\u2019t squander this opportunity. And you, sir, have always said, “Liberals will always show you what they\u2019re afraid of.” When you look at Lois Lerner and IRS and all these scandals, who are they targeting?<\/p>\n
It\u2019s not the establishment Republicans. It\u2019s conservatives because they fear conservatism.<\/p>\n
RUSH: This guy… You obviously have been listening to me since the Sacramento days, because there\u2019s nothing wrong with what you said. You are absolutely right! But I want to ask you a question.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yes, sir?<\/p>\n
RUSH: Why do you think the establishment Republicans don\u2019t see it that way?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Because I don\u2019t think they care. You know, the difference is… Again, the first president that I, in my childhood, was aware of was Reagan, and one thing about Reagan was that you knew here\u2019s a gentleman who believes — who not only believes in what he says, but cares about his country. He wants to put his country first. When I look at the landscape today, I see a bunch of career politicians who are more concerned about getting reelected, about staying in power, than putting the interests and the needs of their nation first.<\/p>\n
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\nRUSH: Now, wait. Wait, though. Wait a minute. Net me play devil\u2019s advocate. You just said — and a lot of people agree with you — that this nation is hungering and thirsting for an alternative to be articulated well and reasonably and with good cheer, and the people are just dying to vote for it. So if that\u2019s driving them, their effort to be re-elected, why don\u2019t they do what you say they should do?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Because I don\u2019t believe they\u2019re true conservatives. I don\u2019t believe that they believe in conservatism.<\/p>\n
RUSH: All right, and why not? I\u2019m going to keep drilling down, because there are answers to all these questions I\u2019m asking. Why not?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Well, again, because they are listening to the media, the way that they\u2019re being portrayed. As you said many times: They just want to be liked, and in their minds they think if they just espouse conservatism, they won\u2019t be liked. Somehow they have it in their minds that to retain power, to get reelected, they have to be liked.<\/p>\n
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\nRUSH: There is a specific answer to my question, and you\u2019ve given part of it. But in the real world of politics, one of the reasons is — in addition to what you said — when they see conservatism, they see Barry Goldwater. They see a landslide defeat. They see a Republican Party in the wilderness for 40 years. They don\u2019t see the beginning of a movement. They don\u2019t see something that led to Ronald Reagan. They don\u2019t see Reagan. They see Goldwater.<\/p>\n
Their consultants see that. They are not conservative, as you say. They have also, I think, as establishment types… How many times have you heard what you would think are conservative media say, “You know, the American people have made up their minds and they actually want a big, energetic government and president”? Executive, they call him. “They want this. We have got to adjust to the reality that the American people want a large, efficient, energetic government working for them.<\/p>\n
“We have to convince them that we can do it better and smarter.” That\u2019s the current mindset of Republican consultants, many in the so-called conservative media, who advise the Republicans that you are talking about. You throw that into the mix in addition to everything you said that they\u2019re not really conservative. And there\u2019s another big one, too. They don\u2019t believe in smaller government.<\/p>\n
Government is the answer to everything. Government is where they make their money. Government is where they have their contracts. Government is where they go to do lobbying work after they finish their work in office and really score, and without big government for lobbyists to massages and manipulate and earn big money, there could be no big financial opportunity!<\/p>\n
“You\u2019ve got to have a big government so that it can be massaged and managed and manipulated, scored money off of and so forth,” and that really is it. Follow the money and you\u2019ll have the answers to many questions. At the root of it, they really aren\u2019t conservative, but they\u2019re not conservative because it embarrasses them. They think pro-life is a killing issue, for example. Social issues and everything. The things that they\u2019ve won on are the things that they\u2019re afraid of!<\/p>\n
CALLER: I agree wholeheartedly, Rush. As a son of immigrants… My family immigrated here when I was a young child and I will tell you, though, that America — the America that conservatism stands for — is why people have immigrated to this country for so many years and still do. It is for what America, even to this day, still stands for. Nothing better epitomizes that America than conservatism.<\/p>\n
RUSH: No question about it. There\u2019s another thing, too. You and I look at what\u2019s happening in the country and we see a crisis. We see a crisis that really threatens the existence of America as founded. The Republicans you\u2019re talking about don\u2019t see that. They don\u2019t see a spending crisis. That\u2019s not a problem. Have you ever seen them reduce spending?<\/p>\n
CALLER: No.<\/p>\n
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\nRUSH: They don\u2019t believe that\u2019s a problem. They\u2019ll tell you, “Look, man, the national debt\u2019s been growing ever since I was a kid and we\u2019re still here. There isn\u2019t any problem. That\u2019s an old shibboleth. It\u2019s not going to kill us. It\u2019s no big deal.” They just don\u2019t see the world the same way that you do, and it\u2019s a shame. But at the root of it, you\u2019re right: They\u2019re not conservative. We can get into the whys and wherefores of it and that\u2019s useful simply as an information or educational exercise, but that remains the fact.<\/p>\n
In fact, not only are they not, they are wrong about it.<\/p>\n
They have fears about it that are misconstrued.<\/p>\n
If you associate… If all conservatism to you is Barry Goldwater — and believe me, don\u2019t discount that. That, to them, is what\u2019s going to happen if we nominate a conservative. Why do you think they keep nominating moderate, Northeastern Republicans? They think conservatism equals landslide defeat. Why they don\u2019t see Reagan is probably rooted in the fact that they don\u2019t want to admit that they were wrong and they really don\u2019t want to get into the argument of smaller government.<\/p>\n
Because they really, really don\u2019t want to do the work necessary to make that happen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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