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RUSH: I\u2019m gonna get to your phone calls pretty quickly here, folks, but I just want to remind you of something. Brent Bozell of the Media Research Center sent Eric Cantor a letter this past spring. Bozell was very alarmed over what he had learned Eric Cantor intended to do. So he sent him a letter warning him that he might not want to go through with this and it could be disastrous.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s how the letter begins. “Dear Majority Leader Cantor: Conservative leaders were stunned to learn that you will be headlining a conference in Florida this weekend that is, purely and simply, a direct attack on Tea Party conservatives. Worse still, this event is sponsored in part by ultra-liberal financier\/activist George Soros and organized labor — both of which have openly, repeatedly — and often viciously — waged war on conservatives and Republicans for years.”<\/line><\/p>\n

You don\u2019t think people that live in Virginia 7 knew things like this? Cantor showing up at an anti-Tea Party rally? Bad enough that, but that it was sponsored by George Soros? I still think Chris Christie\u2019s political fortunes were sealed with that arm-in-arm embrace photo with Barack Obama after Hurricane Sandy, and I think a picture of Eric Cantor being embraced by Obama walking into some room in the White House to talk about immigration didn\u2019t help, either.<\/p>\n

Optics matter. The people that vote for Eric Cantor want him to stop, in a political sense. They want him to defeat Barack Obama. Otherwise they would vote Democrat. They\u2019re voting Republican because they oppose Obama. They\u2019re not voting for Cantor to work with Obama. Otherwise they\u2019d just elect all Democrats everywhere. This is the stupidest, silliest notion the Republicans have bought into. It\u2019s a toss-up between the only people that matter in elections are moderates, independents, that\u2019s a big trick they\u2019ve fallen for, and this idea that their own voters are electing them to cross the aisle and compromise and work with and help the Democrats. And whatever you do, don\u2019t be confrontational.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s asinine. And I ask myself, do the Republicans really believe that? They may be that far gone. They may be that shell-shocked over what\u2019s happened to them. A lifetime of being destroyed by the media day in and day out, lifetime racism, sexist, bigot, homophobe, creep, mean-spirited, extremist, whatever they\u2019ve been called every day. Maybe they don\u2019t, I don\u2019t know. Maybe it\u2019s worked on \u2019em.<\/line><\/p>\n

However, what we\u2019re told as Republican voters, what we\u2019re supposed to understand, is that the American people just want the two parties to work together. If that were the case the American people would elect everybody from one party. It\u2019s absurd. It\u2019s silly. It defies common sense and it insults our intelligence, which may be at the top of the list of the problems.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: To Houston, Texas. Ray. Welcome, sir. Great to have you on the EIB Network. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: (garbled cell) Hello, Rush. How are you?<\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019m great, sir. Thank you very much.<\/p>\n

CALLER: You sound fantastic today. I really am impressed with the program today. More so than usual.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, I appreciate that. Why, Ray? What\u2019s struck you?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I\u2019m a Tea Party leader. I go to tea parties. I don\u2019t belong to a political party. I generally vote Libertarian, but I go to these Tea Party rallies, and I am so upbeat when I go to these things. I see people who are milling around, talking to each other, laughing, joking, having a good time, enjoying themselves with their families, their children, their spouses, and I\u2019ll talk to a lot of the parents.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, I understand. It is uplifting and it\u2019s infectious hanging around people like you who want to have a good time, want to enjoy life, doing what they can to do that and spread the cheer with people. That\u2019s great. I\u2019m glad you enjoy that.<\/p>\n

CALLER: One of the things I want to emphasize is the children. I would say the majority of the children who go with their parents to these tea parties are homeschoolers. I\u2019m very impressed with that because I homeschooled my two sons for years.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, you know, that\u2019s happening, too, because of disgust with the so-called mainstream education.<\/p>\n

CALLER: That is one of the things that\u2019s upsetting the liberals, because these people are independents. They\u2019re happy-go-lucky, and they want their life returned to \u2019em, and I don\u2019t blame \u2019em. I want mine returned to me, too!<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, join the club. More and more people are that way, and you saw what they did when they banded together on Election Day. Thanks, Ray, very much. I appreciate it. What, does my voice sound better today than it normally does? What\u2019s…? (interruption) Oh. Oh. Well, whatever. He was very nice. I appreciate that. Ray in Houston.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Kathy in Buffalo, glad you waited. It\u2019s great to have you on the program. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, Rush, I protect myself with a Sig .380. No lessons.<\/p>\n

RUSH: (laughing)<\/p>\n

CALLER: (laughing) I would have loved to seen what happened if she got up and said that, you know?<\/p>\n

RUSH: With the IRS? I wouldn\u2019t recommend trying that.<\/p>\n

CALLER: No, no, I mean, Miss USA.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Well, yeah, of course. If she would have said that… Whew!<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah. Yes, that would have been bad.<\/p>\n

RUSH: She had the degree of understanding. Just that little bit of good advice, look at the controversy it caused.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah. Yeah. But the reason why I\u2019m calling is because I think Virginia is indicative of something even deeper. I\u2019m out talking to people all over here in Buffalo and Niagara Falls and Grand Island and everywhere. You know, I\u2019ve got five kids, and a couple of them are Marines, one officer, one enlisted. I think we\u2019re gonna lose our country, and when I talk to people, that\u2019s how I start. “I think we\u2019re gonna lose our country.”<\/p>\n

Do you know what is always said back to me? “It\u2019s already gone.” That starts the conversation. People know that we are in such deep trouble that our politicians aren\u2019t going to ast. They\u2019re not going to do anything, for whatever reason. The whole thing is very strange, but they\u2019re not going to save our country.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I have those conversations myself. I have friends who tell me the exact same thing and they\u2019ve all got kids and grandkids, and they\u2019re just depressed about it and angry. But you know something else, Kathy? Where did this election take place? This is Virginia 7. This is close to Washington. Not quite suburbia, but it\u2019s close to Washington, and I think that is a factor here, too. I don\u2019t have time to explain why, so maybe you understand. But I\u2019ve gotta go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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