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Jan. 16, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 16, 2008, Wednesday, Hour #2
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I'm not kidding.
As long as these cafe standards, I'm going to continue talking about the call from Michigan, because a couple things I didn't get to say in response to what he uh said.
He said too many Republicans uh came in there sort of pandering like liberals.
And he was referring specifically to Romney, who said uh that he would funnel 20 billion dollars a year federal money uh into the auto industry for research on various things, fuel and energy efficiency and all this.
Uh and I by the way, I I I frankly uh uh agree with the caller on that.
That's that that to me that was pandering to people in the state.
Politicians do it.
This is what we were talking about yesterday by conservatism having to have underlying principles that form a foundation.
Uh we just we just don't have any idea out there that's pure.
We're gonna have to, you know, bite the bullet on some things as this uh heads on down the on the on the uh path.
But you know, these cafe standards, remembered now in the 1970s, we first in instituted these things with Richard Nixon uh after the price of gasoline shot up from a quarter to over a dollar, and he's contrived shortages, and everybody, we need more mileage, you have more mileage, I can't handle it.
Wait a minute, whining and moaning about it.
So here came the cafe standards, which is basically federal mandates on miles per gallon, and Detroit retooled and started making a bunch of cars that nobody really wanted back then.
Uh, but they got more gas mileage.
We were importing 35% of our oil at the time.
We've had, I don't know how many.
Uh Clinton had a cafe standard increase.
Well, the energy bill that was just uh uh talked about has one in it that is really draconian, uh, and probably a couple of others.
Now, the the point of this was the cafe standards supposed to mean that we get more fuel economy, greater miles per gallon.
Ergo is supposed to use less gasoline.
Hasn't worked.
We're now importing over 60% of our oil.
We now import 13% of our gasoline.
We import refined gasoline as well.
Now we don't have enough refinery capacity to uh refine enough oil into gasoline to meet our own domestic needs.
We're having to import that too, despite all these miles per gallon increases.
So it's not working.
Because as the miles per gallon go up, people can drive more.
They get greater fuel economy.
It's not working.
What does it all mean?
Well, aside from the fact that insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting this the a different result.
The fact of the matter is is that we're not growing.
Well, it's not the right way.
We are growing, and we got people who are trying to stunt it.
It's not just that people are driving more.
We have a robust economy.
We have much more affluence today than we had in the 70s.
People are more mobile, much more mobile, are able to fly more than they could then, drive more than they could then.
Uh, and of course, this is putting all kinds of pressure on energy.
Despite all these massive government efforts to increase gas mileage and so forth, we're now importing almost twice as much oil as we did when the first cafe standards were put into place.
Now, the bottom line to all this is we are a growth-oriented country and society.
Conservation's wonderful.
It's a fabulous thing.
I like saving as much of things as I like, but it's not going to help me grow.
It simply is not going to do that.
Um we've got to find a way to find our own energy.
And it's there, but we have people standing in the way.
Who's standing in the way?
Government.
And this is why I think government is part, federal government is partially responsible for what's happened in Michigan, the one-state recession, with all these do-gooder regulations on mileage and so forth.
Like I said yesterday, if you let people whose business it is to make design, manufacture, and sell cars that people want, that's what will happen.
But if you have a bunch of people involved who have no idea how to design a car, make a car that somebody wants, and instead the government's gonna tell these industries how they have to operate, you're you're gonna get what you get, and you're gonna have what we have.
Uh and I just uh it's plain as day to me that what we need is more resource, more of our own resources, and we need to continue focused on growth.
This stimulus package.
The Democrats in a debate last night talking about stimulus package.
It's just a joke, folks.
It's just a ruse to grow the government.
To get you more dependent on the government, and to get the government bigger.
$70 billion stimulus package.
Whoop-whoop.
Not going to accomplish anything.
Might be able to go buy a muffler.
That's what you were able to do with the last stimulus package.
Remember that?
200 bucks or something.
It was a you know a muffler at Meinicky.
Maybe a muffler and a half at Walmart, I don't know.
But that's about uh what it was worth.
And of course, I think the last stimulus package, if I'm not mistaken.
I have to check this.
The last stimulus package was instituted by a Republican.
And the press made jokes about it.
I mean, where do you think the muffler thing came?
Dive drive by as a Democrats.
Well, this is uh this is really no good.
You can do is go buy a muffler with this thing.
It's not really a stimulus.
It was that was Tom Dash.
That's right, it was Tom Dashell, the puffster, who was the uh Senate majority leader from South Dakota.
It was the pufster who said that.
Uh so it must have but it was their Bush stimulus package, Bush stimulus package early on coming out of the recession, right?
They made fun of it.
Now the Democrats are talking about much the same thing.
Oh, it's wonderful.
They care.
We need this to stave off the recession.
So you get what you elect.
And that's a sad thing, because the people up on the Democrat side are all disasters.
Some on the Republican side just as bad.
Let's listen a little bit to Romney's acceptance speech.
Tree of optimism over Washington style pessimism.
What we're going to see in the next few days is Democrats saying that they're the party of change.
You're gonna hear Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama and John Edwards saying that they're the party of change, and I think they would bring change to America.
Just not the kind we want.
You see, I think they take their inspiration from the Europe of old.
Big government, big brother, big taxes.
They fundamentally in their hearts believe that America is great because we have a great government.
And we do have a great government.
But that's not what makes us the best nation, the strongest nation, the greatest nation on earth.
What makes us such a great nation is the American people.
I take my inspiration from Ronald Reagan and George Herbert Walker Bush said we are a great and good people.
It's exactly what we are.
It's why we will always be the most powerful nation on earth.
We cut the uh applause out of all these speeches of uh last night just to save uh just to save time.
What'd that sound like to you, uh, Mr. Sturdley, his acceptance speech there?
Um you heard some of that on this program yesterday, so yeah.
I didn't want to say it myself, but uh snurly apparently confirms my uh my suspicions.
Well, let's listen.
We just you just heard Romney, he's all rah-rah in America.
Let's listen to Huckabee, who uh made his concession speech last night in uh South Carolina.
Months ago, when none of the other Republicans were talking about the economy, when they all said it was doing great, I said you better keep your eye on it, because if you just not spend your time talking to people, but if you spend some time listening to people, you're gonna find out that there's a world of hurt out there in America.
Okay, so that's uh that's pretty good contrast of these two um acceptance.
Well, one's a once a you know, concession speech, uh, Huckabee, and the other an acceptance speech by uh by Romney.
Uh and so you you people wonder what populism is.
You just you just heard it.
I know you're hurting.
Oh, everybody's hurting.
And nobody hears it but me.
Because I'm out there listening to you, everybody just talking to you, but I know you're hurting.
You know, human nature is what it is.
People would love the sympathy, people thinking they're hurting.
Um in fact, what was it last night?
I forget what network I was watching.
It must have been Fox, had somebody analyzing uh the latest polls on the economy, and of course, no big surprise, they found out most people are doing fine.
But they think their neighbors.
Uh it might have been Mike Murray.
I'm not sure who it was.
Doesn't matter who it was.
Uh But what you learn from this is that there's not a world of hurt out there.
There's always economic angst.
The housing market is, of course, a source of uh angst for people as the value of their homes declines.
Well, it's it's it's i it's a it's a paper.
It's a paper loss.
I know it's a paper loss, and that's why people sit tight, it's going to come back.
Uh there's no there's no question, but they still they see the value of the house falling, uh, and and there's nothing they can do about it.
Uh and so it does cause some angst.
Uh problem is taxes, once again, it always is overlooked, it's never mentioned by people.
Uh, but the taxes are not falling as the value of the homes fall.
Your property tax isn't going down, your assessments aren't going down, but the value of your house is.
Now that's where you need to look.
All trails, all roads lead to Rome.
All roads lead to government.
You want to find out why things are costing you too much and why things are being devalued.
I'm telling you, folks, look to government.
And you'll find in most cases, not all, you'll find the explanation for it.
But to say that there is a world of hurt out there is an attempt to um uh create as many people thinking that as possible.
And then, of course, accompanied by, I'm gonna take care of your pain.
Because I'm the only one who understands that you are feeling any.
Uh brief time out.
We'll come back.
Lots more still ahead on the EIB network after this.
Okay, back to the phones uh on the EIB network.
People have been waiting patiently.
We have uh David on the phone from Columbia, South Carolina.
Great the you waited, sir.
Thank you.
Hey, Rush, how are you doing?
Just fine, sir.
Thank you.
Hey, uh, I had a question.
Uh I'm a black Republican, um, not too conservative, but fairly conservative.
My wife, very liberal, and uh, she's uh a big Obama supporter, and we get into this big conversation all the time, and I wanted to get your opinion on something.
I wanted to ask you if you think that the media's infatuation with Obama is similar to their infatuation with uh the Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb because she and I got into a conversation about it, and I I I think so.
Because, you know, so much of what he talks about, you know, are these great big broad strokes, nothing really specific, you know.
And I'm like, hey, look, you know, anybody can get up here and look good, you know.
Yeah, the guy's articulate, he's photogenic.
But I'm like, you know, what does he stand for on some serious issues?
And she looks at me crossways, you know, and I'm like, well, you don't know.
I mean, you know, so why is he this media darling?
Well, um it it'd be a tough analogy here to uh uh to the McNabb situation.
Well, let me try this.
Uh nevertheless, uh I I think uh Oh, before you've just reminded me of something here, David, before I answer your question, you know yet yesterday on this program, ladies and gentlemen, we did a little test.
We played Barack the Magic Negro to uh to see uh if if the drive bys would pick up on it that I was acting as an insurgent and refusing to allow the truce to go on in the uncivil war.
Guess what?
Nobody's commented about that, but Media Matters for America, the Clinton front group sent out a piece claiming that I used the word spade in my monologue on Monday.
No, knowing full well that Hillary, of course, had talked about Obama hadn't done the spade work necessary in foreign policy.
It was delicious.
Now, as to here's what David's question is.
David's question, I came along, as you know, and I said, I don't think McNabb is playing as well as everybody thinks he is.
I think the defense should get a lot of credit for the Eagles.
Uh I just think there's a lot of social concern.
The NFL, I think the drive bys in the media's uh concerned very much that a black quarterback do well in the NFL.
That caused a three-year fire storm.
In fact, in certain places it's still referenced.
So his question is uh, are the drive-by's propping up Obama simply before you know for the same reason.
Well, it's the first legitimate candidate, black candidate with a legitimate chance.
Uh we have been we we've just been so discriminatory in our past Uh and so forth.
We we we've got to elevate this guy, whether he deserves it or not.
I'll tell you who really made that point, David, was a black columnist in the LA Times named David Ehrenstein, when he when he started referring to Obama as the magic Negro.
The magic Negro as he meant it was a vessel for white guilt.
A bunch of white people were saying they were supporting Obama, which Aaron Stein didn't like.
Aaron Stein's a Clinton guy.
Uh he didn't like that these white people out supporting Obama when they had no idea what he stood for, the point that you just made.
And so there were puff pieces early on.
But now that the race war, the uncivil war has broken out despite the so-called truce, uh, the drive-by's were not monolithic in this.
In some cases, the drive-by supported Obama.
In other cases, they supported the Clinton side of this.
Uh but here's the David, here's the point.
This is this is what you need to uh to tell your wife.
Now you said your wife is an Obama person.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
She's a big-time Obama fan.
Okay, here's what you need to do.
Try this as an experiment.
How is she she a big liberal Democrat or is she just like Obama for other reasons?
You know, she's a liberal Democrat, but one thing she agrees with you wholeheartedly on is she's an emigrant from Barbados.
They they immigrated to New York uh, you know, about thirty-something years ago, and she she and her family had to wait, you know, a good year and a half for the paperwork and all the processing.
So as far as illegal immigration, she's right of you uh on that issue.
But yeah, for the most part, she's well, and there's there's hope for you.
Uh but here's the thing to tell her.
Uh now she's from Barbados.
Before I give you the little test to run, I need to ask you one more question.
She's from Barbados.
Is she uh old enough and uh and learned enough to be familiar with the civil rights struggle in this country?
Oh, absolutely.
She's very Okay, okay.
Well, you know, how sh how long has she been in the country?
Oh, she's been here for what?
She's for uh 40 years.
Oh, well, what am I saying?
Of course, she's well steeped in it.
Then here's what you tell her.
What's her first name?
Ah, Bowana.
All right, Wana, here.
You've been watching American politics, and you've been watching a Democrat Party, and you're obviously a liberal Democrat for all these years.
And here your guy, Obama, Barack Obama, the first black man with a legitimate chance to be the president of the United States, and who's trying to destroy him?
The Democrat Party.
The Clinton machine is trying to stomp on this guy.
He's gotten too uppity, he doesn't know his place, he's taken this too seriously.
The Clintons didn't mind him getting in the race, but they don't like the fact he's out raising her, and they don't like the fact that he's got more love than she does.
Now, if if the Democrats all of these years of the civil rights struggle, uh, David had meant what they said, that blacks have been sat on and they have been discriminated against, and they have been mistreated, and they've been denied equality and opportunity, usually blaming Republicans for this.
The Clintons, if they really bought it, if all of liberalism bought what they really tell us, then there would be a mass movement on the part of John Edwards and Hillary Clinton to get out of this race and let Obama have it simply because this is what they claim they have stood for for all these years.
And instead, what's happening is that the very people who lead the party on all this civil rights stuff are stomping on him and denying him, doing their best to deny, and they're lying about him, and they're accusing him of race and they're putting rumors out about he was not only using drugs, but maybe even selling drugs.
And then they've got another Clinton crony out there, Bob Carey, who went out there, David, and much look at his middle name, Barack Hussein Obama.
He's been to Madrasas.
His father was a Muslim.
They've done everything they could to destroy the guy's reputation and character, Clinton Inc.
Now that's what you need to ask your wife.
Why does she want to be a member of a party like that?
If she loves Obama, she's got to understand who it is that's trying to destroy this poor guy.
And it's not us yet.
We'll have our chance if he becomes a nominee, but we'll do it on issues.
The Clintons are the Clintons are not doing it on issues.
The Clintons are trying to destroy this man personally.
You're absolutely right, Russian.
I will say this.
There is one good thing that is coming from uh Obama's campaign, and that is he's doing it without the help of Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, and it is driving them nuts.
That's right.
Let me tell you something.
I'm loving every minute.
I'll tell you something, David, you're right, you're on to something there.
And if Obama wins, if he happens to win, worst thing in the world for the Democrat Party.
Worst thing in the world for the Reverend Zach and L. Sharpton.
Because how can a racist country elect a black president?
I mean, your race business would go down sky high.
I mean, it'd be over with.
There's a lot riding on this guy losing in the Democrat Party.
Tell her that.
As you know, ladies and gentlemen, the past couple of days, here on the Rush Limbaugh program of the EIB network, we have been discussing the era of Reagan theoretically being over, uh and conservatism thus being over.
And if you have listened, you know, of course, my position on how absurd that is.
And yet, there continues to be discussion among so-called conservatives about modernizing the Republican Party.
Latest example, David Brooks, who used to work with Bill Kristol at the Weekly Standard until he became a a uh an affirmative action hire at the New York Times as the one conservative columnist.
I want you to, we got two sound bites here for Mr. Brooks.
Uh and by the way, what I'm gonna say here has nothing to do with the fact that Mr. Brooks is routinely smearing me or being somewhat dismissive of me.
Uh particularly in the immigration bait debate and uh other things.
There's nothing to do with that.
It has totally to do with the fact that there are people who think that they're leaders, uh, and the punditry is full of those kinds of people.
The Republicans need to modernize.
And of course, modernizing means mean become more moderate.
Um it was on the Russert show over the weekend on PMS NBC.
And Russert said to David Brooks, please explain the Republican primary right now, because I don't understand it.
Well, it's a fractured party.
And uh it's a party that's really facing some long odds and re-caining the White House.
So it's a party in a bit of an intellectual crisis and it's splintering out.
And what we're seeing, I think, is the old Republican coalition becoming obsolete and new things growing.
Mike Huckabee represents a new thing, a mixture of social conservatism with economic populism.
John McCain is still a new thing, which is a sort of independent insurgents.
Mitt Romney tried to was a new thing posing as an old thing.
He tried to pretend he was Mr. Reagan conservative.
But now in Michigan he's rediscovering his true self, assuming there is such a thing, and that is the businessman.
So uh McCain is, and this is by the way, McCain is their guy.
Uh McCain is the is the these are the ones that they swoon over.
McCain represents the future, and of course, McCain's not a conservative.
And that's why they're this is now this is what working at the New York Times does to conservatives.
It waters them down, it neuters them, and it it makes them think that they need to seek the approval of all the liberals in town at other media outlets.
And you have to distinguish yourself from conservatives because we all know as conservatives a bunch of Neanderthals and troglodites.
And most of them are pro-life.
It's ruination of the party.
We got to I've told you meeting these people out in the Hamptons back in the early 90s.
Uh they they all suffer from the same thing, and that's embarrassment.
And so you can see that they everybody in the press, it it I don't care if you go to Fox News, right wing, left, they hate Romney.
They absolutely despise him.
It's uh I it it's uh in a way, I don't quite understand it.
Uh, but their their love for McCain is uh based on it has to be based on the fact that he's not conservative.
Now here's the second soundbite.
Uh Russard says, David Brooks, you're a columnist.
You get paid by the New York Times to offer your opinions.
You wrote a whole column about Mitt Romney.
You just didn't want him to be president.
I just don't think he's sincere.
I think uh some of the flip-flops on not only on the life issues, but on everything, single thing at a rally.
Somebody will challenge him and no child left behind, he'll deny he supported it.
Uh uh, you gotta have conviction in tough times.
You can't just come to an audience and say, I'm with you.
You gotta say I'm me, and I'm gonna try to persuade you why I'm right.
And I just don't fundamentally don't trust the fact that he will stick by his convictions under all circumstances.
And I will say one thing that under this entire Republican race.
All the Republican candidates like each other except Romney.
They all hate Romney.
Yeah, everybody hates Romney.
The press hates Romney.
A lot of the Republican candidates hate Romney, there's no question.
But how can you put Huckabee how can you how can you discuss Huckabee without saying pretty much the same thing?
Well, you can't trust what he says, uh changes his positions over and over, say whatever people want to hear.
Um and see this it it falls back to the idea that McCain straight talk.
Exactly the most straight talk.
I tell him what they want to hear.
Uh even though it's there's there's this there's this infatuation almost with somebody who uh who supposedly engages in all of this straight talk, telling people what they don't want to hear, giving them the truth of the matter.
But when it when you boil it all down, these guys end up loving, supporting, propping up the least conservative people in all of the roster of candidates seeking the Republican Party presidential nomination.
Uh this is Disa in uh in uh Redmond, Oregon.
I'm glad you waited.
Nice to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi.
Um I'm glad to be on.
Hey, I am livid over that comment I just heard that guy say.
First of all, Romney isn't a sincere guy, and you know, the media hates him, and that is clear.
It is a miracle he is doing as good as he's doing right now.
I have heard over and over again, well, he didn't you know, he didn't win Iowa, he's out.
He didn't win New Hampshire, he's out.
It is a miracle.
He has gotten first and second in everything.
It is a miracle he's doing what he does with them against him like that.
Okay, he can turn things around.
He is one of the sharpest guys I've ever known.
This man can analyze he goes to a company, what does he do?
He analyzes it.
He sees, okay, what's going wrong?
Why isn't this company working?
He sees what's wrong, he cuts the he cuts the waste and he increases productivity.
Okay, this guy is amazing.
If this guy wins the Republican nomination, he'll take us to the White House and no one else will.
Because you know what?
McCain is not a conservative.
Huckabee, he should be a vice presidential candidate for the Democrats.
Okay, um he's a nice guy, but he is a liberal.
Okay, he they can get some of the religious vote if they take him as a vice presidential candidate.
I'm sorry, am I getting too excited?
No.
I love I love women who are excited, especially when they're talking to me.
The guy has got fire.
He is the most sincere guy.
All right, that big he changed his position on um on abortion.
Why don't people stop and listen to his explanation for that?
I don't know one person who has had the exact same position for the same exact reason their whole life.
He had a position, he always personally did not believe in abortion.
When he switched that position, he said the reasons why, and he sticks by it.
He is not a flip flopper.
People don't like him.
You know why?
The guy's a real conservative.
The guy is sincere.
The guy, you let that man get comfortable.
That man will take us to the white house.
He can look at the problem.
What was it that got you fired up today, Deesa?
Actually, at first I kind of didn't like him because I thought it was just gonna be glib.
I heard all the things I saw.
No, I mean today.
You've called here you're you're fired up.
What what happened here today?
I guess I heard some guy you were talking to while I was on hold saying that he's not sincere.
You know, saying that, you know, nobody likes him.
Oh, you're talking to David Brooks, the conservative columnist of the New York Times.
Yeah, that's it.
You are in a couple yeah, he wasn't a caller, he was putting a couple audio sound buttons.
Well, I was on hold, but you know, just think about it.
Think about the media not liking someone as much as they don't like Romney.
Well, I tell them all the time the you can tell who the genuine conservatives on our side are by who the media hates most.
That's exactly right.
And you know what?
They push McCain.
I don't have anything personally against McCain.
He can't be our candidate.
He's not a conservative.
And he won't be.
And he never will be a conservative.
He's a nice guy.
The media says over and over, well, he's just likeable, you know, he has the best chance.
No, what they're really saying is I like him.
Yes, sorry.
No, no, no, no, no.
Don't a problem.
Your instincts are exactly right.
I want to go further.
I want to tell you what what this is really all about.
To help, you know, blood pressure levels.
The the media in propping up Huckabee and McCain, I don't care if they're Republicans or or or Democrat drive by trying to destroy the conservative movement.
They this is why they are salivating over the possibility that Huckabee might have gotten the nomination.
They think they could take out two of their biggest enemies in one election conservative Christians and the evangelical vote.
And and uh and they would love that.
They that's that's uh I've had a number of these drive bys confirm that to me.
Uh same thing with McCain.
They they just despise conservatives, period.
They despise conservative leaders, people who have a chance to lead and govern with conservative policy, because it the big target of conservatives is big government, and that's God to these people.
We're going after their savior.
Liberalism, if you look at it like a religion, God is their temple, abortion is their sacrament.
And conservatives go after both those things.
Uh and they've got to be destroyed.
So of course they're going to prop up a guy like McCain.
Of course, McCain's gone out and tried to make the drive-by media his base, not Republican voters.
It's no surprise McCain didn't win Michigan to me.
Republicans aren't going to vote for him.
The two primaries where he where he came close and won, independents and Democrats are voting.
Watch what happens if Mitt Romney wins the Republican nomination.
Watch what happens when everybody is not fighting against Mitt Romney.
The guy is a conservative.
Okay?
The guy will people talk about problems with the economy or whatever the issue is.
He's a problem solver.
We do not want the same old, same old.
You know, when people are in politics year after year after year after year after year, it becomes same old, same old.
It is exciting to me to get an innovator in there.
To get somebody in there who will open their eyes.
I mean, if you read a little bit about the Olympics, it's like he comes in there, sits there, he listens to everybody.
What is the issue?
He figures out how to solve the problem.
He doesn't figure out politics.
Okay, you just watch what happens if he gets the Republican nomination.
I wish people would get behind this man.
This man is the real McCoy.
Are you are you related to him in any way?
No, I'm not.
But you know, as time's gone by, I was just so disgusted.
I did not know what to do.
I, you know, the first time I saw Huckabee, I thought, well, he's a real nice guy.
He he um has good jokes, and but I thought, you know what?
After I first heard him, I got the next morning.
I thought he's Jimmy Carter.
Huckabee is Jimmy Carter.
And I got afraid of Huckabee.
And McCain, McCain's a real nice, he had a real great war experience.
That's wonderful.
You know, he's a nice guy.
He is the same old, same old.
He's not a Republican.
He's not a conservative.
I thought we learned that four years ago or eight years ago, whatever it was.
I thought we already learned that.
Well, I like Thompson because he's conservative.
Yeah.
Just you just you just have to understand here that the drive-by's are trying to run our nomination process, and they're trying to start trying to choose the nominee they would like so as to effectively guarantee our defeat.
Now, this is precisely what they're doing.
Your instincts have taken you in the uh in in the right direction.
Uh you could go, you can go look it through various things here.
Uh Huckabee got 16% in Michigan.
He lost the evangelical vote.
He lost all the rest of the vote.
McCain was supposed to win Michigan, he lost.
David Brooks is wrong.
The guy that you heard on hold.
So you have Huckabee who is for open borders and then securing the fence.
He's for raising taxes, then for the fair tax.
He's for a national ban on smoking, and now he's against that.
He's reversed himself.
He's done an about face on smoking.
And here's Brooks talking about all these flip-flops from McCain.
What about McCain's position on the issues?
I mean, you can sit there and say he's not a conservative.
Well, let's examine it.
He has curtailed free political speech.
It was called McCain Feingold.
He opposed tax cuts, one of only a few Republicans to do so.
He opposed efforts to eliminate the filibuster of conservative judges.
Came up with this gang of fourteen idea.
He proposes a job-killing global warming agenda.
He trashes free enterprise like drug companies, oil companies, and other industries.
This is is this the new conservatism the New York Times is promoting?
Mr. Brooks.
There's no conservatism in this.
As Disa from Redmond, Oregon instinctively understands.
No conservatism here in Huckabee or McCain.
Why do you think the drive-by media is so enamored of both these people?
I'm sounding a broken record on this, but I'm going to continue to break until people get it through their heads what's happening here.
We will be back.
One more thing about uh Mr. David Brooks of New York Times and others.
I mean, Fred Barnes and Kondraki at Fox, I mean, they're all part of this group that is just enamored of McCain.
You know, all this week we we've had this ongoing battle here about the era of Reagan uh supposedly being over, uh, which it's not because Reaganism is conservatism, which is the Constitution, which is the declaration, which is the founding, it can't be over.
Conservatism is immutable.
But in this argument, uh, I've had people send me emails, I've had people talk to me, you know, Rush, you're just, you know, you you got a man crush on Reagan here.
Obviously, you just have this his this personality, cult of personality thing with Reagan.
That's all you gotta let go.
It's 2008 here, it's not 1980.
And I said, Well, hold on a minute.
Not about personality.
In fact, it's not really so much about Reagan.
Reagan did not invent conservatism.
He didn't create it.
He didn't, he didn't define the concepts or the policies that I and others promote.
The reason, the reason I love Ronald Reagan, he came along and applied them.
And he showed how to apply them, and they work.
You understand how frustrating it is to know it works and have people in our own party besmirch it, ignore it, and want to run away from it.
It is more than frustrating.
If I don't maintain a tight grip, I could get downright mad about this.
I'm gonna tell you if if there is a cult of personality anywhere in this presidential campaign, it is with people who are enamored of John McCain.
It's a cult of personality with McCain.
They like the McCain story.
They like the POW MIA story, they like the hero story.
They like the fact he's willing to take on Bush.
They like the fact that he's not some sycophant, but they don't look or else they ignore his liberal domestic record.
They ignore it totally.
They must ignore it if they're going to support him.
They're gonna call him a Republican and a conservative, they have to ignore it.
So you've got a cult of personality that's propping up McCain.
Now, they don't like Huckabee's religious views.
I'm talking about some of our uh revered conservative pundits on our side.
They don't like they don't like his religious views, but you know why they do like him?
They like him because his economic opinions fly with the New York Times editorial board.
More trashing of capitalism, more trashing of profit, wealth creation, and all that.
You know, this is this is I'm not kidding you.
There are Republicans, don't know how many conservatives, but there are Republicans who are embarrassed to hell with genuine conservatives in their midst.
And I've been through all the reasons why.
So you say, well, how come they like Huckabee?
Well, because Huckabee uh is is willing to side with the New York Times on things, and that's of course the gold standard, uh, even for some conservatives and of course all liberals.
Uh I I think I just think this is the price conservatives end up paying for writing at the New York Times.
Because it's it's just this it's disappointing as it can be to see.
Rhonda in uh I don't think I got time.
Is she this is that I've got less than a minute, and I don't want to force her to have to make her case in a minute, any other caller.
Is there anybody up there that's only worth 30 seconds, Nordley?
Just kidding, you wouldn't put somebody up worth only uh only 30 seconds.
All right, so we let's take a break here at the top of there.
We'll come back and close this hour out, continue, got all the rest of next hour to get those of you on hold on this program, we'll do that when we come back.
If you watched, if you watched even 30 minutes of the Democrat debate last night, I guarantee you you need to go get your blood sugar check today because you might be diabetic.
It was that syrupy sweet.
It was just as phony baloney, plastic banana, good time rock and roll as anything you've ever seen.
They maintained a truce any uncivil war.
We have audio sound bites uh coming up on this uh program.
As for Mr. Brooks, you know, I've been thinking the New York Times, and I've never met him.
I guess he's a nice guy, but he's sounding more and more like Pat Buchanan.
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