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Jan. 21, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 21, 2008, Monday, Hour #2
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The views expressed by the host on this program make more sense than anything anybody else out there happens to be saying because the views expressed by me are the result of a daily, relentless, unstoppable pursuit of the truth.
It's great to have you with us.
We are back on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
For those of you just tuning in, yes, I am hoarse.
I was hoarse on Friday.
I have purposely inflicted temporary damage to my vocal cords, ladies and gentlemen, for the purposes of speaking softly while I carry an even bigger stick.
Speaking softly, although I have to speak a little bit more slowly, actually, I asked Mr. Snurdly, I said, I hope this isn't too distracting, this voice of my, no, no, no, no.
People are listening even more closely.
I said, that's right.
That's absolutely right.
Here's the phone number if you want to be on the program, 800-282-2882, the email address, rush at EIBNet.com.
Look, folks, I could have taken a day off.
This is Martin Luther King Day.
By the way, not all blacks are happy about that.
They think Martin Luther King Day should be, I forget what it is, March 4th or April 4th, the day he was assassinated.
This is just white people doing this to assuage their guilt.
I don't know which black leader it was.
I don't remember the name.
It wasn't a name I recognized.
But nevertheless, I could have taken a day off.
I could be out there on a golf course.
I could be on the beach.
I could be any number of things.
But I made sacrifice to be here.
Dr. King would appreciate it.
Dr. King was not an off-guy.
He was an on-guy.
As I am on today.
Now, phone number is 800-282-2882.
The email address, LRushbow, at EIBNet.com.
Closing thought from the previous hour.
I'm noticing this in a lot of conservative media.
Those of us who are opposing McCain, let me set this up a better way.
When Huckabee was coming out of nowhere in Iowa, we had numerous pundits on the left who write their conservatism to be read by liberals jumping on the Huckabee bandwagon.
And then McCain came out of nowhere in New Hampshire, and then they jumped on the McCain bandwagon.
And Romney wins in Michigan, and they didn't jump on the Romney bandwagon.
They stayed on the McCain bandwagon.
Then we go to Wyoming, and Romney won all the delegates there, and they didn't jump on the Romney bandwagon.
They stayed in the McCain bandwagon in Hope for Huckabee.
And then we get South Carolina and Nevada.
Nevada, Romney cleans up.
Nobody talks about it.
Romney's nowhere.
He's off the charts.
He should quit.
Thompson should quit, get out of the race, remain on the McCain bandwagon.
Now the people on the McCain bandwagon are telling those of us who aren't on the McCain bandwagon to shut up.
Just be quiet.
We are supposedly damaging the Republican Party.
We are supposedly damaging the conservative.
We just shut up.
We just sit by and watch all this stuff and let it happen.
And just be quiet.
What is the point?
By the way, it's aimed at people in talk radio.
Why should we in talk radio just shut up and start supporting the frontrunner of the moment?
Especially when you realize that's what the drive-by media wants.
Why should we in talk radio sit here and take our marching orders from the drive-by media and others in our movement who write what they write for liberals in the drive-by movement?
Why should we do that?
McCain, frankly, has shown conservatives little but contempt over many years.
We had callers from South Carolina mad at me in the last hour, said, you know what?
They're wrong in a Washington Post.
They say you don't have any influence.
You have all kinds of influence.
You endorsed Huckabee.
I didn't endorse Thompson.
Didn't endorse Thompson, but he thought I did in a de facto way.
And you're taking votes away from Huckabee, who's obviously a Huckabee supporter.
Point is, McCain got less votes, 42% in 1980, 33% of the vote Saturday night, 2008, and he wasn't running against his two top challengers.
Once you get out of these states, we're independents and go in and vote in the Republican primary.
He should have cleaned up.
McCain should have gotten over 50% of the vote if this McCain movement is for real.
But he got fewer votes and a much smaller percentage in 2008 than he did in 2000.
Now, I also find it amazing.
That's not amazing.
It's humorous.
It's interesting, a little funny.
Over the course of the past six months, I have been urged, and you've heard it, by people calling this program, to endorse somebody.
Come on, Rush, we know who you're supporting.
We can hear it.
Just endorse it.
I haven't endorsed anybody.
But when the perception is that I have endorsed somebody, all hell breaks loose.
Like the guy from South Carolina.
He thought I had gone out and was sending this secret subliminal message to vote Thompson.
So I'm in a no-win situation when I, it seems, I don't endorse, get mad at that.
I don't endorse what you think I do, and you get mad at the guy I endorse when I haven't endorsed anybody.
And it's not my job to strategize for any candidate.
It's not my job to tell them how to do what to do right.
I mean, if I endorse a candidate, I'll know when the time is.
I know how to do it.
And I will endorse a candidate when and if I choose to.
I've made no secret of my concern about this field of candidates from the get-go, and I have made no secret here of my intention to talk about their records.
If a candidate is concealing their record, I don't have to go along with that.
If a candidate has something to say that I think is great, I will mention it if I choose to.
To state the purpose again here, within the context of this particular campaign, my purpose is to see conservatism triumph, both in the primary and in the general election.
We have callers here projecting their objectives and support for or against a particular candidate onto me.
For example, if Huckabee doesn't do well in South Carolina, it's got to be my fault because I didn't come out for Huckabee and I was reporting stories about a possible Fred Thompson surge on Thursday and Friday.
That's not how it happens.
People vote and they vote their own minds.
People in this audience are not mind-numbed robots.
I think to the extent that we gave him something to think about about McCain, I actually think we did help take some support away from him.
Contrary to the thoughts that we were outnumbered and overwhelmed and defeated.
Senator McCain, domestic record, not conservative.
And we're being lectured by the media, some who are hostile to conservatism, some who wear the conservative label to be quiet.
Not be too hard on him or whatever.
Those of you who've been here since the beginning of the program, 1988, you know we deal here in ideas.
Why should I be quiet about my ideas?
Why should I be quiet?
Or anybody else on the radio happens to espouse what I believe?
Why should we be quiet?
The primary is precisely the time to speak.
That's when this stuff gets aired and sorted out.
Here's what I've noted.
Governor Huckabee has reversed course on taxes, on illegal immigration.
He has reversed course on law and order.
Why should we discuss this?
I mean, major, major flip-flop on immigration didn't help him in South Carolina, but he moved.
And look what happened when he did that.
Many of you think Governor Huckabee is very conservative, but when he did his flip-flop on immigration, what direction did he move?
He moved right.
His previous position was tuition, illegals, kids stay, blah, blah, blah.
He vowed to send them all home right before the South Carolina primary.
Huge, huge flip-flop.
Why should we be quiet about that?
Because the media likes the guy that's pulling for him?
Is that a reason to be quiet about it?
If I think any one or a few of these guys might ultimately damage the Republican Party or the conservative movement, should I not talk about that either?
You know, a month ago, we had a caller who demanded that I address these issues more aggressively.
Now we have a caller who says I should just go along.
Now we have drive-by media says I should just go along.
I have even pundits on supposedly my own side of the aisle.
Just be quiet.
Just, you're causing problems.
Just let it go.
It's going to be a rifter.
Just be quiet.
Could it have anything to do with the fact that their guy happens to be winning in their minds right now, even though he's not?
Why don't all of these people be quiet?
And you know what?
Why does it not occur to me to tell these people to be quiet?
And yet it occurs to them to tell us on the radio to be quiet.
I would never say to David Books, you know, you need to stop writing.
You're damaging things.
You are very harmful at what's happening.
You are harming me.
You are harming our movement.
You're supporting the wrong guy.
You should stop writing.
Well, it would never even occur to me to suggest that.
What occurs to me is to engage him and discuss what he says and try to prove him wrong.
And the same thing with whoever it is.
Bill Crystal is one now on the McCain bandwagon.
He's been in the McCain bandwagon since 2000.
By the way, McCain wants people to shut up.
That's called McCain-Feingold.
McCain passed the first successful, major shut-up bill in the history of the country.
McCain-Feingold, abridgment of free speech.
McCain wants people to shut up.
Why should we shut up?
Why don't they shut up?
It would never occur to me to say to Senator McCain, shut up about what you're saying in a campaign trail.
It's not accurate.
You're not being truthful about your past positions on issues.
It would never occur to me telling you to shut up.
It occurs to liberals to tell people that they disagree with to shut up.
That doesn't occur to me.
I'm not afraid of.
This notion that we should shut up is insulting and offensive.
Well, if it's such a great idea, they should shut up too.
They all like McCain and Huckabee's.
They just want these guys to sail through here without any opposition.
Why didn't Brokoff shut up?
They like McCain and Huckabee too.
Why didn't MSNBC just shut down and shut up?
Why didn't CBS just shut down and shut up?
Why doesn't the New York Times just stop publishing for the rest of the primary?
Washington Post, you know, go dark.
Save some money.
Recoup for the general.
Don't print anything about the election through the primary.
Just shut up.
You notice only one segment of the political spectrum is being asked or told to shut up.
And that is me and my brethren and sistren here on talk radio.
I'm not going to shut up and even I've been losing my voice and I'm not going to shut up.
And by the way, what kind of audience these people who are telling me to shut up have?
Zilch Zeronada compared to this one.
How come there isn't any, and how come when the Washington Post does a story, McCain defeats Limbaugh in South Carolina?
How come we never get stories on X defeats the weekly standard?
X defeats some minor national or local talk show.
Because their audiences are not significant enough that nobody thinks they have the power to beat anybody, so how can they be a factor so you can't beat them?
It is precisely because of the size of this audience and the impact of you people in this audience that makes it a target.
Why do we get no analysis of the impact of the Weekly Standard or the New York Times op-edge page on conservatives and Republicans?
Because there isn't any to speak of.
There is among the intellectual class and a media class in the Beltway and in New York, the famous D.C. New York corridor Huckabee's talking about, but not outside that.
You think the New York Times a major factor among Republicans and conservatives, regardless who writes for it?
You think the roundtable on a Sunday network show influences Republican and conservative votes?
Why no discussion about how irrelevant the liberal media are to this process on our side?
Why shouldn't they be made to just shut up en masse?
Instead, the Washington Post does a story on how conservatives are irrelevant to conservatives, twisting figures, twisting arguments.
How about a story on how irrelevant the editorial page endorsements of the Washington Post and the New York Times have been the last two presidential elections when their guy lost?
I don't think they ever endorsed Reagan either.
So let's talk about who has influence and who doesn't.
With real people, not a cadre of elites inside a beltway or inside a corridor in the Northeast.
We know the drive-bys are backing McCain.
Why is that?
Only last week, the New York Times conservatives were backing Huckabee and talking of a major realignment among conservatives.
The guy won the caucuses in Iowa, hasn't won since, and yet they were holding him out as some great new realignment.
Now they're back to McCain, Homers, frontrunners.
They want us to shut up.
Ain't going to happen.
Let me give you a quote, ladies and gentlemen, from the great Rinaldus Magnus, especially since it drive-bys and even some pundits on our side continue to hate hearing references to Reagan.
A political party cannot be all things to all people.
It must represent certain fundamental beliefs which must not be compromised to political expediency or simply to swell its numbers.
Let me translate.
It must represent certain fundamental beliefs which must not be compromised to political expediency or simply doing anything to win.
And that, I fear, is what's happening to the Republican Party.
Bring in anybody you think can beat Hillary.
And that's really what this boils down among all these people.
Well, the people I've spoken to, Big McCain, like I told you about the argument I had with the woman in New York at dinner on Thursday night, was all about beating Hillary.
Jeffrey Toobin, the legal beagle at CNN, late edition, said this about Senator McCain and me.
Remember, this is a candidate, John McCain, whom Rush Limbaugh, a very important person in the Republican Party, calls unacceptable.
So he's got problems.
There's one guy in the media who thinks McCain's got problems because of me and Jeffrey Toobin.
Here is a little excerpt from the PBS show that airs inside the bill.
I think it's on their network too at PBS.
Gordon Peterson inside Washington talking to Washington Post columnist Colbert King about the Republican primary elections and Rush Limbaugh.
Radio talker Rush Limbaugh said this week that if either McCain or Huckabee won the South Carolina primary, it would destroy the Republican Party.
Is he right about that?
He's absolutely wrong.
I mean, the Republican Party will survive.
Whatever happens, him as well.
But the key is that Romney, if McCain wins, he will have the Republican Party behind him if he gets the nomination.
There's no question about it.
Now, once again, we are being asked to listen to liberals who work at the Washington Post to tell us what our party will be and what it can be and what won't happen to us.
We are supposed to listen to these people.
By the way, I never said that, what is his quote here?
If McCain or Huckabee won the South Carolina primary, it would destroy the Republican Party.
I never said that.
It's worse than that.
If they get the nomination, how could the party be destroyed on one primary?
I didn't say that.
That had to be a slip of the tongue.
A fact-checker that gave Gordon Peterson the quote got it wrong.
But I didn't say that whoever won the South Carolina primary, McCain or Huckabee, would destroy the Republican Party.
I said they get the nomination.
And I said, to be factually correct, the Republican Party won't be destroyed.
It's always going to survive, but it's not going to be anything like it looks today.
And it will not be the primary residence of conservatives.
That's my great fear.
We'll be back.
Stay with us.
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It would help if I turn on the microphones so that my dulcet tones, even with this voice, still one of the finest and most recognizable in the history of major media.
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One more soundbite than back to the phones.
This is Margaret Carlson, and she was also on Inside Washington on Saturday night.
Host Gordon Peterson says, you know, all right now, Margaret, Tom DeLay, former House Majority Leader, the Hammer.
We remember him.
Thanks, Gordon.
Sure he remembers you too.
Said that McCain had done more to hurt the Republican Party than any elected official he could think of.
Why do the party regulars hate John McCain so much?
Let me count the ways.
He's violated all Ten Commandments of the Republican Party by being against Bush's tax cuts.
He's wrong on immigration as far as the base is concerned, although he's modified his position to be in favor of strong border control first.
And we like him.
The press likes John McCain, and that really ticks off the Republican Party.
Why do we like him so much?
Actually, he does talk straight.
He told people of Michigan, the jobs aren't coming back.
Yeah, and it cost him.
It cost him.
But, you know, that's why we like him because he actually says an honest word.
There you go.
I mean, look at, you don't even need to hear from me on McCain.
You just need to hear the liberals describe him.
Well, he's opposed to Bush tax cuts.
He's wrong on immigration, even though he's tried to flip-flop on that.
We like him in the press.
He tells the truth.
The jobs aren't coming.
But that's not the truth.
Nobody knows, but what McCain essentially said to people of Michigan was, I'm not going to try to get the jobs back.
When he says the jobs aren't coming back, I'm going to try to get them back.
By the way, we're talking about jobs, not certain types of jobs.
What Michigan needs is employment.
And if certain types of jobs are out the window, I mean, they don't longer have any people that manufacture the horse and buggy or the buggy whip.
You know, but there's still people get jobs as the economy trend.
McCain sent the message, and he wasn't even going to try.
And the press, the drive-bys, love a message of doom and gloom and can't do ism.
So that's what they consider straight talk.
What they consider straight talk is anything they agree with.
And the first item on the things they agree with is Bush sucks.
And that's what they have heard McCain say.
That's what has garnered him the Maverick label.
Of course they love him.
I mean, folks, this is profane.
Florida liberal newspapers endorsing McCain?
Well, look at it.
It's up to you, and you know it.
Eleanor in Arlington, Virginia.
I'm glad you waited.
Welcome to the program.
Thank you.
I've gotten nervous waiting.
So I hope I expressed myself well.
You sound better than I do.
Oh, thank you.
I just wanted to tell you that I am, I think you have one mad Huckabee person on the phone.
And I'm a recovering liberal, and 98% of my ethnic group votes Democratic.
So obviously, I think, you know, I think with my own mind, I have an elephant's memory regarding John McCain.
I know his record.
I know what he's done with the gang of 14, taxes, et cetera, et cetera.
What he says is not always regarding his record is not always what the reality is.
I want you to shut up.
We're not supposed to talk about those things anymore, Eleanor, don't you?
You haven't gotten a message.
I'm not shutting up, and I will never vote for him.
And that is the bottom line.
And as far as Huckabee is concerned, Huckabee, they like Huckabee because he called the president's policy arrogant and whatever.
And he's a Democrat and actually Republican clothing.
It's more than that, though.
Yeah, that's right.
And he has a little problem with the truth.
No, but it's more than that.
What is that?
Well, if Huckabee were the nominee, the drive-bys and the Democrats, they are solid.
They're licking their shots.
Oh, yeah, they want him.
They think they can win the White House.
With Huckabee.
Daffy Duck is the Democrat nominee against Huckabee.
Right, exactly.
And they think so.
See, they despise the Christian right.
They hate it.
They hate the evangelicals.
They have wanted to neutralize the influence of evangelicals in presidential politics since the 80s.
Right.
And they think they could take Huckabee out easily and with him the evangelical right.
And they think further they could separate the evangelical right from the Republican Party because the Republican Party would be so embarrassed and so teed off at the landslide defeat that they would basically disown the evangelicals.
And the evangelicals would have to form their own party while the Republicans went on and told them to go to hell.
That's what the Democrats think would happen with Huckabee as the nominee.
Right, exactly.
Do you think the Democrats are right?
What?
Do I think they're right about what?
What I just said.
That if Huckabee gets a nomination, the Democrats think that they would defeat him and the evangelicals at the same time in landslide proportions that the Republican Party would tell the evangelicals, we're through with you.
You caused us a loss that's worse than Goldwater in 64.
We don't want you in our party anymore.
Look what you did.
It was I could I could see that happening because that's what the Democrats think would happen with Huckabee as a nominee.
I'll tell you, because I listen to the press all the time, and I've watched their comments about anybody the press is for, I usually am against, because I know they have their, about the agenda.
I've watched them downplay Thompson.
I've heard from liberals, some liberals that I know that Thompson is of major concern to them against Hillary.
I don't know that they think that, but they don't want to take any chances.
What you have noticed, and I will articulate, and this is nothing new, I just think people don't understand the depth and breadth of this.
But if you look at who the drive-bys are out propping up versus who they're trying to destroy, they despise us, folks.
It's precisely because the reason a previous caller in the last hour gave us.
They despise conservatives.
They want to take out any, took out George Allen, Macaca.
They'll take out any conservative they can, trying to take me out.
I don't mean this in a martyred sense, but all these stories about how McCain beat me, the Washington Post, they would love for me to stop having influence.
They don't understand that the influence that exists here results from you.
You people are independent thinkers, and that's what they don't like about conservatives.
Conservatives are thinkers, and they're not fooled.
Conservatives don't get, you know, buy into liberalism on the touchy-feely emotional side.
But if there's nobody for conservatives to vote for, then that's fine.
So take out Thompson, tape out Rudy, take out McCain, and leave us with McCain and Huckabee, and they think conservatives will stay home.
And then the Republican Party will face a realignment because they, what the drive-bys and the Democrats desperately want is for to be no conservative influence in the Republican Party at all, because they know then that if that happens, the Republican Party will never beat them.
Without conservatism in the Republican Party, the Republican Party is finished in terms of having chances, viable chances, to win elections if the conservative base is driven out of it.
And you can drive the conservative base out of the Republican Party by making sure that none of its candidates get nominated, that none of its candidates win primaries.
Or if they do win primaries, that big pieces designed to destroy them show up in the drive-by media.
You don't understand how we are hated as conservatives by the media and by Democrats and liberals.
They don't look at us as opponents they have to defeat.
They look at us as, however they wish to describe us, who shouldn't be around.
Debate us.
That's beneath them.
We're just, you know, we're like chihuahuas, except the chihuahuas are having their heels.
We're up to their throats now.
And they want us finished.
And so when they start touting all these candidates that are not us, that's why we get concerned here.
And that's why we're not going to shut up, ladies and gentlemen.
One other thing, ladies and gentlemen, about this shut up, this shut-up business.
Have you noticed that the people out there, and let's keep this discussion to those of us on the right.
Let's forget the liberals for a second that drive-bys and the Democrats.
We just discussed them.
But have you noticed that the people who are advocating that opponents of Senator McCain just shut up?
Have you noticed that Rudy's supporters, Romney's supporters, Thompson supporters, they're not telling their critics, shut up.
This is awfully thin-skinned of these people on the McCain side of the aisle just telling us now that they think he's the frontrunner, even though he hasn't gotten the most delegates yet.
He doesn't lead in the total vote count.
We're just now supposed to shut up.
Have we heard any of the other candidates or their supporters say to the rest of us, shut up from Thompson, Rudy, or Romney?
Do we get editorials and opinion pieces and other lectures telling us, hey, stop talking about Thompson.
Stop talking about Rudy.
Stop talking about Romney in ways that might hurt their campaigns.
But the McCain people, awfully thin-skinned out there, wonder why when you got thin-skinned, I think there's a reason.
Because thin skin is easily pricked.
It's also sometimes transparent, can be seen through.
Don't get too close.
Don't get too close.
You might see the truth, what's underneath.
So shut up.
You guys are just going to blow everything for us.
Just stop this.
You're destroying and you're hurting.
None of the other candidates have this thin skin.
Here's Ann in Carrollton, Virginia.
Hi, Ann.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
Yes, thank you for taking my call.
For weeks, you've been telling us why we should not vote for McCain because he's not a true conservative, or Huckabee because he's not a true conservative.
And you based that on their records as a senator and governor.
What I'd like to hear is why you feel that Romney is a true conservative, because I honestly don't know a lot about him.
But I base before I answer the question, who are you for?
Well, tell you the truth, I'm not totally convinced about any of them.
I really have not made up my mind.
Honestly, I haven't.
But my problem is when I think of Romney, I think of someone who was elected governor, as he says, in the bluest of bluest states.
So to me, that doesn't equate with a conservative.
And also, he forces people to get health insurance, which doesn't sound like a conservative.
When he campaigns in Michigan, he says that when he becomes president, he's going to pass government mandates to help the auto industry.
And that doesn't sound like a conservative.
So what I'd like to know is if you could tell us a few things that he did when he was governor to show us that he is the true conservative.
In the first place, I have never said that he is the one true conservative in the race.
I haven't.
And in fact, I recoiled when I heard his $20 billion annual subsidy to the auto industry in Detroit and I said, geez, that's just flat-out pandering.
My point on all this, Ann, from the get-go, and I even mentioned it today, and it's an unfortunate position, but not one of these people totally fills the bill.
Yeah.
Well, I think that's one of Romney's problems.
Really, we don't know what did he do as governor to show us that he's a conservative.
You know, we never hear it.
So is there anything that you can tell me that he did as governor to show me he's a conservative?
Yeah, that's honestly, I would really like to know.
There are a couple things.
It depends on the credibility of somebody that, you know, what was their record prior to doing that?
What are their records in the real world as an entrepreneur and a businessman?
What indications are there from that record that you can draw conclusions?
He cut taxes in Massachusetts, and he was amazingly able to get that done.
And he tried fighting this court business where they mandated gay marriage from the Supreme Court without going through the legislature.
But look at nobody, what you're illustrating here is that nobody on our side fits the pure bill.
But there are lessers.
In fact, one of the lines I used earlier, not on today's program, but in previous weeks, is this whole Republican primary is going to boil down to who we dislike the least.
And that's sad.
So why do you feel that he's more of a conservative than McCain based on records?
Well, that isn't hard.
I mean.
What record would you have for Romney to show us that?
Because I tell you, truthfully, I'm not a McCain supporter.
So, you know, I'm not saying that because I am.
Of course not, you're probably a Huckabee supporter.
Well, to tell you the truth, I'd like to know more about Ron Paul because I'm for as little government intervention as we can have.
Enough said.
You know, wherever you go here in this roster of candidates, you're going to be able to point out, not conservative, what he did there is not conservative.
That one guy that has the least of that is Fred Thompson.
And that's what I've said.
But Fred Thompson, Fred Thompson was right in there supporting McCain on McCain feingold.
You know, that's a red flag.
I make my living with my mouth of what comes out of it.
And that was a direct assault on what comes out of certain people's mouths around election times.
Once you chip away successfully the First Amendment, it's easy to do it the next time and a second time, third time, fourth time, and fifth time.
Well, maybe, you know, when you get a chance, you could inform us a little more about Romney's record.
Sure.
I'd be happy to do it.
Everybody, why don't you do this?
People have been asking me to go down every one of these guys' records and do A.B. That's not what I do here.
But don't have Romney's record in front of me.
Let me give you this.
You mentioned McCain.
I don't see the left-wing media propping up Romney like they are propping up McCain.
I don't see them calling Romney a maverick.
And the definition of a maverick is one who constantly goes against his party.
McCain is a maverick, and he is loved and adored for that.
And they call him, he gets away with his straight talk stuff because to them, the straight talk is ripping his own party and ripping his own president.
And it got him fawning press coverage.
I haven't seen any of that said about any of these people.
Well, maybe Huckabee to a certain extent, but the press, the drive-bys are trying to destroy Romney.
They're trying to destroy Fred Thompson.
They're trying to destroy Rudy.
If you look at who they're propping up, that's, you know, absent a list or a record of these guys, there are certain indications that you can get.
The press is ignoring Ron Paul.
That should also tell you something.
In the sense they don't consider him, you know, to be serious contender for the ultimate prize.
We'll be right back.
Stay with me.
In our remaining moments of this hour, let me try it one of the way.
There are no real down-the-line conservatives in this race, but there are some who are also not trying to redefine it, and there are those who are.
And the ones who are trying to redefine conservatism are the ones where I have the red flags go up.
More so than the people who are you may not be totally conservative, but you're not out there trying to redefine it to fit you, but we have some candidates who are.
I mean, if let me give you some more thoughts on this when we come back, monologue in the next hour.
I don't have time to squeeze them in here before we have to go to a break.
And we'll do that now.
We'll come back.
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