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May 5, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 5, 2009, Tuesday, Hour #2
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Yes, Mr. Snerdley, be patient.
I'm gonna get the Chrysler.
I'm gonna get the laurel.
Thomas Laureate, a lawyer was on Fox this morning.
Somebody's leaning on him.
He won't confirm what he said yesterday.
He offered no comment, but he did in a roundabout way end up confirming it later in the interview with Megan Kelly.
But we find out that um Obama's whole plan to give the Union 55% of Chrysler is unconstitutional in the Fifth Amendment.
It is unconstitutional.
You can't take something without proper compensation.
And proper compensation is not 30 cents on the dollar.
Anyway, greetings and welcome.
But there's a golden opportunity to blow this up sky high.
The uh the United Auto Workers Union say, uh, we don't even want the company.
Have you heard this?
United Auto Workers, no, we don't even want the company.
They have no intention of keeping their 55% stake in the new Chrysler.
They're gonna sell those shares in order to pay for a trust to fund a trust that will take over their health care costs next year.
It is so obvious what happened here.
Return the nation's wealth to its rightful owners.
This was Obama once again jamming Wall Street, jamming the private sector, jamming investors, and saying, you guys take it on the chin, you've had a free ride for way too long in this country.
Uh people that supported me and gave me money, they're gonna get paid back.
And so 55% of this company, 55% of Chrysler, is gonna go to fund their health care trust.
Pure payback.
Now stop and think of the ramifications of that.
We've all known that politicians pay people back.
But this goes far beyond anything that we have uh had recent experience with.
Anyway, great to have you here.
All that coming up details as well.
800-282-2882.
If you want to be on the program, it started out last hour asking if if if we're so dead, if conservatism's so dead, why are they dancing on their grave?
Why do they try to kill us every day for already dead?
Why do you keep trying to jam the stake in our hearts?
It's because we're not dead.
They only want you to think we're dead.
They want to dispirit anybody from standing up to oppose Obama.
So yesterday I get wind of this listening tour, and I didn't I didn't go out and attack anybody personally in this tour.
Jeb and these people, in fact, the headline said Jeb was saying ignore Reagan.
I gave Jeb the benefit of the doubt.
I don't think based on what I read, Jeb didn't say that.
The headline said it, but I don't think Jeb said it.
And Romney, if I didn't with these people personally, said this is just we don't need to pander.
We don't know how need to go out and listen.
We need to teach.
Well, this Debbie Dingle.
She's Democrat strategist.
Debbie Dingle.
She was on MSNBC this afternoon.
And uh the host, David Schuster said they were putting aside for a second the party issues.
Generally, when a party is on a listening tour as opposed to a teaching tour, that's a problem, isn't it?
No, I don't think so, quite frankly.
I think teaching tours can be uh show a sign of arrogance.
I think democracy is that you're of the people, and you need to listen to the people.
You do need to have a sharing of ideas, but just the word teaching is arrogant to me, which I think Rush Limbaugh can be at times.
Throw me in this mix.
Of course, I'm the one that came up with the notion we need to have a teaching tour.
Ms. Dingle, let me tell you what's arrogant.
What's arrogant is the president of the United States saying he's gonna remake this country.
Remake it from what?
What's so bad about it?
He's gonna remake it to what?
What's so good about what he's gonna do?
He doesn't have that constitutional authority to remake this country.
And believe me, all these people talk about listening to the American people like Obama said he was he's not listening to anybody.
He's making a show of listening.
He's making a big show of making people think he's listening to them and doing what they want.
He is a committed left-wing ideologue demagogue who's doing everything to implement his agenda as quickly as possible, regardless what anybody thinks.
He's not even trying to teach people.
He's misleading.
The President of the United States is misleading people about his intentions, misleading people about the results of these policy ideas of his.
They are horrible.
They are destructive.
They're gonna put this nation in hock like we've never been in hock before.
Everything Barack Obama has touched is Broken.
The automobile industry bailed it out, gonna fix it, it's broken.
Wall Street is broken.
Everything Obama claims he's fixing, and sadly a lot of people believe, is broken.
Instead of taking over things in the private sector where he has no business being, Miss Dingle, how about Social Security and Medicare?
Unfunded liabilities to 77 trillion dollars in those programs.
Now one thing being done about it, way the landcomes due.
You people that believe in government have got enough messes in government that you've made that have to be fixed without meddling in the private sector and screwing it up too, all under the guise of doing a listening tour.
This is why we do need a teaching tour.
We need to teach people what's actually being done by way of deceit.
An intricate web of deceit is being woven by Obama and this administration, misleading people entirely.
Continuing on now with the drive-by media freaking out over me and my listening tour.
Same old template in fighting in the GOP.
Here's a montage last night and this morning of various people in the media.
Rush Limbaugh was not impressed by the town hall meeting.
In fighting Republicans, including Rush Limbaugh.
Mr. Limbaugh today blasted the whole rebranding the GOP idea.
Is this snipey between the elite Mitt Romney and the cowboys out there like Rush Limbaugh?
Rush Limbaugh said yesterday that GOP shouldn't pander by going on a listening tour, they should go on a teaching tour.
So is it everybody's laughing about this?
Uh should go on a teaching tour.
It is pandering to go listen.
You let me tell you something.
Let me bring it down to the personal.
I have at any given moment six million people listening to this program.
At any given moment, I'm getting a thousand emails from people who tell me, including friends of mine, tell me what I ought to be doing.
What if I listened to every damn one of them?
I would be wearing a strait jacket.
And I would have been in an insane asylum for the last 18 years.
After 20 years being at the top, everybody still knows how to do it better.
Everybody still knows when I've screwed up.
Everybody still knows what I've got to do to do it right.
What if I decided I needed to go on a listening?
You know what?
Folks, instead of the Rush to Excess tour, we're gonna go on a rush listen tour.
I'm gonna show up in your town, I'm gonna set up a microphone that you use, and I'm gonna sit there and say nothing, and I'm gonna listen to you.
And I'm gonna come back and I'm gonna put together a great radio pro.
What do you think would happen?
Not very many people would show up, and if I actually didn't listen, it would be a disaster because you can't take the advice of 20 million people or 5,000, regardless of whatever the number is.
And if you're a politician, you can't take the advice of 58 million people.
This whole notion of listening, it's just it's a it's a scam.
Maybe maybe we've gotten to the point where you have to scam the American people in order to get their votes.
I hope not.
See, I'm enough of an idealist, purbally a little naive.
And um, hopefully a bit of a realist to understand that it really works out best if you respect your audience, respect their intelligence, approach them that way.
You know well, fool well, people are gonna disagree with you no matter what you do, but the minute you start pandering to everybody disagrees with you, all you're doing is trying to shut them up, and what you're doing, yeah, every go back behind closed doors after the pander meeting after the listening tour.
Oh, we owned them out there.
They think we really listened to what they said, those idiots.
They really think we're just doing it for the show of it.
I don't care which party does it.
Let's see, what do you got?
Oh, uh, let's see, Jonathan Martin of the political CNN this morning, the host, co-host Kieran Chetry, and they had uh this exchange about me.
Rush Limbaugh is somebody who's smart who wants to advance the the party, uh, at least the conservative ideals.
But why is he defending Sarah Palin the way he is?
Well, I think there are a couple reasons.
I think first of all, Rush does see her as a truly charismatic figure who I think uh can speak the sort of old-time religion In a fashion that he doesn't see anybody else out there on the conservative landscape being able to do.
But I do also think that there is something at play, whereas I think Rush likes uh Sarah Palin uh because he sees a bit of himself and her in this sense.
Liberals go crazy over Sarah Palin.
They can't stand her.
Similarly, they can't stand Rush Limbaugh.
Now, I know Jonathan Martin, I sometimes answer questions from him via email when he sends me, but I've never sat down and talked to him.
I've never talked to him about Sarah Palin.
But he's come to the conclusion that one of the reasons I like Sarah Palin is because the left hates her, and since the left hates me, she must be cool.
I don't, you know, you know what's more confusing to me is why the people that don't like her don't like her.
That's what gets me scratching my head.
I mean, people on our side, not the left.
I understand the left is scared to death of her.
The left is still out there trying to destroy Sarah Palin.
She's up in Alaska.
They're filing ethics complaints against her every week, forcing her to have to have a legal defense fund.
They're trying to break her.
They're trying to make her go broke so she won't be able to have a political future.
They're scared to death of her.
If they weren't, they'd leave her alone.
Let her go moose hunting.
And that would be it.
I uh why see did you see how easy the conventional wisdom is?
The conventional wisdom is that Palin's a dork, that Palin's an idiot, that Palin's unsophisticated, that Palin's this or that, she uh she doesn't know the lingo that she was bad wardrobe, all of this irrelevant stuff.
To try to destroy her, to destroy her credibility with people, to impugn her.
I just listened to what she said and I liked what she said.
I like the way she said it.
It's no more complicated than that.
She understands the threat posed by an ever-growing government and the encroachment on individual liberty and freedom of growing government poses.
I do too.
I'm all about freedom and liberty.
I'm all about the individual.
I'm all about self-interest.
I'm all about everybody doing what's best for them, making the country bread.
It's not selfishness that, that's not selfishness.
What kind of father would you be if you weren't doing the best for your family?
You'd be a deadbeat, right?
If you were selfish and only doing things for yourself and your family suffered, that wouldn't be good.
But if you're doing things to improve yourself because your family does, isn't that a an admirable quality?
If you do otherwise, you're a deadbeat and they come take your kid away from you.
After the wife calls.
I mean, none of this is complicated.
It's just been so muddled and confused in people's minds.
She just says things I agree with.
She has ability to relate to average people.
Says things they can understand.
She fires them up.
Let's see.
Next question from Kieran Chetry.
You're right, there's a sense of exasperation among party leaders over the media coverage of Limbaugh and Palin, a product largely of her good looks and tabloid fodder family troubles.
If did you hear what Karen Chitry just said there's exasperation among party leaders because of her good looks?
What's she saying?
They're jealous of her good looks.
Am I hearing that right?
What a woman says.
...
And her tabloid fodder family troubles.
They don't like that about her.
If the GOP wants to rebuild a viable candidate in 2012, you talk about the polarizing nature, the latest pulse is 38%.
I'm an independent and I'm not affiliated with the Republican Party.
They really are exasperated.
They think that Sarah Palin still gets the coverage she does, not because of merit or because of any ideas that she's promoting, but because she's something of even a diversion that she's good fodder for the media because she has this, you know, one family travail after the next, and that's the reason that she gets coverage.
They view her increasingly as a distraction to their larger process of rebuilding.
But there are folks in the party like Rush who say, no, no, no, she is the one who is out there, the sort of one true figure who can really articulate our message.
Sarah Palin could build the party.
I really believe that and all these moderates and independents think that she's going to be a drag on building the party.
Why?
Because true she will not attract liberals.
She won't attract moderates.
Thank God.
We don't want them in our party.
In this business about polling data, 38% or independence.
I ask you to remember.
And Coco, I want you to go to our archives.
We drag this poll out every now and then, the battleground poll, which shows that 60% of the American people since what?
2000 identify themselves as conservatives.
The telling part is that 30 to 34%, 30% call themselves Republicans.
But 60% call themselves conservatives.
And if you look at the individual polls on individual Obama policies, you'll find that they're nowhere near as highly approved of as he is personally.
There is a gold mine waiting to be tapped.
We'll take a break.
We'll come back.
I'll get your phone calls in after this.
I promise.
Don't go away.
Here's another question for the moderates.
The moderates about reaching out, right?
Why do they not reach out to us?
No, I'm serious.
The moderates in our party want to cast us aside.
The moderates in our party want to reach out to everybody but us, the conservatives.
When are they gonna reach out to us?
I tell you what, they always look at their right.
They are gosh, I can't use this term.
I would love to use the term, but I can't use it.
But they're just hero worshippers.
They go wherever the power is.
That's what moderates do.
They go where the power is and they'll be back once we reacquire power.
They just want to bask in the light of others.
Everybody's talking about reaching out.
We got to reach out to this.
The media says we gotta reach out.
How come nobody's reaching out to us?
I asked the question rhetorically.
Uh a couple more sound bites.
Here's James Carville on uh the view yesterday.
Wilby Goldberg asked him a question.
Who is uh in the Republican Party that you actually see who has a brain?
They have a problem, and they know to have a problem.
Michael Steele, he's a very nice guy, but he's not coming across as a serious guy.
He's coming across as like a clown.
And they know that.
Sarah Palin is coming across as something less than a very deep and thoughtful person.
Okay.
Um Rush is uh, how do I say this nice thing?
He's polarizing.
Rush is polarizing.
Palin's an idiot.
Uh Rush is polarizing.
Uh well Obama's polarizing.
This is the most polarized country we've had according to several polls.
Polarization, actually not bad.
Means people are standing for something.
Anyway, we've been through all that.
One more bite than a phone call.
This is uh Joe Scarborough today talking to Mike Pence of Indiana, and during the interview, they have this exchange again about me and the Republican Party.
Rush Limbaugh said yesterday that GOP shouldn't pander by going on a listing tour.
They should go on a teaching tour.
What say you, sir?
Well, I, you know, I you know, I love Rush, and uh but I think the careful.
I think the objective here of uh the energy summit we're gonna have today on Capitol Hill, featuring uh former Governor John Angler, now head of the National Association of Manufacturers, is gonna be about leaders in Washington, D.C. listening and learning and helping to educate the American people about the real cost of the so-called cap and trade legislation.
Exactly what I'm saying.
Scarborough and these guys are trying to twist this.
And even Pence says, Well, we're gonna listen.
Who are gonna listen?
They're gonna listen to experts about cap and trade, so they can do what?
Educate the American people about the truth of it.
A teaching tour.
If you don't like teaching, if that offends you, and I hope it doesn't, then calling it a reminder tour or whatever.
But somebody has got to go out and teach the truth about what Obama's doing and also remind people who and what conservatism is.
Sturdley has a question.
Mm-hmm.
My daughter, my audience already knows the dangers to cap and trade because I've been explaining it to them for two years.
And how did I taught them?
I taught them.
I did not arrogantly remind them about cap and trade.
I brought him in and said, folks, there's something happening out there I think you ought to know about.
There's no arrogance involved in it.
I did not listen to them Before I came up with my opinion on cap and trade, I told them.
And if they called and asked me questions about it, I answered the questions.
But I didn't learn about cap and trade by running around asking people or listening to people other than the people who are experts in the field.
Now we are experts in conservatism.
Therefore, we ought to be the ones teaching it.
I'm sorry to lose my patience here, folks.
I don't know I if you are an expert, what the hell do you have to gain by listening to people who aren't?
And I don't we got phony experts and so forth.
You get my drift on this.
This is all done with the best of intentions.
I don't even get credit for that.
I don't get credit for even having good intentions.
I'm just I just a mean, polarizing, arrogant SOB.
I don't even get credit for wanting to be a good guy.
Because everybody's trying to tell me how to do it.
I was getting notes during my little monologue about Jack Kemp.
Well, I don't know how to tell you Jack Kemp.
I think Jack.
Didn't affect me, stuck to what I wanted to say about Jack Kemp.
But it happens, it happens all the time.
And you know, it really is no more complicated than this, folks.
The easier you make something look, the more everybody else thinks they can do it.
It's a trait of greatness.
There he goes.
Now he's resorted to his pompous braggadocio personality.
It's a good thing I love myself, or I really I literally I would beat a straitjacket.
I'd be a straitjacket.
Snurdley or anybody else on the staff that's uh got the time.
I need I need a research project done.
I want you to go back to 1979, 1980, and then 1984, and I want you to find me all the dates of the Ronald Reagan listening tour.
Want you to find me every day at Ronald Reagan listened.
Uh uh scheduled a listening tour during his two campaigns for pre in fact, 1976, too, when he was trying to get the Republican uh GOP nomination.
Find me all the dates that Reagan had his uh listening tour.
All right.
Let's see, back to the uh phones, or we haven't been to the phones.
Let's start with uh with Andrews, 20 years old from Austin, Texas.
Andrew, great to have you here.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hey, Rush.
It is a distinct pleasure.
Tell you what, let's get some experts together.
We'll go on that uh teaching tour.
I'll be your NC.
Um I have a couple questions for you.
First off, um, I want to know, you know, we've been talking about uh President Obama, uh how he's trying to nationalize a lot of the private sector, and I want to know your opinion on like what you think his end game is.
What is his eventual goal?
I mean, do you think he wants to be like Mark Stein said his the uh dictator for life of the week?
You know, I'm I I um dictator for life for a week.
This week's dictator for life, I think is what Mark said.
Well, it's it's tough to know what the end game is.
All I know is I don't want to be alive if he accomplishes it.
You know, I don't want to be around when it happens.
So I don't think Obama himself can pull off his end game.
It's gonna take longer than he's got unless, of course, we uh change the term limits on uh presidents and allow three terms uh or what have you.
Uh did we lose the call?
Did I hear a hang up there?
I'm here.
Oh, you're still there, okay.
I'm still here.
Um But it it in practical terms, the uh keep repeating this because I guess it's necessary and it's it it works.
The way to understand Barack Obama is, and and you're 20, so it may not have as much resonance with you as somebody who's a little older and has been working for a long time, but he wants to return the nation's wealth to its rightful owners.
Uh he's a redistributionist.
He wants to punish achievement.
He wants to uh disincentivize achievement.
He doesn't even want you trying to achieve the best uh because he doesn't want there to be great disparities in the outcomes people experience in lives.
He's really looking for the government, one that he controls to be the primary mover In as many lives as possible.
Of course.
He looks at this country as something unjust and immoral, and he's got to fix it.
It's been unjust and immoral for all of these years until he was elected.
But it has taken advantage of little people and uh minorities and so forth, and he's going to return the nation to those people who he thinks built it, who he thinks made it great, but have had everything they've ever worked for stolen from, or they were never paid for it in the first place.
So he's robbed Peter to pay Paul.
Well, you know, I'm not very old, you know, but um I have a lot of dreams and plans for my life, and I know if Obama gets his way, then I won't be able to do a lot of that, and so I'm I'm pretty pissed off at the same time.
Well, he's defining prosperity down.
I mean, look at what the tax rate that you are facing now, just to pay for what he's printed or borrowed for all of his stimulus spending and budget spending, plus the problems with Medicare and Medicaid.
You, you and people who are younger than you are going to be working first and foremost for the government for most of the year in order to allow them to fund what they're doing.
I mean, Obama's one of these people that believes that government programs, government size, government engagement is what has and will make a great country, not the individuals.
He doesn't have a lot of faith in individuals.
Liberals don't.
They have they have contempt for average people.
Liberals must look at average people as incompetent.
Uh, and in the process, in so doing, they they uh credit themselves with needing power.
Look, they they really do look at themselves as best and brightest.
They're smarter, they're better people.
Their DNA is better than yours.
Their pedigree is better than yours.
They are better people.
They look down on you.
They have a an arrogance and a condescension towards average people, and their belief is that you can't do as well for yourself as they can do for you.
And in the process, what they end up doing is creating an ever expanding army of voters that will continue to re-elect them in the hope that the spoils will continue to come, and that uh they will have eternal power.
So forth.
There's, I mean, it's it's it's uh plus I I think this guy's got a chip on his shoulder if you listen to Barack Obama and his wife.
I think there's some genuine anger uh over this nation, its history that is guiding him and energizing him along the way in his policies now.
The thing I wonder about, as all this happens, is I wonder, and I it's a serious serious question, I'm wondering just how many average everyday Democrats actually understand what he's doing and actually agree with it.
Now I know the fringe lunatic base has an abject hatred and distrust and dislike for this country.
And they relish, they relish any policy that they think is gonna get even with people that they think have unfairly acquired what they have or just people they don't like.
But average ordinary run-of-the-mill Democrats, I've just I'm wondering how many of them behind closed doors are beginning to go, well, what the hell did we do?
I don't know how many average run-of-the-mill Democrats actually think that the United Auto Workers ought to own 55% of Chrysler.
I'm not sure.
I don't know how many average run-of-the-mill Democrats want to look at every business in the private sector as an enemy of America, as Obama does.
I know that Democrats and liberals, average ordinary people, have become hugely partisan.
Our country is very divided.
They have had their hatred for George Bush and Republicans ginned up, fortified and fueled for the last seven years, ever since the Florida 2000 outcome.
So I have no doubt that there is a visceral, almost an uncontrollable emotional rage and hatred they have for their political enemies.
That being said, I don't know how many of them actually want a totalitarian, authoritarian government under which they too are going to live.
There are a lot of wealthy Democrats.
There are millions of prosperous Democrats in all walks of life, and some of them, you know, very hard workers like everybody else.
And they're gonna get soaked as well here.
And I'm not talking about the elites within Obama's circle, the political class, the elected political class, the elected elites, the think tank elites, the people in the ivory tamp campus towers and so forth.
I'm just talking about the average Democrat, Naperville, Illinois, the average Democrat in St. Louis, Missouri.
I'll exempt the average Democrats in San Francisco.
They probably do want Obama to succeed at virtually everything he's doing.
But I have to think that there are a lot of people who are privately never say so publicly yet, it's only been a hundred days.
Won't say so publicly, but this is not.
I mean, there are plenty of them that do like seeing Acorn protest AIG execs.
There's a bunch of pent-up rage the Democrats have fueled for years, class envy and all this, hatred of executives and so forth, Wall Street and so forth.
But I don't know.
I don't know how many Democrats really, really, and I could be dead wrong about this too.
I don't know how many Democrats really, really like.
A lot of Democrats served in uh in uh in the military.
I don't know how many of them actually like their president apologizing to Europe.
You realize there's some Democrats in their 60s and 70s, 80s who are fully aware that we rebuilt that continent aft twice, and that we have a president running around now apologizing for the arrogance of the United States.
I'm telling you, there are some people who I think maybe in the campaign didn't see this.
There was so much hatred for Bush.
The belief that the country had never been worse than it was in the eight years of Bush, that any change would be better.
But as this goes on, and if Obama remains as singularly focused and fortified on this anti-American prosperity agenda that he's got, at some point some people are going to wake up and say, This is I don't hate my country this much.
I don't think my country is this unjust.
I don't think this country deserves to be torn down and rebuilt.
I'm not relying on it.
I'm not sitting here hoping it.
I just don't.
This this all is because of the faith I generally have in genuine Americans.
So whatever his end game is, I do know this, it's about him.
It's about him and whoever his close circle of friends are.
It's not about you.
It's not about the best way of life for you.
It's about him.
This is about settling scores.
This is about fulfilling the dreams of people who shaped his mind when he was a young boy all the way through college, and we know who those people were, and in some cases are.
It just remains to be seen how much he's going to get away with.
And only time will tell.
But because I happen to believe all this is true, this is even more of a reason to stand up and oppose this.
The teaching tour, the reminder tour, whatever.
Because I guarantee you, as more time goes on, more doubts are going to crop up in a lot of people's minds.
And somebody better be out there feeding those doubts and confirming those doubts and giving people reason to believe those doubts are true.
Because the people of this country still, and this is what I hope we don't lose.
The people of this country still, whether they're misguided or not, get what they want in the end.
They may not get it every election, but things even out.
The American people did not want Republicans running this country after eight years because they had been convinced that this was the worst eight years in the nation's history, a successful demonizing campaign from the press and the Democrat Party.
Now we get just the opposite.
Now we've got hero worship.
Now we've got the press saying this guy, this is never, we've had never anybody this good, neverybody has done this magnificent and so forth.
We've never had anybody like this.
It's always gonna be a tough thing to uh uh to battle, but you have to battle it.
And when there we when when there's the germ of doubt, and when you know it's There.
You gotta amplify it.
You gotta give reasons, people reasons to confirm their doubt.
So that's why you stand up, and that's why you fight this, and that's why you teach, and that's why you remind whatever you want to do.
This is why you um uh basically go out and remind people of philosophies, policies and so forth.
Because it's all gonna matter to people, more and more people as time goes on.
At some point, if we keep losing 600,000 jobs, some point that ain't George Bush's fault.
It's not his fault now.
Some point this is gonna have to be tied to Obama.
His policies and the fact that everything he's tried to fix is broken worse than when he took office.
Are you better off now than you were a hundred days ago?
The odds are no.
But they promised immediate fixes and they're out there singing the praises how well they're doing.
There ought to be some sign here.
There ought to be some sign things are coming back.
And don't by the way, the housing market.
There was news yesterday, hey, we might have bottomed out.
Housing market coming back.
Do you realize it's going to be was reading somewhere today?
It may be a generation before housing prices recover with all of the defaults and all of the foreclosures and all the late payments on mortgages and all this.
To expect a bottoming out on this time any time soon is unrealistic.
And and I told the people at Heritage last night, the more chaos, the more unrest, the more angst, the better it is for Obama and his people.
Because it gives him even more opportunity to say, okay, let me fix it.
You know I love you, you know I care about you.
You know we have hope and change.
We know we've had a mess the last eight years.
Let me fix it.
It ain't gonna happen soon, but I'm gonna fix it.
I love you.
Blah, blah, blah.
People, okay, go ahead and fix it when there's a crisis.
And there's a crisis three or four times a day now, it seems.
We continue with phone calls.
Up next is uh Ron in Sterling, Virginia.
I'm glad you waited, sir.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hi.
Uh hello, Rush.
My question is uh whether you think that the reason that elected Republican leadership does such a poor job articulating conservatism is because you have done such a great job for so long.
Uh no, why why why why would they if I'm doing such a great job, why why wouldn't they follow and do a great job?
If if if aren't you saying they're basically leaving it up to me and they're not trying?
Yes, because they can lose the next election by being voted out, but they know that you and the conservative uh uh media that has been created in your wake will kind of carry the conservative water for them.
Well, I think by now if they think that they should have shown they're wrong.
Or that their thinking is wrong.
If that was the case, they would have not lost in 06.
And if that was the case, they wouldn't have lost in 08, because I've been standing up for conservatism every day I've been behind the microphone.
And the ones in Congress and the Senate that have been too are uh one.
Uh those who haven't been have lost.
But I don't I I I've I've had a lot of people say, you know, Rush, you you give them cover.
You know, they're they're afraid to take on these issues because they gotta get votes and you don't.
But I I actually think, if you want to know, you want to know the truth about this, Ron.
Yes.
I think if the truth be known, and I probably should not say this publicly, I think the truth be known, a lot of, not a majority, but a lot of elected Republicans wish I would go away.
Cause they buy into this notion I'm polarizing and making it tough on them.
And I know they hate being asked, Well, what do you think of Rush Limbaugh?
They're afraid to say they disagree because they think they're gonna get slapped down, not by me, but by other people.
But I think it's uh any any time you're outspoken, unabashedly so, and you speak without fear.
Most people just are not able to do that and don't want to, even if they are able to.
And it just if i i if if they think other people doing that caused them troubles, they really actually wish the person that's speaking out would go away.
Now, I don't have political power to share with them.
I don't have Political power to bring them.
Now, if I were maybe an elected official doing this kind of stuff and it was working, I think it'd be a little bit different thing.
I don't know how many of them it is, but it's uh the there's a there's uh a number of them, and you can hear them.
I mean, they you there's several Republicans, uh, the moderates, the Senate, and so forth, have uh have echoed some sentiments, and we really shouldn't listen to Limbaugh that much.
I don't think more of them think it that would ever say it.
But it's not about it's not about me personally.
I don't I don't take any of it personally.
I just think that it's I make waves.
These guys, they don't want to make waves.
They just that's politicians don't think they get anywhere making waves.
Uh and and I don't pander, you know, and I I don't try to find out what people want to hear and then tell them that.
So forth.
But I appreciate Ron, uh, your thoughts.
I have to go.
A short EIME, E. IB obscene profit timeout.
Be back and continue after this.
It's amazing.
It's amazing.
MSNBC breathlessly reporting that Obama and Biden left the White House for lunch at a burger joint.
A breathless breaking news report that they say is a sign the economy has maybe bottomed out.
Also, Obama will not release the photos of Air Force One, buzzing Manhattan and the Statue of Liberty last week.
No, those are too secure, too private, uh classified.
But we are going to release pictures of so-called abuse at Abilgrab and Guantanamo Bay.
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