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	Utilizing talent on loan from God, I am Rush Limbaugh, America's truth detector, the doctor of democracy, serving humanity simply by showing up while meeting and surpassing all audience expectations every day.
	And in my spare time, I am running the Republican Party.
	Great to have you here.
	Telephone number 800-282-2882, the email address lrushbaugh at eibnet.com.
	Seriously, my friends, if any Republican wins today, it has to show that the Republican Party is attracting independents.
	Because you heard the sound bites earlier, David Plough and Axelrod and these guys are all out there saying that the Republican Party affiliation is at an all-time low.
	That's what they're going with.
	And they seem so concerned about that.
	They seem so concerned that we're losing the moderates, that we're losing the independents.
	They're really, really worried.
	Not.
	And if, indeed, Republicans win by their own definitions, by the measurements that they have set, it will have to be with independent voters, will it not?
	Indeed.
	Gloria Borger continued on the Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer.
	Blitzer said, so if the conservative candidate Doug Hoffman goes on and wins tomorrow, how will that impact the Republican Party?
	Get this.
	Well, lots of Republicans I talk to say they're going to overreach and overread the results of this.
	And what that may mean, for example, you may have a situation in Florida in the Senate race where you have John McCain endorsing Governor Charlie Crist, and you may have his former running mate, Sarah Palin, endorsing the more conservative candidate, Marco Rubios.
	So if you're a Democrat, you want to see this kind of stuff going on.
	You want to see this stuff because, you know, you split the Republican Party right down the middle and you're going to get those independent voters.
	So be careful what you wish for in this victory in the 23rd.
	Right.
	So these two wizards of smart folks, it's almost not fair playing these soundbites and commenting on them.
	These two wizards of smart have come to the conclusion that if Hoffman wins, it's great news for the Democrats.
	Did I not tell you that before I even heard the soundbites?
	My brilliant monologues in the first hour of today's program predicting media spin and reaction.
	So here she is.
	Gloria, you know, I got an email.
	I'll tell you a story.
	I got an email about a quarter to one Eastern time, 25 minutes ago, from a journalist at a magazine.
	And the email said, you know, Rush, we'd like to offer you 1,000 words, 2,000 words to write a column making a case for a third party, looking at what's happening in New York 23.
	So I wrote back, commercial break, sorry, but I can't make the case for a third party.
	What's happening in New York 23 is not anything to do with a third party.
	There was no primary there.
	Party bosses picked a losing candidate, and Republicans in the district got fed up, and one of them decided to run himself on the Conservative Party line.
	Conservative Party is not a third party.
	It always backs the Republican Party when it's worth it in New York.
	So find somebody else to write your pro-third party business because as far as I'm concerned, a third party means eternal victory for Democrats.
	So she writes back, oh, oh, oh, You know, I looked at it that way.
	I think I see your point.
	And as for Gloria Borger, how many Republicans has she actually met who are conservative?
	The Republicans she talks to, who are the Republicans?
	She's talking to moderate, independent, liberal Republicans.
	That's who she talks to.
	Those are the Republicans that she knows and would probably deign to spend time with.
	She talks to Washington Republicans and claims that they're conservatives.
	You know, she'd have been saying the same nonsense when Reagan was taking on Gerald Ford.
	This is the thing.
	You've got to understand this is the exact kind of thing that the media was saying back then.
	The Republican Party's tearing itself apart.
	It's blinding itself.
	It's splitting itself in half.
	Ronald Reagan, blah, blah, blah, blah.
	And look at what happened.
	Have I chosen the Democrat candidate yet, Snurtley?
	Have you picked them?
	No, I haven't yet.
	I haven't picked.
	You know, ladies and gentlemen, depending on the outcome of these races today, I, as the leader of the Republican Party and its number one entertainer as well, will have a statement tomorrow where I will explain fully what has happened today, and I'll take my rightful credit for it.
	Of course, if we lose, it's not going to be my problem.
	But if we win, it's another situation.
	I'd like to share with you what I think, my friends, are, and it was tough to come up with 10, or limit this to 10, the top 10 moderate moments.
	Republican moderate moments.
	Number 10, Newt Gingrich does a PSA on global warming with Nancy Pelosi in 2008.
	Number nine, moderate moment in GOP history, Bush Quayle, 92.
	The number eight moderate moment, GOP history, Dole Kemp, 96.
	The number seven most moderate moment in Republican history, Ford Dole, 76.
	You see a pattern here.
	Top 10 moderate moments, Republican history.
	Number six, Jumpin' Jim Jeffords jumps from the Republican Party.
	Top 10 moderate moments in Republican history, Arlen Specter switches parties.
	Top 10 moderate moments in Republican history.
	Number four, Richard Nixon resigns in disgrace.
	Top 10 moderate moments, Republican history.
	Number three, Didi Skazafova endorses the Democrat Owens in New York 23.
	Top 10 moderate moments in Republican history.
	Number two, the McCain campaign of 2008.
	And the number one, top 10 moderate moment in Republican history, Colin Powell endorsing Barack Obama, the Democrat, for president in 2008.
	If you want to talk about moderates and you want to look at great moments, moderate moments in Republican history, and I'm sure you could add to this list and we could come up with a thousand of these.
	But these are the top 10.
	And every one of them got us where every one of them took us where?
	Backwards.
	Every damned one of them.
	These are the people and these are the things that should define the Republican Party.
	You know, I hear David Plough and yesterday was Axelrod wringing their hands over losing moderates and independence.
	It's a Republican Party.
	It's horrible.
	Oh, they're losing.
	They're really.
	And, you know, I then remember them saying that Colin Powell, General Powell, the ideal future Republican.
	And people like David Brooks said the same thing.
	The ideal.
	If the Republican Party loses people like Colin Powell, it's over.
	And so General Powell, in a strategic moment of timing, endorses the Democrat candidate after being told he is, after we're told that he is the epitome.
	He is the prototype Republican.
	And he endorsed the Democrat.
	And I'm sitting there saying, why do people in our party allow themselves to be defined, manipulated, flaked, formed, shaped, whatever, by these Democrats?
	Because they appease them.
	They want to be liked.
	They want to be accepted where they live in Washington, D.C. and in New York.
	They're not.
	By definition, folks, moderates cannot be governed by principle.
	They can't be.
	Moderates don't have principles.
	If they had principles, they'd be one thing or the other.
	Moderates like to think, well, you know, we're smarter than the average person.
	We're cut above.
	We examine things issue by issue.
	We're not narrow-minded.
	We're not narrowly locked into a single narrow set of agenda items.
	No, no, no, no.
	We are far more sophisticated, nuanced, the needy logs in our party.
	We see the right way on abortion, these social and cultural issues.
	Yes, yes, yes.
	And then they're just a bunch of arrogant, conceited, and at the same time, ignorant people.
	Brief timeout, but we've got lots ahead.
	Stay with us.
	The EIB network comes right back after this.
	Yeah, I'm going to tell you something else, folks.
	A lot of people voting in these races today, these elections.
	They're not voting Republican, Democrat.
	They're voting pocketbook.
	People are hurting, and there is no relief in sight, and they are voting pocketbook.
	And that's another thing for Mr. Plough and Mr. Axelrod and Mr. Emmanuel and Mr. Obama to remember at the end of this day, the pocketbook party is what will be triumphant if Republicans win here.
	Because you, Mr. Pluff and you, Mr. Axelrod, and you, Mr. Emmanuel, and you, Mr. Obama, are stealing money from people.
	It is not yours.
	They have earned it and you're taking it.
	In many cases, before they've earned it.
	Michelle Bachman, as I mentioned yesterday, this giant house call, this rally planned for Thursday on the steps of the Capitol.
	I'm hearing that it is growing by leaps and bounds.
	People from all over the country are trying to get there.
	Dr. Mark Levin will be participating along with Michelle Bachman, Congressman from Minnesota, as well as John Voigt.
	Now, Michelle was on Fox News channel, Fox and Friends, this morning.
	Gretchen Carlson said, I know that you and some other Republicans having a town hall at this get-together asking people across America to join you.
	Join you in what?
	Come and let the members of Congress know that all of the messages that came out in August at the town halls and tea parties are still relevant.
	People don't want to have government take over their health care.
	They've kind of forgot that message.
	This is it.
	This is the Super Bowl of freedom this week because this will change our country forever.
	Dramatic tax increases.
	It will cost senior citizens $500 billion in health care.
	And truly, Gretchen, the only way they're going to listen is if real freedom-loving Americans come here to Washington noon on Thursday, look at the whites of their eyes of their members of Congress and say, Don't you remember I told you don't take away my health care?
	In an email to me, Michelle Bachman earlier this week said that emails and phone calls have lost their impact, which is with the Democrats anyway, because they're going to do this regardless.
	And it's her belief that lots of human beings, lots of Americans prowling around office buildings in Washington, congressional office buildings, trying to find members of Congress and looking right them in the eye and say, nope, nope, nope, we do not want this.
	Now, here's the dirty little secret.
	The Republicans in Congress can't alone stop this.
	And Michelle Bachman's asking for help.
	And people ask me all the time, well, what can I do?
	What can I do?
	Here's an event.
	Now, the big tea party thing they had in August on a Saturday, they had months to plan for that.
	I just heard about this yesterday.
	This is Tuesday, right?
	And I just heard about this yesterday.
	So they're trying to pull off an amazing feat here in a few days.
	Gretchen Carlson then said, well, these people might have some kind of impact on conservative Democrats, right?
	That's the point, because they are squarely sitting on the fence right now, Gretchen.
	If they see their constituents coming to Washington, D.C., that will make the difference.
	It made a huge difference, as you know, in August.
	Had we had the vote in August, no question it would have failed.
	But again, Speaker Pelosi has been able to bring the hammer down on these blue dogs for the last two months.
	And we need to remind these members again of the lesson of August in the tea parties.
	People don't want this to pass.
	The blue dogs continue to be an interesting thing.
	I really want to go back to that front page Washington Post story where the Obama White House threw Cree deeds overboard because he was losing.
	When Cree Deeds was no longer worth anything to Obama, it was worth throwing him overboard and humiliating him publicly, front page Washington Post, all to protect Obama's reputation and image.
	Now, you blue dogs have got a real decision to make on this because I'm going to tell you the dirty little secret.
	Nancy Pelosi would love for you to vote for this thing and go home and lose.
	She doesn't like Democrats in her caucus who are not as leftist and radical as she is.
	She thinks that she can hold on to power.
	They get this health care thing.
	And then next comes cap and trade.
	She thinks that if she can lose some of you blue dogs and still hold on to power, still have enough Democrats to give her a majority.
	And I mean this.
	I'm not trying to use anything but genuine sincerity in speaking to you blue dogs.
	You've got a decision to make.
	You listen to your constituents and vote no on this thing.
	And you go home and you run for reelection and you could proudly say, yeah, I'm a fiscal conservative.
	I'm not for irresponsible spending and government growth and I voted against it.
	And you get re-elected.
	And if you get back there, Pelosi's going to treat you like dirt.
	On the other hand, you can vote for it.
	You can vote for it.
	And then you can go home and you can make whatever lame excuse you want for your constituents as to why you voted for it.
	And then you lose.
	And Nancy Pelosi wins twice.
	She gets rid of you and she gets her health care bill passed.
	And I don't want any of you blue dogs to underestimate what I'm saying here.
	She doesn't like you being in the caucus.
	You are not pure enough.
	So that's where we are.
	And Michelle Bachman is of the opinion that boots on the ground, so to speak, are what it's going to take to make an impact on the vote because I think the vote is scheduled for Friday.
	Kristen in Worthington, Ohio.
	We go to you first on the phone today.
	Great to have you with us.
	Well, hello, Rush.
	It's such an honor to speak with you.
	Thank you.
	I've never done anything politically before in my life other than vote and listen to you and make myself educated and watch Fox News.
	I heard Michelle Bachman on Friday and I thought, boy, that's a great idea.
	I hope she can get it pulled together and have a few people there.
	You know, that's less than a week away.
	By Sunday, on the As a Mom website that I follow, they were encouraging all of us moms, if we could, to get to Washington, D.C., and they were providing us with a template for a t-shirt we should make so we can all find each other when we get there.
	They also provided a link to a local grassroots organization that was organizing transportation for this event.
	So Sunday, while my family and I were eating dinner, I mentioned it, and my husband said, well, you should go.
	And I said, I'd love to go, but, you know, I'm thinking the mom things.
	I got a family to take care of, meals to fix, kids to get to school, and all of that.
	And the three of them almost in unison said, we can take care of ourselves, Mom.
	You need to go.
	So I've never done anything like this before.
	It's very much out of character for me, but I have my confirmation.
	Well, you know what?
	You're going to be joining a whole lot of people just like you.
	People on our side have not used the public protest as a rule.
	We're too busy working and so forth.
	We're not malcontents generally.
	But people like you understand that the Republican Party simply doesn't have the votes.
	They simply don't have the strength to stop this in either the House or the Senate.
	And all these tea parties and all these town hall meetings at congressional offices, these were spontaneous.
	There were so many people that were there for the first time in their lives at something like this.
	And it's fabulous.
	And go ahead and do that t-shirt thing, Kristen, but you will not need it to recognize your compatriots because you'll be able to recognize it very simply.
	They'll be smiling.
	The liberals, constantly enraged, constantly angry.
	Just keep a sharp eye out for the union thugs that'll show up and try to cause some problems.
	We'll just find the people smiling.
	I don't think you'll have any problem finding it, Buds.
	Serving humanity here on the EIB network, El Rushbo behind the Golden EIB.
	Microphone, Jason of Wilkesbury, Pennsylvania.
	Nice to have you with us on the program, sir.
	Hello.
	Megadittos, Rush.
	Thank you.
	I just want to say thanks for the education I get outside of my college classroom.
	And also thank my dad real quickly, who actually gave me your Limbaugh letter when I was 13 years old because he feared I was being indoctrinated.
	Smart man.
	Smart, smart man.
	I'm proud to know you.
	I just want to call and ask, you know, with this conservative Hoffman that we have, which I think is a great thing, do you think it's going assuming he wins?
	And you made a comment earlier about how possibly 12 other people are going to be running as conservatives.
	Do you think that it's going to have a bandwagon effect where we're going to have rhinos disguised as conservative simply because of the cornerstone that we have in the Republican Party?
	Well, this is quite possible.
	This is a very, very informed and educated question by you.
	I can tell you've been reading the Limblow letter and listening to this program.
	And yes, there have been many fraudulent fake conservatives.
	I mean, I can name two right off the top of my head that I won't because it won't serve the purpose here, but it would be unnecessarily provocative.
	But yes, if the rhinos see that the way to victory in the Republican Party is to spout conservatism, they'll spout it and they'll try to make you think that they are.
	For example, Cookie, get together with Mike and get that RNC ad that we ran yesterday.
	It's a radio ad.
	By the way, I asked yesterday, why didn't they mention his name?
	And the RNC sent HR a note saying they legally couldn't.
	Independent expenditure, independent something.
	They couldn't mention his name, which is why they had to harp on the fact that he's conservative.
	But the point is, I listened to that ad and I haven't heard any official Republican National Committee member say anything like that for eight years.
	Here it is.
	Now listen to this.
	So I play this.
	I'm glad they're running the ad.
	It's just a radio ad.
	It proves that somewhere in the building, they get it.
	But it goes to his great question: will they bring it out of my hat and use it when they have to?
	Yeah, but do they mean it?
	If rhinos see that the only way to get elected as a Republican is to go conservative, they don't run that campaign.
	There's a bunch of them in the House of Representatives.
	It happened.
	They ran as Republican conservatives.
	They got up there and for whatever reason forgot who they were or never were who they told us they were.
	It was a mixture of both.
	And the interesting thing about this is that most of the rhinos will be able to find out if they're fake.
	We'll be able to find out if they're rhinos.
	They'll have a record.
	They'll have a besides that.
	The people are going to be popping up initially, depending on how this all goes tomorrow, they're going to be genuine conservatives.
	This is going to provide some momentum.
	Listen to this ad.
	It's for Hoffman, but I can't mention his name.
	And I want you to ask yourself: when is the last time any member of the RNC or a powerful Republican anywhere, elected or otherwise, said these things?
	The eyes of the nation are on the North Country.
	What we decide on Tuesday will echo from Albany to Washington.
	Whose side are you on?
	The Pelosi-Patterson tax and spend train wreck?
	Or do you believe in Republican conservative values like thrift, personal responsibility, and family?
	Let's tell the liberals enough is enough.
	No more bailouts, taxes, and budget-busting spending.
	It's time to create jobs with proven conservative ideas like lower taxes.
	Let your voice be heard.
	Join the movement to bring real conservative change.
	Tell the politicians no more.
	We won't let you bankrupt America.
	We need conservative leaders who stand up for our values.
	Fight back.
	Vote conservative.
	It matters like never before.
	Now, had we had a candidate running last year that actually believed that stuff and could articulate it, it would not have been a contest.
	Barack Obama would not be anywhere near the White House.
	He would be resuming his five-minute career in the Senate.
	So it's in the building.
	I mean, somebody had to write this.
	Maybe it's a recycle from the morning in America days.
	I don't know.
	And I'm not jumping on the RNC here.
	I'm just saying, I was stuck.
	When I heard this ad yesterday, I mean, I said, whoa, where did this come from?
	Where did this come?
	I mean, this wasn't just a, you know, let's get close to Senate Conservative.
	This was hammering the left, bankrupting the country.
	It's exactly what's happened.
	Liberals, that word used throughout this.
	You wouldn't hear McCain talk about liberals.
	You wouldn't hear him be critical of these guys at all.
	We need to work with the other side of the aisle.
	I'm the guy that can cross the aisle.
	I can cross the aisle.
	I'm the one that can work with the other guys.
	You get it?
	And it's as though that's what the American people wanted.
	We want everybody to work together.
	Now, here's the L.A. Times today.
	Conservatives emboldened by moves in the New York election.
	The upstate rebellion drove a moderate Republican, liberal, Republican, liberal.
	Janet Hook wrote that, Janet Didi Scazabubba is a liberal.
	The Democrat in the race, Mr. Owens, was running ads talking about how big a tax increaser she was.
	She raised taxes more than he did is sending a message likely to resonate in upcoming races.
	Don't ignore the grassroots of the right.
	New York has emboldened like-minded activists around the country.
	It is spreading nationwide win or lose in New York 23.
	In Columbus, Ohio, a conservative has decided to run for the House because he doesn't see enough difference between the Democrat Mary Joe Kilroy and her leading Republican opponent.
	In Southern Virginia, where Democrat Representative Tom Pirello has been expected to face a tough fight for a second term, a conservative is campaigning against a rhino, Republican in name only, as the L.A. Times explains it.
	The most prominent battlefield on which the conservative wildfire is spreading is Florida, where Governor Chris, the GOP frontrunner for the Senate nomination 2010, faces a spirited challenge from a conservative former state House Speaker, Marco Rubio.
	Win or lose, says Stuart Rothenberg, a nonpartisan analyst of congressional elections.
	Win or lose, the conservatives will be emboldened and look for other fights.
	So that spin got out there mistakenly.
	That's from the Los Angeles Times.
	Here is Claudia in Milton, Washington.
	I'm glad you called.
	Welcome to the program.
	Rush, it's such a pleasure to speak with you.
	I saw you in 2000.
	Do you remember when you and Bill Bennett came to the Puyalt Fairgrounds and like 5,000 people?
	I do.
	We went out there for John Carlson, and we were out there at that giant arena, 40,000 people.
	Okay, I'm sorry.
	I was wrong on the numbers.
	Well, anyway, we were parked over in the parking lot and we saw your helicopter take off.
	It was almost like watching a rock star.
	Yeah, well, I remember that was a fun day.
	Oh, that was a good day.
	Thank you for what you do.
	Watched your interview on Fox News Sunday.
	You looked swell.
	Thank you very much.
	I was going to mention a little bit about how terrible our medical care is here.
	I'm saying that facetiously.
	My husband flunked a treadmill test a couple of weeks ago, and within 20 minutes, we were in a cardiologist's office one floor down, and within five days, he was having an angiogram.
	And I really, and it came out great, you know, which was a altered prayer.
	Well, I wouldn't say flunked it.
	I said the test probably did what it was designed to do.
	Exactly, exactly.
	But my point being, I don't think that we would have received the, you know, within a week we were being, you know, seen to under this beast that they have waiting for it.
	Let me tell you something.
	Let me find this.
	I've got it right here near the top of this, I think.
	Please let it be near the top of this stack.
	Looking, Mike Pence has cut a video.
	Here it is.
	Mike Pence has cut a video.
	We've got a YouTube address out of here.
	It takes three minutes to play the whole video, but it's got some really, really excellent points.
	It's about health care.
	As President Reagan said, since the American founding, we have been a people with a government, not the other way around.
	Now comes the Pelosi Plan for government takeover of health care.
	It's a freight train of runaway spending, bloated bureaucracy.
	You know, 111 new bureaucracies have created.
	111 new bureaucracies have been found so far.
	If the liberals in Washington have their way, they will forever change the relationship between the government and we the people.
	If the Pelosi Plan for a government takeover of health care passes, we will each become dependent.
	This goes to right where you were going to say.
	We will each become dependent on the political class in Washington for the provision of services of the most urgent and personal nature.
	Well, I thought about all of the red tape that we would have had to go through to see the cardiologist and to set up the cardiac catheterization.
	And it would have been a nightmare.
	It happened within, you know, everything happened in a five-day period.
	And grateful we have really good medical coverage and great doctor and good hospital, and he's feeling well and back to work.
	And it's just, it's scary as heck.
	And, you know, I'm reminded of that gal who called a couple of calls ago, Christy.
	I'm a housewife.
	I started listening to you in 1998.
	It was a liberal relative that turned me on to you.
	And it took a sex scandal to get me involved.
	Come on, the Lewinsky thing.
	And suddenly I was listening to America Held Hostage and the My Heart Will Go On song that you would play.
	And I really haven't missed a day since then.
	I haven't, you know, a day without rush is like a day without sunshine.
	Day without oxygen.
	That too.
	And I thank you for what you do and keep fighting the good fight.
	And I'm pleased to speak to the titular head of the Republican Party.
	And I went and looked the word up.
	So I have never used it in conversation before.
	Titular head of the Republican Party.
	Anyway, God bless your rush.
	Thank you.
	Claudia, same to you.
	God bless you.
	Thanks very much.
	Bye-bye.
	Bye.
	I want you to hear the rest of what Pence had to say here.
	Pelosi plan passes.
	We will each become dependent on the political class in Washington for the provision of services of the most urgent and personal nature.
	Illness, our own, or more importantly, the illness of a parent or a spouse or a child, has the capacity to suspend our priorities.
	What was important before the crisis grows dim in the harsh light of disease affecting a loved one, the Pelosi Healthcare Plan targets us when we are most vulnerable.
	The Pelosi Healthcare Plan takes and makes us dependent on the state at the most urgent moment in the life of our family.
	Their hope that little by little we'll yield our freedoms and our resources to the ever-growing appetite of the federal government.
	After years of runaway federal spending, borrowing, bailouts, takeovers, it's easy to give way to despair, but I assure you there is a remnant that still cherishes freedom, personal responsibility, and limited government all across the land.
	I've seen it in the faces of ordinary Americans who've traveled to rallies, town halls, tea parties.
	I've read it in my mail.
	I've heard it from friends and neighbors who've lost their jobs but not lost their faith in America.
	The time has come for those who still cherish our ideals, the ideals of our founding, life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, the American dream, to arise.
	Wherever you are, whoever you are, let your voice be heard.
	Republicans in Congress who are standing in the gap cannot do this alone.
	I often tell my colleagues that a minority in Congress plus the American people equals a majority.
	We the people have the power to stop out-of-control spending at the federal level.
	We, the people, have the power to stop the Pelosi Healthcare Plan in its effort to take over one-sixth of the American economy.
	Let your voice be heard is the title.
	This is Mike Pence.
	There's a YouTube link to it here, and it's going viral out there on the internet.
	Be right back after this.
	I just got a note.
	I just got a note from somebody listening to every syllable of this program today.
	Dear Rush, listening to you today, it sounds like the smart people think that the best thing that could happen for the good of the Republican Party is if it never won an election again.
	Only by never winning can the party attract enough people to keep on never winning.
	Now, that's an in because we played David Plough.
	We've played Gloria Borger.
	We have had Axelrod yesterday.
	We've had a couple other sound bites.
	Republicans are destroying themselves.
	I mean, they're losing all these moderates.
	They're losing all these independents.
	And so these smart people think the best thing that could happen for the good of the party is if it never won an election again by holding on to those people, which is exactly what they want.
	They want the Republican Party to keep losing.
	Now, this big tent thing, the current leaders who cannot be named of the Republican Party have built such a big tent on the advice of the Democrats that nobody's in it.
	Let me explain this, because this is another profundity, ladies and gentlemen.
	We've had all these people all these years.
	You know, you Republicans, you're too rock-rib conservative.
	You've got too many pro-lifers.
	You got too many religious right people in there.
	They're angry, talk soapy.
	You got to spread out.
	The Democrats, the liberals, the media tell the Republicans, you got to get a bigger tent.
	You got to attract independents in that party.
	And you've got to have moderates in that party.
	You can't continue to grow.
	You can't continue to exist if all you are is conservatives.
	Of course, the Republicans who want to get along with those people, yeah, yeah, it's a good point.
	So, big tent.
	And we went out there and we did everything we could to attract all those people, right?
	We nominated all the right people.
	We had General Powell even out there showing us how to do it by nominating and endorsing a Democrat.
	So we've got this giant big tent out there built on the advice of Democrats in the media, but nobody's in it.
	General Powell left the tent.
	Christopher Buckley left the tent.
	Chuck Hagel left the tent.
	McCain essentially left the tent.
	McCain's out there saying he wants to rebuild a Republican Party in a moderate image.
	Lindsey Gramnesty left the tent.
	I mean, when you line up with John Kerry or whoever he lined up with on Cap and Trade, you don't call yourself a Republican.
	Arlen Specter left the tent.
	In some ways, George W. Bush left the tent.
	Peggy Noonan left the tent.
	Newt Gingrich left the tent.
	Joe Lieberman, I mean, he was in the tent, but he left.
	By the way, Dingy Harry's out there saying, ah, don't worry about Joe.
	At the end of the day, Joe will be there voting for me.
	I told you.
	So Christopher Buckley leaves, Colin Powell leaves, Chuck Hagel leaves, McCain leaves, Lindsey Gramnesty leaves, Arlen Specter leaves.
	George W. Bush walked out a couple times.
	Noonan left, Newt left, Lieberman walked out of the tent, and a lot of real conservatives walked out of the tent too and said to hell with it.
	So we got this giant big tent, but what the hell good is it if nobody's inside?
	And no one inside the tent.
	Nature abhors a vacuum, and conservatives and independents are filling that vacuum today.
	So these smartest people in the room on our side, they built that tent just like the Democrats and the media told them.
	And there's nobody in it now.
	How wise were they?
	Ha, how are you?
	It's El Rushball.
	Great to have you here.
	By the way, you know, I don't know why Exarod and all the rest of the media jumping all over me for calling Obama saying he's in over his head and narcissistic.
	Castro did the same thing.
	He wrote a little column, Obama and the Blockade, and he called Obama conceited and superficial.
	And they didn't get mad at Castro for saying no.
	They get mad at me.
	Why?

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