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Nov. 3, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 3, 2009, Tuesday, Hour #2
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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.
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Seriously.
My friends, if any Republican wins today, it has to show that the Republican Party is attracting independence.
Because you heard the sound bites earlier, David Plough and Axel Rod 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, Lily.
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 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 goes on and wins tomorrow, how will that impact the Republican Party?
Get this.
Well, lots of Republicans I talk to say they're gonna 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 uh Governor Charlie Christ, and you may have his former running mate, Sarah Palin, endorsing the more conservative candidate Marco Rubio.
So if you're a Democrat, you want to see this kind of stuff going on.
She wants to see this stuff because you know you split the Republican Party right down the middle, and you're gonna get those independent voters.
So be careful what you wish for in this victory in the 23rd.
Right, so so these two wizards of smart folks.
It's almost not fair playing these sound bites 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 sound bites?
My my brilliant monologues in the first hour of today's program predicting media spin and reaction.
So here she is.
Gloria, you know, you're I I got an email.
I'll tell you the 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, uh, we'd like to offer you a thousand words, two thousand words to write a column making a case for a third party, um, looking at what's happening in New York, New York 23.
So I wrote back commercial break, sorry, but uh I can't make the case for third party.
What's happening in New York 23 is not anything to do with a third party.
There was no primary there.
Uh 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, God.
I have, oh, I have, oh, I have.
You know, I I looked at it that way.
I I I think I see your point.
And I guess 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 uh spend time with.
She talks to Washington Republicans and claims that they're conservatives.
Uh You know, she'd have been saying the same nonsense when Reagan was taking on Gerald Ford.
This 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 and blah, blah, blah, blah.
And look at what happened.
Have I chosen the Democrat candidate yet, Snertley?
Have you picked them?
Uh no, I haven't yet.
I haven't picked uh I if you know, uh ladies and gentlemen, depending on the outcome of these uh races today.
I, as the leader of the Republican Party and its number one entertainer as well, will have a statement tomorrow, or I will explain fully what has happened today, and I'll take my rightful credit uh for it.
Of course, if we lose, it's not gonna be my problem.
But if we win, it's another situation.
Uh I'd like to share with you uh what I think my friends are, and it was tough to come up with ten, or limit this to ten, the top ten moderate moments.
Republican moderate moments.
Number ten, Newt Gingrich does a PSA on global warming with Nancy Pelosi in 2008.
Number nine, moderate moment in GOP history, Bush Quail 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 ten moderate moments, Republican history number six, jumping Jim Jefford's jumps from the Republican Party.
Top ten moderate moments in Republican history, Arlen Spector switches parties.
Top ten moderate moments in Republican history, number four, Richard Nixon resigns in disgrace.
Top ten moderate moments, Republican history, number three, Didi Schuzzafava endorses the Democrat Owens in New York 23.
Top ten moderate moments in Republican history number two, the McCain campaign of 2008.
And the number one top ten 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 ten.
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 Plouffe, and yesterday it was Axelrod, Uh wringing their hands over losing moderates and independence of the Republican Party is this horrible.
Oh, it's that they're losing their, they're really, and you know, uh 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 Repart if 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, What uh 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.
Uh we examine things issue by issue.
We're not uh 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 and idiogs in our party.
We see the right way on abortion, these uh 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 time out, but we've got lots ahead.
Stay with us.
The EIB network comes right back after this.
And I tell you something else, folks.
A lot of people voting in these races today of 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 pocket book.
And that's another thing for Mr. Pluff 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. Plough and you, Mr. Askarod, 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 bound people from all over the country are trying to get there.
Uh Dr. Mark Levin will be participating along with Michelle Bachmann, 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 uh you and some other Republicans having a town hall at this get together, asking people across America to join you.
Join you in what?
To 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 Bachmann earlier this week said that emails and phone calls have lost their impact, which is with the Democrats anyway, because they're they're gonna do this regardless.
And uh 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 look and write 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 they the the the big Tea Party thing they had in uh uh 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, uh just heard about this yesterday.
So they're they're trying to pull off an amazing feat here in in a few days.
Uh Gretchen Carlson then said, well, that 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 um uh blue dogs continue to be an interesting thing.
I I really I want to go back to that front page Washington pay uh 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 gonna 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 um 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 I'm 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 re-election, and you could proudly say, Yeah, I've I'm I'm a fiscal conservative, I'm not for irresponsible spending and government growth, and I've voted against it.
And you get re-elected.
And if you get back there, Pelosi's gonna 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 uh 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 uh scheduled for uh for Friday.
Kristen in uh Worthington, Ohio.
We go to you first on the phones today.
Great to have you with us.
Well, hello, Rush.
It's such an honor to speak with you.
Thank you.
I am 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 Dockman 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.
Uh 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 um people like you understand that that the uh 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 this uh these uh town hall meetings at congressional offices, these were 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 it's it's fabulous.
And you you go ahead and do that t-shirt thing, Kristen, but I you will not need it to recognize uh your compatriots because you'll you'll be able to recognize it very simply.
They'll be smiling.
Um the liberals constantly enraged, constantly angry.
Just keep a sharp eye out for the union thugs uh 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 a buds.
Serving humanity here on the EIB network, El Rushbow behind the golden EIB.
Microphone, Jason of Wilkesbury, Pennsylvania.
Nice to have you with us on the program, sir.
Hello.
Megaditos Rush.
Uh I just want to uh say thanks for the education I get outside of uh my college classroom, and uh also thank my dad real quickly who actually gave me either your uh limbaug letter when I was thirteen years old because he feared I was being indoctrinated.
Smart man, smart, smart man.
Uh that's that's uh well it's a it's proud, I'm proud to know you.
Uh I just want to uh call and ask, you know, with this um conservative uh Hoffman that we have, which I think is a great thing.
Do you think it's going assuming he wins?
Uh and you made a comment earlier about how uh possibly twelve other people are gonna be running at as uh conservative.
Do you think that it's gonna be have a uh bandwagon effect where we're gonna 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 uh very, very informed and educated question by you.
I can tell you've been reading the Limbaugh letter and listening to this program.
And yes, uh there have been many fraudulent fake conservatives.
I mean, I can name two right off the top of my head that I won't, uh, because it won't it won't serve the purpose here, but uh it would be unnecessarily provocative.
But yes, they will if if if the rhinos see that the weight of 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, uh Cookie, get get together with Mike and get that RNC ad that we ran yesterday of uh it's a radio ad.
By the way, the the I asked yesterday why why didn't they mention his name?
And the RNC sent uh HR a note saying whether not they legally couldn't uh the independent expenditure, independent something they couldn't mention his name, which is why they had to harp on the fact uh that he's conservative.
But the point is I I've 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, here now listen to this.
So I I play this, I'm glad they're running the ad.
It's it's it's 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 will they bring it out of the hat and use it when they have to?
Yeah, but do they mean it?
If rhinos see that the only way to get elected is 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 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.
There was a mi it was a mixture of uh of both.
And the uh 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 if they're rhinos.
They'll have a record.
They'll have everybody besides that the people are gonna be popping up initially, depending on how this all goes tomorrow.
They're gonna be genuine conservatives.
This is going to provide some momentum.
Listen to this ad, and it's for Hoffman, but it can't mention his name, and I want you to ask Yourself, when is the last time any member, 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.
Uh so it's in the building.
I mean, somebody had to write this.
Maybe it's a recycle from uh the morning in America days.
I I I don't know.
And I'm not jumping on the RNC here.
I'm just saying I'm I I was stuck.
When I when I yeah, when I jump when I heard this ad yesterday, I mean, this whoa, where did this come from?
Where did this come?
I mean, this wasn't just a you know, uh, let's get close to some of 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.
Uh at 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 I can work with the other guys.
You get it?
And and it's uh as though that's what the American people wanted.
We want everybody to work together.
Now, here's the LA Times today.
Conservatives emboldened by moves in the New York election, the upstate rebellion and drove a moderate Republican, liberal Republican, liberal.
Janet Hook wrote this.
Janet Didi Scoze Baba 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 is 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 uh the Democrat Mary Joe Kilroy and her leading Republican opponent in Southern Virginia, where Democrat Representative Tom Perello 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 LA Times explains it.
The most prominent battlefield on which the conservative wildfire is spreading is Florida, where Governor Chris, the GOP front runner for the Senate nomination 2010, faces a spirited challenge from a conservative former State House Speaker Marco Rubio.
Winner lose, says Stuart Rothenberg, a nonpartisan analyst of congressional elections, winner lose, the conservatives will be emboldened and look for other fights.
So that spin got out there mistakenly.
That's uh 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.
Um, I saw you in 2000.
Do you remember when you and Bill Bennett came to the Pewlet fairgrounds and like 5,000 people?
We went out there for John Carlson, and we're 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.
We saw your helicopter take off.
It was almost like watching A rock star.
Yeah.
Yeah, well, I remember that was a fun day.
Oh, that was a good day.
Uh, thank you for what you do.
Watched your interview on Fox News Sunday.
You looked swell.
Thank you very much.
I was uh going to mention a little bit about uh 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 twenty minutes, we were in a cardiologist's office one floor down, and within five days he was having an angiogram.
And I really f and and it came out great, you know, which was a answered prayer.
Well, I wouldn't say flunked it.
I said the test probably did what it was designed to do.
Exactly, exactly.
But the my point being, um, I don't think that we would have received the you know, within a week we were being, you know, seen to under the the what this beast that they have waiting for it.
Mm-hmm.
Let me tell you something.
I 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.
Uh 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's 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, silent 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, a hundred and eleven new bureaucracies are created.
One hundred and eleven 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 you know, 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 uh grateful we have really good medical coverage and great doctor and good hospital, and he's feeling well and back to work, and uh it's just it's scary as heck, and uh, you know, sh I 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 a liberal relative that turned me on to you.
And it took a sex scandal to get me involved involved.
The Lowinski thing.
And suddenly I was listening to America Held Hostage in the My Heart Will Go On song that you would play.
And I I really haven't missed a day since then.
I haven't, you know, a a day without rush is like a day without sunshine.
Uh day without oxygen.
That too.
And I thank you for what you do and keep the keep fighting the good fight, and I and I'm pleased to speak to the titular head of the Republican Party.
Thank you.
And I went and looked the word up.
So I have never used it in conversation before.
Titular head of the Republican.
Anyway, God bless your rush.
Thank you.
Uh Claudia, same to you.
God bless you.
Thanks very much.
Bye-bye.
Bye.
I want to list why don't you hear the rest of what 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 health care plan targets us when we are most vulnerable.
The Pelosi Health Care 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 of this is Mike Pence.
There's a YouTube link to it here, and it's uh it's going viral out there on the internet.
Be right back after this.
I just got a note.
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 interest because we played David Pluff, 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 uh all these independents.
Uh and 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 there's 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.
We've had all these people all these years.
You know, you Republicans, you're too rock rib conservative, you got too many pro-lifers, you got too many religious right people in there, all the angry talk show people.
You gotta, you gotta, you gotta spread out.
The Democrats, the liberals, the media, tell the Republicans, you gotta, you gotta get a bigger tent.
You gotta, you gotta attract independents in that party, and you gotta 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, 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 or endorsing a Democrat.
So we've got this giant big tent out there, built on the advice of Democrats and 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.
Uh Lindsay 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 Spector 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, Lindsay Gramnesty leaves, Arlen Spector leaves, uh, 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 are you?
It's El Rush Ball.
Great to have you here.
By the way, you know, I don't know.
I don't know why uh Exerod and all the rest of the media uh jumping all over me for calling uh Obama saying he's in over his head and narcissistic.
Castro did the same thing.
Uh he wrote uh a little column, Obama and the Blockade, and he called the he called uh Obama conceited and uh superficial.
And they didn't get mad at Castro for saying no, they get mad at me.
Why?
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