Big news, I was working in my lab crunching some numbers and listening to Rush, and I thought I would try calling in. Lo and behold, I hit it on the first try. Though they had me on hold for a couple of hours. Still I got a chance to voice my opinion on the grand EIB network.
Here is the exerpt from the transcript
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| A Referendum on Barack Obama |
| June 17, 2008 |
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| RUSH: Chris in Provo, Utah, you're next, and welcome to the program. CALLER: Hey, Rush, how are you doing today? RUSH: Just fine, sir. CALLER: I wanted to talk -- you know, I agree 100% with everything that you've been talking about with respect to Obama and the danger that he poses for conservatives. But I'm not really 100% convinced that the bigger danger doesn't lie with McCain. Not so much that I support Obama in favor of McCain, but that... Well, let me explain. You know, the Republican establishment -- not the base, but the establishment -- they're moving left. They're moving towards the left and this is just another symptom of the fact that they pushed McCain on us. They're moving in this direction because they have the conservative vote; they know they have the conservative vote. So in order to keep their jobs, in order to consolidate their power, they're wanting to attract voters -- more moderate, more left voters -- and my fear is that if McCain wins this election, McCain will win, and the establishment will know forever that they do not need to appeal to conservatives any longer. Conservatives will be less down the lurch. They'll know that they have the conservative vote. They know the conservatives will vote with them no matter what. RUSH: Yes. This is -- CALLER: We'll never get a conservative elected into office.  RUSH: Ohhhh, yes, we will. This is the Limbaugh Echo Syndrome. One of my warnings to people has been that if the Republicans win... Here's the other half of it. In addition to what you said, if things hold as they do now -- and, by the way, there are still many, many, many weeks to go. This is subject to change, because there's a lot of time for all kinds of wacko crazy things to happen, but if things hold as they're projected to now the Democrats are going to end up with a much bigger majority in both the House and the Senate. So no matter who the president is, the Democrats are going to be setting the agenda. If we elect McCain, we're already electing a guy who likes working with Democrats anyway. So that's a second prong of the problem. What you said is exactly right. The establishment country club blueblood Rockefeller types, after a McCain win, will come to all the conservatives -- and they've hated us.Not hated us; they've been embarrassed of us. They've been embarrassed of conservatives in the party because (Southern accent) a lot of us are from the South and a lot of us are pro-life." CALLER: (chuckling) RUSRH: "You know, a lot of us have pickup trucks and guns. It makes it tough to go to the Republican convention, with all the hicks showing up at the same time wanting to get into our parties. You know, we want to go to these black tie things. We want to have refined, sophisticated parties, canapés, Chablis and so forth -- and here come the Clampetts showing up looking at the ce-ment pond at the place we're having our party!" That's how they look at us, these country club blue-blood Republicans, and they do not like it. So they would be more than happy to be able to sweep to victory and say to the conservatives, "See? See? This party doesn't need conservatism to become a winning, broad-based coalition majority party," and they will be dead wrong, because they will have attracted people who are not Republicans to vote for them. The reason that these people will be attracted is because we've got a candidate that's more likable as a liberal than their candidate is. So what's going to happen is that the Republican Party is going to lose big in future elections unless there is a conservative vice presidential running mate for Senator McCain. It is a problem, but this is why I say, Chris, that this election is a referendum on Obama. This is going to be an up or down on Obama. It will be, for the vast majority of people voting here. And they're going to say, "Do I want this country led by Obama?" and as we're now beginning to learn, all of these old-time, time-honored dinosaur party hacks. Do we really want the Clinton administration back in power? Do we want somebody from Clinton administration running NSA? Do we want Jamie Gorelick back at the justice department? She created the wall that prevented us, our intelligence agencies from assuring information on terrorist activities overseas. Do we really want to bring friends of Algore back? Because that's what this is shaping up to be. Do we really want Obama with his friends like Jeremiah Wright and the whole circus that he runs around with? These are gonna be the questions that people vote on. The women that are upset that Hillary didn't get it, they're still going to be upset. So it's going to be a referendum on Obama, pure and simple. The sad thing is McCain has so many opportunities here to shore up the base. He took a step today by going all-in for oil exploration and drilling on the US continental shelf. There are many, many opportunities Senator McCain has here to really draw a distinction between himself and Obama. And he doesn't even have to, you know, cross the aisle and shake the hand of these conservatives that he doesn't like. The next thing is, if he would just peel off on this global warming carbon footprint thing, that would be a huge thing. You know, hang tough on low taxes, making the Bush tax cuts permanent. Hang tough. Stop talking about punishing the oil executives, all that sort of thing. It wouldn't take much and he could really, really draw some distinctions here that would not cause him to lose any independents that he so desperately wants. |
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| END TRANSCRIPT Now that I read it I don't think that I articulated my point as well as I could have. You get a little nervous talking to the big man, and also he didn't really address my point, though he made a good one himself. The main problem that conservatives face is the republican party is steadily moving away from its conservative base, further and further left. The republican establishment, the "blue blood types" need to increase their voting base. They know that they have the conservative vote, that it isn't going anywhere, and that conservatives will vote for the worst republican candidate simply as the lesser of two evils. So, is the Republican establishment going to pander to the conservative base that is with them for the long haul, or are they going to "reach out" to the moderates and leftists. This is exactly why McCain got the nomination. They knew that he would appeal to the moderates, the swing voters, the democrats, and that the conservatives would vote for him just to keep Hillary or Obama out of office. So what is the problem with that? I am telling you all now that if McCain gets elected and wins the conservative vote, the Republican establishment will know that they can put any yahoo, no-talent hack in front of a podium and the conservatives will vote for him. This means that we can kiss our chance of getting a true conservative in office goodbye, because the Republican party establishment will never get behind a hard line conservative if they think that they can win with a middle of the road, moderate, maverick, and that is exactly what will happen if McCain wins. Mark my words, we will never see a conservative presidential candidate on the republican ticket if McCain wins this election. Rush did make a good point though. His point on how this election is a referendum for Obama is right on the money. People are not going to consider whether or not they want McCain, but whether or not they want Obama. That is exactly what makes this situation so bad for conservatives. Conservatives will vote McCain, just to keep Obama and his socialist agenda out of the White house. But what will we get? A "maverick" republican who is for shutting down Guantanamo, is for cap and trade, buys into the Global Warming nonsense, thinks that CEO salaries should be regulated by the government for crying out loud, and views big oil as wicked evil men, not to mention his "non-amnesty" amnesty legislation. The only thing that McCain has stood firm on is the Iraq war (which as I have said before, is of minimal importance when compared to domestic issues), and Bush Tax Cuts, but lets see how long he will last on those things once his buddies "across the aisle" start hammering him. One thing that can be said for Bush is that when Pelosi and Reid have come out swinging, he hasn't backed down. He has not let them push him around with their boneheaded socialist agendas. I really can't picture McCain holding his ground against a democratic senate. Once they put up a fight, McCain is going to fold like a deck of cards and give those folks whatever they want. To tell you the truth, I am not sure which is worse. Having a socialist president who will expand the government's powers so far that we will never see the end of it, or a weak-kneed liberal in disguise who will ignore his base in order to curry favor with the other side. I am almost at the point of saying that it is time for the conservatives to split with the republican party and let them fight over the scraps while we take the reins and move this country in the right direction |
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