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Campbell Brown said that Rush said Ahnold wasn't a Republican. Here's part of the transcript from Rush's website with his response:

"Once you say, "Rush Limbaugh is saying you're not really Republican..." Well, that's true. To these people in the Drive-By Media, Republican and conservative equals the same thing. I have said he's not a conservative -- and, by the way, I want to remind all of you people in California, from the get-go I have told you he was not a conservative. He's a good guy, but he's not a conservative. He's a Republican."

http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/Site_032007/content/032007.guest.html

[Amerigomag]

Campbell Brown said that Rush said Ahnold wasn't a Republican

That's become a real hang up around here since the 2000 election cycle.

This isn't rocket science folks:

1) Republicanism (capital R) is a partisan pursuit.
2) Conservatism is a core value and a governing philosophy when applied politically.

The two are mutually exclusive. Political partisans have a wide range of governing philosophies and conservatives are not necessarily tied to any partisan organization.

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Roll the tape for the last half hour of yesterday's (Tuesday's) show. You'll hear Rush asserting that Arnold isn't really a "Republican." Maybe he misspoke, but he did say the say it more than once, in different ways. For example, he said (paraphrasing the gist here), sure the GOP has a big tent, but not *that* big.