Posted on 02/07/2008 2:42:26 AM PST by Yosemitest
This is built on two articles from Rush's show today. I've added a few photos and links.
"John McCain to Rush Limbaugh: Calm Down, Reach Across Aisle"
February 6, 2008
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RUSH: McCain had a press conference today, standing in front of the Straight Talk Express bus, was heading out there, standing with Joe Lieberman, and who else was there, Lindsey Graham. Here's the AP version:
Now, this is what nobody seems to get.
We view those people as threats to the American way of life, as we've always known it.
We view liberals as a threat to the founding of this country.
We view them as a threat to the future.
We view them as a threat to the traditions and institutions that have defined this country's greatness.
We view them as people who need to be defeated, not worked with.
Working with them, history has shown, ends up being a one-way street. They get what they want,
There is no such thing as bipartisanship anymore.
Bipartisanship has come to mean one thing:
So once again, we show that we can work with the Democrats, and we can reach across the aisle and we can show a spirit of cooperation,
while what really happens is that we lose a little bit of our identity and soul founded within this party each time it happens.
Now they're telling us to get over Reagan.
There was only one Reagan.
You guys gotta get over Reagan.
We got people on our side (saying),
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RUSH: I have another question, before I get back to your phone calls, one more point and a question.
When is the last time -- I know you people pay attention -- when is the last time that you heard Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama talk about reaching across the aisle to work with us?
No, seriously.
I mean, stop laughing.
I'm being serious.
Do they ever say this?
In fact, last night, Hillary, in her speech, went on and on and on about us. She was attacking Bush, she was attacking the Republicans, and Obama hasn't gotten to that point yet because he's still out there flying around on Vapid Airlines with all this flowery lingo, but I don't hear them talking about reaching across the aisle to work with us.
Now, here's the rub with me about McCain's popularity.
John McCain is always allowed to have it both ways. He is instrumental in obstructing what conservative measures we do want to implement, and as a result of obstructing those measures, he gets lauded for it by the Drive-By Media.
Then after that, after McCain stands in the way of conservatism moving forward and being lauded for it, Republicans get blamed for getting nothing done!
McCain gets credit for being a maverick, as if that's evidence of his great character, because he'll always follow his conscience rather than the party line, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, but he's always a maverick in furtherance of principles that we find abhorrent and principles that liberals love.
He's getting credit on both sides, never paying a price, and Republicans get the blame for it, among voters.
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RUSH: Apropos what I was just discussing, this being enamored -
- Republicans being enamored, defining greatness -- by "reaching across the aisle" and "working with Democrats."
LEHRER: What is that?
BROOKS: -- and I think it's your attitude toward the other side.
LEHRER: Yeah.
BROOKS: Limbaugh's whole mentality is they are the enemy. We are going to attack them, attack them, attack them --
LEHRER: Yeah, that's true.
BROOKS: -- and McCain may disagree but he doesn't necessarily hate them -- and I think a similar sort of theory goes on, on the Democratic side.
LEHRER: Mmm-hmm.
BROOKS: Some people think you can never deal with Republicans.
RUSH: They don't have to "deal with" Republicans, David!
McCain's dealing with them and giving away the house. He's giving away the store.
We don't hate 'em! We want to defeat them.
This is politics; it's not personalities.
We don't like their ideas. For crimanitly's sake, what is so difficult to understand about this?
Maybe to these people there's not that big a difference in the ideas that we have.
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" Suzanne from Hagerstown, MD, Launches Nuke at GOP Sellouts"
February 6, 2008
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RUSH: Suzanne, nice to have you. Hagerstown, Maryland. Welcome to the EIB Network.
CALLER: Hi, Rush.
Listen, I don't think the media gets it.
I don't think these Republican pundits get it.
I'm 50 years old. I've been a Republican since I was a child because my mother was a Republican Party precinct leader, and I have never voted in a federal election for anybody but the Republican candidate, not because they were Republican, but because they were conservative.
I cannot vote for John McCain. I don't care what he says between now and --
RUSH: Why not? Why not?
I hear so many people say that, why not?
CALLER: Because, as Thomas Sowell so well put it, you know, people are looking at it, he betrayed us.
You know, Hillary and Obama can go out there and be liberal and say what they are.
He said he was one of us.
And then, because he lost an election, he turned around,
and because he hated Bush, you know, he always has to hate somebody, he hated us,
he hated the conservatives,
he hated the Christian right,
he turned around and slapped us over and over and over again.
He twice wanted to leave the party, and now the Republicans have the audacity to ask me, a person who has supported them, given them money, given them time, to support this man.
I'm not going to do it.
I don't care what he says. He can reincarnate Reagan and run with him; I will not vote for this man for president.
And this hurts.
This is a hard thing, to come to this realization.
RUSH: Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait a minute.
Are you just going to not vote,
or are you going to go out there and vote for the Democrats?
CALLER: At this point, I'm not going to vote.
If I think McCain can win, I will vote for the Democrats,
but I do not want him as a representative of all the things Republicans have fought for,
and Rush, I'm not the only one.
Nobody in my family, I know a lot of people, my husband, his wife, my cousin, his wife, my grown children.
Nobody gets this.
You know, Thomas Sowell wrote a piece last week, and he said something which I think is really profound.
RUSH: What was that?
CALLER: And that was that Benedict Arnold was a war hero, too, before he betrayed his country.
RUSH: (laughing) Geeez. Whoa. I didn't see that.
CALLER: He wrote an article called "McCain's Straight Lies." He didn't say it exactly like that,
but what he said was that, you know,
and this war hero stuff, when is the Vietnam War going to end?
You know, I'm tired of it. For God's sake, it's 2008.
Can we move on?
RUSH: Well, the Vietnam stuff is purposely up front to help obscure the problems in Senator McCain's record.
CALLER: Right.
RUSH: That story is there to cover up or to relegate to insignificance in terms of this primary race, McCain's record on things.
So that's why. And of course the media loves it.
CALLER: What has he done since then?
I mean, that's the point, everybody gives him a pass. I don't know at what point
-- how much they think we're going to take.
You know, they called me for money last week and I told them no way.
RUSH: Let me ask you a question.
CALLER: Hm-hm.
RUSH: Can you name the chairman of the Republican National Committee?
CALLER: Currently?
RUSH: Who?
CALLER: You mean right now?
RUSH: Yeah.
CALLER: The chairman of the Republican --
RUSH: National Committee.
CALLER: No, I cannot.
RUSH: I can't either. Can you name the chairman of the Democrat National Committee?
CALLER: Yeah. Dean.
RUSH: Right. (interruption) No, it's not Martinez. Martinez is a figurehead. There's an actual chairman of the Republican National Committee
-- I don't know who it is, either.
CALLER: I was going to say --
RUSH: I would have to look it up. It doesn't matter.
I was just trying to illustrate a point. They're not on the field.
CALLER: No, and not only are they going to lose the presidency, they're going to lose down ballots.
It's bad now, and, well, my theory is in all of this, you know, is that there's not going to be anybody that's going to put up a fence. There's not going to be anybody fighting for it. McCain's more likely to build a bridge than a fence.
RUSH: Right.
CALLER: And the people voting for Huckabee,
listen, I'm a Christian, I'm Catholic, I'm Christian right.
Those people that voted for Huckabee, I understand because he's evangelical and they want one of us and they have been spit upon,
but the problem is, is they not only threw their vote away, they threw away all their power because, believe me --
RUSH: I've got a theory about that.
CALLER: -- John McCain hates them, too.
RUSH: I have a theory about that.
Look, Suzanne, I appreciate it. I'm getting close to break time, and I gotta run.
CALLER: That's fine.
RUSH: I love your passion.
You've led me here and you've transitioned me here into some of my in-depth analysis.
As far as the regional vote, what's been called the regional vote, the Southern vote for Huckabee, there are a number of things that go into this.
Evangelicals, since 1973, have stuck with Republicans, basically on the promise,
I think there's genuine support for Huckabee.
I think the IRS factors a big deal in his support. I've gotten enough e-mail to know this.
There are a whole host of reasons that make up this vote,
but you also have, in certain evangelicals, just no stomach whatsoever for Mormons.
All of these things, it's not just one thing, it's all these things combined that I think explain the regionalism,
McCain failed to win a majority of Republicans. McCain beat Romney in California, and that's the end of Romney.
But McCain continues to depend on moderate, nonevangelical Republicans for his victories. In California,
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RUSH: Wow, folks. I have to say to Suzanne from Hagerstown, Maryland:
There are too many on our side, who have simply succumbed to the notion that government's the end all.
Government's the answer.
Government should do this on global warming.
Government should do that on people being obese.
Government should do that on the price of heating oil.
Too many people on our side have bought into this, and the reason for it, ironically, I think, is
-- well, not the reason. One of the factors is that we have promoted an active government in dealing with the war. Now, that's constitutional. That's one of government's jobs: the military, defending and protecting the country and the Constitution. In the process of speaking out in favor of executive power, presidential power to do these kinds of things in the war, the message has been sent that maybe government should do other things, too.
Of course it's been creeping. It's not just that. It's been creeping 50 years of FDR and liberalism, and I don't have time to fully develop this now, but I'm going to in the next hour.
This is not something that's subliminal with Republicans. I mean, those of us who identified with Suzanne from Hagerstown. We see all this stuff, and it frosts us and it doesn't make any sense.
We're not the party of Big Government.
We're not the party of an active Big Government.
We're not the party that says,
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Rush had a brilliant caller yesterday,
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It will set us back 20 yrs but it is a price we will have to pay.I have decided that to get the party back to conservatism we need to send the message that if you are gonna sell us out we are going to show you the door. We can send the message that four years from now if you are not for conservative principles you need not apply. The biggest mistake Ronald Reagan made was choosing Geo. Bush for his running mate. He could have had any true conservative he wanted and he picked a RINO.
It's like Br'er Rabbit saying "But don't fling me in that briar patch."
The Democrats say they're scared of McCain. BULL!!!!!!
Then again, sometimes I wonder if they really don't want a lesser liberal that the democrats can support, rather than Hillary or Obama.
Do you think that the Democrats would put McCain over the top in November?
Rush and the rest of the RINOs are nothing but a bunch of egotistical blowhards, and I now question if they were ever real Republicans to begin with. They like Democrats so much, let them join them.
bttt
“If Hillary or Obama gets into office, then we’ll get more conservatives in the House and Senate?”
This is nonsense. Utter nonsense.
What do you think happened in 1994, or can’t you add?
Liberalism does not compromise.
McCain becomes president... a liberal win. If he chooses Huckabee as VP... a double liberal win.
Either way, the liberals have won this election. I’m voting third party, because voting republican means voting liberal Fifth Column.
I think you will be disappointed to learn that history does not repeat itself in such simple ways.
With a Democrat Congress and Senate, it will take Hillary or Obama less than two years to permanently alter the calculus of this country.
Rush also knows that we do not win by losing.
I want blood!!!
You are going to see a lot of it.
I think you’re right. Get a “moderate” that goes along with a very large part of the liberal agenda, but has an “R” so as not to scare people off. This is the first national election I can recall in my 52 years where the so-far front runners offer varying degrees of liberalism.
There will be war in this republican party before it's all done. Now, is the time! NO MORE RINO'S!
Btw, conservatives WILL NOT yield to McPita and his moderate/independent/rino supporters. If you guys want to be part of this party, YOU have to come to the conservative values side and concede to us!!!
You are in the minority. If anything it is you who is the RINO.
Rush also knows that we do not win by losing.
You're probably right. So why didn't the reverse happen in November 2000 when Republicans won total control? I can tell you why...because of RINOS, with McCain leading the pack.
It's no longer about winning or losing, it's about principles and believing in them. McCain will not receive my vote. Ever.
You are correct I probably am right now in the minority, but you moderate/rino McPainintheass supporters have to come and concede to us conservatives because moderate rino's like McPita are a deathnail to conservatism and the Republican Party. I won't allow that to happen.
I will do everything politically to fight you to your ilk for this parties soul. I won't vote for the other side, to take him out, but I will never support him and work diligently to get rid of him and his moderate, liberal coddling ways.
Can you explain to me how I'm the rino????
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