The age-old conflict that roils the establishment GOP.
March 4, 2010
BEGIN TRANSCRIPT
RUSH: All right. Dave in Charlottesville, Virginia, hello.
CALLER: Hey, Rush. How are you doing?
RUSH: Good. Thank you, sir.
CALLER: Hey, Rush. I'm very excited to talk to you. I've been listening to you for like 15 years. Let me pull over here so I don't lose you. Rush, I've got a comment that I don't know about. There's probably not a solution to it, but it's a frustration of mine. I am conservative, a fiscal conservative. This fiscal insanity of the debt, all of it is just driving me nuts. The taxation, the huge government, the whole thing, it's all driving me crazy, and I have a couple kids in college and what I'm hearing from them is what I'm hearing from a lot of people where I live: We drive away a lot of people with the religious component of the conservative platform. It scares them to death. When they think of conservatives they think of just that.
RUSH: Well, let me ask you a question: What do you think we should do about those Christians?
CALLER: I don't know. I don't know. I just... I don't know. I don't have an answer. But I know that's a fact.
RUSH: Do your kids tell you this is what they're hearing or do you hear it or do you think it yourself?
CALLER: Well, I hear this from my daughters. I've got one daughter who is a staunch conservative and --
RUSH: Where does she go to school?
CALLER: Pardon me?
RUSH: What school does she go to?
CALLER: She goes to Washington and Lee (University) in Virginia.
RUSH: Washington and Lee in Virginia. Okay.
CALLER: Which is a very conservative bastion. My other daughter goes to... I live in Charlottesville, which Neal Boortz refers to as "the People's Republic of Charlottesville."
RUSH: Yeah, I was going to say.
CALLER: So we're in the minority. My other daughter goes to VCU (Virginia Commonwealth University) in Richmond and is very liberal, and I can't talk to her because of this issue. She knows the debt is insane. She knows the big government doesn't work.
RUSH: You know this is really about abortion, right?
CALLER: Yeah, I think it comes down to that. I do.
RUSH: Does your wife henpeck you about it?
CALLER: What's that?
RUSH: Does your wife henpeck you about it?
CALLER: N-not at all. No. I mean... No. We're --
RUSH: Because I've heard this. I was at a party in the Hamptons back in the early nineties. This is a really, really powerful party. I don't want to mention the names but you would know every Republican that was at this dinner party. After dinner we went out on the deck of this man's house. I must have had four people come up to me. One of them poked me in the chest and said, "What are we going to do about the Christians?"
I said, "What do you mean, 'What are we gonna do about the Christians?'"
"Well, they're destroying our party."
CALLER: The answer is to leave people be free to believe what they want. I'm not religious, Rush. Neither is my wife. We're not. We're --
RUSH: No, that's not what you're advocating because you they think they're losing votes. I told these guys this: "They are 24 million votes that are voting for your party."
This guy said to me, "Yeah, but, you know, my wife hates this abortion issue. It just ticks me off. My wife is always nagging me about those Christians in the party and she doesn't want to go to the convention with me because they're there. What are you going to do about it?"
I said, "What are you looking at me for?"
"Well, they're your audience."
I said, "Well, so are you!" I got into a little bit of a discussion about abortion with them. I said, "Can you maybe get past the personal discomfort you feel inside your bedroom or at a convention and understand what we're talking about here? We have country with the founding documents that acknowledge: 'We're all endowed by our Creator,' God-d, 'with certain inalienable rights,' that means they can't be taken away, 'LIFE, liberty, pursuit of happiness.' If a country founded and blessed by God makes killing children in the womb something that is commonplace, then we've lost a foundational building block of the country."
I understand what irritates you about people like that. It's that you think they're single-issue, and if that issue isn't right then they'll vote for the ruination of the country in other ways just to stand on their belief on it. But I'm telling you: They aren't the problem. The problem is B-a-r-a-c-k O-b-a-m-a. It's Barack Hussein Obama, Eric Holder, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Tom Harkin. Anybody with a capital D by their name is the problem, not the Christians!
END TRANSCRIPT
