Posted on 12/06/2011 8:28:54 PM PST by TitansAFC
RUSH: This is Will in Amanda, Ohio, as we stay on the phones. Hi, Will. Welcome to the program.
CALLER: Hey, Rush? Hey, Rush, at best you don't understand the Tea Party movement, and at worst you're trying to co-opt the Tea Party -- and I hate to say that because I've listened to you for a lot of years -- but the Tea Party movement is about trust, justice, and constitutional leadership; and Newt Gingrich is the RINO's RINO. He's taken several hills from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, he plays both sides of the aisle, he's well known for his progressivism. If his multiple wives don't trust him, don't expect me to trust him as a president for this country. The Tea Party's not about Republican[s] and Democrats. The Tea Party is about, like I said -- trust, justice, and constitutional leadership -- and at this point we're down to three candidates, in my opinion. We got Ron Paul, Michele Bachmann, and Rick Santorum -- and I'm leaning towards Ron Paul because at least in Congress, for all his years, both sides call him Dr. No because he'll at least stick to the Constitution, what it requires.
RUSH: Right.
CALLER: And we've gotten into this mess, Rush, because we've always chosen the worst of the two choices. And this is probably our last chance. This country is going down fast.
RUSH: Are you telling me ... that the Tea Party ... is gonna end up rallying around Ron Paul?
CALLER: One of the three. I think in the end, one of the three.
RUSH: Where is that reflected in the...?
CALLER: (crosstalk) chance for Iowa, and I hope he wins because --
RUSH: Where is it reflected....?
CALLER: -- if he does I think you're gonna see people rally to him.
RUSH: Where is it reflected in the polling data?
CALLER: (silence) Well... Right now he's running second from what I understand in Iowa.
RUSH: He's probably gonna win Iowa. I would be surprised if Ron Paul wins Iowa, by the way.
CALLER: I think you're gonna see people break away from this two party madness. That's how we got in this position, Rush.
RUSH: Well, we'll see, we'll see. But you misunderstand where I am in all this. But that's okay. That's okay. I am shaken, but not stirred.
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RUSH: All right, once again, let me bring some reason and sanity to all this. We just heard that the Tea Party is gonna support Ron Paul, Santorum, Bachmann, or bust. And this guy is not a Tea Party caller. This guy's a Ron Paul caller. I just went to the Gallup poll, dug deep inside the Gallup poll, the one I just told you that shows Gingrich over Romney 37-22. Ron Paul is at 7% among Tea Party supporters. But there's more than that. The Tea Party is not the Ron Paul campaign. Ron Paul has nothing to do with the Tea Party, zilch, zero, nada. There is no way that you can back Ron Paul and also back Bachmann and Santorum. The reason is that Ron Paul's foreign policy has nothing in common with Tea Party foreign policy, nothing in common with Bachmann or Santorum foreign policy. Ron Paul did not start the Tea Party. Ron Paul is not the Tea Party.
Now, that caller also said -- and all this is so predictable, it happens every four years. "That two-party system, two party madness, we're not gonna put up with anymore, Rush, and you're part of it. You're part of the two party establishment, we know you." Let me tell you something. If two party madness is the issue, why did Ron Paul leave the Libertarian party to run as a Republican? Ron Paul's not running as a third party; he's not running as a Libertarian; he's running as a Republican. He's involved himself in the two-party system. And Ron Paul has led the way with tens of millions of dollars in earmarks. Ron Paul blames America for 9/11. That's not what the Tea Party thinks. It's not what conservatives think.
Now, there's some Tea Party activists that support Ron Paul, but most don't, as is evidenced by the Gallup polls at 7%. But Ron Paul's foreign policy, there's nobody, no other Republican running on that nomination dais up there in any of these debates that has a foreign policy that's anywhere near Ron Paul's. Bachmann, Santorum, Gingrich, Romney, none of them blame the United States for Iran nuking up. None of them blame the United States for 9/11. I love the way these Ron Paul supporters try to tell us who is or who isn't conservative, when Paul is a Libertarian. Ron Paul's a Libertarian, used to belong to that party but knows he can't win as a Libertarian so he comes over and joins the Republican Party. He says he could relate to and understand the Occupiers. The Tea Party doesn't think that.
"Boy, Rush, now you've really done it. Now you've run around and attacked Ron Paul." I didn't attack Ron Paul. I'm simply telling you what is. There's a big difference here. I was the one who was attacked. My callers are gunning for me today, folks. I am a shaken host here. Not stirred, but shaken. Hanging tough. But none of the GOP, apart from Ron Paul, blames Wall Street for the recession. Ron Paul does. Where is this common ground between Ron Paul and Rick Santorum and Bachmann? Have you seen Santorum's face when Ron Paul's describing his foreign policy? Santorum's waving his arms trying to get in there and respond to it. Who's next? I can't believe what Snerdley is finding out there today.
Rush got it perfectly well and explained it just as well.......
Rush pointed out to the caller that the Libertarian party is a third party and Ron Paul is a Libertarian who knows they don't have a snowball's chance in hell which is why he's trying to run as a Repub..........
I wonder if it has anything to do with the improving poll numbers of a certain candidate?
Can you imagine how berserk some people will become if Ron Paul gets the nomination?
That is when we will see who is on our side and who is for the status quo.
There is a lot to recommend Ron Paul and he would clearly be much better than Obama. But he’s got a few notions that seem just a bit goofy.
She’s absolutely right about Newt, however. There isn’t much difference between him and Romney.
WRONG! I've been to a lot of Tea Party events and meetings and even been part of a Tea Party candidate election in 2010. Ron Paul's cult fringe are NOT Tea Party. Paulbots are fringe libertarians trying to be part of something because their own party is not accepted by mainstream America. Ron Paul is the street corner crazy spewing nonsense that everyone walks across the street to avoid.
Tea Party does not accept vile newsletters like Ron Paul's. Tea Party does not think Iran and North Korea are no threat. Tea Party do not undermine Israel. Tea Party does not blame the US for 9-11 or pander to the Truthers. Tea Party does not have candidates who frequent fringe conspiracy nut shows. Ron Paul is one of Obama's greatest assets in 2012 because he undermines serious candidates who can defeat Obama.
No offense, but that is laughable.
Rush Limbaugh is full of shit
Rush is right on that point. Except for the empty rhetoric they employ almost all the GOP candidates have the exact same Globalist foreign policy as the Obama Maladministration which is a seamless continuation of the policy from the Bush\Clinton\Bush years.
What part is “laughable?” Can you communicate?
“We in the Tea Party - we who are “Taxed Enough Already” - oppose government growth, increasing interference in our daily lives, the bailouts and ObamaCare.
“However, we are the Conservative base of the Republican Party and we believe in defense as a legitimate purpose of the Federal government. We are happy to take the war to the home town of the terrorists, to keep them busy outside our own Continent.”
They won't even protect or secure your own freaking borders while at the same time the fed gov grew into all controlling monster.
Now ya say the Tea Party is all about protecting these corrupt foreign policies and costly *decades* long compassionate wars?
Just laughable.
Who is “they,” dragnet2? “They” do not include me and “they” do not include “the Conservative base of the Republican Party.”
You have completely re-framed what I wrote to fit your own narrow protectionist world view.
What you wrote is the direct opposite of “We are the Conservative base of the Republican Party and we believe in defense as a legitimate purpose of the Federal government.”
*We* have been working to yank the Party to the Right.
Oh, dream on.
You guys can swarm and spam polls from here to 2012, but our country hasn't become insane enough to do something that stupid.
Au contraire! This country is stupid enough to elect an undocumented communist with no executive experience.
Never underestimate the utter stupidity of the voters in this country.
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