Posted on 01/29/2012 2:00:33 PM PST by Anti-Hillary
I am looking for the monologue in which Rush declares he will no longer carry the water for the GOP. I need it for an opinion piece I am developing. Many thanks. I thought it was given the day after the Nov. 2008 election...
I remember Hannity gave one around that time this he was through carrying the water of the GOP.
Found it twice. 2006 & 9/2008. Googled -Rush no longer carrying water-.
Subscribe to Rush’s web site - the transcript will be there.
Sorry for a Media Matters link, but they have the audio:
http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200611090005
It wasn’t in 2008; it was in 2006:
A couple of audio clips:
http://workbench.cadenhead.org/media/rush-limbaugh-2006-11-08-wont-carry-water.mp3
http://workbench.cadenhead.org/media/rush-limbaugh-2006-11-08-i-feel-liberated.mp3
Wednesday, 11/8/2006 RUSH: “I Feel Liberated” (”from having to constantly come in here every day and try to buck up a bunch of people who don’t deserve it, to try to carry the water and make excuses for people who don’t deserve it.”)
Here’s Rush beginning approximately at the top of the third hour monologue
“Now, I mentioned to you at the conclusion of the previous hour that people having been asking me how I feel all night long. I got, “Boy, Rush, I wouldn’t want to be you tomorrow! Boy, I wouldn’t want to have to do your show! Oh-ho. I’m so glad I’m not you.” Well, folks, I love being me. (I can’t be anybody else, so I’m stuck with it.) The way I feel is this: I feel liberated, and I’m going to tell you as plainly as I can why. I no longer am going to have to carry the water for people who I don’t think deserve having their water carried. Now, you might say, “Well, why have you been doing it?” Because the stakes are high! Even though the Republican Party let us down, to me they represent a far better future for my beliefs and therefore the country’s than the Democrat Party and liberalism does.
I believe my side is worthy of victory, and I believe it’s much easier to reform things that are going wrong on my side from a position of strength. Now I’m liberated from having to constantly come in here every day and try to buck up a bunch of people who don’t deserve it, to try to carry the water and make excuses for people who don’t deserve it.
I did not want to sit here and participate, willingly, in the victory of the libs, in the victory of the Democrat Party by sabotaging my own. But now with what has happened yesterday and today, it is an entirely liberating thing. If those in our party who are going to carry the day in the future — both in Congress and the administration — are going to choose a different path than what most of us believe, then that’s liberating. I don’t say this with any animosity about anybody, and I don’t mean to make this too personal.
I’m not trying to tell you that this is about me. I’m just answering questions that I’ve had from people about how I feel.
There have been a bunch of things going on in Congress, some of this legislation coming out of there that I have just cringed at, and it has been difficult coming in here, trying to make the case for it when the people who are supposedly in favor of it can’t even make the case themselves — and to have to come in here and try to do their jobs.
I’m a radio guy! I understand what this program has become in America and I understand the leadership position it has. I was doing what I thought best, but at this point, people who don’t deserve to have their water carried, or have themselves explained as they would like to say things but somehow aren’t able to? I’m not under that kind of pressure.
Am I making myself clear on this, Mr. Snerdley? (interruption) No, I’m not lying. Snerdley’s concerned. I’ve not lied about anything I’ve said. Let me try this a different way. (sigh) I’m going to have to think about this. I tried to make it as clear as I can.
I’m not going to eat my own, and I’m not going to throw my own overboard, particularly in a campaign, and particularly when the country is at war — and I’m not going to do it for selfish reasons, and I’m not going to do it to stand out, and I’m not going to do it to be different. I’m not going to do it to draw attention from our enemies. I’m not going to do anything I do so that the Drive-By Media will like me or think that, “Ooooh, Limbaugh has changed! Ooooh, Limbaugh is coming around!”
That’s not my thinking. My thinking is: the left doesn’t deserve to win. My thinking is: the country is imperiled with liberal victory. We may not have the best people on our side, but they’re better than what we have on the left.
There hasn’t been in the ideology in the Republican Party, any conservatism for at least two to maybe four years. You could argue Bush was more of an ideologue in the presidential campaign of ‘04, but in looking at what happened yesterday, it wasn’t conservatism that lost. Conservatism won when it ran as a Democrat. It won in a number of places. Republicanism lost. RINO Republicans, country club blue-blood Republicans, this nonpartisan Republican identity, that’s what went down in flames.”
bttt
Bloody Thursday proved that Rush is still a Romney guy like he was in 2008, an establishment guy.
IIRC what he said the day after was, “We. Are. So. Screwed.”
Then soon after that he said, “I hope he fails.”
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