RUSH: I'm probably going to make a mistake trying this because there's not a whole lot of time in this segment. Sometimes even I am amazed. Yesterday I said on this program, in response to a question, "How are you feeling?" this was not something I worked on the night before, a big monologue. "Okay, folks, I have a major announcement." I got a bunch of questions from people in the e-mail telling me how they felt. They were depressed and so they asked, "How do you feel, Rush?" The first thought that came to my mind: I feel liberated. "What do you mean by that?"
I said, "I'm tired of carrying the water for people who don't deserve having their water carried," and from that, hell has broken loose. I was lying! I'm abandoning the GOP! I somehow admitted that I'm no longer going to read the White House talking points when I never, ever get the White House talking points. Some twerp on television last night said, "A-ha! See? The White House had this big meeting with conservative talk show hosts. They got in there and they got their marching orders and they went..." I wasn't invited to that! I wasn't invited because they knew I wouldn't go. I don't do group things, number one.
Number two: they know they can't influence me that way, and now this. This is from Hampton Roads.com, our radio station in the Hampton Roads area is WNIS 790 and they're running a contest there, a little survey today on, "What did Rush really mean? Is he leaving the GOP? Is he angry with President Bush? What do you think he meant? What effect, if any, could his comments have on the Republican Party?" So I got an e-mail from a friend last night who totally understood it. "Rush, I loved your water carrying comment. It's so true. I was thinking about just how awful presidential debates have been, well, forever. Not one minute of those debates would make for good talk radio. The fact is the best candidates the parties offer up can't present their cases very well, or don't.
"They're desperate for help in making their arguments, neither side looks very good right now without the media. I was scared every time Bush had a debate, the Democrats were scared every time Kerry had a debate. I was scared when Ford had a debate. I was scared once when Reagan had a debate," and this is exactly right. What do they have after debates? They got zillions of people in, what? The Spin Room, and what does The Spin Room do? The Spin Room tells you what the candidates were trying to say but didn't or couldn't or botched, in the case of Kerry. In my case, this is probably as good a way as any to define this for you. I can't think of any examples off the top of my head, but as you know, I'm a conservative. Conservatism's home is the Republican Party.
I believe that conservatism triumphing over liberalism is the best thing for the country. Okay, so we may have some Republicans who are not conservatives, are not very good at articulating it, and they get slammed and they get criticized all over the place -- and guess who rides to the rescue? Those of us on talk radio. We defend 'em, we say what they really think when they can't say it or don't want to say it or don't have the guts to say it, and bail 'em out. Then it comes election time, and they still won't say what they are. They still won't be conservative because they're afraid of it, and so I'm simply -- if they're not going to go out and articulate their conservatism, I'm not going to let 'em depend on me to get them over the hump.
IP: Logged |
UBBFriend: Email this page to someone!
Printer-friendly view of this topic
