RUSH: I have friends in Charleston, South Carolina. I may be there some day.Posted on 01/23/2012 4:06:40 PM PST by Kaslin
BEGIN TRANSCRIPT
RUSH: Charleston, South Carolina. This is Carolyn. I'm glad you waited. Great to have you on the program. Hello.
CALLER: Oh, Rush, I love you, I love you, I love you. My heart is beating so hard, I can barely speak. I've always wanted to meet you. To heck with the iPad. If you gave me an iPad, I would be like, "No." I would want to meet you more than anything in the whole world, "Here's it back if I can only meet you."
RUSH: It may happen. You never know.
CALLER: Oh, my dream.
RUSH: I have friends in Charleston, South Carolina. I may be there some day.
CALLER: Rush, you have no idea what a pleasure this is. I know you are pressed for time, I'll be quick. I, unlike some of your callers, agree with you 100% of the time and I thank my husband Mark for turning me on to you 13 years ago. I voted for Santorum, and I was feeling so deflated Saturday because I knew that the people here in South Carolina were listening to the media that Romney and Newt were the only ones who could beat Obama. I'm Catholic and I went to church Saturday night and to my surprise there was Rick Santorum and his family attending mass. They were so genuine and kind and I conveyed to them how upset I was that the media has ignored him, and he agreed, and gave me a big hug. I feel like he is the true conservative. I am from Pennsylvania, and they are rooting for him up there because they know that he truly lives and breathes conservatism through his whole life.
RUSH: Yeah.
CALLER: I'm so disappointed at these South Carolinians for being snowed by the media, and I fear for my one-year-old and two-and-a-half-year-old, and I feel like -- and maybe it's a conspiracy theory -- but if Obama wins in November, that this country will fall into communism. Maybe it's being too fearful, but I can expect anything.
RUSH: You ought to get my buddy Mark Levin's book, Ameritopia.
CALLER: Oh.
RUSH: His point is we already have.
CALLER: Absolutely.
RUSH: We're already being governed outside the Constitution. This is a post-constitutional country.
CALLER: Oh, my God, yes, but what I wanted to ask you was two questions: What advice could you give Rick Santorum to get his polls up in Florida?
RUSH: Oh!
CALLER: And also, what happened with Goldwater? Because I wasn't alive back then, and what specifics were there about that?
RUSH: Well, conservatism was brand-new back then. You were dealing with a popular Lyndon Johnson coming off a martyred president's death, JFK. Conservatism was just totally brand-new. I remember the media in those days. You know, Goldwater would say things like he'd rip the East Coast, the mind-set of the eastern seaboard. So LBJ ran a commercial that was a floating wooden block of the country with a saw sawing off the eastern seaboard. And the man in the ad said, "Lyndon Johnson believes in the whole country." Then there was the daisy ad. Goldwater was gonna blow us up with a nuclear bomb. A little girl picking daisies and a nuclear detonation happens. Well, the screen goes white as though there's a nuclear blast. The countdown: Tick-tock tick-tock tick-tock! Mother Teresa woulda lost in a landslide in '64.
CALLER: (giggles)
RUSH: Now, I'm reticent to give advice what Santorum could do. Look... (sigh) Jeez, you put me in a tight spot. You asked and I feel I have to answer.
CALLER: I've been dreaming of who would be your favorite because I know that I would follow you.
RUSH: All right.
CALLER: I would follow you to hell and back. (giggles)
RUSH: Here's what I would do: I would stop talking about myself. I'd stop saying, "I did this," and, "I did that," and "This is what I did, and those guys aren't this, and those guys aren't that." I'd just start articulating conservatism. I would just make it the fundamental premise of every message of mine. Now you gotta mention the other guys at some point. If you want to highlight the fact that they're not conservative, fine, but I wouldn't make that the primary. You can portray yourself as the only genuine conservative by actually doing it, not saying it. It's probably a fine line here. Santorum is who he is. That's why I'm reticent to give people advice 'cause people are going to be who they are. And he's got his people telling him the best way to go about this.
CALLER: But you're the true conservative, and, hopefully, he would listen to you. (giggles)
RUSH: I don't know. I don't know. He's out making fun of Newt's grandiosity. I'd be grandiose. I'd try to be larger than life. Not in a phony way. But, look, I feel very uncomfortable because I like Santorum a whole lot, and he is the real deal and he is one of the most solid individuals that I know, and I'm at a loss to explain why anybody catches fire. I don't think Newt is really catching fire. I know this is a fine, fine point. Newt is catching fire, but Newt's message is what is inspiring. Newt is a vessel. Newt is getting people voting for him to tell the establishment what they think of the way they've been running this party.
Some might think that a distinction that's too smart by half, but... (interruption) What advice would I give Obama? To do what? To win again? What advice would I give Obama to win? Oh, come on! Well, I'd have to think about that because I don't think he can in a real world. Now, he clearly can. I don't want to mislead anybody here. Look, there's something else here, Carol, and again it's a surface thing. You know how people are fed up with the Republicans having "dumb people who can't talk," and Newt sounds smart, and he can spout things from history that roll off his tongue. He comes off as smart, and I can't TELL YOU how much that matters to people on our side. They're sick and tired of people being nominated who can't put two sentences together or sound like Cowboy Billy Bob at the time they're doing it. They're just fed up with it.
END TRANSCRIPT
In my opinion, The people screaming for Santorum to get out of the race aren’t considering the states where Romney is strong. These are the states where Santorum is likely to pull more votes from Romney than from Gingrich.
Why should Santorum get out? Why does Iowa, NH and SC decide the nominee for republicans nationwide?
I intend to take one vote away from Romney here in Michigan and give it to Santorum. I think Romney will probably win here but I don’t intend to make it easy on him.
Well, I would like to cast an affirmative vote for Santorum up here in the fiefdom of Ct.
People are too confident about Gingrich running away with the nomination after winning a state that he should have never trailed in to begin with. There are a lot of states to go and a good many of those will be strong Romney states.
So far Santorum is the only one who has won on “neutral” ground after Romney spent big bucks and years there.
Because not a few people can only see maybe two, or three weeks out in the future, tactically. They cannot easily see the whole election cycle, what lays in store for so-called frontrunners that could be scurrilous and very demoralizing, and they put their chips all into one basket, without keeping a lifeboad, a “Plan B” alive and active for worst case scenario.
Oh I understand completely. Newt is a big target for a media with unlimited resources and a marxist with a billion dollar war chest.
Because not a few people can only see maybe two, or three weeks out in the future, tactically. They cannot easily see the whole election cycle, what lays in store for so-called frontrunners that could be scurrilous and very demoralizing, and they put their chips all into one basket, without keeping a lifeboat, a “Plan B” alive and active for worst case scenario.
The one that needs to get out is Ron Paul. How many primary elections has he won? None, zero, zilch. Santorum, Romney and Gingrich each have won a caucus or primary election
And right or wrong South Carolina picks the nominee and then Florida seals the deal.
Newt is an old man so he had better pick a young and conservative VP.
Romney’s advantage in Michigan is among the political class who constantly assault us with their Mitt love.
Among the people, Mitt’s support is beginning to dry up. The old timers who voted for his father are going the way of the dinosaurs and his claim to being a native is wearing pretty thin so many years after he left the state.
Personally I think Cain was the only one who could beat him here because he was campaigning here.
And my vote in Wisconsin goes to Santorum.
Rush was interesting today. It’s like he doesn’t really believe Gingrich is the one we want — so he keeps saying it’s not Gingrich that is winning, it’s just the message Gingrich is saying.
It sounds like Rush thinks that if Santorum could adopt the tone and style of Gingrich, then Santorum could get those voters and Rush would be happy. Like anybody could be the messenger — that seems to be Rush’s take.
Not until after Virginia. Thanks to the crooked VA GOP deciding for the first time ever to enforce their rules to keep Gingrich and Perry of the ballot, we need Paul to stay in until VA. (I think any actual Republican who would serve as a Paul delegate is more likely to shift to Gingrich than to Romney once the first ballot is over, or if VA law permits once Paul drops out and releases his delegates.)
Rush makes a good point. I hope Santorum hears it. The debate tonight was frustrating in the way Santorum is shut out from answering by the moderators. I hope his FL ground game is good.
Take a look:
http://www.c-span.org/Campaign2012/Rick-Santorum-Continues-SC-Campaign-in-Florence/10737427132/
(Florence, SC) Meet and greet, then talk and questions start at about 16:20
This is the sound of Rush capitulating to a prejudice.
In this case, a regional prejudice against Western and Southern accents. "Western/Southern = ignorant hick".
It's part of the game the Eastern Media play against people who are not products of the New Class, i.e. themselves.
Rush is from Missouri but, like Dan Rather (Texas) has purged himself of his accent to Fit In -- although in Limbaugh's case, he wouldn't have had much of an accent to begin with, being from northern Missouri, where most people have the Midwestern "General American" accent shared by the upper Midwest with California.
(People from Illinois and people from California sound nearly identical, and it's hard to distinguish Indianans sometimes, too.)
Problem: By excluding Westerners and Southerners from consideration, Rush acquiesces in the Media campaign to exclude from national leadership most of the people within the "Finkelstein Box" (the South, Midwest, and Mountain West) who vote strongly Republican. This cuts off Republican and conservative leadership from the conservative roots.
That's like telling the Brown family that they can have anyone for a father but someone named Brown. Which is why the New Class types do it.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.
