On the Meirs Nomination – Rush Limbaugh Today

I was on my way driving to Aurora IL today. I listened to Rush. I don’t listen as much as I used to, but he was dead on today. These are edited excerpts. See his site for the full transcript or the link at the bottom.

I think that there are a tremendous number of conservatives who think they carry a lot of weight in this administration. They think that whatever they write, whenever they speak, whatever they say, they think they influence the administration. What this decision (nomination of Harriet Meirs) said to them was, “You don’t matter to us,” and they’re taking it personally because it’s a rejection of their thoughts, their intellect, their advice.
Two things that have kept all of us steadfastly unified behind George W. Bush, the war on terror and the fact that we cannot let the left in this country gain control of national security.
The left in general, outside of the fear of letting them control national security, they’re still kooky, they’re mean-spirited, they are extreme, and they are attempting to mischaracterize us. An attack on the president is an attack on us. An attack on Bill Bennett is an attack on all of us. An attack on DeLay is an attack on all of us, and we’re not going to sit here and put up with it. We’re not going to eat our own in the process.
Well, we’re now reaching the midpoint. We’ve got about a year to go to reach the midpoint, 2006 elections, and people run for office in elections, and there are a lot of conservative Republicans who want to run for election and reelection, and they’re going to have a tough time running on the last five years of immigration, the last five years of education spending, the last five years of total federal spending.
I’m not saying the loyalty is gone; I’m saying life goes on, and if you couple this with the fact that the left weaker and weaker, throughout all of this, all conservatives needed was a couple of nails hammered in the coffin, a couple of nails and we could bury the coffin. They’re still going to be around as vampires, come out at night. We’re never going to get rid of all of them.
George Lakoff a political adviser, who has been dumped by the Democrats, has a piece talking about how accurately the conservatives frame arguments in a post-disaster era like Katrina and how badly the Democrats do it. Democrats only have this to say “Bush wasn’t there, Bush didn’t care, Bush blew up the levees. ” “They’ve got to get more to their core.”
Well, they can’t! Nobody will vote for them if they do that. They’re back to the same old trouble. That’s what’s the frustrating thing to me. These people are weak, they’re disorganized, they have no unity, they’re nothing but hate-filled extremists and activists, and there’s no reason to be defensive or afraid of these people. No reason to go out and accommodate them at all. They wouldn’t do it for us, and they haven’t done it for us.
“Rush, you sound like you’re not in favor of national unity.”
Yes, I am. I’m in favor of 80% of the country agreeing with me. That’s unity. You’re never going to have a hundred percent.

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