Rush: 'The Left is Afraid of us, Folks'

Excerpts from ElRushbo's show today:

It's like I had some things yesterday to say about this listening touring and how they left out Sarah Palin. The Drive-Bys are all over this today. Wait 'til you hear these sound bites. I didn't even know this was happening last night because I was of course making a speech at the Heritage Foundation, but I'm getting notes, "It looks like you forced the Republicans to include Palin in their listening tour."

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The left is still out there trying to destroy Sarah Palin. She's up in Alaska.

They're filing ethics complaints against her every week forcing her to have to have a legal defense fund! They're trying to break her; they're trying to make her go broke so she won't be able to have a political future. They're scared to death of her. If they weren't, they'd leave her alone. They'd let her go moose hunting, and that would be it. Why...? Do you see how easy the conventional wisdom is? The conventional wisdom is that Palin's a dork, that Palin's an idiot, that Palin is unsophisticated, that Palin is this or that. She doesn't know the lingo. She has a bad wardrobe. It's all of this irrelevant stuff to try to destroy her, to destroy her credibility with people, to impugn her. I just listened to what she said, and I liked what she said and I liked the way she said it. It's no more complicated than that.

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Sarah Palin could build the party, and all these moderates and independents think that she's going to be a drag on building the party. Why? Because, true, she will not attract liberals. She won't attract moderates. Thank God! We don't want 'em in our party -- and this business about polling data, 38% are independents? I ask you to remember -- and Koko, I want you to go to our archives. We drag this poll out every now and then, the Battleground poll, which shows that 60% of the American people, since, what, 2000, identify themselves as conservatives. The telling part is that 30 to 34%, 30% call themselves Republicans; but 60% call themselves conservatives. And if you look at the individual polls on individual Obama policies, you'll find that they're nowhere near as highly approved of as he is personally. There is a gold mine waiting to be tapped.

There's much more. The transcript and MP3s are here.

- JP