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<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=502 border=0><TBODY><TR><TD vAlign=top width=486>However, I see that the mainstream press has rallied, because I have audio sound bites and we will share these sound bites with you as the program unfolds today. They have found substitute Cindys to take up the slack and to lead the battle while Cindy is MIA in Los Angeles, and I must tell you these people cannot hold a candle to Cindy Sheehan. It's obviously a tragic loss. They've been running a number of substitutes to the mainstream media microphones, but it just doesn't have the same appeal, it just doesn't have the same kick -- and, by the way, ladies and gentlemen, I have coined a new phrase here that I want to share with you. You know, the tortured and fractured and kooky and whacky left in this country has, for the longest time, been attempting to suggest that they believe this statement: "I support the troops but I don't support the war," and they have tried to get along with this.</TD></TR><TR><TD>http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/0.gif</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><A id=0007><TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=502 border=0><TBODY><TR><TD width=1 height=3></TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width=486>Well, we cut them some slack on this at first. "Maybe they do support the troops," but they don't, because you can't support the troops if you don't support the mission -- and of course these people are just off the deep end. They're acting like every soldier is a child and every soldier has been kidnapped, every soldier has been stolen from his or her parents and transplanted into Iraq. It's an amazing sight to behold. But you know how we love to illustrate absurdity by being absurd here, so if the left wants to try to continue to say "I support the troops but not the war," then I have a new phrase that I would like to offer for your consideration today regarding Cindy Sheehan. "I support her loss, but not her thoughts." I support her loss, but not her thoughts. Just dish it back at them. Also, we've been told, the mainstream media is eagerly, breathlessly telling us that what is going on with these squatters down in the ditch in Crawford is a tipping point in the anti-war mood of America. Have you been wondering where are the polls that indicate this? Why, we live in a day of insta-polls. You can take a poll this morning and have the results in the afternoon. Have you seen any polls on just how big a tipping point that is? Have you seen, for example, any approval/disapproval numbers for Cindy Sheehan? Well, I have, ladies and gentlemen. I've got some polling data. Her disapproval numbers are higher than her approval numbers. Both are under 50%.
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RUSH: Are you surprised there has not been a poll before on this battlefield down there in Crawford, Texas? I mean, just today or yesterday, I guess it was, Senator Chuck Hagel from Nebraska -- we love Senator Hagel here (ahem) -- Senator Hagel was asked if he thought this was a tipping point in the antiwar movement that could make it more and more like Vietnam. (doing impression) "Well, I don't know about that, but if it keeps up, it could well be. There's some similarities, not a whole lot, but there could be," blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Well, I've been surprised there hasn't been a poll. Actually, I haven't been surprised because you know darn well that if the polling data was overwhelmingly in favor of http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_081905/content/america_s_anchorman.Par.0007.ImageFile.gif this being a tipping point, that we would have been soaking in it ever since the poll had been taken. Well, the Rasmussen group went out there and they did the poll and here are the results. "Cindy Sheehan, a grieving mother who maintained..." and, again, we support her loss, but not her thoughts, "...the grieving mother who maintained an antiwar protest outside of President Bush's ranch viewed favorably by 35% of the American people, unfavorably by 38% of the people. She's viewed favorably by 34% of men, 35% of women; 42% of men and 34% of women have an unfavorable view." In fact, according to the Rasmussen reports polling data, "People see in Sheehan what they want to see. Opinion about her is largely based on views of the war, rather than on views about her," and of course that doesn't surprise me because nobody's focusing on anything she says. What she says, we're supposed to ignore because she has moral authority. So whatever she says, you can't hold whatever she says against her.
"Rush, you can't. How could you be so cruel? How could you be so cold-hearted? How could you be so mean?" So nobody is supposed to listen to what she says, and so what she says is really not getting a whole lot of play because what she says is highly contradictory. So she really just embodies the whole war attitude, pro and con, in the country. I guess what it really means is that she's failed to personalize this, much as the supporters on the left of hers wish that she'd been able to do. I also found this. There is a liberal blogger, Democratic blogger who has had enough, and the Cindy Sheehan episode's actually now turned him into a Republican. Let me read a portion of it. The guy's name is Scott Randolph. He says, "I actually felt myself become a republican today. It was around 10am, when I read the latest update of the Cindy Sheehan saga in CNN.com. I then shot over to read some blogs about it, and perused the comments in some of them, which was nothing but a long series of petty (albeit entertaining) partisan bickering. Then it happened. The good little democrat in me tied the little noose around his neck and jumped off the stool. He just couldn’t take it anymore. Take what? The whining. The constant whining by the extreme left about the reasons for war, the incompetence of this administration, and how we’ve all been lied to, and how we should pull out of Iraq immediately, because, 'gulp' our soldiers were in danger. Guess what folks... they signed up to join the Army, not the boy scouts. Anytime your orientation to a new job involves an automatic weapon, you should be smart enough to figure out there’s danger involved. I actually read some people’s comments about many of the soldiers over there being naive... they weren’t expecting to go to war, so, they should be allowed to go home. Wow."</TD></TR><TR><TD>http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/0.gif</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=502 border=0><TBODY><TR><TD width=1 height=3></TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width=486>(doing impression) "They weren't expecting to go to war, so they should be allowed to go home now. Wow! Soldiers know when they enlist that it's entirely possible they'll be shipped out and never come home. It's part of the job. The fact that people still walk into recruiters' offices and sign that piece of paper makes them heroes. To imply that they're simple kids who didn't know what they were getting into or even worse, that they died for no reason or any immoral reason, does a horrible thing. It strips their sacrifice of the honor that it deserves. Even though those folks sitting out there in the Texas fields who claim to honor and support the soldiers, they obviously have been blinded by their own selfishness as to thehttp://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_081905/content/america_s_anchorman.Par.0008.ImageFile.gif real way to support them. Because long story short, we can't end this war now. That would send the message that those dastardly little terrorists have won. Doesn't matter if the administration told us the desert sand was made of gold and that we're going to go over there to collect it in little buckets to bring home. The concrete fact that we are at war doesn't change. We are there. We have a job to finish. We've toppled a regime that was dangerous, not only to its own people but also to the rest of the world -- and now we're there fighting the same terrorists we're fighting in Afghanistan. We've given liberty to millions. We're trying to help create a government in an area that's very volatile that will be a bastion of freedom and hope for an entire race of people. I hate the fact that our boys are getting killed over there and I wish it didn't have to happen, but it is. There's nothing we can do about it except for doing everything we can to offer support and hope to the folks fighting over there. Arguing and whining about the reasons we're there and they need to come home, not only kills morale but it is a complete waste of time."
So anyway, he goes on: There are other aspects to this. Now this, ladies and gentlemen, hit home especially with me because many of the things that I have said over the course of the many years of this program about our military and specifically about this conflict are right in this former Democrat's blog. I think the real point of this is, what is really happening out there that of course you're never going to see reported anywhere, is that these... I don't... I've run out of ways to describe them. These little sad sacks that are just mindless twits that make up the kooky extreme, hate-filled left are starting to turn off mainstream Democrats. You don't see any politicians down there, do you? You don't see any Democratic presidential candidates heading down to Crawford to get in on this action down there, do you? The only thing you see -- and I've got some sound bites -- you've got some former elected Democrats starting to pick up some of the lingo about our children have been sent to die, why doesn't Bush send his? But you don't see any of them actually making the trek down there. You don't hear any of them verbally, publicly supporting any of this movement that's going on down there, and the real truth is that they are causing the backlash not only among Republicans and conservatives, but also, folks, in the Democratic Party. There are some Democrats that simply can't abide this and they're worried to death that all Democrats are going to be thought of like the kook fringe that is coming to be the Democrat base -- and you're right. Those of you mainstream Democrats who have that fear, you are exactly right.
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