RUSH AND THE NEOCONS

Let me ask you a question very simply, ladies and gentlemen. Imagine... We have conservatism and we've got neoconservatism. Why do we allow that to happen? And who are the neocons? Well, the neocons are ex-Democrats, by the way, who moved into the Republican Party along with Ronaldus Magnus. They are big hawks, but they also believe in a big, activist, "compassionate" executive and government. So we have conservatism and neoconservatism. Imagine if there were a neo-Marxism or a neoliberalism. They wouldn't permit it. Marx wouldn't permit a neo-Marxism nor would liberalism permit a neoliberalism. But let's pretend. Let's pretend that there was a neoliberalism, in which a bunch of egghead liberals got together and said, "You know what? We're still going to care about the kids and we're still going to care about the poor and injustice and diversity and all that, saving the planet and all the pieties that we good Marxists care about. But we're going to introduce a touch of the free market, too, to produce school choice, economic opportunity, increased income tax revenues, et cetera, in order to solve these problems."

So, yeah, we're still good liberals, but we're going to have some neoliberals here who are actually conservatives. No self-respecting liberal would let 'em get away with it, 'cause it wouldn't be Marxism anymore; it wouldn't be liberalism anymore. But that's exactly what we are allowing and have allowed to happen to conservatism. Ten years ago, 1998, would any of these pseudoconservative media types, the so-called "conservative elite," the intellectuals, would they have dared to say out loud that Ronald Reagan's way was obsolete back in 1998? They may have thought it back then but they would not have said it, certainly not as a regular schtick as they are doing today. Nope. They had to call it "American greatness conservatism," or "neoconservatism" or "compassionate conservatism" or whatever Brooks, Kristol, and Barnes and Michael Gerson and the rest of them are calling it this week. Whatever their brand of conservatism is, they had to call it some neoconservatives. "We're not Reagan conservatives. We're neoconservatives. We're smarter than Reagan." Now they've made enough progress in having the media brand them as the face of serious conservatism, and they're out there feeling their oats.

Story #1: Democrats Plan Pro-Illegal Immigration Protests RUSH: There are other troubles within the Democrat Party as well. Two parts of the Democrat Party coalition -- illegal immigration activists and the civil rights bunch -- are feeling ignored. They're mad that the immigration debate has fizzled as a campaign issue. Luis Gutierrez, head of a Chicago pro-illegal immigrant group, said, "[I]t's a touchy subject." So his organization and others are planning a series of public demonstrations that they hope will revive their movement. I think some of them I've seen on television today. Big mistake. Hey Luis? Your sense of timing is horrible. Rallies took place today. In coming days, they'll take place in Miami and Houston, Los Angeles, and other cities. Representatives from the Reverend Jackson's Operation PUSH and Calypso Louie's Nation of Islam are expected to join the struggle for the first time, and they've also invited a bunch of gay activists. So the whole kitchen sink of the Democrat Party protest arm is being brought into this illegal immigration debate. You have to admit, if you look at this objectively, these guys have a point: Illegal immigration has been largely ignored during the election cycle. But you guys on the immigration side and the civil rights side -- your plan is too small! Nobody's going to care. We got the Kentucky Derby coming up this weekend. The baseball season is in full swing, the NBA playoffs. Plus we got the campaign between Hillary and Obama. Nobody's going to notice your pathetic little protests in these towns. You have to organize better than this! There's limited value here in these demonstrations, only a thousand people at best are going to show up. Listen to me. I cannot believe how much help that I am offering the Democrat Party, and I'll tell you what this means. All of you people that think that the Democrats are invincible and that they're always a day or two or week or two ahead of us and that they're just brilliantly organized? This is the most disorganized group I've seen in a while in politics. They are in total disarray. Mr. Gutierrez and the rest of you forming this group -- the big political story this year is going to be the Democratic National Convention in Denver. Every liberal worth his or her salt is going to be there. You activists ought to be there, too. Bring Louis Farrakhan. This guy by himself can pull off a Million Man March! You need somebody that can gather a million people to protest whatever it is you're mad about, and the only place to do this is Denver in August. Bring Jesse Jackson, bring the gay activists. Bring every leftist group that you can think of. Put millions of people out. You have a presidential convention here. You're upset that illegal immigration is not part of the presidential campaign? There's one place to take this grievance: Denver, August, Democratic National Convention. Bring Reverend Wright! This guy can light up a crowd! We have seen this. I'm so disappointed in the way the Democrats are running their affairs these days, and it's really pathetic that I have to be the one to give them advice on how to do it right.