CALLER: Hello, Rush. I just have one question for you.

RUSH: Oh, I'm sorry. I forgot we were talking about the United States mob rule. I thought you started out asking me if I would like to live under the Iraqi constitution, and now you want to talk about the mob rule of the Republicans in Washington. Sir, do not try to trick this host. We're too shifty; we're too smart, and we've heard from you. I know where you're going to go before you go there. I know what you're going to say before you say it. I know what's in your warped mind before you do. Let me just me just get to the nub of this with you, sir. Was that Ronnie Earle on the phone? Was his name Ronnie Earle? That was John in Austin, okay. All roads lead to Travis County. I thought it sounded like Ronnie Earle. I have a cochlear implant. I sometimes confuse voices. I thought it might have been Ronnie Earle. But he asked me this question and, of course, didn't let me answer it because they're afraid of the answer. Would you want to live under this constitution with Islamic rule and this and that, and my answer to that is, let me ask you people on the left a question. If this constitution is so bad and if this constitution establishes the kind of Islamic government that we have in Iraq or we see in Al-Qaeda or the Taliban, then tell me: why is it that Zarqawi and Zawahiri didn't vote for it? Tell me why they're trying to blow it up? If this Iraqi constitution establishes the kind of militant regime that they want, why are they trying to stop this? Why aren't they running for president and getting the votes of the people? You people on the left are intellectually embarrassing. You are beneath contempt at times. You just continue to amaze me. Your rage and your hatred has clouded your ability to be reasonable and to see things as they are -- and, I might add, to stay on track when you call this program. I mean, I can veer off with you whenever you go because as I say I know where you're going before you do, but you just don't sound good when you call here.

Now I can't say for certain whether or not the caller is a leftist, but he certainly didn't sound like one to me. If anything, he sounded like a libertarian or paleoconservative trying to make some reasonable points about the flaws of democracy and the Iraqi constitution. However, in Limbaugh Land there are no right-wing opponents of the Iraq misadventure. Therefore, the guy had to be a left-wing wacko who deserved abrupt banishment from Limbaugh Land in preparation for a longwinded speech about how great democracy in Iraq will be.