kathleen sebelius" because she wants people to get swine flu shots. nbc's jamie gangel sat down with limbaugh for this rare interview. here is what he had to say about the state of the gop. >> are you the leader of the republican party? >> i am not the lead. i don't want to be the leader of the republican party. these people think they can discredit the republican party by making me the head of it. all they're doing is elevating me. it's silly for them to keep talking about how i'm the leader of anything. it's just create morgue curiosity about me, 21 years more popular than ever, lord thank you for my enemies. the republican party nominated the ideal, the perfect mr. republican candidate in 2008, john mccain. he was the guy that was going to go get the moderates. he was going to get the independents. he was going to walk across ate yell. he could work with the democrats. the republicans got shellacked. the republican party is not a party of liberal, independent moderates.