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March 18, 1996 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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It was wrong for them to shut down the government the first time.
It was wrong the second time.
And three wrongs on the environment do not make a right.
APPLAUSE Let me say it plainly.
It was wrong for them to shut down the government the first time.
It was wrong the second time.
Three wrongs don't make a ride.
Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Rush Limbaugh.
Thank you very much.
Thank you.
Thank you, folks, very much.
Thank you all.
Thank you.
Oh, kiddo.
We gotta lead off with this story.
You may have heard about this, but nevertheless, we have to tell you about it.
We have to get in on this ourselves.
This is the story about Lyric the dog in Nashua, New Hampshire.
Lyrics master has a respiratory problem, suffers from asthma, and has to be hooked up to an oxygen tank while sleeping at night, or while sleeping at the daytime at any point.
And if something happens to interrupt the flow of oxygen or the mask falls off, the dog has been trained to go into action.
The first thing that the dog does is try to revive the master.
There's a big alarm in the house when this happens.
If that doesn't work, the dog is then trained to call 911.
There is a picture of it, ladies and gentlemen.
Now you may be doubtful about this, but I we have actual video tape to show you of how this works.
Go ahead and roll it.
This is this is a dog lyric, and this is the master here, and this is uh an illustration.
This is after the fact uh what actually happened.
This whole situation did occur.
This is how the dog goes up, knocks the phone off, and then dials.
Here's a tape of how it sounded.
We have a medical emergency at Ayakwa at 37 Langholm Drive.
It's the main house door there.
That is um that's kind of showing there is a medical dog at this resident who is saying to call 911.
What?
I mean let me hold on a minute.
Here's this is this is incredible.
You saw you saw the phone.
The phone has 911 programmed almost all the speed dial buttons.
So the dog knocks the phone off, goes up and paused the phone like that.
And then after the dog hears somebody answer, it starts barking.
And they have the situation in Nashua, New Hampshire.
It's like caller ID, except it registers the address where the call's from.
And somebody was able to see that this emergency had happened before.
Uh so the emergency people went out there and actually saved the woman's life.
The dog's getting credit for it.
And uh you've got the Nashua, I was telling somebody, Nashville, New Hampshire is because the dispatcher, by the way, I should say, uh, admitted that she almost hung up, thinking it was a practical joke.
I mean, you get an emergency call, a dog's barking at you.
But I was thinking what you what you could do here, this is a small enough community that you could just go to the dispatcher people at the 911.
It's a firehouse, I think in Nashua, and just say, look, if a dog calls you, it's an actual emergency at this particular house and go on out there.
Now, this dog, of course, when its master got sick, did not sit around looking on in fear and hope, ladies and gentlemen.
This dog actually went into action.
I've done research.
I found out the dog also supports the flat tax welfare reform and the downsizing of government.
We're all for this call.
What a beautiful dog.
Now, I don't want to make any of you mad, but can you imagine this happening with a cat?
Sorry.
Just won't happen.
Going through Time Magazine.
Can I show you about this Time Magazine?
This is the time that look at that.
Hold that up there.
Take a look.
Does that not make her look like Dracula?
We always make jokes About how Time magazine makes Republicans and conservatives look like Darth Vader or whatever.
And look at the M. The two red points of the M. Do they not look like Satan horns coming out of the top of her head?
Do they not?
Look at this.
Look at that.
So you uh you people out there who idolize Mrs. Clinton, to whom uh, you know, you live vicariously through her she's your role model.
Uh I have something for you from this.
This is excerpts of this book by Jim Stewart called Blood Sport.
And there's this quote, Mrs. Clinton told to, I think Susan McDougall.
Uh, but anyway, she's quoted as saying to somebody you can't be a woman if you don't have children.
It's the central mission of women.
It's too great, it's too important not to experience it.
Uh, this is gonna come as big news to Janet Reno and Donna Shalela, ladies and gentlemen.
I guess to whom, Mrs. Clinton, they aren't really women.
And maybe to s maybe to some of you, they aren't either.
Um, along since we're talking about feminism, there's a magazine out there called Working Woman Magazine and my regular subscriber.
Because I uh want to keep track of what's going on in the working woman world since they've taken so many jobs from otherwise deserving men.
Only kidding.
Only kidding.
I'm serious, folks.
I just now they've got a gossip page in Working Woman Magazine.
What is this?
This is a February 1996 issue.
Their gossip page is uh pages called Biz Buzz.
And there's this little section at the bottom of the page in this issue called Rat Patrol.
One ad for Rosalie Osias's Great Neck New York law practice features her sprawled across a desk, provocatively chewing a pencil and showing a lot of cleavage.
In another, she wears tiny leather shorts and straddles a motorcycle.
What's the problem?
Shrugs Osias, who's scorn feminists for leading women straight into the glass ceiling.
If women want to get anywhere, they should exploit their sexuality to create a business opportunity.
Then they write with friends like you, Rosalie, who needs rush.
Meaning they're more angry at her.
She's doing more damage to the feminist movement than they think I have done, which I feel very bad about being displaced.
Uh, so I'll work even harder.
I'm gonna work even harder to get back in the good graces as being enemy number one to feminists in Working Woman Magazine.
You can count on it, friends.
I will not let you down.
And we'll be right back.
Right there.
Don't go away.
Thank you.
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Thank you.
Thank you a lot.
Welcome back.
And uh we want to now review some of the results and some of the things people said after the results on Super Tuesday.
Another big sweep for Bob Dole.
This is what the newspaper headlines look like.
Dole cements GOP bid.
That's uh looks like he's going for the mafia vote with that headline.
Um, one of here here's some video tape.
Here's just a little uh video montage of some comments from the principals after the results were in.
I'm not prepared to uh negotiate anything with either one of them.
They have every right to run.
I can't tell them not to run.
But my view, if they want to beat Bill Clinton or they want to be spoilers, uh, they can they can make a choice.
Obviously, the results tonight are a disappointment, and quite obviously too, in the upcoming primaries next week.
We must make a major breakthrough in one of those Midwest industrial states.
If not, then this campaign will have to come to a conc conclusion.
Look at those numbers from Mississippi and places like that.
Compare them in 1992.
Mr. Dole is finding out that 40 to 50 percent of the Republican Party wants this race to stay open and wants us to stay in and does not want Bob Dole for the nominee.
It's a two-man race after next week.
Canon and Dole all the way to San Diego.
We ask every Buchanan voter everywhere in America to join the team to get the right kind of president to appoint the right kind of judges so our children can be safe and our streets can be safe.
So come home to your team, Buchanan voters everywhere in America.
Okay, couple comments.
Since we put that reel together, the Forbes campaign has announced that on Thursday at one, he will announce that he is quitting the race.
Uh, no reason given yet.
We can speculate that uh they probably have figured out they've spent enough money, they got a bunch of good PR for the magazine now.
It's time to get out of this before they start looking sort of foolish.
I mean, it they're getting fewer votes than Buchanan, even though they're still higher in the delegate count than uh than Buchanan is.
And also Buchanan.
I uh the audio there was sort of like in an echo chamber uh in a in a barrel, but Buchanan challenged the press to compare his results in 1992 to his results this year.
Well, if you do that, the press is gonna do it.
Remember Gary Hart.
He he challenged them to follow him around so that they would learn he's not seeing anybody on the side, and they followed him around and they found him with uh what was her name, Donna Rice, uh down there on that boat, the monkey business.
So the press did it, and and here are the stats.
Ladies and gentlemen, the comparison showed that Buchanan support this year in five of the seven states, which voted on Tuesday and Super Tuesday at or below his 92 primary standings against Bush.
And in Florida, Buchanan uh, for example, in 1992 had 32 percent of the vote versus 19% of the vote this year.
And look further, his support, uh, even though, and it's it admittedly there there are more people in the race this year than there were in 1992, but uh uh he his his numbers have never been anywhere near what they were in 1992 in several of these uh these states.
Now, there is a a little story I've got to point out to you.
I ran across this in my in my preparation for the program today.
You know, there is a spending limit for the presidential campaign, just like there's a salary cap in basketball, salary cap in football.
And the money that you spend during primaries counts against that cap.
Clinton hasn't had to spend any during the primaries because he's unopposed.
Dole has had to spend a lot.
In fact, he spent about 25 million, 27 million dollars so far.
And here's how the war chests shape up at this point going into the general election.
Clinton has 25.8 million dollars remaining, and Dole has 12 and a half.
Now, when you look at that, you might say, oh no, it's even going to be more trouble.
He doesn't have the money.
That's not necessarily true.
I think this, ladies and gentlemen, is a godsend.
And I'll tell you why.
Remember back in November and December when the Republicans were trying to get their budget through, and the Democrats and the basically big labor and the association of retired people got together and ran 22 million dollars of ads trying to scare the American people about Medicare and school lunch cuts and the environment, dirty water and dirty air and all that.
And we were all saying, My gosh, why why don't the Republicans respond to this for crying out loud?
Come up with some issue-oriented advertising, image advertising, do something to counter this.
You're just letting them get away with all these false allegations.
And a Republican said, No, we don't do that.
We're not going to waste our money now.
It's too soon.
Besides, we don't support ideas.
Our money goes to candidates.
Well, the RNC, ladies and gentlemen, can run ads during the presidential commit uh campaign.
That's the Republican National Committee, but they cannot run commercials for Dole, because that would be helping him beyond the spending limit.
So they can't run commercials urging people to vote for Dole, but they can run all kinds of commercials that Lamb base Clinton.
They can urge people not to vote for Clinton, and they can run all sorts of commercials, and this is the God send, I think.
They can run all sorts of commercials that tout the ideas that people stand for.
And you know what they're gonna be.
They're gonna be contract with America ideas.
What because those are Dole's ideas.
If you'll note when Dole gets full of fire and brimstone, he's starting to repeat the things that everybody was standing for in the contract and all through that budget battle.
So by virtue of the fact that Dole doesn't have any money, the Republican National Committee is now forced to do what they wouldn't do last winter, and that is run the spots that counter all of BS, the barbaro streis end that was in those Democrats.
So it's about this is great news.
This is real, I think it's great news.
Um we have to show you something else.
When you mention Dole to anybody, the question automatically, first question anybody asks is who do you think is going to be the VP?
More people are interested in who's going to be the VP than what Dole stands for.
It really is fascinating.
We all know why, it's because of the age factor.
And the name Colden Powell keeps coming up.
Well, my friends, we've been working diligently here at Rush Limbaugh the television show.
We've gone back and researched for you and found what Colin Powell has said about running for office and running for the vice presidency, and listen very carefully to this as it goes by.
Take a look.
I will not be a candidate for president or for any other elective office in 1996.
What if the GOP nominee doesn't look like he can beat the president or anybody else?
What if there's a draft?
What's that?
I'm ruling out uh run for the presidency in 1996.
or running for any elective office in 1996.
You can rule out running as an independent or perhaps as the candidate of a third party like Mr. Perot's party.
I ruled out running.
And so once I did that, it did there was no need to specify.
Have you ruled out the prospect of um being on the vice presidential uh being a vice presidential candidate?
Have you discussed that with Senator Dole or any other candidate?
I have ruled it out.
Um, for an elective office, he rolled out an appointment office, such as Secretary of State.
Nobody has offered me any offices, so I'm not going to rule anything in or out.
Ooh.
Ooh.
Could the vice presidency be looked at by General Powell as an appointive office?
After all, you get appointed to it, and then you run.
You don't enter or engage in an election to win the vice presidency as a nominating thing.
You have somebody ask you to serve.
They could, I think, split hairs on this if they wanted to, knowing that everybody's gonna be doing what we've done here and go back and look at what he said.
Uh and and clearly he wants to be involved, he just doesn't want to get involved in a huge campaign.
But he left the door wide open for Secretary of State, Secretary of Defense, Secretary of whatever, a cabinet post.
If he looks at the vice presidency as uh a similar type of position, he might go.
And and I now I should point out one of his best friends and high and top advisors, a guy named Ken Duberstein, who was very high ranking in the uh Reagan administration, and Duberstein was on television this morning, said there's no way.
He's not he hasn't changed his mind about anything, he's not gonna do it.
Uh you got to keep that in mind.
And he did rule out, despite this splitting hairs we're looking at here, he did, if you recall the first part of that tape, rule out the vice presidency.
So uh all the evidence that we have so far, his words and the words of his advisors are he doesn't want it, he hadn't changed his mind, don't think about it.
We'll take a break and be back with a poll that'll show you that Clinton's sort of weak, weaker than most people think, right after this.
Thank you.
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I want to tell you about the Battleground poll.
Battleground poll is a poll put together by a Democrat and a Republican working together.
Selinda Lake is the Democrat, Ed Goaz is the Republican.
It consists of three questions.
It's got an excellent track record.
The Battleground poll is the only poll that predicted George Bush's stunning upset defeat in 1992, and it had the news as early as 1991.
Here are the questions that the battleground poll poses to voters.
Question one.
It's a generic presidential ballot question.
If the election were held today, would you prefer a Republican or a Democratic candidate?
Then there are two questions to determine the re-elect strength of an incumbent.
Question number two is do you think Bill Clinton has performed his job as president well enough to deserve reelection, or do you think it's time to give a new person a chance?
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The don't re-elect Clinton numbers from those two questions, added to the question at top about generic ballot selection.
Clinton's re-elect numbers on the opposition side are 49%.
That is an eight-point gap.
In 1991, George Bush's numbers, the same poll, were this.
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40% were against his re-election.
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These numbers on Clinton have been consistent, have been the same for a year and a half.
And people look at this poll and they say it's a simple poll, but it goes right to the heart of the matter.
It doesn't ask about Clinton and somebody else.
As you see all these polls out there now, Clinton versus Dole, CNN, USA Today, New York Times, CBS, whatever it is.
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Anybody from the Democratic field.
Showed him way ahead.
Remember those 85 and 90% re-elect numbers?
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And this poll says the same thing for Clinton.
And this track record is one that many people are looking at.
I'll bet you the White House internal re-elect numbers show much the same thing.
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