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March 3, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 3, 2006, Friday, Hour #2
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Runaway SUV on the loose in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
Greetings, my friends, and welcome.
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It is Friday.
Yeah, but live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
All right, folks, time to wind up.
Open Wine Friday golden opportunity for those of you who feel shut out Monday through Thursday.
As you know, on those days we talk only about what interests me.
I'm not going to waste time talking about things I don't care about.
It makes no sense to do that.
But on Friday, during caller segments, I will allow you to talk about things that may not interest me if you think they need to be discussed.
I mean, this is big of me to do this.
It's a risk.
Because you people are not highly trained broadcast specialists as I am.
It's my favorite broadcast day of the busy broadcast week.
800-282-2882 is the number.
All right, I I went to the White House website and I got the State of the Union speech.
God is mentioned twice in the speech by the president.
And the last time is is the traditional may God bless America.
All right.
Everybody erupts an applause.
And the other time he refers to the God-given dignity of all humanity.
Nowhere in the State of the Union address does the president, nor has he ever said.
And this is my quarrel with the way this long-haired maggot-infested FM type teacher out in Colorado is being reacted to.
Everybody's everybody's focusing on the on the Bush equals Hitler aspect of this.
That's that's too easy.
I mean, anybody could say that.
The left has been saying that since 2000, 2001.
What is really noticeable to me about this teacher is how stupid he is.
He can't even listen to a State of the Union speech and understand what he's hearing.
He puts it through his filter of fear that he obviously has of this country, our superpower status, and conservatism or Republicans, and it ends up being translated by his warped mind as Bush is on a mission from God, God talks to Bush and has told Bush, America's best.
America will conquer.
America will make everybody like us.
Everybody else is backwards, we are the That's what he hears.
That's what liberals hear.
That's what I think what everybody is not focusing on, at least in the one soundbite that I've heard.
They're focusing on this Hitler business.
But what the guy said is an out and out lie.
He's a teacher.
I don't care whether it's his lawyer is out there saying, Oh, it's it's human geography.
What?
What is huh could somebody explain human geography to me?
I mean, I've got visions.
I've got pictures going through my the mountains of the human body, the valleys of the human body.
What is this human geography?
For crying out loud.
Uh maybe it's Clinton language, but it's abs it's a it's absurd.
Human geography is absurd.
That his is lawyers trying to say, well, this is uh this is a term that uh allows my client wide latitude, uh, first amendment, fourteenth amendment, third amendment, twenty-third amendment, all of his amendment rights are being denied.
Blah, blah, blah.
The guy is an idiot.
Listen to this again.
To just I'm in fact, Mike, I don't even want to go so far with this as when we get to the Hitler comment.
I want you to stop it where we stopped it last time, where he's well, no, go ahead, because after the Hitler comedy, he does say one other thing that fits the pattern.
So play the whole thing now.
He started off his speech talking about how America should be the country that dominates the world.
That we have been blessed essentially by God to have the most civilized, most advanced, best system, and that it's our duty as Americans to use the military to go out into the world and make the world like us.
Sounds a lot like the things that Adolf Hitler used to say.
We're the only ones who are right.
Everyone else is backwards, and it's our job to conquer the world and make sure they all live just like we want them to.
This guy is so filled with hate and he's so ignorant, stupid, whatever.
I went, I read the speech.
It doesn't start out anything like that.
I'm not going to sit here and read the speech to you.
That speech goes an hour, but trust me, well, you saw it.
He doesn't start anywhere near what this guy, but he says nothing in the speech like this guy has interpreted it.
And that's what everybody ought to be focusing on is just how warped this guy's view.
It's the same with all liberals.
They cannot, they have their worldview.
They've got their little alternative universe constructed.
They live in their little cocoon, and whatever their political opponents say, because whatever their political opponents say is a threat to this carefully constructed alternative reality.
When something is said that challenges it, they cannot allow that, so it gets translated in their warped little minds as confirming what their alternative universe is all about.
This guy obviously believes that the focus of evil in the modern world is the U.S. military.
He thinks religion is for nuts.
He probably thinks that most Christians are a bunch of hayseed hicks with gun wrecks in the back of pickups in three states in the South.
He thinks that Bush talks to God, gets orders from God, and is out there conquering the world because God has told Bush that we're the greatest country on earth and everybody's got to live like us.
It's it's just and this guy is teaching kids, and they are smart enough now to realize this guy is just off his rocker.
To me, I mean he's demonstrated that he uh not even qualified to be a teacher, other than if you say that the qualifications to be a teacher are to be a mind-numbed robot liberal whose job is to inculcate and indoctrinate young skulls full of mush.
What do you think?
You know, Meathead's little little uh child preschool program out there in California, which he's had to resign from for a conflict of interest.
He was we did an update on it.
He's he's he's raising money and then spending the money he's raising on his own program buying advertising.
You know all that is.
It's just to get four-year-olds into approved liberal-run preschool so they can start the indoctrination early.
That's all it is.
That's what that's that's how that's how the liberals view the public education system, and of course the major, major institutions of higher learning, uh, that's what they're for.
And uh the more you hear about what is being said by professors in classroom, students beginning to teach them, I'm t uh uh uh uh begin to tape them, I'm telling you that this is all a great sign because it's indicative of the fact that the students are showing up more armed than their professors are, and they're not gonna sit there and count out to them.
Some of them are just to get the grade.
A quick time out, we'll be back and roll right on right after this.
This teacher says, because of what we've done in Bolivia and Peru, that the Chinese have every right to fly over North Carolina, a southern state, by the way, and drop weapons of mass destruction.
That we're destroying cocoa and everything else in uh in these places around the world.
And he's have the right to come drop their bombs on us if they wish.
Welcome back, folks.
Uh, great to have you with us.
We've got, we're gonna go back to the archives.
We haven't done this in a while.
Uh, but it's it it's it's the drive-by media is recirculating an old game plan.
The Trumpet fanfare means it's time for an update.
It's an SUV update, and here is Paul Shanklin as Elvis with In a Hugo.
Yes, they they drove with pride, ladies and gentlemen.
Great line.
Saved a lot of gas, didn't get far.
Save a lot of gas, it didn't get too far.
Paul Shanklin is Elvis there in a you go.
That's our official SUV update.
Now, this SUV update started whatever number of years ago that some environmentalist wacko group began targeting the SUV.
You people laughed at me when I told you that there was gonna be an all-out assault on the SUV.
Ah, come on, Rush.
You're making this up.
You're overreacting.
He said, No, I know these people, and I have been vindicated, as always, proven right.
There have been books now about how SUVs are destroying the environment, SUVs this.
We've had news, news stories, SUVs driving themselves off of bridges, off of parking lots, off of parking garages.
SUVs ramming into things on their as though there's no driver.
We haven't seen any of these stories in a while, except for now.
From the area of Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
Authorities say an SUV drove into the pit at the UNC Chapel Hill campus around noon today, hitting at least two students.
Students, the pit, by the way, is an outdoor area where kids uh smit uh sit between classes.
Like live Sky Five Video, this is W-R-A-L in uh in Raleigh.
Live Sky Five Video.
A student who witnessed the event said that the SUV was going between 40 and 45 when it hit at least two students.
Nicholas Altman, who was having nearby coffee, said an off-white SUV drove into the area.
One man was hit, thrown onto the hood of the SUV.
That person was taken away in a stretcher.
Altman said the incident appeared to be intentionally SUV intended to do this.
SUV drives into student-filled pit at UNC Chapel Hill.
US SUV got loose.
The SUV was going 40.
Students couldn't avoid the SUVs.
Police are now looking for the SUV.
No mention of any they they humanize it and portray this uh vehicle to have a mind of its own.
And so we're gonna get a rash of these stories.
This is what happened to the drive-by media.
They'll play something out till they get bored, they'll move on, and then they'll come back.
We haven't had one of these SUV stories in a while.
By the way, this this wacko lame-brained long-haired maggot-infested FM type guy, this teacher out in Colorado, his point was see, we're we're we're bombing cocaine.
We're trying to eradicate cocaine.
And uh he said, Well, but they they they that's their killer crop.
It's none of our business.
That means that they can fly up here and drop bombs on North Carolina to kill our killer crop, tobacco.
So you have to conc these people hate the country.
This this there's there's a self-loathing that these libs have.
They hate themselves, they hate the country, and they'll do anything they can to blame this country first.
This guy is a classic illustration of it.
But in addition to being a lunatic, in addition to being uh whacked out, he's wrong about so much.
I know it's not unusual for a teacher, but this guy has put it on display for everybody, the student has.
And that's what everybody ought to be focusing on.
Lacey in uh in Nampa, Idaho.
I'm glad you waited.
Welcome to the program.
I'm thrilled.
I've been listening to you since I was ten years old.
Well, well, thank you.
How old are how old are you now?
Uh I'll be 28 in August.
Oh, okay.
So you're you're you're the uh sort of like a rush baby.
Oh, totally.
I'm raising third generation rush babies.
Good for you.
Thanks for calling.
Not a problem.
I just wanted to say I'm just excited that we've got another generation of conservative kids that are growing up saying, you know what, we've got to pull these guys out and show them that this is a real thing, and it's not just conservative talk show guys talking about it.
They're really out there.
Well, it is, but that I as I as I say, the uh the the real positive thing about this is that the students are are are not staying silent anymore.
They're not acting afraid of the grade, and they'll give courage and inspiration to others to do the same thing.
Uh and they're smarter than their own teachers.
You know, that's that's the the bottom line here.
This is long-haired maggot-infested guy, the Jay Benish is his name.
He's clearly dumb.
He's clearly uneducated.
His students are smarter than he is.
And I bet that's the case in a lot of these high schools, and certainly in uh in college.
By the way, we had a uh drive-by caller.
That's a caller that wants to make a point but can't stay to make the point him or herself.
We've got a definition here of human geography.
Human geography is the distance you're willing to drive, depending on how pretty the woman is.
Human geography is the distance between Two twin beds when that's all you could get at the Motel Six.
Here's uh Steve in Conway, New Hampshire.
Welcome to the program.
Snerdley's still trying to figure that out.
Welcome, Steve.
Yeah, great, great to have you with us.
Thank you.
I was a r I was a Massachusetts liberal until my father in law gave me a subscription to the Limbaugh Letter, which turned me away from the dark side.
Well, we're glad to have you, pal.
Thanks very much.
But what made me call today is I need your advice.
Yeah.
I I simply do not know how to keep from getting depressed from the constant onslaught of whatever is going on.
And it's it's serious.
I really do get the press.
But the drive-by media.
Yes.
Yeah, I know.
A lot of uh I've I've I have been where you are.
Uh I can counsel you on this.
I've gone through it.
I no longer affect it.
I get mad if I get anything.
If it no longer depresses me.
You have to understand why it's happening, and you have to understand its purpose.
And then you you also have to conclude that in the big scheme of things, it it's failing.
It's not working.
They're not accomplishing what they want to accomplish.
There's some far greater concerns to it as well.
We've got a great column in the Wall Street Journal today, which I'll share with you in the next segment, by the way, by Dan Hanninger, in which he's talking about this whole concept of drive-by media in Washington, how it is affecting not just how news is reported and what is considered news, but it is affecting the way government is operating now.
And he's he makes a couple of good points.
But I mentioned in my speech yesterday to the radio executives that uh they I got a question about so-called progressive radio, and I said, it's not even radio.
It's just all it is these liberals on the radio are just trying to run campaign operations.
They don't have the slightest understanding of radio.
Who wants to get up every day and listen to somebody who lies, who is enraged, who's mad, filled with doom and gloom?
And that's basically what you're talking about.
So I turn it off.
Tell people to turn it off for a week and look at how different your perception of your own life and your country will be.
Nothing's gonna happen in a week that you can't get by without not knowing.
Just try that as an try for two days if just don't watch.
Listen to this program, but don't watch any of the stuff that depresses you.
And you will notice how your outlook will change, your whole perception of yourself and your country, your town, your day will change.
Uh and it's it'd be a good little test to do.
Uh I don't watch those shows at night.
I don't watch them anymore.
I d I've I I have resorted now to paying staff to do it.
But that's I have to, I can't find anybody will do it on their own.
My staff that does it gets paid.
That's where we get these audio sound bites.
Because I am not going to watch the garbage anymore.
But I'll have more on this after the break we come back.
It's a good question out there.
Sit tight, folks.
Open line Friday rolls right on right after this.
On the cutting edge of societal evolution.
Rush Limbaugh, open line Friday here on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
Dan Henniger's piece is entitled Has Washington Gone Insane.
The plame kerfuffle and the decline of of rational problem solving.
He starts out with a uh a vignette that occurred on Larry King Alive recently, John Stewart, who's hosting the Oscars.
By the way, I did not know, speaking of the Oscars, I did not know that Edward R. Murrow was gay.
Did you?
Well, it has to be if you look at all the nominated movies.
Every one of them has got a gay theme.
You got Brokeback Mountain, you got you got that Truman Capote movie.
Uh and speaking of Brokeback Mountain, some some animal rights munch has accused them of abusing sheep in the in the make.
Abusing sheep.
I'll get to this.
I got too much to do.
I'll get I don't know yet.
I'll find out what they did to the sheep, and I've also got to get to this.
Mike Brown, I this story with the the where the media has just lost it again, drive-by media going nuts over this video that Mike Brown leaked to uh try to make himself look good.
But anyway, the the upshot of this is that Larry King suggested to John Stewart that the current low ebb of the Democrats and Republicans was good for Stuart's business.
So in a sense, you're happy over this.
Stewart said no.
King says this gives you fodder.
Stewart said if government began to solve problems in a rational way rather than just a way that involved political dividends, we'd be the happiest people in the world to turn our attention to idiots like media people.
So you don't want it to be bad, King said.
Stewart said, Do you really just ask me if I want it to be bad?
And King says, Yes, because you.
Stuart, what are you?
I have kids.
What do you think?
I want things to corrode to the point we're all living in huts.
King, you don't want Medicare to fail?
Stuart, are you insane?
I get this question all the time.
And it usually arrives in this form.
Aren't you secretly hoping Hillary Clinton is elected president?
No.
Wouldn't it make your show old?
No!
My success is not determined by who wins elections.
I care about things.
I don't want people that I oppose running the country.
These people that think this way are absurd.
They're caught up in the game.
He goes on to describe the nothing story of the Valerie Plame escapade, and he uses quotes from Pat Fitzgerald to show that it was a nothing story.
Fitzgerald didn't come up with one bit of evidence that she is covert.
It doesn't matter in the case going on against Scooter Libby, but that's not being reported because the original lie that got all this started is what survives and propels every other story about it.
And he says it's insane.
We're not solving problems anymore in the in in the way we're governing our affairs.
Now this ties in with a call I got from the guy.
How do you avoid being depressed?
Well, I have personal reasons to be optimistic.
I mean, I I consider myself and my industry to have been a central player in the destruction of the monopoly of the mainstream media.
We are on the ascension, they're in trouble.
That makes me happy.
I can't help but why wouldn't I be optimistic?
We live in the greatest country on the earth.
We are living longer than ever.
We have more economic opportunity for everybody than we've ever had.
Our standard of living continues to rise.
Despite all the doom and gloom news that's out there, this country triumphs because of its institutions and its traditions and the freedom that we as a people in this country have.
The effort to construct a doom and gloom scenario is primarily been engaged in by the American left, academia, the Democratic Party, and the media.
And they're they're simply telling us who they are.
Their attitudes reflect their worldview and their country view.
And it they they they can't figure out why they're lost.
They can't figure out why they can't win, and that's making them angrier.
And so they're trying to affect change by trying to make everybody miserable.
But people don't want to be miserable as the guy's call indicates.
Just don't watch the stuff or learn to watch it with the right context and frame of mind.
Understand what it is.
Understand that it's just like any product that you go and buy at the store, and not every product on the shelf you're going to buy because you don't like it.
Treat the news that way.
It's a packaged product.
People that put it together every day have a reason for choosing what's in the package and what isn't.
And they want it packaged in a certain way, and they try to tell you that this is all you need to know that happened today, and we're not embellishing anything.
This is what it's clearly their news judgment's gone to hell too.
You still have people at CBS saying that the forged documents are real.
And you know why?
Because nobody's proved they're not.
Under that standard, you can make any assertion you want, and unless somebody can disprove it, then it's true.
So you can put up forged documents about Bush's National Guard service.
And if if uh despite the fact that people prove that the documents are forgeries, if somebody can't come along and prove the story is wrong, then that's the standard.
And Mary Mapes has even said this.
You have to understand the context in which these people are operating and understand that they are losing.
All right, I want to go to the audio sound bites.
Two things.
We've got more from this long-haired maggot-infested uh FM type teacher, Jay Benish out in Aurora, Colorado.
We have four more bites.
I'm I'm gonna try to limit my commentary because they speak for themselves.
Here's the first of the four.
Now, if we have the right to fly into Bolivia and Peru and drop chemical weapons on top of farmers' fields because we're afraid they might be growing cocoa, and that could be turned into cocaine and sold to us.
Well, then, don't the Peruvians and the Iranians and the Chinese have the right to invade America and drop chemical weapons over North Carolina to destroy the tobacco plants that are killing millions and millions of people in their countries every year and causing them billions of dollars in health care costs.
This is a guy teaching geography, human geography.
Uh in Aurora, Colorado, here's the next bite.
Where in this definition is to say anything about capitalism is an economic system that will provide everybody in the world with the basic needs that they need.
Is that part of this system?
Do you see how this economic system is at odds with humanity, at odds with caring and compassion?
It's at odds with human rights.
So what have I told you?
These people, these people don't like capitalism because they think it chooses winners and chooses losers.
And they think the winners choose themselves, purposely leave the losers out.
Everything is unfair and unjust.
And that that's the more I hear of this guy, I mean, I we've had callers.
We've had liberal callers that are smarter than this guy.
Uh but he's just, I mean, I it's a cliche.
He's so stereotypical.
Here's the next one.
Now, do we really want to kill innocent people?
I don't know.
I don't know the answer to that.
I know that there are some Americans who do.
People who work in the CIA, people who have to think like that, those kind of dirty minds, dirty tricks.
That's how the intelligence world works.
Sometimes you do want to kill people just for the sake of killing them.
And the next one.
When Al-Qaeda attacked America on September 11th, in their view, they're not attacking innocent people.
Okay?
The CIA has an office in the World Trade Center.
Pentagon is a military target.
The White House was a military target.
Congress is a military target.
This guy is justifying the attacks of 9-11 now.
Because the White House and Congress are military targets.
CIA has an office there means it's a military target.
He conveniently leaves out the world trade.
Or did he say the CIA has an office in the World Trade Center?
I don't know what he said.
But oh, you said that, okay.
Then you know, this that's why I'm telling you, focusing on this guy's comment that Bush equals Hitler is to miss the point of who this guy is and uh and what he's teaching.
We've got one more, and here it is.
To many Native Americans, that flag is no different than the Nazi flag or the Confederate flag.
It represents the people that came and stole their land, lied, brought disease, rape, pillage, destruction, etc.
This guy has he even has he become an adult yet?
Here he's voice.
I mean, this guy sounds like he's a paper boy, so and he's rooting.
He's sent him out on you having a classroom.
My gosh, folks, this is just totally believable.
The Nazi flag.
American flag, no different than Nazi flag, Congress is a military target, uh, White House is a military target.
Uh World Trade Center is a military target, CIA has an office there.
All of this is our fault.
We deserve this.
We deserve all of this because of what we have been doing around the world.
That's what this guy's thrust is.
Quick timeout, we'll be back and roll on right after this on Open Line Friday.
I'm just trying to figure out what that guy on line one wants.
Uh we have a update here on the uh SUV store, the runaway SUV at uh UNC Chapel Hill.
Uh authorities have found the vehicle, suspects in custody.
Okay, so they they got the car.
They got the SUV that did this, but there's a confusing part of the story.
Authorities later found the vehicle on plant that did all the damage.
It just ran through there or the pit area that injured two people.
One had to be taken away the stretcher.
Authorities later found the vehicle on plant road near Franklin Street, and a man was taken into custody.
Why?
Why did you take a man into custody?
What's a guy got to do with this?
The SUV committed a crime.
I thought they said they had it, suspect in custody in the headline.
Folks, I have to share this with you.
I hope I'm able to convey the humor of this.
Last night when I returned home from my speech in Washington, it was late.
It was about 1.30.
And normally what happens, uh, you know, we're 15 minutes out.
We call uh call uh the uh the the hangar and we say we're 15 minutes out and they get the car, bring it out of the hangar, and they uh start it, and it's everything's waiting, so when you get off the airplane, bam, get in a car and hit the highway home.
Last night uh opened the door to the airplane, walked down, there's no car.
Still in the hangar, locked.
So uh Mike, co-pilot acted all nervous.
I said, I just I don't care.
It's one thirty, doesn't matter.
I well, we don't know where the keys are, he said.
We don't know where the keys are.
Oh my well, that is a problem.
See if you go find it.
So he ran all over the airport.
He was running all over the place trying to find the keys.
And finally, in about uh seven or eight minutes later, this this van comes screeching down the ramp, fast as it can go, circles around the airplane guy, Huffs and Puffs gets out of the van, starts apologizing, gives me the keys.
It didn't matter, it was fine, knew they were going to find them.
So today, just now I just got an apology letter about this.
And it's totally unnecessary.
He says, Dear Mr. Limbaugh, I must apologize for not having your car available to you immediately upon your return last night.
Although I accept complete responsibility for this oversight, I do want you to know the reason this slip-up happened is due to increased security for our clients and their property while it's in our possession.
It is indeed, this is the funny part.
It is indeed most unfortunate that your aircraft was the first to land after the new security measures had been put in place.
It is indeed most unfortunate that your aircraft was the first to land after the new security measures had been put in place, therefore placing you in the uncomfortable position you found yourself.
It was not uncomfortable.
I knew they were going to find the keys, and if they didn't, uh getting home would have been a snap.
But I tell you what I'm gonna do.
I'm gonna start taking two cars out there now and keeping one keys with me.
Again, please accept my apology for any inconvenience.
You can be assured every effort we made to avoid this.
So it's new security deal went into place yesterday.
It's uh I uh I I I guess I don't know.
I didn't I didn't it didn't matter.
I didn't I didn't take the time to get an explanation.
It didn't matter.
I knew they'd find the keys.
Okay.
Poor guy.
I feel I I just I just I just feel bad for the guy that he that he feels like he had to apologize.
Here's uh Bob in Laguna Nigel, California.
Welcome to the program.
Uh Rush, longtime listener.
Thank you, sir.
Little different take on this Benish guy.
You know, aside from his politics, we hear so much about the poor performance of these kids on their SATs when they get ready to go to college.
I doubt there were any test questions on this guy's lecture that day.
So that c uh course was a total waste of time.
And maybe gives you a little insight into why these kids don't do better when they get out of high school.
I think that's an excellent point.
There's all I mean it it's it's uh it is obvious this is a total waste of this is just a it this is just a scrawny.
I'll bet you this guy's tiny.
I wish this guy's just a little pencil neck geek, and he's just a little activist in there using the classroom to uh to to amplify his thoughts, and and and this is what this is what education has become.
Now, your practical assessment of it is exactly right, is it is totally wasting time and and it's it's not not serving the community, the school of the purpose, to which ostensibly he was hired to do.
But same thing at Ward Churchill.
These guys are uh uh it's as I said, the outset of the program, they're all over the place, and this has been going on, folks, for the longest time.
David Horowitz, front page magazine, is doing some of the best work in documenting this kind of garbage going on at our so-called institutions of higher learning.
Uh it's happening in high school too, but it's not it's been going on a long time.
What I again, what's new is the students are uh are standing up.
Ken in La Marada, California.
Glad you waited, sir.
You're next.
Hi, Rush, how are you?
Fine, sir.
Rush, uh, I'm I'm Kind of uh chiming in with the la uh previous caller well a few callers ago about his concern uh uh being depressed and everything and I was just wondering, you know, uh given the president's low poll numbers and the Republicans' bad poll numbers, do you still have optimism and and why for this false elections and then the elections in 08?
Uh you know, you it's an interesting question because a story here by um uh guy named Stephen Thomas and James Coonan, and it's a night ridder newspaper story in the headline GOP growing increasingly angry, frightened by Bush's missteps.
Now I don't know who these Republicans are because I'm not frightened.
And I are you angry, uh, Mr. Snoderly, are you frightened by Bush's missteps?
I'm not, but I know some some Republicans in Washington are.
I we know who the liberals are.
It's the the Republicans in an election year, for example, joining this tsunami last week on the port deal before they knew what it was even about.
I think it's symptomatic of the fact that they are scared and they're and they're on the they're on the edge of their chairs.
And they've got their polls out there telling them how many seats they're going to lose in the House.
Uh I think it's a horrible way to think.
I mean, I don't I don't mind facing reality, but you don't know how many you're gonna lose until after the election.
So if you start out with an attitude, yeah, we're gonna lose some here, we've got a delay problem, we've got this or that.
Fight it now.
If you're worried about that, take steps to overcome it.
And it's very simple.
Be conservative, and then after you win, govern as such.
It works every time it's tried.
The problems the Republicans have, yeah, very easily.
If they're worried about Bush, then stake out different positions.
Bush isn't on a battle anymore.
But there's a I've got another story here on it uh I'll have to find it during the break.
It's I can't remember the author, but he says that uh it will be suicide if Republicans run away from Bush in this in the uh the who is that?
Oh, that is Ed Goes.
Yeah, Ed Goaz.
That's the battleground poll.
Ed Goaz and Celinda Lake.
That if if um if Republicans run away from Bush, they're gonna make a horrible mistake.
My I look, answer your question.
I'm not worried.
Who wins elections doesn't affect my day, my happiness, or whatever.
I mean, I'd rather my side win, but you don't win them all.
But I don't see the Democrats as offering anybody anything other than an alternative, and that ain't enough.
Back after this, stay with me.
Okay, I guess there's loads of stuff I want to try to squeeze in along with your uh phone calls.
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