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	Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
	And greetings to you, my good friends.
	And welcome to the Rush Limbaugh program.
	This, the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
	It's Friday.
	You know what that means.
	Live from the Southern Command in Sunny, South Florida.
	It's open line Friday.
	And that's the day that I, America's leading media figure, talking to the most informed.
	Um, the most informed audience in all of broadcast media, according to Pew Research Center.
	Take a huge, huge, huge career risk because I, when we go to the phones, turn over the program on Friday to veritable rank amateurs.
	Whatever you want to talk about, uh, feel free.
	Questions, comments, you name it.
	That's what Friday is about.
	Uh, your call does not have to be interesting to me.
	It doesn't have to be about something I care about.
	Monday through Thursday, it does.
	But not today.
	No, I am not mocking.
	But we've got the audio soundbite to this.
	Anyway.
	Here's the telephone number if you want to be on the program uh 800-282-2882 and the email address rush at eIBNet.com.
	Now try this headline.
	Now, this is an AP story by our old buddy Jennifer Loven.
	Uh Bush stumps for adulterer, candidate accused of slurs.
	President Bush campaigned Thursday for a congressman who has confessed to adultery, and a senator accused of using racial slurs, seeking to boost incumbent Republicans once safe for re-election, but now in peril.
	Bush's appearance for Congressman Don Sherwood in La Plume, Pennsylvania, and for Senator George Allen in Richmond, Virginia, found the White House on the defensive over the decision to try to help candidates in such straits as the GOP struggles to keep control of Congress.
	So the headline, Bush stumps for adulterer, candidate accused of slurs.
	Do you think we would ever see the following headline?
	Clinton, an adulterer.
	Stumps for candidate who tolerates racial slurs.
	That would be Clinton campaigning for Ben Cardin against Michael Steele, whose uh supporters have used numerous slurs against Steele in Maryland.
	Funny how that headline didn't make it in the Maryland newspapers.
	Clinton, comma, adulterer.
	Stumps for candidate who tolerates racial slurs.
	Jennifer Loven.
	You know who she is.
	She's she's the White House press corps, and she uh is incessantly uh partisan and idiotic in her questions to the uh to the president.
	Is she married to some uh former Clinton guy or well, who isn't?
	Who isn't married to somebody that used to be in the Clinton administration?
	I mean, that's in the media or at a federal judgeship.
	These people are incestuous.
	They are all over the place.
	You see this headline or this story about uh uh invisibility.
	Try this, folks.
	Taking a page from movies and comic books, researchers at Duke University have developed what they call an invisibility cloak, a rudimentary device that hides objects by bending electromagnetic waves so that they flow around the object like water around a rock, because none of the waves are reflected back at the observer.
	The object seems invisible.
	Their device, reported today in the online version of the journal science, works only with microwave radiation, not visible light waves, and only in two dimensions, and it does not yet provide complete invisibility.
	It provides a small shadow that can be detected.
	The uh current device cloaks a copper cylinder, about four-tenths of an inch tall.
	The team is now building a version that'll cloak an object the size of a toaster in all three dimensions.
	I'll tell you Democrats can seize on this.
	Uh anything that can make liberalism appear to disappear.
	Uh anything can make liberalism invisible.
	You know they'll be in fact, they probably already have this device.
	I would assume liberal scientists are the ones who've admitted this.
	The media hides liberals every day, such as Hillary Clinton is a centrist.
	And there is a story, I don't know.
	The Washington Times is uh drinking the Kool-Aid these days.
	There's a story in the Washington Times today that, hey, Nancy Pelosi's no luck.
	She's no shoe-in for Speaker of the House, even if the Democrats win the House, because there are some moderate Democrats in there that uh don't like her policies and won't vote for moderate Democrats.
	What a myth.
	There are no such things as moderate.
	Joe Lieberman's the last one, and he's an independent.
	You got the audio sound bites, have they been delivered up there?
	All right.
	Folks, this is hilarious.
	PMS NBC is running our PSA on cut and run conservatives.
	They've run it twice so far this morning for what we've seen.
	First off, um, anchor Alexandra Witt.
	Uh here's how it went.
	Many political experts say the Mark Foley scandal has battered the Republican base and may prompt values voters to stay home on election day.
	But then some conservatives say that is basically throwing in the towel.
	Rush Limbaugh drove the point home with a satirical public service announcement on his radio show.
	Feeling let down by Republicans this year, then join the millions of true conservatives who have become cut and run conservatives and sit this one out.
	If you're unhappy with anything the president House or Senate has done in the last two, four or twelve years, then show your patriotism by teaching them all a lesson.
	They won't forget.
	Kind of funny.
	You got the PSA there.
	Okay, well, hang on.
	No, we're gonna go let's see what they do.
	Nora O'Donnell played it uh uh a little bit later and asked a Washington Post reporter what he thought of it.
	What Rush Limbaugh did was essentially a satirical public service announcement on his radio show where he was taking aim at any voters among the Republican base that plan on staying home this election day.
	Republicans couldn't have helped from our better message then like that from Rush, huh?
	Well, you know, I think there's real concern among uh party uh uh operatives on the Republican side that uh uh things like immigration, things like increased spending and the federal deficit growing, those kind of things are gonna keep these the reliable conservative voters at home.
	Yeah, or you wish there's movement happening out there, folks.
	I think this uh this this movement in the media to suppress Republican turnout has peaked.
	Uh uh, no, no, no Democ no Democrats are staying home, and no Democrats are gonna lose.
	Not one incumbent Democrat is going to lose, and no Democrats are gonna stay home.
	Have you noticed, by the way, in the last two to three weeks, we haven't heard a word about all the anger at Democrats from their kook left wing blogs?
	Have you noticed we haven't seen any of this?
	Any discord of the Democratic Party has been buried.
	Uh, I'm still not sure what Nora O'Donnell meant here.
	Uh and I'm only curious because I don't know that she gets the point of the PSA.
	Uh, she talks about it, it says Republicans couldn't have helped or hoped for a better message than that from Rush, huh?
	Do you have any idea what does she mean by this?
	Oh, she's worried this is going to be effective.
	Well, here, they didn't even play the funniest part of PSA.
	It's hard to say which of this is the funniest part, but you gotta play the whole thing to get it.
	So, Mike, uh the honor is yours.
	Feeling let down by Republicans this year, then join the millions of true conservatives who have become cut and run conservatives and sit this one out.
	If you're unhappy with anything the president house or Senate has done in the last two, four or twelve years, then show your patriotism by teaching them all a lesson they won't forget.
	So take a stand, conservative America.
	Become a cut-and-run conservative, and sit this one out.
	And wait until you like everything Republicans do before you ever vote again.
	Paid for by George Soros.
	If I had known this would work, I wouldn't have wasted my money on She-Han.
	I don't know.
	I have to admit I'm getting emails.
	Some people are very mad about this.
	You know, it it is it is somewhat uh a replay of the uh of the Perot period, and there have been a couple others.
	I forget the events, the the issues, people.
	Uh well, the Buchanan run for president, there but the the Perot was the biggie.
	But there have been a couple things since then, and I I um uh go through this, it seems, uh, rather regularly.
	In fact, uh who was it?
	The Washington Times extensively quotes from me and his program in their uh uh report today on uh on my analysis why those who may be staying home or doing it, all that coming up, but I talked about the polling data.
	Joe Lieberman has a 17-point lead over Ned Lament, 52 to uh 35%.
	Uh Lieberman uh leads lament 70 percent to 9% among likely Republican voters, 18% for Schlesinger, and 1536 among likely independent voters.
	881 likely connect uh Connecticut voters in this survey conducted uh between October 17th and the uh the 19th.
	And then there's this, the uh New York 26th Congressional District.
	This is the district uh that houses the evil Tom Reynolds of the uh of the Mark Foley of Mark Foley fame.
	Uh and it this is Survey USA, I think it was Survey USA done for WGRZ TV in Buffalo, and this is just the way they word it in an election in New York's uniquely volatile 26th Congressional District today, October 19th.
	Uh yesterday is when this came out.
	Republican incumbent Tom Reynolds comes back off the mat to now recapture a tiny lead against Democrat challenger Jack Davis, 49 to 46.
	Little momentum.
	And then in Indiana, Indiana, Democratic Representative Julia Carson was in a close race three weeks before election day with an underfunded Republican challenger who has raised questioned uh about her years of health problems, according to a new poll.
	Carson seeking her sixth term in the 7th district, includes most of Indianapolis, was the pick of 42 percent of those surveyed.
	Republican Eric Dickerson had the support of 45% of the poll released Thursday.
	She's got a Republican challenger leading a six-term Democrat incumbent.
	Uh, my guess is there are races like this out there being totally ignored by the drive-by media because they don't fit the the action line.
	Colorado 5th district in an election in Colorado's fifth congressional district today, again dated yesterday.
	Republican Doug Lamborn defeats Democrat Jay Fawcett, 51 to 38 percent, according to a survey USA poll conducted exclusively for KUSA TV in Denver.
	Uh said this this is a race that was trending Democrat, one of the uh pickups the Democrats were counting on, and it's uh it's reversed itself.
	And there are there are other uh signs of such things uh happening out there as well.
	Uh, ladies and gentlemen, I'll give you more details as the program unfolds.
	Kim Jong Il expressed regret about his country's nuclear test to a ChICOM delegation and said that Pyongyang would return to international nuclear talks if Washington backs off a campaign to financially isolate the country.
	Okay, so uh uh the little potbellied dog eating dictator has apologized.
	Uh and what that means in our culture today is uh never mind.
	Never mind, because if you say that you are sorry, the Libs will wipe the slate clean.
	If you're in fact, if you say you're sorry, they will blame Bush.
	They will join you in blaming Bush for it.
	However, the latest report from uh from the uh from the North Koreans is that they are denying that they are sorry, and they are denying that they said they are sorry, thereby squandering the goodwill they could have had with the American left and the worldwide left.
	Brief timeout.
	We'll be back.
	Open line Friday continues right after this.
	America's real anchor man, wrapping up another week.
	An exciting week of broadcast excellence from the Limbaugh Institute for advanced conservative studies, a trouble in paradise out there.
	As you know, the New York Times company posted a uh uh profit loss of thirty-nine percent uh earlier this week.
	And one of the problems is uh lower advertising revenue.
	Really?
	What what other what is the other source of revenue you people have?
	Payoffs.
	Of course it's advertiser revenue down.
	Why is advertiser revenue down?
	Because circulation is down.
	Fewer people see the ads, thus fewer people respond.
	It's it's it's one oh one.
	It isn't complicated at all.
	The problems go far beyond just the New York Times.
	They also are impacting the Boston Globe, which is also owned by the New York Times Company, which is a company run by a little pinch.
	And so there's this story where this is from editor and publisher.
	An unusual letter to New York Times Company Chairman Pinch Schultzberger from a collection of Massachusetts politicians, which of course is the drive-by media charming way to phrase a bunch of fat liberals, ranging from Senator Edward Kennedy to local Boston City Council members urged the owners of the Boston Globe to resist likely cutbacks at the financially strapped newspaper.
	The letter was dated yesterday, states, quote, it is our interest and duty to help preserve quality journalism in Boston and throughout the New England region, adding that Boston Globe journalists have risked and in some cases given their lives in pursuit of news from the world's most dangerous war zones and treacherous locales.
	Oh, yes, they are so brave.
	But the writers quickly turn to the Times ownership of the globe, criticizing the media chain for what they contend to have been poor stewardship of the paper.
	Progressively over time, since the New York Times company acquired the Boston Globe in 93, a troubling pattern of disinvestment, downsizing, outsourcing, and cost.
	They're accusing him of being a Republican.
	This is right out of their play.
	This is right out of the playbook they accuse Republicans.
	They're accusing Pinch Schultzberger being conservative Republican.
	A troubling pattern of disinvestment, downsizing, outsourcing, cost cutting has emerged.
	So there's panic.
	So the uh the libs are getting hold of the uh the head honcho of their allied uh agencies in the drive-by media saying, don't, don't downsize our newspaper.
	I'm sitting here thinking, you know, everybody who campaigns with Bill Clinton is campaigning with an adulterer.
	I mean, that would not be a difficult headline uh to write.
	One more poll result, uh, ladies and gentlemen.
	This is from Rasmussen, via real clear politics.
	Montana Senate race, Conrad Burns, who is by the way, toast.
	To help you put this in perspective, Conrad Burns is toast.
	It's over.
	Feeney, that's it, has now moved within three points of John Tester, the Democrat in Montana.
	Uh I don't know.
	I'm looking at all this and I'm I'm smelling movement of some kind, and I'm drawn also, ladies and gentlemen, to our astute phone call from yesterday says, you know, these polsters need credibility at the end of the day.
	And uh he fully expects all these polls to tighten up in the next two weeks or so as we get close to the election.
	Uh these wide spreads that we've seen up to now in the uh in the polls are designed to depress conservatives and Republicans, and thus to suppress turnout, make it look like it's a lost cause, to help along this notion that it is a sweep across the board.
	I know Republican pollsters are saying the same thing, Republican strategists filled with doom and gloom.
	This is the Washington crowd, folks.
	Um they're all they're all drinking the same Kool-Aid, they're all subject to the same aura that is uh there inside the beltway.
	But there clearly is some movement here, and it uh probably will continue.
	I was thinking more and more about this uh this Republican base not showing up and anger and so forth.
	And you know, there's a there's a story I saw on Fox this morning out of Oregon.
	Now, Oregon is not a Republican state.
	Oregon is not uh anywhere near a conservative state.
	But the big issue that is propelling Republicans to lead in the polls in Oregon right now, in national and local races, is illegal immigration.
	There are 176,000 illegal immigrants in Oregon.
	Now, what they said on Fox was that if they all lived in the same place, that would constitute the second or third largest city in the state of Oregon.
	Now, many of them don't work in Oregon.
	They live in Oregon and work elsewhere, but they live in Oregon Because benefits are easier to obtain in the state of Oregon.
	And it is this issue, illegal immigration, that the Democrats are losing big, and that's the context in which Fox reported this.
	Democrats are losing on the issue of illegal immigration, and it just it makes it it it it makes me mad.
	I the the this election wouldn't even be close.
	If the Republican Party had been on the right side of the illegal immigration issue from the get go and had hammered it, hammered the Democrats with it and forced them to take a losing position, which is what's happening in Oregon.
	If it would have just but of course the president uh uh had different uh ideas, and so the Republican Party was forced uh to sort of downsize its enthusiasm for the side of the issue opposite the presidents will be back.
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	Rush Limbaugh, your highly trained broadcast specialist to the phones we go since it's open line Friday, and Stephen Orlando, your next, or first I should say.
	Great to have you with us and welcome.
	Uh letter carry a ditto is from O'Coe, Florida, Rush.
	Thank you, sir.
	I just want to say I admire you, and although I'm a little upset with you right now, I do love you.
	Um I'm just I'm one of those people who is I'm gonna protest.
	I'm I'm not gonna be voting, and um let me give you some reasons why I'm not gonna be voting.
	Uh they've they've been in power for twelve years.
	Uh we have uh a border situation where you have thirty million illegal aliens in this country, and they are not doing a thing about it.
	Uh the Dems take it to us now, everything.
	Education, the judges.
	Uh what look what look what they've done to Catherine Harris.
	They've basically have thrown her under the bus over here in Florida.
	Uh I I'm of the opinion that when you go to a restaurant and you get really, really bad service, I mean, just abysmal service, you don't tip them.
	And the and the Republicans basically right now have nothing to do with the bigger.
	Let me ask you something.
	If you go to Cracker Barrel and have something to eat and you don't like it, do you say, screw you, I'm never coming back here?
	You go to a place that'll serve you poison.
	Uh I'm trying to I'm trying to see what your point is there.
	If if I get really bad service, that's one thing.
	If you get a bad meal every now and then, no matter where you go.
	Uh, you started you started with immigration.
	Let's let's talk about that here for just a second.
	Sure.
	As you know, there's a the Congress has passed a a uh a border fence, and the president is going to sign the bill, and there will be a border fence.
	Now, I bet on it, Rush.
	Well, I I'm I'm very scared of that.
	All right, so it's not going okay, forget the border fence.
	That's like you're right.
	You know, you're absolutely right.
	It ain't gonna happen.
	We're not gonna do anything about illegal immigration, and we're gonna be overrun, and we've lost the country already.
	It's time to get what you can and get out.
	But let me talk about your problem with the House.
	Republicans have had twelve years and so forth.
	Who are you really mad at?
	Bush or the Republicans in in the House and Senate?
	I'm not mad at mister with President Bush.
	I uh I am not upset with him.
	You read it and you're yeah, and immigration is your number one issue.
	Um if you're upset at immigration, you gotta be upset at him.
	Uh in that respect, yes, he is the reason, he is the reason the Republicans in the House are unable to pass an immigration bill that you want.
	And they did anyway uh about two months ago or right before the August recess, they did anyway because they were fed up, and they knew that people like you are out there thinking that this issue is important, and they broke with the president and they did this in August, and they passed a bill.
	It went nowhere in the Senate.
	The White House said they're not gonna sign it.
	Uh because it doesn't jibe with the bill they want amnesty.
	The the House bill does not grant amnesty, focuses on border security.
	They passed it.
	The Republican, now they may not have done it soon enough, but I've explained this.
	They've got a Republican in the White House, but he's not a conservative.
	He's not leading a conservative movement.
	They are conservative in the House.
	The leadership is and the majority.
	It is very difficult to buck your own president and survive.
	Uh it's it's much easier if the if the president on issues like this is of the other party, so that you can uh you can speak out.
	If you're if your own president is not a A movement guy, just a Republican, conservative on some things, but not a conservative.
	I I understand.
	Well, I don't think you do, because it because you're still gonna sit out and you think you're doing a valiant thing here.
	What you're doing which you're antagonizing the conservatives.
	You're you're you're speaking ill of fellow conservatives, which is one thing Ronald Reagan said we should we should never do.
	Uh gee.
	But you have got to be kidding.
	No, I'm not kidding.
	I'm serious.
	Okay, so you want you want me to embrace the people in this party who will secure our defeat.
	First of all.
	I see what you're doing.
	Tough hearing the truth, isn't it?
	Tough hearing the truth.
	No, no, no, no, no, no.
	I'm not sure.
	What is it you really want?
	What is it you want to feel like you've got some power in the political process?
	That has to be what it is because nothing you're going to do by not voting is going to advance anything you believe in.
	It's not a good idea.
	One thing for well, then why do you care about the stuff if you don't care whether it advances?
	Because they're not conservative anymore.
	They're not conservative.
	You're gonna sit there and tell me that they're as conservative as they promised to be back in 1994.
	They had just very s very sh uh, you know, slowly going more and more to the center.
	And almost to the left.
	Let's face it, the doesn't the Democratic Party.
	Who are you talking about?
	Who who are you talking about?
	I'm talking about the Republican Party in general.
	No, give me some names.
	They're moving to the center.
	They didn't do what conservatives said they were gonna do.
	They're move in fact they're moving to the left.
	Give me some names.
	Well, I can't give you any names, Rush.
	Well, then why do you think I mean as a party, I mean as a party.
	Let me ask you are you gonna switch parties and become a Democrat?
	Absolutely not.
	I would say that's the thing.
	Well, you may as well because you may as well, because if enough people join you, Nancy Pelosi's gonna be the speaker, and we'll have you to thank.
	Well I I can see your point.
	I mean, I I I honestly I can see where you're coming from.
	But what upset me the most was the way you're given you're giving the left some ammunition and they're very starting to use it.
	I mean I'm giv I'm giving the left ammunition?
	Right.
	I mean, you're you're sitting there and and you're and you're basically making impugning the uh fellow conservatives who are you know like myself who are upset.
	Let me tell you something.
	I I I I can understand why you think that, Steve old buddy, but you think they need any?
	What have they been doing for as long as you've been alive?
	Impunning conservatives, making fun of conservative Christians, laughing.
	That's one of the things that don't understand why you're not more angry at them for what they are trying to do than you are angry at people on your own team.
	Uh I've been through this enough.
	I I've I've I've I've walked people through the stages of this, and I'm uh I don't want to sit here and devote every show to this uh and end up being uh redundant.
	But politics is like like life.
	You don't get everything you want, you don't get perfection.
	Uh there are mitigating circumstances and everything, but you are on a team.
	And there is you can you can look at the two teams out there, and there's nothing that you can find on one of those teams that's gonna advance anything you care about.
	In fact, they're gonna do just the opposite.
	They're gonna make the things you care about get worse.
	At least the team you're on has people in it who believe things like you do and are fighting to get them done.
	But if you abandon the team, uh you're not making the team stronger, you're not advancing your own principles.
	You're simply engaging in punishment.
	And if and and you can do that, I mean people can vote or not vote for any reason they want.
	But if you want to punish your own team, that's fine, but you're not immune from the the punishment you're meeting out to yourself uh as uh as well.
	Anyway, I'm glad you called.
	I I I appreciate it.
	But I don't think I'm antagonizing anybody here.
	Uh and if I am, then it just proves one thing to me.
	And I you know, I think I think Steve, there there may be a a factor here that uh because how let me ask you, how old are you?
	Is he still there?
	He is gone.
	Did how did he sound young to you?
	He did not sound okay.
	Did to me.
	This is this is something that happens, um, and I have noticed this over the eighteen plus years that I have led uh this program and this movement.
	And that is younger people are coming in it all the time.
	And younger people, they're the ones fired up, they have the idealism, and they're the ones most let down and disappointed by the failures of the people that they really believed in, and they're very enthusiastic as this is all new to them, and it all makes sense.
	Conservativism, they love it.
	They get all riled up and and then the minute it it goes by the wayside or doesn't meet their expectations, they feel let down abandoned, and then they get angry.
	And they say, Yeah, I'm gonna teach you.
	And I think a lot of this is comprised of people who feel powerless, who don't want to feel powerless.
	They want to feel like they've got some power, and they're angry and they want to reach out and punish those who have let them down, lied to them they think, or what have you.
	And in the process, make no mistake about it, there are people out there who will be very happy if they can convince themselves they're the reason their side lost, because it will give them meaning.
	It will give them a sense of power that goes along with their powerlessness.
	And uh uh this is all of this is is quite natural because we all want to matter.
	Not everybody can matter as much as I do, but we all want to.
	And people will take uh uh oftentimes many steps, uh, many different types of action in order to make themselves feel like they are relevant and have power uh and matter.
	And there's a there's also something exciting about bucking the trend going against uh uh the what they perceive to be conventional wisdom and being mavericks, and so forth.
	I think these are all factors in this.
	But the interesting thing is, to me, is that we hear none of this going on in the Democratic Party.
	No.
	Why those Democrats there are so unified?
	Why they're all at love, at what at one and uh in love with each other in their party isn't one disaffected Democrat in this country.
	Do you know that?
	There's not one Democrat who's saying, I don't care about this, I'm not voting.
	There's not one Democrat who's thinking of not voting for a Democrat.
	There's not one Democrat who is going to vote for a Republican.
	No, folks, they're just it's a juggernaut out there.
	These these problems only exist in the Republican Party.
	And yet, when you go look at Democrat turnout in their primaries this year, you see that it was 15%.
	Um again, we've got a media template and an action line that is designed to create feelings ju as uh uh as expressed by our uh our previous uh caller.
	Anyway, a little a little timeout here, gotta go.
	Back with much more after this.
	It's open line Friday at 800-282-2882.
	Welcome back.
	It's Open Line Friday, Rush Limbaugh Talent on lawn from a god.
	I want to say one thing to those of you out there about that who are frosted about illegal immigration, and I want to remind you of something.
	I long ago, back in the summertime, when uh when when the you know, the talk of Republicans losing the House was up and down during the year that it was cyclical.
	Um and just before the Foley thing hit, the Republicans were trending back, president and everybody else.
	But one of these occasions uh where the Republicans were hidden down and the media was giving the reasons for it, I poo-pooed their reasons.
	There's gonna be one reason if Republicans lose the House, it's gonna be immigration.
	It's gonna be the illegal immigration.
	And I saw this thing uh on Fox this morning about what's going on out in Oregon with Republicans surging ahead, Democrats on the defensive and losing because they're on the wrong side of the illegal immigration issue.
	And I just it it it it's it's simple.
	However, I want to say I want you I want every one of you people that's just fit to be tied over illegal immigration, and I'm one of you.
	But you don't well, I'm one of you.
	I want to just remind you of one thing.
	The only reason the McCain Kennedy amnesty for all of them, immigration bill isn't law right now, is because of House Republicans.
	That is the only reason they refuse to even convene a serious conference committee report with the Republicans uh and and the Democrats in the Senate over this bill.
	If the Republicans in the House, and I'm not I don't want you people to misunderstand, I am not describing perfection here.
	And I'm not I'm not a paid political consultant, and I'm nobody's asking me to do this.
	I'm sharing as I always have and I always will, what's in my sizable cranium.
	Rapidly firing neurons in my little gray cells and in my heart.
	And I'm just telling you, if it weren't for the Republicans in the House of Representatives, where would be amnesty right now for all of these illegal, however many it is?
	Everything in the McCain Kennedy bill would be law today.
	Except the House Republicans.
	They are the only reason that that bill is not law as we speak today.
	Well, I don't know.
	I want to say frustrating.
	I enjoy talking to every one of you who call the program.
	But I just have to ask those of you who are the cut-and-run conservatives out there who abandon the cause for whatever valiant, valorous reason that you have concocted.
	I wonder how many of you have gotten involved in party politics at the local and state levels.
	And I wonder how many of you have worked in the primaries for conservatives against more moderate candidates in the Republican Party.
	I wonder how many of you have actually gone out and gotten involved, as opposed to how many of you are...
	There's no criticism here, but it's a point.
	How many of you just watchers?
	You're just spectators.
	You're just and you care, and you're sitting around watching all this stuff.
	But how many of you have ever gotten involved?
	And how many of you have seen up close and personal the damage Republican moderates have done to the conservative cause?
	Republican blue blood country clubbers.
	How many of you have seen the damage that they have caused?
	Up and then when you realize the damage that they have caused is manifested by people like Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton being elected.
	Look at the damage Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton did to this country.
	They continue to wreak havoc on this country.
	They are the two ex-presidents alive today who freely comment in a partisan political way on their successors.
	George H. W. Bush never did, Gerald Ford doesn't.
	Ronald Reagan never did when he was alive.
	These two guys set the cake, take the cake along with the along with Al Gore.
	Look at the damage Nancy Pelosi and Dingy Harry Reed would do to the country.
	When you've worked up close and personal and hard for this, and you've seen your efforts go awry because of that, uh, it changes your perspective on all this, and it doesn't make you want to cut and run and get out.
	It makes you want to stay in a mix and to help further expand the movement within your own party.
	And that's what I think is missing in a lot of circumstances here.
	Now, you and I believe the same things.
	If this program had a stated mission, mission statement, it would be that we believe the people in this country get essentially what they want.
	They're exceptions.
	The way people get what they want is to become informed, more informed on the other side, more informed than as informed as they can be, and take that information to the polls and vote.
	You win it in the arena of ideas.
	And I know you believe that too.
	When you see yourself losing in the arena of ideas, that's when you get mad, and you think, well, you know, they're letting me down.
	Whatever reason you conjure up.
	But the ongoing effort to strengthen your own team, strengthen your own party is something that's never going to end.
	Your party, your movement is never going to be exactly what you want it to be.
	Ever.
	Back in just a second.
	I have to correct myself I was wrong.
	USA Today and the editorial page today does write about disarray of the Democrat Party.
	I'll have details, lots of other stuff too.

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