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Feb. 7, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 7, 2007, Wednesday, Hour #2
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And welcome back to the Rush Limbaugh program.
Roger Hedgecock here coming at you from the left coast here in San Diego at KOGO Radio, taking your calls at 1-800-282-2882.
And of course there's a Hollywood movie coming out of this love triangle at NASA.
Are you kidding?
It's got every angle you can imagine.
The script practically writes itself.
Conduct unbecoming a what?
Anyway, uh the spate uh to the presidential politics now, the spate of um polls are out.
The spate is out.
Uh the there are a lot of polls floating around, and all of them are pointing to something rather, I don't know, surprising, at least to me.
Hillary Clinton is pulling away already.
How far away are we here from the uh uh first primaries, maybe a year?
Uh pulling away from the PAC.
Thirty-five percent uh presidential preference in Iowa after a first appearance, thirty-nine percent in New Hampshire, the nearest competition Edwards has eighteen in Iowa, thirteen in New Hampshire.
Obama, the media darling, uh 14 in Iowa, nineteen, and he's number two in uh New Hampshire.
There's uh to be sure, undecided.
Uh but uh you have to keep in mind that in Iowa, where they have this caucus situation, most of the Democratic votes, more than half, not most, but more than half, will be uh cast by women.
And uh women are uh in uh in Iowa 39% going for uh Hillary, 35% among both men and women.
So there's going to be an edge there.
The sent, as ABC News reported this morning on their news note page, the scent of a winner is in the air this morning as the campaign, Hillary Clinton's campaign hosts a couple hundred people at briefings at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Washington,
D.C. The uh people are there because they are each expected to raise at least $25,000 each for Clinton's campaign this year.
Couple hundred.
Last night, according to the uh Washington Post, Senator Clinton hosted about 70 top fundraisers.
That's a quote, about 70 top fundraisers from around the country to a reception at her Washington, D.C. home.
These were the high dollar rainmakers committed to collect at least 250,000 each this year, and many pledged one million each this year.
Hillary Clinton, who has in the past, of course, postured as necessary in favor of campaign finance reform, will collect more money, I predict right now, more money for her presidential race than any candidate in the history of the presidential election races ever by a very wide margin.
By a very wide margin.
Uh New York is going to give more money to Hillary Clinton than any state has given to any presidential uh candidate ever.
Uh in fact, uh as uh the news note points out, there are single buildings on the east side of Manhattan who hold more donors who can and will max out their contribution to Hillary than uh more donors in just one building on the east side of Manhattan than the entire state of Delaware.
So you're going to uh see Hillary Clinton raise in New York alone more than any candidate has ever raised in one state in the history of our country.
And of course she's calling in all of the uh Bill Clinton shits, and of course she's going with uh all of so the all of the criticism of George Bush's pioneers of Tom Delay shaking down the lobbyists, of all of that culture of corruption that we endured last year and actually had traction and actually gained credence with the public, uh uh uh uh uh sorry.
If you were sensitive to that issue in 2006, keep your eye on Hillary in 2007.
There won't be a tree in this country that won't be shaken by Hillary Clinton.
You know what I'm saying?
There's not a lobbyist.
There's not an influential person, there's not an activist, there's not a labor leader, there's not there's not a uh whatever that's not going to be Touched, not only to contribute, not only to write a check, no, no, no, that's the least of it.
To go out and collect checks, to be a, in the words of the fundraisers, a bundler, bundler of checks.
So while money may not get everything, you don't go to a gunfight with a knife.
Uh Hillary Clinton knows she has huge negatives.
She is going into this gunfight uh with uh two guns blazing in terms of the uh money and the uh numbers in the polling are very, very favorable for her.
Now, of course, as you know, being a veteran of a number of these uh presidential races yourself, you're watching that the early front runner never wins.
Ever.
How many early front runners can you name?
I mean, there are the the history's littered with their failed campaigns, uh, the least not the least of which recently, of course, uh, Mr. Dean, the uh head of the uh Democrat Party and uh sorry, the Democratic Party, sorry.
And the uh and uh on the Republican side, Mr. McCain.
But you look at uh the Hillary Clinton uh campaign, and you suddenly get the feeling this has been planned for years, if not decades.
And it is going to roll on.
So we'll time will tell.
Now, the more on the Republican side, I get asked all the time, do you get asked this question?
Who are you supporting?
Who is going to carry the Ronald Reagan banner into battle?
Who is going to be the conservative candidate?
Uh who is going to uh, you know, uh represent us.
Say so many people to me.
Well, it is interesting that uh Giuliani is doing so well in the polls.
Nationally, Giuliani beats uh Hillary Clinton in early polls, not to say that that means anything in the long run, but nationally, uh Fox News had this, a lot of people had this.
Uh more voters would be comfortable with former New York City uh mayor Rudy Giuliani as president than any of the other contenders uh in this early, early, early poll.
900 registered voters.
So you're not your uh your uh Giuliani, of course, is stepping forward.
He is running, and he's running, and I don't know whether you've seen all this lately, with a uh whole bunch of articles saying what a conservative he is.
He took on the environmentalists, he took on the unions, he was mayor when you had to make the city work when the Democrats had said it's ungovernable.
This is a guy who who brought down crime, uh he created jobs, he reduced taxes, he reduced regulation on business, he took on the environmentalists, he tamed the unions.
This is the profile of a conservative Republican.
Well, uh in the post, for example, a couple of days ago when he made this argument, he's uh shown on the front cover kissing his is it his third wife?
I'm not quite sure how many, but uh this is uh you know, this is what so you so and now I get who cares uh here.
But again, if you're talking about a conservative candidate, you're also talking about traditional values.
Beyond the political issues are the moral issues, and those have come into play quite strikingly.
Laura Bush isn't the most popular uh you know member of that family in this country for nothing.
I mean, she is, and there are reasons for that.
So this is um uh what the Republicans now have to grapple with.
Is Rudy a conservative?
Is he conservative enough?
Do we care?
Uh do we care about those private uh issues?
Uh do we, you know, trust somebody who is uh different on those issues and different on the public policy issues.
For example, we Californians feeling frankly a little bruised.
Uh the guy that we elected governor, uh the Terminator himself, was saying, no, fiscal conservative, conservative on pro-business, anti-tax, hold a line on taxes, anti-regulation, uh well, yeah, of course I'm you know pro abortion, and you know, I'm married to this candidate, and we're we're for the environment, and we think global warming is a serious issue, and blah, blah, blah, blah.
But don't worry about that because the issues you're really concerned about, balancing the budget, holding back the public employee unions from raping everything in sight, uh fiscally speaking, of course, and uh uh all the rest of that.
You better trust me.
Trust me.
Angelides, uh, who was the running against him for for governor out here, uh, he's the tax raiser.
I'm not the tax raiser.
He's he loves to raise taxes.
I'm not gonna raise any tax.
Well, he wasn't fifteen minutes in past the swearing in ceremony when we were going to get a new tax because universal health care is important.
We've got to have that.
And you know, you but by the way, don't get upset.
It's a fee increase, not a tax.
You need to be sophisticated enough to learn the difference between the two.
There'll be a new fee on doctors, uh two percent.
There'll be a new fee on hospitals, there'll be a new uh fee on uh companies of four percent, uh, and of course, all of that to save money.
We need to raise fees in order to save money on health care.
Now, if you buy all that, I got a lot of other wacky stuff in the closet I want to bring out here too.
But that's the tone now that Republicans are sitting saying, okay, now wait a minute.
You know, look what happened with Arnold.
Are we then going to be sucked in by uh Giuliani with the same sort of approach?
Or for that matter, McCain.
McCain, who was with Mr. Feingold, you know, the campaign finance reformer.
Out yesterday, a story that says, uh, well, you know those limitations and you know, not taking a lot of uh uh PAC money and w well, you know, in theory that's okay, but well, no, I'm running.
Uh and I gotta compete.
Uh and I don't know how I can do that without just collecting a zillion dollars from all the usual suspects, and uh, you know, after I talk to Tom DeLay about it, I gotta do it.
You know, I I how can this guy look us in the face on this issue, much less on the immigration issue.
I'll get to that later.
So McCain is is going to take the money, he's going to posture as a conservative, and in many ways, including this latest support for the president in the Senate in terms of the resolution on Iraq.
So who is, I'm throwing this out because I'd like to get some feedback now.
Who is the candidate who measures up?
Now you can pick somebody out, I suppose, of the of the lineup, but I'm also going to ask you the second question.
Does this person have any chance of winning?
Given modern America.
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Roger Hedgecock in for rush back after the Roger Hedgecock in for Rush Limbaugh and back at you.
We're going to get to the uh border issues uh here.
I'm already getting email.
Why aren't you talking about uh Ramos and Compian, the border agents that have been incarcerated for uh well enforcing the law at the border?
Uh we will get to that, believe me, and uh the problems associated with the administration position on this and their point man down in uh El Paso, the U.S. attorney Johnny Sutton, who's caught uh uh in a number of uh problems with the prosecution presentation there.
And frankly, uh news breaking uh that we had a couple of days ago locally about a local um deputy sheriff in a county down there on the Texas uh border, uh Guillermo Hernandez, who has now been convicted again of defending himself uh in the against the favorite tactic of uh some of these border runners, which is to try to run over the border patrol agents and other law enforcement with their vans and trucks and uh you know hauling the the dope and the illegals and so forth.
In fact, in San Diego we had this happen yesterday with a uh van coming across.
It was actually a U-Haul.
Uh you all has a special uh, you know, for smugglers.
And the U-Haul was coming across, and here was uh, you know, trying to get apprehended, and the uh border patrol agent they tried to pin the agent between the border patrol vehicle and the U-Hall, uh the smuggler did, the driver of the of the U-Hall.
So it's uh it's happening more increasingly because they're reading the newspapers too.
They know that there's actually U.S. attorneys, Johnny Sutton being one of them in El Paso, who are willing to prosecute law enforcement officers who fire at illegals for whatever reason in connection with uh d defending themselves and doing their job.
And then as will and and then people like Johnny Sutton willing to take the word of uh an illegal alien drug smuggler against the word of two border patrol agents as to what actually happened in that circumstance.
So we'll get into all that because it's uh fascinating stuff.
The uh presidential race is uh is off and running and Barack Obama, the the bloom may be a little off this rose.
Um Mr. uh Senator uh Obama is um in uh in he's well he's called it a boneheaded deal and a stupid mistake well it's more than that it's kind of a reedian uh read uh Senator Reed I've uh I'm I'm I'm implying a Senator Reed type uh uh deal it's a Senator Reed type deal uh let's see according
Newsmax.com Tony Rezco, a Syrian-born pizza magnate and Democratic fundraiser with a checkered reputation even in the rough-and-tumble world of Chicago politics.
The Obamas buy their home.
Rezco's wife Rita closes escrow on the same day on a vacant 9,000-square-foot lot next door to the Obama property.
She pays $625,000.
Seven months later, when Obama decides
yard for his house he buys a ten by a hundred and fifty foot slice of the property for 104,000 um the problem is that Rezco indicted in October on charges of trying to squeeze kickbacks and campaign donations from firms seeking state of Illinois business and he's pled not guilty to that's uh good government type uh Obama uh going after uh this property next door and paying well was it exactly
fair market value um resco had contributed eleven thousand five hundred bucks to Obama's U.S. Senate uh campaign so and he goes way back with him so there's going to be more of that kind of thing and you know where we get all this you know where everybody in the media gets these stories about anybody running against Hillary Clinton.
Oh, you already know.
Okay.
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Here's Jim in Port Jefferson.
Jim, welcome to the Rush Limbaugh program.
Hello, Roger.
Thank you for taking my call.
I was calling in the event that Hillary Clinton is elected president.
It creates a very unique circumstance in that her husband, then I guess the first husband, if you will, is a former president.
And as president, like they all do, he does the speech circuit where he makes, you know, tens of thousands of dollars to give his speech.
Now his first husband and former president, he's in a unique, unregulated situation.
position to generate millions of dollars on that circuit and have unparalleled influence with the president and this has never been addressed.
It's kind of tit for tat as far as I can see in other words what wasn't it the other way around uh when when he was president she she was powerful and all I mean sure of course it's never been addressed.
Moreover, Jim let me just offer something else to that scenario.
Not only is the former president going to be the first man or first husband or whatever that turns out to be the first gentleman uh the the I I guess I'm getting a little concerned about the fact that either a Bush or a Clinton has been on the national ticket since 1980 that we've gone Bush, Clinton, Bush, and then maybe Clinton again uh isn't there anybody else that could be president?
I Roger I agree wholeheartedly.
I mean to put it politely I guess you could say that the Clintons have uh suffered from questionable ethics at best but I I'm I'm a true conservative and I have to tell you as a true conservative I'm perplexed.
I don't see any kind of conservative representation anywhere in government anymore.
You have the Democrats which in my opinion and it's only my opinion are basically socialist so you don't have a you don't have a favorite Republican's basically a Democratic there is no conservative represent representation.
So you don't have a candidate for president nobody.
Jim thanks for the call here's uh here's Paul in Palm Springs, California.
Jim I've got your point.
Let's see what others think.
Go ahead Paul.
Oh Roger I would think that possibly Duncan Hunter has the ability to win if not Duncan maybe Mitt Romney.
It has to be a Republican that has a very clean pedigree on conservative values.
If there's any weakness um some of the Republicans will not vote because Republicans tend to be principled whereas the Democrats as long as you get one plank in the platform they'll vote for the guy.
If we lose any percentage of our base we can't win the White House.
And we have to be ready.
We you know to fight Hillary we have to be ready for the campaign that you'll fight we should keep our cam our powder dry until we see the whites of our eyes and be ready for the Clinton style attack.
They will hit and run, and the minute you throw something at him, they'll instantly respond and say, Well, that's no big deal, and pretend like it doesn't exist.
Well, Duncan Hunter is our San Diego Congressman and a favorite of ours, the former chairman of the Armed Services Committee, a true blue uh Reaganite.
Uh he is uh he is a a very honest guy and a very terrific guy, and I've known him personally for many years.
Mitt Romney is a great candidate, made a great speech today in Detroit uh on economic issues and hit all the right themes for conservatives.
Pay attention to that speech and see what you think.
More on all of this and this border issue that cannot be ignored after this.
And welcome back to the Rush Limbaugh program.
Roger Hedgecock filling in for Rush taking your calls at 1-800-282-2882, and let's take uh Tory in Phoenix, Arizona.
Next hi, Tori.
Hi, Riser.
Thanks for taking my call.
Mm-hmm.
Hey, I got real excited about the uh conservative message yesterday listening to some of Ronald Reagan's old speeches.
And I was trying to think of anybody out there that sounded anything like him, and the name I came up with was uh Newt Gingrich.
Now, why do you suppose and and Newt is a uh I I'm acquainted with Newt.
I've talked with Newt.
He's a uh you know, obviously the architect of the 1994 retaking of the uh of the House of Representatives and along with uh Rush and a lot of other people that worked on that.
It was a truly a revolution.
And and a very interesting time in American uh history.
Now, he, you know, today is he the same agent of change.
Is he the same I mean why if for instance I look at these poll numbers and not a lot of people I mean to some, but not a lot of people seem to be rallying around him.
Yeah, I I know, I don't understand that.
I mean, I've often thought that I don't know that he's electable.
I don't know if it's the way he presents himself, but I've always agreed with his message.
Okay, well that uh and I appreciate that, Tory, but let's look at what what is it you think about his presentation that might be a problem.
Well, I think sometimes he comes along as too comes across as too stiff and maybe not flexible enough, but sometimes I just wonder if people really are ready or really want a true conservative message anymore.
It kind of makes me wonder.
Well, I don't know.
I've I see so many people get elected on conservative campaigns.
I was mentioning Arnold Schwarzenegger earlier, and then uh do something else when they get into office.
Well, you know, I felt I felt pretty confident about that myself until this last election, and I gotta tell you, I was blindsided by it.
I just I had no idea where people were I I've talked to people, friends of mine that normally vote conservative, and just because they wanted some kind of a change, they just came up with this vote voted for liberals.
And I I just I don't understand it.
Well, I don't either, except that uh conservatives allowed themselves to be painted uh, you know, with this uh brush of corruption and so forth, uh didn't help from our area that Duke Cunningham got uh, you know, uh caught uh taking bribes and so forth.
Uh it's a it's a situation, Tory, that might have been unique to that election and the inability we had to counter the culture of corruption charges and the inability and and and the continu I think we have a continuing problem on the conservative constitutionalist side of things with the fact that we we just can't get it through our thick heads that most of the media is the media wing of the Democratic slash socialist party.
Yeah, you know, people out there are willing to let themselves be they're they're willing to buy into that, and that's that's such an endless source of frustration for me.
Yeah, yeah, I agree, and and that's why we're that's why you're tuned in here.
Right.
That's right.
Keep me from going crazy.
Yeah, me too.
Uh Tori, thanks.
Uh thanks for the call, and I uh I appreciate uh what you said.
All right, here's uh Brian in Pennsylvania.
Brian, uh welcome to the Rush Show.
Thank you.
Uh nice talk to you with you, Roger.
I wanted to make a comment about uh Mitt Romney and his uh I think it was a blind uh episode that they had on him and his religion.
Uh they thought it would play quite a role if he were to run for president about him being a Mormon.
And uh I thought it was it's quite interesting how he handled himself.
He's such a uh very fundamentally based with solid core values.
And as far as the conservative Republican side, I definitely think that this is a guy who can show a a real strong uh front for for that type of uh person who would vote, w which is where I I come from.
I come from a very very conservative uh background, and he would definitely be uh my first choice.
All right.
Well and I and I've uh met Mitt Romney and I uh really admire a lot of things he was able to do as a Republican governor of Massachusetts, which is the bluest of blue states.
Uh and Mitt Romney is uh is very, very smart and very capable, and it seems like his core beliefs are as you say.
I I don't have any problem with that.
His speech today, as I say it uh to the uh Detroit Economic Club uh hit all of the of the uh Reagan punch lines, believe me, hit all of them.
And you know, it's hard to find someone with such a clean background.
I mean, you can try and dig up dirt on millions of politicians, but this is one guy, they'll have tough a tough time doing that.
Man, no no love triangle, no trying to uh get into the uh campaign manager wife's knickers.
I mean, this is uh pretty boring.
Yeah.
I mean he's only had one wife for crying out loud, Brian.
What are we ever gonna say?
Well, how did they by the way, how did they handle the Mormonism issue?
You were talking about what, an NBC uh uh they they asked him how it would affect his his his running in the you know if people would not vote for him because of his uh affiliation with the Mormon religion.
And um he he said simply that it was that's the religion that he was raised in, and he he doesn't think that America or Americans will depict because it doesn't matter if you have a a Catholic re uh a Catholic president or a Baptist president, the religion he's gonna make decisions based on his feelings in politics.
His religion isn't going to have an effect on his decisions made in the White House if you were to be able to do that.
Well, I think that's that's this answer he has to give, and it's the answer that comes out of the Jack Kennedy experience of overcoming the the Catholic uh thing uh but they they actually brought that up in the interview and uh But but listen, but here's the here's the thing I think he has to actually overcome, and that is that a lot, I I don't know, let me just say some of the uh conservative evangelical Christian conservative base uh believes that Mormonism is a cult.
Well, it's sim simple mis uh misconception, I'm sure.
Um me coming from the the Mormon faith and being raised in um I know it's not.
Well and let's assume about it knows that.
Now, Brian, Brian, before I get on the calls, let me just r rapidly say, I'm not saying it's a cult.
I'm saying that some people raised in the evangelical tradition are going to view because I've heard them say this, heard uh people who are that uh inclined to say this.
I can't vote for Romney, although he yes, he's he espouses a lot of conservative values and I like that, and he was a good governor and he knew how to kind of make things work even against a tough democratic legislature, and that's a good skill and all that stuff.
I understand all that, but he's a Mormon and it's a cult.
People need to judge a man for his character.
That's all I guess that's all I can say.
Uh Brian, that's a good point.
I appreciate the call.
And it's i I I think it's something that uh Romney is going to have to overcome, but if anybody can do it, it's him uh in a similar way as Jack Kennedy overcame the uh the uh political stigma, at least at that time in nineteen sixty, of being a Catholic.
All right, Gary in Springfield, uh Springfield, Illinois.
Uh speaking of historic places.
Gary, welcome to the Rush Program.
Hi, Roger.
Uh I think you're giving these people a little too much credit for principle.
I I I think some of the a lot of these people who were disappointed in the way things were being handled or so, you know, so they said that that's that was enough.
Change was a bigger principle to them than then conservative principles.
In terms of voting the Democrats in in the last election.
Yeah, I mean, and the and the evidence of uh the evidence of that is as the Democrats go off on their ideological agenda with all this extreme stuff and uh and and an attempt to uh get energy independence,
for example, by shutting down uh energy drilling in the United States, which I think are too contradictory uh stands and attempt to push this kind of stuff that um it it it does show an extremism that I don't think the voters voted for.
I I mean uh I'm with you on that.
I think the change and trying to to to punish the Republicans was a part of a lot of what went on.
Oh, I I when when I hear the uh you know the Senate when they were uh you know debating the the resolution talking about well, they weren't debating them.
They you know I heard Senator Reed say uh half a dozen times about the the voice of the people in November.
That's that's bogus.
I I I I I I agree with you.
As soon as they start doing some of this stuff, these people wake up a little bit.
Well, for instance, and here's uh Gary, thanks for the call.
Here's here's the one I here's the one I loved.
Uh you know, they had the big uh minimum wage debate.
Remember that?
Going to raise the the minimum wage.
Well, uh except for some places.
It turns out that in the House version, Nancy Pelosi's version, the island of Samoa is exempt from the minimum wage.
It further turns out that the island of Samoa has uh about forty percent of its workforce uh employed in tuna canneries.
It further turns out that the tuna canneries are there because there is no minimum wage and they have low wages there.
Uh the average hourly wage for American Samoa tuna canneries in two thousand four was about three dollars uh sixty cents.
Now it's much lower.
Thailand is sixty-seven cents an hour, Philippines sixty-six cents an hour.
But these uh companies, uh Starkist and Chicken of the Sea, are at uh are in Samoa.
So when the rest of the country was going to seven dollars fifteen cents, and oh yeah, this includes all the islands, you know, we own the Marianas and and the and and Guam and all these other places that are part of the United States, they're all covered by the bill except Samoa.
Why do you suppose?
Well, does it turn out that both Starkist and Chicken of the Sea are headquartered in California and Starkist's parent company has its headquarters in Mrs. Pelosi's San Francisco district.
In other words, ladies and gentlemen, if you voted for change, if you voted to spank the Republicans for corruption and and uh the culture of corruption, if you did, then you voted in the alternative guys who have the same kind of corrupt behavior when it comes to their self-interest.
Minimum wage is just and right, uh, except for Samoa.
Where by the way there's a democratic governor.
The Marianas, another group of islands that have problems getting jobs, same deal.
Uh, they're not going to get jobs because the minimum wage is going to apply in the Marianas, which has a are you ahead of me yet?
Republican governor.
So much for the culture.
Corruption, I'm Roger Hedgecock, back with more on the Rush Show after.
And we're back on the Rush Show.
I'm Roger Hedgecock, filling in for Rush Limbaugh today, a day off, a couple days off here.
I'm going to do a couple of days, uh, and then uh Mark will be able in here on uh Friday.
Alan, Decatur, Illinois is next on the Rush program.
Hi, Al.
Hi, Roger.
I think Giuliani is a the best offer for the Republicans because I think he's a national figure, he's a star figure, but he needs to get a true conservative for vice president.
I know nobody votes for the vice president, but a true conservative with allay the fears of the conservative part of the country.
And what and who would that be in your opinion?
Well, I don't know.
I think Newt Gingrich.
Uh maybe uh what's the fellow fellow from the the Mormon, I forgot his name already.
Romney, uh, if they would accept it.
I I don't think McCain can get elected.
He's too liberal on social issues.
And another thing.
Uh you mentioned this Democrat, Democratic thing.
Yeah.
We don't say Republicanic.
Democratic is a form of government.
They are Democrats.
They are Democrats.
Yeah.
Not Democratic.
Democratic is a form of government.
Now, if they but if they decide, uh Al, and and I'm just for uh just to take the other side for a moment, uh if they decide, whoever, that they want to call their party, you know, the uh the uh Bull Moose Party uh or or whatever, aren't they entitled to the the title of their party of their choice?
Absolutely.
But do they call it the Democratic Party or the Democrat Party?
Well, they call it the Democratic Party.
Well, they do?
Yeah.
Oh, that's lovely.
Yeah.
Well, that's this news to you?
Huh?
Al, thanks for the call.
Here's Bill in uh Bergen County, New Jersey.
Bill, welcome to the Rush Show.
Yeah, hi, how are you doing?
I just want to say that um uh Rudolph Giuliani's somewhat of a superstar.
Arnold Schwarzenegger's a superstar, Ronald Reagan was a superstar.
Hillary Clinton to some extent is a superstar, her name is well known, and that's what it's gonna take to win this election.
We did a really Rudolph Giuliani, maybe maybe Newt Gingrich as a vice president.
He's got the right ideas, a good conservative, and he's the type of guy we need.
But Rudy can win the election, and Nuke can't.
My opinion.
All right, Bill, I appreciate it.
Yesterday was Ronald Reagan's uh would have been his 96th birthday.
And on those occasions, and when I was reading some of that and like an earlier caller, reading some of Reagan's uh speeches and what he stood for.
I guess I knew this then when in 1988 uh Reagan completed his eight years in the presidency that we would miss him.
I knew it then.
I didn't know how much I would miss him.
This year, 2007, I mean a long time later.
Uh boy.
I don't know about you, but I miss Ronald Reagan.
There didn't have to be a lot of explanation.
There didn't have to be a lot of uh, well, okay, I agree with this, but I don't agree with that.
There didn't have to be a lot of, well, does he have a chance to win?
Does he have you know, does he have the support?
Uh well, you know, some group is uh angry because he isn't a hundred percent on this.
There wasn't uh for whatever reason, uh am I just glossing over this history?
It seemed to me there wasn't a lot of that.
There was this guy, well, I guess it was partially Reagan, because you know what he used to say, and I've heard him say this.
He would say, hey, if somebody agrees with me 85 percent, do you think I'm gonna worry about the 15 percent we don't agree?
This is a game of pulling people together who can find a common ground and then move forward together on a generally agreed upon agenda.
Uh and and I think that realism, that political realism from a common sense point of view is missing in too many people in politics today.
Here's Jeff in uh Carney, Nebraska.
Jeff, your choice.
Uh yeah, I'm I'm supporting Chuck Hagel for president.
Uh although he's not necessarily declared he's running right now.
I think he's a a veteran who's got a true conservative uh background, and I think he can defend himself against uh the Clinton machine.
Well, he certainly is the media darling today because of course the media wing of the Democratic Party uh loves any Republican that like they used to love McCain, who is going to uh buck the party and buck the president and uh and do what he can to screw things up.
Well, uh I don't think he's screwing things up.
I think he's just stating his uh belief.
And uh if it comes down to whether Chuck Hagel says something or not, whether this war is won, uh, I don't think that uh it was ever going to be won anyway.
Oh, you don't.
So in other words, if you go into a war and your belief from the beginning is we're not gonna win, then guess what?
Jeff, apparently these questions are just a little too tough for you.
Let me move on to Henry in Lyndonhurst, Illinois.
Hi, Henry, welcome to the Rush Show.
Hi, Roger.
Uh yeah.
I was at the March for Life on January 22nd uh in Washington, D.C. In the hundred to two hundred thousand people that were at that march, there were thousands of signs for Senator Brown back.
He's pro-life.
He's uh led uh things on abortion and banning partial birth abortion.
What pro what pro-life march?
At the March for Life that was held in Washington, D.C. on Roe v.
Wade.
Yeah, I didn't see that on CBS, NBS, or ABS.
Uh what about the week after they carried the Iraq war, but they didn't carry this.
But he's also a sponsor.
What if you have a demonstration and no one covers it?
Right.
Is it really a demonstration?
Uh event in Washington, D.C. You'd never know it, my friend.
Listen, Brown back is good on life.
Uh the problem with Brownback is he's terrible on the border.
See, I'm now practicing the politics I was just saying a moment ago we shouldn't.
Uh, but I'm so uh upset about uh Bush's leaving the border open and unsecured at the same time we're fighting this war on terror.
I can't tell you.
I mean it's my number one issue, and so let me vent for a little bit on my number one issue.
Brown back has been a disaster on the border.
That's bad about that.
What's that?
What's he said bad about it?
Well, he's he's in favor of the amnesty bill, he's in favor of McCain's approach, he's in favor of uh, oh well, they just broke in.
Let's uh let's give him a bedroom in the house uh approach to uh to amnesty and immigration, and I'm not.
Give you some counteract on that.
Okay, he opposes all tax increases.
He's the only uh candidate that has signed the form for the Americans for tax reform that he will not increase any taxes.
He's I'm for that.
I I appreciate that.
I appreciate his pro-life thing.
If he's gonna leave the border open, he's not gonna get my vote.
See there, hen Henry.
I'm saying the same exact thing I said we shouldn't say uh in terms of uh what Ronald Reagan taught me.
So we've got to go take a break back after this.
Roger Hedgecock in for Rush Limbaugh.
The weird story of Border Patrol agents Ramos and Compion, who uh trying to enforce the law at the border are now serving time in a federal penitentiary.
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