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March 8, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 8, 2007, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
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Try this headline.
Ann Colder, if you're out there listening, listen to this headline from the New York Sun today.
Could John Edwards become the first woman president?
It's by Josh Gerstein and the New York Sun, Tony Morrison, famously dubbed President Clinton, America's first black president, with that barrier broken.
Obama, you hear that?
The first black president barrier has been broken.
With that barrier broken, the comments of a prominent feminist are provoking debate about who may lay a similar claim to the title of America's first woman president.
The candidate being touted as a torchbearer for women is not Mrs. Bill Clinton, but instead one of her former colleagues, John Edwards, the Breck Girl.
At a rally near the University of California, Berkeley campus this week, a veteran of the abortion rights movement, Kate Michelman, asked and answered the question she gets most frequently about her decision to back the Brett girl.
So why John Edwards, given the historic nature of our extraordinary campaign for the presidency this year with Mrs. Bill Clinton and Barack Obama and all the others?
Well, I've gotten to know a lot of political leaders over the years.
I've been an advocate for women's rights, and I know the difference between those who advocate as a political position and those who understand the reality choking me up here of women's lives.
Compared to Mrs. Bill Clinton, the Brett girl is short and X chromosome, but listening, is this not absurd?
Listening to Ms. Michaelman, that's easy to forget.
As a lawyer, as a senator, as a husband, as a father of two daughters, he understands the reality of women's lives.
He understands the centrality of women's lives and experience to the health and well-being of society as a whole.
He understands that on an extremely personal level.
Now, her comments drew some quizzical looks, though, if she is as though she had extended her argument to suggest that Mr. Edwards understood the plight of African Americans as well or better than Mr. Obama.
After the rally, another journalist and I sought out Ms. Michelman, who spent 20 years at the helm of the nation's leading abortion rights group, NAROL Pro-Choice America, asked how Mr. Edwards could have a better understanding of women's concerns than Mrs. Bill Clinton.
Ms. Michelman denied trying to convey such a message.
I didn't say better, she said.
Of course, Jenny is a woman.
She didn't say what she said.
And even if she did say it, she's entitled to change her mind and deny it.
However, she did acknowledge recently to an online magazine, Salon.com, that touting the Brett girl necessarily meant criticizing his opponents.
Pressed about how the Brett girl could have a feel for women's problems.
Now, this is too ripe.
I'm practicing restraint like you can't believe here.
Pressed how the Brett girl could have a feel for women's problems that's even comparable to that of someone like Mrs. Bill Clinton.
Ms. Michelman said her concerns go beyond identifying the issues.
He just doesn't understand.
You have to begin with understanding.
It's an understanding, but it's a commitment.
He understands in a way that is tied to all of his beliefs about lifting everyone up.
He doesn't lift everybody up.
You've seen his big mansion.
You seen his guests, his little beach house?
He's isolating himself from not lifting anybody up, and his policy certainly wouldn't do that.
Ms. Michelson's decision after a career in the women's movement, which, by the way, I, as I say, I love the women's.
Don't get the wrong idea here.
I love the women's movement, especially when walking behind it.
But anyway, her decision not to back Mrs. Bill Clinton has prompted speculation and grumbling in some quarters.
Some suggest Ms. Michaelman is still fuming over a 2005 speech in which Mrs. Bill Clinton called abortion a sad, even tragic choice to many, many women.
Still, Michelman acknowledges that some of her enthusiasm for the Brett girl springs from an intangible affinity she can't quite explain.
It's hard to describe.
I'm inspired by this guy.
So, John Edwards, on tap now, according to one of the nation's largest abortion rights supporters, to become the first woman president in the United States.
And of course, the barrier is down.
A first black president, Bill Clinton, that barrier is broken.
Sometimes all you can do is laugh at these people.
Speaking of the Brett girl, his campaign announced yesterday that he will skip the Nevada Democratic Party's planned August presidential debate.
This is the latest fallout from the party's decision to have the Fox News Channel host the event.
The move sparked an outcry, particularly among liberals and activist bloggers who accused Fox of being too sympathetic to Republicans and demanded the Democrat candidates boycott the forum.
Move on, Civic Communication Director Adam Green said, We want to send a clear message to voters, the media, and the presidential candidates that Fox is part of the right-wing smear machine, not a legitimate source of news.
It's a debate.
Why do you think the Democrats want their debate on the Fox News channel?
They got their choice of any Fox, of any cable news channel.
Why do you think they want to have their debate on the Fox News channel?
They want an audience, folks.
They want people that are going to watch it.
Fox News by far has the largest audience.
And of course, the Democrats trying to reach that audience in their debate.
And Edwards is going to skip out.
This is not, you know, presidents don't get away.
Even the first female president doesn't get away with boycotting certain networks.
The Centers for Disease Control sent out an advisory, I guess, today.
Senior citizens should prepare to go it alone directly after a disaster, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
This is in a report that makes it clear that the horrors of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, in which old people were left to drown or stranded in their homes, was no aberration.
It was no aberration.
It happens everywhere.
And so you seasoned citizens, be prepared to go it alone.
School bus Nagan has said the same thing to New Orleans residents if the disaster were to happen to strike again.
See, isn't this only common sense to you and I, ladies and gentlemen?
This is common sense.
Disaster happens, you're on your own.
You got a big-time disaster heading your way.
You make steps, take steps to get out of there.
But sadly, it's not common sense to a whole lot of Americans who think they're to sit there and wait until some government agency, be it local, federal, or state, shows up to save the day.
This is interesting, too.
This is from thepolitico.com today.
New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson's 2008 presidential campaign.
If he's elected president, he'd be the first what president?
It can't be Hispanic because he is Hispanic.
And the way the Democrats identify for, I mean, if the Brit girl is going to be the first female president, then an actual Hispanic cannot be the first Hispanic president if he's elected.
He's got to be something else.
Bill Clinton was the first black president, but he's not black.
So you can't say he's going to be called the first Hispanic president if he were to be elected.
I don't know what first he would be, but to the Democrats, everybody running on their side's a first something.
Anyway, his campaign's been burdened by unusually public discussions about his behavior with women.
The lieutenant governor of Mexico, Diane Dennish, was quoted in the Albuquerque Journal saying that she avoids standing or sitting near Richardson because of his physical manner, which she said was not improper, but was annoying.
The governor, she said, pinches my neck.
He touches my hip.
He touches my thigh, sort of the side of my leg.
On repeated occasions, Richardson has been pressed by reporters or Democrat activists on whether his personal conduct can withstand public scrutiny.
Richardson, in an interview, denied behaving inappropriately, calling the talk mean-spirited.
The usual outs.
Still, the concerns have become enough of a headwind for Richardson's campaign that the candidate has a more substantive response, and his personal conduct was vetted and effectively given a seal of approval when he was considered for the vice presidential nomination by John F. Kerry in 2000, who served in Vietnam.
So I guess what he's saying is here that he can pinch the lieutenant governor's neck.
He can touch her hip, her thigh, that sort of thing.
And it's okay because he was vetted as a vice presidential potential for John Kerry.
And she said, by the way, she said this is not improper.
It's annoying.
It's not improper.
Do you realize the import of that?
Here's a lieutenant governor of the state.
No, it's not improper for him to pinch my neck.
It's not improper for him to touch my hip or my thigh.
Sort of the side of my leg.
It's just annoying.
This is not going to sit well out there because any unwanted advances like that are considered improper and can land the perp in any number of uncomfortable positions, places, hot water.
Booing will not be banned at sporting events in Washington state, after all.
The idea has drawn a lot of jeers in Seattle amid concerns that unruly and profane fans are degrading sportsmanship in high school sports.
The association that oversees competition in Washington state's considering revisions to its code of conduct guidelines for spectators.
After one Seattle newspaper reported over the weekend that a boo-ban was being considered, the organization found itself enmeshed in controversy, flooded with phone calls.
The problem, said the group's executive director, is that the report was untrue.
There's no boo-ban, and there won't be a boo-ban, said Mike Colbrace, head of the Washington Interscholastic Activities Association.
That's just silly.
Well, the first port, first report we got on this was from ABC.
It actually ran on March the 4th.
Democrats are starting to get a little bold here on the slow version of the slow bleed by Jack Murtha, wanting to pull out of Iraq now by the fall of 2008.
We've got that.
We've got global warming news on the wazoo today, all sorts of things, plus your phone calls.
It's all coming up.
America's real anchor man.
Saving the day daily on the EIB network.
And as always, utilizing talent on loan from God, we figured it out during the commercial break.
If Bill Richardson would happen to be elected, the first, if he would be elected president, we had two choices, be the first Jewish president or the first North Korean president.
And we've opted for the first North Korean president.
We don't know because Kate Michaelman says the Brett Girl has an affinity for women.
and understands their issues.
I don't know whether Richardson has that affinity for Jews and Jewish issues, such as Israel and that sort of thing.
But we do know.
He's been in North Korea a lot and he's got affinity for Kim Jong-il and Kim Il-sung, the little pot-bellied dictator.
So if Richardson happens to be elected president, we'll call him the first North Korean president, ladies and gentlemen.
Also, we've decided any further John Edwards news, we will use this tune as official update theme for the Brett Girl.
Are you listening, Ann Coulter?
All right, come on, get to the chorus so I can get out of this.
Dawn, does this embarrass you?
This was big in the 70s.
This was huge in the 70s.
Ready, Helen, with the vocal portrayal.
Anyway, that's enough.
I got a better idea.
I'm going to ask Paul Shanklin if he's got a, hang on just a second.
If he's got a, if somebody, if he can do it or if he's got somebody else impersonate Edwards and have Edwards actually sing the song.
So we'll get to work on that Il Quicko.
And Bill Richardson, first North Korean president, if he's elected, which he won't be.
So we'll miss out on that opportunity.
All right.
Let's go to the audio soundbites.
The latest Democrat strategery is to link Walter Reed to the war and push for defeat in Afghanistan to the Democrats held a press conference on their new timetable for the withdrawal of U.S. combat troops from Iraq.
A portion of the comments today made by Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
The troops with the funding they need, honoring our promises to our veterans, holding the Defense Department to the standard that they have about readiness before we send our troops in.
Holding the Iraqi government accountable to the benchmarks established by President Bush.
If those benchmarks are not met, or even if they are at some point, calling for the redeployment of U.S. troops out of Iraq so that we can focus more fully on the real war on terror, which is in Afghanistan, this bill takes giant steps toward putting resources into that war.
Again, a war that is unfinished and nearly forgotten by the administration.
So they keep trying to come up with a way to get us out of Iraq.
Now, before this press conference today, there were actually two conflicting stories.
One from David Espo at the Associated Press, the headline, Democrats Want Iraq Pullout by the fall of 2008.
And the lead of the story is this.
In a direct challenge to President Bush, House Democrats unveiled legislation Thursday requiring the withdrawal of U.S. combat troops from Iraq by the fall of next year.
It would be 2008 for those of you in Rio Linda.
Speaker Pelosi said the deadline would be added to legislation providing nearly $100 billion the Bush administration's requested for fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan.
There's the timetable now, and that, of course, is what the enemy craves.
The enemy knows when we're going to get out of there if indeed this were to be upheld.
Once again, the Democrats in just blatant ownership of defeat.
Now, earlier story in the Boston Globe today by Rick Klon, Democrats shelve plans to force Iraq pullout, lacking support for stronger bill, scale-back goals.
In the Boston Globe, it looks like Democrats surrender on trying to fashion anything.
And yet, we had the Pelosi press conference this morning, which seems to contradict this.
Here's the money quote in the story or the money paragraph with their thin majority in Congress.
Democrats are now confronting the reality that finding a strong, legally binding anti-war measure that also keeps their party together may not be possible.
In the Senate, Carl Levin conceded that his party, which controls 51 Senate seats, only 50 are voting right now, probably cannot gather the 60 votes it needs to pass the legislation.
But he added that even symbolic steps carry messages.
Bottom line is that the House can do what they want to do in this.
They can pass whatever bill they want with their timetables.
The slow version of the slow bleed from Jack Murphy.
This is to give Murph a cover, by the way, too, folks.
This is to sort of give him half of the apple while not really going full bore and leading him out of the press conference and so forth in a prominent way.
But over in the Senate, it's an entirely different matter.
They're not going to get 60 votes for it over there.
And the Democrats know this.
So the House is being used for the harassment purposes of the administration and to placate the kook left-wing base of the Democrat Party, which is typified here by Congressperson Janice Schakowsky of Illinois.
If you can believe it, there are Democrats to Pelosi's left, and they want immediate defeat.
They don't want to wait until the fall of 2008.
Four and a half years ago, the president asked Congress to give war a chance.
And despite our objections, he got that chance.
He did no such thing.
No more chances, no more waivers, no phony certifications, no more spending billions of dollars to send our children into the meat grinder that is Iraq.
It is time to spend the money to keep them safe and bring them home.
This is absurd, but this is who they are.
Typified here by Janice Schakowsky, Democrat from Illinois, not going along with the Pelosi plan.
The Pelosi plan is designed to try to placate these people, but it isn't working.
What is this?
George Bush asked Congress to give war a chance.
Anyway, we got to take a brief time out here, ladies and gentlemen.
We'll get to your phone calls and great global warming stack today, which has been accumulating here for the past two days, so sit tight.
More on the Democrats' ownership of defeat in Iraq, more of their desire to bring that around.
The Washington Post today, story by Jonathan Weissman and Shaleg Murray, even in her conservative Kansas district, calls and letters to freshman House Democrat Nancy Boyda show a constituency overwhelmingly ready for U.S. troops to come home from Iraq.
Yet, as the House nears a legislative showdown on the war, Boyda finds herself racked with doubts.
She's convinced that Congress must intervene to stop the war, but is fearful of the chaos that a quick U.S. pullout could prompt.
Congress has an obligation to do something, the freshman Boyda said, but she's unsure what to do, worried about anything that affects commanders on the ground.
And then talk to the far left-wing Democrats, the ones even to the left of Pelosi, who want out now.
And, you know, with such strong sentiments, the past three days in the House have been agonizing Democrats.
It's agonizing for Democrats to try to pass something that appeases liberal wackos and moderates at the same time.
And what it all adds up to is pressure is building on Nancy Pelosi here as she's trying to build a bridge between the wackos and the there are no moderates.
Well, that's not true, actually, because there's also an AP story today about the Blue Dog Democrats, the equivalent of Yellow Dog Democrats.
They call them Blue Dogs because they're blue states.
There are 54 of them, and they're starting to make their presence felt, not so much in Iraq, but on some domestic issues.
But these are largely conservative Democrats, and 54 is not an insignificant number, and they're beginning to feel their weight and their oats, and they're putting pressure on Pelosi as well.
And interestingly, in this Washington Post story, Representative Dan Boren, Democrat from Oklahoma, who is from a conservative district, said conservative Democrats fear the charge still lodged by some Vietnam veterans that the war could have been won had the politicians not intervened.
More than anything else, many Democrats want to leave Bush responsible for ending the war he started.
The war is the issue, but the president's issue, it's the president's issue, not ours.
So you've got some of these Democrats don't even want to mess with this because they don't want to do anything that might make it look like the Democrats lost the war.
And this is the problem that Pelosi has.
There are a bunch of conservative Democrats who understand what the rest of the Democrats are doing.
And we want to stay out of this because if we end up creating another Vietnam, they know what happened to the Democratic Party after Vietnam.
Chuck Schumer doesn't remember.
Pelosi doesn't remember this get out of now, get out of Iraq Now caucus in the House and whatever they don't remember, or maybe they do and they think it was just one of the greatest moments in Democrat history.
So you've got some Democrats in the House who are afraid of being tagged as being responsible for defeat, as in Vietnam.
And I thought it was the Republicans who were supposed to be afraid of these Vietnamese or Vietnam analogies.
You've got Democrats running around talking about this is another Vietnam supposed to frighten the Republicans.
It ought to frighten Democrats.
And apparently there are some in the conservative caucus, the blue dog caucus and the Democrat side that are worried about this.
So Pelosi's got her work cut out for her, but it all doesn't matter in the end because it's going to go nowhere in the Senate as Dick Durbin admitted yesterday, portion of his remarks speaking to the press.
Walter Reed was an issue that came up frequently as it should.
I also asked a question which I think is at the heart of this, and it's a question about our situation in Iraq.
How much longer this war will go on?
How long will the surge be before we can make an evaluation?
Because ultimately, there'll have to be a decision made by this commission based on a projection of how many more injured soldiers we are going to be treating in the years to come.
That's the wrong bite.
But Durbin did say he asked the president how long he's going to wait to see if the surge works so that they can know how many wounded soldiers to expect at Walter Reed.
And in the process, it's a bit of an inference.
You have to suggest that Durbin doesn't think the Democrats are going to stop the war if he wants to know how many injured are going to keep pouring into Walter Reed.
They're trying to combine Walter Reed in the whole Iraq war.
The bottom line, Durbin knows they don't have the votes in the Senate.
Stop any legislation coming from the House of Representatives.
Zip Zero now.
They've got 50 votes.
They've got 51, but Tim Johnson's still not voting, and there's Lieberman.
So Lieberman, you can't even, they've got 49 votes.
Lieberman's not going to be with them on any of this.
So this notion of getting a 51-vote majority is absurd when it comes to this issue.
That means with 49 votes, they'd have to come up with 11 in order to get the cloture and 60 votes.
Mitch McConnell would only have to lose eight, or would have to lose, could lose eight.
I mean, that's a large number to lose.
So as I have been telling you, ladies and gentlemen, the Democrats can huff and puff and do all they want in the House.
And it's going to lead to frustration between Pelosi and Reed.
Little indications of that already behind the scenes on the minimum wage bill.
What's in the minimum wage bill?
Where is it?
Some people are beginning to ask.
Everything's not the slam dunk the Democrats thought it was going to be when they swept to electoral victory last November.
Bob in Lutherville, Maryland.
You're next as we go to the phones on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
Yeah, listen.
I know there has been some people calling saying that they felt that you could do more to help us out in the conservative movement.
And I'm one of those people.
And what I suggest is, you know, you're the only person that's got the contacts who have got the connections to help start something really big.
A few years ago, one faction of the libs had what they called a million man march on D.C.
That was Calypso Louis Farrakhan on the nation of Islam.
Well, I think you, with the connections you've got with the national media, with your website, with your newsletter, and with the people you know, you could help us organize.
And that's what we need.
I think we conservatives need someone of your magnitude to help us organize, to get a movement started to where we could do a two or a three million man march or whatever on D.C. where we could organize and basically get out there and show these libs that there are a whole lot of conservatives out there who are just tired of the stuff that is going on.
And, you know, we can show that by writing emails and sending letters and so forth.
But I think the numbers being right out there in their face is what we need to let them know that, hey, we're there.
And you are the only person that I think could get a movement like this started.
Let me ask you a question.
I appreciate your confidence and your thoughts on this.
What did the million men, so-called million man march accomplish other than popularizing the number 19?
I tell you what, I think it did accomplish.
It was in the media for a long time.
Yeah, but what?
It was being organized.
And I think that is what is going to happen because it's going to make up.
But do you remember what it was about theoretically?
The million man march was aimed at black men, and it was aimed, black men stand up and take responsibility.
Exactly.
Right.
But in this case, I think we're talking about not just men.
We're talking about the men.
I'm talking about, is this a proper technique?
Is this going to generate results?
Is this going to get anything done?
I think it would, because I think it's not only going to show the libs that there's a lot of people who are tired of what's going on, it's also going to show the rhinos that we're just fed up.
I think we could have speakers.
I think the massive numbers and the speakers with the context that you would have to get speakers and people who would support this, I think it could be something big.
It's not just the march itself, but it's the attention that's going to get in the liberal.
I understand what's behind this.
Conservatives sometimes feel lost at the loan.
They want people to know how many of them there are, how vocal, how passionate, and they want to be noticed.
I guarantee you, though, if I ever did something like this, the first people be knocking down my door to speak would be the rhinos.
I went out there and say, no, no rhinos.
Anyway, I appreciate the idea.
I appreciate the thought.
I appreciate your confidence in my ability to organize something like that.
Keep in mind, let's say we did this, just hypothetically, and we were able to put together 3 million people marching on Washington.
Do you realize that the drive-by media would report it as 100,000?
Confirmed by the park police.
There would be no aerial photos.
We'd have to hire our own blimp to prove it.
Well, Snerdley is reminding me that they did tell the truth about Dan's banks, but you've got to remember the timing of that.
NBC sent an info, babe about that.
Was Al Roker's wife, woman who's now, it was Deborah Roberts, who's now Al Roker's wife.
She wasn't Al Roker's wife at the time, but she's Al Roker's wife now because they got married between then and now.
And there were giant traffic tie-ups on the interstate highway leading to Fort Collins.
I flew in over a helicopter.
I couldn't believe it.
And we got down to where the sedans bake sale was, and they estimated, what, 75, 75,000 people there.
And NBC on the Saturday night, it was a Saturday, and the Saturday Nightly News, they did a story.
They called it the conservative Woodstock.
But back then, you know, this was like a circus act to these people.
The report, they were all spot went, look at this bunch of animals that got out of the zoo.
Hasn't this.
Today, I mean, it wasn't threatening to them then.
Today, it would be threatening.
And, of course, you'd have the Reverend Jacksons and others on the left, the pro-Choicers, the Feminazis, they'd all be accusing us of trying to steal their turf and their technique.
And it's interesting to ponder.
Let me take a quick timeout.
I appreciate, again, the confidence expressed in me by the caller.
Quick timeout.
Don't go away.
We will be right back.
All right, we're thinking of adding another tune here to the John Edwards update rotation.
As you know, Kate Michelman, if you've been listening to the program since the beginning today, the former abortion babe, Kate Michaelman, she's still pro-abortion.
She's not a member of NAROL anymore.
She's out there saying that Edwards is the best guy qualified on the Democrat side for women.
She could be the first female president.
And Colder, you're getting this.
Kate Michaelman essentially saying that John Edwards, the Brett girl, could be the first female president.
So we've got Shanklin working on now I Am Woman, sung by John Edwards, the Brett girl.
And we're going to throw this one into the mix.
This is the Eurythmics joined by Aretha Franklin.
And it's called Sisters Are Doing It For Themselves.
Thought about trying to sound like Barack saying that, but I gave it a.
All right, so that's the Eurythmics with Aretha, and we'll throw that into the rotation as well.
I mean, it's funny.
Bill Clinton was the first black president.
If he's elected, the Brett girl is going to be the first female president, Democrats talking.
And so we've decided Bill Richardson gets elected, he'll be the first North Korean president.
Because whatever you are, you cannot be the first real thing.
Hillary will be the first female president.
She'll be something else.
Yeah, you could say Hillary might be the first male president the Democrats have had in a while.
Testicle lockbucks has been accumulating them.
Martin in Dawsonville, Georgia, welcome to the EIB Network.
Hello, Rush, longtime listener, first time caller.
Pal, great to have you on the program, sir.
Thank you.
Thank you.
I think your first caller had the right sentiment, but he had the wrong action plan.
And the reason is that conservatives generally don't march because they're too busy working.
Yeah, that's true.
And the conservatives, that's his, I know that his idea is rooted in being noticed.
Right.
And he thinks conservatives are invisible out there.
And I can understand the feeling individual people in the country here, conservatives, feeling because they're never highlighted in the drive-by media except to be laughed at and impugned.
Right.
Made fun of.
Right.
But I think people are looking to you to lead a movement because there is no conservative out there who is doing it.
Nude is kind of in the background talking about it.
But I think people are looking for you to issue a call to arms and lead a movement with a concrete action plan.
And I have some suggestions as to what I think that is.
Let me grab a piece of paper here.
Hang on just a second.
Got to grab a piece of blank paper from the printer here.
Take notes.
All right, fire away.
Well, I think the action plan ought to be to put continual heat on the Republican Party to stay true to its roots.
Well, wait, wait, wait, wait now.
Some might say that it is.
I mean, traditionally, the Republican Party has been a blue-blood country club party.
It's been a bunch of the Republican Party's featured a bunch of moderates and liberals, the Rockefeller bunch, remember that?
Rhinos now.
I think what needs to happen is conservatives need to be unafraid to take over that party.
Well, you're talking about the Northeastern Republicans for the most part, but I'm talking about the red state Republicans, the blue-collar, the guys that are trying to start new businesses, the working-class Republicans, the entrepreneurs, the entrepreneur class, the people.
Okay, so what you want, basically, you're talking, people who elect conservatives as Republicans go to Washington and stay that way.
That's what you put pressure on them to be true.
All right, correct.
I agree.
And the way that I would do this is to periodically interview the head of the RNC or whoever it is to call them to account for keeping in line what I call the stray dog Republicans.
Well, I have a problem.
I don't do guests.
I got a format restriction on guests.
What do I do about that?
That's an exception.
What I would do is, just like you have your global warming update, have a stray dog Republican update and identify those Republicans who are straying off the reservation when it comes to votes in terms of supporting the president on troop withdrawals, on funding the troops, any kind of hot-button issues that conservatives are keen on to identify those Republicans that are straying from the reservation.
That's an excellent idea.
And you realize that as a caller, any idea becomes our property totally.
That's fine.
Run with it.
And to follow that up, I would take those stray dog Republicans and remind them that they are vulnerable in the next primaries that come up and to try to identify conservative challengers for those stray dog Republicans and primaries.
Well, now that's what the party, you know, interestingly, that's what the, like the Congressional Campaign Committee on the Republican side, the Senate, they have one too.
They are to go out there and find candidates who can win.
And they do it based on, okay, one of the vagaries of each district in terms of a congressional race.
If you need a Republican who's not conservative to win in a certain district in a certain state, then that's what they'll go out and find.
Right.
But I think a light needs to be shined on these stray dog Republicans to keep them in line before it gets to primary day so that the heat is continually on them, just like another program puts the shining light on judges, liberal judges that give lenient sentences on child sex abuse cases.
I've got to run here because of time, but that's an interesting idea, stray dog Republican update.
We can find a way to do this in an entertaining and penetrating way.
Thanks much for that.
Here's a question for those of you interested in these kind of things.
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