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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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Yeah, time to fire away.
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Try this headline.
Anne 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?
Ha ha!
Ah ah ah.
It's by Josh Gerstein in 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 uh 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 Michaelman asked and answered the question she gets most frequently about her decision to back the Breck 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.
This is choking me up here of women's lives.
Compared to Mrs. Bill Clinton, the brick girl is short an X chromosome.
But listening to this not absurd.
Listening to Ms. Michaelman, uh, 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 his centrality of women's lives and an experience of 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 uh 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.
Uh after the rally, another journalist and I sought out Miss Michelman, who spent twenty years at the helm of the nation's leading abortion rights group, Nayrol Pro Choice America.
Asked how Mr. Edwards could have a better understanding of women's concerns than Mrs. Bill Clinton.
Ms. Michaelman denied trying to convey such a message.
I didn't say better.
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 Bret girl necessarily mean meant crit uh criticizing his uh his opponents.
Uh pressed about how uh the Bret girl could have a feel for women's problems.
This is too ripe.
This is I'm practicing restraint like you can't believe here.
Uh pressed how the Breck girl could have a feel for women's problems that's even comparable to that of someone like Mrs. Bill Clinton.
Ms. Michaelman 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.
And lift everybody up.
You've seen his big mansion?
You seen his seen his guest, his little beach house.
He's isolating himself from you.
Not lifting anybody up, but his policy certainly wouldn't do that.
Uh, Ms. Michelson's decision after a career in the women's movement, which by the way, I as I say for I love the women's.
Don't get the wrong idea here.
I love the women's movement, especially with walking behind it.
But anyway, her decision uh not to back Mrs. Bill Clinton has prompted speculation and grumbling in some quarters.
Some suggest Miss Michaelman still fuming over a 2005 speech in when which Mrs. Bill Clinton called abortion a sad, even tragic choice to many, many women.
Still, uh Michaelman acknowledges that some of her enthusiasm for the Bret girl springs from an intangible affinity she can't quite explain.
Hard to describe.
So John Edwards uh on tap now, according to one of the nation's largest uh abortion rights supporters to become the first woman president uh in the United States.
And of course, the first the barrier is down.
Uh first black president, the uh Bill Clinton, that that barrier is broken.
Sometimes all you can do is laugh at these people.
Speaking of the Breck 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.
Uh move on the civic communication director uh uh uh uh Adam Green said, We want to we want to send a clear message to voters, the media and the presidential candidates of Fox is part of the right wing smear machine, not a legitimate source of news.
It's a it's a debate.
Why do you think the Democrats want their debate on the Fox News Channel?
They've got 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 gonna watch it.
Fox News by far has the largest audience.
And of course, um uh the Democrats trying to reach that audience uh in their debate, and Edwards is uh is gonna is gonna skip out.
Uh this is not pre you know, presidents uh don't get away.
Even even the first female president uh doesn't get away with uh uh you know boycotting certain networks.
The Centers for Disease Control sent out a uh an advisory, I guess today.
Senior citizens uh 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 uh old people were left to drown or stranded in their homes, was no aberration.
It was no aberration.
It happens everywhere.
Uh, and so you uh seasoned citizens be prepared to go it alone.
School bus uh 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?
Is it common sense?
Disaster happens, you're on your own.
You got a big time disaster heading your way.
Uh you make steps, take steps to get out of there.
Uh 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 uh to save the day.
Uh this is interesting, too.
This is from the Politico.com today.
New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson's 2008 presidential campaign.
What would he what 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 if if if the Bret girl's 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 sides of first something.
Anyway, uh he has campaigns 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 whether his personal conduct can withstand public scrutiny.
Richardson, in an interview, denied have behaving inappropriately, calling the talk mean-spirited.
The usual out.
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, but the 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 this is not improper.
It's annoying.
It's not improper.
You realize the import of that.
Here's a lieutenant governor of the state.
Now 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 uh any number of uncomfortable positions, places.
Hot water.
Booing will not be banned at sporting events in Washington State, after all.
Uh 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 states 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 man, said Mike Kulbracy, head of the Washington Interscholastic Activities Association.
That's just silly.
Well, the first port, uh first report we got on this was from ABC.
It actually ran on March the 4th.
Democrats uh uh have are starting to get a little bold here on uh on the the slow version of the slow bleed by Jack Mirtha, wanting to pull out of uh Iraq now by the fall of 2008.
We've got that.
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We figured it out during the uh commercial break.
If uh Bill Richardson uh would happen to be elected the first uh uh if he'd be elected president, we had two choices.
Uh 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 he got the Breck girl has an affinity for women.
Uh, and understands their issues.
I don't know whether Richardson has that affinity for uh Jews and Jewish issues, such as uh 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 Slung, a little potbellied 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 uh official update theme for the Breck Girl.
Are you listening, Ann Coulter?
All right, come on, get to the chorus so I can get out of this.
Don, does this embarrass you?
This was big in the 70s.
This was huge in the 70s.
Ready, Helen, with a vocal portrayal.
Anyway, that's enough.
I got a better idea.
I'm gonna ask Paul Shanklin if he's got a uh hang on just a second.
If he's got a if somebody, if he can do it, or if he's got somebody else who impersonate Edwards, and have Edwards actually sing the song.
So we'll uh we'll get to work uh on on that Ilquico.
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 sound bites.
The latest Democrat strategy is to link Walter Reed to the war and push for defeat in Afghanistan, too.
The Democrats held a press conference on their new timetable for the withdrawal of U.S. combat troops from Iraq.
A portion of uh these 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 uh putting resources into that war.
Again, a war that has been uh 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 there were uh actually two conflicting stories.
Uh one from David Espo at the Associated Press, the headline, Democrats want Iraq pull out by the fall of two thousand eight.
And the lead of the story is this.
In a direct challenge to President Bush, House Democrats unveil 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 uh nearly 100 billion dollars 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 gonna get out of there, if indeed this were to be upheld.
Uh, once again, the Democrats in in just blatant ownership of defeat.
Now, earlier story in the Boston Globe today by Rick Klein, Democrats shelve plans to uh force Iraq pull out, lacking support for stronger bill, scale back goals.
Um, in the Boston Globe, it looks like Democrats uh 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.
Uh, bottom line is that the 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 Murray.
This is to give Merth a cover, by the way, too, folks.
Um this is to sort of give him uh half of the apple uh while uh uh not really going full bore and leaving him out of the press conference so forth in a prominent way.
But over in the Senate, it's an entirely different matter.
Uh they're not gonna get sixty 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 uh the kook left wing base of the Democrat Party, which is uh typified here by uh uh Congressperson Janice Shikowski of Illinois.
Uh 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.
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 this is absurd, but this is who they are, typified here by Janice Shikowski, Democrat from Illinois, not going along with the Pelosi plan.
Pelosi plans 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 uh the Democrats.
Ownership of defeat in Iraq.
More of their desire to bring that around.
The Washington Post today.
Story by Jonathan Weissman and uh Shaleg Murray, even in her conservative Kansas district, calls and letters to freshman House Democrat Nancy Boida 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. pull out 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 uh talk to the far left wing Democrats, the ones even to the left of Pelosi, uh, who want out now, and uh, you know, with such strong sentiments, the past three days in the House have been agonizing uh 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 uh equivalent of yellow dog Democrats, they call them blue dogs who's in blue states.
There are 54 of them, and they're starting to make their presence felt, not so much on Iraq, but on some domestic issues.
But these are largely conservative Democrats, uh, 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.
Uh and interestingly, in this Washington Post story, uh Representative Dan Borin, Democrat from Oklahoma, uh, who is from a conservative district said uh 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's the issue, but the president's issue, it's the president's issue, not ours.
So you got some of these Democrats only 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 this get out of now, get out of a rock now caucus in the in the House.
They don't remember, or maybe they do, and they they think it was just one of the greatest moments in Democrat history.
Uh so you've got some Democrats in the House who are afraid of being tagged uh uh uh as as being responsible for defeat, as in Vietnam.
Uh and I thought it was the Republicans who were supposed to be afraid of these Vietnamese or Vietnam analogies.
Uh 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 a work cut out for her, but it all doesn't matter in the end, because it's gonna 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 uh frequently as it should.
I also asked a question, which I think is at the heart of this, and that it's a question about uh our situation in Iraq.
How much longer this war will go on?
How long will the surge be before we can make an evaluation?
Uh, 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.
Uh that's the wrong bite.
Uh, but Durban did say he asked the president how long he's gonna wait to see if the surge works, so that they uh they know uh can know how many wounded soldiers to expect at Walter Reed.
Uh and in the process, you get it's a it's uh it's uh a bit of an inference that you have to suggest that the 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 and the Holy Rock War.
The bottom line, Durban knows they don't have the votes in the Senate.
Stop uh the uh the uh any legislation coming from the House of Representatives, zip zero now.
They've got fifty votes.
They've got fifty-one, but uh 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 they've got a fifty-one vote majority is absurd when it comes to uh this issue.
That means with 49 votes, they'd have to come up with eleven in order to get the cloture and sixty votes.
Mitch McConnell would only have to lose eight.
Uh or would have to lose it could could lose eight.
I mean, because 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 uh behind the scenes on the minimum wage bill.
What's in the minimum wage bill?
Where is it?
Some people are beginning to ask.
Uh 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 uh 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've 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 uh had what they called a Megan Mad March on uh DC.
That was Calypso Louis Farrakhan Nation of Islam.
Well, I think you, as with the connections you've got with the national media, with your website, with your newsletter, you can with the you know, with the people you know, you could help us organize, and that's what we need.
I think we conservatives need someone uh 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 DC, 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, yeah, we can show that by writing uh emails and sending letters and so forth, but I think the 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 uh a question.
I I appreciate your uh 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 gonna happen because it's gonna make it.
But do you remember what it was about theoretically?
The million man march was aimed at black men, and it was it was aimed come 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 uh we're talking about the 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 how that there's uh a lot of people who are tired of what's going on, it's also going to 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 uh 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.
Uh conservatives sometimes feel lost it alone.
They want people to know how how many of them there are, how vocal, how passionate, uh, and they want to be noticed.
I guarantee you, though, if I if I if I ever did something like this, the first people be knocking down my door to speak would be the rhinos.
Went out there and saying no, no rhinos.
Anyway, I appreciate the idea.
Appreciate the thought.
I appreciate your confidence uh 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 three million people marching on Washington.
Do you realize that the drive by media would report it as a hundred thousand?
Uh confirmed by the park police.
There would be no aerial photos.
We'd have to hire our own blimp uh to uh to prove it.
Uh they well, I they they uh Snerdley is reminding me that they did tell the truth about Dan's bake said, but you've got to remember the timing of that.
They NBC sent an info babe out there.
It was Al Roker's wife.
Woman who's not that 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 uh between then and now.
And there are the there were.
There were there were giant traffic tie-ups on the interstate highway leading to Ford Collins.
I flew in over the helicopter, I couldn't believe it.
And we got down to where this uh Dan's bake sale was, and there they they estimated uh what 75 75,000 people there.
The uh and NBC on the Saturday night, it was a Saturday and then Saturday Nightly News.
They they did a story they called it the conservative Woodstock.
But back then, you know, this was this is like a circus act to these people.
The report they were all spotted.
Well, look at this bunch of animals that got out of the zoo.
Hasn't this today, I mean, it was a threatening to them then.
Today it would be threatening.
And of course, you'd have the uh Reverend uh Jackson's and uh and others on the left, uh the pro-choicers, the feminazis, they'd all be accusing us of trying to steal their turf and their technique.
It's interesting to ponder.
Let me take a quick timeout.
I appreciate again the confidence expressed in me uh by uh by the caller.
Quick uh quick timeout.
Don't go away.
We will be right back.
All right, we're thinking of adding another tune here to the uh John Edwards uh update rotation, as you know, Kate Michelman.
If you've been listening to the program since the uh beginning today, the former uh abortion babe, Kate Michaelman.
She's still pro-abortionist, she's just not a member of Nayroll anymore.
She's out there saying that uh Edwards is uh is uh is the best guy qualified uh on the Democrat side for women.
It could be the first female president.
Anne Colder, you're getting this.
Uh Kate Michaelman essentially saying that uh that John Edwards, the Bret girl could be the first female president.
So we've got we've got Shanklin working on now I am woman, uh sung by John Edwards, the Bret Girl, and we're gonna throw this one into the mix.
This is the Eurythmix.
Joined by Aretha Franklin.
And is called Sisters Are Doing It for Themselves.
Thought about trying to sound like Barack saying that when I gave it a Eurythmix uh with Aretha, and we'll we'll throw that uh into the uh into the rotation as well.
I mean, it's funny.
Bill Clinton was the first black president.
If he's elected a Brett Girl's gonna be the first female president, Democrats talking.
And so we've 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.
Uh Hillary will not be the first female president.
She'll be something else.
Uh yeah, you could say Hillary might be the first male president the Democrats have had in a while.
Um Testical Lock Bucks has been accumulating them.
Uh Martin in Dawsonville, Georgia.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hello, Rush, long time listener, first time caller.
Well, great to have you on the program, sir.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Uh 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 uh the conservatives, that's that's that's uh uh his his I know that his idea is rooted in being noticed.
Right.
And that's uh he thinks conservatives are invisible out there.
And and I can understand the feeling, individual people in a in the country who are 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 uh looking to you to lead a movement because there is no uh conservative out there who is doing it.
Newt is kind of in the background um 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.
Uh 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 the action plan ought to be to put continual heat on the Republican Party to stay true to its roots.
And well, wait, wait, wait, wait now.
Uh some might say that it is.
I mean, traditionally the Republican Party's been a blue blood country club party.
Uh it's been a bunch of the Republican Party's featured a bunch of moderates and liberals, the Rockefeller bunch.
Remember that?
Rhinos now.
Um what I 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 I'm talking about the the red state Republicans, the the blue collar of the guys that are trying to start new businesses, the the working class Republicans, the entrepreneurs, the entrepreneur class, the people.
Okay, so what you want you basically you're talking people who elect conservatives as Republicans go to Washington and stay that way.
That's what we put pressure on them.
Correct.
To be true.
All right.
Correct.
And the and the way that I would do this is to uh 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.
How what do I do about that?
Well, I've got an exception.
What I what I would do is 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 uh on uh 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 and you realize that as a caller, you any idea becomes our property totally.
That's fine.
Run with it.
And the second and the and 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 in primaries.
Well now, that's what the party that you know interestingly, that's what the like the Congressional Campaign Committee on the Republican side, the Senate uh they have one too.
They are to go out there and find candidates who can win.
And they do it based on, okay, what are the one of the vagaries of each district in in terms of a congressional race?
If the if you need a Republican who's not conservative uh to win in a certain district in a certain state, then that's what they'll go out and find.
Right.
But I think 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 uh program puts puts the uh shining light on judges, liberal judges that give lenient uh sentences on uh uh child uh child sex abuse cases.
I've got to run here because of time, but that's that's uh that's an interesting idea.
Stray dog uh uh Republican update.
We can find a way to do this in entertaining and penetrating way.
Uh thanks much for that.
Here's a question for those of you interested in these kind of things.
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