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Dec. 19, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 19, 2007, Wednesday, Hour #3
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You know what one of the hottest Christmas gifts this year is?
Uh health care uh credit cards.
Uh we will be spending more than 26 billion dollars on gift cards this year, and just when you thought there's nothing new under the Christmas tree, along comes one for good health.
This is uh where's this from?
This is uh the Channel 2 here in New York.
When it comes to Christmas presents, Stacy Smith was stumped over what to give her husband's grandmother, especially an older person.
They really have everything they need.
But now she's found something that fits perfectly, the gift of health through a medical gift card.
She can use it towards her prescriptions and her medical bills or anything like that.
Uh gift card can be used for doctor's visits or deductibles, prescription copays, contact lenses, even elective surgery.
Uh it is a uh Yeah, if your father-in-law needs a prostate exam, go out and get him a health gift card, folks.
Uh, absolutely.
The sky's the limit on this stuff.
You know, it why not just just yeah, just give them the money.
Go buy it.
But then they they'd spend it on other things.
You know, California, we we we've heard.
Speaking of health, Schwarzenegger, the governor out there, is going to uh convene an emergency session of the assembly in January, because they're way, way, way over budget.
Like four or five billion dollars over budget, and of course, an emergency session.
Why, that sounds serious.
They got to do something.
An emergency session, grab your pockets, Californians.
You are guaranteed a tax increase.
Guaranteed.
And it's gonna be the kind of tax increase that doesn't produce new revenue.
You keep calling the Bush tax cuts, tax cuts they weren't.
They were tax increases.
The amount of money that roared into the treasury increased after the tax cuts.
We had tax rate reductions, but tax revenue increased.
You could actually and more accurately say that the Bush tax cuts were tax increases.
They were just happened by virtue of rate reductions.
So in the midst of another interminably long list of budget shortfalls in California, you got an assembly coming back in January in emergency session, guaranteeing tax increases.
And then there's this from the Sacramento B, the state of California not funding a mountainous 48 billion dollar tab for medical benefits promised to future retirees, government retirees, a bill that ranked as the second largest in the nation last year.
Uh the escalating liability, which accounting rules now require listing on the balance sheet, would hurt the state's debt rating, and consequently raise the cost of borrowing if it goes unaddressed.
Equally as important, since tax revenues are not expected to cover it, taxpayers will be forced to sacrifice services or sell bonds or even higher interest rates uh to accommodate the obligation.
The fiscal incompetence of the entire state government of California is from the governor on down to every elected Democrat is mind-boggling.
They have a they have an estimated budget deficit of I'm sorry, 20 billion as it is.
They're passing a universal amigos health care bill.
They are.
Universal amigos health care bill, and now they can't even afford to pay health care benefits for state workers.
It's getting to the point where the mess is going to be so bad that some genuine adults may have to come in there, uh, straighten it out and fix it.
Let's go to the audio sound bites.
Let's pick up here, let's start with uh number 10.
Uh the Meathead was on PBS.
Rob Ryder, Tavis Smiley Show.
Uh and uh Tavis Smiley says, so you're supporting Hillary.
But Al Gore, I'm told was your first choice.
I supported Al Gore during the 2000 election.
I'm very close friends with him, and you know, I waited to see what he was going to do, you know, quite frankly.
I'm you know, I'm very loyal to him, and I felt he, you know, didn't get a good shake there on the 2000 race.
He won.
They just didn't let him govern.
The meathead still whining about Florida 2000.
The uh interview continued with this.
He can feel good about the win, but he didn't get to govern.
Yeah.
Uh and unfortunate for the world that he didn't.
He's a Nobel laureate now.
Yes, he is, and that's and that's wonderful.
And I looked at all the candidates, and I uh that was not even a question for me.
Hillary Clinton of the three of the three top ones that I was considering, she's the only one that had the real understanding of the three things that you really need.
Unless you have the experience, you cannot make that change.
You have to know how government works, and it is naive to say that you can go into Washington and not know the mechanics and the inner workings of Washington in order to move an agenda forward.
So that's why I back Hillary.
Remember what I have trying to point out here for the last month or so, ignorance is the single most expensive thing we pay for in this country, particularly when ignorance is disguised as educated and informed.
This was pure what would you the the talking points?
It was it was nonsensical.
Um, the Christmas ad, you know, the ad that Huckabee ran that's got the what people get floating cross in there.
Uh and just it's a Merry Christmas ad.
Mentions the birth of Christ, drive-by's.
Oh, orgasmed on this one, folks.
They really did it.
Drive-by's.
Whoa, this is such a brilliant ad, white.
This is really now normally when a Republican political candidate starts talking about to mention Christ, just say God.
Just say faith.
Drive-by is in a libs, they have a cow, they go nuts.
Separation of church and state, and they start talking about theocracies and all this.
So why when Huckabee runs his ad, mentions Christ, Merry Christmas, want to get away from all the bolder dash of political ads, got a little floating cross in there.
Why are the drive-bys so excited?
Why?
That's because they want him to win.
Oh, they're good.
Is this guy gonna be easy?
This if see if Huckabee, the way they think, the way the drive-by's think, if Huckabee gets a nomination, then the drive-bys and the Democrats think with one person they can destroy the whole Christian right by having that candidate go down in flames.
And make no mistake, I don't know that they would succeed, because I think they constantly underestimate the power of the Christian right.
But that's that's their gameplay.
So anyway, Huckabee is being asked to talk about this floating cross aspect.
He said it wasn't the cross, it's a bookcase.
It's just bookshelves.
So he's on the Today Show today, Meredith Vieira.
She says, in this ad, you say that uh people should be celebrating the birth of Christ while the shape of a cross appears to take shape behind you.
And that's led to some to say this is another overt religious appeal to voters.
What do you say about this ad?
What do you say about those criticisms?
That floating cross is a bookshelf, Meredith.
We were all amused, the production crew, I think probably more than anyone who put the spot together.
And so you didn't see that image when you when you put the spot together that it might be not.
I'd love for you to interview the crew.
They they would find this incredibly amusing.
People are looking for anything in the world.
It's almost like it's so politically incorrect to say Merry Christmas anymore.
And I find this pretty amazing.
I mean, somebody's probably gonna figure out that as I was blinking my eyes, I was saying some special code, Morse code, and telling people a subliminal message.
I mean, it's just beyond ridiculous.
You can't even say Merry Christmas without people getting all sensitive about it.
Uh, Vieira then says, Well, you're sounding like you're a little fed up with some of the criticisms that have been leveled your way.
It's not fed up.
I'm just amused.
I totally am amazed that people are so sensitive these days.
I mean, for example, I bet you and even David Gregory are going to get off next Tuesday because it's Christmas.
We celebrate Christmas.
The era then says, before I let you go, the National Review's Rich Lowry Has said that, quote, it would represent an act of suicide by the party if Republicans nominated you.
Because he says you're unprepared and you're undervetted.
One thing to win in Iowa, what makes you convinced that you can win a national election?
The Wall Street to Washington access, this corridor of power is absolutely frantically against me.
But out there in America, the reason that we're number one in the polls is because I'm the guy that doesn't have some offshore mailbox and bank account in the Caymans hiding my money.
I'm the guy that worked my way up through it.
And there are a whole lot of people in America that believe that the president ought to be a servant of the people and ought not to be elected to the ruling class.
You might be asking yourself, what's he talking about here, offshore accounts in the Caymans?
What are you talking about, the Clintons?
We had the story yesterday, but uh Clinton is associated with Ron Burkle, got a lot of offshore accounts out there in the Caymans, and if if Clinton does, Hillary does, because their husband and wife, you know, assets, if not much else, uh joined at the hip.
Right, and Edwards, uh, the Fortress, uh, the bunches foreclosing on all the poor people uh that Edwards uh worked for.
They've got some offshore accounts too.
That's what Huckabee uh is uh is referring to.
And for all I know, he might be referring to.
What's the mayor here?
I'm having a mental blow.
Yeah, it's right, that's right, Bloomberg.
So one more one more soundbite.
Meredith Vieira says, so Governor, why do you think they're opposed to you?
Why do you think they're opposed to you, Governor?
Because they don't control me.
I'm not one of theirs.
I'm not one of those guys that just own my soul to the people on Wall Street.
I'm not a wholly owned subsidiary of them.
There's a sense in which all these years the evangelicals have been uh treated very kindly by the Republican Party.
They wanted us to be a part of it.
And then one day one of us actually runs and they say, Oh my gosh, now they're serious.
Yeah, well, uh uh I I think he's on to something there, but I I would also remind uh uh Governor Huckabee that uh George W. Bush is uh is president, and while he doesn't call himself a member of the Christian right, uh he has made no bones about the importance of his faith and refers to it quite a lot.
And that is one of the reasons that they hate Bush.
Mark my words.
We'll be right back.
Hi, welcome back, Rush Limbaugh, the cutting edge of societal evolution.
Los Angeles Time, California State Assembly backs health care for everybody.
This is the story I'm just telling you about.
Health care for everybody.
Governor Schwarzenegger and the Assembly speaker, Fabian Nunez uh got together and they passed the first phase of a plan to extend medical insurance to almost all residents.
Fourteen point four billion dollar plan to extend medical insurance to nearly all residents.
Yet they don't have the money to up medical coverage, 48 million dollars for state employees.
Yet they're doing all it's it's it's a disaster.
Makes no sense.
And by the way, upstate New York lost uh one of every five manufacturing jobs from 2000 to 2006, and the uh the declines will likely continue, though employment is rising in finance, education, health care, and uh leisure.
Um her initial Mrs. Clinton's initial Senate campaign in New York was targeted to upstate voters, jobs and relief.
Senator Clinton, where you been?
Manufacturing jobs, one of your stated objectives, leaving the state in droves.
She just can't do anything right.
Whoa, look at this.
Congress's failure to ensure that there are enough migrant workers in the nation's labor force could eventually cost the New York agriculture business hundreds of millions of dollars in lost crops, hundreds of thousands of acres and lost farmland analysts say.
Our country is reaping what Congress has sown.
Said Craig Regalbrug, uh, vice president of the American Nursery and Landscape Association.
Well, where were the Democrats?
The Democrats run Congress for a while here.
Uh where was Senator Clinton?
Where has she been?
She's senator from New York focusing on upstate.
Where are these migrant workers?
I guess that's what the driver's license snaff who was all about.
Just can't do anything right.
Where's all this experience?
Where's all this change?
She was going to affect the senator.
There hasn't been any change.
There hasn't been anything done right.
And by the way, she's been she's been struggling, she's been fighting, she's been standing up for kids.
For thirty-five years.
I have yet to hear the kid, now an adult step forward and say Mrs. Clinton changed my life.
I've heard them say that their parents or a teacher or a mentor did.
Mrs. Clinton's publicly saying she's been fighting for kids.
Been standing up for kids.
And I have yet to see the kid come up.
And it'd be a great plant opportunity.
And uh well.
You keep reminding me of things I have here in the stack.
Speaking of plants.
So many what is a stack.
Yes.
Here it is.
She just happened now, it's the wrong stack.
She just all that's right.
It's in your stack.
It's the LA Times of Sunday school team.
Yeah, let me let me find that.
Let me go to the phones here because people have been waiting.
Uh Bill in uh in Denver, I'm glad you called.
Welcome to the program, sir.
Oh, Russ, thank you very much for all that you are doing against the onerous man-made global warming hoax.
Uh I'm very frustrated over the energy bill, and that's the president signed it, and we seem to be losing the battle against man-made global warming hoax.
I'm very frustrated about it.
I've had some dialogue with the NASA scientist.
Dr. Spencer probably knows him.
And uh I just wanted to share some thoughts at some point with you on that.
Uh I I really it it's Wait, wait, hold on.
I'm having trouble hearing you on mute.
Wait, wait, wait, wait.
I need to read what you just said.
Frustrated have had dialogue with NASA describes an acquaintance of mine that I've had a longgoing debate with over this whole global warming issue.
He's in Goddard, he's not, he's in Maryland, not down in Alabama, like Dr. Spencer.
And he sent me an email yesterday, and he said, You are among a rapidly diminishing group of climate change deniers.
Even President Will Bush has agreed for the last year or so that man is causing climate to warm due to increasing greenhouse gases, and that we need to do something about it.
Hang on just a second.
Just a second.
So the scientist you're talking to is in the tank for the Hulk.
Is that what you're saying?
And he's been doing it for 30 years.
He's been on ABC News this week.
He's been uh quoted in the Associated Press.
What's the guy's name?
No, I'm because we live near to near each other.
Or, you know, we have a common uh uh neighborhood, so to speak.
What what is his name?
Well, it's Dr. Swally, and I'm sure Dr. Spencer knows him, and he's proud of the fact, and he's worked with Al Gore extensively, and he's been working since 1972 on it, and we've had an ongoing debate on this issue, and it just he just feels like we're winning.
They said the scientific truth, as inconvenient as it may be, it's becoming more and more evident.
Let's hold it.
Let's get to your original contention, which I find interesting, that we are losing the battle against global warming legislatively.
And I've always had this fear.
I think uh we're changing hearts and minds uh dramatically on the issue.
Uh but legislate this energy bill is a classic cave to the hoax.
It is is a hundred percent classic cave to the hoax.
What happened in Bali has been so misrepresented, Bali was a failure.
Bally was the last chance, and they only agreed to future timetables.
And by the way, it was a victory in the sense that the United States and and uh uh Canada and Australia sort of teamed up and said, Look at if you're gonna keep exempting China, if you're gonna keep exempting all these screw, we're not gonna come up with any guidelines, we're certainly not going to abide by them.
Uh other stories in the in the global warming stack of stuff today.
Here's a story, what is this from?
This is uh uh NewStatesman.com has global warming stopped.
The fact that the global temperature of 2007 is statistically the same as 2006 and every year since 2001.
There is also a statement supposed to be coming out sometime today.
300 or 300 scientists of eminent repute are going to release a paper saying that man-made global warming is not true, that there is no great consensus here.
Um it is it's it's an ongoing battle, but you're talking to your scientist buddy.
Uh these guys are are are are committed politically to this.
Uh and it's it's uh uh they're frauds.
And when they when they act as though scientists, uh science is is governing their view of this, it's not because it can't be proven.
It's still a hope.
It's still a theory.
Uh it cannot survive the scientific process.
Uh that's why they're calling people like you deniers, because they don't want to really debate it with you.
That's why Gore will never run for president next year.
Because he would have to debate global warming, and he refuses to, because he can't.
We'll be back.
Stay with us.
Uh, that's right.
All right, it's a Senate report.
There's a blockbuster Senate report scheduled uh to be released today.
Uh and I it was supposed to be released this morning, and I'm not seeing that it has been, but it it's going to have or does have over 300 names of prominent scientists from over 24 countries.
That's a couple dozen for those of you in Rio Linda.
Just a sampling of scientists who spoke out recently, overwhelmingly in the majority of them in 2007, skeptical of gore, skeptical of the UN or the media-driven consensus.
It is not a list, it is a detailed report with the scientists speaking in their own words with biographical information and web links to studies and original source material.
Um the purpose is to it's sort of supposed to be a consensus buster for the idea that there's no longer any debate about this.
Have you heard?
This is the this is it just gets wackier.
The global warming news just gets wackier.
Now there's some idiot who is going to pilot a boat.
It's going to circumnavigate the whole planet on a boat powered by fat, liposuctioned from human beings.
Uh that's right.
It's called an eco boat.
You can see a picture of this thing at the Drudge Report.
It's from the UK Daily Mail.
The f no, no, no, it's not a hoax.
They got pictures of the eco-boat, the pictures of the inside of pictures of the guy.
Uh the fastest eco boat on a planet will attempt to break the round the world speed record using fuel made from human fat.
Pete Bethuen, the New Zealand skipper of Earth race, that's the name of the Eco Boat, said the attempt to circumnavigate the globe would begin from Valencia in Spain on March 1st of next year.
Bethune and his wife mortgaged their house and sold everything they own to help make the eco-boat powered by liposuctioned human fat happen.
while continuing to seek support from sponsors.
I don't know where you stood.
I haven't read the whole story.
And I don't know where you're going to store.
Maybe his wife's going to store it in her thighs, they can have liposuction her during the trip, Surley.
I have no clue.
I just do not.
What's wrong with these you ask now what's wrong with these people?
Uh try this one.
Global ocean temperatures are plunging.
This is from data gathered by the National Climatic Data Center.
In 2000, when scientists declared the Earth's temperature was rising, much anxiety ensued, of course, even though the increase was only half of a degree over 60 years.
In just the past year, however, the Earth's temperature has reversed, yielding back one half of that increase.
How can there be global warming if temperatures of the last six years are static or even down a tenth of a degree?
How can there be global warming?
And by the way, winter isn't even here yet.
Winter officially starts a day after Open Line Friday, which is Saturday, which is December 22nd this year.
The past month's global oceanic data from the National Climatic Data Center has now been released.
The Earth's ocean surface is.2548 degrees warmer than the 1880 to 2007 average, but that's down from five or .5250 last year and.5597 a decade ago.
The ocean temperatures are plummeting.
There have been drops of roughly a couple tenths of a degree previously, in spite of the general warming trend.
What warming trend?
The temperatures are plummeting.
Next headline.
Warming could Wipe out scotch.
The overflow of millions of gallons of seawater caused by global warming could wipe out some of the most famous names in the whiskey industry, scientists have warned.
Coast I got a lot of people's attention on this.
To hell with Greenland melting, but boy, if something happens to Scotch, yeah, in this case it'd be the Kennedy's hardest hit.
The Scotch industry gets wiped out, the Kennedys might have to go take out a loan.
Coastal distilleries producing a range of internationally famous brands such as Bullmore, Talisker, Glenmorangy.
That is good stuff.
I saw I saw a bottle the other day, $600 bottle of something like 20 million year old Glenmorangy.
It's got they said a glass case, single molt scotch, uh for those of you in uh in Rio Linda.
Uh well, beer choice out there.
So anyway, uh they're they're worried that these coastal distilleries could be swamped with melting icebergs out there, wiping out the whole scotch industry.
Final thing, the global warming stack from the American thinker.
A reality check on global emissions tied to the Bali hoax conference.
In the seven years since the signing of Kyoto in 1997 and 2004, here has uh here's what's happened to emissions.
Emissions worldwide are up 18%.
Emissions from countries that signed the Kyoto Protocol are up 21%.
Emissions from countries that didn't sign Kyoto are up 10%.
So, to review.
Countries assigned Kyoto up 21, non-signers up 10.
Emissions from the United States up 6.6%.
And we haven't signed it.
And Gore is out there blaming his own country when he's over there in Bali, pointing a finger singularly at the United States of America for being the world's greatest polluter.
Our emissions up 6.6%, the world's up 18%, and the stupid countries that signed a stupid protocol are emissions are up 21%.
Marty in Fort Pierce, Florida, I'm glad you uh culture.
Welcome to the broadcast.
Okay, Megadiros from uh since 92.
Uh, thank you, sir.
Um, well, I think this uh Huckabee Surge is short-lived.
I think a lot of people out there are answering the poll question for a huckabee because he's not Romney, he's not McCain, and he's not um Rudy.
But uh there is, I think, I think Fred is Fred is the true conservative in the mix when things start shaking out.
I think he's gonna start making an impression.
You know, it's interesting that you mention that because uh I think I've got to somewhere in a stack, but I frankly don't have time to go through it in the paper.
This cheap paper and a printer up here sticks together.
This takes too long to find things.
But I think it's David Yepsen uh in the Des Moines Register.
Somebody up there says sleeper is Thompson that think he he thinks he's he detects things happening for Edwards and Thompson in Iowa that's below the radar that nobody's noticing.
He didn't attach any poll numbers to it or anything, but you know, all the it is very fluid, and it we're still a couple week and a half away from the Hawkeye Cockye, uh maybe two weeks, like that.
Uh anything can happen in this.
It's it's like if if these early polls, now this is not early polls, closer you get to polls are probably more accurate.
Uh but a poll six months ago that had Romney winning Iowa hands down.
What did it mean?
Zilch, where are we today?
What did the poll mean?
So they're interesting to discuss and uh speculate and so forth, but it's really dangerous to uh take them seriously.
I found a Clinton plant story.
This is amazing.
It's from the Los Angeles Times.
Is Clinton now planting people in campaign forums?
An amazing coincidence today on the campaign trail in Iowa with Hillary Clinton.
Keep in mind, folks, nothing that happens with the Clintons is coincidence.
New York Senator was in Donaldson, Iowa, continuing a broad statewide tour by herself, her husband, Magic Johnson, and relatives and friends who spread out to all 99 crucial counties to tell stories about her to soften and help personalize her calculating image in what's become a very tight Hawkeye Cockeye race.
By the way, there's an ancillary story to this.
Clinton just totally upstaged this.
Now I talked about this earlier, but he was somewhere at a grocery store, and he wasn't supposed to go in there.
Just stay around outside where the little platform is set up, and you know, you know, throw your underwear to screaming ladies and so forth, and get out of there.
Save a couple words and go.
He went into the grocery store to produce section.
He wanted to hang around the heads of lettuce or something, and he was doing all these the melons, all kinds of whatever it was.
The cucumbers, he wanted to be within sight of familiar objects.
And so the crowd followed him in there, and they lost control of the event, and it was he just aiding it up, signing autographs, posing for pictures.
Uh meanwhile, Hillary and Magic Johnson are outside on the platform, and nobody's paying attention to him by well, there's people still stayed out there, but all the excitement had moved inside the high V. Is that what it high Vive uh uh grocery store?
This is not an accident, folks.
I tried to tell you this brilliantly so in a uh in a second hour monologue.
Anyway, according to the Associated Press, at a campaign forum in the fire station at Donaldson, Iowa, which will be a caucus site on January 3rd.
Clinton happened to be asked about her religious faith.
She's a practicing Methodist.
She said, I'm often asked if I'm a praying person, and I am a praying person.
My father prayed at his bedside every night, and we prayed at the table over dinner.
Then the most incredible thing happened.
Someone pointed out that Clinton's childhood Sunday scroll teacher, Rosalie Benzinger, from her Park Ridge, Illinois days, happened to be right there in the very same Iowa fire station at the same moment that Hillary Clinton was talking about prayer.
What are the odds?
The Sunday school teacher stood up.
Clinton rushed over to hug her.
It was a warm and cuddly moment.
The 84-year-old Bzinger gave Clinton a photograph that she happened to have with her.
And Clinton announced she has a picture of my confirmation class, March 27th, 1959.
Clinton aides said that they were unaware that a Sunday school teacher was in the crowd, but the incident happened to make a warm story to help personalize the candidate.
Come on, you this is there are no coincidences.
There were no coincidences.
Right.
Divine intervention.
If God's got that much time, I've I know.
I know, just looking for something here.
We're back.
Rush Limbaugh fighting fatigue and near exhaustion.
Paul in Philadelphia.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hello.
Uh Rush, how are you?
Fine, sir.
Oh, what a what an honor and a privilege to talk to you.
I'm a longtime fan.
Um I wanted to make an observation.
It's a it's a very salient point that has been completely ignored by the media.
And you can do a Google search on this to uh confirm uh the accuracy of it, but it has to do with um uh Barack Obama's church that he attends and the twelve precepts and covenantal statements of black leadership, uh, such as black allegiance to all black leadership to espouse and embrace the black value system.
Now, this is a this is a man who wants to be the leader of the free world.
It's a man who wants to represent whites, uh blacks, and everyone.
In my mind, and my hang on here just a second.
Uh Paul, you have committed the Cardinal Sin, and you've violated the really only rule we have here.
You are not talking about that which you claim to want to discuss.
Had you told a call screener that you wanted to attack Obama on the basis of race, we would have not put you up.
You told us you wanted to talk about Hillary and that she's just for show.
Off stage something different.
But clearly you wanted on the program to have this forum to start ranting about Obama and his church and his race.
And I had to cut you off because that's not what we do here.
And I didn't want this to become a uh a forum for that kind of attack.
They'll leave that to the Clintons.
We'll leave that to Bob Carey.
Uh, but it will not happen here.
Roger in Indian Town, Florida.
You're next on the EIB network.
Hello, sir.
Hi, Russ.
Hi.
Yeah, uh, hey, I'm I'm your future favorite caller, by the way.
I just want to tell you that real quick.
Hey, I just want to tell you uh I was all for Huckabee.
I'm a devout Christian, I'm a minister, and I was all for him.
Now I'm reading these articles like an American thinker, and I'm going, oh my God, I can't support this guy.
And uh I've come to the conclusion.
Wait, wait, wait, wait.
What what story in the American thinker?
Do you happen to read this?
Well, it was off your your website.
I printed it up the Huckabee Hustles, what it's called.
Oh, okay.
That referenced that yesterday, yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And I've been reading a lot of things like this, and I've come to the conclusion.
I mean, just because somebody's a Christian doesn't qualify them to be president.
And uh I want, you know, we all know.
Well, but it does, see, it does with some.
That's that's the thing.
And it's not so much my theory is that the attachment that uh quote unquote evangelicals of the Christian right might have with Huckabee uh is not because, all right, here's one of ours.
I think these people, uh, and they have every reason to believe this, think that they're on target to be marginalized.
I mean, the Democrat Party has made no bones about the fact that they hate them and resent them, and they want to try to destroy them as a political power and so forth.
And so uh somebody that that that come along is represents their values in uh in important social areas, uh, it forms a bond.
And I I think that's that's partly the explanation for it here.
So to some people, it would matter that a Christian or a minister, as you said, is um uh somebody who's a Christian doesn't qualify him to be president, some people's mind it does.
Well, I believe one of the things that made Reagan such a great leader is because of his Christian values, and but he was ruled by principle, conservative principles, which are very biblical.
But some of the stuff that I'm hearing from Huckabee is not, it doesn't line up, and it is scary to me, and my wife's all for him, and I'm backing off now.
Uh well, that's interesting.
What are some of the things you're hearing that you don't like?
Like immigration.
For open borders, uh uh just a whole a lot of things.
Uh he seems to be a tax increaser, and that's one of the things that disappointed me about George Bush was not the tax increase, but spending.
And uh I'm for less government.
I'm I'm a Reagan conservative.
I'm for less government, less taxes, and plus no abortion and no gay marriage and things like that also.
I want the whole package.
Yeah, uh well, in the in the case of in the case of Huckabee, you have the open borders question.
Uh you have the what the thing that that I think is uh he's he's gonna have to pay attention to here uh as it relates to his open border problem and his immigration uh policies as governor of Arkansas and the things he's already said about children of uh illegal immigrants being afforded health care and all kinds of welfare benefits in this country, because you know, we're a compassionate country.
You got to understand that the first job of a president, the oath of office, whatever whatever else it is, defend and protect the Constitution and the country from the nation's enemies.
Amen.
External or internal.
And and uh that's that's something people take very seriously.
That's that's uh you can talk about the economy.
You can talk about any number of issues that supposedly take people and move them to the polls.
But even if they won't state it in preference polls, even if they won't tell you when you ask them why they voted the way they do, at the front of every serious voter's mind is is this candidate going to protect the country?
Is this why do you think McGovern went down a lost in a massive 49-state landslide?
Uh one of the reasons that the haughty John Kerry had problems is because he was gonna farm out national security to the UN at global permission or whatever it was, global test.
Uh this is not what a majority of serious voting Americans look for in a president, and this is something that Governor Huckabee is gonna have to shore up if things go well for him in Iowa and in New Hampshire.
People asking me the name of that boat, the eco boat gonna travel the world powered by liposuction to human fat.
Name of the boat is Rosie.
You can see a picture of it at the Drudge Report.
We'll see you tomorrow, folks.
Be happily and eagerly here.
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