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Jan. 3, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 3, 2008, Thursday, Hour #3
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Mitt Romney got a punchline in here.
This is the Washington Post blog.
Somebody asked him about the statement made by Ed Rollins.
Uh, who said, I just want to kick Romney's teeth in.
Yeah, what do you think about that, uh, Governor Romney?
Romney said, My only comment to that is don't touch the hair.
Hearty harhar.
Rasmussen.
According to the pollster Rasmussen, the number of Americans who identify themselves as Republicans has risen to a two-year high.
The number of Americans who consider themselves to be Republicans jump nearly two points in December to 34.2%.
That's the largest market share for the Republican brand in nearly two years since January of 2006.
At the same time, the number of Democrats fell to 36.3%.
That's down a point compared to a month ago.
During 2007, the number of Democrats has ranged from a low of 35.9% in July to a high of 37.8% in uh in February.
Uh now, Rasmussen summarizes at the very least, this news, if it holds, will mean that Democrats would probably only realize modest gains at the ballot box next November if they win anything at all.
It's a far cry from the heady days last summer when it appeared that Democrats would almost run the table in the Senate and continue building a bigger majority in the House in a related story.
Now, but to set this up, how many of you have heard that the Democrats are just totally outraising Republicans here in a primary?
Hillary with a hundred gazillion, you got Obama with a hundred gazillion, and the Republicans are just being swamped with fundraising.
I've heard those stories, and of course, I know exactly why that is.
It's just that simple.
To confirm it from the New York Times today, when it comes to fundraising, Democrats have outpaced Republicans almost across the board.
The lone exception is the Republican National Committee, which reported yesterday it had raised 83 million for the year, easily topping the Democrat National Committee, which had raised 50.5 million in the first 11 months of 2007.
Republicans say that this cash pile, a Republican committee has a 17.2 million on hand compared to the 2.8 million a Democrats have should help the Republican presidential nominee in the fall.
Yep, no question of it.
By the way, folks, I have to tell you this.
I love love stories.
Especially when they don't involve me.
And a friend of mine said that he got an email.
I don't even know how this is possible.
But he got an email from a high school sweetheart that he hasn't talked to since high school.
Now that would be virtually impossible.
Well, not virtually impossible, but it'd be very difficult for that to happen to me, because A, I didn't have one.
But B, if I did, there's no way that this high school sweetheart can get my email address without making a bunch of inquiries, and I would find out.
My friend just out of the blue, over the transomies checking his email one night.
Here comes this email from his high school sweetheart.
He hasn't seen her since high school.
This is 30, 40 years ago, something like that.
And they start up his little conversation, and after a couple of email backs and forths, she says to him, the next day, you know, I I just I can't sleep.
I can't sleep because I can't stop thinking of you.
And he's telling me this story.
And I said, That's not good.
You want them to sleep.
That's important.
This is this is crucial.
When did she say she's gonna start sleeping?
He said, not until she gets a ring on her.
Oh no, it's what how does this kind of stuff happen?
This is the kind of stuff that happens in movies.
You know, the dork lead male actors sitting there reading the email, all of a sudden here comes the the love of your life from 30 years ago and seen her with an email to you?
Your email.
You didn't have an email address, but how in the world did this woman get?
That's what I asked him.
How in the world does woman get your email address?
No, he said.
That's another red flag.
But nevertheless, it's a great love story.
Love these, love these stories.
By the you see this, former Senator Conrad Burns, no longer part of a federal investigation of jailed lobbyist Jack Abramov, the Justice Department said yesterday.
Conrad Burns narrowly, he's a Republican from Montana, narrowly lost re-election to a fourth term in 2006 after the Democrats made his relationship with Abram a central issue.
Abram off a key figure in a corruption investigation has led to convictions of a former congressman one, a few legislative aides, lobbyists, and officials in the Bush administration.
And now all of a sudden the Justice Department says to Conrad Burns, never mind.
This is pathetic as well as outrageous.
This guy lost his seat because of these allegations.
And now, nothing to it.
Nothing to it whatsoever.
The arbiters, actually, the architects of corruption get rid of a Republican on allegations.
And there was nothing to it.
All right.
While I was out, over the Christmas.
Actually, this happened.
I can't remember.
The days go by so fast because I turned the clocks off.
By the way, I didn't actually turn the clocks off.
What I mean when I say that is I just didn't pay any attention to them.
And if I wanted to stay up till 5 o'clock in the morning watching movies or doing whatever I was doing, I did.
And if I wanted to go in there and pop some popcorn at 3 30 in the morning, I did.
And whenever I woke up, I woke up.
It was just, it's bliss.
It's total bliss.
So in the process, I don't know when what happened.
Uh or when, whatever happened when, I don't know.
But I remember reading a commentary on this energy bill that contains in it the banning of the Thomas Edison invented incandescent light bulb in 2012.
And it just frosted me because the incandescent light bulb is absolutely harmless.
It hasn't hurt anybody.
It's not causing global warming.
It's not causing a carbon foot.
All of this is a hoax.
And yet, your government bans a light bulb.
And nobody said a peep.
The American people did not utter one level syllable of outrage about it.
And that kind of stuff scares the heck out of me.
Just like that, the Congress and the president banned incandescent light bulbs.
Now, what this is, folks, this is this is death by a thousand little cuts.
This is how liberty dies.
Drip, drip, drip, until eventually we have the Grand Canyon that's been created.
The federal law that bans the incandescent light bulb in favor of the IRF-friendly alternatives.
Wall Street Journal had a commentary by a guy named Brian Carney.
It just, it's just an...
I'll tell you what makes me mad about this.
Government taking away the need or drive for companies to produce products that are so good that people want to buy them.
You know, capitalism.
What instead now is going on, the government telling us what products we have to use, what products we have to buy, and what products we can't because they're not going to be available.
Not anybody said a peep.
Nobody said a word.
We're saving the planet, Mr. Limbo.
I fear you don't care about it, but we're saving the planet.
These light bulbs are destroying the planet with global warming.
Ignorance.
Absolute ignorance and stupidity.
How long we've been using the incandescent light bulb.
When did Edison invent the incandescent light bulb?
In the 1800s, right?
We've been using the incandescent light bulb over a hundred years.
Would somebody tell me how much the temperature went up in the world because of incandescent light bulbs?
Zilch Zero Nada.
In fact, I have from our official climatologist, Dr. Roy Spencer, the latest satellite, globally averaged satellite temperatures.
And I hate to tell you that the globally average temperature of the planet has not warmed in six years.
And it is still well below 1998.
1998, the most recent hot year.
And that was an El Nino year.
Right now we are at about the levels of 2002.
Actually, we're below even 2002.
And the levels of uh of global warming are actually decreasing at this point.
And on this graph that I have, I'm gonna I'm gonna I'm gonna send this graph up to uh Coco at the website so you can look at it, because the graph also contains a little red shaded arrow with an arrow pointing from uh left to right showing Al Gore's Armageddon, that if global temperatures reach this red shaded area that we're cooked, we're doomed, we're done.
And you can see how far beneath it that we are.
And you can see how since 1998, uh, six years ago, global temperatures have not warmed.
It's just it's just what's happening here is this an affront to intelligence.
And now this from the telegraph, the UK telegraph, the energy saving light bulbs that will be made compulsory in homes in a few years can trigger migraine headaches.
Scientists have claimed the migraine action association said some of its members allege the fluorescent bulbs had led to attacks of migraines.
By 2011, Britain will be the first European country to phase out the traditional bulbs as part of a strategic to reduce carbon dioxide emissions.
The migraine action association's calling on government to avoid a complete ban of the incandescent bulbs by providing an opt-out for people with health problems.
Uh, in addition to that, the story also claims that the uh compact fluorescence cause epileptic fits and also harm people with lupus.
This is on top of their mercury problems.
Now, I can imagine what some of you are saying.
Oh, come on, Rush.
You're gonna take the word of the migraine action association that these bulbs cause migraines and they cause epileptic fits and they cause problems with people with lupus?
Of course I'm gonna accept it.
Just as you accept all the other cockamany BS that the Algore types put out about the polar bears being drowned because they don't have any more icebergs to live on.
You realize how much stupid stuff people believe?
Why shouldn't I accept this?
Well, these are people who are opposed to the global exactly right they are.
Why should they not be given equal equal credit?
They're making claims here.
Bulbs are responsible.
Migrains lupus uh difficulties and epileptic fits.
I've choose to believe this.
Absolutely I choose to believe it.
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Uh, this uh this banning of the incandescent light bulb.
I actually am not worried that it's really gonna happen.
It doesn't go into affect till 2011 or 2012.
It's 2008, there's four years here.
As what's going to happen is two things.
A, there's gonna be a black market in these things.
You know it, I know it.
Uh there'll be a black market and everything, and until, you know, the jackbooted thugs of the gore regime start knocking down your front door to come in and to inspect the kind of light bulbs you're using, you can probably get away with it.
Unless, of course, they put taps on the power company to figure out how much electricity you're using in your bulbs and so forth.
But anyway, the second thing is, you know, as a powerful influential member of the media, I've done my share of television.
I've also done my share of acting and television shows and this sort of thing.
And there's this thing called makeup.
Everybody has to do it.
And it's far more important to the women than it is to the men.
I frankly could punt makeup.
Uh, it's a waste of time, don't particularly care about it, face itches, you've got to take it all off, ruin the shirt every time.
It's a pain.
But women will spend hours in the makeup chair.
Get hair done and it all just rests, especially now in the advent of HD.
And I have noticed, because it's my job to notice, I am an observant figure.
Sometimes I participate in life by watching others live it.
And I have noticed that in every makeup room I have been in, there's not one fluorescent light allowed.
They are incandescent.
You've seen pictures of this.
The mirror in a makeup room lined with incandescent bulb after incandescent bulb after it.
Why?
Because people appear much harsher under fluorescent light than they do with incandescent light.
I'm just going to tell you if Mrs. Clinton gets elected, I'll uh I am I'm damn well here to tell you there will not be one fluorescent light bulb anywhere in the White House where Mrs. Clinton gets her makeup done every day.
And there won't be anywhere else where women get their makeup done for business.
There will be incandescent light bulbs.
That's when the fur will fly.
Everything will work out in the end.
By the way, leveling expectations for Mrs. Clinton tonight in Iowa.
She's trailing in uh in all the polls.
This is the latest from the Politico.
Former President Bill Clinton tried to lower expectations today for his wife, suggesting in a Starbucks in Des Moines that Iowa was not a make or break for her presidential campaign.
In fact, stand by on audio soundbites 14 and 15 on that score too, Mike.
With the uh the caucus that's a couple hours away, there's little else to do but wait and speculate.
The comments from Bill Clinton are just one piece of a massive pre-spin operation being deployed by all the campaigns to manage expectations.
Uh Clinton went out there today, defended his wife's decision to compete in Iowa.
A question that has been raised with increasing frequency as she finds herself in a volatile three-way fight with Barry Obama and the Bret girl.
And of course, Clinton's out there saying, you know, I never ran in Iowa.
I didn't need to go to Iowa.
Hillary didn't need to really do it either, but she did.
And it doesn't mean anything now because I think she needed to show she wasn't afraid, and I'm pleased that she did.
That's his quote.
So Hillary did Iowa just to show that she was fearless.
That's right, Limbaugh.
She was willing to go over something you wouldn't do.
You wouldn't run.
Haven't seen you running for anything.
She went up there and she ran, and she knew she'd got to lose.
And she went up there and she showed she wasn't afraid of losing.
And that's what you got to have in politics.
You gotta show that you're not afraid to lose.
And you don't know anything about that, Limbaugh.
All you've ever done is won.
Well, uh That's true, Mr. President, but she was the candidate of inevitability.
This was supposed to be a coronary.
Ah, you know all that, which is a bunch BS.
Limbaugh, we tried to pull that off, but we couldn't pull it off once Obama got in.
Nobody expected him to do so well.
Not even us.
I mean, we put him in there in the first place to make it look like she had something to overcome, but hell's bells, we had no idea he's gonna raise that kind of money, and we're gonna find out who donated it to, and they are going to be sorry someday.
Okay, President Clinton on Obama and Hillary.
She just had to show that she wasn't afraid.
Howard Wolfson, hardballed, one of Clinton's spokesmen last night.
Chris Matthews said, I want to ask about change.
Very important if it's change.
How's Hillary gonna be different than Bill?
What's the change gonna be, Howard?
Well, look, the first thing we're gonna do is get us out of Iraq.
Uh, how's she gonna be different than Bill?
How's she gonna be different than Bill?
I heard I heard your I heard your question.
I'm gonna give you an answer.
We have a different set of challenges in 2008 than we did in 1992.
The first one is Iraq.
Uh the second one is we've got instead of uh uh 37 million Americans without health care, we've got 47 million Americans without health care.
Yeah, and uh uh it goes on.
There's another soundbite we'll have to squeeze in after the uh the break here.
Uh but how's how what's how's that is the question.
She's an agent of change.
How's it gonna be different from the 90s?
Well, first thing you'll do is get us out of a rock.
Uh well, different set of challenges we had in 1998.
The first one's a rock, second, we've got to get instead of 37 million Americans insured, we've got to get 47 million.
Yep, big success story in the night.
How's that gonna change?
How's she gonna do it when she couldn't do it then?
Um, they're piling on out there, and it's led now to Mr. Clinton saying that uh well she went up there just to show that she was fearless.
She wasn't afraid.
And Bill Clinton says that he's glad that she did.
And a cutting edge Rush Limbaugh with talent on lawn from God.
the Up next, Howard Wolfson with Chris Matthews on PMSNBC's Hardball last night.
Uh Matthews uh goes after Wolfson here for stealing.
Uh Wolfson, one of Hillary's boys.
Uh goes after Wolfson for stealing a phrase from Obama.
It seems here like some of the drive-bys enjoy seeing Clinton Inc.
squirm.
The uh question from Matthews Howard, that ad was very indicative of the Hillary you meet in person.
Why why is it so hard, meaning this ad where she'd been airbrushed and Vaseline on the lens, uh you know, the soft focus and all that.
Uh that ad was very indicative of the Hillary you meet in person.
Why why is that so hard to translate in this campaign?
It's been hard for you guys to make her look uh whatever.
One of the great things about this process in Iowa is that these uh caucus goers get to come out, they get to kick the tires to look under the hood, they get to see who these candidates are.
They're coming out uh across uh Iowa time and time again, and I think Hillary is making her case, and people are getting it.
And people are responding to her.
They are getting to know her here.
By the way, they kicked the tires thing as a uh Obama line, by the way.
You stole that.
I don't I'm not sure that uh directly from uh the Senator Obama.
You stole it directly from that is his sort of thing.
Kick the tires was made by Senator Obama.
He made up the phrase.
You never heard that before in my life, but not in this campaign.
Hey guys, get a new script writer.
You got Obama already.
I don't even know if this is true, but I do know that in terms of kicking the tires, Obama didn't invent it.
Now he may have introduced it to the campaign before anybody else did.
Matthews, you guys can get his scriptwriter.
How would Wolfson taken totally off message here?
You've never heard the phrase gig the tires.
And Wolfson, by the way, Matthews really saved him, because that was absolute BS what he's saying here.
I mean, how many How many times has Hillary gone to Iowa to help her husband?
I mean, he's at his side all the time, right?
To say that Iowans are finally getting to see her.
They're coming out time and time again.
Um idea that that people I I just this is so much fluff.
Uh John in Lake Zurich, Illinois.
It's great to have you with us, and I'm glad you waited.
Welcome.
Hi, Rush.
I called to talk about the uh focus group they had on Fox last night with Frank once, but could I address the guy from Montana who didn't like Romney real briefly there?
Sure, by all means.
Uh Mitt Romney, by any account, is one of the most accomplished guys who's ever run for president.
And for a guy to dismiss him out of hand the way that guy did is ridiculous, and obviously does not know the credentials that Romney brings to the table.
He's been successful at everything he's done.
And you know, you may quibble with some of his positions.
Uh I'll guarantee you though that anybody who comes from an eastern state is gonna have to modify some of their positions they used to get elected there in order to run nationally.
So no, I hope not.
Uh what I think I hope what you mean to say is we have to modify their position to get elected there.
Well, Romney get elected there, they're going to be they're going to have to modify some of them.
The the thinks the Eastern Right.
If he's Romney wants to get elected Governor Massachusetts, he's going to have to moderate some tones on things, right?
Yeah.
Yes.
Uh but the big mistake would be if you think you got to do that nationally get elected.
That's that's that's a miscalculation as far as I'm good.
And he's renounced some of those things that he did to get elected Massachusetts, which is why people have this concern about flip-flop.
He'll say what he has to say.
This is the charge.
Say what he has to say, depending on who the audience is.
But he's he has been consistent throughout the campaign here.
Uh and he's he's put himself out there.
He's he's kind of committed now uh to uh his his latest positions.
I think you you have to be confident of that.
And I and I think he'll stick with those positions.
Yeah.
So anyway, uh what I called about was the focus group that once had for the Republicans last night, I was dumbfounded to find that these people did not want to be confused with the facts.
They basically did not they they dismissed a Romney ad that he showed them and he said they basically said don't we don't want to hear any contrasting positions put out by the candidates themselves.
And then they ad they the same group of people admired uh Huckabee for not paying to air his ad but getting it out through the news media.
And I just thought that I told you I told you yesterday it was going to be the case.
I don't know if you were here yesterday, but you know uh Huckabee does this ad on New Year's Eve.
He calls his press actually taped the ad on on uh uh I guess the 31st on Sunday and then he calls this press conference on Monday and to announce he's not going to run the ad.
Uh but he shows the ad to the press the press laughs and snickers when he says he's not going to show it and he said well I had to show it to them because they would have said I was making it up that I had an ad when I didn't have it.
I had to show it to him.
And uh so the conventional wisdom was he really shot himself in the foot because he got the ad out while saying he wasn't going to get it out and he got it out without having to pay for it other than the production costs.
And I said yesterday, folks this is the I don't believe that it isn't going to work.
I think it's gonna I think because you have to understand the the the Huckabee people are going to see what they want to see.
And that's basically what you heard in your focus group last night they don't want to it it's it was somewhat like liberals.
They do not want their comfortable little world view that they have woven as a cocoon in which to live upset by anything.
They don't want to be confronted with anything that doesn't fit their worldview with factual or not.
They want to feel good about liking Huckabee they don't want to be confused with the facts or the fact that you know we you know I don't care whether you take Romney, Giuliani or Huckabee, at least they've all run a governmental agency from the executive branch.
I I think you know the biggest thing I've got with McCain is I'd like to see him a governor for a year for f of term in Arizona before I trust him at presidency because you don't know how he's going to act with Democrats if he's in that Oval Office I don't I think and you know he's let us down on enough things where I think he can't be trusted.
But uh I think any one of those three guys Huckabee Romney or Giuliani are going to do fine in the Oval Office and they're going to stand up I I I'm I'm confident that Giuliani and Romney will stand up against the Democrats in Congress.
Because they've done it in their uh you know in their past roles as mayor and governor Yeah frankly this is the thing that concerns me about any and all of them and then I'm not nearly as confident as uh as you are uh that that's going to be the case and I only say that not because of uh specifics uh related to them I I I I say it simply because none of them are full-fledged and I I'm not crying over spilt milk here.
But none of them are they're not movement leaders.
They're they're they're they're not ideological conservatives.
They're conservative on some things, in some cases a lot of things, uh but there's a big difference in being a conservative ideologue and thinking you're leading a movement in order to change America to improve it to take it a different direction than if you think your job is to go up there and compromise to get things done.
Now you have to on certain occasions and Reagan certainly did Bush and if you look at Bush and this the Democrats thought they were going to smoke him this year.
Bush has gotten everything he's wanted out of these people.
Bush has literally smoked them.
He is not compromised he started using his veto pen.
You know he's not leading a movement either but but uh that's what's to me, this is me personally this is what's what's sorely missing.
So I'm not nearly as confident as you are that uh any in the field are not going to, you know, bend down and do whatever they have to do to get along with the Democrats.
Now I've I've talked Carl Rove about this we had him on the program and I asked him new tone.
You come into office you're facing uh you know the hostile Democrats you're coming out of the royaled nineties all of the the fractious stuff that happened with Clinton in the second term so you had the new tone where you let Ted Kennedy help write the education bill and you uh you basically were going out of your way uh to make the Democrats feel welcome and at home and comfortable and part of your administration do you regret it?
Not at all.
We didn't have margins to win we had to bring him in if we wanted to get anything done.
And I know this is a uh sad reality when you don't have large margins.
It's probably one of the things doing the Democrats in now.
Their margins are so small in the House and Senate.
Uh Reagan got things done with a Democrat majority in the House he wasn't even close to.
So it the thing is it can be done.
Uh and it can be done how?
How did Reagan do it?
Reagan went over the heads of the media.
He had landslide victories based on ideas which gave him a mandate that the Democrats in the House couldn't miss.
There was no question why Ronald Reagan was elected.
I don't care what the Democrats said about slick marketing and packaging.
Reagan was elected to rebuild the country's military to defeat the Soviets and a cut taxes.
And he set about doing it because that's why he was elected with a 49-state man a landslide and a mandate coming off the malaysiers of the Carter administration.
So it can be done.
You can snooker these guys.
You don't have to cave to them in order to caving to them, they're not interested in compromising.
They're interested in you compromising or us compromising.
They're interested in us giving ground.
And that's frankly some of the things that I'm tired of.
Anyway, I appreciate your call, John.
I appreciate your patience as well.
A quick time out.
We'll be back.
Don't go away.
New Year's Eve, the Gallup poll released its annual uh survey on Americans and the level of satisfaction with their personal lives.
Eighty-four percent of Americans say that they are satisfied with their personal lives at this time, including a solid majority who say they are very satisfied.
The uh personal satisfaction level contrasts sharply, though, with the low level of satisfaction Americans express with the way things are going in the U.S. at this time.
Because two weeks ago, two weeks prior to New Year's Eve, Gallup released a poll that said that 70% of these same people think the nation's headed in the wrong direction.
Now, what do you make of this?
Eighty-four percent satisfied with their personal lives, seventy percent think the country's going in the wrong direction.
There is a simple explanation for this, and it's an explanation that I have explained on countless previous explanations on this program, and it is very simple.
Everybody's live 84%, yep, solid majority, very satisfied.
Honky Dory thinks it couldn't be better.
But I watch the news every day and I see housing crisis, a mortgage crisis, a subprime crisis, a credit crisis in Wall Street.
I think everybody's losing their house but me, and everybody's losing their car but me and every.
So it's the drive-bys.
With the success at creating the doom and gloom, Daniel Henninger writes about this today in the uh Wall Street Journal.
He said it is to suggest that the never-off eye of modern political media leaves the impression that nothing good is possible.
If progress happens, as with the surge in Iraq or a new therapy for cancer, it must be diminished by analysis, listing four things that could go wrong as a way to absorb the way the world works.
That's depressing.
Good things happen.
Get over it.
And it's true, we point this out constantly every day.
There is good news to report about everything, but they have to go out and do analysis, find critics, but wait a minute, this could be offset by X. And so there's just no room for good news.
Nothing good is possible.
It will not be allowed.
And Henninger closes the column this way, a reader of his column, Richard Fazon of Potomac, Maryland recently got these matters as well focused as I could.
So with the presidential trenches waiting, he gets the final speech.
There's no Great Depression.
There's no World War II, there's no Cold War, there's no racism as it was in the 20th century or before.
No really big problem or solution.
Unless something changes, voters want practically nothing from government, or more precisely, relatively few want the same thing.
And without political consensus, a democracy does little or nothing new.
In one respect, Mr. Henniger is correct to observe that in American politics, ambiguity is all you get.
But that may say enough.
As another new year begins, we might consider ourselves fortunate for ambiguity rather than the opposite and what would accompany it.
Meaning, we just don't know how to feel good because we don't trust it.
Too many of us are fearful of happiness.
Too many of us fearful of success.
I, for one, have never been afraid of success.
When it happens to them, it's ah, this is this can't be real.
I don't deserve this.
This isn't gonna last.
Because they don't want to work hard enough to keep it.
Or they just don't trust it.
And some people, when they're happy, oh, this is not right.
I don't deserve to be happy.
There's nothing going on to make me happy.
Why do I feel so good?
It can't be.
And then you turn on TV, you watch it drive by and get validated you shouldn't be happy.
So people have fears of success, fears of happiness.
And then when others around them are happy and optimistic, guess who has to do the explaining?
The happy and the optimistic are the ones challenged.
Well, what are you so happy about?
When in truth, the way it ought to happen.
What are you so miserable about?
You're an American.
What in the world are you so depressed?
Why are you so unhappy?
You live in the United States of America.
But being miserable and unhappy when it seems to be a majority opinion, and if you're miserable and unhappy, then you can be sympathized with.
If you're happy and optimistic, odds are you might be resented.
Here's Steve in Walnut Creek, California.
Hello, sir.
Great to have you with us.
Redeemed dittoes, Rosh.
Thank you.
You know, this is like talking to the president of the United States.
Well, I appreciate that, sir.
Thank you.
I've listened to you, and I know that you are trustworthy.
You're a man of faith, conviction, and passion, and I think Duncan Hunter is also such a man.
And my question to you is in the event of a brokered convention this fall.
Do you think there could be a draft Duncan Hunter movement?
Uh well, I wouldn't rule anything out.
I if we go to a brokered convention, you understand what that means.
I believe it frees the electors.
Yeah, yeah, but it means everything's up for grabs.
Right.
It means anything can happen.
It means, yeah.
A lot of people think we're headed in that direction based on how close and tight everything is, but that's uh that's that's way down the line.
It you know, Duncan Hunter's a great guy, and he is he truly is uh authentic.
Uh you know, the it it's a it's it's a mystery why why some people don't get out of the bottom tier uh or the lower tiers uh in uh in campaigns.
But remember, this is just his first chance.
This is his first time going against uh going up in a national audience.
Uh, and he's got a future ahead of him if he wants to try to continue to do this.
Whatever happens here does not rule him out forever.
We'll be back.
All right, folks, that's it.
Another exciting excursion into broadcast excellence in the can.
Open line Friday tomorrow.
Can't wait.
Looking forward to it, and we will see you then.
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