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Jan. 7, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 7, 2008, Monday, Hour #2
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Mrs. Clinton in tears this morning in New Hampshire.
It's not easy.
It's not easy.
And I couldn't do it if I just didn't, you know, passionately believe it was the right thing to do.
You know, I have so many opportunities from this country.
I just don't want to see us fall backwards.
You know.
So.
Oh, come on.
No.
This is very personal for me.
It's not just political.
It's not just public.
I see what's happening.
And we have to reverse it.
And some people think elections are a game.
They think it's like who's up or who's down.
It's about our country.
It's about our kids' futures.
And it's really about all of us together.
You know, some of us put ourselves out there and do this against some pretty difficult odds.
And we do it, each one of us, because we care about our country.
But some of us are right and some of us are wrong.
Some of us are ready and some of us are not.
Some of us know what we will do on day one, and some of us haven't really thought that through enough.
Some of us are enough.
So when we look at the array of problems we have and the potential for it getting really spinning out of control, this is one of the most important elections America's ever faced.
This, this, Snerdley is yelling at me.
Look what you've reduced her to.
Do I feel proud of myself?
He's asking me.
This, folks, this is so calculated.
This is no different than the makeup.
This is no different than the makeup.
She gets a question from a woman at a town hall meeting.
It's a freelance photographer asking her who does her hair every day.
And she starts up and says, it's tough.
It's tough.
Well, the Politico writes that she teared up.
That is a good question.
Was there a tear there?
Let's see.
The copy of the story here is exactly what the politico had to say about this.
Here it is.
Exhausted in facing the prospect of losing, fought back tears.
Fought back.
Fought back.
That means there weren't any tears, right?
Let's listen to this again.
I bet you're right, Dawn.
A woman suspicious here of the crocodile tears.
It's not easy.
It's not easy.
And I couldn't do it if I just didn't passionately believe it was the right thing to do.
You know, I have so many opportunities from this country.
I just don't want to see us fall backwards.
No.
So.
You know, this is very personal for me.
It's not just political.
It's not just public.
I see what's happening.
Power.
And we have to reverse it.
And some people think elections are a game.
They think.
All right, that's enough.
We had enough of it.
Here's the thing.
This is the sympathy play.
This is the gender card again.
I'm going to tell you exactly what this is.
This is the latest version of Invading My Space.
This is a reenactment with tears of the Rick Lazio moment.
Ladies and gentlemen, should a man get away with bringing Mrs. Clinton to tears?
Should a man, be it me, be it Obama, should a man get away with bringing Mrs. Clinton to tears who has, she said, I have so many opportunities for this country.
I have so how about we have so many opportunities together, Mrs. Clinton, rather than I have so many opportunities, I, this, and I, that, emotional blackmail.
This is calculated, make no mistake about it, folks.
This is not spontaneous because nothing with the Clintons is coincidence.
Now, this is also from the Politico.
This is from the 4th of January.
Bill Clinton voiced his abiding anger at the media's coverage of him and his wife and suggested that media bias will force Clinton to go negative on Barack Obama.
Oh, the media going to make him do it.
He expressed his frustration that his wife is perceived by voters as divisive through, he said, no fault of her own.
Clinton is traveling New Hampshire, taking questions from voters.
The New York Times today has a story that Clinton's audiences are not well populated.
His crowds are not well populated, and that they're leaving halfway through his speech, that they appear sleepy while he is speaking.
It's as though the magic is off, as though the bloom is off the rose.
Clinton also let his audience glimp the scars of his White House years.
Nobody would like it better than us if you could get that personal vilification out of there because nobody's been vilified more than we have, Clinton said, after noting that he thought Hillary and McCain could run a respectful campaign.
One of the problems with laying down and turning the other cheek is McCain had one dose of it.
They gave it to us for eight years.
And the fact of the matter is, independent voters think you're polarizing if someone else attacks you, even if that someone is Rush Limbaugh, even if you've been totally exonerated of every single charge ever leveled against you, which Hillary was, and some people forgot to tell you about that, jabbing again at the press.
He said, nobody'd be happier to see all this go away than us, but you can't ask somebody who is at a breathtaking disadvantage in the information coming to the voters to ignore that disadvantage and basically agree to put bullets in their brains.
He's talking about Hillary.
What?
She just, hey, Limbaugh, she's not going to sit around here and shoot herself just for you just because you're piping up and saying all these lies and things that aren't true about her doesn't mean she's not going to respond.
These people live in an alternative universe.
You know, here's what happened.
Let's go back to the impeachment, the Paula Jones thing, and Monica Lewinsky.
As you know, there was an independent counsel.
His name was Ken Starr.
What did Clinton Inc. do?
They spent years vilifying and destroying Ken Starr.
They went out, they purposely attempted to destroy the reputation and credibility of the independent counsel.
And after all of that time, when the truth finally came out and Clinton admitted to lying under oath and his law license taken away from him for a while, The public had been so inundated with what a scoundrel Ken Starr was that Clinton's admissions fell on deaf ears.
They timed it very well.
Of course, Hillary, innocent of all allegations.
You know, I think this is what happens when you have this aura of invincibility about you and it doesn't play.
You know what's happening out there?
You've got a lot of young voters that are going for Obama, showing up and voting for the first time.
They're educated.
They are new to the process.
And they have no bonds with the era of fraud and deceit, which is what we call the Clinton years here.
The era of fraud.
And they have no bond with it.
And so there's no magic attached to having the Clintons back.
She's out there trying to make the case for change by focusing back to the 90s.
And it just isn't playing well.
And now, so it's time to once again attack me.
And they have a point.
We'll be back.
I have a jam-packed audio soundbite roster today that I want to try to get through, plus a number of your phone calls.
Let's do phone calls first.
We'll start where?
Where are we going?
We're going to start with Ellen in Cincinnati.
Nice to have you, Ellen.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
Hi, Rush.
Thanks for taking my call.
You bet.
You know, we are conservative evangelical homeschoolers.
And I mean my husband and I.
And what concerns us is that Mike Huckabee is anti-school choice, which we believe is the only thing that really levels the playing field for homeschoolers.
And he's endorsed by the NEA, which is the very entity that really forced many of us to choose to homeschool.
And it's a bit concerning.
Well, you're right.
You're right to have that concern.
How come, as an evangelical homeschooler, you've not been swept up in hookmania?
Is that the reason?
Well, that's part of the reason, but the main part is, Rush, you know, we believe what the Bible says, that there is one mediator between God and man, and it is not the federal government.
And you think Huckabee wants to enlarge and empower the federal government?
I believe his past governance has shown that, yes, he does.
All right.
Ellen, I appreciate the phone call.
Thanks.
Thanks.
You bet.
There's an evangelical homeschooler who is correct, by the way.
The NEA in New Hampshire has endorsed Mike Huckabee.
They do not, the NEA does not endorse conservatives.
Robert, New York City, you're next on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hey, Rush, how are you?
Good, sir.
Thank you.
Of course, let me start by saying, first off, I respect you a lot, but according to a lot of you, like a lot of your listeners, I don't need you to tell me who to vote for.
I mean, I could do my own research.
That's what I think, that you stressed everybody.
But the point I'm trying to make is...
Wait, wait, wait.
I haven't told anybody who to vote for.
That's what I'm saying.
I'm saying about all these people calling up, complaining that you're not all from last Friday.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yes, yes.
But my point, my point I want to make is this.
First off, the first caller made a point about, you know, me, I'm starting to feel as a conservative that maybe we just should sit.
I would like to pull the lever for McCain, who to me is no conservative.
And I'm a former Marine and I respect what he did for my country.
But as far as that goes, to me, he's a zero when it comes to McCain, all that stuff.
To me, to hold it.
Wait, wait, wait, wait.
I'm really having trouble understanding.
You say you're going to vote for McCain?
No, no, no, no.
The point was the first caller made that he's going to have to pull the lever for somebody on the Republican side because, you know, better than the other side, which is true.
But to me, I have a hard time pulling the lever for McCain or Huckabee if they're the Republican nominee.
So I'm thinking about maybe it's better off for us conservatives to sit it out.
Let them destroy the country like they did during the Carter years.
And maybe, just maybe, a true Reagan conservative leader will come through and clean up the mess like he did back in the 1980s because yeah, but wait, interesting thing that you just said.
Yeah.
You'll sit out.
I think if the Republicans nominate certain people, a lot of conservatives will sit out, to be honest with you.
Yes, or might even vote Democrat.
No, I'll never do that.
Well, but some will.
But look, going further in your analogy, we ended up with Reagan, but what did it take?
Listen, I'm 46 years old, so it took Jimmy Carter.
Yes, and I always say that.
You can't take Jimmy Carter out of the Reagan equation.
It's not to take anything away from Reagan.
But Jimmy Carter so botched everything in this country.
And I'm not taking anything away from Reagan.
It's interesting you say this because I found last night a couple of fascinating pieces by the same author at the American Spectator.
And he said that there are two scenarios here that Republicans can follow.
And he said, first, I'll have to read excerpts because it's really, really good.
The first excerpt, why are you people in a funk?
Look at all the good that's happened in this country the last eight years.
And he went through the list of all the great things that have happened and the great course that we're on.
In the second piece, he took your position.
You know what?
Things are really going bad.
It's the Republicans have totally, totally abandoned their conservative promises.
All this talk about doing something about the life issue, all this talk about doing something about spending, all this talk about reforming the tax code, all this talk about, they haven't done diddly squat.
And so it may well be that some Republicans are going to say, hell with it.
You know, just it's sort of like an analogy to the black vote in the Democrat Party.
The black vote keeps voting Democrat, expecting all these problems to get fixed, and they never get fixed.
And the conservatives in the Republican Party keep voting Republican, expecting all these things to get fixed, and just the opposite happens.
Earmarks, uncontrolled spending, Republican presidents letting Ted Kennedy write the education bill, on and so the theory is in the second scenario, a lot of people might just sit out, which would give the election to Hillary or Obama, which in then turn could do such damage to the country that by 2012 that that will bring about the new Reagan.
That the new Reagan's not possible in this scenario.
I don't know about this new Reagan business.
But his point is that somebody far more conservative than we have on the roster now would surface in 2012 as opposed to now.
It's a fascinating piece.
It's very, very long because it's really two pieces in one.
And it was supposed to be posted today at the American Spectator.
I'll make sure that it is.
We'll link to it at rushlinblaw.com because it is fascinating.
On one side, it chides all of us.
Well, not me, because I'm not in a funk about the country, but it chides everybody who's in a funk about the come on, wake up, we're Americans.
Look at all the good things that are happening.
Look at the great future we have here.
Look at how the rest of the world lives.
What do you want?
And chronicle specific successes that this administration has had with judges to the Supreme Court, tax cuts, an expanding economy coming off a Clinton mini recession and then 9-11.
A lot of reasons to feel happy.
A lot of reasons to feel optimistic.
The second scenario is a down-to-earth appraisal of how Republicans who've campaigned as conservatives have not governed that way.
And it'll let anybody down, and then that's why there's a funk.
And people may not vote.
Pure and simple, because they're fed up with the empty promises.
And the conservatives are not going to be repeating the mistakes of the black voters in this country by continuing to vote endless promises that never happen on the Democrat side.
I appreciate the call out there, Robert.
Thanks so much.
Eric in Concord North Carolina.
Welcome to the EIB Network, sir.
Hello.
All right, Rush.
This is going to be hard.
This is going to be a rough call for you.
I know you like to look good, but you'll probably look bad here in a moment.
Uh-oh.
This is not good.
You won't like me.
I am a born-again evangelical Christian, also.
And one thing that I say: you said that you feel that Christians have been either betrayed or Mike Huckabee has been dishonest toward them.
I want to say that I feel that you, Rush, have betrayed the evangelical base.
You have been one of our greatest supporters over the years, the person we have looked to in many, many ways.
And I will say that because of what I call some outright lies and distortion, you call them Club for Growth.
I call them Club You to Death through Growing Lies.
There are some things that they have been very deceitful about.
Your previous caller, two callers before me, is spouting the statements from Club for Growth about saying Mike Huckabee is against school choice, which is an outright lie.
Now, I'll prove it in a moment.
But one thing is the homeschool legal defense, they support this guy.
Now, they're not idiots, they're not fools, they know their issues and they know what they stand for.
There's a difference between school choice and school vouchers.
Club for growth, if they look through it, they twist those two.
And most people don't know there's a difference between the two.
The main thing is, Mike Huckabee is totally for school choice.
He's totally for school, for charter school, and he is one of the biggest, most ardent defenders of evolution that you'll ever, not evolution, but creationism that you'll ever find here, Rush.
Now, I can go through a whole list of places where you have really distorted the truth.
Now, you've had a lot of people call in, calling themselves Christians, which is fine, who have supported Huckabee, but you've only given them the platform to spout their defense for his positions against homosexuality and his pro-life stance.
But there are a lot of things that you're leaving out because the Club for Growing Lies, as I'll even call them, are distorting the real truth about this guy because there has been a vicious war for years between secular conservatives and the religious right conservatives.
They hate religious right conservatives.
And you know good and well that's true.
Now, let me go through a let me, if you would allow me to do what you have not committed.
Hang on here just a second because I got a commercial break coming up in a mere matter of broadcast seconds.
I'll hold you over through the break since you feel so wrong.
I just want to tell you, I've not read one word about what the Club for Growth has said about Mike Huckabee, so I'm not quoting them.
Put that in your hat.
We'll be back, and we'll continue this litany after the break.
By the way, had a moment of verbal dyslexia.
It's theAmericanThinker.com where these two fascinating pieces on Republican voting scenarios appear.
I mistakenly said the Americanspectator.com.
Back to Concord, North Carolina.
Eric, you started out with great promise, man.
You're a little bit off the rails now.
Let's get it back on track.
All right.
First of all, how am I off the rails?
Well, I mean, you're railing away here in sort of a maniacal fashion about this.
You want to talk about me or do you want to talk about Huckabee?
Well, look, both, really.
Number one, I want to just talk, straighten out some outright distortions.
Either, Rush, I said conclude.
I said, either, Rush, you've been duped or you're being deceitful.
I hate it's the latter.
I know it's not the latter.
I'm just going to say because of the.
Wait, wait, Eric, one thing here.
I haven't been duped, and I'm not trying to be deceitful.
And I also know that I can't talk you out of what you believe, and I'm not even going to try.
I'm just telling people what I think and what I observed.
You can throw it out the window.
You can get all upset all you want, but there's no, you know, many people, many people are now eating dirt who tried to fool me.
Okay.
Well.
Just don't fool yourself.
Okay.
Well, I mean, I'm trying to stay level-headed, too.
We can both agree to disagree on some things.
But one thing that I want to say is there's some nuances that are being left out in this.
And because of the Club for Growth and the way they are, they've distorted the truth about a lot of things regarding Huckabee.
There's some things they said that are true.
I'm not disputing that.
I've literally, because of you, because of what's going on, especially since December, I've literally spent many, many hours.
I'm ashamed to tell you how many hours I've done just going through a fine-tooth comb, trying to find out, well, what's going on here with this situation?
For example, let's look at, just before I get to this other stuff we just talked about.
Now, get to one thing.
Okay, let's deal with that.
Let's get to this one thing right now.
Neil Bortz is no fool.
Neil Bortz, he knows what he believes.
He's passionate about taxes.
Now, Neil Bortz, why in the world would Neil Bortz, a libertarian, support Mike Huckabee?
One of the main reasons, Rush, is because of Mike Huckabee's stand on taxes.
What the Club for Growth has done and what Mitt Romney does is they try to use his positions that he, some of the tax increases that he took in Arkansas to use against him.
We don't talk about Mitt Romney's numerous tax increases and fees, but the point is, the reason why, when you look at the fair tax, there are only four guys on that platform and the Republicans who support it.
Hunker, I mean, Hunter, Huckabee, Keyes, and Ron Paul.
When you look at the Americans for Tax Reform, only Thompson and McCain refused to find the pledge.
Now, that should tell you something here.
Now, why is it that this fair tax is so crucial to things?
This is why Christians, conservatives, love this.
If we can get rid of this tax code that is so burdensome and onerous, which is what Huckabee has told me about, you're not saying one thing about that.
You want to say he's a populist, but you don't want to defend him for the stand that he is.
Okay, that's fine.
He is.
It's not a crime.
Boy, you call these people populists and they get all defensive about it.
It's not a crime.
Okay, so the fair tax, that's the one thing.
I know about the fair tax, John Linder and Neil, who is a good friend of mine, by the way.
Neil Bortz wrote the book on the fair tax.
And I know that Huckabee is in favor of the fair tax.
I know the fair tax doesn't have a prayer, but Huckabee, when answering questions about this, says, well, it may not have a prayer, but it's never going to have a chance unless we have a president who can lead the American people and get it for them because the American people get what they want.
That's essentially what he's saying.
And I admire that, by the way.
I admire people who are willing to talk to the American people over the heads of the media, over the heads of everybody else, try to inspire them and so forth and get them to be educated and form.
Reagan has the ability to do this.
Look, I learned in 1992, Eric, this election is almost a verbatim replay of the six months of 1992 when Perot got involved.
I refused to get on board.
Perot people calling me, hassling me, saying, hey, Perot's your guy.
You ought to be leading the Perot movement.
Perot is exactly what we're talking about.
I stood fast at no instincts telling me something else.
Turned out I was right.
People began to call, apologize, wanted forgiveness, and all of that, which, of course, I gracefully granted, as I will later on this year when similar things happen.
I'm not going to try to talk you out of it.
That's not the point.
But at the same time, I spent a very focused weekend here because I was in a funk.
I was in a funk since Friday's show.
Friday's show was, in my mind, the worst show that I can remember having presided over in 10 years.
And I was embarrassed about it.
I was just, I was just, I went home and I was literally in a funk all weekend.
And so what I did, I spent the whole week.
I did not leave the house again after seven days of not leaving the house over the Christmas break.
I didn't leave the house over.
I didn't talk to a soul.
I had a couple instant message with people.
I watched the football games, but I got very introspective about all this and where it's headed.
And I did a lot of serious thinking about it.
And I watched all this political TV, which I haven't been doing a lot of.
And it helped focus me on what is necessary here.
And it helped me to focus on what I view the purpose of this program is.
And the purpose of this program is there are many and varied purposes, but my success is not determined by who wins elections.
So I don't, it's not, it's not about that.
It's, you know, I think Mrs. Clinton's even copying me when she gets these crocodile tears today and talks about it's the country she cares about and the future of the country while using the personal protoun I all over the place.
I have so many opportunities for America.
She doesn't present one opportunity to anybody except herself.
I care deeply about the future of the country, too.
And if there are things out there that I see that I think pose a problem that are destructive to the coalition on the conservative side that has the best chance of seeing this country and its people realize it and their full potential, then I'm going to discuss it.
But I'm not going to try to talk you out of anything because I know I can't.
Not possible.
You have attachments to the Huckabee campaign, Eric, that are immune from anything I might try, which I'm not trying to separate anybody from anybody here.
But at the same time, I'm going to tell you what I see and what I think and what I know to be true.
And if it hurts, and if you think I'm ganging up on your guy, tough toenails.
That's not what I'm doing here.
But I don't think McCain is conservative.
And I don't want to relive the first hour.
First hour is a brilliant hour.
It's a great hour.
It lives on its own.
It'll be up at rushlimbaugh.com later on this afternoon.
If you missed it, you can read the transcript or listen to it on streaming audio or what have you.
I want to move on to Chad in Savannah, Georgia.
Chad, nice to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Mega Dittos, Rush.
Thank you, sir.
I call, this is a very hard thing for me to do.
I've been a huge fan of yours since 1991 when I was a young skull full of mush at Liberty University.
But I've been very disappointed with you and with, frankly, a lot of other heroes of mine and the way they've taken down Huckabee here, I feel like, in the last month.
And let me tell you why I think the evangelicals are going to continue to support this guy, despite the fact that a lot of the people we look to for leadership are not.
Number one, I don't think we can support Romney or Giuliani because of their pro-life, their pro-choice positions in the past, which now Romney switched to pro-life.
Giuliani has not.
The Second Amendment is a big deal to a lot of us, especially down here in Georgia and throughout the area.
And Giuliani and Romney have been miserable on the Second Amendment.
And thirdly, with Giuliani, frankly, a lot of us see the issues that we destroyed Bill Clinton for, we hope to destroy him for, with Giuliani, and that is infidelity while he's in office.
Think of Bill Clinton and the Arkansas state troopers and how we went after him over the things that went on there.
And evangelicals are not going to gel around these people.
We've been looking for someone who we feel is a true conservative.
Now, wait a second.
Wait a second.
I have no brief for Rudy Giuliani here, but you can't compare Rudy Giuliani and Bill Clinton to the Arkansas State Troopers.
Giuliani's expenses incurred by the NYPD, driving around out to the Hampton and so forth, has been totally explained fully and exonerated.
There was no crime.
There was no inappropriate behavior.
There was nothing even off the center of the track on this.
I know where you're coming from here, and you think that I am blowing the conservative Reagan coalition, and I'm trying to save it.
Well, Russ, do you really think that evangelicals are going to go for either Romney or Giuliani with a lot of the issues that they've stood up, not only held, but have...
Yeah, Rudy, for instance...
You really don't want me to answer this.
You really don't want me to answer this.
You really do not want me to answer this.
Do not ask that question again because I might answer it, and you don't want my answer.
Well, Rush, there are millions of people who are looking for a real conservative.
And I'm sorry, but it's not Romney and it is not Giuliani.
Okay.
Let me ask you a question.
Okay.
Eight weeks ago, two months ago, what did you know about Mike Huckabee?
I've known about Mike Huckabee for a while.
I followed him for a while.
I knew he had served 10 and a half years as governor of Arkansas.
I knew he had been a Baptist preacher before that.
Well, you're an exception.
Eight weeks ago, nobody knew what Huckabee had done for 10 years in Arkansas.
Now we know a little bit more.
And when we get into it, you know, if I don't embrace all the candidates' non-conservative positions, there's something wrong with me.
And everybody else who doesn't agree.
So Huckabee supports the fair tax.
Why didn't he support the net tax cuts when he was governor?
Is it a fair question?
Are we not allowed to ask this?
I mean, there have been all kinds of things that we learned about Huckabee here that we didn't know eight weeks ago.
And so we're now starting to learn some of these things.
And if I don't embrace all of them, I'm the bad guy.
Rush, I think it's fine to look back at his record, but then you don't want to look back at Rudy and Mitt's records in the past.
You want to say, well, everything's good now with them.
It's got to play both ways.
Have you heard me proclaim either of these people to be a conservative?
You have said in the past that you like Vet, you like Thompson, Mitt, and Rudy.
You've lifted them up in the people that are around.
Have you heard me say that there is no Reagan conservative in this race?
Yes.
All right.
Fini, I'm not calling any of them perfect.
Well, I just feel like you're really, I feel like you're piling on Huckabee along with a lot of other people, and I feel like he's got a lot more conservative points to him than some of these other people.
Okay, I, I, I, it's not.
All right, ladies and gentlemen, I'm going to take the gloves off here for just a second.
Welcome back, by the way, to the Rush Limbaugh program and the EIB network.
We're getting a lot of people calling here claiming to speak for all evangelicals.
Even Huckabee himself said on Fox yesterday that he did not get all of the evangelical vote in Iowa.
It is not true to say that the evangelical vote in this country is monolithic and in total support of Mike Huckabee.
If you want to call and speak for yourself, feel free to do so.
Most of the pro-life groups out there, by the way, not groups of religious people, but most of the pro-life groups happen to be supporting Fred Thompson.
In another thing, we had a guy, Eric from North Carolina, who called and said that the Home School Defense League endorsed Huckabee.
That's not true.
One of their top dogs did, a guy named Michael Ferris, but the association did not.
You can go through their website and you will find a lot of critical articles on Huckabee, R.E. Homeschooling.
They had a press release saying that Ferris's endorsement is not an endorsement from them.
Now, you guys, you can call here.
This is a guy that accused me of deceiving people.
You can call here.
You can say what you want, but be very careful because I am an encyclopedia.
And if you're going to start making claims here, we're going to find out about it.
You know, I mean, my question for you, evangelicals, is this.
If you're looking for a real conservative, why are you supporting Huckabee?
He's completely discredited himself.
What about Fred Thompson?
If you're looking for a real conservative, Huckabee is constantly engaging in class warfare against their producers.
This line about I'd rather people, well, he's laid offline.
It's an attack on Romney, but I mean, it's an attack on producers.
It's an attack on employers.
It's pure populism.
He does oppose school choice.
You don't get the NEA endorsement in New Hampshire by supporting school choice.
I think I know what is happening here, Mr. Snurdley, who is the official screener of calls here today.
I think that the Huckabee campaign has finally figured it out.
I think that we've got behind the scenes advisors in some cases calling in here.
And either advisors are having their people, not the advisors, I think advisors having some of their people call in here.
You know, I'm not getting inundated here from the Ron Paul crowd.
I'm not getting inundated from the McCain crowd or by the McCain crowd.
And if you hucksters think that I have been a little bit unfair and a little bit hard on Governor Huckabee, equally as hard on Senator McCain, we're not hearing from any of his people.
So I really think here that what's happening is sort of an organized campaign from the Huckabee people here to try to get on the program and refute what I'm saying.
I mean, I've talked about Rudy and social issues as well as Romney and some of his flip-flops and these things.
I happen to think, if you want to close the loop here, I opened the program talking about last night's forum in particular.
And if you want to know, in my opinion, who shined, it was Thompson and Romney.
To me, there was no contest.
The problem with Thompson is, and a little bit with me, is I'm a depth guy.
I like depth.
Television doesn't reward depth.
Television rewards zingers, one-liners, cutesy-isms.
You know, Fred Thompson produced a brilliant 17-minute video that was on YouTube that explains everything about every issue that he cares about.
It's clear he's thought deeply about a whole lot.
Got out of social security reform last night that was awesome and totally called for, but something he couldn't say in 30 seconds.
Romney looked like last night he actually wants to win this thing, making a big move in New Hampshire.
Anyway, I got to go.
I got a quick break here.
Time flying by.
Oh, this is too good.
A newspaper columnist in New Jersey has compared Bill Clinton to me.
When I said the media giving McNabb a pass, he says Bill Clinton's accusing the media of giving Obama a pass because he's black.
We'll be back.
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