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Jan. 11, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 11, 2008, Friday, Hour #2
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Hi, welcome back, ladies and gentlemen.
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By the way, folks, and and we've got audio sound bites coming up right now on the uh on the Republican debate last night on Fox, but before that, I have to update you on a love story.
Do you remember it was last week, I think.
I told you a friend of mine told me that out of the blue, he got an email from his high school sweetheart that he hadn't seen in 30 years.
And just was it was falling.
I mean, right just and I was going, how in the world did this woman get your email address when you haven't spoken to her for 30 years?
He said, Well, she found it on a you know high school uh these reunion things, everybody puts their contact information in there and so forth.
So here's the update on this.
This is unbelievable.
A friend said to me yesterday, you know, I'm gonna go out and buy a gauge ring.
I said, What?
Yep, I'm gonna go out and buy an engagement ring.
You mean is this this uh this woman that you had and see from high school?
It's uh is this another one that you've met?
No, no, no.
The woman from high school.
I said, have you met her yet?
No.
What?
You haven't?
You haven't seen her, you haven't seen her in person, you haven't talked to her in 30 years, and you're gonna go out and buy an engagement ring and go see her.
She lives in a very, you know, cosmopolitan southern city.
He said, Yeah.
Now, does that not just warm the heart?
I mean, haven't seen anybody 30 years get an email from them, spend time on the phone, fall so deeply in love, you go buy an engagement ring before you've even seen the woman in 30 years.
I mean, that's just if that doesn't tell you a boy chases a girl till she catches him.
And then in my friend's case, it's been 30 years.
Wow.
That is that is.
Do you realize that's one for the romance novels?
And it'll probably work.
You know, this is the thing, it'll defy all the experts, defy all the Opras, defy all the Dr. Phil's.
All the romance novels that'll wear everything about this is don't do it.
You haven't seen her yet.
She sent you a picture.
No, I don't need a picture.
I don't care what she looks like.
Oh, okay.
Well, so it's you'd have to say that it would have to be the real thing here.
When looks don't count, seeing them in person doesn't count.
Wow.
Go out and buy a ring.
How many of you wish something that magical would happen to you?
All right, to the audio sound bites of the Republican debate.
We'll start.
Uh this is a Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
We'll start with Huckabee.
The uh Fox moderator, Carl Cameron, said, Governor Huckabee, your advisor, Ed Rollins recently said the Reagan Coalition of Economic, Social, and National Security Conservatives is gone, and that you've been quoted as saying that you're not running for another Reagan term.
Tell us, sir, uh what part of the coalition is gone and what has it been replaced by?
The Reagan coalition has certainly not seen those same middle class, working class Republicans feeling a part of the Republican Party as they should.
Over the years, sometimes Republicans have thought that one part of that coalition was more important than the other.
I think they're all important.
And we need to recapture them.
But we need to make sure that we communicate that our party is just as interested in helping the people who are single moms, who are working two jobs, and still just parley paying the rent, as we are the people at the top of the economy.
That's exactly right, folks.
We've got to talk to these people making a hundred grand who have to take public transport.
We have to reach out to these single moms whose 18-year-old daughters have to wake up an hour early in Los Angeles to take public transportation to go to the ice cream scooping job.
We have to acknowledge that this suffering and this pain is going on, and that we're going to have what?
A new Reagan coalition of big government to fix it.
That's not what conservatism is.
It's not what Reaganism was.
Reaganism did not steer such people to the governments for solutions.
Reaganism steered people inwardly.
It steered people to themselves.
It inspired people to realize that they could be far better than they thought they could be, that they had more potential than they realized.
And the and Reagan conservatism had as its purpose the uplifting of all people, not looking at people, seeing them as members of groups, and bestowing victim status or sympathy upon them and saying, I, a politician in Washington will fix you.
In the meantime, we have Governor Huckabee who continues to use this line, and I'm going to have to paraphrase it.
He's using this line about I'd rather get to know the guy that I work with than the guy who fired me or what have you.
Yeah.
Yeah, people rather vote for the guy they work with than a guy that laid them off.
Now, you know, I'm going to repeat something.
I'm 56 years old.
Throughout my life, there has not been one CEO.
I'm 56, Dawn.
Nitpickers.
All right, 57 tomorrow.
You know what else I just found out?
Dawn put 58 candles on the cake.
One to grow on.
All right, 57, whatever.
That's fine.
I've always wanted to be older.
This is another thing.
I've always wanted to be older because I knew the older I got, the better life would be, and it's been the case.
Every year has been better than the previous for me, and I knew it would.
That's why when I was 16, I wanted to be 30.
Well, I wanted to be 21.
When it was 21, wanted to be 26.
26 wanted to be 30.
When I was 30 wanted to be 40 because I wanted to get all that behind me.
They don't let you enjoy life in this country till you're 40.
They don't let you make any money in this country till you're forty.
Unless you luck out and end up on Wall Street.
Some of those guys, but those are, you know, exceptions to the rule.
Anyway, I've not lost my place.
In all my life, there hasn't been one big oil CEO, hadn't been one big drug CEO, hadn't been a CEO of any organization that did me any harm.
There hasn't been one CEO that could.
There hasn't been one CEO.
I don't care how much the guy made or she made.
I don't care what they were being paid throughout the course of my life.
There has not been one CEO of any large or medium-sized American corporation who has harmed me, who has tried to harm me, or who could.
But throughout my life, there have been politicians too numerous to mention who can cause me great angst with policies of increased taxes, increased regulation, telling me what I can and can't do with my land, telling me what I can and can't do with my lights nine months a year because of a bunch of turtles.
Telling me what kind of light bulbs I can't use in 2012.
Telling me what kind of stupid little car I have to drive in 12 years.
But no CEO is telling me this.
So this business about we've got to start understanding victims out there and that we offer solutions with government program.
That's not.
I mean, you can call it what you want, and You can espouse that and you can be for it.
Do not call it Reaganism.
Do not call it conservatism.
And a lot of emails.
By the way, welcome back to Open Line Friday, Rush Limboy, uh guiding light through times of trouble, confusion, murkiness, tumult, chaos, torture, humiliation, despair, and uh even the good times.
A lot of emails.
Rush, what are you doing for your birthday?
Your birthday falling on a Saturday big weekend, what are you doing?
Snerdley asked you the same thing.
I'm doing nothing.
I am watching football.
I had um three different friends who said, we wanted to throw you apart.
Nope, I'm watching football.
I don't want birthday parties or one of this stuff.
Don't want to have to get dressed up, I don't want to go anywhere.
It's a weekend.
Uh this is the second greatest football weekend of the year, the first being last weekend.
Uh this is just uh so I'm doing nothing.
That's the answer.
By choice, it will be bliss.
All right, back to the audio sound bites from the Republican debate last night.
You just heard Huckabee say in defining Reaganism, we need to make sure that we communicate that our party is just as interested in helping the people who are single moms who are working two jobs, still just barely able to pay the rent, as we are the people at the top of the economy.
Now that uh I I have to tell you it offends me because the whole point of Ronald Reagan conservatism was to be interested in just that group.
This is a media myth.
It's a cliche that conservatives only care about the rich.
For crying out loud in the Obama stack, wait till you hear who it's been that's been bankrolling Obama, major corporations, nuclear power energy uh companies, George Soros.
The Democrat Party today has more wealthy constituents in its states and districts than the Republican Party does.
It's another myth, just like the the the civil rights movement uh is is directly uh uh responsible.
The Democrats are directly responsible for making it happen.
It's not true.
And that's why I cringe when I hear Republicans like Governor Huckabee falling into this trap or maybe purposely going into it, implying that Republicans don't care about the downtrodden.
The whole point of conservatism is to lift the downtrodden.
The whole point of liberalism is to keep them suppressed and then lower the rich and punish achievement.
And it's so damned obvious, all you have to do is take a look at what they say and what they propose.
And take a look at when people it's the economy's going great.
Uh people in the in the lower income brackets are moving out and moving up during the last eight years.
This is this is just frankly absurd for a Republican candidate to start running around talking about the Republicans don't care about little people.
So here's Fred Thompson, and what he said about that.
Governor Huckabee's campaign manager said it accurately in terms of what they believe.
They believe that it is over.
This is a battle for the heart and soul of the Republican Party and its future.
On the one hand, you have the Reagan uh revolution.
You have the Reagan uh coalition of limited government and strong national security.
On the other hand, you have the direction that Governor Huckby would take us in.
He would be a Christian leader, but he would also bring about liberal economic policies, liberal foreign policies.
And uh, you know, now this was unique.
This has not happened to date in Republican debates, with a Republican calling another Republican a liberal.
And this is why Fred was considered to be on fire.
He continued.
He believes we have an arrogant foreign policy and the tradition of blame America first.
He believes that Guantanamo should be closed down and those enemy combatants brought here to the United States to find their way into the court system eventually.
He believes in taxpayer-funded programs for illegals, as he did in in in Arkansas.
Uh, he has the endorsement of the National Education Association.
And the NEA said it was because of his opposition uh to vouchers.
He said he would sign a bill that banned uh smoking nationwide.
So much for federalism, so much for states' rights, so much for individual rights.
That's not the model of the Reagan coalition.
That's the model of the Democratic Party.
Where has this been?
Everybody's asking, where has this been besides on this program?
Where has this been in the context of the Republican debates?
Do you realize there were people when I got home from uh from dinner last night, started checking email, both from friends and and and just others?
There there was uh it was just just shy of orgasmic.
There was so much excitement and happiness, and then people were also a little frustrated.
Where's this been?
Fred's finally come alive.
This This is an enunciation of the conservative agenda that has not been present in these debates before.
And everybody has known, a lot of people have known it's there, it just hasn't surfaced.
So now, because of Fred's stellar performance last night, I should say Senator Thompson's stellar performance.
Guess what's happening?
It's predictable.
The drive-by's media commentators, the pundits, who ought to be so ashamed of blowing New Hampshire as badly as they did.
They shouldn't even be able to show their face.
They suffer no embarrassment whatsoever.
They are saying it's too late.
It's too little too late.
Fred hasn't shown an We've had two states.
We've had a Hawkeye Cockai, we've had New Hampshire.
We've had two states.
It's too late.
Fred doesn't have a chance.
Just wait till we get to these states where there are full-fledged conservative Republicans, not like New Hampshire, where McCain was nominated won the election with Democrats and independents.
Mitt Romney got a majority of the Republican vote in New Hampshire.
But the Republicans, in a Republican primary, were outnumbered by Democrats and independents.
Speaking of New Hampshire, Dennis Kucinich wants a recount.
Not because of him.
He thinks something's really strange here.
He thinks he's polls not that wrong.
He thinks there's something astray, something wrong, and he wants an investigation.
Precisely because he wants one is why we won't get one.
The drive-bys are never going to do a story on Democrat voter fraud.
Even if it happened, they're never going to do that.
Uh it will stoke up the kooks.
I mean, the Kooks are demanding it on Democrat underground and so forth.
But I mean, you know, the drive-bys are trying to write off our good guys.
Uh, and they're going to have to be stopped.
They're trying to write off genuine conservatives and prop up those who are not genuine conservatives on the Republican side.
They are trying to tell us who will win South Carolina, who's going to win Michigan.
They already got it in the books, and then when that happens, it's the end of Romney.
It's the end of Fred.
Probably the end of Rudy, leaving us with McCain and Huckabee before we even get the states with genuine conservative Republican voters.
The drive-by media, all these pundits are trying to dictate the terms of this election, and ultimately back their guy on our side.
And their guy on our side is the guy they think will be most easily beaten by their real guy on the Democrat side, or girl, depending on how it ends up.
And I frankly, folks, I don't think, even though even you, and you in this audience are among the most engaged, you are the most informed and the most knowledgeable of all broadcast media, according to the Pew Research Center for People in the Press.
I think even some people in this audience don't realize the extent to which the media is attempting to dictate the terms of our primary elections.
They're using phony polls, the nonstop commentary trying to demoralize conservatives.
The media's unwillingness to actually report, for example, on Senator McCain's record.
They have their techniques, and they are in full use right now.
You know, it's it's it plain as day for me to see.
The drive-bys are not just trying to help the Democrats, they help the Democrats by hurting us.
They will always tell you the drive-by media will always tell us, ladies and gentlemen, just who is and who isn't a conservative on the Republican side.
Um Brit Hume said, Governor Huckabee, did the uh American commander in the Strait of Hormoes the other day make the right decision by responding passively when approached aggressively by Iranian fast boats, believed to be from the revolutionary guards.
He also received, as you know, a warning that said that the American ships might be about to blow up.
Did he make the correct call, sir?
I'm going to trust that the president with the information that he had and that those commanders had made the right decision.
I think we need to make it very clear, not just to the Iranians, but to anybody, that if you think you're going to engage the United States military, be prepared, not simply to have a battle, be prepared First, to put your sights on the American vessel, and then be prepared that the next thing you see will be the gates of hell, for that is exactly what you will see after that.
People get a little excited about them, but I have a question.
Sorry, ladies and gentlemen, I have a question.
We've gone from we need to treat the enemies of the United States, terrorists and so forth with the golden rule.
Do unto them as we would have them do unto us, or whatever it is, vice versa, maybe.
Apparently that's not playing well, because now if you're one of our enemies and you target our military, you better be ready for the gates of hell.
From uh Governor Huckabee.
So we're we're getting a uh shall we say a uh moderating of tone, but not moderating, a more strident tone here.
Sometimes it's tough to keep up, even for somebody like me.
All right, we're gonna get to your phone calls all quick oh here, ladies and gentlemen.
But first, uh a few more sound bites from the Republican debate last night.
Uh Britt Hume said, Senator Thompson, did the commander underground make the correct call in not blowing the Iranian ships out of the water?
You can't take the judgment like that out of the hands of the officers on the ground there.
I think one more step, you know, and they would have been introduced to those versions that they're uh looking forward to seeing Wendell Gowler of Fox News asked uh Governor Tar or Senator Thompson, uh, would your administration continue to uh back Pakistani President Musharif despite polls that show two thirds of the Pakistani people want him to resign.
Oh my goodness, go against a poll.
How could anybody ever do that?
In the first place, you can tell that the news is good coming out of Iraq because you read so little about it in the New York Times.
Chris Wallace.
Well, that's you know, where has this stuff been?
I'm trying to race through this.
It speaks for itself, but uh Fred really scored some exciting points himself last night.
It was fascinating, too.
I watched uh I went to a bunch of different websites, and uh the the evangelicals thought that Huckabee just owned the night.
Uh look at I learned in ninety two, you're you're not gonna talk people who have an emotional connection, anything out of it.
You may be able to emotion them out of it, but I don't have that ability.
You're not gonna be able to talk them out of it.
Uh Chris Wallace said, Governor Huckabee, in your ten years running Arkansas, you raised taxes.
They were at the higher at the end of your ten years than they were at the beginning by hundreds of millions of dollars, and you increase the size of government.
Is that your idea of change to be a gib big government Republican president?
My idea of government is to get the job done and make sure that you balance your budget, that you respond to the needs of your people.
I don't think the federal government needs any more money.
That's why I've signed a pledge that I would not raise taxes as president.
Let me tell you what I raised, Chris.
I raised hope.
I raised expectation of the kids in my state who didn't have a decent education, and our courts ordered us to put more money into it.
And rather than just act about my political future, I acted about the future of those kids.
I raised the quality of life by making sure that education and health and highways were accessible to every kid in that state.
*click*
Well, this is the first uh making highways accessible to kids.
So uh was that let me can I was that was that Obama?
Can I ask you what was that Obama speaking?
Or that that was Huckabee.
It says here on my sound soundbite audio roster that that was Huckabee.
You know, my hearing is such.
Sometimes was that was that Obama?
Tell me.
That was Huckabee.
Using Obama's lines.
Highways are accessible to every kid in the state.
Raised hope.
Didn't raise taxes, I raised hope.
Raising taxes, increasing taxes equals increasing hope or raising hope.
Boy, did Obama, what an orator.
What a soaring guy.
Rudy Giuliani said this about the concept of change.
Change is either good or bad.
And when you just say change, if the change that you're talking about is raising taxes, if the change you're talking about is pulling out of Iraq precipitously, if the change that you're talking about is socialized medicine, these are definitely changes, but they're changes in the wrong direction.
If the change is in the direction of lower taxes, less spending, giving parents choice over education, energy independence.
These are things that are gonna make a brighter future and a better America.
But just the word change doesn't connote good or bad.
You've got to get one step beyond that and start looking at the changes.
Here is Wendell Gowler of Fox News.
Senator Thompson, the governor says the 12 million people would be looked at individually.
How would you find this in immigration question?
And can you do it faster than he would, sir?
We need to be a nation of high fences and wide gates, and we get to decide when to open the gate and when to close it.
It's not just 12 million people.
We have to be concerned about another uh 12 million people.
Uh I disagree with my friend uh John McCain on the bill that they uh proposed last year.
I disagree with my friend Governor Huckabee uh when he supported uh in-state tuition for illegal immigrants.
When he fought the legislature when they tried to uh uh impose verification requirements before a person could vote, so you could determine they were American citizens.
I think that we have got to enforce the border, crack down on employers who knowingly uh uh hire illegal immigration, and uh stop uh sanctuary cities and policies that encourage people to continue across the border while we claim to be trying to enforce the border.
Well, it was a long time coming, but there it is.
Some actual conservatism in a Republican debate last night.
Now, one thing you might have noticed if you watched the debate last night, nobody went after McCain.
What you just heard Thompson say, I disagree with my friend John McCain, uh immigration bill, he proposed.
Then he launched into Huckabee.
Now, Thompson spent most of the time going after Huckabee, which understandable, he and Huckabee might be vying for the same voters in uh South Carolina, but uh, I'm not a campaign strategerist, but I think the Thompson campaign's got to go after everybody.
It's especially got to go after McCain.
Nobody went after McCain last night.
Now I mentioned this uh earlier.
Nobody on that day and McCain is uh he's the anointed front runner by the drive-by.
And everybody uh uh immigration came up at the end, but they're just there they're still there's still a little, not a little, they're a lot afraid uh to go after McCain here.
And by the way, can I ask you a question?
No matter how McCain does, nobody is saying he has to win this state or has to win that state or get out if he's finished.
Nobody.
Same with Huckabee.
Only Thompson, only uh Romney, and only Giuliani are the drive-by saying if Romney doesn't win Iowa, he's finished.
If he doesn't win New Hampshire, he's finished.
If he doesn't win Michigan, he's done.
If uh Rudy, uh, Rudy can't put that machine back together real fast, Ford is gonna come too late.
He's done too.
He didn't have a chance.
Thompson, why?
It's a joke.
Why, Thompson doesn't even have enough time.
He's got in too late, but they never say, you know, Huckabee needs to win this, or it's finney.
If McCain loses this state where he's so up, if he loses, oh, it's an they're not saying that.
I want to call your attention to a piece written by uh, of course, my good friend Mark Levin.
He's posted this at National Review Online, and it's the real McCain record.
And he starts by saying this is a reason some of John McCain's conservative supporters avoid discussing his record.
Now, we're to supporters here.
The reason that I want to share this with you that the that uh Flea wrote is nobody laid a glove on McCain last night, and he's you know, the Republic the quasi so-called Republican front runner.
And if there's if if these other people who ever want this nomination ever hope to get it, they're gonna have to go after McCain at some point.
Uh but the reason some of McCain's conservative supporters avoid discussing his record is that they want to talk about his personal story.
They want to talk about his position on the surge, his supposed electability.
But whenever the rest of his career comes up, the knee-jerk reply is to characterize the inquiries as a tax.
Uh this is a liberal trick.
This is a Clintonista trick.
You tell the truth about liberal Democrats, that's so mean.
That's a tech politics.
That's the politics of personal destruction.
When same dynamic with Huckabee.
If you tell the truth about Huck, that's a politics of personal destruction.
These are attack ads.
And besides, these guys are all adults.
They've been in politics all their lives.
Attack ads are part of the business.
Acting like that's offensive and hurtful is just a joke.
Levin writes here the McCain domestic record is a disaster.
To say that he fought spending, most particularly earmarks, is to nibble around the edges and miss the heart of the matter.
For instance, McCain Feingold, the most brazen frontal assault on political speech since Buckley versus Vallejo.
McCain Kennedy, the most far-reaching amnesty program in American history.
McCain Lieberman, the most onerous and intrusive attack on American industry through reporting, regulating, and taxing authority of greenhouse gases in American history.
McCain Kennedy Edwards, the biggest boon to the trial bar since a tobacco settlement under the rubric of a patient's bill of rights.
McCain re-importation of drugs, a significant blow to pharmaceutical research and development, not to mention consumer safety.
McCain Feingold alone.
This isn't Republican.
To limit free speech, this is the incumbent protection act.
And of course, the amnesty program, and McCain loves to say, it's not amnesty.
You hear me, Saber?
It's not amnesty.
But it's amnesty.
It was amnesty, and that's why it went down to a scorching blazing defeat.
But it's not amnesty.
McCain stated opposition to Bush's tax cuts in 2001-2003.
Largely based on class warfare rhetoric.
He said we can't do this.
It's tax cuts for the rich.
Hey, they're going to do tax cuts for the rich.
The public record is full of statements like these.
Today he recalls only his insistence on accompanying spending cuts.
And they want any spending cuts in there, so we weren't going to support tax cuts.
But he people have forgotten.
2001, McCain was still steaming over 2,000.
And the South Carolina primary.
You know, after uh after the Contraton regarding Bob Jones University, the religion and so forth, it was still he had it in for Bush.
2003 at hand hadn't dwindled much, so he's opposing Bush's tax cut using class warfare rhetoric.
As chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, Transportation.
I know people Rush, why are you doing this?
Tell why I'm doing it because no Republican in the debate last night did it.
Somebody has to do it.
Chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce Science Transportation, McCain was consistently hostile to American enterprise from media and pharmaceutical companies to technology and energy companies.
And how excuse me, how many of us can forget the gang of 14 debacle?
Remember that, ladies and gentlemen, the gang of 14 prevented the Republican leadership in the Senate from mounting a rule change that would have ended the systematic use, actual and threatened of the filibuster to prevent majority approval of judicial nominees.
You never had to have 60 votes to get a judicial nominee approved.
Democrats started filibustering, you needed 60 votes.
We were going to pull a trigger in a nuclear option and get rid of this once for all, and McCain rides in with Senator Lindsey Grahamisty and others, the gang of 14.
Which, by the way, has expired, ladies and gentlemen, the Gang of 14 deal has expired now.
His record on defense.
His supporters point to essentially one policy strength, and that is his early support for the surge and a counterinsurgency, but it's now evolved into McCain taking credit for forcing the president to adopt Petraeus' strategy, but I haven't seen any evidence to support that.
But McCain's supporters saying Bush wouldn't have done if it weren't for the influence of McCain.
McCain had it right.
I haven't seen the evidence.
Iraq's an important battle in the war against Islamofascism, true.
But the war's global.
It's most certainly included includes Continental U.S., which after all was struck on 9-11.
How does McCain fare in that regard?
Well, there's McCain ACLU, the unprecedented granting of due process rights to unlawful enemy combatants, terrorists.
He's repeatedly called for the immediate closing of Club Gitmo, the introduction of Al-Qaeda terrorists into our own prisons.
Despite the legal rights they would immediately gain and the burdens of managing such a dangerous population.
There will be other debates, and there's a goldmine of things to hit Senator McCain on.
This record.
But there is a reluctance to do so.
It's the POW MIA story, the hero status, and so forth.
But if these guys have a prayer knocking him off the lead, they're gonna have to get into this stuff.
All right, promise.
Next hour is gonna be devoted to your phone calls.
I got it all out of my system here.
I just want to say one more thing about this McCain business.
In explaining why there might be trepidation on the report of Republicans, particularly in South Carolina to engage him.
And that's because of South Carolina 2000.
It was brutal.
This program intimately involved in that.
And that in South Carolina began the the beginning of the end of the McCain campaign for president that year.
Now we were not involved spreading any rumors about McCain, and other people in McCain candidate campaigns did that.
We didn't do that, but it was just spelled out.
Hey, this guy is not conservative.
Look at what he's saying here about you know various um aspects of Christian coalition and this sort of thing.
And he went, it was it was bloody Bush emerged, and that was the end of it.
Uh and as I say, you recall now.
No drive-by is to say McCain has to win South Carolina, it's over.
Well, he has to win Michigan or it's over.
Not saying that about Huckabee either, but all the other viable candidates, top-tier candidates, if they lose this, they're gone.
If they don't get their debts, they're done.
Um trying to influence your thinking about this.
But I think one of the reasons why the Republicans are reluctant to go after McCain is South Carolina, because they uh probably is a fear among some of their strategirists that McCain will pop up or his campaign will pop up and say, it's South Carolina, it's all over again.
This ready got me last time, and I think they can do it now.
Which they can't.
They can't.
Come on, come give me.
They're worried about you know, just you know, history repeating itself.
They but they don't have much time here, folks.
It's a political campaign, you know.
Um it's like Huckabee said, if you can't stand aside of your own blood, don't get into it.
All right.
Adam in Riverdale, New York.
Thank you for waiting, sir.
Welcome.
Hi, Rush.
How are you doing?
Good, sir.
Um Listen, um uh since you're somewhat of a historian, and uh since uh you're a godsend on, you know, letting everybody know uh exactly who the Democrats are, how they're bordering on communism.
Um I wanted to ask you something.
Um I admired presidents like Truman and uh even Roosevelt, and I was wondering what you thought of them.
Uh Truman as far as how he would handle Islamo uh fascism and so forth.
Well, Truman and FDR both have something in common.
They were not afraid to fight and beat the enemy.
Right.
Uh Truman, of course, was hated.
Do you understand he was as hated as Bush during his president?
Well, you might know that.
Uh no, no, because you weren't alive.
Uh he was despised.
I know.
Uh but you know, this is what we keep saying about other presidents.
Look at the history that's written long after Harry Truman's gone and his contemporaries are gone.
Uh we even had who was it in the 70s or the yeah, late 70s, it was Chicago or somebody sang a song, Harry Truman, Where Are You Please Come Back?
Some was it Chicago that sang that.
Well, wasn't that wasn't that a part of a play?
Yeah, I think it was a Truman there was a play on Truman, and that's when his own.
FDR, same thing at World War II.
I mean, you can't you can't deny that you can get into some arguments, you know, that FDR let some things happen in order to get us in.
I don't want to get there.
The my big problem with FDR was on the domestic side.
Yes.
Social security was the one of the greatest tricks.
One of the greatest political slights a hand to ever be played in American politics.
It gave us the welfare state, and its purpose was to empower Democrats in power electorally and politically forever.
And they came close to succeeding.
Is this group uh in their music video the ones that dressed up like a bunch of turtles?
Yeah.
Thought so.
As Sir Edmund Hillary died.
Um, Hillary Clinton claimed she was named after him, but it could not have been possible.
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