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Jan. 15, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 15, 2008, Tuesday, Hour #2
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Hi, folks, and welcome back.
It's Rush Limbaugh.
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Let me just go through some of the drive-by stories on this uh on this uncivil war in the so-called by the I have one comment I would like to add to this um this the contraton that is happening in Nevada.
You know, the uh the unions that have endorsed Obama have been permitted to caucus where they work in ballrooms at nine different casinos and resorts.
And Mrs. Clinton is suing.
The Clinton campaign Clinton supporters are suing to cancel this because it's not fair to other caucus goers.
Now who are these people?
Who are these people the Clinton camp is attempting to disenfranchise?
These are union workers, these are the little people in the casinos.
These are the dishwashers.
These are single mothers, ladies and gentlemen.
The Clinton camp is attempting to disenfranchise single mothers.
Poor women, they have to leave their babies at home or in daycare.
They are Hispanic in many cases.
They are black.
They are struggling against lifestyle.
Look at who they are surrounded by.
They're surrounded by immense wealth.
Opulent casinos.
Services that these union members know they will never be able to use because they will never be able to afford them.
Who are these people?
The little people.
They are the servants and the slaves of the people who can afford to go to Las Vegas.
And all they want to do is caucus.
And Mrs. Clinton's camp, her supporters are attempting to disenfranchise these little people.
It's not just the race war that's happening here, the uncivil war.
It is the Clintons are loaded for bear to take out anybody.
Doesn't matter how big, how small, how rich, how poor, what color.
Um this is Clinton Inc.
in the Clinton machine and the war against the poor.
They're running a hate campaign against Obama, a hate campaign composed of charges of racism and drug selling and use.
And now they're running a campaign against the poor, the war against the poor in Las Vegas.
And many of these workers, as I say, are single women who have to leave their babies who knows with who.
And Hillary does not tip these people.
We all know this from Iowa.
And the diner.
Not only does she not tip them, she wants now to rob them of their right to vote in the Nevada caucus.
And these are the people who claim to stand up for the little guy.
And to protect the little guy against people like the Clintons.
But the Clintons, you see, have a special license.
They can do whatever they want to whoever they want in order to get their power.
It's on display for one and all to see.
All right, here's the politico.
Uh I just want to go briefly through these headlines and the and the points.
Central point to raise in these stories.
The race card has been dealt.
It's hard not to look back to 1988, where the Reverend Dax won the Michigan caucuses.
Time magazine put him on a cover with a single word.
Jackson.
And Dan Rather said Jackson become the front runner for the Democrat nomination.
He never won another major contest of possibility of Jackson actually becoming the Democrat nominee was more than enough to scare voters into the arms of his opponent.
This story makes the case that Hillary knows that some people won't for Obama, won't vote for Obama because it's black, shades of the Reverend Jackson in 1988.
Here's how the politico describes it.
Although she doesn't say it, her campaign knows that just as there are some people who will vote for Obama because he's black, there are some people who will never vote for him for the same reason.
And that gives the Clintons cover.
Because once again they're just trying to save the party.
Then the Washington Post, an editorial.
Stop the distortions in the innuendo.
Their basic point of this editorial is comical.
Race is an important subject for debate.
But this is unproductive.
Why?
Why is this unproductive?
Because it exposes Democrats.
That's why the Washington Post finds this unproductive.
It is exposing Democrats.
Eugene Robinson, African American columnist, Washington Post.
A hand the Clintons Aren't Showing is the title of his piece.
His point is that they are playing the race card to tar Obama as the one who played it in a move to get the moderates to leave Obama.
His point is that this is strategic.
The reason that the Clintons are car are accusing and charging Obama with injecting race into this because they think it will turn moderates off.
Or the strategy could be more subtle.
I can't help but recall a certain piece in history.
He looks at Clinton history.
He's almost at the point that nothing is coincidence with them.
Is it possible that accusing Obama and his campaign of playing the race card might create doubt in the minds of the moderate independent?
White voters who now seem so enamored of the young black senator.
Might that be the idea?
Yes, that's a cynical view, concludes Mr. Robinson, but history is history.
And then Lois Romano in the Washington Post, the racial row that's dividing the Democrats.
She makes the point it isn't just theater.
Some civil rights leaders aren't believing that this Clinton push on race was not orchestrated.
Some civil rights leaders, in other words, think that it was orchestrated.
And they're right.
Here's this, we got two sound bites here before we go to the break and then get to your phone calls.
PBS last night, the Charlie Rose show.
He had James Clyburn...
No, wait.
Wait, wait, wait.
Forgot to turn the page.
This is PBS, but it's the news hour with Jim Lara.
And he spoke with John Lewis, Democrat from Georgia, and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference co-founder, uh, the Reverend Joseph Lowry about the young civil war.
Judy Woodruff says, Representative Lewis, how did you interpret this?
You just heard Reverend Lowry say he can see how some people felt that that diminished Dr. King's role.
I was there with Dr. Martin Kane Jr. on March 15th, 1965.
Maybe Washington Johnson delivered his speech in respond to what we happen in Selma when he said, and we shall overcome.
I looked at Dr. King, he looked at me, and tears came down his eyes.
And he said we would get the civil rights bill, the vote and rights bill passed.
We will marry from Selman to Montgomery.
I think there's been a deliberate systematic attempt on the part of some people in Obama camp to really fan deflame a race and really try to distort what Senator Clinton said.
I understand, and I think most right-thinking people understood what she said.
Monditha King Jr. created the climate, created the environment, but it took a Linda Johnson to get the legislation through the Congress.
But here again, another Uncle Bill.
John Lewis.
I've been perfecting my John Lewis impersonation, by the way, when he's orating on the floor of the House of Representatives.
He was very mild there.
But once again, an Uncle Bill.
That's my new term for an Uncle Tom.
Selling out the race for loyalty to the white master, in this case Bill Clinton.
So here we have another foot soldier, John Lewis, who marched with Dr. King.
Now throwing Obama overboard to side up with the Clintons.
Joseph Lowry was Asked about these comments that Lewis made that there's a systematic attempt on the part of the Obama campaign to make something more out of this.
That's absolutely false.
I never heard the Obama people respond until media had done it.
A column is in the New York Times and others on radio and television and in the print media.
All raised the issue was this uh below the belt.
I certainly don't need to defend Martin Luther King.
I don't think John needs to defend the Clintons.
Yes, and Lowry uh inspired this response from Lewis.
She only referred to the issue of Dr. King when Obama, Mr. Obama, raised a question of leadership in his speech.
Mrs. Clinton was saying we need more than rhetoric.
We need more than speeches.
Dr. King gave some great speeches.
He took to the street, and there was action, but it needed a president.
It did come out of the language that Mr. Obama is using.
But the Obama camp is also doing something else.
They're sending out memos to members of the media trying to suggest that the Clinton are playing the race guard.
Yeah, well, they are.
John?
Congressman Lewis.
It's plain as day for everybody to see.
But interest isn't it interesting how the loyalties here are shaking out.
I think they do, Mr. Snerdley.
I think Lewis, they think, they think that the Obama camps should just roll over and just play dead when the Clintons come marching into town.
They do.
Obama, what is this upstart?
He's not supposed to be winning.
He's not even supposed to be close.
Hey.
They are not going to give him his dignity or give him his respect.
They're slamming him.
They're accusing him of racism.
They're accusing a black guy of racism.
And Jesse Jackson once told us that blacks are incapable of racism because they don't have the power to implement any of the racist views that they might have.
One more from Lowry, final portion of the exchange between himself and Representative Lewis.
You said the Obama campaign raised the issue.
I'm telling you, they did not.
It was media people and other people who have been relatively impartial.
Well, who raised the track, you have I simply said I can understand how they could read that in those statements.
Fairy tale, false whole.
Farrell has had nothing to Johnson.
That's not a positive approach.
Let's stay positive, let's stay on the issues and serve America.
President Clinton referenced to Farrell had nothing, not one word to do with the issue erased.
It was all about the rock war.
Listen, John, I don't know anybody who is more articulate than Bill Clinton.
And nobody who can choose words wisely.
So I know how Bill chooses words, and I think he's able to do it.
And I don't want to defend him.
There you have it.
So this battle continues here with Lewis being accused here of us being essentially being a sellout by the right Reverend Joseph Lowry.
Bob Johnson, by the way, he brought up the drug issue again, and the Clintons are out there saying, hey, uh Bill Clinton said, look, that was not organized.
We had no idea what he's going to say when he got out there.
We weren't even there.
How could we have known what he was going to say?
Nobody buys that.
Nobody goes to a Clinton rally and speaks off the cuff.
This is all part.
The other Sidney Poitiers reference, a distinguished American actor, and they try to besmirch him by comparing Obama to him.
Your phone calls next after this.
Hi, welcome back.
You know, I'm going to do it.
I'm I'm uh Mike, I want you to grab grab uh Barack the Magic Negro.
We're gonna run a little test here, folks.
Because I want to we're not gonna play it right now.
We'll play in the next segment.
I want to get some calls in here.
We've got one more sound bite and a comment.
Because here's the thing.
The dirty little secret is this.
John Lewis and Charlie Wrangell would not be talking like they are if Hillary Clinton was a Republican.
And that's what everybody needs to know.
They would be all over her for what she's doing if she was a Republican.
The liberals, who are obsessed with race, are doing more to set back race relations than anything I can think of.
Sharpton gave Clinton a pass.
And by has anybody heard from the uh Reverend Jackson?
We have not.
This this this stack of stuff on the uncivil war doesn't stop.
Washington Post, they must have ten stories on this today.
And in this story, as candidates agree, aids keep sparring.
James Carville says he is shaken by the whole thing.
He says this race debate, not party.
What is it?
Totally unfamiliar.
Unfamiliar, Mr. Carville, or just unsaid and behind closed doors.
Anybody believe this is the first time people in the Democrat Party are talking this way?
No.
This is just the first time it has surfaced and emerged from behind closed doors.
And then this, New York Times, in Obama's pursuit of Latinos, race plays a role.
Oh.
And it's all about Obama bridging the black Latino divide.
I mean, this race obsession is exhausting.
Aren't you libs tired of this?
I told you they were in chaos.
The uh Reverend Zach's quiet.
He supports Obama.
Uh the Reverend Jackson's wife is a Hillary supporter.
He's got to have some place to sleep.
And a credit card may be maxed out.
At least he needs some place to sleep in Chicago.
So the Reverend Jackson has to shut up.
He's for Obama.
His wife is for Hillary.
He has been neutered.
Here's Bill Clinton on the radio in Chicago yesterday asking or answering the question was this Robert Johnson the B.E.T. guy?
Those comments about Obama and drug use is that stuff planned.
No.
First of all, I don't think that Bob Johnson said what he said yesterday.
Nobody knew what he was going to say, or and it wasn't part of any planned strategy.
And certainly nobody had any advanced notice of anything Attorney General Cuomo said.
But has defended his comment.
He's trying to defend.
He tried to say what we're trying to defend, but it's not what I mean.
But anybody listening can know what he was talking about.
He wasn't talking about community organizing.
That was kind of a good thing.
Well, that's that's something between Bob Johnson and Barack Obama.
Yeah, because I had nothing to do with uh their rolling.
You know, I've just minded my own business.
Nobody said anything out there.
We don't organize these kinds of things.
And uh by the way, you didn't ask about Andrew Cuomo, but uh that Shark and Jive commented he made, hey, I had nothing to do with that either.
We didn't know anything about that.
I've offended you would suggest such a thing, Roland.
I'm not gonna come on your radio show ever again.
And then Clinton added this.
Tell you, I got a list of 80 attacks on her going back six months.
When his campaign referred to her as a senator from Punjab, on the very same day, they put out a three-page printed release attacking me.
McCarthy-esque.
Bill Clinton holding up a sheet of paper.
I have a list of eighty.
Eighty attacks on her going back six months.
He came after me too.
It's two against one, Mr. President.
I mean, if poor Obama's out there trying to take the high road.
You and your wife are dumping all over together.
Here's what we're gonna do.
In the next segment, we're gonna play from our archives, Barack the Magic Negro, and we're gonna remind you how it all happened.
Because in the midst of this, here we've got all of these Democrats and all these liberals engaging in blatant racism.
But and it's and of course the drive-bys are trying to cover it up.
It says the truth going on, but the uh the Uncle Bill's out there in the foot soldiers and the uncivil war, they're still conducting the war.
I want to see how long it takes for the drive-bys to accuse me of racism for playing this song again.
We'll we'll do this little test.
The drive-by's don't listen here.
Uh, they get information of what happened on his show later from Hillary Clinton front group websites.
So this will be fun.
Uh, Mark in Standish, Michigan.
I really appreciate your holding on.
Welcome to the program.
Hello, Ross.
Hi.
Uh, sorry to deviate from your monologue for just a minute, but you had a woman call yesterday that just frosted me to no end when she said that if either McCain or Huckabee won the nomination, she was gonna set the general election out.
Yeah.
People like her, I coined the term, I call them TV Republicans, and it doesn't stand for television, it stands for tunnel vision because they need to take the blinders off and see the bigger picture.
If they set out the general election, the Democrat wins it by default, whichever one of the three stooges wins it.
Guess what?
In the next four years, there's gonna be probably one, maybe two Supreme Court vacancies come up.
Do they really want one of the three bozos over there appointing the next two Supreme Court justices?
Is Clinton gonna uh gonna appoint another Ginsburg or is he gonna do another Scalillo?
You know, uh is uh Obama gonna uh appoint another uh Justice Thomas or is he gonna do somebody like uh Breyer or Stephen?
Do they really want the liberals appointing the next two Supreme Court justices?
They need to take the blinders off, Rush.
They need to look at the bigger vision and quit being tunnel vision Republicans.
I understand what you're saying, and I hate to tell you this, but she's not alone.
I'm just I'm gonna, I'm here to tell you if either of these two guys get the nomination, it's gonna destroy the Republican Party, it's gonna change it forever, be the end of it.
A lot of people aren't gonna vote.
You watch.
Taking no prisoners, holding nothing back on the cutting edge of societal evolution.
One more sound bite on this race war, the uncivil war between the Democrats.
By the way, am I the only one uh who uh I'm just marveling at Bill Clinton's central role in this campaign.
Now, I understand he's the husband.
And Hillary had a uh similar role when Bill ran in 1992 and 1986, but not quite as prominent.
Uh there is no question in my mind that Bill Clinton is running for an unelected third term.
He wants this as much for himself as he might want it for Hillary.
Uh and it is.
It's two against one.
Right.
Yes, they started hiding her when her numbers, uh, negative numbers went up.
The more she spoke, the more dislike or disapproval she had, and they hid her in that in that campaign.
Uh, in the 92 campaign.
Uh they can't hide Bill because he's running this show, and he's not gonna hide himself.
Now, last night on PMS NBC's Hardball with Chris Matthews, spoke with Jonathan Capart of the Washington Post, Roger Simon of Politico about the uncivil war between Hillary and Barack Obama.
Matthews said, Roger, seems to me that uh it was manifestly true that he was alluding to the same thing other people at Clinton World have been doing.
Try to nail Obama as a youthful drug offender.
This is really uncomfortable stuff.
Even at the best of times, we don't like talking about race in this country.
Uh, and in the superheated atmosphere of a presidential campaign, it becomes even more uncomfortable.
And you know, Chris, this is really unfortunate that here we are at the we're we're we're really at a moment, a very historic moment in the country, but particularly for the Democratic Party, where you could have you have the first viable female candidate for president, the first viable African American candidate for president, both seeking the nomination for the Democratic Party to run for president, and uh things seem to be running off the rails over this issue of race.
This fight may require that they form a ticket as the only way to seal this after this bloodletting.
After this kind of talk, it seems to be the only way to satisfy those who lose this race eventually is to put it together.
Now, isn't it interesting?
They find all this uncomfortable.
We don't like all this race talk in our party.
Why is it right?
You keep it behind closed doors.
You're obsessed with it.
Now it's surfaced.
It's out in public.
They didn't find Makaka uncomfortable, did they?
They loved Macaca.
They loved it.
They didn't find Trent Lott uncomfortable.
When he had a little passing comment about Strom Thurman at a birthday party.
They loved.
They loved destroying Trent Lott.
They loved.
And of course, um, they didn't find uh Donovan McNabb uncomfortable.
And they didn't find Terrell Owens dumping on McNabb uncomfortable.
No, they loved all of that.
What great news it made.
But now, when it's an uncivil war among the Democrats, why really uncomfortable stuff?
We don't like talking about race in this cabull.
You love talking about race in the drive-by.
You'd love it.
You are obsessed with race.
You're obsessed with sexism.
You're obsessed with All of these isms.
All right now.
Time for our little test here, ladies and gentlemen.
We have racism on full display.
We got the Clinton campaign trying to destroy an upstart young black guy.
Remember David Aaron Stein.
He was a column black columnist Los Angeles Times wrote a column referring to Barack Obama as a magic Negro.
Because a lot of white people were supporting Obama, but they didn't even know what he stood for.
And the whole point was they were just assuaging their guilt.
By saying they were for Obama.
It's sort of like the reverse Wilder effect.
It's like telling a polster, oh yeah, I'm voting Obama.
I'm a good person.
I'm not a racist.
And you get to the polling place and you vote for the white guy.
When nobody can see what you're doing.
Though, Ehrenstein, if I got his name right, was referring to whites who support Obama as basically being phonies.
Hey, don't even know anything about the guy.
He's just a magic Negro.
They can say they're supporting him, and it makes them feel good about themselves.
And then, of course, we have Al Sharpton actually singing the song, and Sharpton was upset because Joe Biden had gone out there and said of Obama, it's great to finally get a clean, articulate black guy in our party.
You know, and Sharpton takes showers, and he's been a presidential candidate.
And he didn't appreciate that.
And he wouldn't endorse Obama.
He was, it was he was waiting around for all kinds of things and goodies and uh and what have you.
So we just took a series of statements and actions by liberals.
We wrote the parody tune, Barack the Magic Negro.
We have Al Sharpton singing it through his bullhorn.
And let's just see how long it takes for the media to accuse me of injecting race into the campaign, shall we?
From the archives, the groove yard of Forgotten Favorites, Barack the Magic Negro, and a little test.
Little test here to see how long it takes to drive by is to once again accuse me of injecting race into the uncivil war going on in the Democratic presidential primary.
In fact, they'll probably accuse me of trying to break the truce.
Accuse me of trying to stoke it back up.
Billy and Fort Worth, Texas.
Now, yeah, the insurgent Rush Limbaugh refuses to accept the civil truce, the other the truce in the uncivil war.
That's what they'll do.
Billy in Fort Worth, I'm glad you waited, sir.
Welcome to the program.
Hey, hello, Mr. Limbaugh.
How are you doing?
Fine.
Okay.
First of all, I want to say that uh, I thought I didn't talk about Mr. Brick, but I want to say that, hey, you do to what you do.
And you know what that is.
Uh, what is that?
Uh hey, trying to destroy the Democratic Party.
Hey, but hey, this is America.
Okay, I want to tell America.
I'll call it, you know, you said it uh, you know, the Republican and Reagan administration is still great for the past, but hey, I live through that area.
That area.
And hey, declare a male past started on the Mr. Reagan, on the Mr. Carter.
On the Mr. Carter.
I made enough money to stop past them here.
And no film.
You were the one, huh?
Well, I I was united out in the union.
And you know them what Mr. Bacon believed.
Yeah.
Union ass rate, wait.
And the way he uh unemployment rate.
Well, he added the military.
To them thought, am I right or wrong?
No, you're wrong, but I understand why you have the perception.
No, you're wrong, but I understand why you have the perception that you have.
We had four years of absolute economic destruction under Jimmy Carter.
They weren't fixed overnight.
The Reagan tax cuts didn't happen in 1982, and that's what started everything going.
Uh we were in a mess.
Reagan inherited a huge mess.
It took a long time to get the engine rolling, but it is still purring today.
The 80s got rid of all of that misery in the late 70s during the Carter four-year term.
Uh, they were so successful, Billy.
I'm I'm just I'm just shooting you straight here, my man.
They were so successful that the Democrats have been writing and revising history over the Reagan years ever since, because they cannot allow history to get it right, because it means there's no need for Democrat policies.
The frustrating thing to people like me, Billy, is that people in my own party don't want to try to learn from what happened during the 1980s and continue to implement the same principles applied to today's issues.
We'll be back.
Back to the phones.
People have been patiently waiting.
Don't forget Newt Gingrich at the top of the next hour.
Here is Edward in uh Southwest Missouri.
Edward, nice to have you here.
Yes, good afternoon, Mr. Limbaugh.
It's a honor to speak with you.
Thank you, sir.
I'm a uh 30-year uh member of the Armed Services, and I certainly appreciate all that you do for the Armed Services.
Thank you, sir.
We appreciate your uh service.
My comment is uh is this uh it seems, and it's only my perception, that many of the overstatesmen of the uh movement of the equal rights movement are reluctant, even fearful, that uh Senator Obama could even have a chance to attain the presidency.
And my question is why.
That's an excellent question, and there is a very accurate and simple answer.
And here it is.
You're talking about people like John Lewis and Charlie Wrangell and several other institutional leaders of the civil rights movement.
Correct.
They have thrown in with the Democrat Party for the entirety of their careers.
In that uh process, they have gained their power.
The Democrat Party is is an amalgamation, if you will, of several different coalitions.
You've got feminists, uh, you have blacks, you have Latinos, you have union members, you have they're they're just a disparate bunch of groups.
It's a very uh loosely knit coalition, and the civil rights coalition gets its seat at the table of power, the Democrat Party by supporting a Democrat machine.
So these guys that you're talking about owe their allegiance, they owe their careers, they owe their power, however they perceive it to be to the Democrat Party and its machine.
Uh so that's why they're throwing in.
It's it's it's personal.
It's all about themselves, another disguise it and say it's about loftier things, but uh it's about loyalty and it's about being loyal to those who um gave them a chance to have power and sit at the table of power and so forth.
Uh that that's it th that's actually your question helps me to illustrate exactly how how irrelevant to these guys' race really is.
I mean, they use it as a means of driving a wedge between the American people, but when faced with doing what they have demanded all the rest of us do throughout our lives, they abandoned the black guy.
They bland they abandoned the black guy while they tell us all of their careers that we're the ones that have been doing this, and that we've been stepping on them, and we have been denying them equality and fairness and all this.
It's they now who are doing this one and all to see.
It's simply because they have no loyalty to Obama, Obama threatens them.
Obama doesn't owe them and they didn't make Obama.
And he and uh so he doesn't owe them anything.
I guess if he if he's successful, he's not gonna owe them because they have will they will not have helped.
So all of these reasons combined into the answer.
I I I certainly agree with uh with that, and uh and I see that uh also uh they they well it's it's it's certainly power, and and people want to hold on to whatever power they have, and they will claim allegiance to whatever gives them the power.
Right.
Well, in this case, you could go so far as to say, even though people like Lewis and Wrangell and so forth have won their elections, uh, but they have not really earned their power.
It's been given to them.
It's been awarded them.
They've been good foot soldiers.
They have followed the uh party platform, they've gone out and done the dirty work, they've opposed the Clarence Thomas's, they make fun of the Condoleezza Rices, they do all of that.
They make sure that no uppity blacks get anywhere.
By that I mean conservative blacks.
Uh and it in exchange, you know, they're given their seat of power at that table.
And it's look, you know, race, the Democrats have always used race as a wedge issue.
And one of these uh this New York Times story about Obama pursuing Latinos and how race plays a role in this.
He's got to bridge a racial divide in order to get Latinos.
Uh one of the one of the pro people quoted in this New York Times story, uh Let's see, who is this?
Gloria Romero, a Democrat of uh uh East Los Angeles.
She said, We need to address what unites us.
The key is not to raise the wedge issue.
So the key is not to raise the wedge issue.
The key is to not raise the fact that the Democrats are institutionally screwed up by race.
And when it comes out, of course, time to call a truce, sweep it away, which is what they'd like to do with the Hillary Obama flap.
It's exposing them for who and what they really are.
Northport, Florida.
Janet, you're next on the EIB network.
Hello.
Rush, um uh just uh could you play the Dallas soprano singing Puccini in your honor?
I'd love to hear that again if you would.
Uh oh, yeah, we'll uh we'll we'll find a way.
Maybe not today, but we'll hopefully today, but we'll try to get it in soon.
Okay.
Um you've been pointing out for nearly or more than a decade now, I guess, um, that the political instincts of the Clintons they're often wrong.
Um so isn't it uh a miscalculation on their part uh in moving the caucus in primary season up so early?
Because I understand they were the architects of this uh strategy, thinking that uh Hillary, you know, was a sure thing.
Well, yeah, they wanted to they wanted to move it up and have all these uh primaries early on because it would afford uh Hillary the chance to expose herself the least.
You know, the longer she's out there, the longer she's out talking and making speeches, the bigger the chances are that she's gonna screw it up.
Uh but uh the the the front loaded primaries are actually not new.
They're just more concentrated this year uh than they have been for a uh a long while.
Uh but I do think that they're stunned.
They did have this sense of inevitability that this was a mere coronation, and they're off track and they are in chaos right now.
There is there is no question about it.
But they can't change it, they got to deal with it.
And they deal with it with the only way they know how, and that's destroying Obama.
Okay, we got a break here at the top of the hour.
Newt Gingrich will join us.
Uh he wants to discuss comments made by me yesterday reacting to his appearance Sunday on this week with George Stephanopoulos about the uh end of the Reagan era and the future of conservatism.
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