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Jan. 29, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 29, 2008, Tuesday, Hour #2
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How about this headline?
This this is from the uh the now gang New York.
Uh the New York State chapter of the nags, psychological gangbang of Hillary, is proof we need a woman president.
That's the headline in a yeah, I'm from real press release.
Psychological gangbang of Hillary is proof we need a woman president in the New York State chapter of the nags.
It's by Marcia Pappas, who is the nag New York State president.
We've all witnessed scenarios where on the playground little girls are being taunted by little boys, while both girls and boys stand idle, afraid to speak up, or even cheering, or in the workplace, males tease young and older female co-workers, make them seen gestures, inappropriate comments, laughing and expecting often correctly that everybody will join in.
Then there was that movie where Jody Foster portrayed the true story of a woman who was gang raped in a bar while others looked on and encouraged.
The realization still others pretend the rape didn't happen.
In short, gang raping of women is commonplace in our culture, both physically and metaphorically.
And this past week, we witnessed just such a gang rape involving men who are afraid of a powerful woman, Hillary Clinton, in her quest for her presidential nomination, has in fact endured infantile taunting and wildly inappropriate commentary.
Indeed, we have witnessed almost comical attacks by the Brick Girl, who in turn sided with Barack Obama as both snickered at Clinton's breakdown, which consisted of a very short, dewy-eyed moment.
Now, John Kerry, who should certainly know better after his own swift voting has joined the playground gang.
Now, this is from January 11th.
The nags New York State put this press release out, psychological gangbang of Hillary, proof we need a woman president.
This is after everybody piled on her because she cried when she was asked by that voter, how do you do it?
How do you do your everyday get up?
And Mrs. Clinton had a little tear.
But I care so much about my country.
Now, the national nags.
By the way, the New York State Nags also put out a press release really creaming Senator Kennedy for endorsing Barack Obama.
The same bunch, ladies and gentlemen, uh that uh referred to the psychological gangbang of Hillary, put out a New York State Nags put out a statement yesterday condemning Senator Kennedy.
Now, the national nags uh sort of distance themselves, a little cooler heads at the national nag level.
Uh, here's a statement from the nag president Kim Gandhi.
Uh National Association of Gals, by the way, is what uh you know we we don't like now.
The now gang, it's old hat there, the nags.
National Association of Gals, Kim Gandhi is the Prexy.
The uh the Nags has enormous respect and admiration for Senator Kennedy for decades.
Senator Kennedy's been a friend of the nags and a leader and fighter for women's civil and reproductive rights, as record shows that.
Uh, though the Nag's political action committee is proudly endorsed Senator Clinton for president, we respect Senator Kennedy's endorsement.
We continue to encourage women everywhere to express their opinions and exercise their right to vote.
He had one uh one renegade chapter of the nags in New York State went out there, got a little hysterical.
Um I use that word on purpose because I, Ladies and gentlemen, I happen to know that it re when you when you call all you have to do.
If you if you guys, any of you want a divorce out there, or you want to break up with a girlfriend, just say this, you're unstable.
Stop getting hysterical.
And then go ballistic.
So I'm calling the Nag's New York State chapter hysterical.
Yet one little chapter of the nags got hysterical out there.
Uh and the national nags had to come in and put um some closure to this.
Uh I think for those of you for those of you uh in the New York State Nags, you're all upset here about Senator Kennedy's endorsement.
I think you need to just take Bill Clinton's advice, and that is to put some ice on it.
You know, this is what happens out there.
You deal with the Clintons, you deal with the Kennedys that puts an ice on it.
For those of you in Rio Linda, that's what uh Bill Clinton allegedly said to Juanita Broderick after the alleged rape.
Uh and uh she was he's walking out the door, and uh she says that he said to her, uh watch put some ice on that, babe.
Because her lip was, I think, uh I think musted up.
Uh Al Sharpton, the Reverend Sharpton has told Bill Clinton to shut up.
ABC News Rick Klein reports that the Reverend Sharpton on Monday weighed in on the uh raging debate inside the Democrat Party over President Clinton's advocacy on behalf of his wife's campaign.
Uh Sharpton uh weighed in with two choice words for Bill Clinton, shut up on the view.
Sharpton said that voters are hearing race charges, race-tinged rhetoric in the Democrat primary campaign, and he called on the former president to cease.
He said, I think it's time for him to just be quiet.
I think it's time for him to stop as one of the most outspoken people in America.
There's a time to shut up, and I think that time has come.
With a badge of honor, he says, as one of the most outspoken people in America.
There's a time to shut up.
And I think the time has come.
And the politico today, Washington Libs lead backlash against Bill.
It's striking.
This is John Harris writing.
It's striking.
How many people around town seem to be loving this?
But it shouldn't really be surprising the ferocity of anti-Clinton sentiments heard around Washington in recent days, as even some former Clinton White House aides say they're enjoying the Kennedy endorsement and the implicit rebuke of the Clintons has reached levels that haven't been seen for seven years.
Clinton's pardons in the closing hours of his presidency prompted a similar backlash.
The toxic relationship between the Clintons and Washington is always uh one of the main paradoxes of the Clinton administration, and one of its main mis.
Come on.
I don't understand.
You you you guys in the drive-by's have got to give me a major break on this.
How long it took Ted Kennedy to tell you what the Clintons are.
Who are the journalists here?
The toxic relationship between Washington and the Clintons, give me a break.
There's no toxic relationship.
If anybody has a down on the knees relationship, and it's the press down on the knees.
No toxic relationship.
It took Ted Kennedy to really give you guys the cover to go out and tell the truth about the Clintons once and for all.
This is just dis You guys in the press are going to have to do better than this.
But I know why you won't.
Because at the end of the day, when she gets a nomination, you're going to be back in love with the Clintons.
You're going to be back in love with them.
You're going to be supporting them.
You're going to be doing everything you can to get them elected.
Try this little quote here.
In some moods, the Clintons also like to imagine that they are victims of Eastern snobbery against Arkansas.
John Harris says there's probably a whiff of truth to that.
But they're from New York now.
They haven't been to Arkansas and who knows how long, but nearly everybody in Washington is from somewhere else, and uh Arkansas roots hardly hurt Clinton's mentor, William Fulbright of the Washington elite, from Washington's perspective, to judge by the most common criticism heard over the years and again in recent days.
The problem is not that Bill Clinton is Bubba, but that he is Eddie Haskell.
Smug, smarmy, self absorbed.
Uh Eddie Haskell would be concerned at this.
This is the second time Eddie Haskell has been denigrated by being associated with Bill Clinton.
Eddie Haskell has called into this show before.
And Eddie Haskell has made it a point to say the actor that played Eddie Haskell on Leave It to Beaver has called this program because he's been denigrated before being associated with Clinton.
And he's called in here to say he's not a lib.
I think he was a California highway patrol officer, a Chippy.
Not sure which.
Once again, Eddie Haskell.
A brief time out here.
We will look.
We'll continue right.
I know Snertling, all this is unbelievable, but the the this the strained relationship between the press and the Clintons in Washington.
Golly.
Hey, welcome back.
We go to the audio.
No, I'm telling let's go to the phones.
Let's go to the phones.
We got an audio somebody coming up here.
Let's see.
Yes.
We'll get to it in order.
So Senator Kennedy was on the CBS early show today.
Did you hear about this?
And he Harry Smith.
Harry Smith actually asked him about the possibility Osama be assassinated.
I didn't use the word.
Uh what?
Oh, Bob.
What did I say?
Osama?
I'm just a parroting Senator Kennedy.
Obama.
Sorry, Obama would be assassinated.
And Kathleen Willie uh has uh has a piece at WorldNet Daily.com.
Dear Senator Obama, today I sent an email, um, or saw an email sent out to your donors in which your wife states what we didn't expect, at least not from our fellow Democrats, are the win at all cost tactics we've seen recently.
We didn't expect misleading accusations that willfully distort Barack's record.
Uh don't be naive, writes Kathleen Willie.
When those fellow Democrats include Hillary Clinton, be ready to expect anything.
My advice turn the tables on Hillary and her media minions by telling the truth about yourself and about her.
You'll find that Hillary's operatives excel at accessing what you might think are private records like tax files, not just yours, but your friends and associates.
Don't think for a minute she won't stoop so low.
The Clintons have a long history of trying to intimidate opponents by first invading their personal records and then releasing the information via their media enablers.
Naturally spun to reflect poorly on the person being attacked while Bill and Hillary stand there with who me looks on their faces.
Hillary claims that her experience makes her the best qualified candidate.
Well, I've had plenty of experience with Hillary and Bill Clinton's qualifications as the nation's most ruthless political tag team, and I can't imagine a worse scenario for the nation or the world than letting those two loose in the White House again, which leads my last piece of advice, Mr. Obama.
Do not let Hillary define you.
Kathleen Willie, WorldNet Daily.com.
Now here's Jody, Lake Orion, Michigan.
Thank you for waiting.
It's great to have you here on the program.
Thanks, Rush.
It's an honor to speak with you.
Thank you.
Um hey, I just had a comment about what you were saying about the election in uh Florida and some of the independents possibly voting Republican and voting for McCain.
Here in Michigan, we had an open primary, you know, so anybody could vote anything.
Right.
All you had to do is come in and claim a ballot style, we were calling it.
Right.
Um and I found it interesting, and I wanted to know what you thought that even though Republicans, Democrats, independents, everybody could vote Republican and vote for McCain if they wanted to, he still lost by a pretty wide margin to John or to Mitt Romney.
Yeah, and that was the polsters had that race all wrong.
Uh Zogby had McCain winning that one by nine.
Um, I mean a lot of independents could have you know that was their chance to vote for McCain if they really thought he was big unifier.
Especially relevant in that is that there was no Democrat primary.
Exactly.
I mean Hillary was the only one on the ballot here so it wasn't like they were taking any votes away from...
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Let's not disrespect a great Democrats.
I'm sorry.
Mike Revell was on the ballot.
He's the only one that gets any press.
That's the race, by the way.
That's the election.
Seventy percent of black Democrats in Michigan showed up to vote uncommitted.
Uncommitted.
Uh So your your point is that even in an open primary state where independents and Democrats could cross over vote for a Republican, that McCain did not get a majority of them.
Exactly.
And he actually lost by a pretty wide margin to Mitt Romney.
Right.
Um don't know if we can extrapolate uh that because McCain has won a majority of independence, for example, New Hampshire, which is a northeastern liberal state now.
Uh what about South Carolina?
Um having a memory block on how he did with independence there, but I think it was pretty strong with uh with it.
Look at that that's McCain's strong suit.
His strong suit's not Republican voters.
And uh that that's why this is very curious that people who are not registered Republicans are being allowed to show up today at polling places in Florida, at least two that we know of, and uh get all at agitated.
Well, I want to vote.
Okay, well, you gotta you gotta declare a party.
And so they declare a party on the spot.
Can I tell you one other thing I find interesting?
Yeah.
I was a poll worker here in Michigan.
Yeah.
And I found it was very interesting.
There was so much talk on the media about how people were so outraged that they were gonna have to show ID to vote.
And what we found was people were much more outraged about the fact that they had to declare a ballot style.
Everybody was completely prepared to show ID.
There were no problems with it.
Nobody complained about it at all.
There were a lot of complaints about having to choose ballot style.
Why?
Why would people complain about having to choose a ballot state?
By ballot style you mean Republican, Democrat or independent.
Yes, but we have to.
Why would it be upset about that?
Uh-uh.
Because then they can't vote in, you know, in private, and you know, I don't know.
They have to say, gee, I'm a Democrat or I'm a Republican, and everybody has to know it.
I don't know.
I wasn't ashamed.
I wasn't.
Well, everybody doesn't know it, just the poll workers know it.
Well, I guess.
No, it does end up in the voter registration files, doesn't it?
Yeah, we had to record it.
Yeah.
As they voted, we had to record the voting.
I tell you, I maybe I'm missing something, but I just I do not understand why that would irritate people.
Of all things to get irritated about when you go vote, to have to declare a style.
I don't know.
Like I all I can think is secrecy.
I don't know.
Well, they could throw the secrecy out if it didn't care about the ID business as much.
No, like I said, I think I don't know.
The only thing the only thing that explains this, Jody, is that Democrats don't want people to know they're Democrats.
Well, exactly.
That's what that's what my thought is.
But why didn't you say that?
Well, I kind of in I I kind of thought you'd just get it, sorry.
Oh, I well, you gotta remember some some sometimes my hearing makes me miss uh some of what people say.
Did she say that, uh, Don?
She did say it.
Yeah, the Dawn's backing you up.
You didn't say it in my mind.
Tell Don Thanks.
I apologize.
I I apologize.
I missed you saying that.
I was probably immersed in my own thoughts here, trying to understand this, because it you know until I realized that Democrats would be embarrassed to admit that they're Democrats.
Uh I couldn't figure out why there would be such anger over Walton.
Well, I I wouldn't say there was anger.
It was just a definite, you know, discomfort.
I don't know.
Well, no, no, that's that makes more sense.
You mean you have to admit I'm a Democrat?
Oh, gee.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I see.
All right.
Well, hey, that's interesting feedback, Jody.
I'm glad you called.
All right.
Thanks much.
We've got a we gotta go anyway.
Great timing there.
Quick timeout.
Uh, here on the Excellence and Broadcasting Network will be right back.
More of your phone calls and audio sound but straight ahead.
Ha, we are back cutting edge societal evolution.
And Rush Limboy.
Yesterday, when we had the split in the Democrat Party between the uh the Kennedy factions for Obama, uh endorsing Obama and Hillary left wandering.
I I just I d uh this is like the Hatfields and the McCoys.
Uh Democrat dynasty's clash as Obama claims JFK's mantle.
And it was especially fitting as an analogy as a comparison, as you know.
Because in the Democrat Party, what's going on right now is an uncivil war, and it's all based on race.
This party is at war with itself over race.
Uh and of course, the Hatfields and McCoys started their little rivalry started in the Civil War.
Uh the uh Hatfield McCoy feud, 1878 to 1891, is an account of American lore that has become a metaphor for bitterly feuding rival parties in general.
It involved two uh warring families of the West Virginia, Kentucky backcountry along the Tug Fork River off the big Sandy River.
So the Hatfields and McCoys is exactly great way to analogize what's going on with the uh the Democrats today.
Let's go to the audio sound bites.
Uh last night on PBS, the Tavis Smiley show.
And by the way, this say, see, I told you so yesterday I mentioned that Hillary's uh uh firewall is gonna be getting the Hispanic votes, and she's gonna play the race card again.
She's gonna say, look, you Hispanics, you need to vote for me, because look what happened in South Carolina, all those blacks are hanging in together for Obama.
So uh uh apparently excuse me, Obama is gonna use Ted Kennedy, Mr. Amnesty, to go after Hispanic voters that Hillary is targeting next in the Democrat uncivil war.
Tavis Smiley says to Senator Kennedy, look, the argument that Hillary Clinton's been making, experience, Barack Obama not much, uh, not even a full term as Senator.
So how did you rank and how did you rate experience in making your choice?
Well, I think he he has uh the uh experience and uh the judgment, for example.
Uh and I've worked with him on the floor of the United States Senate on the immigration uh reform.
Uh Barack Obama was there uh trying to hammer out a responsible immigration uh bill uh that would uh deal with the challenges that we face, but also would have the kind of respect uh for the Hispanic community that I think uh that we needed.
Yeah, so um there's exactly what I said yesterday.
Exactly what I said that they're gonna go out.
Hillary's gonna go out and use the firewall of the Hispanic vote, and so Senator Kennedy is now gonna go out and combat Mrs. Clinton for Obama on the uh on the Hispanic uh vote.
By the way, let's go to Sound by Twelve.
This this is Al Sharpton uh telling uh Bill Clinton it's time to shut up.
This is on the view yesterday, the co-host Sherry Shepard said, you know, we're hearing so much about race from Hillary and Bill Clinton Obama, and and then she adds this.
Do you think race is going to play an important part in this?
The question is uh is race in terms of solutions gonna play a part.
I think that we are hearing race charges, race-tinged rhetoric.
No one knows how you're gonna close the race gap in employment, the race gap in health care.
And you know, I I I've agreed and disagreed when President Clinton was president.
I think that it's time for him to just be quiet.
I think it's time for him to stop as one of the most outspoken people in America.
There's a time to shut up.
And I think that time has come.
Um you have to love this.
It ain't gonna mean anything at the end of the day, but you still have to love this.
Uh to see this happening.
Uh John in Jacksonville, Florida, nice to have you with us, sir.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hello, Rush.
Hi.
I enjoy listening to you.
I look forward to it every day.
Appreciate that.
Thank you, sir.
Uh, I would like to tell you that we're getting, you know, I'm I'm a Jacksonville, Florida voter, and I got uh dozen uh close to a dozen of these uh recorded phone calls from various candidates, and one I got was very very disturbing and made me angry.
It turned out to be from the John McCain campaign, and it was almost a minute long, and it just absolutely ripped uh Governor Romney over the idea of the of gun control and the second amendment.
And I knew that wasn't true, but they made it sound like Governor Romney himself was gonna come take my guns away from me.
And and it counts how uh uh uh Sen uh how John McCain is uh uh a military leader, and I certainly appreciate his uh uh record as a war hero, uh Navy veteran.
I'm a Navy veteran, but so is Jimmy Carter, a Navy veteran.
That does not qualify him.
It does not guarantee that he would be uh a strong military leader.
So it concerns me that uh he's uh uh leveling the charges.
Yeah, these are wrong.
These robocalls that are going around, I guess they work.
Uh I you know, I try to imagine myself getting one of these things.
Uh and if I did, I I I just hang up.
Computer starts talking to me, I hang up.
Uh but you know, it we we won't have to remember that uh uh there are a lot of people that don't live and breathe this stuff each and every day, and they answer the phone and they're happy somebody's calling them.
Well, I know it's the political season, and my wife and I would look at the phone ringing saying, Here comes another one, and I just was listening to see who it was from.
I got him Well, tell me about some of the others, because I've heard I've heard some of the worst examples of these robocalls or McCain making phone calls, his campaign making phone calls accusing Romney as against or for abortion.
Is he pro pro choice and and all have you gotten that call?
No, I didn't get that one.
I did get an actual human ask me about Huckabee, but I told him that I was a Mitt Romney supporter.
Uh others are just uh uh focusing on different issues.
There was uh uh gosh, I'm I'm drawing a blank on him now.
Well, they must must not have made much of an impact.
Except the one did on gun control.
That one obviously you remember.
Uh absolutely.
It was uh it was nasty.
And it it seemed to me to be way over the top, and it fits well with the with your uh uh assertion that we're looking at an echo of Hillary Clinton when we see uh uh Senator McCain.
Wait just a second.
That's not me.
I mean, I I would love to claim credit for that, and that's George Will today.
Oh, yes, well George George Will today says that McCain is an echo of the Clintons.
Well, you pointed it out, and George Will's a brilliant man.
I enjoy listening to him too and reading him.
But that's I just wanted to point that out that I'm glad you did.
I'm glad you called.
Robo calls in Jacksonville.
John, I appreciate it.
Uh North Carolina.
Ben, you're next.
Hello.
Uh hey, Rush, how are you doing?
I'm fine, sir.
Thank you.
Uh I want to start by giving my uh conservative credentials here.
Yeah.
Um I'm self-employed, Southern Christian, top one percent, you know, voted Republican all my life.
I'm definitely a conservative, so please don't mistake that.
Technically, right now I'm a Romney supporter, but I have become cool with the idea of supporting uh McCain if he gets them a nomination the nomination.
And I'm not sure.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
Would you become cool?
You mean you're down with it if McCain gets McCain gets a nomination, uh, then you'll support him.
That's right.
Yeah.
Uh if if McCain gets the nomination, I will support him.
Okay.
I was originally a Thompson supporter.
Right, right, right, right, right.
Uh my brother is a uh blogger at um Red State named uh absentee.
And he's been pushing McCain on me like crazy.
Now he's conservative.
And one of the Wait a second, wait a second.
I can't have that.
Campaign finance reform will not allow representatives of the McCain campaign to actually campaign on this program because representatives of the Romney campaign cannot legally respond.
Oh, okay.
Well, all this is this is what this is can I tell you what it is that he uh is pushing on me as far as I'm eagerly awaiting this.
Okay.
Well, he he says that you know he disagrees with McCain Fine Gold, that's fine.
He disagrees with uh some of his immigration policies, that's fine.
I know, I know a lot of McCain people are overlooking the reasons to oppose him.
Well, yeah, that's fine, and and and I agree with you.
Uh, you know, there's better people out there.
No, just tell me what is this he's like what what's the reason why it's cooling down for the struggle with McCain on the ticket?
Just tell me that.
Four years in office.
That's it.
All he's gonna do is not worry about whether or not the Congress likes him, whether or not anybody else likes him.
He's gonna cut pork, he's gonna cut spending, he's going to, you know, upset a few people.
But he's got a clean house, have a VP that's a big thing.
Wait a minute.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, just a minute.
Where's this four-year stuff coming from?
This is what everybody's been telling me.
Everybody's been telling me that McCain only intends on running for one term.
He said he apparently has has confirmed this more than once, that he will only run for one term, which is making people at the places where I go in the circles I run in, talk more about who his VP is going to be than him.
So you get him to get in office, you get him to clean house a little bit, he may be upset some people, but at least he cuts spending.
Now the VP is in a good position president.
I've I've not heard this.
I've not heard if if McCain's telling everybody, how come it hasn't leaked?
I don't think.
But he's only going to spend four years in the White House.
You know, let me tell you, let me tell you what to tell your blogger buddy.
Okay.
If that's actually true, if he's got people believing this, then you better tell them we're looking at a lame duck after the midterm elections in 2010.
How is that?
Well, you look at Bush.
When you're the second term president you can't run again, and you say you're not going to run again in this case, you're a lame you're a lame duck.
People forget about you.
Everybody starts running for president themselves.
Well, there's a difference, which is if if he's let's say he's got a VP like Tosson.
Okay.
Or uh even Romney, which I I'm not saying that that would happen, but a VP that's got some major conserv conservative credentials.
Wouldn't you say that those four years are going to be leading up to that person's campaign to be president for eight years?
If McCain's only going to go four.
I still haven't heard this.
I think I've heard rumors of this, and I've heard the rumors, you know, the McCain camp wants to slap them down.
There's no candidate that wants people to know he's only going to be there for four years.
Well, except that somebody like McCain, who claims to be very, you know, one with his convictions and whatnot.
He's somebody who's against or he's four term limits, is he not?
Like he he claims to be four term limits.
Right.
Maybe he's not.
Now how long has he been there?
What a what what is this?
He's for term limits, he's ripping the private sec don't get me mad here, because I'm trying to maintain an even keel.
He's for term limits, and yet he's sitting out there talking about how people in the private sector don't have the qualifications to be in government.
How long has he been?
Has he term limited himself?
Then boy, you better scrutch it because you too.
You're running a campaign.
And you're in violation, and I do.
And if you don't scroll it, you'll pay.
Hey, guess what?
We have the audio of uh one of the the robocall I've heard about from the McCain campaign to voters in Florida, which smears Romney as being pro-choice and for abortion on demand.
Uh we are preparing it even now.
We'll have it for you probably at the uh top of the next hour.
Karen in Morgan Hill, California.
Nice to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
How are you?
Fine.
I finally get to talk to the real you.
Actually, I did talk to you before about the education issue, and I and it was at the end of the hour, so we'll skip that one for now.
I did find a flaw.
You said that the biggest problem with businesses is employees, and that is in fact not true.
The business the biggest problem with businesses is that they know how to get the employees to work, but their arms are tied because the government is always supporting the employee and these idiotic rights they have instead of letting business owners handle the employees the way they need to.
All right.
All right.
I I understand.
I I was speaking in a in a different context than you are, and I I appreciate what you're saying.
Uh let me reset the table here.
The context that we were discussing was that McCain was suggesting that Romney, because he has extensive private sector experience economically, it's not qualified because you can't do those kinds of things in the private sector as you can in government.
Just can't, or you can't do them in government as you do in the private sector.
Correct.
And one of the arguments is that you can leverage people, you can you leverage them with salary, you can you can threaten them, you can find them, you can get them to do whatever you want to do when you want them to do it.
And tell they go to the EEOC and complain about it.
Well, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
But but but but McCain was saying it hasn't work that way, your bureaucracy.
You have to know how to manage it, saying.
And he gets you, you can't do it.
Somebody does the right work, they're not gonna get anything done.
Nothing gets done anyway.
Right.
Well, see, and I wear I wear your Rush Limbaugh shirt that I got, and my deal with you is I'm going to take that risk in California where that's not a popular shirt to wear.
I will take that.
Well, don't be silly.
These more people love me out there than you would probably do.
Well, I listen every day.
And my parents are listening right now because I want to make my point that since these Democrats listen to you and these liberals do listen to you, they need to know the EOC is what's killing businesses.
I don't I don't want to go to work.
I don't trust my employees anymore because they coddle them and they tell them if you get fired because you're doing a poor job, come here and we're gonna strong arm the businesses and it's exhausting.
It is a I I look at I think uh I made that point uh in discussing all this.
I did say that the biggest it like Senator McCain doesn't understand the private sector, he's never been in it.
Uh he doesn't understand the obstacles placed in front of entrepreneurs.
He doesn't understand the obstacles placed in front of uh private sector businesses, and among them I listed the EEOC and the EPA and any number of federal regulations.
But I I wait that that's all true.
I I when I made my original statement that the biggest problems you have in business are people, I really didn't mean I didn't mean that.
I mean people have problems.
We all have problems, and managers of people have to deal with people in the midst of their problems and so forth that somehow might uh impact productivity.
Uh you got jealousy of one employee doesn't like another.
You got a little backstabbing going on in there.
Um the I'm just it's just it's just for people who run businesses.
What I've said, the biggest problem is not the machinery in the back.
The biggest problem is not your fleet of vehicles.
Um the biggest problem is not it's people, and and because your business is people.
And I'm this is not a criticism.
It's just something that I was I was actually trying to say that people who have worked in the private sector and who have succeeded wildly are very capable of managing and motivating people.
Because the biggest problems you have are people-oriented, and if you can deal with the problems people have and still keep them productive, then you're good.
Um of course nobody in either I I would say Mc Senator McCain is 180 degrees out of phase.
There is a reason that senators do not get elected to the White House.
The last one was Senator Kennedy in 1960.
That just doesn't happen.
And it's because they eventually implode on the campaign trail.
They have the biggest egos.
There was only a hundred of these senators, they all think they should be president, and they run around, and when they want something done, they do get it done in their office.
Okay, schlub A, I want you to read that, and I want you to tell me what my questions before the committee are going to be.
Schlub B, I want you to do these people run around and do it, and they end up uh the senators end up almost as little dictators.
So exactly what Senator McCain is saying about Romney or anybody in the private sector uh is 180 degrees wrong.
In the private sector, you have to delegate and you have to trust the people you're delegating to, and you can't be worried about who gets the credit for what's happening.
Senators want every bit of credit for everything that does happen, and no blame for things that don't go right.
Uh and so they have their own little fiefdoms up.
There's a reason these guys and senators, women don't get elected straight to the presidency.
There's always an exception to rule, but it's been 47 years uh since uh since it happened.
Governors, on the other hand, have had to delegate.
They've run organizations, and Romney especially has run businesses.
We'll be back, David.
It appears, ladies and gentlemen, drive-by's quote me accurately on this that the Robert Birds have come home to roost for the Democrats.
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