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Feb. 15, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 15, 2008, Friday, Hour #2
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Hi again, folks, and welcome back.
Another busy broadcast day here high atop, the EIB building in Midtown Manhattan, Rush Limbaugh on Friday.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
Wrapping up our visit to the Big Apple this week, ladies and gentlemen.
With Open Line Friday, 800 282-2882 is the number, whatever you wish to discuss.
Fine and daily.
That's not the way it is on Monday, Monday through Thursday.
Gotta be something I'm interested about or interested in, care about.
Not the case today, so have at it.
800 282-2882.
Email address is L Rushbow at EIB net.com.
I forgot, you know, this is really important.
I uh mentioned this right before the previous hour ended.
Um a lot of people say, I want to try the Shepherd's Pie at Apple Brothers, Allen Brothers, but you uh I can't find it there at the website at AB Stakes.
You gotta look for the the heat and serve items, gourmet heat and serve items, and that's where you'll find the shepherd pie, the wag you meatloaf, and the wagyu corn beef hash at ABstakes.com.
Now, this attack of Mrs. Clinton's on corporate America at a GM plant.
Now, when we sit here and laugh about this, but this is really, really serious stuff.
Both she and Obama are gonna sit around and they're going to raise taxes on businesses and high-income earners.
Uh, ostensibly to uh get even with them and make the middle class feel better about things.
It's just gonna be destructive as it can be.
But uh the the the we hear all this talk about Mrs. Clinton being the smartest woman in the world.
You know, it's it's one thing for Mrs. Clinton to utter all this, for example.
She said that she was going to rein in oil, insurance, credit cards, student loan, and Wall Street investment companies, and generate $55 billion a year that would be used for middle class tax cuts, create jobs, and pay for an array of domestic programs.
When she says she's gonna rein in all of these corporations, oil, insurance, credit card, student loan, wall street, she's gonna tax their profits.
It is their profits that allow them to hire people and expand the business and create even more jobs.
So, you know, it's one thing for her to to utter this stupidity, but she has to go right in the middle of a corporation to do it.
She goes to a corporation, General Motors, which is hurting, right in the belly of the beast to outline how she's gonna try to destroy the corporation and all of these people's jobs, and nobody calls her on it except I, L. Rushbow.
The drive-by's just report on this.
Now, clearly, the headline is not flattering.
Clinton visits GM plant, outlines plan to crack down on corporations, but there's a picture of her here with uh a couple of GM workers, and they've got the hood raised on a car.
And she's wearing her Mao suit.
She got the Mao Tsi tongue jacket on.
There was a video they put her in the driver's seat of a car.
She made a big deal of is saying she hadn't driven since her Arkansas days.
And she put they put her in the driver's seat of her car and she looked clueless in there.
Mommy, mommy, mommy.
What does the word attack mean?
Well, little Johnny, when anyone asks, what has Mrs. Clinton done in 35 years, that's considered an attack.
You just have to ask Mrs. Quentin a question.
It's an attack.
That's exactly right.
But when little Johnny, Mrs. Clinton attacks all of our businesses, all of our companies, all of our providers of real services.
That's not considered an attack.
So what does the word attack mean now?
She just she didn't just attack, she launched a broadside.
She launched a salvo.
She's gonna take these people's profits, these corporations' profits, And expand them, expand jobs, middle class tax cuts and so forth.
Um the political version of this story.
Clinton pits herself against businesses.
She's gonna screw every one of these businesses just for you, folks.
The places where you work, she's gonna screw for you.
What do you think's gonna happen to you after she screws the place that you work?
By the way, I have been corrected, and I'm happy to admit that I'm behind times on this.
Uh in the first hour, I referenced it in my new term for the undies, Mrs. Clinton's undies.
These are decided who are now undeciding.
They were decided for her, now they're undeciding.
Against her, Mrs. Clinton's undies.
And I I referred to uh the girdles and stuff.
And I've had more email from women say, how old are you?
Girdles?
We wear spanks now.
That was exactly my reaction, HR, S-P-A-N-X.
I said, what the hell is spanks?
I said, Are you talking spandex?
Did you is this a typo?
So now I've got website information on spanks.
You can go to Jacques Penet.
And you can get spanks for 30 bucks.
I haven't had a chance to go there and see what these look.
Just thought that looking at something that Mrs. Clinton might wear, other than a Mao Tsi tongue jacket.
Something I'll do uh after the uh after the program.
See.
Oh you know the uh grab grab uh audio soundbite number 22.
Audio soundbite number 22.
Uh this is me, October 4th of last year.
White men matter most.
We always hear the conventional wisdom is we hear about the gender gap, how Republicans can't get the female vote.
And I have pointed out for years that the dirty little secret of presidential politics is the white male vote.
Right, and here we have a story in the politico.
Well, you're right here in my uh formerly nicotine stained fingers, the headline, white men hold superdelegate power balance.
In an ironic twist to the historic Democrat nominating contest between an African American and a woman, the balance of power may be held by a more familiar face, the white male.
It's always been the case.
They've always talked about the gender gap, but if you take a look at most presidential elections, the candidate with a majority of the white male vote is the winner.
According to a Politico.com analysis, close to half of the 700-plus Democrat superdelegates who could end up determining the party nominee are white men.
One Obama superdelegate, a House member had sharp criticism for the superdelegate racial and gender makeup, a reaction that reflects the sensitivity surrounding the issue.
It's still the old guard to white men.
They always want to control the outcome, the African American superdelegate said, but this time they won't be able to do it.
Whoa.
Why?
Why not?
Is this is this a veiled reference to protests and fires and burnings?
If the uh if the superdelegates see what this is all about, this may come down to um the popular vote versus the delegate count.
And if the superdelegates wrest a nomination from the popular vote winner, Obama, oh lordy.
Anyone say 1968?
Now the uh the percentage of white male superdelegates is disproportionate to the share of white males who make up the overall Democrat electorate.
This is not by accident.
This is not by accident, folks.
You may think it is, but it's not.
The percentage of white male superdelegates disproportionate to the share of white males who make up the overall Democrat electorate.
According to uh January 2008 national poll by Zogby, 28% of Democrat voters are white men, women account for 55% of Democrat voters, but superdelegates Have never reflected the diversity of the Democrat Party as a whole, nor were they designed to.
They represent the party's insiders, a group in which white guys still dominate.
This has been one of the I've been asking black voters since I have been behind this, the golden EIB microphone for 20 years.
When are you guys gonna realize you're just being used?
You're just being taken advantage of, you're being pandered to every two or four years.
You get um you vote for them, and then they immediately start blaming Republicans for why your lives aren't getting any better.
And then four years later, two years later, come back at you, and they promise all these things.
They've been doing this for 50 years, and where are you?
You're still complaining, you still want things done.
And somehow you end up blaming Republicans for standing in the way of Democrats getting things done.
This and and uh you know, the Democrat power base is white males, always has been.
Those are the guys that run the show, and they are the majority of the superdelegates.
And if Hillary gets a majority of these people after Obama wins the popular vote, oh lordy.
Still would love to see it, but oh lordy.
Hi, and welcome back.
Rush Limbaugh.
Uh, as always, as usual, having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
It's Open Line Friday.
We try to we try to squeeze even more phone calls than usual in on uh open line Friday, so let's head back to the phones.
We'll go to Arkansas.
Mary, thanks for waiting.
Nice to have you here with us.
Well, thank you.
It's such a treat to talk to you.
Thank you so much.
Um I have a son in the Air Force, and I really appreciate your support of our servicemen.
So thank you.
Thank you, but we uh all of us, I speak for the entire audience.
We have uh profound awe and respect for people like your son and you and all of your family.
Well, thank you very much.
Um he's he's very proud to serve his country.
Um I wanted to uh say something to you about um Hillary when she said she wanted to keep Bill in check.
Uh what she said was she can assure us that there will no be no more Bill scandals.
Yeah.
Well, I've been married for 37 years, and my husband and I do marriage weekend retreats periodically.
What was a marriage weekend retreat?
Um we go and speak for um groups of people, cup groups of couples, and help them to improve their marriages and improve that kind of thing.
See, what I thought you meant was you got away for the weekend for your marriage.
Monday through Friday it was Hell on Wheels, and the weekend you read.
That's why I thought you, but but you actually do counseling.
Well, yes, my husband is uh he has his his doctorate in family counseling, and so we go do that.
Very nice, very nice.
Well, um, in light of that, I know that there is actually no way that she's gonna be able to assure us that he's not gonna do something stupid.
And that actually goes back to what you said about um the smart people, the smart democrats supporting Barack in Texas because she lies.
Everybody knows she lies, and the smart democrats in Texas are saying, okay, do we want to hook our star to someone who lies?
Or do we want to hook our star to someone who says absolutely nothing so that whatever happens, if it's good, we can claim it, and if it's bad, we can say, well, we didn't promise anything different.
Yeah, I got you.
That's a good point.
So she's just she's just lying.
So it's so that that explains why the smart people are sticking with Obama who's saying nothing, and the uh the dumber Democrats are staking staying with Hillary because they they they buy the lies.
Yes.
Yes, and they expect her to actually do all of those things.
Including keep Bill in line.
Including keep Bill in line, which makes me laugh.
Yeah, it does everybody believe that's that's why I had to ask the question.
I appreciate that.
Uh, thanks very much, Mary.
This is Kans City, Missouri again.
Chase, you're up next on Open Line Friday.
Hello.
Hello, Ross.
How are you today?
Just fine, never better, sir.
Fantastic, man.
You know, everybody always says, I can't believe I'm on, but you know what?
I believe, I believe.
As Obama would say.
This is the first time caller, and I've been listening to you since October of 92.
Ew.
Yeah, it's amazing.
Everybody remembers what they were doing when they first heard this program.
Everybody and they remember the date.
Well, I'm honored.
Uh my friend, thank you very much.
Russ, I tell you, yesterday when my wife says, Who's the senator from Arizona?
Who's the senator?
I said, McCain, why?
Why?
She says, I can't believe it.
But Romney has given his delegates over there.
And I said, What?
I tell you, Russ, I was livid yesterday.
I know it's tough.
I don't I totally understand your emotional reaction to this.
My goodness, I was saying if Rush could get on the radio right now, he needs to be on the air now.
Well, I tell you what, Russ, um, I heard you mention it for a minute.
I need to hear some replies in regard to that.
I just feel like he took our vote from Missouri.
You know, here we were voting for him.
I mean, look, look at I I'm gonna explain this.
Yeah, I don't I'm not gonna try to persuade you.
Uh but so don't don't misunderstand here.
I'll explain to you what's going on.
This is what happens.
Party people come together.
Once there is a nominee, the party's gonna come together.
You are required to do this, particularly if you're Mitt Romney and you want a political future in the Republican Party, and he does, he wants to run again.
I'll tell you something else about Romney.
It was just three or four weeks ago that Romney was out calling McCain a liberal.
Yeah.
And there's not much difference between McCain and a liberal, and that's what your problem is.
How can he three or four weeks later turn around, pledge his delegates and his support to McCain?
Absolutely.
Well, for one thing, he's team player.
Number two, he's a nice guy.
He's just a nice guy.
Third, he wants a future in the Republican Party, and this is what you have to do.
See, it's it's easier for you and me to say, you know, to keep our distance, but we're not seeking votes in this party, and you and I are not seeking fundraising in this party, which is fundamental to uh achieving elective office.
And uh there are a lot of people who are party loyal first before they are ideologically loyal.
This is one of the challenges that we have.
Uh we we we conservatives are predominantly loyal to our ideology first and the party second, particularly when the party deviates from uh our ideology.
But a politician in the party doesn't have that kind of uh latitude at a time like this.
Uh but you know, if depending on what happens in November and who wins the race, uh the Republicans are gonna start lining up if McCain loses, they're gonna start lining up very soon uh to run in 2012, and Romney wants to be one of those people, and he's he's he's pretty much has to do this if he if he wants to have a future in the Republican Party.
I know it's distasteful, and I know it's uh it's puzzling, and you voted for him now.
He's turning over his delegates to McCain, something that you didn't want to happen, but that's and that's the way it is.
Well, you know, just for what you just said there about having a future, and I said that to my wife.
I said, does he think this is gonna get my vote later?
I said, he just got done slapping me in the face by getting out two days after I voted for him, then he slapped me on the other side.
I was just remiss him.
What do you expect?
What would you what would you prefer Mitt Romney have done?
Well, what I preferred.
No, no, no, don't tell me you wish it has stayed in.
After he after he got out, after he got what do you want him to do with his delegates?
Give them to the huckster.
You know, he would have been my second choice, and I would have voted for the Huckster if I hadn't known Romney was getting out.
Well, now you want some political reality.
Well, okay.
You want some chance in Kansas City.
Uh I know, but the point is, Romney when it hit you right between the eyes.
There's no way Romney's gonna give his delegates to the Huckster.
He blames the huckster for taking a nomination from him, not McCain.
He blames the Huckster for staying in there and splitting the anti-MCain vote.
Now he will never admit this publicly, but I know these people.
Like every square inch of my glorious naked body, and you're gonna trust me on this, don't doubt me.
There's no way he's gonna give his delegates to Huck Huckabee, because he he I'm I'm I'm just sure as I can be that if if he thinks if Huckabee had gotten out, because Huckabee's never had a chance at this, he thinks Huckabee stayed in there, sort of tag teaming with McCain, especially after West Virginia, when Romney won the first round of caucusing there, and then all of a sudden Huckabee and and uh McCain's delegates formed a coalition and won West Virginia for McCain.
There's no way that Huckabee's going to get these these uh these delegates.
So if there's any enmity uh that the that Romney might have, it would not be for McCain uh right now so much as it would be Huckabee.
Uh quick timeout, back right after this.
Yeah, hang on here.
I've been trying to buy something online.
What's the problem?
Well, I'll have to do it later on.
That's song.
I'm buying a song, I'm buying a song I got on every computer but this one.
And a computer that upgraded iTunes didn't remember my password had to put it in, had to accept all those stupid agreements, and I gotta do it after the next break.
Don in um Tiffin, I'm not gonna take up valuable program time uh purchasing a song.
Uh Don in Tiffin, Ohio.
Welcome to the uh EIB network, sir.
Hello.
Hey, Russ.
Love your show.
Thank you very much.
You got me worried a little bit, though.
I I'm worried about either you're losing your grip on your sanity, or maybe you've begun to believe in global warming.
Uh, because you take a week off of uh beautiful weather in sunny Florida in the middle of winter and hit off to New York City.
Uh you you think that is per perhaps going to damage my uh credibility, or that maybe I've gone insane.
Well, maybe you're believing in global warming.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
I had a lot of I had I had legitimate read two legitimate reasons, and by the way, it worked out.
I'm having some construction done at the estate.
Uh-huh.
I just don't want to see it.
You know, I just I hate construction zones, construction sites.
I just I just hate it.
I don't want to see it.
Had to move punk into one of the guest houses.
She's in a game arcade.
And I've gotten reports that she's just happy and frolicking around over there, just playful as she can be, likes to change the scenery.
Uh I also had to come in, I had a two things I had to do at at some point in New York, not necessarily this week, but it worked out I was able to get them both done uh this week.
Plus, uh the first, like Tuesday and Wednesday, it rained two or three inches down there.
There wasn't any sunny South Florida the first two days I was up here.
So it worked out uh worked out very well.
But uh I'm I'm going home tomorrow afternoon uh and uh we'll be there for the conceivable future.
That's good to have things back to normal.
Keep up the good work.
Thank you.
Thanks.
Thanks for it.
Some of these people are just aware of things.
Memphis, this is Russell, you're up next on Open Line Friday.
Hello.
Hey, Russ, happy Friday to you.
Thank you.
Same to you, sir.
Um, I was reading an article this morning, and um it was talking about the uh similarities between this year's election and the 1992 election, because Bush 41 had um lost a lot of backing from conservatives, and uh obviously because of the um uh the the race taxes, you know, one reason.
But my question is were there other reasons conservatives abandon uh Bush other than the taxes, and if there were, what were they?
Yes, there were a couple reasons.
You have to remember uh to fully understand this, you have to go back to the 1980 Republican convention.
Uh let's actually start in 76.
Reagan was no doubt the sentimental favorite in Detroit, or uh wherever the in in Kansas City in 1976.
He lost out to the Republican establishment that year as a you know as a conservative uh trying to take over the establishment.
Uh but he was the sentimental favorite.
He gave a great, great, great speech.
Uh it was it was the establishment gave us Gerald Ford, but it was clearly the the the hearts in that convention, the delegates pledged to Ford, they they were really with Reagan.
So that takes us to 1980.
1980 in Detroit, and Reagan, this is his time, and we're coming off of this horrible Jimmy Carter four years.
Um also had a third party candidate in there, John Anderson, but the primary opponent to George uh to uh Ronald Reagan in 1980 was George H.W. Bush.
And George H.W. Bush campaigned against Ronaldus Magnus on among many things, and on one thing he said that supply side economics, trickle-down economics is voodoo economics.
And they tell you what, the conservative antenna went up because supply side works every time it's tried, it's not voodoo.
When you lower tax rates on upper income earners, it boosts the economy.
Every time it's tried, it's uh it works so well to Democrats have engaged in revisionist history to try to convince people it doesn't.
And then that that was a it was a it was a pretty uh vicious campaign between Reagan and Bush for party unity, Reagan picked Bush, and brought in some of Bush's people, like James Baker into his campaign into his administration and so forth.
Then 1988, George Bush 41 wants his shot at the presidency.
He campaigned, and what got it for him was his acceptance speech at the New Orleans convention.
Uh up until that.
Yeah, up until it was New Orleans, up until that time.
Uh Republicans even then were iffy about about George Bush because of the voodoo economics.
Uh there were stories that Nancy and Barbara Bush didn't really get along and so forth.
Um I don't remember if H. W. Bush was pro-life uh pro choice, but he was he was a he was perceived to be a moderate, you know, establishment blue blood country club Northeastern Republican, not a conservative.
That speech, his acceptance speech in New Orleans at the Stupidome, um, was a superdome, was a great speech, and he kept talking, played up his military service.
They played the film of him being shot down in the Pacific and being recovered on that aircraft carrier.
He his theme was completing his mission.
And it rallied conservatives to him.
And in that speech, he said, Read my lips, no new taxes, because people were still on the Republican side, very, very alarmed about this voodoo economic stuff.
Because people like, what's happening with McCain now?
What does he really do versus what does he say?
Uh in this case, if Bush said back in 1980 to campaign against Reagan, it's voodoo economics, does he really still believe this?
So he came out with a read my lips, no new taxes.
Then didn't take long before it became obvious that Bush 41 liked working with certain Democrats, among them Tom Foley, who was the Speaker of the House.
He liked Foley.
He didn't particularly like George Mitchell, who was uh one of those partisan Democrats in Washington.
Um he got along with Rostinkowski.
Dan Ross Rostinkowski.
Yeah, he got along with it.
But he thought he could do business with with uh with Foley.
And it's amazing.
You're you're very prescient here in in asking about this, Russell, because back in uh in 19 uh uh, well, throughout the first term of Bush, the only term, what in the world?
We're supposed to beat these guys.
We're supposed to defeat these, we're not supposed to get along with them.
Reagan set out to defeat them politically and did, particularly in the first term.
Uh then he broke the tax pledge.
And it wasn't just that he broke the tax pledge, Russell, it was that it confirmed many years of conservative doubt about the conservatism of George H. W. Bush.
Not his honor, not his integrity.
Nobody ever doubted any of that, just like people don't question McCain's honor and integrity.
You couple that with going into the 1992 election, there was an economic downturn that was not a recession, maybe a mild recession for a month, but that gave Clinton and Gore the opportunity to claim it was the worst economy in the last 50 years.
It was also gave us gave rise to H. Ross Perot.
And during the first six months of 1992, The conventional wisdom in the Bush camp and throughout the whole Republican Party was there's no way that this guy Clinton is going to win.
It just can't happen.
Something from Arkansas remembered his lousy speech at the previous Democrat convention where he's booed off the stage after speaking like Fidel Castro for hours and hours and hours, it seemed.
He recovered by going on tonight show playing a saxophone with with Johnny Carson a little bit, but nobody thought, and Bush didn't take him seriously.
And Bush didn't take Perot seriously.
And everybody said, when he could wake up, he gave the impression he didn't want it.
He gave the impression he really wasn't that desirous.
Whether he was or wasn't is not the point.
The voter perception was that H. W. Bush, 41, didn't get in gear till it was too late.
And that was partially to vanquish Perot.
Then we go to the ponytail guide debate in Richmond, Virginia.
And there were two things about that debate.
The ponytail guy sitting there, this is a debate monitored by Carol Tim Ting, Amy King.
And the ponytail guy says to the candidates, there's Perot Clinton and Bush.
The ponytail guy says, When and which one of you are going to treat us like your children and start taking care of us.
And Clinton made a beeline.
He all had handheld mics.
Clinton made a B line to the guy.
I am your guy.
I want you to look at me as your father.
I can be legitimate.
I can be illegitimate.
Don't ask me for support, Bob, I'll take care of you.
He didn't say that.
Bush looked at his watch.
And that's when he didn't even care.
He did this.
I'm not saying this was mine, but this is the public reason he's looking at his watch and bored.
This is a perfect setup question for George H.W. Bush to pronounce conservatism, to teach conservatism, to tell the American people this is not what presidents do.
This is not what your government does.
You are responsible for yourself.
Perot, I forget what he said, because at that point in time, Perot was making plans to get out already because he was doing much better than he ever thought he might, and he looked like he might win.
He didn't really want to win.
He had another agenda.
So if you want to draw comparisons to um then and now you said some newspaper article you read made such comparisons.
Given given what I just said to you, what did this newspaper article you read today, Russell, say were the similarities?
Well, um i it was uh it was uh a newsweek magazine, and um on the cover of it it said, you know, there will be blood and oh is this the cover with McCain and me and a bunch of talk show hosts on it.
Yeah, yeah, and Walter Hannity U U. And um, and I was in a waiting room, so I don't I don't have it with me, and um I I don't remember exactly what it but that's a great testament to the writing of newsweek.
You read it and don't remember what it said.
I like that, Russell.
No, it's not your fault.
That's not your fault.
That's uh that's a typical it's like somebody watching the CBS evening news and not remembering the network.
Well, but I remember right uh before it it was talking about uh conservative displeasure with Bush 41.
I believe it had your name specifically right before that.
Unhappy with Bush 41?
Yes, yes.
Uh well, at some at the yeah, uh uh because early on in 1992 in those primaries, I endorsed the wild card candidacy of Pat Buchanan.
Oh, did you really?
I did, and I did this knowing full well Buchanan had no chance of winning a nomination.
I was trying to infuse conservative debate in the primaries because I figured if Bush was gonna win again in 92, he had to go back and do what he did in 88 and start espousing conservatism.
And I was right.
Uh and but it it it led to somebody it all it all happened on Bush's side uh uh too late.
Right.
And um and he obviously lost that uh re-election, but would you say um that uh his son now he was elected twice because he had more sound conservative principles?
Uh George W. Bush?
Yeah, the one he's president right now.
Uh that would be George W. Bush.
Yeah, yeah.
Um, you know where we it's almost a replay.
If you go back to the night to the 2000 campaign, George Bush started sweeping up all these small individual contributions, five, ten, fifteen, twenty-five, fifty bucks.
He was just smoking everybody in 2000 with money and came out of nowhere.
I mean, everybody back there was talking Jeb Bush.
Jeb Bush is the next Bush that's gonna be in the White House and George W. comes out of there and starts going nuts.
And when he got close to getting the nomination, or even after he had, he goes out, I think state of Washington and makes a speech and start, he defines himself as a compassionate conservative.
Everybody went, oh no.
Here we go again.
From voodoo economics to compassionate conservative, because compassionate conservative is code word.
Compassionate conservative means there's two kinds of conservatives.
Mean spirited extremist, racist, sexist, big and homophobe, and other conservatives who are nice people.
And real conservatives said there is no conservatism doesn't need a modifier.
Compassionate conservative is falling right into liberal trap of accepting the notion that we're all a bunch of scalawags.
You put conservative in front of it, we say, oh no, here's a guy trying to pander to the left.
Oh no.
So there are some similarities.
But Bush heard, and he stopped talking about it.
Um what what kept I'm running out of temper.
What what what kept Bush's support solidified among the Republican Party uh through the 2004 election was the 9-11 circumstance and the war in Iraq.
The Democrats were trying to destroy Bush and destroy our party and destroy the presidency.
And even though he had wandered off the reservation on things like McCain Fine Gold, illegal immigration, we were not going to sit around and let the Democrat Party with lies and mischaracterizations not just destroy him but secure defeat uh in the uh in the war in Iraq.
So uh look at you you've given me a transition.
I've got a I've got a story here.
I was I was thinking about passing on this today, but in the next hour I'm gonna get into it.
It's by it's a column by a guy named J. B. Williams, a businessman, a husband, a father, a writer, a no-nonsense commentator on American politics, American history, American philosophy, hard-hitting columnist.
And his headline is the RNC trying to destroy the GOP.
It's open line Friday, Rush Limbaugh, having more fun than a human being, should be allowed to have.
Audio soundbite's time, and it's another C I told you so illustration.
Let's go back to last Monday, February 11th, on this very program.
This is what I said about liberals.
Wherever I go, the liberals hate Bush, but you know, most or a lot of their hatred is because they don't think he can talk.
He embarrasses them.
The president of their country can't say nuclear.
The president of their country just can't speak.
He starts and stutters, and it just embarrasses it.
I think one of the I'm not exaggerating this.
I think one of the reasons that there is such a dramatic devotion to Barack Obama is he can talk.
Another C I told you so.
Don't doubt me, Chris Matthews.
Last night on hard boiled.
I was thinking of Winston Churchill.
I was thinking of all the great leaders, Lincoln, almost all great leaders could give a good speech, and I can't think of a single great leader who couldn't give a great speech.
Maybe there's somebody out there I haven't heard of, but uh Kennedy could certainly speak.
Reagan could talk.
I can't think of a great American president who couldn't talk.
Why is she bragging about her ability to do things but not be able to talk as well as Barack?
What's the point here?
Uh she's she's this is the way she's trying to overcome her deficiency.
Barack's out there saying nothing but saying it very well.
Mrs. Clinton, of course, all she can say is been working at this for 35 years.
I got 35 years of working for children, 35 years of supporting women, except the ones in my husband.
Stumped.
I've got all kinds of this 35 years of experience.
She can't, but but she's out there saying I look, I it's not about speeches.
It's about solutions.
And that's a loser for her, too, absolutely, because she got no solutions that she can uh whether why ever try every solution she tried for blew up in her face and all the rest of ours as uh as well.
But I look at I've I've run into enough liberals, uh, and their their hatred for Bush.
It really is it I mean, besides the war, once you get past that, it's it's visceral and it it's ill it's irrational because they don't even know him.
So I keep probing.
What what you really think a man with a Harvard MBA and Yale degree is stupid?
And they'll eventually he just can't talk.
He embarrasses me.
I'm embarrassed by my country.
He can't talk.
He looks stupider than Dan Quayle when he talks.
That's why they hate him.
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