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May 15, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 15, 2008, Thursday, Hour #3
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And greetings, welcome back, ladies and gentlemen, Rush Limbaugh, the Excellence in Broadcasting Network, and the distinguished and prestigious Limbo Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
It's great to be with you.
Here's the phone number if you'd like to join us.
It's 800 282-2882.
And the email address is L Rushbow at EIB net.com.
Um we have an audio soundbite roster yet to go.
And we've gone through all this horrible rotten news about the Republicans and their prospects.
Let me expand on something here.
If we've got a in fact, let me let me do some.
I'm going to take a phone call here in the in the uh monologue segment.
Let's go to line two.
This is Lauren, one of my all-time top ten favorite female names.
Lauren is in Carson City, Nevada.
Lauren, nice to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Thank you.
Um, the reason I'm calling is because you're saying that you want to be proactive and everything, and I'm wondering why we don't have an operation shove it.
Why on a certain day we don't call for all conservative Republicans to leave the party and go libertarian?
Because that I don't think that's that's I'm not looking at that uh as a solution.
I don't think third party is the way to go here.
But you, you know, your your your question is really larger than that.
Your your question is, Rush, why don't you do something?
Exactly.
Why don't you have us do something?
National Review magazine, back in what what year was this, snurdly?
1992?
Something on 1992, 19 maybe 93.
They had a a cover story, National Review on me as the leader of the opposition.
You obviously think that that's still true today, right, Lauren?
Obviously, from Operation Chaos, I think, you know, Rush, I couldn't vote for John McCain if Jesus Christ himself was his running mate.
But I don't know what to do.
And it is so frustrating from my point of view because I I honestly have always prided myself on voting for the president and being able to vote, and and I just I'm sick about it.
Um have you always been conservative, always been Republican?
Yes, and I'm a homosexual as well.
So it's I'm very, very rare as far as that goes, but I just it just makes me sick to have to think that I would I literally would have to plug my nose.
I yeah I look at I uh I understand the uh the frustration and I'm hearing it everywhere.
And what you know, I I'm even hearing it.
We had a call from a woman in in Michigan uh about an hour and a half ago, hour and twenty minutes ago, who was a Reagan Democrat.
I mean, she was converted to conservatism back in the 80s by Ronald Reagan, and she felt like her life had opened up.
She'd had an awakening.
She was she felt happier about herself and her country than she had in a long time.
Now she thinks the party's a banner, she doesn't know what to do either.
And this is what's really tragic about this.
And and so, you know, I what I was gonna say before I took your call, and I'm I'm I'm I'm glad you called.
I'm sitting here, folks, and I know that you um many of you say, well, you do something.
Tell these guys to do something.
There is a fine line.
I have an attitude sitting here.
I don't think these guys, I certainly know McCain isn't gonna listen to anybody.
Uh John Bader the other day was talking about perhaps a conservative manifesto, he's the minority leader in the House.
And I like these guys.
You know, there's some really really good ones there.
Mike Pence from Indiana in the House of Representatives, who is uh is just as fabulous, but these guys are in the minority.
And the problem is that when the leader of the party, and give you an example.
I'm I'm sorry to be hopscotching all around here, but this is admittedly it's frustrating for me as it is for you.
You know, I'm watching who was Romney was on TV earlier today, and uh who was it that was who was it I saw on TV that was trying to Oh George Allen.
Might have been on Hannity Show on Fox.
Hannity and Combs.
George Allen was on the day McCain gave his global warming speech.
And he was just struggling to support it, to say good things about it, to say good things about McCain.
And I got instant message flashes and email flashes from friends of mine who happened to also be watching.
And they said, What's he doing?
What George Allen selling out?
And I wrote them all back, and I said, You have to understand if he wants a future in the Republican Party, he cannot break away here.
The party apparatus will shun him.
This is this is the problem when the leader of the party is not either a conservative or in some cases not even a Republican.
So the Republicans down the stream from the and the presidential candidate is the putative head of the uh of the party.
The president is the head of the party, but that starts to wane as the campaign season gets closer to the general.
So you have the time-honored history of falling in line with the party.
The party comes first.
If you have the top of the party taking it in a direction that people don't want it to go, and you are elected and you're in the House, for example, you got to run for re-election, you've got to tie yourself to the top of the ticket, as the news stories today said.
These Republicans are looking at McCain as their savior.
They're not looking at themselves as their savior.
When I read that story that House Republicans, well, McCain's brand is better than our brand right now.
We're going to attach ourselves to him.
It said it that spoke volumes.
It said the primary purpose is to get re-elected.
But then it also said they haven't the slightest clue how to do it.
We have lost three seats, three special elections, and two of them were in safe seat districts.
Districts where Ronald Reagan, or I'm sorry, George Bush had run by 20 points.
Now I know in this Mississippi race, what happened was that the uh the Democrats went into black churches and they passed out a pamphlet saying that our guy, Greg Davis, was a member to KKK.
They did that the Sunday before the election.
And it might have been a factor, probably was.
How long have we known that this is what Democrats are going to do?
To be blindsided by something like this.
You know, it's it's we've gotten to the point where this should have so outraged the party rather than depressed them.
It should have so outraged them that somebody in this party, preferably our nominee, would stand up and decry all of this.
These false, the Democrat Party is the party of 150 years of racism and segregation and Jim Crow.
The Democrat Party is the Democrat Party stood in the way of the Civil Rights Act of 1970, or 1964.
The larger percentage of Republicans in the Senate voted for that than Democrats, enabling it to pass.
But there is there's such fear.
And when fear is the thing that guides your decision making, the odds are you're going to make the wrong decision well over half the time.
I don't know what can be.
I mean, I don't want to say I don't know what can be done, but I think I think if it's not in these guys' hearts, if it's not in their minds, nobody can put it there.
Try to inspire these people to do the right thing, to understand what it will kind of success awaits them.
And you would think that they would see it.
You would think that it would be as obvious as the sky is blue, why they lost in 06, what they have to do to avoid losing in 08.
But I maintain to you, and I've said this way too many times.
I think Washington poisons people.
You go there after a while, you lose the worldview that you had before you got there.
And the whole social and political structure, media importance in Washington takes over, and your instincts tell you to do things and able uh to enable you to survive there rather than do what's necessary to keep getting elected and advance an agenda.
To us outside Washington, this seems so simple.
And we don't understand why they can't see it, especially when they used to, because we remember how they campaigned, remember what they said, remember the way they used to govern.
What happened?
And this is sort of what's inexplicable.
So we start searching for answers.
We throw our hands up and they say, I don't mind it doesn't make any sense.
I don't understand it.
What's happening is very simple.
The Republican Party has long been constituted by people who resented conservatism, resented Ronald Reagan, resented the whole notion.
I've been through this.
They're embarrassed at certain elements of the conservative movement being in the Republican Party.
They are from the Northeast.
They have this Northeast Washington Boston axis and corridor mentality.
Government's the answer to everything.
Government is power, and they seek it.
Whereas conservatives don't want anything to do with government except to get it out of our lives, make it smaller, and make it as invisible as it can be in our daily lives.
But even Republicans have the desire and notion to be a part of it because of the power that's involved and so forth.
So I think that there's a combination of efforts here on the part of both parties to rid the influence of conservatism.
What's frustrating about this obviously is that we look at Republicans, we say, don't you see history?
Can't you see where we have been predominantly successful, overwhelmingly landslide proportion successful?
Didn't you see what it took to get the American people on our side and advancing the country forward?
And all of that past is simply discarded.
And now for whatever reason, more Republicans than ever seem to think that the way to power is the same route the Democrats take.
Big government and offer more of it to more people.
Conservatism is something that embarrasses them, and they just wanted they want to discard and have it be as irrelevant as they can be.
The problem for us as conservatives and the conservative movement's a great thing, but it needs, in our political system, you need a political party to advance the ideas.
So the effort that we face here, the objective is to make sure that we don't lose control of the Republican Party.
And I'm not talking about this year.
I mean, you take a look at the possibilities here.
What in terms of conservatism, if we really believe that conservatism is the answer, is the best thing to hold on to this country as we've known it and loved it.
That it is the best it is the best way to organize ourselves under capitalistic free market principles, liberty, justice, and all that, pursuit of happiness, your kids, your grandkids, and so forth.
Then this is something you fight for life.
This is something you endeavor to support and see to the end.
Knowing full well we're going to have ups and down cycles like this.
I mean, if I wanted to, I could, and I could pretend I'm a national honor society candidate.
I can say, look where we were back in the 60s compared to where we are now.
We're far better than we were when the 60s, we were getting shellacked, but people don't want to hear that because the down cycle is what we're in the midst of, and they want to reverse the down cycle now.
Don't tell me about that stuff in the past.
We got way past that, and now we're giving it back.
I understand.
May have to give a lot of it back.
So let me give you a couple scenarios.
Barack Obama wins the White House, has a 70-seat majority in the House of Representatives, a seven-seat majority in the Senate, gets pretty much everything he wants, and we end up with Jimmy Carter too, and the country goes to hell in a handbasket, and who gets the blame.
Well, it can't be us.
It can't be conservative, even though the drive by us will try to lay it at our feet.
We'll have no power.
Same scenario, but with John McCain in the White House, a Republican and the country goes to hell in a handbasket, because what's going to happen that this lofty agenda that McCain spoke about today is not going to happen because he's not going to get any support for it, and they're not going to bend over forwards and let McCain have whatever he wants.
He's going to have to get things done, as he says, on a basis of a liberal Democrat agenda.
And of course, he's done that on many occasions, issue by issue by issue.
So we get Jimmy Carter too with John McCain and the Democrats running the show.
But the party in power is the Republican Party.
And they get the blame.
The Republican Party takes the heat for whatever rotten things happen in those four years.
Which of those two scenarios is better for the future of conservatism?
Brief timeout back after this.
Having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have here on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
Okay, while Senator McCain's out there playing nice.
Get this.
Just off the House floor today, the uh blog at the politico.com called a crypt overheard the House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers tell two other people we're closing in on Rove.
Somebody's got to kick his ass.
Asked a few minutes later for more official explanation, Conyers told us that Rove has a week to appear before his committee, and if he doesn't, we'll do what any self-respecting committee would do.
We're gonna hold him in contempt, either that or go and have him arrested.
Conyers said the committee wants Rove to testify about his role in the imprisonment of former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman, among other things, based on a fraudulent 60 minutes story.
We want him for so many things it's hard to keep track.
So, Senator McCain's out there playing nice.
We're gonna get rid of this partisanship.
It's tearing us all apart.
This has got to stop.
We're all friends.
We're all compatriots.
We're all Americans.
We're not from different countries.
We're all friends.
And we can argue.
At the end of the day, we're all Americans.
Carl Rove works at Fox News.
Carl Rove works at Newsweek.
Carl Rove works at the Wall Street Journal.
Carl Rove is not even in Washington.
Well, he's not even in the White House.
And the Democrats want to kick his ass.
They want to go get Carl Rove and arrest him.
And they want to put Carl Rove in jail.
And we're running around singing Kumbaya.
Our nominee is.
Now I want to, folks, I want to blind.
Well, not blind, I want to hit you between the eyes here.
I keep hearing from people who say, Rush, we're screwed.
We are screwed no matter what happens here.
Whatever scenario you just announced, we're screwed.
McCain is the president, big time Democrat majorities in the House and Senate, we're screwed.
Obama the president, big time majorities in the House and Senate, we're screwed.
I don't think we're screwed.
If I thought we were screwed, I would retire.
What would be the point here?
Friend of mine runs a business.
In this business, he's got a lot of egos.
He's got a lot of primadonnas.
A lot of divas.
A lot of people who think the world revolves around them and they aren't getting enough attention.
Send a memo out.
I hate negative people.
Negative people make positive people sick.
Don't think I'm not talking about you, he said.
I don't know what the end result of that was, but I assume it shaped a lot of people up.
I don't like negative people either.
I used to be one.
I used to look, I'm you know, the typical glass half empty.
When I got a massage.
Two minutes in, I'd say, ah, darn it, this is gonna end.
And I'd I'd spend the rest of the 58 minutes in anticipation of it ending and being disappointed.
Rather than sitting there and being enjoying it.
If I bought a new car, I'd sit there, you know, yes, it's great, but someday this new new car smells like gonna be here.
Used to do this.
I don't anymore.
For a host of reasons.
But I can't stand being around negative people.
I can't stand being around fatalists.
I can't stand being around defeatists.
I understand it, but at some point I lose my ability to respond to them.
How many times can you say, I'm sorry you feel that way?
And what does that accomplish?
And I don't want to say, yeah, we're screwed.
Damn it, we're really screwed.
Yeah, you're right.
We are so screwed.
Bend over forward, backwards, grab the ankle.
We're screwed.
And then what do you do?
I'll never forget Ronald Reagan.
Soviet Union been around since the end of World War II.
He kept asking Reagan, what are you gonna do about it?
And he said, if we just wait them out, they'll fail.
They will collapse of their own immorality.
He gave him a little nudge, but they did collapse of their own immorality.
I don't think conservatism's finished.
People in the Republican Party who are not conservative running for re-election deserve to lose.
Let's get rid of the dead weight, start over.
Screw them.
Welcome back, Rush Limbaugh with talent on loan from God.
Now, ladies and gentlemen, this is not a commercial.
But I wanted to, as you know, some of you may not know, but it's true, Chevrolet, General Motors, big advertisers here on the EIB network.
And at present, we are driving around one of their new hybrid Chevrolet Tahoe's, the Tahoe Hybrid.
I mean, there's an argument here among the staff over here who gets to use it.
Great gas mileage and all this stuff.
And it's a it's a genuine SUV.
And I was at General Motors a year ago and I saw it, Bob Lutz, show it to me.
It was inside the building in the design stage.
They were very proud of it.
I know you've heard me say hybrids, this hybrids, but this is an SUV.
And this is a hog hybrid.
This isn't, you know, this is not an anti-global warming car.
This is somebody who wants to spend a little bit less on gasoline, and it does.
Anyway, here's the point.
The environmentalist wackos have been after the auto companies.
That's right, Mr. Limbaugh.
We have because they've been polluting and destroying the planet with these big gas cufflers, and we want to prove hybrid cars and vehicles so that people will not destroy the planet.
That's right.
That's the voice of the new Castrati.
Okay, so General Motors has done it.
And the Boston Globe today with a hit piece on the General Motors Chevy Tahoe Hybrid.
Just how green should you feel driving the new Chevy Tahoe hybrid sport utility vehicle?
The eight-passenger vehicle is plastered with hybrid labels.
So I thought you people in the drive-by and all of you stupid limp-wristed linguiny spined liberals, loved hybrid this and hybrid that.
So it's plastered with hybrid labels.
An automobile magazine panel that included the executive director of the Sierra Club named it the Green Car of the Year.
But the Tahoe only gets a woman wrote the story about Beth Daly.
Not that she's a woman.
This is sweetie.
But the Tahoe gets only about 20 miles per gallon.
Not much better than the non-hybrid Honda Pilot SUV, which also seats eight.
The celebrated Toyota, Prius, which is not an SUV.
This is missing the point.
This car, this SUV, got down here to South Florida from Orlando on less than of a quarter of a tank.
It doesn't use gasoline all the time.
It goes back and forth, the battery to gasoline.
It's a little gadget in there where you can see this.
We go to the end of the article here.
As for the Tahoe hybrid, Don Butler, executive director for truck marketing for Chevrolet, said the vehicle is for people who are going to buy plus size SUVs anyway.
But now he said they have an option to get much better gas mileage on par with others.
It's not like this is a one silver bullet.
Companies working on many other energy efficient vehicles, he said.
Ron Cogan, president and CEO of Green Car Journal at Greencar.com, which declared the Tahoe the Green Car of the Year, said the vehicle was chosen in part because the technology the company used would have reverberations throughout the industry.
The point of my telling you this is you've got these people who are restricting liberty and freedom and handcuffing the free market, demanding all these things, and they get it, and it's never enough.
And this is the same with all of liberalism.
Whatever you give them, it won't be enough.
So when McCain, if he's elected president, and he's working with 70 Democrat majority in the House and a seven Senate majority in the Senate, and he's gonna work with them because we're all Americans.
We're all French.
We're not from different countries, my friends.
We're all Americans.
So he's gonna give them what they want.
It's never enough.
It is never enough.
These busybodies who ought to mind their own business, have their heads shoved up an orifice that the sun doesn't shine into, get the hell out of everybody's life.
America is not destroying anything.
We are saving the planet and will do more so if you just leave us alone.
We're already capitulating here and capitulating there, and it still isn't enough for these people.
Whose job, apparently their reason for living, is to just hassle and bother everybody else.
Yes, I'm in a great mood today, Sturdley.
Absolutely I am.
James in uh in the United Arab Emirates, we got a call from the UAE.
Sir Rush sons of conservative commander in chief, strength and honor, megadettos.
Thank you, sir, very much.
Hey, I'm a 24-year Air Force veteran, 18 year listener, first time caller, and I am proud of President Bush, our commander in chief.
He threw a truth stun grenade today into the Obama Hussein campaign, and now they're running around trying to defend him.
That's my first point.
Good on the president.
Um my second point is let's start winning the Republican campaign today.
I nominate you to run the campaign.
You're the best thing we got out there to run a conservative campaign.
I was looking for McCain to talk about what our platform is, to talk about lower taxes, smaller government, life, liberty, freedom, and the free market.
Uh, but I I really didn't hear it.
It was ether roll.
He he did hit his speech.
Oh, we didn't play all the sound bites.
But in the portion of the speech where he went forward to look backward thirteen years and describe what the last four years of his of uh of America would be, the first four years of his uh his his first term.
Uh he he did he's he he he didn't get specific on how, but he said tax rates are lower, gonna have a flat tax, one or two pages to fill out your tax form.
Uh he was describing this utopian set of circumstances.
Uh the the problem is, you know, he can he can announce all that, but there was no there there was no philosophical underpinning for how it's gonna get done.
It's one thing.
I mean, this is a typical Hollywood trick.
You know, Hollywood trick is to do a movie four years in advance and show what would have happened if you weren't around or show what did happen when you were around.
But to make those things happen is going to take specific objectives, philosophies, and goals, and strategies, because the people opposed to that are going to have the most numbers in the House of the Senate.
So it would be helpful if Senator McCain would tell us how he's gonna get this done rather than run some magic speech creating this utopian picture where it has gotten done.
Exactly.
You run a campaign against the enemy, and we've got two enemies, foreign and domestic.
Our domestic enemy is the liberal social democrats.
I don't want any social democrats on our cabinet when we win this.
I don't want a Pelosi or Reed or a Kucinich there.
They should be in jail.
They went out and met with foreign enemies during wartime.
I want conservatives on there so that we can lead this country the way it needs to be led, through conservatism and back to our basics of life, liberty, and and the pursuit of happiness.
Okay, let me propose a hypothetical for you, and you tell me what you think would happen.
I hear this too, Rush.
You need to have a secret meeting with McCain.
Nobody needs to know what ever happened.
Now, James, where in the Emirates are you?
Can you say?
Abu Dhabi.
You're in Abu Dhabi.
Oh, the Amir of Abu Dhabi.
Happens to be very pro-American.
Yeah.
At any rate, uh, you know, anywhere, Abu Dhabi is the place to live here in the Middle East.
Not Dubai.
Uh, it's too busy there.
Yeah.
Okay.
Sort of like the difference between Vegas and New York.
Yeah, exactly.
With without the casinos.
Uh well, that you can see.
Anyway, right.
Anyway, so that imagine McCain and I have this meeting.
Whoever sets it up, nobody knows about it.
And I say, Senator McCain, really, if you want to win big and you want to be two terms, and if you want to own, here's what you got to do, ABC D and E. What do you think the result of the meeting would be?
Um, John McCain's seven.
Seventy years old, no.
What do you think the uh little hint?
What do you think the uh my my hope would be that he would listen because he says that he's gonna listen to everybody.
Uh but um Well, he'd listen.
No, I don't think he'd be rude, he'd listen.
I but I don't I don't I I think I think he's made it uh made it very clear.
The people he's closer to, closest to, and listens to most are people on the other side of the aisle.
Well, but that's the problem.
He needs to get he needs to get some conservatives on his side, like Newt's, uh, Newt Gingrich, and his plan for winning uh winning the future, start with a conservative plan, so he's got a base to excite to get out there and get the vote out for him.
Okay, let me ask you as and get our base excited.
We're gonna lose this.
Let me ask you.
And those two those two things you talked about earlier are the nightmare.
James, let me yeah, well, yeah, but one of them's better for conservatism than the other.
The question is which one on Obama president.
I don't know.
Uh sadly, yeah.
I know people are getting tired of voting for the lesser two evils, too.
They want to vote for somebody, and that's something that makes them mad this time.
Nobody vote for.
It's a crapshoot.
You roll the dice, okay.
Who's gonna harm us the least so that we have the less uh the rebuild?
But no, here's here's here's my next question to you.
Let's say that McCain does hold true on his tax cuts, and he tries to do that.
And let's say that he does really try to rein in federal spending.
And let's say that there's a third thing that uh people say he might the judges.
The judges the spending and the tax cuts.
Then he embraces every liberal socialist he can find to advance his global warming agenda, the cap and trade agenda, the expansion of government, putting taxes on the use of carbon.
Does that ameliorate the things you would support him for on the other thing?
Uh oh, he he just canceled out the other three because uh this bogusness about uh, you know, global warming is you know, he's lost his mind.
I don't know where he's thinking.
Again, he needs to surround himself with good people.
A good leader surrounds himself with good sound people and values, and and that's what he needs to do.
Uh, he's lost his mind on this global warming thing, in my mind.
Okay.
Uh see, I don't think he's lost his mind.
Uh he might have left a little bit of himself in that prison cell in Hanoi.
I don't mean that in a critical way.
I mean that happens.
I mean, I I respect the Senator.
He's he's a good he's a great American and uh and an American hero.
Um, but I just think he's dead wrong on the on the uh global warming issue.
It's obvious, isn't it?
So but if it's obvious to us, it's not obvious to him what's going on.
Uh nobody's nobody nobody nobody's gonna change nobody's gonna change his mind on that, James.
I mean, he's he's out there now.
I mean, he went to Oregon.
He went to the belly of the environmental beast.
He stood next to a Democrat governor.
You know, there's no talking him out of that.
The only hope is he's lying to everybody and then gonna do diddly squat about it once he gets elected president.
He's just saying this stuff, you know, to align up his independent and Democrat votes here.
You know, you hate to have to count on that kind of stuff, too.
Anyway, James, I appreciate the call.
He's calling from Abu Dhabi.
I'm a little long, a quick timeout.
We'll be back after this.
Your guiding light through times of trouble, confusion, murkiness, tumult, chaos, discrimination, gay marriage being legalized in California.
Oh, just got this.
This is a press release here from the ACLU, but it's from Panama City, Florida, which is up there in the Riviera.
After a two-day trial in which a Florida has scroll principal testified that he believed clothing or stickers feating featuring rainbows would make students automatically picture gay people having sex.
A federal judge today ruled that the school violated students' First Amendment rights.
The case was brought to the ACLU on behalf of a junior at the Haskell who had been forbidden by her principal to wear any sort of clothing stickers, buttons, or symbols to show her support for equal rights for gay people.
Standing up to my school was really hard to do, but I'm so happy I did because the First Amendment's a big deal to everybody, said Heather Gilman, a junior at Ponce de Leon High School and the plaintiff in the case.
So a federal judge has ruled that students cannot be barred from expressing support for gay people in the uh in the Has Group.
Judicial activism anyone.
Here is uh William, Fall Church, Virginia.
Nice to have you on the EIB network.
Hello, sir.
Hey, Rush, how are you?
Pretty good, sir.
I'm a long term listener, one time talker with you.
We agreed on something, which is nice.
Uh I gotta tell you this.
You've had today one of the I think most important shows I've ever heard.
And you really stuck us with these two options.
I'm in favor of option one.
And the reason for that is we're gonna have to get rid of most of the leadership of the Republican Party, as currently said.
And I'll give you a perfect example, and you mentioned it earlier, and that's George Allen.
He was a shoe-in for re-election here.
I'm in Virginia.
He's a and I'm a political junkie.
He's a it was a shoe in for it, and he ran a campaign just like he did the other night, where he said absolutely nothing.
It did not have the guts to come up and say, I think John McCain is just dead wrong in his global warming.
He said nothing, and he got beat by a guy who started out, Jim Webb, at about 15% or so.
And I know people have voted for Webb because he was a fighter, even though they didn't like what he stood for.
Don't forget the macaca thing.
I mean, I mean he spent 35 times a day apologizing for something stupid.
He could have won by using that.
I mean, and he showed pictures of his family, which were lovely, and and he did the Republican thing about offend no one, and no one voted for him.
And he doesn't have a future.
So it's not preserving one.
He's a lovely guy, and he was the nominee potentially for the presidency.
But he was a classic example of the Republican Party today.
Offend no one, stand for nothing, and you saw it demonstrated the other night.
Now, the reason for my call is George Bush's speech stunned stunned me as the guy referred to a stun grenade.
He described his foreign policy to a T. We have done nothing but appease around the world, and we have a State Department that because of the circumstances is, I think, easily the most dangerous uh we've ever had.
We are in deep doo doo all over the world because we have done absolutely nothing but appease every bad government.
I'd be happy to go through detail, which you don't want, but start with Korea.
Iran in four years of a wasted defensive war, which the surge proved in a matter of about three or four months, as Major General Kelly said we finally took the fight to the enemy for the first time in four years.
Bush tried to win political wins and ignore the military.
We did the military solution.
We did the same thing in the Palestinian thing.
The roadmap for peace called for eliminating uh Arafat and disarming the terrorists.
That was the precondition for us getting in and setting up a Palestinian government and state and supporting it.
And Colin Powell just trashed that one entirely.
Lebanon, the same thing.
They had that resolution 1775 or something.
Yeah, but you know, all the stuff you're right about, but a lot of people claim they don't care about motivation or explanation.
I do, and I I think there is uh the the this pervasive notion that America's guilty.
No.
Has has has just you don't think that's what's causing this?
Not the people.
No, I'm talking about the State Department of Game.
That's what happened in 2006.
It wasn't just the spending.
No, that's what I'm saying.
I'm I'm not talking about the American people.
I'm the American.
You took the State Department, Colin Pellbott.
They think we're guilty.
Yeah, they're liberals.
James Baker, he goes way back.
He's been running the State Department.
Personally, in a lot of things, and also through his progeny.
His major uh he was this major sponsor of Powell, and he ran the realists, which run the State Department.
It's his group that came up with that NIE finding that took George Bush off the hook about not leaving office with Iran having a bomb.
So they came up and announced there wasn't one.
That was stupid.
Everybody knows that was typical Baker.
I'm sadly I'm I'm out of time.
So they can leave office with Iran not having a bomb because they simply said with the NIE report they don't have one.
They'll have one.
So we don't have to worry about it.
I wish they had more time, but we don't.
I gotta go be back and close it out right after this.
Yeah, remember this too.
In 1972, I was in Pittsburgh.
Wildflowers, the group.
Isn't anyway, we're out of here, but open line Friday tomorrow.
That ought to be a barn burner.
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