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June 5, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 5, 2008, Thursday, Hour #3
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I got it today.
We got it hot off the presses today.
The June issue of the Limbaugh Letter, the most widely read political newsletter in the country.
And I'm going to show you the cover here for those of you watching on the Ditto Cam.
Let me zoom in on this so that you can see it.
Oil is not the enemy.
And that is me wearing a 10-gallon hat looking just like J.R. of Dallas.
I have been so eager for this piece to come out.
What timing?
It's also got a fabulous interview with our official climatologist, Roy Spencer, on global warming.
Oil is not the enemy.
You have been made to detest oil, to despise the companies that take it out of the ground.
The latest issue of the Limbaugh Letter, if you want to know the facts and the truth about oil and its relevance and how much of it we've got that we are not using.
George Will has a great column today, too, on this, pointing out what we've already pointed out on this program.
The ChiComs and the Cubans are drilling for oil 60 miles off Florida, 60 miles away from here.
We are only 74 miles from Miami, to give you an idea how close that they are drilling for oil offshore the United States that we aren't.
And Will's point is, hey, we've got a foreign policy, energy policy.
The energy policy is to let the rest of the world use theirs while we buy it and beg them to drill and produce more.
Well, we don't use ours.
Greetings, folks.
Welcome, Rush Limbaugh at 800-282-2882.
Email address is LRushbo at EIBnet.com.
Senator McCain, even as we speak, is on television speaking at the Florida Press Association.
He's going on and on and on about how much he loves town halls.
And he's encouraged Obama to join him at these town halls, which is actually not a bad strategic move because you get Obama off the prompter.
And he's a different guy.
There's nothing soaring.
There are no wild cheering accolades and fans fainting and any of that sort of stuff.
He's not nearly as good.
He's okay in debates, but he's not the same guy.
And he's certainly in town meetings.
He's not in these off-the-cuff situations, which is what McCain wants.
But I, ladies and gentlemen, I have finally figured out what I think McCain is up to with this whole campaign.
I think with his constant wooing of Democrats, his constant wooing of independents, and with a lot of focus on the independence, and his, what appears to me a studied and purposeful ignoring of congressional races run by Republicans.
He doesn't appear to have any interest in having any coattails.
Now, why would that be?
Why, if you're running for president and you're Republican, why would you have no interest in having coattails?
There's an answer to it.
I do not ask this rhetorically, and I think I've come up with the answer.
I think the objective that the McCain campaign has is to win this election with a cross-section of votes that would end up giving McCain the ability to say it was independents that elected him, not Republicans and not Democrats, but independents.
And he's got this Teddy Roosevelt streak that runs through his veins.
And I actually think that at the end of the day, what he wants is to be able to say that independence elected him.
Now, why?
Why would he want to be able to say that?
Because he wants to place himself above politics.
Apprenticeship, Limbaugh.
That's right.
Very smart, Limbaugh.
Very smart.
But I'm still going to fool you at the end of the day.
Okay, fine.
Go ahead and try.
He's going to have, he wants to be able to say that independents elected him as a way of staying above Republicans and Democrats and politics as usual and so forth.
This has been tried on a minor scale by Jim McCarter, who came in as this outsider from Georgia, peanut farmer and all that.
And it ended up the members of his own party hated his guts.
If you think back, the Democrats had no love for Jimmy Carter.
It's amazing how he's rehabilitated himself.
He's now the figurehead of this party, which doesn't really surprise me.
I mean, failure is the biggest resume enhancement that you can have as a Democrat because it makes you a victim, a victim of evil Republicans.
And so there's almost an honor in losing and being made a fool of if you're a Democrat because it allows victimology to take place.
But the problem with this strategy of McCain's, let's say he pulls it off, let's say he wins and runs around saying it was independents that put him over the top.
He's not going to have any backing in Congress.
He's not going to have Republicans not going to be able to say they did it for him.
He's not going to give them credit, Democrats by the same token.
And I don't know how many independents there are going to be in Congress.
I mean, I don't even think we have one anymore.
No, Bernie Sanders gone, what is he?
Independent voting socialist?
You know, whatever.
So, okay, well, granted, there's one independent in all Congress, Bernie Sanders in the United States Senate.
Oh, take a Lieberman.
So there's two of them.
Okay, and let's say they both get re-elected.
I don't even know if Sanders is up.
I know Lieberman isn't.
So they'll probably be there.
So McCain's going to have a constituency of two.
535.
I mean, this is just how it works.
One of the things that gave me a heads up on this is this little story from the Hill newspaper on Capitol Hill.
Democrats accuse McCain on climate.
Now, get this.
Senator John McCain's hesitation to endorse climate change legislation on the Senate floor this week has Democrats charging him with paying lip service to the issue.
Very, very, very interesting.
So he's for the cap and trade bill that McConnell shut down yesterday by having the whole thing read.
It took him until about midnight last night to read the whole thing, 492 pages.
He's out there saying he's all for this.
He's made a number of speeches about it.
He's all for the cap and trade bill.
Global warming is man-made.
We've got to stop it.
You've got to distance ourselves from the Bush administration policy on this.
Yada, yada, yada, yada.
Then the bill shows up on the floor of the Senate this week, and McCain's nowhere near there participating in it, voting for it, endorsing it, speechifying on it.
Democrats say, he doesn't really mean it.
He's just providing lip service.
Republicans, too, however, are paying close attention to how McCain maneuvers in this debate, given that he's at odds with many in his party on the topic.
No, he's not.
The RNC guy said that nine out of ten Republicans have rallied to McCain.
I just threw that in.
For some Republicans, McCain's support for cap and trade policies is another example of McCain undermining conservative principles.
Most Republican members and interest groups oppose the policy that allows companies to buy and sell the right to pollute, saying it would bankrupt the economy, send gas prices soaring to over $5 a gallon.
McCain has long advocated such a system, but has not come out in support of this bill because of concerns it does too little to promote nuclear energy.
Everything else is fine.
All the price increases, all the attacks on the economy are fine, but there's not enough here on nuclear energy.
This is Senator Chuck Schumer from New York.
Senator McCain is going to have to make a decision whether he wants to be the forward-thinking reformer that he wants people to believe he is or pay attention to all the Republican interest groups who are pushing things back.
I don't know if it's a flip-flop, but certainly I think a lot of people are disappointed that Senator McCain is not supporting this modest bill, which is supported by Senator Lieberman, Senator Warner.
None of them are flaming radicals.
So, McCain's backing off on supporting this bill on this so-called weakness it has on nuclear energy.
There's far more than this going on in McCain's stretch.
Yes, Program Observer has a brief question.
What is the question?
Why aren't the Democrats being nice to him?
Because he, well, it's like Obama certainly wants to know why aren't the Democrats being nice to him.
How come Schumer is being provocative and confrontational contentious here with Senator McCain?
It's a good question.
I could refer you to Senator Obama on Tuesday night during his acceptance speech when he slammed McCain's independence as being insufficient because he hadn't been independent from Bush enough this year.
Independence is one thing, which, you know, the thing that got me about that, when have you ever been independent from the Democrat Party, Obama?
What about your freaking independence?
There is no such thing as independence on the Democrat side.
And here we are arrogantly, he's arrogantly demanding that McCain's independence isn't enough.
McCain's getting a taste of it here.
Unless you are all in with the Democrats, nothing's good.
Even if you're all in and you still call yourself a Republican, you are still a target.
You can't give them enough.
But anyway, I think McCain's strategy here is above and beyond getting accolades from Schumer and that kind of thing.
I think there's a strategy here to triangulate all this and be above it so that he can claim that it was independence that elected him, which makes him beholden to neither Republicans or Democrats as president when the legislation train starts.
You got to love this.
Iran threatening to sue countries that it says have damaged its reputation and to push to have UN Security Council involvement in its nuclear program.
It is also accusing the United States of pressuring the International Atomic Energy Agency to base its latest probe of Iran's nuclear program on fake evidence suggesting that Tehran has tried to make nuclear arms.
Well, now I wonder where they could have gotten this idea.
Where do you think that the Mullahs and Ahmedinezad get the idea to sue the United States for damaging its reputation?
Where do you think this idea could have come from?
Well, let me help out.
It was just last week, wasn't it?
Maybe the week before, where the esteemed Queen Bee, Nancy Pelosi, and some cohorts wanted to sue OPEC for not producing enough oil, correct?
They wanted to sue him for being a cartel.
Now, the problem is, if the Iranians actually follow through on this, if the Iranians sue us for essentially defamation of character, they will do it in friendly courts.
We will lose.
World court, wherever they will take this, you know they can find some anti-American jurists in there to find us guilty of damaging everything.
Here's Eric in Houston.
Eric, welcome to the Rush Limbaugh program.
Nice to have you here.
Thanks, Rush.
Love you, man.
Appreciate it.
Yeah, absolutely.
I wanted to just kind of tie into what you were talking about when you broke down Hillary's non-concession concession speech.
Yeah.
And kind of getting along the lines, you know, kind of connected to that, talking about her VP move and kind of thinking of that as another strategic move that she's obviously trying to make.
Because you probably agree with me.
I don't really think she wants the VP slot.
I'm not sure she really wants to play second fiddle to somebody again for another presidency.
But I got to, you know, just kind of thinking about it, reading some of the blogs out there from my liberal buddies.
And, you know, she's mad at the Democratic National Convention.
And I think, you know, by Obama, just by natural association of that, just because of the race, the way things played out in Michigan and Florida.
And I don't know, you know, maybe I'm wrong, but it just seems like I think she'd like to be VP before the general election.
And I kind of see her working behind the scenes, almost sabotaging his election the whole way, making it more and more difficult.
I don't see Fionda Clinton to be releasing information during the presidential campaign that could really hurt him, which would, of course, twofold thing.
Either make it so impossible for Obama that he drop out before the actual presidential election, in which case, being the VP candidate, she could just step up and go, oh, what do you know?
Here I am.
Or, the same token, of course, she'll never give up her Senate seat until the last moment.
Just sabotage the Obama campaign and then just go back to her Senate seat.
Well, under normal circumstances, Eric, and I have to be honest with you about this, under normal circumstances, I would thank you, appreciate your call, tell you I admire people who think.
And then I would tell Snerdley, what the hell are you doing giving me guys with kook ideas?
But, Eric, I'm not going to do any of that.
And the reason I'm not going to do it is because you're talking about the Clintons, where just everything you mentioned is indeed possible.
We don't know.
We don't know what she wants.
She may not yet know what she wants.
But the idea that she doesn't want anything to do with power is crazy.
And the idea that she doesn't want to position herself for the future for the presidency is naive as well.
She is purposely keeping her supporters riled up.
So with this bunch, these two, a lot of people, I'm not trying to cold shower anybody here, but there are a lot of people.
When she actually does concede this, if she does, admit it.
A lot of you in this audience are going to say, oh, right, but you've wanted this for so long.
Do you feel that way?
She's been vanquished.
Do you feel like they're gone?
Do you feel like they've been vanquished?
Do you feel like the Clinton threat no more exists?
No, I don't.
I don't, because they're not gone.
These are the Clintons.
And they aren't going anywhere.
They aren't going away.
And to the extent that Obama has now taken over control of the party, he's just become another target for the Clintons because when they left the White House, let's retrace a little histois.
When they left the White House, they did so amidst much controversy.
They stole a bunch of flatware and silverware when they went out of there.
They had a bunch of practical, you know, well, their staff took all the W's off the computer keyboards.
They basically left the West Wing an absolute mess.
I mean, spoiled, rotten little kids doing practical jokes, and the Clintons are walking out of there with some of the goods.
And when the word of this got out, and Clinton had his pardons and so forth, Clinton's reputation was dirt in the Democrat Party when they walked out of there.
It really was.
People have forgotten this.
People think that the Democrat Party was in tears to see Clinton go, and they never stopped loving him, but that's not true.
They came back from that.
They came back to take over that party.
Despite the fact that Al Gore had run and lost, they came back to take over that party shortly after 2001, 2002.
And they've run and controlled that party ever since.
It's another reason why they're so flabbergasted at having lost because this whole primary system was designed to coronate her.
They're not going away.
As long as they are alive, look, Bill Clinton's ego is such he cannot go away.
He needs the adulation from wherever and whoever he can get it.
Mrs. Clinton has unrequited fulfillments.
She's got ambitions.
And just because she lost this time around, you know, the Saudolinsky method does not teach you to accept defeat.
And she's a big believer in the Saudolinsky method.
So they're not going away.
And I know a lot of you people who were hoping and praying that her defeat here would cause massive celebrations around the country among conservatives and Republicans.
They're not gone.
Look at, she's still bigger news than Obama on what's she going to do Saturday.
How many of you know where Obama's going to be Saturday?
I don't know where he's going to be.
I know where Hillary's going to be.
She's going to be in Washington, supposedly, supposedly conceding.
We'll see.
But anything that you mentioned, Eric, and more, everything you mentioned is possible.
It's only June, too.
It's only June the 5th.
I mean, can you imagine the absolute chaos they could cause at the convention?
She's probably going to want a convention speech.
She's going to get a convention speech.
Damn right.
If Pat Buchanan got a convention speech in 1992 in Houston, she is going to get a convention speech.
She'd probably get a convention night with Bill and with all those people there.
This is going to be entertaining and fascinating as it can be to watch.
So normally, Eric, we'd be laughing at you about now.
But since you were talking about the Clintons, we salute you for your understanding.
Stating the obvious, Rush Limbaugh and the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
Charlie in Williamsburg, Pennsylvania.
Hello, sir.
Hi, Rush.
Stay-at-home soccer dad here for you.
Hey, I remember back in 2000, you played a montage when Bush had secured the Republican nomination, and the montage was of all the talking heads of the news programs.
And they used that key word that Bush lacked, gravitas.
And I'm just curious where they're going to go with that and how they're going to package Obama, given his lack of gravitas.
No, no, no.
Obama has plenty of gravitas.
You don't understand how the Democrats are reacting to Obama.
Obama is messianic.
I mean, the word gravitas is not even appropriate for a Messiah.
Obama just, he's the latest it, the greatest new thing.
That gravitas thing was associated to Dick Cheney, anyway, when Bush chose him.
Laurie in Manhattan, Kansas, welcome to the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
First time caller.
I'm a little nervous.
But my- What can I do?
What can I do to settle your nerve?
I'm not really sure.
Just be nice.
Well, that's sweet.
Be nice.
As though that would be a change.
Well, true.
You're always nice.
I would hope you're relaxing even now.
I think so, a little bit.
Yeah, good.
I am.
More so than your call screener even.
You just have that relaxing, soothing voice.
Well, I appreciate that.
Well, he's in a hurry in there.
He's got to judge people's capability and qualification on a fly.
And if he doesn't, he's got to zoom on.
I mean, I've heard him, Roche Lumbo show, what do you want?
And then it's up to the caller to ⁇ is that pretty much what he said to you?
Well, he was a little bit better than that.
But my point is...
That he's slipping.
Well, don't get mad at him.
He was all right.
All right.
Now are you sufficiently relaxed?
I think I am.
See, this is how this works.
Okay, let it rip.
Okay.
In response to the first caller of the day, I was thinking that it's not a direct response, but it got me thinking this.
And of all the Obama supporters that are supporting him primarily because he's black and that they want to see a first black president, I think they're missing the big picture.
It seems they want him to succeed so badly that they're overlooking the fact that he may fail as a president and what those ramifications may be.
For example, I think it's probable he may end up being another Jimmy Carter or worse.
And if I were an African American, I would be afraid that that would set us back more than him not being elected in the first place.
Well, they are afraid, but they're afraid for different reasons.
They're afraid he might lose.
I mean, this is really psychologically interesting, Lori.
The Reuters went on and they talked to a bunch of black intellectuals at universities and average black people on the street.
And they're all excited.
Oh, yeah, Obama finally got it.
But they are distressed.
They're anxious and they're a little nervous because he might lose.
And now that would be disappointing.
These are people that can't deal with success.
You know, we've talked about this before.
People who are afraid of success.
Something successful happens to them.
This is not deserved.
I haven't deserved it.
And they undermine themselves.
And so they're in the process of doing that now.
In terms of Obama actually failing as a president, they're not thinking of that.
That's not even the point.
He can't fail.
You have to understand the psychological mindset of the left.
Having him elected is all that matters.
David Dinkins, General Dinkins, one of the worst mayors in New York.
First black mayor.
I'm pretty right about this, Sner.
I mean, it's a pretty bad mayor.
It was one of the worst.
To this day, that's not said about him.
The fact that he was the first is all that mattered.
And one of the things that the left does, these guilty white liberal plantation owners, they almost expect black failure.
Why else is there something called affirmative action?
They almost expect blacks to not be able to achieve things.
That's why affirmative action and quotas were set up so as to give them a boost.
And once they rise to the top here, then they don't fail.
The failure is not possible because they made it.
The only failures are black conservatives.
So there's not, you know, his qualifications don't matter.
He's running an image campaign anyway.
Pure and simple.
Kathy in Williamsville, New York.
Nice to have you here.
Hi, Rush.
How are you doing?
Fine.
Thank you.
You know, I got to tell you, if I thought Hillary was going away, I would remortgage my house and throw a big party.
I know, I have a very strong feeling that about a week before the Democrat National Convention, something is going to leak out about Obama that all of these superdelegates know that he will be unelectable and she will get the nomination.
I just don't think for a minute that she's giving up that.
I really don't.
In this market, you would remortgage your house and throw a big party.
I would if I thought they were going away.
Oh, my gosh, yes.
I can't stand her.
And Obama is absolutely reaping the rewards of people's disdain for the Clintons.
That's the only reason he's there.
People hate her enough, and him too, to throw their votes on the other person.
Yeah, I think one of his biggest assets is that his last name is not Clinton.
Yes.
The other thing that I'm really upset about is a couple of years ago, I told myself that I would vote for whichever candidate was going to fight the war on terror, period, because I know our company, our country is in jeopardy.
The U.K. is almost gone.
They're almost down that dark tunnel, and there's no turning around.
And we could be there.
And I am so ticked off that I'm going to have to go into the voting booth and vote for McCain because at least I know on that one issue that he will at least take care of business and we're going to be back to Jimmy Carter 70% income taxes and everything else.
And I am just really ticked off that our party, you know, I'm ticked off at you that you didn't talk up Mitt Romney more because he was the true conservative candidate.
You know, you talked up Operation Chaos.
Why didn't you convince people to cast their vote for a conservative candidate?
Because now we're stuck with, you know, Curly, Larry, and Mo.
You finished?
I'm done.
You feel better?
I feel so much better.
I want you to listen to something with me.
I want you to listen to something with me, okay, before you go.
Okay.
This is Harold Ickies back on May 1st.
And this is one of these conference calls of Clinton supporters with top donors to her campaign.
And Harold Ikees is on the phone with Clinton donors or potential donors.
And this is what he said.
Barack Obama is a strong candidate.
He's a powerful spokesman.
He's running a good race.
The fact is, he is not going to be able to win the general election against John McCain.
That is the message.
And he can't win it for two reasons.
We don't know enough about him.
There may well be an October surprise.
And two, he doesn't have the general election electoral base that Hillary has.
Do you hear that reference to Ickies about an October surprise?
Yeah.
It dovetails with your theory out there, Kathy.
Yeah, it sure does.
It sure does.
She's not down.
She's not gone.
She will be the Democrat nomination.
What's this going to be?
What is this earth-shattering news?
I have no idea.
It's going to maybe be a Vince Fox or Monica Lewinsky.
I don't know.
It has to be worse than that.
I have no idea.
But there's going to be something.
And the superdelegates are going to be scared to death, and they're going to go and they're going to give it to her.
So this is going to happen before their convention.
I would say a week before so that there can't be a spin to reverse it.
I think it's going to happen right before their convention.
And even if it's underground where the high rankers know what's going to happen, and I seriously, I don't think Obama is going to be the candidate because I don't think he's electable at all.
really don't between Reverend Wright and Reverend Schlagler or the priest.
Gosh, I can't believe he's a priest.
He absolutely bathed himself, bathed his children in the sermons of hating white people and we're the problem.
And I can't imagine that being palatable to a majority of Americans regardless of party.
The other thing is, is that if John McCain does get elected and it's a disaster like it's going to be domestically and economically for everyone, you know, we're going to get blamed for voting him in when probably a lot of Republicans are going to stay home and the Democrats are going to elect them.
It's just the whole thing's a mess.
I know.
The whole thing's a mess.
I know.
And this is our country.
I know.
I just, I can't believe it.
I know, and it's my fault.
It's your fault.
I know.
You said it was my fault.
Well, you could have talked to Mitt Romney more.
He had double the votes of Huckabee.
There was no way it was going to have what you have forgotten.
What you have forgotten is that McCain and Huckabee joined forces to take Romney out.
You're complaining to the wrong guy.
You need to complain to Huckabee, who never had a prayer.
And you need to complain to McCain for going into league with Huckabee, who never had a prayer.
I mean, it's hardball politics.
It's totally legal, but that's what happened.
They saw Romney as the guy.
And Romney was the least liked guy in our group by the other guys in the group.
Romney was hated and despised because he's rich, because he's good looking, because he has a solid family, because he doesn't drill for beer.
You know, he's just a solid guy down the line.
And bust, they didn't like him because he was supposedly running critical ads of them.
So they ganged up on Romney.
There wasn't anything that was going to happen to, you know, once you get two guys joining forces against the other, you can have all the endorsements in the world out there.
Look at, Kathy, I have to run.
It's great to hear from you.
I love your passion.
A week before the convention, a week before the convention, the August surprise, according to Kathy, and Hillary is the nominee.
A lot of people thinking this.
I don't believe this.
I just got a note.
I just got it.
Just got an email from the chef at home.
Dear sir, Father's Day is coming up.
We are out of Allen Brothers steaks.
And I couldn't, we're never supposed to be out of Allen Brothers steaks.
How did this happen?
He says, well, lots of guests.
I said, why didn't you replace it?
Say, well, the debit card's low.
I said, well, I'll put money back in the debit card, but this is unacceptable.
I said, Father's Day's coming up.
He said, but, sir, you're not a father.
I said, B.S., Pumpkins there.
She, my daughter.
I'm embarrassed.
I'll always have Allen Brothers.
I'm out the wazoo, the hamburgers, the hot dogs, steaks, various kinds, strips, fillets.
They're all in case guests pop in.
Don't let this happen to you.
Don't let Father's Day come up and not be prepared.
You know, everybody gets their dad something for Father's Day in a perfunctory way because everything's dad, not a sentimental guy, doesn't care about this stuff.
Go out and get another tie, maybe a card or some such thing.
You got to get your dad something to sink his teeth into.
I keep talking about Allen Brothers, and people keep, what's so good about it?
Steak's a steak.
No, it's not.
A lot of people say steak is, look, Rush, I can go get the worst piece of meat in the world and fix it the right way in the grill, and you can't tell it's not Allen Brothers.
B.S., you do not know what you're talking about because you've never had it.
Unless you've gone to some of the finest steakhouses, because that's where Allen Brothers primarily serves its wares.
The top 2.5% of all beef is prime in this country, and most of it does not go to grocery stores because there's not enough to go around, so it goes to the restaurants where it's the most expensive and so forth, obviously.
Allen Brothers makes it available to the public via their website, absteaks.com.
They've also got a telephone number, 800-260-0111.
Go to the website, absteaks.com.
A couple of rush packs that are introductory things that you can get for your dad, or you can splurge and get some genuine.
I mean, the stuff in the introductory rush packs is genuine, too.
Don't misunderstand, but it's just samples, like one steak or two, a box of hot dogs.
Spring for the whole thing.
Get something your dad will really like, especially if he's asking for it.
One day of the year, it's his dad's thing.
And if he's asking for it, don't tell him he's wrong for wanting it.
Let him have it.
ABSteaks.com.
I love this stuff.
It is, in fact, tonight, there's a local club here that has Steak Night every Thursday.
I happen to be a member in good standing.
And they started this about a year ago.
They use Allen Brothers.
And it's sold out every week.
You don't have to go to a restaurant anymore to get it, is the point.
Nor do you have to belong to an exclusive private club like me.
You can get it at absteaks.com.
Bruce in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
Hello.
Proud Corporal during the Indiana Inquisition, sir.
Thank you, sir.
First, I want to say something to Mona, Pete, and the last woman.
Keep your head held high and grow a spine.
I'm absolutely disenhearted by this negativity.
You have to first master your own life before you can try to help others.
And this disinheartening just absolutely makes me feel horrible, absolutely horrible.
And you have given me a backbone, sir, and you really are more my father than my own.
And to hear you being bashed like this is just really reviling to me.
Don't take it personally.
They're not bashing me personally.
I appreciate your sentiments, but they're just frustrated.
They see such an opportunity being squandered here.
They're lost, and I understand that, but they need to take hope and not become disembodied like the liberals.
It just, you know.
But anyway.
Don't worry.
We're going to keep them fired up.
We'll keep them bucked up.
Two things disturb me.
First, Iran.
Bush seems to have let it go.
Will McCain do any better?
I don't know that Bush has let it go.
What would you want Bush to do?
Well, you mentioned before that you thought that he had some plan that before leaving office, he was going to do something.
I had talked to a bunch of his donors who said to me that they can't see Bush leaving office with Iran's still a problem, a nuclear problem.
And he's not out of office yet either.
I'm not privy to anything that they might be doing here in the United States about dealing with Iran.
What's your question about McCain in that regard?
Will he do any better?
You mentioned the moderate Republicanism of Bush, and that this guy is a liberal Republican in terms of his policies.
You're getting a more watered-down product.
I don't know what I have no clue what anybody's going to do.
But look, there's one way of dealing with this, and I don't know that we've got the metal.
If we are as convinced, and it's not just us, it's the IAEA, if they are working in riching uranium for a nuclear weapon, there's only one thing to do, and that's stop them.
And the only way that you can't do it with talk, you can't do it with freezing assets, you can't do it by aligning the rest of the world against them.
It's not going to work.
You have to do it militarily.
I suspect what McCain will do to differentiate himself from Bush, actually go over there and meet with the moderate and independent mullahs and try to talk some.
No, I'm joking, Snerdly.
Don't take me seriously.
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