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June 17, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 17, 2008, Tuesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Okay, warning, everybody.
I was up till 4.30 this morning.
I could not put a book down.
Vince Flynn Defend and Protect.
I could not put, I started it at about 11 o'clock.
I finished it at 4.30.
I had a cat just jumping on the desk, head-butting me, wanting to be fed.
I didn't respond.
I could not put the book down.
So anyway, 4.30, three and a half hours sleep, three hours sleep.
So that happens.
We get a little giddy here sometimes.
Just a warning, great to have you with us.
Rush Limbaugh back here for broadcast excellence from the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
Telephone number is 800-282-2882.
And the email address is illrushbo at EIBnet.com.
More problems out in Denver for the Democrat.
Yes, yes, Mr. Snirdly.
I'm going to get to McCain in just a second.
I got a couple funny things here, though, first.
He says, I can't believe you're not leaving with McCain in oil.
I'm getting there.
Be patient, folks.
It's a three-hour program.
Headline here from the Rocky Mountain News, Denver stocks up on pepper weapon.
The city is ordering guns that fire special plastic balls of pepper spray for the Democratic Convention.
Well, no, there's no mention of the crap cannon in the story.
I think there's the crap cannon.
Remember, now that's a rumor that the left-wing activists are spreading that the Denver authorities have a crap cannon.
It's some sort of infra-something, a frequency gun that makes you lose control of your bowels.
So they're worried about the crap cannon.
In the meantime, the Denver authorities, Denver cops, stocking up on pepper guns.
I was thinking the same thing.
You know, combine the crap cannon with the pepper gun.
You know, I tell you, the thought of that site, the crap cannon combined with the pepper gun.
Have you seen these pictures coming out of Iowa and so forth?
I mean, it is.
This is worse up there than any hurricane I have ever seen.
This is just hard to stomach.
And when you read the stories about the stench and the dead animals and the waste and the toxic stuff and the chemicals that are used for agriculture that are in the water, it's just amazing what is going on there and what these people are putting up with.
Corn prices are going to skyrocket because of this.
This is just amazing.
Literally amazing to watch this.
And there's only 27 levees that are being held up by sandbags now, and they're doing everything hoping that they hold.
The other little funny story.
Oh, yes.
You ladies, you ladies will love this one.
An Italian man was arrested on suspicion of kidnapping his ex-girlfriend from a bar, taking her home and forcing her to iron his clothes and wash the dishes.
The 43-year-old man.
Sorry, I know it's not funny, ladies.
A 43-year-old man dragged the woman out of a pub in the port city of Genoa, shoved her into a car, took her to his home where he made her iron and wash dishes after threatening her.
Police arrived at his house after being tipped off by a friend of the woman who watched the scene at the bar.
The man who was apparently furious at his ex-girlfriend for leaving him was arrested on charges of kidnapping.
Well, now we know why he wanted her around to do the ironing and to wash the dishes.
All right.
Oh, and one more thing about road rage.
Have you heard what they've discovered about, oh, two more things.
I would much rather talk about this stuff than McCain.
I'm sorry.
We're going to get to McCain and the oil business here in just a second, ladies and gentlemen.
Have you seen the latest survey or study information on road rage?
Three horrors.
This is from the Washington Post by Shanker Vendantam.
Three horrors await Americans who get behind the wheel of a car for a family road trip this summer.
Price of gasoline, the kids, little crumb crunchers in the back shouting, are we there yet?
And road rage.
Divine intervention might be needed for the first two problems, but science has discovered a solution for the third.
Watch out for cars with bumper stickers.
That's the surprising conclusion of a recent study by Colorado State University psychologist William Zlimco.
Drivers of cars with bumper stickers, window decals, personalized license plates, and other territorial markers not only get mad when somebody cuts into their lane or is slow to respond to a traffic light, they also are far more likely than others to use their vehicles to express rage by honking, tailgating, and other aggressive behavior.
You know who these people are.
You can see them coming up behind you.
They're trying to give your car an enemy with their car.
Drivers of cars with bumper stickers and decals, personalized plates.
And the survey author, William Zlemko, says it doesn't seem to matter whether the stickers are about peace and love.
If you see somebody driving around with a bumper sticker that says visualize world peace, or my kid is an honor student, or don't mess with Texas, or my kid beat up your honor student, be on the lookout because they're all potentially road rage threats.
Even the people that have these stupid peace bumper stickers on.
Aggressive driving might be responsible for up to two-thirds of all U.S. traffic accidents that involve injuries, and many of those people are people that put bumper stickers on their cars.
Zlimco and his colleagues at Fort Collins, Colorado, found that people who personalize their cars acknowledge that they are aggressive drivers, but usually don't realize they are reporting much higher levels of aggression than people whose cars lack visible markers on their vehicle.
The more markers a car has, the more aggressively the person tends to drive when provoked, even if the bumper stickers are a bunch of liberal bumper stickers.
Now, do you believe this?
Does this sound like it makes sense to you?
Dawn, something that makes sense to you?
I think that there is a bias that goes into practically all scientific research.
I don't think anybody starts out objectively.
How could you?
Somebody had to get the idea to study this.
You know, what causes road race?
Well, let's look at some of the factors.
I think, you know, we have, we live in an era where people are constantly telling us that the civility of the country has gone south, that there's too much incivility.
People are not nice to one another anymore.
And there's too much partisanship in all this.
So this could be a disguised attack, this little survey, on people who have opinions that are willing to express them and blame them for all the ills that is in society.
You know, the left would love to do nothing more than shut down people whose opinions they don't want to hear.
Oh, there's Gore.
I can't believe Obama let this happen.
I cannot believe Obama let Gore endorse him publicly.
That is a curse.
That is a curse worse than if Bill Clinton endorses you.
And now some people are out there saying, you know what?
I think it was David Rodham Gergen, and we have the soundbite of this.
David Rodham Gergen's out there saying the funny, the best thing would be is if Obama let Clinton and Gore run his administration, the global warming aspect, and so forth.
It was on CNN last night.
Dawn, you'll love this one.
You ladies out there will love this one yourselves as well.
This is from the Los Angeles Times.
The brains of gay men resemble those of straight women.
According to research published today, that provides more evidence for the role of biology in sexual orientation.
The area of the brain that processes emotions also looked much the same in gay men and straight women.
And both groups have higher rates of depressive disorders than heterosexual men.
The study and proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, however, found that the brain similarities were not as close in the case of gay women and straight men.
The question is: how far does it go?
Said Dr. Eric Villen, who studies human sexual development at UCLA.
He wasn't involved in the survey, so naturally I'm going to quote him.
In gay men, the brain is feminized.
Is that limited to particular areas, or is the entire gay male brain feminine-like?
Villain said that his hunch was that the entire brain was not feminized because gay men have a number of masculine traits that are not present in women.
For example, he said men, regardless of sexual orientation, tend to be interested in casual sex and are stimulated by sexually suggestive images, whereas women, as we all know, have no interest in casual sex.
Zip, zero, nada.
They don't care about it, unless they're being paid.
And secondly, they do not respond to sexual visual stimuli.
It is.
The thing I found interesting about this, I know a lot of women who love high fashion, who just think gay fashion guys, gay designers, they just love them.
Because they're not threatened by them.
Some straight women's best friends are gay guys because they don't feel threatened.
And they do.
There is this commonality.
They both love looking, wow, that's a great shade on your nails.
It looks lovely, darling, when that, whatever.
You know, they talk about this kind of stuff that women love to talk about.
So there may be something to this one.
All right, brief timeout.
We'll come back.
McCain, a sort of flip-flop here on drilling for all.
Offshore.
Don't go away.
Be right back.
Having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have El Rushbo and the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
Everybody's all excited here.
Senator McCain is going to give a speech today down there to the oil company executives whose profits he thinks are obscene.
He called for, he's going to call for an end to the federal ban on offshore drilling and offering an aggressive response to high gasoline prices.
This immediately drew the ire of environmental groups.
Screw them.
Who cares?
You know, there's this story here, and I had this in the stack yesterday, and I didn't get to it.
There's ABC News.
Oh, I take it back.
It's on the ABC news sites from our old buddies at the Associated Press.
And it actually ran over the weekend, a couple days ago.
It ran on Sunday.
Less than a month after declaring polar bears a threatened species because of global warming, the Bush administration is giving oil companies permission to annoy and potentially harm them in the pursuit of oil and natural gas.
You know, when are we going to stand up and say enough?
Do not the polar bears annoy us?
Do not the spotted owl populations annoy us.
I'm fed up with being annoyed by all these animals who freely are allowed to annoy us and prevent our technological advancement.
The polar bears will adapt.
They'll thrive and survive.
That's just so anyway.
The environmentalist wackos are upset at what McCain's going to do.
So what?
The environmentalists exist strictly as an organization for the left and the media to tap into, provide opposition to conservatives and Republicans.
And that's what this is for.
The move, McCain's move, is aimed at easing voter anger over rising energy prices by free.
It's not aimed at that.
It's aimed at coming up with more oil.
It's about substance.
It's not about getting rid of voters already.
Rasmussen has a poll.
67% of the American people want to drill now.
They are fed up with being prisoners to environmentalist wackos.
You know, every commodity, every service has its tipping point price.
We have found out what it is in gasoline.
It's four bucks.
Four bucks a gallon, and you get a total change in public opinion on something.
Not because anything anybody's saying, not because of any PR, but because of reality.
At four bucks and no end in sight, the American people getting very sophisticated and understanding here laws of supply and demand, and we've got people standing in the way of producing our own sources of energy.
Ergo, they want to drill.
They know we have oil.
They know it's the Democrats and the environmentalists who are standing in the way.
So this is McCain's big speech down there.
And you got to say, it's good.
I'm happy he's flip-flopped on this and changed his mind.
But I have to tell you, you know, this is, I had this weird feeling when I saw this this morning.
I guess I saw it last night.
No, I didn't see it last night.
Well, I was doing show prep.
I'll read in Vince's book.
I guess I saw it last night, but the details came out today.
You know what they say, the hostages, what was the Stockholm syndrome, where you, after a while, you're hostage long enough, you start to bond with your captors when they show the slightest kindness.
That's sort of how I felt today when McCain did this flip-flop.
I felt, oh man, I'm a prisoner here.
I'm being held hostage in my own movement, but man, my captor is all of a sudden doing something I want to do to make me happy.
I said, Zee whiz, this is cool.
And then I said, I can't believe that I am heartened, that I am encouraged, that I am made to feel happy by a story like this when it ought to be, this ought to be common policy for my party and my movement in the first place.
This ought not be something that causes us all to go, yeah.
But it is causing us to do this.
Now, of course, Obama got wind of this, and he came out with another typically dumb and stupid Obama remark.
Get this.
This is what the Messiah said.
Much like his gas tax gimmick that would have leaved consumers with pennies in savings, opening our coastline to offshore drilling would take at least a decade to produce any oil at all.
And the effect on gasoline prices would be negligible at best since America only has 3% of the world's oil.
And he then went on to say that this is tantamount to maintaining the failed policies of the past.
The failed policies of the past.
What are the failed policies of the past?
I guess he's talking about the entire discovery and the bringing to market the refining of crude oil.
I guess that was a failed policy of the past.
Obama said that McCain's decision to completely change his position and tell a group of Houston oil executives what they wanted to hear today was the same Washington politics that has presented us, prevented us from achieving energy independence for decades.
This guy, Obama, is dangerous because he's an idiot.
I mean, really, they talk about how brilliant this guy is, went to Harvard and so forth.
I did some checking.
This guy never wrote anything at Harvard.
He just had a law review.
Never wrote anything, probably on purpose not to create a paper trail.
Number two, he might not have been capable of it for all I know.
But I mean, the things this guy says, the people he hangs around with, the associates he chooses to become part of his administration.
Hell, he just got, he went somebody out there.
Let me find this.
He just hired somebody to be one of his big advisors on something who ended up quoting Winnie the Pooh in terms, I'm not kidding, quoted Winnie the Pooh in terms of foreign policy.
Well, how we have to behave.
I'll find this.
I've got forced tax theory.
Ah, here it is today.
Richard Danzig.
Richard Danzig, who served as Navy secretary under President Clinton and is tipped to become National Security Advisor in an Obama White House.
By the way, I thought Obama was about all this change.
And how could he just get a bunch of retreads from the Clinton administration to run the show here?
A full bunch of retreads.
Nothing new.
Anyway, Danzig ran the Navy for Clinton, going to be National Security Advisor in Obama's White House, told a major foreign policy conference in Washington that the future of U.S. strategy in the war on terrorism should follow a lesson from the pages of Winnie the Pooh, which can be shortened to this.
If it is causing you too much pain, try something else.
Mr. Danzig told the Center for New American Security, quote, Winnie the Pooh seems to me to be a fundamental text on national security.
Now, I got this from our old buddy Jim Garrity at National Review Online at the campaign spot.
Now, this sounds like something you'd see on a satire webpage.
Winnie the Pooh seems to me to be a fundamental text on national security.
He spelled out how American troops, spies, and anti-terrorist officials could learn key lessons by understanding the desire of terrorists to emulate superheroes like Luke Skywalker and the lust for violence of violent football fans.
These are the people Obama seeks to surround himself with.
He's just a blooming idiot, folks.
I know.
Thank you.
Welcome back, Rush Limbaugh, the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
Another Democrat has come out, ladies and gentlemen, and has spoken that the Democrat talking points here, that the oil price has artificially been pumped up by a bunch of Republican conservative types in the oil business trying to benefit their oil buddies.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinezad says that the market is full of oil.
No, I did say Democrat, Mr. Snyder.
You heard me right.
Well, he said, Dr. Mediniz, he sounds just like a Democrat.
What the hell?
I mean, these guys continue to just regurgitate Democrat Party talking points.
Ahmadinezad, vertically challenged, by the way.
This guy's so short, 5'3 or 5'4, his feet don't hit the floor when he sits in a standard chair.
I've heard he takes a shower once a week, if that.
The market is full of oil.
The rising price trend is fake and imposed, said Ahmadine Zad, partly blaming a weak U.S. dollar, which he said was being pushed lower on purpose.
Said Ahmadine Zad, at a time when the growth of consumption is lower than the growth of production and the market is full of oil, prices are rising, and this trend is completely fake and imposed.
He said this on TV.
It's very clear that visible and invisible hands are controlling prices in a fake way with political and economic aims.
Does that not sound just like an average Democrat or leftist in this country?
Every time these wacko militant Islamists open their mouths, be it from Al-Qaeda, Al-Qaeda and Iraq, Al Jazeera, Hezbollah, Hamas, the Iranians, I feel like I've heard it all before just watching the nightly news as they interview various Democrats on the issues of the day.
Quick couple of phone calls.
Oh, I've got a sound bite here.
I hate to do this.
McCain has just done a great thing.
He's going to go down into Texas to tell the oil companies we need to have offshore drilling.
Need to get into it and exploration, which is good.
Don't misunderstand the tone of my voice.
It's about time.
And I've been hoping that somebody in the McCain camp would do this.
Because it's a fabulous way to contrast us versus them.
Democrats versus Republicans.
The Republican conservatives are for economic growth, for energy independence.
This highlights the fact that the Democrats are opposed to that.
It's got to be done, not just for the politics of it, but for the substance.
We need the oil.
We've got plenty of it.
It will bring the price down.
It will lessen our dependence.
All of this is good.
So don't misunderstand my attitude about this.
I'm glad it happened.
And I'm gradually getting rid of my disappointed attitude about this, that it hadn't happened before now.
But then the McCain camp has rolled out a new ad, a new television ad.
We have the audio.
It's a portion of his new ad in Arizona.
John McCain stood up to the president and sounded the alarm on global warming five years ago.
Today, he has a realistic plan that will curb greenhouse gas emissions.
A plan that will help grow our economy and protect our environment.
Reform, prosperity, peace.
John McCain.
I'm John McCain, and I approve this message.
Okay, so we're going to go out there and we're going to be drilling for more oil out there.
And what McCain said, by the way, is this federal ban.
That's overreaching.
Leave it up to the states.
Let the states do what they want to do.
So Charlie Crists, our governor here in Florence, I like this plan.
I like this plan.
To be honest, Jeb Bush is the governor who put in the regulations, these restrictions of no offshore drilling here in coastal Florida.
Some other governors are excited about this.
You know what would be really, really cool?
Look at what's happening in California.
They started their gay marriage wedding ceremonies today.
These people just have the most rotten sense of timing.
The Democrats have been doing everything they can to get these gay activists.
Just be patient.
Can you just wait for this, wait to do this till after the election?
And of course, the gay activists who are naturally in love with one another said, screw you to the Democrats.
And they went ahead and they're starting their ceremonies today in California.
They're on television, lots of fanfare, lots of speeches.
George Takai out there making speeches from Star Trek.
And it's just, it's a beautiful thing out there.
There's circles and circles of love.
And they're just all happy getting married.
And I think the judge, whoever marries them, says, I now pronounce you happily married, rather than man and man or woman and woman, groom and groom, whatever.
So Democrats just trying to get these people to stop it.
They won't.
This is going to have an impact on the election.
There's no question it will if this stuff keeps up.
What if they get they got so much economic problem, so many economic problems, California?
What if?
What if, I mean, just big hypothetical.
What if, what if Schwarzenegger somehow gets convinced that drilling for oil offshore in California would be one of the greatest financial boons to his state ever?
That's a long shot.
But what if the state of Oregon decides to do it and California doesn't?
The people in California are going to go nuts.
Well, you don't have any spills up there.
They're going to be coming our way.
Haven't had, you know, even with Hurricane Katrina ripping through the Gulf and other hurricanes with all the oil offshore decks out there.
We haven't had any oil leaks.
We haven't had any oil spills despite damage to the oil wells and the Derricks out there.
So it's, you know, we've gotten much, much better at this.
So anyway, this is the good thing.
But then to go out and do an ad, I admit it's in Arizona.
They were going to get tough on emissions and carbon feet print and all this other stuff.
The two just don't seem, it's like two pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, and they get close to fitting, but not quite.
And yet you think they do.
So you keep jamming those two pieces together until you break one of them.
We'll see how it shakes out.
We've got Jason from Philadelphia on the phone.
Jason, you're up first today.
Great to have you with us on the EIB network.
Hey, Rush, Megha Dittos from a disabled U.S. Army vet.
I'd like to thank you first for everything that you do for our soldiers.
Well, thank you, sir.
My point today is with Obama making this statement about the failed policies of the past, I would contend that the failed policies of the past are the Democratic policies that have stopped us from drilling and stopped us from getting our own resources that have led us to this point.
Exactly right, Jason.
The failed policies of the past is a term that's been approved for usage by the Democrat Party.
It's in their playbook.
They have been using it.
Obama spouts it, doesn't even know what he's talking about.
It just sounds good.
The failed policies of the past.
The way to translate that, what Obama and the Democrats hope that people will think is Bush.
Failed policies of the past equals George W. Bush.
But used in this circumstance, it's so easily, as you've just done, it is so easily blown to smithereens.
Failed policies of the past, drilling for oil?
What failed policy, what alternative policy did you have, Obama?
This guy just, they put words in his mouth.
I think when he's on his own, he's at great risk.
That is absolutely true.
I think this guy is more of an empty suit than people would like to actually note.
He's like a blow-up doll, you know, that people put in the passenger seat when they're trying to sneak into the HOV lane.
Well, I think he's more like a blow-up doll that has a pinhole in it who keeps sort of leaking out and folding over, and people blow him back up, and he folds over, and they blow him back up.
And at some point, he's going to rupture and just fold all together.
But right now, I think that the Democrat Party is trying to keep him blown up, but it's not going to last forever.
I mean, we're going to find out who he is.
That's a good analogy.
They got problems.
He got everybody was expecting this huge bump in the polls once Obama firmed up the nomination.
It didn't happen.
And he and McCain are running dead heats.
And now Democrats in the Obama campaign have announced the stupidest strategy for winning the presidency.
What?
You don't like me to keep using the word stupid?
It is stupid.
They're coming out with this 50-state strategy where they say they're going to be able to win without focusing on Ohio and Florida and Pennsylvania.
Well, that's all well and good.
It's true that Ohio and Florida have been pivotal states for the winner of the presidency in many past elections, particularly 2004 and in 2000.
But those are, I mean, Pennsylvania traditional blue state.
Ohio, it's in a circumstance now where the Republicans there are greatly disfavored because of a bunch of things.
And Florida is going to write it off, which this is exactly what I thought was happening during the primaries when Hillary was winning these states.
These states have a lot of bitter clingers in them.
And Obama has made them mad.
People cling into their guns and their religion when things aren't going well.
And it appears they're writing these states off, unless this is a Ropa Dope.
But I don't think it is.
And even if it is, the McCain camp, I'm certain, will be prepared for the Europa-dope policy.
But the fact of the matter is they have to look at how he did in the primaries.
And he barely showed up.
Even spending a lot of ads.
Jenny in Sarasota, you're next.
Jenny is one of my all-time top 10 favorite female names, by the way.
Oh, really?
Yeah.
Oh, great.
Listen, I'm been trying to get through for about a week.
I've been listening to your show.
I'm kind of a new Democrat listening to your show.
I do agree with you about Obama.
He scares me, and I just...
But what my problem is, is I need you to convince me to vote for McCain.
I've been listening to you, and you don't have a whole lot of good things to say about him.
And I'm having a problem.
You did really well with your Operation Chaos, with the Hillary thing and all that.
Yes, ma'am.
But I want to challenge you to come up with some kind of operation for McCain, to get positive and to, and I don't want to use this word unite.
It's becoming a cliche, but the Republicans need to come together somehow.
And you are a strong voice.
Jenny, can you hang on?
I have to go to a commercial break.
I'd like to interrogate you further on the things that you're saying because you've aroused my curiosity.
Can you hold on?
Sure.
Good.
We'll be back right after this and continue, my friends.
Hang tough.
Half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
Back to Jenny in Sarasota, Florida, who has a mere 11 minutes of her lunch break left.
I mean, you'll be through with this in plenty of time.
Sure.
You say you're a Democrat, but you're a new Democrat, meaning you're leaving them.
No, I've been a Democrat all my life.
I'm 51, and I have, for the last few months, wanting to either go to Independent or Republican.
What is it that finally forced you away from this bunch?
The selection of Obama for the Democratic primary, I do.
Well, you're for Hillary?
Yes, I was.
So you're a little bent out of shape that they kind of really stuck it to Hillary here.
And here she is this experience of giving every waking moment of her adult life to the causes that she's fought for, and she's qualified and experienced.
Here comes this young dweeb, and just because he looks good and sounds good, once again, they kick the woman to the kitchen and put this new guy in there, and you feel a little betrayed.
I don't know if I say betrayed, but I was comfortable with her.
You know, and just.
A lot of women are.
A lot of women are.
I've heard that.
Yeah.
And, you know, I felt it was kind of time.
But anyway, a lot of my values have changed too.
And so I'm more in line.
You knew that this program, my radio program, was out there, but you only relatively recently decided to start listening to it.
Yes.
And obviously, what you thought you were going to listen to or what you're going to hear was not, because what prevented you from listening prior to when you started?
What prevented me was I was a staunch Democrat a few years ago.
Yeah, but I mean, this is a good show, regardless.
Well, we have people from all three religions that listen here.
We've got them from every age demographic, every race, and every mixed race.
I mean, the audience here has no boundaries.
Right.
Well, I have been listening to another talk radio show on 9:30, and I really enjoyed him.
And I started listening to you during the primaries, and I really liked what you were saying.
And so that's kind of what has drawn me.
The only drawback was that you weren't pushing for the Republican at all.
And so I was really disappointed.
I'm not a House organ.
See, you were probably surprised.
You've been hearing that all I am is a lapdog for the Republicans, and I get marching orders, and then whatever.
Well, now you know that that's not true.
You know, I'm an ideologue first.
I'm a conservative first.
Well, I'm an American first, then a conservative, and a Republican next, second or third, however you want to line them up.
Right.
And, you know, I would be destroying my credibility if I came out with a full-fledged endorsement of Senator McCain.
I think for a lot of people like me, Jenny, and this is what I really wanted to talk to you about: this election is going to be an up or down on Obama, voting for or against him.
Is the way I look at this?
You know, you're telling me that you're confused.
You want to vote Republican, but now I, Mr. Republican, as far as you were concerned, am not on the same page you are, and that's got you a little puzzled.
We actually are on the same page.
You and I don't want Obama for different reasons.
I don't think the country can afford unchecked one-party Democrat, liberal Democrat rule for four years at this crucial time.
I don't think Obama is the actual, he's the candidate, but I don't think he's the power behind the throne.
Somebody's running this campaign.
But what he stands for, the people he's associated himself with, his lack of experience, his ability and desire to have no aspect of his life discussed, and I think his genuinely non-impressive IQ, horrible things.
McCain presents us Republicans with, presents us conservatives with different challenges in terms of the definition of our party.
I mean, we don't particularly like, don't take this personally.
We love having Democrats and Independents join our party, but not as Democrats and Independents.
We love them come across as conservatives.
You're coming across as a Democrat who doesn't like Obama.
Why do you like McCain?
What is that doing?
And it's not a trick question.
I've got one minute, so you can get back to lunch.
What do you like about McCain?
Well, I am not a far left.
I am center.
And like I said, my lifestyle.
You all think that.
You all think that, I know.
Yes.
But I like him because I think he's patriotic.
I like his views.
He's honest.
He says what he means.
And I heard you this morning say he was a flip-flopper.
And I didn't think that was very positive, even though it might be a little bit true.
Well, it wasn't perhaps the most politic description.
I should have better said McCain has seen the light.
Well, that's more positive.
Yes, it is.
McCain is evolved.
He's growing.
He changed his mind.
You know, somebody said to ask John Maiters-Keynes, why do you change your mind?
The famous economist.
Well, I change my mind when the facts change.
If I've been wrong about some facts, I learned that I'm wrong about some facts.
And this is apparently what has happened to McCain.
So, yes, you're right, Jenny.
I should have portrayed it in a more positive light.
It was just the Stockholm syndrome.
One of my old-time favorite Fleetwood Mac Tuins here, Holiday Road.
Was it from a National Lampoon movie or something?
I didn't see it.
We'll be back here, folks.
Won't be long.
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