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July 4, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 4, 2008, Friday, Hour #2
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Hiya, folks, welcome back.
It's Open Line Friday, the Rush Limbaugh program on the EIB Network.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
And a telephone number is 800-282-2882.
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We suspend most of our strict rules regarding callers on Friday.
So that pretty much anything you wish to speak about or ask about or complain about is fair game.
As I say, if uh if you think something of great importance has not yet been discussed on this program, this is the day for you to make sure it's discussed.
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Oil prices were higher Friday on worries that supply can't keep up with growing global demand after tumbling around $4 overnight from a record above 135 dollars a barrel.
Now the the headline to this story is oil prices rebound after tumbling from What do you perspective in this story is it's a good damn thing that oil prices came back up?
Oil prices rebound.
And of course, for some in the speculator market, it's probably good news.
It's just an example of the contradictory reporting that we get on this.
The drive-by media.
The AP is well aware that at some point the economy will revive.
So they have written a story today.
Janine Aversa of AP has written a story today, just hand wrinking, oh no.
Of course the economy will revive someday, but how will we know?
With any luck, the second half of this year will be better than the so far rocky first half.
The Federal Reserve Chief hopes that's the case.
So does President Bush, but for the rest of us mere mortals, it feels like the pain's getting worse.
When the economy begins to snap out of its funk, how will we know?
Come on, Janine.
You'll get your marching orders from your editor.
The economy will miraculously approve once Democrats win the elections in November.
In fact, it'll take less than a week after the elections, and you are going to be told you're going to be assigned stories by your editor.
Go out there and discover the overwhelmingly new positive and excited attitude among the American people.
And this will bring about the economic revival that everybody has been waiting for.
That's how we will know.
Mark my words.
From the AP, Hillary Rhodes, a woman writing a story here about Father's Day cards.
And in these basically what this story says is that you go out and you look at a Father's Day card, and the odds are that you're going to have trouble finding one that does not refer to your dad as some kind of a loutish boar.
Fathers sleep a lot, they snore more loudly.
And when they awake, they like to fish or golf, but they're comically mad at both or bad at both.
They drink so much beer, they're practically alcoholics.
They're complete couch potatoes, always watching TV and hogging the remote.
At least that's the lesson favorable image of dad on Father's Day greeting cards.
It's a striking contrast to the poetic praise often expressed at Mother's Day.
Many men say they're tired of the put-down cards and would like some affirmation for a change.
And at least one greeting card company is listening.
One father in Washington, who used to stay home with his kids and blog about his life as an at-home father, says the golf and fishing cards don't bother him, but he doesn't like the ones that make dads look incompetent.
This idea that men are somehow biologically incapable of caring for their children is a sort of thing I don't find particularly funny, said Brian Reed, the father of two.
Why is this guy shocked?
Why is anybody surprised about this?
I mean, the idea that men are predators, lousy louts, lazy lugs, Dirty and filthy.
This is this is a stereotype.
It's been out there for quite a while.
Uh and it's been uh fed by uh militant feminization.
Yes, Mr. Snerdley, program observer has a question.
What?
Well that's a good question.
Snerdley's question is do real men get upset over greeting cards.
It's a good question.
It really is.
Apparently this guy does.
Apparently he's walking around there ready to be offended with the fact that he's this or that.
You know, there's certain things that men not get offended about, they should get mad at.
The idea that they're predators, the idea that uh uh they have no stake in seeing their kids if there's a divorce.
But the greeting card thing I have to agree with you.
I mean, I don't what do you do with it?
You have to open it, you read it, you you tell the person that gave it to you you like it when you couldn't have cared less, you throw it away.
It just it just ends up as trash.
Anyway, these little notes on it, you gotta Oh, that's so funny.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Okay, Don just says not getting me any more cards.
Have a hub.
I got a couple cards in the mail today.
I don't even remember what they are.
Open them up, looked at them, psh, trash.
You got enough junk.
I went on this golf tournament.
When I had this golf tournament over the uh weekend, it was the Boys and Girls Foundation.
Great, great tournament.
And of course, went out there with a lot of a lot of luggage and a lot of people in the airplane with a lot of luggage, a lot of junk.
And on the last day, the Bellman knocks on the hotel room door.
Mr. Lumbaugh, we have a gift for you.
Oh, wonderful.
So I got to think it's something from room service.
It's a nice leather bag.
It's got a copy of Jim Nance's book in it.
A box of golf balls, a couple of shirts.
And I said to the Bellman, Do you want this?
Why, yes, Mr. Limbo, I would love to have this, but I can't be theme.
I'm just gonna leave it here.
And after I check out, you come in and get it.
I'll just you tell them I I've ever forgot to take it.
You don't want this, Mr. Limbo?
No, because I got I've got enough bags.
I get these bags at every tournament.
I got enough of them.
It's very nice bag, but I don't I I I I I don't want to get off the airplane and get home and have to lug a bunch of stuff home in the car, take it inside, it's yours.
So he proudly I took Jim Nance's book out of there, but uh but uh the other stuff in it it's it's it's part of what you get.
Uh a little prize for it's swag, yeah, donating to the uh chair.
It was fine stuff, don't misunderstand.
I just I it's just all I've got a I've already got a bag.
I've got more bags than I know what to do with.
I don't need another bag.
Well, you could bring it home and give it to one of your staff.
No, I don't want to bring it home.
That's the whole point.
Yes, Brian?
Well, it is tough.
I I I know not everybody has my problems.
And a lot of people don't think my problems are problems, but everything's relative, folks.
You know, just don't be so hasty to judge here.
Because you really I know you think this sounds like problems you'd like to have, but believe me, after a while, all these people giving you these things, guess what?
You end up obligated to them.
You know, I don't want to be obligated.
I pay for what I got, I want to be obligated to them.
It's not because I don't like them.
I just don't want to do things because I have to.
I want to do things because I want to.
Uh would you be surprised if I were to tell you that there is pressure mounting again now from the environmentalist left to lower the speed limit on interstate highways to 55 miles an hour.
Is this not amazing how history recycles and repeats itself?
We did 55 miles an hour back in the 70s during the contrived shortages then, under the guise of saving fuel and so forth, and highway safety, uh, of course.
Now we're gonna add to this the specter of global warming.
This is from a blog called Wired.com, the headline with gas prices rising and the planet warming.
It's not warming, and it hasn't warmed in eight years.
Is it time to drive 55 again?
This is by Doug Newcomb.
Congress adopted a nationwide 55 mile per hour speed limit law during the oil embargo of the 1970s and threatened to withhold highway funding for any state that didn't comply.
It repealed that law 13 years ago when oil was cheap and gasoline plentiful.
But with prices going through the roof and everybody worried about global warming.
Hey Doug, not everybody's worried about global warming.
Not everybody is as big a sponge as you are.
There are increasing calls for Congress to bring back the double nickel speed limit.
Advocacy groups like Drive55.org say rolling the limit back to 55 will save fuel.
It'll reduce pollution and save lives.
Seems logical, but not everybody's convinced slower speeds bring any real benefit, and the debate is heating up.
Justin McNall, a director of state relations for Triple A says sheer physics tell you that lower speeds equal better fuel economy, fewer injuries, and lower emissions.
But what what happens when you change the speed limit is a little less clear.
Drive 55.org says the average speed people travel on the highway has been rising for 20 years.
McNoll notes that advances in vehicle design, such as better windows and soundproofing have changed people's senses of how fast they're going, which is one reason people regularly exceed the posted speed limit.
Doing 60 in a 2008 vehicle feels a lot different than the vehicles our grandparents drove.
They're designed for 70 miles and they're designed for 80 miles an hour.
I'm a good driver.
I go 80.
Speed limit 70, they give you 10%.
I mean, I go with the flow.
When I'm out there, you go with the flow or you're in dead drift.
If you were going to slow poke it, everybody else around you doing 80 miles an hour, you're gonna cause all kinds of potential problems.
You go with the flow.
And uh 55 means a bunch more tickets.
It means a lot more impatience.
It means a lot more kids going.
Are we there yet?
Are we there yet?
For a lot longer, because trips are gonna take a lot longer.
I have a, you know, a car, 12 cylinder, bi turbo, 612 horsepower.
The other day I was out, I went out, drove up to uh almost well, I drove up to Palm City to play golf, which is up in St. Lucy County by about two feet.
Well, the golf course was.
And coming back, I was just going with the flow.
And I looked at the speed that was 94 miles an hour.
And I honestly, this guy's got a point.
I felt like I was doing no more than 60.
If that.
And when I got off the bridge to get home, you know, where the speed limits 30, I felt like I was doing two.
Felt like it was on a lawnmower.
Anyway, it's a silly idea.
This is not the way.
You know, this let me let me sum this up, folks.
Conservation is all well and good.
And nobody's nobody that has a brain is against conserving anything.
But as a means of growth, it is not.
Driving 55 will not produce more oil.
Driving 55 will not reduce oil imports.
Driving 55 will have not one schmidgeon's worth of difference on the climate.
Driving 55 might save you a little money, but driving 55 is going to frustrate you so much that you're going to end up spending in speeding tickets what you save in expenses of gasoline.
Little Fleetwood Mac here holiday road from these one of these National Lampoon movies.
The song is really good if you don't associate it with one of those movies.
800 282-2882 on Open Line Friday Investors Business Daily on yesterday, great editorial on this whole sham of putting the polar bear on the endangered species list.
It's about Alaska saying it's going to sue to challenge the listing of polar bears as a threatened species.
The designation could block vital oil and gas development, but that was the whole point in the first place.
It goes on to cite all the stats of how many more polar bears there are today than there were in 1974.
Uh Ted Stevens is quoted Senator from uh Alaska reinterpreting the Endangered Species Act in this way is an unequivocal victory for extreme environmentalists who want to block all development in our state.
Yes, Senator, and everywhere else, For that matter.
If all these guys, if all these Republicans know this, like Ted Stevens, where's the where is it on our agenda?
You know, every time I read a report from a Republican reacting to some of this, they always say the right things, but where the hell is it in our plant?
Oh, sorry.
I'm sorry.
I'm really sorry.
I forgot our presidential nominee is on the other side of the issue.
That's why I'm sorry.
The conclusion in the investors business daily is really is great.
Just as the caribou thrived at Prudhoe.
Alaska Pipeline.
The polar bear will adapt and thrive as well.
The polar bears are not threatened.
It is the polar bears who are threatening us with $200 a barrel oil.
Do you realize the automotive-owning American public is a threatened species?
If all this keeps up, this is Marie in Long Beach, New York.
Hi, Marie, nice to have you uh on the program.
I'm glad you waited.
Hi, Russ.
Great to be on your show.
I'm a big fan.
Um this is not really like worldly important, but I just wanted to get your opinion on the craziness of the nut allergy people.
Like restricting everybody else's behavior because their kid or they have a nut allergy.
Well, you know, I uh at one time in my past, I have uh I reacted uh with some uh skepticism uh to these peanut allergy people.
Uh and then I I've I've I've read a lot more about it and I've seen some more evidence of it.
It is real.
I mean, that people that have allergies to peanuts, kids do, it it can be deadly if if uh if something's not done about it in time and it doesn't take much.
Now, the problem is when you're talking about kids and scrubs, if you let if you got if you got one kid that has an allergy, and you let everybody bring whatever they want for lunch, and that kid happens, or if you know, you know, kids don't like each other a lot of times, can be very mean.
You could have some bully know full well that this kid has got an allergy to peanuts and give him a sandwich and assure him it has nothing with peanuts or nuts in it, and the kid goes into a toxic shock.
Uh and people are trying to uh to avoid that.
Hell, I just read a story, Marie, and I think it's from Florida.
A thirty-nine-year-old woman who has an allergies to all kinds of foods was purposely poisoned by her daughter.
Her daughter put seasoning salt on her mom's food, and the mom ate it and went into one of these reactions where she needed epinephrine.
And she has one of these self-inject epinephrine things, if that ever happens.
But this reaction was so fast she couldn't get to it.
So the daughter who originally, quote unquote, poisoned her mother, daughter's 16 or 19, I forget which, had to inject the epinephrine herself.
And then a mother is fine now.
Now, you know, I I remember.
Remember reminded me of a story.
My when when my younger brother and I were growing up, my dad would frequently ask us to refill his water glass when he was sitting there reading or watching TV.
And we were sitting there watching TV too.
You know, he kept like the smart alley kids.
Well, go, Dad!
You know, do we have to do we have to get every time you do it?
So I I went in, he drank his water out of a big glass.
I poured a bunch of salt in it.
And I stirred up, and I said, here you go.
Uh that this this story with the mother and the daughter made me uh thinking that my dad just got mad.
Uh he didn't have any reaction to it.
And he made me pop him some popcorn after that.
Uh Jerry and uh what is this, Oldwood City, Pennsylvania?
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hello.
Thank you.
Pleasure, Rush.
Thanks for the call.
Thank you very much.
Uh couple questions for you.
Why don't the oil companies publish a breakdown of how much a gallon of oil is to buy, produce, you know, refine, and transport and everything else.
I I think they do.
I'm not sure the oil companies do, but a number of uh oil company lobbying groups, oil interest groups do.
They're all over the internet.
Uh and over the course of the I haven't done it recently, but I've gone through what comes out of a barrel of oil uh and who gets what for it.
Uh how much diesel comes out of a barrel, how much gasoline, depending on the year, how much home heating oil, how much jet fuel.
Uh, and there's two kinds of jet fuel.
Uh, well, there's more than there's more than two, but the two primary jet A and JP four.
And JP4 is for military, it's a combination of jet A, which is kerosene, and uh, and gasoline.
Uh those engines need to run very hot.
Commercial airplane could not run on JP Force.
Every barrel of oil gets refined in a whole lot of different ways.
And then there are charts and graphs on how much profit per gallon of gasoline per gallon of jet fuel that the oil companies get versus the people who sell it, all combined with the amount of taxation.
It's out there on a number of, in fact, I I will instruct Coco, the website master, to uh get one of those sites.
They're easy to find, and we'll link to one at Rushlandball.com this afternoon.
What do you mean, gonna we are?
We have more fun than a human being should be allowed to have, Rushlin Boy and the EIB network last night in Miami.
WPLG TV, here is a portion of correspondent Terrell Forney's report on Obama's fundraising visit to Florida.
And just at A1A in Hollywood, stop too.
This time the Western Diplomat Hotel, where protesters launched their disgust over Florida's delegate debacle, some even pointing the finger at Obama who lost Florida's primary fight.
I don't know what he's trying to prove, and he has the audacity to come into our state and take money from the residents, and we don't exist as far as he's concerned.
These are Democrats in Florida, South Florida, these are Democrats.
And that was a woman, and they're mandated Obama even showed up.
Come down here, fleece the people with uh campaign donations.
By the way, I've been thinking about, you know, something something does not jive here.
Every month we hear that Obama raising 31 million, 41 million or what have you.
And this has been the case for how many months now?
And it's happening regardless of economic circumstances.
The one economic enterprise that's not showing any decline is Obama Inc.
Now, folks, I'm telling you, something here is not right.
People are altering the food they buy now.
Before they're altering their driving habits.
I just saw a report here that March, the first time in many, many moons, actually, they've got a way to calculate this, I guess, that there was a f over four percent drop in the amount people drove in this country in March.
That hasn't happened in a long time.
That's obviously because of fuel prices.
Despite all of this, morons keep sending money to Obama.
Now of course I cannot prove my suspicion.
But when I know that there is this gazillionaire billionaire named George Soros out there, who might have the ability we know these bundlers, I mean, this stuff has been happening for a long time.
We remember all the Chinese dishwashers in Chinatown.
Nobody can even I mean, they barely had enough to live in a shanty, and yet they're sending Mrs. Clinton a thousand dollars.
Remember that?
Well, how does this happen?
Well, the walking around money, the people that they work for end up giving them the money to give as a donation and so forth.
If Soros is out there feet feeding or seeding individuals to contribute to Obama, I wouldn't be surprised.
One could never establish it, but we know that this kind of practice goes on.
But it's all part of the illusion.
Well, Obama's losing with dramatic proportions.
In five of the last seven states, his finances keep increasing.
Now, these people in South Florida, they are not dummies.
Well, certain things.
Still haven't figured out ballots.
But Obama comes down here, wants to raise money, and they protest him.
Count our votes now.
Well, Obama, in case you missed the opening of the program, uh this is from what is this, uh, Palm Beach Post.
From their blog section, more than 800 donors packed into a Weston diplomat hotel ballroom Thursday night to pad Barack Obama's war chest by another 500,000 dollars.
In a speech to the crowd, Obama sharpened his rhetoric against some of the most vocal voices against immigrant workers and migrant worker programs.
We haven't found any audio of this.
Cookie is feverishly looking for it, but hasn't found it.
A certain segment, this Obama, certain segment, has basically been feeding a kind of xenophobia.
There's a reason why hate crimes against Hispanic people doubled last year, said Obama.
If you have people like Lou Dobbs and Rush Limbaugh ginning things up, it's not surprising that would happen.
I can understand Obama's upset at me with Operation Chaos.
But to call me responsible for hate crimes and xenophobia, he has really changed his tune.
Can we go back to May 2nd of 2007?
It's a little over a year ago.
He was on our WJR affiliate in Detroit with Paul W. Smith.
And uh at the time the Barack the Magic Negro song was in full sway, and it was generating all kinds of controversy among morons who did not know who was behind it, who was responsible for it, who came up with the whole phrase.
And there were people at various radio stations broadcasting this show, going to General Manager.
I I'm gonna quit if you don't get Limbaugh to stop playing the song.
Well, yes, I heard from two or three General Managers about edit.
Set them straight.
But Paul W. Smith asked Obama about this.
He said, I have to do this because he's on our radio station.
We'll see him tomorrow.
You've heard Rush Limbaugh's Purdy song for Rock the Blagic Negro.
I you know, I I have not heard it, but I've heard of it.
I I confess that I I don't listen to Rush on a daily basis.
Uh on the other hand, I'm not one of these people who uh who takes myself so seriously that uh I get offended by uh every every comment made about me.
I you know, the uh you know what Rush does is is uh uh entertainment.
And uh although it's it's probably not something that uh you know I listen to much.
Uh I don't know.
But you said not every day, so you do listen a little then.
Uh you know, why wouldn't you?
I don't mind I don't mind folks uh poking fun at me.
Uh that's part of the job.
My, my, my, how things have changed over the course of a year.
Why, a little over a year ago he was able to laugh at it, no big deal, rush a good guy, just entertainer.
Now I am sponsoring hate crimes and xenophobia.
Don't talk about his wife, don't talk about his ears, don't talk about his mother, his father, his grandmother.
Don't talk about his uh voting record, don't talk about his attendance anywhere.
Don't call him liberal, don't call don't talk about his preacher, don't talk about the mobsters he ran around with, don't talk about the uh terrorists he runs around with.
Uh don't talk about anything.
Xenophobe and racism.
By the way, last night on CNN, Lou Dobbs tonight.
Uh, Dobbs interviewed the Senate minority leader in Florida, Stephen Geller.
Dobbs says, What do you expect to happen as a result here?
Uh Florida's vote doesn't count.
What are you going to do?
I'm hoping that they're going to read the lawsuit and say, oh my God, I can't believe they're going to win this.
So we'd better, on May 31st, moot the lawsuit and seat their faux delegation.
If not, if they don't do it voluntarily, I expect a federal judge will tell them to see their faux delegation.
There have been three polls done, one of which I commissioned, that in Florida all showed that between 25% and 30% of likely Democratic voters would either stay home or vote Republican if they don't seed our delegation.
The DNC wants a chance to carry Florida and carry our contested congressional seats.
They must seed our delegation.
Operation Chaos.
This is exactly what I suggested, and Mrs. Clinton and her campaign are carrying it out.
And now Florida Democrats have gotten in gear by also going a route I suggested litigation.
Democrats, Al Gore started this whole thing.
He set the precedent for suing over election results.
The Democrats have continued in his image.
I mean, he's he went about a different way than they are, but still they are using the courts.
Lou Dobbs, excuse me, then said Senator Clinton has said, in effect, in a veiled straightforwardly to me, a threat, saying that Democrat voters in both states will be entertaining going to McCain and the Republicans if the Democrat Party does not reinstate and recognize their votes.
Today we have seen a remarkable unexpected escalation in this battle for the presidential nomination between these two candidates, have we not?
Well, all I'm saying is countervotes.
I happen to agree with Senator Clinton to counter votes, but I'm not supporting Senator Clinton or Senator Obama.
I want our votes counted, but I'll tell you if they don't count our votes, they won't get our votes in November.
That's an accurate statement.
How can this be?
I thought Obama was the unity candidate.
Here you have renegade Democrats, the Senate leader in Florida saying that Senate the Florida Democrats will not vote.
30%, 20% Florida Democrats will not vote in the general election if their delegation is not seated at the convention.
And here's Bill Nelson.
He was on MSNBC live this morning.
The co-host Mika Bzhinski said to him, there are now lawsuits being filed.
How does this go down in a fair and balanced way, sir?
The way it goes down, this shouldn't be about a candidate.
This ought to be about the voters of Florida.
And we are very sensitive in Florida, and we're tired of having our votes taken away.
The memories are fresh of 2000.
And then it was the Republicans that were taking away the Democratic votes, and lo and behold, the tables are turned.
Now it's the Democratic National Committee that has been taking away the Democratic votes.
People are astounded.
One point seven five million Florida Democrats turned out, twice as many as ever had turned out in a presidential primary, and they want to make those votes not count.
Folks, can you believe this?
I mean, they are practically using my script from last week, or May the 7th is when I suggested this.
Greatest violation of voting rights acts is 1965 disenfranchisement.
Democrat Party.
This is fun.
I just have to tell you.
Welcome back, my friends.
I am Rush Limbaugh, saying more in five seconds than most hosts say in a week.
We go back to the phones.
Quentin in uh in Dayton, Ohio.
Nice to have you, sir, on the open line Friday edition of the big show.
Hey, sedtos from a disabled veteran, Rush.
Thank you, sir, very much.
Well, you're slacking a little bit on your feminazi stuff.
Right now, Senator Biden is proposing a new amendment to the Violence Against Women Act.
He's proposing a hundred thousand free lawyers across the nation to any woman who claims that she was abused to be able to gain custody.
So women will now have free lawyers to be able to fight custody battles.
Wait a second.
Have you heard anything about this, Snertley?
I've not really haven't heard anything about this, Quentin.
Uh proposing a hundred thousand free lawyers across the country to any woman who claims she was abused.
Yes.
To be able to gain custody cards for gaining custody.
So women will now have free lawyers to be able to fight custody battles if Joe Biden gets his way.
Bingo.
And he's even planning to export it using the International Violence Against Women Act that he's proposed.
Where did you see that?
I'm I you know, normally, now I granted I didn't have a lot of time for show prep last night because I was out of commission.
But I've I don't know anybody who's heard about this.
Oh, this has been going he's been pushing for this for a couple of months now.
If you look on his homepage, he even brags about it.
All right, tell you what, I will look this up.
I the this this sounds um I'm not that I disbelieve you, but I want to get what he's actually said about this and and uh what his reasoning is and what his hooks and links are to this.
Uh because I you know, I I'm it uh unlike many, I I'm not gonna uh fulminate here on things I really don't know anything about.
Oh, no problem.
Uh I know Senator Brown is one of the co-sponsors of it.
Senator Brown, which Senator Brown?
Senator Brown From here in Ohio.
Oh, Sherrod Brown, okay.
Yeah, Sherrod Brown, he's one of the co-sponsors, and the way they plan to do it is these lawyers are going to volunteer to get, I believe it's 20% of their uh student loans for given in return for volunteering, and he wants to create a hundred thousand strong.
As a matter of fact, I even sent you an email about it at one point.
I'm sorry I missed that.
Uh what a scam.
So the hundred thousand lawyers are paid off with a twenty percent reduction in a student loan and outstanding balance.
Look at the r none of this surprises me.
Uh I this is this is something Democrats, people like Joe Biden are entirely uh capable of.
Uh, where do we go next on the uh call roster?
Let's um we're gonna oh Lawrence, New Jersey.
Joe Hi.
Thank you for calling.
You're next on the program.
Hey, well, that's great day for you.
Thank you, sir.
I have a question for you and all of your experience with the Democratic Party uh fractured the way it is, and the Republican Party having a fake Republican semi-Republican on the ticket, and all three of them willing to wreck the U.S. economy for the man-made myth of global warming.
Who do you see?
I mean, it seems to me like it's programmed for a third party candidate.
And whether you agree with that or not, I'm sure you'll tell me, but who would you see as a good, strong third party candidate who might actually do something?
Say someone like Steve Forbes.
Well, if you're gonna be realistic about this, you've got to pick somebody who wants to run, and Steve Forbes has expressed no interest in running uh as as on a third party.
I I'm really not a uh at this stage of the game.
I'm I'm not a big believer in third parties because I don't think they have a chance.
We have a third party, it's called a libertarian party.
Uh I just I just don't think that they they have a chance at at winning.
I know you gotta start so pardon me, you gotta start somewhere.
Uh but this third parties have never ever appealed to me in this, at least in my lifetime.
I know the nation has a history of them, but there's a reason, you know, markets work.
There's a reason why they're two parties.
Now, speaking of this, though, however, there they're they're the most amazing piece at National Review Online today by Jonah Goldberg.
Now, Jonah is a brilliant guy, and he's just he wrote a book recently that sold very well called Liberal Fascism.
And in this book, he basically associates and points out how liberalism and fascism and communism are all interlinked with great examples.
It was a fascinating book, and yet today he has a piece at National Review Online suggesting that McCain choose a Democrat as his vice presidential nominee.
He writes a great book about liberalism and fascism, and then and then talks about a national unity ticket in which John McCain would pick a Democrat.
So the bottom line is here we this Goldberg is he's a very conservative guy.
The Republican nominee promotes the Democrat Party.
The 71-year-old McCain should pick a Democrat.
We have David Frum, we have Bill Crystal, we have David Brooks, and all of the learned conservative intelligentsia, all looking for ways to water down conservatism now.
He just wrote this book slamming the left.
But now we should unite with them.
We should unite with the left.
McCain, if elected, will be facing a heavily liberal Congress.
Uh regardless what happens, that we need a Democrat on our ticket.
You know, I've got an idea.
Why don't we just why don't we quit tiptoeing through the tulips?
Why don't we just shut down the Republican Party and all become Democrats if that's the way to go?
If McCain picking a Democrat, if unifying with Democrats, if walking across the aisle to do deals with Democrats, if that's the way to go, then hell with Republican Partyism.
Let's just all become Democrats.
Why even put up a fight?
Why but just become Democrats and end it?
Because we have to end the Partisan rancor.
We have to end the partisan rancor and show that we have a big tent.
Well, we have rancor in a democracy.
Rancor's a good thing in a democracy.
Maybe maybe McCain should pick a female Hispanic lesbian Democrat running mate.
That would unite us.
That's the way to go.
All right, I found the uh Biden stuff.
It's all from last year, December.
It's all about the presidential primary.
Went down in flames in it again.
If you care, I'll give you the details when we come back.
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