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May 4, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 4, 2009, Monday, Hour #2
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I'm going to start here at the top of these uh sound bites with Jeb Bush again here.
Uh Jeb is the focus because of the newspaper headlines, but it's not, it's not just Jeb.
There's a whole movement in the Republican Party that does want you to forget Ronald Reagan.
They just they and and Snerdley asked me during the uh during the break, what was your question to me?
How can you how can they be so blind to ignore what the uh Republican Party's successes were with Reagan?
They're not blind.
They are threatened.
The simplest way to understand the recalcitrant Republicans and conservatives who seem obsessed with forgetting the past and letting go of this so-called nostalgia.
These are people that that are threatened with that.
They're threatened that somebody might surface, or maybe has, that can advance and articulate vote issues that would lead to landslide victory.
And folks, there are there are two issues that are present responsible for this divide in the Republican Party.
Abortion, and it has been for a long time.
I'll never forget.
Started this program in 1988.
Shortly after that, uh Republicans for pro-choice, Roger Stone's wife at the time was leading that movement, and then they tried to make big noise at the Republican convention in Houston in 1992.
Uh I I have faced it personally, a bunch of liberal moderate Republicans asking me, what are you gonna do about Christians?
They listen to you.
And of course, immigration.
Those two issues are dividing the Republican Party.
Now here you have the most liberal, far-out radical liberal president and Democrat Party ever.
At least in any of our lifetimes.
And as I said last week, the opportunity to contrast the Republican Party in conservatism with what Obama is doing is great.
It's easy, it's profound.
58 million people voted against Barack Obama.
Can you imagine we would have won this race if we would have had a candidate who could mobilize a couple or three million more?
It was just that I mean it's 58 million people vote against Obama.
That number would have been enough to defeat any, every successful presidential candidate in history except Bush in 04.
And that 58 million people with what was with us.
The Republicans running the worst, the weakest, least conservative guy we could have nominated.
Imagine if we had a Reagan type.
Imagine if we had had a passionate articulate conservative running in 06.
It'd be a whole different ball game.
And so what's happening?
While we've got the most leftist radical regime running this country in our lifetimes, the Republican Party is out there essentially giving headlines that we need to forget our past.
We need to forget the era of our greatest success.
Don't even look at it as forgetting Reagan.
Here if Reagan's over.
Those were two landslide victories that produced an economic boom lasting for 25 years.
The Republicans are out panning across the country, sending the message we need to forget that rather than contrasting themselves, which would be so easy and such a winning proposition, especially when you look at vote totals at the House and Senate anyway.
The Republicans can't stop anything.
I mean, they can't get more powerless than they are.
And their their apparent desire, their drive to regain power here is to become more like Democrats and Liberals.
And I tell you what that's about.
That's about abortion and immigration.
If they could, if these Republicans that we're talking about, could wave a Magic wand and remove from the party two groups of people, they would do it in a heartbeat.
And that is those of you who are pro-life, and those are you who are anti-illegal immigration.
If they could get rid of you, they'd be happy.
You're the reason or not happy.
You're the reason they want to forget the past.
You're the reason they want to go back and not learn from the blueprint that showed us how to win two landslide elections.
Or forget presidency.
What happened in 1994 with the Republican quote unquote takeover of Congress, the House of Representatives.
I mean, that that didn't happen by moving to the middle.
And I'll tell you something else.
This is, I want to go through a little bit of a timeline here.
For the last six years, the Democrat Party said no to everything.
The Republican Party today is being labeled as a no, the party of no.
For the last seven years, last seven years of Bush's eight years, the Democrats said no to everything, and that was called a great strategy to regain power.
And frankly, it was.
They contrasted themselves.
They didn't look at what won in 2000 and 2004.
So we need to be more like Bush, did they?
Did they do that?
No.
They said we've got to draw a contrast.
We've got to move even farther left.
Which they did.
And then they got this slick salesman Obama who can read the teleprompter really well to sort of marginalize what they're the radicalism of what they're talking about.
Then Obama doesn't look like a radical, it doesn't sound like one unless you know how to listen.
So the Democrats said no to everything.
Great strategy to regain power.
When Republicans say no to everything, they're just the party of no.
When Republicans threatened majority rule, 51 votes, that was called.
Remember that?
The nuclear option.
The Democrats said we can't, we're we're being run by we can with the House's majority Republican, the Senate's majority Republican, the White House Republican.
What they started chanting about the power of the minority.
Now, of course, with the Democrats running everything, what are we getting from the Democrats?
Democrats say, you know, you Republicans need to become more like us.
They know full well what they're doing.
They they want to encourage the McCain's of the world to go out and continue to not draw a contrast, but to muddy the water of what a Republican or conservative is.
When the Democrats said no to the president, that was their patriotic duty because of an unjust war with unjust lives lost.
When Republicans say no to the president, well, it's either racist or sexist, uh what have you, or it's it's something, it's unpatriotic.
The Democrat Party, the American left in the drive-by media, is doing everything it can to urge Republicans they influence to move to the center to win.
And the Republicans have fallen for it, hook, line, and sinker.
When you hear, well, we can't leave that era behind.
We've got to listen, learn and lead.
We've got to figure out what the American people want and give to them.
We've got to move forward.
Uh you're hearing them say we must moderate.
We must become more like Democrats.
We must move to the so we've got to get rid of our conservative identity.
And I'm telling you, when they say that, they mean two things abortion and illegal immigration opposition.
They've got to get rid of those two issues.
They want to do the Republicans do want to distance themselves from those two issues.
But these people that say leave the era of Reagan alone, leave it behind.
This is said by people who don't believe in conservatism.
They believe in something else, but they can't really explain it.
But I'm just telling you, when they look at the past and see landslide presidential victories and don't want to do what it takes to do it again, that's not a refutation of Reagan.
That's not saying screw Reagan.
That is, we don't want those issues.
We don't want to win with those issues.
Yeah, we don't want a candidate that's gonna win with those issues, so they're dumping on Sarah Palin.
Well, screw the what the demographics have changed.
What democ the demo the dem wait a minute, wait a second, just a second.
You're talking immigration.
What that but abortion is moving more and more in the pro-life favor in every public poll that's taken.
It is clear that if you are run, and that's we've but Mr. Limbaugh, you must get rid of the thosyl ith youth.
If the thothal ithoth is killing your part, when you hear somebody say that, they're saying, Stop talking about abortion, stop talking about it.
That's why conservatives, Republicans, I'm a fiscal conservative.
I'm not a social conservative.
That means they're pro-choice.
And they don't want to be lumped with you deliverance types, which is what they think of when they think of pro-lifers.
They want Oprah's audience, not Rick Warren's.
The Republican Party today would be happy if they get Rick Warren's audience or Oprah's audience, not Rick Warren's.
They'll make a play for Rick Warren's audience, but on immigration, the demographics are changing.
Okay, we're back to um uh the philosophy of listen, learn lead.
Okay, listen, learn lead.
I guess depending on who you listen to, who you learn from.
Yeah, we just gotta get rid of the illegal immigration.
Come on, just give him Amnesty and move on.
We can't be seen as racist businesses, our businesses need low cost labor.
Uh Chamber of Commerce, we're big business type Republicans.
We need low-cost labor.
Again, it's a social issue.
You're worried about the law, illegal immigration.
That's not realistic.
Uh, pro life is not realistic.
Women are going to have abortions.
That's not realistic.
We're killing ourselves.
This is what they think.
So, I don't care about the demographics.
They say the demographics are changing.
What do you mean by that?
You mean it's getting younger?
What do you mean demographic?
Mm-hmm.
There's more Hispanic.
Yeah, I've been hearing this too.
I've been hearing we can't win without a black vote.
I've been hearing that all my life.
We can't win without a black vote, can't win without the women's vote.
And we won without majorities of both for a while.
Now there's a new we can't win without the Hispanic vote.
Well, I guarantee you, getting the Hispanic vote, the Democrats already have it.
If you're going to promise big government and ever increasing welfare state, we can't outdo them.
I don't know.
If you have the money to buy a Rolex, why would you go walking along Fifth Avenue and buy a $60 knockoff?
If you can vote for a real liberal Democrat, why vote for a Republican who says he wants to be.
So, in the sense of American politics today, given what I'm hearing, the Democrat Party's the real 12,000 dollar Rolex, and we're a bunch of $60 knockoffs.
Or trying to be, and trying to fool people that our knockoff is the same thing as a $12,000 real watch.
But now everybody say got to move to the center to win.
But that's not what the Democrats did to win, did they?
They moved so far to the left you can barely see them.
The Democrats moved to the radical left to win.
They didn't move to the center.
When they say we must move to the center, they're telling us give up your identity.
They're threatened by conservatism too.
The liberals are just as threatened of it, whether they're Republicans or Democrats.
This is not new, and I'm not even complaining.
I mean, the left-wing labeling goes all the way back to Ronald Reagan.
During the election of Reagan, he was labeled a B actor.
When he won the hearts and minds of the country, he was labeled a great actor by some, but still a B actor to the uh to the left.
And to this day, Reagan is impugned, maligned, there's a revisionist history about the Reagan administration, the Reagan years, the Reagan economy.
But it gets down to this.
Why should we change everything we believe over a Republican candidate that many people voted against?
The Bush administration was unpopular.
McCain was not the answer, and yet we need more of that.
In order to win, it doesn't make sense.
Electorally, it doesn't make sense.
So if it doesn't make sense, you've got to look at well, what's their real motivation for this then?
I'm telling you.
Immigration, abortion, Sarah Palin, they're threatened by uh all of this.
Let me take a brief time out here.
I am gonna get to your phone calls quick okay.
I just got a couple three more sound bites from the Republican Tour of America.
After this, don't go away.
Okay, couple more sound bites from the uh whatever this no, I guess we're we have no more sound bites.
This from from the uh Republican tour.
This is last night on CNN State of the Union.
They uh talked to um uh Eric Cantor and Mitt Romney, John King, the host.
Congressman Cantor, as you launch this effort, the Republican listening tour, anyone who picks up Time magazine this week and sees the 100 most influential people will see two Republicans in that magazine.
They will see Sarah Palin and Rush Limbaugh.
Is that helpful, hurtful, or indifferent?
They are uh two individuals that um have a lot of ideas.
And our party should be about ideas.
I know that there are some who like to make it all about personalities, but it's about ideas.
It's about how we take this country forward.
Now, this is a classic example of why I don't go on these shows.
The premise of the question, the whole premise of these guys and periods, and I understand that they made news by going out and starting a listening tour and saying the Republican Party's got to do X, the Republican Party has to change, so they're opening the door for this kind of stuff.
But I can't I can't recall watching a television show ever like this, where after a list of influential people came out, some Democrat was asked, is it hurtful or harmful or whatever that Michael Moore is on the list.
Is it hurtful or harmful that Tim Geitner who cheated on his taxes is now the Treasury Secretary?
You just don't hear Democrats asked these questions.
And these questions are loaded from the beginning, and they are they establish a premise, which is to put Republicans on the defensive.
And the premise of the question is that there's a defect and a flaw with Republicanism anyway.
Now, Mitt Romney was also asked the same question.
As you launch this Speak to America tour, anybody who picks up Time magazine this week, and let's face it, fewer and fewer and fewer people are picking up Time magazine.
More and more Time magazine, Newsweek, U.S. news, they're written for other journalists.
Their audience is other journalists' drive-bys inside the beltway.
Okay, so Times 100 list is out, as though it's infallible.
On the Times 100 most influential people listened in the world.
We wouldn't question anybody on this list, and they've only got two Republicans.
They only have two Republicans.
There are only two Republicans of worldwide influence.
Sarah Palin and Rush Limbaugh.
What do you think of that?
Is it hurtful?
Is it helpful?
Uh what is it?
And uh is the or is indifferent.
And here's what uh Romney said.
I think there are a lot more influential Republicans than that would suggest.
Uh but was that the issue on the most beautiful people or the most influential people?
I'm not sure.
If it's the most beautiful, I understand.
We're not real cute.
And that's a dig at Sarah Palin.
I'm sorry.
It's uh it's uh it's a dig at Sarah Most Influential or Most Beautiful.
I don't care if they dig me, folks.
I'm not I'm not running for office.
I'm not I'm not really competing with these people.
They're trying to get votes.
I've never tried to get a vote in um in my life.
Let's go to the phones.
The people have been patiently waiting.
We'll start Fairfax, Virginia.
Chris, who was at this Republican uh uh uh whatever tour it was.
How are you, sir?
I'm doing pretty good today, Rush.
Um I was at this event on Saturday, and and uh there were a few cringeworthy moments in it, but on balance, I actually came away with uh a different feeling than what most of the media is spinning it as.
Um what I heard from Bush and and Cantor and Romney was more that the conservative principles at the Republican Party uh ha has was founded on, are still relevant and still popular today, and and they're really the big issue may be more who are we gonna find as the new leader uh within the now.
This is important.
This is important because I took the weekend off, I did not watch any of this stuff.
I only have my audio sound bites, and what I've read about it.
What I've read is the opposite of what you're saying.
So this is very key.
You were there.
What I've read is that they they they uh did not espouse conservatism that that they they said that it's uh we we need somebody else.
We do it it's it's we uh that's uh different ideas and so forth.
Just the exact opposite of what you said.
It is is the reporting on this that off base?
I I I was shocked.
I was shocked yesterday when I was looking at a lot of the reporting on it.
Um the the format of it was not such, and it was more a roll out of the uh the opening of what they're gonna be doing, that it wasn't real issues-oriented, they didn't get real in-depth into the issues, but time and time again from from Bush and Romney, there seemed to be a return to the idea that conservatism is more popular today.
And um uh Jeb Bush that has a clip in there uh where quite articulately he expressed uh it's just a matter of finding who our new leader is going to be to convey that message and get that message out in today's environment.
Well, if he said that, if he said I agree with that.
All right, and we had fifty-eight million people vote against Obama.
If we'd have had that guy that you say Jeb Bush was talking about, we could have beaten Obama.
That's what's so frustrating about all that.
Conservatism is what would have won.
We tried the non-conservative approach.
We tried to, well, we'll pr we'll tell our conservative base we're conservatives, but we're only gonna make an appeal to a moderate middle of the roaders' independence.
Well, we got shellacked.
And there were some cringe worthy moments.
I was there was one reporter there uh from Bloomberg that prefaced the question saying in 2006 the Democrats took control of Congress by running pro-gun and pro-life candidates.
Are are you all gonna start running anti-gun pro-choice?
What'd they say?
I got 10 seconds.
That's where I cringe.
The the real answer should have been uh Democrats won by being conservative, so why are we going to start acting like liberals instead they kind of fell back to the city?
That's a great question.
A surprise a drive-by asked that one.
Look, folks, it's it's it's uh this simple.
We do not need a listening tour.
We need a teaching tour.
That is what the Republican Party or slash the uh conservative movement needs to focus on.
Listening tour ain't it.
Teaching tour is more apt.
Nashville, Tennessee.
Dave, I'm glad you waited.
You're next on the EIB network, sir.
Hello.
You know, I I'm really just done with the Bush family at this point.
You know, I served under Bush One in the Desert Storm, and we were bushwhacked then in the sense that uh he essentially gave the White House to uh to Clinton, and then now we're we got Bushwhacked again with Bush too,
and in the sense that he gave the the White House to Obama, basically because of his now I support uh again, I supported both Bushes on the war and their efforts to protect this country, but they just fell short on the social policy and turn into these almost liberal type of individuals, and I'm fed up listening to these individuals that sit there and constantly are telling us, you know, that we need to change.
We need to be able to do that.
I got I got a note.
See if you agree with this.
I got a note from a friend today who had read the Jeb Bush headline.
Now, remember the Jeb Bush headline is time to leave Reagan behind.
That's that's what Jeb Bush is reported to have said.
Right.
Well now, whether or not he said it is not the point.
The headline said it.
I had a friend send me a note reacting to that today.
She said, Oh, really?
We got to leave Reagan behind.
I think it's time to leave the two Bushes behind.
Can you believe the third Bush is coming along and saying we've got to leave Reagan behind after having a party ruined by two Bushes?
I got a note for somebody who said that.
Now, this sounds suspiciously similar to what you're saying.
Oh, absolutely.
Uh it's just you know, it's like fool me once shame on you.
Fool me twice, shame on me.
So we're gonna we're gonna go around again with these people.
I mean, uh I think Sturdley's in there laughing at you, but I gotta say, I I was uh I went to they they they had fireworks here last night.
They had this thing called Sunfest uh down there on the waterfront.
So I've I'm some friends had a party.
They have a balcony right there on the intercoastal, and I and I went and I watched it.
I gotta tell you something.
And it's happening more and more uh when I go out and talk to people.
The paranoia, the conspiratorial theoretical paranoia that is out there.
I got more people telling me they're looking at places to leave America and Go live, places they're looking to put their money.
Uh I i it is I mean we've always been throughout history.
Every generation has its conspiracy theories and people who believe in them.
Some it's getting a little depressing for me to hear all of this.
Uh I'm hearing from people who are, you know, looking to go out and buy a safe because they don't trust the bank.
They want to just gradually withdraw their money from their bank accounts to put it in a safe, and uh there's a shortage of safes, some people say when they go to the safe store trying to buy a safe.
You can't find any 45 calendar uh caliber ammunition.
There's been a run on it out there.
Uh uh, it's it's this is when I hear this stuff.
When I hear this stuff, and then and I'm not lumping that by the way, with the the note I got from a friend who said, you know, this is really funny.
We got a Bush following two Bushes, saying, forget Reagan.
I thought it was kind of funny.
I'm not lumping that with what the conspiracy theory stuff here, but it just tells me that with the right candidate and the right issues, uh this need not be happening.
And that the there's some people just out there feel powerless and lost, they see Obama with no opposition, not even any verbal opposition, nobody standing up to it, nationalizing all these companies, taking over the cargo.
This is astounding to people.
It literally is to me too, by the way.
Don't misunderstand.
I never thought, for example, I would see the headline I saw to New Hampshire.
New Hampshire House votes for to legitimize their legalize gay marriage.
That's one thing I never thought I'd see out of New Hampshire in my lifetime.
I never thought I it if if I ever did think about the prospect of the government taking over car companies, I also had accompanying thought, and that is the American people would rise up in angry protest and say, No way, Jose.
I don't see that.
Uh you you you see Obama eagerly taking over as much of the private sector as he can get his hands on, redistributing as much wealth, targeting achievers with punishment, putting obstacles in their way, and there's and and the people to whom this is happening are scared to death.
They're afraid to stand up and say anything in opposition to it.
Kathy in Potomac, Maryland, welcome to the uh EIB network.
Hello.
Oh, thank you, Professor Limbaugh.
I'm looking forward to seeing you at the Heritage Dinner tonight.
Well, thank you very much.
I uh you know these speeches when I go out and do these things, I just have to tell you, Kathy, they're always a crapshoot.
Because I don't I don't write them down and it's it's these in fact when I go to these speeches, these are the most pressure packed portions of my job.
Well, Rush, you are going to have people applauding with wild abandoned, and you need not be concerned.
I'm hoping I'm hoping I don't have to say anything.
I hope the applause goes 45 minutes and we can say thank you and walk up.
Well, no, sir.
Snurdley's asked why the reason these are the most pressure-packed points of my career is because I don't prep them.
I d I cannot write a speech.
I lose I my train of thought only happens when I'm speaking.
My my fingers typing, my hand writing cannot keep up with my brain.
So I just isn't.
Well, Rush, it it comes from your heart as well as your brain.
And that's why it flows so well.
Right.
So Rush, I've been trying to reach you ever since I attended the Tea Party across the street from the White House.
And right after I share with you what I called about today, would you permit me just a moment to share one encounter from that day?
Yeah, by all means, feel free, go ahead.
All right.
Well, Rush, first of all, what I call about today is I believe that what's wrong with the Republican Party is that we're allowing the Democrats to define who we are.
At our core, we believe in individual freedom and our God-given right to pursue happiness.
The Democrats accuse us of being hard-hearted and uncaring as we seek a quality of opportunity, not a quality of outcome.
So rather than thoughtfully defending who we are, in essence, we apologize to the Democrats and redefine who we are.
And I think that's why we're wandering in the wilderness, because we spend more time reacting to the Democrats and articulating what we stand for.
Who is this we you're talking about?
Oh, Rush, we as the Republic I'm sorry, I'm a member of the Republican Party, so I speak on behalf of other Republicans.
You're talking about for the most part elected Republicans.
Yes, that's right.
That's right, Rush.
Thank you for making that distinction.
That's why you're the professor and I'm the student.
Wait, I want to back you up.
Can you can you listen to a sound bite with me?
Yes.
Because this is also this is from ABC's Good Morning America on that's this morning.
And Serpent Head Carville appeared with Diane Sawyer.
And uh Diane Sawyer said to Serpenthead, you say avoid now.
This is this is this comical.
She's saying that James Carville, James, you say avoid ideological purity tests.
What do you mean?
Do you want to be in a church that's chasing out heretics or you ought to be in a church that's trying to bring in converts?
The Republicans are always not a real Republican, or Rush Lambaugh says that that good riddance to Spectre and McCain and his daughter ought to go.
That's not the kind of church we want to have.
When a party gets political power, it tends to become arrogant and start chasing people out that it doesn't agree with.
I hope that we don't do that.
Uh this is an attempt by James Carville to intimidate Republicans into not standing up for what they believe in.
Because if anybody has litmus tests, it's these guys.
The big tent is the Republican Party.
And now the reason that the party is losing is precisely because it's not getting converts.
I mean, Reagan got converts.
When moderates and Democrats joined the Republican Party, they came as converts to Reaganism, to conservatism.
McCain didn't go out for converts.
McCain went out and said, I'm like you, you liberals, I'm like you, you moderates.
Come vote for me as you are.
Uh the Democrats are the ones that do it.
Arrogant and power and litmus tests.
When's the last pro-life speaker at a Democrat convention, for example?
Uh but this main point of the Carville bite is that it's an attempt to intimidate Republicans, just as you say is uh is going on.
Right.
Now, Rush, could I just take one more moment and share with you one encounter I had at uh on the way of the Tea Party?
Yeah.
I parked my car in a garage.
The garage attendant was a man from Africa.
He saw the sign that I had made.
It said term limits for Congress, which I think is our only hope, by the way.
But he smiled at me and we got into a brief conversation, and I'll never forget what he said.
He said, if America falls asleep, you will wake up and find out that only a few people at the top will have taken everything.
I know how this works, he said.
Uh yes.
I think we know we hear from uh uh a lot of people who have experience with totalitarian regimes who say basically the uh the the same kind of thing.
They're the one the most scared, people who have fled uh totalitarian authoritarian regimes and are living here watching the uh the development of one they think here, and they are the ones who are as frightened as anybody.
All right, Kathy, thanks for the uh for the call, a brief time out.
Watch more straight ahead after this.
There are other things going on out there, and I I want to mention this one before it slips my fertile mind.
For all your Lib Democrats out there, the drive-by media reported over the weekend a couple of days ago this.
The Obama administration is moving toward reviving the military commission system for prosecuting Guantanamo detainees.
Officials said the first public moves could come as soon as this week, perhaps in filings to military judges at the U.S. Naval Base at Club Gitmo, outlining an administration plan to amend the Bush administration system to provide more legal protections for terrorism suspects.
Now, what would you say what's happened here?
By the way, the Obama administration announces this after the close of business on Friday.
So this only shows up in the news on Saturday.
It was not a big talking point yesterday.
But after Eric Holder's worldwide tour asking other nations to take some of these detainees, he was told to go to hell.
You want to release them, Attorney General Holder, you put them in your country.
So the Obama administration has quietly decided.
They can't close Gitmo.
They had a r uh chosen arbitrary date of next January.
But they can't do it.
And now they're going to revive military tribunals, the commission trials, with some notable changes to make them a little bit fairer from what the Bush administration did.
But this is an example of one interesting thing.
During the campaign, Obama talked about the worsening image of the U.S. and the world because we had failed to live up to our values because we torture.
And the rest of the world said, amen, bro, amen.
America sucks.
America sucks.
You got to close down that pr you can't do torture.
That's really rotten.
That's really bad.
It's bad.
America's horrible.
Bush is horrible.
Blah, blah, blah.
So Obama and his buddies believe this.
They sent Holder over to Germany last Wednesday and said, okay, fine, we're going to close it down.
How many of these prisoners do you want?
We don't want any.
We're not taking any of them.
So the world who thought that Gitmo was filled with people unfairly unjustly jailed.
Somehow doesn't want these reprobates roaming their streets.
Fine if they roam ours.
So there's there's been this subtle change here in the status of Club Gitmo.
Not officially, but there will because they're going to go back to using the same commission, military commission, trials at Gitmo for these people.
I mean, this is a this alm I it's as close to a full 180 on a policy as Obama could make.
But it happened Friday night.
Nobody knew about it.
Very, very, very clever.
This is Glenn in Pensacola, Florida.
Great to have you on the Rush Limbaugh program, sir.
Hello.
Good afternoon.
Good afternoon.
It's a pleasure.
Thank you, sir.
Um Megadeth, I guess I'm supposed to say.
No, you don't have to say it.
That's it's up to the uh individual caller.
Okay, well, I said it.
Anyways, my point is that I think that there's plenty of conservatism out there in the country.
The Democrats won that election on a protest vote against Bush and Iraq war and the Iraq war mostly.
And also because I think McCain was just not a very good candidate for us.
Um maybe because he got the uh nomination for being because it was owed to him or something.
I don't know.
But I think there's plenty of conservatism out there.
Um We know there's a conservativism.
Fifty-eight million people voted against the BAMster.
That's right.
And I think that they I think if we can take anything from the Democratic playbook, if we can take anything or need to take anything, is that we need to ramp up out of machine.
They have a relentless machine, and it just pounds and pounds and pounds against conservatism.
Wait a minute, you know, I they think we have one too.
I mean, they do.
They think we have a relentless machine is constantly pounding them.
We do, actually.
Me.
Talk radio.
The party doesn't trash them.
Uh the Democrat side, the Democrat Party does its best to wipe out the Republican Party.
Our party doesn't.
They uh but but I I know what you're saying.
This is a constant complaint for 20 years I've been on one of Republicans gonna learn to fight back.
I don't even talk about it anymore because they're who they are.
And uh the Republicans that are trying to get elected right now are not even thinking of fighting back.
They're thinking, how can they make you think they're more like Democrats?
Or less like pro-lifers?
Or how can Republicans make you think they're less like the people who are opposed to illegal immigration?
There's nothing affirmative or positive in uh in in many of these voices.
Folks, I recently had one of my cars.
I have three SUVs.
I don't drive them.
I have them for other uses.
I don't like SUVs.
Rush, you always talk about SG.
I find I love SUVs.
I love the fact that people like them.
I just don't like driving them.
I like driving a different kind of car, but I got three of them.
And I uh I took one of them into the shop to have a BG service, BG products service maintenance on these cars.
So I wanted to find out the particularly the uh transmission fluid.
They checked all the fluids in the vehicle uh in their lab, because I wanted to know what condition uh the car was in, and they discovered BG products did that my transmission fluid in one of the SUVs was contaminated to the point that there were high levels of copper, iron, and lead in the transmission.
The old transmission fluid had stopped protecting the transmission's components, and it was only a matter of time before a catastrophic event was going to happen.
I don't know how often you change your transmission fluid.
I'll bet it's not much.
I don't know how often you get it checked.
In this in this market, if you're not going to buy a new car, you certainly have to keep your current car serviced so it stays running.
BG products, brake fluid, transmission fluid, power steering fluid, lubrication fluids for your engine.
You have to go to a place that uses BG products.
You don't go to an auto parts store and buy BG products.
You find the service place that does it.
There's a website, BG Findashop.com.
Uh, and believe me, they will guarantee the life of your engine once you start using their products.
And they work, and they are definitely uh an improvement.
I was stunned when they told me that junk that was floating around my transition transmission.
I actually didn't really care because if it broke down, I knew I wouldn't be in it.
Barack Obama says that the wealth that was on Wall Street was illusory, and that uh when he's finished, that uh the Wall Street will play a less dominant role in our economy.
What he means is that private sector will play a lesser role in our economy.
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