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May 7, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 7, 2009, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Yes, indeed.
America's anchorman is away today, and this is your undocumented anchor man, Mark Stein, sitting in.
No supporting paperwork whatsoever.
I'm like swine flu.
You can't seal the border.
It's Steinflu.
The Excellence in Broadcasting Network has come down with Steinflu.
I just seep across the border and infect America.
Mark Davis is going to be here tomorrow, and Rush returns fighting fit on Monday.
It's National Prayer Day today, National Prayer Day.
President Obama has scaled back events at the White House.
He says he's going to observe National Prayer Day in private.
He'll just go into the White House press room and they'll fall on their knees before him.
So just the usual low-key morning worship by the Washington Press Corps.
Nothing fancy, scaling it back.
Maine approves gay marriage.
As Maine gays, so gays the nation.
Isn't that what they used to say?
We may get into gay marriage a little later.
The New York Times has a story here.
Headline, with gay issues in view, Obama is pressed to engage.
I misread that.
I confess when I first saw it in the New York Times this morning, I thought it said, with gay issues in view, Obama is pressed to get engaged.
And I was going to suggest we take a few suggestions as to who he might like to hit.
Actually, politically, he seems pretty nicely hitched with Barney Frank at the moment.
So we wouldn't want to break up that happy couple.
Less happy couples, I see Elizabeth Edwards is talking about John Edwards' adultery.
I really can't face watching this.
I found John Edwards almost impossible to watch when he was just like a regular oleaginous creep.
But now that he's a kind of adulterous oleaginous creep, I can't get into it at all.
I gather Riel Hunter, Riel Hunter, who is his mistress and who recently had this baby with fabulous hair.
Riel Hunter has asked for a sample of John Edwards' DNA.
Isn't that the kind of thing that got her into trouble in the first place?
Anyway, we don't want to get anywhere near John Edwards and Elizabeth Edwards today.
I bumped into Alan Combs yesterday and he wanted to know, he said to me, so you're sitting in for Rush tomorrow.
Is that because Rush is cowering in fear?
He's so devastated by this brutal attack on him by Colin Powell.
And of course, yeah, that's right.
It's like Colin Powell is Kiefer Sutherland, and Rush is that fashion designer who got head-butted by him.
So like Rush is just reeling.
He's reeling.
He can't face the world after this devastating assault on him by Colin Powell.
Because it's like being head-butted by a butterscotch pudding.
You know, you just get this like gooey, like this wimpy, gooey stuff all swapped in your face, and it really leaves a brutal mark.
So Colin Powell, I would like to talk about this because it is the issue of where the Republican Party and the Conservative movement go is important.
And Colin Powell has finally come out with what for him is the clearest philosophical statement.
You know, Colin Powell is always moderate, moderate, moderate, moderate.
And it's never been entirely clear what that involves.
He's always sort of vague.
He's just like moderation as an end in itself is all he's interested in.
Recall, after September 11th, he he went on meet the press and President Bush had just done this incredible attack on the Taliban, saying that the Taliban had to hand over Osama Bin Laden and Al-Qaeda or it was going to be big-time trouble for them.
And so immediately two days later, Colin Powell goes on meet the press and he says he's interested in working with quote moderate Taliban.
Moderate Taliban, he says he would be interested in working with.
You know, this is like the, this is like the.
The third way.
You know, you remember that Tony Blair was in there and they used to talk about with Bill Clinton.
Bill Clinton was a new Democrat, Tony Blair was a new labor guy and Colin Powell was thinking well, there must be some new Taliban types out there.
So he was interested in reaching out to moderate Taliban.
Moderate Taliban in a quote broad-based government.
Of course, there's no such thing as a Taliban government based on broads.
There's no broads at all in the Taliban government.
There's no Hillary Clinton, no Janet Napolitano.
It's a broad free zone.
It's.
It's not going to happen.
If you want a broad based, broad-based government no no not, not a lot of gays.
There's not a no.
HR has just pointed out, there's not a lot of gays in the government.
There's no, so so there's.
It's not a broad-based government it's.
If you want a broad-based government, try the Swedes, try the Canadians.
But basically Colin Powell was wasting his time in reaching out to moderate Taliban in a broad-based government, and I think that's actually why Bush Bush, if you notice, two days later he stopped talking about the Taliban and he started just an Al-Qaeda and just started referring to evildoers.
And any moment after that I expected Colin Powell to go on, meet the press and say he was interested in reaching out and working with moderate evildoers.
Colin Powell is someone who essentially believes in moderation as an end in it, as an end in itself.
I don't.
I don't particularly see the virtues for that.
It's fine if you're Colin Powell sitting in your Washington office being moderate.
It's not always so great to be on the receiving end of Colin Powell's moderation.
You remember his moderate end to the first Gulf War when this fantastic coalition was at the gates of Baghdad, and that's, that's normally when you storm the city and string up the dictator and they decided hey no, we're gonna, we're gonna let Saddam Hussein remain in power.
And the first thing he did even as all those troops were with those that great coalition was withdrawing was.
He started massacring all his enemies under the cover of that so-called act of moderate warmongering by Colin Powell.
So I'm not a great fan of Colin Powell moderation and his whole shtick.
You know about how the Republican Party needs to change.
We've heard now for 10 years, I think.
I think the first time I heard Colin Powell do this nonsense was at the Republican convention in Philadelphia in in 2000.
He gave the keynote address.
I don't know why, no idea why.
I don't know whether you remember that convention.
It was all very positive, nothing mean-spirited at all.
It was all celebrate diversity they had.
It was like wall-to-wall gays, wall-to-wall Hispanics everything on stage except white men.
I bumped into my senator from New Hampshire, Bob Smith, at an event downtown in Philadelphia during the convention.
I said, how are you enjoying the convention?
And he said, well I, I haven't.
I haven't succeeded in getting in yet.
I went there and they turned me away at the gate and obviously because He had this exotic name like Bob Smith, and he just couldn't get in there with all these gays and Hispanics and everyone they had on the stage.
They had a blind mountaineer.
Do you remember that?
They had a blind mountaineer there.
And I remember with his seeing eye dog, the guy had climbed, what's it called, K2.
The seeing eye dog was the first K9 up K2, apparently.
That's the blind mountaineer at the convention.
So every time you went into the convention hall, there'd be a mariachi band playing the Cucaracha, a Cucaracha band playing La Mariachi.
You'd go in there, there'd be the blind mountaineer, the seeing eye dog, and the mariachi band.
It was all celebrate diversity, celebrate diversity.
And I was so longing for some mean, vicious red meat.
And finally it came at the Republican convention.
Somebody had the guts to stand up, go negative, and launch a vicious personal attack.
And of course it was Colin Powell launching a mean, vicious personal attack on the Republicans.
He argued in his fantastic keynote address that Republicans were racist hypocrites who'd abandoned the mantle of Lincoln and cared nothing for helping black children while being happy to provide corporate affirmative action for all the fat cats.
And I remember sitting there in the audience, really impressed by this keynote address and thinking, wow, you know, the Democratic convention is off to a great start.
And then, of course, I remember, no, hang on a minute, this is supposed to be the Republican convention.
That's always what Colin Powell was great at.
He's terrific.
If you want someone to eviscerate the Republican Party, he'll do it anytime.
And two days, again, he did his usual moderate Taliban, moderate evil doer shtick.
Two days after giving the keynote address at the Republican convention, he goes on, meet the press, and he says he'd certainly be willing to serve in an Al Gore administration.
Colin Powell has been doing this now for a decade.
I got nothing against it.
It's still a free country, just about.
And that's fine.
He voted for Obama.
He voted for Obama.
He's one of these guys who, if you listen to him, he voted for Obama because Obama was the moderate bipartisan centrist.
There's no such Obama.
All the guys, if you voted for Obama because he was a transformative leftist on domestic policy, then congratulations, you understand him.
But if you were one of these conservatives, so-called, or Republicans, so-called, who voted for him because he was a moderate bipartisan centrist, then you got suckered.
So I have no idea why this group in Washington wants to pay a huge sum to listen to Colin Powell's advice for the Republican Party.
This is a man whose own rationale for voting for Barack Obama has been proven to be bunk.
And there's no reason at all for the Republican Party to pay him any heed.
But we should, I think, actually take the words he said and flip them upside down.
He said that Americans are willing to pay more taxes for more services, more taxes for more government.
There's no evidence for this at all, and quite a lot of evidence that, in fact, people do strongly oppose that.
So we're going to look behind what Colin Powell said.
Now, I'm very hard on Colin Powell.
I'm not a big fan of his at all.
And I think the so-called Powell doctrine for the military was rubbish and actually was an embarrassment to this nation.
The only thing in Colin Powell's book that I ever liked is the bit where he says he's writing about his favorite music.
And he says his favorite music is Andrew Lloyd Weber.
And Jesse Jackson commented on that.
is this guy even black?
That's the only element of Colin Powell's book that I've ever really cared for.
So we'll get into that one.
Where should the Republican Party and Conservatism go?
All of that and lots more.
Straight ahead.
1-800-282-2882.
Mark Stein sitting in for Rush on the EIB network.
Mark Stein in for us on the EIB network.
Colin Powell thinks that the Republican Party needs to move to the center.
Okay, we've had compassionate conservatism.
We've had John McCain reaching across the aisle.
There is a lesson here.
There is a lesson, a very basic lesson.
Effective politicians move the center toward them.
That is what Ronald Reagan did in 1980.
That is what Mrs. Thatcher did in 1979.
And both those countries, by the way, had had a tradition for at least a couple of generations where they basically accepted the left-wing liberal position and essentially said we can't have a two-party system anymore.
We're just going to have a one-and-a-half-party system.
In other words, you can have the express lane to liberalism or you can have the stopping service.
We'll go a little bit slower than the other guys.
They want to bring in socialized health care overnight, so we'll bring it in over a slightly longer period.
And that Me Tooism is not enough.
It's a recipe to lose.
And at some point, if you want to be effective as a political figure, you say, no, you move the political center closer to where you are.
And whatever you think about Barack Obama, by the way, you try to imagine where Barack Obama thinks the center of American politics is.
Let's say Colin Powell wasn't a dupe and hadn't been fooled, but that he thought Barack Obama sincerely was a centrist.
You look at where Barack Obama has lived his life in the hothouse university leftism of Chicago with Sunday trips to Jeremiah Wright's church.
Where do you think Barack Obama's idea of the center is?
His idea of where the center is is well to the left of where most Americans would put the center.
So what does he care?
He doesn't care at all.
He says, this is what I'm doing, and the center moves towards me.
The center has to move towards me.
And that is what effective political leaders do if they want to actually do something, as opposed to just sitting in office and just enjoying the perks and the limo and the driver and being able to expense everything.
Colin Powell has got absolutely the wrong strategy for republicanism and conservatism, which is why the media is happy to talk it up.
Because you imagine if people took his advice and said, okay, we're going to sign on to big government and more taxes and better services and government this and government that and government everything.
Then what is the rationale for opposing Barack Obama?
There is no rationale.
All you can do is, you know, you can do the bit of Susan Collins negotiation.
You can say, oh, oh, well, he's proposing $2 trillion in spending this week, so we're going to cut out $5 billion of it, and then we will look like the moderates.
That is a recipe for disaster.
The basic problem with the developed world right now is that it's gone down the colon-powell route.
That it's effectively both parties in most systems have agreed that what is what is essentially a semi-government economy is something that is a permanent feature of life, that it's a permanent feature of life, that governments spend more money than they can afford, and they have social entitlements beyond what anyone can afford, and both parties support that.
If you look at a French election, it's generally a choice between the left-of-center candidate and the ever-so slightly right of left of right of left of right of left of center candidate.
But basically, they agree on 90% of everything.
And it's driven the French economy into a hole.
Same thing in Germany, same thing in Austria.
Austria had a two-party system where it made no difference.
Whether you voted for the slightly left-of-center candidate or the slightly right of center candidate, they governed in the same left of, right-of-left of center coalition for 40 years until Austrians finally wised up and decided they'd like a choice.
A two-party system needs two parties.
You can't make a two-party system work with one and a half parties, which is what the Colin-Powell solution to these things are.
And it's simply not the case at the moment.
Right now, what the American people want is people who will do what Rush does and what Mark Levin does in his new book, and they will stand up and make the case for liberty.
We've got one party doing a very good job of making the case for big government, massive spending, multi-trillion dollar debts that will ensure our children and grandchildren never have the opportunity to live the American dream.
We've got one party doing that brilliantly, brilliantly, to the nth degree.
We don't need a second party that won't argue for big government half as effectively as the Democrats will.
So we don't need Democrat light.
What a substantial chunk of people in this country want, and maybe it's not 51% yet, maybe it's not 51%, but it's actually mighty close.
What they want is a party that will stand up for small government, for individual liberty, for a responsible attitude to public spending.
And that is a big tent.
It's actually a party that can accommodate national security.
This is where, again, where Colin Powell says, you know, the Republicans need a bigger tent.
The Republican Party is a big tent.
You've got your social conservatives, you've got your libertarians, you've got your fiscal conservatives, you've got your national security conservatives.
A lot of those don't get on with each other.
A lot of libertarians can't see what the big deal is about gay marriage.
A lot of social conservatives couldn't understand what the idea of just going around the world invading places was all about.
A lot of the national security conservatives couldn't see why we should get so hung up about spending at a time of war.
This is a big tent.
In the Democratic Party, everybody in that tent is agreed on one important point, which is that whatever your little bugbear is, whatever your hobby horse is, more government, more government spending, and more government control is the answer.
That's a big unifying factor over on the Democrat side of the tent.
And for the Republicans, I think, I think this country desperately needs a strong voice to stand against that.
And when Republicans do that effectively, they win.
When you get some cranky old guy who's just running on his ability to reach a gate across the aisle, you don't.
You lose.
More straight ahead.
Yeah, Stein flu infecting America all over.
You can't stop the Stein flu.
It just seeps across the air.
There's no point.
There's no point.
Everyone thinks you can just wear a surgical mask and you won't be.
Michael Jackson is wearing a surgical mask over his surgical mask.
It's not helping.
The Stein flu is out there infecting America.
Rush will be back on Monday.
Mark Davison tomorrow.
Rush is a great promoter of one of the great liberal fantasies, the anthropomorphized SUV.
You know, when I was a kid, I used to lie in bed at night and you'd hear something like in the trees outside and you'd think it was the bogeyman, the boogeyman's out there.
He's going to get you.
Of course, now the liberals worry that it's like an SUV out there.
It's an SUV, the anthropomorphized SUV.
Rush does these stories where the SUV is reported, the SUV careered out of control and smashed through the window of Filene's basement, ending up in the lingerie department.
And they always sound as if the SUV just was out at Bud's Roadhouse on Route 27 and got totally hammered.
And then this Toyota Corolla he tried to pick up wouldn't play ball.
And so the SUV just drove into town and smashed the place up.
And these stories are becoming impossible to parody now.
This is a headline on WLTX in Columbia, South Carolina.
Headline, SUV runs into apartment fleas scene.
And this was 7 p.m.
Deputies responded to a report that a vehicle had run over an air conditioning unit and then hit an apartment building at Hillendale Apartments off Alcott Drive.
Authorities say the SUV entered one of the units at the apartment.
See, they're breaking and entering now.
Authorities say the SUV entered one of the units of the apartment, but no one inside was injured.
If you've got any information, call Crime Stoppers in South Carolina.
That's a fantastic headline.
SUV runs into apartment flea scene.
You know, we've been plagued by these.
Now we're getting these SUV home invasions.
You know, you think you're sitting in your nice, you've got your expensive gated community thing.
What happens if the SUV comes through the gates and into your house?
That is the situation that many Americans face.
Fortunately, Obama's plans for the car industry, when you're all going to be driving around now in the new Subaru cup holder, this new compact vehicle, it's absolutely marvelous.
I believe Barack Obama's releasing the plans later today.
Once everybody's in the new Subaru cup holder, then the handful of remaining rogue SUVs on the road that are running into the apartments and then fleeing the scene will be much easier to spot.
1-800-282-2882-John in California, you're on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
Mark, it's a pleasure.
I've read your stuff and I listened to you on the internet, and it is truly a pleasure to talk to you.
What I'm calling about is the moderate slash balance notion.
Right.
Yeah.
Mr. Miyagi comes to mind.
Sand right, sand left, find the balance, Daniel son.
But, you know, Eastern mysticism isn't helping our problems because a decision is not based on balance.
It is based on instinct.
It's based on the position your mind is already set in.
And to make a good decision, you don't want to be balanced.
You want to be right.
Yes.
And, you know, Lady Liberty holds the scale.
The scale is not to be balanced.
The justice holds the scale.
And when something is right, it is weighty and it leans toward that side.
And when something is wrong, it leans toward that side.
And so when people look at Lady Liberty, don't think balance and moderation.
Besides, a moderator, what is he?
He's somebody that, you know, two people are speaking and there's a moderator.
He's just there to make sure the rules are followed.
That when it comes to what's right or wrong, there's still got to be a determination.
But you make a very good point, John, in that you're saying that the whole idea of being moderate and balanced is to the contemporary mind evokes the kind of Eastern mysticism of just like staying calm, new age music playing in the background.
It's non-committal.
Yeah.
And you're right.
I was last year sometime, maybe the year before, I was interviewing one of these NPR shows, National Public Radio, where everyone who calls in sounds like they've been heavily sedated.
You know, I was pining for one of these crazy left-wing kook, you know, Michael Moore types who thinks that the whole Halliburton plan, the whole Afghan invasion to seize access to Afghanistan's renowned, world-famous sources of rubble, like Afghanistan, and they just wanted to invade for no reason.
I like the kooks, but here, most people were all just, they all have that kind of soporific, balanced, moderate voice.
They've all got the same two or three gandhy quotes, which they apply to everything.
And as you say, the whole idea of being balanced is like some Eastern skills.
Yeah, yeah.
And it's a child's thing.
And what's important, as you say, is to be right.
Correct.
Because if you've got a balanced skill and there's right and wrong, do you want to be found in the middle?
If you have a moral issue and there's a right or wrong answer, do you want to be found in the middle?
You know, murder.
Are we going to look at murder from a balanced perspective?
Oh, you know, we're going to try to find out how right this guy was in murdering somebody.
No, you get the evidence.
You weigh the evidence.
The evidence weighs one way or the other.
It's not about balance.
Balance is for tightropes, unicycles, and if you're walking a fence line, if you fall, you may take a picket.
I like the idea of Colin Powell on the unicycle.
But let's see that on pay-per-view.
But you're right there, but that's the Colin Powell approach.
That's why he gets into this business of going on TV and announcing that he's going to work with moderate Taliban.
That his idea is, and this is the way, this is the great problem with the sort of transnational scene in general.
You take, say, the American view of the First Amendment and free speech, and then you take the Sudanese view.
And if you split the difference, you've got a global consensus that we can all unite around.
And as you say, what's important on those issues is it's better to be right.
And sometimes being right involves being lonely.
And it's still better to be right and lonely and persuade people to make your side of the aisle a little less lonely than just to say, okay, there's no right or wrong.
There's just degrees of compromise.
And it doesn't matter how much you're prepared to compromise as long as, like Colin Powell, you wind up with the office and the limo and the driver and the roller decks full of A-list contacts.
Thanks very much for your call, John.
Let's go to another John.
Let's have All John Day on.
We had Open Line, because we're format break.
We had Open Line Friday and Wednesday, so we're having like All John Thursday on what day?
It is All John Thursday.
Okay, let's go to John in Libertyville, Illinois.
You're the second John of the day.
We may have a prize for the 29th, John of the Day.
John, you're on the air.
Thanks for taking my call.
I guess I have a dissenting opinion from your last caller.
I wanted to respond to your comment that, you know, we need a two-party system.
The two parties should be more vastly opposite from each other.
I think that the notion that anything that isn't explicitly conservative by Rush Limbaugh's definition or by other people who do talk radio for a living, do conservative talk radio for a living, anything that isn't explicitly conservative by those standards is necessarily liberal, serves the profitability of conservative propaganda radio, but I don't think it really serves the Republican Party nor the country as a whole.
The inescapable fact is that the opposite of moderation is extremity.
And as long as the Republican Party and conservatives decide to be the champions of extremity, they're going to be marginal.
Well, you make a point that a lot of people have made in the last couple of weeks, which you say essentially is that fellas like Rush and the other big conservative talkers, that essentially it's a niche market, that we do very well on the air, but that in the end, we cannot, no matter how big the audience gets, it's never going to be 51%.
Now, I don't happen to think that's true on the facts.
I think if you think of, if you look at the millions of people who actually listen to Rush in the course of a week, and you were to take them out of the voting booths in November, there wouldn't be much left of a conservative base in America.
So clearly, there is a big degree of alignment between people who support the Republican Party and people who listen to Rush.
Now, I would agree with you to this extent, that I think you can have degrees of engagement.
That's why for political movements, it sometimes doesn't always hurt to be out of power.
The Democrats have been out of power for quite a long time in the last 20 to 30 years, and yet they've made huge advances because they've successfully penetrated other institutions rather than simply elective office.
They're in the media, they're in the pop culture, they're in the schools, and they've done very effectively at that.
Likewise, even in countries that have elected non-right-wing governments, the fact that there's a passionate, engaged, conservative movement big enough to require that people take notice of it will help keep a generally squishy professional political class on their toes.
It will prevent them doing as much damage as they would otherwise do.
And that's why when you say, that's why, taking aside, as Rush always says, he's an entertainer.
But the fact is that if you had taken Rush and his listeners and the conservative talk radio movement and Fox News out of the history of America the last 15 years, you imagine how squishy Arlen Spector and Susan Collins and Olympia Snow and John McCain and the rest of them would be, in a sense, without having to get tugged even a little bit to the right.
Well, I don't know.
I think that I certainly think the country moved vastly to the right during the eight years of George W. Bush, and it would have happened with or without the aid of conservative talk radio or Fox News.
And I have to tell you that the profitability of the conservative movement remains intact regardless of how marginal it becomes.
You can't escape the reality that right now the overwhelming perception of Americans is that the Republican Party is extreme and the Democratic Party is moderate by comparison, no matter how much you and Rush Limbaugh try to convince America that Barack Obama is a big commie.
I mean, America's just on buying that.
Well, hey, hey, hang on, hang on, hang on a minute, John.
I've got to take a break.
But I'd like to come back to you on that.
Can you stay on the line a couple of minutes?
Mark Stein sitting in for Rush.
John from Libertyville, Illinois.
Great, great town.
And I'd like him to live up to it a bit more, though.
But we'll come back to John and take that up with him and more.
Straight ahead on the Rush Limbaugh Show, 1-800-282-2882.
Mark Stein in for Rush on the EIB network.
John from Libertyville has joined us.
And his thing is basically, you know, extremism is terrific for talk radio.
It's big business.
It's been a gold mine for talk radio, but it is not good for the United States of America.
And that is why the American people are rejecting it.
Extremism in the defense of liberty is great for talk radio profits, but it's hell for the United States.
Now, John, the problem, I think, is that you have one very sound point, which is that when people are raging about Barack Obama as the communist in chief and all the rest of it, it's that that sounds very weird to people who just are flicking through the channels and they see him on TV reading his teleprompter and just looking very thoughtful and calm and mild.
And you're right to that degree, that in fact, when he's up there doing his shtick with the teleprompter, he's very moderate and calm, and that makes him a slightly difficult opponent if you're just going to rant and rave at him.
But the fact is that what he is doing, when you actually poll his individual policies, they do not seem to resonate quite so well with the American people.
How about that?
Well, I don't know.
I think that personally, I think that it's definitely true that if you were to contrast people's approval of his policies with whether or not people approve with the notion that because he wants to raise the top marginal tax rate from,
you know, by four points or that he opposes torture, if that makes him an anti-American socialist, I think that that notion, hold on, I think that that notion would get worse approval ratings than Obama's actual policy.
Well, yeah, let's let's I mean that's the genius of this guy.
He opposes torture.
It's not so clear he opposes it when he's outsourcing it to some of our pals in the murkier parts of Pakistan.
It's not so clear, in fact, what's going to be happening at Gitmo in any case.
On all those issues, in fact, the calmness blurs, serves as a very good blurry.
It's like the filter on the late Doris Day pictures, where you can hardly see her face because they've got so much gauzy filter in there because Doris couldn't withstand the scrutiny.
Don't get me wrong, I love Doris Day.
And I'm certainly not comparing Barack Obama to Doris Day.
K Syrah, Syrah, we know what will be and it will be hell.
But I've got all distracted now.
What was I talking about?
John John from Libertyville still there?
Is he gone?
Wait, wait, what was I talking about before I got hung up on Doris Day?
It's completely John Doris Day, Barack Obama comparing.
Yeah, that's right, that's right, the Doris Day filter.
It's like the Vaseline on the camera lens.
It's like Barack Obama's up there and he's got like Vaseline smeared over his policies.
And so he seems like, he's like, so this is the way the guy, the guy goes up there and he's got these multi-trillion dollar budgets and he goes, but we're looking for a hundred million dollars in cuts.
So if you're just like watching casually, he seems to be a calm guy saying there's going to be accountability, there's going to be, we're going to save money, we're going to balance budgets.
And it's only when you get into the green eye shades that you see he's actually spending trillions of dollars.
He's been very good at projecting this image of calm thoughtfulness.
Apart from anything else, there's something very hypnotic about watching him.
He turns, you know, he's got the left teleprompter and the right teleprompter.
And he turns his head left, right, left, right, left, right.
It's like when you're watching the US Open or Wimbledon and you see the person sitting just by the net turning their head, watching the volleys, left, right, left, right.
You are feeling sleepy.
You are feeling drowsy.
He's very calm.
He's very thoughtful.
There's nothing to be scared about.
Don't worry about it.
If you can pass yourself off as moderate, if you can appear moderate while doing radical things, that is ingenious.
And I do believe that when the next great conservative leader comes along, it will be someone who's sunny and optimistic about this.
It will be a Ronald Reagan-type happy warrior who will be able to say things about government that will make people laugh and recognize the basic truth of.
And that person will lead a Republican Party to great things.
But until that person emerges, there's absolutely no point in abandoning core conservative principles.
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