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May 12, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 12, 2009, Tuesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
I was watching that.
I thought, what a great zinger that Donald Trump threw at Obama.
Oh, it was fabulous.
And I'll tell you what, this Miss California Carrie Prejan.
She stood up at a press conference today and she delivered it's an excellent in-your-face defense of her position on things.
The Miss California, the controversy over the pictures and the gay marriage question.
Anyway, uh great to have you with us, folks.
Uh L. Rushball, Rush Limbaugh behind the golden EIB microphone once again to uh here execute to flawlessly assigned host duties.
Uh telephone number if you want to join us is 800-282-2882, the email address, L Rushbow at EIBNet.com.
So Trump and the Miss Universe people had a press conference today at Trump's building in New York with uh Carrie Prejon, who's the Miss California there.
Uh they were waiting on Trump's decision as to whether or not she's gonna be thrown out because apparently some nude photos that surfaced.
It turns out the photos were photoshopped.
Uh Trump and the boys looked at them and said, Nothing wrong with the pictures.
And by the way, this question that she answered on gay marriages, she gave the same answer the President of the United States gave.
She gave the same answer that Barack Obama gave.
Great little zinger there to President Obama.
And then Carrie Prejohn stood up.
She did her own press conference.
I wish the press at this thing was far more curious and demanding to know Carrie Prejohn's positions on things than they have ever been about Barack Obama.
But she she held up under it uh extremely well.
She urged everybody stand up for what you believe.
Don't back down.
Whatever you do, and she's gonna use that as uh part of her role model aspect when she goes on tour here as Miss California.
So she hangs on, and uh she was also asked a question about Paris Hilton.
Do you forgive Paris?
Uh about gay marriage.
Do you forgive Paris Hilton?
I thought her answer was superb.
I do forgive Paris Hilton.
I forgive Paris Hilton.
I've I've looked at uh I've done some research in Paris, and he's obviously got some tough issues in his heart.
I do, I do forget.
Very, very clever.
Barack Obama.
Uh Chrysler, what is it down to now?
A GM down a dollar ten.
That's uh down to a dollar ten.
Uh down 34 cents.
They're saying it's a good day for Barack Obama is convening another health care summit.
It's an amazing, you know, the healthcare experts in this country have been trying to find ways for years to reduce costs.
Obama has a couple days worth of meetings and figures out a way to do it.
Uh automobile makers have been trying to figure out a way out of their mess for years.
Obama convenes a task force a couple meetings over a couple days and saves the automobile business.
Isn't it amazing what Obama can do in just a couple days?
When and then rest on the seventh one.
Well, ever nothing, nothing what do you mean nothing was done with healthier workers?
Snerdley!
Snerdley, what do you mean nothing was done?
They're gonna save two trillion dollars.
You got the agreement, they're gonna cut two trillion dollars, they're gonna fix health care.
It's gonna nationalize it.
They're gonna make it big, and they're gonna make government's gonna be in charge of it.
Government runs everything else brilliantly and and uh efficiently.
What do you mean?
Of course it's just words, but I've he fixed it.
I mean, I'm saying in two days of meetings healthcare's gonna get solved.
Two days of meetings, the automobile problem's gonna get solved.
Two days of meetings, the economy's gonna get solved.
I mean, this guy's amazing.
People work for years, decades trying to solve problems.
This guy comes in and does so in two hours.
Or in some cases, two days.
By the way, here's the latest.
This is a this is an actual headline from advertising age on their website.
Obama has Chrysler's planned marketing budget.
Chrysler wanted to spend 134 million dollars in advertising over the nine weeks.
It's expected to be in bankruptcy.
Uh, and the U.S. Treasury's auto industry task force, which is Obama, gave it half that.
So if General Motors, which is going back and forth with the possibility of a chapter 11 filing itself, is wondering How much influence the task force will have over marketing?
The answer is a lot.
Well, of course, what did anybody?
This is not an abstract argument.
This is not some theoretical abstract argument that people sit around and debate.
This is the government takeover of the automobile business.
This is not the United States of America that you and I grew up in.
This is fascism.
This is not the United States of America we grew up with.
People are debating this in an abstract.
Well, you know, Obama can really save the automobile.
It's not his job.
It's not what this country is all about.
When you see a headline, Barack Obama tells Chrysler, no, you can only spend half of what you've budgeted on advertising.
That's not an abstract theoretical argument that we're having over what will be the impact.
We are this is a this is a matter of principle, uh, founding principles, capitalist principles that have just been ditched.
And everybody sits around, and what's happening in health care is is uh gonna go into that in uh in some detail as the program unfolds today, because it's it's uh it's uh incredible as uh as well.
And while it's it's it's just uh don't mean to be redundant here, folks, but this is this is not something that's just a you know, a quaint little um debate topic that you might have in a college or high school class.
This is actually happening.
It's not in the abstract.
And I don't know how you turn the clock back on this stuff.
I don't, I don't once the government owns all of this and starts dictating how these business and all of it was predictable.
CBS uh has on their website a good time to work for Uncle Sam, President Obama's call last year for shared sacrifice does not extend to federal employees, at least based on the details of his 2010 budget released this week at a time when the official unemployment rate is nearing double digits, and 6.35 million people are receiving unemployment benefits.
The U.S. government's on a hiring binge.
Executive branch employment, 1.98 million in 2009, uh, excluding the Postal Service and the Defense Department, set to increase by 15.6 percent for the 2010 fiscal year.
Uh is essentially, uh, folks, what we're gonna have here uh is the average pay per federal workers gonna go up from 72,800 in 2008 to 75,419.
The uh Fed's hiring increases have been stunning.
If you look at the four-year period from 2006 to 2010, the number of homeland security employees has grown by 22 percent.
The Justice Department is increased by 15%, and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission can claim 25% more employees.
And uh again, the average pay per federal worker will go from $72,800 in the 2008 to $75,419 next year.
So unemployment throughout the private sector is increasing.
Unemployment benefits, the number of people receiving them increasing, wages certainly not increasing, but the federal government's going nuts.
Expanding and hiring people, and they don't have any money.
The federal government is out of money.
They can't take over anything without printing the money to do it.
Not even they can't borrow as much as they as they need.
They're just printing the money.
Take over health care, take over this.
They don't have the money.
Deficits in the total of 10 trillion dollars have been run up.
And a lot of people think this is just temporary.
Ah, because Obama when Obama fixes this, it's it's it's all gonna normalize.
No.
We've never been here before.
We've never been in this territory before.
We heard not long ago that New York, the city, the state, whatever was thinking of uh taxing sugary drinks, soda pup to raise revenue.
And then it kind of died out.
Well, it's picked up again, this time in the United States Senate.
Senate leaders considering new federal taxes on soda and other sugary drinks to help pay for an overhaul of the nation's health care system.
No, I'm not kidding.
This isn't a Wall Street Journal.
The taxes would pay for only a fraction of the cost to expand health insurance coverage to all Americans and would face strong opposition, obviously, from the beverage industry.
Big deal.
Might face strong opposition, but by the time it's all over, they'll cave too.
Everybody else is caving.
Can also spark a backlash from consumers who would have to pay several cents more for a soft drink.
Hey, has it sparked a backlash from cigarette smokers?
Have the massive tax increases in tobacco sparked a backlash from cigarette smokers.
I mean, a public one.
Some may not be buying, but do you see protests?
We actually think people are going to be protesting the tax increase on coke.
Obama's doing this for our health.
He's helping us out.
Backlash.
These manufacturers, they're gonna they're gonna they're gonna cave like everybody else does.
On Tuesday.
Well, the rich is going to pay for a lot of things, and the rich is gonna get soaked.
The rich are gonna get soaked, but there isn't enough money there.
There's not enough, they could confiscate everybody's taxes one time, and still not pay for Obama's budget.
Confiscate it all, confiscate all income.
There's not the money to pay for what he's doing.
Today the Senate Finance Committee is set to hear proposals from about a dozen experts about how to pay for the comprehensive health care overhaul.
It's a big round table.
And after this round table, he'll have solved the problem.
It will be amazing, just like the automobile problem's been solved after a couple days, the health care problem solved today.
It will be solved today, after the round table.
You should go out and have a party tonight because after tonight, health care problems are solved.
They're over with.
It's gonna be done.
And Obama will move on to the next thing.
And the press will dutifully report how brilliant and how wonderful and how efficient Obama is.
He's tackling all these issues and he solved them.
You're going to have this dozen or so experts about how to pay for the over call.
The overhaul in health care that Obama wants to enact this year.
Early estimates pushed the uh the cost of his plan at 1.2 trillion dollars.
The administration has so far only earmarked money for about half that amount.
The uh the Center for Science and the Public Interest.
Do you remember this bunch?
These are the people that got monosodium glutamate banned.
These are the people who got coconut oil banned in movie theaters.
Chinese food, these two anorexics is basically what it is.
Two anorexics and a fax machine, sending out important data on the dangers of food, have become this massive leftist organization that has instant credibility.
And the Center for Science in the Public Interest, a Washington-based watchdog group that pressures food companies to make healthier products, plans to propose a federal excise tax on soda on certain fruit drinks, energy drinks, think Gatorade, sports drinks, and ready-to-drink teas like Snapple.
It would not include most diet beverages, excise taxes are levied on goods and manufacturers typically pass them on to consumers and so forth.
So ladies and gentlemen, uh the Center for Science and the Public Interest has got the ear of the United States Senate, and they're gonna have to start raising taxes everywhere.
They don't have any money.
They don't have the money to do 90% of what they're doing.
Oprah Winfrey did the uh commencement address at Duke University.
And she said it's great to have a private jet.
It's great to have a bunch of big houses, great to have a mansion, great to have a mansion that was spared by a fire in Santa Barbara, great to have your private jet.
All these things were used as the definition of success.
Great to have a nice home, great to have nice homes.
Great to have a nice home that just escaped the fire in Santa Barbara.
It's great to have a private jet.
Anyone that tells you that having your own private jet isn't great is lying to you.
She's calling Obama a liar.
It's Obama who wants to take people's private jets away from them.
And she was one of the many early Obama supporters.
Oh, by the way, you know how Obama told people the days of people getting on their jets and flying to Las Vegas are over?
Uh he's going to Las Vegas.
Big party, big fundraiser for Harry Reed.
So it's okay for the Messiah to go to Las Vegas, take people with him, and have all kinds of money thrown around out there for a Democrat Senate candidate.
It's great for that.
You're not supposed to go and CEOs are not supposed to.
Those days are over.
Oh, yeah, Chrysler, you want to spend 134 million dollars advertising.
Nope, nope, nope, you're only going to spend half that.
Now, of course, there's a trickle-down effect in advertising, too.
There are there are there are advertising places like this show, radio television, that get advertising budgets and dollars from various companies.
And you could say that that is stimulus.
And he's so 34 million dollars of private sector activity has just been overruled by President Obama when it comes to advertising products.
Now, what's Chrysler supposed to do?
Yes, they're in the middle of bankruptcy.
That's when they need to be advertising all the more.
Anyway, have to take a brief time out.
Sit tight, we'll be back.
Your phone calls coming up as well again, 800 282-2882.
The media obsessed, literally obsessed over me and Colin Powell and Dick Cheney.
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Okay, here we have some soundbikes from the press conference I was alluding to.
Donald Trump and Carrie Prizon.
Miss California.
Here's Trump announcing that uh she's gonna hang on, that they've looked and everything's fine.
She's gonna hang on as Miss California.
With Carrie, who's here, who's lovely, and who gave a very, very honest answer when asked a very tough question at the recent pageant.
It's the same answer that the President of the United States gave.
It's the same answer that many people gave.
She gave an honorable answer.
She gave an answer from her heart, and I think for that she has to be commended.
Look, this confirms what I knew yesterday.
All of this controversy over getting her thrown out over these pictures was not about these pictures at all.
It was about the entertainment media and allies in radical leftism trying to get rid of her because of her answer on gay marriage.
And her definition of marriage is that between a man and a woman is just intolerable.
These people supposedly we're ever we're supposed to tolerate all the perversion of all the radicals, all the politicians on the left.
We're supposed to tolerate and be understanding of all of the godlessness.
We're supposed to tolerate, we're supposed to be understanding of all of the destructive things these people do.
And then when we stand up and just express our beliefs, wow, it's time to get the Gestapo.
It's time to get the secret police.
Time to go get the brown shirts and shut us up.
And she stood up to it today, as did Donald Trump.
Here's another portion of what Trump said.
We have Keith and Shanna from the pageants, the directors of the Miss California pageant.
I met them today for the first time.
They were having some miscommunication with Carrie.
The communication problem, I believed, is totally solved.
And this is, I think, really important to understand.
They are really getting along very well.
They've been meeting for hours in my office, and I really think that they are and have developed a relationship that they didn't have before.
Carrie will remain Miss California.
very importantly.
So the Carrie Prejean holds on as Miss California, despite the efforts to ruin her and destroy her, when it was her turn this is a portion of what she said.
Most importantly, I would like to thank God for trusting me with this large task and giving me the strength to stand by my beliefs.
Three weeks ago, I was asked a politically charged question with a hidden personal agenda.
I answered my question honestly and sincerely from my heart.
I was very careful to articulate in saying that I did not want to offend anybody and that this is how I was raised.
And this is what I believe a marriage should be between one man and one woman.
I was given a question asking for my opinion, and I stated my honest belief.
Not only do I hold this belief, but as Mr. Trump said, the President of the United States, the Secretary of State, and many Americans agree with me in this belief.
It is somewhat interesting to me that it takes Donald Trump and Miss California.
Nothing against them, don't misunderstand, to make a solid point about and explain this stuff to America at large.
During the entire controversy over Kerry Prijan's answer about gay marriage, nobody stood up and said it's no different to what Barack Obama believes.
It's no different to what Hillary Clinton said, Democrats Secretary of State, and Obama during the Democrat presidential campaigns.
It's hardly different from what most Americans actually, and yet it was reason to get rid of her.
And so here today, long after that controversy had bubbled up, it takes a press conference of a Miss USA pageant to uh sort of put this in perspective.
But she she really was good in her in her press conference statement when she stood up for her beliefs and said she's not going to be talked out of them, and has been a great learning experience for her and how she encouraged everybody not to abandon their beliefs.
It was good.
We'll be back, stay with us.
Okay, the media, Colin Powell, Dick Cheney, and me.
We have a montage here of drive-by media elites, just upset that Dick Cheney continues to speak out.
They are saying things to him like, shut up.
The question I have here.
If the Democrats are telling us the truth, when they say the Republican Party's committing suicide, the Republican Party is a party of 13% of the American people, why wouldn't they want what they believe to be the architects of this demise to continue speaking?
You know, the old adage: if your opponents committing suicide, get out of the way.
Let it happen.
There's an old adage in talk radio.
If a caller wants to be an idiot, get out of the way and let it happen.
But yet Cheney goes out and speaks.
The Democrats and the media all say that Cheney and I are the problem with the Republican Party.
The Democrats want to get rid of the Republican Party.
Why wouldn't they just shut up and play this stuff?
Why do you get so agitated and tell Cheney, shut up?
Here, listen to the montage.
Somebody who can't stop talking.
In fact, says he won't stop talking and is frankly boastful about it.
Dick Cheney.
Why not tell Cheney to shut up?
I just wish he would go away in some fashion.
Get real.
Dick Cheney is one of the least popular figures in the Republican Party, aside from Rush Limbaugh.
Some Republicans wish the former VP would just shut up.
I don't hear any Republicans saying shut up, Dick Cheney.
I just the media people and the Democrats.
Now it seems to me that they must be really worried about what Cheney's saying.
Otherwise, they'd let him go ahead and commit suicide for himself and the Republican Party.
Don't you think?
See, they're really agitated.
It's the same reason that if the kooks in the counterculture left think that Miss California carry prige on her answer was so outrageous and it so offended all America.
Why by all means prop her up and let her be an example for all the goofballs in a country?
No, they have to shut her up.
They have to destroy her.
The left is out to destroy Dick Cheney.
The left is out to destroy anybody who's they're a fascists, statists, whatever you want to call them.
They're not interested in debate.
They are interested in ultimate power and silencing people who disagree with them.
And the reason for that, folks, is fear.
They're afraid of Dick Cheney.
They are afraid of me.
If Cheney and I were the buffoons, they say, they'd just be running tapes of us all night with everything we say.
They'd be running my CPAC speech nonstop 24-7 on MSNBC to wipe out the Republican Party.
They'd be replaying everything Cheney has said with Bob Schiefer, Sean Hannity, wherever he's been, they'd be replaying those interviews.
Well, look at here's Dick Cheney, Rush Limbaugh, destroying the Republican, but no, instead they're saying, shut up.
Shut up, Cheney.
Why?
Now, Liz Cheney was on Scarborough show on MSNBC today, and she wiped the floor with the guest list there.
Uh let's see, she had Eugene Robinson, who is a Obama hack under the guise of a columnist at the Washington Post, and Mika Bzhinski also in this bite that you will hear, and it's about torture, and it's about Liz Cheney's father Dick and what a rotten sniderly whiplash kind of guy he is.
It wasn't torture, you see.
Let me ask you a question, Eugene.
So if you knew that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed had information about an imminent threat on the United States, information that would result in the death of your family members, the death of people that you care about and love, and that if he were waterboarded, you would be able to get that information and prevent the attack.
You wouldn't do it?
You would let him go ahead and watch the attack.
How would I know that?
Well, but that's the choice you got to make.
Just just talk sense to these people and you shut them up.
But when you let them intimidate you and put you on the defensive, which happens to way too many people to go on these shows, then they end up winning.
But Liz Cheney, not backing down.
Look, the situation they face.
This is 2002.
This is 2003.
You don't know what's coming next.
Everybody wants to prevent the next event from happening.
If you got somebody who you know has the information, are you going to do what it takes to get it?
But how do I know that that's what they're faced with?
He's telling everybody he knows.
He's telling everybody he's the ringleader.
He wanted the fame.
But here's Eugene Robinson.
How do you know?
I think it's great.
Liz Cheney doesn't back down to them.
And they had this exchange, too.
Liz Cheney with Bierzinski on this MSNBC show this morning.
Love having you on the show.
We'd love for you to come back.
Well, I'd love to at least show.
You guys are true.
I do think we need to do more than the headlines on this and more than the radio hosts who are sort of loviating about it.
I think we need to really talk about this and get into the details.
I don't want to trash all the radio hosts.
That's okay.
Because there's some good ones out there, including Russ Limbaugh.
That was Liz Cheney saying, including Rush Limbaugh.
But again, uh, Mika, you got your own show.
You don't have to let radio talk show host bloviate about this.
She says, Well, we need to do more than the headlines on this.
And what does it like Dan rather saying we need to do more to cover the news?
You have a show.
If you want to do more, sometimes I sit here and I just I marvel.
I I just I marvel at the things I hear.
And I really worry that if I work hard to understand it, I'm gonna have to lower my own IQ.
And I refuse to do that.
Now let's move on.
David Rodham Gurgen, last night, Anderson Cooper 360, which is bleeding audience.
Anderson Cooper 360 is having a dismal month of May in the ratings.
It's being written about in the television broadcast trades.
CNN in general is in a general audience plunge.
David Rodham Gergen last night spoke with uh with uh with Anderson Cooper, who said it's a surprising Dick Cheney breaking with tradition and blasting so soon after he left office.
What surprised me yesterday was the way he went after Colin Powell.
That seemed to me just sort of take leave of his senses.
Colin Powell's, you know, during the Bush administration was the single most respected uh member of that administration.
He's important to the Republican Party.
Why would you want to drive him away?
The question do you choose power over Limbaugh or the other way around?
You would have said, I'm proud to have both of them in a Republican Party.
It just seemed to be gratuitous to go after Colin Powell.
And by the way, I think separated him out from a whole lot of Americans who respect Colin Powell.
Now, again, David Rodham Gurgen is supposedly a smart guy, so I have to ask myself, after I listen to this learned answer, uh, this answer that is born a conventional wisdom.
What am I, L. Rushbow missing here?
Did not Colin Powell endorse and vote for Barack Obama?
Did not the Republican Party nominate the exact kind of moderate candidate that Colin Powell says the Republican Party should put forth.
Yes.
And so after the Republican Party did everything that Colin Powell says the Republican Party needs to do to grow, what did Colin Powell do?
He endorsed Obama, worked for his election, and voted for him.
Now, as Dick Cheney said Sunday, that to me constitutes leaving the Republican Party.
So according to the drive-by's and David Gergen, what we are supposed to do as Republicans is let somebody who endorsed, campaigned for, and voted for Obama tell us how to build our party.
Now, does that I'm sorry?
This does not compute to me.
Now, maybe I have failing intelligence.
And maybe my IQ has gone south.
Well, I I I do not understand.
It's very simple.
You know, being a Republican or being a Democrat to me is very important.
And I don't understand.
I'm trying, I'm working real hard to try to understand this.
I've gone back to my first and second grade textbooks.
I kept them.
I'm I'm trying to understand how it is that we Republicans are making a mistake by letting somebody who endorsed a Democrat, elected a Democrat, voted for a Democrat go.
It seems that he's already left.
Also, I'm, you know, I went back to my fourth and fifth grade textbooks, and I remember how Colin Powell did his best to undermine many in the Bush administration, while not only was he Secretary of State, but after he left, along with his aide de camp, Lawrence Wilkerson, and his old buddy, what was his name, Armitage.
Colin Powell, Armitage, and Lawrence Wilkerson basically let Studer Libby hang out to dry, knowing full well that he was guilty of nothing.
So we're supposed to.
I just doesn't make any sense to me.
We're supposed to let somebody who sabotage his own party.
By the way, Colin Powell is what he is because of Republicans.
He was chairman of Joint Chiefs, he was four star general Ronald Reagan, he was Secretary of State because of Republican presidents.
As for Cheney breaking with tradition, once again, I I sit here and I I admit that I'm befuddled.
Bill Clinton has yet to stop talking about George W. Bush.
Al Gore, within weeks of the 2000 election, was talking about how George W. Bush betrayed America.
It was Bill Clinton and Al Gore traveling around the world and Jimmy Carter traveling.
Jimmy Carter got a Nobel Peace Prize for trashing George W. Bush.
So we're just supposed to sit here and we're supposed to follow the tradition of not being critical of uh predecessors while being attacked at the same time.
And then at the after all of that, we're supposed to rally around a guy who fled the party in the last election as our savior, and as the guy who's got the direction for us to follow.
Anderson Cooper didn't say, well, how important do you think Dick Cheney takes his own legacy?
Very importantly.
You know, he's worked for some 40 years on behalf of the Republican Party and the conservative causes.
Uh, and I think he thinks his place in history is important to him.
This is why I asked the question yesterday what motivates Dick Cheney to speak publicly and get trashed by the very people who are at present writing his legacy.
I Would say right now the last thing on Dick Cheney's mind is his legacy.
I would say the first thing on Dick Cheney's mind is his country.
We'll take a brief break.
Come back after this.
Stay with us.
Let me go a step further.
David Rodham Gurgen said that Dick Cheney took a gratuitous slap at Colin Powell.
There was no such thing.
Dick Cheney was asked about Colin Powell by Bob Schiefer.
Gratuitous would have meant that Cheney launched on his own without having a question be asked, but that wasn't the case.
And I'll tell let me go even further.
The question ought to be if we're going to be talking about who should lead, run, direct, inspire, whatever the Republican Party.
The question really should be posed to Colin Powell.
What were you thinking in endorsing Barack Obama?
Is this what you have in mind for the United States of America?
Is this what you had in mind when you supported Obama, Colonel Powell?
Is this the kind of country you thought you were supporting in voting for Colin Powell?
Did you ever live to see the day where the president of the United States would tell an auto company how much it can spend on advertising?
Is this what you thought you the questions, if there are to be questions, need to be asked of Colin Powell.
As a Republican, quote unquote, he's the one that has some explaining to do.
As far as I'm concerned.
Now, what did what did Colin Powell ever do to win anything politically either?
Can I ask that question?
He's never run for office.
Dick Cheney was elected to Congress.
He was elected VP, he was elected uh he was public servant for 40 years.
What what is what is Colin Powell ever won politically?
Now, last night hardball, Chris Matthews with the former West Wing writer, Lawrence O'Donnell about uh Colin Powell and me.
And Matthews said, Colin Powell, would you rather have him as the Republican candidate for president if you're Republican, or would you rather have Limbaugh?
Yeah, yeah.
Colin Powell's a winner.
Rush is a loser, Cheney's a loser.
And so the Cheney Limbaugh party could command maybe 13% of the vote.
Every single position that Rush Limbaugh advocated in the last election was rejected by Republican voters in the primaries.
Rush was against McCain in the primaries.
Rush lost the primaries, then Rush lost the general election in a big way.
Wow.
I didn't didn't know I was on the ballot.
I lost everything.
I'm a loser.
I'm always I'm a I'm always on the ballot.
I guess I'm just the biggest loser out there.
What is Colin Powell won?
What Colin Powell has won is the approval of the drive-by media elites and the lead left-leaning elites in the New York Washington Axis or corridor.
But what has he won?
He wasn't on the ballot either.
I didn't endorse anybody in the Republican primaries.
Regardless, you see how this is all shaping up.
Cheney and I uh maybe could command 13% of the votes.
If that's the case, why don't you guys?
You know, I I'll tell you what you ought to do.
Here's what MSNBC ought to do.
Whoever runs that outfit, Jeff Zucker, Phil Griffin, here's what they ought to do.
You got cable channels galore that you own besides MSNBC.
What else do they own?
Do they own um gosh they own they own NBC Universe?
They've got a they've got a sh they got a cable channel that they show Universal Movies and TV shows in HD.
Why don't you guys broom that and just run 24-7 audio and video of me and Cheney and destroy the Republican Party?
You could do more damage with us speaking than you could having M MSNBC rip us.
I mean, if we're doing that much damage, I mean, we ought to be all over the place everywhere.
But yet what they want us to all do is shut up.
It'd pay for itself too.
I mean, you wouldn't have to be going to Obama asking how much you could spend for for advertising.
Juan Williams got in on the he's a smart guy.
But what political argument has Colin Powell ever won?
That's all unbelievable.
If you want to win elections, if you want to move the party forward, I don't think that there's uh much of a from a political perspective, much of a choice between Rush Limbaugh and Colin Powell.
Colin Powell is ranked as one of the most respected American leaders across the political spectrum, and Rush Limbaugh uh is very popular entertainer, but he's not uh in the same rank and certainly not of the same seriousness.
He said if it was a choice between Powell and Limbaugh, he'd take Limbaugh.
And I just don't think that if you're concerned about the Republican Party going forward, you would make such a statement.
Well, here again, I I I guess.
I guess I'm just not as smart uh and and uh loaded with common sense as I thought.
We're talking about a guy here who abandoned the Republican Party, who now is the only one who can unite it, who now is the only one who can lead it.
What what seriously, snerdly, what am I missing here?
What why what what do these guys not get about the fact that Colin Powell's not a Republican?
Well, I know I know they don't care, they're not Republicans' leader, but I the the here's the truth.
What these guys know is Colin Powell leading the Republican Party, it would lose every election it entered.
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