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July 6, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 6, 2009, Monday, Hour #3
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I'm getting a lot of second guessing from the staff today.
First of all, the chief of staff of this it should be made clear.
People should know where you are from.
The chief of staff of this program is from Milwaukee, where I do my program.
And he apparently was back home visiting his wonderful mother last week, who's a listener to me.
He said, Yeah, you know, I caught your program.
Not well, I was interested to hear what you saw like I caught your program, kind of like it was on the radio somewhere where you had no choice but to hear it.
Well, you had a lot of passion.
You really you could do some of that when you're here, you know, as opposed to what?
You could be, you know, you could be good here, too.
Was that what you were saying?
All I ever get when I go back to Milwaukee is why don't you do your show here the way you do it for Rush?
You're so much better when you do Rush's program.
Now you're telling me I'm so much better when I do the show in Milwaukee.
I can't win.
I'm almost like Sarah put it picked on and put upon.
The uh you you want me to say some of these shots, don't you?
I don't believe she is this was not her making.
She was in a situation in which I think she felt she had to do something for self-survival.
By the way, the uh ticket request for the Michael Jackson funeral, now at 10,000.
Apparently there's room for 1,800 or who buys tickets to a funeral.
Now I'm gonna make a point about this.
I'm telling you, I would bet 95% of the people who go to the Michael Jackson Memorial Service are people who rot mock and ridicule Sarah Palin.
Think about that for a minute.
These are people who are going to go to a service to memorialize one of the weirdest, freakiest people any of us have ever seen, a person who faced repeated charges of pedophilia, who behaved irrationally for the last 20 years of his life.
Yet they think Sarah Palin is stupid and Sarah Palin's not cut to be this and she's unable to be that.
What was it about her that brought about such enmity?
And I know you'll say, well, they hate all of us, Mark.
They hate all Republicans.
They hate all conservatives.
She was given a special kind of grief.
I think it will be very hard for her to recover from this politically.
Because they're just going to use it against her.
You quit, Sarah.
You couldn't even take the heat in Alaska.
That was the crack from the former McCain advisor.
You walked away when you had a chance to serve.
But what would you have done were you in this situation?
And face it, she's been given and assigned by all of us because of societal norms, a special responsibility because she's a mother.
And because she's a mother, it was her children that were put right in the line of fire here.
Now I think a lot of her supporters are disappointed that she stepped on as governor of Alaska.
Some are confused.
Some are optimistic this is this is going to liberate her from the quagmire of Alaskan politics so that she can become a true national leader.
And there are some realities that are still out there.
If you are a Republican running for office anywhere in the United States, running for governor in 2010, Congress, United States Senate, and you want to raise money.
The absolute number one go-to person for your fundraiser is still Sarah Palin.
God.
Suppose you're running for something in Ohio.
You want to pack them in.
You want to charge $250, $300 a plate.
Who are you going to bring in?
Mitt Romney?
I don't think so.
Tim Pollenny.
Rush would be great.
He doesn't do it.
Of the Republicans that are out there, she's still the one that's the draw.
And she's now going to be able to do more of that.
I suspect she's going to be able to pay Off some of these legal bills and maybe make some money and understand that unlike virtually every one of the people who've been taking pot shots at her, she came into public office without a lot of money.
Her husband has a decent job.
She was by and large a stay-at-home mom who became a politician and a mayor.
They've got a large family.
She's middle class and maybe even lower middle class.
Yet she has incredible skills.
She can go out and give speeches and make appearances and do things to raise a little bit of money because she has an immense following in this country.
As much as many despised her, there are others who truly loved her.
She's got something, and it's hard to describe what it is, that really appeals to a lot of people.
And I'm sure a lot of them feel as though she's being forced out here and feel as though she's being driven from the national scene by a lynch mob.
Whether or not it means that she's done in 2012 or not, I don't know.
Does it mean that she can set herself up to run for president at a future date?
I don't know that either.
I can tell you, however, that there's no way she's going to disappear.
If for no other reason than to make money, I think that you're going to see her go out and give the occasional speech.
She has the ability to make alliances with Republicans all over the country by traveling and doing fundraising appearances and so on.
And as I said, there's a huge market for anything she does.
1-800-282-2882 is the telephone number at EIB.
Your thoughts on the Sarah resignation.
Let's go to Boston and Steve.
Steve, it's your turn on EIB.
Hi, Mark.
Thanks for uh having me on the program and giving me a chance to vent.
I uh let me just put it to you this way.
I'm a seething Gen Xer.
Um I'm a child of Ronald Reagan.
The last time I was this fired up was when I joined the class of 1990 at the Air Force Academy and devoted the rest of my career to serving this nation.
I am sick and tired of the Washington elites on both sides of the aisle, pillory this woman.
In my opinion, she's the heir to Ronald Reagan, in that she supports fiscal discipline, a strong defense, a smaller federal government, and she is emphatically pro-life and pro-family.
And by the way, you're kind of musing what drives them crazy.
Frankly, I think that's probably the thing that drives the liberals the craziest.
Her unapologetic, full up pro-life stance.
Well, and not just that she says it.
Absolutely.
I mean, when she it and I've noticed in listening to liberals when they talk about her, or even regular old people who don't like her, the thing they bring up again and again and again is she prayed the kids around.
Well, what is it about seeing her kids that so drives them crazy?
Bill Clinton trotted Chelsea around politicians have had their kids with them forever and ever and ever.
Politicians have always used their children as props.
I mean, Kennedy did it.
What was it about these kids that so drove them crazy?
And I think it drove home the fact that not only is she a pro-lifer by political philosophy, that's the life that she lived.
For heaven's sake, she carried determine a down syndrome baby, and those children are there.
And it didn't cost her anything in terms of her career, despite living pro-life, she was able to become a governor of a state and become the vice presidential nominee of the United States.
They don't like that because many of them were forced to make the same choice and made a compromise that they wish that they didn't have to make, and they resent the fact that she was able to prove that you don't have to sell out your convictions to give up the fullness of the potential of your life, but that's why they turned on her, and that's why they were determined to get her.
I mean, all these ethics investigations in Alaska are a joke.
And as for Letterman, why is he even telling a joke about Sarah Palin now?
She hasn't been running for national office since November of last year.
She's in New York six or seven months after the fact.
What was the point of even bringing it up other than just a mean old guy taking a shot that a bunch of mean old people could laugh at?
Yeah, they they know that she's a threat.
We have a saying in the Air Force.
It goes like this.
If you're not taking flack, you're not over the target.
And she's been over the target and driving it home, and she's been a thorn in their flesh.
Do you have the fear though that they've hit the target this time?
No, I don't.
I think she's resilient.
I think she's a fighter.
I think she's coming up with a strategy to go about this in a different way.
You know, if if up the middle, up the middle, up the middle punk doesn't work, then you come up with a different strategy to advance the ball down the field.
You might be right.
And I and I don't know.
I mean, I don't know her at all.
I've never spoken to her.
I don't know her family situation.
Part of me thinks that it could be a repositioning, but I also just look at this from the human perspective.
She's got a son who's fighting a war.
She's got a girda who really needs her support right now.
She has three other young children, one of whom was made the butt of a terrible joke on national television.
She has a younger child, and then she has a special needs child who needs incredible attention, and all of this is happening as their family finances are being s uh literally taken from them, and she's under this siege.
It may well be that she simply decided that whatever my political future holds, right now I'm going to protect my family, that I'm going to walk away from this for the time being in order to protect my family because this attack on her has been aimed directly at her family.
That's how they've gotten to her.
And let me make my final point.
There's many of us out here that are regular, true Americans that feel that that attack has come straight to us as well.
We know what that feels like.
We we are the silent majority that is getting abused by this liberal media, and we're sick and tired of it.
I think what you just said speaks for a lot of people.
I mean, I've never seen a public figure as polarizing as her.
People said Bill Clinton was, not to this extent.
People said Reagan was, not to this extent.
Not even Bush, not even Obama.
There is something about Sarah Palin that inspires incredible loyalty.
And I think that part of it is this notion that because she didn't have Ivy League education, because she didn't have the greatest command of every international or economic question, despite having only been a governor for a couple of years, that she wasn't worthy.
Who is this woman who went to a nowhere college to come in and think that they can be one of us?
Well, for all of us who went to nowhere colleges, I went to the University of Wisconsin lacrosse, and I got all of a bachelor's degree and nothing else.
We resent that.
This idea that if you're not part of that cocktail scene over there, you don't go to the right universities, or you aren't properly educated, that you have no role in this country, and then they trot out as an icon, Joe Biden, a man who can't go five days without saying something stupid, a man who's put on the Today Show to calm America down about the swine flu, and instead it creates a panic.
A guy who talks about going to a restaurant that's been closed for 25 years, that guy is okay because he went to the right institutions and he's part of the Eastern establishment.
They can stand up and defend and create and suggest as an I as iconic status.
Teddy Kennedy, who's been involved in nothing but body behavior his entire life.
They can challenge Sarah Palin's ethics while Christopher Dodd is still in the United States Senate.
They do all of those things, and they stand up and defend people who have far less character, far less ability, far less integrity than her, and they attack her and give her all of this, and that's why I think what you just said rings true.
A lot of people see this as an attack on them, that there are people out there who think that they are better than the rest of us.
And you're right, they aren't all liberals.
Some of them are conservatives.
Some of them are Republicans.
And I'm not saying she's the future of the Republican Party.
I'm not saying she's the only person who could run for president.
I'm not saying that she's got a monopoly on the conservative movement.
What I am saying is that she has been treated terribly, that her family has been put under attack, and she's been given treatment that in a free society nobody should have had to put up with.
Thank you for the call.
My name is Mark Belling, and I'm sitting in for Rush Limbaugh.
I'm Mark Belling sitting in for Rush Limbaugh.
Contessa Brewer's on M MSNBC right now.
I'm the only person in America watching MSNBC because the bank of television monitors in here has it on.
I want to tell you a story about Contessa Brewer, by the way, she's from Milwaukee, too.
She was interviewing Do you know who that talk show host is from Los Angeles who did the interview with Sarah Palin a couple of weeks ago after the Letterman uh thing, he's uh talked about how badly she was treated during the uh 2008 campaign.
I'd like to credit him, but I don't remember his name anyway.
He was on MSNBC after the uh Letterman jokes and so on, and got back in the face of the hostile lefty anchor, Contessa Brewer, and so how would you like it if you were and then mentioned some of the charges that were made against Sarah?
How would you like it if you were called this?
How would you like it if you were described as slutty?
And I'm telling Contessa Brewer got upset.
And I think she almost cracked.
I she know it cut it.
You saw you did see it.
I posted it on uh my own website back in my radio program in Milwaukee.
She appeared to be close to tears.
She didn't cry, but she appeared to be close to cracking.
And it just emphasized again how people are asking her to take treatment that they could never take on their own.
And I think the fact that she is a woman is one of the reasons that it's worse.
And while I mentioned the class factor, and I think that that's a big part of it, that they don't like the notion that this person who went to a regular old state university and is just from a small state like Alaska, talks kind of folksy, could deign to be one of them, because the fact of the matter is, when Democrats get someone like that on their team, they eat it up.
They love them.
Remember old Ann Richards, former governor of Texas.
She talked all folksy.
I think Rush called her Ma Richards, if I don't...
Ma Richards, that's what he called her, right?
They loved her!
She was folksy at home spun and a populist, and the people could relate to her.
How well do you think Ann Richards would have done in a quiz on foreign policy?
So they're willing to eat up that type when it's one of them.
However, Republican, appeal to the common man, be a regular old person.
I mean, it was really a vendetta that was directed at her.
I don't think, and I don't know this, I don't think.
This is just a mild opinion that she's going to be running for president in 2012.
I just don't.
You've got to remember, though, that in order for them to get rid of her, time is not on their side.
She will in 2016 be 52 years old.
That's still young to be running for president.
There is enough star appeal with Sarah Palin, and there are enough Americans who admire her, that they can't get rid of her.
They may be able to drive her out of the governorship of Alaska, and they may be able to preempt in the short term a campaign for president.
But it's not like she's going to disappear and go away and never be seen again.
There's too much of a market and too much of a demand for her.
That same nerve that she touches in driving them crazy, that that nerve exists in all the people who really admire her.
Trumble, Connecticut, and Trisha, Trisha, it's your turn on the Rush Limbaugh program.
Hi, Mark.
Um I'd just like to say first that if my husband and I hadn't had the opportunity on Saturday to go to a tea party with hundreds of other uh local common sense um Americans, responsible people who uh want to stand up for what this country was founded on.
I I would have spent much of the weekend being depressed about what's happening to our nation and our future and our liberties.
And um as far as uh Sarah Palin, I see a similarity in the nature of the vicious, hateful um rabid attacks upon her and upon Mitt Romney that he experienced as he was running for the Republican nomination last year.
Um I think that the uh political operatives, the um Rama Manuel types, the David Axelrod, as well as even people maybe within the Republican Party that that had different candidates in mind, they sense in uh Sarah Palin and Mitt Romney,
this integrity you were talking about, um, even I might say goodness, uh honesty, uh capability and executive experience, common Well, they certainly don't like anyone who makes the hard moral choice as opposed to the easy moral choice.
They don't like that because they tend to be the kinds of people who went the other way with their own decisions.
I I don't want to deal too extensively with the abortion question because any time a talk show host does it, it hijacks the rest of the program.
But I've long had a theory that many of the people who favor legal abortion f secretly understand that they are wrong about that issue, and Sarah Palin's pro life uh beliefs were ones that she lived, and they were out there, and that that really brought all of that about, and I think that's one of the reasons why so many people really really disliked her and disliked any presence of her children in the public eye.
My name is Mark Belling, and I'm sitting in for Rush Limbaugh.
I'm talking about the Sarah Palin announcement and what it means for her future and what it means for America that they were able to drive her out of Alaskan politics.
I shared with the audience a few things a little bit earlier.
There's a really really good piece on a website called American Thinker by J. R. Dunn.
Before I get into that, it was John Ziggler was the talk show host who uh had the confrontation with Contessa Brewer and told that Rush actually played the audio on his program, so you might have had a chance to hear it.
Uh J.R. Dunn, an American thinker, writes the following about Sarah Palin.
The response to Sarah Palin's surprise resignation last Friday clearly reveals the limitations of the American political class, right, left or what have you.
Obsessive figures confronted with a simple human contingency and unable to confront comprehend what's right in front of their eyes, retreating instead into irrelevant speculation about whatever they know best.
Simply put, in resigning her governorship and stepping away from active politics, Sarah Palin is not pulling any tricks, carrying out any maneuvers, or putting in motion any long range plans.
She is doing exactly what any normal, rational, undriven human being would do under the same circumstances.
What are those circumstances?
Consider her situation at the moment, by which we mean her situation, not the country situation, not the GOP situation, not the political situation in any sense at all.
Her eldest son is serving in the military in the war zone at a particularly dangerous and violent moment when the US is transferring responsibility to the new and still untried Iraqi army.
Her eldest daughter is dealing with the burden of single motherhood while also serving as a national joke for the same type of people who insisted that Chelsea Clinton and the Obama girls are off limits.
This is a state of affairs that undoubtedly requires much in the way of TLC from Palin.
Her youngest daughter has recently come under the gun, thanks to that epitome of class David Letterman.
All excuses aside, the A Rod joke was a transparent attempt at seeing if it was now safe to go after Willow, the rest of the Palin family having been run to the mill one after the other.
It occurred at an awkward age for a girl, when events such as this can leave a serious mark.
Another instance where mom must be available.
And lastly, Palin has a disabled infant child, one who has already been victimized by the left wing blogosphere and the mass media.
Downs children are very high functioning.
It's easily possible for Trig to have a golden life, as long as close attention is paid to his upbringing and education.
His mother will be the crucial figure here.
So what does a woman do under such circumstances?
A real woman, not a pile in a skirt.
A wife and a mother, someone with a clear hierarchy of values.
She steps out.
She removes herself herself from the firing line, returns to what matters.
She retreats from the public world for the verities of family and community.
There's nothing difficult to understand here.
All the comments we've heard from the mass media from the political experts and from the operatives merely reveal the limitations of the commentators.
But what about her greater obligations to that of conservatism as a movement for instance?
It happens to have been the movement conservatives, at least those of the Northeast Corridor, who on the basis of tradition consider themselves to be the core of the movement, who led the charge against Palin on her selection as vice presidential candidates.
Not the left, not the mass media, but conservatives, such as From Parker and Brooks, who found her to be just the slightest touch de class.
She did not understand the modern dance.
Her taste and clarette was undependable.
Her reading of the Federalist number sixty three was, shall we say, idiosyncratic.
These people have no call on her whatsoever.
And the GOP.
Doesn't she owe the party anything?
Just a few short days after her youngest daughter was humiliated in one of the most widely watched late night shows in the country.
An obvious hit piece appeared in that balanced journal of the higher intellect, Vanity Fair, in which certain unnamed GOP officials revealed the true Sarah Palin.
Sarah is Michael Jackson, Sarah the narcissist who lived in a dream world and was overwhelmed by demons.
The fact that GOP figures would cooperate with a rag like Vanity Fair in the first place, puts a period to any talk of a party connection.
The GOP obviously has an agenda.
It is not Sarah Palin's agenda, nor more than likely ours either.
And what about Alaska?
Palin is one of the outstanding governors of our time, possibly surpassed only by Rick Perry, infinitely superior to Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jennifer Granholm, or Mitt Romney, to mention only a few members of a large crowd.
She went a long way toward cleaning up the anchorage cesspool, wound up the negotiations for a gas pipeline that had been languishing for decades, and put her state on the national radar screen for the first time since 1958.
But her usefulness as governor was probably drawing to an end.
If she were to show interest in a twenty twelve run, she could depend on Obama's crew doing everything possible to drag her down and going through her state to do it.
Chicago would put Alaska through the grinder, a very easy thing to accomplish from Washington.
In fact, it could be argued that this campaign has already begun with the slow death by cuts action against the National Missile Defense Center at Fort Greeley.
Even as the ballistic missile threat from North Korea and Iran grows more urgent, Obama is dismantling the sole serious defense against it.
In a real sense, Palin's resignation at this time can be viewed as yet another service to her state.
So Sarah Palin has left the stage for perfectly justifiable reasons and taken her family with her.
The mob still waits, unfamiliar with normal behavior from a public figure, eager for more laughs.
But there will be no encore, not right anyway.
She will be back.
Not for twenty twelve.
The GOP has its plans already worked out, very clever ones too.
The Republicans will do what they always do when they're up against it.
Grab an empty suit and run around shaking it in people's faces while shouting, here's the man.
By 2012, after his policies really hit home as gas and home fuel prices triple and quadruple as medical rationing begins as the renewed axis of evil runs wild across Eurasia, Obama will be ready to drop.
At that point, he could be defeated by a ticket consisting of Charlie Manson and Jojo the dog face boy.
But the GOP will blow it all the same, exactly as the party did in ninety six, following the same script of the letter.
They will to coin a phrase mit it up.
That moment will mark the start of a new phase for Sarah Palin.
The exquisite branch of conservatism will drift away, assuring each other that it's still possible to live well in a dying civilization.
The GOP operatives will, as always, be blaming the legacy of Reagan and looking for a rhino who can somehow fool the backwoods rubes.
Obama will spend his entire second term racing back and forth trying to put out forest fires, using buckets with holes in them.
Palin's enemies will have destroyed themselves and her moment will come at last.
Democracies never stop halfway, no matter what it is, good or bad, intelligent or stupid, harmful or beneficial.
They have to go the whole route before at last changing course.
The U.S. could not abandon Great Society liberalism in seventy six and had to wait until eighty.
The UK could not possibly put aside labor policies until they were ground down to the last.
It's just as apt to say that we, the GOP, the conservative establishment, the country, are not ready for her.
An electorate will always fall for the professional Paul, slick, convincing, and empty, before turning in desperation to the truly human candidate.
But the time will come.
In a few years, her children will be settled, she will no longer have hostages to fortune, and the laughter will have long died away.
That is when the lady will start shuffling the cards.
We will all have further opportunity to wonder what Sarah Palin is up to.
I don't agree with everything in there, but it's very thought provoking.
The piece was in the American thinker, J.R. Dunn.
All right, let's hear from the audience.
Let's go to Bob in Boston.
Bob, you're on the Rush Limbaugh program with Mark Belling.
Oh, hi, Mark.
You know, I wish you'd quit saying they're dri driving her out of Alaska.
She's electing to leave when she's strong, and I'll tell you, she's going to get more influence in Alaska, blasting influence by having her appointed Lieutenant Governor Parnell, carry on her policies as an incumbent and probably win reelection uh in two thousand ten that if she stayed there.
Uh so they're not driving her out.
She's choosing to leave, and I think what she's gonna do is she's that she's gonna uh get involved in the GOP midterm elections two thousand ten uh to lead the help lead the Republicans to uh the gang control or try to, you know, increase their uh influence in the House and Senate.
And she's making a sacrifice to do that.
She could she d I I don't think she's minds taking the heat, but I think she's thinking if she's gonna take the heat wants to get some mileage out of her.
Sure, I think and you may be right about that, and I certainly think she's going to do her best to raise money for Republicans in two thousand ten.
I do question though whether or not there isn't a personal desire here to move away from this for the sake of her family.
And as I said, I don't know the answer.
Uh I can't read her mind and I don't know what's what's going on there as to whether or not she feels as though she's leaving for a time or this is simply her changing strategies.
I think that the idea of her trying to run in 2012 might be a stretch, but again, I'm not really sure about that.
You are right about one thing though.
If you're a Republican running for office anywhere in this country next year in 2010, if you want to raise money, the person you're gonna be on the phone with begging to come is Sarah Palin.
I'm Mark Elling sitting in for Rush Limbaugh.
I'm Mark Belling sitting in for Rush Limbaugh.
So if you saw it, was Federer Rodic the greatest tennis match of all time?
Everybody says last year's Wimbledon when it was Federer versus Nadal when they played for like five hours that that was the greatest match of all time.
I saw them both.
This one was different.
First was faster because there were so many aces.
Federer had a lot of aces and Roddick is maybe the greatest server of all time, so the match went faster.
But I mean that fifth set, sixteen fourteen.
Anyway, I had a fly out to New York to do the program, and it's getting later and later and later.
My flight is approaching, and it's you know, it's in the fifth set, and it's now five four, then it's five five, six five, then it's six six, then it's seven six, and I'm looking at the watch, and now it's nine eight, and then it's ten nine.
I o there was no way I could leave.
Fortunately, uh Federer finally broke Rod, I think Roddick had won thirty-seven straight games in which he had the serve.
It was a fantastic match.
I think the better question is is Federer now the greatest tennis player of all time.
It's one more grand slam events than anyone else.
And he finally won the French Open this year, which is the one event he hadn't won.
Uh we're talking about Sarah Palin and a few other things on the Rush Limbaugh program.
Let's go to Scranton, Pennsylvania.
Ruth, it's your turn with Mark Belling.
Hi, Mark.
A pleasure to speak to you for the second time in one year.
Um quickly, uh you know, this broke on Friday afternoon.
Um at our Shabbat dinner table, and um my mom came up with a very interesting theory.
Uh, you know, this is a very pivotal time in American history.
Um the next six months to a year uh is really gonna change the future for us our and our children, our grandchildren.
Um we have a president who's an ideologue.
Uh he is pushing, he is pushing through spending faster than anybody in history.
Um the stimulus package, which has millions going to clean bridges in New York and study pig smell.
No, it's it's beyond that.
I believe he's a Marxist.
I mean, what we're what we're seeing here is the total embrace of socialism in our country.
We have a controlling interest in Citigroup.
We have a controlling interest in what's left of AIG.
We own General Motors, we own Chrysler, and he wants to take over all of American health care and tax every private industry to death.
I mean, that's what socialism is.
So I agree with you on your premise.
So where are we going with this then, Ruth?
Well, we're going here.
We need somebody in the next six months to a year before the rest of the stimulus package is spent to go out there and talk to the people and get the American people turn around.
And yes, we have Rush and we have you, and this is all wonderful.
Um I've heard Sarah Palin on two occasions.
She engages the crowd.
Um, she was no there was no competition when she uh joined the vice presidential debate with Biden.
Nobody was looking at him.
And maybe afterwards in retrospect, she didn't have all the information.
Maybe we should have been looking at him given the fact that he's turning out to be a lunatic.
Right, right.
But she what I'm saying to you is that if she I I think her plan, what my mother was thinking was her plan is to get out there and try and reverse this as much as she can and try to engage people and get people active and do it now.
By 2012, the stimulus will be, and we're just gonna America is going to hell.
It must be a little too late.
Right.
I I'm afraid that we're trying to put so much on her that she's the only person that can save the country from Obama when she may have more personal concerns that are out there right now.
I mean, frankly, what needs to happen is the role that you've been describing needs to be taken up by the Republican Party.
Instead of approaching health care and approaching cap and trade in this, well, maybe we can make it better, which is what big business is doing.
They're trying to get their place at the table to cut the deal so they're not hurt all that badly, that others can stand up and start arguing this.
You're right.
There are talk show hosts, people like Rush, who are making the argument, and Sarah Palin would be a value in this, but for heaven's sakes, we've got a country that is racing toward open socialism.
We're talking about destroying the value of our currency and burdening not just future generations, but burdening the country permanently with debt that we can't dig out from under.
It's not like Sarah Palin's the only person with a voice.
We need to let people we need people to stand up and start opposing this stuff because I'm not as pessimistic as the author who I quoted before.
We can beat this stuff.
Cap and trade is in big trouble in the Senate.
And as people learn more about national health care, they're not going to like that.
And as for a second stimulus, I think public's going to be very skeptical about throwing billions and billions more after the first package didn't do any good.
Sarah is a superstar within the Republican Party, but she doesn't have to be the sole voice.
Thank you for the call.
My name is Mark Belling, and I'm sitting in for Rush.
If you liked what you heard today, the good news is I'll be back tomorrow.
If you didn't, the bad news is Rush is gone all week.
This is his annual week-long golfing vacation from what I read on Rush Limbaugh.com and the little bit that I heard uh on Friday's program.
Uh was it Thursday's program or Friday's program where he talked about the golfing?
Who knows?
This this is all secretive, and he's playing secret golf courses somewhere.
So anyway, uh, you've got me and a couple of other hosts who are going to be with you for the remainder of the week.
Couple of final thoughts about Sarah Palin.
The point about her bird being polarizing, I want to really stress, as despised and reviled as she is by so many people who don't like her.
That's how much she's liked and beloved by many others.
Other than Rush himself, I'm not sure that there's anyone in the conservative movement since Reagan that has produced that kind of really visceral reaction.
I think what she represented for a lot of people was this notion that we aren't gonna be bossed around by the egghead crowd that thinks it's smarter than us, that knows better for us, that wants to run our lives, and has disdain for SUVs and cars and cookouts, and carbon footprints and football and everything else.
And in a way, all rolled up, she sort of represented all of that.
To give you an idea of what I mean, and I promise you I am not making this up, holding in my hands the editorial page of today's New York Times.
For those of you who think that this conservatives exaggerate what the left wants with the nanny state.
They want to manage our finances, they want to manage our health care, they want to decide what kind of cars we have.
They want to run every aspect of our lives.
We're told that we exaggerate this.
Today's New York Times is an editorial.
On the editorial page, the headline is say no to raw cookie dough.
They are running an editorial telling you not to eat raw cookie doll because of the A. coli threat.
This is what their world is.
Manage you right down to what you lick your fingers with off the bowl in mom's kitchen.
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