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Sept. 1, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 1, 2009, Tuesday, Hour #3
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Thanks, Johnny.
Appreciate it.
Thanks, Rush, for the honor of being here for the second day.
The next two days, though, are Mark Stein on Wednesday and Thursday, always enjoyable.
And then Friday, Walter Williams.
So it's just a big, happy week of guys happy to be here.
And very pleased at your company for this day.
Rush back next week.
As we all head up, here comes Labor Day weekend.
It's September 1st already.
Unbelievable.
I smell NFL season.
Very, very cool.
Brett Favre did pretty well last night, right?
Are we caring about that?
Boy, I cannot imagine.
The example that's been used everywhere you are, everywhere you live, you can make your own example.
Here in Dallas Cowboys country, it goes like this.
Can you imagine if Roger Staubach had finished his years of service in 1979 and had said, you know what?
I got a little more playing in me.
I'm going to the Washington Redskins.
I know both sides of that because I grew up in the suburbs of D.C.
Now I've been here for 15 years.
That would just make people's heads explode.
There's never been anything like this where a Hall of Fame guy who's just whose DNA is just fused into one community in Favre's case, Green Bay, coming out and heading to the enemy.
And people just ream him for this, but the Packers could have kept him and chose not to.
Heard an analogy just locally yesterday that if you dump a girl, it's no longer any of your business who she dates.
Probably a horribly clumsy analogy, but I think it kind of works.
I don't know.
So Favre in Minnesota.
I don't know.
And I know Rush will be regaling you with Pittsburgh Steelers stories.
Probably have a pretty good time with that, too, because the Steelers are probably going to be very, very, very good.
But here, as we get from summer to fall, obviously we get into some interesting anniversaries.
I was just looking at the calendar, looking at my calendar from last year.
We're just about exactly a year of when we were all gathered in St. Paul wondering how that was all going to work out at the Republican convention, the McCain Palin convention.
What an absolutely amazing, amazing week that was.
In fact, one year ago today, one year ago today, they blew away the Monday night because of a hurricane preparedness.
What is that?
I lose track.
So a part of America was going to get chewed up.
Oh, we can't have a Republican convention in Minnesota because of what might happen on the Gulf Coast.
Struck me as weird, but I was up there.
Not to keep taking the show back to hurricane issues.
Oh, heavens to Betsy.
And then, boy, Tuesday and Wednesday unfolded.
The Sarah Palin speech.
We've come a little way since then, haven't we?
She certainly has.
And now she is part of a fascinating tapestry of, it seems, suddenly empowered Republicans.
Mitt Romney, Bobby Jindahl, you know, is Mike Huckabee going to, you know, is Mike Huckabee going to leave radio now to run for president?
Radio and television.
How about names that maybe we're not even talking about so much, like Paul Ryan, Mike Pence?
I'm ready to hear everybody's best game, ready to see what everybody brings in 2012.
But first, we have that little thing called 2010.
One of the things we can talk about this final hour of the show today is do you fear, this is so weird.
Can you believe that I'm saying this?
And maybe I shouldn't.
I don't believe in jinxes, all right?
So because of that, I'll tell you, are you concerned about overconfidence?
Have seen, right?
I'm not because I don't plan on practicing it.
I will believe that Republicans have traction to win back a bunch of seats, the 40 that are needed to return to the majority in the House.
I will believe it when I see it and not for one minute beforehand.
I don't know about polls.
I don't know about forecasts.
I mean, you could show me that we're going to win 55 seats on the day before November of 2010.
I'll say, okay, I'll talk to you that night.
Because what a wild rodeo the 2010 elections are going to be.
Democrats, some of them are going to be fighting for their lives, their fortunes damaged by the positions they've taken on health care and maybe even some other issues.
Republicans suddenly empowered, thinking there might not be a Republican majority for another decade, suddenly seeing that the sheer extremism, the cravenness of this administration may have given them an unbelievable gift, the gift of the public's attention.
A Democrat administration that has turned off so many people that they are suddenly willing to pay attention to Republicans whom they had forgotten were ever born a mere year earlier.
So every time I see the occasional article that says, oh, some analyst says Republicans could have a huge bonanza in 2010.
I just said, don't say it.
Don't look at it.
Get it away from me.
Don't let me drink that Kool-Aid.
We will just have to see.
We'll just have to see.
As we get ready to go to your calls, though, the strategy is everything in Washington, right?
And this is kind of interesting.
Barbara Boxer and John Kerry are the chief Democrat sponsors of this pernicious global warming legislation.
And they've pushed its introduction back from next, it was going to be next week.
They're going to wait until later in September.
Barbara Boxer, John Kerry, in an emailed statement yesterday, talked about John Kerry's hip surgery, Senator Kennedy's death, healthcare still occupying all the oxygen.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reed said in July he wanted the committees with jurisdiction over this global warming measure to have their work done by September 28th.
Barbara Boxer, who's the chairwoman of the Environment and Public Works Committee, says that's probably not going to happen now.
Now, the House passed cap and trade in June.
And the more people learn about that, the less popular it gets.
And so the Senate is just going to be a fascinating, fascinating place.
And oh, and by the way, Governor Duval Patrick in Massachusetts, we have a special election date set.
Was it January 19th?
So this notion of passing health care by the end of this calendar year, I mean, I don't know.
Was all they need 51?
If they're going to bypass the usual methodology, the reconciliation method, heck with that 60 that served the Republic well forever.
Let's do the 51 thing.
Why?
Well, because it's us and we think it's important.
But the question arises: if we have enough success in convincing people of the ill wisdom of Obamacare, is it possible that maybe even that 51 is tough to get?
And if they're scratching and clawing to get to 51, that Massachusetts vacancy, very interesting.
Now, with Governor, with the election set, and please don't even allow yourself to dream that maybe there are people in Massachusetts who have achieved sufficient clarity to elect a Republican.
No, please, please, please, please, please.
I know every once in a while, Massachusetts will crank out a Republican governor, but it's sort of the William Weld kind of guy.
Or what Mitt Romney used to be, which I think was kind of a moderate soul, certainly less so now.
And is that a.
And I've been around Governor Romney a number of times.
I've trudged through the snows of New Hampshire with this guy and everybody else up there just this past magical year.
And I find him to be sincere.
I really do.
I like the guy.
There was, quite frankly, after Rudy was stupid enough to say, well, I'll start getting serious in Florida.
Right.
You know, and then John McCain, Huckabee wins Iowa.
John McCain wins New Hampshire.
And all these guys are getting headlines and getting attention.
So Rudy's largely forgotten by the time we get to Florida.
Romney does well, but not well enough to keep Huckabee from winning in Iowa or keep McCain from winning New Hampshire.
But he's just in there and I think ran a good campaign.
I like the business background, like his views, like his aggressiveness.
Is he my guy?
Please don't even talk to me about my guy.
We'll see who my guy or gal might be once everybody's brought their best game.
But the Mitt Romney that you see today is very different from the one that got elected governor of Massachusetts.
The Mitt Romney of today could not be elected governor of Massachusetts and certainly could not be elected senator from Massachusetts.
Some have said, hey, maybe Mitt will run for that Ted vacancy.
Yeah, that would be a genius move.
That's what you want to do when you're thinking about the presidency in 2012, and that's run for a seat where you're going to get your clock cleaned because it is Massachusetts and because it is the Kennedy seat, this is almost no Republicans need to ply.
Somebody will.
There'll be some valiant soul get up there and get steamrolled and God bless whoever that is.
But the thing is, without that, I wonder how much they're going to need that one Massachusetts vote before the end of this calendar year.
It'll be long.
And what you may see is if it really does, if it's this nail-bitingly close, and the Democrats need, literally need that one vote.
Suddenly, it won't be something they have to do by the end of the year.
What's the one thing that takes them off this ridiculous urgency fetish?
We got to do it and we got to do it now.
It's got to be now, now, now.
What?
We get one more vote in January.
Well, let's relax a little bit.
Let's enjoy the holidays.
Get back to it in January.
Just wait.
Okay.
Enough waiting for people on hold.
1-800-282-2882.
Let's go ahead and get our first break of the hour out of the way and dive in and see what people are thinking, wanting to talk about on the Tuesday Rush Limbaugh Show.
I'm Mark Davis in Dallas-Fort Worth at WBAP Filling In.
Much appreciate that.
And again, Mark Stein tomorrow and Thursday, Walter Williams on Friday.
Rush back next week.
So with that, let's pause and get to your calls at 1-800-282-2882.
And we'll do it next on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
1-800-282-2882.
That is the Rush Limbaugh phone number, even when Rush isn't here.
Which he's not this week.
I'm Mark Davis in Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas.
Enjoyed Monday and now Tuesday.
We've got another 39 minutes together.
Let's see what we make of it.
And then Mark Stein tomorrow and Thursday, Walter Williams on Friday.
Let's see who's on the phone lines and what they want to do.
1-800-282-2882.
We spent a lot of time today talking about how America grew war-weary.
And in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, Faith is here with an observation that maybe this is something we have always done and may always do.
Hi, Faith.
How are you?
Hi, Mark.
I was calling because I don't think it's really fair to compare saying, oh, the president goes against public support.
It makes him a leader or it makes him not a leader.
You've got to look at each situation differently.
With President Bush in general in America with war, public support usually wanes after about two years.
I mean, this is true as far back as Abraham Lincoln, George Washington.
So sometimes it takes a great leader to continue a vision that America has.
You know, and I think there's a totally such a different situation when you're talking about a president who's wanting to pass policies that there are no public support to begin with.
So I don't think it's really the same thing.
No, I think that is a spectacular point.
Let's take your thesis here and apply it to a couple of wars.
Two years into America's war on terror, let's say 2005, certainly America was starting to grow war-weary.
You may agree with me or not, but my point is that President Bush showed great leadership in refusing to become war-weary himself, even though the public had.
Now, that's a fairly popular cause to make in conservative circles.
Let's go to 1968.
Vietnam really started to heat up, really become front of mind in America, 65, 66.
I mean, when it started.
So let's take 66.
Using your two-year bracket, which I think is standing up pretty well, by 1968, by 68, America was clearly war-weary.
Would you have suggested then that the newly elected President Nixon would have shown leadership in 69 and 70 by saying, hey, to all these college kids and everybody else that's sick of Vietnam, I am staying the course and I am going to win.
Is that apples and apples?
Well, you know, another thing I was going to say is you can't, every situation isn't identical, but if he is elected to office, if Nixon was elected to office, and he's got to look at that vision that America has, whether he should push it forward or not, you know, and I do think that's applicable there too, because, you know, whatever decision he happens to think was right, he had to go with that vision.
It's not just about changing things to what you think.
It's about continuing America's vision.
And you know what?
If that really wasn't America's vision, then he was kind of fighting an empty cause.
Yeah, thoroughly decent analysis.
Thank you.
Thank you very much, Faith.
Appreciate it.
No two wars are apples and apples, I guess, eh?
Everything is, I got a went Canadian on the earth.
No two are alike, eh?
Brooklyn in Canada.
Every single chapter of history, these chapters of history have certain similarities.
There's a thread that runs through them.
But I guess, especially in terms of wars, they are evaluated through the lens of what our national attitudes are at the time, of what is at stake in a given war.
And if you take Vietnam and the current war on terror, this is a fascinating juxtaposition to make.
At least I hope it is.
We are attacked on 9-11 and in not the first act of war against us from the terrorist world, the bombing of the coal, the bombing of those very same World Trade Centers, Cobar Towers, our embassies in Africa.
Act of war after act of war after act of war after act of war.
But the one on 9-11 pushed our nation and President Bush onto a war footing so that we actually came back at these people by being on a war footing with them after they had been on a war footing with us forever.
And the country was, as many are prone to nostalgically recall, united.
A war to topple some regimes, and Saddam was the most misbehaving regime in the part of the world that wants to kill us.
A thoroughly decent place to start.
Neighboring Afghanistan, which may well have housed a lot of the al-Qaeda folks, including Osama bin Laden himself.
Thoroughly decent place to go alongside.
Maybe more to come.
Everybody was on board for a little while.
Then everybody went to their respective corners.
And either grew war-wear or, and this is what saddens me more than anything else, I believe that a ton of Democrats, as the entire country coped and started to forget that 9-11 had really happened.
And I don't mean forget it like you forget where your car keys were.
Of course, you can't forget 9-11, but you can banish it from the portion of your brain that really makes it continue to mean something.
Daryl Worley's Have You Forgotten? The great song doesn't mean have you forgotten that it happened, of course, but have you forgotten how you felt?
And for millions of Americans, it was totally true.
They'd completely lost touch with the righteous and proper indignation of September 12th and 13th and 14th and 15th and the days that followed.
So the stakes there were a portion of the world filled with terrorists, not that wanted to even necessarily bomb more of our major cities, but maybe explode a post office in Indianapolis or a shopping mall in Tampa or who knows what.
This is unlike any war we have ever fought.
These are not people in uniform.
That's why the Geneva Conventions don't apply.
Thank you.
It's, I mean, World War I, World War II.
We're worried about the Germans and Japanese.
And are we going to have attacks launched on our shores from enemy boats lurking offshore, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera?
This is nothing like that.
This is about people sneaking into America and maybe setting off some horrible bio-warfare attack at the subways of New York City.
Even that can't keep us focused.
We grow weary of trying to stop that from happening.
I guess in that context, it's not so hard to look back at Vietnam and realize how a country just got tired of fighting communism.
And if I may be allowed, I will continue to lament that we did not finish the job in Vietnam because I believe that we could have.
I really believe we could have.
Wouldn't have been easy, but stemming the spread of communism in Southeast Asia was then and is now noble.
Did we do it right?
No.
But those names on that wall and those who came back from that war, I will be forever in their debt for the nobility of their cause.
All righty, let's see what other noble causes or ignoble causes we can examine as we work our way through the final half hour of the Rush Limbaugh Show.
I'm Mark Davis filling in.
You're right.
And a go-go's tune that is appropriate because that's exactly where Rush is.
Vacation, all he ever wanted.
Vacation.
Got to get away.
Got to play some golf.
And I hope the weather is good and the scores are low for Rush.
And he'll be back with you next week.
Mark Stein in tomorrow and Thursday.
Walter Williams on Friday.
And I just tell you, I join you in looking forward to listening to them.
Thank you for all the time you've been lucky.
Lucky.
I've been lucky.
You've been kind to give to me.
Let's get back to some more of your calls.
A couple of things to add as we return to the phonage.
Things you need to understand about this January 19th, 2010 special election date for filling the remaining two years of Senator Kennedy's term.
Number one, is that a one-shot free-for-all or is there a primary?
The answer is there will be a primary.
The primary for the January 19th election will be held on December 8th.
So all the Democrats who are running and all the Republican and the tilting at Windmills Republicans who will be running, they will do battle on December 8th.
And then the Republican and Democrat will duke it out on January 19th, 2010.
Now, does this mean that, because I did all of this waxing semi-eloquent on the notion of living out the rest of this year without the Kennedy seat, does that mean that Governor DeValpatrick has punted the idea of changing the laws of Massachusetts so that he can so that he can appoint a replacement?
No, he has not divorced himself from that at all.
Quote from Governor Patrick, I will continue to work with the legislature on legislation authorizing an interim appointment to the United States Senate for the five months until that special election happens.
So they're going to try to move heaven and earth to make sure that somebody, somebody is in there.
Among those who have been discussed as possible interim successors, obviously Ted Kennedy's widow, Vicki, she, once again, this was at a press conference yesterday.
Governor Patrick said that he had spoken with Mrs. Kennedy and she's just not interested in the job.
I have to just chuckle.
Do you believe that there is a possibility?
And I just, I feel warm inside just for Rush.
I feel warm inside for him.
The return of Michael Dukakis to the public stage.
Oh, my heavens, that's sweet.
Also, former Democrat National Committee Chairman Paul Kirk, possibility there.
Politico, here's a Michael Falcone piece.
Politico interviewed Dukakis on Monday.
He declined to comment on whether he would accept a temporary appointment, but he said he fully supported the push to change the succession law.
Of course he does.
Oh my.
I think it's very important that Massachusetts have two senators as soon as possible.
Really?
Really?
Isn't it funny how none of you in the Massachusetts Democratic Party felt that way when Ted Kennedy himself got the law changed to the way it is now because John Kerry was supposedly going to go be president, which thank God didn't happen, but that was going to be a vacancy.
And who was going to get to appoint someone to fill that?
Well, that would be then-Governor Mitt Romney.
Now, that's somehow different, isn't it?
Can't have that.
Can't have that.
But if it's a Democrat governor, woo-hoo, all about the appointment.
Well, we'll see how that all shakes out in the People's Republic of Massachusetts.
Let's go up close to Massachusetts.
And every, it's so weird, speaking of waxing, waxing nostalgic about the whole experience of covering campaign 08.
And I went everywhere and did shows from everywhere.
And of course, the year started in the snows of Iowa and then the melting snows of New Hampshire for the primaries in 08, which is now every bit of a year and a half ago, every bit of a year and a half ago.
You know what that means?
It means that I'm back in two and a half years, two and a half short years.
I'm slogging through the snow or whatever's left of it.
It was crazy warm in New Hampshire for the 08 primary after being four degrees in Des Moines.
And this pastime, of course, wide open for Democrats, wide open for Republicans.
I think I'll presume that President Obama will not have any primary challengers.
Hmm.
Might want a mulligan on that to throw in some limbaugh vacation golf terminology.
As soon as I said it, I sort of wanted it back.
How bad do things have to get before the Democrats offer up a possible primary challenger to Obama?
Don't get ahead, don't get ahead of me.
I don't think she would do that.
I don't think she would do that.
Would Hillary step out of the State Department for the I Told You So tour 2012?
I don't know, man.
And that whole – the specter of all of that is so odd and so rare, and we just sort of spent a lot of time talking about that with the passing of Senator Kennedy because that's about the last time that we got something like that.
A sitting president, a serious challenge from a big star in the party because that sitting president had been such an abysmal failure.
That's Kennedy challenging Carter.
1980.
Hmm.
I mean, I know that Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton duked it out, the first close convention battle in forever, but neither one of them was an incumbent.
That was wide open seat.
So anyway, two and a half years, ready to get back to the Granite State, and always a pleasure to go there on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
In Newmarket, New Hampshire, Bill, Mark Davis, you're on Rush's program, and it's nice to have you.
Hello.
Hi, Mark.
How are you doing?
Doing great.
Thank you.
As a former training supervisor on Navy, the subject of leadership is something I've often discussed.
And first and foremost, leadership has nothing to do with being in charge.
And the second thing is leadership is the ability to properly assess the situation and do what has to be done.
Simple as that.
Obviously, President Bush, when it came to Afghanistan and Iraq, showed leadership, whether the country was with him or not.
Unfortunately, the president we have now will lie, cheat, steal, and drag us all into doing something that we aren't good for ourselves because it's something in his agenda.
Case in point, mutinies succeed not because of the first guy who steps forward, because of the second guy that steps forward and supports the mutineers.
The old World War II movies where the guys are pinned down on the beach, officers are all dead.
One of them says, I'm getting off this beach, and they all get up and rally and win the battle.
That's leadership.
It's not necessarily doing the right thing or the popular thing.
It's doing what must be done.
All right.
I've been following.
I have a couple of questions.
You started out, curious quote.
Leadership has nothing to do with being in charge.
That's right.
I think, do you mean by that there are plenty of people who are in charge, but that doesn't mean that they are leaders?
That's correct.
Okay, good.
Okay, very good.
Second thing is at the end of your essay, which I thoroughly enjoyed, leadership is – I want to make sure I'm not misquoting.
You said it's not about doing the right thing but about doing the – It's about doing – it is about doing the right thing.
Okay.
Okay, thanks.
I totally misunderstood that.
Yeah, you've got to properly assess the situation and then do the right thing.
Well, then here's what's tricky.
Obviously, in the Democratic Party, we have a president and a ton of people who would absolutely swear on a stack of Bibles, if they could see fit to find one, that they are in.
That they're doing the right thing and that they are displaying exactly the kind of courage in the face of criticism that they would probably tell us.
This is what the president that many of you admire for the war effort.
When everybody went south on the war, President Bush stayed steadfast and you guys love that.
Well, everybody's going south on health care and we're staying steadfast with that.
Isn't it the same thing?
To which you would say what?
No, it's not because it's also the motivation behind it.
This president doesn't believe in personal freedom.
He believes in government.
President Bush, on the other hand, maybe was imposing freedom on Iraqis, but it's still he was believing in freedom.
I think that's golden.
Bill, thank you.
I so appreciate it.
I've always chuckled at that.
Because people used to say that.
Mark, how dare we impose freedom on these people?
Excuse me?
And I sort of know what they mean.
There are some societies that have never known what this is like.
And they are very comfy in the womb that totalitarianism can on occasion provide.
Rape rooms?
Oh, that's a bummer.
But, you know, at least Saddam had things orderly.
You know, communism?
Yeah, well, we don't have a whole lot of freedom, but we don't have, but in Cuba, communism?
Well, sure, we don't have a lot of rights, but boy, check those literacy rates.
You can always find some way to positively spin socialism, communism, whatever you like.
What a fascinating time we've had today with the definition of leadership.
And what it comes down to is this.
If we salute President Bush for showing leadership in staying steadfast when America went south on the war, but we don't say that Democrats are being steadfast leaders in staying with health care when the public goes south on that, there must be something totally different about the nature of the beasts involved, the war versus healthcare.
And that's sort of what I started off with today, that a war in progress is something that you should be able to gather an entire nation around and say, look, we could argue about whether we got in there, but we did.
And once we're in there, we're going to stay with it for the troops and for the national interest involved.
The healthcare debate carries with it no such obligation.
We could either do or not do either side.
We can do government.
We can do private sector.
We can do Obamacare.
We can do free market options.
They're just, they're open to us.
There's no enormous moral obligation to occupy one side or the other of the healthcare debate.
I obviously, feeling the way I do about free markets and about the private sector, believe that there is a, not again, not biblically, not even ethically, but sort of in political morality, which seems like a contradiction in terms, there is a sense of rightness in what guides you politically.
The conservative quest to reduce taxes is not just a political aim.
I believe that it carries with it elements of morality.
The quest by conservatives to reduce spending is not just because I want to spend less for the practicality of it, but because I think that that is a better stewardship, almost in the biblical sense, of the money that's entrusted to government.
And when it comes to healthcare, I even take an even deeper moral stance on whether government should be involved in end-of-life care, reducing the options available to people who are sick.
That's not just nuts and bolts policy wonk talk.
It's not.
I think there are big issues of objective right and wrong here.
All righty, let's objectively get into a break and come right back.
1-800-282-2882.
Mark Davis in for Roche Limbaugh, and we will continue.
As time runs short in the waning moments of the Tuesday Roche Limbaugh show, Mark Davis filling in.
What a great time today.
And yesterday, too, thanks very much.
Tomorrow and Thursday, Mark Stein, Friday, Walter Williams.
Can't get out of here without revisiting a chapter from the middle of yesterday's show.
Do you remember the gentleman who called and said that he had seen Juan Williams on C-SPAN and wondered if I'd heard a reference that Juan had made about a new set of founding fathers, new founding fathers?
And I said, well, you know, I personally don't need new founding fathers.
I'm big fans of the original ones, but who was he talking about?
I mean, was it the Obama administration?
Was it Pelosi Democrats?
I mean, the Wiggles.
I mean, who are we talking about?
And the gentleman, and I don't fault him for this at all, didn't have the whole context.
So I said, well, let me go take a look for this.
So, I'm sitting here doing the show.
And by the time we're done, I've got some very nice answers from some people who were kind enough to send me to a C-SPAN interview from just about a month ago.
And the interview at one point visited Juan's book, Eyes on the Prize, a retrospective about the civil rights movement.
And the question arose about whether there'd be some other book in the near future.
And Juan talked about his fascination with Malcolm X, who he apparently thought had a more profound influence on societal change than did Dr. King.
And he spoke of them and leaders of the civil rights movement, okay, as quote, the founding fathers of the new America.
There you go.
Well, I kind of understand the metaphor there.
It's way more hyperbolic than I would ever use.
I do not discern from that an attempt in coining that to somehow give the back of Juan's hand to the original founding fathers.
So I will stand by the friendly skepticism that I showed after speaking to that gentleman.
And I'm glad to tell you what Juan said.
And thanks very much for the impromptu research team that threw together the link to where that is on C-SPAN.
All right, with that, let's roll to Horse Country in the middle of the beautiful state of Florida.
O'Cala's the place.
And John, Mark Davis, you're in for Rush.
Hi.
Mark, great job today.
I wanted to say that first off, and shout out to Rush Limbaugh.
About 13 years ago, I found out I was a conservative by listening to his show.
I wanted to also say that I'm a growing minority.
I'm a conservative Christian.
And I want to say that about my president, my president, my president, Barack Obama, I want him to stop using comparisons between him and Abraham Lincoln and him and Martin Luther King Jr.
Abraham Lincoln freed the slave, not made slave.
And Martin Luther King had a dream, not a nightmare.
People think Florida?
Well, I got to tell you, these are folks who view themselves in that lofty legacy.
And I think the distinctions you draw are wise.
And Rush appreciates your kind words, and I appreciate you because we're going to let you pretty well be the final call of the day, John.
Thank you.
I said a word or two yesterday about black conservatives and about the genuine heroism, the feeling of, I mean, there's capital H heroes like our troops and cops and firefighters, and then there are heroes because you're walking in a tough part of life.
To be black and conservative is hard.
And I just hugely appreciate those who are because they've really got to stick to their guns like every day in terms of just conversations that probably come up with folks they know every day.
So appreciate you enormously with a special asterisk there, sir.
And let's come back with a final word or two, maybe three if we can fit it on the Rush Limbaugh show when we come back.
It is always an unparalleled joy to fill in for Rush.
Just the please to be a part of the legacy is self-evidently humbling.
And to hang out with Kit and Mike and the folks through my headphones who make it a joy, that's one thing.
But what really makes it cook is you, the Limbaugh audience.
There's nothing any better.
Mark Stein enjoys it tomorrow and the next day.
Walter Williams on Friday.
So till we get together again next time, I'm Mark Davis bringing you greetings from the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
My radio home, wbap.com.
If you want to read stuff, I've scribbled dallasnews.com/slash opinion.
Follow me in that crazy world of Twitter if you wish.
And that's all one word, Mark Davis, M-A-R-K, Davis, all on Twitter.
I want you to bone up on some of tomorrow's host.
Go to SteinOnline, S-T-E-Y-N.
See some of Mark's comments on the George Well column on Afghanistan.
He'll probably touch on that and many more things when he fills in tomorrow.
In the meantime, thanks, Rush.
I'm Mark Davis.
God bless our country and our troops.
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