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Oct. 28, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 28, 2009, Wednesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
18 inches of snow in Denver today and tomorrow.
18 inches of snow.
Greetings, my friends.
Welcome.
It's Rush Limbaugh in the middle of the week already.
It's a magic.
It's amazing how fast a week goes when they have Monday off.
Telephone number if you want to be on the program 800-282-2882, the email address El Rushbo at EIBNet.com.
This is not all that unusual, by the way, for Denver.
I remember I went to Sacramento in 1984 to start the trek that has led to all of this.
And when I get out there, one of the uh first nights I was there was taken out to dinner downtown where Monday night football was on, and it was snowing in Denver.
It's a blizzard.
I think it was the Packers and the uh and the Denver Broncos, and that was October 15th or 14th or something in 1984.
So it's not unusual.
This is the this is the whole point, but 10 to 18 inches may be.
At any rate, uh, folks, uh, the um the this this Virginia governor's race just continues to get funnier and funnier and funnier.
Obama has cut an ad for Cree Deeds that essentially throws Cree Deeds under the bus.
He may not be perfect.
My wife uh reminds me I'm not.
You know, Cree sometimes I uh, you know, it's this Ty gets a little askew.
You know, his hair's a little is that what the people of Virginia are looking for?
Are you looking for slick?
Or you're looking for somebody who's gonna be fighting for you.
I'm sorry, it's not an ad.
It was actually uh yesterday afternoon in Norfolk, Virginia, at the old Dominion University, a rally for Creed Deeds, and that's Obama.
Hey, may not be perfect.
My wife reminds me I'm not.
You know, Ty gets a little askew, you know, hair a little uh little rough.
Meanwhile, some Republican big names are coming out uh in New York 23.
Uh we'll see what we got uh who are they doing.
This is great.
They do the headline, big names come out and then no names in the story.
Uh, regardless, uh more and more Republicans, mainstream Republicans are coming out for Doug Hoffman in uh in New York 23.
And he contrasts this with Obama going out to actually make a campaign appearance for Cree Deeds, essentially throwing him under the bus.
Then I'll tell you what this is all our Obama is a narcissist, and there's there's a there's a great piece in the American Spectator coming up on this.
He everything has to be about him.
I addressed this with my own psychoanalysis last week.
Well done, I might say.
Uh and uh, but this one is James Lewis does this get stacked somewhere.
I'll find it.
Um everything has to be about him, and in this case, Cree Deeds looks like he's got double-digit uh um down double digits in the polls, and uh Obama is going making sure that uh if Cree Deeds loses, that Obama wants to make sure everybody knows that Obama thinks he should lose because he's a loser.
His tie is a skew, he's not slick, his uh his I mean it's just it's incredible to watch this.
And folks, this is the 45th anniversary of Ronald Reagan's Barry Goldwater speech.
Today is the 45th anniversary of the speech that um launched Reagan's national career.
Uh the We Have a Rendezvous with Destiny Speech.
Forty-five years ago.
Now, many in the Republican Party and many in the so-called conservative media say the era of Reagan is over.
And of course, this is folly, it is silly, it is stupid.
This being the 45th anniversary.
This this speech took place during the Goldwater Johnson uh uh uh Goldwater Kennedy camp.
Go go on to Johnson Campaign in 1964.
And I remember watching it.
And I remember saying, get this guy on the ticket.
You know, I'm 13 years old.
And I'm watching it with my dad.
We have sound bites of this speech.
Oh, of course I remember this.
I I I've never forgotten this speech.
I've wanted to lift the phrase, you and I have a rendezvous with destiny, but I can't, because everybody knows it's Reagan's.
Now, this this dovetails very nicely, and we're gonna start very soon on some of these sound bites from this speech.
You've got to hear them.
People say, Rush, we need to be uplifted.
We need to be inspired.
We need to be motivated.
Well, you're going to get that today before we start attacking Obama's health care plans, the latest uh uh folly with Harry Reed and so forth.
We're going to get to all of that.
There's a great piece uh in the UK telegraph today.
You get real journalism over there.
This is by Niall Gardner.
Barack Obama has failed to defeat conservatism in America.
He plays off that Gallup poll.
Forty percent of the people in this country say they are conservative, 20% say they are liberal, 36% say they are independent.
Now, Nile Gardner is a Washington-based foreign affairs analyst and political commentator, and he appears frequently on television, both here and in Great Britain.
Uh not only are the point of this is that not only are we not defeated, we are rising from the ashes.
We're fighting in the shade out there, but we are fighting.
And so after you listen to some of Ronald Reagan's Goldwater speech from October 27, 1964, uh I'll share with you some of the details here from Nile Gardner.
Here's Cut One, Ronald Reagan.
I think it's time we ask ourselves if we still know the freedoms that were intended for us by the founding fathers.
Not too long ago, two friends of mine were talking to a Cuban refugee, a businessman who had escaped from Castro.
And in the midst of his story, one of my friends turned to the other and said, We don't know how lucky we are.
And the Cuban stopped and said, How lucky you are.
I had some place to escape to.
And in that sentence, he told us the entire story.
If we lose freedom here, there's no place to escape to.
This is the last stand on earth.
1964.
You will marvel as you hear this.
Same battle taking place in New York 23, and that'll take place in elections over the next year.
This idea that government is beholden to the people, that it has no other source of power except the sovereign people, is still the newest and the most unique idea in all the long history of man's relation to man.
This is the issue of this election.
Whether we believe in our capacity for self-government or whether we abandon the American revolution and confess that a little intellectual elite in a far distant capital can plan our lives for us better than we can plan them ourselves.
You and I are told increasingly we have to choose between a left or right.
Well, I'd like to suggest there is no such thing as a left or right.
There's only an up or down.
Man's own age dream, the ultimate in individual freedom consistent with law and order, or down to the antheap of totalitarianism.
Ronald Reagan, 45 years ago.
The point of this is that the left never changes.
The left is always on the march.
The left is always who they are.
Totalitarianism is always what it is.
American exceptionalism is the notion that we have avoided that because of our founding.
We have avoided the role that human history has uh uh dictated for most people who have ever lived on this planet.
The vast majority of people who have ever lived on this planet have lived in tyranny or some sort of um uh relationship to a dictatorship or what have you.
The uh concept of American exceptionalism is that we are and have been since our founding, the lone outpost and beacon for freedom.
And if he if we lose it here, there's no place else in the world to go to have it.
If we fall, then the rest of the world falls with us.
That's why it is so dangerous what is happening now.
Here's another from President Reagan, October 27, 1964.
Senator Clark of Pennsylvania, another articulate spokesman defines liberalism as meeting the material needs of the masses through the full power of centralized government.
Well, I for one resent it when a representative of the people refers to you and me, the free men and women of this country, as the masses.
This is a term we haven't applied to ourselves in America.
But beyond that, the full power of centralized government.
This was the very thing the founding fathers sought to minimize.
They knew that governments don't control things.
A government can't control the economy without Controlling people.
And they know when a government sets out to do that, it must use force and coercion to achieve its purpose.
They also knew those founding fathers that outside of its legitimate functions, government does nothing, as well or as economically as the private sector of the economy.
This is why I I just, when you listen to this, you get chills up your spine.
Ronald Reagan, the father of modern conservatism, and this is why I just get livid when I hear the so-called elites in our media and uh on our side of the aisle in politics say that Reagan and his era are over, that we cannot uh Reagan's time is come and gone.
We cannot continue to make ourselves uh a movement in the image of Ronald Reagan.
Remember, the left had to do everything they could to try to destroy Reagan.
He uh was an amiable dunce, he was an idiot.
He uh he was just like George Bush was a dumb idiot, things do not change.
Ronald Reagan was hated as much as George W. Bush.
The reason you don't know that is because Reagan was likable on television, was able to overcome the effort to make people despise him.
Uh it takes a unique personality to be able to do that.
Now consider this next, as Obama goes around the world apologizing for America and dithers on deciding whether we should try to win the war in Afghanistan or hand the country into people who live there back to the Taliban.
We cannot buy our security, our freedom from the threat of the bomb.
By committing an immorality so great as saying to a billion human beings now enslaved behind the iron curtain, give up your dreams of freedom.
Because to save our own skins, we're willing to make a deal with your slave masters.
Alexander Hamilton said a nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master and deserves one.
Now let's set the record straight.
There's no argument over the choice between peace and war, but there's only one guaranteed way you can have peace, and you can have it in the next second.
Surrender.
And that's I mean, all of this, I think, is just this speech was 45 minutes.
We're just culling uh bits of it.
But consider want peace?
Fine, you can have it right now, you surrender.
You won't have peace, but um you well, you won't have any war, but you'll also be a prisoner.
And consider that remark as Obama is plotting whatever course he's plotting in Afghanistan.
Speaking of that, there is a story in the New York Times today claiming that the brother of the Afghan president, Tomid Karzai, is on the CIA payroll and is involved in the poppy trade in in the southern city of Kandahar, a place I have been.
Folks, this is this is reminiscent of what JFK did in Vietnam, allowing a coup against the leadership in South Vietnam that the only one that was willing to stand up to uh Tohochi men.
It's uh it's amazing.
The the uh the Karzai brothers have responded saying this is all lies.
This is nothing more than an attempt by some and the media, the New York Times to affect the outcome of this runoff election and have my brother the president defeated.
It's all lies.
The Karzai brothers have never said it.
We're not part of the CIA.
The CIA is not paying us.
Now, for the New York Times to get this story has to come from somewhere, and we know full well, I don't know full well, but I wouldn't doubt for a minute that this is Obama, the Obama administration trying to get rid of this guy.
I know that's exactly what is happening here, so that they can then set the stage for whatever surrender policy they want in Afghanistan.
Here's some classic Reagan lines on government.
No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size.
So government programs once launched never disappear.
Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth.
And this.
You and I have a rendezvous with destiny.
We'll preserve for our children this the last best hope of men on earth, or we'll sentence them to take the last step into a thousand years of darkness.
Ronald Reagan, 45 years ago, televised campaign addresser Barry Goldwater, 1964.
We'll be right back.
Stay with us.
And we are back, Rush Limboy here on the cutting edge of societal evolution.
I have two news stories, uh, ladies and gentlemen, both of you from State Controlled Associated Press.
Before story and an afterstory.
Here's the before story.
Sales of new homes are expected to post their sixth consecutive monthly gain as builders reap the benefits of a tax credit for first-time owners that expires at the end of next month.
The Commerce Department report on September's new home sales, to be released Wednesday, that's today at 10 o'clock, is forecast to show a 2.6% increase to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 440,000, up from 429,000 in August.
According to Economists polled by Thomson Reuters, if the report hits that number, it would be the best month for new home sales in more than a year.
That's the before.
Here's reality.
First story cleared at 1238 this morning.
They posted it on the wire 1238 this morning.
That's 20 minutes to 1 for those of you in Rio Linda.
At 10.03 this morning, the same state-controlled AP, sales of new homes dropped unexpectedly last month.
As the effects of a soon-to-expire tax credit for first-time owners started to wane.
Oh, it was going to be the saving grace.
But now it just started to wane.
The Commerce Department says that sales fell 3.6% to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 402,000 from a downwardly revised 417,000 in uh in August.
And they had originally thought 429,000.
So they're all huffing and puffing.
They're waiting for all the great news, the economy's coming back.
Foreclosures at an all-time high.
How is that hope and change working out for you?
And now Niall Gardner, the UK telegraph.
This week's striking Gallup poll on political ideology is further confirmation that the United States is in essence a conservative nation, which has ironically become even more conservative under Barack Obama.
According to Gallup, 40% of Americans describe their political view as conservative, 36% as moderate, 20% as liberal.
This is the first time conservatives have outnumbered moderates in America since 2004.
These are staggering figures when you consider that the left currently dominates the executive branch of the U.S. government, both houses of the United States Congress, the federal bureaucracy, huge swathes of local government in many big cities, academia, the public screw system, and most of the establishment broadcast and print media in America.
The figures show there is a huge disconnect between the American public and those who wield much of the political power in the country.
Most significantly, Gallup's 16 surveys of 5,000 adults conducted across 2009 have definitely shown that conservatism is on the rise despite the election in 2008 of the most liberal president in American history.
The biggest factor pushing up conservative support has been a shift among independent voters, 35% of whom now describe themselves as conservative, compared to 29% in 2008.
Now, note...
That these independents, 35% who now describe themselves as conservative, do not describe themselves as moderates.
Do not describe themselves as middle of the routers.
Independents are moving conservative.
The Gallup survey also reveals a distinctly rightward shift in public attitudes since Obama took office with a growing backlash U.S. government support for big government solutions to our economic woes, as well as marked a marked rise in public support for socially conservative views.
Here are several clear-cut examples of rising support for traditionally conservative positions on some of the biggest policy issues of the day, as outlined by Gallup, and all of this could come from my show on any given day.
Perceptions that there is too much government regulation of business and industry jumped from 38% in September last year to 45% this year.
The percentage of Americans saying they would like to see labor unions have less influence in the country rose from 32% last August to 42% this past August, uh August 2008 to August 2009.
That's a record high, by the way, that 42%.
Public support for keeping the laws governing the sale of firearms the same or making them less strict rose from 49% October 2008 to 55% October 2009, also a record high.
The percentage of Americans favoring a decrease in immigration rose from 39% June July 2008 to 50% July 2009.
The propensity to want the government to promote traditional values, as opposed to not favor any particular set of values, rose from 48% in 2008 to 53% in 2009.
And the percentage of Americans who consider themselves pro-life on abortion rose from 44% in May 2008 to 51% in May 2009.
Finally, Americans' belief that the global warming problem is exaggerated, and the news rose from 35% in March of 08 to 41% in March of this year, and it's even higher now.
There is indeed a conservative ascendancy, and I'm going to be replaying these Ronald Reagan sound bites throughout the program.
I just got an email from somebody 49 years old that said they never heard him before.
Had never heard it.
And I, you know, it I guess it shouldn't surprise me.
Reagan is so much a part of who I am that I just make the mistaken assumption that um every conservative also knows who Reagan is.
Or at least remembers enough of what Reagan said, but uh it never hurts to remind people who do know and enlighten those who do not.
And it will especially help blunt this silly notion that the era of Reagan is over.
Now, it trusts me when people on our side say this.
To say that the era of Reagan is over is to say that the era of our founding is over.
These are pure inside the beltway people who get caught up in the liberal-dominated political and social culture of Washington, D.C. They all want to be accepted and liked and thought of uh uh as as special elite creatures, and that means they have to agree with one another on certain things at all times.
But here's another Republican in name only in deep trouble.
See, this is it and and those of you inside the Beltway Republicans, this is what happens when you turn your back on conservatism.
It's not been a good year for Senator Spector, Democrat Pennsylvania, whose numbers take a real hit in the latest Franklin and Marshall College poll.
Uh margin of error here plus or minus 4.3%.
His favorable rating is just 28%, down from 48% in March, while his unfavorable rating is now up to 46%, nearly double what it was in March.
Only 23% say that Spectre should be re-elected.
66% say it's time for a change.
And remember, he left the Republican Party for one reason to go to the Democrat Party to get re-elected.
He was down in the polls in a in a in a primary battle on the Republican side in Pennsylvania.
President Obama's job approval in this poll, by the way, has also slipped from 47% in August to 40% now.
Job approval.
And again, this is the uh Franklin Marshall College poll.
So a lesson for inside the Beltway Republicans who abandon conservatism.
I got a note today from my brother.
My brother, David, the lawyer and columnist.
He lives in Cape Girardeau, Missouri.
And he said a friend of ours, a lieutenant governor of uh of Missouri, Peter Kinder, one of our childhood friends growing up, invited him to a um a press conference this afternoon at 330 in Cape Girardeau.
Are you ready for it?
Wait for it.
A traveling roadshow on health care with Howard Dean and Newt Gingrich.
There's a press conference that they're actually doing the roadshow thing tonight at uh at the show me center in Cape Girardeau.
And I mean, I I didn't know that Newt was doing a traveling road show with Howard Dean on health care.
Back to the conclusion here of the UK telegraph story by Niall Gardner.
Last November, liberal commentators wrote off conservatism in America as dead and buried.
As the latest Gallup poll shows, they were spectacularly wrong.
It's no coincidence that the most watched news network, the top-selling national newspaper, the most listened-to radio shows in the U.S. are now all conservative.
The success of Fox News, the Wall Street Journal, and talk radio hosts like Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and Mark Levin is a powerful symbol of a vigorous challenge to current liberal dominance of Washington.
The spirit of Ronald Reagan is alive and well in America, exemplified by strong public backing for the principles of limited government, free enterprise, individual responsibility, and a strong defense.
The White House should sit up and take note.
It is liberalism, not conservatism that is in decline in the United States.
And this whole piece was based on in-depth Gallup poll number.
This is uh not Mr. Gardner's opinion piece.
It's a it's an analysis piece of Gallup poll numbers from Politics Daily.com.
Headline for the first time under Obama, majority says U.S. is on the wrong track.
So very slowly, Americans are coming out of the spell of Obama while the stock market has picked up and the country appears to be pulling out of the recession.
A majority of Americans, for the first time in the Obama presidency, says the U.S. is headed down the wrong track, according to a Wall Street Journal NBC News poll conducted October 22 through 25.
52 percent say the country is on the wrong track.
Obama's job approval rating stands at 51 percent, the same number it's been during the previous two months.
And I think, folks, if the truth be known, they are doing everything they can in these polls to keep that number at 50 percent or above.
Because I frankly don't think he's anywhere near 50 percent in real job approval in the minds of most Americans.
I mean, you're always gonna have 25, 30 percent of the population with their heads in the sand, um, who are clueless and just simply buy what they see in the in the in the mainstream state-controlled media.
The approval ratio for Obama's handling of the economy has dipped from 51 in September to 47% in October.
Forty-nine percent very dissatisfied with the state of the economy.
Another 31% are somewhat dissatisfied, seventeen percent somewhat satisfied, only two percent are satisfied.
That would be George Soros.
Sixty-four percent don't see the improvement in the stock market as real evidence the economy is improving.
Sixty-five percent disapprove of the job Congress is doing compared to twenty-four percent who approve with eleven percent undecided.
On Afghanistan, Americans support a troop increase by forty-seven percent to forty-three percent, with ten percent undecided.
Last month they opposed it by fifty-one percent to forty-four percent with five percent undecided.
But when you ask them specifically about increasing the number of troops, Americans opposed by 49 to 48 doing so.
Regardless, there is a shift in Virginia.
Republican Robert McDonnell has now opened a 13-point lead over Democrat Cree Deeds, who um tie is never straight, his hair's not uh combed properly.
According to Obama himself, with just uh less than a week ago now in the uh in the race for Virginia governors, a Rasmussen report taken last night just after Obama made a campaign appearance for deeds in the state of Virginia.
It's time for our uh daily congressional laugh here at ladies and gentlemen.
The ignorance is just stunning.
Sheila Jackson Lee from Houston, member of Congress, who went to the floor of the House to denounce my being involved with the National Football League in any way, took to the floor of the House to give a speech on health care and the H1N1 virus and vaccine.
One does not have due process.
If your neighbor can have health insurance and save his children from the scourge of H1N1 or not losing their lives because they might have vulnerabilities as a child, and you cannot.
Health authorities say almost a hundred children have died from the flu, and forty-six states now have widespread flu activity.
More than five thousand people have reportedly died from swive flu since it emerged this year and developed into a global epidemic.
Uh and children are dying from the uh swine flu.
What what can save them?
In Houston, Texas, there were two swine flu deaths confirmed on Wednesday, October 21st, 2009, that have brought the H1N1 death toll in Houston up to 15.
The state reported one new influenza associated pediatric death in last week.
What do we say to that child's parents?
I can only imagine that there might have been some difficulty in that child receiving that flu shot.
So many are in that predicament.
So many do not have access to doctors and clinics and health insurance or a vigorous robust public option.
Oh which would help millions of those who now languish who may be working but do not have the ability to access health insurance.
The only thing that can save our children from the swine flu is a robust public option that will be implemented in 2014.
The H1N1 virus, she said will find the uninsured.
This virus, it has GPS.
The virus, swine flu has GPS, and it can tell who among us doesn't have health insurance, and who among us doesn't have access to a robust public option.
And the swine flu can find those of us that don't have health insurance.
And don't have a robust public option.
This from the same woman, while looking at the Mars Rover, asked NASA scientists, will it go over to where the astronauts planted the flag, which happened to be on the moon, not on Mars.
By the way, uh the the let me clarify this Newt Gingrich Howard Dini.
It's a debate.
The traveling road show is is you know what I characterize.
The 330 thing today, I'm told it's not a press conference, a private meeting.
So press don't show up anywhere.
Cave Girardo at 330, you're not invited.
Back in just well, maybe you are, but we know that health care is in trouble in the Senate.
Dingy Harry thinks he's in a game of Texas hold and poker.
And he threw it all in on Monday, and he has been called on his bluff.
He's got moderate Democrats abandoning him in the Senate.
He's got Blanche Lincoln thinking about it.
He's got uh Ben Nelson thinking about it, Olympia Snow is out of there.
Lieberman, be careful here.
You know, Lieberman stood up during the Clinton Lewinsky thing and ramrod Clinton on this and said it's horrible as immoral you should do, but he ended up voting the quote unquote wrong way at the end of the day on it.
But right now, Lieberman's on the right side saying he'll join the Republicans in a filibuster against Reed's public option state opt-out fiasco.
Dingy Harry melted down in a press conference yesterday.
Now, over in the House of Representatives, the Democrats are getting concerned because somebody has leaked the truth about the lack of votes Pelosi has among Democrats on the House bill.
Somebody has leaked an internal house leadership whip count document that shows 47 Democrats at no, eight Democrats leaning no, with 12 Democrats undecided.
It's been posted at uh at Plumline, the blog.
Highly confidential House Democrat Party whip count, which shows 47 Democrats at no on the public option, another eight leaning no.
That's a total of 56, a dozen Democrat House members still undecided.
The hard no votes alone, the 47, are enough to kill the bill.
The leaked document was produced by the U.S. House Majority Whip's office in a major violation, it says here, uh, this is this uh source here is redstate.com.
In a major violation of WIP protocol, the document was shared with progressive House members, the the radical left, who refused to vote for health reform unless it contains a robust public option.
The Plumline blog is reporting that progressive members of Congress, the hardcore left wingers, blame everybody.
The White House, a Democrat leadership for not putting enough pressure on members to vote for the public option.
Uh from Plumbline, it says House Progressives argue the again, progressives, the the the fringe lunatic left, argue that the document should light a fire under Democrat Leaders.
One House Liberal says he's convinced that most of the undecided and a number of the no votes can be won over with the right mix of pressure and incentives, which only the House leadership and the White House can provide.
So this document was leaked.
Somebody called up the spokesperson for James Claiburn, the House Majority Whip, and the spokesperson said, Well, we currently don't have the votes for a robust public option.
They leaked it.
They're in trouble on the House side, and the purpose of the leak is for the leadership to be embarrassed, for Pelosi to be embarrassed, for Hoyer to be embarrassed, for Obama to be embarrassed, and for them to get in gear and put pressure on these 56 people in the House who are prepared to vote no.
So all that whenever from now on, it's always been this way, but from now on, when you hear those Republicans are standing in the way of major health care reform.
We can't get any cooperation from the Republic.
It is not about Republicans.
The Democrats under the great unifier, Barack Hussein Obama, mmm-mm, cannot get their own house in order.
And they're losing over in the Senate as well.
Phillip in Atlanta, I'm glad you called, sir.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hi, Ditto's from an unemployed real estate developer with no health insurance.
By the way, uh I'm I'm glad you mentioned that because I have a story here from Business Week.
That says uh being laid off can make you better.
Ah, I I haven't experienced that yet.
Yeah, uh well, they found a lot of people.
This is this is part and parcel of the state-controlled media trying to say, hey, O'Connor uh Obama economy sucks.
No, it's good for you to be laid off.
You can it's good for weight loss.
Not necessarily, but I understand.
Well, I was joking with someone today that I have a broken tooth.
I can't go get it fixed.
I said, hey, it's a great weight loss program.
So, you know, I I guess Newsweek was right.
Right.
But I'll get to my point for you, and uh very glad to get through to you uh taking me through some dark times of just uh all this unemployment.
It's good to be encouraged by you.
Uh a couple weeks ago I was quoting Ronald Reagan to my oldest son, and um made me very sad.
My twelve year twelve-year-old was listening and said, Who's Ronald Reagan?
And you know, I didn't know whether to cry or to beat her.
Uh I just shook my head.
After explaining it to her, uh, and I I wanted to tell you that by preface of I'm a huge Reagan fan, but is there an inherent danger as we hold him up as the standard bear all the time?
And I do as well.
When it comes election time, I always hear McCain is no Reagan, Rudy is no Reagan, Romney was no Reagan.
Bush was no Reagan.
And everyone pales in comparison.
And is is there an inherent danger of always holding them up as the standard bearer?
I get depress I get depressed when I do the comparison myself.
Well, I think I think you may have a point if we really uh narrow your area here of focus.
If we are going to demand candidates that are Ronald Reagan, yeah, then I mean nobody's gonna measure up because there's only one Ronald Reagan.
And the only person to come close to it would be me, and I don't want the pay cut.
No, uh, I'm just kidding about that.
But but but in holding up Reagan, we're not holding up a man.
We're not holding up a cult personality figure.
We're holding up principles.
We are reminding people of ideals.
We are reminding people of what the founding of this country was.
Ronald Reagan simply is the best Republican to ever articulate them in our lifetimes.
And right now, conservatives in this country are beat down.
They need inspiration.
There is no political leadership that they can invest in right now.
Elected political leadership.
It seems like everybody elected well, there are a couple or you know, three or four, but but they're members of the House, some of them are in the Senate, but nobody seeking national office uh that that comes close to maybe Palin would be closest to it, and you saw the reaction that that she got during during the primaries.
But it's important to understand that holding up Reagan, they were not holding him up as a standard bearer, say you be like Reagan.
You be we are holding Reagan up to teach the American people what this country is, because they're not being taught what this country is.
For the longest time they have been taught that this country is immoral and unjust and deserves To pay for the crimes it has committed around the world.
So in holding up Ronald Reagan, we simply remind the Republican Party how it was that they marched a landslide victory, and we remind the American people what country they live in and why it's the greatest on earth.
We'll be back.
Stay with us.
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