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	It is our last hour together for the day, and it's just been great so far.
	Appreciate it.
	Let us see if we can uh create more magic here in the final hour of the Thursday Rush Limbaugh Show.
	Tomorrow Mark Stein is filling in and Rush returns on Monday.
	All right, I mentioned an LA Times story.
	I just enjoy the headline election results rattle some Democrats.
	Some I'd love to meet the Democrat not rattled by the election results.
	Oh, many of them will pretend that they were not.
	In fact, you know something?
	Let me share with you a little audio from someone not only unrated by the election results, but but someone who appears to have actually thoroughly enjoyed them.
	Someone asked Nancy Pelosi, so how'd you like that election?
	The election results last night, did they make it harder for you to pass health care, especially to get the support from members of these swing districts?
	From my perspective, we won last night.
	We had one race that we were engaged in.
	It was in Northern New York.
	It was a race where a Republican has held a seat since the Civil War.
	And uh and uh we won uh that seat.
	So from that standpoint, no.
	Okay, uh she makes reference, of course, to New York 23, where let me see, let me take a look at this, where a Democrat was very nearly beaten by a guy who was a third party conservative whom no one knew just a very short time ago.
	Now listen, I'm not gonna sugarcoat this, Doug lost.
	But to come that close from out of nowhere, while vaulting over the the weirdness of the whole uh schosofava debacle.
	Uh look, I you know, I'm not I'm not gonna throw down Pyrrhic victory or moral victory.
	You know what a victory is?
	It's when you win.
	Or as I like to call it, 2010.
	So to Doug Hoffman, God bless you, sir.
	Good race, good for you.
	To the New York uh Republican Party, what were you guys thinking?
	And the message here is well, there are 15 messages here.
	The one I want to dwell on a little is that when real voters make these decisions, sometimes it's very different.
	So I am so eager for Mr. Hoffman and hey, maybe somebody else, another couple of whoever, whoever wants to tee it up and try to become the Republican nominee to unseat Mr. Owens, free country, God bless you, give it a shot.
	Let's see what happens.
	Those of you who are in the Hoffman mold will enjoy the support of people like the throng gathered at the Capitol today.
	You'll get that kind of Tea Party Town Hall mojo, there's that word again, going on your behalf.
	And uh and and I think the evidence is that that's a good engine to have under your hood.
	So Nancy Pelosi can talk about the I mean there was one House race.
	I don't know if Nancy Pelosi worries so much about governors' races, but she should, especially if in one state, Virginia, it was a Republican landslide in a state Obama won.
	And she should certainly worry about New Jersey, a union heavy, acorn heavy Democrat heavy blue state where a wealthy incumbent was shown the door by Republican Chris Christie, in a tr a nearly twenty-point swing between the Christie margin of victory and the Obama margin of victory just one short year ago.
	So, Madam Speaker, if you ain't worried about the governor's races, you need to be.
	Because Cray Deeds and John Corzine were the face and voice of the Obama-Pelosi agenda in Richmond and Trenton, in those state capitals.
	They were the face and voice of the Obama-Pelosi agenda, and they lost.
	And I love the spin.
	It was exactly what Rush said it would be.
	Oh, these were totally about local issues.
	Well, look, every election is to some degree about what's going on in the state.
	I understand that, from things like toll roads to pension funds to lottery or property taxes.
	Of course, that's going to find its way into any gubernatorial race.
	Obviously.
	Lastly.
	Thank you.
	But the big picture is do they want you or not?
	Do they want someone with a D by his name or with an R by his name?
	The people with a D by their names are the ones who are going to go along with, by and large, the Obama Pelosi agenda.
	The folks with an R by their names are the folks who by and large are going to oppose it.
	And the people seeking to oppose it.
	One and one big, significant victories.
	So there's all this spin about it was always just all just about local, it was only about local things, a pushaw.
	Peshaw?
	Did I just say pushaw?
	Wow.
	That was out loud, so there you go.
	Sometimes Peshaw is called for.
	It's better than the alternative that I usually throw down.
	All right, let me offer up uh the work of James Oliphant, Peter Nicholas, and Christie Parsons.
	They got together and uh between Washington and Madison, Wisconsin, got together and wrote a little story called Election Results Rattle Some Democrats.
	Mm-hmm.
	And the subhead is with independent voters favoring GOP candidates in New Jersey and Virginia, many in Congress wonder whether they'll lose electoral support themselves if they stick with Obama on controversial issues.
	Really?
	Are they wondering about that?
	Let me offer them free information.
	They will.
	Let me confirm it for you.
	They will.
	So Mr. Oliphant, Mr. Nicholas, and Ms. Parsons right.
	Even before voters went to the polls this week, moderate congressional Democrats were anxious.
	Would the swing voters who coalesced around Barack Obama almost exactly one year ago stay with the Democrats or defect to the Republicans?
	The answer came Tuesday night as Republican gubernatorial candidates swept to power in New Jersey and Virginia with the help of large packs of self-described independents.
	Exit polls circulating on the House floor Wednesday were even more unnerving to Democrats.
	The Republican candidates, the polls indicated, had received the votes of two thirds of independent voters.
	Now, as the entire House of Representatives and a third of the Senate prepare for next year's midterm elections, some moderate Democrats are wondering whether they can afford to follow President Obama's ambitious legislative agenda.
	That's one word for it, on such controversial issues as health care and climate change.
	One said that the results were a wake-up call.
	Quote, there are going to be a lot more tensions between the White House and Congress, predicted Representative Jim Cooper, Democrat of Tennessee, a member of the Blue Dog Coalition of Fiscally Conservative Democrats.
	They've been under the surface so far, and they're going to come out in the open.
	The president's agenda has already been bogged down by an extended and draining battle over health care, one that could stretch into the new year.
	After that bruising fight, bitter conflicts loom over climate change, financial market reform, and immigration – That sets up a potential conflict between the White House and some Democrats who want to avoid controversial votes that can, and almost certainly will, be used against them by their opponents in next year's campaigns.
	Exactly.
	Thank you, Calendar.
	Thank you, 2010.
	Thank you in advance for the effect that you will have.
	There is just there's there's nothing quite so magnificent as watching politicians held up to the mirror of what they have done, the mirror of what they may yet do.
	And as as and listen, not all of them are blue dog Democrats.
	Those are folks who I'll have plenty of good things to say about some of those folks.
	I mean, I'd probably disagree with them on a lot of stuff, but the degree to which they are willing to thwart uh the zeal of Nancy Pelosi, good for you guys.
	High five, partial high five, high two and a half, whatever you want, whatever that would look like.
	Uh so that that's lovely.
	And you know, good on you, and the more of you the merrier.
	But even let's say you are not a blue dog, but you're just in a kind of a purple state.
	You've got to be scared to death of uh of riding this train into an election year, into the filing date, the primary season, a general election, when your support for soundly unpopular things is going to be shouted from every mountaintop by your opponents, maybe even your Democrat opponents in the primary.
	I love this.
	It is a good thing.
	And it may pave the way toward some future election nights with additional cause for celebration.
	Not there yet.
	It's funny.
	In a way, 2010 is right around the corner, obviously.
	In a way, it it's it's a hundred miles away.
	It's like just could could we it's like a team that's won a game down here where we're with neck snapping uh uh variation, uh, the cowboys are either terrible or they're great.
	They seem to be pretty great now.
	Sunday night, cowboys are at Philly.
	Uh who knows what happens if they win that, then all of a sudden everybody's a hero, then they turn around and they you know lose to somebody and then they all stink.
	It happens in your NFL city as well.
	Uh but when you're on a roll, when things are going well, you want that next game, bam, you want it right now.
	And I wish election day 2010 was on January 1st, 2010 instead of November.
	But you know what?
	Some of the concern that I once had, uh, yeah, concern.
	Some of the questions I had about whether the Tea Party Town Hall type energies could sustain all the way to November 2010.
	I'm a little more comfortable about that now.
	Because the answer in April was I don't know.
	The answer in July was I don't know, looks like it.
	The answer now is could be.
	Could very well be.
	We'll know.
	We'll know soon enough.
	We'll know soon enough.
	And even though election day, 2010 is one year away.
	Haven't we learned what a blink of an eye that can be?
	What a blink of an eye that can be.
	And even though the election itself is 360 some days away, the election season is right now.
	Between now and then, everyone has to think about every word they speak and every thing they do and every vote they make and every uh every act that I'm turning to sting there for a moment.
	There's a police.
	They're thinking about every word they say, every vote they make.
	I'm sorry, I tickled myself.
	And and they are so self-aware in this regard that I believe that it will mitigate greatly the willingness that they're going to have to sign on to an Obama agenda that increasingly looks like kryptonite to many Americans.
	So thank you, 2010.
	And the uh and the effect that you are all and the effect you are having just by looming on the short horizon.
	On the even shorter horizon is your calls mere minutes away.
	1-800-282-2882-1800-282-2882.
	Mark Davis in for rush, and we'll be right back.
	It's the Rush Limbaugh Show.
	I'm Mark Davis filling in, Mark Stein with you tomorrow, rush back on Monday.
	It is Thursday, November 5.
	And uh word is that the rally at the Capitol has uh wrapped up, and uh we've we were looking for people to call us, and some tried, but there was just so much going on, and it was so loud and so vociferous and and so everybody just all amped up and thrilled and vocal about it that uh it wasn't real conducive uh to the show.
	But one young lady did manage to get in, and now that we're done, here's a gentleman uh with a little bit of um of post-game show.
	So joining us from the rally, ladies and gentlemen, it's Rodney.
	Welcome to the my the uh the Rush Limbaugh show, Mark Davis filling in.
	Hey, Rodney, how are you?
	I'm good, thanks for taking my call.
	Where are you from if I can?
	Where did you journey there from?
	Well, I live two miles from the Capitol, so I knew I had to make it because listening to this show and listening to Hannity and the great one Mark Levin and hearing people talking about coming from all over the country, I had no excuse.
	I live two miles from the Capitol.
	And good for you.
	And it's funny, because there was a guy who lives right by me, I mean, close to me in Temple, Texas, and he was driving, and I had all this imagery that people would be from uh you know everywhere from from Washington State to Miami, and everybody I've talked to is pretty well from the they pretty well hopped on the metro to get there.
	So good for you locals in the WMAL audience.
	So how did it go?
	Uh well, it's just so many people out here uh and people chanting kill the bill and all kinds of things, and once they disperse the crowd, there are a bunch of people standing out fr outside of the uh cannon in the Longworth builders trying to get in to go talk to members of Congress, but it looks like the lines aren't moving.
	I think maybe NC Pelosi stalled them or something.
	Well, the okay, you know first of all, the the the Rodney properly invokes the uh House of Representatives office buildings, the Canon and Longworth buildings.
	And I I I thought about this.
	I thought after getting all the juices flowing at this rally, how many people are just gonna want to storm those halls and uh score some FaceTime with some people who might need a little uh a little voter arm twisting.
	But there's uh once again, there's a right there play hard, play smart, make appointments, uh be civil, show up.
	Maybe if some folks want to stick around, stay a couple of days, you know it's uh it's always a a pleasant trip to spend a couple of days in the in the DC metro area and uh maybe score some appointments in the next couple of days or uh engage in whatever activism they wish.
	But that's that's great to hear that they peeled out of the rally and wanted to uh turn rhetoric into action immediately.
	Yeah, and one other thing, uh, when the people outside of these buildings saying kill the bill, uh a lot of people started riding by in their cars, honking their horn in unison with the people saying kill the bill.
	And uh now it looks like people are uh starting to well come over to the Capitol steps.
	Uh I'm actually walking around on the Capitol steps right now, hoping to bump into the great one Mark Levin so I can get my book signed.
	He's got a copy of Liberty and Tyranny out there.
	Well, I tell you what, the pages of that book are uh are another great way to get uh pumped up for the fight to come, so uh give him my best if you run into him.
	That's uh that's a prince of a man there, Mr. Levin.
	And Rodney, thank you uh for joining us with the first hand uh first hand report there.
	All right, let us uh roll to Berwin, Illinois, and Bernadette, Mark Davis on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
	How are you?
	Hey, Bernadette.
	Yes, hello.
	Hey, it's Mark filling in for Rush.
	How you doing?
	I'm doing all right.
	What's up?
	I just wanted to make the comment that I had canceled my AARP back when they went against George Bush's Social Security reform.
	Really?
	It's been a while.
	I wrote them a letter that when they decide to represent all seniors and not just liberal seniors, to contact me again.
	And they do always send me about renewal, so I always send them the same thing.
	Oh, yes.
	Not until you represent all seniors.
	Well, let's here here's the thing.
	There's there's no way they can ever do that because seniors are going to disagree about things.
	So whichever side they choose to take, the other side is is going to be less than thrilled.
	So there's gonna be a c there are gonna be people who love you, people who hate you, no matter what.
	Uh if you wanted Social Security uh privatized, good for you, and took that as an opportunity to to no longer send the AARP your money.
	That was you voting with with your checkbook, and that's exactly what you get to do.
	I wish more seniors would show their uh you know, disgust with them, and maybe they'll take a more middle road.
	Maybe listen, if we run, don't, you know, go totally one side or the other, take a middle road.
	Well, this and and that that m that middle road, that compromise road, is it can only be arrived at by hitting a reset button, kill the bill as the chant went today, and start from scratch with reforms that are really bipartisan.
	Now, I said I wasn't gonna spend a whole lot of time doing this or you know, uh stoking the fires and all that, but I have actually been asked back at uh call screening and board up headquarters where we're Mike and H.R. are tolerating me.
	Uh and I actually was asked one more time if someone wished to, you know, if you wanted to cut up that AARP card and send it to them.
	First of all, just go to AARP.org and hit the contact page.
	But if you're driving around, uh AARP 601E Street, 601 E Street Northwest, Washington, D.C., 20049.
	AARP, 601 E Street Northwest, Washington, D.C. 20049.
	Now, I I'm not in bed with these people or whatever, but there is uh there is a seniors group that uh opposes Obamacare.
	And uh let's do.
	How about if I tell you about them next?
	Because I sort of stumbled across them, and uh it's a world of choices and freedom of choice.
	So as a senior citizen, you get to engage in that landscape however you like.
	So in a minute, we'll tell you about American Seniors Association.
	Mark Davis, grab it.
	Well, here we are on the home stretch half hour of the Thursday Rush Limbaugh Show.
	I'm Mark Davis filling in.
	Rush is back on Monday.
	Tomorrow, you get an earful of Mark Stein, which is a wonderful thing.
	I I, just as a listener, can't wait to hear his take on this uh wonderful, wonderful week.
	Okay, the the image of the day is the chopped in is the is the cut up AARP card, and here's why.
	Uh not just because I thought that's something you might want to do if you were so inclined, but uh over at American at AmericanSeniors.org, the American Seniors Association, they uh build themselves.
	I mean, they don't beat you over the head with this, but they are obviously an AARP alternative.
	And since the AARP has chosen to get in bed with Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reed and Barack Obama on a socialist health care bill, here is the American Seniors Association based in Alpharetta, Georgia, proud suburb of Atlanta.
	And uh and I'm reading their website, American Seniors.org, and they have a little mission statement that I'll share in a minute.
	But they uh before you mail that cut up card to the AARP, hang on a minute.
	I that's the statement that that I think would be cool.
	But here's their idea, and these folks are genius.
	If you send them your cut-up AARP card, uh you get a second year of membership free.
	Ah, marketing genius.
	You can read about that, American seniors.org.
	Uh, but look, uh uh membership hijinks aside, here is uh here's what they say.
	They say, we're driven by a uniquely American philosophy that starts with the understanding that government doesn't tax and regulate things, it taxes and regulates people.
	Individuals like you and me.
	That's why we treat every member as an individual with a different story and different priorities, freely united as individuals to provide each other with better values and the services we want and need.
	At the American Seniors Association, we don't just take the government's side like some other associations.
	We're not some big liberal bureaucracy here to try to scare you into going along with big government all the time or telling you what to think.
	Instead, we'll offer you real useful information so you can make up your own mind.
	We'll ask, what do you think?
	And we'll take your side.
	Well, there you go.
	The American Seniors Association.
	Good for them.
	AmericanSeniors.org.
	All righty.
	Well, uh, with that, let's return to some calls, see what's going on with you.
	1-800-282-2882 as we head next into uh boy, I th I think that uh think Mr. McDonnell is uh sort of moving the get getting the moving van rolling through the streets of this great town.
	It is the capital of the Commonwealth of Virginia.
	In Richmond, Mike, Mark Davis in for Rush.
	How are you?
	Oh, doing great.
	Just trying to get down the road.
	Nice to have you.
	What's up?
	Hey, you know.
	I'm laughing at these Democrats that are sitting here saying that there's no effect.
	I'm I'm a truck driver.
	The rates are down.
	We're not moving the freight, and they're cutting our throats because of competition because there's no freight.
	I deal with drivers every day.
	And before the election, it was rapid Obama.
	Now you can't even find an Obama bunker sticker.
	I see on average only one a week.
	Well, drivers are just we get hit so hard by this.
	We're the first ones to see it.
	We're the largest industry in the U.S. We're seeing it.
	This economy, the numbers they're trying to shut down our throats.
	They're just Well, you are I mean, exactly right.
	You are the the the tr the trucking, the highways for trucking and and the rail lines for that type of cargo delivery are the circulatory system of our free market economy.
	And if you guys are getting clobbered, it means that things are not being produced, not being bought, not being delivered.
	You folks are the most accurate finger on the pulse of our free market economy.
	And people could throw phony numbers at you all day, and Rush has properly pointed out that those GDP numbers uh were enormously floated by government spending, which didn't put a cargo in your 18-wheeler.
	So uh the the mood change that you describe uh I think is part of what is going to propel us uh toward more good news in 2010 and 2012, because President Obama owns this economy now.
	He owns this economy.
	He can whine all day about what he inherited, but as we work on, you know, the the the January 20th will be the first year of his inauguration, and at that point it's his, and you gotta ask what has he done to help it?
	And the answer in terms of of private sector uh sparks for job creation uh and for growth is the answer is nothing.
	And the the analysts that are looking at you every once in a while you'll see uh a newspaper article.
	Well, the economy's starting to turn around.
	Finally, the stimulus package is having an effect.
	Well, th that's that's a logical flaw called post hoc ergo propter hoc, in my clumsy Latin, meaning that just because something came after something doesn't mean that it was caused by it.
	Uh correlation and causation.
	Um I won't weary out about that.
	But the economy would have turned around anyway.
	It always does.
	It always will if left to its free market roots.
	So I believe that the stock market would have turned around anyway.
	Housing market would have turned around anyway.
	Your truck would probably have more cargo in it anyway, and oh, by the way, we would not have dug ourselves an $800 billion stimulus hole.
	No way to walk into the time tunnel and prove that I'm right about that.
	But uh if that's true, nor is it possible to assert definitely that the stimulus has actually caused some of the turnaround that we're seeing.
	Mike, safe driving, thank you.
	God bless you.
	And with that, let us head next to Houston.
	Joel, Mark Davis in for Rush.
	How are you?
	Nice to talk to you, Mark.
	You done a great job today, and I want to thank you for what you just said about the truck drivers, because I'm a truck driver myself.
	It's the truckers segment on the Rush Limbaugh show.
	One thing I wanted to point out is the Democrats, any time you ask them about the constitutionality of their wanting to compel people to buy health insurance, the thing that they always drag out is car insurance.
	And I wish that one of these reporters would ask a follow-up question to some of these polit Democrats and ask them, well, okay, if you say it's like auto insurance, well, if you don't own a car, the state doesn't force you to buy car insurance.
	So where is the constitutionality for the government, the federal government to tell you to purchase something that you either don't want and or feel you don't need.
	Right.
	The the state's ability to compel you to buy uh car insurance is predicated on your wish to pilot a car on the publicly owned uh or the publicly financed roads.
	That we can all understand.
	There is in no way a direct parallel between that and creating uh a mandatory uh obligation for health insurance as a precursor for you know living, breathing the air, walking the streets.
	Uh that that is an intrusion that there is no constitutional basis for.
	Um and it's interesting when people are asked that.
	Uh there's Pat Lahey of Vermont, some of the guys at CNS, the Cybercast News Service, they got Leahy in Vermont, they got Roland Burris in Illinois, and someone actually asked this of uh the oh so impressive, oh so compelling Robert Gibbs at a White House news conference.
	And the vapor lock is just always wonderful to watch and listen to the complete vapor lock when you ask somebody exactly where is the constitutional basis for for this uh the the this kind of uh of government overreach, uh it's almost like a parlor game.
	Ask that question and watch someone's eyes glaze over.
	Appreciate it, sir.
	This one's for you.
	There you go.
	Little s I said I wasn't gonna use my bits.
	I'm sorry, you got two truckers, you gotta do it.
	I mean, there you go.
	All right, all right, all right, all right.
	Uh it is the Rush Limbaugh Show.
	I'm Mark Davis filling in, and more of you are next, and a couple of other things I've found that I think are worthy in the last uh 17 minutes of show or so here.
	It is Thursday, it is a fascinating week, it is a fascinating day, and it's a joy to be with you.
	Mark Stein in the chair tomorrow and rush back on Monday on the EIB network.
	It is the Rush Limbaugh Show for a Thursday.
	I'm Mark Davis filling in.
	A couple of stories we haven't gotten to in our closing quarter hour here, and then we'll be back on the phones with a couple of you before we are done.
	A couple of stories from the United States Senate.
	One um involves uh if it's Texas guys, these are gonna be folks I have some familiarity with, and so I want to tell you that if you see the uh the magnificent silver-haired visage of John Corning on your TV screens, uh, you're looking at a really good guy.
	He really is.
	And he it's kind of interesting because uh another gentleman I know well is Pete Sessions, who heads up the National Republican Congressional Committee, and Mr. Corny is the head of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, so two guys who uh have the uh the the well, Pete's a friend uh Senator Corny, I see every once in a while, it's not like we're out doing coffee, but these are guys I know and whom I can vouch for, and they uh they know what kind of an interesting crossfire they are in.
	In terms of what happened up in in New York 23, uh Pete took a look at the decision that the New York State Republican Party made and decided not to thwart their will.
	That is how he said, I I don't I I don't cavalierly look to usurp what a a state party has done.
	Aren't we supposed to be about uh f national or you know federal forces, national forces, not usurping what uh what happens at the state level.
	And you know, generally that's true, but what ultimately wound up happening, of course, is this was a nation and a Republican Party that wanted the NRCC to report uh to support Doug Hoffman because he is the more conservative guy.
	Irrespective whether he was the Republican or not, they wanted that support to go to him.
	So Dee Dee gets out, thank God.
	Uh Pete and everybody else uh instantly support uh Hoffman.
	He comes within three, which is to his absolute credit.
	And uh, I think there's a there's a lesson learned here.
	But but again, I talked about uh how to play hard and play smart and how to where to take these Tea Party and Town Hall passions.
	Here's what I'm talking about.
	This kind of New York 23 thing is not gonna happen very often, where you have an actual Republican so horribly flawed and so totally unworthy of being a party standard bearer.
	So yeah, there's factor number one.
	Factor number two is a third-party conservative party, whatever you want to call it, uh guy or gal, who's very attractive, well-funded, uh doing well in the polls, and looking like a worthy and potentially sex successful alternative.
	To get both of those, good luck with all that.
	Because usually what's gonna happen is there'll be a primary.
	The actual Republican nominee will either be or not be conservative enough to make us all happy.
	If in some districts that man or woman is not, I'm not talking about Didi Scozafava levels of uh of liberalism.
	I just mean, you know, the occasion, especially in the Northeast, that occasional somewhat short of really conservative guy or gal that we run across.
	Well, okay, instantly if you take that that New York 23 kind of passion and say, well, that's instantly fund uh a third-party, more conservative uh person.
	Okay.
	That is smart and productive only in one case.
	If the if if the actual nominee by some weird hook or crook is as screwed up as Didi Schozafava, or close to it.
	And if the alternative is somebody with a ton of campaign skills, and ideally a ton of money, who can actually win?
	If those two conditions aren't met, we're blowing our own brains out.
	And if all the Tea Party and Town Hall passions go lunging towards some wonderful guy or gal with uh 30 grand in the bank and 4% in the polls, uh, but it's sufficiently splits the vote to deny a win to a Republican who's going to agree with you 70, 80% of the time.
	That is just rank stupidity.
	So what I'm saying here is choose your battles.
	Choose your battles.
	And one of those, I was going to bring up Florida and uh and now will.
	Because Charlie Christ, governor of Florida, good guy on some issues, not so much on others.
	Running against an actual conservative, Marco Rubio.
	Attractive, good amount of money.
	This might be one.
	This might be one here.
	Now we're at the primary stage still.
	But the reason I invoke Senator Cornyn is as the chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee.
	He had been involved, he'd been asked some very tough questions.
	What are you going to do?
	What are you going to do?
	And Chris is sort of the company guy and sort of the uh establishment guy.
	And the thought was that the NRSC would it would essentially cast its fate with Charlie Christ, which would drive conservatives insane.
	Because they prefer Marco Rubio.
	Well, John Cornyn now says that they are waiting for voters to have their say.
	They will not channel cash into any primary, pitting Republican versus Republican, including Rubio versus Christ in Florida.
	As far as what's happening specifically in Florida, we made a decision to endorse Governor Christ at his request, but we're not really involved in the primary.
	That's up to the voters in Florida.
	When uh the guy from the political, Manu Raju, asked Cornyn, but are you at least raising and spending money for Christ?
	Corny replied, no.
	We won't be doing any of that until after the nomination.
	Our job is to elect Republicans, so voters in Florida will have a chance to sort that out.
	I love John Corny.
	I would make a suggestion.
	Back it even up from there.
	Don't even be endorsing people.
	Because even the endorsement of Christ creates uh suspicion and bad blood that the NRSC does not need.
	Let's let's let the people of Florida a frightening and crazy concept.
	Let's let the people of Florida decide if they want Charlie Christ or Marco Rubio to have an R by his name on the ballot for that U.S. Senate seat.
	And let's have all these national organizations, and God bless them for raising money to back the Republicans once we have a Republican.
	But if you're going to stay out of the primary, stay out of the primary, both with money and endorsements.
	Okay.
	Okay.
	Just thinking, just looking out for my buddies.
	All righty, let's get our final pause in here and see if there's room for another call or so on the other side.
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