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May 24, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 24, 2010, Monday, Hour #3
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And a pleasant third hour to you.
Marjorie.
I'm Mark Davis in for Rush.
Today.
Tomorrow it'll be Walter Williams, and Rush is back on Wednesday.
All righty, we've had uh two free wheeling hours of stuff going on in the news, and very next segment back to it.
I've I've been paying close attention to Governor Bobby Gendal, because uh, you know, right uh after we have our proper reactions to the effect on the environment, uh the effect on on people uh and on all of this and you know the political uh arguments over drilling.
Uh one of the things that will be observed by history is how did Governor Jindal handle this and how does that affect, if at all, his uh presidential aspirations.
So that's just one of the things I still have in my vest pocket for you here.
So lots more to come in this final hour of the Rush Limbaugh Show.
But first up, what a pleasure to meet this woman.
If I were to tell you that there is an outfit called the Susan B. Anthony list, you might think it was some kind of feminist organization.
And you'd be right.
But it is feminism by an interesting definition because the Susan B. Anthony list is about pro-life feminism, which they will tell you is not a contradiction in terms.
Their goal is to get pro-life women elected to high office, and their president out of the D.C. suburb of Arlington, Virginia is Marjorie Dennenfelser.
Marjorie, Mark Davis, pleasure to meet you.
How are you?
A pleasure to meet you too.
Thank you, Mark, for having me on.
It is is my great honor.
Anytime I have the uh speaking of honors, any time I have the great honor of uh filling the Rush Limbaugh chair.
There are two things I want to do, throw around a lot of my opinions and mix it up with people, but also welcome some people to the show and and and get hip to what uh what they're doing.
So getting pro-life women elected to Congress.
How long has the Susan B. Anthony uh list been about this?
Yeah, you were you were so right in the prelude.
We we think of ourselves as putting feminine back into feminism.
And we started when uh I was on the hill watching only pro-abortion women take the floor and talk about how abortion was necessary for the liberation of all women, and if you couldn't have it well then uh then you might as well just go home and live in a cave.
And that was simply not true, certainly not a reflective of what the early feminists uh were all about.
And so I we I and a few others decided to put a political machine behind a different kind of woman in public office.
We're seeing a lot of them right now.
And uh that's been going on for it since the early nineties, and we've grown and grown and grown, and um and we are very excited to have, especially this year, there's a breakthrough going on right now, uh, some very high profile races with pro-life women running to provide that different model along the lines of Sarah Palin.
Well, I want you to, and Michelle Bachman is uh a big bright light in that regard.
And and feel free, I'm gonna give you a chance to sprinkle some names out to us of some races to to pay attention to.
But but some some broad things first.
Anytime one looks at the the quest of the Susan B. Anthony list uh to say to get a pro-life women elected, one might ask, well, uh is that how is that different than having pro-life men elected?
The first thing that occurs to me is only a pro-life woman can offer the strongest defense that women's rights are defined only by protecting the right to have an abortion.
That's right.
I mean, uh we are the first people to say we love men here, and that's because we follow the model that the early feminists did, which was to see men and women as complimentary and not in conflict, and to see our unborn children as complimentary, and our rights are completely meshed in theirs and not in conflict.
I mean, anyone would think that um when Michelle Bachman now takes to the floor that uh a strong woman, if you didn't know who she was, you'd say she's gonna stand up there and talk about abortion rights are so vital uh with the implication that somehow their children her ch you know, children and men are a speed bump to her success.
But no, what is so compelling with this new model of feminism is that it is inclusive.
It takes the people that are so important in our lives and includes them and brings everybody along and doesn't uh push people off to the margins, because you really can't build your rights on the broken rights of other human beings.
And that's a model of love, really, that is attractive that people can follow.
And there's there's there's money and activism and real consequences to that model that we're very proud of.
Marjorie Danon Felser is here, president of the Susan B. Anthony list.
Check them out at SBA-list, SBA hyphen list dot org.
Let's go to the name, shall we, Marjorie?
The Susan B. Anthony list.
Hmm.
Why would one name a pro-life uh group out after Susan B. Anthony?
There's a bit of a of a of a war of history going on over how pro-life was she and and give us give us your short essay on that.
Yeah, well, it's very easy because all of our knowledge about her comes out directly out of her mouth and out of the mouth of all the women that she worked with.
She called abortion child murder.
She said the practice uh will burden a woman's conscience and life, will burden her soul in the grave.
Thrice guilty is the one who drove her to the dreadful deed.
Um she was very clear.
It was not a hope high profile debate in that day like it is right now, but there was no sense of dividing the rights of women and their children.
It was always a block, those two.
Uh her best friend and and uh ally in the suffrage movement, you know, and they had already been involved in the abolition movement, by the way, was Elizabeth Caddy Santon.
And uh and she said when we consider that women are treated as property, it's degrading to women to treat our children as property to be disposed of when we see fit.
So there's an unbroken line of w strong women, Alice Paul, the original author of the Equal Rights Amendment, along unbroken line until you get to 1960 and 70s, and a whole new breed of women who put abortion at the center of women the women's rights movement did us all a great disservice, and now the bottom is absolutely falling out of that movement, and therefore new women are stepping up to uh to fill that void.
Let me ask about the the climate of of two thousand ten, because uh of uh uh a a party.
I mean, conservatism was all republicanism was on the rocks, conservatism was uh had its head hung low after 06 and 08.
When can we ever reclaim the debate?
And things are are are no doubt turning around and Tea Party passions are about a lot of that.
One thing I've noticed about the Tea Party thing, though, is it is largely fairly silent on on social issues, abortion included.
But are you noticing a kind of a parallel um energizing of of folks who, whether within or or whether inside or outside the Tea Party construct, are interested in uh in in scoring some points for the unborn here in the 2010 elections.
Oh, without question, it is an it it is a ideal partnership because it is an organic movement, just like the pro-life movement is.
Um you don't have to look at the polls, but you could.
Um Gallup has shown the last three polls that it does that the new norm on the life issue is that m is that far more people self-label pro-life over pro-choice.
That's the new norm, and it is certainly far more dramatic pro-life quotient in the Tea Party movement.
I spoke in uh Kansas City recently with Michelle Bachman and Sarah Palin, and I spoke on the life issue, and that stadium was on fire, on fire for life.
Um so there's no question that it is the perfect alliance, in my view, to resurrect the Reagan model of how to win elections, help everybody to focus on the target of electing a human being who is a great leader and at the same time respecting each other uh even while we're working on different issues.
That's the that's the model that wins.
Well, let's uh pick a couple of two or three people and uh and you'll I'm sure uh frost those whom you don't mention.
But I do want to cut a couple I I can't do fifteen.
But are there some are there some districts to look at, some states to look at, some people who you'd like us to pay attention to?
Uh being praiseworthy for being pro-life is one thing, but I'd like you to filter your search, if you will, and give me some folks who you think might actually win.
Well, I'm gonna give you real quick, I'm gonna give you four.
Two Senate, two house.
Right.
Charlie Fiorina, very, very strong.
California, she's gonna beat Barbara Boxer, isn't she?
She is the ideal matchup.
She is that we have been waiting for her since Barbara Boxer was elected to Congress when she was in the House and went jumped over that Senate.
She did it all a great disservice.
It was Emily's list badge of honor.
Now Carly Fiorina, one of the most articulate women on this issue that I've ever met.
When she comes walking through the door, and I bet a lot of board meetings, I bet a lot of people said to themselves, hmm, strong, successful woman.
Ah, I bet she's pro-choice.
But that has totally changed.
Now she is putting a new face along with Palin and uh and Bachman and others uh on what it means to be a strong woman, being strong for others is also what it means to be a strong woman.
Um and as you said before, speaking with authority on the issue of life because she's uh because she's a woman and she can speak um in complimentary uh way with men about what it means for a woman to to go through that and and the desire to keep that at bay.
Jane Norton in Colorado is another who is uh defunded Planned Parenthood in Colorado.
She is a great advocate for the unborn and understands very, very well what Planned Parenthood has done to target women and kind of put them adrift after they give them an abortion say, hey you got your abortion you're gone we're done with you.
And the people of Colorado know her because she used to be lieutenant governor.
That's right.
And she was not like she's just somebody who's just you know dropped from the sky right she did she did not draw she has a long track record of being a great leader and she's got a tough primary.
Her life and uh feminine combination I think will pull it out there.
Um and then the you know a couple of others Indiana is just God's country.
I mean don't you love Indiana?
So many people great people come from there.
Um Jackie Willorsky in the second district of Indiana is somewhere I like to put on everybody's radar she is a force of nature.
She just won the primary she's got a very good shot of winning there against a guy who caved when it came time to protect the unborn uh one he was one of those pro-life so called Democrats that voted uh against keeping taxpayer funding out of abortion.
Um so it Donnelly is a congressman joe Joe Donnelly Joe Donnelly yeah.
And so this is the greatest chance we've got in a long time and for her to defeat him especially because she's very focused on his betrayal on that vote will be a great a great victory.
Um and then finally and finally someone who I'm very very sure can win if she gets through the primary is Cecily Bledstow who is in Arkansas's third district.
She is a a bright light, beautiful woman, very experienced it's an open seat which is always fun because you know uh it is a very Republican seat and she can definitely win and pull that out.
Um she's just a great advocate and uh and was has already been in the legislature and has already fought for life, which is our you know the legislature is of course are our farm team.
We're always she v right th this is the the John Boozman seat who's going to run off and be a candidate for U.S. Senate.
Now Ms. Bledsoe uh it brings a little something that it's always nice to have with you.
Uh doesn't she have if uh some sort of health care background of some sort of thing she does she is she does have a very deep and wide knowledge of health care and so you're right it does.
You know what it means to take care uh you know that there are two patients uh when a woman is pregnant and you also just bring a little extra uh scientific knowledge to the background of what of what this is all about.
So um these are just a few but you know this is the the most n the highest number of women running for office in the Republican Party.
Um and it is uh it is it is great news for the pro life movement because the vast majority most almost all of them are are very pro-life.
Um and that's a real shift.
They are scared I gotta tell you the feminist and uh NARAL and now and Emily's list um as powerful as they have been are seeing of that at a strong erosion of their base and uh and we know why.
We know why.
Well put Susan B. Anthony list on your bookmark list on your browse there.
It's S B A dash list S B A as in Susan B. Anthony hyphen list L I S T dot org.
Marjorie Dannenfelser is the president pleasure to meet you ma'am and thank you very very much.
I appreciate it.
What a delight come v come visit us when you come to DC.
That I shall appreciate it.
It's the Susan B. Anthony list SBA-list dot org.
All right there may be things in there that sparked a thought or two in your head you may uh it it it may I got a couple of things I want to uh give you a brief riff on but uh if you're just joining us we were talking about uh just a bunch of things.
Imagine that some constitutional talk about uh uh from from wars to to Civil Rights Act things thanks to Brother Paul giving us a little uh talk show uh talk show topicality over the last uh few days and various other things we' uh and I'm let's take a a real good look here.
I and and again I will be the first to tell you that how this oil spill affects Bobby Jindal's twenty twelve chances is no higher than the fifth most important thing right now.
Fourth okay maybe fourth.
But you can't not go there.
I mean the first thing is is is how it affects living things, both human and animal.
It it's a terrible, terrible thing.
We gotta learn from it and and have drilling that is maybe we can learn some lessons.
We've got to have drilling, so let's have it uh be as free of such events as possible, and and all of this.
And everybody in Louisiana and the Gulf Coast are in our prayers, they're in our thoughts.
But one of three things is gonna happen to Bobby Gendal as a result of this.
One of three.
One, he'll handle this like a champion, and his twenty twelve stock will increase.
He'll mess up somehow or be pillaried somehow, and it will hurt him, or it'll be a wash.
It'll it'll have no great effect.
And I don't I have no idea which of those it'll be.
Uh daily events on the ground, as they say, or in the water more appropriately, will be the determiner there.
So let's uh let's take stock of that.
And a bunch of other things in our remaining oh forty minutes together on the Monday Rush Limbaugh show.
I'm Mark Davis filling in down here in Dallas Fort Worth at WBAP, and you folks are next on the radio in just a moment.
It is the Monday Rush Limbaugh Show.
I'm Mark Davis filling in, WBAP Dallas Fort Worth.
And tomorrow, Dr. Walter Williams will sh open up his big brain and share some things and I cannot wait.
If I'm allowed to throw this down, and I listen, I love all people.
I mean, you know, Brother Stein and folks through the years, I've uh I just uh just love it.
I mean, I I really do.
And uh the I've always enjoyed the Limbaugh fill-in hosts, which is why it means an enormous amount to me uh to be on uh to be part of that bench strength.
But over the years, uh it is uh I I have learned so much, so much from uh from the good professor Walter Williams, and he will be with you, and I'll be listening to tomorrow.
And Rush returns on Wednesday.
All right, I tell you what, um let me just take care of some folks that really been hanging on for a little while, said it's it's gonna be uh a bit of a topical free-for-all, but that's uh open line Monday, if you will, and uh that's fine, and then we'll uh revisit a couple of things that we've uh we've had going since we got started today.
We are in Washington, Iowa.
Matt has a point uh about conservatism and credit card consumer protections.
I'm intrigued by stuff like this, and Matt, it's very nice to have you.
How are you?
I'm doing great.
How are you?
Great.
Thanks for hanging on.
What's up?
So um I'm kind of interested to hear what a conservative point of view would be on this matter.
Um you open up the statement now, and they kind of like they lay out and and this is re regulated by the government, they they're making them do this, lay out a three-year payment plan, and it shows you what just a little bit, how how long a little bit goes, making a little extra payment.
And so I've always been kind of a free market type and never liked the government interaction.
However, now it just to me it seems like there's some good things about it.
So there are you and you do and you do not have to abandon your conservatism to feel somewhat warmly about it.
And if they're not telling credit card companies what their interest rates can be, but they are, for example, uh requiring 45 days of notice of interest rate increases.
Uh the decision was made to to to stop penalizing people who pay on time, some of that double cycle billing practice.
I mean, one can say that that's something a credit card company ought to be able to do in an atmosphere of perfect liberty, but you know what?
I'm not lying awake at night worrying about it.
It it it seems scurrilous, and and I it it it i the only people who are really gonna be annoyed by the credit card, uh, the the the credit card accountability responsibility and disclosure act, whatever it was called last year, are the kind of people who bristle at uh at nutrition labels on the side of a box of crackers.
Okay, they're making um they're making the companies actually tell you what how much interest you'll pay over if you only make the minimum payment, and then they're gonna have to do that.
I have no quarrel with that whatsoever.
And I have no quarrel what uh i information almost never makes me bristle.
Uh you know, it it's it just doesn't.
I mean, if they're getting to the point where they're telling banks what a fee can be or telling them what they can charge, then I'll be there to fight it.
But the you know, the compulsion to inform the public uh of is is rarely detestable.
Well, the information is absolutely wonderful.
Um I I found out on a $350 payment, it was going to take 27 years.
And and I'm a double business major.
I could have calculated this my own.
But I just never would.
And you know, my receptionist really won't know how.
But 27 years, 11,000 interests with a 350 dollar payment, a $500 payment, three years, and Matt, you're completely right.
I gotta hit the I gotta hit the bottom of the hour here, but you're you're totally right about that.
And uh we can run a thousand PSAs that say, hey, if if if you're doing minimum payment, you'll be paying until the year 2500.
But to have a little something in there in the statement means it'll hit a lot of eyes that it wouldn't otherwise yet.
I got no problem.
Back in a moment.
And we greet you everybody, Mark Davis in for Rush Limbaugh on this Monday.
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Walter Williams tomorrow and uh me today.
I'm very, very grateful.
All righty, let us head to South Philly.
Pat, Mark Davis, you're in uh on the Rush Limbaugh show.
How are you?
Mr. Davis, God bless you, and God bless guys like Rush Limbaugh.
So what they speak, of course they call a spade a spade and they tell it exactly like it is.
But my question is about this oil spill around the Gulf.
I just can't understand when I heard Saturday that BP, BP, somebody big wanted to see us said they couldn't do anything about that oil gushing out.
And they said they wouldn't be able to do anything until Tuesday.
But this bum, this bum in Washington, DC, that's in the White House, this guy does absolutely nothing.
Of course, they're all passing the buck, and I imagine when you do contribute so much money to campaigns, you know, I s I'm scratching your back, you scratch my back, just like all them bums on Wall Street that get that Sachs thing.
They donated so much money to this bum when he was a senator in in Chicago, Illinois.
So in other words, that's why they're not going after them.
So Bet, I'll tell you what, let me not that you're not on a roll, but I I think you've pointed out a very interesting dichotomy.
This this is an anti-oil administration.
But if BP uh has written huge checks, then it puts them in a state of conflict.
It's certainly an anti-business administration.
But if Golden Goldman Sachs writes a big check, puts them in a state of conflict.
Go.
Mark, not to cut you off.
But the people in this country, you know what I mean?
I mean, could they all be donkeys or they're all brainwashed to say, you know what I mean?
You could do things to change things, you know.
You know what they're doing, and these so-called lawyers that they that they give them a title like a lobbyist, they're all thieves.
They're all thieves.
In other words, Washington, D.C., corporate America controls Washington, D.C. And D and these people, these voters in this country.
I mean, this guy backed free losers.
He backed a little loser over here in my state of Pennsylvania.
Uh uh Spectre.
He was like a fixture on a wall.
There's so many of them that are fixtures on a war.
I mean, how do they land?
Term limits get out.
Term limits get out.
I don't care who you are.
I mean, they're all walls of the wall.
They live high on a hawk.
I don't.
I'm a little retired maintenance man.
I'm retired.
I'm a senior citizen.
But boy, I did there's not one day that don't go by market.
I don't watch the Fox News Network.
It's the best network between Hannity, be between O'Reilly, between Beck, between Grant Fan Sester, and then two sharp guys that O'Reilly's got to run a lot.
I was gonna say do we want to visit the weekend lineup at Brother Huckabee.
Pat, I'll tell you something.
Uh from the God bless the uh I'm I'm in number one, God bless you for the energy.
Number two, God bless you for two minutes of enormously great radio.
And and number three, and this is this is interesting.
This is interesting.
I th I will never seek to douse anyone's cynicism because it is usually so well placed.
Um I don't for a minute believe they're all crooks.
Yeah, I you know, I couldn't put on my pants and you know get out of the house if I thought it was universal corruption.
And and listen, there's plenty to criticize on Wall Street.
There's plenty to criticize in the business world, the government world, but I believe that there are principled people, and I don't just mean those who politically agree with me.
Uh There are principled people trying to get out there and uh and and and do what they believe is right.
And to do so without corruption and do so without law breaking, uh there just aren't enough of them.
So if we can find and encourage that, I think we'll be in uh we'll be in uh in good shape.
And as for, you know, the the current uh bums in power, I I've may I invoke the time tunnel for the third time in today's show.
We would need a time tunnel to leap back to uh, you know, the George W. Bush administration, maybe even the Reagan administration.
I know it to a degree it would be a technological issue.
But I'd love to see, I'd love to know how a Republican administration would respond to this oil spill.
Because what what we're dealing with right now is is I don't think there is a soul alive who absolutely knows of i to what extent regulatory failure or government oversight uh was a problem uh in the in the oil spill.
I also don't believe that there is a soul alive who knows yet just how culpable private industry, BP, uh Transocean, Aliburton, you know, et cetera, et cetera.
Everybody involved, I mean, th these are all all yet to be determined.
Since that's yet to be determined, uh I have a hard time uh, you know, placing blame.
And I think it's I think you should have a hard time placing blame too.
And that means I don't want to hear the White House demonizing business.
Uh I don't necessarily want to hear people drawing the conclusion uh that that this is the White House's fault.
I said this at the beginning of this show.
Uh that if if this were happening under Bush, we would have had articles of impeachment drawn up by now for inattention to the oil spill.
And that's not me calling for uh attacks on the Obama White House because of the oil spill.
I'm just calling for consistency.
If there is something that uh that a White House can't do a whole lot about in the opening weeks of it, you know, and maybe uh and they can certainly do X amount for hurricanes, but that's certainly federal government, state government, and local government.
Uh but in terms of something like this, which which by and large just doesn't happen hardly at all, we're all on a on a really bad learning curve.
We're learning as we go along.
And we may learn that there are things we could have done better with this particular oil platform.
We may learn that there are things that we can do better in responding to the next one.
Heaven forbid there's a next one, but I bet there will be.
And and until then, uh l let's let's actually inform ourselves before we go uh either, you know, blistering uh a White House we don't like, uh uh protecting a White House we do like, if that's you, uh protecting a business we may like or demonizing a business we don't like.
I guess there are your four possibilities.
And uh and I know we don't like this.
We usually like to arrive at lightning fast conclusions, and it may not take long.
I don't know, we got that uh that that bipartisan commission thing.
Oh, thank God we got a bipartisan commission that'll investigate this and uh and and see what there is to learn.
But the stuff that uh that I do want to absolutely uh fight against is those who will use this, and they are they are plentiful, those who will use this as some kind of uh of watershed moment when we are supposedly uh informed.
Some would say by God.
I always love the God angle to this, that uh, well, this was divine intervention to show America not to, you know, to to stop spoiling uh, you know, God's uh Gulf Coastline.
Well, guess what?
Let's leave God out of this, at least in terms of his particular intervention in making the oil spill happen.
I will tell you that the planet that God created will do its usual amazing job of self-cleansing as it did in Alaska.
Uh but what God has given us is the minds and the resolve to learn from this and uh and and as best way that people talk about preventing it.
I don't think it can be prevented any more than you learn from a plane crash and you hope that maybe that prevents future plane crashes.
Doesn't happen.
We're going to have oil spills.
We should try to have as few as possible, and one would certainly think learn to contain them more quickly than this.
Could this have been done more quickly?
Is it an outrage that we don't have this that we didn't have this thing capped inside of a week?
I don't know.
And nobody else does either right now, I don't believe.
So let's find out.
And it's at some point we'll learn a bunch of stuff and you know, be able to find somebody to kick in the teeth, I'm sure.
All right, 1-800-282-2882.
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So Governor Bobby Gendal, down in Louisiana, held a news conference today.
Why let you hear a little piece of it because um one of the things that'll come into sharp focus, one hopes, is is the federal government being asked to do certain things.
Uh there will come a time when it and I guess it's a work in progress, evaluating the the quality, the speed of the government response to this.
And unlike what was done to the Bush administration in Katrina, I want it done fairly even-handedly and neither overcritically or undercritically.
Um you know the I call it a conspiracy theory if you want, but the uh the the little narrative running through some people's minds, uh you you don't think this White House would be slow in responding to the oil spill so that the oil spill could look worse and be of greater value to those who decry the dangers of drilling.
Oh, they would never do that, would they?
Well, I would hope not.
Uh but here's Governor Jendah today down on the Louisiana coast, uh talking about um some things he's been asking for from uh this administration.
On April 30th, we requested a commercial fisheries failure from the U.S. Department of Commerce to activate critical assistance to our fishermen, our multi-billion dollar a year fishing industry that is suffering from this oil spill.
We still haven't seen this request granted as of today.
We've got some of our fishing uh uh uh industry folks here with us today.
They can tell you about the hardships they're facing on a day like today.
By the way, when we were out by these islands, when we're out today, we didn't see any boats out there.
On a day like today, on a beautiful day like today, there should be over a hundred fishing boats just in that area alone.
And yet maybe two boats left the marina today.
Governor Bobby Gendal of Louisiana, and um one of the the f ten plot lines of all this is how will he be perceived as having handled this?
Well, let's handle a final few of your calls before we have to close up shop for today's Rush Limbaugh Show.
We are in Great Bend, Kansas.
Patrick, Mark Davis, you're on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Hello.
Hello, it's a pleasure to be with you today.
Thanks.
I uh hate to follow Pat and South Philly, but I'll do my best.
Good luck.
No problem.
I uh I read a kind of a disturbing article this morning in Politico.
And uh kind of fueled my fire, and that is that I just fear that the Republicans or the conservatives, depending on your flavor.
And we're gonna bloody ourselves to the point that we're gonna be so bruised going into the no November elections uh that we're gonna be very vulnerable.
And uh bloodied and bruised how.
Well, specifically, uh I'll just state in this article.
Um was talking about the race that Sue Louden is in.
The uh the primary that Sue Loudness again in Nevada.
Right.
And uh how Harry Reid was really excited about uh watching these conservatives destroy each other in the primaries and how he was looking forward to running against this Tea Party candidate in Nevada.
Now, to be completely fair, I don't know exactly what the dynamics of that race are, but I do know that I've heard Sue Loudon on a couple different uh talk shows.
Sean Hannity's had her on, thought she was a great candidate, and uh I I think early on she looked like she could beat Harry Reid.
Right.
Let me give you thirty seconds, thirty seconds of uh well, we've got plenty of time, but here's the she is the former Nevada Republican Party chairwoman, Sue Loudon, and you're right about her.
She's a wonderful potential candidate.
Uh Also running, though, are our lawyer Danny Tarkanian, he of the famous basketball coach dad, and and a woman who has won the endorsement of the Tea Party crowd, for a former assemblywoman Sharon Angle.
It's okay.
Well, I mean, will they, I mean, as with a ton of uh any time Republicans, there's gonna be blood on the walls.
Uh and then everybody will unite behind whoever wins.
I just think there's no reason to believe, I think that that whoever emerges from that will be so battle damaged uh that he she will be unable to beat Harry Reid.
Yeah, well, I and I agree with you, and and that's what I think as well.
I'm just a little concerned that it in the primaries it's gonna become who's conservative enough.
And it's gonna it's gonna be everybody.
Is that a problem?
No, it's not a problem.
But I think that what uh what I hope it doesn't do is force uh good quality conservative candidates to try to become something that they're not to appease a far-right libertarian tea party or something.
But what does that mean?
I mean, what that's a little almost borderline code language.
Uh if if l how about everybody get out there, you'll be asked questions about how conservative you are.
Some of those questions will involve how much you were willing to tolerate TARP or bailouts or stimulus packages.
And if you give the wrong answers on that, guess what?
You might lose.
Well, I guess that's what uh the election's all about.
Exactly right.
And that's not to be feared or or debased.
It is to be embraced.
It is the marketplace of the moment that might finally not just return some Republicans to to uh uh of uh uh a Congress that has been nearly wiped clean of them in the last couple of elections, but the kind of Republicans who have an actual conservative rudder that that got everybody so much in love with Reagan and got everybody so much in love with a Republican Party that really wanted strong limited government that really wanted fiscal uh sensibility.
Uh don't don't fear that.
And listen, if anybody does come along that's, you know, too edgy, too wacky, too extreme, whatever the definition of that is, those people won't win.
Marketplace is what it is, man.
It's and it's it's gonna be okay.
Keep track and uh uh get me back anytime when I'm filling in, or call rush any time, and I I appreciate it.
Those are not unworthy concerns, but just uh relax and let the game come to you.
It's gonna be okay.
All righty, let's get our final break in, come back, have a final word or two on the Monday Rush Limbaugh Show.
Mark Davis filling in, Walter Williams tomorrow, and we'll be back in just a moment on the EIB network.
In the closing minute of today's Rush Limbaugh Show.
First enormous gratitude uh to Ed and H.R. and of course to Rush for letting me even do this.
Always have a good good time.
Walter Williams with you tomorrow.
But let's close with with the last gentleman, because I think he has a lot of company.
People are kind of concerned that, oh my gosh, we're gonna be eating our own and it's gonna be just incredible damage, internessing squabbles and such that will leave us less able to fight the Democrats.
No, no, no, no, no, no.
Uh I mean, the when when Tim Bridgewater and Mike Lee were chosen instead of Bob Bennett, uh to to carry the the senatorial baton in the state of Utah, uh faux conservative David Brooks, uh, the New York Times columnist was on Meet the Press and referred to it as, pardon me, P. G. 13, quoting him, a damn outrage.
Uh Brooks said that he was that that Bennett was punished for being a quote, good conservative who is trying to get things done by bravely working with Democrats on health care and supporting TARP.
Just speaking for me, I'm tired of people wanting to work with Democrats on health care and supporting TARP.
Let us bring our best game, let them do the same, see who wins.
Mark Davis, see you next time.
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