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June 8, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 8, 2010, Tuesday, Hour #3
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Flattery I hope to deserve on the Rush Limbaugh Show, Mark Davis from WBAP Dallas Fort Worth, where our 100 degree spring already largely underway.
And things are hot all over America, topically speaking, especially on a big primary election day.
We are together on the Rush Show today and tomorrow.
How cool is that?
So we get to look ahead to the election results tonight and then chew on them after the returns come in tomorrow.
But amid all of this, there's plenty of room for other things as well.
I ended the last hour talking about a little presentation that I was in the room for last night by a pollster and writer and uh message Maven Frank Luntz, who said that uh if you're a Republican and you're running, uh don't say capitalism.
Now instantly I can feel you recoil.
Why not?
Why not?
Capitalism is great.
I mean, there's the magnificent Steve Forbes book out now, How Capitalism Will Save Us.
He's absolutely right.
Of course, Steve Forbes is in the private sector trying to sell books and doing extremely well at it.
If you are running for office, it gets a little more complicated than that.
Because, I mean, Frank's whole point, and I think this is genius, is that we have to find ways to broaden our base without compromising our principles.
No one is talking about being less well or should be, talking about being less conservative or sacrificing certain things for for an imagined greater good.
But a lot of times it's about language.
It's about the message.
Uh drilling, for example, that's fine.
I I'm a big believer still in drill, baby drill.
Uh, but uh the domestic energy exploration, while a lot more syllables, is something that sounds good to a lot of people.
Drilling just sounds so violent.
But domestic energy exploration, of course.
It's domestic, that's good.
It's energy, that's good.
Exploration, that certainly is noble.
So often it's about the words.
So instead of capitalism, what shall we be talking about?
Economic freedom.
Economic freedom, the free enterprise system.
These are words, and remember, Frank is the guy who gave us that room full of people with dials in their hands.
He'll play a political commercial, he'll play a speech, and he'll identify, but and he'll have a room full of, you know, Republicans and Democrats, and he'll see what makes the dials go down.
If you hear something that you don't like, you bring the dial down.
You hear something that makes your uh heart just flutter with glee, you bring the uh the dial up.
And he played some stuff from Bob McDonald, a new governor of Virginia, some of his absolute genius campaign ads, and you knew you had a genius campaign ad when the Republican and the Democrat dials were going up.
And when he said things like a bold vision for bringing people together and getting things done, uh listen, you and I both know that those are platitudes, but they're really good platitudes.
And it's a campaign commercial, obviously in policy statements and speeches.
You need to get into some detail, you need to, you know, provide some layering, some nuance, uh, you know, and and and not just uh deal in sound bites.
But uh there are themes that Dr. Luntz said would be genius for the GOP to explore things to say, economic freedom, one of them, uh reducing wasteful Washington spending, slashing wasteful Washington spending.
It's the funny thing.
If you get up in front of a room full of people, let a mixed group of people you don't know who you're talking to, it could be people from everywhere, and you say, I w I I want to cut I want to cut spending.
I want to cut spending.
Some people will go, excellent, we've needed to cut spending for a long time.
Others, however, will go, oh my gosh, how's that going to affect me?
Are they going to cut something I need, something that I advocate?
But if you change the phraseology just a smidge, I'm going to slash wasteful Washington spending.
You go from maybe having 50% crowd approval to 80.
And you've said exactly the same thing.
Now, it it may drive you nuts, but this is how political office is won.
Part of it is the ideas in your head and what's in your heart.
But the ultimate engine that will drive you is how well and how skillfully you express it.
And and he visited a theme that we've talked about a lot uh in the talk show universe, that the Obama victory in 2008 was in no way a signaling of some enormous shift to the left by America.
Uh isn't that fairly obvious now as the things the administration is actually doing has people uh you know repelled mightily.
Now the nor is that if if Republicans have nice, you know, uh sweet gains this November, that doesn't doesn't necessarily mean that that is America uh attacking uh boldly to the right.
Uh the the last few elections have been we hate what's going on, let's try something else.
They got tired of Bush, tired of the war, so Obama wins.
Now they're really tired of of wasteful Washington spending and bailouts and and stimulus packages and all of this nonsense.
And so if if the Republicans are the beneficiary of that, oh, we'll take it.
But we'd better take it and run with it and do something with it.
So um anyway, and maybe some more from from Frank's brain later on, because it was just great.
If Frank ever does uh uh an appearance somewhere in your town or does something, just go, just go.
Uh I mean you you may not agree with every observation Frank makes, that's fine.
Uh, but uh you will not be bored.
Okay.
Who has called the Rush Limbaugh Show today?
Who's gonna grace us with some of their wisdom from wherever they are in America?
The number's 1-800-282-2882, 1-800-282-2882 on a big election day across much of America.
We're in Mulden, South Carolina.
Pat, hi, uh, welcome to the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Mark Davis filling in.
How are you?
Hey, Mark, I'm great.
God bless you guys for what you do.
Thank you.
Now I understand you are not a South Carolinian.
No, and at risk of being called a carpet bagger, I'm down here to uh engage in an experiment.
Let's see if we can and let's see if we can vote in citizen patriots who understand the true intent of the founders, all 140 of them versus a couple sound bites that are used for progressive means.
Let's let's get some true citizen patriots who set aside their lives that set aside their fortunes that set aside the blessings they've had to go and serve their country.
Well, who has who has inspired you?
Who's inspired you to gas up the car from the uh from the the northern Midwest and head on down to the Palmetto State?
Anybody in particular?
Yeah, there's a gentleman down here named Jim Lee.
He is a strong patriot.
He is a businessman who understands that this country needs help.
He's had some some success, and he wants to donate his time and his life to trying to do what this country was founded upon.
What is he running for?
What is he rooting for?
He's pro- what's what's he running for?
Is he in the uh hang on a second, let me find him uh thank you, Internet.
Here we go, Jim Lee, District 4 consultant, ex-school board member, and Air Force reservist.
I'm already inclined to like him.
Well, there are a bunch of Republicans in there.
What makes him the guy you're there for?
Well, you've got a moderate in Bob English, who, you know, who who was voting for big government programs.
You've got to you've got to and he's the incumbent.
He's the incumbent.
He's the incumbent.
And then you've got then you've got a fellow that used to be a Democrat that's a lawyer that looks like he flipped to the Republican Party for political gain.
We don't need any more of those fellows over here.
We don't need another Arlen Spector in Congress.
All right.
Well, listen, I know Mr. Lee appreciated and this is wild.
Listen, I could see I know a lot of people who uh in 2008 dropped everything and went to some state, even a faraway state to do something on a grand national scale.
You there are lot there are a lot of guys with a certain Tea Party vibe about them, a certain citizen patriot vibe about them, and they're probably less than 1400 miles from your house.
So what what was it that uh that specifically inspired you in this particular direction with this laser-like precision?
Because we have to, we gave it up, it's up to us to go get it back.
So wherever we have to go, citizen patriots have to stand have to stand up for citizen patriots and bring this government back to the people.
All right.
Well, I love the the the sound of that is music to me.
Thank you, Pat.
Appreciate it, and uh safe travels home, and I know that uh they appreciate having you down there in South Carolina.
Let us head up 95 to New Jersey, Monasqua, New Jersey.
Donna, Mark Davis in for Rush.
How are you?
Nice to have you.
Hello, Mark.
This is a real privilege.
I wanted to agree with the gentleman that just spoke.
In New Jersey, we have we have a uh primary today, and it's the opportunity of Republicans not only to well, t to keep the Republican Party conservative.
There is a battle within the Republican Party in New Jersey and perhaps across the country of progressives who are infiltrating it versus the Tea Party conservative candidates.
In my district for Congressman Chris Smith, for twenty-eight years I voted for him, and I trusted him with a pro-life uh message.
However, he voted for Cap and Trade, Car Check, he voted against drilling in Anwar, and we are sick of it.
We are so over taxed.
We feel so over uh underrepresented by our representatives.
And so I am I voted today for Alan Bateman, uh who was a con who was a constitutional conservative.
He's the Tea Party guy.
He's the Tea Party guy, and and that's uh listen, so instantly that tells you a bunch of things in his head and his heart.
Here's what I want to know from you objectively, though.
Mount Mount any is it is hard to beat an incumbent, even in this incumbent uh endangered uh time.
Uh can he do that?
Can can he can he beat Chris Smith?
It is a low turnout today.
And every vote, like a vote from me, who used to be for Chris Smith, it's almost like double ammunition for Alan Bateman and the other conservative Tea Party candidates in New Jersey who are chosen.
Yeah.
I mean, because uh just looking at New Jersey, I mean here's a guy named uh Bruce Baker running against incumbent Leonard Lance in District 7.
Uh there's Alan Bateman in four, and uh gosh, it's there's there's all kind th this this is on fire across America.
And of all the Tea Party candidates, the people who have that d that glow coming off them, there are two kinds.
There are those who have a chance of winning and those who don't.
But I don't I don't I don't care that it matter how I feel about them.
I the the notion that they have felt this kind of empowerment, this kind of calling to try to do something to bring our government back, and not just wrestle it from the Democratic Party, to wrestle it from those in the Republican Party who have lost their rudders.
It it is just enormously, enormously inspiring.
That's right.
And Mark, you know, I want people to remember if we don't if we don't put the conservative candidate in in this primary today, we are going to be voting for the lesser of two evils in November, and we're going to lose the country because of that.
Yeah, uh I I hold that lesser of two evils thing at arm's length.
All right.
I mean, because here's here's the deal.
If if Bateman does not win, what are you gonna do?
Well, what what I'll be stuck with Chris Smith who voted for Captain Trade and Car Check.
We're we're losing the country.
We're losing our country.
No doubt.
No doubt.
Uh absolutely listen, and then those are reasons why you want Alan Bateman to win.
But if he doesn't, what will you do?
I'm going to be picking up the rosary and pray because I'm fearing for the country.
And and I mean that sincerely.
Can I just say this?
As Russia's Jersey Shore mistress, I wish him all the most greatest happiness in the world, and we love him and Catherine so much.
Well, listen, thank you.
I appreciate it very, very much.
Oh, that's that's there's the exercise.
What are you if your guy doesn't win, what are you gonna do?
And and I I mean, listen, I know the lesser of two evils syndrome.
I've I've probably thrown that down a few times myself.
Um but what are you gonna do?
You you you you can either vote for a Democrat, which you're not gonna do, or you can stay home and help the Democrat win, which you shouldn't do.
So you fight real I mean, this is the way most of most of us can't speak for everyone.
It's the way I felt about John McCain.
He he he he wasn't my my top guy.
But once he won the nomination, he was the only guy.
And across America, some of these Tea Party folks are gonna win and some of them are not.
And I'll just flat tell you the dumbest thing you can do is get into a huff about it and go off and be petulant and throw yourself a little tantrum and say, well, I'll show them.
Uh let's just let the Democrat win and let's let the country go a little deeper into the hellhole.
And then they'll come uh you know, crying back to me for you know, Tea Party.
I We don't have that kind of time.
We we don't we don't have that kind of luxury.
We don't have that kind of time.
So if it means you hold one nostril of your nose and vote for a guy who might have voted for TARP or something, that's what you do.
Rather than give Nancy Pelosi another Democrat or let her keep another Democrat.
Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good is, you know, the thing I trundle out a lot.
But again, that's that's across the other side of the bridge.
While we're still on this side of the bridge, today, get out there and vote for the most conservative person who can win.
The most conservative person who can win.
All right.
And uh and and obviously water cooler conversation can break out all over the place as to who that might be, district by district by district.
That's that's why you have conversations and races in your own towns.
All right, let's get back and uh get some other thoughts from elsewhere in the country.
Some other things haven't even brought up yet.
It's the Rush Limbaugh Show for a Tuesday.
Mark Davis filling in, and we'll continue in just a moment.
It's the Rush Limbaugh Show, honeymoon edition with a bevy, I believe that is the collective noun, bevy of fill-in hosts.
Mark Davis from Texas at WBAP Dallas Fort Worth with you today and tomorrow up Wisconsin Way, Mark Belling joins you Thursday and Friday, and Rush will be back on Tuesday, one week from today with honeymoon stories a plenty, I'm guessing.
Uh we got plenty of news stories to keep ourselves entertained.
In a minute, there was a gentleman who uh uh appeared at the Heritage Foundation, around whom there is some presidential buzz.
And in a day when we talked a lot about messaging and how to phrase things, he might have coined a useful little something something, and I'll tell you about that here in just a moment.
But first, on on the whole messaging track, let's go to Chicago and say hi to John.
John, Mark Davis in for Rush, how are you?
Good morning, Mr. Davis.
Uh actually good afternoon here in Chicago.
Uh appreciate your uh your uh message.
Uh uh but you know what?
Um I do have to take exception with the definition of words.
I feel that we've let, as conservatives, the left define who we are, define words, play with standards to uh completely obliterate the meaning of standards.
To them, standards are the ebb and flow of the latest bad.
Okay.
Standards are standards.
I think capitalism is a good word because it describes the type of free market where you have folks invest in and hope to make a profit.
If profit is making money so bad, why do lottery lines wrap around the block when the uh Absolutely right absolutely right.
And if and if we and if you and I are sitting down talking about uh, you know, i intellectually discussing the meaning of words and concepts that deserve uplifting and da-da-da-da.
Absolutely right.
Politics is only partly about that.
Other times it is about what message works and what doesn't.
I want you to consider two candidates.
One walks into a room and says, I am in favor of capitalism.
Uh some of the people in the room will go, God, it's fantastic, it's great, I love this guy.
Others will go, oh my lord, that's what gave us Wall Street.
That's what gave us Lehman Brothers.
That's what Yeah.
All right.
Candidate two, with exactly the same views, walks in and says, I'm in favor of economic freedom.
Which is the smarter candidate.
Well, it depends.
Which is the smarter candidate.
Well, let me answer that by saying this.
This is a teachable moment.
The smarter candidate would not just stop at that definition.
Oh, no, but of course not.
But it but in the first in the first ten seconds of his speech, and let's say that other things follow therefrom, which is the smarter candidate.
Well, okay, I'm gonna have to agree with you in principle.
That's all I'm talking.
That's all and I agree with you in principle.
But we're talking about different principles.
You're talking about the principle that of how history should regard capitalism.
Does capitalism deserve to be scorned?
Absolutely not.
No one should let it be.
But all I was talking about is what words ought to be popping out of our candidates' mouths and which ones we might want to keep in reserve for for a later time.
And I agree, but it you know, it seems it seems a little dis not dishonest, uh, but the the the word I'm searching for escapes right now, but yeah, because we're talking about words.
But the fact is this is a teachable moment, and I hate to use that phrase because I'll tell you what.
No, it's fine.
It's it's fine.
And I'm all and I love the idea of teaching people who might have a dim view of capitalism why they should embrace it and love it.
It is a bad idea for someone to try to do that while running for office in 2010.
Uh I mean, it's it's they are often uh at cross purposes.
Uh informing, instructing, teaching uh versus trying to get elected, they are often uh contrary goals.
But uh but listen, so I listen, I've you're completely right.
In i i if there are probably twenty things that I could suggest that candidates phrase in a certain way rather than another way, in no way does that mean that I hold something in low regard or or am willing to give in to the left's demonization of something.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
I'm talking about the messages that will help us win.
Mark Davis in Farush, right back.
Where we're in the home stretch of the Tuesday show, the final half hour.
And I hope you'll join us tomorrow when I'll be here once again, and very grateful for that.
Mark Davis from WBAP Dallas Fort Worth.
Let's head into WLS country here in just a second.
Hang on, let me uh let me uh give let me do what I said I was gonna do here in just a second.
1-800-282-2882, 1-800-282-2882.
Uh the gentleman who appeared at the Heritage Foundation this morning was Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels.
Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels.
Hmm.
There has been some presidential buzz about him.
Right offhand, if you if you are a Republican governor free of scandal, there's going to be presidential buzz about you.
So uh that's not in any way to to uh to mitigate my uh my my good feelings about Mitch Daniels, especially when he may have coined a little motto today that may be of value.
John McCormick has the following in the weekly standard blog.
This morning at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels met with a group of mostly conservative journalists.
Uh there's been a lot of buzz among conservatives about a potential Daniels presidential bid.
And this morning, Daniels, who's more comfortable rattling off facts and figures and campaign slogans, fueled speculation that he may run by suggesting a new motto to challenge President Obama.
Quote, I've been thinking lately about this slogan, change you can believe in, he said.
It was obviously effective in 2008.
But what the heck does that mean?
What was artful about it, said Governor Daniels, is that it can mean anything you want it to mean, right?
If I believe in it, it must be what the guy was talking about.
If we had a little catchphrase of our own, it ought to be something more like change that believes in you.
Change that believes in you.
He explained, you're a person of dignity.
You're a person who was born to be free, and you're fully capable, if we simply arrange society in a fair way, you're fully capable of deciding how to spend your own money and what health care to buy or not buy.
Hello, Mitch Daniels.
The message the GOP should send to American voters is we trust you.
They only trust themselves.
They believe that they know better than you.
Hearts may be right, but they've got that wrong.
Mitch Daniels, Governor of Indiana.
A little moment of possible genius this morning at the Heritage Foundation.
Now, I have uh, if you want to find that, I've I've put it somewhere.
And every time I guest host for us, they're very gracious.
I'm not selling books or anything yet.
Uh, but I got a Twitter thing.
If you want to hang out with me some more, you can do that.
Mark Davis, all one word.
M-A-R-K-D-A-V-I-S, Mark Davis on Twitter.
What else have I put up there today?
Um, here's here's something I put up there just last hour.
A website can be instructive by what it includes, right?
Of course.
A website can also be instructive by what it deletes.
The Charlie Christ for U.S. Senate website used to contain something.
And it no longer does.
As you know, Charlie Christ, no longer a Republican.
And pretty soon, Charlie Christ, no longer an elected official, but let's not get ahead of ourselves.
From life news.com.
In the latest development in the race for the open U.S. Senate seat in Florida, Governor Charlie Christ is coming under fire for removing the pro-life section of his campaign website.
This comes on the day the legislature sent him a bill that would allow women to see an ultrasound of their baby before an abortion.
Christ has already hinted he would veto that legislation, which also allows Florida to opt out of some of the abortion funding under Obamacare.
That he would potentially veto a pro-life bill with broad support from voters is another indication of his strategy to leave the Republican Party and uh run as an independent, which he has now done.
And uh the so here's the deal.
It was the pro-life/slash family, the pro-life and family issue page of its website is now gone.
Marco Rubio spokesman Alice Burgos, Alex Burgos says, quote, now that he's left the Republican Party in order to win an election and is trying to attract liberal votes, the Christ campaign yesterday removed the pro-life family issue page of its website.
In doing so, Charlie Christ eliminated any reference to being pro-life in a transparent attempt to hide his position in order to win an election Christ is flip-flopping again.
I cannot see how this works out well for Charlie Crist.
The Democrats are, I mean, Kendrick Meek, as largely invisible as he is on the current radar, is clearly going to eventually enjoy the support of a Democratic Party that does not want to lose Florida.
Uh and Marco Rubio is going to attract every genuine conservative in the state, and there are more than a few.
Meanwhile, Charlie Christ will be too uh lean too left to attract the right and lean to right to attract the left.
He has committed well, well I was gonna say he's committed political suicide, but he largely did earlier on when he decided as a Republican to embrace way too much of a presidential agenda that is antithetical to virtually everything Republicans should believe in.
All righty.
Uh let's roll to Chicago.
Bob, hi, Mark Davis in for Rush, how are you?
Hey, Mark, how are you, buddy?
You're doing that.
Great job as usual.
Very kind.
Thank you.
Hey, um, I just wanted to throw something out.
It kind of goes back to what a previous caller said too, regarding, you know, changing the verbiage on things like Lund said, and I like him to death.
I really do.
I think he's a good guy.
But, you know, to me personally, I'm getting a little tired of us having to change verbiage to meet, you know, what is expected of today's society.
I I I say let's re-educate.
And that's the term I use is re-educate people on what we really are.
What capitalism is.
But how does that not do it?
I mean, I I I think you're I completely share your goal.
Yeah.
If you if you threw out the term right now, and I'm going to give you an example of this in a minute, if you threw out the term right now, representative republic, you'd have a streamline of people wanting to find out what a representative Republic is.
Exactly true.
I mean, I'm listening uh to to Big John Howell and Amy Jacobson here in Chicago in the morning.
And uh I know it's of all places Chicago.
They're doing a poll here of about a thousand people.
Most of them were, and I'm not trying to pick on the generation in their early twenties to to early thirties.
And um, they're all saying we're a direct democracy.
And over 85% of those same people who said that had no clue what a representative republic were.
Absolutely.
Or they were even found in that.
You know what?
I'm just I mean, I'm just getting a little uh maybe I'm getting a little too tired.
No, no, no, no.
You you've you've you've actually walked right into something that is good news all around.
While we s while we sit around and talk about the messages that our candidates should have, and we're not talking about dumbing them down or or softening anything or any kind of compromise on stuff, but simply using words that will make people perk up their ears and go, uh people who might not have voted Republican in a long, long time.
Economic freedom, maybe instead of capitalism, domestic energy exploration instead of drilling.
I know it's all seems like such a game, but that's what you sometimes have to do.
But at the on the parallel track, where did you hear uh a wonderful example of of examining the difference between direct democracy and representative republic republic on a radio show?
That's what I'm saying.
Which is great, which is great.
So let the limbaughs and the LeVins and the Hannities and the Bex and the local guys like me, and and you mentioned that, and Ro Khan there on LS too, and you know, uh there's a lot of ways to get a message out.
And in the, you know, rather than having our our our candidates bogged down with with what might strike a lot of people as arcane distinctions, but important distinctions, you know, there I mean, we ev every party has certain oracles, like, you know, Newt Gingrich, uh, you know, Bill Bennett, guys, you know, without regard to whether the elective uh uh pasts or futures of either of those guys, uh people we go to for for big chunks of wisdom.
G running for office is is off is a different job than being a professor or a teacher.
And I said so.
I'm greedy here.
I want to do both.
I want to do both.
I want a lot of people doing both, and I think that's and I think that's doable.
What do you think?
I think you're right, Mark.
I I I do.
I I think you're right.
It's just that sometimes I feel we're getting entrapped in in in what the opposition is doing.
The mixing of the verbatim completely and the satisfying.
Understand.
There's not a thing I want to do.
There's not one thing I want to do that is a capitulation that is a surrender to the language of the left.
Not one.
Not one.
What I do want to do is of the five ways that we might phrase any given thing, I want to choose the one that attracts the most people.
That's what I want to do.
If it comes to dumbing down our message or or changing our message, or you know, if you know if if if if anybody suggests for example, if anyone suggests to a Republican candidate that he should stop referring to illegal aliens and start referring to them as undocumented workers, any campaign staffer suggesting that should be fired because he w is is asking that candidate to lie.
All right.
So the in in no way am I talking about surrendering proper phraseology for dumbed down PC phraseology.
That's always going to be no.
But if there are three or four ways to phrase something that mean exactly the same thing, and some might bring you some negative connotation, and others might bring you a big thumbs up, use the one that gets you a big thumbs up.
That's all I'm saying.
1-800-282-2882 Mark Davison for Rush.
Be right back.
It is the Rush Limbaugh Show.
I'm Mark Davis filling in.
Always appreciate a little Z top when you throw that down for a Texas talk show host.
Thanks, Boys.
Let's go to Florida.
Having just spoken about Florida, let's go there.
We're in Winterhaven.
Jim, hi, Mark Davis in for Rush.
Hello.
How are you doing?
Good, thanks.
Thank you.
Yeah, I totally agree with your uh uh terminology thing.
Uh realizing that most people in this country probably agree with uh capitalism.
It's just that they don't realize it and hear the word, and it's a dirty word to them.
So if you change the terminology and basically say the same thing, you uh you reach more people.
Bingo, I mean, if you tell them ten great things about economic freedom and talk about, you know, we don't want the president running car companies or government telling CEOs what they can make, and they start to nod and yeah, and start voting for your candidates.
Well, once your candidates have been in office for a while, you go back to those folks and say, hey, remember when you fell in love with us?
You know what we were talking to you about?
You know what that was?
Guess what?
It was capitalism.
No, I can't omit that last omit that last urge.
No, uh it it was capitalism, and then we can all you know go out and have a cup of coffee and and and hope that the word will enjoy a uh uh a better reputation.
And and life's unfair, and you gotta play the field the way it's striped.
And if capitalism, which I know is praiseworthy and and which you know, if you examine it, deserves uh uh an enormous amount of credit for for uh giving us the the greatest society the world has ever known, nonetheless today holds a certain amount of stigma, deserved or undeserved, because of Wall Street excess and and and the bailouts and all of that.
So again, we can we can live in the world the way we wish it were, or we can play the field the way it is striped.
You the the your your clarity is magnificent because we're ultimately uh people have said, well, I'd rather teach people, I'd rather be instructive.
What better way to instruct them than to make them love a concept, and then we got the rest of our lives to tell them what it is and to attach whatever uh whatever label we want.
Thank you, man.
Let me get let me get a bless his heart, a long-suffering uh gentleman from Vegas.
We we did some Nevada talk early on and then got sent in 14 different directions, and he and he has held on, and we're gonna give him his say.
And Joseph, that is you.
We might get to a couple of Vegas calls before we're done, because those are some those are some tough listeners out there.
Joseph, thank you for hanging on.
I appreciate it.
Mark Davis in Forrush.
How are you doing?
Well, hey, Mark, it's hardly been suffering.
I mean, I've been listening to you, you know.
Uh Wow, you're good.
Well, you you were talking earlier about is this Tea Party movement really big enough to do some damage to Harry Reid.
And it's not just Harry Reed, it's Shelley Berkeley, Dina Titus.
I've been involved in the Tea Party movement from the very, very beginning, and I can tell you there are a great number of of uh Democrats and independents that are part of this movement.
I was at Searchlight, and uh I got a standing ovation when I was speaking there.
I helped promote the earlier tea parties.
I spoke at a bunch of the Tea Parties.
We have some fantastic candidates that are backed by tea parties.
Um of course you mentioned one earlier.
There's also a great guy, Joe Tatner, running against Shelley Berkeley in the primary.
Uh also endorsed, by the way, by Congressman Bob Dornan, B1 Bob.
You've got to love that.
I do indeed.
So we've got some major, major firepower, you know, uh at this year, and the uh Clark County Republican Party uh actually has been taken over by a lot of Tea Party conservatives, not just at the at the leadership level, but I mean we we rebuilt that party from about 200 people to over 800 people with a solid membership of solid conservative, a lot of whom changed from Democrat or independent to Republican.
And there's a lot of people at the Tea Parties that are still Democrat, they're still hanging on because of that John F. Kennedy thing, you know.
But they're very, very unhappy and they're willing to give everybody uh a try.
So, you know, I want to give a shout out to Joe Tatner, tatter.com, go Joe, and let me ask you this.
While I gotcha, while I gotcha, can Sharon Engel win this primary tonight and can make making her the one who gets to uh stand in front of that uh the that Harry Reed tank in Tiananmen Square.
Well, here's the thing.
Who we have some fantastic conservative candidates running in all of the races.
Yes.
Dean Heller's pretty well safe, but the bottom line is this there is no I am so proud of this state, there is not a single candidate running in any of these races that would not be better than the incumbent.
And whoever wins, everybody has pledged to support the winner and to work for them in 2010.
We are gonna sweep this state in 2010.
I believe that back in February 2009, when I first started working with the party.
And I and I've seen so many wonderful, wonderful changes in direction.
Well, I guarantee you we're gonna sweep this state.
Given your energy and your proven patience, I uh I am confident about you.
Thank you very, very much, man.
Appreciate it uh a great deal.
All righty, Mark Davis in Forush.
Let's get this last break in, come back and see what we can pack into the final moments of the Tuesday show, shall we?
Back in a sec on the EIB network.
As we bring today's Limbaugh Show proceedings to a close, uh a couple of things to take us out.
Uh Mark Davis in for Rush today, and back with you tomorrow, where we'll talk uh we'll we'll look back at tonight's election results.
Today we've looked ahead to tonight's voting, today's voting and tonight's results, and tomorrow we'll see how this all plays out.
So strap in to whatever returns you like, and there'll be some lessons learned and some things to do.
Um as we come out today, uh I I get real sappy on election days, and I think we all should because you know, everybody tal uh how many times have we heard from some state or another today?
Well, turnout's gonna be pretty low.
And I know it's just the primary, if you want to phrase it that way.
But I'll tell you what, whether you vote, don't vote, and you do have the freedom not to vote.
I mean, that is part of your liberty as well.
But um no matter what you do, let me tell you one thing to do today, and that's just thank God, just drop to your knees and thank God that we get to vote, because there are plenty of people around the world who don't.
And we have people in uniform fighting so that more people can.
Uh Mark Davis, back tomorrow in Farush.
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