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June 9, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 9, 2010, Wednesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 Podcast.
A pleasant Wednesday morning to all of you across America in the Limbaugh land of listeners.
Mark Davis from WBAP Fort Worth, Dallas, as our City of License says.
Here in the DFW area, we are proud to have carried Rush since oh gosh, but since the year before I got here in 1994.
So on this frequency of ours, like all the frequencies along the EIB network, it is uh it is a joy and an honor to be the purveyors of the Rush Limbaugh Show, and for me, quite the joy and quite the honor to uh to sit in at times when Rush is away.
The same honor enjoyed by Walter Williams on Monday, and to be enjoyed by Mark uh Belling when he fills in uh tomorrow and Friday.
Russia will be back on Tuesday from the honeymoon.
Can't wait to see those snapshots, and I'm sure he'll relate them to you.
Uh until then, let's talk to each other about some things in the news.
Chief among them, the uh the elections of last night, more than a few storylines that we need to examine.
And just as yesterday was the day to play uh the Obama uh potty mouth audio, today will be the day to examine people reacting to the Obama potty mouth audio.
And and I it's just I know the kids are out of school and we try to achieve a certain sense of decorum.
But uh Vegas, speaking of Nevada, Vegas should probably establish an over-under on just possibly how many times the word ass will be heard on today's show.
So just stand warned.
I'm gonna try to keep it to a minimum.
I'll use the the wonderful middle school code language of the A-word and stuff like that.
But uh it's an interesting issue.
And I've uh when the president is in a dire attempt to to look forceful and in charge, and chose during the interview with Matt Lauer that aired yesterday to just, you know, kind of go mid-level vulgar as if that was going to work.
Well, it did work for some.
I saw some of the analysis from the left that said, Well, the conservatives who uh blistered the president for not being uh emotional enough now blister him for uh uh you know for for an emotional visceral reaction.
You know, guys, that's not what it's about.
I I I it's it's two things.
Let's I'll do this real quickly, and then we'll go diving into Nevada, California, South Carolina, Arkansas, anywhere else you want to go.
And calls from there, of course, particularly welcome.
Uh 1-800-282-288-2, 1-800-282-2882.
Um I I don't want my president's uh uh dropping profanity publicly.
I mean, I've if if I've most of the people we have all voted for, no matter what our party affiliation have voted for someone who will uh uh curse a blue streak in private.
I'm prepared not to care.
But uh speaking of decorum, I just don't need to hear my president, you know, dropping the A word of uh in in public.
I mean, literally in public with the cameras rolling.
Uh, you know, it's something overheard on the fly.
I mean, you know, who did Cheney drop an F-bomb toward?
You know, and of course I kind of love that because I love Cheney, and fairness, fairness requires, you know what?
I'm gonna point out my uh my my ability to uh to achieve some consistency on that.
I don't believe for a minute that Joe Biden expected his big effing deal uh to be picked up by that microphone.
Now, if ha has Joe Biden ever been around a microphone, uh y you just don't do that anywhere around a live mic.
I didn't care about that so much.
I mean, I really didn't.
So, you know, I think it and I think it's possible to get too worked up about that in general.
You know, the the Republic hangs by a thread, and we're sitting here talking about uh, you know, the president uh dropping the A-word to Matt Lauer.
But it engaged it it resulted in it, sparked a uh an interesting um flurry of analysis and conversation yesterday about uh the kind of language presidents ought to use when the cameras are rolling.
So I whether it's a president I voted for or president I didn't.
I don't think I need to hear uh public profanity out of the president.
Boom.
And that's uh just just uh a standard I have.
Yours may be different.
Uh it may endear a president to you more, if uh whatever, you know.
Uh that along those lines of, Well, that means the president's just like me.
The president's just like us.
Well, maybe I'm weird, but I don't want a president that's just like me.
I want a president that's better than me.
You know, I want I I'm pretty lofty in this regard.
I want a press I don't want a president who's just a regular dude.
I want somebody who's cut from some fairly special cloth.
So, you know, that search continues.
But um amid all of that, that that's that's what I would say.
And this all came as a result of the narrative of the president being too cool, too detached, too distant.
Here's the problem.
The problem is not that the president was sort of above it all and detached and you know, uh, you know, not down there, you know, shaking fists and sweating bullets.
The problem was uh in fact, coolness and detachment are good if you are competent.
If you have a president who's kind of, okay, I'm on it.
You know, if everything is fine, that's great.
That is what you want.
Guy's in control, blood pressure's low, no beads of sweat on the forehead, everything's good.
If everything is good, then that's wonderful.
But if the president is just cool as a cucumber and hanging out with McCartney and the Mexican president and, you know, various athletic teams, and you know, do-dee do-de-do, here we are in the East Room, here we are in the Rose Garden.
While uh a crisis uh continues unabated, that's the opposite of good.
So, anyway, there we are.
All right, what state you want to go to first?
Let's spin the big wheel.
Wow, comes up Nevada.
Yay, you didn't see that one coming, did you?
How is Sharon Angle going to do?
Therein lies the question.
Do you know how big the stakes are here?
I mean, I know you know it's it's a Tea Party woman who was single digits in the polls not so very long ago, winning the primary now, and with the opportunity to take down Harry Reed.
Self evidently, this is huge.
But it's huge for a couple of other reasons, too.
Uh this will be uh an obvious touchstone uh for Tea Party clout.
So where shall we set the bar of expectations?
Or uh maybe a better term, because I I have no idea where to set the bar of expectations.
I won't sit here and tell you that I expect her to win.
I think beating Harry Reed will be incredibly hard.
But uh I'm not sitting here saying I expect uh Harry Reed to uh to steamroll her either.
Are you kidding?
Nothing is for certain in this uh in these political times.
So is it possible that Sharon Angle beats Harry Reed with all of his money and all of his clout and all of his longevity?
Sure it is.
You bet it's possible.
Will it happen?
I have no idea.
No idea.
We need because what the X factors here are what kind of ad campaign does he run?
Uh and what kind of candidate is she?
What will what will she bring to the table?
Um will she channel those Tea Party passions that are why she r won the primary into something palatable to a sufficient number of Nevadans that they decide to ditch Harry Reed, who, while reviled across America, is sufficiently loved in Nevada to have been elected so very many times.
He's the biggest uh, you know, politician in Nevada history.
They're not gonna dump him on a whim.
It's you gotta beat the champ here.
You know, you gotta score a knockout.
And what shape should that knockout take?
Let's let's talk a little bit about that today.
1800, 282, 2882.
So I don't know.
But here's what I'll say about the bar, the bar of success.
Let's say the whole Tea Party Town Hall thing had not happened.
We're just sort of churning along on the, you know, the political tracks that we were on a couple years ago.
Whatever those were, however you want to define those.
What's the average Republican's chance of beating Harry Reed?
Uh close to none.
Usual narrative is Harry Reed's probably going to win by about 20 or 25 points.
Since the Tea Party Town Hall ethos has changed so much, I would tell you that if Sharon Angle comes within seven points of Harry Reed, loses to him 5346, I th I think that's huge.
On the morning after election day, I say, good Lord, that woman nearly beat Harry Reed.
Now, uh, I'm not a fan of uh of uh dwelling on moral victories, pyrrhic victories, whatever.
I tend to like victorious victories, actual victories.
Uh and I won't be thoroughly pleased unless she actually succeeds in beating him.
But if you really if everything truly is relative, and it is, and you take a look from where you have come and to where you have gone, if the usual status quo is Harry Reed wins without breaking a sweat, and the new status quo is Sharon Angle makes him sweat, and she will, whether she beats him or not.
I I just think that's uh it'll be a great Tea Party showing.
And the reason I say this is if let's say she loses 5248, I mean four points from beating Harry Reed, which I think will be remarkable.
Oh, you know it, well, the Tea Party failed.
Oh, Tea Party failure, they invested so much of this woman, and uh and one of the most despised big time Democrats beat her anyway.
Ah, Tea Party.
That I don't know how they'll spell that, but it that's that's what will seem to come off the uh the coverage the following day.
When in fact Tea Party impact already being felt, already being felt.
And um the the only way I'm gonna say that the Nevada Tea Party thing just didn't work out so well is if Harry Reed smokes her like he would have smoked anybody else had the Tea Party thing not arisen.
That's apples and apples.
So again, and we can it's easy to overanalyze now, and but I believe you me, I'm the king of overanalysis.
So if you want to join me in that uh in that uh that political junkie uh talking sport, this is the place to do it.
It's the Rush Limbaugh Show.
And I'm Mark Davis filling in.
Numbers are 1-800-282-2882, 1-800-282-2882.
So a couple of things on Nevada when we come back.
Uh I know it was hard fought.
I know, I know, I know.
There are two things that are interesting.
When Democrats say things, you know, you know what?
Let's let me step back.
When Democrats or Republicans say something like this, when they identify a candidate and you get the feeling that there's a particular candidate they want to run against because they think that candidate's particularly vulnerable, do they mean it or are they just playing reverse psychology and saying it for strategic reasons?
I I think that answer varies from case to case.
So the Democrat vibe is, oh yeah, oh yeah, baby, we we got we got that angle woman.
Woo-hoo!
Yeah, that's exactly who we wanted.
Was it really?
Was it really?
Be careful what you wish for.
And the other thing is, and let me hear from some of you folks if this is if this is your story, the Sue Louden and the Danny Tarkanian followers.
I know, I know it and it may be hard to dial the phone while licking your wounds at the same time, and I know, and I'm sorry, and it doesn't always go your way.
But I will tell you the other narrative that's been working its way around is that uh this may split the vote and and it may help Harry Reed win.
Man, I don't want to hear one word of that nonsense coming out of Nevada.
Uh you don't have to do it tomorrow, you don't have to do it today.
You got till November, you got a lot of time to heal.
But you'd better heal.
And everybody who voted for Sue Loudon, and everybody who voted for Danny Tarcania, if I hear one word from you folks, well, I'm just gonna stay home.
If you are now willing to help Harry Reed win, and if you're even thinking about that, you'd better look hard in the mirror, and I mean hard.
Okay?
Don't make me come out there.
I love to come out there.
It's been too long, in fact.
Love me some Caesars.
So that's Nevada, South Carolina.
Got the Nikki Haley story, uh California bit boy, uh, it's uh it's it's it's attack of the impressive Republican business women.
Uh Meg Whitman, Carly Fiorina, top of the ticket.
Wow.
Lots to like about that.
You know, it is California.
These are California Republicans, so there's gonna be uh, you know, especially in one of those races.
Was there a more conservative person?
Yes, there was.
Could that person have won?
I don't know.
We'll see about all of that.
And of course, you can't talk about an election without the Sarah Palin effect.
She threw in for Carly Fiorina for Nikki Haley, for Terry Branstad, and they all worked out very well.
They're there in Iowa.
And a woman named Cecile Bledsoe, who was just invisible uh in an Arkansas House race, came very close to winning too, so the Sarah effect was was there in large measure.
And so there's a lot to talk about there.
And And please, hello, it's another day in uh talk show paradise with these people in charge.
We'll never run out of material.
So it's the Rush Limbaugh show, Mark Davis filling in uh just today, because after today it is uh Mark Belling, and he'll be here tomorrow and Friday enjoying your company.
But for now, it's you and me.
Let's do something.
1-800-282-2882.
1-800-282-2882.
Mark Davis in for Rush and on the phones with you next.
The particularly sharp listeners are enjoying the irony of White Wedding being played during the Limbaugh honeymoon week.
I'll just let you uh just just roll with that to your heart's delight.
And best wishes to Rush and his new bride, and every happiness to them for the honeymoon week and forever after.
And Rush will be back on Tuesday of next week.
I'm Mark Davis filling in.
Thanks for hanging out with me.
Uh let me take care in in short order a little thumbnails from the rest of the country on election night, and then we'll just open it up and go to your calls on that as well as I guess yesterday was the big day of round tables on the uh on the tough talking Obama.
You know, the the the A-bomb dropping, I don't mean atomic, uh bum dropping president, whether that's a good thing or a bad thing or whatever.
And I don't want to obsess about that, but if but if others are going to, then I will at least chronicle the obsession and uh see how that all goes.
All right, let's uh let's talk some California.
Carly Fiorina uh will try to beat Barbara Boxer, Meg Whitman will try to beat Jerry Brown.
I think they both absolutely have a chance of succeeding.
Um these are California Republicans, meaning uh not as conservative as some that you might find in other parts of the country on some things, but there was someone who rushed to the aid of Carly Fiorina to help bolster her bona fides, and that's Sarah Palin, who uh looking at the politico story by Andy Barr, Palin bucked some of her own supporters in choosing the former Hewlett-Packard chief executive over Tea Party favorite Chuck DeVore in the California Senate race.
After renouncing her support for Fiorina, the former governor's Facebook page was overrun by negative comments, trashing Palin's support of the more moderate candidate with strong establishment ties.
But Palin rebuffed her conservative critics by touting Fiorina's pro-life credentials as well as her 100% NRA rating, thus helping build the conservative grassroots narrative that uh Miss Fiorina needed to uh dispatch both DeVore and former Representative Tom Campbell.
Remember at the end of the show yesterday.
I got a little mushy about election day, because I always get mushy about election day, because I think about how many people around the world don't have election days and uh how proud I am of this country uh for the the wars it has fought and the war it is fighting, not just to protect us from terror, but to to grant to others around the world uh the ability to enjoy precious liberty and self-determination.
And at the end, uh said, look, just politically speaking, vote for the most to get out there and vote for the most conservative candidate that can win.
Why that qualifier?
Well, you could vote for the most conservative candidate all day long, and you may not be serving yourself well if the person has no chance of winning.
Um and that the example I always use is a guy I love.
Been around him a lot, love him.
So please just ride with me here.
This is called why Alan Keys will never be president.
He will almost always be the most conservative guy in the room.
He will never be the Republican nominee for president.
They say never say never, I'm saying never.
So it it is a dual thing that you have to do here.
That is determine who the most conservative candidate is, and then run them through a little uh turnstile there.
Can this person win?
If the answer is yes, or if you even think the answer is yes, then go for it.
Fantastic.
So in California, I think it was it was Governor Palin's analysis, as it would have been mine, that I I don't know.
I just don't know if Chuck DeVore could have beaten Barbara Boxer.
I'd love to think that he could.
Lord knows I would have uh want him to.
And all other things being equal, I'd rather have Chuck DeVore in the Senate than Carly Fiorina.
But I'd rather have Carly Fiorina than Barbara Boxer.
You say this is this is how the process goes.
So we can talk about that California-wise.
Nikki Haley uh got a big wide plurality, but it wasn't 50.00001%, so she will have a runoff.
Don't worry about it.
It's in only two weeks and she will win.
And Blanche Lincoln survives by the skin of her political teeth in Arkansas.
Uh Bill Clinton helped her out there.
Okay, that's lovely.
Um the way I th th the thing that I come away with that in in Arkansas, uh you had uh Lieutenant Governor Halter there, who uh who was the the face and voice uh of Move On, the moveon dot org, the the SEIU, the the heavy labor candidate, and he flat out lost.
And uh that makes me smile.
We'll see how it all works out.
All right, so uh with that in your head, uh the next thing I want to hear is the sound of you on the phone.
So let's go.
I've given you a lot of material, and believe you me, there's more to come.
Mark Davis, InfoRush on the EIB network.
Wednesday ninth of June, the morning after the afternoon after, depending on your time zone.
The show after last night's election returns.
Lots going on.
Let's go to some of the places where the more interesting storylines took shape.
I started out talking about Nevada.
Let's go there.
We're going to Vegas.
David, uh Mark Davis in for Rush.
Welcome to the show.
How are you?
Mr. Davis, good morning.
I am just tickled pink that Sharon Engel won.
And I have to tell you yesterday you had a call from somebody who talked about Sue Loudoun, and I think you misunderstood.
It was Sue Loudoun, a Republican candidate, who said, you know, if you don't vote for me, I think some of my supporters are gonna support Harry Reed.
Right.
What kind of conservative is this?
Well I th that's I I mean, I don't know Sue, so I can't read her mind.
But a candidate, a candidate saying that is trying to i i I mean, and it may be done uh b honestly and it may be done forthrightly, but that is the candidate saying not only that you should vote for me, but that you better vote for me, because if you don't, it might not work out so well for our side.
Mark, I know Sue.
I've known her for fifteen years, and in broken English, she ain't no conservative.
And so no, it's true.
And look, you know, what's right is right.
Even if nobody is doing it, and what's wrong is wrong, even if everyone is doing it, and I think the people of Nevada realize this.
You know, I wasn't gonna vote for Sharon Angel.
I was gonna vote for Danny Tarquinian in the last week and a half.
Most people don't know her here, but we are going to know her.
I voted for her.
My mother voted for her, my friends voted for her, and here's my prediction out of Las Vegas.
I'll buy you dinner at Morton's if I'm wrong.
She will beat Harry Reed.
Well, I tell you what, I I hope you're right, and I hope she gets out there and runs a a stellar campaign.
I have no reason to believe that she won't.
The things that are being used to to tar her as some kind of crazy extremist, you know, ma making social security optional and maybe phasing it out for people that are, you know, 25 or something.
I I'm I've my entire life I've talked about making Social Security optional for everybody.
Uh so I guess maybe I'm a renegade too.
And as far as getting rid of the Department of Education, I'd get rid of it and the Department of Commerce with it.
So, you know, uh I'm I'm just eager to see what she does.
Let me ask you a final thing, David.
And that is that that I'd be asking this of the if no matter who had won out of the big three, I'd be asking this of the other two non-winning camps.
Do you think that there will be a perceived problem, at least in the short term, of disillusioned Loudman and Tarkanian fans wondering if they can line up behind Sharon.
Yes, but it should yes, they will, but it should be totally temporary.
And from what I hear from the Tarkanian camp, Danny will support Sharon Engel.
Now, I bet you Sue Loudoun will not, even though she is publicly said, she will uh uh support the Republican candidate.
Oh, I bet you listen, you know what?
I'll tell you it, and uh and let me say for the I guess third time, I don't I don't know her, but I would be really surprised.
I mean, these are people who uh have strong Republican ties in the state.
Any anyone failing to fall behind a nominee in this important race will burn bridges Irreparably.
So I if Danny says he'll be out there on the campaign trail with her, I bet he will.
I mean, I don't know if we're gonna see Sue Louden and Sharon Angle, you know, clasping hands at pancake breakfasts, uh, you know, from Carson City to Fallon, but uh the I've I she uh she fails to support her at her peril.
And I don't think that Sue wants to follow up a disappointing uh night last night uh by creating even more nightmares for not by not being a team player.
I I can only hope that she is uh smarter than that.
All righty, uh we are in Yuba City, California.
Santos, Mark Davis in Farush.
How are you doing, sir?
Welcome.
Pretty good, sir, Mark.
Uh yes, hi, Mark.
My um mega secondhand ditto's uh to you, first of all, and uh hi to my hi to my stunningly beautiful wife, Kim, who's listening on uh 1410 AM KMYC UBA City.
And uh my comment is I'm not offended necessarily by uh this Obama guy, um, if that's his real name, uh, as far as using uh profanity to get his point across.
My concern is that after 52 days, he doesn't even know whose ass deserves to be kicked, or if anyone's asked deserves to be kicked.
That's that's what's unsettling to the case.
Or, you know, and let me add a third possibility, because I I I think you're absolutely right.
It's so easy to get hung up on the language and the usage, and that's okay, because it's an interesting parlor conversation.
But ultimately competence and in and doing what a president ought to do is the fair question.
Has he done enough?
Has he has he done uh uh an insufficient amount?
Um th you talk about not knowing who's whose butt to kick.
Let's use the synonym so we we're not driving every uh parent uh crazy with the kids in the car.
Uh the other thing is, and I think this is true across the political spectrum, over-eagerness to find a butt to kick.
The over-eagerness of this administration to kick the butt of an oil company, let's face it, perhaps the over-eagerness on the part of some to kick this administration.
I think they'll be pl and an over eagerness being defined by hitting him with something that they probably couldn't have done.
I mean, why didn't Obama plug this hole?
I don't think any president could have plugged this hole.
But I think another president might have responded more quickly, might have found a way to cut through the bureaucratic tangle more.
Those are valid criticisms, and there's certainly going to be some valid criticisms that land in the lap of BP.
But we're not going to be able to fully scapegoat anybody by the Fourth of July.
So I just I kind of wish everybody would calm down.
All righty.
Well, well, that's the sound of calm.
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Uh send him into a catatonic trance.
1-800-282-2882.
Let us roll to Louisville, Kentucky.
Phil Mark Davis, welcome to the Rush Limbaugh Show.
How are you?
Just fine, sir.
Thank you very much.
What's up?
I lived in uh Las Vegas from 2001 through 2006, and I'm a Latter-day Saint.
And I cannot speak for all Latter-day Saints, but I can speak for the many, many that I know.
Most of us, not all, there's a few dissenters, but most of us are conservative, very conservative.
Right.
And most of the Latter-day Saints that I know of, not only in Vegas, but out of Vegas, cannot stand Harry Reed.
And everything that he stands for, they're totally absolutely displeased with him, and they're also somewhat embarrassed that he is also a Latter-day Saint.
And so if this young lady plays her cards right and says the right things to the Mormons, she stands a pretty darn good chance of taking the Latter-day Saint vote.
Well, I mean, I'm intrigued.
Well, first of all, I would think so, because the Mormon vote does tend to be uh pretty conservative.
One need go no farther than the Utah political landscape to learn that.
But I'm intrigued by how much of the objection is religiously based.
Don't you have uh as as an LDS member the same objections to Harry Reed uh that I have uh uh you know the they don't really have much to do with I mean I can understand how you know we we might wince if someone of the same faith is is just so out there politically in an off-putting way to us.
Okay, that's fine.
I mean uh I guess maybe conservatives Catholics had to go through that with the with John Kerry and you know, and Nancy Pelosi, even worse.
Uh but isn't it it's it's the same it's the same political difference as as uh someone of any faith would have, isn't it?
Well, yeah, and that's what's always surprised me that he's won in Navada, knowing how much he is disliked by the Latter-day Saints and how much his beliefs go against uh our teachings that he's ever won to begin with.
I I've always been amazed by that.
Well, then then then okay, let's let's see how the the next sentence works out.
Maybe not well, so so stick around with me.
This could be fun.
There aren't enough traditional Catholics in Nancy Pelosi's district, because she keeps winning with views that are just grotesquely antithetical to the church she says she belongs to.
Giddo and John Kerry.
And in uh Nevada, bottom line is y'all just ain't got enough Mormons.
I don't think Harry Reed could have a prayer of winning in Utah.
So and I I absolutely understand when you say that the LDS voters in Nevada don't like Harry Reed.
Absolutely.
Guess what?
There aren't enough of you to haven't bad enough of you to defeat him.
Well, let's just hope that uh she um she gets their vote and that the Latter day Saints wise up to it because Harry Reid is uh he's a disgrace to the Congress.
He's a disgrace to America.
Um I'm sorry, but uh between him, Nancy, and President Hussein um it's it's time we get back to um to the United States.
Well, I think of a coalition of of every faith that Nevada brings to the table will be necessary for that, and and I'd like Sharon Angle to be out there pitching for all of them.
And I appreciate you.
Thank you very, very much.
That's um, that's interesting.
I mean, I would certainly think that the Mormon vote in Nevada is has that that that Harry Reed has not maintained his um his stature with an enormous vote of confidence from the LDS church in Nevada.
I would just think that tends to be a fairly conservative voting block.
Um that said, I think I'm gonna stick with what I uh just mentioned to Phil, and that is that uh, you know, you show me uh uh a Mormon, a Catholic, uh, you know, a Jew and a Buddhist.
I know they walk into a bar and they say, Well, how about that Harry Reed?
Uh in all four who don't like Harry Reed, the reasons they don't like Harry Reed are are not primarily religious, they're political.
Now, I understand the religious um uh burden, do I want to call it that?
I I mean that's that's what it sounded like to the gentleman.
I it's the same as the Catholic burden uh of the the radical pro-choice uh Catholic candidate.
How how do they how do they get away with that?
I mean, how in the world, from John Kerry to Nancy Pelosi to whomever else, I mean, there's a whole lot of Catholic country that is hardcore Democrat country.
How in the world does that work out?
You know, how does the status quo extend to the point that that people who are as cavalier uh and dismissive about the unborn as you have to be to be uh of uh a climber in the Democratic Party, and yet claim to have intact Catholic credentials?
Boy, I'm phew.
That seems like a classic case if you gotta pick one, but apparently not.
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Let us head up to the beauties of New England, where it's a lot cooler than it is here, I'm guessing.
In Thomaston, Maine, Rich.
Hey, Mark Davis in for Rush.
How are you?
I'm doing great, Mark.
I'm actually really excited today, and uh I just like to take a moment to turn the nation's attention to Maine, where there's actually a uh Republican primary yesterday.
And what a lot of people in the nation may not know is that there was a wide open field of seven candidates.
And uh maybe or excuse me, go ahead.
For what?
Uh for the Republican uh it was the gubernatorial race.
Very good, thank you.
So uh there was a wide open field of seven candidates.
There were maybe three or four who were really considered in the front running, and uh a couple of uh candidates had received um basically from the Republican establishment, they had received some backing.
And Paula Page um won by a margin of two to one.
And what's interesting is he was really backed by the Tea party movement.
Um it was like I said, it was wide open.
Uh watching the analysis last night, I think everybody was shocked to see how much he won by it.
It was a two to one margin over the next closest candidate, and nobody expected that.
Um and I say all that to say that you know the Tea Party is really gaining momentum even in a a state like Maine that's generally considered a little bit more liberal.
Absolutely a little bit more blue.
Even when you guys elect Republicans, they tend to be Olympia Snow and Susan Collins.
So exactly right.
I mean, t you know, for Rand Paul to be a big Tea Party guy winning in Kentucky, great, good for him.
It's Kentucky.
We wouldn't not necessarily expect it, but it's probably easier, it's a lot a lot more tea a little more Tea Party friendly environment in the South uh than in New England.
So I I think your observation is is is quite, quite skilled, and you know, and I I don't pretend, I don't think you're telling me that this means that there'll be, you know, huge Tea Party incursions in you know in Massachusetts and California, but it's something.
It's something, anything that makes a state, no matter what that state is, no matter what its uh its default setting is, m uh that gives it a little more opportunity for the electorate to stroke its chin and and recoil at profligate spending and absurd government overreach, where wherever that moves you along the spectrum, ain't nothing but a good thing.
Absolutely.
And you know, it's just encouraging to see that this is happening though in a state that's as traditionally liberal as the state of Maine is.
So we're we there's a lot of excitement around, and a lot of people believe that uh this Paul O'Page fellow has a real legitimate shot of uh winning the governorship here in Maine come November.
So wouldn't that be something?
That this is happening, you know, even in even in states like Maine.
You bet Thank you, man.
Appreciate it very, very much.
And for if anybody is hopping on the Google train and looking for some another up and coming woman named Paula Page, it's Paul LePage.
Paul first name, and then LePage L E P A G E. He was a uh he was a small town mayor.
Of course, in Maine is there any other kind.
But boom boom.
Kidding, love Maine, part of its charm.
All righty, uh sp I tell you what, let's let's do one more bit uh let's do it.
We'll do we'll do it quickly.
Because one another gentleman has some testimony about uh the you know Tea Party phenomenon all of a sudden after years without a lot of Republican flavor, bam, uh Tea Party platform candidates hanging from the rafters.
This is in Humboldt, South Dakota.
Joe, Mark Davis, InfoRush and it's nice to have you.
Hello.
Hi, Mark, how are you?
Great, thank you.
Um I'm a teenager actually from South Dakota.
Tremendous.
And uh yes, and uh I just like to say, you know, to look at the turnaround our country is having right now for years.
I mean, just two years ago we couldn't get a decent uh candidate to challenge uh Representative uh Stephanie Hirsa Sandlin.
And you know, South Dakota is generally a pretty conservative state, but still, you know, we've been trying to try and to put up a good candidate, and finally this year we have actually three great candidates uh uh you know battle it out in the primary.
And so we're pretty excited here uh for the first time in a long while.
It seems like uh the Republican Party is finally uh regaining some traction.
Well, this is the state that has given us the magnificent Senator John Foon, and I just love him so much.
And when you and you pardon the way this sounds, but in if it's South Dakota and you only have one Congressman, that's a what congratulations.
It's it's particularly particularly important.
Who occupies it?
Now, are you a voting age teenager?
No, I'm actually fifteen.
Yeah, but I am, however, the uh the political director of our school newspaper, so uh I am not surprised.
Check out my column.
That is tremendous.
Well, uh you know, really can we find it online?
Yeah, Trojan Tribune.com.
Trojan Tribune, the Trojans are a reference to the high school mascot.
That's right, sir.
That would be the fighting Trojans of what Proud School?
West Central.
West Central High School.
Well, you realize that we'll be, you know, looking for you on the ballot somewhere in the year 2030 or something like that.
Well, I don't know.
Do not do not let us down.
It's it is great to hear from you, sir.
And thank you very, very much, and God bless you for being plugged in.
All right, let's plug into a quick commercial break, come back, finish this hour and see what adventures lie ahead.
It is the Wednesday Rush Limbaugh Show.
Mark Davis filling in and glad to take your calls at 1-800-282-2882.
It's the official talk show of the West Central High School Trojans, the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Mark Davis fill it in.
Thank you, Joe.
And uh thanks to everyone of all ages weighing in today, the day after the elections.
And so tell you what, let's do with just a uh little sliver of time left right now before we got to hit the road for the top-of-the-hour news that you will now enjoy.
In there somewhere might be some fresh material for us.
Got some calls on the line about uh the presidential profanity thing.
And we'll see, you know, if we're seeing that through political eyes.
If a president you voted for did it, would you think it was kind of cool?
There's a consistency check, and a number of other things, uh somewhat loftier things, that we will uh examine from the oil spill to other matters.
Mark Davison for Rush.
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