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Sept. 17, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 17, 2010, Friday, Hour #3
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Thank you, Johnny.
Hour number three, uh final hour of the Rush Limbaugh Show for the week.
And one would think uh just a in a nutshell in a vacuum, the only fill-in day needed.
Rush back Monday health permitting got that little cold thing that was gathering yesterday, and by the time yesterday's show is over, everybody looked at everybody and said, boy, man, let's just do the three-day weekend and get over this thing.
So if a little bit of uh support and help from me, if I can humbly come in here and fill this time and keep the needles bouncing at uh radio station control rooms across America, so that Rush can get better and be back with us on Monday, then so much the better for all of us.
Here in this uh final hour there, of course it's open line Friday, so whatever you want to bring, bring 1-800-282-2882, a uh covered dish of topicality.
1-800-282-2882.
Let me lay out a few it's been a big festival of Christine O'Donnell and who does and doesn't have a spine in Republican land and and what is this all gonna mean as the elites are in the process of freaking out because there are all kinds of uh of unpredictable insurgents all around them with all these uh crazy conservative ideas that they're not willing to embrace.
Well, guess what?
We're gonna make you like it.
We're going to make you like it.
Um so there's been a lot of that.
And uh so let me uh lay down a few other things here, some of them involving audio.
Uh would you like to hear one of the latest Sharon Angle ads.
Uh this is uh an ad running in Nevada.
It's a Sharon Engle ad.
She is uh, as we sit here and heap a bunch of love on Christine O'Donnell and out in California, you know, it's kind of fun when we talk about what kind of of Republican do you want.
It is California after all.
And you know, we have Meg Whitman and Carly Fiorina out there, and a lot of Republican hopes riding on them.
I mean, they're not Sarah Palin.
You know, they're not as as conservative as, oh, I don't know, I am, or Rush is, or maybe you are.
But I'll be thrilled to have them.
They won the primaries, that's what we got.
Lord knows that's better than Jerry Brown.
You know, so um the Lord knows it's better than Barbara Boxer.
So I mean, you yes, I I understand the take what you can get, uh philosophy at times.
But you know what?
In Delaware, I'm gonna take what I can get.
And you know what I think I can get?
A real conservative in Christine O'Donnell.
You know what I think I can get in Nevada?
The woman running this ad.
Illegals sneaking across our border, putting Americans safety and jobs at risk.
And what does Harry Reed do?
He comes out opposed to Arizona's tough new immigration law.
Nevada family struggling with the nation's highest unemployment.
Harry Reid, he votes to give special tax breaks to illegal aliens and to give illegal social security benefits, even for the time they were here illegally.
Harry Reed, the best friend in illegal alien ever had.
I'm Sharon Angle, and I approve this message.
So do I, Sharon.
So do I. Uh this is a magnificent woman.
She came to our neck of the woods and did an event up the road in Denton, Texas a few weeks back that I was proud to MC.
And uh she is she is is a quiet and confident, and I mean you're not gonna get the stem-winding speech out of her.
She is uh she's like the the she's like she's like the librarian, you know, who who is smart and knows what she's talking about, and uh and and she's like the teacher that you really liked, you know, as a kid because she was sweet and smart and you know uh I'm I'm probably gushing in weird ways here, but I the the attention that is paid to what kind of candidate you are is always very interesting.
And I know that that the probable best thing you can be is kind of mouthy, but able to keep that under control.
Uh fairly smooth, fairly glib, yet not artificially so.
I mean, that's uh but but look, that that's not always from in uh among conservatives and liberals, among Republicans and Democrats, that's not always you know what works.
It's not always what wins, what prevails.
Um and and what I think is gonna work for Sharon Angle if it does in Nevada, is that that she comes to a podium and and and very calmly and sensibly tells you Why the direction America is taking is completely wrong and how she can write it.
And I wish her nothing, nothing but uh but success.
Meanwhile, as we take a look at a uh at a year that almost certainly spells electoral doom for the Democrat leadership in the House.
Uh are we up for a little delusional Nancy Pelosi audio?
I feel pretty confident about the caliber of our candidates, our members are battle tested.
They've won these districts before, they can win, they will win them again.
I'm not yielding one grain of sand.
I want to have a same big strong majority we have.
Uh, but I feel certain that we will.
Remind me to keep that cut and the next time I fill in for Rush after November 2nd, presuming that happens, I'm always I'm always hopeful.
I'll I'll keep that cut around and I'll I'll I'll dig it back up.
I'll put it in a special place.
Um having morphed into some Democrat audio, let me share this with you.
Um a hypothetical.
If you hear a comment from someone who makes your teeth itch politically, but they are going after someone else who makes your teeth itch politically.
Does the old adage kick in that the enemy of my enemy is my friend?
If Jimmy Carter is beating on Ted Kennedy, who's not exactly around to defend himself against this, how just search your emotions, Luke Skywalker.
Tell me, tell me how this makes you feel.
Here is Jimmy Carter beefing and moaning about how Ted Kennedy stifled his Carter's attempt in the late 70s to bring about the kind of health care that Ted Kennedy said he always wanted.
The fact is that we would have had comprehensive health care now had it not been for Ted Kennedy's deliberately blocking the legislation that proposed in 1978 or 79.
It was his fault.
Ted Kennedy killed a bill.
He did not want to see me have a major success in that realm of American life.
Where to begin, where to begin.
All right, question number one.
Do we accept former President Carter's testimony that he was sandbagged by Ted Kennedy?
Would Ted Kennedy have been so craven uh and so narcissistic that he would have crippled an attempt to bring about a goal that he wanted, but not under somebody else's name.
Like, no, I don't I don't want this now.
Later on, I'll try to do it and have it be under my name.
Would Ted Kennedy do such a thing?
Absolutely.
Absolutely.
And that is the second thing that occurs to me.
The first thing that occurs to me is why bring this up now.
With with Ted Kennedy having moved on to the next life and this achieves nut what is why why bring this up now?
There's there's only one reason, and that is the kind of smallness and bitterness that Jimmy Carter has been long famous for.
Still can't believe that that unwashed Reagan beat him in 1980.
Still can't believe that uh this crazy country said no to a second term for Jimmy Carter.
So do I believe him if Jimmy Carter steps forward to say that Ted Kennedy uh, you know, was was was blocking me?
It's a very unfortunate verb.
That Ted Kennedy was, you know, was was trying to work to the disadvantage of um of something that he wanted because it wasn't gonna have sure.
That's thoroughly plausible.
I'm willing to totally accept that testimony from Jimmy Carter.
But there's something more important I would say about that testimony from Jimmy Carter is that it reveals what a continually classless old coot this man truly is.
So with that, you want one more before we go to the pause?
I'm having a good time.
I hope you are too.
This is maybe, this is maybe my favorite audio of the week.
It involves Chris Matthews, which means it's going to be entertaining.
And so the morning after, the morning after, uh Christine O'Donnell beats uh Chris Coons.
Chris Matthews is talking to Chris Koons.
There's a meeting of the minds.
And uh and and Chris Matthews asks Chris Coons if he believes Obama has done a good job.
Do you think uh President Obama's done a good job?
I do, overall.
Uh, there are some things I differ with him on.
Uh, I am a Democrat.
Uh, I would like to see the Democratic Party uh and our elected leaders uh have the opportunity to make real progress, and I think uh the Senate and the House and the President have passed a number of very important pieces of legislation in these very difficult times.
But there's also things I've disagreed with the president on.
Uh I'm going to Washington, hopefully, as the next Senator from Delaware, um, not to represent the party, but to represent all the people of Delaware to fight for the sort of independent and moderate, fiscally conservative solutions.
What the Delawareans have always championed.
Congressman Castle, frankly, uh, for much of his career also championed.
Oh, I know you love, I know you love Mike Castle, Chris Coons.
I know you like Mike Castle.
So wait, here's my here is Chris Coons invoking m moderate this or fisk the fiscal conservatism we know Delawareans want.
Oh, really?
Well, I've got somebody else who can offer them fiscal conservatism.
Her name is Christine O'Donnell.
You know what?
I can't stop.
What one more liberty with audio?
It's that that's not even my favorite Chris Matthews audio of the week.
My favorite Chris Matthews audio of the week is his theory on why Christine won, a theory so wacky that not even Rachel Maddow buys it.
Rachel, I have to say the power of women voters, you've got to look at it.
Step back from the ideology or the cultural issues.
There are an awful lot of women that felt uh frustrated by Hillary Clinton's failure in two years ago.
And I'm telling you, it's popping up.
I hear it anecdotally, I admit, but I really look at this picture here.
These are women, and they may be conservative women, but they're women nonetheless, and they may be joined by other women who just feel it's time for more women to win these offices.
And I I wouldn't put that apart from the general election calculus right now.
Now listen, I I I agree with Chris Matthews about virtually nothing, but I've I've not found him prone to saying things this genuinely confoundingly stupid that Christine O'Donnell won because women were disaffected by Hillary's loss, and they just wanted someone in office who has ovaries.
Chris, it is impossible for me to imagine, though, that people who are disappointed that Hillary Clinton did not beat Barack Obama in the primaries, are voting in large numbers for a candidate as extreme as Christine O'Donnell.
I mean, yeah, chromosomes are there, but the politics are completely opposite.
I mean, I don't I don't think women have voted.
I don't think women identity politics and voting could explain uh d two different votes for two different candidates this far apart.
Yeah, what thank you, Rachel Hymer.
Wow.
Yeah, with disaffected Hillary voters.
Chris, please, dude.
All right, with that, the next voice I really would like to hear, uh how about some of you on the phones?
How's about that, shall we?
1-800-282-2882, 1-800-282-2882.
It's the Rush Limbaugh Show for a Friday.
Mark Davis filling in, Rush Duback on Monday, heel up, sir.
And we're listening to these on the EIB network.
It's the Friday Rush Limbaugh Show.
I'm Mark Davis filling in.
Nice to have you.
And be right with you here in a moment on the phones at 1-800-282-2882.
On a day in which I have shared portions of a column by a guy I virtually always agree with, but at the moment don't, that's Charles Crowdhammer.
I think it's probably instructive to provide some level of balance with uh a few paragraphs from a column by someone I absolutely never agree with and still don't.
That would be uh Paul Krugman in the New York Times.
The tax cut racket.
I offer this as uh an entrance ramp to a little bit of a of a brutally honest discussion about taxes, which hopefully we can have.
And if you disagree with me, call me.
We'll have a good time.
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Mr. Krugman writes, nice middle class you got here, said Mitch McConnell, the Senate minority leader.
It'd be a shame if something happened to it.
Okay, he didn't actually say that, but he might as well have, because that's what the current confrontation over taxes amounts to.
Mr. McConnell, who was self-righteously denouncing the budget deficit just the other day, now wants to blow that deficit up with big tax Cuts for the rich.
But he doesn't have the votes.
So he's trying to get what he wants by pointing a gun at the heads of middle class families, threatening to force a jump in their taxes unless he gets paid off with hugely expensive tax breaks for the wealthy.
Now, if some Democrat campaign flack is writing this, okay.
That's probably fairly well crafted.
I mean, it's a sentence you can diagram, and you know, that's fine.
But uh this guy won a Nobel Prize.
I don't presume that that instantly that because I disagree or that my particular views, which are vastly different, that I should somehow win a Nobel Prize from mine.
I'm not suggesting that at all.
I'm just suggesting that if you really have, well, well, of course, listen, we all know what the Nobel Prize is, the absurdity of the Nobel Peace Prize, chief among them.
But if you're going to win uh some globally recognized award, and if it's not just totally politically tainted, which of course the Nobel operation is, and that's private, and I don't care, and whatever they want to award, they can award.
But if you're going to be globally recognized, shouldn't there be some accountability for falling into the oldest, tiredest and most defeated class envy logic in the world?
I can't I can't believe hey, everybody, gather around.
We're gonna teach a Nobel laureate something.
You ready?
Woo-hoo.
Here we go.
Number one.
Uh tax cuts for the job creating class are not expensive.
In the 1920s, the nineteen sixties, the nineteen eighties, taxes were cut.
What happened?
Net increases to the treasury.
Because a business community, entrepreneurs, people who actually have money, suddenly said, Oh, I got more money than I had last year.
What should I do with it?
Go to the track, stuff it into the mattress?
Generally, no.
How about, well, I got wealthy making a business, I'll make another business.
Or my business was going okay there for a while, and well, how about if I invest in that business?
More workers, a new factory.
And you know what that does, Paul?
It creates jobs.
Government doesn't create jobs.
Jobs are not created by the magical wave of the anointed one's hand.
Jobs are not created by phony stimulus packages.
Jobs are created by an energized private sector, the job creating class.
And you know who the job creating class is, Paul?
It's the people who get the back of your hand in that paragraph by calling them the rich.
The wealthy.
Well, last time I checked, people making 40 grand a year ain't creating jobs.
People making 40 grand a year need to have jobs.
Well-paying jobs that only the private sector can create.
Paul continues, most discussion of the tax fight focuses either on the economics or the politics, both of which suggest that Democrats should hang tough for their own sakes as well as that of the country.
But there's an even bigger issue here, namely the question of what constitutes acceptable behavior in American political life.
What?
Get ready.
This is the familiar index card of the left telling you that if you disagree with them, you're not just disagreeing with them.
You have violated the standards of acceptable behavior in American political life.
Politics ain't beanbag, Paul writes, but there's a difference between playing hardball and engaging in outright extortion, which is what Mr. McConnell is now doing.
And if he succeeds, it'll set a disastrous precedent.
Oh, good lord, Paul, dry your eyes.
Get out there and fight for bigger government.
Get out there and fight for confiscatory taxes.
Get out there and fight for expansionist and collectivist government.
I know you will.
And so will your buddies over there who actually have power, the Harry Reids, the Nancy Pelosi's.
Just go do what you do.
We'll be here talking about cutting taxes for people who actually pay them.
If we had a flat tax, which I've always wanted with every fiber of my being, The sales tax is cool.
I'd take that tomorrow, but all other things being equal, give me the flat tax, which goes very simply.
What do you make?
Give us 17%.
Send it in.
Boom.
And I'm a little different.
I mean everybody.
I mean, I want 17% of what you make if you make 10 billion.
I want 17% of what you make if you make 10,000.
Everybody must be a taxpayer.
This notion, this notion of, well, up to 40 grand with three kids, you pay no taxes.
We know what that means?
It means you don't give a flip if Democrats try to ream you with higher tax rates because you're not paying taxes.
Everyone must be a taxpayer.
Everyone must pull this wagon.
Everyone must be a part of funding the government that of the size that we need, which is a darn sight less than what we have right now.
So that's my flat tax wish.
And if we if we did that tomorrow, flatter and fairer, I'll tell you what would happen.
Next, Mark Davis, Infrarush.
Oh, and we're in the home stretch now, kids.
We are about done, done with the week, done with a show, ready for a weekend after which we look forward to the return of a healthy rush on Monday.
Get well, sir.
In the meantime, I was in the middle of a paragraph of a uh of a brutally honest discussion about taxes, which doesn't happen enough.
And I asked the not so rhetorical question, what would happen if we if I could wave a wand and we had a flat tax tomorrow, which is the definition of, and boy, here's an oft-misused word, fairness.
And by that I mean, no matter what you make, 17% send it in.
Now listen, what whatever it takes to run the size of government we have.
If if government were the size that I wanted, you wouldn't need no stinking 17 cents.
Uh as it is to run the government we have now, it might be 18, it might be 20, I don't know.
Put people like me in charge, it'll be like 12, trust me.
Give us a try.
You may be in the process of uh letting us give that a shot.
But let's say for the moment, that was the big Steve Forbes number, and I love Steve Forbes, so let's use that.
17%.
If we did that tomorrow, boom, what would happen compared to the tax rates that we have right now?
Some people, kind of in the probably lower middle class, would pay about exactly the same as they're paying right now.
Some people might actually pay a little more, a teeny bit more, and some of those folks don't make a lot of money.
And that's what makes this political suicide, but you know, hey, I'm not running for anything.
Uh what would happen to the people making one million, five million, twelve million?
Their taxes would drop drastically.
Why?
Because they are currently savaged for their success.
That's what has been so horribly morally wrong about the United States tax structure.
It brutalizes you for your success.
Should people who make a million dollars pay more in taxes than people who make a hundred grand?
Absolutely.
But not 20.
And if we did this tomorrow, and it resulted in what would look to for all the world to Paul Krugman like a crazy wild-eyed tax cut for the wealthy, what would happen?
What would happen?
Well, suddenly those people who had all that money and got it somehow, probably by working for it, would have more of it.
What would they do with it?
They would do more of what got them rich in the first place.
They got rich on a business, they'd expand the business.
They got rich hiring people to manufacture widgets or provide service X or service Y or service C, they'd hire more people to provide that service.
Or if the marketplace wasn't interested in that service, they'd have extra money, they'd say, hey, let's find some other niche in the marketplace that we can occupy.
That's what entrepreneurship does.
And entrepreneurship lies bloodied and battered on the rocks of the Obama economy.
You saw those poverty numbers this this week, didn't you?
Highest poverty numbers in years.
You know, just millions of Americans more in poverty now.
I'll tell you why, because the economy is paralyzed.
The economy that would otherwise be creating jobs so that some of these poor folks, literally poor folks, could have some opportunity because there's an actual job down the street.
There's No job down the street because the job creating guy down the street knows he would be a fool to create a job now.
A fool to expand his business now.
A fool to add to his staff now.
Not when these people, this regime are going to rob him blind in their remaining days of tenure.
What kind of idiot opens a business with these people in charge?
Even uh you don't have to have a Nobel prize to figure that out, Paul.
So anyway, there's the brutally honest talk about taxes.
How'd that work out for you?
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And oh now you know what?
Let's do let me do this.
Because uh I I've said that I'm not looking for for that wimpy uh, you know, exception.
If you got well, if you've got a family of four up to thirty-eight grand, uh, we're gonna have you, we're gonna say you pay no taxes.
We know what that means.
That means you got fifty million people paying no taxes.
That's not healthy.
So with a somebody wants to take me to task on that, let's let them, because this is extremely important.
In Chicago, Joe, hey, Mark Davis, in for rush, how are you?
Hi, Mark, fine.
Glad to have you.
I I'm conservative, but I just don't under maybe I don't understand the idea of the flat tax.
To me, it sounds like if a person is making 10,000, you're going to take 1700 from them.
Exactly.
If a person's making a hundred thousand, you're gonna take seventeen thousand from them.
Exactly.
But the person who's only making ten thousand, that seventeen hundred can buy a heck of a lot of food and stuff, and whatever else they're gonna do.
And so you know what he needs to do?
Well, let me know.
No, I know I understand.
Go ahead.
Okay.
But the person who's m who's who is making that hundred thousand, they still have another eighty-five or whatever it is, thousands.
Absolutely.
But so here but here's the thing.
Okay, Joe, we I want to let's work through this together.
Okay.
You are being guided by the exact wrong thing in figuring out tax policy, and that is how much money does someone need.
What do you wish they had?
Uh this that's not how taxes work.
That's not how it ever should work.
If we allow ourselves to go down that road of, hey, they can afford it more.
Oh, we will rape people who make a million and more.
And you'll want to have any job create.
Hey, they can afford it.
Somebody making a million dollars, two hundred grand is a lot of money, right?
Two hundred grands a lot.
So for the million dollar guy, let's take eight hundred thousand of it.
He'll be fine.
No, I don't agree with that.
I agree that you're walking down that road.
It's the road you begin to walk down when you identify properly so how taking seventeen hundred from the person making ten grand is going to create a bit of a tight budget.
The solution for the person making ten grand who currently pays no taxes, that if he suddenly is going to make seventeen hundred, you know what the solution is for him?
Make eleven seven.
Make eleven seven, go improve yourself, get a better job, do what you gotta do.
Make eleven seven.
And what you will have with the flat tax, the fair tax, that the not anything other than what we have now, even the sales tax, is a far more productive country where he'll actually have a job down the street than where he can make eleven seven.
Well, why couldn't we just you know the people who who do work the hardest, you know, should keep as much as they can.
There's nothing wrong with that.
You know, there's I am all for that.
But it's just that I mean, there's I mean, how many people can be computer programmers or doctors or lawyers?
How there's not enough places for those to be for jobs for the for people to do all that stuff.
So there are going to be people on the lower echelon of the city.
Absolutely.
You don't.
I mean, but well, but here's the thing.
I mean, uh, all right, let's take somebody who for whatever reason is not going to be a doctor, a lawyer, a brain surgeon, uh, you know, or or whatever.
Right.
But uh for whatever reason.
Uh that doesn't mean that they can't work hard and start a business.
I mean, I know a lot of people who make a buttload of money.
Some of them are geniuses.
Some of them ain't going real far on jeopardy, but they know how to run a business.
They know how to hire good people.
They know that they don't have they've never dreamed of having a college degree.
But what they are aware of is a work ethic and a devotion to service, and and they are rolling in money.
Well, maybe if the government Would get off the backs of peace pe small businesses so they wouldn't have all these laws and all these rules that they have to follow.
Maybe more people would start businesses.
No, no, we are truly together.
Joe, thank you.
Whether together or mildly apart or wildly divergent, it's great to have your call.
Thank you very, very much.
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Let's pause, take a breath, return, see what's going on.
Um in fact, we have some folks.
I I got can I go back to Delaware?
Is that okay?
I'm loving me some Delaware.
And um a lot of other things from the news gone by.
Anything else I haven't gotten to yet?
Oh, I'm sure.
Oh, uh, the White House doesn't want you to say global warming anymore.
They're playing with the language again.
I'll tell you what they've turned that into next.
Mark Davis in for rush on the EIB network.
Friday Rush Limbaugh Show, Mark Davis filling in, 14 magical minutes, or roughly that remaining.
Let's see what we can make of it.
Let me uh if if your just head is exploding at what I would do to really lower income taxpayers, namely turn them into actual taxpayers.
Let me help you out, I'll take it very slowly.
And in fact, uh, here's something I'll never get a Nobel prize in math.
I I think you got my idea when I said if you take the $10,000 wage earner and get 17% from them, and that seventeen hundred is too big a bite and they can you know scarcely eat, what do they need to do?
And I said, Well, go make eleven seven.
You know, go go make a little bit more so that you can and and uh so that you and then pay your that little tiny tax burden that you'll get when you're uh when you're making ten grand.
Obviously, uh seventeen percent you need to make more than eleven seven to actually have your ten grand.
I get it, I get it, I get it.
But if you're wondering, gee, Mark, you you sorry son of a gun, uh, if if somebody making a hundred thousand would send in 17,000 and somebody making a million would send in 170,000, and that all sounds great.
Why in the world would you take somebody making 20 grand and make them send in $3,400?
Why would you do that?
And the answer is because we have to.
We have to have everyone have an equal stake.
I don't mean equal in terms of dollars, but an equal status as being taxpayers.
No matter who you are, no matter what you make, government's getting 17% of what you make.
And why is that vital?
Because if politicians come back to you one day and say, remember that 17, it needs to be 22, then everyone will rise up with righteous indignation.
People who are making 20 grand will suddenly go, whoa, wait a cotton pig in minute.
I could barely afford the 17.
I'll be doggone if I'm gonna let you come get me with 22, as of right now.
You know what people making 20, 30, 35 grand do when people talk about tax increases?
Because they're not taxpayers.
Everyone must be a taxpayer.
And I know we all are when we buy a six-pack of Cokes or a newspaper or a car.
I know we're all sales taxpayers or whatever.
I mean income taxpayers.
Income tax policy is and how much of it we're gonna come get as a government is got to be something that we have uh people caring about at every level.
At every, every level.
We're in Newark, Delaware, the official state of the week.
Uh, Jim, Mark Davis in for rush.
How are you?
I'm well, Mark.
Uh, thanks for taking my call.
My pleasure.
I am a conservative Republican.
Um, this last election, you the anger in Delaware uh was you could feel it, Mark.
It was so thick.
You know, it was and as I said, I'm a Republican, so I got all the literature from the advertisements and all from the Mike Castle campaign, and I'm telling you, none of it mattered.
We had a good alternative to Mike Castle, a conservative, and and uh the party didn't like it, and tough.
Did Mike Castle did in some of the mailers and TV ads, did Mike Castle try to snow you into thinking he was more conservative than he is?
He did.
He he he stated there was one ad that stated that he had voted uh that when he was governor that he balanced the budget and cut taxes when he was governor.
That's all well and true, but he reminded us of that when he was governor.
He didn't talk about his record now.
Okay, Mark.
And the other thing is the other ads that came were very negative against Christine O'Donnell.
And it's like, you know what, it's not gonna work, buddy.
And it it didn't work.
And you know, we had a good conservative candidate, and we voted for, and he lost handily.
And then there's something I'm telling you, it's just it was repugnant to me that the GOP was said, well, this is who we're gonna, this is the air apparent.
And this is another thing.
This is another thing that can help her win because sometimes it's intangibles.
And in listening to you in Newark, Delaware, and I know that other people listening to various limbaugh affiliates in Delaware, right now, are saying, you know what?
Do you know what's gonna make November 3rd, the morning of November 3rd, or I don't know, eleven o'clock in the night of November 2nd, particularly sweet.
It'll be we have a real republi a real conservative Republican.
It'll be that we've won Joe Biden's seat and made it Republican.
We didn't do it with an unreliable squish like Mike Castle.
But the other thing that's just a big cherry on top, the magnificent icing in this cake, is we took your Republican chairman and we sh taught him a lesson, and we taught everybody a lesson.
We taught Carl Rove a lesson.
We taught Charles Crowdhammer a lesson.
We taught all the elites a lesson who dare to tell us what kind of Republican we can have.
Absolutely, Mark.
You couldn't you said it with passion, and you couldn't be more accurate.
And I'm telling you, it was the people that said, you're not gonna pick for us.
We're picking, and it's going to be an upset.
And it's a I Mark, I the night before you could you could it was palpable.
You could feel the it in the air about how how tired people were of that of that whole and they and they won Christine O'Donnell and a pitcher uh with a wide margin, and I'm telling you, that is what it carried the day, and how dare you tell us who you're who our candidate's gonna be.
It's a lesson delivered in in enormous, enormous flaming letters to to the elites who have thought that they've known better for a long time.
Jim, thank you.
My best to everyone in the great state of Delaware.
What a joy it has been to have that contingent from Delaware weighing in on this very important week.
All right, let's uh let's get our final break in, come back, and I bet we do we'll have room for a final call or two before we fold up the tent for the weekend and get rushed back here healthy on a Monday, shall we?
Who's with me?
Mark Davis in 4 Rush on the EIB Network.
Odd is the delicious time pressure placed on host and callers alike when you got about two minutes to get out of Dodge.
I can handle it, Butch, if you can.
We're in Des Moines.
Welcome, sir.
How are you?
Welcome to the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Thanks, Mark.
Appreciate you taking my call.
Listen, I'll make this real quick because I know you're trying to get off the air, but uh you know, I think Rove and uh Crowdhammer both have the uh follow Jones syndrome, you know what I mean?
Uh back when they were uh, you know, her credibility uh with respect to the other side or putting her down.
I think that uh even though I know Rove comes from very humble, you know, beginnings, uh I think that uh uh I don't think they're elitists, but I think that they uh Oh, oh no, no, no, they most certainly are.
They are political elitists, and it sounds like you sense even some personal condescension.
Absolutely, absolutely.
Yeah, and I'll tell you another thing that really ticked me off is when I don't know what show he was on, whether it was on Hannity or on uh the gal that follows him, but you know, when he he pulled out that 1099 as a prop, you know, to put her down.
That really ticked me.
I wonder if he was standing in the room and I slapped it right out of his hands.
Yeah, I mean listen, wouldn't we all Butch, thank you, thank you enormously.
Wouldn't we all want all of our candidates at all times to be just unbelievably squeaky clean and totally free of blemish, of course.
In the real world, they're gonna have some.
Republicans are gonna have some, Democrats are gonna have some.
Then it's up to everybody in their respective parties to figure out what level of uh of of of uh of potholes in their lives uh amount to a deal breaker where I just can't vote for that person anymore.
For some it's little, for some it's a lot.
You're supposed to tell me because of a couple of hiccups that were supposed to do to go south on Christine O'Donnell and and let a Democrat win to further the Obama agenda, excuse me, I care a little more about that.
Thanks, Rush.
Get better, buddy, Mark Davis, much appreciated.
See everybody sometime down the road.
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