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Sept. 24, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 24, 2010, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Well, this is some summer of recovery for the Liberal Media Democrat complex.
I mean, the latest news is that Jeff Zucker's out at NBC.
And I think he's going to go to the White House, by the way.
Zucker's going to leave as soon as Comcast takes over.
John Klein out at CNN as of today.
And the list is growing.
And it's Friday.
So let's get started.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
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So Zucker said today, it's the New York Times said today, Zucker's gone when Comcast takes over NBC.
Uh GE will retain 49% of it, but Comcast can own 51%, and they've told Zucker they want him gone, and Zucker's admitted they want him gone.
Zucker will probably end up at the White House.
Not as press secretary, but just as a resident genius.
Mark my words on this.
I I might be wrong about it, but I wouldn't be surprised if that's where Zucker ends up.
CNN fired John Klein, who had the audacity to say the network's in better shape now than it was six years ago when he took over.
I don't know by what measurement.
Uh but he said it.
CBS has fired a guy, Joe Axelrod, uh David Axelrod jumping next spring back to Chicago.
Christina Roomer's gone.
Larry Summers gone back to Harvard, Rom Emanuel going to jump and run for mayor of uh of of uh of Chicago, and Peter Orzog has jumped, and they're not even gonna go to his wedding.
They're so ticked off at that column that he wrote.
So, I mean, it there's a massive, massive turnover in the media complex along with the political complex.
Uh stability in the uh conservative media is solid and growth continues to occur there.
Also, I'm I'm gonna want to emails today.
Rush, would you comment on the Stephen Colbert business at uh before Congress today?
Yeah, I'd be happy to comment on it.
I should I should I should preface this by telling you I have never watched the show.
So I only know about Colbert by reputation.
So before let me ask a question to make sure I understand this correctly before and I've never watched the Daily Show either.
I don't I've never seen that, so uh I don't even know what number Comedy Central is on my direct TV tuner.
But anyway, isn't Colbert's shtick that he is a faux conservative.
A faux Republican.
I mean, he he's there to make fun of Republicans, right?
That his his shtick is that we're stupid, uh arrogant, uh all of the cliches, racist, sexist big, and homophobic, all that, right?
Is it pretty much what his shtick?
Okay.
So then this is not an accident today, and it's not just Zoe Lofgren, a committee chairman wanting to be entertained.
Now, you could look at this one of two ways.
You can say here we are in the midst of a total economic meltdown.
Congress's approval ratings are at an all-time low, and they have a comedian up in character to talk about immigration to mock the people who are in favor of closing the border to mock people who want to uh correct our illegal immigration to mock.
I I I think uh in the midst of an economic downturn, you could say that the uh this is just a thumb in all of our eyes.
But at the same time, I think there's a point here.
If if if I understand Colbert correctly, and you really got to have to tell me if I'm wrong about this, but if if Colbert's shtick is to make Republicans look like idiots, and it makes total sense he would come up there and say what he said today at an immigration hearing on whether illegals ought to be allowed to pick fruits and vegetables.
So I I think Colbert's appearance is nothing more than a political attempt to discredit people who are opposed to open borders, who are opposed to amnesty.
I think it's why he's brought up there.
The Democrats asked him up there.
He goes up there in character.
He makes conservatives who favor closing the borders and oppose the amnesty look like idiots.
I mean, I I think a lot of people look, oh well, is that really funny?
Why you wanted to?
He wanted introduces colonoscopy in a congressional record.
Yeah.
What's his character?
What do people who watch Colbert think?
He is.
So I don't I don't think this is just the House won't entertain itself and having a little a few yucks.
I think, as with everything the Liberals do, it is an effort to divert attention from their own failures and to make us look like a bunch of looney tunes and idiots.
What did I hear?
What did I say yesterday about the pledge?
I said.
What did I predict?
Let's go listen to what I predicted yesterday on this program.
You watch, you're going to insist that this is not specific enough.
The Republicans need to get more specific in their presentation.
Meanwhile, the Democrats are refusing to even present a budget.
The House Democrats are not going to even present a budget prior to the election because they can't afford for any of you to know exactly what their budget intentions are.
So while their buddies in the press are going to run around and demand even more specificity, and they're going to accuse Paul Ryan and all these other Republicans of being suspects simply because of this pledge and its contents.
They're going to demand even more specificity without demanding the same from the Democrats who will not even present a budget.
All right.
Now, that's what I said in the program yesterday.
I also found a quote from Pelosi back in 2006, and she said, why?
We don't have a plan.
Why should we present a plan?
We just want to stop George W. Bush.
And I saw that yesterday.
That's a dead ringer for what I said yesterday.
We don't need a plan.
It's okay that we've got one, but we've got to stop this.
Exactly what Pelosi thought of George W. Bush.
So the Democrats didn't have a plan going, oh, well, they did.
They say they're going to drain the swamp and they can have the most ethical Congress and all that rot gut.
But in terms of an agenda, I'm right.
They won't even, they won't even uh have a budget.
Won't even have budget debates, hearings or any of that, or pass a budget and demand that we make more specificity.
Do I know these people or do I know these people?
On a cutting edge, L. Rush ball behind the golden EIB microphone, open line Friday.
So yesterday, I predict to you that the media, the Democrats are going to say that the Republican pledge is not specific enough.
Do I know these people or do I know these people?
We're already hearing from some people that you know what?
Maybe it's not really specific enough.
They're really not willing to spell out what that translates to in terms of specific policies.
Not be too specific that you open yourself to attacks from Democrats.
Pretty much anything goes as long as we don't give you specifics.
A longer and less specific version from 1994.
Is there specific legislation that has been drafted that you're ready to go with?
The specifics don't add up.
No specifics.
We had 21 pages, 22 pen.
No specifics.
No specifics.
I know exactly what they're talking about.
I read it, specific enough for me.
What do you mean there's no legislation to go with it?
We're talking philosophical things, ideological things here.
At any rate, um uh John Boehner was uh caught up with by Dana Bash at uh at CNN, and uh they had this exchange about the Republican pledge.
You talk about the rebellion out there.
Part of what those rebellious voters want to know is they want you to be specific because as you probably know, as you know, they maybe aren't that enamored of the Democrats, but they don't trust you as a Republican.
That's why we've outlined uh clearly in our pledge what we would and would not do.
Now I think when it comes to spending, we've been very specific uh about common sense steps that we can do to get government.
How about the unspent stimulus money?
How about all the TARP funds?
No more bailouts, and no more using this money for unintended purposes.
There's 700 billion dollars right there.
You know, this even happens to me.
Um I've couple um recent days, recent weeks have been interviewed by people.
What would you do?
And I'm here's what I would do.
No, I want you to be specific.
I thought I was specific.
So this is a this is a it's it's a I don't know, a template, it's a it's a ruse.
Uh and it's just illustrative of the fact that there's no way we're gonna win these people over, and it's it's it's a mistake to even try, it's a mistake to even try to explain it to them.
You know, they it's a mistake to have these people try to carry our message, carry our water or what have you.
And by the way, it's not just the liberal media, the Republican ruling class in the Senate doesn't get it yet either.
Jim Dement is fit to be tied.
He says it was bad enough to watch my colleagues work to support Lisa Burkowski in the primary after she had built a record of betraying conservative principles, but watching them back her after she left the party and launched a campaign against the Republican nominee was more than I could bear.
Dement is also not happy with the fact that the Republican establishment in the Senate is leaving her in charge of her committees until the elections until she is officially gone.
South Carolina, Jim Dement publicly criticizing Senate GOP colleagues for allowing Lisa Murkowski to keep her ranking membership on a key committee less than a week after she announced a write-in campaign to try to retain her seat.
In a revealing email to his supporters, Dement gives his account of Wednesday's private Senate GOP caucus meeting when he believed his colleagues would vote to strip Murkowski of her post on the Energy and National Resources Committee, but the caucus instead allowed her to keep her uh uh uh remain in the uh in the coveted role.
And that's when he said it's bad enough to watch my colleagues work to support her in the primary after she'd built a record of betraying conservative principles.
But watching them back her after she left the party and launched a campaign against the Republican nominee was more than I could bear.
Now, she's a rhino, and and this is the the ruling class Republicans in the Senate.
Uh I still haven't gotten a message.
And they never will get the message.
The ruling class is never ever going to get the message, no matter what party they happen to be a member of.
A rhino is a rhino, and a rhino is gonna stay loyal to a rhino no matter what.
As far as I'm concerned, the country cannot continue to allow the ruling class to skim our money off the top for themselves, which is among many other things, what they do.
If if these people, if the Republicans in the Senate are not careful, and all these other rhinos, if they're not careful, they are going to spawn a third party, and they're gonna end up being the third party.
They are gonna end up being the minority third party.
If they continue to pretend that they don't know what's going on.
And if they continue to pretend that we don't know what's going on behind their closed doors.
Now, there I think there are enough principled people in Washington to make life difficult for liberals in both parties.
This country isn't just a little bankrupt, folks.
We are just a little overtaxed.
A little bit of a public option.
We'll bring down the entire private sector health care system.
We don't need Rhinos cutting deals with Imam Obama.
I I ruling class, they either know what's going on and they're steadfastly immune to it, opposing it, or just arrogantly uh ignoring it, or they really do have no idea what's going on in the country.
They have no idea of the staying power of the Tea Party movement.
And if they don't, they're going to learn the hard way.
And uh, and that's their business.
Lisa Murkowski lost.
And it's obvious that ruling class Republicans are unhappy about it.
We got Obama and Biden calling Mike Castle to commiserate with him.
Now he's thinking about running as a third party.
And for all I know, he's being encouraged to do this by Obama.
He's being encouraged to do this by Harry Reid.
I don't know, but I wouldn't be surprised if in these closed-door phone calls uh that this is what they're encouraging Mike Castle to do.
I I actually the Rhinos have gotten the message.
They just don't like it.
They are as resentful of it as uh as the Democrats are, and Dement vowed yesterday, this is from the AP, Jim Dement vowed yesterday to stop Lisa Murkowski's write-in candidacy dead in its tracks, as he expressed outrage at the Republican Party's refusal to strip her of her leadership role on the Energy Committee.
Dement supports Joe Miller.
Conservative political upstart who upset Murkowski in last month's GOP primary in Alaska.
Demint said he believed Wednesday's meeting of GOP senators was to choose a replacement for Mikowski, the ranking member on the Energy and Natural Resources Committee.
But one senator after another stood up to argue in favor of protecting her place on the committee, resulting in an outcome he said that she'll undoubtedly use in her campaign against Miller, which she's no doubt right about.
Murkowski and her write-in campaigns are going to go out there in Alaska and say that the Republican establishment in the Senate wanted her to stay there, and that's not going to help her.
Not in the last it's not going to help her.
This is where you No.
Uh well, name names of the people set up some maybe he will at some port.
Now here's here's Murkowski.
This is in the Hill.
Uh Republican senators opted not to oust Senator Lisa Murkowski from a top committee post because they believe she has a shot at winning reelection.
That's why they kept her in there.
They think she has a chance to win this.
Murkowski said Republican senators recognize, you know what?
Lisa might be a risk taker, but she's got a real shot at coming back here.
And it only makes good sense that we would not want to be so punitive that she would be discouraged by the actions of her colleagues, she said in a QA with Time magazine published today.
GOP senators think I have a shot at winning election as a write-in.
So the out of touch bunch continues to revel in their out of touchness.
From the American Spectator blog, a CBS affiliate in Denver is reporting that the Census Bureau paid about 100,000 in airfare, meals, and hotels for 140 of its administrators in the West to gather at a luxury hotel in Las Vegas to confer on lessons learned.
Los Vegas.
The President of the United States has told the American people in days of getting in your corporate jet and heading to Las Vegas and having a fun weekend are over.
Unemployment in Las Vegas, Nevada, 14.4% and rising.
Las Vegas has been really, really hurt by the economic downturn in a number of ways.
The leisure time dollar simply doesn't go as far as it used to in an economic downturn like this.
Steve Wynne, win resorts, a number of other high-profile officials in Vegas do in the hospitality business nationwide blame Obama for discouraging people going to Vegas and other resorts.
And yet here's the Census Bureau showing up, paying about a hundred thousand dollars in airfare meals and hotel for now.
See, this is the difference.
That's the ruling class.
That's the government.
They're permitted.
They can go to Vegas on your dime.
They can go to Las Vegas spending 100,000 dollars of tax.
But that by the way, we don't have.
We're in debt.
And by the way, you know why they were to confer on lessons learned.
The Census Bureau gathered at a Las Vegas luxury hotel to confer on lessons learned.
Lessons learned about what?
It doesn't say.
Mike Kaufman, a Colorado Republican, said it's impossible to argue this without saying these folks took a vacation.
And they took it at taxpayer's expense.
CBS Eyeball News Channel 4 in Denver said the Las Vegas meeting was actually one of a dozen that involved flying census managers into central locations and putting up on hotels.
The Census Bureau had 12 regional offices, Atlanta, Boston, Charlotte, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Detroit, Kansas City, Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia, Seattle.
The Census Bureau held similar lessons learned debriefing sessions in each room.
Oh, I get it.
These are lessons learned at the recent census.
What did we learn?
I get it.
By the way, something may not be sexy to discuss, but what happened yesterday at the United Nations with Mahmood Ahmadini Zad and our own president Barack Hussein Obama, you need to know.
You need to know the proper take and context and perspective of what happened up there.
And I'll tell you all about that.
Plus, we'll get to your phone calls and lots of other exciting stuff here on Open Line Friday when we get back.
I'm sure uh Dement has the names of the Republicans that voted for Murkowski.
If he wants to release them, he will.
Maybe find out.
By the way, you ought to know this.
The polling in Alaska does not favor Lisa Murkowski, and this is from Time Magazine.
Poll shows that Miller, the winner on the Republican side, the big lead over Murkowski.
And here's a quote from it.
The poll suggests that Lisa Murkowski may be splitting the independent and Democrat vote with McAdams, the Democrat, while the Tea Party and Sarah Palin backed Miller has consolidated support among conservatives.
This is exactly what I said.
If this holds true, Lisa Murkowski is going to split the Democrat vote.
She's going to become representative of a minority third party.
She is a she is a bellwether.
If Republican establishment types are not careful, if this holds up, if if the polling data is accurate, and if by the time we get to November, Miller wins big because he consolidates conservatives, Murkowski and McCadam split the independent Democrat vote.
That's a harbinger of things to come for Republicans down the line.
They are not going to split a Rhino Republican is not going to split the conservative vote with a conservative Tea Party type nominee.
It ain't gonna happen.
And if they're not careful, they are the Republicans are going to end up as a minority third party.
They might actually, if this holds up, the Rhinos, Murkowski and her bunch might actually end up proving to be of use to conservatives.
After all, well, I mean, if Murkowski's going to run on a write-in candidate, a ballot, and she splits the vote with a Democrat and the Independent, and Miller wins big, then of course a Rhino Republican proves useful to our side.
Here is Jay in Bangor, Maine, as we start on the phones today on Open Line Friday.
Hello, sir.
Hi, Russ.
Good to speak with you.
Thank you.
I just want to uh mention to you, sir, that uh if one gets an invitation to speak to Congress based on being funny, then you warrant a State of the Union address, an address to the United Nations, and a Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech because there is nobody funnier than Rush Limbaugh, because your humor is based in the truth.
Well, thank you, sir.
Very much.
Of course, I will never be invited to address Congress.
I will never uh, of course, win a Nobel Peace Prize.
Now, I look at let me let me uh walk that back a little bit.
I was on the verge of being asked to testify about cochlear implants and uh and and deafness before some health committee uh in the House.
It never went anywhere.
This is back when the Republicans ran the show.
That was it was it never went anywhere.
Uh I was nominated for the Nobel Prize, true, and should have won.
I mean, given who won it, given that a hoax and a hoax master won the thing.
I should have won the Nobel Peace Prize.
But my friends, look, I am uh you and I, I mean, with this this ruling class, country class stuff, it's real.
And I am as far removed from the ruling class as any peasant is.
Oh, I'm there's no I I there there is no.
You know, I was I was saying to somebody uh I think even you the other day, if now this is of course hypothetical and does not mean this just if I were as successful as I am as a liberal, I would have movies, television shows, I would be invited to uh White House press secretary, all kinds of stuff.
Uh the the you know, the the the big click, the ruling class, if I were one of them, you would not be able to get away from me.
I'd be all over the media if I decided to do it.
But here we have look look at all of us in the conservative medium.
Yeah, but but but not by invitation.
Now I'm I'm all over the media being mocked or being uh uh used as a foil or what have you, or in their minds they're mocking.
They don't know what they're doing as they use me, but in their minds they're mocking me and trying to harm me.
My only point is this.
You look at what is the purpose of media?
The purpose of media is to draw a crowd.
Newscasts, I don't care what show you're talking about, they want to draw a crowd.
Ratings.
And you want to hold that crowd so that you can charge advertisers healthy, and in my case, confiscatory rates.
Now look what we on the conservative media have demonstrated.
Do we not draw a crowd?
Big crowds, loyal crowds.
I mean, our audiences love us.
We have a connection with our audiences that the left-wing media would only dream of.
They are losing audience left and right.
They they um and yet, and there are fixes for them.
There are what do you think would happen?
Now, this is just a hypothetical.
Don't I'm just saying this to make a point.
What do you think would happen to the CBS evening news if I became the anchor?
What do you think they would have ratings, and it would probably be number one.
They probably know this, but there is no way it will ever happen.
Why they would be they would they they they'd be caught dead for a whole host of re will never ever happen.
You could take um any certifiably popular, demonstrably so, conservative media figure anywhere, and you will not find that person uh except as a joke, uh being uh invited to appear or help left-wing media causes or even so-called mainstream media.
I mean, that there is a dividing line.
I mean, it's there this it's it's plain as day, and it's never ever going to change.
Pure and simple.
Yeah, look, Snerdly.
Snurdly is an interesting, don't be too sure about that.
I can't tell you, Snerdley, the number of people since I started this program in 1988, who have been telling me, you know, it isn't gonna be long before you're mainstream.
And they've wanted it to happen.
They've wanted me to be mainstream.
They've won, they've wanted me to be accepted by all of these mainstream types from Hollywood to Madison Avenue, and they've because they that's how they've defined my finally reaching the pinnacle.
And I've been telling them since 1988, well, actually 1990-91, it ain't gonna happen.
No, mainstream as defined by I know that I am mainstream and they're the oddball cooks minority.
Mainstream in the traditional uh legendary sense of of mainstream.
I mean, that's actually the dirty little secret.
We are mainstream and they are the minority shrinking oddballs.
They are the genuine extremist kooks.
They are the genuine, they're everything they say we are.
Reactionary, they're the ones that are racists.
They're the ones that are sexists, they're the ones where all the bigotries located, plus all the greed.
So just uh little point of illustration.
Boca Raton and Victor, welcome to the EIB network.
Great to have you here, sir.
Great to talk to you again, Mr. Limba.
Uh mega did this to you from True Conservatives of the Free Republic.
Thank you, sir.
Uh, first congratulations on your wedding, Mr. Limba.
Um I would have loved to have attended, but apparently my uh invitation got lost in the mail.
No, it didn't.
Mr. Limba, I would like to comment on your on the situation with Jim Demant.
and I cannot tell you how angry I am about what's going on.
I know that they all listen to your show.
Obviously, it's an obligatory listening, and everybody including the rhinos and the diners.
And I I want to send them a message that we will not get fooled again.
We will not tolerate every one of these dinosaur rhinos.
I call them dino rhinos.
You go from from Boehner to McConnell to Eric Cantor, every one of these people who's supporting Murkowski against the Sterling candidate like Joe Miller.
Well, now wait a minute.
I don't know that Boehner and Eric Cantor are supporting Murkowski.
They're they're they're they're in the House.
They, of course, uh Murkowski is uh ex of the Senate.
Yeah, but I I just think that there is still a little clique of these people who have learned nothing.
Uh you when when someone like Cantor can go outside and and call himself a uh whatever, you know, young lion or uh, you know, new blood.
I mean, the guy has been uh uh in a in the house for ten years, and his reputation is very well known.
But my main point is is just I agree with you a hundred percent on this crazy situation about the third party, as much as we talked about, and of course it's a losing proposition, but ultimately uh they are the ones that are going to become extinct if you if they don't learn the lesson.
And I'm really glad to hear you bring up this point because it really it really makes my blood boil at this point.
Well, thank you very much, Victor.
I uh I I appreciate it.
You know, I I have to I have to also laugh at this ongoing assault that the uh the pledge yesterday was not serious or specific enough.
And remember, Pelosi told us we have to pass health care to find out what's in it.
Well, now we're at the six month portion.
We're six months in, and I gotta uh Obama care even worse than critics thought.
Wait till you hear.
Well, you've heard it.
Well, we we told you.
You uh the part of America who are informed know full well what's in this health care bill.
We told you.
You educated yourself, in fact, found out about it.
Uh it's a disaster.
It's a disaster.
And when we demanded specificity on this, they told us to shut up.
When we demanded specificity on the health care, when we demanded that they read it, they told us to shut up, that we didn't know how they do business, that uh we should just sit back, be patient, wait for the bill to be passed, then we'll find out what's in it.
Yet they have the audacity to say that our agenda, our philosophy is not specific enough.
Brief time out back after this.
Don't go away.
Simply by being here to the email, dear rush.
I'm a loyal 24-7 member, but your speech in the Kimmel Center at Philadelphia was so good.
I think you should make it available to all, not just us paying subscribers.
Thank you, my friend.
By the way, the video of that, we've got it now.
The video we should we should be posting the video of the rush to excellence appearance at Kimmel Center Philadelphia.
By the time we update the website around five or six o'clock this afternoon.
The video will be there.
And it's uh as of now, despite this entriaty, uh, the speech, the audio and video, the the the transcript is is on the free side.
But the audio and video, uh audio now on the uh on the subscriber side only, the video on the subscriber side later today will take this request under advisement.
Dear Rush, has your family guy episode been aired yet?
If not, when will it?
It has not aired yet.
Uh the last time I spoke to Seth McFarland, they were unsure whether it would be the season premiere or the second episode of the new season, probably sometime in October.
I think the season premiere is late September.
But of course, Seth McFarland and the gang at the Family Guy will tell me.
And when I have an exact air date, I'll pass it on to you.
El Segundo, California, Rom.
Nice to have you on open line Friday.
Hello, sir.
Hello, sir from Southern California to the Southern Command.
I congratulate you belatedly on a happy birthday, a clean bill of health.
Thank you, sir.
From an army of one to an army of two with your bright and wedding bells, and thank you for taking my call.
You bet, sir.
Uh I think Judith Miller is absolutely incorrect when she says the Republicans are destroying their party.
It's actually the Democrats who are destroying their party that are desperate for some power or some energy.
What she actually said was that she thought Obama was doing something very smart at his um uh town hall meeting the when the we're when your uh opposing party is destroying itself, you sort of get out of the way and let it happen.
Uh she did say she she thinks that that's happening.
You're right.
Uh the Republican Party is, but it does have its challenges.
Right.
I mean, that there's a there's a raging Tea Party movement that the some elements of the Republican Party do not wish to uh embrace.
And and uh this Christine O'Donnell, I saw her on Hannity and the interview.
She's a fantastic speaker to the point that doesn't mince words, and if she defeats Kuhn's, as I think she will, it'll be uh big blow to Krautheimer and Grove.
And I thank you for taking my call once more.
You better I I think it's uh she's got a good chance to win.
I I you know, from the from the beginning when the um establishment types have said we need we need castle because we need 51 seats.
He can really take back the Senate with 51 seats.
Well, the first thing that struck me about that is you need sixty seats in the Senate, all voting the same way, to have a true legislative majority.
Because you need 60 percent uh 60 votes, 60 percent for cloture uh to stop debate and go ahead and vote on any piece of legislation.
This is Senate rule.
51 is not sixty.
And if you have a majority of fifty-one and four or five of them are Mike Castle, Susan Collins, John McCain, um uh Olivia Snows, I mean, you don't have a majority.
You you've you still got a fractured Republican caucus in the Senate.
But what you do have with 51 seats is their chairmanships.
Oh, yes.
And that's what this was all about.
51 seats with your chairmanships.
And that's power.
And then Christine O'Donnell wins, and I said, Well, okay, how come the desire for 51 seats goes away?
Why why does that just fly out the wheel?
Why not get behind Christine O'Donnell and get your 51st seat that way?
Why does the 51st seat have to be canceled?
Did you ever ask yourself that question?
Why does the 51st seat have to be a rhino?
Okay, so she was down 25 points, now she's down 16.
She's gonna continue to make ground in this coons guy.
She's gonna get within the margin of error, and she's gonna have a chance to win this thing.
What why not get behind her and try to make it a victory?
Well, because Rhinos stick that it's it's more than it's it's it's not a lot of people look at the Republican Party as the repository of conservatism, and that's what we're trying to make it, but it isn't yet.
It's not that now.
She can there's no question she can win.
I you know, I look at I went on a little bit of a tirade yesterday when I uh started talking about the relative merits of Sarah Palin, Christine O'Donnell versus Obama.
What are we what are we really talking about here?
We're at a genuine crossroads that we've never faced in this country in terms of the country's future and what kind of country we're gonna have.
And whether gonna have a traditional America as founded with American exceptionalism as the foundation, with what we all know the world is envious of, endless opportunity, both economic, educational, and uh whatever freedom.
Are we gonna wipe out the private sector and the aspects of America that make all those things possible?
Well, that's where we are.
We faced it.
Now I if if if if Mickey Mouse could get on the ballot and would vote against the Obama agenda, I would support Mickey Mouse.
I I don't know how else to explain where we are.
This is this is not nuance time.
I mean, I don't think it is.
I don't think we're have time here to be worried about nuance and whether or not we're electing somebody with the right kind of IQ, uh approved IQ, or a c uh approved uh sanctioned pedigree.
What we need are people who are going to stop a Democrat Obama agenda.
Hell, if we could find a rat that could get elected, I'd support the rat if it promised to vote against Obama the Democrat agenda.
What do we What are we really talking about here?
That's it to me.
Back after this.
Don't go away.
You know, speaking of Lisa Murkowski, uh, where are the conservative pundits?
Where are the uh the Jonah Goldbergs, uh, the Crowdhammers and the Carl Rolves and Bill Kristols?
Where are they telling Lisa Murkowski to drop this write-in bid?
Where is the pressure on Rick Lazio to drop out of the New York governor's race now that he's lost the primary?
Where can we get consistent here?
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