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June 6, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 6, 2011, Monday, Hour #3
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You know, Russia has his stack of stuff.
That's what he calls it.
Stack of stuff.
I know this because I listen to the Rush Limbaugh program, and he talks about his stack of stuff.
And he does things like news digests.
I'm terrible at that.
Rush can rattle through eight or nine or ten or eleven or twelve stories and offer comments on them.
I'm just awful at it.
My audience in Milwaukee knows how terrible I am at that because I'll get onto one of those one of the stories and I won't shut up about it, and it's the end of the hour and I never get to the other seven.
I am going to try to conduct a proper news digest here with this stack of stuff.
I don't think it's going to work.
I'm determined, however, to not let the hour end without talking about David Mammoth's new book.
Now let's start with this.
Protest draw Israeli gunfire at Syria border.
Imagine that there's gunfire on one of Israel's borders again.
This one's up in the Golan Heights.
It's the border with Syria.
According to news reports, individuals kept challenging the border and challenging the border and challenging the border unarmed.
The Israelis fired upon them, some are dead.
We don't know the death toll, we know what the Syrians claim the death toll is.
The story in one form or another has been in the news for about 40 years.
Israelis firing on people in some sort of a border dispute.
I want to bring this up because I want to talk about the conundrum that exists for Democrats with Israel right now.
But before I do that, there's a just wonderful quote in here.
The Israelis are trying to defend their actions, and the demonstrators are explaining what their MO is.
The plan is to clash with the soldiers now, said Mohammed Abu al-Nassar, 25, who is protesting at a West Bank checkpoint.
We believe that unarmed popular resistance is the best form of ending the occupation.
See, they still keep calling it that, and they've probably been emboldened by President Obama, who's talking about returning to the pre-1967 borders, sandbagging Netanyahu as he did a couple of weeks ago.
The story continues, though.
Israeli officials who say they tried every non-lethal method of crowd control at their disposal before resorting to live fire, worry about being cast as the villain but admit they are in a bind.
Quote.
What would any country do if people from an enemy country were marching on its borders?
As Dan Gilbert, a former Israeli ambassador to the United Nations.
What would any country do if people from another country were marching on its border?
Well, if you're in the United States, you have evidently just allowed them to walk right in and don't do anything about it.
But Israel is a side, you can't just allow this to happen.
We tried all other possible means to stop them.
This apparently is going to be a tactic now, that there are going to be challenges on the border, perhaps all of them.
It could be West Bank, Golan Heights, any one of the occupied territories, so called.
You may now see this in which they try to penetrate and move into areas and cross the lines that define what we call Palestine with the line of Israel to force the Israeli soldiers to shoot them.
That may be the next tactic.
I believe that in the Palestinian community and the anti-Israel community, the right now is a sense of being emboldened because for the first time you have a president of the United States who appears to be overtly anti-Israel.
In the first hour of the program today, I talked about how I believe that the president simply doesn't like the private sector in America.
He doesn't not only doesn't understand corporate America, he just doesn't like it.
It is my sense that Obama is one of those liberals who doesn't like Israel.
Look at what's going on right now.
You've got throughout the Arab world, one of the most remarkable movements ever.
In one nation after another after another after another.
Autocrats or royalty are being challenged by people demonstrating in the street.
There doesn't particularly appear to be an Islamist agenda to any of these.
It appears to be premised far more on a more open Society, democracy, the right of self-determination.
We intervene in a couple of these countries, like Libya, but we ignore others, like Syria.
Syria is an avowed enemy of Israel.
Syria is also a major sponsor of terrorism.
Syria is probably of all the nations that are tight with Iran, number one on that list.
Yet the president hasn't offered a word of criticism of Syria, hasn't offered a word of support for the demonstrators in Syria, even as he fights a war in Libya that he still hasn't to find.
Why?
I don't think the president has much problem with the Syrian government because the Syrian government is anti-Israel.
In the meantime, here are among the most loyal supporters of the Democratic Party in the United States, the American Jewish community.
American Jews vote overwhelmingly for Democrats.
There are zillions of reasons for this, but historically the Jewish community in America has been predominantly democratic, much to the chagrin and frustration of those Jewish Americans who are conservative.
I have to believe, however, that there is real angst right now among American Jews over Obama.
It's one thing to have a president who's embracing a so-called peace process that means Israel gives up land to the Palestinians and then we all live happily ever after.
That naive view is held by a lot of Democrats and even by some Jews.
This president, however, seems to be anti-Israel.
When Netanyahu came here two weeks ago, Obama deliberately sandbagged him.
There was a point he was trying to make in calling for the return to those borders, right before he met with Netanyahu, and he knew Netanyahu would have to say no in that joint appearance.
That conflict, I think was orchestrated by President Obama.
If you're an American Jew, what do you think about that?
They've got to be bothered.
The problem for many of them is the next step is to vote with the Republicans.
And that's just hard for a lot of Jewish people to do.
Their entire lives have been tied up in the Democratic Party and the agenda of the Democratic Party.
They look upon the Republicans as being an even worse alternative.
They're kind of locked in.
But this is my political point here, and it's the same one that I was making with regard to the president and the economy.
The president needs a decent private sector economy in order for him to be reelected.
He also can't simply alienate a large portion of his base, American Jews, who are in many cases swing voters, voters in swing states like Florida.
He can't simply keep spitting on their in their on their shoes, but he's done so.
I wonder if the fundraising efforts in the Jewish community are going to be a little tough for democratic fundraisers right now.
This brings me to the David Mammoth book that I want to talk at least a moment about.
David Mamet is the ultimate insider in the cultural elite.
He's probably the most important American playwright of the last, I guess, ever since Neil Simon stopped writing plays.
David Mammoth's a big deal.
He's prodigious.
He writes these plays that people talk about, that the intelligentsia comment on the meaning of mammoth.
Liberals have spent weeks, months discussing David Mammoth's plays.
He's written screenplays.
He's been a television screenwriter.
He did a TV show called The Unit that I enjoyed that was on a couple of years ago.
Jewish American, member of the Hollywood left.
Few years ago, Mammoth wrote a piece for the Village Voice magazine in which he said he's no longer, quote, a brain dead liberal.
That was the headline that was on the article.
So now he's more of a pragmatist somewhere in the middle.
As it turns out, the guy's been moving farther and farther to the right, and he has a book that's coming out about right now, in which he declares firmly that he's a conservative.
Rush has always been a conservative.
Heard him talk about his background and as a kid, how he never bought into the counter-cultural movements that were going on at the time.
I didn't wear jeans.
He was that that was he was he his way of rebelling was to literally, you know, be an anti-rebellion rebellionist or whatever.
I can relate to Mammoth.
I was a liberal.
There are a lot of us out there, and some of us have talk shows.
We thought a certain way.
What happens when your mind opens is it's like a flood.
Everything starts rushing into your brain.
You challenge one assumption, then you challenge another, and another and another.
It becomes a remarkable experience.
It's like you've been out there believing one thing forever and then realizing it was all wrong.
So I know what Mammoth is going through.
His book, based on what I've read about it, and there's a great piece that Andrew Ferguson wrote in the Weekly Standard a few weeks ago, is way out there.
He hits liberals and he hits them hard.
He hits their ideologies and he hits them very hard.
This is going to cause big waves in the Hollywood community and among the cultural elite.
There are what, six celebrities that are conservative?
They pass all of them off.
Well, they're an aberration, they're stupid, but Mammoth is a thinker.
For him to go to the other side, that's going to be a tough one for them to swallow.
In any event, Mammoth writes and speaks about what he calls the herd mentality in the entertainment culture.
They have a need to be part of the herd.
And the herd is liberal.
They have to be part of that herd because they need acceptance.
They, after all, are entertainers.
And if they express views that aren't liberal, they're no longer members of the herd.
They have to hold to a liberal ideology.
They are liberal because they have to be liberal because if they're not liberal, they're not part of the community that they need to be part of.
It becomes a major self-rationalization.
And Mammoth believes that there's this almost forced way of thinking among many of the elites, and he's challenging the whole thing.
He's one case of somebody in a group that just seems lost to us conservatives, the Hollywood crowd, the intelligentsia crowd, who's come around to our side.
I think his book and the reaction that's going to occur to it is going to be a major contribution to the efforts by a lot of us to get people who pretty much always have been liberal to start thinking about these things.
To stop talking about what makes them feel good, to stop saying things that get the approval of their friends, but to start thinking about what works and what's the right thing to do.
It's, I'll admit, pretty easy to be a conservative somewhere in the middle of Texas or in the middle of Alabama or in the middle of Utah.
Because all your friends are conservative.
In my own area, it's real easy to be out in some of the suburbs of Milwaukee in which all the folks are conservative.
Try being a conservative when everybody around you is a liberal.
That's what it's like for many American blacks.
It's what it's like for a many American Jews, and it's what it's like like for people in the Hollywood culture.
Everybody around them is liberal, so if they aren't liberal, they've literally become a heretic.
To bust out of that and show a little bit of individualism.
When you take that step, you find that you take another step and another step and another step.
David Mammoth's the author, the uh title of the new book.
I'll give it to you after the break.
That would be really, really bad talk showing to uh talk at length about a new book that's coming out that you think that's going to be a big deal if you don't have the title of it.
I read uh I just read Andrew Ferguson's piece.
There was another profile of Mammoth in the Wall Street Journal a week ago Saturday, gonna be a really big deal.
My name is Mark Belling, and I'm sitting in for Rush Limbaugh.
I'm Mark Belling sitting in for Rush.
Uh what I hear during the uh commercial breaks in my headphones are uh mostly the paras, some of the parodies that have been done for Rush over the years because we need to keep feeding audio to all of the local affiliates, and then there are some national spots.
Sometimes I can't tell which like was that last one, was that a parody, or was that a real one, the last one that I heard?
I don't know.
I just wonder.
You know that that that was that was a real one.
Some public service announcements literally sound like parodies to me.
Uh I told you I'm not very good at doing news digest.
Well, here's the name of uh David Mammoth's book, The Secret Knowledge on the Dismantling of the American Culture.
He's one of the greatest writers of all time.
Can you come up with a dumber name for a book than a guy coming out literally coming out of the closet as a conservative, a major figure in the American culture, uh the secret knowledge on the dismantling of American culture, David Mammoth, M-A-M-E-T being published.
I don't know what the publication date is.
I don't know if it's out right now, if it's coming out within the next couple of days, but it's uh any minute now.
I want to talk about Sarah's appearance yesterday on Fox News Sunday.
First of all, Chris Wallace is right now the American political interviewer.
Tim Russett was really, really good.
Tim Russett was one of those guys that even though he was a liberal, did great interviews with liberals and conservatives.
Chris Wallace, who is the host of Fox News Sunday, he's inherited all of the interviewing ability of his dad Mike Wallace.
He's really good.
Sarah was the guest for about 25 30 minutes.
It was a long interview.
Saw the whole thing.
I don't have an agenda here.
I just want the Republicans next year to choose the right candidate, somebody who can beat Obama and is true to core Republican principles and is right on most of the issues.
You're never going to find one that's right on all of your issues unless you run yourself.
I don't want a mistake to be made, like was made in 96 with Dole, and I think was made last time around with McCain.
Nobody knows if Sarah's going to run except Sarah.
Rush seems to think she's going to run based on how I'm interpreting Rush's comments on Sarah.
whether she does or she doesn't.
I watched that interview in which Chris Wallace came at her with everything.
This was an issue-driven, specific, hard-hitting interview.
I I just I thought she was great.
I thought she was just outstanding.
She not only had command of every issue he threw at her, she gave an outstanding and strong and crisp and understandable response, detailing essentially my positions.
She was saying what I think.
When he threw foreign policy questions at her.
She was right there, including breaking a little bit of ground and breaking away from some of the other Republicans.
She is openly questioning now the need to stay apparently permanently in Afghanistan.
Her comments on the economy were outstanding.
If Sarah didn't have the baggage of 08, I think people would generally be saying, this is the one.
Executive experience, knowledgeable on the issues, great story, great way of expressing herself.
But she does have the baggage, and we all know that it's there.
The biggest knock that Republicans have on Sarah Palin is some people fear that she can't win, that the media will do a number on her, that she will be put into situations where she can't help but stumble, that they're gonna set a bar that she isn't going to be able to cross, that there are some people that have just made up their minds about her.
I know all of that.
And the thing that's most important right now to the average Republican voter is finding somebody that's going to win.
I'm just telling you.
That based on what I saw, she's right now not only up to full speed, she's on the message, she's in her comfort zone, she's exactly where she wants to be.
Ask me, I think she's probably going to run.
If she does run, she's a major player in that race.
And people who underestimate her chances not only of winning the nomination, but of beating Barack Obama, I think are making a major mistake.
I'm Mark Belling sitting in for Rush.
Told you I'd screw up the news digest.
I did three items in a half hour.
I can't do ten and twelve minutes.
I can't do it.
It's beyond my beyond it's beyond my capabilities.
The real guy Rush, he's going to be back tomorrow.
I know he was back on Friday.
Now I'm here today.
Rush will be here tomorrow.
Uh Rush Limbois.com.
I mentioned that because I'm supposed to mention that, but also because every time I guest host, they put some of my stuff on the website after the program, kind of my sack stack of stuff, uh, makes it in there for those of you who want to know more about what I do.
I'm on the radio in Milwaukee, as you heard at the beginning of the hour.
I have a website.
Can I plug my website?
No, don't plug your website.
Can I plug my website?
All right, yeah.
Belling.com.
Um by Friday I'll have my picks for the Belmont by Friday I'll have my picks for the Belmont Stakes.
I did nail the exact in the Kentucky Derby cold with the 21 to 1 winner right on top.
I did do that.
All right, enough of the news digest.
Time to talk to the Rush audience, 1-800-282-2882 is the phone number.
Beyond New Jersey, and uh Joe, you're on.
Good afternoon, Mark.
Thanks for lett uh let me come on the show today.
I appreciate it so much.
Thank you.
Um I heard your comment about uh the American uh Jewish Democrats and um and the Republican Party, and uh it kind of prompted me to realize that I think it's important for your audience to know that the Jewish Democrats that I hang out with in Aram Bayon and other places where I work at,
they when they heard Barack Obama said what he said about Israel just before uh President Benjamin who was supposed to come here, uh a couple of my Jewish friends, their jaws dropped.
They just thought you can't be serious.
That that that's just that that's crazy.
And I began to explain to them why he, as a president, says what he said.
There's three major influences in this guy's life.
First of all, his father.
Well, I mean, I I I'm not I'm not big on figuring out the motivations.
A lot of people are.
I mean, he however he got to his ideology, his ideology is what it is.
What you know, and and some people who want to want to make a very big deal about his background, and there's a book out there about all of that.
I you know, how do any of us get to think the way we think?
How do I think the way I think?
I don't know.
What I do know is that the guy has never shown any notion of support for Israel.
He's got an opportunity right now to do everything in his power to destabilize the Syrian government, which is only good for the United States, but the fact that it's good for Israel is stopping him from doing it.
The point that you make, though, about American Jews, this is anecdotal, and I don't want to make too big of a deal.
But I'm hearing the same thing that many of them who are democratic, this was what this was going too far.
They were appalled by this.
They were shocked by it.
They were stunned by it.
Even if Obama's committed to, as a matter of policy, trying to force Israel to go back to the pre-1967 borders.
What's the point in sandbagging Netanyahu right before he comes to the United States?
This was done because he wanted to create a conflict.
For whatever reason Obama wants to pit himself right now is being opposite of Benjamin Netanyahu.
Whether it's because he's still trying to reach an arm out to the radical Islamic world, whether it's because he's trying to kiss up to a rent, I don't know.
But he did do it.
And I think that there's got to be a level of consternation among American Jews as to look, what did we ever do to this guy other than give him our our votes?
He appears to be overtly anti-Israel.
And I don't know how else you can characterize it.
What what has he done as president So far to that that has at all supported Israel at all.
I don't think anybody can name anything.
And that's the thing though, Mark, is that you can't.
I mean, you're not going to find anything, and you're not going to get anything in the future from this guy.
Here's here's the point, though.
And I think you you as far as the understanding is background and everything else.
everything that this guy has been doing since the time he's been in charge of the time he is now the president of the united states has all pointed to simply one simple thing he wants to rule He wants to dictate.
He wants to do it his way.
And if you don't like it, good fine.
And I think I agree with you.
I think that that is a differentiation between him and say Clinton.
Bill Clinton was one of those Democrats that would have modified any position or said anything if he was if if it would if it would advance his power.
And that means he was less harmful in the end than President Obama has the potential of being because Clinton was less of an ideologue.
Thank you for the call.
To Pinehurst, North Carolina and John.
John, it's your turn on the Rush Limbaugh program.
You're very kind for taking my call.
You won't scream at me like Rush screams at me.
I don't understand that.
Oh, Russia screamed at you at the past?
Russia screamed at me, written about me in his newsletter.
My God, people in Pinehurst here know me, and I have to walk with my head down.
I want to get right to my point.
How do you know I won't scream at you?
If Russia screamed at you, that means it's okay for I don't want to do anything that would offend the host of the program or the protocol here.
But if it's been established that Rush can scream at you, I think that means I can scream at you.
Well, you can scream at me, but you just don't seem like the screaming type.
People in Milwaukee claim I tone the act way down when I do the show here.
Okay.
I I I am now going to scream just to prove that I can.
Anyway, what's on your mind?
What's on your mind?
Unlike everybody else in this world, I'm just a working man in America here.
I want a fair shake.
I've been a conservative my whole political career or my whole voting career.
I've never voted for a Democrat, but I'm terribly disenchanted with the Republican Party, even at this date.
Some great event has to occur for these people to bring me back.
Sarah Palin, Mark, Sarah Palin is a journalism major.
Two years holding office, well, two years holding high office in Alaska, doesn't know about defense, education, health care, commerce, social welfare issues.
Why do you how do you know that?
Absolutely.
How do you know that?
You give me 90 days and I'll study as much as Sarah Palin has to prepare for these Sunday interviews.
I'm telling you I'll run for president.
You just said she doesn't know anything about any of those things.
That's a huge assumption that you make.
Why how why why would you say that?
First of all, because you can't bone up on it for three or four months because you stumbled so badly when she was running McCain, and all of a sudden you're gonna be in charge of three hundred and eight million people in this country just because you're running for office.
What I'm saying is she's not qualified.
You tell me why that woman is and by the way, I like her in a cabinet position as a senator, as a governor, but I don't want this woman as president of this country because we can do a heck of a lot better than Sailor Pa Sarah Palin.
So she so she's so she's unqualified to be president.
Now you you can make the case that she needed to have been in public life longer than she was.
She after all was the mayor of a small city like Wasilla.
She was on that little commission that they had in Alaskan state government, then she was the governor there for a short period of time.
The person who's the president of the United States was a backbench member of the Illinois State Senate voting president for a couple of years.
He was a member of the United States Senate who was created by the media because he's a brilliant orator and then ran for president.
There was a stunning lack of qualifications there.
The person that he beat in the Democratic primary, Hillary Clinton had a primary qualification of being the wife of a guy who was president, was handed a United States Senate seat and then ran ran for the presidency.
Now you can say that we need to have somebody who has long experience, and I'm not denying that experience matters, that you've got to have ability in running things.
But Sarah Palin was a remarkably effective governor of Alaska, and she seems to be very well grounded in the issues that I care about.
Now you can say that she's not qualified.
She's qualified enough for me, and I find myself agreeing with her.
Furthermore, you've got to beat somebody with somebody, and I'm not, you know, endorsing her right now.
I'm merely saying that that performance was very, very good, That she's out there touching a lot of us with regard to the issues that she's speaking about.
Thank you for the call, John.
I didn't yell at him, but he's does he call a lot or something?
Oh.
The staff doesn't claim to know who he is.
Maybe he's making all of that up.
Let's go to uh Yvonne in Surprise Arizona, it's your turn on the Rush Limbaugh program.
Hi, Mark.
Thank you for taking my call.
I'm a first-time caller of any show, but I listen a lot.
And I really like your show.
Thank you.
Calling in regards to the Boeing plant in North Carolina.
South Carolina, yeah.
Um I was in the industrial business.
And I'm a very small business, but I was a supplier of Boeing in Portland, Oregon, and of Intel.
And what I noticed with those plants when they went in was not only did they provide a lot of uh jobs in those plants, but the many, many mid-sized plants that built up around both of them that supplied uh parts.
And then from those mid-size into very small businesses like my own that supplied intel, and these businesses supported intel.
Yeah, there's a term, and I don't know what it is.
They talk about primary employers, primary manufacturers, secondary and tertiary, and so on down the food chain.
A company like Boeing doesn't make the parts that it uses.
It yet, you know, the metal is fabricated, somebody else makes this gadget, somebody else makes that gadget, and around any major manufacturer, you have this huge infrastructure of companies that feed into that manufacturer and the auto parts industry.
We certainly know all of the big name auto parts companies that served the major American auto firms.
You mentioned this with regard to Boeing, and then that secondary level of companies, they've got the third levels.
Then you've got the fourth levels, the people that are cleaning the buildings and the restaurants that open up and all of that.
All of that is real stuff.
Barack Obama would benefit from Boeing, expanding and developing its plant in South Carolina because it would create a lot of jobs and economic activity.
That's something that he needs.
He is such a slave to his own ideology, such a creature of his own ideology, such a captive of it, that he cannot bring himself to support policies that are on his own political best interest, and that's why I raised the issue of his stance on Israel.
This is a different kind of president.
He's an ideologue.
He's a leftist ideologue who's vulnerable for defeat next year because he's making decisions that are not in his own political self-interest.
Thank you for the call.
I'm Mark Belling sitting in for Rush.
I want to do the John Edwards thing too.
John Edwards is going to plead not guilty to the federal felony charges dealing with his use of campaign funds to pay off the woman with whom he had a child.
His defense is going to be that he didn't think what he was doing was illegal.
To criminalize campaign finance violations, you have to show the prosecutors are going to have to show that the individual breaking the law was knowingly doing so.
It's built into the statutes to provide cover, so you only have administrative charges against individuals who may violate campaign finance laws but not know all of the arcane details of them.
I guess he's saying that Russ Feingold and John McCain passed a law that's too complicated for him to follow.
His implication the implication here is that he's going to suggest in his defense that when he paid off the mother of his child with campaign funds, he didn't think that that was an improper use of campaign funds.
In other words, he was too stupid to understand campaign.
I guess I just thought I could take a million dollars donated by campaign contributors and pay it off in hush money.
That will be his defense.
I bring all of it up, aside from the idiot the idiotic statement that he makes that he doesn't know that it's illegal.
John Edwards was one of those people who loaded it over, we conservatives.
I'm the rich and the powerful and the ones of the people who are being left Behind.
He was a classic class warfare player.
He implied that America is a rigged deal where only some people can get ahead.
Yet he himself was somebody who got way ahead.
As it turns out, he wasn't playing by any set of rules that anyone can relate to.
And now, in the end, to avoid jail, the ultimate crash and burn of a guy who was almost president of the United States.
In order to avoid jail, his defense is that he was too dumb to know that what he was doing was illegal.
No, instead, what John Edwards is a ratification of his own statement about it being a tale of two Americans.
He's a lawyer and a rich lawyer, and he's trying to use that to weasel out of facing any consequences at all for stealing a million dollars that wasn't his to pay off the there are a lot of people who make the kind of mistakes that he made.
But they don't have access to a million dollars of somebody else's money.
He didn't even pay it out of his own massive personal wealth.
He took it from campaign contributors.
And this is the guy who was lecturing the rest of us.
This is the guy who talked about Republicans as being greedy people.
This is the guy who pounds on corporations and on individual investors.
I don't want to say that he's a classic Democrat, because that's probably unfair.
What I will say is that there are a whole lot of people out there on the liberal side of things who play this game of suggesting that those of us who are conservative are not compassionate and don't care about people and are only in it for ourselves.
Because we pursue public policy that we think works.
We try to think logically, and they act like they're better than us.
Look at this cloud.
And look at all of the Democrats who fell for his stuff.
He's a walking breathing example of the phoniness of people who claim that the only compassion in our society exists on the American left.
I'm Mark Belling sitting in for Rush Limbaugh.
Mark Belling in for Rush to Akron Ohio and Dave.
David's your turn on EIB.
Yeah, hey, Mark.
Hey, I've got a bone to pick with Mr. Pinehurst a couple callers ago.
He made a comment talking about Sarah Palin that if she gets elected president, she's going to be in charge of 308 million people.
And I got a message from Mr. Pinehurst that she ain't going to be in charge of me.
No, nobody in the Oval Office.
I don't care if it's Obama, Bush, Palin.
I would assume you're going to be in charge of yourself.
Russia's going to be in charge of himself.
Well, there are some people who look upon the government that way.
But I want to mention David Mammoth's book again.
He talks about how one of the classic responses of liberalism is to think that the government is supposed to fix everything and is supposed to solve every problem.
And in fact, they can't fix anything.
All they do is spend our money.
The point that you're making for those who didn't hear the call was that Sarah somehow was unqualified to be president, which is a line that we've heard over and over and over again.
And I just don't know what it's based on.
For people who keep making these comments, they bought into an assumption about her.
And it's the exact same one that I recall hearing about Ronald Reagan right around this time in 1979, a year and a half before the 1980 election.
It's the same thing.
I'm not suggesting she's Reagan and I'm not saying that she's going to win.
What I am saying is that she's being underestimated, that she's very good on the issues right now.
And more so than any other Republican candidate that's running for president, I think she's on message.
Some are trying to find a voice, and some may emerge.
Tim Pollenny has a lot of potential.
Mitt Romney might still come around.
There are others out there that can do well.
What I am telling you is that if you watch that interview with Chris Wallace, it's hard to say that this person shouldn't be the face of the Republican Party.
I'm Mark Bellingham for Rush.
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