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June 21, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 21, 2011, Tuesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of The Rush 24-7 Podcast.
Rush Lindbaugh changing the course of American history even as I speak.
In fact, changing the course of American history because I speak.
Okay, folks, hang on just a second.
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I played golf yesterday with a bunch of my entertainment buddies.
They said, what the hell was that starting the show yesterday?
So, well, it's the only way we could do it.
Speaking of which, folks, I went I played golf yesterday, and I sh I almost broke 80.
Oh, I went out and played Bel Air Country Club yesterday.
And I arrived at the 18th hole, needing a par to shoot 79.
Now, this is with uh four sixes, four double bogeys on the card out there.
I was one under on the par threes.
Just, I mean, I have never played 18 holes this well.
I'm not never, but it's been years, five, six years.
I it was just I was just over the top.
So I get to 18, and I need a par to shoot 79, which is, you know, breaking 80 won't have been uh one of my objectives.
So uh, and I'm you know, I've been cool all day, and my tempo's been ill perfecto.
Uh no, no, no, no.
There weren't any generous scoring, and we're we're playing with the club pro yesterday, so there weren't any gimme's.
I mean, it was all legit.
I can't believe you'd asked me that.
Any generous tips with the scoring.
No, no, no, no.
Quite quite the contrary.
So I get up to 18 and long par four, just need a four.
And it's not an easy par four.
It's it's a it's long and it's uh it narrows as you get to the green, and I hit my drive to the right in the trees, one of only three bad drives all day.
And I had my second shot, I had to kick a field goal, hit an eight-iron about 150 yards through the trees, leaving me with 135 in.
So I'm laying two where I normally would have hit the drive.
I mean, I was booming the ball close to 300 yards yesterday.
It was incredible.
I mean, he's about an upper.
So anyway, I end up I had about a 10-foot putt for par downhill.
The Kenewax has been used on these greens.
I mean, they're that fast.
Uh that little uh nod there to Gary McCord.
That comment got him canned at Augusta.
They're calling their greens a keeny wax.
Anyway, four-foot break to the right downhill, and I missed it by inches.
I ended up shooting eighty.
But man, oh man, I was ready for an emergency nine.
I mean, I was uh I was ready to go.
I I haven't I haven't played 18 consecutive holes that well in uh in five or six years.
Anyway, folks, great to have you here.
It's Rush Limbaugh, as we say, changing the course of American history right here at the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
The telephone number if you want to be on the program is 800 282-2882, the email address Ilrushbaugh at EIB net.com.
They have a special announcement coming up later in the program about two if by tea.
By the way, one of my golfing partners yesterday, Al Michaels, to play with Al Michaels yes, he said, um, you know, when you give out that website, uh, you might want to spell two.
It's TWO for people.
Some people might be trying to get on their T-O-O.
Well, you know, you never know.
So that's a good point.
It's TWO2 if by T. We have a uh special announcement coming up later in the program about that that will involve you and uh possibly your affiliate radio station here on the EIB network.
Yeah, something funny.
You know, Obama shows up, he had a speech at a at a at a fundraiser last night for I think what, the Democrat National Committee or some such thing.
Yeah, DNC speech.
And what's funny about this is the White House stenographers who put the stuff on the on the on the teleprompter for Obama, they also, in addition to writing for the teleprompter, it's that script which goes to the closed captioning people.
For people who are watching who are hard of hearing, have closed caption turn on like I do.
And uh and And they type in so that the audience will know if there's laughter or if there is applause, but they just assumed that there would be based on the intent here to have applause lines or whatever, but they screwed up.
The White House stenographers five or six times wrote laughter instead of applause.
So people, deaf people who can't hear this are watching it, and Obama's making statements, and they think the audience is laughing.
And one of the one of the lines Obama uttered that the audience thought people were laughing at was this.
Obama's saying over the last 15 months, we've created over 2.1 million private sector jobs.
And the word laughter appeared on that screen.
Brought down the somebody I'm sure is gonna is going to pay for that.
Okay.
Do you hear about you know another example?
Cutting edge societal evolution.
You know, one of the undeniable truths of life.
Well, wait a minute.
It was not about truth of life.
It was uh it was a standalone commentary way back.
In fact, uh first aired by me in Kansas City, it would have been the early 80s, in which I suggested that for the sake of the private where there's a recession back then, that maybe the ugly be banned from the streets during daytime to prolong the economic activity and recovery.
Uh given that you know ugly people wandering around the mall or a retail outlet might um deter others from entering or staying if they were inside.
And I remember I was I was lauded for this commentary.
I was uh that established me as a as a as a deep and great thinker, and uh a person of great compassion and sensitivity.
If you if you heard the whole thing, well, get this.
There's a dating website out there, and they have just banned 30,000 ugly subscribers from their dating website.
It was meant to be a dating website exclusively for the use of beautiful men and women, were members ruthlessly selected and excluded those who did not match their definitions of good looks.
The name of this website's Beautiful People.com.
Last month, they were attacked by a computer virus.
Uh some people claim that standards slipped and around 30,000 new members gained admittance.
30,000 ugly people, people who otherwise would not have been admitted, got in via hacking.
So the beautiful people.com website was overrun with 30,000 ugly people, which upset the people that run the website and the other beautiful people who think they were beautiful people who were at the website as customers.
Now, in a move which uh has made those who have been rejected apoplectic with rage, they have been booted off at a financial cost of more than a hundred thousand dollars to the site's operators.
Basically, the sites operators cost to doing business.
They said, okay, it's worth it, a hundred grand to get the ugly off our website, and they did it.
The uh virus that allowed 30,000 ugly people.
Now I know you're asking who decides who's ugly, and that's the point, folks.
It's voluntary, everybody knows.
This this is one of these hard, cold callous realities.
The ugly know who they are.
It's just sad.
It is a most unfortunate thing, but they do.
Now, not all.
I mean, I remember I once I once worked with a guy who uh thought he lived in the 50s, had one of those swept back Wayne Newton ducktail hairdoers and wore two-tone green leisure suits from Kmart.
He did it on purpose, so you had to figure he thought he looked classy.
You had to figure he thought he was cutting edge.
I mean, these things happen.
That's probably the kind of guy that ended up here on the website.
They named the virus that allowed 30,000 ugly people to end up on this website Shrek.
After the animated film about how looks should not matter.
Uh, And the virus attacked the software used to screen potential members.
So they had a piece of software doing this, apparently, were not human beings making judgments on who was ugly and who wasn't.
A helpline has now been set up with counselors on hand to help the ugly deal with it.
Sorry for laughing.
I this is the kind of news you wouldn't want made public about your website, but it's uh it's gotten out.
There will be obviously lawsuits now for pain and suffering no matter what they do.
Uh Greg Hodge, managing director, beautifulpeople.com said, Yeah, we have to stick to our founding principles of only accepting beautiful people.
I mean, that's what our members have paid for.
We can't just we can't just sweep 30,000 ugly people under the carpet.
We can't leave them here and just pretend that nobody knows what's up here, as I had to actually get rid of them.
Yeah, Hodge reckoned that the Shrek virus, which may have been posted by a disgruntled former employee, had affected the software that existing members use to rate prospective new entrants, allowing anyone to join.
I hope that's how they did it.
I guess the existing members decide who gets in.
And the software bollocks up whatever they said, whatever they said didn't matter, anybody got in.
The uh website boasts that beauty lies in the eyes of the voter, who are able to rank aspiring members on a type of traffic light scale where red is absolutely not and bright green is beautiful.
The site posts applicants' photographs alongside See, we've been there and done that too.
I mean, it's about cutting edge.
We did that years ago here on the EIB network.
It used to be if you were female and wanted to appear on the program, you had to have a photo on file with us.
Those days have come and gone, but we did it.
Been there, done that.
Beautifulpeople.com posts applicants' photographs alongside information about their weight and height, and uh asks candidates to describe their body type as well as whether they own a car or a home, along with their zodiac sign.
So it's not like these people are shallow, folks.
These are people of great depth at beautifulpeople.com.
Uh the the guy that runs the website, Hodge told the UK Guardian, yeah, we got suspicious when uh tens of thousands of new members were accepted over a six-week period, many of whom were no oil painting.
Which I guess is his way of describing the fact that they were not beautiful people.
We're still looking for a photograph of Mr. Hodge.
We can't find a photograph of him.
Um we'd like to find one.
The brutal axing of a 30,000 hopefuls is not the site's first brush with controversy.
Last year about 5,000 members are removed from the site after they had appeared to put on weight during the Christmas period.
How did they know?
What do you have to update your picture every month or so?
This is not an article from the Onion, folks.
This is a genuine.
Accredited news story.
This month the website triggered anger in Ireland when it said that Irish men were among the ugliest in the world.
This is based on the reasoning that only 9% of male Irish applicants to the site were accepted.
Only 20% of Irish women are accepted compared with nearly 70% of Swedish women who sign up.
Well, who would have thought?
Who would have thought that Scandinavian women are beautiful?
Who would have needed a survey for that?
The prospects are even worse for British men, as according to Hodge, whose picture we haven't seen, they are the most likely to be rejected British men.
It's a bit of a sting, as I'm a Brit, said Hodge, who is based at the site's head office in Los Angeles.
Oh my gosh, this guy's here.
We are here in Los Angeles all week.
On average, one in seven people are rejected from the site, which has around seven hundred thousand members in one hundred and ninety countries.
He said that Norwegian women, Swedish men have the greatest chance of being accepted into the club, while Brazilian and Danish men are also popular, along with women from Sweden and Iceland.
UK takes it hard.
UK, I mean it's uh not yeah, not just Britain, but apparently the entire uh UK.
Now, Rachel Godfrey, a thirty-one-year-old Australian nanny living in Los Angeles, said she received an email telling her she was rejected two weeks after being accepted.
Yeah, I was getting on really well with this American guy, and we're gonna go out on a date, and then they said that I'd been chucked off, and they locked me out of the site, and now I can't get in touch with this guy.
Godfrey said that she's planning to have a makeover and professional photo shoot before reapplying to the website.
What if this guy's the one?
She says.
I mean, this is the only way I'll be able to get in touch with him.
If that doesn't work, I'll see what I can do with Photoshop.
Well, my friend, what a triumph.
What an absolute triumph here of the indomitable human spirit.
Woman thinks she's found Mr. Wright.
Gonna go get a makeover, photoshopped, professional photo shoot, whatever it takes, despite being proclaimed ugly and thrown off the beautiful people.com website.
Hey, welcome back, El Rush Bose schooling the chattering class for over twenty two years.
Twenty three year anniversary coming up on August first.
All right, folks, listen to this next segment.
Uh let's see.
Well, no, you know what?
I don't I'm not gonna be able to squeeze it all in here with all the audio sound bites before the next uh bottom of the hour time out.
So I'll wait till afterwards.
What it is, John Huntsman announced his candidacy today for the Republican presidential nomination, and he took a page from the book of the esteemed and the great Rinaldus Magnus.
He went out there and made his announcement in front of the Statue of Liberty, and his uh he's got a logo, uh a red rectangle with his name John Huntsman, maybe it's a John Huntsman.com in white.
And somebody observed to me uh that that it looks like a designer label that you might find in claws.
His uh logo is icon.
But it's interesting, uh I'll give you a little hint.
A setup, he channels Ronaldus Magnus uh does Huntsman.
He basically says, uh look, we gotta go out there, we have to respect President Obama.
I deeply respect President Obama.
I am not going to run down anyone's reputation.
So, and by the way, the chattering classes, both on our side and the left are going nuts here.
Uh a soundbite, little media montage, state-run media orgasmic over Huntsman making his announcement uh at the same place as Reagan uh frequently appeared, but it just it illustrates exactly what we were talking about yesterday.
The Republican Party is still convinced that in order to secure the support of independence, and they have to be boring.
They have to be serious and milk toast and uh uh cannot be confrontational, uh cannot uh be partisan, cannot go into attack mode.
Somehow this is going to cause the independents to get nervous and send them running right back to Obama.
Now, of course, that's flat out BS.
It's totally wrong.
The elections of last November demonstrate that in a real world real life example.
But then there's also this.
We're told, and it's a trap, by the way, the left puts this out, and is designed to get us to be boring.
It's designed to get us not to contrast ourselves with the left.
They put out this notion that the these independents, you know, they're these moderates, they uh they don't mess around.
They're cut above.
And they start hearing this deep partisanship, and they're just gonna run away from you guys.
They're gonna run right back to the Democrats.
Right.
Now, the Democrat Party, and anybody in it that you want to name.
Today is the most vicious, mean spirited, exemplifies the politics of personal destruction, unlike I've ever seen it practiced in my lifetime.
I know it's been bad in the nation's history.
I mean, you go back to the days of the founding, the pamphleteering and the media then.
I mean, it was brutal.
Which is actually also the point.
We've never had this utopian type existence where everybody was totally respectful of one another, even our opponents, and we had intelligent, civic-minded debate back there.
We've never had that.
It's what the left wants, because they desperately want us to shut up and not tell the truth about them.
Our side falls for it and believes it.
You know, these independents, they don't like partisanship.
Yeah, they're gonna run to people like Barney Frank.
Oh, yeah, they're gonna run back to people like Anthony Wiener, who was one of the most partisan people in town, one of the most mean-spirited people in town.
Doesn't wash, folks.
Sit tight.
All will be revealed.
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Hollywood were idle, cocktail party chit-chat considered by megalomaniacal studio heads and actors to be serious political discourse.
And by the way, since we are in Los Angeles, slash Hollywood, uh, ladies and gentlemen, sadly, it is very sad that I have to say this, there's no ditto cam all week long.
I know it's uh it's a terribly disappointing thing.
Uh I weep over the lack of the ability for you to see me doing the program, but we'll be back in uh our regular confines EIB Southern Command next week, back in full color, high definition on the Ditto Cam.
And we are working for when we come out to uh Hollywood to do the program to have a ditto cam set up out here.
We just have not made advancements on that uh yet, but it will at some point happen.
All right, John Huntsman, the uh former ambassador to the ChICOMs for Obama, the former governor of Utah has announced his intention to seek the Republican presidential nomination.
He did it this morning in New York at Statue of Liberty.
Yesterday and this morning, we have a montage of the state-controlled media, orgasmic over this.
Listen to this.
John Huntsman set today to do his best Ronald Reagan impression.
John Huntsman channeling Ronald Reagan at the same spot, Ronald Reagan kicked off his 1980 general election campaign.
Wants to channel Ronald Reagan themes of American renewal.
Obviously, an attempt to invoke the imagery of Ronald Reagan.
This is the spot where Ronald Reagan announced his presidential bid in 1980.
Invoking the memory of the sainted Ronald Reagan.
Ronald Reagan, that's what they're hoping to evoke.
Right.
Symbolism here, uh, ladies and gentlemen, announcing in the same place as Ronaldus Magnus does not make one Ronaldus Magnus.
Uh, you know, there's somebody else announced there.
You guys ought to know this.
There are Californians, of course, watching the program on the other side of the glass.
You know, who else announced their presidential intentions at the Statue of Liberty?
Three, two, what any guess?
You want to make a guess?
Pete Wilson.
Yes, the former governor, the former senator Pete Wilson did so.
Uh, and he was also attempting to um claim the Ronaldus Magnus mantle, symbolism.
Here is Huntsman.
Let's listen to Huntsman.
Now, and and folks, this is not gonna be pretty, but it's gonna be interesting.
Because we're gonna play Huntsman, and we're gonna hear Huntsman describe how we have to go after Obama, what we can't do, and what we must do, and we're gonna do all this as Reagan would have done it.
Don't forget that.
Here's the first of our many soundbikes.
Let me say something about civility.
For the sake of the younger generation, it concerns me that civility, humanity, and respect are sometimes lost in our interactions as Americans.
Our political debates today are corrosive and not reflective of the Belief that Abe Lincoln espoused.
I don't think you need to run down someone's reputation in order to run for the office of president.
I respect the president of the United States.
He and I have a difference of opinion on how to help a country we both love.
But the question each of us wants the voters to answer is who will be the better president, not who's the better American.
You see where this is going.
And I mean, this is reminiscent of McCain getting rid of anybody in his campaign who dared use Obama's own middle name.
Even that was considered to be provocative.
So you don't need to run down anybody's reputation.
I respect the president of the United States.
This is consultants 101.
It's exactly, and I'm sure Huntsman believes this himself as a moderate.
This is what they all believe.
And by the way, he is, I'm sure, and I don't know this for sure.
My best guess is that he does not want to be considered a conservative.
That because being considered a conservative is all those cliches.
And I'm sure the consultants have said to him, stick to policies.
Don't be critical of Mr. Obama.
Don't attack Obama.
He's a great American.
Blah, blah, blah.
Don't you American people won't put up a you take a look at the polling data, folks.
There are people angry as they can be at this president.
There are people who think his reputation deserves to be questioned.
His policies, everything.
Well, I don't know how you separate the man from his policies.
When you go vote, it's not the policies on the ballot.
It's the candidate's name.
This is so much hogwash.
And this is how we penalize ourselves.
But this is what political consultants bring to the table.
Here's uh here's more.
This is Huntsman again telling us how he's going to operate his campaign and uh various other things associated with it.
Behind me is our most famous symbol of the promise of America.
President Reagan launched the 1980 general election campaign from this very spot.
It was a time of trouble, worry, and difficulty.
And he assured us that we could make America great again.
Yes.
And through his leadership, he did.
Today, I stand in his shadow, as well as the shadow of this magnificent monument to our liberty.
Okay.
So behind me, our most famous symbol, the promise of America.
Reagan launched his campaign from this very spot, time of trouble, worry, difficulty, and so forth.
Now, one of the things you have to forgive me here, but I'm a little resentful of people who are nothing like Reagan trying to be Reagan.
I mean, this Mr. Huntsman's not said it, but the mindset that he evokes has told us countless times for very many different people and voices that the era of Reagan is over.
But when it's time to go out and get votes, isn't it amazing?
Even Obama tries to channel Reagan.
They all do.
And Reagan was an unapologetic conservative, and there was none of this talk about civility and all of this.
And now the image we've got here so far in Mr. Huntsman's announcement.
We're going to be civil.
We respect the president.
We're not going to attack his reputation.
We are going to be like Ronaldus Magnus.
Don't want to tear down anybody's reputation.
Well, listen to how it's done.
By Ronald Reagan, this is September 1st, 1980, Liberty State Park.
Statue of Liberty kicking off his general election camp campaign.
The Carter record is a litany of despair, of broken promises, of sacred trusts abandoned and forgotten.
His answer to all this misery, he tries to tell us that we're only in a recession, not a depression.
As if definitions, words, relieve our suffering.
Let it show on the record that when the American people cried out for economic help, Jimmy Carter took refuge behind a dictionary.
Well, if it's a definition he wants, I'll give him one.
A recession is when your neighbor loses his job.
A depression is when you lose yours.
And recovery is when Jimmy Carter loses his.
Oh!
Oh my God, how vicious!
Can you believe how mean-spirited Reagan was?
Why he went right after the reputation of Jimmy Carter.
My God, he was making fun of Jimmy Carter.
He was making fun of you, laughing about Jimmy Carter being no different than a dictionary.
Why I can't believe how uncivil Reagan was.
I didn't hear Reagan talk about how much he respected Carter's reputation.
I heard him talk about how damaging Carter was, and Reagan was just getting warmed up.
I have talked with unemployed workers all across this country.
I've heard their views on what Jimmy Carter has done to them and their families.
Let Mr. Carter go to their homes, look their children in the eye and argue with them that it's only a recession that put dad or mom out of work.
Let him go to the unemployment lines and lecture those workers who have been betrayed on what is the proper definition for their widespread economic misery.
Human tragedy, human misery, the crushing of the human spirit.
They do not need defining, they need action.
Call this human tragedy, whatever you want.
Whatever it is, it's Jimmy Carter's.
He caused it, he tolerates it.
And he's going to answer to the American people for it.
Wow, can you believe this?
How you believe what Reagan?
He was going after Jimmy Carter here.
Jimmy Carter, this is misery, whatever this human tragedy is, it's Jimmy Carter's.
Meanwhile, the Republican consultants of today are advising every Republican don't do that.
Don't go out there and make this about Obama.
You gotta attack the policies, but you can't mention Obama.
Don't do that.
You gotta be like Reagan.
Well, here's Reagan.
You want to be like Reagan?
Listen to Reagan.
You notice, by the way, the energy that Reagan is uh exhibiting here.
There's no boredom, there's no soft spoken intellectual seriousness.
There's passion.
There is deep passion here.
Nobody listening to Ronald Reagan make this announcement in 1980 had any doubt what he wanted to do and what he thought about what was happening to the country.
He was dead serious about fixing this because he cared deeply about the misery and the destruction that one man had brought about.
Jimmy Carter.
He was unabashed and unafraid to lay the blame for all of it at the feet of one man, the sitting president at the time, Jimmy Carter.
And yet, and Ronald Reagan, two landslide victories, and they tell us gotta be like Reagan to win the election, but no.
The advice these people are being given, and maybe they don't even need the advice, maybe they believe it themselves without the consultants.
They can't do this in this area.
You can't go after Obama this way.
Now here's here's the line that Huntsman quoted from from Reagan in context.
And it's a little different than the way it sounded from Huntsman.
I'm looking forward to meeting Mr. Carter in debate, confronting him with the whole sorry record of his administration, the record he prefers not to mention.
If he ever finally agrees to the kind of first debate the American people want, which I'm beginning to doubt, he'll answer to them and to me.
This country needs a new administration with a renewed dedication to the dream of an America.
An administration that will give that dream new life and make America great again.
Okay, so there's that's the context of running down the reputation of one Jimmy Carter.
That Huntsman said he wasn't gonna do.
But it I mean, perfectly clear here to me who Ronald Reagan thought the problem was.
Perfectly clear to me what Ronald Reagan thought the solution to problem was.
Probably Jimmy Carter.
Problem was not just his policies, because you can't separate.
Reagan didn't distinguish.
He didn't run around and say, you know, I like Jimmy Carter.
Jimmy is a great guy, but his policies are causing this.
He didn't say that.
He went for the throat.
You know, I I I just I I marvel here, folks, at how all these experts telling us how the Republicans need to act and how they need a campaign to win.
And they hearken back to the great civil days of Reagan.
I'm not saying this is uncivil, but politics is what it is.
It's a hard-hitting business.
And if you get into these races to win them, you have to go after the people you want to replace.
And we are where we are precisely because of Barack Obama.
But if we're going to run a campaign which tries to mention that without mentioning it, well, it's going to be that much more difficult to pull off.
I got to take a brief time out here.
We'll continue with much more right after this.
L. Rushmore Hollywood, the EIB network.
Don't go away.
All right, that's a folks.
I I love the contrast that we just shared with you exclusively here on the EIB network.
Ronald Reagan being Ronald Reagan, Ronaldus Magnus as Ronaldus Magnus compared to a Rhino pretending to be Reagan.
And the contrast is dramatic, as I'm sure you'll agree.
Those of you who um who heard it.
If you didn't hear, we're going to play these again throughout the program this afternoon.
It's too important, it's too crucial.
This notion here that uh the independents are where elections are won and lost.
That's 20, 25% of the electorate.
And we got people advising candidates, go out and get those people and you got this in the bag.
You're gonna get 40% of Republicans going to vote for you automatically.
40% of Democrats are gonna vote for Obama.
The problem with this is Ronald Reagan didn't campaign to specific groups.
As long as we're talking about Reagan, we'll talk about how he did it.
Reagan campaigned to every American as an American.
Didn't care if they were hyphenated, didn't care what their gender, their sexual orientation, uh, whatever they liked animals, it didn't matter.
And the, as we noted, the pure passion.
It wasn't boring.
He didn't try to make himself sound serious, and let's not, and folks, if you if you were not paying attention back then, if you weren't old enough paying attention, or if you just don't remember, do not doubt me when I tell you that even back then, during 1976, Reagan lost the Republican nomination.
Gerald Ford won it.
The Republican establishment in 76 did not like Reagan, just like they don't like conservatives of today.
Even after Reagan was elected, a lot of them were not happy.
Reagan was unabashedly conservative.
He was unafraid to say that he was conservative.
Mr. Huntsman doesn't want to be called a conservative.
New York Times on June 20th, which is what, a couple days ago.
This is 21st or 22nd.
What is the date?
It's the 21st.
It's yesterday.
Huntsman refused to describe himself as a conservative.
He said he didn't like political labels, but if he had to pick one, he considered himself a pragmatic problem solver.
Well, Ronaldus Magnus had no problem describing himself as a conservative.
He did so proudly.
He had uh I mean literally no shame whatsoever in identifying himself that way.
So the uh, and I know like to start talking this way, a number of you independents uh I know you get a little peeved.
In fact, we've got one on hold.
They actually have an independent who has called the program, and that person is on hold and uh thinks that I broadbrush them.
In other words, speak uh in generalities.
To those of you who are independent, let me or call yourselves independents.
Let me really specify something.
When talking about you, I actually am bouncing off how you are thought of by political, so-called political experts, and particularly on the Republican side.
Uh I do happen to think that a lot of independents relish uh Calling themselves independents because the notion is that they're not partisan, that they're open-minded, that they discuss things and decide things issue by issue, are far, far more intelligent than these committed ideologues of either the right or the uh or the left.
But my main point of contention of bona contention with independence is how you are portrayed and how you're sought and how you're pursued by political professionals.
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