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June 27, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 27, 2011, Monday, Hour #3
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Hour number three.
How's it working out for you?
I'm having a great time.
I always delude myself, I guess, into thinking if I'm enjoying myself, maybe the listeners are.
I sure hope so.
And we will have uh this kind of hijinks today and tomorrow.
Rush is back on Wednesday, and I thank him and everybody at EIB for letting me come hang out.
You know the drill, you know the number, one eight hundred-two eight two two two eight eight two.
We've had a lot of twenty twelve talk these first couple hours, but that is so multi-layered.
I mean, we're all over the place from the Bachman announcement to the s the so needless feud between her and Fox News.
Needless for a couple of reasons, and it's funny.
I was looking at the the the Twitter folks.
I mean, I I never pay too much well, I pay attention, obviously, or I wouldn't give you the it's it's Mark Davis all one word at Twitter if you want to come follow me, be my guest.
Well, many of you have, apparently for the express purpose of lighting me up like a Christmas tree, because you think I'm attempting to one of you said clean up Chris Wallace's mess.
Guys, I think Chris Wallace cleaned up his own mess.
Uh just because I'm saying that that Congresswoman Bachman should absolutely accept the apology for the are you a flake comment.
I'm just trying I'm trying to get this over with so that we can look at what this wonderful woman might well do in the campaign and maybe even as president of the United States.
It is Chris Wallace's fault this got started.
He had a bad moment asking the question that bluntly and unartfully.
But that having been done, there are some things that help it go away.
And Congresswoman Bachman saying, of course I accept the apology, but maybe people need to think twice about whether they doubt my seriousness from here on out.
Boom.
That way she's gracious and tough at the same time.
Why is it always mutually exclusive?
Oh, the only way she can be tough is to call Chris Wallace an SOB and tell him you know, it's like, oh man, is that really the way it's gonna be?
Is that really what we're looking for?
Where are the lines of toughness drawn?
Where are the lines of conservatism drawn as we take a look at the Des Moines Register poll numbers and take a look at oh I guess I might as well do this.
I might as well uh might as well do this as we get ready to uh head back to your calls.
I mentioned that it can be instructive to hear somebody if you're hearing them for the first time, or it's been a little while since you and I last spoke, um that maybe if I took a little walk,
a very brief one, through the um through the field and gave you a little um word association on just about everybody, then you'll know where I am, and uh you can either love it or not love it, and do so publicly at uh 1800-282-2882.
Okay.
Ready?
Here we go.
Mitt Romney, front runner.
Why?
Name recognition and enough campaign skills to deserve it.
He he is someone of substance, and I can see people taking a look at him and saying he looks presidential, and you know, he came close in 08.
Eh, why not?
Especially if nobody else floats your boat.
However, on just way too many issues, not conservative enough for me.
And in fact, let me pause right here.
Because in a little bit of the exchange that we just had about Governor Perry, my own governor here in Texas, uh, and I just already talked about Tim Pollenty and climate change and Governor Romney and climate change and health care and God knows what else, uh that if there are things that make me wonder about your conservatism, I don't want to have to wonder about your conservatism after I help elect you.
I can almost hear some of you tweeting back to me if you wish.
Yeah, Mark, how come that concerns you about a polenti or a Romney, but you're willing to gloss over a couple of things that Perry's done?
That's a very good question.
Here is what I hope is a very good answer.
If Governor Perry were insufficiently conservative on, oh, I don't know, health care, or spending, or states rights, or social issues.
Oh yeah, oh we'd we'd have a problem.
We'd have a problem.
What Governor Perry has is a couple of instances where he's done things that I wouldn't have done that I didn't think were conservative enough.
They involved some uh a statewide transportation issue here, uh an initiative for uh a Gardasil inoculation for for girls there that had an easy opt-out, finally.
I'd say the most the most important thing on Governor Perry where I really hope he comes around is on being the kind of border warrior I want him to be.
I'm all about Mexican drug gangs and fighting all that stuff too.
Yeah, that's great.
But but the millions upon millions of folks flooding across our southern border, the enormous burden on our social infrastructure and and and and the negative effect on jobs, and the bazillions of dollars that are earned here,
and instead of turning over in the American economy, which they do if you work here, or if I work here and then go to the store and buy a refrigerator, and then the guy who built the refrigerator gets to go buy food and then the farmer gets to go buy fertilizer, that's money turning over in the economy.
Yeah, not so much in the land of illegal immigration.
Where somebody does admittedly hard work.
Don't even talk to me about stuff our own people won't do.
Hey, can we put that to the test?
Can we let them try, please, especially in this economy?
I'll bet there are all kinds of gringos love to be tarring roofs right about now, okay?
Thank you.
So anyway, not to be stereotypical, there are all kinds of jobs to be done.
Uh but then that money just foom, it vanishes.
It's it's Western Union over to Guadalajara, and boom, it is gone, baby, gone.
So that's the kind of illegal immigration impact that I want to hear more about from Governor Perry.
And you know something?
I have a feeling I will.
So if you put all that together, does he is he palatable enough for me?
Absolutely.
Absolutely.
So all right, moving on down.
Sarah Palin, love her.
Her heart, her courage, her character, the gosh just the energy that just ignites the minute she walks into a room.
There's no there's no equivalent for it.
In this field or any field I can think of for a while.
Does that mean she's the best candidate in twenty twelve?
I don't know.
Is she even running?
I bet not.
So maybe we'll be spared this whole thing, and I kind of hope we are.
Because if I could wave a wand right now, it would be to have Governor Palin and her wonderful family.
And that sound heart and that beautiful mind and that ceaseless energy devoted toward the causes that mean everything to her.
Socially, fiscally, everything.
And let her be queen of the anointers.
Let a nod of approval from her really mean something, because it would to me, and it should to you, if you're conservative.
And let her write books and do TV shows and do movies and be on Fox News and and you know, field dress a moose, whatever in the world she wants to do because I just love this woman.
I don't think she's running, and I'm okay with that.
Herman Kane covered him a little bit.
Love him.
There might if there might be uh oh.
But as the saying goes, there's a big but.
There's always a big butt.
Well, not always, but there may be there may be a category that we're starting to define here called people not in Governor Palin's case, because could she get the nomination?
Boy, I bet she could.
Could she beat Obama?
I don't know.
And it's because of what I talked about last hour.
Our nominee is real listen, I know this presidency seems like it's on the ropes.
I know it seems like America doesn't just done like most of what he's trying to do.
I know, I know, I know, I know.
But don't you think for a minute that we we can drop off our A game?
We've got to offer up somebody who is going to draw like moths to a flame people who have never voted Republican before in their lives.
Governor Palin's appeal to me is beyond doubt.
My love for her knows no bounds.
But I don't know if she brings that kind of appeal to the table.
Independence, crossover voters, whatever you want to call them.
I don't know.
Maybe she'll run, be the nominee, beat Obama by five, and I'll go, well, I guess I know now.
Maybe not.
The category of people I'm looking at and Herman Kane might start it, is called really good guys with really sound hearts and sound minds and wonderful ideas, who probably have no chance whatsoever of getting the nomination.
Who's in that club?
I don't know.
And maybe and maybe that's not the exact club because there are a lot of people who I don't think are gonna get the nomination.
Uh Ron Paul's one of them, but it's not for the same reasons.
I love Congressman Paul.
He's down here too.
Is everybody from Texas?
One way or the other.
One degree of separation.
Um Congressman Paul, I I want you know it's kind of funny.
I've talked about our our nominee and put together I guess I probably shouldn't use Frankenstein's monster as the analogy, as a hybrid of no, let's let's leave that one totally alone.
I want things grafted from certain people.
I I want a weird place to start, Donald Trump's comfort in his own skin.
Trump's ideas, too many of them were just wacky for a Republican.
Give me a break.
What was that about?
But he's so comfortable in his own skin, and he'll he doesn't mind aggressively going after the Obama agenda and and absolutely talking tough about China and things like that.
I want our nominee to do that.
Can we graph that from Donald Trump and put it into whoever our nominee is?
Chris Christie, see him on Meet the Press yesterday.
What I want grafted an anatomical reference I shouldn't make, uh, but I think you know where I'm going.
I want those on our nominee.
Well, there's a visual.
And sometimes little things tell you a lot.
David Gregory was talking to Chris Christie about an answer he had given to a woman.
Oh, here's here's a talk show topic.
Let's start this one right now.
If you are a governor and you send your kids to private school, do you have the right to suggest a cut in public school funding?
Of course you do.
What kind of moron says you don't?
I'm sorry, I didn't mean to be unkind to Gail, who has the actual questioner there.
I think that was her name.
Uh yeah, Governor Christie, um you your kids go to uh private school, so is that like fair for you to like uh cut the public school funding?
That that you know what that's a close cousin to?
A very close cousin.
I get this.
I'm guessing Rush gets this.
I'm guessing people who I mean Reagan was in the military there for a little bit, but you know where I'm going here.
How can you how can we be expected to respect your view on the military when you haven't served?
Really?
Really?
So the only people who can weigh in on military issues are actually people who have served, ninety some percent of everybody never has, and they are they are to remain mute on military issues.
Let me tell you something about military service.
I love it in my in my candidates.
I love it.
It's a fantastic thing to have.
It will make me think well of you at first as I begin to see what your actual thoughts are.
But I have not a speck of it.
Vietnam ended when I was fifteen, sorry.
Neither does Rush.
Got any problem with Rush's military views?
Got any problem with mine.
You know, you want you want some people who are in the military?
I'll give you some people that were in the military.
Jimmy Carter, Wesley Clark, and Tim McVay.
Not attempting to draw any parallel there.
Just essentially trying to tell you the uniform doesn't make you right.
What's important in a presidential candidate is not necessarily whether he or she has served, but whether or not he or she will serve those who have.
Serve them with the right mind and the right heart on military issues.
So anyway, uh Chris Christie told this woman uh when she, you know, said, What are you doing cutting public school funding when your kids are in uh private school?
He told her flat out, none of your business.
God bless Chris Christie, our nominee, whether the more I tell you, if he tells me for the 734th time that he ain't running, I guess I'm probably starting to believe him.
And I guess I feel this way about everybody whom I admire.
I wish you would.
Get in there, man.
Give us the big give us so much choice.
Old Joe Jackson song, It's All Too Much.
Uh they say that choice is freedom.
I'm so free it's driving me insane.
Gimme Chris Christie, give me Rick Perry.
Bobby Gindal.
Come on, man.
Let's go.
More the merrier.
Let the people and listen, and God bless Iowa and New Hampshire, and I'm looking forward to being up there with those good people.
Can we have some states that actually have people in them make some decisions?
And I mean that with all good Christian love.
I mean population density.
I I mean it's Iowa.
It's New Hampshire.
Sometimes I think I'd like to have four I do not want one big national primary.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
I love how campaigns bob and weave and adjust and say, ooh, that didn't work well, let's try this.
Oh, we got our clocks clean there, let's do this.
A campaign is a living, breathing, organic kind of thing.
I almost wish we had four regional ones, northwest, northeast, southwest, southeast.
Boom, there you go.
Maybe that would be good.
Is that work well for you?
So anyway, but the more the truly the more the merrier.
Truly.
Let real people make real decisions with their real votes and let's see who we really, really want.
Who's with me?
Well, let's see who's with me on the phone, and we'll do it next.
Mark Davis in for Rush on the EIB Network.
It is the Monday Rush Limbaugh Show, followed by the Tuesday Rush Limbaugh Show, which you and I are together for as well.
And then for the Wednesday rush limbaugh show, you get Rush Limbaugh.
So hang loose.
Your long national nightmare is almost at an end.
The fill in guys here today and tomorrow, and Rush returns on Wednesday.
It's been a joy.
Hope you're having an okay time too.
As we get ready to go back to some of your calls, boy, I gotta tell you, there's been a lot of tension today, lots going on, nation has a lot of problems, world has a lot of problems.
Big X hail, you ready?
Whew.
I am thoroughly relieved, thoroughly not well spoken, but thoroughly relieved.
The whole Moamar Gadafi thing, think we got it.
Everybody chill.
I think we got it.
The International Criminal Court has ordered his arrest.
Phew, man.
I will sleep better tonight.
Out of the Hague, international judges ordered the arrest of Libyan leader Moamar Gaddafi for murdering civilians as NATO warplanes pounded his trip E compound and world leaders stepped up calls for him to end his four decade rule.
Really?
World leaders are stepping up their calls for him to step aside?
Right.
How's that exactly working so far?
I will tell you, if you want to do some Libya talk in our remaining thirty-four minutes, or tomorrow, we do have tomorrow.
I am intrigued by the Libya dichotomy, shall we call it?
I try to approach things, we all should, with some level of consistency.
I believe the War Powers Act is stone cold unconstitutional.
That means if George W. Bush, who was commander in chief, wanted to put us in Iraq and stay there as long as he wanted, the way you change that is change commanders in chief.
Now, as it so happened, he did get it's is it always better to get congressional approval?
Of course it is.
And it is Congress that declares war, but there are all kinds of things you can do, short of actually declaring war.
We're not declaring war on Libya necessarily.
And in the war on terror, we're not declaring war on another nation.
It's a war on terror and the nebulous fog that that can be.
It's a whole nother kind of war.
But we always see this through the lens of who's the commander in chief, and are you glad or not glad that you know President X is commander in chief?
A president whom you admire and whom you voted for.
Being commander in chief and able to deploy whomever whenever, oh no problem.
But make it Barack Obama and oh my heavens, suddenly I'm not sleeping so well at night.
Where is he gonna deploy stuff and for what empty political purpose and how ineptly will it be done?
Fair questions all, but you know what?
You don't like it?
Change commanders in chief, which I pray we're going to do in about a year and a half.
But until we do, he's the commander in chief.
And if he wants to put us in in Libya or Luxembourg for every day that he's commander in chief, he gets to do that.
And we can either like it or not like it.
Now, one thing we can do.
There are two ways to show I don't like it.
One is vote him out, but that takes some time.
The other is defund it.
That's always kind of sticky.
Yeah, defunding the operation in progress is always a little dicey.
That's why the president holds all the cards, because he is commander in chief.
And you know what that means?
You know what that should tell you?
It means we should think doggone long and doggone hard about whom we install as commander in chief.
Maybe it's not just about hope and change and being post racial and post this and post that and being cool and making history.
Yeah, how's that working out for everybody?
Maybe it's about putting somebody who has a serious enough mind and a stout enough heart to command the army of the greatest superpower the world has ever known.
Can we maybe have our head right with that this coming election?
Because last time I don't think enough of us did.
Mark Davis in for Rush.
More phone calls next.
And we are in the home stretch of today's experience together, our final half hour.
I'm Mark Davis from WBAP Dallas Fort Worth.
Great to be with you.
And it'll be very nice to be with you tomorrow.
And doubly triply nice when Russia returns on Wednesday, making everybody happy.
All right, let's see what uh what everybody's pleasure is topically speaking as we head to Houston.
Eric, hey, Mark Davis, how are you?
Welcome to the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Hey, Mark.
Uh I got a chance to travel to Dallas very often for work, and let me say it's a pleasure to have a chance to listen to you when I'm in the D FW area.
Thank you.
Great to have you on the Mark uh on the Rush Limbaugh show.
Um okay, so having said that, dude, you have been drinking the period tool aid.
Uh the kindness, the kindness is but the uh is but the lure for what follows.
Okay, so let me give everybody who does live outside of Texas the real four one one on Rick Perry, known better as the thirty-nine percent, uh, because in two thousand and six he couldn't beat a field of four, but but just by thirty-nine percent, which included a weak democratic Congressman by the name of Chris Bell, a grandmother, and a comedian, and all they should do was get thirty-nine percent.
But folks need to note is the governorship of Texas is one of the weakest governorships, one of the weakest seats in the United States.
So this great fortune that we are enjoying here in Texas, very little of it can be attributed to any of the work of Governor Perry.
Now, all this balancing that he's trying to do, this making up for his previous indiscretions towards liberalism or moderation, is simply because he wants to uh position himself for a presidential run.
What would be all right that not uh maybe you're about to do it, but let me let me uh ask you.
W i since you're doing a little mind reading here, tell me what issue that you are so certain that his position on is a fabrication or opportunism uh that you that you don't particularly believe.
Well, the sanctuary cities, uh, Bill.
Um uh it has specifically to do with the Dream Act.
Right.
Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst, Susan Combs, the state controller's.
Just as a favor to me and to them.
So go ahead.
You think that if he's coming around on sanctuary cities, that he's not really coming around on the kind of illegal immigration that most of us are.
And how do and how do you how do you magically know that?
Okay, well, let's look at the TSA legislation that should be passing today on the Texas Congress, the anti-groping the the anti-groping bill.
Can I give everybody six can I can I help the country out for because that is that is very interesting.
And let me give the country sixty seconds on that, and then I'll give it right back to you.
Okay.
On a day in which America is hearing about some ninety-some year old woman, uh forty-five minutes of ridiculous uh uh searching uh the TSA is a laughing stock in a lot of America.
We're doing something here in Texas that people either love or they don't.
We're thinking about making it a crime.
We've all heard about how some of those TSA examinations can get a little too personal if you get my drift.
We're thinking of making it a crime to handle up on your privates in a TSA uh examination without probable cause.
That has caused a lot of people to go, yeah, about time somebody stood up for flyers' rights.
However, it also is almost certainly unworkable to suggest that a state can have sway over what is a thoroughly federal enclave of authority, the airport screening process.
Good now, everybody knows?
Go, take the ball, run with it.
Okay, no.
So Rick Perry goes to New Orleans, he he turns the place out with his speech.
On video, immediately following the speech, he poo-poos the TSA bill.
Yeah.
Uh they shut down Kiss switchboards to the governor's office two days in a row.
He decides to put it on the call in the special session.
Absolute flip flop.
Okay, now look, on the inoculation.
Okay, well, hang on.
Hang on a minute.
If Michelle Bachman or Tim Pollani ever brings this arcane stuff up in New Hampshire, everybody's gonna hear about it.
Uh if if yet if he scoffed at the anti-groping bill, and it kind of deserves to be scoffed at, but then all of a sudden says, oh, for crying out loud, if everybody is this hopped up about it, okay, I'll put it on the special session and they can either pass it or not.
Tell me what's the matter with that.
Because when you talk to when when you speak to the people of the nation about Governor Perry, it appears that his conservatism and anti-Washington attitude uh is genuine.
It is not.
It's simply political position.
Based on what?
Give me an anti give me a Washington skepticism that he has displayed that you somehow magically know to be phony.
It's the flip-flops, it's the changing of positions that you articulated last hour when you talked about the Chief the Trans Texas corridor and now the imminent domain bill.
When you talked about the Dream Act and the Sanctuary Cities bill.
So the genuineness of Governor Perry has to be put into question on the inoculation issue that you brought up in the last hour.
It has been well documented and published in Texas Monthly Magazine by Paul Burke.
The reason he put it out there was because Mike Toomey, the dark knight of Texas lobbyist, was being paid by Merck, and Merck dumped all kind of money into his campaign.
And so you magically know, you and and God bless Paul Burke, who, for the for America's sake, is a very storied statewide writer for Texas Monthly and a good guy, uh, but uh not a fan of Governor Perry, that if a pharmaceutical company contributes to you, something, some initiative that you have that involves a pharmaceutical must magically be corruption.
You absolutely amazing Creskin can read minds and know that that must have been the motivation for that.
Really?
Can you tell me who's gonna win the Super Bowl next year?
Because I'd really like to do that.
When the only when the only producer of the vaccine is Merck, I think so.
Now, when you also brought up about you're totally entitled to that suspicion.
I I read in fairness, you are entitled to that.
Go ahead.
And then I then I've got an overall observation.
Go ahead.
Right.
It's because it was Kay Bailey Hutchinson out of Washington.
We had to hold our noses to vote for Rick Perry.
I mean, think about the fact that she voted for the TARP.
She announced in her campaign speech that it was best for Texans to moderate.
How are you going to win a Texas primary GLP primary when you announce I'm going to moderate?
And there was a there was a main lady.
The rest of the country may be central right, but Texas is right.
Right.
Eric, I love you, man.
This is uh this is the most val this is a very valuable call because the uh the uh the objections and skepticism that I characterized and kind of um marginalized, this is what it sounds like.
And and and Eric's not a nut.
Uh these are things, these are burrs in his saddle.
And um, but let me just tell you what.
In our remaining 20 minutes or tomorrow.
Uh if you are in Poughkeepsie or Panama City, or Casper, or Carlsbad, or Sacramento, or Santa Fe.
Entertaining few minutes, right?
Hope so.
Did any of that make a lick of difference to you?
I I'm I mean, a lot I mean, seriously.
Of all I guarantee, I mean, f find me the next Reagan, which of course we're never going to do.
But let's say we sort of kinda find me Reagan himself.
Reagan gave us Simpson Missouri.
The government did not get small enough under Reagan.
I revere the ground that Ronald Reagan ever walked on every footfall.
I can find you three or four things that that that I would that that were Reagan was not perfect to me.
I can find a couple.
You can find a couple with anybody.
Anybody.
Um these are some very, very inside Texas baseball things, man.
And I'm not poo-pooing them, especially down on the local show.
I'd best not.
And I think, and I'd actually am on sort of the same side as as this last gentleman on at least a couple of.
I don't think the Gardasil initiative was a good thing.
And I was not a fan of the Trans Texas corridor, and I and I I'm waiting to see Rick Perry become the kind of border warrior that I want him to be.
But on the big stuff, man, states rights, fighting the Obama agenda, fighting Obamacare, cutting spending, cutting taxes, pro business philosophies.
He's golden.
He's golden.
All right.
1 800 282 2882.
Mark Davis filling in for Rush on the EIB Network.
It is the Rush Limbaugh Show for Monday, June 27th, closing quarter hour ish here.
I'm Mark Davis filling in from WBAP, Dallas Fort Worth.
Um just a joy today, or we're about done.
We've got a few more folks we'll put on the radio before we part company.
And uh hey, any unfinished business?
And I got 312 things we never got to today.
Nah.
She's either good news or bad news, if you know me.
Uh, but I'll bet there'd be hot, fresh headlines tomorrow, and we'll get back together and uh do the show together tomorrow.
So thanks, Rush, for two straight days.
Holy cow.
And then Russia's back on Wednesday.
For right now, though, we head up to lovely New England.
I gotta tell you, I'm huge New England envy because uh it's about 147 degrees in Texas these days.
So in South Portland, Maine, where I'm guessing it's a touch cooler, Bill is here.
Welcome to the Rush Limbaugh Show, sir.
How are you?
Very good, but I can barely hear you.
I'll try to be louder.
How are you?
Uh well, you're doing well.
Look, um, I disagree fully with you about uh having the states with the population density making decisions because see, New York just signed gay marriage into law.
California just passed every nut burger law they can.
They've got they've got they've got population density, Mark, but they're all libs.
Well, so that people know I want So that people know what I was talking about, so that people know what we're talking about is is the primaries, and I'm I'm partially tongue in cheek.
Iowa and New Hampshire, no, no, Bell, Bill, Bell, please, please.
Very very important.
Bill, we'll both finish sentences.
It'll be great.
Give it a try.
Iowa and New Hampshire are fantastic places.
They're so sparsely populated that for Iowa and New Hampshire to s to with that kind of per capita power determine our nominee.
It it freaks me out a little bit.
And and I we can maybe pick 'em, and I thought maybe a northwest, northeast, southwest, southeast, the southeastern primary would work out pretty well, wouldn't it?
No.
Florida's about the only dicey state we got in the Southeast.
No, New York.
And they just elected Marco Rubio.
I'm talking about New York and California.
I don't want them having that much power in the primaries.
I don't want them determining our nominee, because we will lose to Obama.
I want a conservative, constitutionalist, small government um individual who uh you know, respects our constitution, and you won't get it from when you said population density, every state with population density is literally.
But I mean, well, I'm but I'm not looking for mega maxed out population density alongside like California and New York.
Certainly not.
That's what you would get.
Well, well, but here's I here's a state with some population density.
Mine, Texas.
We have a lot of people, and we're gonna give you the kind of conservative you want.
Uh uh maybe listen, my my observation about population was really just a loving um uh well, fill you c collect your own noun.
I love Iowa, I love New Hampshire.
It's I I wish maybe some states with some more people, more Republicans.
I mean, they're gonna be it's gonna be a Republican primary no matter what, right?
Even do you distrust Republicans in New York and California?
Do you want rhinos or conservatives?
I mean, you don't want Illinois making decisions.
Look what they gave us, Obama.
Well, not the Republicans didn't.
Um the Republicans gave us John McCain who couldn't beat uh Obama in 08.
I mean, you we well didn't John McCain won the New Hampshire primary.
All right, but the point is what we've got to do start.
I don't know how to do this, but I am a tea I am a Tea Party activist.
Uh huh.
And I don't know how to get across to people.
I mean, we have got we don't have a chance if we don't win this election.
I know.
I'm I'm I'm so with you, Bill, and And listen, how to and maybe maybe ultimately we're just fine.
And let me thank you for your call because here's the thing.
As weird as it is, if you're an alien landing from space and they ask you, how do you guys choose your candidates?
And we say, well, we have elections in two of our most sparsely populated states, and the results from those elections are so enormous that in most years the voters in those states pretty well determine who the nominee is.
Really, the alien would say.
Really?
In whatever language he brings from his home planet.
But you know, maybe this year we're not in the mood to do that.
And again, with all proper love to Iowa and New Hampshire.
There may be somebody who wins Iowa.
There may be somebody else who wins New Hampshire.
And yet here comes South Carolina.
And here come Republicans in Florida, and here come other states who may just say, uh, yeah, uh, guess what?
Maybe not.
We may have four or five different winners in the first four or five primaries.
Gosh, wouldn't that be sweet?
And then as it rolls out, inexorably over the ensuing days and weeks, you know, more people, you know, even eventually California and New York, those Republicans get to weigh in as well.
And maybe in so many, so many ways.
Maybe this year we'll be different.
I mean, la last time sure was for the Democrats.
I mean, that that uh Hillary Clinton Barack Obama thing, we took that to the convention just about, didn't we?
They didn't, they chose not to settle that.
Chose not to s I mean, Obama won the Iowa caucuses, Hillary won New Hampshire, and from then on it was boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.
Mono Amano.
I envied them that.
I really did.
As a Republican, I thought, wow.
Voters with actual choices all the way through the primary season.
Oh, what's that feel like?
Because by the time it got to Texas, McCain was it.
That's it.
We're done.
Okay.
Every state really wants their votes to mean something.
They'd love for it not to be wrapped up by the time it gets to them.
But tends to be kind of a marketplace thing, and the marketplace is what it is, isn't it?
Alrighty.
Speaking of the marketplace, it requires a brief pause right here, so let's do that.
Mark Davis in for Rush on the EIB Network.
On a show in which we've paid a lot of attention to the Republican race of 2012...
Let's go back to the first Republican.
That would be Lincoln, and it seems like a good idea to go to a town named after him.
No, not Nebraska, even though that's a great one.
Uh not even Missouri, but they have a Lincoln in Kansas, and Keith is there.
Welcome to the Rush Limbaugh Show, sir.
Mark Davis filling in.
How are you?
Mark Mark, I love your stuff, talked to you before.
I think that Herman Kane will probably come out in South Carolina.
He'll finish well in Iowa, New Hampshire.
But what I want to talk about is I want to see these guys bring out their policies and go after each other.
Like Romney, for example.
Obamacare was uh modeled after Massachusetts care.
He has been pro-choice, he has been climate change.
And on Bachman, she used to be big on earmarks and even at climate change at one time.
Ed Bradley, she has come out with a taping of her supporting Ed Bradley, who says that Muslims are a lot better at putting to death homosexuals than the United States, but the Christians are.
And on Pollenty, he missed the boat when he didn't go after uh Romney, and also he missed the boat on uh climate change.
He wants ethanol subsidies.
Huntsman, he came right out in a debate in 2007 and says, hey, health care is a right.
Herman Cain, the thing I do support Herman Cain, I love him like you do.
I want to see him vote against raising the debt limit, put a priority on Social Security, Medicare, military pay.
I want to see him come out with energy independence.
I want to see that pipeline built from Canada, Alberta.
You know what it's like?
Keith, thank you enormously.
A great final call.
You know what it's like?
It's like a job interview.
The first thing you do is not look for reasons too higher, but look for disqualifiers, look for deal breakers.
If you don't find any, then you make another special pile and go from there.
Well, let's go from here into the rest of this day.
God bless our country and our troops.
See you tomorrow.
Mark Davis in for rush, rush is back on Wednesday.
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