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Aug. 19, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 19, 2011, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
And a pleasant good day to all of you.
I know this might be a tad disorienting.
Wait a minute, wait a minute.
We know Rush is out next week.
And in fact, I am with you next Friday and next Thursday.
The All-Mark Bench Strength Squad kicks in.
I believe we have Brother Stein on Monday of next week, Brother Belling on Tuesday and Wednesday.
And then I'm back with you on Thursday and Friday.
It is not by design, but mere happenstance that all the fill-in guys were trying to get Walter Williams to change his name to Mark.
It's not going well.
Apparently, he's not getting the memo.
But I'm the Mark Davis from WBAP, right here in the heart of Rick Perry's, Texas.
Oh, yeah, I've got some perspectives to share, and we will, from the WBAP Studios, a proud Limbaugh affiliate for a good long time.
And it's a joy to be back in the EIB guest chair with you.
And if there's anything cooler than filling in for Rush, it's Filling In for Rush on Open Line Friday.
Live from New York City.
It's Open Line Friday.
These are good times.
And in fact, just to share a little something, I am freshly back from vacation right now, even as we speak.
I have not done my own show here in Texas for the last week, and I am due to return to my own local program here in 107-degree Dallas, Fort Worth, on Monday.
And looking forward to that enormously because on Thursday and Friday, again, I get two, two, two shows in one, my own local show, and then filling in for Rush next Thursday and Friday.
But then I got the Bo Snerdly text like morning before last, waking up.
And I just want to just reach out to those of you who are listening, really anywhere in the Pacific Northwest, I guess, but specifically Reno, Tahoe.
Oh my gosh, because that's where I've just been.
And I don't know how you folks ever leave.
I guess maybe when there's 40 feet of snow on the ground, you might want to hit a beach somewhere.
But up there in Reno and Tahoe, it just doesn't get better.
We rode horses.
We rafted down the Truckee River.
It was just incredible.
And I say this not to scoreboard anybody vacation-wise.
Okay, maybe a little bit of that.
But just to mention a couple of things about this magnificent land, this incredible country we live in and across the fruited plain that Rush so frequently describes.
Even as things are dire, the Republic hangs by a thread, a neo-socialist gang attacks our liberties from the White House and from the Senate while we try to claw back from the House and claw back further in 2012.
Oh, and we'll be talking about that today.
But I guess a trip like this and being away from doing a talk show for a week and sort of away from just the constant drumbeat of the issues, it gives you a chance to step back, look at everything, look at the country, and develop what I hope is not ill-placed optimism.
Because everywhere I go, and we got on a plane at DFW and you fly across the incredible vast openness of much of unpopulated America, and you land in Reno and drive across into California and go to someplace as beautiful and pristine as Tahoe or wherever you might.
Maybe you just got back from somewhere else.
Maybe you just came back from Alaska or New England or down to the beaches of Florida or just wherever.
It's more than a platitude to climb to the highest mountaintop you can find and just shout about what an incredible country this is.
And yes, we've got 753 problems that we've got to address, and we're going to start addressing them here right now in about 60 seconds.
But I just want to tell you on this particular Friday, for the moment, it's still America.
For the moment, it's still a free country.
We have each other.
We have all kinds of liberal media out blathering about, but we have so many alternative sources of media, so many things on the internet, so much in talk radio, led by the clarion call of this show for decades now.
And so with, I guess that's enough of that.
Let's hop into some issues, shall we?
But I do.
I return to the world of talk show land if I am.
And it's funny because anytime a talk show host goes on vacation, they are, it's wonderful because it's great to unplug, but I'm guessing most of us are in our own special hell.
After about three or four days, you start to read things in the paper, you start to see things going on in the news, and you go, oh my gosh, I need a show.
I need a show.
You feel like knocking on the doors of local stations and saying, do you have an hour where I can just take some calls?
And I confess this happened to me a little bit this week gone by.
And I've, you know, doing a little bit of homework, have become aware in retrospect of much of what Russia's had to say and a lot of what I would have said if I'd had my own show.
So some of that comes to mind.
So let me start out with a litany of things from the 2012 race.
We have certainly some things we have to talk about about the DHS deportation review.
Here on any open line Friday, it's very much a function of things that have gone on the entire week, kind of a week in review, tie a bow around events since Monday, various other things that might be floating around in our shared consciousness.
And also, of course, things that are as hot and fresh as today's headlines.
And one of the things that caught me as I woke up this very morning was the Republican accusations that the Obama administration is essentially instituting backdoor amnesty.
It's amnesty by fiat.
Officials are announcing that they are launching a case-by-case review of illegal immigrants slated for deportation in an effort to thin the list.
Thin the list, really, and focus resources on kicking out criminals.
Well, even at foxnews.com, the phraseology becomes tricky.
And I love my brothers and sisters at Fox News.
But in their opening paragraph there, they say that what they're trying to do, what the Obama administration is trying to do, is thin out the list of deportation and focus resources on kicking out criminals.
They're all criminals.
Now, I know what they mean.
And I will stipulate that the people I am most interested in deporting, the people I would like to put at the top of the deportation list, are those who are here illegally and who are also robbers and muggers and attackers and assaulters and rapists and scalawags of various sure, those are the ones that I want to pack up and send back across the border first.
But it's easy to get caught up in the language issue here.
Well, let's not get rid of, try to deport all of the illegal immigrants, just the ones who are criminals.
They are all criminals.
In varying degree?
Sure.
I mean, find me a thousand criminals who are born here, and I'll find you people whose criminality is to be measured by degree.
Some have done horrible things.
Others have done less horrible things.
Killing somebody is a lot worse than just being in this country illegally.
But let us not divorce ourselves from some clarity here.
The moment you set foot on American soil as an illegal immigrant, you are a lawbreaker.
The minute you are, if you've brought your beautiful family with you, you're still breaking the law.
If all you want is a better life for yourself, you're still breaking the law.
If you have the noblest of intent, you're still breaking the law.
Now, we have to figure out what to do.
do about that.
A lot of people want guest worker programs.
A lot of people want amnesty.
A lot of people just want to deport every single one of them and do deportation from now until we're done.
As a practical matter, that's going to be hard.
I'll be the first to tell you.
10, 15, 20 million illegals that we have.
Finding every single one of them and at least sending them in the direction of the nation of their birth is a very tall order.
But you know what?
Try it anyway.
Does anybody, because using that logic, and I love when people give me this, they say, well, we'll never get all of them, so why try?
What?
Well, guess what?
We'll never get all the drug users either.
We'll never get all of the bank robbers either.
We'll never get all of the speeders.
Let's do away with speed limits.
We'll never catch all the speeders.
Let's do away with drug laws.
We'll never catch everybody who's dealing in Coke or hash or meth or pot or whatever.
We'll never catch everybody.
So since we won't catch everybody, why even try?
That logic would never last a second with various other crimes, but with immigration, it's supposed to.
We couldn't possibly deport all of these people.
It's stupid to even try.
Really?
Well, it's not stupid to try because it means you're trying.
And I know that's self-evident, but here's what I mean.
You ever hear the old adage, you get less of the behavior that you make illegal, and you get more of the behavior that you leave legal.
Drug use, immigration, whatever.
Tax offenses.
When enforcement ramps up, people go, ooh, they're ramping up.
I need to think twice about doing that.
Even on those things where there's no hope of ever catching everybody.
I'm not aware of a crime in which the enforcement effort is so airtight that we catch everybody.
But we make illegal those things we don't want people to do, whether we're going to catch all of them or 75% of them or 10% of them.
I know we're not going to catch everybody.
But when we get serious about our borders, when we get serious about immigration, everyone will know that we are serious.
And we have been wholly unserious about it for decades and decades under administrations both Republican and Democrat.
And it's interesting because here's, you know, this very morning, you know, the DHS deportation review.
This brings us back to the DREAM Act.
This grants a reprieve to many of the would-be DREAM Act beneficiaries.
The DREAM Act was the proposal in Congress to give illegal immigrants who came to the U.S. as children, give them a chance at legal status if they complete two years of college or military service.
The bill has not passed, but this announcement yesterday could essentially carry out its provisions with the wave of a magic wand.
Arizona Governor Jan Brewer has weighed in, said the move amounts to the administration implementing an immigration overhaul via executive fiat.
Governor Brewer is right on this, as she is on so many other things.
So I'm intrigued to have this as one of the things we can talk about today, if you wish.
1-800-282-2882, as you know, 1-800-282-2882.
And as we talk about an immigration story, and we got plenty of 2012 talk, I got to tell you some stuff.
You know, Governor Perry's in.
We certainly know him well around here, and there's a lot to love.
It's funny, there's a lot to love.
I am a fan of Governor Perry, but I'm not a shill.
I've disagreed with him on a couple of things, but on balance, I'd be thrilled if he were the nominee.
And I'll tell you why, and then almost certainly hear from people who share my views and people who don't.
Kind of the same thing that happens to Rush.
That's half the fun.
So, amid all the 2012 talk, so much of it Tea Party infused with its fiscal conservatism and even libertarian bent, there have been a lot of issues where people wonder, you know, how much traction will this get?
And immigration is one of them.
As we get into our 2012 passions, so much of that is to get rid of Obamacare, rightfully so, to stop wasteful Washington spending, rightfully so.
All kinds of things that have to do with fiscal responsibility, so rightfully so.
But it has left some people wondering: okay, but will this be to the detriment of the attention that we can pay to immigration?
And I'll tell you another large bit of concern is: will this accrue to the detriment of the attention paid to various socially conservative issues?
You know, things like the life issues, abortion issues, things like gay marriage, things, any one of a number of things.
Are those things going to have to kind of take a back seat as we get in this Tea Party-infused spending, spending, spending, Obamacare, Obamacare, Obamacare, fiscal issues, fiscal issues, budget stuff, budget stuff?
Can we keep enough balls in the air to pay attention to all of those things?
I believe we can.
I'll lay out a little bit of how as we progress through the day.
So, right now, let's get going.
1-800-282-2882.
1-800-282-2882.
It is Open Line Friday, even when Rush isn't here.
I'm Mark Davis here from Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, and with you Thursday and Friday of next week.
Mark Stein on Monday, Mark Belling, Tuesday and Wednesday as Rush takes some deserved time off.
Let's take a little time off right now in the Obscene Profit Center at the EIB and back with you.
Your calls, some more stuff from me, Mark Davis, filling in for Rush on the EIB network.
It is the Friday Rush Limbaugh Show.
Open line Friday, it's been called for low these many years.
And we see no reason to screw that up just because there's some fill-in host.
That wouldn't be right.
I'm Mark Davis from WBAP Dallas, Fort Worth, where it's way too hot for most things to live.
But we love Texas, and we are thrilled down here that our can't speak for a whole nation, can't speak for a whole state.
Many of us are thrilled that our governor has thrown his hat into the ring.
Let me give you a couple of Rick Perry thoughts.
It hasn't really been so very, very long since I was here in the EIB plush fill-in chair.
And at that time, the direction we were taking was sort of a what if Rick Perry gets in, what would that do to the race?
And what would that do to the field?
And obviously, we're many, many, many, many months away from the election.
And even Iowa and New Hampshire are still a good bit off, and there's a lot to be done on the campaign trail, and nothing, nothing is decided the previous summer.
You know, let me edit that.
Well, some things are decided, like when people drop out.
It's been decided that Tim Polenti ain't going to be the Republican nominee.
But you know what?
Didn't.
We know that already.
We have much to discuss.
We have much to discuss about this Mitt Romney thing that's going on here.
I, governor Romney is a good and decent man.
If he winds up being the nominee, I will gladly vote for him to prevent a second Obama term.
But please please, can we take the reins and and find a nominee who is a more reliable conservative?
Can we please do that this time, please?
And I think that process is underway.
The ascendancy of Rick Perry is evidence.
I, I will, I can.
I just throw in a bit of love for a guy I just admire and have, and that's Rick Santorum.
Uh, he finished fourth in the in the straw poll and I don't know what that does for him.
It keeps him at least marginally relevant, which is probably an uptick for a campaign that's had a hard time um, getting attention.
I was going to say a hard time raising money, but I don't know that to be true.
And and and I.
It's certainly evidence that if you can get uh, you know some of those folks in aims.
You know what Ames was.
It was, it was absolute blatant vote buying, but that's okay is the one time when vote buying is okay.
It's a straw poll, the various campaigns many of them paid the fee for people to come in and vote for them.
They fed them, they transported them, they did all manner of things I mean virtually everything shy of spa treatments to get them to uh to vote for for the candidate uh of of choice.
And um, and Michelle Bachman did it Ron Paul.
You know, Ron Paul probably didn't have to do it.
God love him.
We probably need to talk about Brother Paul too, because he's a Texan as well and I love him.
Love him on issues of, of fidelity to the constitution, on the issues of his libertarian instincts for, for what the scope of government should be.
When Congressman Paul flips that crazy switch and that that, that isolationism and that Blame America foreign policy of his kicks in, it just makes me insane.
I wrote my Dallas Morning NEWS column about him this past week and it's the quandary for every not just every Texas conservative but every conservative around the country, because I I want to take Ron Paul's uh courage on following the constitution and his single-mindedness on reigning in government to the size that it should be, and I want to take that and splice it and graft it onto the spine of every single other candidate for the nomination, so that whoever whoever,
so that whoever is standing there on that stage in Tampa next year accepting the nomination of the Republican Party, I hope that that person has Ron Paul's passion for following the constitution and reigning in the size of government.
So for that I love that he's in the race.
But doggone it this whole.
You know blame in America for, for terrorism.
Why, why can't we have Ron Paul's courage on the issues in which he's right spliced with somebody who really Does want to have America as a force for good in the world?
Be right back.
Wherever Rush is, whatever he's doing, good, good, good wishes to you, sir.
Have a fantastic time off.
The brigade of Marks will keep the chair warm for you in your place all next week.
It is Mark Stein on Monday, Mark Belling, Tuesday, Wednesday, and I'm back next Thursday, Friday, Mark Davis from Deep in the Heart of Texas, where my vicious ADD has kicked in.
And I always hope that's to the benefit of the show because we cover more material.
I always felt we covered more material that way, but I started on a Rick Perry observation, wound up delving into Rick Santorum land, and then nestled onto a lily pad featuring Ron Paul.
Let me tie a couple of those loose ends together and then we'll dive right to your calls at 1-800-282-2882.
Let me hang on to the Perry stuff for a minute because I got more of that than anything else.
I really do hope, and people are talking about a three, it's like, oh, it's already a three-person race, Romney and Bachman and Perry.
And that may ultimately be the case.
And that seems like a worthy triumvirate there, doesn't it?
I mean, Romney for the people who love him for some reason.
And there are reasons to love him, just not enough.
Michelle Bachman, plenty of reasons to love her, but maybe the campaign trail is revealing a weakness or two.
And I'm not saying there's zero margin for error here, but I love Congresswoman Bachman.
I mean, I just love her.
But when you take a look at a Rick Perry on the campaign trail, and this gets me back to Senator Santorum, what does Michelle Bachman bring?
And here's just the cold truth question.
You ready?
I love Michelle Bachman, all right?
Love her.
Love her.
Please understand that.
Tell me exactly what she brings to the table that Rick Perry and Rick Santorum do not.
Now, obviously, poll numbers is one big answer with regard to Rick Santorum.
But as time goes on and maybe this not-so-bad finish in Ames can give him some attention and give him some traction, give him some fundraising, I would want when we really do get to a final three or four people.
I mean, literally, where those are the only ones left running, I just really want Santorum to be one of them.
And I may be asking too much.
I hope not.
I really, really hope not.
So we'll see, and you're welcome to weigh in on that.
I obviously have 53 things to say about everybody in the 2012 race.
So how about if I just intermingle those with some of your calls?
And we've talked a lot about immigration today because we have the Republican cries of amnesty by Fiat, backdoor amnesty, whatever you want to call it, after officials have announced they're going to launch a case-by-case review of illegal immigrants.
You know what?
Actually, let me go to there was a call that we had that, I don't know if he's there anymore, who said, what's that going to cost?
We have the money for this.
Where does the manpower come from to separate the wheat from the chaff in that regard?
The immigrants who are deportation worthy versus those who aren't.
I know there needs to be some type of prioritization in a task that is as vast as this.
But this is, if not by their own admission, an attempt to enact the DREAM Act without congressional approval and to thin out the list of illegals.
We're essentially going to say, you know, there are going to be some factors where you might as well not really be illegal.
And that is the definition of amnesty.
All righty, let's do some calls.
1-800-282-2882.
It is Open Line Friday, and we are in Houston.
Peter, Mark Davis in for Rush, how are you, sir?
Hey, Mark, doing a fine job.
Hi, thanks.
Amnesty by Fiat is a front door amnesty.
The flaw is that we don't get to choose which of the illegals are going to go on to commit felonies and the like.
So now that the green light is on, they're going to come and they're going to create more victims.
And why does that have to be the filter to decide who gets sent back?
Let's filter them at the border, not let them in, create additional victims, and then send them back.
This is shamnesty for gimmicks.
Shamnesty.
Peter, thanks.
That's succinctly and properly put.
Thank you.
About seven or eight minutes ago, when I said you get more of what you leave legal and less of what you have illegal, as soon as the word goes out from the American mountaintop that it's going to be easier to get into this country, it's going to be easier to stay, that will simply attract more illegals.
Now, many of those folks don't intend, once they arrive here, all they want to do is get better jobs, have a bunch of money, and then, of course, make as much money as they can, and then, of course, send it immediately right back to the homeland in many, many cases, which is one of the things that should drive you the most crazy about illegal immigration.
Our hearts are supposed to go soft at all these folks coming across who they just want to make a better life for themselves.
They just want to take care of their families, etc.
And those are, I totally get that.
I'm not blind to those motivations.
But so much of that money does not even turn over in the American economy.
It gets Western unioned back to Guadalajara.
It does us no good whatsoever.
The wage earner earns the wage for whatever he's doing, whatever job he's occupying while here illegally.
And then that money, rather than going to build an American household or funnel through the American economy in those three, four, five, six ways in which a dollar turns over, creating jobs for other people, ideally Americans and people, immigrants who are here legally, it just vanishes.
It vanishes.
How many billions of dollars are lost to the American economy because they are earned at workplaces filled not with people who are here legally and who are staying here, but by illegals who send that money directly back across the border or to whatever nation from which they came.
So, and Peter's correct, that you never know when somebody comes in, you know, there's no magical glow that comes off them at the border.
Here's a good one, there's a bad one.
Oh, this one has all kinds of sinister intent.
Oh, this guy just wants to make some money and send it back to his family.
I mean, there's no way to know.
So the only way to be serious about the border is to stop absolutely as much illegal entry into the United States as possible and deport as many illegals that we find as possible.
How many are possible?
That depends on our national will.
Let's go to UVA territory, Charlottesville, Vlad, Mark Davis in for Rush.
How are you, sir?
I'm doing well.
How are you, Mark?
Great.
Nice to have you.
All right.
So I have a couple of points here on the immigration point.
First of all, our government has a lot of money to be spent on a lot of other issues.
And I do feel that immigration, believe me, I don't think that immigration is something to be taken lightly.
But I believe that immigration is something that the government can actually very well benefit on.
First of all, like Using a lot of the money or a lot of the budgets that the government spends on sending illegally immigrants back who are already working in the field and who are doing a lot of the jobs that the Americans don't want to do actually basically will have a snowball effect to the rest of the American public and to the rest of the people who are here legally.
Now, my point is: instead of actually spending the money to actually find those people that are here illegally that are in turn technically helping the American economy, why not actually focus that money on reducing crime and reducing the thoroughly good questions asked by many.
Let me give you an answer or two and see what you think of them.
Because our laws either mean something or they do not.
If they do not, that tears at the American fabric.
There is no more importance, other than defending its borders against attack from terrorists or other nations, the most important thing a country can do is make sure it knows who's in the borders within the borders legally and who is not.
If we want to throw open our borders and say, come one, come all, let's go, take every job you want, go ahead.
All right, if that's the kind of country you want, let's make that kind of country.
And there are those who are actually trying.
But as long as we have actual immigration laws, they should and must be followed just out of a respect for the rule of law.
Now, let's go to a couple of things which I think are fallacies that you've offered me.
One is the notion of jobs that the legal people won't take.
I don't know, before the flood of people from south of our border, who did these things?
Who did these things in the 1940s and the 1950s and the 1960s?
Who did our yard work?
Who tarred our roofs?
Who filled our road crews?
I would love to see somehow by magic if all of a sudden we could get illegal immigration under control.
See if I'm not even talking racially.
I'm not looking to try to create job opportunity merely for my fellow Anglos.
I'd love for some Hispanics who are here legally to have better opportunity at some of these jobs.
It's driven me crazy that the people who are the most vocal about illegal immigration are not the Hispanics who are here legally.
No one should be more incensed at illegal immigration than the legal immigrant Hispanic in America.
That's always made me crazy.
More on that later if we need to.
The other thing is, quote unquote, helping the economy.
I know that the wave of illegal immigrants, that many of them are doing things that the country needs done.
They are doing vital things.
I know that.
I get that.
But we can never allow that to be a defense for having them here illegally.
We must have the default setting in America.
We must have the default setting as follows.
We have things that need to be done.
We have roads that need to be built, yards that need to be tended.
I don't mean to be stereotypical about the jobs that they tend to be, but the root of all stereotype is truth.
The kinds of things that illegal immigrants tend to flood toward.
We must create the best possible opportunity for those jobs to be filled by people who are here legally obeying our laws.
We have to do that.
And the failure to do that has created a drain on our social services, our education system, our health care system.
And that begins to work to a detriment that outweighs whatever benefit the illegal immigrant may fulfill in the job that he occupies.
Appreciate it very, very much, Sarah.
Go, Cavaliers.
Great to hear from Charlottesville.
Mark Davis in for Rush.
More of you in just a moment on the EIB network.
It is the Friday Rush Limbaugh Show.
Mark Davis filling in.
Hope you have a good weekend.
Whatever you have planned.
Let us get back into the caller mix on this open line Friday.
We are in Charlotte, North Carolina.
It's funny.
We were talking about the various conventions.
Tampa is where the Republicans are going to be, and Charlotte is where the Democrats are going to be.
Karen, welcome to the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Mark Davis, how are you?
Thank you, Mark.
How are you?
Fantastic.
Good.
It's to my total chagrin that the Democratic people will be here, trust me.
I just wanted to say you wanted a reason for Michelle Bachman, and what I said was plain and simply, let's see.
We've had men, we've had a black person, now we need a woman.
So that would be the only reason now that I could see.
And boy, what a coup for the American people that are Republican to have a woman after all of the demagoguery that we hate women and we're not for women and blah, blah, blah.
So that would be really good.
But here's the problem.
Here's the problem with that.
And stay with me here and let's see how it works out.
Barack Obama is president to a large degree because a lot of people thought it would be really cool to have a black guy who's president.
Yeah, I know.
And they didn't give it, and they did not give it a molecule of additional thought.
I will be thrilled.
I will be thrilled when we have a black president that I actually voted for or a woman president that I actually voted for.
And that may be this time.
You never can tell.
But it's never a good idea, never, never, never, never, never a good idea to go, hey, let's go with the black guy, or hey, let's go with a Hispanic guy, or hey, let's go with the woman.
I don't care, and I don't want you to care about any of those things.
Conservatism, we're the people who truly do not care about that kind of identity politics.
Michelle Bachman is a wonderful candidate, not because of her plumbing, but because of her courage and her conservatism.
Now, here's the thing: if she is the nominee, as happened with Sarah Palin as John McCain's running mate, I loved her not just because she was a woman and how neat it was to have a woman running mate, maybe a woman vice president from the Republican Party, giving the lie to the notion that only liberals can care about women's issues or care about minority issues.
I will love when that day comes, but it has to be exactly the right person.
And maybe Congresswoman Bachman is that person.
Maybe she is.
But if she is, it will be because of the passions in her heart and the ideas in her head and not simply her femaleness.
That make any sense?
Oh, she's stunned.
I'm sorry.
Her farm may have been dispatched.
Anyway, Karen, I'll make that a rhetorical question.
Yeah, this is extremely important.
Do you see where this got us?
See where it got us?
I mean, I stood there.
I've got to go to both conventions, and I'll be in Tampa and Charlotte next year.
And I was in St. Paul and Denver this past year, St. Paul for the McCain and Palin show.
And what a weird mixed bag that was.
The incredible passion as Sarah Palin had her coming out party there with the Pit Bull hockey mom joke and just that unbelievable moment up there.
And then there was Senator McCain.
I love him.
God bless him for his service to this country.
But oh my, what an underwhelming nominee.
And we all knew it.
We're all just standing there going, hmm.
And it was an unbelievable dichotomy there in terms of the passion.
But the thing that was cool about Sarah Palin was not her femaleness.
That just made it extra neat.
It was extra cool.
It was extra enjoyable.
What made her great was the ideas in her head and the passion in her heart.
That's got to be first.
So when we find the person with the exact right ideas in the head and just the right passions in the heart, if it happens to be someone of color or happens to be a woman, that's just extra great, extra great.
That can never be the locomotive driving the train.
Never.
Because you can see what that got us.
A whole lot of people said, oh, McCain, Obama, whatever, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Let's have a black president.
Yeah, great.
See how that worked out.
So are you kidding me?
I will be, everybody, it's funny.
I don't think this is just a Texas thing, but J.C. Watts, I could throw open on the local show here in Texas.
Who do you want to be president?
Not who do you want the first black Republican president to be?
Just who do you want to be president?
I'd still get 50% response for J.C. Watts, former Congressman from Oklahoma.
And, you know, most admired Supreme Court justice.
Just not most admired black Supreme Court justice.
It would be enormous, enormous love for Clarence Thomas.
I mean, how can that be when all the conservatives are supposed to be such racists?
Man, it has not been about race for a whole long time.
Of course, race is still an issue.
I know that.
I'm not an idiot.
But as far as conservative passions for people we admire, it's about the head and about the heart and about the policies, about the ideas, about the rudder, about the spine.
And we don't give two flips what color you are or what sex you are if you meet those criteria.
Mark Davis in for Rush on the EIB Network.
One of the cool things about Open Line Friday, and there are many cool things about Open Line Friday, is that you folks can come up with pretty well whatever you want, throw it against the wall, and let's see what sticks.
And the other thing is, I enjoy that same freedom.
I mean, it's funny.
My whole career has been sort of an Open Line Friday litany of shows where whatever occurs to me, whatever's going on.
But let me tell you, as we get into the next hour, do some more 2012 talk, some more immigration talk, whatever you want.
There is a teacher in Florida, a former teacher of the year in Florida, who has been suspended and could lose his job after he voiced his objection to gay marriage.
Yeah, he didn't just voice an objection to gay marriage.
Yeah, it was sort of the style and the vigor with which he did it.
So we'll talk about that here in just a moment.
So all of this and more coming up, it's the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Mark Davis filling in from WBAP in Dallas, Fort Worth, 1-800-282-2882.
1-800-282-2882.
Back with you in just a moment after the top of the hour on the EIB Network.
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