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Aug. 19, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 19, 2011, Friday, Hour #3
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All righty, third hour on the Friday.
We are dispatched thus to the weekend right after this, and I hope it's a great one for you wherever you are.
Rush is out next week.
The brigade of fill-in hosts named Mark.
We marshal our resources and come at you full throated and ready next week.
It'll be Mark Stein on Monday.
It'll be Mark Belling on Tuesday and Wednesday.
And I will be back with you on Thursday and Friday from here deep in the heart of Rick Perry's Texas.
You want some hot fresh poll numbers?
Got some.
I'm a huge fan of RealClearPolitics.com, just a great site, RealClearpolitics.com.
They throw down a whole lot of uh op-ed pieces from a wide portion of the political spectrum and and they do poll numbers and give you a sort of a compendium of what a lot of polling organizations are saying and then glom it all together into something called the RCP average.
And that's an interesting exercise because from Rasmussen to Fox News to CNN to McClatchy to USA Today and Gallup, uh there's a whole lot of different um methodologies going on there.
Some people are are only asking about people who are officially announced, uh, which means that they don't include Sarah Palin or Rudy Giuliani.
And is it is it a better poll if you're just including the people who are actually running, or is it a better poll if you throw in everybody because that reveals that both Governor Palin and Mayor Giuliani uh still do pretty darn well.
Uh in fact, in CNN opinion research from about ten days ago, uh Romney in the lead with seventeen, then Perry with fifteen, then uh Palin, Giuliani, and Ron Paul with twelve.
Fox News poll.
Again, this also from about ten days ago.
Romney at twenty one, Perry at thirteen, palin at eight, Bachman and Giuliani at seven.
I mean, this is widely divergent.
But the one that's um the most recent from the folks at Rasmussen, and this is th this will happen, as soon as you announce, you get a lot of attention.
I guess most of it positive attention, if you have if there's been some anticipation.
If there's been a decent body of folks who've been eager about you getting in.
Of course it's funny if a poll is done correctly, and that's random without uh you know cooking the books, it would seem that we'd be immune to that, but I I offer that only by way of explaining that in the Rasmussen poll dated just three excuse me, four days ago, August fifteenth.
Uh Mitt Romney's not in the lead.
He has eighteen percent.
Rick Perry has twenty-nine.
Whoa, hello.
I don't know if that lasts, but we'll see how that listen, I don't know if it lasts numerically, but I have wondered for months whether the Mitt Romney lead in the polls was what I have called empty calories.
I mean, it's there, but what does it really mean?
What does it really do?
And once you start offering up people who are more consistent and reliable conservatives, like Michelle Bachman, like Rick Perry, you might start to see that Romney lead erode because it's been built on name recognition.
Uh admittedly some top drawer campaign skills.
The guy is great in appearances.
He did very well in the Iowa debate the other day.
And listen, if you want to do some 2012 talk, you know who really did well in that Iowa debate the other day was Newt.
And Newt is problematic to many for I mean, I guess pick your reasons.
Uh but I've I just love him.
Always have, always will.
You know, uh and he really brought he brought not just his strengths to the Iowa debate, but he brought some strengths that a lot of people didn't think he had.
Because Newt can be a little bit arcane.
He can be a little bit professorial.
Not that those are terrible things, but they might not be your best friends on a campaign trail.
But when he talked about this super committee, this this strange gaggle of people from the House and Senate who are gonna have the or going to lord over their colleagues with certain um supposed wisdom on debt reduction.
He said that's the dumbest idea to come out of Washington in a long time.
And with that kind of straight main street talk, I mean that's the kind of thing that can expand Newt's appeal.
Does it expand his appeal enough to put him up there in the in the top echelon with your your uh Romney's and your Perrys and your Bachmans?
I don't know.
I don't know.
We will see.
We will see.
All righty.
Um in the last hour, I mentioned the uh case of Jerry Buell, a teacher in Mount Dora, Florida, in the central part of the state.
And uh he didn't like it a whole lot when New York gave legal equality to gay marriage.
And uh spouted about that at length on uh on Facebook fairly vividly.
That school system has now taken action against him.
He has been suspended and could lose his job.
So it's it it is as though there are two things we need to do.
We need to see things through the prism of what we think of his views, but then we need to see if, in general, whether we agree with him or not, if employees in school systems or anywhere else can let fly on controversial issues of the day and be protected from their employers saying, Hey, I don't like that.
We're suspending it.
Let's go to Pittsburgh.
Tony, Mark Davis in for rush, how are you?
Doing well.
Thanks for taking my call.
My pleasure.
Um you mentioned about this uh Facebook case, it uh definitely struck a chord with me.
Mm-hmm.
Um I posted something last a week or so ago, maybe two weeks, on Facebook on my personal Facebook.
And uh it was a criticism of the local elected officials.
Mm-hmm.
And um I was summoned to appear before the city council.
Summoned by whom?
By the mayor.
How how did that what the he called you?
How did that happen?
Um she sent a inner office memo uh to uh to the members of the fire department.
I'm a volunteer firefighter.
Okay, there we go, Thank I have to.
I was gonna say there's missing info there.
You're a firefighter, so the word came that the mayor wanted to see you.
Yes.
And uh it was uh I have the the memo here, in fact.
And uh it was uh supposed to be a a meeting of the fire officers, members of the boards of directors and uh executive officers and and the mayor and a few other officials and city council.
And uh well, I'm not a fire officer.
Yeah, well, I heard what it was going to be about, so I went prepared.
Mm-hmm.
And uh I was one of the first people called uh I guess on their sort of agenda of this meeting.
Mm-hmm.
And uh at first I I couldn't get an answer as to who summoned me to be there.
All right, with in the interest of time and clarity, f follow my lead in the following way.
Because this really is important.
What exactly did you say?
I could read it verbatim.
I have to do it.
Please here.
Please do let's if it's uh I mean Facebook allows a lot more characters than Twitter, so give me a sense.
Give me a sense of the tone.
Uh city politics is ridiculous.
I wouldn't vote to re-elect even one of them.
I wouldn't even vote for any of them if they were running for dog catcher.
Okay.
Things we've probably said about some city where we've lived through our lives.
All right, uh okay, go ahead.
Um after I posted that, uh, one of the councilmen had had uh approached me when I was uh uh on an event with the fire department and he expressed his displeasure, and then he walked away.
So I I posted again explaining what the post was, you know, what the what my rant was, what the purpose was in my uh uh it was about m the this sort of like wasteful spending of money.
Incorrect priorities in my opinion of the spending.
And um and after that I was that's I was summoned to appear.
All right, what wound up what wound up happening?
Need to bottom line it and then we'll talk about the lessons, if any, that we've learned.
Go ahead.
Uh there was a strongly implied threat of my membership in the fire department, although none of my posts had anything to do with the fire department.
But when you're a firefighter, you're a firefighter twenty-four hours a day.
And I think that's okay.
And then now that and with that, let's go to the lessons here and see what has happened.
Have you one of two things is true?
Either A, you've been horribly wrong, you got the right To have the opinion of the leaders of the city in which you live, and how dare they snoop around in that or or threaten you with that.
Either that's true, here's the other one though.
Here's the other one.
Do I if I uh is are we talking city of Pittsburgh or somewhere close by?
Uh uh about thirty miles from Pittsburgh.
Okay, very good.
Um if I live in whatever beautiful little town you occupy, do I need to know that the firefighters are really disgruntled with local government?
Do I need to wonder if my house is on fire, if the guy who's coming off the truck is is just beaten down by the gripes he has with the city government?
Is there a certain wisdom that says, you know, keep that to yourself.
Now one of those two is true, and I quite frankly don't know which one it is.
I bet I know which one you like A rather than B. I I know and and I and listen so let's go with that because that is where my heart tends to lead me, you know, um, is that you have First Amendment rights, you don't give them up when you put on the uh the the uniform of the fire department of the city you live in.
Uh if someone if if if one of the taxpayers in the city where you live were to happen to say, Tony, God bless you for being a firefighter.
But dude, I I I don't need to know how gr this is why we don't like it when public employees strike.
It's like, oh God, this is great.
The cops and the firefighters or air traffic controllers, they're they're not even gonna be able to do their jobs because they're all you know bet out of shape about their labor issues.
Uh what if someone were to come to you and say, God bless you for being a firefighter, but man, I just don't need to know about you know your baggage uh in terms of what you uh you don't like about uh about city government.
I mean, tell your friends, you know, go into a bar and order around a drinks and tell them.
But in the very public yet private world of Facebook, man, that's that ain't helpful.
What would you say to that taxpayer in the city where you live?
Well, I would say first that the uh the post that I had uh wasn't about the fire department, it was about the I was speaking as a taxpayer just like that person.
I understand, but you know what I mean.
And uh at the same time, uh as I explained to the mayor and council at this special meeting, I don't lay down my constitutional rights the day I joined the fire department.
I understand that too.
But I but at the butt that's and and I'm and I'm with you on that.
Uh I'm wondering if we've arrived at something, and there's a long list of these things, that you have a right to do, that you absolutely have a right to do.
But it doesn't mean it's the smartest thing in the world to do.
Absolutely.
Okay, so the the um I'm I'm allowed to say things even if w if whether or not they agree with them, they can be said.
There was nothing uh obscene or vulgar.
Oh no, no, and that's why I asked, and I appreciated your verbatim reading, because there is a difference between the thoroughly mainstream kind of frustration that you offered versus the sort of hopped up stuff that it might have been, so I appreciate you you sharing that.
And and uh the uh the thing about the doll catcher, I think was the most offensive thing probably in the whole post.
And one of the one of the councilmen in particular took uh particular offense to it, and uh he actually that councilman actually came to my shop and uh visited me uh yesterday or day before.
Um I could have spoken with him even longer, but he was called away.
But um he said that uh you know I still kind of offended by this uh this comparison to a dog catcher.
I said, think how the dog catchers must feel like Exactly Exactly.
Say, dude, then they're right.
Be please be offended.
It was it was my goal to offend you, which I consider my right.
Tony Constitution doesn't prevent it doesn't uh protect someone from being offended by something.
No, but but here but here's the tri here comes the tricky thing.
We'll take this into the next segment.
I can't f number one, thank you for for the call.
Thank you for your clarity, thanks for your for standing up for the things you're standing up for, and and and thanks for for the service you offer to the community where you live.
God bless firefighters, Tony, thank you.
All right, so here's here's where we are.
Um do does he, should he have the right to spout about local government on his personal Facebook?
Sure.
Sure.
So far, so good.
It I don't even want to think uh about local officials coming by trying to strong arm this guy or elbow him uh or uh you know pressure him or or threaten him.
That just that doesn't seem right at all.
Um if you're gonna walk down that road, how far does that go?
Because again, haven't we talked about already that the free that free speech and the constitution, all those things we cherish, that does not insulate you from consequences from your employer.
And this guy's employer is the city.
And that which means the taxpayers.
And I don't know.
As to I mean, I've we've talked about this a lot, and I've done, you know, on local shows I've done here in Texas, and a lot of people have told me.
It's like, listen, when when you are a cop, when you are a firefighter, when you are a whatever, of course you're still entitled to reviews, but we don't want to be uh I've had it said about airlines.
When when uh pilots and flight attendants have big union gripes and big employment, it's like I don't want to I I don't want to know about it.
I don't want to think that my that that the flight attendants or the pilots work in my flight uh have their intestines all bound up in a knot because uh they're not thrilled with uh you know the latest uh bargaining agreement.
Like guys, just fly the plane.
Or this particular case, Tony, just fight fires.
I mean, I don't know.
That's uh I I'd this guy I think he has an absolute right to do what he has done.
Uh but but it may not be one of those rights issues.
It may be one of those um consequences issues.
At what point does an employer, any employer, government employee, private sector employee, get to come in and say, hey, uh your your your Facebook stuff is a problem.
You tell me.
You tell me.
Mark Davis in for Rush, 1800-282-2882.
Let's blend this in with some more 2012 talks, more immigration stuff.
Got a lot going on.
Mark Davis Infrarush on the EIB network.
It is open line Friday on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Mark Davis filling in from WBAP Dallas Fort Worth.
Back with you Thursday and Friday of next week as Rush Enjoy some more time off.
Mark Stein with you Monday, Mark Belling, Tuesday and Wednesday.
Let's get back to your calls.
You want to hang out with me in the Twitter universe, about which we've spoken greatly today.
Uh all one word, Mark Davis, M-A-R-K-D-A-V-I-S, if you choose to do so.
Uh back to some of your calls about what you can get away with on Facebook and Twitter and and of and should you be able to insulate yourself from consequences from your employer, but let us also take a look at some of the immigration stories that we've uh examined today.
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano talking about uh a case-by-case review of illegal immigrants that strikes a lot of people as backdoor amnesty.
We're in Santa Barbara, California.
Dale, Mark Davis in for rush.
How are you?
Hi, Mark, I'm fine.
Thank you for taking my call.
I'm not present.
I'd like to process my comments so I don't get labeled by the liberals.
I am a veteran.
My children are of next race, Hispanic and life.
But on the illegal immigration issue, I think that they have just found a way to set president to release or pardon anybody who's been convicted of criminal trespass.
Because that's essentially what this is criminal trespass into this country.
Well, I don't know if I I don't know if it enjoys that exact same status.
I mean, because if it were I mean, the immigration offenses, I mean, I I talk a lot about the illegality of it because it is illegality.
I don't know if I mean words have meaning.
I don't know if legally it occupies the exact same space in in the dictionary as criminally trespassing in someone's yard or in someone's business or something like that.
So I would just be careful with that.
I I believe it is of of the same, it it is of the same intent, being somewhere where you should not be, but keep going.
Exactly.
And the other thing is I think we've just found the way for the uh Obama administration to uh ensure reelection.
He knows he can't get it from anybody else.
So if we give citizenship the illegal, we only have to ask one question to make the determination.
If we make illegal, will you vote for Obama in 2012?
I don't know if even the most ambitious uh uh uh uh pro-illegal activists at DHS or the White House can turn these people into actual voting citizens by next November.
But that doesn't mean you're not onto something.
Uh seeming uh Go ahead, I'm sorry.
But I mean then this this is well, I mean, sadly, and this is the question I asked earlier.
This is what will win you majority support in the Hispanic community.
Not not unanimous, but majority.
It it it is as if it is a touchstone of your sensitivity about Hispanic folks if you are willing to turn the other way as floods of them enter the nation illegally.
What odd logic is that?
Right.
And it's the inequity of the whole system to begin with, because let's face it, when you get legal status, you can immediately vote when you become a citizen.
The rest of us that are born here have to wait eighteen years.
Well, well, if you're well, that's we're not allowing uh uh naturalized people to vote when they're 12.
Uh it's it's yeah, it's it's uh It it's a quandary, and it is a political hotbed in that for some perverse reason, uh a position that says we need to be serious about our borders, we need to be uh cognizant of who's here legally and who's not and act accordingly, that that is viewed as somehow hostile toward uh toward immigrants.
It is not.
It is it is a proper consternation that any citizen should feel uh about illegal immigration.
It is not, it is certainly it is in no way is it about race, it is about behavior.
It is about behavior.
And then that's it.
And yet uh but that's that's um from from the leftward perspective, it's hard to win that argument behaviorally, so you toss toss down the racism card that it must be because we we just don't like Hispanic people.
Nope.
I love people of any color, of any stripe, of any ethnicity, if they are here legally.
It is that simple.
Back in a moment.
And we're in the home stretch, the final half hour, not just of this show, but of the week on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
It's been a great week for Rush.
A lot's been going on, and next week we're just gonna try to keep just in the general greatness sphere of influence with the stable of fill-in hosts named Mark.
I'm Mark Davis from I'm I'm the one down here in WBAP at Dallas Fort Worth in Rick Parrish, Texas.
We'll see how that works out for everybody.
Uh Mark Stein uh will uh join you on Monday, Mark Belling from Up Wisconsin Way.
And isn't that the the the Petri dish for uh for upbeat conservatism with magnificent Governor Scott Walker?
Anyway, Mark Belling will be uh in for Rush Tuesday and Wednesday of next week.
And then I get to come hang out with you, Thursday and Friday.
Holy cow, two straight open line Fridays, life is good.
All right, the show's been good.
Thanks for all the heavy lifting you guys have done.
We've done a lot of immigration and done some 2012 talk, and the very, very interesting case of the Florida teacher, history teacher named Jerry Buell, a veteran American history teacher at Mount Dora High School in Central Florida.
Uh the day that New York um embraced same-sex marriage as a legal equal to heterosexual marriage, he went on a bit of a Facebook rant and then got suspended for it.
And so that has us looking at uh uh at whether his rights have been violated or or what ought to happen.
And it and it's an interesting consistency check because if you say that Jerry needs to mouth that he that that he gets to mouth off on his Facebook without being um and again, th there was n the he didn't uh uh drop any epithets or anything like that.
It was pretty bold commentary, but uh nothing that violated um you know the kind of thing that might get you know blown away or blown off a radio show or something.
Um do you get to do that?
And my general answer is yes, but I also believe that employers have a right, since they let's say that you have a company and you have a you know fairly visible employee or something like that, and uh and and he's off, you know, uh uh tweeting and Facebook and things uh that reflect uh back on you in a way that you don't like.
Are you without power?
Do you have no consequence there?
So I think the the interesting and tricky thing here is I don't know if this really is a a rights issue.
I think it's just a way we want people to act.
I I want this teacher to be able to mouth off about political issues.
And I want his employer to, if if they don't like it, say, Jerry, could could you tone it down a little bit?
I mean, we you're you're a totally entitled to your view, but uh we just don't need the mail, you know, quite frankly, and in that at which point he can then say, well, okay, all right, all right.
Or not.
I mean, I'd like it to be solved between people because um uh the the again, the First Amendment does does not insulate you from consequences.
It insulates you from jail.
Nobody's talking about jailing or or you know, or fining Mr. Buell for for his views.
Uh and and again, the the acid test here is would you be would you rush to the defense of an im of a teacher or firefighter, we just said the guy from around Pittsburgh Way um uh who had mouthed off on some rant that you really don't like if they crack down on him, uh, would you be as defensive?
Uh we are in Waco, Susan Mark Davis in for Rush.
How are you?
Hello.
Hi.
Hi.
I believe that the employer and the employee have a contract.
Just a job.
It's not your life.
So the employer only has certain rights to judge.
Let's use the term wisely here.
They are are truly judging a Facebook uh rant, as it as it were, but his opinions.
And that's not their right.
All right, let me give you an extra.
Pause do pause for a second, I want to give you a test case because that that sounds exactly like logic I would use.
I got it really, really does.
So let's make it a uh and I don't know if it's different if it's a football player.
Who tweets one day, and let's say this a few years ago, who tweets um uh uh Bush is Hitler, okay?
And his employer that in Texas, let's say it's a Dallas Cowboy, and uh and Jerry Jones fires him.
Is that wrong?
Hey, it's just his opinion.
I think that if an unless that opinion affects his job performance, that the employer does not have a right to do that.
All right, does it does it does it affect does it affect a wide receiver or a running back's performance if he tweets Bush is Hitler in you know 2006?
Yeah, because in essence the Dallas Cowboys are his employer and they expect a certain performance out of him.
And he gets paid for that.
Now, if there's a lot of people, but but wow, are we contradicting ourselves?
A tad, Susan?
Because I I agree with you because I think that that you were we're talking about is the player's image and the and the cowboys or any NFL team, they're not helped out here b by the by a player presenting an image that might cause them grief.
All right.
Agree or disagree, teachers or fire fi the uh or or uh let's just stay with the teacher.
Um I mean, I happen to share his view about gay marriage, but that's not really what we're talking about.
Whether we agree with Jerry or disagree with him, we're talking about whether the school system can come to him and say, uh guy that that's that's a headache we don't need.
Have you spouting off about gay marriage even on your personal Facebook?
How is that different than the football player?
Well, no, and I'm saying that they don't have a right to fire the football player for for an opinion.
They are trying to control his opinions.
Now if he has something in his contract that says you have a certain image to portray, and this is it.
This is what the cowboys say.
And that's what's problematic about the football player is they are such public figures, there is an image issue there.
Uh a teacher has an image issue, but it's a different kind of of thing.
When when I leave my job at five o'clock, no one's going to look at me except to say uh when I speak is super.
Alright, then let's let's make apples and apples.
Then let's make let's make apples and apples.
Let's make it another teacher in another part of the country, and let's not make it something as incendiary as as Bush is Hitler.
Let's say uh I k the uh a teacher tweets I consider the uh American troops in Iraq to be an invasion force, to be a hostile invasion force.
All right.
That teacher tweets that.
And the school board uh happens to, you know, uh uh view that as unpatriotic or or just un unseemly and suspend the teacher, right or wrong.
Wrong.
Again, the school board only has a contract for his job.
And if he didn't say that on the job, it's none of their business.
I gotcha.
Well, you've you've passed the consistency test and uh and thank you, Susan, thank you very much.
I I tend I I I do agree with her.
I mean uh emp I really do, but God the can't you see the the line that has to be drawn somewhere.
Surely there is something that a teacher and and again it's it's weird because you have degrees of public figuress.
Uh yes, the language of you know big time Hollywood people, well, of course they don't really have employer, uh athletes and such.
Uh I absolutely believe a team that can suspend any athlete any time for stuff they say that attracts negative attention.
Or that the owner doesn't like because he's the owner of the team.
You know?
Uh the so anyway, but uh teachers are not public figures to the extent that you know NFL players are, but they they they have an image and they are a fixture and are you know kind of iconic in a community and deserve to be because teachers are heroes to me.
Um the good ones.
Uh so is there nothing I mean, I mean, short of of epithets or you know, drop in N bombs or what I mean of of course, of course, of course, of course, that's the kind of unseemly behavior that can get you bounced from anywhere, and that's fine.
But um if it's just a view that is so sharp and so controversial, again, we may agree with it, we may disagree with it.
Is it our overall view?
Ah, that's that's the employee's opinion, but out.
That no employer, a government employer or a private sector employer should be able to ride herd over the opinions of emplo of employees as long as they are in their own personal Facebook and Twitter universes.
That sounds logical to me.
That seems like the way it ought to be.
But oh boy.
Can't we make a little list of things that uh that that various folks could say and go uh uh uh things that you would think they should be fired for.
Their opinion.
Hmm.
Hmm.
This is a delicious topic.
Thanks for hanging in there with me on it.
All right, let's uh let's take some calls on these and various other things in our next segment.
I'm gonna give you a little bit of a lightning round of how of sort of this week, up and down and winners and losers and such on the 2012 feel.
Let's do that next and mix in a few calls in our remaining couple of segments.
Mark Davis filling in for Rush on the EIB network.
It is the Friday Rush Limbaugh show, and that is open line Friday, back to those open lines here in a second.
Let's take a quick walk through the various candidates and how their week went on the way to Tampa in the Republican convention next year.
And I have to tell you, there's just there's a little image.
If I close my eyes, I think about it, because it is in his state of Florida, and whether it's you know, Bachman, Romney, Perry, Gingrich Kane, Paul Huntsman, uh whatever.
Uh can't you just close your eyes and see and feel the moment uh uh as as Marco Rubio delivers his uh acceptance speech as the nominee for vice president.
Uh I wouldn't be too broke up if Marco Rubio were be accept accepting the speech, uh delivering the acceptance speech as president as nominee for president, uh, but he shows no signs really of getting in.
One of the things that could be fun to take uh a look at next week, and if if uh if Brother Stein or Brother Belling haven't talked about it a lot by Thursday, when you and I are together again, um are there establishment types uh looking to get Paul Ryan into this race, and that's not a bad thing.
I'm an enormous fan of Paul Ryan, and if he did choose to run, I think that'd be that'd be great.
Uh but are there folks who feel that he might be a little more establishment friendly?
And the reason they're getting Paul Ryan to run, they want him to run, is because they're scared to death of Rick Perry.
And with that we begin our little stroll through the candidates' weeks.
Uh I I guess, you know, I don't know if Governor Perry wishes he could have that Ben Bernanke almost treasonous comment back.
I don't know.
The question you have to ask is, does it hurt you among the people who are trying to who are probably going to vote for you?
And that answer is no.
You know, it really, really doesn't.
And and this is with all kinds of people running and saying all kinds of things, this whole thing's gonna be forgotten in a couple of weeks.
And and I just love the people who are wagging fingers at that.
You know, Joe Biden can call Tea Party people terrorists, but oh let Rick Perry uh, you know, drop a uh uh a tea bomb on Ben Bernanke.
And it wasn't even literally treasonous.
Uh is is is uh is hyperbole uh improper now.
I mean, there are people who actually uh who literally believe that conservatives are are evil and racist and and misogynist and uh and all of these things.
They they actually believe it.
But uh, you know, let a conservative get colorful in terms of uh of a reference about somebody um in uh in in current power and all of a sudden it becomes uh uh a message of hate.
Just please, can we all just relax, please?
Can we all just relax?
Well, nobody in the Republican field is relaxed right now because Rick Perry's a big deal and he's going to be a big deal.
You can either like that or not like that.
I like it a lot.
Uh and if there is anybody who's probably threatened by that, uh and I don't mean literally where she's cowering in the corner because that's not the kind of woman she is, but if there's anybody uh who's fighting for that uh that that Tea Party constituency, uh it's Michelle Bachman.
And here's the thing I've got to see.
Uh Governor Perry has a decade-long uh resume in a in a in an Obama resistant state here in Texas.
Executive experience in a governor's job.
Uh America tends to like that.
Michelle Bachman is a wonderful woman.
She is so cool, and I just love her, and maybe she's got running mate written all over her when all is said and done.
I don't know.
Perry Bachman.
How do you like that?
I would I'd love to have that sticker on my car.
But there's a lot I need to see from her in terms of campaign, her skill set on the campaign trail, because it's going to be a tall order.
It's going to be a bit of a tall order there.
Uh keeping up with the kind of uh of skill set that Governor Perry brings.
Uh nobody has the skill set that Mitt Romney has.
He's smooth, he's great in all settings.
The problem is the content of what he says.
He's he's willing to drink the Kool-Aid of Man-made global warming.
Uh it's just uh Romney care continues to be problematic.
Uh is this guy conservative enough to be the nominee?
I hope not.
I hope not, but we'll just have to see.
Newt can a good performance in the debate.
He certainly didn't do squat any actual aims results.
Is I mean, Newt's campaign, depending on like what day it is, either seems to be over or have the potential for really catching fire for the kind of uh uh of cerebral and uh uh uh uh passion that he can bring to the issues better than almost anybody else does.
So I want Newt to be to be around for a while.
Herman Kane, very nice man, not going to be the nominee.
Ron Paul, don't get me started, we don't have time.
Um I know.
I don't and by that I mean uh he is he is so right on the Constitution and so right on his libertarian views about the size and scope of government, and so totally crazy uncle wrong on America as a force for good around the world.
Uh just I'm just sorry.
I wish him a magnificent uh richness in private life, which will happen in 2013.
Because the sad thing is uh that he has uh decided to retire from Congress for this presidential bid, so we in Texas and everybody in America will be uh we will miss his voice on on size and scope of government and on fidelity to the Constitution as he returns to private life in uh January of 2013.
John Huntsman, I I you know what's funny?
I know I got a break here.
Here's the funny thing.
Uh Ron Paul holds views, a couple of views that that drive me insane, but I'm glad he's in the race.
There's a reason for him to be in the race.
Mitt Romney's dead wrong on a few issues, but there's a reason for him to be in the race.
Somebody explain to me why is John Huntsman even running.
What what what does he bring to the table that is not brought to the table better by five other people whom you could name who are either running or who could.
And here's a decent man, a man of great substance, a man of great qualities.
I don't get it.
And in the Iowa debate, it drove me crazy.
I felt like my time was simply being summarily wasted by the mere existence of John Huntsman on that debate stage.
Now, if some see he does something where he's got 10% in the polls in a couple of weeks, I'll change my tune about that.
But that won't be happening.
All righty, here's something that will be happening.
This commercial break.
Mark Davis in for Rush on the EIB Network, then some final words.
Man, how time can fly.
They say it flies when you're having a good time.
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