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Aug. 25, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 25, 2011, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
A very pleasant Thursday to everybody during Rush is out week.
And in this great land of opportunity, if your name is Mark, you can be a substitute host.
The evidence of that is plentiful.
Oh, I guess something else is required of you.
Like you, I have thoroughly enjoyed Mark Stein on Monday and Brother Belling up Wisconsin way.
He had a great conversation yesterday with one of the big heroes, Governor Scott Walker.
And as I was listening to that, you know, we don't need to do presidential buzz every day, all day, but here sitting here in Texas, which if we've never met, I'm Mark Davis from WBAP, Dallas-Fort Worth, proud Limbaugh affiliate for Low these 17, 18 years.
And our own governor is doing some things.
In fact, I had the opportunity on my own show, which I've just completed, to chat with Bill Crystal at the Weekly Standard.
And he had some things to say about the Perry candidacy and the establishment.
Bill was sort of wearing a little black armband today because his candidate, Paul Ryan, not running.
And I guess the default setting, if your candidate is not going to run, is you begin to then close your eyes and wistfully dream of running mate prospects for that candidate.
I confess to the same phenomenon in that if there is anybody, I mean, if there is anybody, let me stipulate, I'm quite the fan of our governor, quite the fan of Rick Perry.
I'd be more than pleased if he were the nominee.
But if there is anybody that has just knocked me out of my chair the last four, five, six times I've seen him, heard him do anything, whether it's speak on the Senate floor, speak at some other engagement, or save Nancy Reagan from a broken hip, that's Marco Rubio.
And the imagery of the Republican convention, which is the last week of August, I mean, we're coming up on, pretty soon, we'll be able to say less than a year until we stand in a room in Tampa and look at the guy or gal, you never know, probably guy.
Love you, Michelle, but we'll talk about that.
That will be our designated warrior to go in and return Barack Obama to private life.
And it's going to be here before you know it, just before you know it.
And I don't know who the nominee will be, but I would be if it appears that Rubio is not running, nothing would please me more than to have our nominee clasped.
Do they still do the hand clasp thing, or is that very 1970s?
Is that, I don't know, is that very Nixon Agnew with the join the hands thing?
And I, I, I don't, I don't know.
But to have Rubio as the running mate, man, how do you beat that?
How in the world do you beat that?
You know, Ryan as a running mate would be, here's what's weird.
You know what?
I love Ryan and I love Rubio.
And so the parlor game begins.
Just want to just join me now in this stream of consciousness.
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This goes to the difference between what your number one guy and your number two guy are all about.
Obviously, big differences between the president and the vice president.
Duh.
In fact, and John McCain used to quote it.
I don't know who coined it.
But the old adage about the vice presidency is that the vice president has two jobs, attend the funerals of foreign dignitaries and inquire daily as to the health of the president.
Some vice presidents transcend that and really work to make America a greater and better place.
And we just had a vice president who did that, and it's Dick Cheney.
And his book is about to come out, and he's doing a series of interviews.
And I've got some information about what he has been saying and what I assume will continue to say.
And it just makes me love Vice President Cheney even more.
But to undigress and return back to where I was a moment ago, Ryan and Rubio, I think that was the Bill Crystal dream ticket, was Ryan Rubio.
Well, I'll take anybody, well, not anybody, but I mean, I guess Romney Rubio would make me feel a little better about Romney being the nominee if that's what we wind up doing.
But if I love Ryan and I love Rubio, why do I want Rubio to be the running mate so much more?
I think it's because if Ryan is going to run, if he were going to run, I'd want it to be as president.
He's the big budgetary brain.
He's the guy who stood toe-to-toe with President Obama and has won that national debate.
America seems to be much more in the mood to do what Paul Ryan wants to do budgetarily than what Barack Obama wants to do budgetarily.
That is presidential stuff.
As vice president, huh?
That's good.
I mean, I'd love to have somebody with a big budget brain who's very smart.
And, you know, I'd be pleased.
I mean, and Paul Ryan would be a fine, fine, fine, fine, fine running mate for anybody.
But when you think about Rubio running in the number two slot, Perry Rubio.
Ooh, I think I just gave myself some tingles.
There's something about Senator Rubio in his seven scant months.
You can't fake this.
And I offer as evidence Barack Obama, who will spin a lovely speech if the prompter's working, turn a lovely phrase written by somebody, and make a point with relative rhetorical skill.
But if you get a chance to see all 20-some minutes of Marco Rubio at the Reagan Library a couple of nights ago, you will see what it means to be real.
You will see what it means to be authentic.
You will see what it means to be, a term I use a lot, comfortable in your own skin.
Marco Rubio extemporaneously is more inspiring than Barack Obama after 12 filtered speech writers and the best teleprompter America can make.
And that's not just because I politically agree with Rubio and don't agree.
Okay, honesty check, honesty check.
Those of you who are Democrats, and we know you're out there, you voted for Obama once.
You'll probably vote for him again.
But can't you tell that he is just as phony and contrived as any of your candidates have been?
Think about John F. Kennedy.
Think about FDR.
Think about, I don't know, man, modern Democrats, some folks who I disagree with about a whole lot of things.
I mean, I'll tell you what.
Let's see.
Let's get creative here.
From people who are sort of moderate, like Evan Bayh, who I actually kind of like, but even, you know, Dick Gephardt, you know, Howard Dean, who is just nutty.
There was a genuineness.
I mean, I disagreed with him about everything, but I didn't feel like I was being snowed or I mean, it's fun because the thing about President Obama that is some of the baggage that he brings, some of it are his actual policies, of course, but there is a condescension and a lack of genuineness to invent a word there, I guess.
There's a contrivance to him, a bubble that seems to prevent anything resembling a real personality from getting out.
As a case in point, Bill Clinton, they talked about Bill Clinton walking into a room and the political skills and connecting and eye to eye and that kind of retail political skill.
Bill Clinton had it.
Ronald Reagan had it.
Irrespective of ideology, just that ability to connect.
Barack Obama has none of that.
He is an android.
And he is wooden and manufactured and flavorless.
So when I think of Rubio as our Republican running mate, I can just see that if that ticket wins, let's say it's Perry Rubio.
Can you imagine the double thrill?
Can you imagine the compound pride and good feeling that we will have for two things?
Number one, whether it's Rick Perry or some other deserving, consistent, upbeat, unapologetic, energetic conservative, we will have the kind of president we finally want.
And please, and God bless Governor Romney for being a good guy and for the issues on which he is right.
There just aren't enough of them.
That's what I said about McCain.
God bless Senator McCain for his service to our country, for what he endured at the hands of the Vietnamese, North Vietnamese, and for the issues on which he is right.
There just aren't enough of them.
So we will have a double joy if it's Perry Rubio or someone else Rubio that is the winning ticket.
If the number one name on the ticket, the president that we inaugurate on January 20th, 2013, is a solid, upbeat, unapologetic, down-the-line conservative, that will be my head may explode with joy.
Oh, but we're not done.
Because waiting in the wings to maybe be the 46th president of the United States in 2020.
Rubio 2020.
There's a clear vision.
Boom, boom.
I just wrote a campaign spot.
So, and I think that in these few moments of rambling, though, and I will ramble, I think I've touched on why everybody loves 2012 talk so much.
Why everybody loves why four years ago we were loving 2008 talk so much, because then it was wide open for the Republicans and wide open for the Democrats.
Well, wide open, you know, Obama versus Hillary.
The possibilities were endless.
Who's going to be in the news every day?
Who's Rush going to be talking about in the years 2014 and 2015, just to pick a couple of years?
Did you see what President did today?
Please God, if it's Obama filling in those blanks, Russ will have plenty of material and those of us blessed to fill in.
But oh my heavens.
Oh my heavens.
And if anybody ever says to Rush or to me or anybody who does this for a living, yeah, you talk show folks.
You probably want a second Obama term, so you'll have more material.
Yeah, stop saying that right now, okay?
Please, we will always have material.
Do you remember what was said about the Rush Limbaugh show?
1988 kicks off nationally and changes the face of our industry forever, right?
And it's 1988.
And you get Bush 41.
And then Bill Clinton wins in 92.
And people go, well, you know, what will Rush do with that?
The tide of America seems to be turning against Rush.
The Limbaugh Show, you know, we're going to have Bill Clinton's president now.
So all that conservative talk stuff.
Yeah, that's not long for this world.
Yeah, it didn't exactly work out that way.
But then, but then, Bill Clinton serves his two terms, and then George W. Bush is elected in 2000.
And people said, well, what will Rush do now?
He doesn't have Bill Clinton to beat around anymore.
You know, with an actual Republican president, where will Rush get material?
Silly, silly people.
Any of us who have done this for a living will always tell you, and you'll learn yourself if you just listen and pay attention to any kind of show, conservative show, liberal show.
If there's any host worth a flip, he's always going to have material, whether the president is of his party or not.
Because even though the president may be of his party, there are other people.
For the conservative talk show host in a Republican presidency, I mean, let's say we get the whole enchilada, Republican president, Republican Senate to join the Republican House we so blissfully got in 2010.
Do you really think that we won't have material?
Nancy Pelosi will still breathe the air.
Michael Moore will still bleat about things in public.
There will still be liberals.
They will be hopefully cowed into some type of submission, but I doubt it.
And therein will lie the material for every conservative show.
And if the pendulum somehow swings back and it's one, look at when we had one party rule and it was Democrats.
Those two years of Democrat White House, Democrat Senate, Democrat House.
Was Ed Schultz suddenly mute?
Oh, God, how one might dream.
But, you know, was Rachel unable to complete a sentence?
They still had material.
So anyway, this is part of why it captures our fancy so much.
I always wonder, in fact, I know I got a break here.
I have always wondered, does who wins the presidency really change your life that much?
When I was growing up, this is a thing in my youth.
When I was growing up, first president I ever voted for was President Ford in 1976.
Well, that one didn't work out so well.
Carter won.
And I thought, okay, is my life going to change really that much?
And it really kind of did.
The economy went into the toilet.
America is weaker militarily, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
And I felt the Reagan presidency actually palpably improve my life in my young adulthood.
So I came to learn that, yeah, maybe not in earth-shattering ways.
If you've got job A, making income B, and living in neighborhood C, none of those things may change no matter who the president is.
But I'll tell you, these people have shown me that it really matters.
If you, I mean, it really matters.
Jimmy Carter on his worst day was not trying to change the fabric of what America was into some bizarre European neo-socialist nightmare.
You bet elections matter.
And that's why we love talking about them.
So why don't we do that and various other things?
I've got all kinds of other stories.
Bo's giving me some spectacular stories that he's found.
I've got stuff that I've found.
So let's put them all together and make a magical show.
Filling in for Rush, I'm Mark Davis on the EIB Network.
It is the Thursday Rush Limbaugh Show.
Mark Davis filling in down here in Texas.
Let's head out to Orange County, California.
Dawn has a premise that I've always debated with people, and I'm glad to have her on to describe it.
Hi, Dawn.
Mark Davis in for Rush.
How are you?
Hi, Mark.
I'm just great.
Thanks.
One thing I'd like us to do this round of presidential elections or any elections, I'm from California, and I remember when the Bushes were so moderate Republicans.
And to me, moderate Republicans are just actually conservative Democrats.
And we've proven this time and time again, and we keep letting the media, who hates conservatives, everybody, they hate you.
They hate you, hate you, hate you.
So what they do is they start pushing, well, you know, so-and-so couldn't win.
They really need to put such-and-such in, like Schwarzenegger.
And we buy into that.
And we end up with when we finally got a conservative Congress, what did we have?
A bunch of actually, our so-called Republicans were just moderate Democrats.
All right, Dawn?
Whose fault is what you just described is very real?
Whose fault is it?
Well, to me, it's the absolute abject hypocrisy of so-called conservatives.
It's our fault.
Okay, meaning well, okay, well, I'm going somewhere.
I'll explain why.
And this came to a forefront with very rather influential conservatives right when Schwarzenegger was going up against McClintock.
Right.
And I was with a big group, and we were actually at a big fancy function that had nothing to do with politics.
And they said, so who are you voting for?
And I said, there's only one person to vote for.
It's McClintock.
And I get the same old that we get time and time again.
Well, he can't win.
Yes, he's the better candidate, but he can't win.
And I said, you know, I keep hearing this.
Oh, McCain can win over, boy, you know, anybody.
He's going to win.
Well, there will be the occasional debate.
And even in 2020, I mean, I'll be, it depends on whether you're talking about winning the nomination or winning the general election.
And that's why you often hear people talk.
No, I understand.
But you often hear people say, find the most conservative candidate that can win.
The most conservative candidate that can win.
Where I was going here with the who's to blame for the phenomenon you described, because the phenomenon is very real.
The answer is, it's our fault.
The media are going to say what they're going to say.
They told us, you'll recall a few weeks ago, oh, this John Huntsman, he is the cat's pajamas.
He is great.
He's going to change the flavor of this.
He's going to be so reasonable, so rational, so moderate.
He'll appeal to so many people.
This John Huntsman, that's going to be a big deal.
What have you heard?
Crickets and tumbleweed.
No one gives a flip about John Huntsman.
That's the people and the marketplace making an actual decision.
So when the media offer up the mealy-mouthed centrist squishes that they want us to like, it's our job not to pay attention.
And if we don't pay attention, that media proclivity won't matter.
But we do need to give the alternate.
Herman Cain, when he came out, amazing.
He's got everything that would appeal to everyone.
But I have not read one article about him in a so-called conservative newspaper that obviously isn't anymore in our area.
I mean, I'll tell you, just to be fair here, but you've seen a lot about Perry.
Winning the presidency is about more than just being a really good guy with really good ideas.
I know 15 guys who really have good ideas and strong hearts and strong spines.
You've got to have money, fundraising prowess, a ground operation, some experience at this game.
I love Herman Cain.
He's not going to be the nominee.
I love him.
He's not going to be the nominee.
And there are reasons for that.
Tell you about him next.
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Back to your calls in a moment.
Let us add a little rejoinder here to our conversation with Dawn out there in Orange County.
She offered up a lament that many of you may offer, and I'm going to help you.
Why don't we hear more about dot, dot, dot, fill in the blank, candidate you love that can't seem to get a whole lot of attention.
Stop thinking that way.
Just cut it.
It is not the conservative punditry's job to heap attention onto candidates you like, every candidate you like.
It is not the job of magazines or TV shows to devote attention to your pet candidate or mine.
It is the candidate's job to generate sufficient interest extemporaneously that will attract the kind of attention you want.
It's what's the cart and what's the horse.
And there are examples of how this happened.
Herman Kane, for example, was humming along there, largely invisible, and then did very, very nicely in the South Carolina debate.
And his poll numbers had a nice little jump from like, you know, two to like eight or nine in some places.
Now, that's him showing me something.
I always say to this, and I want you to say to candidates, show me something.
Show me something.
Herman Kane showed us something.
And having showed us something, I think he's shown us about what he's going to show us.
Because the other very hard question is, what reason is there for a candidate to go up from here?
Herman Kane enjoys right now a kind of a 4, 5, 6, 7% level in most polls.
You tell me how he goes to 20.
I've seen him in debates.
He was really, really good in Ames, Iowa.
And he stayed about the same.
Now, if after Ames, Iowa, he goes from 6 to 15, it's like, wow, he showed me something.
And it's weird because it's the marketplace.
And by show me something, I don't mean out of your performance.
Herman Kane's going to be good in every debate he's in.
He's going to be fine.
He's going to do wonderfully.
But how many people are going to go, whoa, I need that guy to be president?
That's what matters.
That's what matters.
Now, who enjoyed some of that marketplace success?
Michelle Bachman.
Michelle Bachman's humming along.
The word comes out that she might run for president.
I remember what my first reaction was.
That's really nice.
I remember thinking she's neat.
I love her.
Been around her a couple of times.
She's a strong, consistent, upbeat, unapologetic conservative.
It'll be really nice to have her in the race, which sounds kind of condescending.
And I don't mean it to be because I do love her.
But I thought, okay, we'll see how this works out.
Well, guess how it worked out?
People went nuts about her.
She's a top-tier candidate.
There are people talking about this being a three-person race.
Romney Perry Bachman.
I don't know about that.
We'll see.
But at the moment, that's your Buzz List triumvirate.
And everybody else is kind of just lollygagging around back there in 4, 5, 6, 7, 8% land.
Show me something.
Herman Kane showed us a little something after South Carolina.
Michelle Bachman really showed us something from the middle and end of June on.
And what that means is they put something out there on the table that made people react.
Now, speaking of the cart and the horse, it's like you got to have exposure to get attention so that you can get fundraising, but you got to have fundraising so that you can get attention.
It's a very thankless, brutal continuum there, but your fundraising is like an applause meter.
If you're doing really nicely in debates and you get some nice appearances on Fox News and you can get a room full of 500 people at some convention to have you do well in a straw poll, that's wonderful.
But the applause meter that really matters is people writing checks to you.
That's it.
If you don't have that, you will not succeed.
Ultimately, you have to have people want you to be president, not in a fist-pumping, you go, boy, kind of way, but in a let me get my checkbook out and give this guy my money kind of way.
Universal truth of politics.
That's the applause meter that matters.
So if you have enough appeal that you get money, then you have money you can spend on ads to garner more appeal.
Get it?
That's how it works.
So if you're a huge fan of Herman Cain, or I mean, don't even get me started on Ron Paul and have Bo goading me as he did Mark Belling yesterday that gets to offer up hot sports opinions about Ron Paul for the record, if you're wondering, because I am here in Texas and he's a Texas guy.
Like I think most mainstream conservatives, if Ron Paul is talking about the Constitution, fidelity of the Constitution, even accountability of the Fed, that's fine too.
Libertarian limits on the size and scope of government, Ron Paul is a hero to me.
But when he opens his mouth about national security, it makes me insane.
The level of foolhardiness and rank naivete about the evils we face in this world.
So that's it.
It is the total two-sided coin of Congressman Paul.
But guess what?
He ain't going to be the nominee either.
But I will tell you this, he gets some pretty – the narrative that I'm weaving here for you is if you're asking how much attention should a candidate get, don't ever gauge it by how much you like him.
Romney drives me nuts.
I do not want him to be the nominee, but I understand why he's in every story because he's up till apparently now the frontrunner.
Frontrunners, your top two or three people are going to get the lion's share of attention.
Romney, Bachman, Perry now.
In the new Gallup poll, Perry has a 12-point lead on Romney.
Can that last?
So that's what happens.
You get attention by getting attention.
If that sounds weird, here's what I mean.
If your candidacy starts to attract attention from people in terms of fundraising and poll numbers, then you'll get attention in the form of articles written about you and news stories done about you.
It has to come in that order.
You cannot sit around and walk around and say, well, my, my goodness, why aren't we seeing 5,000 more articles about Rick Santorum, whom I love?
One of the mysteries of this life is how the Santorum thing has not caught more traction.
All we do is sit around as conservatives and say, well, what we need is somebody with some actual conservative credentials, some street cred, some track record, some demeanor, some fight in him.
That is Rick Santorum, Rick Santorum, and Rick Santorum.
And yet he hears crickets.
What's up with that?
Now, he had a respectable fourth in the Ames Iowa straw poll.
Maybe that bodes well for his future.
I hope it does.
Because when we get down to three or four candidates finally left standing, I'm obviously thrilled that Governor Perry is one of them.
If Michelle can keep it together, that's great.
Love her.
Romney, I guess, is going to be one of them.
And I'd love for one of them to be Santorum.
That's before we even get anybody else in here, if you'll get a Rubio or a Christie, or who knows what we might get.
Or obviously, if it's a big, big, big name like a Palin or maybe even a Giuliani.
You know, Rudy still does pretty well in polls, even though he's not running.
In a recent gallup, he got nine.
In a CNN opinion research from two weeks ago, he got 12.
I know we can talk about Rudy all day.
You know what my short speech on Rudy is?
Difference between Rudy and McCain.
Both of them have some views that are more liberal than mine.
But on the things that Rudy's, on the issues on which Rudy is more liberal than I am, I don't believe they are things that he would bring into the presidency and force down my throat.
I don't think that President Rudy Giuliani is going to come get my gun, even though he's a little more friendly to gun control in a big city that he might be mayor of.
And on abortion, on the big A, and I believe this with all my heart because I asked him about it and he answered me straight to my face.
Rudy Giuliani is what is he's not Gloria Steinem, but he is less pro-life than I am.
In fact, he's pro-choice.
All right, let's just try there.
Boom, boom.
Wow, there I said it.
Bulletin, bulletin, bulletin.
Rudy Giuliani is pro-choice.
All right.
Now, I believe President Rudy Giuliani would nominate strict constructionist justices to the Supreme Court and overturn Roe versus Wade.
What?
How can that be?
Because Rudy Giuliani recognizes, as all of us should, that the Constitution requires Roe v. Wade to be overturned, so that what?
So that what?
So that these issues are left to the states and that states wishing permissive abortion laws may have them, and states wishing to curtail it, ban it outright, may do so.
That's what honors the Constitution.
And Giuliani knows the Constitution.
So in a state in which he lived, he might fight for somewhat more permissive abortion laws than, say, I would.
But he recognizes, as I do, that those are the battles for the 50 state capitals and not something to happen by judicial fiat from an activist court that says that invents out of whole cloth a federal right to terminate a pregnancy.
So the things on which John McCain was too liberal for me, ironically enough, interrogations and climate change and who knows what else.
Those are things that where he takes those to the White House and has policies that are bad.
That's the difference.
That's the difference.
Make sense?
All right.
Let me get another break in.
We'll put actual people on the radio.
On the Rush Limbaugh Show, Mark Davis filling in.
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It's the EIB Network.
It is the Thursday Rush Limbaugh Show.
Mark Davis filling in from 107 degree Texas.
But you know, at least we don't have a hurricane bearing down on us.
So to all of our rush listeners out there in the Carolinas and North, where Irene may be headed, batting down the hatches, kids, and we're thinking of you.
And of course, how wild was the wacky earthquake the other day?
Cracks in the Washington Monument, little things coming off the top of the National Cathedral in D.C. and unbelievable.
And of course, we've all by now all heard for the 5,000th time that the Obama White House seismologists have determined what the explanation is for this seismic activity.
Of course, it's a little something, a little subterranean thing called Bush's fault.
Speaking of President Bush, while we have him front of mind, there's something that you know what?
We may talk about this next hour or maybe tomorrow.
We've got today and tomorrow together, and I'm thrilled about this.
You realize the 9-11, 10th anniversary is coming, right?
That is going to be very weird.
First of all, you have all the emotion and the poignancy of the 9-11 10th anniversary, but you stick it on a Sunday, which kind of buries it in a way.
I was up in New York for the fifth anniversary because it was whatever weekday it was.
Did my show back here to Texas in a hotel overlooking ground zero?
My gosh, it was unbelievable.
They think they've got a radio row set up.
When are they going to do it?
Friday?
Hey, coming up in two days.
It's the 9-11 anniversary.
That doesn't work.
Monday the day after?
Boy, wasn't that something?
So it's sort of going to get swallowed up in the inattentiveness of a Sunday.
But all the morning shows, Fox News Sunday and Meet the Press, Face the Nation, they'll all have enormous attention paid to it.
And then those of us who are inclined to do so will go to church, which will have, I think, an added significance.
And you know what else it is?
It's the first Sunday of the NFL season.
My Dallas Cowboys.
WMAL listeners will say, hey, talk show boy.
Did you grow up here?
Did you used to bleed burgundy and gold?
Hey, you got to go where the bread is buttered, kids.
Okay, get off my back.
Cowboys at America's team, the Cowboys, at the New York Jets on the evening of the anniversary of 9-11.
Good grief.
What a surreal day that's going to be in so many ways.
I am grateful at least for one thing.
Some of us will actually see those planes fly into those buildings.
Again, something I believe we should see several times a day on a continuing loop if there's a channel willing to do that to remind us of why we're at war and whom we are at war against.
Now, that's a long-winded way of leading up to a plug for something.
National Geographic Channel, a wonderful channel, has really the only substantive interview of President Bush.
And this is going to be at 10 o'clock Eastern, 9 Central, this coming Sunday, August 28th.
It's called George W. Bush the 9-11 interview or something like that.
10 o'clock Eastern, 9 Central, 8 Mountain, 7 Pacific, on the National Geographic Channel.
I've seen a little excerpt of it.
President Bush is talking about hearing White House Chief of Staff Andy Card hearing that Massachusetts accent in his ear saying the second tower has been hit.
America is under attack.
And the president says that what instantly hit him was the anger of what was going on, but then also the unbelievable disconnect, the dichotomy.
I don't think President Bush said dichotomy.
That's probably a good thing.
I love him.
You know that.
Knowing America was under attack, but where am I in a room full of school children?
So I felt myself instantly entering this war footing.
I'm going to be a wartime president.
And yet, looking out into this ocean of little faces of elementary schoolers, it also reminded me of what my first job is to protect Americans.
Listen, we can talk all day about how government got bigger under President Bush.
It did.
How he wasn't conservative on some issues, on a few issues, sufficiently conservative for some of us.
True.
I thank God every day that that man was president and not somebody else.
I thank God every day that George W. Bush was president of the United States.
Now he's my neighbor, lives about 12 miles northeast of here in Dallas.
All righty.
You know what I really ought to do?
Let me, no, let's, I said we're going to do calls.
Let's do one and then we'll hug it up to the up to the top of the hour.
Kind of like Rush does.
It's almost like having him here.
I know it's not.
I know it's not.
Let's go to New York City.
Go to WABC Country.
Elizabeth.
Hey, Mark Davis, filling in for the inimitable rush.
How are you?
Hey, this is Drew.
What's going on?
How are you, sir?
Holy cow.
Well, I'm okay.
What's going on?
With due respect, I think your analysis on Kane and also on Paul is inaccurate.
Well, analysis, by definition, cannot be inaccurate.
You can disagree with it.
Tell me why you do.
Well, I think that the reason that you're not seeing them show better in the The publicity polls is because the establishment party, the establishment politics, the establishment government don't want them to be in there.
Total nonsense.
There is no such thing as publicity polls.
Polls are people asking, do you want this guy to be president?
If Ron Paul or Herman Kane don't score in the double digits, it's because not enough people want them to be president.
Live with it.
Gotten enough media pump.
And the reason, you want to know the reason why.
It is not the media's job to give attention to single-digit candidates.
Oh, Drew, dude.
Do you wonder why the media is pushing Perry so hard right now?
Because they are just dying to get a white Southern bigot up there for the Republican candidates.
Drew, which is true?
You're all over the map.
Which is true?
Do the media love Perry because he's kind of a hardline Southerner?
Or do they love Romney because he's a moderate squish?
Did they love Huntsman because he's I mean, just stop this obsession with the media.
The media are going to like whomever they're going to like.
But ultimately, the reason Perry's getting big news is because tons of people want him to be president.
Got to run.
Be right back.
Mark Davis in for Rush.
Two cases in point.
John Huntsman gets in with a lot of media attention and no one cares.
Rick Perry gets in with a lot of media attention and a lot of people care.
The difference, there are a lot of actual people who want Rick Perry to be president.
That's the difference maker.
Mark Davis in for Rush.
More fun ahead.
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