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Aug. 25, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 25, 2011, Thursday, Hour #2
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It's hour number two.
And if hour number one is any indication, this rodeo is on.
I love it.
And the rodeo imagery works because I join you from Texas, from the mighty WBAP, proud Rush Limbaugh affiliates and a station on which my own show has preceded Rush's for a whole lot of years.
And what a joy to wrap up each day and go listen to Rush.
And so today and tomorrow, I get to wrap up and guest host Rush.
Very cool.
Love that.
And thoroughly, thoroughly enjoyed Mark Stein and Mark Belling these last three days.
We're about to hop right back onto some of your calls.
I've got some stories that are just sort of plucked from the rafters and some things that Bo sent down the line as well.
But the other really cool thing about 2012 talk is you can say 47 things about every single candidate and who is up and who is down, and things seem to change every day.
And the story of the last couple of days is the crazy Perry lead over Romney, 12 points in a new Gallup poll.
Can that last?
I don't know.
And we'll get into all of that.
But on any show that is as Apple and Mac friendly as the Rush Limbaugh Show, and I share membership in that cult, we can't let a moment go by without a little good wish for Steve Jobs.
Steve has stepped down as CEO.
It's kind of funny.
Stepped down as CEO.
Now he's just going to be chairman.
Whoa.
Okay.
No, it's basically a story that is about his ability to be involved in the ambitious day-to-day operation of the company versus something.
He's not going to be just a figurehead or anything, but being CEO requires an enormous amount of diligence and travel and work and nose to the grindstone that it appears he just might not be able to do anymore.
Steve Jobs is 56.
Pancreatic cancer is what it appears we're looking at here.
And I'll just tell you.
I mean, even if I were not a Mac guy, how do you not appreciate what he and his company have done?
iPods, iPads, changing the world of computers.
If you have kids, his involvement with Pixar, anybody who ever saw Toy Store, you have Steve Jobs in part to thank.
So just God bless you, sir, and good health and every, every good wish.
There's a quote, and I've always loved it, and all of us who are Mac dorks do because we are a condescending crew.
And it's attributed to Tom Clancy.
Is that just an internet myth or is that for real?
I don't know.
Anybody got audio of him saying this?
And the quote is: Never ask a guy what kind of computer he has.
If it's a Mac, he will tell you.
And if it's not, why embarrass him?
How I do love that.
So, Steve Jobs, God bless you, sir.
And please, from everybody in this audience, every wish for good health and a long life.
All righty, 1-800-282-2882.
As the last hour ended, I understand.
I feel your pain.
And just to achieve kinship with you on this, I've already told you there's a candidate I love who I wish to God had more oomph going than he does, and that's Rick Santorum.
And maybe that'll change.
And if it does, great.
If it doesn't, hey, that's the marketplace.
But I am not going to sit here and tell you that there's some unseen conspiratorial hand that keeps Rick Santorum from being on every show and being in every magazine and being the darling of every pundit.
It doesn't work that way.
It doesn't work that way.
And yet, some of you in the Herman Cain world, and God knows some of you in the Ron Paul world, are walking around expecting that there are meetings where people gather and they go, okay, what can we do to keep these guys out of the news?
Nothing can keep you out of the news if you are rocking and rolling on the campaign trail.
And really, the converse is true.
If you're not rocking and rolling on the campaign trail, very little can get you in to the news and on top of the headlines and above the fold.
Good lord, above the fold.
Do we even say that anymore?
Do people read actual paper newspapers anymore?
So that's just the deal.
If your candidate's just not all over the place and you love him and you wish, get a car and go walk some neighborhoods for them.
Because case in point, and this is true of Santorum, whom I love, Herman Cain, whom I admire, but I like other people more.
You know, I'm not looking for Herman to be president or vice president.
I love him.
And, you know, and that's it.
If you were to catch fire and become the nominee, I'd be thrilled.
That's great.
But that's not going to happen.
So bottom line here is the way to climb this mountain is to have a ground.
And I think Santorum did this in Iowa because he went from being largely invisible, right?
And he finished a fairly respectable fourth in Ames, Iowa.
Do you know why?
Ground operation and money.
People went to ricksantorum.com and gave him enough money to have a ground operation.
And so he's doing door-to-door stuff, neighborhood-to-neighborhood stuff, attending pancake breakfasts and Kiwanis Club meetings.
He worked tirelessly.
And he will continue to work tirelessly.
And he either will become a top-tier candidate or he won't.
If he doesn't, it's not the media's fault.
It just didn't click.
It just didn't connect.
It happens.
There have been other guys who I would have crawled on broken glass to vote for.
Steve Forbes.
Are you kidding me?
I would have loved that.
Well, I didn't have enough company in that regard, so Steve Forbes never came close to being president.
And it was my job to be a big boy about that and not walk around whining in the media.
Just please, you're wasting your time and your energy.
Things are the way they are.
It is the candidate's job to get out there through the skills of retail politics, attending events tirelessly, raising money like a son of a gun.
And you know what?
If you're a candidate and you can't raise money, guess what that means?
It means you can't find enough people who want you to be president.
And the converse of that is true.
If there's a candidate and you ever find the candidates that you're not real thrilled with and they're just making all kinds of money, getting all kinds of contributions, and it makes you insane, well, sorry.
Well, there are people who hated Bush from the get-go.
Bush was really doing well, really doing well in the early fundraising.
Remember when he first started, what did they call the plane, the Expectations Express or something like that?
And he was just, I mean, checks were just rolling in to the George W. Bush for president campaign in like late 99.
You know why?
It's quite the unfathomable mystery.
It's because a lot of people wanted him to be president.
That's it.
Some things are not simple.
This one is.
Let's head down to the mighty AM600 Cogo Country.
San Diego.
John, Mark Davis, in for Rush.
How are you?
Hey, Mark, love the show.
I just wanted to ask you, I've been looking at the other side of the fence, the opposition, and I was wanting to ask you if you could envision a scenario where Obama might pull an LBJ and decide not to run.
And because I see a lot of similarities between the two administrations, narcissists and the side, unpopular war, the left is livid at him, a bad economy.
And I just wanted to get your thoughts on those.
Well, to stick around, I'll talk about a couple of things, and I want to give it back to you for your analysis.
First of all, the short answer is no, no chance whatsoever.
Vietnam consumed this nation in 67 and 68, leading up to that election.
The Libya operation on its most front of mind day occupies no such space in our minds and in our hearts.
And I know you're talking about the entire war on terror as well, but for those who are not fond of the war, I know for Michael Moore and Sean Penn, their gripes, they have gripes with President Obama for not having closed Guantanamo yet and not having pulled all the troops home.
But people, for the most part, who don't like the war realize that President Obama is kind of an unwitting bit player in it.
He is not fond of the operation at all.
And if he thought he could get away with ending it, he probably would.
There's only one thing of which there is an infinitesimal chance, and that is if this presidency is so deep on the rocks, and I mean really soon, because it's time for everybody who's running to start to get their act together to do that.
The one thing that is still kind of fun to think about is the notion of a primary challenge by Hillary Clinton, the I Told You So tour, the I Told You So tour of 2012.
The chances of that are unbelievably slim.
Hillary would burn every bridge she ever had in the Democratic Party.
It would probably be doomed to fail.
Does she want to go through that again?
So that's really the only way.
And so it is almost certainly a colossal waste of time to consider the possibility of any other Democratic nominee other than the incumbent.
Great analysis.
Thank you, Mark.
My pleasure.
1-800-282-2882.
Let us now head to the Poconos.
That's always a nice idea.
A little Pennsylvania action with Nicole.
Hey, Nicole, Mark Davis in for Rush.
How are you?
Hi, Mark.
How are you?
I'm good.
I just want to say thank you guys for everything you do.
I'm 25, and I've been listening to Rush since about 2008 to try to learn about the election.
And I got into politics because of my grandmother.
She's taught me a lot of things, thank God.
And I wanted to learn more about Rick Perry.
Like, I went on the internet last night, and I was trying to really, like, learn things about him.
And I was wondering if you had any recommendations as far as really finding out the facts on these candidates.
Sure.
Mr. Internet is your friend.
Mr. Google is your buddy.
And what I would do, let me give you some broad thoughts.
And I'd say this about any candidate, Democrat, Republican, whatever that you're trying to figure out.
Go to local newspapers where they are.
Now, this is not to learn things that are gospel truth, but to learn what people think about him.
Most editorial boards in Texas are not fond of Governor Perry because most editorial boards in Texas are liberal, and he's too conservative for them.
Real clear, I'll give you a website, realclearpolitics.com, realclearpolitics.com.
Just a wonderful outfit that puts up a bunch of op-ed pieces from a variety of perspectives.
They have a search bar in there.
You can find out what a bunch of people are saying and doing.
I mean, from a conservative perspective, you know, Bill Crystal at the Weekly Standard does a whole lot of things blogging about things.
New Republic does all of the sort of the conservative punditry sources are going to be saying a lot of things about Perry.
And so if you want to go for that perspective from people who like him, on any given day, just do just a news search.
You know, just put his name in and hit the news thing, and you'll find articles about him and things he've done, things he's done, things he has said, and various opinion pieces about what everybody thinks about him.
Another really good thing to do is listen to this show every day and other shows that are similarly inclined or not similarly inclined.
Just immerse yourself in all of it in this modern day.
Say you were 25.
When I was 25, it was 1982, and I had voted for Reagan, and he won, but you had to actually go to a place called the library and pick up a thing called a newspaper.
And the resources available to you are so vast and so incredible, there is no excuse for not being buried in more information than you could possibly use.
Yes.
Thank you so much.
I appreciate it.
My enormous pleasure.
I'm proud of you.
Thanks.
All righty.
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I'm Mark Davis filling in from WBAP, Dallas, Fort Worth, Texas.
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More of you on the show in just a moment.
Thursday Rush Limbaugh Show.
I'm Mark Davis filling in from Texas.
Glad to have you around.
Let's get back to your calls at 1-800-282-2882 of the legendary WBT in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Paul, hey, Mark Davis, in for Rush.
How are you?
Good.
Rick Perry Ditto there.
Mark, I'll tell you one thing I think that is a real big hindrance on conservatives getting nominated in the Republican Party at any level is the fact that we have open primaries.
It really irritates me that someone who's not a registered Republican has a say in who my party's nominee is.
I can't vote for the Bank of America board unless I own B of A stock.
Why is a non-Republican allowed to vote in our primaries?
Let's define the terms and then let's talk about it because I want to sort of put that to a bit of a test.
The open primary, put to great use by this show in 2008, allowed Operation Chaos.
It allowed Republicans to go vote for Hillary in state primaries to keep her alive so that she could continue to be a thorn in the side of Barack Obama.
So but for that, that entire operation would not have been possible.
But your point is well taken and a lot of people believe it.
Open primaries enable anybody to vote at any primary.
If you don't really kind of care who's running your party, but there's somebody who you really want to help or really want to damage in the other party, you may.
Or if it's already kind of a foregone conclusion in your party and you want to go engage in some mischief in the other party, an open primary enables you to do that.
In your theory, if I'm understanding you correctly, you believe that this process is what muddies the water and what occasionally gets the Republicans an insufficiently conservative nominee.
Absolutely.
I have quit donating to the RNC and the Senate 12 committee, and I won't give to state parties unless they're closed.
Every time the RNC calls me, I give them the same answer.
No more donations till all of our primaries are closed, period.
I think that's a worthwhile goal.
But what I do want to do is question the premise a little bit.
What would be the motivation of the Democrat prankster seeking to enjoy the open primary rules and come in and vote for a Republican?
Would not the Democrat prankster wish to damage the Republican Party by finding the most bug-eyed, extreme right-winger that he can find rather than a moderate who might actually pose a stronger general election threat to the candidate he probably favors.
Well, my main concern is a squishy independent getting into our primaries.
That's why I'm concerned.
I'm not worried about the prankster.
It's people who are not, you know, most registered Republicans are pretty conservative.
You know, you got your moderates who know you do.
But especially in North Carolina, you tend to be more conservative if you're a registered Republican.
And it's independence getting in there is what really burns me up.
Hmm.
Someone who, by definition, is choosing not to identify as either Republican or Democrat, but waking up, flipping a coin, and choosing to have a factor in the primary.
I've always been a closed primary advocate.
It's kind of funny you can differ as to what the methodology is, as to what kind of party card or blood test you ought to have to prove your worthiness and to walk in the R door or the D door, but it certainly does make primary results a little more pristine, a little more reliable.
Paul, thank you.
Appreciate it very much.
Let's go to Vegas.
Something I say often.
Joe, Mark Davis, in for Rush.
How are you?
I am fine, Mark.
It's a pleasure to speak to you and do a great job going in for Rush.
I appreciate it.
Absolutely.
Marco Rubio, he can and would be a symbolic savior, if you would, who can save Hispanics from the same fate that black Americans fell into 40 to 50 years ago underneath the Democrats.
And the Dems are planning and trying their hardest to lead them down that same path.
And with Marco Rubio, we've got a genuine person.
Everybody can see that every time he speaks.
He's intelligent.
He's an articulate communicator.
He's very patriotic.
He also has a personal, authentic American dream story with him and his family.
And he'd be the first Hispanic American on the presidential ticket.
There's no downside.
You've said something that takes me back in history that's kind of interesting because as we stand right now, black America loves diversity of all kinds except one: ideological.
America will vote 90-some percent for Barack Obama.
They will vote 90-some percent for the Democrat until that changes, until they choose to free themselves from the shackles of that single-mindedness.
And I use that metaphor advisedly.
I mean, I'm not looking for a black America to be conservative or even 50-50, but dudes, 70-30?
Can we think about that for a minute?
And here's what I thought of: if there had been a powerful black conservative voice in the 60s, and maybe that's an impossible sentence that I've just spoken, then maybe there would be less of that phenomenon.
Maybe there would be a bit more choice and a bit more.
Maybe the average strong, you know, proud black man or woman wouldn't be hooted out of the barbershop or berated at the family reunion for actually holding conservative views, if that had happened.
And Rubio may fill that role now.
I've got a scoot, so let me thank you for that.
Hispanic America is certainly closer to a little bit of ideological balance than black America is, but it continues to be the same kind of mystery to me.
And again, I'm not looking for Hispanic America to be 60-40 conservative.
But socially they are.
They just don't know it.
So, and I don't mean that to be condescending.
It's just if you ask people, I'll finish that sentence in a minute.
Mark Davis in for us.
Stick around.
And you will tomorrow, too.
And there's apparently nothing either of us can do about it.
So relax and enjoy it.
I'm Mark Davis from WBAP Dallas, Fort Worth, Texas, enjoying today, and I know we'll enjoy tomorrow too for Open Line Friday.
Very cool.
Always enjoy that.
Having just heard from a gentleman calling for closed primaries, which is only the Republicans vote in the Republican primary, so you get a clean Republican decision on who should be the standard bearer for Republicans, and all of that same sentence for Democrats, let us head to Austin, the capital city of my own state.
Kevin weighs in with an opposing view.
Kevin, Mark Davison for Rush, how are you?
Hey, great.
Thanks for being there.
We need patriots like you to keep the system going when Rush is out having fun.
You're very kind.
I'm a die-hard Democrat, born and raised in Louisiana, ran straight ticket all those years, moved to Austin area, got a little wiser, decided that Obama was not the prime candidate on the Democrat ticket.
I headed to my polls, and I could not vote for the McCain-Palin ticket because of the closed primaries.
It's very difficult to go the right direction sometime when you want to, unless you go in and change your party affiliation.
All right, back up for me.
If you're talking about when the Texas primary was in 2008, I mean, Governor Palin had nothing to do with it yet, but it was about who would the Democrat nominee be, and it was sort of a McCain, Huckabee, Romney kind of choice.
And what you wanted to do.
I wanted a Republican because I knew clearly that there was not a Democrat, a qualified Democrat candidate because I had declared that I was a Democrat.
I was a Republican.
I don't want to put words in your mouth, but let me take you because I'm doing this for a reason because I'm very intrigued to have you, and thank you.
So neither Obama nor Hillary appealed to you that much, right?
Not at all.
Not at all.
And to that extent, and to that extent, we're going to play a little game in a minute that I think you'll enjoy.
So you pretty well knew that you were going to vote Republican, and because that epiphany had occurred to you, you thought, doggone it, I ought to have a say in whom the Republican standard bearer should be, so I want to vote in the Republican primary.
I would have voted Republican.
Okay, and would McCain, McCain, other than Huckabee or Romney, would have been your choice?
Yes, absolutely.
Okay.
Well, the good news is you got what you wanted, at least in the primary.
No, exactly right.
Exactly right.
And I guess we must consider the plight if we're going to shut down all the prime, close them to just party loyalists.
We should consider the plight of the crossover voter, the person who has looked at his own landscape and said, eh, and has decided to vote for the other party.
I guess that should be possible.
It should be something where you say, you know, all I'll do is have you vote for one of them.
You certainly can't vote in both of them.
And I guess there's no way that if you close them, you prevent the pranksters, but you also prevent sincere people like you who have simply decided to change slightly.
In all honesty, I really don't think you have that many people that are going to be what you call the prankster.
I think you're right.
I think there's honestly people out there like me that said, you know, I've had enough of this.
I've seen it.
I've been burned and I'm tired of it.
Well, here's the exercise I want to engage in with you, Kevin.
I'm so pleased to have you.
Here we go.
It's called, What Are You Really?
Here's how it goes.
Do you still consider yourself a Democrat?
Moderately.
Give me the liberal views that you are proud to hold.
The liberal what?
I'm sorry.
Give me one.
Let's start with one.
liberal view that you are proud to hold uh if it had to be one uh gay marriage you know because of uh i just don't believe it's my choice to make that Okay, but let me ask you about that one.
Do you believe that every state should give legal equality to homosexual unions, the exact same treatment as heterosexual unions?
Absolutely not.
I think it should be a state's choice.
Not a liberal answer.
That's a Rick Perry answer.
Well, you know, see, that's me going over the fence there.
I like it.
Exactly right.
And that's why we're playing the game.
I mean, now let's go a little closer to the bone here.
And in the state in which you and I live in Texas, when it comes our, if it comes our way, would you wish for our state of Texas for gay unions to enjoy the exact same status as heterosexual unions?
Knowing the Bible Belt and that kind of thing, I don't think it ever passed.
No, no, that's not what I'm asking.
I'm asking about what you would vote if it came to you.
Would it be your belief that in our state that gay unions?
I'd probably vote to approve it.
Okay, now, and that means that you have a certain social liberalism going for you, but also a certain constitutional fidelity that says that if the states next door feel otherwise, that they should.
All right.
So we're kind of warm there.
We're good.
Is there one more?
Is there even one other liberal view that you are proud to hold?
Oh, the right to possess guns.
I know that's a Republican, somewhat of a Republican of a.
Well, no, are you a bug?
I mean, are you a believer in the Second Amendment, the right to bear arms?
Yes.
Well, okay, that's not what I'm asking.
I'm asking for a liberal view that you are proud to hold.
Oh, God.
Are you for against the death penalty?
I'm for the death penalty.
Dude, you're more conservative than John McCain.
I mean, this is why I play the game.
People don't know what they are.
I mean, you are.
I'm waking people up, too.
I'm going to be dropping that fence, and I don't mind saying it.
Well, come on.
The water's fine, man.
Come on.
And I always play this game without any preconceived notion.
Because if I'd asked you that question, give me liberal views you're proud to hold.
And you say, I advocate gay marriage.
I think the war is wrong.
I think some people aren't taxed nearly enough.
Da-da-da-da.
I'd say, oh, dude, great.
Okay.
You're a liberal.
Fantastic.
Thanks for listening.
Well, it didn't work out that way.
I've got to tell the Obama principles and policies he's put into place to say, you know what, that's enough.
And really make the dive into Republican Party.
There you go.
Kevin, listen, I had no idea how the game would go.
I think it went delightfully.
And I hope you enjoyed it.
And God bless.
And thanks for listening to Rush.
See, this is a wonderful exercise that you can engage in with friends and family.
Sometimes the really fun thing to do, and I was looking for one.
I think I found one.
I'll tell you next segment if it works out well for me.
I'm doing a little homework behind the scenes.
These presidential candidate selectors, and some are kind of slapdash, but some are pretty good and pretty detailed.
I wish I could remember what the really good one was either four or eight years ago.
I forget, but I will never, ever forget this.
We had just, in fact, in our last segment, we just finished talking to a gentleman who said that Marco Rubio could be the kind of candidate who could remind Hispanics of how conservative they actually are.
And I closed out the segment essentially saying that a whole lot of blacks and a whole lot of Hispanics are very conservative.
They just don't know it.
And that sounds like a slap, and I don't mean it to mean it to be.
Everybody knows what they believe.
Everyone knows what they believe.
What some folks of color, and maybe some folks not of color, don't know is that the views they hold are conservative.
They're Republican views.
Walk into a black church.
It's a socially conservative environment.
Walk into a whole lot of Hispanic neighborhoods.
Their environments where not just socially, but fiscally, there's conservatism to be found.
They just don't know it, won't say it.
Especially the case of black America, they've had it just drilled into them just forever that to align with conservatism or align with the Republican Party is to align with the Klan or neo-Nazis or something.
This has been just, this is the flavor of indoctrination in the black social structure, and it's just tragic.
Now, if none of this had happened, maybe black America would still be 60, 40, 70, 30 Democrat voting liberals.
That's fine.
But 90-10, any group that's 90-10 has had something bad happen to them.
I mean, in terms of enlightenment, in terms of just being taught about the world.
Now, I mentioned these presidential candidate selectors, and I'm going to take the break here in a minute.
I think I found one.
It's asking good questions.
The best ones are the ones that ask you without, they don't ask you anything about party or anything about candidate.
They ask you things like, what would be your candidate's position on Arizona's immigration law?
What would be your candidate's position on property rights?
What would be your candidate's ideal position on gun control, pot legalization, embryonic stem cell, social security, minimum wage, business and labor?
And then it asks you, how important is this issue to you?
So each answer you give carries a certain weight.
And then once you answer all of those questions, it shows you your candidate because the site has chronicled all the candidates and their positions, and it shows you your proximity to all of them.
My favorite story about this involves a lady I work with here at WBAP, Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas.
She is 60-something.
I don't know.
And a black woman, and one of my favorite people, not just in this workplace, but in the world.
And she doesn't walk around being die-hard Democrat or Republican.
I mean, she's not Maxine Waters walking around.
In fact, she's kind of apolitical.
Mostly what we talk about is American Idol in 24, which means a lot of the year we don't have a lot to talk about.
But no, we talk about faith and family and church, and she's just so great.
I love her.
We sat her down for a candidate selector.
And she voted for Obama.
And if you asked her, she'd say, I'm a Democrat and I'm this and I'm that.
Sat her down with the candidate selector and it asked her all the various candidates.
And then it was time to hit the button and it coughed off.
This is in 2000.
This absolutely every bit of a decade ago.
And okay, Johnny, here we go.
Boom.
Here's your candidate.
Pow Pat Buchanan.
We nearly had to defibrillate her.
If we'd had the paddles on the wall like we have here down the hallway, which I think are exclusively for me, I'm not sure.
And it's because she's sick of illegal immigration.
She thinks that government is in too much of our lives.
She doesn't believe in sacrificing the life of the unborn.
She's black, Pat Buchanan, in a dress.
She just didn't know it.
God, there's a visual.
I'd like to apologize for that.
She just didn't know it.
So, all right, I found one, and I'm working on it right now.
And I'll do a little bit more of this during the break.
And if I find a good one, I'll plug it.
Boy, that's no small favor for them on the Rush Limbaugh show, which this is, by the way.
And it's an honor to be here sitting in for us.
We're here together today and tomorrow.
And so let's see what happens next today.
Mark Davis in for Rush on the EIB network.
Okay, I found one.
Let's see how this works.
I want to do something very advisedly here before I start spitting out websites on the Rush Limbaugh show.
One should only do that very advisedly.
Okay.
All right.
Maybe Google is your best bet because the site itself is a little ungainly.
It's an outfit called selectsmart.com, selectsmart.com, which on its on its homepage is like little polls about everything.
Like, which character from the Smurfs are you?
Oh, God.
Okay, whatever.
Anyway, they have a presidential preference thing, and it's exactly like what I was talking about.
I just took the quiz.
All right.
I won't tell you what all my answers were.
I'll give you a couple of them.
I won't bore you.
You go and it asks you questions about 19 questions.
19.
Yep, 19.
Well, come up with one more question, man.
Make it around 20.
It gives you 19 questions on a whole bunch of issues, asks you how important those issues are.
Some of them are a little broad-brushed, a little oversimplified, but hey, it's something you're supposed to do in about five minutes.
So I did.
So I did.
And then it gives you the percentage of agreement with that candidate.
And this is very interesting because guess who my number one candidate wound up being with 95% agreement.
And listen, we've been hanging out together a little bit.
I guess you probably get me.
Maybe we need to spend more time together so you can get me even better, which may either delight or repel you.
My number one candidate with 95% agreement, Rick Santorum.
Well, that's handy because I do love me, Rick.
They have Perry on here.
Whoa.
Whoa.
I didn't score real well with Governor Perry at all.
Okay, Rick Santorum, 95%.
Newt, 89.
They go through a bunch of people who aren't even running, like Eric Cantor in China.
Sarah Palin, 83.
Mitt Romney, 79.
Michelle Bachman, 72.
How did I wind up closer to?
Because I punched the little circle 14 times on the overturn Obamacare.
Hmm.
Mike Huckabee, Bobby Jindal.
If you go down to very, very little, the candidate I'm farthest away from is Barack Obama.
Pretty far away from Donald Trump as well, as well you should be, unless you're a staunch liberal on some things.
If you're a staunch liberal that hates China, you are Donald Trump.
So I'll just let you do it because it worked out pretty well.
Worked out pretty well.
It was select smart.
In fact, what I did, I googled like presidential selector and candidate selector, and I got the select smart one.
So do that and see what your see who your candidate winds up being.
And again, but here's the thing that you must understand is that what it gives you is just the very rough proximity of your views to what the website considers the candidates' views to be.
So that might be dicey.
And the bottom line is that actual proximity of positions is a big part, but not the only part of what a candidate brings to the table.
He brings experience, brings a certain demeanor.
You know, I have a feeling if Alan Keys were running, I'd score nearly 100% with him, but God bless Alan.
We can't never let him in the Oval Office.
He's crazy.
And I mean that in a very loving way.
I love Alan's a genius.
But boy, I just, there's some animals running on Alan's running at Alan the Cage that are very, very interesting.
Well, he's a genius writer, a genius orator, just a magnificent man.
And I guess, and I don't mean to pick on Alan.
I hope I've made it clear enough that I love him, but admit it, aren't there some people whose views you totally admire and totally cling to?
But you think, okay, let's make him president.
Ooh, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Maybe not.
Hold on there.
Hold on there, cowboy.
So, all right, there you go.
Little candidate selector action.
Well, no, what we ought to do now is let's get this final break in, and we'll put a call or two on before we're done this hour.
And then we have another entire hour together on the Rush Limbo show.
What fun?
Mark Davis filling in.
It's the EIB network.
Well, we had this premise arise in the first hour.
It might as well arise in the second hour.
And for this, we're headed to Greenville, South Carolina.
Mike, hey, Mark Davis, in for Rush.
How are you?
Mark, I'm doing great.
And you know, you're right.
People should be required to take one of those candidate selector quizzes before actually stepping into the polling booth or maybe a month prior to it so they can digest the information a little bit.
It's a great tool.
But yeah, you know, as far as the candidates, I know the discussion in about an hour, but I mean, there's the media does so much to put the idea of who's the frontrunner in our heads.
The polls that came out yesterday, Michelle Bachman wasn't in third, she was in fourth.
Right.
But that's what respondents said.
That's what the respondents to the Gallup poll said.
So what do you expect them to do?
Ron Paul was in third yesterday on all the national polls, but it's not being, he's still not in your top tier.
He's not top three.
Because it's not going to last.
Ron Paul is not going to come anywhere close to being the third leading vote-getter as we roll forward.
It's not going to happen.
I mean, you'll get these little flashes and like that because that's the way it's always been.
Now, I'll tell you this: events will always lead coverage.
Events will always lead punditry.
If Ron Paul winds up with 20, 25% poll numbers for, you know, or 17% poll numbers for a month, everybody will be talking about it.
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