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Aug. 25, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 25, 2011, Thursday, Hour #3
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It's the third and final hour of the Thursday show.
Matt, if you're having a good time, well, I got good news.
We got three hours to spend tomorrow.
We're going to do Open Line Friday tomorrow together on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
I'm Mark Davis from WBAP Dallas-Fort Worth.
Always a pleasure to be here.
Let's dive back into your calls.
Let me, hours always end when I'm in the middle of a thought.
I am, or you are, something like that.
So here's the deal: if a Herman Kane, Ron Paul candidate whose followers are very, very passionate, but seemingly not numerous enough to make them a top-tier candidate, I make the following proposition.
And I think anybody will make the same deal.
One poll is one poll.
And right now, this one poll, this Gallup poll, that gave Governor Perry a 12-point lead over Mitt Romney, 29 to 17.
The first question you ask is, is that real?
Can that last?
Or is it kind of just a function of the moment?
All right.
I ask exactly the same question of Ron Paul's third place finish.
Perry, 29.
Romney, 17.
Paul got 13 and Michelle slipped to 10.
Now, is that the beginning of the unraveling of the Bachman phenomenon?
Is it the beginning of the ascendancy of Ron Paul?
Guess what?
Talk to me in a month.
And if in two or three or four or five more polls, Ron Paul still finishes third and Michelle Bachman doesn't, then you got a story there.
It's that Ron Paul's a bigger deal than Michelle Bachman.
One poll does not make that happen.
And listen, I love Perry, right?
I've made that clear.
One poll also does not make clear that Governor Perry is going to enjoy double-digit leads over Romney for the rest of the campaign or the rest of this calendar year.
One poll is one poll.
It's a snapshot.
What you've got to examine is trends.
Trends over a period of time.
Does someone seem to be on the way up?
Does someone seem to be on the way down?
Does someone seem to be sort of humming along in the same niche?
That's when polls really start to mean something.
Now, polls are something that we all have kind of a mixed feeling about.
Many polls come out with questions that are skewed and sample sizes that are biased and all of this.
And that's why it's very important, as best you can, to examine the methodology and the questioning and the phraseology and all of that.
And you should.
But I will tell you, this is not like an issue poll where someone can ask, are you in favor of, do you oppose the death penalty or do you favor the brutal murder of criminals?
I mean, that's a hyperbolic example, but if it's about an issue, do you favor sacrificing civil liberties so that we can have a safer society?
It might be a biased way of asking about the Patriot Act.
You follow me?
But this tends to not be that.
You know what the question tends to be?
The question tends to be, who do you like for president?
That's it.
Should be whom do you like for president, of course?
The grammatically challenged pollster will say, who do you like for president?
So, and that's it.
How do you fudge that?
If you like Perry, you put Perry.
If you like Paul, you put Paul.
You like Bachman, you put Bachman.
You know, if you're one of the 43 people that like John Huntsman, you do that.
You know, so that's kind of it.
So here for this snapshot, just in the last couple of days, Rick Perry is on fire.
Romney cooling a little bit.
It's a really nice bump for Ron Paul into third.
And Michelle Bachman cooling a little bit.
Now, all of those narratives will either be true or not in a couple of weeks or a couple of months.
And if they are, then you've got not just an event, not just a snapshot, but a pattern, a narrative.
So I guess the bottom line here is don't ever be too elated or too bummed out by any individual poll.
The mighty WABC, New York City.
Vinny, Mark Davis, in for Rush.
How are you?
How you doing, Mark?
Glad you are here on the show.
Thanks.
I really believe this is the GOP's race to lose regarding the presidency.
And for my money, and I've been advocating him for months, it's Perry.
But what he needs to have, in my opinion, is a political watershed moment.
And what I mean by that is quite simply, two examples.
In 1980, when Reagan turned to Jimmy Carter in the debate and said, there you go again, that was a political watershed moment that changed the race for Reagan.
Okay.
Now, that's a one-on-one debate.
It'll be hard for Perry to get a moment in like that when he's on the stage with eight other people in some state in the next few weeks.
Well, what I'm trying to say is I'm assuming that Perry's going to win the nomination.
Okay, let's just play along with me for a moment.
Okay.
What I'm trying to say is the biggest enemy we have, and I've watched them for three years just destroy Sarah Palin, is the media.
And that's what I'm saying a political watershed moment has to come.
And what that moment should look like is quite simply when David Gregory sandbagged Newt Gingrich on Meet the Press regarding Newt's statement when he said Barack Obama will be known as the food staff president, Gregory jumped into his great racist commentary.
Newt should have stood up, very politely, took his microphone off and said, David, I didn't expect such a lowbrow and false premise from you, but now that I see how the mainstream media is going to cover my run for the White House, I'm not going to choose to help it out by answering such fiction.
And he shouldn't have to be able to do that.
You're almost right.
Vinny, you're almost.
Well, okay.
That's about set.
Follow me through a better scenario.
Follow me through a better scenario.
The minute you walk out, David Gregory wins.
The minute you walk out, you show you're a wimp.
The minute you walk out, you show you're a weasel.
The minute you walk out, you show you got thin skin.
He should have sat right there, looked at David Gregory, and said, are you really asking me that?
Are you really asking me that because I make an observation about food stamps, that that has anything remotely to do with race?
That is a question without basis, without foundation.
Now, I'll answer any question you have, David, but if any of them are as impertinent and ill-founded as that, I'm going to give it right back to you.
Now, isn't that better than Newt hitting the parking lot?
Well, it is.
Isn't it?
But I've been watching the mainstream media fabricate fabricate story after story regarding our candidates.
Well, I'll tell you what, if they're not tough enough, if our candidates are not tough enough for David Gregory, I don't know how they're tough enough for Ahmadinejad.
So I don't need to see any of our candidates storming out of studios ever.
I want to stay in, stay in the box, take the pitch, and give it right back to them if it is that impertinent a line of questioning.
Because that's more present.
I don't agree to disagree with that.
She's almost unelectable, that if she ever did run, she'd have to spend the next 18 months aside.
But here's the thing, and God bless Governor Palin, but that's part of her problem is her skin is too thin.
She spends too much time whining and moaning about the media rather than just boldly getting out and explaining why they're so dead wrong about her.
And she went over the media's head.
Exactly.
Did Ronald Reagan ever, can you ever imagine Reagan on Meet the Press in 1980 or 84 going, well, I'm about done with you, taking off the mic and storming out of the studio?
Absolutely not.
That's fun to think about for about five seconds, but that's a give-up that shows if you're not tough enough to take questioning from an obnoxious TV host, how can you argue that you're tough enough to be commander-in-chief?
Think about it.
Look, you bring up great points, all of you.
You really do.
I guess I'm looking at it from a different way.
It's to like, you know, let's throw the gauntlet down and enough with this insinuation at everybody.
Absolutely.
We really don't disagree.
I mean, we're saying exactly the same thing.
It's just the moment of what the candidate should do in the political theater in our minds a little different.
Vinny, God bless you.
Appreciate it a lot.
And let's go to Miami.
Let's go to Little Marco Rubio country there.
Mia, Mark Davis, in for Rush.
How are you?
Hi, Mark.
How are you?
I'm good.
Well, I'm a student at Florida International University.
I'm a poli-sci major, and I'm of Cuban descent.
And Marco Rubio is actually one of our lecturers.
I had him last semester for Florida Politics, and this semester I will have him for political parties.
No, wait, wait, wait.
He has time to come to do adjunct teaching at Florida International?
Yes, he does.
Whoa.
And he's amazing.
He is a great lecturer.
I mean, taking Florida politics with him, it was a great experience because as the former Speaker of the House and the youngest speaker, he was elected the youngest speaker of the House in Florida and the first Hispanic, he brought in his experience and he was able to lecture us on whatever the topic was and give us some of his perspective of what happened while he was Speaker of the House.
He's just an amazing speaker.
He's got a great sense of humor.
The first time I actually, who would have thought, I mean, three years ago, the first time I heard him speak was at some type of political rally.
And I heard him speak and I said to myself, this man is like, there's no teleprompter.
He speaks from the heart.
He's so Reagan-esque.
And I said to myself, I think this man will be the first Hispanic American president of the United States because he's just so Reagan-esque.
And the way I see it is that he doesn't use a teleprompter because he speaks from the heart.
And his experience, and I, being like a child of immigrant parents, I mean, Cubans have only basically, the bulk of us came here within the last 50 years.
And to see this, to see him rise the way he's risen, it's just the great American story.
And I saw his video the other day on, actually it was last night, I saw his speech at the Reagan Library.
And I urge people to go online and check his speech out because he is so engaging and he has no teleprompter.
And I'm like, this is the political person.
This is the leader that we need in our time.
Now, you were saying about having Rick Perry and a Rubio ticket.
And you got two conservatives.
So that's not going to work out.
You have to balance a ticket.
And if you have like a Romney Rubio ticket or you have a Giuliani Rubio ticket or a Christie Rubio ticket, then you balance the ticket because you have, you know, Giuliani is a little bit with moderate with his social views.
Yeah.
Let's spend a moment on that.
Did Reagan need somebody to balance his views out?
No, if you've got the right conservatives, they can get out there and actually be conservative.
Do you think if it is Romney Rubio or Giuliani Rubio that the media are going to be kinder to them?
No, if the Republicans want Perry, if Rubio doesn't run and they want Perry and he wants Rubio to run with him, go with that.
Let's give it our best shot and put it up against the best shot the left has and beat them at their own game without fudging our views in order to curry favor.
Independents have already bailed from Obama.
They're independent voters who are just kicking themselves every morning for their ill wisdom of their vote in 2008.
We don't have to dumb down our message.
We don't have to water down the conservatism of our ticket to beat Obama.
We just have to play hard and play smart.
Well, I mean, you have a point, but it's just that the media is so cruel.
And they're currently, I mean, just being at the university, you could see how students just play into the game.
I mean, yes, a lot of independents have woken up.
And I think actually America kind of needed this to happen that Barack Obama was elected because it kind of woke us up to what's been going on for decades, actually.
And so thank God for the Tea Party movement.
I've been to a lot of Tea Party events.
They're not racist.
They just love their country and they do see the wrongs of what the federal government is doing.
It's getting too big.
And we need to, you know, rein on that.
I just believe that that's the way to do things.
I mean, we're such a powerful country, but we're.
Mia, what are you?
I got to scoot.
What are you taking at FIU?
What are you, Majorian?
Political science.
Exactly.
And what do you want to do in life?
Probably get into political advertising.
I'm not running for president or anything like that.
Not yet.
You're not.
It's been a job.
You are great, a joy to talk to you.
And thank you very, very, very much.
Thanks, Mia.
Yeah, and it's funny because if it's not Marco Rubio's time to actually be president yet, it may not be.
I mean, dude is 40, 40, and looks 30.
And in his speech at the Reagan Library, which is so great, and I'm sure it's on YouTube in 5,000 incarnations, just Marco Rubio at Reagan Library.
Just go get it.
And he's telling the story of what the Reagan presidency meant to him.
And he tells the story of when Reagan was elected when he was in fourth grade.
Wow.
And left office when he was in college.
It's funny.
Where the Reagan years appeared in your life is an interesting thing.
When Reagan was elected in 1980, I was 22.
I was working in the news department of WKAZ Charleston, West Virginia.
And when Reagan left office in January of 1989, I was just, I'd already started doing talk shows in Jacksonville and then in Memphis.
I mean, it's just eight years, but I went from having been an adult for about 10 minutes to having been an adult for nearly a decade.
And to have those years, those formative years of when your brain concrete really starts to dry, to have Reagan as president during that time meant a lot.
Meant a lot.
So let's say you've got a fourth grader, third grader, fourth grader right now.
Who might be the president to shape, help shape the formative years of your kids?
Every election is important.
And every four years, they always say, oh, it's the most important election of our lives.
It's the most important election ever.
Well, guess what?
2012?
It's the most important election of our lives.
Period.
Mark Davis in for Rush on the EIB Network.
It is the Thursday Rush Limbaugh show.
I'd mentioned that Mark Davis filling in, by the way.
Hi.
I'd mentioned we got into all kinds of 2012 talk and candidate talk and policy talk and issue talk and strategy talk, and I love that.
Before we're done, though, I do just have to deal with something.
I'll do it at the beginning of the next segment so we can get at least a call in here before we hit the bottom of the hour.
If there is anything that is God's occasional gift to the talk show willing to do it, it is stories like these.
If you see a headline that says, and I quote, Mental Health Group looks to remove stigma from pedophilia.
Really?
Really?
I will share details in the very next segment.
But for right now, though, we are in Whitehall, Pennsylvania.
Phyllis, Mark Davis in for Rush.
How are you?
Hi, Mark.
Thank you for taking my call.
My pleasure to speak with you today.
Thanks.
The reason I'm calling is because with all these Republican candidates we have, this past Sunday, John Huntsman was on TV news shows, and he was saying some not-so-nice things about, you know, the other candidates.
And I just, I see this as the beginning of the end.
I think these candidates have got to join together even early on.
They have to put up a unified front against the Democrats.
They are unified against the Democrats, but as we saw when Tim Polenti and Michelle Bachman got into a little smackdown in the Ames, Iowa debate, I want to comfort you about this, Phyllis, because number one, it's not going to happen.
And number two, it's okay.
The narrative of life, Democrats, Republicans both, in the primaries, they bludgeon the living daylights out of each other.
And then when one of them is the nominee, they all drop in line and say he's the greatest guy in the world, the greatest candidate we could ever have.
It has been that way for a long time, and it will continue to be for a long time.
I hope that's what happens.
It absolutely is.
I mean, if they continue with this political infighting, I mean, we've been on a slippery slope since Obama got elected.
And if he gets re-elected in 2012, it's all downhill.
No doubt.
But here's more good news: with this large and seemingly even growing field of Republican candidates, and they'll be sniping at each other in debates, and it'll all be fun.
It'll be good talk show fodder.
But when push comes to shove, nothing, nothing has united Republicans like the Barack Obama presidency.
Nothing.
So, and on the first, Phyllis, thank you.
My best to you and everybody in Whitehall PA.
Bottom line here: the good news I have about your first point is that I believe John Huntsman is going to continue to have negative things to say about the Republican field.
Maybe he envisions an independent run, whatever.
But the bottom line here is: it doesn't matter because it's John Huntsman, and no one cares.
Okay, virtually no one cares.
Got to be fair.
Mark Davis, in for rush.
All right, we're in the home stretch.
Final half hour of the Thursday Rush Limbaugh Show.
Mark Davis filling in from WBAP, Dallas, Fort Worth.
If you want to follow my prattlings in the world of Twitter, you may do so at Mark Davis, all one word, M-A-R-K-D-A-V-I-S.
Mark Davis on Twitter.
Come hang out.
I'm not a people tweet in different ways.
And what I hear today, that the Merriam-Webster's people have tweet in the new dictionary.
I always love when the dictionary decides that words actually exist.
And I think the ones I remember today were tweet as both a noun and a verb, as in, I just tweeted, and oh, there's my tweet.
Somehow sounds wrong.
Helicopter parent, right?
The parent who hovers too closely to the detriment of the kid's independence.
What was the other one?
Was it wasn't there boomerang child?
Boomerang child?
Yeah, where your kids come back and live with you.
Yikes.
Anyway, so the so tweets in the dictionary.
So bottom line here.
God, what was that about?
I'll go days without leaving anything, and then I'll just get OCD and just leave 14 things.
And like during the last, during the Ames, Iowa debate, I'm fairly proud of myself because there were some people tweeting the living daylights out of that Ames-Iowa debate.
Ain't none of them had as much fun as I did.
And hopefully as you did, if you were following me.
I mean, it's just every, I guess you can go follow me now and you can go back in time and read everything I did.
And if you want to subject yourself to that kind of experience during a debate or, you know, who knows what else, then hop on along.
It's the, it's the wonderful world of Twitter, Mark Davis, M-A-R-K-D-A-V-I-S, if you are so inclined.
All right.
I am inclined to share this story.
And I think there's a huge part of me that just doesn't even want to bring this up because it's just so disturbing and it's just part of that incredible underbelly of human behavior.
But it's important for us to examine what our society does in the face of, in response to, some of the darker human behaviors around us.
And of course, who is it that makes a big living out of human behavior?
That would be psychiatrists.
A group of psychiatrists and other mental health professionals say it's time, and I'm going to stop right now.
There is no way that I am going to tar and feather the entire field of psychiatry.
No, I'll leave that to the Church of Scientology.
Thank you.
No, I know some psychiatrists.
No, not as clients, not just yet.
And they tend to be fairly ideologically diverse.
You can't pigeonhole them.
So I've got to believe that this is not representative of psychiatry as a whole.
I pray it's not.
There's a group of psychiatrists and other mental health professionals who say it's time to change the way society views pedophiles, individuals who have physical attractions to children.
The organization, which calls itself B4U-ACT, get it?
Before you act, the letter B, the numeral for the letter U, hyphen, act, before you act.
This group is lobbying for changes to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, or DSM, the guideline of standards on mental health that's put together by the American Psychiatric Association.
I guess there's the same volume that had controversy some years back when they were all trying to figure out whether homosexuality was an actual dysfunction.
Listen, even if we have the debate over whether homosexuality is a dysfunction, if we've gotten to the point where we're not exactly really sure on whether pedophilia is, wow.
That's just very, very hard to wrap my head around.
The group says its mission is to help pedophiles before they create a crisis.
Isn't that sweet?
That's just such kind behavior.
We've got to help the pedophile before they create a crisis.
And to do so by offering a less critical view of the disorder.
Well, well, well, well.
Oh, this cries out for a quote.
Here's the organization's website: stigmatizing and stereotyping minor, oh, a term is born.
They're not pedophiles anymore.
They are minor attracted people.
Minor attracted people.
Really?
MAPs.
Minor attracted people.
If there's anything that makes me crazy, it is jacking with the language.
Pedophilia is an absolutely perfect term.
The root pedo, children, file, one who likes bibliophile, anglophile, pedophile.
Okay?
You can like it for all kinds of reasons.
In this case, it's sexual reasons.
Nope.
Minor attracted people.
So I guess if your daughter ever had her 16-year-old friends over and they all pop bikinis on get out in the pool and you walk by and go, whoa, and stop yourself for a minute.
You're a minor attracted person.
Minor attracted people.
Anyway, stigmatizing and stereotyping them inflames their fears.
Inflames the fears of minor attracted people, mental health professionals, and the public.
How does it inflame the fears of mental health professionals and the public without contributing to an understanding?
That's right.
We almost must, we almost always understand the understanding of minor attracted people or the issue of child sexual abuse.
What?
What?
All right.
I know this is very generic talk show guy material, or could be, that it's easy to say that there's only one thing that you should ever think about pedophiles, and that is that we should imprison, if not kill them now, and just let them rot in the hell they deserve.
Oh, and I do feel that way.
But I am willing to take a moment.
And I always, I want to be thoughtful about everything.
I want to take a moment and be thoughtful about everything.
Okay.
So let's do.
What would that sound like?
The notion of someone walking around trolling elementary school playgrounds for sexual gratification is almost too much to ask for someone to remain calm, but I'm going to do it.
At least here on the radio.
So the question is, we have people who have this condition.
There are people for whom the normal thing is to be attracted, the normal thing is to be attracted to someone of another sex of roughly the same age, ideally, you know, but I mean, or adults, let's just say adults versus adults.
That's to be attracted to the opposite sex and not have it be children.
See, this is a tricky thing.
I've always said that you've got some, you know, 50-year-old guy, you know, who sees who's at the beach and there's a bunch of high school junior cheerleaders all bikinied up.
Many thoughts in his head are wrong, but that ain't pedophilia.
Pedophilia is a sexual appetite for pre-adolescent, maybe right up to adolescent children.
Okay.
Now, what do we do with that?
What do we do with that?
The first thing we've got to ask is, is there anything wrong with that?
The resounding answer comes back, yes, it is.
And not just because it freaks me out or freaks you out or anything like that.
You literally have to ask, is there anything wrong with that?
The thing that's wrong with it, and here's how you answer the question.
If there's not anything wrong with it, what would happen if we just let everybody do it?
All these 50-year-old guys, you know, going around asking out asking 10-year-old boys and, hey, I got Xbox.
Okay, what then?
The notion of trying to lure a third grader into a sexual relationship, if anybody can't grasp the evil of that, and let's not use a red flag word like evil, the inappropriateness, the unfunctionality, the thorough inappropriateness, the grotesquery, of course, there's another red, you know, kids are not ready for this.
They're not ready for this.
So, this is an enormous human dysfunction.
Okay, so we have an enormous human dysfunction.
Now, what do we do about it when we find vestiges of it?
If someone, I'll tell you, if somebody walks into a therapist's office, and please, I hope they do, and says, You know, Doc, you got to help me out.
Fourth graders look really good to me, and adult women don't, or adult, I mean, adult women, and not even adult men look good to me.
It is the 10-year-old that really does it for me sexually.
Man, you dump that person into the most extensive and thorough counseling possible and see if he is retrievable.
Retrievable from that unspeakable strain of thought.
Boy, I'd love to know if that happens very often, or is the concrete dry on that?
If you got a guy who walks in and kids look good to him sexually, are you just done?
Is it just a matter of following him around and waiting until he acts on it?
Because I'm about ready to do that too.
You can't do anything until somebody actually acts on something.
But if you've got that going for you, aren't you going to act on it?
Most will.
And this notion from this Before You Act website, these psychiatrists and other mental health professionals who say that we're being too hard on the pedophile.
We need to help them before they create a crisis.
Help them by doing what?
And listen, if you guys in the psychiatry and mental health professional field have some magical thing you can do so that uh, you know, the third grade playground does not look good to that guy, please tell me what it is and I will absolutely advocate its implementation immediately so that we can prevent this predatory behavior toward children.
But by and large, it's going to happen and it needs to be identified as the outrage that it is and punished as the crime that it is all right.
Well, it's a FOX NEWS story, I guess from was from yesterday.
Mental health group looks to remove stigma from pedophilia.
God help us all righty.
Mark Davis in for Rush on the EIB Network.
It is the Rush Limbaugh show.
Got another 11 minutes of this, but hey, we're together again tomorrow as well for open line friday, Mark Davis filling in for us.
It has been a joy.
I almost want to just do something.
Uh, that last story, just where we're cruising along doing some nice 2012 talk and then I throw in these folks who are looking to remove the stigma from pedophilia.
It's the kind of thing that'll make you just run the car off the road and say, just say, chuck it.
All of society we are, things are, we're just going you know where in a handbasket, but I I have what may be some good news.
This appears to be a fairly splinter community of psychiatrists and other mental health professionals who are looking to redefine pedophilia as minor attracted people and uh, and and and destigmatize all of this.
This is not, in fact, likely to find a receiving ear at the APA, the American UH UH Psychiatric Psychiatric Association.
In 2003, their position statement was: an adult who engages in sexual activity with a child is performing a criminal and immoral act, and this is never considered normal or socially acceptable behavior.
Good.
Stay with that, guys.
Stay with that.
All righty, 1-800-282-2882, Rush Limbaugh Show.
We are in St. Peter's, Missouri.
Terry, Mark Davis in for Rush.
How are you?
Mark, I'm just fine.
You do a great job on the show, Philip.
How's it?
And, you know, that shows how great the bench strength that Rush has.
Well, we're proud.
That gets us to my point.
You know, I'm a big-time fan of Herman Cain, and my heart will be broken when he doesn't get the nomination, as will a lot of other hearts, because only one will.
But the thing that I see with this field of Republican candidates is that there's a lot of serious players for key cabinet positions.
That Herman Cain, Secretary of Commerce.
We could have Michelle Bachman as Attorney General.
We could have Rick Santorum in HHS and start to clean up the rat's nest.
So I think we have to look at the Republican field in two ways.
One, serious candidates and keep campaigning, guys, because, heck, we still got better in the year.
Number two, I think that whoever the nominee is, I'd even throw old Rod Paul in for Secretary of Treasury.
I suppose.
I'd make him chairman of the Fed.
Well, yeah, I wouldn't break my heart there either.
He'll audit that bad boy once he's in.
He'll audit it himself.
It's kind of funny now that you've done us the favor of identifying everyone whom you don't believe will get the nomination.
I think those are very interesting ideas.
Obviously, Michelle Bachman's a talented attorney who could certainly do that.
When you first said Herman Kane in a cabinet position with his business sense, I thought about commerce.
And listen, you mentioned Rick Santorum, and before we stick him in the relative obscurity of HHS, I might want to do one thing.
If Marco Rubio is not interested in being the running mate, maybe Rick would.
Perry Santorum, man, I'd take that, wouldn't you?
Yeah, I would.
But the only ticket I wouldn't pay to have Ron Paul on the top of it.
I mean, well, on national security, on national, I'll say, Terry, thank you.
As I hit this last break, I said a couple of things about Congressman Paul in the beginning, and I'll say them here at the end because Brother Belly had some things to say about him as well.
And I think this is the view of most mainstream conservatives.
It makes us crazy when Ron Paul seems to have no concept whatsoever of the actual risks of al-Qaeda and evil around the world and seems to actually blame America for 9-11 and the hostility that rains down on us in the Muslim world.
And that makes me crazy.
However, whoever our nominee is, a year or so from now in Tampa, Florida, I hope and I pray that that nominee has a strong measure of Ron Paul's clarity about the size and scope of government, his passion for fidelity to the Constitution.
If Ron Paul has a bunch of political DNA, I'd like those things spliced into the spine of whoever our nominee is.
National Security Foreign Policy?
No, no, no.
Amputated and left in the silver tray.
But on those subjects, I hope that we have someone with Ron Paul's clarity on those issues.
All righty, let's get our final break in.
Come back, take a final call, a final word.
I think you're getting a certain sense of closure here, at least for the Thursday show.
I'm Mark Davis in for Rush, and we'll be right back.
All right, about our final minute here of the Thursday Rush Limbaugh Show.
I've been Mark Davis, and I suppose I will continue to be, as we join together tomorrow for Open Line Friday.
We could sit here all day and have the luxury and thrill of talking about hot issues, and I've loved it.
I've really enjoyed it.
But I really want to just send a big shout out to our fellow Americans in coastal North Carolina.
A state of emergency has been declared in Virginia ahead of a powerful Cat 3 hurricane.
Irene is on its way.
We'll see how all of this goes as that story develops.
And so just everybody stay safe.
And please, could you do me a favor?
I know there are a lot of people who go, wow, hurricane.
Woo!
Let's get it, fire up the blender, and stay.
No, no, no.
Well, when the authorities say go, could you go?
I think it's probably a good idea.
Is that a controversy?
Is that a show topic for tomorrow?
If so, we'll do it.
And anything else you want, because it'll be Open Line Friday.
Thank engineer Mike Mamone and Bo Snerdley, of course, for caller processing, topical consultancy, and overall support.
I'm Mark Davis.
Follow me on Twitter at MarkDavis, all one word if you want to, M-A-R-K-D-A-B-I-S.
And I'll see you tomorrow for Open Line Friday.
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