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We're live at Ice Station EIB in far northern New Hampshire.
Ground zero for the Newt fever, now sweeping the Granite State.
If you're having difficulty hearing me, it's because I'm having a hard time making myself heard over the plaid-clad throngs baying Newt free or die.
Newt won the much sought-after endorsement of the state newspaper, the Union Leader, a day or two ago.
I think it was yesterday.
So it's Mitt versus Newt here in the Granite State.
Mitt versus Newt.
This has been the weirdest primary season.
If you'd said a year ago that the Republican race would be Romney versus Gingrich, I'd have poked my eyes out with a pencil and gone out to campaign for Colonel Gaddafi in Tripoli.
But that's apparently the choice.
The union leader endorsement, I don't think it hurts Mitt so much as it hurts all Newt's rivals for the role of the Un-Romney.
Where are they now?
All the Un-Romneys of the Week from a couple of months back.
Rick Perry, Herman Kane.
A Georgia woman, by the way, Herman Kane is currently reassessing his candidacy.
He's just put out a statement saying he's reassessing his candidacy.
A Georgia woman has announced that she had a 13-year love affair with Herman Kane, which is 12 years and 49 weeks longer than the Republican base's love affair with Herman Kane.
So it's pretty amazing.
I love the way, you know, when these guys are hot when they're the, you know, insert name of this week's Unromney of the Week here candidate, and you say anything even mildly critical of them, the fans come down and you like a ton of bricks.
I remember being critical about Rick Perry's first debate performance and then getting all these emails saying, well, Stein, that just proves you're one of these cocktail swilling, inside-the-beltway, pansified rhino-squish wimps who wants to be invited to dinner parties with Cokie Roberts or whatever.
And then it turns out that the first Perry debate performance wasn't an anomaly, but a standard operating procedure.
And all the Perry cheerleaders then fall away and you never hear from them again.
And then Herman Kane comes along and he's hot.
And he's asked whether he supports Obama's position on Libya and he doesn't know where Libya is and he can't remember the sound bite his foreign policy guy wrote for him even though he's been up all night practicing it in front of the mirror.
I get all these emails saying, well, Stein, you just don't get it.
Not knowing anything about the rest of the world is a sign of how authentic Herman Kane is.
Well, now the Herman Kane emails have dried up.
Mr. Snadley is booing me.
You're not gagged out with the Herbert Kane ship, are you, Mr. No.
Half the female population of Chicago is apparently on board the Herbert Kane ship.
Maybe that's what's yeah, yeah, it is.
It is.
We're back in Wilt Shabbat country with Herman Kane.
But I am amazed, to be honest, I am amazed anybody could have a 13-year affair with Herbert Cade because he has a certain limited appeal, I think, you know, with that whole, you know, now go to my website and look up my plan, 999.
I mean, it's cute the first time, and I can imagine it's cute if you're having a candle at dinner with the guy in Atlanta.
But, you know, for 13 years, I don't think I could stick there.
Anyway, I'm not sure whether his official position on the alleged affair.
Oh, I think he said he does know the woman, but that they did not engage in sexual Congress.
I think that's the current position.
But he may just have misremembered, like he did when he was asked something about Syria.
So we'll have to see how that works out.
But he's issuing very feeble denials, and they're not forceful enough, as they say in Germany, Herman.
999.
That's the way to do it.
My favorite camp.
Before we get to Newt, we'll talk about Newt today because this is a spectacular comeback.
I mean, I was one of the guys who'd written him off just a few months ago.
So we will get to Newt.
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If you want to talk about the state of play in the Republican race, I don't know.
Mitt versus Newt, Newt versus Mitt.
I mean, I honestly wish I'm not saying, you know, it's a neither of the above box scenario, but I would like a bit more choice in there.
I always like Michelle Bachman.
She's always quoting my book out on the stump.
She did it.
Well, no, no, no.
Rick Perry, I like Rick Perry, all his Texan swagger, Mr. Snerdley.
I liked all that Texan swagger.
And then we came up to Concord.
He gave this bizarre speech in Concord in which he had none of that kind of manly Texan swagger.
He was doing all this jazz hands thing.
It was like Carol Channing impersonation night.
I don't know what he, I don't know what the idea of that was.
If he'd broke it into I am what I am halfway through, nobody would have been the least bit surprised.
Anyway, I don't know.
I don't know what that was about, but I liked all the Texan swagger.
But then when he came up to the Granite State, it was all jazz hands, no Texan swagger.
Anyway, Michelle Boral Michelle Bachman, I would like her to be back up in the polls.
She read my book again actually in whatever that was, the national security debate the other night, talking about America and China when she said when money drains power drains, which is straight out of page three or whatever of my book.
Yeah, John Huntsman, let's not forget John Huntsman.
He's amazingly at something like 8.9% in New Hampshire.
So, well, 8.9% of the population in New Hampshire is apparently supporting John Huntsman for president.
So maybe, you know, Huntsman will be next week's Unromney.
But, you know, in the meantime, Herman Kane's reassessing his candidacy.
Rick Perry is mired in his brain freeze of a couple of weeks ago.
Michelle Bachman is mired in single digits since she started quoting me.
I deeply regret that apparently quoting my book on the stump is a sign that she's absolutely far too extreme to be considered for president.
I love Michelle Bachman, by the way.
I always like the bit in the debate where she says she said 47 foster children, or is it 47 chiefs of staff?
I forget which, but I don't care how many chiefs of staff she's got through.
I'm a big fan of hers.
I wanted her to be the designated Unromney, but instead it's Mitt and Newt, Newton Mitt.
Newt, where's this bit?
Newt says he, we think, says Newt, this is Newt's rationale for running.
We think there has to be a solid conservative alternative to Mitt Romney, says Newt Gingrich.
Because that's the choice now.
You've got Mitt.
That's a guy who supported government-run healthcare, climate change hooey, and amnesties for illegals.
And so he gets written off as a rhino squish.
And so we need a solid conservative alternative.
So we've got Newt, a guy who supported government-run healthcare, climate change, hooey, and amnesties for illegals.
And so he's apparently the authentic verse of rock-ribbed conservatism in the race.
You know, I wrote, I mean, this is a lesson at how the difference a few months can make.
I wrote Newt's political obituary when he stepped down as speaker back in 1999.
And I looked up that piece again a week or so back.
And what I loved about Newt was the kind of absurd sort of self-aggrandizing thing.
He wrote Gingrich's primary mission.
He wrote a memo to himself about his primary mission.
Gingrich, primary mission, to be the advocate of civilization, definer of civilization, and teacher of the rules of civilization.
So put that on your bumper sticker, my fellow granite status.
Newt for president, advocate of civilization, definer of civilization, teacher of the rules of civilization.
So I, yes, Newt Gingrich is civilization at theaters nationwide from Friday.
Newt Gingrich, the definer of civilization.
So I was thinking he's learned his lesson, and he's not sort of doing that whole self-aggrandizing thing.
And it's true, he hasn't yet called himself the definer of civilization.
But the other day, after getting the union leader endorsement, he compared himself to Reagan and Thatcher.
So he compared himself to Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher.
And you think to yourself, Newt, Newt, come on, why sell yourself short?
Why waste time with these nickel and dime comparisons?
So Joe McQuaid, the publisher of the union leader, comes along and says that Newt Gingrich is the Churchill of our times.
And you think, oh, yes, yes, that's getting closer.
That's getting closer to it.
But Newton, you're still selling yourself short.
Forget Reagan, forget Thatcher, forget Churchill.
I mean, these guys are pygmies.
They barely reach up to your kneecaps.
I mean, you're the Napoleon of our times.
And New Hampshire is the snows of Moscow.
No, no, wait, that's not right.
Anyway, we'll talk about these amazing turnaround in the latest polling, by the way, shows that Newt is now nipping at Mitt's heels here in the granite state.
Newt leads in Iowa, South Carolina, and he's a close second.
New Hampshire, this is the same strategy Mitt tried last time around that worked out so well for him.
If you recall, he didn't bother much with Iowa in 2008.
And so Mike Huckabee won in 2008.
And his strategy was to have New Hampshire as his firewall.
And instead, in the week between Iowa and New Hampshire, his support crumbled away.
And Mitt wound up losing to John McCain.
Now, at the moment, we have Gingrich leading in Iowa, South Carolina, and he's a close second in the granite state of New Hampshire.
Let me see where the New Hampshire numbers here.
Oh, yeah, here we go.
Here we go.
Romney is at 31% in New Hampshire, but Newt is close behind at 27%.
So we may be looking for, we've spent the whole previous part of the primary season looking for the un-Romney.
We may be in serious need of an un-Gingrich here.
It's Newt versus Mitt.
Mitt versus Newt.
Who do you favor?
You want to go with President Neither of the above?
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Newt versus Mitt, Mitt versus Newt.
One way or another, they're going to get you.
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Mark Stein InfraRush on the EIB network talking about the phenomenal return of Newt Gingrich, which we will discuss.
And Herman Kane is reassessing his candidacy, apparently, as we speak.
We'll keep you up to date with any developments from the Kane campaign.
Also today, I see this story out of Los Angeles.
A group of men who were forced to pay for entry to a Playboy party while women were admitted for free is suing the company, claiming sex discrimination.
This was a leather meets lace party at the Playboy Mansion.
You know the way these things work.
If you're going to some fabulous party like this at the Playboy Mansion, the hot chicks get in free, but the guys, the guys who want to meet the hot chicks, have to pay $1,000.
So now that's the way it's always worked.
That's the American way.
The hot chicks get in free.
It's not just at the Playboy Mansion, but nightclubs across the fruited plain, that the hot chicks get in free, but the men have to pay an admission charge.
Well, now the men are saying that this is sexual discrimination and that it promotes harmful negative stereotypes.
Playboy, Playboy is apparently promoting harmful negative stereotypes, suggesting that women are uniquely hot.
And so now men are suing.
They've got a class action suit to sue players.
This is true.
I mean, years ago, I remember years ago, I sent in some nude shots of me.
I would have made a perfect centerfold.
And for some reason, Hugh Hefner wouldn't run them.
What's wrong with you, Hugh?
Are you promoting negative stereotypes of naked men?
This is outrageous.
So men are now suing Playboy for sex discrimination.
This is your death of the Republic right here, by the way.
Here we go from the Seattle Post Intelligencer.
Banned players settle with gay softball group.
Sounded like a happy ending from one of those lifestyle channel movies at first.
Banned players settled, but no, it turns out a gay softball organization has agreed to pay an undisclosed sum to three players who were disqualified from its 2008 Gay Softball World Series because of their perceived heterosexuality.
And as part of the settlement, the team will now be awarded the second place trophy.
It was denied at the time.
In the actual on-the-field of battle, this softball team actually came second in the Gay Softball World Series, but then they were denied their trophy because the authorities ruled that three of the players here were heterosexual.
These guys played for a San Francisco-based team called D2.
Rumors had persisted that the team was stacked with state.
Rumors had persisted that the team was stacked with straight ringers.
I had difficulty getting through that sentence because I don't believe it has ever been required in the entire history of the English language.
Rumors had persisted that the team was stacked with straight ringers.
And rival teams filed a protest accusing D2 of exceeding the limit of two heterosexual players per team.
Tournament officials confened a protest committee and brought in five D2 members for questioning.
In a conference room filled with about 25 people, the players were asked questions about their sexuality and private lives.
The protest committee then voted on whether the men were sufficiently gay.
Two were determined to be gay enough for the gay softball series, but the committee found Messrs. Appilado, Charles and Russ to be straight.
They were outraged by this.
It's a grotesque slander to say these guys are heterosexual, and they were quite right to sue about it.
I mean, if you let a slur like that sit out there, there's no telling where it might end.
So these three members of the gay softball team were falsely slurred as being heterosexual.
Charles, Mr. Charles, acknowledged being married to a woman, but insisted he was still gay.
And Mr. Appilato admitted that he was more attracted to women, but insisted he was both gay and straight.
And they weren't given the option of claiming to be bisexual because, as one observer at the hearing commented, this is not a bisexual World Series.
This is a gay World Series.
So the gay softball police came down on these guys and ruled that these three guys claiming to play for the gay softball team were in fact closet heterosexuals and they were kicked out and their trophy taken away.
And now they've been ruled to be a judge.
They've agreed, the gay softball World Series team has been, it's like one of, it's like, what is it, the old, yeah, it is.
It's a hardball approach to gay softball.
You're certainly right on that, Mr. Snerdley.
It's a bit like who's on first?
It's the old Abbott and Costello routine.
Who's on top?
I don't know.
Anyway, that's what they were doing when they called a big hearing to determine what sexual practices these guys engaged in.
This is America in the 21st century.
The gay softball World Series has to settle with three bisexual players for kicking them out for perpetuating the grotesque slander that they in fact were closet heterosexuals.
This is America in the 21st century.
So this idea of the Playboy guys being denied entry for the Playboy mansion and so suing Playboy on the grounds that they discriminate in favor of hot-looking chicks may have some merit to it.
I certainly think Playboy magazine would benefit from having more naked men on their centerfolds.
I think it's only fair women have had 60 years of hogging all those centerfolds and playmates.
Why are there no male bunnies?
You never see any male bunnies at the Playboy Mansion, do you?
I mean, these, these, these, it's not, well, Mr. Snowley is now saying it doesn't work.
It doesn't work.
It's nothing to do with what works.
It's what's fair.
That's what's fair.
It's what's fair, isn't it?
By the way, can hot grandmas get into the Playboy Mansion for free?
I mean, you don't see a lot of 87-year-old women sitting around Hefner's hot tub, do you?
I think they might have a suit, too.
How come all those centerfolds are so young?
This is America in the 21st century, folks.
Gay.
Well, have you seen Hugh Hefner these days, Mr. Snurdley?
Why does he get to sit around?
He's like 112 years old, and he's still sitting around with those three 19-year-old girlfriends of his.
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Let's go to James in Ocala, Florida.
James, great to have you with us.
You're live on the Rush Limbaugh show talking about Newt versus Mitt versus Newt.
Are you excited?
And which of those boxes are you anxious to check?
Neither.
Man, I'm going to tell you something.
If you put that fat, white Republican Party hack up against Obama, and I'm talking about Gingrich, if there's any doubt, you might as well hand in the next four years.
Now, why do you think that?
You really think that Newt is unelectable?
Well, I really do because I'm going to tell you why.
Yesterday, I was, and I'm a true conservative.
Let me just tell you that up front.
But I was watching a speech by Barack Obama, and I actually found myself wanting to like the man.
And he's smooth as he can be.
And I'm going to tell you, he's just – if you put Newt Gingrich up against Obama, you might as well hand him the next four years.
And I think – Well, wait, wait, wait.
Wait a minute.
Newt's whole theory is that when you put Newt up against Obama, Newt will clobber him.
That in a Gingrich-Obama debate, you know, that the teleprompter kid is just not going to stand a chance against the guy who is the intellectual colossus of the American right, as I believe Newt thinks of himself.
No, I don't.
See, most Americans don't look at it like that, though.
Unfortunately, it's become a popularity contest.
And I'm just, I'm really, I think we need, what they're trying to do is they're trying to pick our candidate for us.
They have absolutely railroaded Herman Cain, who is capable of beating Barack Obama.
Yeah, well, wait a minute.
The thing about Herman Cain is if he did have a 13-year relationship with this woman, and he's run the issue with Herman Kane is that he's had a 13-year relationship with this woman, and he's been going around campaigning saying, I've been married to the same woman for 40 years, and she's the love of my life.
He's not running as Silvio Berlusconi.
That's the thing.
It's like, it's, again, it's the authenticity issue here.
Well, I see that as well.
Did Herman say, what did he have to say on it?
Well, Herman Kane has said, yes, he's had a 13-year relationship with her, but he hasn't been engaging in the full, whatever you can say it, whatever the term for it is in polite society.
But he's basically, he's claimed to have, he said, yes, he'd known her.
But, you know, going back to the, before the 13-year thing, by the way, what about all the business of not knowing anything about mangling his abortion questions and mangling his foreign policy questions?
Where do you come down with Herman Kane on that?
I mean, do you want to put that guy up in the room against Obama?
Well, I do, and I'm going to tell you why, because Herman Kane is a human being.
He's going to have gas.
I've seen Obama make so many gaffes that it's not even funny, but yet that's not shown in the media.
But Herman Kane is likable.
He has a plan, and people will vote for Herman Kane.
I still believe that, and I still believe that.
Okay, now we've left out the guy who's got all the money and all the endorsements and the fabulous hair, and that's Mitt Romney.
You've said Gingrich against Obama, no chance.
Herman Kane can beat Obama.
What about Romney?
Because Herman Kane's out.
He's gone.
He ain't going to be the nominee.
Well, now, my take on Romney is, you know, he is the quintessential Republican candidate.
But, again, I was watching the speech by him, and you have to make yourself want to actually like him.
He's the kind of person that I think most people would like to see lose just for no other reason than I don't know what the reason is, but you just have to make yourself like it.
You'll come up with one.
Don't worry about it, James.
Wow, this is terrific.
Judge James.
He's voting for president, neither of the above in the Republican primary.
Let's go to Ronnie in Texarkana, Arkansas.
Ronnie, you are live on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Great to have you with us.
Good morning, Mark.
How are you doing?
I'm doing good, all things considered.
Yeah, well, I'm another one of them folks.
I say, don't write Herman Kane plumb out of the picture just yet.
There's a whole lot of us here that are hoping a feller like him come up.
And we believe that he's one of the few people that could honestly beat Barack Hussein in the presidential election.
He could out debate him.
He could probably teach him two or three lessons, however you want to put it.
Wait a minute.
Wait a minute, though, Ronnie.
Now, look, what you like about him, right, Herman Kane, is that he's a successful businessman and he's the outsider, and he's not like your Beltway, Washington smoothie types like Gingrich and Romney, right?
That's right.
He's not one of them greasy, slimy politicians.
No, but here's the difference.
He's got to know something about something.
When Ronald Reagan ran for elected office, Ronald Reagan, if you look at Reagan at the time he ran for president, he'd spent by that point the previous 30 years honing a coherent philosophical worldview that meant whatever question you threw about him,
whether it was about unions, whether it was about the Soviet Union, whatever it was, he understood what a Reaganite take on that question was.
When you ask Herman Kane a question about Syria, you can see him flipping through the mental roller decks in his head.
You can see his eyes revolving like on a slot machine, trying to frantically find the little prompt card that his foreign policy guy has written for him on Syria.
I mean, you think that's good enough to be president of the United States?
I think he's the best choice we got.
Yes, I do, for the Republican Party.
Because if you take old Newt Gingrich and put him in there as the Republican nominee, you're handing Barack Obama four more years in the White House.
If you put Newt Gingrich, Mitt Romney in there, you're handing Barack Obama four more years in the White House because they want anybody south of the Mason-Dixon line vote for either one of them.
We know Newt Gingrich.
We know his past.
We know how he acted, how he used to be.
We know why he got voted out, why he had to step down from Speaker of the House because he got voted out.
Yeah, so when, well, he quit as Speaker of the House just to run the history in 1998.
It was the year of Monica, and my late friend William F. Buckley Jr., in his column just before the election, said that on Tuesday we would hear the shot.
It would be the shot heard around the world as America voted against what Clinton had done to the presidency.
And instead, the Republicans lost seats in that election.
They didn't lose a lot.
They just lost five seats.
But it was enough for Gingrich to resign and quit the speakership.
Since when he's done a lot of other things.
But Ronnie, thank you for your thank you for your call.
You know, the problem is this.
Everyone wants the kind of glamour boy to run against a glamour boy, solid, electable, conservative candidate who fires up the base to run against Obama.
And it shouldn't have been that difficult this year.
It shouldn't have been after the Tea Party sweep last year.
It shouldn't have been that easy.
We're told all these guys are great.
Chris Christie's a great guy.
Mitch Daniels is a great guy.
You know, they all declined in the end to Paul Ryan, Paul Ryan.
They all declined in the end to get into the game.
And Sarah Palin, you know, I still get emails from people saying, oh, yeah, well, you know, Sarah Palin could have had it.
Sarah could have had it if she'd wanted it.
Well, she didn't run.
She didn't run.
These are the guys who ran.
There were only a few guys who ran, and America got a lot of them.
It got a look at them.
It's been a very weird season, by the way.
There hasn't been a lot of retail campaigning changing the nature of these things.
It's not about strange, wacky encounters in diners or outside sawmills.
It's mainly been the fact that we've had 112 debates in the last three months on TV.
And Newt, who had no money, had no ground staff, basically held his own in the debate.
And he was the guy left standing when Rick Perry floundered on the departments he wanted to abolish and Herman Kaine floundered on the foreign policy stuff.
Newt was the guy still standing in the debates because we haven't had a normal retail primary season in Iowa and New Hampshire.
And that is the situation we're left in.
But, you know, this is Ronnie is right that there is a danger here that Barack Obama will get a second term just because, as last time round, the Republican nominating process fails.
It failed in 2008.
It ran a candidate who fought a disastrous campaign against Obama.
And it's entirely possible the same thing's going to happen this time around.
But these are the candidates who ran.
It's no good looking for messiahs who chose to sit it out.
The messiah shouldn't sit it out.
I would have loved it if Paul Ryan had decided to get in into the game, but he didn't.
These are the guys who ran, and these are the guys we're stuck with.
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You know, one of the things I love about Newt, he's, by the way, this other poll in New Hampshire, I think the first one we mentioned, it had Romney 31% and Newt at 27.
There's another poll out today that shows Romney holding on to his lead at 34%, but Newt chasing him at 24%.
So Newt's up in both polls.
Newt has a ton of ideas.
Newt's one of these guys who's got like 50 ideas, and the usual wrap on them is that 25 of them are crazy ideas, but the other 25 are great.
I think the ballots is actually, you know, 45 of them are crazy ideas and, you know, five of them are worth looking at.
But when you look at them, they all just crumble away.
For example, his solution to immigration is that if people are here illegally, if they're in the country, if they're undocumented, as I am, for example, and they're just here, scoff laws, been here decades, taking jobs of Americans.
There's lots of American anchormen who could guest host for Rush Limbaugh.
And instead, I come here and I, you know, it's a choice between seasonal fruit picking or guest hosting for Rush.
And the money's a little better, guest hosting for Rush and the seasonal fruit picking.
So you get an undocumented guy in to do it.
And after he's been here decades, you say, okay, maybe he should have what Newt calls a path to legality.
This is supposedly a less toxic phrase than path to citizenship, because when people say path to citizenship, people hear path to citizenship, they rightly hear amnesty.
So he's now doing this path to legality thing, which is which is a which for a start is like a weasel evasive phrase, a path to legality.
I don't even know.
I mean, path to legality, it's his way of artfully splitting the difference.
And he says he's not going to make the decisions on amnestying 10, 20, 30 million people who are in the country illegally.
Instead, it's going to be left up to local boards at the municipal level, like they did with draft boards during the war, apparently.
So that if, for example, you're like me and you've been living illegally in Dead Moose Junction, New Hampshire, for decades, you can go along to town meeting and the town will be able to vote on whether they want you to be allowed to stay in the United States legally.
And in my case, because all my neighbors hate me, they'd obviously vote me down.
But then there'd be some guy five miles up the road, exactly the same situation as me, and he goes to town meeting and they all put up their hands and so he's allowed to get a green card.
So you would have local green cards.
And Newt hails this as typical of his outside-the-box thinking.
Do you think that would survive?
As I said, when we were talking earlier, we're living in a country where bisexual guys sue the gay softball league for slandering them as heterosexual, where guys sue Playboy for discriminating in favor of women.
That's the nutso country we live in, folks.
Do you think for a moment it will survive the first court challenge?
That the guy in South Podunk goes to town meeting and he gets denied his green card, but his cousin in North Podunk goes to town meeting and he gets his green card.
Do you think that's going to survive a court challenge for a moment?
No, it's not.
It's not.
It sounds clever.
It's clever in the sort of glib way that Newt is extremely expert at, but it's not a plan.
It's not a plan of any kind.
And what's interesting about it is what I find worrying about it is, as I said, this weasel phrase, you know, he doesn't want to come out for path to citizenship because that sounds, you know, amnesty, amnesty, amnesty.
So he's invented this phrase now, path to legality.
Sounds like something from a, you know, Warner Brothers gangster movie in the 1930s.
Oh, maybe, why don't you go straight?
You could turn your life around.
You could get on the path to legality.
The path to legality, this is Newt's new phrase now for splitting the difference on immigration.
This plan, this is why he gets thought of.
It's a tribute, by the way, to the soporific caution of Mitt Romney and at the same time, the absolute ineptitude of Herman Kane on anything other than the 999 thing.
That Newt is allowed to pass this stuff off as great thinking.
It's not great thinking at all.
It's not great thinking.
It doesn't survive thinking for the moment.
To say some guy in one town gets his green card because his neighbors like him and the guy 10 miles up the road doesn't get a green card because his neighbors don't like him.
It doesn't pass muster for a moment.
It's typical of Newt's Newt.
Newt is like a gadfly.
He flitters from one big brainstorm to another.
He's not like Rick Perry, who doesn't remember which departments he wants to abolish.
He's not like Herman Kane, who only knows one line on Libya and one line on Syria.
And if he can't remember them, he's screwed because he's got nothing else to say.
He's got no genuine, coherent thought on Libya except the five words that have been put in his mouth.
Newt is endlessly facile, endlessly articulate, and can flip and hop and skip like a frog across lily pads from one brilliant transformative idea to the other.
But when you look at the lily pads, they're extremely soggy and waterlogged.
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Mark Stein in for rush.
More to come.
Mark Stein in for rush on the EIB network.
Newt versus Mitt, Mitt versus Newt, Moot versus NIT, NIT versus Moot.
It's so exciting.
It's so exciting.
That's what it's come down to in this landmark election.
By the way, by the way, the IMF predicts that China will become the world's leading economic power in the year 2016.
Everybody always says this is the most consequential election of our lifetimes, but this actually is quite a consequential one because the guy we elect next November will be the last president of the United States to preside over the world's dominant economy.
It is actually an epochal shift unless we elect a guy who's pledged to do something about it.
And that's why the fact that it's come down to Obama versus Mitt or Newt is quite revealing of how serious conservative candidates take the situation we're facing.
I see American Airlines, by the way, has filed for bankruptcy protection, but they say you won't notice any change in service.
Speaking personally, having flown American a couple of weeks ago, that's what I was afraid of.
Mark Stein in for rush on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.