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Nov. 29, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 29, 2011, Tuesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 247 Podcast.
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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 uh if you're having difficulty hearing me, it's because I'm having a hard time uh making myself heard over the plaid clad throngs baying Newt free or die.
Newt won um the much sought after endorsement of the state newspaper, the Union Leader, uh a day or two ago.
I think it was yesterday.
Uh 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.
Uh I don't think it I don't think it hurts Mitt so much as it hurts all Newt's rivals for the role of uh of the unromney.
Where are they now, all the unromnies of the week uh from uh a couple of months back.
Rick Perry, Herman Kane.
Uh a Georgia woman, by the way, Herman Cain is currently reassessing his candidacy.
Uh he's just put out a statement saying he's reassessing his candidacy.
A Georgia woman has uh announced that she had a thirteen year love affair with Herman Cain, uh, which is uh twelve years and forty-nine weeks longer than the Republican base's love affair with Herman Kane, so that's pretty amazing.
Uh I love the way uh you know, and these guys are uh hot when they're the uh 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 on you like a ton of bricks.
Um I remember being critical about uh Rick Perry's first debate performance and then getting all these emails saying, Well, Stein, that just proves you're one of these cocktails swelling inside the beltway, pansified rhino squish wimps who wants to be invited to dinner parties with Koki Roberts or whatever.
Uh and then it turns out that the first Perry debate performance wasn't an anomaly, but uh 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 uh 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 I get all these emails saying, Well, Stein, you just you just don't get it, not knowing anything about the rest of the world is a sign of how authentic Herman Cain is.
Well, now the Herman Cain emails have uh have dried up.
Uh Mr. Snardley is booing me.
He's uh you you're not gagged out with the uh the Herbert Kane ship, are you, Mr. No.
Half the female population of Chicago is apparently on board the Herbert King ship, and maybe that's what's uh Yeah, yeah, it is, it is.
We we're back in Wilt Shaber country with Hermann Kane.
But I am amazed, to be honest, I am amazed anybody could have a thirteen-year affair with Herbert Cade.
Uh, because uh he has uh he has a certain limited appeal, I think, Hudo, with that whole uh you know, now go to my website and look up my plan 999.
I mean it's cute the first time.
Uh and I can imagine it's cute if you're having a candlelit dinner with the guy in Atlanta, but you know, for thirteen 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 uh he does know the woman, but that they did not engage in uh sexual congress.
I'll I'll try I think that's that's the current position.
But he may just have misremembered like he did when he was asked something about Syria, so we'll uh we'll have to see how that works out.
As they uh uh but uh but I he's he's issuing very feeble denials, and they're not forceful enough, as they uh as they say in Germany, Herman.
nine nine nine, that's the way to do it.
Um my uh 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 uh just a few months ago.
So we will get to uh to Newt.
1 800 28282, if you want to talk about the state of play in the Republican race.
Um yeah, I don't know.
Mitt versus Newt, Newt versus Mitt.
I mean, I on I honestly wish uh I I'm not saying, you know, it's a neither of the above box scenario, but I I would like a bit more choice in there.
I always like Michelle Buckman.
She's always uh quoting my book out on the stump.
She did it uh well, no, no, no.
Rick Rick Perry, I like Rick Perry, all his uh Texan swagger, uh Mr. Snerdley.
I liked all that Texan swagger.
And then when he came up to uh 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.
Uh is like uh it was like uh Carol Channing impersonation night.
I don't know I don't know what he th I don't know what the idea of that was.
If he'd broken 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, uh Michelle bore old Michelle Backman, I would like her to be back up in the polls.
She uh she read my book again in actually in whatever that was, the uh national security debate the other night, talking about America and China, when she said when money drains, power drains, which is uh straight out of page three or whatever of my book.
Um Yeah, John Huntsman, let's not forget John Huntsman.
He's amazingly at something like eight point nine percent in New Hampshire.
So uh uh uh well, eight point nine per cent of the population of New Hampshire is apparently supporting John Huntsman for uh for president.
So maybe you know, Huntsman will be next week's uh unromney.
Um but you know, uh uh in the in the meantime, uh Herman Cain's deg uh Herman Cain's uh reassessing his candidacy, Rick Perry uh hasn't uh is mired in his brain freeze of a couple of weeks ago.
Michelle Bachman is uh admired in single digits since she started quoting me.
I deeply regret that apparently quoting uh my book on the stump is a sign that she's absolutely uh far too extreme to be considered for president.
I I love Michelle Bachman, by the way.
I always like the bit in the debate where she says she's had uh forty-seven foster children, or is it forty-seven Chiefs of Staff?
I forget which, I don't but I don't care how many Chiefs of Staff she's uh she's got through.
I'm a I'm a big fan of hers.
I wanted her to be uh the designated unromney, but instead it's Mit and Newt Newton Mitt.
Uh Newt, where's this uh 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.
Um because uh that's that's the choice now.
You got Mitt.
Uh that's a guy who supported government-run health care, climate change Huey, and amnesties for illegals, and so he gets written off as a rhino squish.
And so we need a solid conservative altern alternative.
So we've got Newt, a guy who supported uh government run health care, climate change hooy, and amnesties for illegals, and so he's apparently the authentic verse of rock ribbed conservatism in the race.
You know, I I wrote I I mean this is a lesson at how uh the the difference uh a few months go made.
I I wrote Newt's political obituary when he stepped down as speaker uh back in nineteen ninety-nine.
And uh I looked up that that piece again uh uh uh uh uh a week or so a ba back, and uh he was what I loved about Newt was the kind of absurd sort of self-aggrandizing thing.
He he uh he he wrote uh 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 from uh at uh Theatres Nationwide from Friday.
Uh Newt Gingrich, the definer of civilization.
So I was thinking he's learned his lesson, and he's not sort of doing this whole self-aggrandising thing.
And it's true he hasn't yet uh called himself the Defider of Civilization.
Uh but the other day, after getting the uh the the Union Leader endorsement, he compared himself to um uh Reagan and Thatcher.
Uh 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 uh publisher, 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 get 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 you to your kneecaps.
I mean, you're the uh you're the Napoleon of our times, and uh and New Hampshire is uh the snows of uh Moscow.
No, no, wait, that's that's not right.
Anyway, we'll talk about these amazing turnaround in uh the the latest polling, by the way, shows that Newt is now nipping at uh Mitt's heels here in the granite state.
Uh Newt leads in Iowa, South Carolina, and he's a close second.
Uh New Hampshire, this is the same strategy Mitt tried uh last time round that worked out so well for him.
If you recall uh he didn't bother much with Iowa in 2008, and so Mike Huckabee won uh in two thousand and eight, and his strategy was to have uh New Hampshire as his firewall, and instead in the week between Iowa and New Hampshire, his support crumbled away, and uh 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.
What's uh let me see where the where are the New Hampshire numbers here?
Oh yeah, here we go, here we go.
Romney is at thirty-one percent in New Hampshire, but Newt is close behind at twenty seven percent.
So we may be looking for we've we've spent the whole pr previous uh part of the primary season looking for the unromney.
We may be in serious need of an un Gingrich here.
It's Newt vs.
Mid.
Mitt versus Newt.
Who do you favor?
Uh you you you want to go with uh President neither of the above?
Give me a call.
1800-282-2882, Mark Stein, InfoRush on the EIB network.
The Republican Party primary.
Newt vs.
Mitt, Mitt versus Newt.
One way or another they're gonna getcha.
1800-282-2882, Mark Stein Inforush on the EIB network, uh talking about the phenomenal return of uh of Newt Gingrich, uh, which we will will discuss and the rest and Hammond Kane is reassessing his candidacy, apparently, as we speak.
Uh we'll we'll keep you up to date with uh any developments uh from the Kane campaign.
Uh also today I see uh 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 uh 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 a thousand dollars.
So now that's the way it's always worked.
That's the American way.
The uh 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, uh, but the men have to pay an admission charge.
Well now the men are saying uh 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.
Uh they've got a class action suit to suit uh to sue play.
Ah, this is true.
I mean, years ago.
I remember years ago I sent in some nude shots at 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 are you promoting negative stereotypes of naked men?
This is uh this is outrageous.
So so men are now suing Playboy for sex discrimination.
This is 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.
Band 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, the the this softball team actually came uh second in the gay softball world series, but then uh they were denied their trophy uh because the uh the the authorities ruled that three of the players here were uh n were heterosexual.
Um these guys played for a San Francisco based team called D two.
Rumors had persisted that the team was stacked with states Rumours 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 D two of exceeding the limit of two heterosexual players per team.
Tournament officials convened a protest committee and brought in five D two members for questioning.
Uh in a conference room filled with about twenty-five 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 uh Messrs Apellado Charles and Russ to be straight.
They were outraged by this.
Um it's a grotesque slander to uh say these guys are hy heterosexual, and they were quite right to sue about it.
I mean, if you let a slur like that sit out there, there's there's no telling where it might end.
Uh so these uh three uh three uh members of the gay softball team were falsely slurred as being heterosexual.
Uh Charles, Mr. Charles, uh acknowledged being married to a woman but insisted he was still gay.
Uh and uh Mr Appellato uh uh uh admitted that he was more attracted to women, but insisted he was both gay and straight.
Um and uh and uh they weren't given the option of claiming to be bisexual uh 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 they were uh the 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 now And now they've been ruled to be a judge they've agreed uh the the gay softball world series team has been uh it's like one of it's like what is it, the old Yeah, it is, it's a hardball approach to gay softball.
That's certainly well, you're certainly right on that, Mr. Snowdley.
It's a bit like uh who's on first, uh it's the old Abbott and Costello routine.
Who's on top?
I don't know.
Anyway, that's what they were doing uh when they were when the when they uh called a big hearing to determine what sexual practices these guys engaged in.
This is America in the twenty-first century.
Uh the gay softball world series has to settle with three uh bisexual players for kicking them out for perpetuating the grotesque slander that they in fact were closet heterosexuals.
This is this is America in the twenty-first century.
So this this idea of the Playboy uh guys being uh denied entry for the Playboy mansion and so suing Playboy on the grounds that they uh discriminate in favour of hot looking chicks uh may have some merit to it.
I certainly think Playboy magazine would benefit from having uh more I think they ought to having more naked men uh in uh on their centifolds.
I think it's only I think it's only fair women have had uh sixty years of uh hogging all those centifolds and playmates.
Why are there no male bunnies?
You never see any male bunnies at the Playboy mansion, do you?
I mean, these these it's not well, mister Mrs. 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 it's what's what's fair, isn't it?
By the way, can hot grandmas get into the play can get into the Playboy mansion for free?
I mean, uh uh you don't see a lot of eighty seven year old women sitting around Hefner's uh hot tub, do you?
I think they might have a they might have a suit too.
How come all those uh how come all those centerfolds are so young?
Uh this is America in the twenty-first century, folks.
Uh gay gay well, have you seen Hugh Hefner these days, Mr. Snerdley?
Why does he get to sit around?
He's like uh a hundred and twelve years old uh and the uh and he's still sitting around with those uh three nineteen year old uh girlfriends of his.
Mark Stein in for Rush, more straight ahead.
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Let's go to James in O'Cala, Florida.
James, great to have you with us.
You're live on the Rush Limbaugh Show, talking about Newt vs.
Mitt Mitt versus Newt.
Uh are you excited and uh which which of those boxes are you anxious to check?
Um neither.
Man, I'm gonna 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 why do you think that?
You really think that Newt is unelectable?
Well, yeah, I I really do, because I'm gonna tell you why.
Yesterday I was I I 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 is he he's smooth as he can be.
And and I'm gonna tell you, he's just if you put Newt Gingrich up against Obama, you might as well hand him the next four years.
And and I think I'm Well, wait, wait, wait wait a minute.
Your Newt's whole theory is that when you put Newt up against Obama, Newt will clobber him, that in a Gingrich Obama debate, uh you know, the the teleprompter kid is just not gonna stand a chance against uh uh the guy who is the intellectual colossus of the American right, as I believe Newt thinks of himself.
Uh no, I don't see it most Americans don't look at it like that, though.
Unfortunately it's become uh a popularity contest and uh and and I'm just uh I I'm really I I think we need what they're trying to do is they're trying to pick our candidate for us.
Um they have absolutely railroaded Herman Cain, um who is capable of beating Barack Obama.
Yeah, well wait wait a wait a minute.
The thing about Herman Cain is uh if he did have a thirteen year relationship with uh with this woman and he's run the the issue with Herman Cain is that he's had a thirteen year relationship with this woman, and he's been uh going around campaigning saying, I've been married to the same woman for forty years and she's the love of my life and all he's not running as Silvio Berlusconi.
That's the thing.
It's like it's it's again it's uh it's the it's the authenticity issue here.
Well, I I I see that as well.
Did did did Herman say what what did he have to say on it?
Well, uh Herman Cain has said yes, he's had a thirteen year relationship with her, but he hasn't uh been uh uh been engaging in uh uh the uh full uh uh whatever you can say it uh whatever the term for it is in polite society.
But he's basically he's he's claimed to have he said yes he'd known her for but you know, going back to the before the thirteen year thing, by the way.
Uh what about all the business of uh you know, not knowing anything about uh mangling his abortion questions And uh mangling his foreign policy questions.
Where where do you come down on with Herman Kane on that?
I mean, uh you do you want to put that guy up in the room against Obama?
Well, I I do, and I'm gonna tell you why, because uh Hermann Cain is a human being.
He's gonna have gas.
I've seen Obama make so many gas that that it's not even funny, but yet that's not shown in the media.
But Herman Cain is is likeable, he has a plan, and people will vote for Herman Cain.
I I I still believe that and I still believe it.
Okay, now we've left out we've left out the guy who's got all the money and all the endorsements and that and the fabulous hair, and that's Mitt Romney.
Uh wa you you said Gingrich against Obama, no chance, Herman Cain can beat Obama.
What about Romney?
Because Herman Cain's out.
He's gone, he ain't gonna be the nominee.
Well, now my my take on Romney is you know, he is the quintessential Republican candidate.
But again, I was watching the speech by him and and you have to make yourself want to actually like him.
He's the kind of person that that I think most people would like to see lose just for for no other reason than I don't know what the reason is, but uh you just have to make yourself like it.
You'll come up with one.
Don't worry about it, James.
Well, this is uh this is uh this is terrific.
Jad's 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 you doing?
I'm doing good, uh all things considered.
Yeah.
Well uh I'm another one of them folks.
I say don't write Herman Kane, plumb out a picture just yet.
Uh there's a whole lot of us here that hoping a feller like him uh come up and uh w we believe that he's one of the few people that could honestly beat uh Barack Hussein in uh in the presidential election.
Uh he could out debate him.
Uh he could probably teach him two or three lessons, uh however you want to put it.
But now if you Well wait wait a minute, wait a minute though, Ronnie.
Now uh look, uh what you what you like about him, right, uh Herman Cain is that he's a successful businessman and he's the outsider and he's not like your Beltway Washington smoothie types like uh Gingrich and Romney, right?
That's right.
He's not one of them greasy slimy politicians.
No, but but but but but here's the difference.
He's gotta know something about something.
Uh when when Ronald Reagan ran for elected office, uh Ronald Reagan, if you uh look at Reagan at the time he ran for president, he'd spent uh by that point the previous thirty years honing a coherent philosophical world view uh that meant whatever question you threw about him,
uh whether whether it was about unions, uh whether it was about the Soviet Union, whatever it was, he he understood what uh a Reaganite take on that question was.
When you when you uh ask uh Herman Kane a question about Syria, you can see him flipping through the r mental Rolodex uh in his head.
You can see his eyes revolving like uh on a slot machine, uh trying to try to c frantically find the little uh uh prompt card that his his uh foreign policy guy has written for him on Syria.
Uh I mean you're 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 uh as the Republican nominee, you're handing Barack Obama four years uh four more years in the White House.
If you put Newt Gingrich uh is uh Mitt Romney.
Mitt Romney in there, you're handing Barack Obama four more years in the White House because they don't need anybody they don't want anybody south of the Mason Dixon line vote for either one of them.
We know Gingrich, we've we know his past, we know how he acted, how he used to be.
Um 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 uh well he got he g he got he he quit as Speaker of the House uh just to r run the uh history in nineteen ninety eight.
Uh it was the year of Monica and uh my uh late friend William F. Buckley Jr. in his column just before the election, uh said That uh on Tuesday we would hear the shot it would be the shot heard around the world as America voted against uh 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.
Uh but it was enough for Gingrich uh to resign and uh and quit the speakership uh since when he's done a lot of other things.
But Ronnie, thank you for your thank you for your call.
You know the the the problem is this everyone wants the kind of glamour boy to run against uh a glamour boy solid uh electable conservative candidate who fires up the base uh 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.
Uh we're told all these guys are great.
Chris Christie's a great grime, 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 uh to get into the game.
And uh Sarah Palin, uh you know, I still get emails from people pa saying uh 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.
Uh there were only a few guys who ran, and uh America got a lot of them.
I it got a look at them.
It's been a very weird season, by the way.
There hasn't been a lot of retail uh 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 a hundred and twelve debates uh 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 uh when Rick Perry floundered and uh on the uh departments he wanted to abolish, and Herman Cain floundered on the foreign policy stuff.
Uh 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 uh that is the situation we're left in.
But you know, the r the the this is Ronnie is right uh that there is a danger here that uh Barack Obama will get a second term just because as last time round, the Republican nominating process fails.
Uh it failed in two thousand and eight.
It ran a candidate who fought a disastrous campaign uh against Obama, and uh and it's entirely possible the same thing's gonna happen this time round.
But these are the candidates who ran.
It's no good looking for Messires who choose to 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.
One eight hundred two eight two, two eighty eight two taking your calls on the turnaround in the fortunes of Newt Gingrich.
More to come.
Mark Stein in for Rush on the EIB network.
One eight hundred two eight two eight eight two.
You know, one of the one of the things I love uh about uh uh Newt, he's by the way, this other poll in uh New Hampshire, I think it I think the first one we mentioned, uh it had Romney 31% and uh Newt at twenty-seven.
This uh there's another poll out today uh shows uh Romney holding on uh to his lead at 34%, but Newt uh chasing him at twenty-four percent.
So Newt's up in both polls.
Uh Newt has a ton of ideas.
Newt's one of these guys who's got like uh fifty ideas, and um and the usual rap on them is that twenty-five of them are crazy ideas, but the other twenty-five are great.
I think it's I think it's tr I think the uh the the the ballots is actually, you know, forty-five of them are crazy ideas, and you know, five of them uh worth looking at.
But when you look at them, they all just crumble away.
For example, his solution to immigration is that uh if people are here illegally, uh if they're in the country, if they're undocumented, as I am, for example, and they're just uh here scoff laws, been here decades taking jobs of Americans.
There's lots of American uh anchormen who could uh 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 uh 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, uh you say, okay, maybe uh 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, uh, which is uh which is uh 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 uh ten, twenty, thirty 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 uh uh draft boards during the war, apparently.
So that if, for example, you're like me and you've been uh uh living illegally in Dead Moose Junction, New Hampshire for for decades, you can go along to town meeting and the town will be able to vote uh on whether they want you to be allowed to stay in the United States uh legally.
And in my case, because uh all my neighbors hate me, they'd obviously uh 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 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 uh where uh bisexual guys sue the gay softball league uh for slandering them as heterosexual, where where guys sue Playboy for discriminating in favor of women.
That's the not so country we live in, folks.
Do you think for a moment it will survive the first court challenge that uh the guy in uh South Podunk goes to town meeting and he gets denied his green card, uh, but his cousin in North Podunk goes to town meeting and he gets his uh green card.
Do you think that's gonna 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 uh of any kind.
And what's interesting about it is uh i is uh what what I find worrying about it is as I said, this weasel phrase, you know, he doesn't want to be 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 uh in the in the uh in the nineteen thirties.
Oh maybe, why 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 this is Newt's new phrase now uh for splitting the difference on immigration.
This plan this this is why he gets thought of it's a tribute, by the way, to the soporific caution of Mitt Romney, uh and at the same time uh the absolute ineptitude of of Herman Kane on anything other than the nine nine nine thing, uh that Newt is allowed to pass this stuff off as great thinking.
It's not great thinking at all, it's not great think it doesn't survive thinking for the moment.
To say some guy uh in uh in one town uh he gets his green card because his neighbors like him, and the guy ten miles up the road doesn't get a green card because his neighbors don't like him.
It does it doesn't pass muster for a moment.
It's typical of two Newt's Newt Knut is like a gadfly.
He flitters from one big brainstorm to another.
He's not like uh he's not like Rick Perry, uh who doesn't remember uh which uh which departments he wants to abolish.
He's not like uh Hermann Kane, who only knows one line on Libya and one line on Syria, and if he can't remember uh them, he's screwed, because he's got nothing else to say.
He's got n he he's got no genuine coherent thought on Libya except the five words that have been put in his mouth.
Uh Newt Newt is uh endlessly facile, endlessly articulate, and can and can flip and hop and skip uh like a frog across lily pads uh 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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Newt versus mid, mid versus newt, moot versus knits, knit versus moots, it's so exciting.
It's so exciting.
That's uh that's what it's come down to uh in this in this landmark election.
By the way, by the way, uh the IMF predicts that China will become the world's leading economic power in the year 2016.
Everybody always says uh this is the most consequential election of our lifetimes, but this actually is quite a consequential one because uh the guy we elect uh next November will be the last president of the United States to f 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 uh is quite revealing of how uh of how serious Conservative candidates take the situation uh 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.
Uh speaking personally, I having flown American a couple of weeks ago, that's that's what I was afraid of.
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