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	Yes, America's anchor man is away, and this is your undocumented anchor man sitting in.
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	We were talking in the first hour about the differences between between Newt and Mitt Mitt and Newt, because that's what it's come down to now.
	It doesn't look as if anyone else I mean, whoever else is out there and wants to jump in and get in uh has uh got to do it double quick and get in before Iowa uh and New Hampshire, which are just a few weeks away now, and basically all the ground staff have been signed up by the campaigns, and all the endorsements uh have been had.
	Uh I mean, basically everyone in uh New Hampshire, for example, has endorsed Mitt, all the uh governors and congressmen and senators and all your big shot political establishment types have endorsed Mitt and the union leader has endorsed Newt, and that's what it is now.
	Newt's uh rocketing ahead in the poll.
	He's nipping at Mitt's heels.
	Mitt's Mitt Romney's support in 2008 was very soft.
	Yeah, again, it was exactly the same thing as this time around.
	He had all the money and all the endorsements, and that and then sudden and his whole thing was to try and run out the clock uh in New Hampshire and just hold on to enough of a lead so he could actually win New Hampshire.
	And it didn't work, and it didn't work for him.
	That's never that's not actually a good strategy, and he's found himself back with that one exactly uh this time round.
	He's actually got to come out.
	Uh Mitt at some point actually he's done very well in this debate, uh just from not getting mixed up in all the uh in in the kind of spats with Perry and Kane and Gingrich and Buckman and Santorum and all the rest of them.
	Uh but at some point that has to stop, and he's he's gonna have to uh d demonstrate that that uh there's some passion there, that there's some uh that there's a real urge to win.
	And what I find very odd, by the way, about this campaign generally, is that it uh as I mentioned earlier, you know, we are in epochal uh uh history making times.
	Uh the United States is basically uh on a rendezvous with oblivion.
	Uh it's uh got fifteen trillion dollars of debt.
	It needs guys who are gonna stand up there and tell the truth.
	For a start, you've got to know something.
	This is why Newt's done well and why Herman Kane, and if you want to call up and defend Herman Kane and say he's, you know, no one's interested in Syria, so not knowing where Syria is just shows how in tune you are with uh public sentiment or whatever.
	Go ahead and make your argument for Hermann Kane.
	I want a guy who doesn't have that uh that deer in the headlamps uh look when you ask him a question on something that's slightly outside his comfort zone.
	Thing about Newt, uh who as big a pill as he is, is that he has a huge comfort zone.
	There's nothing that you can toss at him that he won't uh uh uh give the impression of knowing everything about, regardless of whether he does know anything about it.
	Uh so he has that advantage.
	But at some point, you know, we gotta get cr we gotta get this is a serious election.
	I don't know, I don't understand why the seriousness is is I'm a I'm astonished, by the way, at how many people out there, uh including most of your liberal neighbors, don't know that this country's broke.
	It's uh fac in Connecticut the other day they had the Governor of Connecticut proclaimed diaper need awareness day.
	Don't know whether you saw this.
	This is because uh the Governor of Connecticut and the Connecticut Congressional D uh delegation want the federal government to hand out free diapers, okay?
	Not to grown-ups, by the way.
	Not yet, not yet, not not to you.
	Don't worry about it.
	You're not gonna have to wear the diaper just yet.
	But just for the babies.
	Free federal diapers for babies, from Maine to Hawaii.
	Uh diaper need awareness day.
	Uh I think we need a multi-trillion dollar debt awareness day.
	Uh we don't need any more awareness days for new stupid programs with the with the stupid new diaper need awareness ribbon.
	We don't need any of that.
	We need a multi-trillion dollar debt awareness day.
	Uh we need an impending societal collapse awareness day.
	Uh and and uh and the the level of urgency uh most people and an astonishing number of people still do not get the basic fact that this country is broke, that this country has a uh now has a government model where it spends four trillion dollars but only raises two trillion dollars.
	And we think that's normal.
	You can't close that gap.
	You can't close that gap by taxing Warren Buffett the same as you tax his secretary.
	There aren't enough Warren Buffett's.
	It's very bizarre thing.
	I was watching, I was in a hotel and tuning around the channels the other night, and uh it's fantastic.
	Whenever I came uh uh across anything I wanted to see, it turned out to be um uh PBS.
	It turned out to be some PBS thing.
	I came across uh something I think it was the Beatles on the Ed Sullivan show, and I thought, oh, that's great.
	And then uh they show the clip, and then the two dreary uh anchors uh s standing in front of the telephone bank come on to tell you it's pledge week, and they're not gonna show you another clip from the Beatles on Ed Sullivan show uh until you call up and pledge two hundred and fifty dollars in return for which they'll send you a Bill Moyers tote bag or whatever.
	Uh and then uh so I tune away to the channel and then there was a bit of uh like Frank Sinatra singing uh in the Dominican Republic somewhere and I thought, oh that's uh that's pretty good.
	And then the number ends and you cut to another two people standing by fr fr uh phone bank saying they're not gonna show you any more of the rest of the concert uh until you call uh one eight hundred support public TV uh and they'll give you and I thought to myself, uh why do we you know this is actually how America thinks of itself.
	We no longer think of ourselves as a uh as a commercial republic with hard headed national interests.
	But we think of ourselves as a as a kind of uh one of those, you know, foundations that underwrite something boring and worthy uh on PBS.
	We we think of ourselves America basically ought to uh basically ought to re its register itself as a five oh one C three non profit.
	Uh that's how America uh ha that's that's how we think of ourselves.
	We don't think of ourselves as a nation state with national interests uh anymore.
	That's the problem that's the problem.
	And at some point we w we might as well be driven to pledge uh uh a PBS type pledge week.
	You m we might as well have a thing where uh, you know, they come out and uh they say uh yes, uh we're we we we're gonna raise uh fifteen trillion dollars this hour uh and then we'll give you a bit more Medicaid.
	We just need fifteen trillion dollars is our uh is our total operators are standing by and they'd be show you the empty phone banks.
	And don't forget, for a pledge of one trillion dollars, we'll send you a Harry Reed tote bag.
	It's as likely to work as anything else.
	Uh that's the state that's the state of the nation.
	A nation that thinks of itself not as a hard-headed nation state with a national interest, but as some kind of benign not-for-profit thing where it can make all kinds of feel-good gestures about diaper need awareness and whatever other cockamamy scheme comes up, uh eventually finds itself in the same position uh as those degrading uh PBS pledge drives.
	They've been doing those pledge drives now for whatever it is forty-five years, and they haven't got any and haven't managed to get any good at them.
	I mean, I don't understand, it's embarrassing.
	I personally would be I would be I don't even know why guys license stuff to them for PBS Pledge Drive week.
	You know, imagine if you're a great performer.
	What was the thing I saw the blind guy uh doing the the holiday uh Andrea Bocelli uh with David Foster doing his big all-star holiday concert with Natalie Cole and uh uh and uh uh and uh and all and uh Reba MacIntau and all the rest.
	You think, wow, what time I if I was Reba MacInter, I'd be embarrassed, you know.
	You sing a song and then the whole thing grinds to a halt for ten minutes as they go, call now, operators are standing by and we'll send you a free tote bag.
	That's what America is uh America it ought to have the all-time greatest PBS Pledge Week appeal uh for this fifteen trillion dollar debt, because unless you've got it and that's what all these celebrities, by the way, uh supporting the crazy path we're on ought to be doing.
	If you're gonna say if you think it's normal to spend four trillion dollars when you're only raising two trillion dollars, and that's before we get to the appalling state of the state and municipal finances in this country.
	If that's the way you're doing it, you're gonna need the all-time greatest PBS pledge drive.
	For a pledge of uh one trillion dollars, uh we'll send you a Nancy Pelosi snood.
	That's what it's gonna come down to if uh if we don't turn this thing around.
	Uh and and uh was Ms. Mr. Surely wants to know what uh what a snood is.
	Honestly, I'm not I'm not here to provide my own subtitles.
	I'm just talking about PBS.
	I'm not actually PBS.
	It's all one of those.
	It's not it's not some uh, you know, Czechoslovak cartoon from the nineteen eighties that's uh been conveniently subtitled.
	If you don't know what a snoot is, look at okay, I'll change it.
	With your own Nancy Pelosi Wimple.
	How about that?
	Okay, if you don't like a snood, have a wimple.
	I love you, a wimple and a snood.
	Anyway, my point my point is that this country is gonna be ri uh has got nothing left.
	It's all out of ideas.
	We might as well have the PBS pledge drive to close the fifteen trillion dollar gap.
	Uh but what is what is fascinating to me about this is that there's no sense of that urgency on the liberal side.
	If you listen to liberal media outlets, the assumption is always that i if government just okay, the government spending didn't work last time.
	Uh the trillion dollar stimulus was a bust.
	The half a billion dollars uh to Cylindra was a bust.
	Nobody's buying the Chevy Vault.
	But if we just if we just if we just get some more money for some more government and we spend it in a different way, then this time round it will there is no money.
	The money's all gone.
	The money's all spent.
	The money is gone, gone, gone.
	Your children's money is gone.
	Your grandchildren's money is gone.
	There's no precedent for this in human history.
	And yet half at least half of America doesn't even understand that.
	They still think we need a federally funded diaper program.
	We do need a federally funded diaper program.
	They should issue it to all three hundred million of us, and we can all tape them to our heads and avert our gaze as we slide off the cliff.
	But other than that, other than that, there is n there is no money for any new federal programs.
	Uh there's no money for the existing federal programs, and we are having a tap dance election debating on whether we need to bail out uh the Titanic with a thimble or a teaspoon.
	It isn't gonna be enough, and that's not where the debate needs to be right now.
	Mitt versus Newt, Newt versus Mitt, who do you fancy, as the Republican primary draws down to the final round.
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	Let us go to Dave in Colchester, Vermont, a a Vermont town I uh I know well, Dave.
	Uh right up uh in the uh north uh north uh western corner of the state there.
	Dave, great to have you with us.
	Welcome to the Rush Limbaugh Show.
	Well, thanks, Mark.
	And what's on your mind today, Dave?
	Uh I called a little while ago about the uh Gingrich uh Romney thing.
	I mean, uh the first time I saw Gingrich speak in politics was years ago and thought he was such a smart guy, why couldn't he ever be president?
	And then time passed and uh you know, now he's you know on the brink of being able to actually do that.
	And I've just thought all along through the debate, he's the only one that has any brains in his head up there, you know.
	I mean that's just my opinion.
	Well, wait, what what makes you think what makes you think he's so smart though?
	Why is that?
	Because he has you know, an answer that makes sense to me about the things that he's talking about, the things that are being debated.
	Whereas a lot of the other people that are on the the debate seem like they're um they've got their own take that pretty much supports who's supporting them.
	I don't think Gingrich really cares who's supporting him or not.
	He's you know, looking at the problems that we face.
	Okay, but what do you what do you like about his solutions to the problems, for example?
	You know, uh God bless the guy that can that one person that can fix the slu the problems, you know.
	Yeah, but this is this is where I'll give you a lot of solutions that are gonna have to be made, you know.
	I'll give I'll give you I'll give you a good example of this.
	You know he he talks a good game this.
	Uh my book uh has a statistic, has uh quotes the Cato Institute uh in a report it gave in two thousand, which said that the combined budgets of the ninety-five programs, the ninety-five major programs that the contract with America promised to eliminate, in fact wound up increasing by thirteen percent.
	Uh this was whatever it was, six years after, five years after they were supposed to have been eliminated.
	Not only weren't they eliminated, but their budgets had increased.
	In a way, look, it's it's in in a way it's easy to come up with great ideas.
	Uh what is it?
	I mean, what is it about when Newt was I'll tell you the other uh another great m Newt moment.
	He was appearing uh I think it was at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire a couple of years ago, just after the Iraq war.
	And uh someone asked him, this was before the two thousand and six election.
	Someone asked him what happened uh to the way the Republicans were running the House and the Senate, because it didn't seem to be a very conservative kind of government by about two thousand five, two thousand six.
	And and Newt said, uh well what you must understand is Republicans aren't used to being in the majority.
	You know?
	So in other words, at that point, uh Saddam Hussein had just been toppled uh and he'd been uh overthrown and the Bath Party was out of office, and Iraq is somehow expected to pick up the hang of self-government in twenty minutes, uh, but the Republican Party uh can't get the hang of uh competent government after ten years.
	That was basically the the uh answer that uh that Newt gave.
	So in other words, you know, what is the evidence aside from the fact that unlike uh Rick Perry and Harman Cain, he doesn't actually freeze up before your eyes.
	What what are the smart solutions of Newt's that you like?
	Um I you know, Mark, I again I'm not as politically savvy as you are, or Newt Gingrich or a lot of other people.
	But I I look at uh you know the the the situation, the problems that we're facing, and and and look at the other people that are running for like you said earlier, there are we're down to three now, right?
	Two in the Republican Party and one that's uh in office.
	And out of those three, who do I think would be the best choice to um to tackle these problems that we're facing?
	I don't think it's I think it's a no-brainer, you know.
	Did you did you see it better out of those three?
	Well, do you but but wait wait a minute, we're talking about a guy.
	I don't I'm consistent on this.
	I've never thought there was climate change.
	Back when there was a momentary late uh slight heating trend in the early and mid-1990s, I wasn't worried about it.
	Since nineteen ninety eight there's been a slight cooling trend, I'm even less worried about it.
	Newt a couple of years ago was uh all for cap and trade, a big government solution.
	He's just sitting next to Nancy Pelosi on the sofa, arguing for what would have been the biggest exercise in punitive liberalism ever inflicted on free citizens, which is this phony baloney cap and trade uh nonsense about climate change.
	Now he says that was a big mistake because uh Nancy's a toxic person and he shouldn't have been sitting next to her because it made him look bad.
	But wait a minute, what about the climate change part of that?
	Where where where does it where does Newt stand on climate change, Dave?
	I don't know.
	And you know, the thing is, uh I I look at Mitt Romney, I look at Barack Obama.
	They both are just part of the problem that's been going on and on and on.
	Okay.
	I know the New Gingrich is was part of the problem, you know, years ago.
	I think that he's uh he at least presents himself as a person that has some legitimate ideas.
	I know you're you're questioning, you know, well, what about this, what about that?
	You you know, you just look at the three people that you say are still left in the race, and uh you know, uh if I'm given a choice of those three, I'm gonna take the guy that at least has his own it seems, you know, that's the percentage perception.
	He is his own ideas, his own he has a grasp of all the all the issues.
	Um some solutions may not work, some may w may work, but at least he has an idea uh where I don't believe that the other two guys have a clue, you know.
	I mean that's just my opinion.
	But I think Dave.
	You know.
	Than thanks uh th thanks thanks for your call.
	Dave is in uh the Green Mountain State of Vermont, and uh and he thinks that uh Newt is the smartest guy out there, and uh he may he may be uh he may be he may be on to something there, and that in itself is a sad reflection on what the uh what the the the nominating process has come down to this year.
	one eight hundred two eight two two eight eight two, we're taking your calls on where the uh Republican primary is likely to end up.
	Do you remember the way it was uh this time uh last year?
	Huckabee was on the verge of a surprise victory in Iowa.
	This time round, I was social conservatives are apparently discussing ways to unite their voice behind the non-Romney candidate.
	And the question is whether they'll coalesce behind Gingrich.
	Hey, great to be with you.
	Rush returns live tomorrow.
	And this in the meantime is your undocumented anchor man struggling to take the first step on the pathway to legality.
	Ms. Mr. Snardley suggested you try this with your your long-term girlfriend that instead of uh offering to marry her, you just take the first step on the pathway to legality.
	It uh it's it should work out just great.
	I'd love to see how that conversation goes.
	You know, when Dave uh was talking about how Newt is the smartest guy out there, uh there was a there was the great uh piece, I think it was at um uh pundit and pundit, which is uh a uh website out there, and uh uh the pundit suggested that in fact what people think of as as Newt uh with his uh giant brain and his multi-point solutions, that most of the action is actually all in the is all in the adverbs, and uh she suggested that you can try this at home.
	Uh this this came up at uh Thanksgiving, uh, and she said instead of saying, you know, gee Aunt Martha, this new pumpkin pie tastes delicious.
	You could spice it up with a few of Newt's favorite modifiers, and your simple compliment will take on a grand and weighty significance.
	Uh try try it for yourself.
	This dramatically reconfigured, deeply compelling pumpkin pie tastes extraordinarily delicious.
	That's what it is with Newt.
	You watch him in the uh debates.
	It's all profoundly dramatically deeply compelling.
	All the actions uh in the adverbs.
	Uh he's he's not one one of my problems again with Newt is he's like bursting with ideas that uh that all sound as if they've come from a self-help manual.
	Um if you remember back in his heyday in the nineties, he had something called the Triangle of American Progress.
	Uh, and that evolved into the four pillars of American civilization, uh, which uh in turn expanded into the five pillars of the twenty-first century.
	And just the fac by the way, just the sort of grade inflation going on in his multi-point uh plans uh makes him sound uh a wee bit of a dodgy prospect when it comes to actually slashing back government.
	So he but he had the triangle of American progress, the four pillars of American civilization, the five pillars of the twenty-first century, uh the nine zones of creativity.
	Uh no, no partridges in pear trees.
	No partridges in pear trees, actually.
	Yes.
	That well, that's the Newt Gingrich Twelve Days of Christmas, isn't it?
	Or the first day of Christmas, my true love gave to me.
	And then uh four how's it go?
	Uh fourteen steps to renewing American Civilization, nine zones of creativity, uh five pillars of the twenty-first century, four pillars of American Civilization, a triangle of American progress, and a partridge in a pear tree.
	That's the Newt Gingrich.
	Uh the the the twelve movement.
	No, no, it's not gonna be on next year's Christmas CD.
	There's no way, not even if you do the Newt Gingrich version.
	There's no way you can make uh the uh the the twelve days of Christmas interesting.
	Even if you turn it into Newt's uh fourteen steps to renewing American Civilization.
	Anyway, he's got his nine zones of creativity, the fourteen steps to renewing American Civilization.
	He flits from these things.
	He flits from these like the like the frog on the lily pad.
	Let's go to John, who's calling us from I seventy somewhere in Kansas, and uh let's hope he's on a bit of scarified pavement uh sitting in uh one lane in second gear going down the highway because they're uh rebuilding it, they're skimming it under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
	Which which bit of I seventy are you on now, John?
	Uh about a hundred miles to the west of Salina.
	Okay, great.
	Well, uh take it uh don't don't try to pass any uh any trucks while you're talking to us.
	Uh what's on your mind today?
	Well, as a uh as a conservative constitutionalist who's stepped away from the Republican Party for the past several years.
	Uh I've got to wonder how the Republicans can still claim to be the conservative base when they support modern left candidates like Gingrich and Romney and continue to shut out candidates who are uh constitutionalists and really conservative like Ron Paul.
	Well, they don't I don't think they shut out Ron Paul.
	Ron Paul's been in the debates and he's had a um and he's actually had a very good run in these debates, wouldn't you say?
	He's been there and he's uh and he's kept his issues in play.
	And one difference between now and four years ago is that the stuff you thought was cookie back then, like people when he was begun on about the Federal Reserve, and people thought, well, what the hell is this guy on about?
	Uh he's uh he actually the Federal Reserve is an issue now.
	Uh the Federal Reserve and uh the the quantitative easing and uh America buying seventy percent of its own debt uh by simply by pushing a button on uh on a computer laptop.
	Newt uh Ron Paul actually made the Federal Reserve an uh an issue.
	He actually, in that sense, he he can reasonably claim to have helped transform the debate.
	He's been he's been there in all the debates, uh and he's and he's had a good uh he's had a good run.
	But you don't honestly think that Ron Paul is gonna be the nominee or would get elected, do you, John?
	Well well, no, that's that's actually the problem is uh mainstream Republicans tend to shut him out as being too extreme, too too right wing.
	And I'll agree that sometimes he is, but uh I think that might be what we need is somebody who's not a standard politician who doesn't who's who has a a standard he judges by.
	He judges by the constitution and and uh and by actual conservative standards instead of what'll keep him in office.
	But let's let's assume for the moment, which is the because we all have uh you know, we all have favorite candidates.
	The reality is it's gonna be Obama versus uh and then the name in that other box is gonna be uh as things stand now, barring some dramatic uh event that is entirely unforeseen between now and Iowa, it's gonna be Romney or Gingrich.
	What what is a guy like you do then, if it's Obama versus Romney?
	That is the question.
	It's uh fixing one half dozen or the other, if they all have the same opinions on things.
	Obviously it's better to get somebody who's at least claiming to be conservative in there, and of the two, I'd probably favor Romney, just because uh I've seen Gingrich in the past.
	Which one do you think will be a bullet for the Republican Party?
	Which which one do you think will you know, the other thing, by the way, that Ron Paul is right about is when he starts going on about fiat currencies, which again is like people think is wacky stuff.
	Uh that uh currencies uh that in effect are are propped up uh basically by the perception by little uh more other than the perception of the government's uh soundness.
	As we see in uh Europe for uh at the moment, uh a a continent wide currency is likely to disappear.
	The Euro, which is uh the currency for the other half of the Western world, basically, apart from uh Japan and the United Kingdom and one or two other places, uh the the currency for the other half of the Western world is about to disappear.
	Uh it's gonna go.
	It ain't gonna be any more Euros anymore.
	And the uh the I see from the the British uh foreign and commonwealth office in London is advising Britons abroad on the continent of Europe, uh, that they should prepare for uh uh for widespread rioting and looting and civil disorder if they happen to be in uh one of those nations on the day that the Euro disappears and vanishes as a currency.
	And Ron Paul, one of the things I like about Ron Paul is he is he actually uh gets you thinking about what's propping the dollar up.
	You know, what is the US dollar?
	The US dollar is a piece of paper with George Washington on it.
	Uh what is propping it up though in terms of its value is the fact that it's the global reserve currency.
	That is nothing other uh the fact that it's the global reserve currency is really rests on nothing more than perception.
	And in this case, the perception is uh is getting on for several decades out of date.
	If n if people were sitting around a table today, nobody would make uh the dollar the global reserve currency.
	You wouldn't give make the global reserve currency uh a country that's got fifteen trillion dollars in debt.
	I mean, Ron Paul in that sense uh is getting some uh is getting some of the real issues out there.
	But John, that's the function.
	He may still be a nut, Mr. Snardley, but the nut, the nut the purpose of the nut in a debate is to be sufficiently non-nuty to get his uh his issues in there and part of the conversation.
	So that you take the nut, uh as Mr. Snardley puts it, Ron Paul the nut, and then mit the non-nut with the fabulous hair, and by uh and by Ron Paul being in the debate, the guy with the fabulous hair is is is forced to genuflect in some ways uh towards the the nut guys concerned.
	That is the function of a guy like Ron Paul, John.
	But Ron Paul is not gonna be the nominee.
	He's not it's like Rick Santorum.
	Rick Santorum says very little with which I disagree, but Rick Santorum's not going to be the nominee.
	Sometimes that's just the way it is.
	Nobody quite knows why that why it is.
	It's because I mean you look at you look at Ron Paul, for example, in his uh like his uh in the in those uh ill-fitting suits.
	I think they're rather charming.
	The way he's got his sort of uh his like neck sticking up out of that flappin' shirt collar that's like uh four sizes too big for him.
	I think it's all rather cute and charming when you look at some blow-dried, airbrushed, photoshopped candidate uh like Mitt Romney.
	Mitt Romney now goes around with a hair out of place.
	Have you noticed that in the last few debates?
	He's got this one hair out of place.
	But it looks yeah, it is strategic.
	HR's right, it's a strategic hair out of place, 'cause the criticism of Romney was that his hair was too perfect in two thousand eight.
	So this year he hired his six hundred dollar an hour stylist to to uh to to lube up one strand of hair, uh put a little bit of gel on it so it sticks up.
	J not all of it, and doesn't look he doesn't want to look like he's been sleeping in the park before the debate, but they just have one little strand of hair sticking up to make it to make it look as if Mitt Romney's kind of loosened up.
	He's not like a nineteen fifties department store mannequin guy anymore.
	He he yeah, he's just got like yeah, he's like he's a little bit he's he's a bit loose, he's uh he's gotten into he wants to make it look like he got into a, you know, an incredibly well choreographed bar fight uh just before just before the uh the the debate came in.
	Uh but the but the point uh but the but in the end, in the end, uh it's on such subtle things that the difference between credible candidates and incredible candidates rests.
	I don't know, for example, why people uh there's a lot of people who seem to think Mich Michelle Backman is not a credible candidate, is not a serious candidate.
	I agree I agree with practically everything uh Michelle Backman says.
	Uh and at one point after the Iowa uh after the Iowa straw bowl, it looked like she was in the game there.
	She was gonna she was she she she uh she looked as if she was gonna be uh she was gonna be in there with the top tier of candidates.
	And then next thing you know, uh Rick Perry jumps in and Rick Perry's the the hot new thing, and nobody pays any attention to Michelle Bachman's Iowa straw poll victory.
	Uh and it's very unfair.
	It could be in fact be a life-changing thing for her.
	There's someone uh who might well have done uh well enough in the primary process that uh whoever actually won, she she may have been the nominee, but if not she might have been she would have been a contender for vice president.
	And instead Yeah, and I didn't agree with I didn't agree with what she said.
	I don't agree, by the way, with uh the state mandating that you uh that your eight-year-old daughter has to be pumped up with this and pumped up with that.
	But uh I think she went uh went too far when she uh when she swung out in Perry uh at it.
	But but but the the it's a very subtle thing, this difference between who's a credible candidate and who's an incredible candidate.
	And the and and and Newt, who was frankly in the sort of Ron Paul camp uh just a few months ago, managed to cross that line.
	That's actually quite an achievement when you're just marginal when you missed a one point three percent in the polls when you're when you're a joke candidate when people assume you're just doing it to boost your speaking fees or your next book deal or whatever, and suddenly you become a serious candidate.
	He's still got very little money and very little ground stuff and very few endorsements, and he's actually leading in the polls.
	And and all the and Mitt Romney, who's the Mr. Establishment guy who uh here in uh my corner of New Hampshire, my executive counsellor, uh Ray Burton, who's been in office uh I think since the Civil War, and Ray Burton knows can can he's he he knows who the establishment Republican is as much as anybody else, and uh the first thing that happened, you know, one of the first endorsements uh for Mitt Romney.
	Mitt sucked up all the establishment candidates, he's the uh the establishment endorsements, he's the establishment candidate, but but uh Newt, having none of the money, none of the endorsements, none of that, uh none of the ground crew uh simply on sort of sheer force of personality in these debates has managed to cross from being an incredible candidate to a credible candidate.
	And uh and that's and that in itself is quite an achievement.
	We'll take more of your calls in just a moment.
	Mark Stein Infor Rush, more straight ahead.
	Mark Stein Inforush on the EIB network.
	Let's go to Richard in Lakeland, Florida.
	Richard, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
	Hello, Mark.
	Uh, you are certainly entitled to your opinion, and I appreciate uh hearing you sometimes.
	But when you start comparing a man of character and quality and class like Herman King to a classless whoremonger like Wilt Chamberlain, you've crossed the line, and I really don't appreciate it.
	Appreciate it.
	Say what you want about his policies, about his opinions.
	But when you care when you when you participate in what the left wants to do by by comparing him to a man like that, you really have made me very angry, long uh, you know, angry enough for me to stand online for over an hour just to tell you that.
	Now now uh Wilt Chamberlain, uh the the I made the reference to the this uh this woman who's come forward and said uh she's had a 13-year affair with him.
	As a result of which, by the way, uh Herman Kane is reconsidering his campaign as we speak.
	He's gonna apparently make a decision in the next couple of days as to whether he's uh he's gonna go on with his campaign.
	Uh when he has people like you jumping on the bandwagon like the left with no evidence whatsoever, comparing him to something like that, who could blame him?
	I mean, the toll.
	Well, wait a minute, wait a minute.
	We're talking about this man, Herman Kane, for example.
	As I said, by the way, just to get things straight here, I don't mind a guy uh coming on and running as Silvio Berlusconi and saying, yeah, I like Silvio Berlusconi in Italy, who uh was survived as prime minister longer than most uh guys in Italy have since the second world war.
	Uh in fact, I think he's actually the longest serving guy since Mussolini.
	And he was basically Mr. Swinger.
	He said, Yeah, I dig the chicks, I'm with them all the time and all the rest of them.
	What we're talking well, what we're talking about here is uh is a fellow who uh comes out uh and in this case he go he finds himself on TV discussing the degree of his thirteen-year relationship with this woman.
	He did not issue a blanket denial or any of the rest of it.
	Uh he is is he he has issued a very equivocal statement.
	That the the fact of the matter is uh that Herman Kane decided to take a flyer on running for president, uh, as he himself said.
	He had what he's uh he's a successful businessman who uh ran a pizza company and decided he could uh he knew how to save the American economy, and he'd fill in the gaps on the foreign policy and all the rest of it.
	And as a result, a segment of the Republican base decided to take a flyer on him.
	And then that's irrelevant.
	Don't you think you owe him a measure of respect to at least allow him to respond to find out what the charges are and to return to the right?
	He did respond, he was on TV jump on the pan wagon that is irresponsible on your part.
	Uh well, I r I I um I said to uh that it's get we're getting into Wint Wilt Chamberlain territory.
	Now, Wilt Chamberlain was the guy who uh the the basketball fellow who uh uh claimed I think to have had sex with 40,000 women or whatever it uh uh it's only 20,000, Mr. Snurley assures me.
	So there you go.
	I've done Wilt Chamberlain justice too.
	Uh it was uh it was only uh twenty thousand women.
	I'm not saying he is Wilt Chamberlain, I'm just saying that if you now add up all the women who have attached themselves to the various presidential candidates in the Republican nominating field, uh, that Herman Cain has more encrusted to him than even Newt Gingrich, which is quite an accomplishment because I've lost track of how many wives Newt has had.
	It's so there's nothing wrong.
	It by the way, Richard, if you think your candidate can't stand uh a comparison to Wilt Chamberlain, and by the way, if you don't like the Wilt Chamberlain, I'll compare him to Claude Francois, the French pop singer who wrote My Way and who electrocuted himself in the bathtub, and I believe I'm right in saying that he uh said he was the guy who said he'd had sex with 40,000 women.
	That this is this is irrelevant.
	We're looking for a guy to run the free world.
	We're looking for a guy who's gonna s prevent America sliding into the abyss.
	And and I make it crack about Wilt Chamberlain.
	What are you looking for this November, Richard?
	Yeah, uh now it's getting worse.
	Wilt Wilt Chamberlain has just called from Virgin Central in Paradise to complain about being compared to Herman Kane.
	He says he's had at least 19,997 more women than Herman Kane has.
	So let's let's not get into that any further.
	Mark Stein in for rush on the EIB network.
	We're talking Newt versus Mitt, Mitt versus Newt.

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