It's all those guns from Fast and Furious, whatever didn't end up in Mexico are in the hands of the establishment.
They're aimed at Newt.
Or any other.
Hey, look at Corzine.
He's grease-balled his hair.
You know, he looked like one of these mad professors with his hair sticking out like Bozo the clown.
Now that hair is greased on the side of his, holy Toledo.
I'm looking at John Corzine.
He's up there testifying now at Capitol Hill.
He doesn't know what happened to the $700 million he stole.
He has no idea what happened to it.
He looks like a grease ball.
Look at that.
You see that?
You see I'm right?
What do you mean you don't have TVs in there?
What?
Comcast won't shoot.
Your cable is out in there?
Are you telling me that you don't have television sets in there?
When did this start?
Now, when did this start?
Wait a second.
Folks, I am sorry to waste valuable, precious broadcast time, but I have just learned that the staff on the other side of glass has no television.
Are you telling me that you have been without television service for three weeks in there?
Because the cable company won't come out and fix it, they cut the analog feed because they're going to put in digital boxes, but they won't deliver the digital boxes for three weeks.
Starting when?
How many?
It's three weeks.
So you ought to have it by now.
They said it'd be three weeks.
Oh, they didn't.
Oh, the next day, and it's been three weeks since it actually.
Okay.
You're kidding me.
The cable guy is giving you the runar?
You waited three weeks to throw my name around?
You waited three weeks to throw my name before.
Ha!
Unbelievable.
I know you don't take my name lightly, but for crying out three weeks.
So I'm sitting here, I'm looking at Corzine's new grease ball hairdo, and you can't see it.
That's got to be frustrating for you.
Okay.
All right.
Well, anyway, why don't, Brian, why don't you run a feed from the dish in there?
So get a booster.
I never let it...
What if we turn it again?
It can't be done here.
This is not the way we operate.
You should have heard this.
I said, why don't you run a feed from the dish?
Because I got eight TVs.
Well, boo-hoo!
Put another dish up.
Send me the bill.
Everybody.
See, I am corporate, but they can't separate the old.
I got to go through corporate.
So?
Answer it.
The phone's ringing.
Who do you think it's going to be?
Cable company?
Yes, I'm sure it is.
Anyway, ladies and gentlemen, terribly sorry for that interruption.
But I've never seen Corzine actually grease balled his hair there.
That is a reason for this.
Normally, it's, you know, Mr. Frizz, Bozo the Clown type hairstyle out there.
But I think you're supposed to look like you have more credibility as a Wall Street guy if your hair is greased back.
Changes the whole shape of his face.
Whole shape of it.
Either that or he's out for the girls.
Does he look more honest?
Look more honest.
Well, no, not to me, because I know he's not.
So I'm going to look more honest.
Anyway, lady, I have not lost my place.
The telephone number is 800-282-2882 and the email address, lrushball at eibnet.com.
The rule of thumb for television is that curly hair is bad.
I know.
I was in TV.
I haven't been burdened with the problem of curly hair.
Corzine has curly hair.
Corzine's the kind of guy who never has to wash it.
You can't tell the difference when he does.
He never has to brush it or comb it.
You can't tell the difference when he does.
That's why this stands out.
I mean, he's got Italian greaseball, whatever, 16.
He's lathered it on there.
He's slicked it back.
He probably got, you know, a souped up 57 Chevey outside waiting for him to drive him away.
Anyway, what I was going to tell you about was that the ruling class, the government class, the political class, whatever you want to call the establishment in Washington of both parties is out for Gingrich.
It is huge.
It is major.
You can even find Gingrich in the crosshairs on several conservative blogs.
Now, I mentioned that the National Inquirer is reporting that a staffer who worked for Gingrich had sexual relations with him back in 1977.
That's 34 years ago.
This woman says that she performed a sex act on Gingrich in a hotel room back in 1977 when he was still married to his first wife.
She says that she has come forward now because, quote, he always talks about being big on family values, but he doesn't practice what he preaches.
Woman's name is Manning.
Last name is Manning.
And I guess Gingrich hasn't been in the news for the last 34 years.
All of a sudden, this woman has now found out that Newt is a public figure.
And just, she just learned that Newt's talking about family values.
And she just figured out we need to know that Newt made her do a sex thing to him.
Or she wanted to or what have you.
Interesting.
So now, here's AP.
Headline, Gingrich Surge Unnerves Some Republican lawmakers.
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich's stunning surge toward the top of the Republican presidential field has unnerved some Republicans in Congress who remember too well the tumult of nearly two decades ago.
I'd rather have steady, said Representative Steve Lotteret of Ohio, who just this week made it known that he was backing Romney instead of Gingrich.
Personally, Lottorette said he has a hangover from the days of Gingrich's speakership.
Everything always seemed to be on fire back then.
In interviews this week, more than a dozen Republican members of the House and Senate wouldn't say when given repeated chances that they are confident that Gingrich has the discipline and the stamina to outlast Romney and down the road face Obama.
Gingrich has had trouble marshaling support from Congress, mass of political insiders, the 1994 revolutionaries, who turned Democrats out of power for the first time in 40 years, as well as more senior lawmakers waiver on the question of whether Gingrich would be good for the GOP and the country given his rocky past.
Now, keep in mind, don't lose perspective here.
And as you know, I've not endorsed anybody.
This is not an endorsement.
Running commentary.
On the other side of this is Barack Obama.
We are listening to Republicans tell us about Newt's lack of discipline, whether he has the stamina, whether he would be good for the Republican Party.
Senator Pat Roberts of Kansas, who credited Gingrich with helping push through a transformative farm bill, is among those unsure whether Gingrich's nominee would be helpful.
It depends on what he does, said Roberts.
From thehill.com poll.
Gingrich holds double-digit lead in three of first four voting states.
Newt Gingrich holds double-digit leads over the rest of the Republican field in Iowa, South Carolina, and Florida.
Three of the first four states that will vote in primaries are cauckeye this January, according to CNN Time magazine poll.
In Iowa, Gingrich leads Romney 33 to 20.
In South Carolina, he leads Romney 43 to 20.
And in Florida, he leads Romney 48 to 25.
Romney still leads in New Hampshire, where some say his time as governor of neighboring Massachusetts gives him a significant home field advantage.
So, while the establishment of the Republican Party is doing their best to take Gingrich out, people who are being polled are vaulting Gingrich way ahead of everybody.
You know what's happening here.
What's happening here, ladies and gentlemen, I think, is that Republican primary voters are finally saying to the establishment, we're not doing it your way this time.
You've given us loser after loser after non-combatant every four years.
You've given us people that won't fight for us.
You've given it people who won't go after Obama.
You've given us people who won't go after the Democrats.
You've given us people who aren't conservative.
We have supported you.
We've given you money, but no more.
Quinnipiac University, same polling numbers in Florida.
Well, this is presidential polling data, but Gingrich has big GOP lead in Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania.
More polling data to talk about.
These are significant leads, significant polling.
Just within the margin of error or just slightly outside the margin of error.
These are huge polling leads.
And the reason this is important is because the ruling class, government class, political class, whatever you want to call them, they live and die by polls.
The polls are the Ten Commandments to these people.
They base everything they do on these polls.
And they're scared.
They're scared.
They're angry, surprised.
They're shocked.
They don't like it.
Newt's squeeze on Mitt is the headline of a National Journal piece by Ron Brownstein.
And here's a poll quote from that piece.
But these state polls underscore the sense from the latest national surveys that the conservative elements of the party, most skeptical of Romney, have at least settled on Gingrich as the horse they'll ride against him.
At the same time, given his inroads among less ideological and more secular Republicans, Gingrich is appealing to a much wider range of voters in the party than is Romney.
Romney originally hoped to consolidate the Republican center and watch the right divide.
Unless Romney can reverse the dynamic, he faces the risk that Gingrich will achieve the opposite maneuver by consolidating the right and dividing the center.
Brownstein's exactly right here.
It is the right, the primary voters, conservatives who are making the news here.
It is, it's like 2010.
I have a question.
If months ago, this is a think-piece question.
If months ago, Romney had said Romney Care was a mistake, would he be leading in the polls today?
If he had owned up to it, I'm just asking, I don't know yet myself, but if he had said that Romney Care was a mistake, would he be leading in the polls?
Okay, so we just had Brownstein's piece.
And what is Newt's doing?
Newt is consolidating the right.
Romney was going to consolidate the middle and split the right.
Romney was hoping that all the other candidates would divvy up the conservative vote and weaken it, meaning the conservatives would not determine the nominee.
That's been the elected strategy.
That's been the GOP establishment strategy.
Split the conservatives.
Who cares if some go to Bachman?
Who cares if some go to Santorum?
Who cares if some go to Gingrich or Perry, as long as they all go to a bunch of different ones?
And then Newt or Mitt, Romney, he can coalesce, he can get the center, he can get the moderates, and we're happy.
We're the Republican establishment, and we like dull people, and we like dull moderates, and we want a dull nominee.
We're going to get one by splitting the conservative vote.
But it all went awry.
The conservative vote appears to be, and I hadn't been a vote cast yet, but as we sit here today, according to polling data, all the conservative support seems to be coalescing around Gingrich.
And there ain't enough moderates in our party to overcome that, folks.
Not in the primaries.
I hate to tell you, Washington ruling class Republicans, you do not have enough dullards in this party to overcome the conservatives who are the majority population of it.
The conservatives are simply sick and tired of the Republican nominee being a dullard, a dryball, a non-fighter.
But let me help here.
I just looked at the clock.
Got to take a break, and then I'll help.
All right, I am going to get the phone call here in just a second, but I did promise to help.
Okay, so if Romney had denounced Romney, if he would, if he just said it was a mistake, would he be leading in the polls today?
But I have some advice.
Since Newt is coalescing the conservative vote, and Romney's plan was to get the middle of the moderate vote, split the conservative vote.
It's 180 degrees out of phase the way the establishment had this plan.
Once again, the establishment had hoped to split all of your votes and render all of us powerless in this nomination.
And something's going wrong here.
So I have some advice from a proud non-establishment Republican to Mitt Romney, and that would be me.
Mitt, if you want the nomination, get together with your people and think about trying to run to the right of Newt.
You know you can get there.
You've got Newt making all kinds of crazy statements over his career, sitting on the couch with Pelosi.
There's any number of ways you can get to the right of Gingrich.
Now, you and Newt are both guilty of flip-flops.
So, Mitt, why not flip to full conservative and see what happens?
You won't have to resort to tearing down an opponent.
You can tear down Obama.
What do you think got Newt where he is, Mitt?
What do you think got Trump where he was before he pulled out?
Tear down Obama.
That's the problem we face.
Eric Holder, John Corzine.
It's Target Rich where our real opponents are.
Our real opponents are not fellow Republicans.
Our real opponents are Barack Obama, Corzine, Eric Holder, everybody in the regime.
Tear down crony donorism, crony capitalism.
Tear down Bill Ayers, Jeremiah Wright, Solowinski.
Tear down Obama's tax hiking regulation.
They should tear down that speech in Osawatomi.
Embrace the Tea Party movement.
Energize the base.
Don't try to split it.
Mitt, energize the base.
Get to the right of Newt.
Beat Obama going away.
The 2010 election should have been the strongest clue you could get as to the mood of the voters of everybody in this country.
The 2010 election should have been the big tip-off for the entire Republican Party how to do this.
No, we have to rely on our old formulas.
And our old formulas mean we can't have a conservative nominee in the Republican Party.
Can't have that.
We have to split the conservative vote.
Well, Newt, conservative vote is the ticket.
Mitt, the conservative vote's the ticket.
I wonder if anybody in the Romney camp ever considered doing what conservatives have begged their candidate to do months, if not years ago.
I just wonder if admitting Romney Caribbean, I mean, he can't now because he's got so many months and days, weeks of defending it.
I'm just thinking on an open-ended basis here.
But governments ought not to be in the business.
And Newt went out the other day.
What was it with Beck or something?
He slipped up and said he was for the individual mandate again.
Mitt, look, I know I'm not an accredited consultant, and I know that I, as a result of that, don't know what I'm talking about.
So I'll just shut up, and we'll go to phone calls when we get back.
Don't go away.
Back on June 7th, for those of you that weren't listening in the summer, just now tuning and catching up.
I just sent the asked Cookie to go to our archives and get the bite.
Won't be long.
Mitt was summoned June 7th.
Forget exactly where, but we played the soundbite on the program.
And he said, I firmly believe that it's getting warmer.
And from everything I read, Humans are causing it.
And when I played the soundbite and it was over, I said bye-bye nomination.
You remember?
Bye-bye nomination.
Why did I say bye-bye nomination?
June 7th, what the hell did I know?
I know what the conservative base knows.
I know who they are, and I know what ticks them off.
Now, my suggestion, perfectly reasonable, is a suggestion.
You just heard me give it to, you know, flip to the full right of Gingrich.
Just do it.
There's plenty of room there.
Won't do it.
And you know why?
I'll tell you exactly why.
Romney and his consultants and the establishment believe that anything he does, anything he says that will please conservatives will poison him with the independents and the swing voters.
Don't doubt me on this.
You know this too.
You know that the Republican establishment is scared out of their gourd of losing independents, losing the moderates.
And they think conservatives caused that to happen.
And that's why they don't want a conservative nominee.
That's why they don't want anybody even close to being conservative nominee.
And who do we thank for this?
Who do we thank for?
Have these people paid no attention to what happened in 2010?
55 to 39 independents went to the GOP in 2010, the midterm elections.
Now, I know there wasn't a singular Republican on any ticket.
It was an anti-Obama vote.
Hello, nothing's changed.
It's only gotten worse.
Obama hasn't given independents a reason to run back to him, and a conservative nominee will not make that happen.
But that's the reason we are where we are.
Because for the longest time, I mean, predating Reagan, the Republican Party, I'll tell you what you can trace it to.
I'll tell you what the Republican Party still lives by, what still scares them, what they think is destined to be repeated every election is Goldwater.
Oh, no, no, don't doubt me.
Don't doubt me.
1964, that's exactly snerdly.
It's in their DNA.
That's what conservatives will do to a Republican presidential campaign.
If you run a conservative, you're going to get goldwatered.
That's what they believe.
That is why they didn't like Reagan.
I've told you this.
You know damn well the conservative establishment didn't like Reagan.
They wanted Ford.
They wanted Bush.
It didn't matter who.
And even after Reagan got the presidency, he was, God, they were still running around worried every minute of every day that Reagan is going to do something to embarrass them.
It was Republicans also were making jokes about, oh my God, the old man's fingers on the nuke, but oh, my God, Reagan's going to kill us.
Oh, my God, there's a wild cowboy.
It's Goldwater.
I'm telling you, it's the 1964 election that the Republican establishment still fears being repeated.
And we have had consultants who have built careers since 1964 on that premise.
And we've had consultants who've built careers telling candidates like Romney, you can't win without the independents.
And if you go too far to the right, you're going to scare them.
And you're going to, where do you think, folks?
It was just this week that some idiot in the RNC sent out a notice to somebody at Yahoo News, of all places, Yahoo News, ends up listening to a conference call between the RNC and a polling group.
I think it was Torrance.
The RNC does this and they listen to advice from the polling.
And this group happened to say, don't go after Obama personally.
Don't attack Obama.
People love Obama.
His personals are very high.
And people feel sorry for it.
Well, I'm sorry Obama is his policies.
But where do you think that comes from?
Where do you think that whole don't go after Obama personally?
It's what they told McCain and McCain dutifully followed along.
And where do we end up?
And it's traceable back to Goldwater.
That was a landslide loss.
That was as formative, snerdly.
Now listen to me on this and the rest of you.
You've heard me talk about my dad and the formative experience the Great Depression was in his life.
It shaped everything about the way he lived and the way he raised me and my brother.
It was that powerful.
If you're in the business of politics and if your business is winning elections and you I mean, I was only 13 at the time, but I have since learned how embarrassing and humiliating that loss was to the Republican hierarchy.
It's so much so.
That is their Great Depression.
That is their World War II that they lost.
As such, conservatism equals landslide defeat.
They won't give it up.
They can't set it aside.
And that's why they'll, that's whoever surfaces that appears to be conservative, they're going to take them out and they're going to try.
It's just that simple.
I don't care what the circumstances were.
I don't care that JFK was dead and Johnson's running on his legacy.
The media was all against Goldwater.
It doesn't matter.
They don't see that 64 gave birth to something.
They see 64 as the ultimate defeat.
They see 64 as the ultimate humiliation, not a birth of something wonderful and great.
They don't see it that way.
And they never will, not this generation.
They never will.
The people in this audience who will someday be political consultants are going to be the ones who are going to change this.
I'm sure.
I'm sure the consultants have said that, don't you dare, Mitt, you just stay right where you are.
We're going to split the conservative vote.
We love all these conservatives.
We love Ron Paul being in there.
We love anybody who makes conservatives look like kooks.
Keep them in this race.
Keep them in the debates.
Split the conservative vote and Mitt, you'll get the nomination with the great moderates.
You won't have to go to the right to get the nomination.
This was their big secret.
This is why they think they've got it all wrapped up in Romney.
The normal procedure is in a primary, in the nomination fight, you run to get your base.
Then in the general is where you move to the center.
They thought their brilliant stroke was to run to the center to get to the nomination.
And in doing so, prove to every other moderate and independent thing that Romney, whoever the nominee was doing that strategy, was not some crackpot conservative and would therefore win big over Obama by getting nowhere near conservatism.
These people believe that Republican nominees who win by coalescing the right-wing vote during the nomination process are destined to lose because the moderates and the independent swing voters are watching it and they get scared to death because they think that everybody else looks at conservatives the way they do.
Racist, extremist, kook, wacko, bigots, homophobes, all that.
They thought this is why there's such panic because they thought they had finally upset the apple cart.
They had finally redefined the terms.
They finally found a guy who was going to win the nomination as a moderate, not a conservative.
They were having orgasms.
And now their guy who was going to pull this off is down 20 points in three of the first four states.
That's where we are.
That's why we're where we are.
There is no team.
There is no conservative movement that includes establishment types in the media or in elective office in Washington.
I hate to tell you folks, but it just isn't.
And instinctively, you know it.
Instinctively, you know it.
And that is why the polls are showing the results they're showing.
That is why there has always been the anybody but Romney candidate.
Perry for a while, then Bachman for a while, and then Trump for a while.
And there's a reason.
There's a reason that no matter where you go at any time in this process, Romney can't get above 30 in a national poll of Republicans.
There's a reason why 70% now people have sent me, but Rush, but Rush, everybody wanted Romney in 08.
Everybody wanted Romney.
Well, we had different options then.
We had an open borders guy.
You know, every election is different and every set of choices is different.
The things that make other things relevant change with every election.
The establishment is in utter defiance of what's happening.
Stop and think of this, though, because I think this is key, folks.
For the first time, they were attempting to secure the nomination with a moderate, not a conservative.
That goes totally against the rule of thumb and how you win nominations and then how you win the general.
Anyway, look, I have to take a break, and frankly, I'm tired.
I'm worn out.
These shows feel like five hours instead of three.
And you know why?
It's because it's us, folks.
There's nobody else out there.
The people that represent us are not lifting a finger to defeat Barack Obama.
The people working for the people we vote for, leaders, they're not running against Obama.
It's up to us to do it.
It's just the way it is.
But I promised phone calls last half hour, and I didn't get to any.
So I'm going to take a break.
I'm going to come back and I'll have time for one.
Okay, where are we starting on the phones?
We're going to Dallas.
I'm going to Cowboy Game this weekend, Snirdly.
Going down Giants, Cowboys, Abseri, I'd be in Dallas.
Here's Scott.
Great to have you on the program.
Hello, sir.
Hey, Rush.
How are you today?
Very good.
Thanks very much.
Hey, I wanted to ask you, you think now that the media has given coverage to Newt's alleged sexual relations with this woman so long ago that they might give equal coverage to Obama's alleged sex and drugs romp with Larry Sinclair in suburban Chicago?
Nope, never happened.
They'll bury it.
Ain't going to happen.
Sinclair be portrayed as a cook, wacko extremist.
No way.
It won't happen.
It's going to get about as much coverage as you just gave it.
Well, it's an allegation.
I thought all allegations, you know, are fair game.
Nope.
Nope.
No, there's not going to be vetting of Obama.
No, we're not allowed to know anybody he's ever had sex with, male or female.
We're not allowed to know what his grades were.
We're not allowed to know any students in his class.
We're not allowed to know who inspired him or who was inspired by him.
We're not allowed to know any of that stuff.
You're a racist for wanting to bring it up, you pig.
All right, who's next?
Jim in Northport, Florida.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
Hi.
Good.
What a pleasure to talk to you, sir.
Thank you very much.
Great to have you here.
Okay.
You know this tax holiday.
Isn't that money coming out of your payroll tax?
Isn't that your Social Security?
Damn right.
Well, that's the only way the Social Security is funded is with the payroll tax.
Exactly right.
Is this going to reduce the amount of Social Security that a person receives when he gets ready to receive?
Well, if budgeting were honest, yeah, if you take money out of the pool, it's going to shock.
I mean the individual.
See, I mean, you know, you get credit for how many years you work and the amount of money you made, but if you don't pay in, will that reduce it?
Oh, I see what you mean.
You know, I hadn't thought of that, but I'll bet you're back.
No wonder Obama wants this so bad.
Yes.
No wonder he wants it so bad.
You're basically taking by accepting this tax cut, you are reducing the amount of benefits you get because you're reducing how much pay into it.
Yep.
Yep.
And one other question has got a minute.
Christine Todd Whitman on TV today looking for a third-party candidate?
Yeah.
Oh, what's the matter with them?
Well, there are a lot of people talking about running third party.
Trump has talked about it.
Ron Paul has talked about it.
And now the brilliant Christine Todd Whitman.
Who does she want to be the third-party candidate?
She didn't mention any name.
She was just looking.
Well, what's she upset about?
What are they all upset about?
Well, it must be Newt, I guess.
I mean, she's upset.
I mean, she's a classic centrist moderate rhino.
All right, this is, let's see who's next here.
This is Jim.
You know, we got a screwy new call system, and I can't read it without the glasses because the letters get covered up with dark shading.
So, Donald in San Antonio, welcome to the program.
Great to have you here.
Hell, Rushbo, how are we doing today?
Wonderful.
Hey, I got a question for you, and then I want to give you a thank you, too.
Good.
One is, being that Kane now has been officially gone out the race and the way he was portrayed and everything coming out, what does that say about any minority running for office as a conservative or as a Republican?
Because I'm wondering, was this really a job by the media, the DMs, or really the rhinos or the Republicans?
Well, you know, this is we don't to this moment.
We don't know if any of these allegations are true.
Correct.
And I hate it.
I don't, to answer your question, I don't know where it comes from, but, oh, Whitman wants John Huntsman to run third party.
Now, where this comes from is conservative black, that's the new uppity.
And we're going to take it out.
We're going to take you out.
That ain't going to be allowed to happen.
You're not going to be allowed to run.
You're not going to be allowed to win.
Can't permit that.
Clarence Thomas Redux.
I see.
I see.
Well, and I want to give you a thank you.
Recently, my wife was just diagnosed with adult stage asthma.
And one night she could not breathe for nothing.
It was a product that you pimped, and I had it, and I never gave it to her, but I went ahead and gave it to her because she could not breathe.
She didn't have an analyst at the time.
And it was at Zycam.
Oh, my goodness.
She was able to breathe within three minutes.
And I just want to say thank you because that is some good stuff.
Well, I'll tell you what.
I have, you know, this is one time that I am honored to be called a pimp.
All right.
If that worked, that is great.
I had childhood asthma.
There's nothing scarier.
There is nothing scarier than not being able to breathe.
He said a product I pimped, certainly.
That's why a product that I pimped saved his wife.
I'm happy.
I had childhood asthma.
There is nothing, there is nothing more frightening than not being fully conscious, not underwater, fully conscious in wide open air and not being able to breathe.
It's just so congratulations, sir.
Some people want to know, what is it like to be you, Rush?
Well, for three weeks, my staff's been sitting here looking at snow on their TVs.
They haven't had any video service.
I find out about it an hour ago.
I mention it, and the company is coming to fix it within an hour.