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Dec. 23, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 23, 2011, Friday, Hour #3
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Hey, great to be with you.
America's Anchorman is away, and this is your undocumented anchor man sitting in.
No supporting paperwork whatsoever.
But I'm here on the Rush Before Christmas.
Monday we will have a best of Rush.
And Tuesday, we're back live with Mark Belling.
And I'll be in, I think it's Thursday next week.
I'll be in.
And Rush returns live before the Iowa caucus.
He returns for the big, exciting day, Iowa Caucus Day, which is now just about a week and a half away.
I was talking with Carl Rove on the T V yesterday, and Carl pointed out that most of those days are going to be taken up with holidays or post-holiday recoveries, Christmas Day, New Year, and all the rest of it.
So that we're now in the stage where the movement towards certain candidates starts to accelerate as people understand somebody isn't electable, so they abandon them, and then they farm up with a particular candidate.
The latest polls, the latest polls show that Ron Paul is in the lead, has a one-point lead over Mitt Romney, who in turn has a one-point lead over Newt Gingrich.
Ron Paul has 21%, Mitt has 20%, and Newt Gingrich has 19%.
And then you have the second tier where Rick Santorum is a wee bit ahead of Rick Perry and Michelle Buckman, but basically they're all chasing the same vote.
And at some point, you've got to figure that the Conservative vote is going to coalesce around one of those candidates and whether it does in time for them to be up nearer to Mitt and Newt and Ron Paul.
What does it mean, by the way, for Iowa if Ron Paul wins?
If Ron Paul wins Iowa, Mr. Snardly is not a Ron Paul fan.
He wasn't a Herman Kane fan either.
He's certainly not a Rod Paul fan.
I'm not a Ron Paul fan.
You know, I like all the small government constitutional stuff.
But this kind of 19th century isolationism thing I think is ridiculous.
And I said that I'm getting a lot of hate mail from Ron Paul types in recent days because I said I just don't think his thing is credible on the, you know, did Martin Luther King sleeping with underage boys?
I put it in my newsletter.
It doesn't mean I wrote it.
I don't know who did write it.
If something about, you know, Martin Luther King sleeping with underage boys turned up at my website, I'd certainly feel I owned that, whether I'd written it or not.
If Martin Luther King sleeping with underage boys turned up at rushlimbaugh.com, Rush would basically have to take ownership of it regardless of whether he wrote it or not.
The idea that this, you could say the buck doesn't stop here when you're running for President of the United States to say, I can't be expected to know every little aspect of some rinky-dink small-town publishing operation I've got going, but I'm capable of running the government of the United States is simply not credible.
That's my point.
I'm not even bothered about the Martin Luther King thing one way or the other.
Don't give a if someone wants to say that kind of stuff, good luck to them and they can get on with it.
But when a guy says, oh, well, you know, sure, it may have appeared under my name, but I don't know why.
I can't be expected to know what's going on at a publication called the Ron Paul newsletter.
You know, Rush knows what's going on at the Limbaugh Letter, if you're one of the fellas who subscribes to that.
The idea that you can have, that's simply not a credible position for Ron Paul to take.
We'll talk about that and we will talk about anything else that is on your mind because you know what it is.
It's Friday, and that means, yes, from Monday to Thursday,
a highly trained broadcast specialist has total control over the format of this show.
He determines the topics that are talked about.
You will have no way of introducing extraneous subjects.
You will have no way of squeezing in bugbears and weird obsessions and all the rest of it.
But today, December 23rd, the day before, the day before Christmas, no highly trained broadcast specialist is available.
In full compliance with Nanny Bloomberg's Bureau of Compliance in New York City, every highly trained broadcast specialist has December the 23rd off when December the 24th falls on a weekend.
So there's only me here.
You can raise any topic you want.
If you are a Ron Paul guy, call up and defend Ron Paul.
If you're a newt guy and you like the ideas that Newt has for putting giant mirrors in space to light up the interstates, call up and explain to me how that's going to work.
I'd love to hear that.
1-800-282-2882.
If you're a Huntsman guy, oh no, wait a minute.
We already heard from the Huntsman guy.
One Huntsman guy in Virginia.
The Huntsman guy in Virginia.
So we're probably not likely, statistically improbable, to get another Huntsman guy.
But we'll do our best.
If you're a Mitt guy, Mitt was at the Tilton Diner today in New Hampshire.
The Tilton diner is a diner I know well.
And Mitt was over there attacking Joe Biden.
If you were in the Tilton diner in New Hampshire with Mitt, call me up and tell me what you thought of what he said.
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If you are disgusted with the caving, as they're all putting it, of the Republican House leadership over this payroll tax cut, call me up.
I would like to hear that.
But on the other hand, on the other hand, if you think this is just politically necessary, John Boehner was right to get it out the way.
Again, Karl Rove made an interesting point about this.
He was in favor of the Republican leadership getting rid of the dead horse, but he thought they would have been better to wait until after Christmas and do it around Boxing Day or the day after.
He's taken to calling December the 26th Boxing Day now to, for some reason, just to wind me up.
I don't know why he's doing it.
He keeps using the term Boxing Day.
But Karl Rove's theory was that the Republicans were right to cave, but they would have been better to cave.
He recommended they throw in the towel between Christmas and New Year when nobody would have noticed.
Instead, they do it on the eve of Christmas when everybody notices, when it enables, hands Barack Obama a huge political victory and enables him to go off on his Hawaiian vacation as a gimmick, a gimmick.
It's nothing.
It's nothing.
It does nothing for anything.
It's irrelevant to the debt crisis this country faces.
It's irrelevant to economic recovery.
But in political terms, caving on the stupid, worthless, pointless gimmick hands Obama a victory.
And interestingly, you know, this guy had his ratings in the basement a month ago.
They're upticking now.
Obama is getting back numbers-wise to where, you know, re-election, given the way things are likely to go, given that eventually come the late spring, it will not be about Obama versus generic unknown Republican, but it will be Obama versus Romney, Obama versus Gingrich, Obama versus Perry, Obama versus Ron Paul.
It will be Obama against the definite individual.
And Obama must be looking at these numbers.
The last last, the uptick he's had in the last couple of weeks in the polls.
He's out of the basement.
He's heading back into the mid-40s.
He's getting to the point where the job satisfaction numbers are kind of pretty much awash.
And he's figuring you get a couple of extra percentage points once the media start piling on the guy who's the Republican candidate.
I bet he's figuring, and he and his advisors are figuring, that the re-election scenarios are looking a whole lot better for him than they did before the payroll tax cut dispute.
So I'd be interested to get your take on that too.
1-800-282-2882.
Lots of other things going on.
The Iraq scene.
Obama declared the war was over in Iraq.
Had the worst day of violence since he said that yesterday.
It was almost as if these guys waited till the Americans were out the door to start blowing stuff up again.
Dozens of people dead.
The Iraqi vice president is holed up in the north, in the Kurdish north, basically keeping lying low because the Iraqi prime minister, a Shiite, has issued an arrest warrant on trumped-up terrorism charges for the Iraqi vice president, who is a Sunni.
So the question then goes, if we take it as read that the Iraqi war is over, and he's right, who won that war?
Who won that war?
Normally wars end when somebody wins or loses.
They don't end just because someone decides it's over and we're going to come home.
Normally there are pluses and minuses.
There's a victory and a defeat.
And when you look at what's happening in Iraq, is that state going to hold together?
Is it just going to be an Iranian client state?
To look at other parts of the world enjoying the blessings of an Arab Spring, several thousand Egyptians were rallying in Tahrir Square today to denounce violence against protesters, especially these images of women protesters being dragged by their hair, beaten and kicked by troops.
I love this, by the way.
These guys, the Egyptian military's explanation for why they ill-treat these women is that they're women of loose morals.
This is the so-called Facebook revolution, folks.
If you've voted with the Arab Spring, if you thought the Arab Spring was a great thing, if you thought it was terrific news, the Coptic Christians, the Israeli diplomats, and the women, the uncovered women, already know that the Arab Spring is turning into a long, hard, unending winter.
My line on this is that Egypt has basically just got worse, got worse over the years.
It was 1922, ramshackle kingdom of Egypt.
Not the greatest place in the world, but the first finance minister in Egypt at that time was a Jew.
Couldn't happen now.
The idea of a Jew, all the Jews have left Egypt.
I had an email from the guy's grandson the other day, lives in France.
The Arab Spring, boom, gone.
Egypt got worse.
NASA's Egypt was worse than King Farouk's Egypt.
Mubarak's Egypt was worse than NASA's Egypt.
Now we have this Arab Spring, and that's going to be worse than Mubarak's Egypt.
And the question is whether Iraq is on that same glum trajectory.
So we can talk about that.
1-800-282-2882.
And some of this terrible economic news, the new home sales, the worst year for new home sales since records began.
I don't know what that means.
Oh, since 1963.
I thought it might be since 1776.
That would have been worrying, but it's the worst year since records began in 1963.
Worst year for new home sales.
This economy is flatlined.
It's a dead parrot economy.
What are we going to do?
As we were talking about in the last hour with Bob from Gillette in Wyoming, hyper-regulation is throttling economic energy in this country.
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Mark Stein in for Rush.
More to come.
Mark Stein in for Rush.
December the 23rd, Christmas Eve, tomorrow, Christmas Day on Sunday.
Open line Friday.
Let's go to Bob in Wilmington, Delaware, home of the Joe Biden high-speed rail interchange that connects the Yukon with Papua New Guinea via high-speed rail.
I think that's due to open in 2013.
Great to have you with us, Bob.
We just call him General Joe Mark.
Yeah, General General.
How many years has he been?
He was basically representing Delaware since about 1971 or 72.
Oh, yeah.
I do hope when he retires as vice president that he'll come back and serve as your senator for another 40 years.
Thank you so much.
That's just what you need.
What a wonderful wish.
Merry Christmas to you.
And I wanted to say thank you.
I was not thinking about politics.
I listened to that wonderful interview with Irving Berlin's daughter on White Christmas on your webpage.
Yeah, yeah.
It was full of information.
The piano must be remarkable.
Yeah, that's for folks who don't know that, I spoke up at my website at Stein Online.
I interviewed Irving Berlin's daughter, and in the course of it, she performed his great song, White Christmas, on Irving Berlin's very own piano, which is a great historical artifact.
He wrote that song because he loved this.
That song is not about snow.
He was born in Siberia, came to this country as a child.
You can't write White Christmas about Siberia, even though it's got just as much snow as most parts of the northern United States.
That's a country about his love of home and his love of America.
And I wish we had a few more songs like that these days.
So what else is on your mind, Bob?
Well, it's boring politics.
I called Congressman Alan West's office and spoke to one of his assistants.
And this thing with the tax, so-called tax amendment, it gotten to my skin to the point where I actually read the amendment.
So I called Congressman West's office and said, there's too much fun in this short one-page amendment.
First of all, the Senate thought so little of the House that they left in the language of a one-year, just as the House was asking for it, and a 10-year payback.
But the most fun was the government, I guess, can only collect back-clawback money from Fannie Mae mortgages and federal home loan mortgages.
That's about 90% of the mortgages in the United States.
What 10% do you think that a private bank would value so much that they wouldn't have to go to Fannie or the Federal Home Loan?
No.
No, you're right.
You're absolutely right on that.
I mean, this is like an accounting gimmick, isn't it?
Well, but at the end of the day, the wealthiest 1% won't have to pay back $1,000.
Right, right, right.
I know.
I know.
They could have had a.
I said, you're sitting on a gold mine here.
It's such good sport.
You've got to lighten up at Christmas and send someone out and say, we have got to make sure the top 1% pay too.
Now, wait a minute here, Bob.
You're in Wilmington, Delaware, and Congressman West is a congressman from Florida.
Why did you call his office?
Because we're so blue that I probably would have been picked up by a black helicopter.
Now, I spoke.
I was at an event in Palm Beach, Russia's part of the world, speaking at the Breakers.
Congressman West spoke just before me, and then I spoke.
And he's a terrific speaker.
And A'Real actually does a real red meat speech.
He'd read my book, and he said, if we don't want the scenario, I'm basically the doom and gloom guy.
And I say, if you don't do anything, it's over.
This is what's going to happen.
Boom, Armageddon, head for the hills.
Apocalypse now.
This is it.
And Alan West is Mr. Upbeat.
He's the one who says: if you don't want the Stein scenario to come true, you've got to do this, this, this, and this.
And he gives a terrific speech.
Now, why are guys like that not running for president and not in the House leadership in the Republican?
Well, at least, as you described him, and Jeb Bush's editorial in the Wall Street Journal, I thought was a he was laying out just short of a crayon how to win the White House.
They have the upbeat, this is what we can do message: why an individualist government versus a state government works better.
And yet, the candidates that are on this let's make a deal game show format, none of them have taken the opportunity to raise their eyes.
I think that they think I'm too dumb to understand that.
No, and I think this is one of those Frank Lunt's focus group type things where people said when you talked about when Republicans used to talk about getting rid of the federal Department of Education, that all the average American heard was that Americans, that the Republicans were opposed to education.
And here's the thing this time around, where Republicans are making the argument that you need permanence and you need certainty, and it's a waste of time in these two-month gimmicks.
All the average American hears is that Republicans are opposed to tax cuts, and that nobody, nobody wants.
That's why it's better, I think, to err on the side of keeping it simple, to err on the side of keeping it dramatically simple.
Let's put a big number on what you want to reduce taxes down to, what you want to cut corporate taxes to, what you want to cut regulations by.
Keep it simple.
Keep it simple.
But it has to be to under, we have to do it with the object of getting Americans to understand the existential crisis we face, Bob.
Absolutely.
You have a wonderful Christmas.
And you've taken the time.
And you do, Bob.
I certainly may all your Christmases be white.
Bob sounded cheerier when he and I were talking about Irving Berlin and White Christmas.
Then we got on to.
Alan West, I must say, I had a great time with Alan West.
We were down at the Breakers in Palm Beach in Florida, speaking at David Horowitz's Restoration Weekend.
And the great thing about Alan West is he says it's not over.
It's not over.
You know, decline is a choice.
Long-term societal collapse is a choice.
But he says he's confident that he can persuade enough Americans not to make that choice.
And more Republicans should be arguing on the terms he's arguing with.
Decline is a choice.
Don't choose it, America.
Fall is a choice.
Don't choose it.
Listen to people like Alan West instead.
Hey, that's me again from my Christmas CD.
You know, normally when I do these shows, Mike is running the show, technically speaking.
And Mike is fastidious that we, in the Christmas season, we only have EIB-approved Christmas music.
And so he's very sparing.
He'll only like he'll maybe do one track per show.
If I absolutely grovel and beg him enough, he'll play one track.
But today, Ed's been sitting in for Mike, and he's just basically sick with my Christmas CD.
He can't get enough with it.
He'd be playing Rush who's got like the big Mannheim steamroller collection.
Rush has got everything Mannheim Steenroller has ever done.
He's got Mannheim Steamrollers, Notes to the Milkman.
He's got Mannheim Steamrollers, Receipts for the Accountant.
He's got everything Mannheim Steamroller have ever done.
And so he will not be happy about this.
But that's me and my pal, Jessica Martin, doing our little song running on Eggnog, because there was no great eggnog song.
There's songs about marshmallows, there's songs about gingerbread, but there was no great eggnog song.
So I felt it was time we put one out there.
We're going to get it taken up by the Eggnog Marketing Board and we'll make a fortune.
Mark signing for Rush on the EIB network.
We will have a best of Rush on Monday.
John Edwards, developments in the John Edwards case.
He's trying to get the trial postponed for two months.
In other words, he's going to get it postponed until the next payroll tax cut expiry crisis on the grounds that he has some health issues.
You know, I think John Edwards is about as low and as pathetic and as miserable and as wretched a man as ever walked God's green earth.
But the idea that you should get five to 25 years in jail essentially for impregnating your mistress and then sluicing some campaign funds from a wealthy donor to her to set up the love child in a love nest.
I find that I'm not entirely happy about that.
I loathe and despise John Edwards.
The oleaginous creep makes me nauseous.
But the idea of him going to jail for five to 25 years, I find a wee bit disproportionate.
Public disgrace.
It would have been far better if the media had just hounded him out of the race and done their job, by the way.
All his pals in the media, they did him no favor.
If they'd just gone along and actually reported the story in 2007, 2008 when it came up, this guy wouldn't be looking at five to 25 years in jail.
The mainstream, the liberal bias of the mainstream media is going to send John Edwards to the big house for a good half decade at minimum.
He should be furious with those guys at the New York Times and the LA Times and all the rest of it and CNN for not exposing what he was up to back in 2007, 2008.
He wouldn't be headed to jail.
Let us go.
I tell you what, let's go to Glenn in New Hill, North Carolina.
Glenn, you are live on the Rush Limbaugh show.
Thanks, Mark.
I just wanted to ask the question of why are we treating Ron Paul like Al Sharpton treats our candidates?
That is, why are we dredging up and basically calling him a racist?
Because we know he's not a racist.
We know Ron Paul's not a racist.
And yet, we're all taking something out from 30 years ago that he may or may not have written or may or may not have looked at and are basically putting it back in his face every five minutes.
I'm not a Ron Paul guy, but it just seems ridiculous that we are taking and using the tactics of the left of our own our own people.
It seems really stupid.
Well, look, here's why I would say.
I mean, I don't think Ron Paul is a racist, especially.
And I don't particularly care what he says, what he said 20 years ago or 25 years ago.
What I find interesting is that Ron Paul is like basically an open borders.
If he is a racist, he's an open borders racist.
So is the whole Republican Party?
Yeah, exactly.
So he's like a pro, he's a pro-amnesty, pro-illegal immigration racist.
That's quite a nice trick if you can pull it off.
Here's why I think I don't really care if Ron Paul's feelings are hurt over this, because you say, why are Republicans playing the race card with Ron Paul?
Ron Paul was on TV the other night and said that Rick Sam Torum is obsessed with gays and Michelle Buckman is obsessed with gays and Muslims.
So he basically played the homophobia card with Rick Sam Torum, and he played the homophobia and Islamophobia card with Michelle Bankman.
So in a sense, this is payback time, and it's like cosmic karma and all the rest of it.
Well, we shouldn't be doing that to each other.
We should be asking about the issues that they stand for, the legislation that they push forward.
I don't really give a rip about what each of them call each other in this echo chamber.
And I want to know what their record is.
Most of the candidates up there don't have – well, some of them do, but most of them don't have a record of standing for a smaller government like Ron Paul does.
No, and that's partial to him.
And that's true, and that's a fair enough point.
And I've been happy to have Ron Paul in the debates.
I mean, I'm perfectly clear about Ron Paul.
I think it would be a disaster if the Republican Party were to nominate him.
But I like having a guy on stage.
Four years ago, when he was going on about the Federal Reserve, people thought he was cookie and wacky or zany, as we now say.
But in fact, when you live in a country as we do at the moment where the Federal Reserve buys 70% of U.S. Treasury debt, in other words, the left hand of the United States government buys 70% of the right hand of the United States government's debt, you begin to think, actually, Ron Paul's not out of his mind on the Federal Reserve and fiat currencies and all the other wacky stuff.
What was wacky fringe stuff four years ago is actually directly relevant to this country's insolvency right now.
And I'm glad to have him up on stage talking about that.
I'm not happy with him being an open borders guy on illegal immigration.
I think his idea of a Fortress America, isolationist Fortress America, is absurd.
going nowhere.
I mean, his whole open book, I mean, that's the other thing.
That's even crazier than being an open borders racist is being an open borders Fortress America type.
You can have Fortress America or you can have open borders, but you can't have both.
North Carolina is a military state.
We love the military here.
We have a huge presence here.
Which candidate has more support from military, active duty military people than Ron Paul?
Yeah, no, but you know, that, again, and again, he's not wrong to look at it, to put it this way, he's not wrong on this, that when you have United States military personnel, I believe are actually on the ground in over 100 nations around the world right now, something isn't right there.
When he talks about the cost of these foreign wars, again, he's got a point.
The issue in Afghanistan is not that we haven't spent enough money, but that we've wasted a ton of money.
We've wasted a ton of money.
The issue in Afghanistan is a lack of strategic clarity, and that's very cheap.
That's six guys sitting around on an office table from Staples that costs you $170 in a basement in the Pentagon.
You can get strategic clarity relatively cheaply.
He's not wrong on some of those issues.
But when he starts talking, as he does, that vast transformative acts such as Iran going nuclear and that Iran is only going nuclear because of the United States, at that point he's flown the coupe.
And his good points at that stage, his good points are outweighed by his bad.
But if you're saying to me, would I rather talk about the cookie stuff that Ron Paul said on TV a week ago or what his stupid unread newsletter printed in 1992, that's fair enough.
I'd rather talk about what he said last week than what he said 20 years ago.
I also have some interesting insight about John Edwards.
Okay, give us your best on John Edwards.
Well, the reason that he's getting sick all of a sudden is he wants to prolong this trial out to close to the election because the guy who brought up the charges against him happens to be running for Congress this upcoming time.
So he's basically going to make the case that, look, it's all political, trumped-up charges, which unfortunately they are.
But it is a John Edwards is someone who is a huge embarrassment to this state.
I wish we'd go away.
Yeah, does he still have that hideously big house connected with that sort of huge so-called pseudo-barn connected by a covered walkway?
Oh, okay, that's good.
I think it's time for Joe Biden to put in a high-speed rail link up John Edwards Front Drive because that's like seven miles long or something.
That's where we need to stimulate the economy in North Carolina, Glenn.
Thanks for your call.
Great to have you with us.
Overline Friday of the Rush Limbaugh Show, well, the eve of the eve of Christmas.
Mark Stein sitting in for Rush.
We'll avoid just a moment.
Mark Stein in for Rush.
Christmas at the EIB Network.
Let's get in a couple more calls before we go and fall face down in the wassle for the rest of the weekend.
Let's go to John in Lake Zurich, Illinois.
John, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Great to have you with us.
Merry Christmas.
Merry Christmas, Mark, from a confirmed Steinophile.
Oh, that's great.
It's a small club, but a select club.
Great to have you with us.
Always look forward to your appearances wherever you might be posting your opinions or whatever.
Okay, well, I promise to come to Lake Zurich in Illinois and pack out the biggest venue in town, whatever it is.
What is the biggest view?
Anyway, as an optimistic person on team replace Obama, I'm concerned by the people I'm hearing call in, you know, that typically only have one candidate that they are excited about or in love with.
And I'd like to remind them that this is a job interview, and we've got people with strong points and weak points, and you can't just dismiss people because you don't like one, two, or three things about them.
I think Mitt Romney's getting way too many people, you know, like Mark yesterday said, he's not sufficiently conservative.
Now, I don't know where that comes from.
I think fiscally there's nobody who is more conservative than him.
I don't think he's as strong a free market guy as we've got out there.
And I think there are two aspects, for example, that are being overlooked.
One is the way his so-called flip-flops are being compared to Newt's.
And the second thing is the fact that he just lives a conservative lifestyle.
He's been married for 37 years, or however many he is.
In the race for Senate, he took criticism for, as a Mormon elder, trying to talk a woman, or I don't know whether he succeeded or not, trying to talk her out of having an abortion.
These things are living a conservative, that's living a conservative liberty.
What people are concerned about with Mitt is his experience in government, for example, is basically confined to one term in Massachusetts.
And they look at that, and that's a mixed picture as far as they're concerned.
And I think that experience was naturally in nature of him living he wouldn't have been in Massachusetts if he hadn't been a career man at Bain, because that's where Bain was located.
And, you know, getting elected in the People's Republic of Massachusetts is kind of like, I think, running for office in Sweden.
And if you don't have at least what the general populace would consider an acceptable set of criteria, I think the thing with Mitt is he's evolved based on the offices he's run for.
And I think you'd have to say that running for Teddy Kennedy's seat, you have to be more liberal than if you're more moderate than if you're running for governor.
There is an issue here, John.
For about 15 years, 16 years or whatever, before Mitt Romney, they'd been electing Republican governors in Massachusetts, all kind of rhino-squish type guys, Bill Weld and Paul Salucci, and what was the lady's name, Jane Swift, I think it was.
And so for about a decade and a half, they'd had Republican governors.
Republican governors didn't have any difficulty getting elected in Massachusetts.
The question, though, Massachusetts people seem to quite like the idea of having an overwhelmingly Democrat legislature and then a Rhino Squish in the governor's mansion.
But the question is whether Mitt did anything in that term that warrants, that gives any indication of how he would do in government.
Now, I'll tell you what I do like about Mitt, John, which I think he did a terrific job on.
I mean, I think turning around the Salt Lake Olympics, when you look at the state they were in before Mitt Romney got hold of them, where basically that's the state the United States government is in.
If he can do for the United States government what he did for the Salt Lake City Olympics, where he turned around a disaster, a dysfunctional organization.
He took sports that nobody even likes.
I know, I did play-by-play curling once, filling in for a friend years and years ago in Canada.
Nobody wants to see curling down here.
I don't care if you've got an 800-channel cable package.
You don't get the curling channel.
They've got a curling channel up in Canada.
You can't get it down here in the United States.
I don't care how many channels you get.
He took the four, whatever it is, the two-man luge.
Nobody likes that.
Nobody likes the thing where they're all like coming down the hill, arching their pelvises up in the air, and you're wondering, what the hell is that going on?
And then they tell you it's a sport.
Nobody's interested in the two-man luge.
He made money off of the two-man luge.
Nobody's interested in ice dancing, watching some guy twirl around the ice in a spangly bolero jacket like some camp waiter at John Kerry's favorite restaurant after he sent back the Cranberry Cooley or nobody's interested in that.
Mitt Romney made money off of these sports.
And if he was saying, I did it with the two-man luge, I did it and I can do it with Medicare.
I did it with the camp old ice dancing guy and I can do it with Social Security reform.
That would be an argument.
But Massachusetts, I don't think, is an argument, John.
We'll see how that pans out.
Thank you for your call, John.
I promise to come by Lake Zurich, Illinois, sometime in the next couple of years.
Mark's time for us.
to come.
Dig the halls with boughs of holly.
It's, uh, it's...
It's time for me to don my gay apparel and go off to troll the ancient Yuletide Carol.
President Obama yesterday delivered what ought to be the line of the campaign.
He was going Christmas shopping.
I think it was at Best Buy, presumably with a government credit card.
And he got out the card to pay for a couple of items at Best Buy, and he said, let's see if my credit card still works.
That ought to be the line of the 2012 election.
America's credit card is tapped out.
It's busted.
They ought to be running that moment of film over and over and over again.
Let's see if my credit card still works.
I would love, by the way, if that card had been rejected for the president of the Best Buy transaction.
It would have been even better.
But America's credit card is still in a big heap of trouble.
Best of Russian Monday.
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