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Dec. 28, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 28, 2011, Wednesday, Hour #3
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Story crossed the wire from the Associated Press today.
Quote, many Americans are finding out that free preventive health care under the nation's health overall isn't always free.
Sometimes doctors are confused and charge a copayment when they shouldn't.
Other times a screening test turns into treatment.
An Arizona man wound up paying eleven hundred dollars after his free colonoscopy revealed a polyp, a possible warning sign for Florida.
A Florida woman had to argue with hospital staff to avoid paying $700 for a mammogram.
And then there's this.
Starting in 2012, the government will charge a new fee to your health insurance plan for research to find out which drugs, medical procedures, tests, and treatments work best.
But what will Americans do with the answers?
The goal of the research, part of a little known provision of President Barack Obama's health care law.
Do you understand how many of these little known provisions?
I swear every three weeks you'll see a story about something, it's never good, and then the phrase that they put between the commas is part of a little known provision of President Barack Obama's health care law.
The whole thing is filled with little known provisions.
Isn't that what Nancy Pelosi said?
Well, we're just going to have to pass it and find out what's in it.
Well, now we find out what's in it.
Have we yet had one thing come out that's in it?
That's been good?
If there was, if there was just one thing in this, or one ramification, and we're only in the early stages of this.
If there was one thing that was working out well, can you imagine how the media would be trumpeting it?
Obama would be there at wherever that magical place was where something good was happening because we passed Obamacare.
Everything that happens as a result of this turns out to be a bad thing.
Have you heard about the small businesses that are losing their tailored insurance coverage?
A lot of really small companies, the ones that have between, say, nine and forty or fifty workers.
What they've been able to do is buy health insurance from niche companies that put together policies that are unique for the circumstances of that employer.
That employer might have more part-time workers than most employee employers, or they may have more seasonal workers, or they may have a significant number of people who just would want single coverage and not family coverage, so they're able to structure the plan in a way that fits that employer's situation.
But because Obamacare has this one size fits all formula that's in place, all of these unique plans are going to go away, and many of the insurers that write those plans are laying off workers or may shut down.
I'm telling you every story that you read about Obamacare.
And remember, we're not even close to this thing reaching full implementation yet.
Every story that you read is about something bad that's happening as a result.
You'd think that just by luck, given that this thing had how many pages were it?
89,342, that something good might occur as a result of it.
There's never anything good that comes in.
Never.
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Now what about this flap between Bill Ma I can't believe I'm going to talk about Bill Mayer.
Bill Maher's got this uh show on HBO.
He's also but passes for in this day and age, a comedian.
He put out a tweet on Christmas Eve, the last day that the Denver Broncos are playing in Denver, who Tim Tebow's their quarterback, they're playing in Buffalo and they got whipped.
The Bills killed the Broncos.
Maher puts out this tweet after Tebow threw an interception, and I'm gonna clean this up dramatically, but I think you'll get a sense of what he wrote.
He put out this tweet saying, Jesus just bleeped Tim Tebow really bad.
And then he went on and on about it.
A lot of people are upset, they're complaining to HBO, which is exactly what Bill Maher wanted to happen, and Bill Maher now is able to once again get a little bit of publicity by pay by taking this shot.
It does raise this question though of what it is about Tim Tebow that so drives people crazy.
I've got my theory.
It isn't just that he's so public in his expression of faith.
We've had athletes forever.
When they're interviewed after a game, say something like, I want to thank the Lord Jesus Christ for giving.
This has happened a lot.
What Tim Tebow's doing here isn't all that new.
True.
He's not just saying it with words, but he's engaging in a public display when he gets down on his knee and he bows.
But that isn't all that rare.
It isn't all that uncomfortable.
I remember Mohammed Ali when he was interviewed back in the 60s after his fights.
He, you know, praise the nation of Islam and Elijah Mohammed and all of that.
This has been going on for a long, long time.
I think the difference with Tim Thibault is that people don't think that this is that this is hollow.
They think he means it.
And I think that's what really is bothering people.
I mean, I've talked to so and it's true.
The media has made Tebow into being something that he isn't really.
They won a bunch of games kind of oraculously, and he's only playing okay.
And a lot of people are tired of Tebow this and Tebow that, and they felt that the story was being overcovered.
But there are some people for whom his religious displays deeply get under their skin.
And I think it says a lot about them and their own insecurities.
Speaking of insecurities, I need to talk to callers.
Let's see if somebody yells at me with this one.
Paul in Maryland, you're on the Rush Limbaugh program with Mark Belling.
Yes, sir.
Listen, the Democrats and Liberals are keeping quiet about this.
One of the things you had the conversation with uh Governor Walker is that the school districts there in Wisconsin, your home state have saved so much money that it's turned deficits into surplus.
So what's basically happened is that the teachers that were supposed to be getting laid off weren't getting laid off.
People that were getting uh you know are getting a raise to teachers, and the taxpayers, the the the people, the public of Wisconsin don't have to pay more taxes to fund the unions ambitions.
And basically what I was telling your call screener is this is that the insurance company there, it provide that provides the so-called benefits uh to the teachers.
It's owned and operated by the teachers union, but but here's the here's the but the teachers don't pay for it.
The state has to pay for it, or the the people of Wisconsin.
Yeah, what you're referring to is the critic.
Every single year, and it became the most expensive insurance company in the state of Wisconsin.
It's like that in every state.
And then what happens is they donate millions and millions of dollars to their favorite politician through this, you know, the union dude to the like a slush fund.
What Paul's referring to here is a democratic.
The situation that existed in Wisconsin where the teachers' unions negotiated that the health insurance benefits had to be provided by a company that the teachers union created.
It was a cooperative insurance company, meaning that the owners of the insurance company were the members of the teachers' unions, the ones who got the health insurance.
And having that monopoly wasn't good enough.
What they then turned around and did is charged above market rates.
In some cases, school districts are saving tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of dollars by being able to switch away to a different carrier once they were liberated from collective bargaining.
I find it interesting that caller found out about that in Maryland because a lot of those things weren't mentioned during the debate in Wisconsin.
What you had in Wisconsin was this constant the sky is going to fall in, teachers are going to be laid off, services are going to be destroyed.
None of that ever really happened.
Virtually no teachers have been laid off.
All the schools that were open are still open now.
We've seen no actual cuts.
But still they're trying to recall him, and their challenge is that you got a whole lot of people out there who were told the sky was going to fall in and the sky didn't fall in.
Let's try Paragold.
All right.
Is AK Arkansas or is that Alaska?
Hello, uh it's Paragold, Arkansas.
Thank you.
You're on the Rush Limbaugh program with Mark Dell and go ahead, Paul.
Hi.
Um I just uh want to comment about all the need for reform that there is today.
Um there is one man out there running for president that is a bold reformer, and uh now that would mean Newt Gingrich.
What is he ever reformed?
Oh, um when he was uh speaker of the house of welfare reform.
Um he passed most of the contract with America.
Um they had a balanced budget and they had some tax cuts, um, 400 billion and debt was paid off.
Yeah, what about the what about that Freddie Mack money?
And what about that endorsement of Romney here?
And what about uh supporting government subsidies for ethanol?
None of that puts you off a little bit.
Oh, a little.
Um, I think the Freddie Mack thing was a bit tacky that he took all that money, but he did just do advising.
He didn't uh you know, um, well, what was he advising them to do?
Now, I I didn't want to hack off uh the newt people on today's program.
I did enough of that on yesterday.
What was he advising them to do?
What was he advising them to do?
Um, because he's never really explained that, I don't think.
No, I I I agree.
I wish um I wish he would be a little more open about that, but um I really don't have an answer for you.
Yeah, I know, and there really isn't an answer for the ethanol thing, and there really isn't an answer for why he did the commercial with Nancy Pelosi, and there really isn't an answer why he's shilled for man-made global warming.
And my answer to all of that is is that the Newt Gingrich who was Speaker of the House in the 1990s, morphed into the Newt Gingrich who became a very, very politically correct guy who wanted to be part of the Washington establishment and make a lot of money in the zeros, and then decided to run for president because he thought it would be a lot of fun and a good way to sell a book, and the next thing you know, he finds himself as one of the front-running candidates, and all of the stuff that he's been doing of late is being brought up, and some people are bothered by it.
None of that is bad.
I mean, he has every right to run for president, and a lot of the things that he said in the campaign preel about President Obama have resonated.
One of the things that Rush has said that I think is right is that people like Newt because during these debates he's been criticizing Obama, and that's what people that's what people want to hear.
But the other stuff that's out there, you can call it baggage or you can call it simply Newt moving from somebody who at one time might have been conservative to somebody who right now is very, very moderate and maybe the most liberal Republican running for president.
All of that's been exposed, and it's out there, and that's one of the things that the election process produces, and it's one of the good things I suppose about the fact that you do have the system that we have that starts as early as it does.
Thank you for the call.
I appreciate it.
My name is Mark Belling, and I'm sitting in for Rush.
1-800-282-2882 is the telephone number at the Rush Limbaugh program.
Mark Stein's going to be here tomorrow.
Walter Williams will be here Friday.
Rush will be back on Tuesday of next week.
I want y'all to imagine something for a minute.
Want you to imagine, and I know this is hard, that you had a situation in which Republicans were cheating in elections.
They were submitting fake names, fake voter registrations to get on the voter rolls, and then showing up and voting under those fake names.
They were doing this.
And imagine that the state government where these Republicans were cheating, passed a law to stop them from doing that.
To protect the concept of fair elections.
And imagine that the place that they were doing this was a racially mixed community.
And that it was a lot of white people that were turning in these fake voter registrations because they wanted to prevent black politicians from being elected.
And the government in that state said, you know what, we're going to pass a law to try to clean up our elections.
We're going to require people to show identification when they vote.
Now imagine that the Republican president of the United States sent his attorney general into that state to try to fight that law.
Imagine that the Republican president told a Republican attorney general to butt into the political affairs of a state that was trying to clean up its elections where a bunch of racist Republicans were cheating.
It would be the outrage upon all outrage.
The media is always carrying on about the politiciz of the Justice Department, the use of the Justice Department for political purposes.
Well, what do you have right now in South Carolina?
South Carolina has passed a very reasonable law, one by the way the Democrats in that state signed off on.
It's a voter identification law.
You've got the Justice Department of Eric Holder butting in, trying to get that thing struck down in federal court.
Furthermore, why South Carolina?
Because they know that President Obama doesn't have any chance of carrying South Carolina.
They pick a state that they can easily antagonize because they know they're not going to win South Carolina to try to get a ruling and try to establish some sort of precedent that will allow them to strike down voter identification laws in other states.
In my own state of Wisconsin, we've had terrible problems with vote fraud.
We have very, very loose voter registration laws.
This allows people to go and put all sorts of names on the ballot.
The only check that you can have is requiring that when the person shows up to vote that they produce some identification saying that Mark Belling is Mark Belling.
It's a reasonable reform.
It's a way of making sure that our elections are fair.
It's a way of predict protecting the ultimate American concept of one man, one vote, something that the Democrats and the civil rights movement used to claim as very, very important to them.
Because the Democrats are the beneficiaries of cheating, they're opposing any attempts to clean up voter laws.
So Obama's sending in Holder to sue South Carolina.
It is a total misuse of the Justice Department.
It's the use of the Department of Justice of the United States to intervene in election laws to help one political party.
Holder has been especially shameless as attorney general.
Despite all of the scandals and despite the incredibly lame explanations for Fast and Furious, Holder is still there.
Why is he still there?
Because Barack Obama needs an attorney general who is in his pocket.
The reality is that the political people in the White House are the ones that want the South Carolina case.
And Eric Holder as attorney general is more than willing to do what the political people in the White House tell him to do, which is one of the most brazen misuses of the Justice Department by any president ever.
Hey, Martin, glad to have you with us today.
Thank you.
Got a couple of comments about the Tim Tebow thing, and I'm not going to try to be uh objective about this.
But um I think just with the comment that uh that Milmar made, it it just opens eyes at a lot of a lot of Americans think, but they forget that it's still just a game.
God doesn't have a football team, God doesn't have a baseball team.
Uh it's still just entertainment, it's still just a game.
And Tebow has said that over and over and over again.
People have tried to interpret what he has done in ever whatever way they necessary in order to rationalize their own irrational reactions to him.
Every time Tibo is interviewed, he said, God isn't out there helping the Denver Broncos win.
I am paying homage to God to thank him for the blessings that he has given me and for the skills that he's given me.
But it's not like he's saying that God is out there push pushing for him or helping the Denver Broncos win a football game.
He isn't doing any of that stuff.
I've never seen anyone in sports provoke the kind of reaction that Tebow is producing.
You've had athletes do the most ridiculous things imaginable on a football field.
Who was it?
Was it Terrell Owens who pulled out the Sharpie and signed an autograph in the end zone?
You've had ridiculous things done.
Nobody has ever produced the kind of enmity that you're seeing directed at Tim Tebow, and I think it has a lot to do with the hang-ups Of a whole lot of people who, for whatever reason, get really uncomfortable if somebody dares display their own faith.
Well, that just goes to the basic foundation of the state as well, is um coming coming from a predominantly Christian family.
Um, the second you uh you step outside the box of you know Sunday morning, people get uncomfortable.
But the thing is that he lives it day in and day out, and that uh that intimidates.
Yeah, it's who he is.
And I I I really think that's what bothers people.
With Tebow, you know that it's not fake.
I mean, this guy would the uh black chalk that you put underneath your eyes to reflect he he put Bible verses in there.
He's a guy who has spent all sorts of time volunteering and doing the kind of work that most of us are way too lazy to do.
He actually is the real deal.
And that gets under people's skin for reasons that I think have a lot less to do with Tim Tebow and a lot more to do with them and their own personal hangups.
My name is Mark Belling, sitting in for Rush Limbaugh.
Rush Limbaugh.
I think Obama's golfing today in Hawaii.
I think this is his 90th round of golf, did they say?
Since he became president.
I don't know.
In the meantime, I'm not making this up.
This is the latest dispatch from the Associated Press.
Uh he and Michelle and the daughters went to some wildlife sanctuary where they took two turtles and they released them into the wild.
That's what they did.
Meanwhile, in Hawaii, the five wim women and a man seen in surveillance video taking items from a Toys Are Us store in Hawaii are making arrangements to turn themselves in, and the stolen items have been handed over to police.
Their lawyers says some of the women contacted him after police released footage of the December 1st theft.
Toys are us, not surprisingly, as video cameras.
The cameras put the images out, which were shown on the television stations in Honolulu, and some of these people saw themselves stealing toys.
They knew they were going to be caught, so they contacted a lawyer and they're planning to turn themselves in.
The lawyer, however, Miles Briner says that most of the women are single, unemployed mothers who stole the toys as Christmas gifts for their children out of desperation.
This is Barack Obama's America.
Even in Hawaii, Obama's sort of home state, we think mothers stealing Christmas presents so their children can get toys.
Or they're probably just making the whole thing up and they were plan they were planning to sell the stuff on eBay.
No, I don't feel sorry for them at all.
I don't believe their story for a minute.
You do you?
Yeah, times are bad.
They live in Hawaii.
Go out and get them some seashells or something.
Let's go to uh Fort Walton Beach, Florida.
It's Brett, it's your turn on EIB with Mark Belling.
Hey Mark, how you doing?
I'm great.
Uh my point is uh I'm I'm I have an idea that all the uh you yourself, Rush, uh hand and knee, Borts, all the the uh successful media guys, their radio uh talk show hosts, conservatives need to have a summit uh of sorts.
Uh get together and and decide who's the most you know the best conservative candidate uh and get behind this guy or or woman, if it might be Michelle Bachmann, and get and and really push.
Uh you guys are so powerful out here in America.
I really believe if if if you guys would, you know, getting a smoke-filled room and and and get it together and come out and say this is who we think is uh should be and and would be and could be.
I I really believe uh that it would make a galactic difference.
At first I thought you were being facetious, suggesting that talk show hosts are taking on too much of a role here, but I take it you're actually sincere, right?
Absolutely.
Well, here's the problem.
I don't think we'd agree.
You know, every talk show host is it is a different and unique individual.
I mean, on some of the comments that I've made, I'm sure I'm not saying the same things, and I know I'm not saying the same things that Russia said.
You mentioned Sean and a few other talk show hosts out there.
I don't think that there's general agreement about this.
But that's not all that bad.
I mean, part of the American political process is that you do have disagreements.
My concern about the Republican presidential race is the potential of not getting someone who is a conservative, getting someone who might not beat Obama, getting someone who, if they are elected, will be sidetracked.
My concern with a candidate like Gingrich is that you don't know which way he's going to go because he's gone every which way that you can imagine over the last ten years.
I'm worried about that.
I also don't think that he could beat President Obama.
But not every talk show host agrees with me on that.
There are others who think that Newt is the right guy.
There are people out there that are pushing Ron Paul.
Obviously, I'm not one of them.
This whole process that we have is a good one.
I think the problem with the field is the field.
There isn't anybody running who has really excited me, so I wouldn't be able to go to the meeting that you you described and say, get up there and you know run.
I still hold out hope that maybe somebody else would get into the race.
I've mentioned that Mitt Romney's my fallback, but I don't know that you're looking, I guess you're looking for a consensus that hasn't yet developed.
The one thing that we know will happen is at the end of all of this, the Republicans are going to have a convention, and some candidate is going to be nominated to run for president.
For better or for worse, the party will probably unite behind that candidate.
Remember, the Republicans united behind McCain.
As bothered as many of us were by the fact that he got the nomination, given his track record of selling us out for most of the decade, people got behind him and backed him, and the support was rather enthusiastic.
Putting Sarah Palin on the ticket certainly helped with conservatives, and people were out there and they worked hard for McCain and they talked up McCain's positives, acknowledging that there were negatives, and that all happened.
But if you're looking for talk show hosts or opinion leaders or anyone else to rally around anyone, I think the problem is that we're the same as the audience.
My guess is that right now, listening to Russia's show, in addition to the misguided few who are supporting President Obama for reelection, you've got people who are backing Paul.
You've got people who are backing Gingrich, you've got people who really like Rick Perry.
I know Rick Centorm has supporters because we're hearing from them.
You've got people that are backing the that are backing Romney and think that he's the right candidate.
It's just that, you know, the talk show hosts are probably as divided as our audiences are themselves.
But you know, the process is going to work itself out and somebody's going to win this thing.
And it's not necessarily the person who's going to win Iowa.
Thanks for the call.
Yeah, at first I thought he was being sarcastic.
Well, you talk show hosts are saying who we should elect and who we shouldn't elect.
I think he's looking for some direction and guidance.
I don't know that I have no idea who Rush Limbaugh supports for president.
I've heard Rush discuss the candidates, and I've heard him say far more positive things about some than others.
I don't know who he supports.
I can't tell you that I know right if I lived in Iowa, I don't know who I would go and vote for in the caucuses.
No, I don't.
I don't.
I know who it w I know who it wouldn't be.
Mr. Snerdley's demanding that I come clean and say who would I pull the lever.
Part of the problem with that, you know how the caucuses in Iowa work?
You go in, it's it's not like an election where you go in and you pull the lever.
You've got to sit at those meetings for three hours.
And a lot of the strategizing that goes on is that people kind of size up who has a chance of carrying that precinct or not.
It's a very unique process.
You know, they're only expecting 110,000 people to take part in it.
The vast majority of Iowa residents are not going to participate in the caucuses.
All this attention and all these TV ads and all those debates, Rick Centorm's been in all 99 count.
How can they have 99 counties in a state that small?
He's been in all these counties and he spent all these months there.
They're chasing a fraction of the population of that state.
If I thought someone like Santorum or Perry could win, I'd be strongly tempted to back one of them.
If I thought that they were marginalized and it was going to be Gingrich or Paul or Mitt Romney, I might be compelled to vote for Mitt Romney just because, as I've made clear over the last couple of days, I have major hang ups with the foreign policy of Ron Paul.
I think it's dangerous and frighteningly naive in the world that we live in.
And I don't trust Newt on the basis of the fact that Newt Gingrich has been on the opposite side of the issues of me on virtually everything that I care about over the last five to six years from ethanol to global warming to cap and trade.
Now his comments on you know his original comments of government and health care.
The fact that while a lot of us were de pr decrying what was going on with Freddie Mack and Fannie Mae and how they committed the terrible decision because of pressure from politicians like Barney Frank to get out there and underwrite mortgages that never should have been underwritten.
Gingrich was there for all of that, so I've got my hang up there.
What was my answer to your question?
I don't know.
Who would I didn't mention Bachman?
I like Michelle Bachman.
I just think she's not running for the right job right now.
Uh I I've Michelle has not been able to sell me on the notion that she's ready to be president of the United States, but I like her.
I mean, she is fearless.
She's very intelligent.
She's informed.
I think that she's run a credible campaign.
She had the misstep after the uh running with Perry over the vaccines, and she's made a couple of comments that didn't make her look all that intelligent, but it's not like she's been talking like Joe Biden.
You know, when a Republican candidate makes a misstatement, it's magnified magnified by the media.
Look at the ridiculous things the vice president of the United States is look at what Obama said.
Get Obama away from the teleprompter.
It's the other thing about this fear about what's going to happen in the debates.
I'm hearing this from Republicans over and over and over.
We've got to choose Newt, because if you have these debates, Obama's going to kill whomever it is.
If it's Rick Perry, he's going to slaughter him.
If it's Mitt Romney, he's going to be too wooden.
Who are we talking about here?
This is a president who for the last three years hasn't been able to go on the road and give a stock speech without a teleprompter in front of him.
He didn't do all that well in the debates with McCain.
He threw out a bunch of stock lines about hope and change.
Now he's going to have to defend an economic performance that has been terrible.
He's going to have to defend creating a monstrous net federal budget deficit by creating stimulus which did not work.
He's going to have to defend throwing government money around a cylindra while telling existing energy companies that they can't go out and exploit American resources, and he's going to have to do all of it without a script in front of him on a teleprompter.
I don't presume that the Republican candidate for president isn't going to be able to go toe-to-toe with that.
So I'm not as pessimistic about that as a lot of people, and I don't think that the vaunted debating skills of Newt Gingrich are what you need to have in those debates.
My name is Mark Belling, and I'm sitting in for Rush.
I'm Mark Belling, sitting in for Rush, since the RushLimbaugh.com website.
Decided to cherry pick out of yesterday's program my quote that every comment, every thought I've had, and every prediction I've had so far on the Republican presidential race has turned out to be wrong.
I would like to remind the Rush audience that when I appeared on the program last in August, I said I thought Cam Newton would be great.
He has been great.
Imagine how good he'd be on a team that was any good.
He's stuck with Carolina.
I'll give you Cam Newton, the quarterback of the Panthers.
I'll give you another one.
The best quarterback coming out of this draft will not be Andrew Luck.
It's going to be RG3, Robert Griffin of Baylor, who won the Heisman Trophy.
I think he's going to be a spectacular pro.
On that note, um, remember when Rush had that dust up where the politically correct twerps who run the NFL didn't think he was fit to be a National Football League owner because he's a conservative.
There is a way around that.
I am now a National Football League owner.
I bought my one share of Green Bay Packers stock.
I can now finally say I've done something in my talk show career that Rush Limbaugh has not been able to accomplish.
I am an owner of a national foot.
It is it's really worthless.
You get no voting rights, you get no rights to do anything.
They do let you take a tour of the locker room and you can show up at an annual meeting, and for that I had to pay 250 bucks.
But I'm now an owner of the Green Bay Packers.
Greta's always talking on her show that she owns her.
I get nothing.
You don't even get a discount on tickets.
You get nothing.
You get this stock certificate.
It's like mimeographed.
It's really, it is cheesy, which is, I guess, appropriate.
Greta's always talking on her show that she owns her one stock of Green Bay Packer stock, one share of Green Bay Packer stock.
If Greta can go on TV blabbing about this, then I'm going to do it too.
Uh, let's go to My Not North Dakota.
Jeff, it's your turn on the Rush Limbaugh program.
I'm Mark.
Uh all this talk the last couple days about uh who's the best candidate, you know, from the Republican Party.
We're all missing the point.
And the point is is that this is probably the most important presidential election of our lifetime.
And no matter who the candidate is, we need to just get out, cast our votes.
The candidates need to quit tearing each other apart.
We just need to select somebody and get to this business of getting Barack Obama out of office.
This nation cannot survive another four years of the handling that this guy has subjected the nation to.
Well, Jeff, let me tell you why I disagree with you.
First of all, who the candidate is going to go a long way toward determining whether or not Obama is removed from office.
To simply say let's put in generic Republican ignores the fact that, you know, that generic Republican is either going to do well or isn't going to do well against President Obama.
So But these guys are just they're they're tearing each other apart.
But secondly, I want I want to make my second point on that.
You know, and I think part of this comes from my experience in Wisconsin, where we had a governor who showed far more courage than most Republicans ever show in taking on the special interest in my state.
Our problems are grave, and it's going to take incredible political courage to actually move forward with entitlement reform, to roll back government spending, to create a tax code that encourages entrepreneurship.
And you know what the attacks are going to be.
It's going to be tax breaks for the rich and all.
You're going to need someone extraordinary and somebody who's committed to that.
And your presumption is that all of them are equally likely to do so.
It isn't because of the five trillion dollars, nearly five trillion dollars that Obama's added to the national debt.
It isn't going to be enough to merely replace him.
Somebody's going to have to fix the damage that's been done.
So the standard that I'm setting, I think is higher than the one that you're setting because I do think there is a difference between these candidates, and I do think it matters who is chosen.
I just wish they would stop tearing each other apart.
Run on your merits.
It hasn't been that bad.
I mean, it really hasn't.
It ha it hasn't been that bad.
And if you think that they're tearing themselves apart right now, I gotta tell you something.
The savaging of whomever the Republican nominee is by the left in this country is going to be worse than anything you've seen.
It's going to be worse than what W had to put up with in his two campaigns.
It's going to be worse than anything that was directed at McCain.
It's going to be the worst of all time.
And you know why?
They now have power.
And if I've learned anything about liberals, they can't stand losing.
It's why in Wisconsin, they're so infuriated by Scott Walker having won.
They lost their power there.
They will do anything to hang on to it.
Which is, as I say, if there are warts in the backgrounds of some of these candidates and the weaknesses to be exploited, better to get them out there now because it is going to be brutal over the next year.
I'm Mark Belling, sitting in for Rush.
Rush.
Remember Sinead O'Connor, the Irish singer.
Screwed up the national anthem once.
She got married.
They've already broken up after 17 days.
Turns out her new husband was hacked off that three hours after the wedding, she wanted to go out and find marijuana.
You know what the guy does for a living?
He's a substance abuse counselor.
I want to thank the Rush staff and the Rush audience for putting up with me.
We've got Mark Stein tomorrow and Dr. Walter Williams on Friday.
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