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Jan. 5, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 5, 2012, Thursday, Hour #2
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I'm just watching McCain here.
Never mind.
Hang on a minute.
Oh, McCain's very concerned about the recess appointment.
Well, that in a quarter will get you a latte.
Greetings, folks, and welcome back.
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Folks, this mortgage refinance business.
If Obama will do this in an election year, what will he be capable of in a second term when there's no accountability?
Was basically a lame duck throughout the second term.
Why not just write off half the student loan debt?
Why not?
In fact, why wait till the second term to do that?
Why not do that on the heels of wiping out half of people's mortgage debt?
That's what the Occupy Wall Street crowd wants.
No student alone, it's wipe it out.
What's what's, as I say, where's this gonna stop?
Now, there are people who think this won't work.
I in all honesty.
There are people who say that uh this the mortgage refinance plan, which is a giant redistribution of wealth plan, it's also a takeover of private property plan, by the way.
Uh when you write get right down to it.
Um some people think it won't work.
The difference here in HARP one, HARP won, you had to qualify.
Obama's first mortgage assistance program, you had to go qualify.
This you don't.
There's no qualifying.
All you have to do is be three months current on your mortgage.
That's it.
And uh and you qualify.
So if Obama's running roughshod over the Constitution less than a year out from the election, imagine what a second term will look like.
But remember, my friends, as Republicans, we're not supposed to complain about Obama.
We're not supposed to make it anything personal.
No, we're not supposed to attack Obama.
We're not supposed to attack him perfectly, we're not supposed to criticize Obama.
That'll send the independents running wherever they're gonna go.
It would be in bad taste.
He'd be in terribly poor taste.
So Obama, he if he wants, if he wants all these recess appointments, yes, we should lodge our objections and then shut up.
And and if he wants to refinance everybody's, we should lodge our objections and then shut up.
Because to go any further would be unseemly be in bad taste and would risk angering the independents who will not tolerate the first black president being criticized.
That's what our political consultants are telling our candidates.
So keep it respectful.
Let Obama do it to Republicans what Romney did to Newt.
That's what we should do here.
Don't respond in kind.
That might ruffle some feathers of the independence.
Other words, let the bully bully you.
Let the bully bully us.
Because if we react to the bully, the kids in the schoolyard are gonna go right to the bully and love him.
The bully is supposed to get away with being a bully when he's a Democrat president.
There are no other way around it.
Reuters is cheering Obama's takeover of the bureaucracy here.
The National Labor Relations Board, stymied by Congress, Obama to boldly seat nominees.
A defiant Obama took his boldest action yet to show voters he'll confront the Republic.
Obama's not confronting the Republicans.
He's confronting the Constitution.
The Republicans are not Obama's obstacle.
The Constitution is Obama's obstacle.
The Senate is controlled by Democrats.
The Republicans don't control the Senate.
The Republicans don't control where these people are confirmed or not.
The Democrats do.
The Republicans are not standing in Obama's way.
The Republicans are getting out of his way.
They're afraid to be in his way.
Obama is bucking his own party on this.
Obama is appointing people when there is no recess.
Obama is acting outside the Constitution, and it is not the Republicans making him do it.
As though he's justified anyway.
But that's the that's the tone of the reporting from Reuters.
Well, the Republicans are so bad that they're so obsolete.
Poor old Obama's got no choice but than to to take a pee on the Constitution.
Got no choice.
Republicans are making him do it.
That's what the message is.
Snurdly, you can say I know Dana Perino won't appreciate his language, but uh that's that's the message in the reporting.
Right here it is.
A defiant Obama took his boldest action yet to show voters he will confront Republicans.
He's not confronting Republicans, he is confronting the Constitution.
He's defying the Constitution with this power grab, not Republicans.
All right, let's go to the audio soundbite.
I gotta calm down here.
And here is the Dana Perino soundbite.
Now, I've talked I like she she was the press secretary after Tony Snow in the White House.
And I know where she's coming from.
When you uh I I know that I know what the mindset of the Bush team was.
They got to admire them.
They had a great reverence for the office.
It is why uh President Bush told me on numerous occasions why he did not respond to the political attacks on him is because he did not want to bring the office of the presidency down to that level.
So the Bush people had and have a reverence for the office.
I I totally understand it.
But I think it's being taken a bit far here to the point we are handcuffing ourselves in the process.
I understand where Dana Perino's coming.
I really do, but but this goes to what we've always said.
There's there's a group of people on our side who do not view the country to be as imperiled as you and I do, folks.
The $15 trillion national debt's no different than when it was four trillion.
It's just a number rush.
Uh the country's not imperiled.
Obama can't destroy this country.
Better people than Obama have tried.
We're no, we're not gonna lose the country.
It's not it's not about that.
You know, when you win some elections and you lose some.
What what what really is the objective of those who do not believe the country is in peril, who do not think your kids' future is imperiled, who do not worry that debt is going to cause massive tax increases and loss of freedom.
There's a sizable chunk of the Republican Party does not think that.
What they want, they just want to get back in charge of the money.
They want to run the Senate.
They think that that's going to be the best way to stop Obama.
Well, how what would they do if they ran the Senate now?
And he's doing these recessive point.
What would they do?
What evidence do we have to cite that they would do anything to try to stop it, reverse it?
What would they do?
But we do know they want the committee chairmanships.
That's why they didn't like Christine O'Donnell and Sharon Engel.
They thought take Cassidy.
He's a good moderate.
He can win.
We want our committee chairman.
They want.
Washington's all about who's in charge of the money, folks.
You know, ideas are touted.
They'll tell you they care about ideas.
Ideas are secondary.
The money in that town's the attraction.
The money, being in charge of it, what you can do with it is the great attraction.
So anyway, this was shortly after the program began here, shortly after 12 noon, Dana Perino Osama Jenna Lee on uh the Fox News channels um.
Well, now wait a second.
I saw this today, but the soundbite says it happened yesterday on the on the five.
No, the five is on a five.
This happened.
The new news.
I'm sorry for Dana Perino was on Fox shortly after noon, and she got a quote.
Why haven't we seen a big picture inspiring speech from these candidates, Republicans?
The question, do you think that they really know what their plan is for the country?
One of the things that happened in one of the debates, I thought it was just a slip-up.
When Governor Huntsman said America is screwed, okay, that is not presidential language, but on live TV you can sometimes say something you wish you didn't say.
But today in New Hampshire releasing an ad that actually says that.
And I think that it just strikes the wrong note with people.
If you want to be the leader of the United States of America, you should act like it.
This is Dana Perino commenting on Huntsman's high hopes for Huntsman.
A lot of people on the Republican side hope that Huntsman is the dark horse.
And she was telling everybody here that she was she was shocked.
So this is it had to be a slip of the tongue yesterday when Huntsman said that America's screwed.
But then when he put it in an ad that she saw today, then she realized he meant to say it yesterday and in the ad, and that's not presidential.
And that's disappointing.
And that's sad.
Snirdley, do not ask me that question.
I'm not going to repeat that question.
I don't I don't know.
You know, folks.
It's at least three times a week.
I see a complaint, or even hear one in person.
Email complaint about why these conversations I have with the staff are one way.
You're the only guy that doesn't.
I mean we don't even know you're really talking to anybody.
You could be making it all up.
You can be faking these conversations.
How do we know you're talking to somebody?
Do you realize how frustrating it is to listen to a one-way conversation?
Trust me, there's a reason for this.
There is a reason why these are one-way conversations.
And the question Snerdley wants me to ask in a rhetorical fashion.
It would be suitable for an FM morning show, but not here.
And Dana Perino ought to appreciate that.
I mean, we're standing up for high standards here.
So people of the email have taken exception with my description of Obama as lawless and acting outside the Constitution.
Let me share with you a uh a quote.
And this is from a video.
It might have been from yesterday out in Ohio, but it's with the past couple days.
Obama said, when Congress refuses to act, and as a result hurts our economy and puts our people at risk, then I have an obligation as president to do what I can without them.
And he got applause.
I have an obligation to act on behalf of the American people.
I'm not going to stand by while a minority in the Senate puts party ideology ahead of the people that we elected to serve.
Not with so much at stake.
Not at this make or break moment for the middle class Americans.
We're not going to let that happen.
So what Obama.
Now the founding father said this is exactly what's supposed to happen.
It's called the separation of powers.
And it is to make sure that things like this do not happen.
That an all-power, powerful executive does not run ramshodshod over the government.
But Obama has just said because the Congress won't do what I want them to do, I'm going to do it myself.
That is extra constitutional.
That is not the way this government was set up.
It was not the idea of the founders.
That's acting outside the Constitution, and there's no question about it.
And he's doing all of this.
And the Obama campaign is claiming he's doing all these recess appointments and things like this to help the economy.
Thank you.
Reuters again, hammering populist themes that show him to be a champion of the middle class.
AIDS say the president will keep taking steps to show voters he'll make moves on his own to help the economy if Congress refuses to act.
If Congress refuses to act, it is his job to sit down and talk to them and make them act and get them to vote the way he wants.
He does not have unless they grant it to him and they're doing it, by the way.
He doesn't have the authority to run roughshore over them.
But if they don't stop him, he can do it.
We can't.
Congress has to stand up for itself.
Now the Democrats run the Senate.
I think they're happy for this to happen.
Dingy Harry loves for this to happen because they're sitting there blaming on the House Republicans who have no role in this.
It's an election year, blame the Republicans for it.
So it it it's folks that it's clearly lawless.
If you regard the Constitution as law, this is lawless behavior by an out of control rogue executive.
This is what happens in banana republics.
Tinhorn dictatorships.
Places like Venezuela.
This is what happens.
All under the guise of populism.
And helping the middle class.
All right, let's go to the phones.
People patiently waiting, and we're going to start Wayne, Pennsylvania.
This is Bob.
I'm glad you called, sir.
Welcome to the program.
Hey Rush, how are you doing?
Very good, thank you.
Why, uh, I'm a big fan.
You're the man, you're the best.
Appreciate it.
However, listening to you the last few weeks, I think you ought to change the EIB network to the DNC network.
You've been dumping on Romney for the last few weeks every day.
And uh maybe you ought to hook up with David Axel Rod and put on a show.
Are you serious or are you just being provocative here?
Oh, well, I mean, that's like me saying Obama ought to choose Romney to be his VP the way things are shaping up.
How would you react to that?
Well, uh I no, I wouldn't care for that.
Well, you gotta run as Romney's guys devising Obamacare.
You got another Romney guy devising the uh uh the bailout of the mortgage uh problem here it'd make a great VP.
Yeah, there you go again.
You know, uh yesterday uh then you put Santorum on.
I'm just tweaking you.
I'm tweaking you as well.
Just tweaking you out there, Bob.
Well, yesterday and then you had a put on Santorum's acceptance speech yesterday.
I watched that, by the way, live that night.
Uh I voted for Santorum, by the way, three times.
And uh good guy, but uh his last Senate uh Yeah, he is a good guy.
Yeah, he is a good guy.
But he got uh swamped by uh I'm sure a lot of people forgot who's uh the person who beat him.
Uh Bob Casey, that is.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Bob Casey.
Yeah.
By the way, uh I'm not sure if you realize that Spectre here in Pennsylvania's got a new job.
He's a stand-up comedian.
But uh I saw I I saw that.
I I did see that the Arlen Spector's trying his hand at that, along Larry King.
Yeah.
Why, uh, but that's for the uh Kansas.
Suspenders tour.
The candidates that you're support, uh I know you're not a Romney guy.
Uh you know, maybe you'll just man up and say it.
No, no, no, no.
Look, here's the thing.
The the one thing that there's just one thing I object to here, and that is the notion that there's only one Republican that can beat Obama, and that's Romney.
I don't think that's true.
I I think I I I think that think that's very, very wrong.
I think any number of Republicans could beat Obama um i i in the in the normal ebb and flow of things.
But uh uh what is uh w do I I'm hosting my pro do I not have the right to promote Centaurum if by promoting Centaurum that makes me Axelrod?
Oh no, no, no, no.
Yeah, you go right ahead.
Like I said, you're the best.
And uh but uh uh you know these other candidates, I just can't see them beating uh Barack.
Uh fact that we'll get to the biggest.
You can't see anybody but Romney beating Obama, right?
That's that's really what it boils down to for you.
That's for me.
That's correct.
I think we'll get swamped and we'll probably lose all 57 states.
What is it then about Romney that gives you confidence he can win?
I just think he's electable.
He's been around, he's handled himself well in his debates.
Now there are times when you can rattle them.
That that concerns me.
Uh he gets the rattle and he ought to, you know, uh just take it uh make a little joke about it or whatever.
But uh I think Okay, why let's say let's take uh Gingrich.
Why can't Newt win?
Oh, come on.
Too too much baggage.
You've heard it before.
You know, he he could implode any time.
Uh okay, Santorum, why couldn't Santorum win?
Uh it's well look at Pennsylvania.
He gets swamped.
Jeez, a cracker.
Okay.
Uh let's see.
Rick Perry, why couldn't Rick Perry was a governor fourteen fourteen years in Texas?
Is uh had a great record in Texas.
Why can't he beat Obama?
Yeah, and just the other day you said uh Perry uh don't count him out.
And where did he run in uh in the caucus?
He ran fifth.
He'd have just go back to Texas.
He he's just not elected.
No, no, no.
As a Santorum guy, you should want Perry to stay in.
Uh uh, I do.
That was I was happy to hear that, by the way, that he's going to go to South Carolina.
No, but you just said he should go away.
This guy worked.
Yeah, yeah.
I had to tell you that he's a good deal staying in for you.
Listen, the ticket that I want to see, I want to see uh Romney and I want to see Rubio.
Rubio is the star, as you mentioned.
Yeah, but uh he says he's not interested.
I know he's Bobby Gendle says he's not interested.
Yeah, yeah.
So you would reject Obama Romney.
Of course.
Come on.
Uh I just wanted to be clear.
Just trying to get the lay to land here.
That's Bob in Wayne, Pennsylvania.
Bob, thanks for the call brief uh brief.
You have to laugh at some point in the day, folks.
You just have to.
You know, Gerald Ford said that Ronald Reagan was unelectable.
George H.W. Bush said that Ronald Reagan was unelectable.
The entire Republican establishment thought Ronald Reagan was unelectable because they are governed and uh uh informed by the Goldwater landslide defeat.
That's what they think will happen to every conservative.
Don't doubt me.
And we just heard old Bob, Wayne, Pennsylvania say one of the reasons he doesn't think Santorum's electable is just got creamed uh running for re-election in the Senate.
Well, I would hasten to remind you ladies and gentlemen that Romney lost to Senator Kennedy for the Senate in Massachusetts by around 16 points.
Well, no, I mean but if you're gonna sit here and cite, well, Santorum, he wasn't incumbent, he lost you can't win.
Romney lost to Ted Kennedy by uh a round 16 points.
What do you mean I'm comparing cheese and crackers?
Cheese and crackers.
Well, I'm just I'm just saying any I just don't know where this only Romney's electable stuff comes from.
Well, I do know where it comes from.
Stop and think of that.
That is just it's absurd to say it about any one individual to say that pick any one individual among our roster in Canada say only Ron Paul can be elected.
Only Romney can be elected.
Only Santorum can be elected.
Why do we why do we handcuff ourselves?
You know, the Democrats, they should say that kind of why do we say that about ourselves?
Why do we run around and say our guys can't guy can't win it?
I have never met a party beats itself up.
I have never met a party that beats itself, period, the way this Republican Party does.
Uh it's just stunning.
Now, Reagan, all now, Reagan seems inevitable.
Everybody wants Reagan, but remember he was at one point unelectable, according to the experts.
And I know there's a lot of people pining for Marco Rubio, but he he said it again on December 23rd.
No way, no matter who is a nominee, no way, he would consider the VP slut.
Who's next?
Adam in Grand Junction, Colorado, as we stay on the phones.
Welcome, sir.
Great to have you here.
Hi, Ross.
Tebo mania sized dittoes to you.
Thank you very much.
I appreciate that.
Uh I think Santorum is the only real conservative left.
Although he may have the hair.
Do you think that he is tall enough or has the looks?
I mean, in the debate, I think he came off like a little whiny pest when he was challenging the other candidate.
You're basically commenting on uh on Santorum's uh petulance.
Uh that he came off you you you you like him, you think he's the only real conservative, but he came off like a whiny pest.
I've always supported him, but I thought he looked awful whiny and I there were a couple times in the early debates I thought that myself, to be honest with you, Adam, and I thought it was rooted in the fact that Rick Santorum was frustrated that he wasn't getting as many questions, as many opportunities to participate in the debate as Ron Paul was.
Uh the people running these debates were looking for ratings, and the kookier, wackier they could go.
That means Paul on foreign policy, the bigger they think their ratings are going to be.
And I think he was uh little frustrated.
But as the debates went on, I I I saw that mannerism fade away.
Didn't see it.
I'll agree with you in the early phases of the debates, but not toward the end.
We're gonna find out.
You know, here's here's the thing, Adam.
This it all works out.
We're gonna find out.
He's front and center now.
He got a million dollars yesterday.
The media is gonna be zeroing in on everything.
He's a he's a pro-life extremist, he's uh racist, sexist, big and homophobe, they're gonna be zeroing in on all this, and you're gonna find out how he bears up under it.
We are all going to find out.
He was on with O'Reilly last night, and O'Reilly put him through his paces.
O'Reilly said, Look, I'm not, I don't want to debate these issues with you.
I'm not telling you you're right and wrong.
I just want to tell you what you're gonna get hit with.
And he started peppering Santorum with some quotes that are from Santorum's past about abortion, about race, about welfare, about this and that.
And it was interesting to see Santorum parry them, deal with them.
Uh O'Reilly in his own way did a service because this is going to happen.
It's Santorum's turn to get the media anal.
So you're going to find out here fairly quick, Adam, uh, whether or not you like his demeanor.
Whether or not you think he can deal with this in a way that you think is presidential.
We all will.
We'll see.
We'll find out.
It's all going to happen right before our very eyes.
Now there is a debate Saturday night.
The problem with that is that there is also the uh first round of the NFL wild card playoffs are Saturday and Saturday night.
It's a Detroit Lions in New Orleans to play Saints.
I have to think that the Lions and Saints are going to outrate wherever this Republican debate is on a Saturday night.
So whatever happens in this debate is going to be seen by people after the fact in highlights.
Or if they endeavor to find replays.
I don't even know what cable network it's on.
Is Fox doing this debate Saturday night that's uh in New Hampshire?
Wherever it is, it's not going to have big audience.
And then Sunday, uh you've got, well, those playoffs are in the daytime.
Late games at 4.30, the Steelers at Denver.
And Bye, let me tell you about that, folks.
Steelers at Denver.
Everybody is talking about how this is going to be not a slaughter, but the conventional wisdom is the Broncos and Tebow don't have a prayer.
Because Tebow hasn't faced a defense like the Steelers.
But if you look, the Steelers' offense is not scoring points.
Thirteen points against the Cleveland Browns.
This is not the Steelers team of earlier in the year.
They are banged up.
Rottlesberger is not as mobile.
They're not putting points on the board.
This game has potential to be much closer.
If the Broncos defense shows up, it hasn't been the last three weeks.
But if the Broncos defense shows up as it was in early to mid-December, this could be a closer game.
I know that the Steelers defense is pretty healthy.
Okay.
And if they they ought to have a pretty good game plan and containing Tebow.
But on the other side of this, the Steelers are not putting up a lot of points.
So I don't I don't know that this is as slam dunk an outcome as uh it would otherwise normally be.
Just the first take.
This Thursday.
Uh we'll have a little bit more on this game tomorrow as well as the other playoff games.
Cheryl in Reno, Nevada.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hi.
Hi, thank you.
Um first I have to tell you your tea is everything you've ever said it is.
Oh, thank you.
I appreciate that.
Just before Christmas and got it, and it's great.
Um I just want to say I don't think these people should be able to just walk away from their house because it's uh so called underwater.
Ever since they started that makes me so mad.
I nobody was ever guaranteed that their house was going to be worth more than what they paid for it.
It was just kind of a given for a long, long time.
But you buy a new car, what's it worth when you drive it away?
Yeah, I know, I know.
But we have we you know, Cheryl, we we live in a culture now where the left has been working for years to take the risk out of uh as much risk out of uh as much of life as possible.
Uh they have been characterizing uh events like people's houses ending up uh people being underwater in their houses is terribly uh unfortunate and unfair, and we must do something about it.
And there's there's um it's not a majority sentiment, there's a popular sentiment in the country for for bailing out people and uh and institutions.
Uh you know, if capitalism were really in play here, none of this would be going on.
Capitalism's getting a bad rap, but capitalism is not at play.
Capitalism was not in play during the TART bailout during Obama's stimulus, and it's not at play here with this uh this potential mortgage bailout either.
No, I understand exactly uh what you're saying.
We've got a cultural problem here.
Yeah, I don't know.
And one other thing I wanted to say, I think that um ruling that he signed over New Year's about the military being able to detain people.
Yeah.
It sounds like that's just another get even with everybody for their for like Arizona and the other states that want to uh control the.
I am glad.
I am glad that you brought that up.
Because I got an email that night from a member of Congress from Texas by the name of Louis Gomert.
And Louis said that that's not accurate, that the way I heard I was reading uh uh Jonathan Turley, the UK guardian, and Jonathan Turley is uh for the most part a leftist, his lawyer, legal beagle, and he was writing of this thing uh as though it was an outrage, and I reported what he said about it.
Louie, member of Congress who dealt with this while it was being debated, wrote me a note, pretty long note saying it really doesn't say that the the the power to detain citizens without charge, without evidence really isn't in the legislation.
So uh and he was pretty adamant about it, and he's a member of Congress.
Maybe it's not quite as bad as it sounds like he's a good guy, too.
He's not he's uh believe me.
Uh he's he's not he's not prone to defend Obama for the sake of it.
Uh he's like anybody else who wants to get it right.
So I'm glad you reminded me of that because I've got the big note here, but I for I forgot to uh pass that on.
Okay, thank you.
Okay, Cheryl, we'll be back, folks, with much more right after this.
Don't go.
Don't you know, folks, affordable housing is now a right.
Affordable housing is a right.
Sturdley, I'll bet you something.
I want you to do a test.
May not work with you.
You're your your friends are all Don, I want you to try this.
You're conservative.
I want you to send them just an email without any opinion in it that says, Did you hear Obama is going to refinance everybody's mortgage and make it more affordable?
I want you to I want you to tell me the reaction you get.
Oh, that's a great idea.
You think your friends have had the same read snurling when it's you're politically attuned.
The conser and I mean conservative friends.
I want you to send it to your conservative friends and guess w without I don't want you to put can you believe this is don't putting that stuff in there.
Just say, did you hear Obama is thinking of just forgiving everybody's underwater mortgage?
Just you and I will bet you that a lot of people oh, what a great idea.
Illustrating the trouble we're in it.
People do not know about separation of powers, do not know about the const do not know that such dictatorial powers are not permitted, do not know that they are going to be paying for it.
You wait.
Try it.
I dare say I bet you some of my friends would have that reaction.
Some of them.
Most of mine snurkly wouldn't.
As opposed to yours.
Now, it just keeps getting better.
This is from the Hill.com.
Obama to launch summer jobs initiative.
President Obama today will unveil a summer jobs initiative at the White House says is ready uh already on track to create a hundred and eighty thousand work opportunities in the private sector in twenty twelve.
Well, who could oppose that?
A hundred and eighty thousand work opportunities.
Of course, the question is, why do we need this?
I thought you already saved the economy.
I thought we're back from the brink.
I thought we did the stimulus.
People aren't gonna say that.
Oh, wow, he's really gonna do it.
He's gonna create jobs.
This is I when all this stuff happens, folks.
I just please remember I warned you, I'm I and I warned you so you wouldn't get depressed.
So you'd know it's coming.
You might get depressed anyway.
Uh Joy in Tampa.
Joy, glad you call.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hello.
Thank you.
Welcome to you.
Thank you.
Um I was calling because I need you to explain something to me.
Gladly.
Okay, a lot of people and you hear on the media and everything of everybody talking about the debate and who can beat Obama in the debate.
Right.
Why is that so important when everything in the last election that he debated, he was supposed to be so great, and everything has turned out to be a lie, and the media and the powers that be, nobody even cares or or checks his facts or anything.
So I mean, does that mean you have to be the best liar to win the debate?
This is the equivalent of a host standing ovation here, folks.
You are right on the money.
It ought not matter at all, but I'll tell you why it does.
That was you, you you called to find out why it matters, and I'm going to tell you.
Yes.
Republican voters are sick and tired of their candidates sounding stupid.
They're sick and tired of their candidates looking stupid, deer in the headlight eyes, stupid.
They're sick and tired of the media making fun of their candidates for looking and sounding stupid.
And so the only thing that matters to some of them is somebody that can talk.
It doesn't even really matter what they're saying.
Just somebody that can talk because that way they won't be embarrassed.
It's unreal that it's not.
I'm telling you, it's it's base, it's visceral.
It is not oriented toward issues.
It's it and and you and I, I know Joy, you know this.
Absolutely.
Presidential level, the debates do not have that big a fact, or not that big a factor in who wins.
But the and and there's another thing that goes there is an assumption people have been fed that Obama's brilliant, and they hate that.
They hate this idea that Obama's brilliant because as you say, they know he lies.
They know the media helps him get away with lying.
They know he's wrong about it.
So how damn smart could he really be?
So they want somebody that can run rings around Obama on the IQ scale just to just to because they're sick and tired of eight, sixteen years of Republicans being perceived as stupid idiot hicks.
And that's the best I can do.
Well, I appreciate your explanation, and I agree with you.
That's probably what it is.
Don't there's no probably No, that's right.
If you say it, it's it.
Well, because I've heard him say it.
Yeah.
I've I've I've got people emailing me about I've got uh um I hear this frequently.
Uh one of the reasons they people think Romney's that Romney's electable is because they think he'll do well against Obama in the debates.
And one of the reasons people were a little afraid of Cain.
They didn't think he would do well in the debates.
Uh oh.
That and there are a couple other things that are equally as frustrating to me.
But that's the basic answer.
It's it's simply uh people are tired.
Republican voters are tired of their candidate being made fun of and laughed at because they're stupid hicks when they're not, but they're characterized that way.
So they want somebody who isn't, so that can't be said about them.
It's no more complicated than that.
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