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Jan. 20, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 20, 2012, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of The Rush 24-7 Podcast.
It's Friday, ladies and gentlemen.
Live from the Southern Command in Sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
And we are ready to go.
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Even if I don't care about it.
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Nobody else does this but me.
Nobody else takes this kind of risk turning over the all-important content portion of the program, which is the only portion there is to rank amateurs.
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I'm going to try something new.
I am going to suspend my thoughts, my review, my analysis of the debate last night for a couple of reasons.
One, I really want to know what you all think.
It's open line Friday.
I want to.
I d uh you're gonna find out what I think in due course.
You know when I say it, there's nothing left to be said.
And I want to find out.
I I have found I am now I'm not even gonna say that.
I'll wait to say that until later.
We've got the sound bites, but I I want to, you know, the question uh let me tell you, there's I mentioned this yesterday.
I mentioned this some time ago.
There are rumblings in the Republican establishment of a brokered convention now.
There is uh unsettledness and disquietedness in the conservative establishment, quote unquote, in the Republican establishment, quote unquote.
Both camps have prominent people who are unhappy with the way all of this is shaking out.
And they talked about it on Scarborough show today on um on PMSNBC.
For the conservative establishment, it's Newt.
There's some that oh no, this is we don't want Newt.
We've got to do something about Newt.
For the Republican establishment, they're um they're they're getting a little queasy about Romney.
The uh I think the term is brittle.
Uh that's the term Scarborough used.
That the establishment is concerned about what a brittle candidate Romney is proving to be.
It's uh it's said to be scaring the Republican establishment, which is something I said back on January 11th, the day before my birthday.
I was talking about there was a Jonah Goldberg column in which he mentioned the possibility of a brokered convention.
But according to Scarborough, top conservative leaders, the Republican established, want to keep Newt in the race so they can get a brokered convention where they can pick the nominee.
Uh now, the only the Republican elite is not conservatives.
There are two different establishments that we're dealing with here in, I think the conservative establishment establishment, the Republican establishment.
There is some overlap.
But the the uh the scuttle butt is, and it was on the morning joke show today.
The scuttlebutt is keep Newt in this, keep everybody in this.
Don't let this nomination get decided in Florida.
Keep it going, because nobody's happy right now.
I wonder how many of you Yeah, yeah.
What do you agree with that premise?
Yeah, yeah.
This is something unsettled, something not quite right here.
So there's that scuttle butt.
There we had the Marianne Gingrich interview last night on Nightline, and what a thud.
It was a dud.
Uh, and I I asked a lot of people to watch this and share with me their feedback, and beyond the clip that ABC aired yesterday, this is why they didn't air any more clips than what they gave us.
There wasn't anything.
It was it was either it was kind of pathetic.
Uh I actually I felt a little sorry uh for her.
She's being exploited, I think probably willingly uh if there's such a thing.
But there wasn't any bombshells.
There was nothing new that uh that came out of this thing last night.
So the the the fallout, the damage.
That's uh no news.
So I don't think there's going to be anything any more damaging to Newt than there was yesterday when uh when it all happened when it all when it all came out.
So that's the big scuttle butt out there.
That there is unhappiness at the highest ranks of the Republican and conservative establishments here for a host of reasons.
And the longer they can uh prolong this with no definite decisive winner, then the greater the odds, the greater the hope.
They can blow it all up and uh have a brokered convention, which is how conventions used to be, by the way.
Wasn't that long ago that conventions decided to nominee, not primary elections.
Wasn't that long ago.
That's the old smoke-filled back rooms, all the horse trading went on.
In fact, that 1976 uh in Kansas City, the Kemper Arena, that that was not that was a convention.
How many how many ballots were there in that convention before they settled on uh on Gerald Ford?
Well, I know.
He didn't like that process because it left the people out.
It was all the power brokers, the cigar chumpers and uh uh sorry, champers.
Uh and and the smoke-filled room guys.
Uh I don't know.
It's all too white male dominated, of course.
It was too the rich people, too white male dominated, uh, the minorities, the average Americans, the poor, the middle class, uh, the offended, uh, the thirsty, the hungry, they were all left out.
Uh, and so it it uh the uh last winning nominee produced by a brokered convention was Franklin Roosevelt in 1932, brokered convention.
Yeah, on the Democrat side.
That's absolutely correct.
That's what I'm told anyway.
Subject to change, uh as so much always is.
Let's uh now Snerdly start answering phones.
I'm gonna I'm gonna I'm gonna get the calls here.
I want to find out what people thought about this.
I want to find out.
And by the way, specific question was your mind changed.
Has any of this last two debates, if any of this that's happened in the last two debates changed your mind about anything.
And don't worry, I'm going to tell you what I thought.
It's just if I if I start out telling you what I thought, then nobody's gonna care what you think.
It'd be anticlimactic to put you on after what I say, and uh I'll save it.
I'll save it.
And there is, I'll just tell you, there is one apparently piece of conventional wisdom, uh how best to put this.
There's one area where I apparently am a lone wolf in my review of what happened last night.
I can't find anybody who agrees with me.
I'm alone.
Well, as far as I know, among the people that I have spoken to, I hold a view of what happened last night alone.
Uh, let's go to the audio sound bites.
This is the very beginning of it.
This is John King opening the debate on CNN.
Mr. Speaker, I want to start with that this evening.
As you know, your ex-wife gave an interview to ABC News and another interview with the Washington Post, and this story has now gone viral on the internet.
In it, she says that you came to her in 1999, at a time when you were having an affair.
She says you asked her, sir, to enter into an open marriage.
Would you like to take some time to respond to that?
No.
But I will think the destructive, vicious, negative nature of much of the news media makes it harder to govern this country, harder to attract decent people to run for public office.
And I am appalled that you would begin a presidential debate on a topic like that.
That's another standing O for the Newtster.
Thank you.
I told Cookie, don't uh don't cut the applause.
I mean, got to cut it at some point, but leave enough of it in so we get the idea.
For people who didn't see the it was on CNN last night.
Not everybody saw it, I guarantee you.
So the sound bites will be useful today.
So Newt says, I am appalled that you would begin a presidential debate on a topic like that under his breath, he says, even though I knew exactly you were going to do it, there will nobody will be able to convince me Newt did not expect this at the top of the debate and was ready for it.
He might have been appalled, but he was ready for it.
Here's John King retorting.
Is that all you want to say, sir?
Can you finish?
Please.
Every person in here knows personal pain.
Every person in here has had someone close to them go through painful things to take an ex-wife and make it two days before the primary.
A significant question in a presidential campaign is as close to despicable as anything I can imagine.
My my two daughters.
My two daughters wrote the head of ABC and made the point that it was wrong that they should pull it, and I am frankly astounded that CNN would take trash like that and use it to open a presidential debate.
Even though I fully expected it.
Even though I hoped for it, I wanted them to ask me this question.
I was hoping they would ask me this question.
I was prepared to answer this question.
I knew it was coming.
I wanted to tell them what reprobates they are.
A bunch of people that appall everybody.
And they never do anything like this to the Democrats.
They run out, they do everything they can to protect Barack Obama.
It was red meat.
People ate it up, standing O after standing O, two of them in one week.
For Newt Gingrich, John King.
As you noted, Mr. Speaker, this story did not come from our network, as you also know it is a subject of conversation on the campaign.
I'm not sure.
I get your point.
I take your point.
John, it was repeated by your network.
You chose to start the debate with it.
Don't try to blame somebody else.
You and your staff chose to start this debate with us.
Let me be quite clear.
Let me be quite clear.
Every personal friend I have who knew us in that period says the story was false.
We offered several of them to ABC to prove it was false.
They weren't interested because they would like to attack any Republican.
They're attacking the governor, they're attacking me.
I'm sure they'll present it around to Senator Santorum and Congressman Paul.
I am tired of the elite media protecting Barack Obama by attacking the public.
Right.
Oh, Mama!
Oh, yes!
Right on, right on, right off.
Audience eating it up.
They're eating it up off the floor.
They're sucking it up with straws.
They love it.
Now let me tell you one thing here, folks.
You cannot shame the mainstream media.
If any of you are thinking that the media learned a lesson, if any of you believe that the media finally had it handed to them, if you believe that the media had their eyes open, then they are fully awake now and they understand what they're dealing with.
Forget it.
John King is proud of what happened last night.
John King is a hero in the mainstream media.
Because he didn't back down, because he continued to illustrate how it is that the media does really control the agenda.
That was a demonstration of the power they hold over every public figure's head that they choose to hold a guillotine.
And John King, there may even be some jealousy and envy within the journalist ranks.
Well, not journalists, within the Democrat Party ranks.
Because John King is the guy that got in Newt's face, stared him down.
And the fact that Newt told him off, it's a badge of honor.
If you are thinking that John King was embarrassed and ran away with his tail tucked between his legs and learned his lesson, and it'll never happen again.
You cannot shame the mainstream media.
They are proud of this.
They delight in their power to destroy candidates that they don't like.
They revel in the fact that they can keep so many conservatives from even thinking about getting into politics.
A lot of the so-called journalists watching this probably were pumping their fists.
A lot of journalists watching this were going the Obama cheer.
Yes, we can.
Yes, we can do not doubt me.
If you think King was embarrassed, if you think he was suffering from an elevated heart rate during the middle of this, if you think he felt shamed, if you think, oh my God, Newt's beating the crap out of you, you are dead wrong.
He got exactly what he wanted out of this.
Do not doubt me.
At the end of the day, the message to every conservative who hasn't run for office is you want a piece of this.
You want some of this.
You want Brian Ross hounding you and your ex-wife, and then you want me asking you about it on national TV the next night?
Come on in.
We're ready.
That's the message from John King and CNN last night.
And do not doubt me on this.
Now, for all of you people excited out there about the possibility of a broken brokered convention, there's just one thing standing in the way of that.
Do you know what it is, snurdly?
What is the one thing that stands in the way of a brokered convention?
There aren't any brokers.
The rules are that candidates are pledged delegates or delegates pledged to candidates after the primaries in each state.
In some states, it's winner-take all, in some states it's proportional.
But that there aren't any brokers.
Who are the brokers?
Who are the people going to go in in the smoke-filled rooms?
Who the hell smokes anymore?
A nation of frigging wimps.
How can you have a brokered convention with no smoke-filled rooms?
How can you have a smoke-filled room with people afraid to smoke a cigar?
So the fact you can't smoke cigars is a reason why there won't be a brokered convention.
The fact there aren't any brokers, it's it really.
How many states have party leaders that could overthrow this?
How many who you realize somebody would have to come along and say, you know what?
We are gonna throw away every rule that we have set up.
And all the money that you candidates have spent under the old rules in all these primaries, forget it, you're not getting it back.
What's done is done.
We don't like brokers anyway anymore.
They're on Wall Street.
Right?
We hate brokers.
Sunnyway, all this what I find interesting about it is now there's some unsettledness.
It's like Crowdhammer the other day wrote or said on Fox, you know, Mitt really can't explain conservatives.
Really?
When did that realize?
And then Jonah Goldberg's piece, oh gosh, uh, not happy out there.
Oh, gee oh.
Uh there is there, there is this little fear out there that again, what's the word the Republican establishment frightened at what a brittle candidate candidate Romney's proving to be.
So there's there is some panic.
And there's panic on the conservatives.
There are there are a lot of conservatives that are just panicked about Newt winning this.
Like there are conservatives ecstatic about it.
It's like I said yesterday, hey Herman, what are you doing, buddy?
Nobody had any evidence.
Come on back in.
Sarah!
Sarah.
Is it cold enough for you up there in Gnome?
Come on down.
Governor Christie, you want to rethink this.
I mean, there's all kinds that there are dreams.
People in the conservative Republican ranks are starting to have dreams now.
Not everybody.
Some are ecstatic.
Some it's it's it is uh, I don't know.
Now, for those of you that do I have time for yes, here's John King soundbite number four, very quickly get this one in.
It is an issue in the debate.
Some of the other candidates are talking about it, and voters are talking about it in the state.
Was it my judgment, my decision, and mine alone?
If we're going to deal with it, let's deal it up front.
Let's not try to sneak it into the middle of the debate somewhere.
And people at home either agree with that or disagree with that.
You make a decision, you ask the question, and this is politics.
This is politics.
He's trying to promote himself, promote an agenda.
Of course he's going to attack us.
I don't take that personally.
We had a nice conversation afterwards.
I've had a long relationship with the speaker.
We don't always get along, but I get how the business works.
That's John King afterwards, accepting accolades, by the way, from the CNN analyst bench on the way he did this.
I mean, that was a home run for John King last night, and don't think otherwise.
Don't doubt me.
No, no, no, no.
Folks, please don't misunderstand me.
I'm I'm not criticizing Newt and the John King back and forth.
I, and I'm not saying it was pointless.
Well, I'm just, and I'm not saying it shouldn't happen.
I think it's great.
What it what it does is illustrates that they can be dealt with.
But you can't beat them.
They're not, they're not going to be shamed.
They're not going to be shamed into stopping the coverage of conservatives as they do it.
It's going to continue.
No matter what kind of shame you think they suffer in a in a in a contest like that.
No matter how much money they lose, no matter how many of them get fired, know how many newspapers or magazines or TV networks get shut down.
They are not going to change.
They are hardcore.
Leftists, radicals, right out of the White House.
That's where they get their marching orders.
That's why I call them a state controlled media.
But Newt standing up to them the way he has shows that Republicans can win doing so.
How many consultants have told Republicans never to do what Newt does?
How many consultants is it don't ever do that?
You can't win with the media, don't ever do that.
They're going to come back and hate you twice as much and destroy you.
And that's why most Republicans don't do what Newt did this week.
And it's a reason why so many of our candidates don't do it either.
But I ask you, did Newt win or lose last night by doing this?
Did he get hurt?
Let me put it that way.
Did Newt hurt himself with South Carolina voters or Republican voters at large by taking on John King that way?
He did not hurt himself.
Now we are told, Republicans and conservatives are told by our consultants that the independents don't like that kind of thing.
The independents don't like that kind of confrontation.
The moderate voters don't like that.
Moderate voters want us to get along, want to work with each other and don't treat Democrats that way, don't treat the media that way.
But let look two standing, three standing O's for Newt this week.
I'm not saying don't do it.
I'm saying do it all the time.
I just don't think that these people are shameable.
Don't think that they're going to start loving us.
Don't think they're going to start agreeing with us.
Don't think that that can happen as a result of this.
That's all I'm saying.
Nothing more.
Not suggesting Newt shouldn't have done it.
Quite the opposite.
It lets everybody on our side know that they're not alone, that they're not isolated.
There's all kinds of upsides to doing it, but one of the upsides that isn't going to happen is the media saying, gosh, we've been so mean to these people and so unfair.
You know, maybe we ought to start being fair.
That's not going to happen.
It just isn't.
And I I don't mean to be depressing you here, but it just isn't going to happen.
We're going to get to the phones here in a second, but two sound bites.
David Rodham Gurgen, debate analysis on CNN after it was over.
This is one of the most explosive moments we've seen in debate history.
Also one of the harshest attacks we've had on the press that I can remember in a long, long time.
Very personal in the beginning.
As a political matter, I think Gingrich saw a fastball coming, and for this audience, he smacked it right out of the park.
I think there's a reasonable chance after talking to people here that he could win South Carolina based on that answer.
So David Rodham Gurry, if you want to know what Washington conventional wisdom is, if you want to know what Washington, D.C. group think is, just listen to what Gergen says.
And Rodham Gergen there said Newt could win South Carolina because of this.
He could.
He could win South Carolina because of that.
What do you what's so uh funny uh in there?
Uh oh, well, they'll if they don't, so they'll figure it out at some point.
One more bite than the phones is Howard Feynman.
Uh last night uh on PMS, NBC, the last word.
Uh Feynman now left Newsweek, as you know, and he's over at the Huffing and Puffington Post.
And they're having a discussion about uh uh Newt's debate performance last night.
This was Howard Feynman's review.
Newt Gingrich with this crowd and with these people here who want a fighter, who like cock fighting, who like the hard scrabble, who like the confrontational approach, that's what Newt Gingrich gives them.
It may be short-sighted of them going down the road, but these people here in this state want to feel like they've got a feisty person to go up against Barack Obama.
Their hatred of Barack Obama is almost blinding in its intensity, and Newt feeds that.
So they're in a foreign country.
I I guarantee you, Howard Feynman probably thought he had to apply for a visa and an immigration card.
And you know, the first thing, what is the first thing he used to describe South Carolina?
They like cock fighting here.
Can we say prejudice?
Can we say elite arrogance and condescension?
They like cock fighting.
They like the hard scrabble.
They like the confrontational approach.
Wait a minute.
So you think of South Carolina as Cuba?
What is this?
And by the way, David Rodham Gergen does not seem to think that this kind of talk is gonna scare off the independents.
Intense hate intense hatred of Abbas, what they think.
That's what well, it only matches their intense hatred of conservatives.
They have an intense hatred for us.
They hate us more than they hate the Taliban.
They hate us more than they hate Al Qaeda.
They want Al Qaeda to have more civil rights than people on the internet have.
So I just want to share those bites with you.
Now we're gonna go to your calls earlier than ever on an open line Friday, as I have not offered a single opinion about last night's debate.
I am waiting to hear from you.
We're gonna start in Washington with Eric.
I'm glad you called, sir.
You are up first, and it's wonderful to have you with us.
Rush, it's very good afternoon.
It's nice speaking to you again.
Thank you, sir.
Uh well, the question to me is Gergen uh Starlight Thunder here a little bit.
But why would the drive-by's uh Mr. King, why would he love this fastball down the middle of the plate for for Newt to hit it out of the park?
The only thing I could come up with is that they misread the way he was gonna answer.
No, Mr. King told you the answer in his side.
Grab soundbite number four.
Stick with me on the phone is that John King told us himself why he did this, and I'm gonna add to it.
But here is John King explaining his decision to do it and do it first.
It is an issue in the debate.
Some of the other candidates are talking about it, voters are talking about it in the state.
Was it my judgment, my decision, and mine alone?
If we're gonna deal with it, let's deal it up front.
Let's not try to sneak it into the middle of the debate somewhere, and people at home either agree with that or disagree with that.
That's it.
That's enough.
Not sneak it in.
If we're gonna deal with this, let's do it up front.
In other words, I'm gonna show you my courage.
In other words, I'm gonna show you my guts.
It was all about John King.
It wasn't about setting Newt up.
The hope was that it would that it would uh uh be a curveball for Newt, uh that he would somehow flub it up, uh, and they could take him out.
Remember, their objective is to take all these people out, Eric.
At one time or another, Their objective is to take Romney out.
Their objective is to take Newt out.
But this was all about John King.
Going first, look at me.
Look at my gonads.
Look at my guts.
I am the man here tonight.
I am fearless.
That's the answer to your question.
Hello, testing.
You're there.
No, I hear you rush.
So are you eliminating the possibility that they misread the way that Newt was going to answer?
No, no.
I think they knew that he was probably going to be prepared for it.
They're not idiots.
They are hoping he botched it.
They're hoping that he would uh flub it up by being embarrassed.
But they had to know Newt has been getting standing O is attacking the media.
They had to know they're setting him to attack them.
And it's like I told you in the last half hour.
This a badge of honor for the media for John King.
That whole back and forth is a badge of honor.
But he told us, I'm not going to sneak it in in the middle.
That would be cowardly.
I'm not going to play a trick here.
Uh-huh.
I'm going to be Mr. Upfront.
I'm going to do what most people think is not going to happen here.
And to those who do think it's going to happen, I'm going to let them know they're right.
I understand this.
I understand the psychology of these.
Look at I know liberals, folks.
I know exactly why they do what they do.
I know I know what they're going to do before they do it.
I told you, I had an email from my old buddy Andy McCarthy.
He wanted to set up a little office pool on yesterday, the percentage, the odds that the whole Mary Ann Gingrich thing would come up in the debate.
And he said, I'm not going to tell you guys something a 75% chance it'll come up.
I wrote back and say, Andy, it's 100% from the top.
That's the whole reason.
It's the whole reason that's that's how the debate's going to start.
And it's it's it's also that's going to tick off the Santorums.
It's going to tick off the Romneys, and if Paul knows what's going on, it's going to tick him off.
Because they're going to give Newt the stage for the first 10 minutes in a way that they will not be able to match the rest of the night.
That's the theory.
Remember, they're there to take all of these people out.
That's their agenda.
King probably thought that he could return to the question near the end of the show and bring it up again as he set them up for their closing uh closing statements, closing arguments, but Newt kind of shut the door on that.
You know, Ed Sullivan.
Well, you he put the Beatles on at the top of the show.
Ed Sullivan didn't play the trick of waiting to the last half hour of the show.
He put them on top of the show.
He brought them back for an encore at the end of the show.
That's what was happening.
This was a show, folks.
It was, and it was a performance for Newt.
He knew this was coming.
He knew it was coming.
I'm not belittling it in any way.
I've told you honestly up front, exactly what I think of all aspects of this.
It is a win-win for him.
I'm not well I'm gone too far.
I want to know what you think of all this.
So there I've answered a question.
We'll come back, and I got more calls on the other side of our obscene profit timeout here.
Okay, so uh what does what does the drive-by media think of South Carolina?
Cockfights?
NASCAR.
With NASCAR, you've got stills.
And oh NASCAR got started out running the revenue.
So you got cockfights, that's South Carolina.
You got NASCAR, which is Hicks in the backyard brewing their own uh moonshine, outrunning the federal agents.
And you got football.
And that's that's that's barbarism and brutal.
Then you got the military, and that's the focus of evil in the modern world.
And you got grits.
Look at the Southern food.
My God, type two diabetes, heart attacks, clogged arteries, and you die.
And jobs.
And that's the one thing Obama doesn't like.
So there's not one thing on this list.
In South Carolina, liberals can stomach cockfights, NASCAR football, military grits, and jobs.
And all of that is America.
All that's America.
And the Lib Media hates it.
Resents it.
Not alike.
And that's why I'm gonna tell you the social conservatives watching this thing less that probably hate the news media more than they're concerned about Newt's private life.
South Carolina is also a right to work state.
That'd be another thing that the left would hate about it.
Plus, there's a female governor there that's a looker, and that always bugs the Democrats.
Their last looker was Jennifer Granholm, in their mind, and look what they had.
Look at the hey they tried to make of that.
So all these things.
South Carolina, you add it all up, majority American, and that's why Obama and the Democrats despise it.
It's a right to work states why they have jobs.
Unemployment rate there, although is is uh is is high.
But they're working for, and it would be lower if the National Labor Relations Board and Obama hadn't stepped in to try to stop.
Job creationists, well I want to play this uh blah blah blah blah uh Joe Klein, Time magazine, last night on MSNBC.
This is what he thought of the uh debate, Gingrich and his moment with the media, John King.
What it says about Gingrich.
Throughout these debates, his most effective moments of attack have been against us.
Have been against and attacking us with that audience is kind of like saying Osama bin Laden was a bad person.
So he's comparing the media to Osama Bin Laden.
Hey, Joe, works for us.
Fair comparison, good analogy.
By the way, Joe Klein had a story in Time Magazine earlier this week about what an utter failure head start's been.
No, I'm not kidding.
All of the multiple billions that have spent on head start been spin, and there's nothing to show for it, not one thing to show for it.
It's a total disaster.
But don't judge the results.
Judge our big hearts, judge our intentions.
Here's Don Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
Great to have you on the program, sir, on open line Friday.
Yeah, well, that's nice to be online with you.
Thank you, sir.
Um the media might be surprised that I'm from South Carolina, and I'm actually calling you on a smartphone.
Um, but uh you asked earlier if any of these debates were.
Yeah, but you probably had to leave the cock fight in order to make the call.
Yeah, that's right.
Um you asked if anybody's changed their mind over the last couple of days of these debates.
Well, I I I have.
I I was at the Little Beast debate.
Um probably 60% lean and Romney.
Uh the one, you know up to the belief that uh he was the only one that could uh beat Obama after that debate.
Uh Newt really kind of raised raised up in my mind and and really after last night I'm voting for Newt just.
Now, what about what what was it specifically that Newt did that changed your mind?
Was it the opening?
Well, you know, really asked I I I'm a conservative and never really uh, you know, never really captured that in me, but I I bought the I bought the the uh idea that Knitt was the only one that could win it.
I thought uh Nitt probably had too much baggage, so really going into the Middle Beach debate, I was kind of 60% Romney and 40% uh Santorum.
Um wait a second, I want to make sure I understand this.
You were 60% Romney, 40% Santorum, and now you're a Newtster.
Yeah.
I mean, I've always liked Newt in the way he's expressed the conservatism, but I really was his so-called baggage.
I I didn't think he had a chance to win.
Yeah.
But yeah, you think he's withstood the values charge.
Well, he's obviously withstood the values charge of you, but you think he can beat Obama.
Yeah, I actually I think he can.
Um, I don't think Obama is this uh I think it kind of goes back to you need to go ahead and stand up for conservatism, compare and contrast against Obama's socialism, and I think Newt's the best person to do that.
Well, uh it's uh interesting.
I've always I've always said let conservatism reign.
R. E. Ig and let it triumph.
Just put it out there.
Articulate it passionately from the heart, and it it won't lose.
National election.
But the consultants just won't let it happen.
They think you gotta go middle of the road, moderate.
They think conservatism scares off the independents, much less the Democrats.
I'll tell you, I love this story, ladies and gentlemen.
Trans-Canada Corporation might shorten the initial path for the rejected Keystone Project, Keystone Pipeline, bringing oil from Montana to refiners in the Gulf of Mexico and removing the need for federal approval.
I just love it when our creative entrepreneurs find ways around an oppressive federal regime.
They're going to try a reroute of the pipeline from Montana all the way down to the Gulf that would obviate Obama's involvement.
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