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Jan. 23, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 23, 2012, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of The Rush 24-7 Podcast.
Kentucky Senator Rand Paul has been detained by the TSA at the Nashville Airport.
He set off the alarms and refused a pat down.
So they detained him.
He sent his dad a note about it, and it's become a big story out there.
Now, if this had been Ron Paul, you couldn't really blame the TSA.
You have to admit Ron Paul almost sounds like an Islamic terrorist sometime.
But this wasn't.
Gotcha.
This was Rand Paul.
Anyway, folks, the Republican establishment is in a full-blown panic.
And I, and I'm not doing an I told you so.
This is this is a giant, I told you so.
This is a reminder that I will illustrate.
I told you this almost in the exact words you heard on television from Republican consultants and establishment people.
I told you this was their fear back on November 10th of last year.
They are in an outroar, a panic.
They are secretly trying to get Mitch Daniels to get back in the race.
There are entreaties being made to Bobby Gindle to get in the race.
They are panicked.
They are scared to death.
They're going to lose the House and not win the Senate.
And I told you on November 10th, that's their primary concern.
That's why they were apoplectic at Christine O'Donnell and Sharon Angle getting Tea Party nominations.
It's about the Senate.
It's about being in charge of the money.
It's not about cutting spending.
The Republican establishment is not on uh signed on to the cutting spending business.
That's I mean, if you want to know what the establishment is, you can easily people ask, Well, what do you mean?
Who is this Republican establishment?
They're Republicans two things.
They don't like conservatives, and they're not really all that concerned about spending.
They want to be in charge of it.
That's who they are.
And they are not going to be in charge of it if they don't hold the House and if they don't pick up the Senate, and that's what they really want.
They're not and never have been convinced that Obama can be beat.
Now Newt has thrown this thing into a tizzy.
They don't know what to do.
They wanted this wrapped up.
They don't understand why it happened.
They're blaming all the wrong people.
They're blaming their own voters.
They're blaming the media.
They're blaming stupidity on the part of the voters.
They haven't the slightest idea why this happened in South Carolina.
That's not too much democracy going on in their minds.
They just they just don't understand it.
They they they don't understand the base of their own party.
They resent the base of their own party.
They don't understand the passion.
How many times I was telling Snerdley this morning.
Because he came in here and gave me his theory, which I promptly shot down.
His theory is that we all owe ABC this, because if we're at ABC and John King asking the questions, knew it would have never been.
And to a certain extent, that's true.
But but why?
Why did those questions tee newt up?
And why did Newt know what to do with them?
Very simple.
I I've been doing this show for 23 years.
And one of my one of my themes from the beginning from 1988 has been that the American conservative middle class are the ones playing by the rules.
They are the ones that obey the law to the best of their ability.
They raise their kids.
They try to hide or shield their kids from cultural rotten depravity.
They try to keep them off drugs.
They try to get them into college.
They follow as best they can all the rules and they're laughed at and they're made fun of, and they are impugned everywhere they look.
They go to the movies, they're mocked and made fun of.
They turn on a radio, listen to music, they're laughed at, mocked, and made fun of.
They turn on television and watch an average television show, they're laughed at, mocked, and made fun of.
They open a newspaper, same thing.
And they've had it.
And they've been dealing with this for over 20 years, and nobody's fought back for them.
Not one person ever has fought back for him.
The last time somebody actually spoke up in this large a forum, a presidential forum, would have to be Reagan, and Reagan did it not by so much what he said, although he had his moments.
He did it by winning.
He did it by skunking These people.
Since then, the Republican leadership has not seemed focused so much on winning, and they sit there and they take it.
Whenever their own voters are insulted.
When their own voters are laughed at and impugned and called racist sexist bigots homophobes, the Republicans don't defend them nor themselves because they're scared to death the independents are going to be upset.
Or the media is going to be upset.
So the base of the Republican Party, the voters has been bottling up for 25 years, a resentment, a anger, if you will, that their own party won't fight for them, won't fight for itself, won't fight for what's right.
So when Newt gets teed up with these questions from Juan Williams and John King and whoever else, and simply says what they've been thinking for 25 years, they say, finally.
What they want right now is fight back.
What they want is pushback.
What they want is kickback.
What they want is smackdown.
What they want is for these people who've been laughing at them and mocking them and impugning them put in their place.
They're tired of the cultural rot taking place in the country.
They're tired of the incessant growth of government and spending.
They're tired of it.
And they're frustrated as they can be that members of their own party who get elected can't seem to articulate their own passions.
And politics is about passion, and a Republican party doesn't seem to have it.
There's always fear of somebody, the media.
Fear in Democrats.
Well, Newt doesn't act like he's got any fear.
So how many wives he got?
I don't care.
What do you do for Fannie Mae for?
I don't care.
What are his national disapproval ratings?
I don't care.
Finally, somebody's telling the bad guys who they are, what to do, and that we're not going to take it anymore.
Or that we don't want to take it anymore.
Now you can sit there and you can say that that's cockeyed, that elections aren't won that way.
Uh they aren't.
Who just won?
Who's already leading in the polls in Florida?
George Will had a fascinating statistic over the weekend.
Mitt Romney, Mr. Electability, according to the Republican base, Mr. The only guy that can give us the Senate is nine and sixteen in his election career.
He's won nine and lost sixteen.
He's nine out of twenty five.
That they tell us is Mr. Electability.
And they're sitting around the bases and they're saying, you know, I we we don't care about this traditional stuff that you care about that's kept you in second place all these years.
It really isn't complicated.
But the resentment for the base that the Republican establishment has is obvious.
And of course, the Republican establishment knows that.
They know that the Tea Party is not embraced, that the Republican establishment is trying to tea uh marginize the Tea Party or marginalize the Tea Party.
So it really, at least for me, it's not hard to understand.
Now there's another abject sense of panic had set in over, oh no, you mean this race is gonna go on?
Oh no.
Yeah, the race is gonna go on.
See, they thought that this would be over before it started.
They were gonna remember what I told you.
They're gonna split the conservative vote and elect the moderate.
There were gonna stand traditional theory on its head.
The traditional theory is in the primaries, you play to your base, you win the nomination, then when you win the nomination, you go to the general.
That's when you go push the moderates like McCain does, and you lose.
They decided we're gonna lose from the get-go.
We're gonna nominate a moderate.
We're gonna take the conservatives in our party to we can't stand, we're gonna have as many of them up there as possible, splitting the vote, in in this case, splitting the polls, because there weren't any votes until January.
But they were hoping the polls, they were hoping the polls would end this race before a vote had been cast.
So they welcomed Perry getting in and Ron Paul and Herman Cain and all these because it allowed them the opportunity to ridicule them.
I'm talking about our own establishment.
Forget the media Democrats, I'm even talking about them yet.
We get to them in due course.
So the more conservatives the better, the more you can criticize them, impune them, but the more important thing is you split the support.
Romney versus all the others.
Romney by default wins, and they were hoping to create uh uh psychological attitude that said, you know what, there's no way, because if all these guys stay in, mitz it.
The rif the conservative vote's gonna split itself when the votes finally start being counted and blah blah.
Now look at what happened when you actually start voting.
This is why they wanted to make sure the vote didn't count.
They wanted it over before.
Now, if you happen to watch cable TV on Saturday night, if you have as boring a life as I do, and you were watching cable TV on Saturday night, what did you hear?
You heard the same pundits.
I don't care what network you went to.
You're the same pundits lamenting the same things, worried about the same things, primarily their predictions being wrong.
Talking about how we've got this, this can't go on.
The longer this goes on, the worse it is for the Republican Party.
And I'm sitting there, what's so bad about this?
Oh, I know there was total shock.
Why was there shock?
The polling data before South Carolina told us what was going to happen.
The shock was that Newt won the women vote.
He won the independent vote.
He won every congressional district in South Carolina.
That was the shock.
Everything that they told us Newt couldn't do, he did.
Everything they told us a conservative couldn't do, he did.
Every bit of conventional wisdom was stood on side its head.
Or on its head.
Every bit of electability conventional wisdom from the so-called experts was stood on its head Saturday night.
And so the pundits and the analysts and the consultants are trying to analyze it and figure it out.
And the best they can come up with is we've got to put a stop to this.
If this goes on, that's going to kill a Republican Party.
Oh no.
And I'm watching and I'm saying, wait a minute, do you people not understand yet that you can't control this?
You gave it your best shot.
You can't control this.
In fact, you may be affecting it in ways you wish weren't happening.
Just by the way you're handling yourselves.
Man, I'm talking about media.
My question is, and I got I've looked at I'm getting my share of panicked emails too.
Oh, and I'll tell you something else I'm getting.
I'm getting emails with my own words, but not attributed to me, sent to me.
That's one of the reasons I'm gonna go back to November 10th and remind you when all of this was first predicted.
Rush, you know, there's panic out there.
We're gonna lose the Senate if it's oh, yeah, really?
Yeah, where did you hear that?
Now, ladies and gentlemen, for me, a protracted primary that goes on to the convention.
Bring it on.
The fact that conservatism is gonna be debated.
What Romney, if he Romney, if he has a prayer here, he's gonna have to figure conservatism out.
He's gonna have to be able to articulate it like he believes it, loves it, and understands it.
The one thing Mitt Romney has trouble doing is connecting with his audience.
That's why the joke's about him being a Kendall.
He just he doesn't connect.
The campaign places look great, and the flags and the banners and the popcorn and peanuts are all good, but the I believe in America founded by the founders, and I want America to believe in America that America believes in America, the founders believe in America.
What?
What is platitudes aren't going to get it?
A dire and I don't know that Romney obviously has decided not to go after Newt on uh Fannie Mae Freddie Max.
I don't it worked in Iowa with the uh with the uh super PAC ads, but I I don't know.
I I think I think Romney's problem is really not so much Newt as it is what it's always been.
The base just doesn't think he's conservative.
That's I what what that's all it is.
And of course, that ticks off the establishment.
Let me ask you, you know, we did Operation Chaos.
Oh, do you know what?
I didn't know this.
Nobody tells me anything.
Have you seen the George Clooney movie Ides of March?
Well, it was up for Academy Awards.
I got a George Clooney, the actor.
It's about Operation Chaos.
It's about the the subplot the first 40 minutes of that movie is about Operation Chaos and how ticked off the Democrats were.
Nobody told me.
It ends up being a subplot to the movie.
Don't worry, I'm not going to spoil it if you haven't seen it.
But Clooney is an incumbent Ohio governor running for re-election, and his opponent is going to register a bunch of Republicans and independents in the primary to come in and vote for anybody but the incumbent.
They even have Chris Matthews, a clip of Chris Matthews M SNBC.
Yeah, Rush Limbaugh calls it Operation Chaos.
Explain it.
And it's clear that whoever wrote this movie put it together is ticked off at Operation Chaos.
So the first 40 minutes of this movie are about that.
Turns out that's not what the whole...
I'm watching this, but my question is, did a long protracted fight hurt Obama in 2008?
Did it hurt him?
Did it hurt him?
Now you might say, yeah, he started making these bitter clinger comments as if he hadn't had the media behind him.
If, if, if, if, the fact of the matter is, that thing went down to the superdelegates toss-up and Obama wins.
Yes.
And Hillary lost.
So it's another bit of conventional wisdom.
We've got to stop this campaign.
Oh my God.
How?
We can't have this.
Can't have Newt out there why Newt's gonna turn everybody off before it's all over.
Newt is gonna destroy the party.
Newt's gonna destroy the party.
We've got to stop this.
What argument about the general election?
I just I just got saying what do you think my point is in asking if it hurt Obama?
That was a long primary.
Did he win?
He won.
Along our Operation Chaos.
We kept it going.
We were trying to have Obama exposed.
We figured Hillary's the only person in the campaign with a gonads to do it.
The press wasn't vetting Obama.
The whole point of Operation Chaos was to have the truth about Obama come out.
And then greater chance of that was to have the campaign go.
But the campaign went on and on and on.
Long campaign.
Didn't hurt Obama, did it?
So why is it that a long primary campaign is going to hurt the Republican nominee?
If the result of a long campaign is that this party finally figures out that the only way they got to win this is conservatism, it's a win-win.
Let it play out.
Don't panic.
If Newt is a flawed candidate, it is a long campaign that's going to show it.
Everybody's saying Newt can't prevail in a general, he's too flawed.
Fine, then don't worry about it.
He'll implode sometime in the primary.
If he's going to implode, he's going to implode.
The longer it goes on, the longer.
I'm just taking their theory, throwing it back out.
Why panic here, folks?
Everything's okay.
And we're back.
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You want to know my job's like?
In part.
So after that open, I go to the email, and I've got in my private email box.
People don't know me.
You're wrong.
A long campaign hurts us.
This is what you ought to be saying.
So I promptly set up a mail rule to delete that stuff.
I mean, even this is what this is, and it's a New Yorker, so it's typical New York panic and fear.
New York Times panic and fear.
I'm telling you, folks, don't prejudge this electability question.
And I am not telling you I am supporting Newt Gingrich.
I'm not supporting anybody.
I am supporting conservatism.
I'm supporting the truth about Barack Obama coming out.
I would much rather hear about Barack Obama.
He's a Sololinsky radical than I would hear he's in over his head.
He's not in over his head.
He's not incompetent.
That's how Romney and the base want Obama discussed.
Our people don't think he's a hapless, unlucky, in over his head incompetent, stumbling through life, making wrong decisions.
They think he's on a mission to transform this country in a way that it won't be like anything we've ever seen since it was founded.
They want somebody who sees that about Obama and is as oriented to saving the country as they are.
The establishment doesn't have that candidate.
They just do not have that candidate.
If they've got that candidate, that candidate's not willing to say so.
When these party elites start talking about electability, they're talking about their own electability.
How did it ever get written?
And this is not a slam on Romney, and I don't want anybody misunderstanding this.
I'm talking about the Republican establishment.
From the get-go, the reason to support Romney is that he's the guy that can beat Obama.
Mitt Romney is nine and sixteen in his electoral career.
He's nine out of twenty five.
That's Mr. Electability.
I don't understand.
I just think the process is going to take care of itself.
It's designed to be long and drawn out so that all the flaws and the positive elements of people finally end up being fully on display with as few questions as possible.
Romney could still end up being the conservative nominee to himself if he gets it.
Now, folks, there are other things that I'm going to get to today as an example.
A great post at ZeroHedge.com.
Do you know the head of a household of four making minimum wage has more disposable income than a family making sixty thousand dollars a year?
Again, the head of a household of four making minimum wage has more disposable income than a family making sixty thousand dollars a year.
I'll have the details as the program unfolds.
In addition, there is a fascinating piece in the New York Times over the weekend about Apple and why it doesn't manufacture in America.
It is stunning.
It is amazing.
They only leave one thing out, and that is there aren't any unions in China either.
That is a huge reason.
It's one of the reasons why the Chicons can do what they do in their manufacturing sector, and one of the reasons why we can't.
And that is that is an amazing story that we will get to today, along with an economic uh data.
Now let me just tell you something.
Again, going against conventional wisdom.
Everybody's out there thinking the reason Newt triumphed is because of his media smackdowns.
That's not it.
I'm here to everybody wants to credit Juams and John King and the media for throwing softballs or inadvertently setting Newt up for these answers.
It's important.
There's no question about it.
It was great.
But it's not about that.
It's not even about Newt's great debate skills.
You notice now the established not saying that isn't gonna matter.
They're trying to say that everything that's got Newt or he's got is not important.
It's in fact it's gonna hurt us in the general.
Let me tell you why Newt Gingrich won South Carolina.
Let me tell you why he's coming on.
It's because he is able to articulate conservatism.
Nothing more.
John King, Juan Williams could have asked any other Republican the same questions they asked, and they would have shriveled away in abject fear and defensiveness.
If any of the Republican candidates have the same life story as Newt and or had said the same things about food stamp present and all that, Julia's question to Romney wouldn't have helped Romney.
John King setting up Romney if Romney had three ex wives and one of them was saying he was uh want an open marriage would not have mattered.
It would have it wasn't those questions.
It was that they asked somebody who can articulate conservatism.
To those of you in the Republican base, this isn't complicated.
Newt is winning.
He is on a momentum roll here because he can articulate conservatism.
That and he's willing to take it to Obama.
I have said for the longest time that whoever does that, whoever articulates conservatism with passion, with love, because that's love of country with good cheer.
Conservatism is inclusive.
Somebody who can articulate it happily, proudly with good cheer, cannot be beat.
Where's the outrage of the news media's open marriage with the Democrat Party?
You talk about an open marriage.
Hell, that's not a marriage, that's prostitution for crying out loud.
Where's the complaint?
Who are the prostitutes in that relationship?
The media or the Democrat Party.
I'm just telling you, Juan Williams, John King could have asked the same questions to any other Republican, and it would have sunk them.
Because none of them are willing to articulate conservative.
Maybe not Santorum.
Santorum probably could have hung in there.
Now this presents a huge stumbling block potential for Newt.
He is vulnerable on the very thing he can do better than anybody else.
He had better fully embrace his conservatism and not make it a part-time thing.
The days of being able to keep this momentum going by ripping on the media are over.
The standing ovations for taking on the media are over, or they have a very short lifespan.
He can't live on that anymore.
Been there, done that.
It's going to get old and it's going to look like it's been set up.
There's not going to be any drama to it, therefore there's not going to be all that spontaneous way to go standing oh stuff, unless it's just outrageous.
You only go to the well so many times on this stuff.
Now Newt keeps pushing off any questions on his anti-conservative statements.
And he'd better not.
I think Newt is just as vulnerable on his anti-conservatism as Romney is on Romney care.
What do you mean by that, Rush?
Very simple.
Newt has made it plain two or three times that he's very open to the concept of man-made global warming.
He can blow this by sitting on the couch of Pelosi again, or something that is equivalent.
Newt has in the past had some unflattering things to say about capitalism.
His time in Fanny Man Freddie Mac is a vulnerability.
Saying an FDR is the best president and his favorite president.
That doesn't jibe with being a conservative.
His open support for single payer health insurance with a with a mandate.
I'm just telling you, Newt's not out of the woods here.
And Newt and his crew had better understand that he's where he is, not just because of a media smackdown.
Not just because of debates.
He's articulating conservatism when he does this stuff.
And if he stops doing that, or if he waters it down, or if he gets caught in a in a in an example where people can be convinced he doesn't really believe this stuff.
Newt wrote a book about climate change.
He was going to have a chapter in his new book about man-made global warming until we found out about it and he pulled the chapter.
So let a long campaign happen.
Let a long drawn-out campaign, let's flush about here.
Let Santorum stay in this thing.
Let's see if Romney can figure out a way to move to the right and mean it.
See if Romney can learn to connect with people rather than just other platitudes and his love of country and all this other stuff.
No, I'm not afraid.
I think this is I think this is good.
We are running against the most pathetic president we've had since Jimmy Carter.
I am not afraid.
I do not live in a world of fear.
I refuse to.
It's for crying out.
It's still January.
The election is not till November.
The base was told this was over last November.
The establishment wanted this over, the media wanted this over last November.
They did everything they could to have this over.
I trust the Republican base.
That's who I trust.
I trust the Republican voters.
I'm totally confident with them.
They are the people in this audience.
Why wouldn't I trust them?
They'll figure this out.
Not a bunch of brain-dead mind-numbed robots.
This is how democracy works.
It's how representative republicanism works.
Which is what we're trying to hold on to for crying out loud.
You know, only a little more than one percent of the population's voted so far.
The delegate count right now, Romney 31, Gingrich 32, Paul 10, Centaurum 8.
There are 1,144 delegates needed to win.
We're nowhere near being over here.
And I don't subscribe to conventional wisdom, and neither should you.
Now I'm going to take a timeout here, and we're going to get into the conventional wisdom.
I'm going to let you hear it right out of the mouths of the people who live and die by it.
Who live and breathe it.
The people I warned you about last November.
In fact, after the break, I'll give you my words from last November 10th.
All right.
Take it easy.
Sit back, relax.
We'll be back in just a second.
Let me tell you something here, folks, very quickly before we go to the uh thing I promised to do.
The difference here at the moment, a lot of the Republican establishment, the insiders, the Republicans who want to keep spending money, they see Newt as a disaster waiting to happen for them.
For their futures, for their political opportunity, for their chance to win the Senate and the committee chairmanships and be control of money.
But a large part of the Republican rank and file, a large part of the Republican base, don't see Newt as the answer.
That's not what's going on here.
Republican, the Tea Party, Republican base voters are trying to send a message to the establishment, and Newt is the guy doing it.
The Tea Party, the Republican establishment know they've got nothing without the Republican Party.
You can't go third party.
This internecine stuff has got to stop.
Newt is articulating what the base thinks about our opposition.
Newt is telling the Republican base and the media and the consultants, this is how we view the opposition.
This is how we want you to view the opposition.
This is how we want to campaign against the opposition.
Now you go find a candidate we can support.
Don't give us somebody who's not going to do this.
Don't give us somebody who doesn't believe this.
Don't give us some Namby Pamby wimp who is scared that everything he does is going to anger somebody.
We are angry.
You don't care about our anger.
Well, we are angry, and we're on your team.
And what we want is somebody who is going to represent us.
And right now, Newt is not getting these votes because there's a wild, uncontrollable desire for Newt Gingrich to be president.
It's the message that he's sending.
He is speaking for millions of Republicans here.
They see the way Newt's doing things as a solution and as a strategy for victory over Barack Obama.
Newt's a messenger.
There's nobody else on that dais at a Republican debate that does it this way.
The closest anybody gets to it's Centaurum.
Now, back on November 10th on this program.
I said, you always think Republicans are all on the same side, same objectives.
No way, no way.
They want to win certain things.
Some of our guys, I'm telling you, don't think Obama's beatable.
It makes sense if all your friends are the liberal media.
It makes sense if that's your life, the Obama can't lose.
Obama's God.
If you live in Washington, if that's your life, that's what makes sense.
If you don't think any of these conservatives can beat him, then you're going to go pick the guy who can help your candidate for the Senate and the House wins so that you can chalk up some victories for your business.
You're assuming that everybody's on the same team here, folks.
I've observed that with the death of Ronald Reagan with the death of William Bugley.
It's wide open.
There's no discipline on our team.
There is nobody that sets the agenda.
Everybody's out trying to be the smartest kid in the room or the power broker or what have you.
It's patently obvious.
It was all about this on November 10th.
In fact, this is how the monologue started.
I said, folks, the official program observer has a question.
What's the question?
And the question was, both parties have had trifecta and both have lost.
I mean consultants try to be more moderate, candidates in general.
I think they really believe that the 20% is where every election's won.
And I think they believe that they are moderates, that they're not wacko conservatives or wacko leftists, and that most people are like them.
Snerdley really disturbed by my analysis of a half hour ago why the Republican establishment's ripping into all of our conservative candidates.
Snerdley was disturbed by it.
And this is what he was disturbed by.
I said, folks, now onto the Republican Party.
There's a shock poll.
South Carolina primary, Herman Cain 26.
Romney 25.
This is November 10th now, folks.
I want you to remember what happened.
Herman Cain was up in November in South Carolina, and then somebody found the women.
Herman Cain 26, Romney 25, Perry at 15.
In Virginia, Cain and Romney are tied.
This is polling day their last November 10th.
Now, why is it a shock poll?
Why is this a shock?
Here we have an articulate principled non-establishment conservative, Herman Kane leading in a poll before Republican primary.
What's the surprise?
I asked.
Now these polls don't record the preferences of establishment Republicans.
They reflect the thinking of individual Republicans leading their individual lives.
Perry Kane, Bachman, you name it, the establishment is trying to get this wrapped up next week.
They want to move the primaries up, they want this done and over.
The Republican establishment is trying to take full advantage of this chaos to nail this down and end it.
They want Romney to be the nominee, and that's it, and I don't care who the conservative is.
Just to make the point again, what they want is somebody they think will not lose the House and might help them win the Senate.
November 10th, I told you this.
And I have been saying it every day since.
And even prior to November 10th, I alluded to the when Rick Perry got in the race.
I told you how this was going to upset the Republican establishment.
I know who I'm talking about here.
And I know what their objectives are.
And their number one objective, folks, is not beating Obama.
They're not convinced it can happen.
They're political professionals and experts.
He's an incumbent.
He's African American.
That means we can't criticize him.
That means he's going to get the welfare state vote.
He's going to get all that.
They think that they can't compete.
And the only chance they've got is with moderate independence.
And you, conservatives, scare the independents.
Because you're racist, sexist, bing and homophobe pro-lifers.
They live in fear of you.
So South Carolina sends them, oh, go, really?
Well, fine, okay.
Here you go, establishment, and Newt Gingrich won every congressional district.
He won the independence.
He won the female vote.
Now, how did the media handle that?
Well, sure, in a state where they love cock fights, what the hell do you expect?
That's the reaction.
And who set that one up?
Howard Feynman.
In a TV appearance, oh, well, South Carolina, Gloria Borger on CNN after the debate Thursday night.
Well, Newt may do okay here, but when you get outside South Carolina, you know, where they have cockfights and so forth.
I don't think John that women are particularly going to, you know, uh care about Newt Gingrich.
That's the media line.
So media says that they insult South Carolinas, being a bunch of people like cockfights in NASCAR, and look what happened.
And this is what would happen all over the country.
The Republican base all over this country has been called a bunch of hick cockfight lovers.
Not just the people in South Carolina.
They've called a bunch of hay seed nobody drunks.
Pro-life for whatever.
For 25 Years when they look at themselves as the backbone of the country.
They're the ones playing by the rules.
They're the ones trying to do everything as best they can, and they know they don't succeed.
But they are not purposely throwing their lives away.
They're not purposely trying to ruin the culture of this country.
They see people who are raised up, elevated, made heroes.
They're sick of it.
They simply want their country saved.
So a guy comes along and makes them think he can articulate the message that can get this guy out of the White House and maybe some sanity back to the country.
That's all that's going on here.
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