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Jan. 23, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 23, 2012, Monday, Hour #2
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We ought to send that first hour out to Hollywood to the Grammys.
Just to send them for a loop.
How are you doing, folks?
Greetings, welcome back, Rush Limbaugh and the Excellence in Broadcasting Network here at the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies telephone number.
We'll get to your calls in this hour.
Maybe.
Now we will.
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Time magazine, their party establishment, maybe not the Republican establishment.
They're a party establishment, and they are just beside themselves.
John Meekham, who used to be at uh Newsweek.
Such an incestuous punch.
These people leave one magazine, go to a newspaper, go to a network, go back to the newspaper, then go to work for politician for a while, and then become a press secretary to go back to the media.
What an incestuous business.
Anyway, here's uh John Meekham.
I yeah, in uh in Time Magazine, Gingrich's win in South Carolina is uh bringing out the big guns.
Meet Newt Nixon.
Forget Reagan, Gingrich's real political analog is another angry striver, Richard Nixon.
Like Nixon Gingrich is fluent in the vernacular of cultural populism, brilliantly casting contemporary American life in terms of an overarching conflict between the real people and distant elites.
Now everybody knows that's what Obama is doing.
Obama's pitting the one percent versus the 99.
That Newt's sitting here doing class warfare?
Was Nixon known for class warfare?
These people hated Nixon like you can't believe for one reason.
Well, two reasons.
He outed and convicted Alger Hiss.
He sent a communist to jail.
They never forgave Nixon for sending a communist.
And number two, he wiped some broad out of the William uh or Wilma uh Helen Cahagan Douglas.
He beat some woman in a in a campaign.
Unforgivable.
That's like shooting one in the head.
You just don't do it.
And he couldn't blame it on Sarah Palin.
She wasn't old enough.
No, I'm not kidding.
They hated Nixon.
They despised Nixon.
So now Newt equals Nixon.
So the audio sound bites we go.
David Brooks, the New York Times, this is uh from last Thursday, University of Chicago Institute of Politics at a panel discussion about the presidential campaign.
George Stephanopoulos left Washington to go to Chicago to moderate.
Asked uh Brooks in your most recent column, you state that you agree with the sediment that America's got to go back and discover what we had, while also lamenting how it makes for an incredibly backward-looking campaign.
So we gotta go get what we had, but that's looking backward.
What would a successful resolution of this looking backward campaign look like?
I do think that the country has lost something.
There's been a growth in self-esteem.
And this I think has a lot of real world consequences.
Uh one, if you think you're incredibly special, you spend a lot of money on yourself.
As befits your station, and if you look at personal consumption, personal debt is a percentage GDP was 43% for about 70 years, and then it shot up to 133%.
And if you look at polarization, if you have a sense of modesty about yourself, you realize you need the people who disagree with you because of your own flawed understanding.
Yeah.
But if you think you have the truth by the short hairs, they're just in the way.
And so it's no accident that Rush Limbaugh's two sticks are self-grandiosity and partisanship.
I am ruining the country.
What a tortured path to get to get to me in this question.
The question is about how do you win a campaign of the future saying we got to reclaim the past?
That was the question.
So he goes on to describe the country as a lot of self-esteem out there and uh a lot of uh uh debt out there, a lot of polarization, a lot of confidence, selfish braggadocio, if you will, and polarization.
It's no accident that Limbaugh's two shticks.
My plot.
I plotted my two shticks.
Self grandiosity and partisanship.
I'm not a real guy.
I've just calculated what works in a marketing sense, according to David Brooks.
And in the process, I'm ruining America.
Well, that's the thing.
You know, the self-esteem movement is the exact opposite of what's preached on this show.
Self-esteem movement tells losers they're great.
The self-esteem movement tells people in two plus two is five that they're right.
That's what the self-esteem, the self-esteem movement in school tells every reprobate and everybody, you're special, little Johnny.
It's a way to celebrate mediocrity.
The self-esteem movement is a way to make sure nobody feels bad about Dendel.
This from the guy who said, you know what?
The crease in his pants, there's our next president.
That's the guy that said, I saw the crease in Obama's slack, so there's the next president.
This is me.
Now we get to the other stuff that I promise you about December 5th on this program.
I think they are more concerned, our consultants, with holding the House and winning the Senate.
I think they believe deep down in the depths of their soul that Obama can't be beat.
I think that they look at Mitt Romney as the single only hope we have of taking the Senate, even if he loses the presidential race.
They're looking at Romney not because he can beat Obama, but because he can limit the damage in the Senate House races, which is what they really want.
I do believe that in some cases, and I'm not prepared to name names right now.
I do believe in some cases on our side, they would rather Obama win than a full throated conservative beat him.
Because they don't control the conservative.
They don't control the Tea Party.
They don't control where that victorious conservative candidate would come from.
That's the statement about the Republican establishment.
That's November or December the 5th.
And I first postulated this theory on November 10th of last year.
Here we go.
Saturday night, MSNBC's special coverage of the South Carolina, Rachel Maddow, had as one of her guests, Steve Schmidt, McCain's campaign manager.
You know, I have I have a logical question, but I must tell you, I've got nothing against Steve Schmidt.
I don't know him.
I've never met him.
I've had a couple email back and forths during the 2008 campaign.
But I don't this is so hard to say.
What do people who ran losing campaigns have to offer?
It's like, why would Romney openly put McCain on stage with him in New Hampshire, which he had in the tank anyway?
I mean, that was favorite son, supposed to win New Hampshire easily, nothing could have stopped it.
Why put the 2008 loser and somebody that you know the Republican base does not like?
Why put them front and center on stage with you endorsing you?
Would somebody explain the thinking?
I I've never understood Bob Schrum is a is a constant guest.
He's never won a presidential race for any candidate that hired him.
He's up there as an expert.
It would be like having somebody in last place in prime time tell you how to finish first.
McCain is a symbol to Romney.
McCain is a symbol to.
Well, okay.
All right.
You really think if that's true, then they're dumber than I thought.
Snerdley just told me that the reason that they put McCain up there to endorse Romney is to basically jam it down our throats.
You think that that was a that Romney getting McCain up there to endorse him was the Republican base saying to us, pfft, you that's okay.
The theory is that you put McCain up there to endorse Romney because you're sending a message to the independent.
See, we're the reasonable ones.
We're the ones who'll bend over, grab the ankles, and work with you.
Well, if that's true, then I'm even more right about why the base is doing what they're doing in these primaries.
I'm even more right than I knew.
That's right.
Anyway, I don't mean any of this to be insulting.
I'm I'm I'm I'm asking just from from a business standpoint.
Why would you have a coach who has lost every Super Bowl he's been in?
As an as an analyst to tell you how to do it.
At any rate, here's Schmidt.
He said, nice guy, don't misunderstand, but the guy allowed myself to get off point.
Rachel Maddows said to Steve Schmidt, put yourself in a Republican.
Oh, well, here's the answer.
Okay, okay.
I should have read the question.
He's from the establishment.
That's why they wanted him.
Okay, okay, okay.
Put yourself in the Republican establishment shoes, Steve.
What's the panic button that you hit if you're really freaked out that Newt is going to get this nomination now?
We're probably moving towards a declaration of war on Newt Gingrich by the Republican establishment.
And if Newt Gingrich is able to win the Florida primary, you will see a panic and a meltdown of the Republican establishment that is beyond my ability to articulate in the English language.
People will go crazy.
He's right.
He's exactly right about that.
It's already happening.
He is already, it is already happening.
That was the point of my monologue in the first hour of the program.
There already is that panic.
They're already trying to get Mitch Daniels calls renew for Mitch Daniels to enter presidential race, an online petition called Run Mitch Run, launched at 8 o'clock Saturday night, shortly after Newt was declared the winner.
Over a thousand people have signed it so far.
Thousand people.
That's big.
Thousand people signed an online petition since eight o'clock Saturday night.
Big whoop.
Okay.
So then let's see who's who was in the Mado said, okay, i i is there a component of that which is building a firewall around Romney protecting him.
We saw the establishment try to do that.
Romney helped helping us saying you you you can't talk any smack about Bain.
Bain's what I want to run on.
It has to be positive.
Don't undercut that at all.
Which to me was like flashing red neon arrow.
Here's my glass jaw, please don't hit it.
Is there a way to protect Romney other than this wrong approach they've taken on Bain?
Newt Gingrich has a hundred percent name ID, has a 60% national unfavorable number, and it's a number that's so high that with the 100% name ID, it's just impossible to come back from.
You're not electable in a general election in a 2012 presidential election if your unfavorable numbers are that high.
There are 33 House Republicans in districts that Barack Obama won.
What is the impact in terms of Republicans being able to keep the House of Representatives in majority control if Newt Gingrich was the nominee of the party?
What is the impact in the United States Senate races where Republicans have a great chance of taking majority control of the United States Senate?
With Newt Gingrich as the nominee of the party, that is perhaps all up in the air.
See, see the my point, it's all about the Senate and the House.
Is there anything here about beating Obama?
Not much.
Senate and the House.
I told you, back in November 10th.
Gingrich can't win.
He can't get the independents, he just did.
He can't get the women, he just did.
There's no way he can win.
Romney, who's nine out of twenty-five, there's our winner.
Don't doubt us.
Britt Hume.
Saturday night Fox's uh election coverage had this to say.
Newt Gingrich, 27% favorable, 56% unfavorable.
Believe me, Republicans in Congress will be terrified to run with this man for fear.
They will lose the House and the Senate.
They will begin to do what they can to try to defeat him because they fear he can't win the election, and moreover, he may drag many of them down to defeat with him.
Inside the Beltway Conventional Wisdom, folks.
Newt can't win.
They'll lose the House in the Senate.
It's a blood bed.
It's over.
This is the worst thing could Possibly happen.
It's a full fledged panic.
Didn't didn't the establishment say they wanted Mitch Daniels back last summer because Romney wasn't exciting enough?
They wanted Mitch Daniels.
That's who they really want.
Hey, really wanted Mitch Daniels.
But everybody knew he wasn't gonna run because his wife didn't want any part of it.
We knew this last spring.
Back on May 9th, 2011, on this show, I said this, quoting the Washington Post.
There's a blog published by Chris Saliza.
It's obvious both Republican Washington insiders, well as Democrat power brokers want the nominee to be Mitch Daniels.
What were Hillary's negative numbers in 2008?
Weren't they pretty high?
Did the Democrat elites try to take her out?
Well, some did.
Some did, because there were some Democrat elites who didn't like the Clintons and didn't want to be beholden to the Clintons.
This intrigue goes on in both parties.
Always has.
Party establishments are what they are.
But you can see, I'm just I'm just playing sound bites here to confirm for you that I knew what I was talking about back in November.
Mitt Romney is there to save the House and win the Senate.
And Newt.
Oh god, no!
Ah!
Absolutely panic because they lose the House and don't control the Senate, they lose their chance to be in charge of the money.
Here's another Republican consultant, Mike Murphy.
This is on Meet the Press Sunday.
David Gregory, the uh Obama acolyte said, You think Romney should triangulate, go more to the middle, even for the rest of the primaries.
Why and how?
Well, after he's got it locked, the Newt message is Democrats win the House.
We lose the Senate in a general election.
It would be a train wreck.
Romney can't be contaminated by that either.
It's a very tough course for him.
There you have it.
Murphy is a Republican consultant.
He's one of the guys that goes out and tells candidates, elect me, I can tell you how to win the independence.
That's my job.
I'm better at anybody else.
I'll get you the 20% of the moderates and the independents.
There you hear it.
Yeah, he was with McKay, yeah.
He was also, he's the guy who said, all right, fine, you think Christina, I'll sit here and sip my cocktail.
Go ahead.
You know you think you think you can tell Ireland Will, you go ahead and do it.
I'll sit here in Georgetown and sip my cocktail, just like you think I'm doing it's.
Um well, after uh but he's the Romney should go more to the middle for the rest of the primaries.
That's the advice.
Go more to that's why Romney's.
I know.
If he goes to the middle, he's gonna that's what they tried to do to get into nominated.
My point is they tried to get Romney to win as a moderate in the primaries, not as a conservative.
That's where the all was blown.
Their whole theory and strategy was as many conservatives in the primaries as possible, split the conservative vote, Romney wins by default.
And that's that's all blown up.
So here's Murphy.
The newt message is Democrats win the House back.
We lose the Senate, it'd be a train wreck.
I'm just playing these bites because I warned you people.
I told you back in November.
That's what this was all about.
No, it's I'm just I'm just trying to get you to know who your party is.
That's all.
That's it.
I gotta take a break.
Be back in a minute here.
On this week, Sunday, is it this week with Chris Shannon Porsche?
She gone yet.
Oh, no, she's gone.
Stephanopoulos is back.
The University of Chicago, then good morning, America, then this and that, and then back to the Clinton campaign wherever that needs uh work done.
Stephanopoulos uh says, George, well, they're they're banking on Florida, being the backstop.
Big state money work for Romney there, stop Newt.
200,000 people already voted.
Has to be tough for Newt to overcome.
Been working the absentee as Romney has closed primary.
I think the Romney campaign's been counting on Jeb Bush giving him an endorsement.
But he said last night he's gonna stay neutral.
Here's a small sliver of the silver lining from Mitt Romney.
All across the country this morning, people are waking up who are running for office as Republicans from dog catcher to Senate.
And they're saying, good God, Newt Gingrich might be at the top of this ticket.
Oh, yeah, man, it's true.
All over America.
There's abject fear in every Republican precinct that Newt Gingrich may be the nominee.
Stop And how could Newt be the nominee if there is such fear on the Republican side?
How do those two go together?
No, I know the Republican established once is one thing.
What I'm I guess trying to illustrate here is Republican establishment is quite a ways away from the voters.
Alex Castellanos, uh Republican consultant.
He was on CNN Saturday night.
Anderson Cooper said, how much does Newt's margin of victory matter here?
If Newt wins this by double digits, then I think it's a serious blow.
And Romney, uh, they're gonna be phone calls going out to Jeb Bush and Bobby Gindle tonight, uh, wondering if uh anybody else wants to buy a ticket on the train to the GOP nomination here.
Yeah, and and that of course that leaves out uh Mitch Daniels.
Let's listen to Scarborough Sunday morning on Meet the Press about Newt.
Newt's not a conservative.
He uses this resentment, the politics of grievance to actually hide a record that you can really identify very quickly on Google.
You know, the remarkable thing, and this is why Republicans are panicked in Washington, D.C. for good reason.
You know, yeah, Mitt Romney supported an individual mandate.
Newt Gingrich supported an individual mandate.
Newt Gingrich supported Cap and Trade at one point.
So did Mitt Romney.
It is a mess out there.
And I think you're gonna hear more people like Bill Kristol, Eric Erickson talking about a brokered convention.
If Newt Gingrich wins Florida, everything's up for Griffin.
Yeah, if Newt wins Florida, boy, it's all over.
Everything's up for grabs.
Brokered convention.
Except there aren't any brokers other than the delegates, who are pledged on the first vote.
But as you know, party can make any change it wants any time, no matter what.
We'll be back.
All right, one more Scarborough soundbite, and then we go to your phone calls.
Wouldn't it be nice if the Republican elite were unhappy with Newt because he's not conservative enough.
That's not why they're unhappy with him.
Here's Scarborough.
This is uh this is one this is his explanation about what's going on out there in terms of the panic.
The party base is revolting, but they're revolting against the Washington Republican establishment, anointing Mitt Romney.
Now, Mitt Romney could attack Newt for not being a conservative, because Newt is not a conservative.
Google it.
It we ran him out of Congress in nineteen ninety-eight, because he sold us out on taxes.
He sold us out on spending.
He went to the floor and he sided with Democrats on his last speech, calling us the perfectionist caucus.
He'd call us jihadists.
He's not a conservative, he's an opportunist.
Joe Scarborough, and he was part of the freshman class in nineteen ninety-four.
There was a lot of anger at Newt when he went out.
He was he he is Newt's ego got the best of him.
He got hold of him.
Um I remember Newt in May of nineteen ninety-five.
He'd been speaker five months, predicting he's gonna be president.
May of nineteen ninety-five.
Oh, yeah, I'm gonna be present.
He was thinking about it then.
Anyway, so we've set it all up now.
I just I I wanted to take the occasion to explain it all to you, and this stuff is all gonna shake out, folks.
It's all okay out there.
It's all I know you're thinking, my God, Rush, everybody on our side's flawed.
Romney not a conservative, Newt may not be, but Newt's a wacko, Newt's this or that.
Sand Torum can't seem to be whoa, God, Rush, what's gonna Don't forget who we're running against.
We are not running against the Messiah.
Not running against God, just somebody who thinks he is.
Don't panic, folks.
This is this is this is the system.
It's how it all works.
Okay to the phones.
You all have been patient out there, and I appreciate it.
We're gonna start in uh Hilton Head, South Carolina.
Casey, great to have you, sir.
Thank you for waving and hello.
Thank you, Rush.
Hey, I've never called before.
Um now that I'm on, I'm really nervous.
The hand's even shaking.
But uh but glad you're out there.
We love you to death.
Thank you, sir, very much.
Listen, my comment is uh my wife and I even talked about this yesterday, uh or Saturday before we voted, and uh, and you're you're the only one that I hear say it, and you're exactly right.
It is exactly a message that we're trying to send.
We're Romney supporters.
Um she may have actually voted for Romney.
I'm not exactly sure, but we decided decided to vote for Newt.
And it was specifically is exactly because of the the way he didn't end the debates and taking the media to task and and actually just making us feel good about that.
We are so sick and tired of every single time we watch the news or anything in the media, that the feeling we get, the sick feeling we get every story they tell almost.
Um you can almost say it's 100% of the time that it's like that.
And you know, actually, we really want uh Romney to hear that message, though.
This message that we just sent by voting for Newt.
I know I want him to do.
I want him to take that.
Newt is a vessel.
Newt, you want the the heads of your party, you want the people that run the party that you're a member of to get the message.
Stop making fun of you, stop impugning you, stop thinking you're a bunch of hay seed hicks.
You just want to save the country.
You want somebody that's gonna have fire and brimstone to go out and beat Obama.
You don't want people to afraid to campaign.
I know exactly what this victory in South Carolina was all about.
I I the the the the Republican primary voters are this audience.
I know exactly what's going on here.
And I know that maybe look at 25 years, probably longer than 25 years.
But the people who make this country work are sick and tired of being blamed, falsely accused, attacked, called bigots and racists and sexists and homophobes and all these other horrible rotten things, selfish, greedy.
They're seeing their futures robbed.
Their party doesn't seem to have the guts to do anything to stop it.
They see their party leaders wanting to get themselves in charge of it all.
This guy, he's gonna, if I'd have let him go on, he would have said, we don't care if Newt were married ten times right now.
We don't care if Newt had married a horse right now.
The message is what we want sent.
We want this party to figure out how to represent us.
We think we know how to beat Obama, and it's not with McCain.
It's not by going after the independence.
It's not by saying we want to compromise and cross the aisle and work with those people who are destroying this country as it was founded.
We don't want to work with those people.
Those people have been laughing at us and making fun of us and impugning us, and we don't want you being friends with them.
They are taxing us.
They are preventing our attempt to acquire wealth.
They are spending our children's future away.
Why do you want to make nice with them?
Why do you want to work with them?
Why do you want to compromise with them?
Why don't you want to beat them?
That's what we want.
Ergo, somebody comes along and shows how it can be done, and they go, Yeah, right on, mama, keep it coming.
That's all Saturday was.
And it was a result of a couple big days prior to Saturday in the week of South Carolina to Philadelphia.
Dennis, great to have you, sir, on the EIB network.
Hello.
Rush, I'm uh 48-year-old black man who has all my life been Democrat.
And I want to say that as a truck driver, I listened to you and uh been angry with you, but uh over the years, but I still listen to you because I'm in a truck, but I have finally come to see something, and uh I want to say three years ago I would have never saw myself or thought of myself saying that uh agree with you, and I am now dropping my association with Obama, who I voted for a few years ago.
And I never vote for this guy.
Uh I can't I'm thinking of dropping even being a Democrat, but it's all because of you uh in a lot of ways.
But the tipping point for me was uh Newt Gingrich, what he said a few days ago, uh something I would have really been very angry with and almost Insulted by.
He said that Obama decision regarding this pipeline was stunningly stupid.
And I could not disagree with that.
Because this pipeline, in addition to the fact that it's automatically going to bring a lot of jobs, without a doubt, help the economy.
It's going to have an immediate impact on the price of things, impact of on the price of gas, which in my industry is enormous.
People don't understand how the price of fuel affects everything that they pay for from food to any goods that they get.
But the bottom line is that this man, because of what I can clearly see as politics to support these environmental people, he is willing to uh destroy this country, destroy the economy.
This and it's a no brainer in terms of getting away from dependence on the foreigners, foreign oil, and I just cannot in good conscience continue to hurt my family in the amount that I'm paying for fuel, groceries, and everything else.
I cannot in good conscience support this man when this is obvious, obviously political because it would have helped this country and the economy.
So I want to say I'm finally seeing the light and I'm done with him.
This is major, Dennis.
I mean, I d the the Keystone Pipeline, this is one of the you are one of the biggest one hundred eighty degree changes of mind that we've ever had on this program.
And this you just changed your mind in three weeks ago after a lifetime of thinking something else.
Well, listen, I know he's gonna do his State of the Union talk tomorrow.
I hope to God that whoever's gonna respond to him will highlight the fact that this is an intentional this well, is a slap in the face of every hard working American in this country who pays bills, who pa who buys groceries.
I'm having a hard time in a lot of ways just paying for things, a lot of not just to mention my fuel costs, but the bottom line, my groceries and everything else, and and if they if the Republicans, if you guys don't jump on this thing during this response to his State of the Union, you're missing a major opportunity because this will have an immediate impact to benefit this country and everybody else.
And uh I'm I like to say I'm done with these people.
Well, you're exactly right.
I'll tell you who's gonna do the response is Mitch Daniels.
Okay.
I don't well, I'm saying I don't really know Well, he's the governor of Indiana, and he uh he was in the Republican presidential primary field and then pulled out well, he never really got into it.
He was very close to getting in, but he didn't he never did pull the trigger.
Um he's uh a budget expert.
Uh Indiana doing pretty well, he was a budget director for Bush.
Um, I would say to every black American who feels they have to have some loyalty to this man simply because he's black or because he's Democrat, you're we're we're shooting ourselves in the foot.
We're killing ourselves.
We don't have we're having a hard time as black people anyway.
God, you're singing for my hymnal.
You're you're in my choir, Dennis.
You're you are you are exactly right.
It's it's this Keystone pipeline, everybody's scratching their heads.
This is causing a lot of people to look at Obama in a different way.
How did you know that he was uh um acting out of loyalty to his environmentalism, but I mean, if you knew that a longer you were willing to tolerate that for a while, it would but but what was the last straw about this?
Well, it's really a slow thing.
I think starting with the Obamacare and uh fact that I know that the government doesn't do anything well, then a m you know they just don't do things well.
Everything they stick the hands into, it always becomes more expensive.
But this thing here with uh the Keystone thing, I mean, I knew I know how the environmentalists are.
I I understand the fact that they don't really want that they want us to eat grass and and live in trees.
They're trying to force you off the road, Dennis.
Well, that's true, and because of the fact that I I agree with that, but you know I I just know that this guy was doing it more or less out of trying to h buy time until the election is done.
It's kind of o it became obvious to me that I mean nobody with any sense can you can't deny the fact that this is gonna help us.
And I'm hurting, to be honest with you, and I'm really hurting and and the fact that he's not uh he's sided with these environmental people over just the e the whole economy, a whole nation and black people, my people in particular, because we are really poor in a lot of ways compared to white America.
And uh I used to be kind of bitter toward white America in a lot of ways, but um I'm not now.
I'm I'm I'm bel uh really thanked you for what you've done, and this is really uh I feel it's changed my life.
Well I I uh uh you have you have uh you've rocked my boat here.
You've uh floated my boat.
I can't I can't thank you enough.
Um What a day.
I mean, this is uh guys like you and calls like yours are are just one of the best things that happens to me.
I can't thank you enough.
You uh I wanna I want to I want to give you an iPad, Dennis do you have one?
Uh no.
You don't have a y I guarantee you'll find a way to use your iPad in your truck cab.
Oh wow.
I guarantee you will.
You'll find it if you if you hook up it's got three G in it.
So you can connect to a cellular network when you're not near Wi-Fi and uh you can find you'll you find you know where fuel is the cheapest on your route.
You'll be able to be able to find where diesel is the cheapest.
I've assume that's what you use, but anyway, I gotta put you on hold, I gotta go to a break, but Mr. Snerdley will get your uh address and g give us an address at FedEx is that's what we use to send it to you.
We don't mail it.
And uh we'll get you'll have it tomorrow or wherever you want it, it'll be there tomorrow.
Okay.
Thank you very much.
Well, thank you, Denn you you spread the word, Dennis.
You know, don't don't don't be mute out there.
Spread the word.
Okay.
Well wow, this is uh this is amazing.
Well you're you're you're a wonderful guy, and uh I've uh only over the over the months just become a bigger and bigger.
Just hang in there, Dennis.
You've made the big move.
Plant roots now.
Yeah, we gotta take a brief time.
Don't hang up.
Sterling be right with you, be right back after this.
Half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
Rush Limboy to Plymouth, Michigan.
This is Myron, and it's great to have you on the program, sir.
Hello.
Oh, thanks, Rush.
Uh first time caller and uh a little nervous, but uh I'm a retired uh golf community developer here in Michigan.
And it's a game of golf, and I loved your Haney project.
Thank you very much, sir.
Appreciate it.
You know what I saw the other day?
I saw and uh just this morning, the uh there's a story about um the whole business of golf resorts and and communities.
You're probably it if you're retired it's probably a good time.
Something got one out of every four houses in Palm Springs for sale is on a golf course.
That people are not they don't have the money to t to to pay the big initiation fees to join the clubs.
It was a story that really made the industry out to be in in uh pain.
Oh, you're absolutely right.
You can't believe how many offers I've had to take over golf courses.
I believe it.
But I retired about seven years ago just in the nick of time.
So but I wanted I wanted to talk to you about uh this neat gingrich and uh uh Romney thing, and I I know you won't be, but I'm a little concerned that maybe the populace might get be getting conned by uh Gingrich's uh spiel, if you want to call it.
And you know, I've was sort of on the fence with everybody.
I personally I like Sarah Palin, but she's not running.
And I do uh want to see a a conservative uh person running.
But when Gingrich made the comment about anti-capitalism, that sort of lit my fire and I went.
What what what what uh comment specifically?
Well, when he attacked uh Bain Capital he didn't call it vulture capitalism.
I mean, no, I know Perry did, but he was basically saying the same thing.
Yeah, that's not good.
And so I've hired a lot of people in my time.
And my golf course architect, I had a very good one, and I hired him based on what he could do, but I also hired him based on his character.
And so I went to do a little research, because I hadn't really checked into the candidates all that much.
And so I just started Googling, and I was just astounded at what I found out, both about Gingrich and Romney.
And it comes down to me what's the question do we want to hire a successful manager to run this country or do we want to hire another narcissistic orator.
It's not about either of those right now that's that's what I'm I'm trying to say that those those are our are backbench uh issues right now that that that's not what's going on here.
What's going on here is the conservative base trying to send a message to the Republican establishment you're gonna have to have somebody who's legitimately conservative that's the only way we're gonna be passionately behind our nominee and that's the only way we're gonna beat Obama there's this is something really big this is not the voters saying we love Newt Knt's the only guy that's not what's going on here.
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