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	Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
	Oh my God, they're looking very nervous in there.
	I'm okay, you guys.
	I'm okay.
	Hello, everybody.
	Hello, friends across the fruited plain.
	You may call me Serpent Bride, if Mary Madeline's too hard to remember, I'm here at the Golden Mike, the EIB throne of excellence.
	I'm humbled I'm not worthy.
	But the gangs in there, they're nervous sternly, everybody's going, look out, the brains are here.
	I'll be okay.
	Okay, friends and flyover country across the fruited plain.
	So nice to be with you again.
	Can you believe we've been together for over two decades?
	It is time flies.
	We meet every day for over two decades in Salon de Rush.
	He calls it El Rush beau.
	I call it the salon, where I live now, New Orleans, best city on the planet.
	When that theme music comes on, my beloved husband, the original serpent head smiles because he knows his wife is happy.
	He likes a happy wife.
	When that theme signals my happiness, he is happy.
	So I um we're gonna chat today.
	We're gonna have lots of guests.
	I feel like we in our chats every day.
	You always say something that inspires me, enlightens me, entertains me, and for all you new listeners and keep attacking Rush because every time you do, regime members, you drive people to this wonderful show, which is uh the origin of the word ditto head for you new listeners is that each of the members of the family, whenever they would call in, they'd say, You're saying what I think, Rush, or he said what I think.
	So this big family calls themselves ditto head.
	So I would like to take this opportunity to say this to this family of over two decades.
	Thank you for your uncommon common sense for not giving up for keeping the faith, for your steadfast fidelity to your community and to your country.
	And I want to take this opportunity to thank you for your loyalty to Rush.
	I think we can all agree, as bad as the new normal is, it would be a completely different universe today if Rush hadn't been keeping the planets aligned in the last quarter century.
	He could have done that without you.
	There's mutual respect, there's mutual faith, and uh in the years that decades really that I've known Rush, the only time I've ever witnessed him struggle with an articulation on anything is when he's thanking you.
	He is his and he's trying to express how profound his gratitude is for you and his and how profound he is, how the wonder of you so profound him.
	So I want to reiterate to you that what he says on the air, he says in private, you are his family, and he lives to serve, and you have sustained him and he s as he sustains you.
	So that's what I want to do today, and how we've kind of arranged the show.
	You can call in, but we're gonna have a number of guests that are gonna talk about service.
	What does it mean to serve?
	What does it take to serve?
	What's the way to serve?
	Join us at 800-282-2882.
	I'm gonna answer that question.
	What does it take to serve uh in the public and private sphere?
	But today, of course, we'll be talking to people in the public sphere.
	Uh but what does it mean to to me and to I think history, you could say in a word, virtue.
	You could trace today, if you think about it, every single problem that uh we face today, from economic problems to the breakdown of the family to our freeing institutions to our failing, our personal failings, to even global con conflicts.
	You could bring right back to the disintegration of virtue, to the eradication of daily practice of virtue in our lives and in the public square.
	And I don't mean the virtue of the what your mother talks about when you're a teen when she has teenage daughters, which she has to do more and more since what she's telling her teenage daughters is being undone by the schools.
	Uh I know this because my girls are well, just turned fourteen and about turn to turn seventeen.
	The Tag team of Teen Terror, I call them.
	But I'm not talking about that kind of virtue.
	I mean the virtue of our founding.
	I mean what virtue meant to our founders.
	And I say our problems come down to and our solution comes down to one concept of virtue because the founders had one question when they came together to consider what would be the operating principles of self-governance.
	They were all classicists, they were all faith-based, and they looked at the time honored and time tested through antiquity of all the attempts at self-governance, all the cultures, all the societies, and they came to one question that would determine the success or failure or the potential of the new country, and it was this.
	Are we virtuous people?
	Are we virtuous enough?
	They knew where our rights came from, our natural rights.
	They knew once they flowed.
	They wanted to know and and what would it take, and what kind of people would it take to maintain self-governance, to sustain self-governance?
	And whatever your faith base is, these uh again, the base be coming from antiquity through early Christians, through the today, existing today through the Judeo Christian values and principles, they you know what they are.
	They are the cardinal virtues, principle, temperance, courage, justice.
	They are the contrary virtues, contrary to the deadly sins, that's why they call them that.
	Humility, kindness, absence, chastity, patience, liberality, diligence.
	What does that mean?
	What do all those things mean?
	Your mother talked to you about them, your father talked to you about them, you in conjunction with the theological virtues of love, hope, and faith.
	That's what the founders meant.
	Are we virtuous enough?
	Are we a people virtuous enough, imbued enough with prudence and temperance and courage and justice and humility, chastity, patience, diligence, particularly humility.
	Humility is the opposite of pride, which is the biggest deadly sin, because it's the greatest self-absorption.
	It's and humility is the wellspring of virtue.
	So they asked that, and that's what we're going to look for and talk about in today's with our guests.
	The politics of virtue, the policies of virtue, virtue in a civil society.
	You know, this is not new to our history.
	It's what in our earliest days, De Tocqueville referred to as the founding or the voluntary associations of citizens to meet our own social needs.
	Those grew out of the virtues, the aforementioned virtues.
	We saw again in our history the upheaval upheaval from the agrarian to the industrial age, new social organizations that augmented our dispersed populations and families and communities and civil citizens' associations, athletic clubs, social clubs, insurance societies.
	So what does that mean?
	What do we need to do today?
	Because we're going to spend the campaign talking about policies and numbers and debt and all of our problems, but if we don't scratch this essential itch of the absence of virtue or restore virtue in our public square, we're not going no policies are going to get anywhere near fixing what our problems are today.
	So I hope we can cover some of that.
	I hope you want to talk about that again a little bit with me for the next three hours, 800 28282.
	I want to thank you again for being such a great family for being so wonderful to Rush.
	And before we go to the break, one of the couple of practical things that again Rush teaches me, teaches us every day, that you can do in your own lives to think about virtue.
	This cracks me up.
	Rush told me this a long time ago.
	I said this on the air.
	Just he can't stand being around negative people.
	Negative people are virtue suckers.
	I don't know.
	I'm not using I've of course they don't have the articulation available to the great L. Rushbow, but negativity breeds negativity.
	Snerdling and I were talking before the show about something that appeared in the New York Times today.
	And I said, doesn't Rush yell at you the way he yells at me?
	Why do you read the New York Times?
	Why do you impose that punishment on yourself?
	So I would say the rush number one rule is avoid negative people and negativity.
	My number two rule is rule for personal virtues, examine your own conscience daily and live the virtuous life.
	And three, and this is where we come back to the show again, demand virtue in your public servants.
	Demand that they are as virtuous as you are in your private life.
	Every one of our guests today embody virtue in the public square.
	I'm very excited about the show.
	Our first guest will be after the break, the one and only Ed Gillespie, you have seen, I think it was on just this weekend, but he has his history and his personal life and his public life are so in line with what it means to be a virtuous civic citizen in the way the founders divined it.
	So we're we'll be talking to Ed when we come back.
	We'll be talking to you after that.
	800.
	Uh me, do you want me to talk about that?
	Really snerdling.
	Does anyone care besides you?
	Well, I'm still married.
	Um I thought the girls are fourteen and seventeen.
	We live in New Orleans.
	We're um with my beloved husband, who's a virtuous person to be sure, our great Monsignor uh Christopher Nalty there says of my husband, with whom he agrees on little politically, I suppose.
	I don't know, Monsignor's not that political.
	Um, that James lives the virtuous life.
	He's a he's a good man, he's doing a lot of good things.
	He's teaching at Tulane.
	We're very active down there in the Super Bowl.
	It's Sports City.
	Come to New Orleans.
	We are the epicenter for economic growth, entrepreneurial growth, education reform.
	Anybody wants to talk to New Orleans?
	I think some of my friends are listening to some of the most virtuous people in the world uh who have come we've been a magnet for for great people, great faith-filled and faithful people in New Orleans.
	The girls are big.
	They think I'm a dork, a big dork.
	So say Whatever, Mrs. Lowser.
	Um so thank you, Snerdly, for saying that I I don't look too bad for an old broad because I don't get that on a daily Oh my husband thinks I'm beautiful, of course.
	My daughter's uh yeah, okay.
	Well, Snerdley's being very nice to me.
	So that and we've have a big campaign coming up and all kinds of other stuff.
	I'm hard pressed to talk about myself, Snerdley, so you can you can fill everybody in as you wish.
	I will just say this that there is, as we all know, whether you're a father or a mother, an aunt, an uncle, a grandparent, there is nothing more grounding, more inspiring, and more absorbing and more harder work than being a mother.
	Okay, so I am going to go to this break now.
	I'm gonna give the phone again.
	You know it anyway.
	800 282 2882.
	It's probably tattooed somewhere to you.
	We had another talk about tattoos.
	I have one daughter who likes tattoos, another who doesn't.
	I have one daughter who's a liberal, one who's a conservative.
	They're highly opinionated.
	I don't know how that happened, friends.
	Okay, family, thank you again for our two decades of friendship, your loyalty to the country to your community.
	28282.
	We will be right back with Ed Gillespie.
	All right, friends, this is Mary Madeline at the EIB Golden Microphone.
	I'm here with Ed Gillespie.
	We're at 800-282-2882.
	Not long enough to be with Ed Gillespie.
	We've been talking about the founders in virtue.
	This is one of the most virtuous men I've known in 35 years in the public square and in private.
	He hails from the home of the founders.
	He lives in the shadow of Mount Vernon, who's first among our the leaders of our founders, George Washington.
	Ed's career is I don't even know where to start.
	He star I'll tell you where Ed started, in the Senate parking lot, and he went on to be a critical part of the historic nineteen ninety-four Republican takeover, the historic two thousand four ascension of the White House, Senate, and Congress.
	He He headed up the Roberts and Alito confirmations.
	He is today, and all of these are volunteer things.
	He keeps leaving his private life to go into the public sector.
	He is helping Governor Romney today, and he has in the middle of all of that, has done Hispanic outreach, legislative work, and he started resurgent Republic.
	I don't even know where to start yet except to say thank you for being the person you are and thank God you're in the Republican Party.
	Well thank you, Mary, for having you on and I as I listened to that it struck me that I sound like somebody who can't keep a job I've enjoyed uh doing a lot of these things and working with you on so many of them and they're and they're so important there's no more important time in our country than right now for those of us who believe in the things we the principles we share to step up.
	You know let's I I'm loath to go to the numbers.
	We've been talking about virtue in the public square which you do embody and and has to be at the core of these uh policies going forward and and Governor Romney's candidate Ronnie seemed to be and I'm pretty confident about this today.
	Uh President Romney, the principles of the virtues that underlie uh it's not just numbers, it is these policies.
	Let's start with um something you've been talking about and the and the governor's been talking about his principles to make a better country, not the TikTok of all the policies.
	What are the the undergirding principles of a better America you know I think he sums it up best when he talks in terms of uh economic freedom, religious freedom and personal freedom.
	And you know those are the those are the freedoms that are central to our Constitution, uh to what has made America great and uh you know that those freedoms lead to a happier uh life for for most Americans and lead to a more prosperous economy uh more job creation more upward mobility lifting millions of people out of poverty this government centric society that President Obama has imposed on our economy uh in the name of fairness and and uh you know uh claiming
	uh laying claim to a moral high ground has resulted in more people living in poverty today than ever before in our nation's history.
	We've had 38 months of uh eight percent plus unemployment rates uh this is not how we help people the the fact is the the way that uh people in America uh get ahead and do well and prosper is through a dynamic free enterprise based economy not one where people in Washington DC are making decisions about what who what investments are going to be made,
	what kind of light bulbs we can buy, what kind of cars we can drive, what kind of health insurance we can have and that contrast I think is really going to be central to uh the choice between uh Romney and Obama in November.
	That's it and could not be more clear.
	It's the eradication of dignity.
	The more the government does the less the individual has to do, the less he will do, she will do.
	Which leads me to something you started this is another thing you got to love about Ed Gillespie Pew.
	We have a conversation about the assault on religious liberty when the President announced his HHS regulation forcing uh Catholics and other institutions to violate their the tenets of their faith to provide abortiance and contraception and everything that we've they've been opposed to since since their founding.
	The next thing I know Ed Gillespie has started the Conscience Cause a 501 C3 to speak out, speak up and push back on the HHS and and defend religious liberty and religious freedom which is the essence of all our public policy and all these principles you just mentioned.
	Can you tell us what's the state of play in conscience, Cazin?
	Well, we've brought together, as you know, and with your help, Mary, as a member of the board, a really stellar group of people of faith who are leaders in their communities, former elected officials, the former mayor of Boston and ambassador to the Holy See for President Clinton, Raymond Flynn, and the former Secretary of Veterans Affairs and former ambassador to the Holy See for President Bush, Jim Nicholson.
	as well as uh the the Uh Reverend Samuel Rodriguez, who is the president of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference, the largest organization of evangelical Hispanic Americans uh in the country.
	Uh Pastor Joe Watkins of the Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the oldest uh African American uh church in Philadelphia.
	Uh Rabbi Samuel, I'm sorry, uh Rabbi Meyer uh Solovechik, uh, who's the associate rabbi of the Congregation uh Coliath in uh in New York.
	So it is a uh a very uh eclectic mix uh of individuals.
	Uh Reverend Matthew Harrison is the president of the Lutheran Church, Mizora Synod.
	Ed, we're going to come up on a hard break.
	I'm sharing this concern about not just Catholics, it's not only Catholics who have this concern about this HHS regulation.
	Multi-denominational.
	Everybody's affronted by this.
	We'll be right back with Ed Gillespie, 800 282-2882.
	800 282-2882.
	Thank you, Ed Gillespie for staying with us.
	Before the break, we were talking uh Ed was taking through the board and the associates of the new 501c3 to push back on the HHS regulation, assaulting religious liberty, religious freedom, conscience cause.
	Ticking through all the names indicates the breadth, the multi-denominational and multi political or bipartisan, nonpartisan nature of those who feel threatened.
	What is the mission and the how are you going to achieve through conscience cause your goal, Ed?
	Mary, we'd like to get people to sign a petition to uh Speaker Boehner and uh leader reid that urging them to uh pass legislation to stop the Department of Health and Human Services from imposing this trampling of religious uh freedom on uh people of you know who who uh have a conscientious objection to paying for uh abortion pills or contraception or surgical sterilization and uh get people to sign the petition and and uh uh hopefully Congress will act to to
	uh protect people's religious freedom.
	Yeah, I should we it's critical to point out here this group is also does not have a uniform view on contraception.
	This is not a contraception issue.
	This is a religious liberty, religious this is a first principle, Ed, religious liberty.
	It is.
	There you know, there's a reason the founders enshrine this in the first amendment.
	And and uh it is important to note, and uh and the the petition itself uh as drafted notes that the the signers don't represent any particular religious faith or political party uh or have uh a uniform view on contraception.
	We are, however, uh unified in our support for the primacy of rights of religion and conscience.
	And that that is what this issue is about.
	The Democrats and the White House were successful in distracting attention from that core principle, uh and and we're trying to refocus it on this core principle.
	Is there a website I know you just got to start a website?
	Where should people go?
	When should they start looking for the opportunity?
	Uh in about a week, they'll be able to go to uh consciencecause com and uh sign the petition there.
	Uh we'll we'll be pushing it out through social media.
	Uh there's a uh uh a little holder there right now, but it's uh the petition and things have uh just been signed off on and uh we'll start to move it around here uh within about a week.
	Excellent.
	Now Ed's many uh endeavors, this man walks the walk.
	He's also the founding member of Resurgent Republic, which is the best of the polls, and there's we don't like to spin ourselves.
	You can that doesn't do us any good.
	But Ed and the Resurgent Republic was the first uh operation to discern that fraying of independent support for this president as early as two thousand nine.
	Ed's been in the field with a number of focus groups on the key constituents uh that provided the margin of victory for uh candidate Obama in two thousand eight.
	What are you finding uh among those independents today, Ed, who voted for the president in two thousand eight.
	They're very disillusioned, Marion.
	They are uh very open to making a change.
	Uh they are more closely aligned with uh Governor Romney and the Republicans in Congress on critical issues uh like spending and reducing the debt and energy production and health care uh and repealing the Obamacare bill and its uh its job killing mandates.
	So uh they are very much leaning, I think right now it looks like they're leaning very much uh toward uh uh a change in November uh and denying President Obama a second term.
	That is a website that's active.
	Folks can find some really interesting information there at ResurgentReplic.com.
	Uh I've taken a leave of absence from from uh that board to uh to devote my time and energy to uh volunteering for Governor Romney.
	Uh but they uh the the group has just come out with a couple of memos from Haley Barber, the former uh chairman of the RNC and some of the members of the board with the results from these focus groups that are very revealing and I think very troubling if you're President Obama or one of his supporters.
	The the latest one, the one out today is is on Hispanics well let me say about all these constituencies, be they young, be the women, be the Hispanics, be the whatever they no none of them are homogenous, none of them are in lockstep which is a presumption, a strategic presumption of the Obama campaign.
	Ed's also been very active in uh reaching out to in into the Hispanic community with of course a message for all Americans.
	Do you have the the latest on the uh the Hispanic uh focus groups that you did.
	Yes.
	Uh and in fact again there's this it seems to be this supposition that uh all Americans of Hispanic descent uh only care about immigration reform as an issue and they're only uh in lockstep with a more liberal view of immigration reform.
	Now clearly it is an it's an important issue uh in the Latino community uh but uh the like you said uh uh Hispanic voters aren't monolithic on this uh any more so than uh you know then uh Irish Catholic voters like me are monolithic on any issue.
	Uh the fact is when you look at the most important issue for uh Americans of Hispanic descent it's jobs and the economy and opportunity and uh also very concerned about rising debt.
	A lot of uh Hispanic Americans trace their history back to uh countries where either their parents or their grandparents or they themselves fled because of uh the these countries racked up debt and ruined their currencies and they had lousy economies.
	Uh so when you look at uh issues like job creation, entrepreneurship, faith uh and and the issue of life uh a lot of Hispanic voters tend to be much more in line with the more conservative party in this country today and that's the Republican Party.
	And I can't thank you enough for your work on behalf of everybody out there listening to you.
	Thank you for your work.
	Thank you for your friendship.
	Thank you for staying over I know you I made you late for lunch.
	You're the best man.
	Well it was well worth it uh because I treasure your friendship and and being in the trenches with you Mary and and uh enjoyed being on on the Russia show with you today.
	Thank you there's a big virtue loyalty.
	When we come back we'll talk to all you loyal callers.
	Oh you oh I can I have time oh I'm so excited.
	Our first caller let's go to Andrew in the b Bloomington.
	Andrew how are you in Bloomington, Illinois?
	Good morning how are you?
	I'm delightful.
	I'm so happy to be here.
	You're calling from my home state which has, I'm afraid to say um fewer of you than there were before and more of the big government types than when I lived there.
	So thank you for your service.
	Well it's my pleasure.
	Absolutely you were talking earlier in the program about um values and service.
	I just wanted to comment real quick that I'm currently a member of the United States Air Force, a serving member very, very proudly.
	And one of the core values, core virtues that we're taught from boot camp and all throughout your career is the fact that service before self is one of our most outstanding and honorable qualities that each airman should have.
	I believe this is actually echoed throughout all branches of the military.
	I think actually that it should be a requirement that every politician should have some form of either boot camp or military service.
	Oh well there's a thought let's put that into the hopper and see what our politicians think of that.
	Thank you Andrew for that comment.
	Let me just follow up on that.
	That is why humility or pride was the was the this humility being the contrary virtue to pride.
	Pride in in the sense of antiquity in the sense of the Judeo-Christian tradition was putting self before service, putting self before community, before family, before the common good.
	So that ethic that pervades and is pervasive in all our branches and is largely pervasive in in your families and in in in flyover country is absent from too much of public service today.
	I come back to my I come back to my original premise here.
	The absence of virtue, the disintegration of virtue is a is the source of our problem and the source of our solution is in people like Andrew who know that service and common good, duty honor country should come before and first.
	Can I take one more call, y'all can no?
	All right, well now I have to go to break.
	But I when I come back I want to continue taking these calls and thank you all.
	These are such good ones.
	800 28282, the EIB Golden Mike.
	I'm Mary Madeline filling in for the one, the only the great El Rushbow, 800 2828 two in the next hour we'll be visiting with Congressman Paul Ryan of Wisconsin and Congresswoman Marcia Blackburn of Tennessee, if you have any questions for them.
	I promise we're going to talk about politics.
	I am a political junkie, yes I'm still involved.
	They're all dropping their draw dropping dropping their jaws, dropping their not their drawers snerdly, their jaws okay so um we'll talk about politics not just virtue.
	I just want to make the point that we have a we have a roadmap here to get to what ails us.
	Speaking of politics, let's go to New Jersey.
	Let's go to Greg in New Jersey and to kick off our political conversation.
	How are you doing, Greg?
	Very good, Mary so glad to hear you filling in for Rush today.
	He's he's our man.
	He is well it's the beginning of the the the final road hopefully to the uh Obama administration and I'm looking forward to a pretty exciting campaign.
	Um I uh my memories take me back to nineteen ninety two when I was a volunteer for Bush quail here in New Jersey when it was in play and of course because of our esteemed Governor Christie New Jersey will once again I think be uh a contender for the Romney vote and perhaps along with Pennsylvania.
	Um I had given you a call uh on behalf of the campaign because Rush had said something uh in his usual brilliance and being the person that you are Mary you actually penned uh in your own handwriting a little thank you note to me and I have that as part of my mementos that I collect campaign.
	we're you're aging me yes that with that campaign is one that i still get a stomach i I haven't even read my half of the book that James and I wrote together on that.
	No I read my half I didn't read his half.
	But you bring up a good um point about New Jersey.
	Let me say this to about New Jersey and Chris Christie.
	I don't know what's happening on the on the VP front and I don't have a dog in the fight but I will say this about Chris Christie.
	I never thought after in the last two decades Republicans would ever ever have a chance in New Jersey again.
	And it's not just that Chris Christie won.
	It's how he won and what he has done with that victory informing and educating the entire country on the the absolute degradation of our public system by the growth of public sector unions.
	There's no collective bargaining there's no bargaining if everybody's there's nobody on the other side of it.
	Chris Christie made people understand this and to the extent that we have prosperity and we have progress in some pockets of our country it's because governors have followed the lead of Governor Chris Christie.
	Greg also had a a notion that he thinks uh Romney's gonna win in a landslide.
	I last night had that same epiphany.
	I actually think despite uh the chattering class's protestations to the contrary that this is uh Obama's to lose I am predicting as of today that Romney is I don't know what constitutes a landslide anymore.
	I think Governor Romney is going to win by somewhere between five and seven points.
	And I base that on reading a lot of polls, understanding polls, understanding what polls don't actually monitor.
	They cannot get their arms around from Ed Gillespie's resurgent republic focused groups listening to people and from living out there.
	These people that provided the margin of victory for Barack Obama are so they're not they're so disappointed in the hope and change turning into hope for change.
	And they're not going to break to President Obama.
	It's incumbent upon of course candidate Ronnie to do and talk about the things that Ed Gillespie was talking about earlier.
	But if we can win, Republicans had won by sticking to their guns and their virtues, if you will, and their philosophy in the for after the election of Barack Obama had the highest goodwill.
	Sixty seven percent of Republicans supported him after that two thousand eight victory and in short order, because of his policies and his philosophy, he won states like we we won states like New Jersey and the bluest of blue Massachusetts.
	So thank you, Chris Christie.
	Thank you, New Jersey.
	Thank you, Greg for people have to be optimistic about this.
	I know Rush talks about that all the time but do not these first of all these polls, the head to head polls in the spring are completely non predictive for the fall.
	But the internals show a dynamic that augurs well for Mitt Romney and not so well for President Obama.
	So that that's my take my first prediction.
	Do you want to bet Snardly?
	What?
	You not you don't want to bet that Romney's gonna win in by five to seven ye of little faith ye of little faith.
	Okay, we'll t continue talking politics and whatever else you want to talk about.
	Let's go to Kentucky I love Kentucky.
	I hope we can go to the Derby this year.
	Vicky in Kentucky how are you?
	I am wonderful.
	I am honored to speak with you Mary Madeline.
	You are one of my most favorite people to listen to after Rush I'm telling you oh my God you just gave my heart such a lift when you said that because I believe that um and I believe it from just talking to people my husband's family is all from upstate New York and they all went and voted for Obama God help us.
	I tried to persuade him but they didn't get to it.
	So anyhow now all of them are saying they've got to get this man out of office.
	Now that is proof.
	These are Democrats hardcore Democrats that that live up there and they're all saying the same thing.
	So you know I don't know who these people are polling that are coming up with these numbers but it's not real people that's all I can say um I wanted to talk to you about integrity and I wanted to tell you something uh to tie it in.
	My husband served in the military in the Navy for twenty four years and uh it was an honor to do so and through everything that he had to endure um he has such integrity and I am so proud to be married to him and I'm so proud of his service.
	He is the most good woman don't you love that incredible human being he he gave up.
	I mean we raised four children on next to nothing and um he worked two jobs uh he would work after he got off from the Navy on days that he wasn't on call or had to be there for twenty four hours.
	He was a corpsman so they had to stay um at the at the base if he was um on call so that was just the way that it was and uh he gave up lots and lots of time with the children and everything else to serve his country.
	And I'm very proud of him you know what let that is a good place to go to break.
	Let's hold that thought through the break because of really what used to be a common experience the common American character to hear Vicky talk about her husband and his integrity that's how that used to be th we wouldn't be talking about that.
	That just is what it is.
	When we talk about it now actually I'm not responding to I know that's where most of the country is.
	I know that people are grounded in their integrity And that's the most important thing to them.
	So thank you, Vicky, for that.
	And you're a great wife.
	You've inspired me to be just a tad nicer to my husband.
	800-282, I'm Mary Madeline, filling in for a rush.
	We'll be right back.
	Okay, Dittoheads, I'm Mary Madeline.
	I'm filling in for the great Rush Limbaugh, who's back tomorrow.
	Hallelujah.
	Hallelujah.
	I'm starting to implode.
	The next hour we're going to have Congressman DePaul Ryan, Congresswoman Marsha Blackburn.
	So tee up your questions for them.
	800-282-2882.
	Go to RushLimba.com.
	I don't tweet anybody who's over 30 and enjoys a glass of wine.
	My theory is you shouldn't have a Twitter account.

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