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May 22, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 22, 2012, Tuesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
A pleasant Tuesday to everybody.
It is the 22nd day of May 2012.
In for Rush for just one day.
As he told you yesterday, he has a one-day absence.
That day is today, doing a little charity uh action in an undisclosed location.
I'm sure he'll tell you all about it tomorrow.
Well, I'm here today to tell you all kinds of things that are in my head, and the way we achieve equilibrium is you pick up the phones, grab 1-800-282-288-2, and tell me things that are in your mind, either based on uh things I bring up or things you just want to do.
You can you can loosely call it open line Tuesday if you want to.
I don't know if that's copyrighted, but it is great to be here at uh at the EIB Northern Command in a rainy, cloudy midtown Manhattan.
But it's great to be looking through the glass once again at Bo and Mike and Allie, and um there's a difference.
There's a different vibe today.
There's a different vibe, because I've I've talked a lot about the kind of hospitality and the kind of first class treatment, the kind of high quality folks they are.
But I'm gonna tell you, we've we've we're exploring whole new ground today.
We're exploring whole new ground.
They're letting me eat in here.
That's what I'm talking about.
I got a Greek salad behind my head and during the commercial breaks, yeah, baby.
Yes, sir.
So anyway, so I am well fed, I am well cared for, and well prepared with a lot of topics.
Let me uh do a little thumbnail here on some of what I want to do, and uh you can bounce off of that or bring me some of your own material.
Always go to RushLimbaugh.com, even when the fill-in guys are here, we always appreciate it, and Rush, of course, does as well.
And again, Rush is back tomorrow.
All right, being the 2012 election, really being any kind of year, uh it's uh it it's just like clockwork, it's it really never goes away, but there's a whole lot of race and a whole lot of gayness and just a whole lot of of issues involving ethnicity, homosexuality, sometimes in the same story.
The NAACP over the weekend decided, hey, we're fine with same-sex marriage.
Now this makes Eugene Robinson of the Washington Post very, very happy.
The headline in the Washington Post reads, the NAACP returns to relevance with a vote on same-sex marriage.
Really?
This may come as a surprise to the NAACP that probably thought that they were relevant last month or last year, or before they decided to join hands with President Obama in approving uh of same-sex marriage.
The legal equanimity of same-sex marriage.
We we believe you mean it's only been like eight days.
We went through this last time I was here.
Uh there is no ban on gay marriage, gays can marriage can marry any time they wish, anywhere they wish.
Uh it is about religious freedom, that's their business, it's nobody else's.
The only thing that's everybody's collective business is which marriages are legally recognized as the equal of heterosexual marriage.
That's it.
That's everybody else's business.
But if two guys or two gals want to go get married and find an efficient and a and a room to have the reception and a champagne fountain and a DJ, knock yourselves out, go do it.
It it's uh it's a free country, at least for the moment.
But the thing that's everybody's business is which marriages will get legal equanimity with heterosexual marriages.
Now the thing that I want to ask, and uh literally, I don't ask this rhetorically, is when the NAACP decided, and this is very Obama driven.
Do you think for a minute, for a minute, that without a president whom they wish to circle the wagons around, do you think for a minute that the NAACP would have issued this uh this opinion?
Because the NAACP knows full well that millions and millions and millions of African Americans are absolutely not on board for the equanimity of of gay marriage.
Blacks are tons more socially conservative than you know, pardon the way this sounds, than even they know.
And I don't mean that demeaningly or in any way condescendingly at all.
You know, I'll just I'll tell this story forever, you know, just you f f you're ready.
Here's an exercise.
Find some black people in your workplace.
Sit them down in front of those uh the the things that engage a presidential candidate without asking uh about Republican or Democrat or anything like that.
Once and this works with works with everybody, it's not just an exercise for your African American friends.
But once you take away the the stigma of the R, uh, and you know, because to vote for a Republican is to hop in bed with the devil, uh, according to the the uh the schooling, the teaching, the the peer pressure that so many uh African Americans get.
Once you peel that away and start asking them questions like of is abortion okay, uh or is is it okay to have a man-man or woman-woman marriage be exactly the same thing as a male-female marriage, majority of black folks say no.
So uh, you know, you you uh it it's it's been an interesting couple of weeks for for folks in uh in in black church communities, where they know full well what God says about this.
And uh and yet that goes into direct conflict with what um what the president says about this.
And that creates conflict for the NAACP.
I'm gonna share actually some of um Mr. Robinson's points.
It is interesting that that only in agreeing with President Obama on same-sex marriage does the NAACP reachieve a certain relevance.
Really.
And this again is part of the campaign.
This is part of the public opinion campaign, and that's fine, everything's a battle for public opinion.
But it it's not just there are people who believe that same-sex marriage deserves legal equality with heterosexual marriage, and some people believe that it doesn't.
No, it's being couched in the other way.
It's that some of us are decent human beings and some are Neanderthals.
Only the decent enlightened human beings are willing to look at the very uh craftily titled issue of marriage equality and say that listen, in order to be a good person, you have to believe in this.
That only homophobia, that only bigotry can lead someone uh to oppose legal equality for gay marriage.
Well, I've uh if you'll pardon me, I flat out proved that was BS eight days ago on this show.
And if I gotta do it again today, I'll do it again today.
But let's not be repetitive.
Let's uh move on to a couple of issues uh r regarding this, and in fact, well, I I'll tell you, uh if you want to stay with uh with the the religious angle.
There is a um there's a high school student who was told that he can wear a t-shirt in a school in Ohio.
Here we go.
A gay student who sued his Ohio high school for prohibiting him from wearing a t-shirt designed to urge tolerance of gays, will be allowed to wear the shirt to school whenever he chooses.
Stories like this drive me insane.
It has nothing to do with whether I agree with the message or not, has nothing to do with it.
It has to do with the notion that that kids in school are not adults out walking the the streets of of Sixth Avenue outside the windows of this building.
It's it's not the same.
Uh the the high school newspaper is not the same as working for for the LA Times.
Uh activities in a school hallway are not the same.
Your locker is not the same as your home if you're an adult.
The notion that kids have exactly the same constitutional uh rights in a school i is just crazy talk.
So anyway, here's the latest one.
This is in Waynesville, close to Cincinnati.
A uh student named Maverick Couch.
Okay, uh won a judgment uh against the uh Waynesville local school district, he uh rolled into school one day with a t-shirt that said, Jesus is not a homophobe.
Of course, the suggestion being that if you actually stand up for scripture, that must mean that you are a homophobe.
This is a provocative uh shirt that seeks to uh start a conversation, if not an actual fight.
Um school district got to pay twenty grand to this kid in damages and court costs, and they gotta let him wear the shirt any time he wants.
The lawsuit alleged that the district had violated young Mr. Couch's freedom of expression rights.
Now, just stay with me here for a second, okay.
A school can ban any t-shirt it wants if it wishes if i i they just can.
This and if you don't like it, go to the school board.
And the shirts that are particularly provocative, and listen, let's make some that are uh l in order to be even-handed about this.
Well, first of all, I I tell you what, freedom of expression rights.
Really?
All right, let's have the next kid walk in to a school with a t-shirt that says the Holocaust, did it happen?
Let's See how long that shirt lasts.
He'd be drummed out of school, told to, I mean, at least told to go home and change clothes, and rightfully so.
In order to be really even handed about this, let's go back and let's make it eh, let's make it 1998.
And let's say somebody walks into school.
There was there was actually a fairly famous case a few years ago in which somebody wore a shirt with a picture of President Bush and it said international terrorist.
School wanted to shut that down, and everybody went first amendment.
I mean, listen, I'm a huge First Amendment guy.
Please, I'm Mr. First Amendment.
But that that kid should have been told get out of here with it with a pr with a disruptive shirt.
All right, let's say it's 1998, and somebody walks in with a big shirt, or 98 or 08, I mean whatever year you want, and a big picture of Bill Clinton, and it says Clinton is a pervert.
All right.
I'd I'd say get that kid out of school too.
A school can shut down t-shirts that they feel are going are going to erupt in some type of consternation.
And you may agree or disagree with the school's judgment, but it's their judgment to make.
And if you think that they're throwing out t-shirts haphazardly or throwing them out one-sidedly, then take that to the school board.
But this notion that a teenager walks into a school with any stinking t-shirt he wants and has a right to wear it with impunity, this is insane.
Now, this is also the 512th most significant thing on this type of issue.
I guess we might have our big stack of of gay issues today.
And I can't um uh you got the NAACP saying, okay, to same sex marriage, you know that's Obama driven, but here's the really, really tricky one.
As if those aren't tricky, here's here's one that's particularly tricky.
And that is the one out of Rutgers.
Darren Ravi got thirty days.
Thirty days for setting up a webcam to embarrass his gay roommate Tyler Clementi.
They set up a webcam so that a certain it wasn't like broadcast nationally, but it was enough.
A certain group of uh of folks were technologically gatherable and able to watch Tyler and you know, and some trist with some dude, and it it understandably mortified him.
And he went out not far from right here and jumped to his death from the George Washington Bridge.
Okay.
What did Darun Ravi do?
Did the opinion that Darwin Ravi killed Tyler Clemente just as surely as if he'd strangled the life out of him, had a lot of people thinking that that Mr. Ravi should have gotten years and years and years in prison.
Those who feel that this was just a prank, oh, a very horrifically insensitive prank, uh, think, eh, not so much.
The thirty days is probably about right.
But like so many other issues, this is all but is all seen through the lens of activism.
The people who really want to be activist against gay bullying, and let us stipulate right here that it is evil.
It is evil to torment a kid for being gay.
Let's just all get together as decent human beings and agree on that, okay.
But that having been said, if someone does it in a high-tech fashion, and that kid, you know, goes off, jumps off a bridge the next day.
That doesn't make the the the tormentor a murderer.
How you know the th does thirty days seem a little light?
I don't know, probably.
But what, you know, every once in a while in Talk Show Land, you engage in a little exercise called you be the jury.
If if thirty days is too light, tell me what you think is right in that particular case.
Okay, I'll share some more of the uh some more of the particulars as we work our way through this Tuesday.
Now, before we are done, and in fact, maybe even before this hour is over, there's a premise I want to give you.
And in fact, I'll uh I'll I'll give you a little tease about it right now, and maybe I'll go ahead and do it.
We can walk and chew gum at the same time, lay down several layers of topicality.
Um I'll just share the story.
Monday of last week, I'm here doing this show.
And after the show is over, Bo and I hop a car back to LaGuardia to return to our respective homes.
And we had just the best chat.
I gotta tell you, if you if you ever get 30, 40 minutes in in a car with Bo Snerdley, you're gonna learn something.
You are you're gonna have a good time, and you're gonna learn something.
And we were talking about uh we were talking about the amazing political commodity that is Hillary Clinton, who has gone from being one of the most reviled women, one of the most reviled people in conservative America, to someone who even from staunch conservatives now gets a certain grudging and maybe not so grudging respect.
Compared to Obama, Hillary looks like Margaret Thatcher.
So a lot of people are coming around on her.
Her positives are sky high.
You know where I'm at it here.
Maybe you know where I'm headed.
My Dallas morning news column, which will appear in that great paper tomorrow, is about something it is about something that for the longest time I've considered a zero possibility.
I mean a zero possibility.
I no longer believe that to be true.
Do not get ahead of me.
I now consider it to be a roughly one in twenty possibility, still very, very remote.
But it's that fun parlor game called Do You Dump Biden and run with Hillary.
It may actually be time to talk about that not just as uh uh intellectual exercise or just a gathering for political dorks, but a real world possibility that we would really have to deal with if it if if it were to come to pass.
So, that enough for you?
Are we rocking and rolling?
Let's go.
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Thanks so much to Rush for another day to be here.
Rush is back tomorrow, and uh grab some uh some phone lines there, and Ally will pick those up, and I'll talk to you on the other side.
Mark Davis Inforush on the EIB network.
It is the Tuesday Rush Limbaugh Show, Mark Davis in for Rush.
Rush is back tomorrow.
The top campaign news, I got off on a lot of theoretical stuff to begin, and and we can do it all at the same time.
I believe in you.
Uh the top campaign news uh uh coming off the weekend and and and still having legs uh involves the reaction of some Democrats to the president's tack that he is taking, his attack that he's taking of against uh Mitt Romney's business credentials.
And I I've always I find it nervy.
This is Chutzpa, that uh that uh that a man, that an administration, so bereft of business experience goes after the business experience of someone who has been wildly successful in business.
Okay, guys, let's see how that works out for you.
And uh one of the more interesting cases involved Newark mayor democrat Corey Booker, who over the weekend uh well, I'm gonna say seemed to, but I'm I'm not really going to do that because he really, really did.
He said that he just doesn't want to go along with this.
That that it is it is unwise to go after Mitt Romney on this um on this point.
And and and you know somebody got to him.
You know somebody got to him.
On Sunday, Booker called out the Obama administration, called them out for attacking Romney's experience at Bain.
He was on Meet the Press, and he said he found that campaign tactic to be nauseating, a distraction from the real issues.
Now he says that's out of context.
I didn't really mean to say that.
He says he's now disillusioned that his quote is being used by the GOP.
Well, of course it is, because Mayor Booker was caught i i in a in an actual moment of honesty.
And uh there there have to be honest Democrats who look at this and say this is not helpful.
This is not the way to win.
Because after years and years and years of incompetence, and and and this is kind of funny.
I mean, and I'm gonna be bipartisan about this.
Uh th there was a lot of trouble, I mean President Obama in terms of of business acumen, please, and even President Bush and you know Katrina and stuff like this.
If there's anything that and fair or unfair on all the levels of criticism about that, but if there's something that a lot of people are looking for from government from this point forward is competence, a notion that the president kind of ha it's like I got this, I got this, I know what I'm doing, I got this.
And this uh sort of exudes from the pores of Mitt Romney.
And it is something that this administration is is in a real hole about.
Because there's a lot of theoreticians, a lot of academics, a lot of idea guys in this administration, willing to bring you all kinds of Democrat ideas, but they don't bring you a lot of the gift of having run something and run something successfully.
Mitt Romney has.
So maybe one of the questions to deal with today is okay, and and President Obama in a news conference, we got a call on this coming up here in just a second.
News conference today in Chicago said this is not this is not some side issue.
This is going to be what what this campaign is about.
It's kind of funny, and and words mean things.
So in in the gay marriage thing, they they make up something and call it marriage equality.
In class warfare, they've made up something.
You know what they're gonna call it?
That's right.
Economic, all together now, fairness.
Economic fairness.
Really?
All right.
In a minute we'll talk about what's fair, what's not, and we'll do it with your help on the phone.
1 800 282 2882.
Mark Davis in for Rush on the EIB Network.
It is a springtime Tuesday in New York City.
Rush is back tomorrow after some charitable enterprises he's engaged in today.
And we are diving on to the phone lines.
Oh, Lord knows I've brought up enough, so let's see what's going on.
Let's make use of some of the heavy lifting here.
1800 282 2882 as we begin in College Station, Texas.
Hi, Bob, how are you?
Welcome to the show.
I'm doing just fine.
Thank you.
Comment I had was about the t shirts a little while ago.
And with I was kind of surprised that we have uh that kind of t shirt is okay, but if you want to wear a fl a t shirt with a flag on it, um de mayo or Mexican Independence Day, exactly.
You can't do that.
If things were even handed, that would be one thing, but it's curious what shirts are okay and which shirts get you shut down.
The gentleman refers to a story out of Ohio that I shared where a kid comes in and wears a shirt that says, Jesus is not a homophobe.
Uh an in your face, gay agenda shirt designed to make anybody who opposes uh gay marriage equality look like a homophobe on religious grounds.
And I I believe that's a a provocative enough shirt that the school sh could have said shut that down.
But interestingly, there have been kids who have been told, don't wear your American flag shirts either on Cinco de Mayo, which has no real world Hispanic cultural historic significance of any broad sense, uh or or even on other than Cinco de Mayo, because it might offend the sensibilities of some immigrant students.
Really, really?
So it's curious.
You're you're superbly correct there, Bob.
Thanks.
All righty.
We are in Missouri.
Tom, Mark Davison for Rush.
Hi, how are you?
Thank you for taking my call.
I was watching President Obama's news conference at the NATO summit, and I found it interesting, disappointing that his response to a question about what the president's job is to figure out how everybody in the country has a fair shot.
And that was his first response.
I was disappointed and just screaming at the TV about what President Obama thinks the job of a president is.
And I welcome your uh comment on the Mr. Well, stay with me.
I'll I'll give you sixty seconds, and then you tell me what occurs to you.
Because I mentioned in the last segment that we need to talk to reclaim, we need to reclaim the definition of fair.
I'll tell you what fair is.
People rise or fall on the sweat of their own brow.
They succeed or fail based on the strength of their own ideas and their work ethic.
That is the definition of fair.
Some people will do well, some will not.
As soon as the definition of fairness is hijacked and perverted to mean highway robbery of the successful, to distribute that wealth to those who, for whatever reason, have not acquired as much.
Uh that that is uh it's an abomination to the dictionary and to the citizenry.
Well, when the president puts his hand on the Bible and and does his oath, I don't recall it saying anything about making sure anybody has a fair shot.
Yeah.
And and what did everybody's dad say?
What did everybody's dad say?
It's not fair, and dad said, Life's not fair.
Three of the truest words ever spoken.
If you are wandering through life, expecting it to be inherently fair, uh, you're gonna have a very tough ride.
A very tough ride.
Tom, thank you.
Appreciate it very, very much.
That's right.
Ask your mother.
Life's not fair, ask your mother.
When is dinner?
Oh, it's a dad, I uh as a dad, I will tell you I also operated three word bursts.
Uh And of course the famous Bill Cosby, this is more than three words.
Go get me something to beat you with.
All right, all right.
I'm ADD enough for crying out loud.
But on the issue of fairness, should we all strive to achieve fairness as we seek to define it?
Sure, and in a way that does not uh uh adversely affect the deserving.
Uh I mean if I mean uh to to be fair, to be equitable, to be even-handed, uh, to be, you know, non-discriminatory.
These are wonderful personal attributes.
This is great.
And boy, once again, we're back to some of the stuff I was talking about uh when I was here eight days ago.
Some things are not meant to be equal.
Equality of opportunity is great.
Seeking equality of result is not.
You know, uh i it is this this quest for i i i equality.
We have we have an equality fetish in our country.
Now some things should be equal.
Equal rights for people irrespective of race.
Perfect.
Great, you bet.
Now some people might say, ah, how about how about equal rights based on gender?
Eh.
I mean, most ways, sure, but you're ready to draft women?
Mm-hmm.
So we could go down that road if you want to.
But they're going to be in a school, they're going to be good students and bad students.
The equality fetish leads us to deny bad grades to the bad students because that will affect what?
Their self-esteem.
Well, guess what?
If you are lazy and inert in the classroom and you have a D average, maybe you should have bad self-esteem.
Maybe you should feel a little bit bad about yourself.
And maybe you'd be sure surrounded by people who love you and care about you, always love from mom and dad, always support from a school willing to help you.
But if you're a D student, dude, you're a D student.
And the way to get good self-esteem is to do the work and do it better.
Then you become a C student and a B student and an A student, maybe.
And then you get that self-esteem and you get it the way you should get it, through your own achievements, not because some school foisted it upon you undeservedly.
We talked about athletic prowess.
Go to a soccer game, go to a baseball game.
Some kids are just going to be just born athletes.
Others, haha, not so much.
You know, and and when we give out the exact same trophy to everybody and we don't have an MVP or we don't keep score or all of this nonsense.
Because we have the equality fetish, the fear of identifying underperformance and underachieving.
When we fail to identify underperformance and underachievement, it takes some of the gloss away from real performance and real achievement.
Why should a kid want to get better in school or on the soccer field if the reaction is largely the same, if you're really good or if you're really not.
It is the equality fetish that has stripped us of some of the most valuable fuel we have to really, really spark better performance from kids in school, from a kid in an athletic contest, from people in business.
When we we we oh we can't let businesses fail.
We can't let businesses fail.
Oh yes, we can, and we should.
Failure is a soul cleansing lesson.
Because whether it's a person failing at some personal enterprise or a business that fails, you know what failure?
You know what failure does to you?
It makes you shake yourself awake, you look in the mirror and you go, I better not do that anymore.
I failed.
I need to start to to uh clean my act up and do stuff that'll help me succeed.
But when you have equality of result, the equality fetish kicks in.
We'll bail you out.
Don't worry about it.
Well, the perpetual safety net.
We are thus denied that lesson.
And to be denied that lesson is uh is a social illness.
It's that's part a huge part of what's uh on the long list of stuff we can complain.
Here's what's wrong with the country today.
You can start 14 conversations like that, but I that that's a that's a big one with me.
All right, you're welcome to uh weigh in on that or anything else you please.
1800, 282-2882.
Mark Davis in for rush on the EIB network.
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And heading back to your calls.
We are in Warner Robbins, Georgia, Chris, Mark Davis in for Rush.
Welcome.
How are you?
Good morning, Mark.
Good afternoon, Mark.
Thanks for all for taking my call.
My question is basically having to do with the budget and priorities.
The main question I have is all American families have a budget that they have to live on.
I'm sure a lot of the American families would love to take their kids to Walt Disney World But we have to budget for that.
So why doesn't the U.S. government have to budget the same way and prioritize?
So maybe military, Medicare, Medicaid, whatever their priorities are, they rack and stack them, and when the when they basically run out of money, okay, these programs don't get money for the year unless we can get some more income in.
Right.
No matter how much the U.S. government have to do the spectacular point.
And there is an answer for that.
Let me share mine.
And then you tell me what you think.
It's because in a family there's instant accountability.
You brought up the perfect metaphor, and that is the family.
A lot of people say government ought to be run like a business.
Well, that's not possible.
Government's not a business.
If you have a business, a CEO writes a memo and things just happen.
Government doesn't run that way.
What government ought to be run like, uh, a far better comparison is government budgeting ought to be like your family budgeting, where everybody gathers together, figures out what's best for the common good.
The people in power make wise decisions based on what the family or the government can and cannot afford.
As much as and how many times have we been sat around kitchen tables and said, Boy, that that Disney World vacation, we might love to do it, but we just can't.
Maybe next year.
Let's find a way to spend less this year or maybe make a little more money.
Uh the family discussion is the much better model.
The reason that doesn't happen is because in government you don't have to.
In government, rather than a mom and a dad and the kids and and a good loving edict coming down saying, Well, guys, we can't afford A, B or C. In government, you have politicians, many of uh most of them Democrats, but certainly some Republicans, over the years stepping forward and saying, You can have it all.
I'm not gonna take anything away from you.
The old joke is what's the difference between Democrats and Republicans?
Government gets bigger under both of them, but the Republicans will say they feel terrible about it.
So spectacular point.
Okay.
Thank you, Mark.
And it's it it's just very frustrating when I'm when I'm sitting there around the table talking with the wife, okay.
We have to budget for this, we have to budget for that.
And then and then the US government just loads money on something like uh like a cylinder or something like that.
Absolutely right, and I don't blame any kid, well, you well, ultimately it's a kid who needs to be set right, but I wouldn't blame a kid who doesn't know better yet from stepping forward and saying, Mom, dad, you're telling me that we have to restrain spending on this, that, and thus and such, but you know, I was I'm reading the papers and the government's not restraining spending on things, so why why should I have to?
Uh let's let's have government be a better example so that so that in Washington we can see the actual kinds of fiscal restraint that's exercised around every uh around every kitchen table in every house in America.
Thank you, man.
Appreciate it.
Alfred in uh Mercer Island out by Seattle.
Hey, Mark Davis In for Rush, how are you?
Hey, Alfred.
Oh, I'm sorry, uh Alfred Alfred, you're next.
Right now, we are in Harrisburg, Kentucky.
Eddie, hey, Mark Davis Infor Rush.
How are you doing?
Doing great, Mark.
I would just want to ask, why should we cede our definition of success to the government's definition?
Because they'll set the bar too low every time.
Well, yeah, I mean, what does it mean to be rich?
What does it mean to be successful?
What does it mean to be wealthy?
As soon as you give that a magic number, and everybody can have their own.
I mean, if you're making fifty grand, maybe you think three hundred grand is rich.
If you're making three hundred grand, you know it's really not.
Everything's relative, and maybe a million is rich, etc.
etc.
etc.
If you're living under a bridge, maybe you think 50K is i whatever.
But when the government starts to make those value judgments, you're right, because then that identifies a class of people against whom you can practice class warfare, and that just brings everybody down uh emotionally and financially.
Exactly.
That was my only point.
Thanks, Mark.
And it was a golden one.
Thank you.
Okay, as advertised.
Alfred is in the Seattle area.
Hey, Mark Davison for Rush, how are you doing?
Great, thank you.
Uh I miss uh Russia's songs and that great singer you guys have.
The great Paul Shanklin, unbelievable parody art.
Uh-huh.
Here we go.
It's a road, Barack.
And don't you come back no more.
Anyway, I I'd like your opinion.
I really think uh M Mitt Romney needs to choose his vice president soon.
And I have two uh categories that you should probably expound on.
Okay.
Is number one, probably Donald Trump, because I watched uh Celebrity Apprentice for the first time the other night When Arsenio won.
And they there's people treat Don Trump like a god and they respect him, and everybody knows he knows how to make money.
And that would be category one.
Well, how about before before let's do it category by category because I sense we're going to have a good time here.
So people so people treat Donald Trump with respect.
Sure.
And as a business guy, he deserves that.
But what if a whole lot of ideas in his head are wildly unconservative and simply not appropriate for a Republican candidate running for president?
Like his distaste of our entire war effort.
I mean, what if Donald Trump just isn't I mean, Donald Trump is is just not a conservative in so many ways, and we need to be looking uh I mean, I mean, please, that that's i the ideas in somebody's head are the most important thing, not whether people show you deference on network television.
Well, get this, Mark.
Oprah is the one who put Obama on the forefront.
She could have put Will Smith, excuse me, or Tom Cruise.
She could have supported any star and he would have had a uh a front to go by.
I'm not quite sure.
Okay, well let's let's let's make we have to we have time.
Uh Oprah is not the reason Obama won.
One of the things that Obama Obama would have won if Oprah had stayed out of the election completely.
Maybe I sense you have more material.
Keep going, keep going, keep going.
Okay.
Uh the other thing that I as a Mormon, I know that I wasn't pleased with uh it turned into Mormon doctrine in the 70s, I believe.
I'd have to look that up, research that.
But in the seventies, the Mormons finally allowed uh African Americans to be hold the priesthood or they basically hardly came to the church.
But they opened that door, and that could be brought up in the campaign.
So I was thinking either Colin Powell, whoa, or Alan West would make a great uh vice president.
All right, if we crave a black running mate, and that's lovely, uh Colin Powell is instantly problematic.
I hate to be a broken record here, but he's just not conservative enough.
Colin Powell is way too liberal to be Mitt Romney's running mate.
Alan West is a hero to me, uh b both in terms of military service and politically.
Here's my thing.
I I've got my here's where my bar is set.
I I and the Lord knows a fellow Floridian Marco Rubio g gets a lot of love for me too.
But for some reason, with every passing day, I want for the Romney running mate, somebody who's been around the block in Washington a lot, knows how it works, has earned respect, thoroughly vetted, familiar name.
Uh so that's where I'm gonna go there.
You got one.
Dare put Condoleezza Rice as vice president.
It won't it won't matter.
Uh I hate this notion of, well, gee, uh, we have uh we have color on the Democrat ticket, we need color on the on the Republican ticket.
Uh he's running with a woman, we gotta run with a woman.
This stuff makes me insane.
Mitt Romney should pick the best human being to compliment him on the campaign trail.
Uh that was cool.
I love this parlor game, and thank you, Alfred.
Appreciate it.
Now he he invokes something that I that I mentioned, and and may uh let me do a couple more calls to wrap up this hour.
I will begin the next hour with the official laying out of the premise.
It's a big game of what if, but it it's gone from being a it's never gonna happen, but this is fun to talk about, to you know, there are people who think that there might be a five percent chance of it, and maybe that number goes up, and that's dumping Biden and running with Hillary.
Admit it, Conservative America, this scares you.
We'll be looking for honesty all around as we continue.
Mark Davis in for Rush.
Stick around.
Closing segment of the first hour of the Tuesday Rush Limbaugh Show.
I'm Mark Davis filling in, but for just one day, rest assured.
Rush back tomorrow with tales of his exploits today, a charitable enterprise, which is his frequent habit, and he'll tell you all about it uh tomorrow.
In the meantime, uh more time for you and me.
Uh beginning of next hour, uh, the premise I touched on at the beginning.
It's it's the grand game of what if, and it's carrying a little more meat on the bone than it did some months ago.
What if uh President Obama in quiet moments is really thinking about dumping Biden and running with Hillary?
How how m how might that work out?
In the meantime, we are in uh You know, let's do uh in West Jordan, Utah.
Kurt, you got about forty seconds, but they're all yours.
How are you, sir?
I'm doing great.
How about yourself?
Fantastic.
Hey, I wanted to touch on this fairness thing and just give an example.
My my son, nine years old, he was playing baseball last year.
Um, they played a total of eleven games.
His team won one game.
At the end of it all, they gave all the teams trophies.
Of course.
It actually upset my son because he was offended because you don't get trophies for losing.
Those were his exact words.
That does not happen by accident.
Congratulations on a well-raised son.
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