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Aug. 15, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 15, 2012, Wednesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24 7 Podcast.
I'm Mark Bellings sitting in for Rush Limbaugh.
Here we are.
Everybody in America knows.
This is an important time in this country.
Everybody knows it.
Democrat, Republican, everybody knows it.
Things aren't going well and they haven't been going well for a long time.
You've got the Republicans who are running on a plan, and you've got the Democrats that are out there, I guess, saying put us back in.
But this is serious stuff.
Europe is melting down.
Our economy hasn't been good for several years.
And in the middle of this very, very important decision, look at what we are getting from the Democratic Party.
This is the vice president of the United States.
They've said it.
Every Republican's voted for it.
Look at what they value and look at their budget and what they're proposing.
Romney wants to let the he said in the first hundred days, he's gonna let the big banks once again write their own rules.
Unchain Wall Street.
They're going to put you all back in chains.
Put you all back in chains.
That's what he said.
There are a lot of black people in that audience.
Everybody knows what chains means.
They're gonna put you all back in chains.
Let's be blunt about this.
These people are making fools of themselves.
This isn't political rhetoric.
This isn't the normal over the top attacks that you get in a campaign.
This is sickening stuff.
It's so sickening that it's funny.
You listen to Joe Biden right now, or for that matter, even the president.
It's sad, but it's funny.
They're gonna put you back in chains.
What does that even mean?
Who believes that?
Only a couple of weeks ago we had to watch a television ad in which some guy gets up and implies that Mitt Romney killed his wife.
Now Biden's up there talking about putting people back in chains.
The American people have been screaming out.
Screaming that they want a serious campaign.
They want an uplifting campaign that keeps saying they want candidates to talk about what they believe in.
They want to hear their visions for the future.
They say they don't like all the negatives, negative attack ads.
They don't like all the ripping on one another.
They say it over and over and over.
Look at what they are getting from the president of the United States and his running mate.
Joe Biden is talking like the kind of guy that gets screened off of talk shows.
Now he's kind of retracking it, saying I meant to say shackled or whatever.
I've got the I've unshackled, I've got the explanation here somewhere.
Whatever.
Do we need to have him on the teleprompter all the time too?
So maybe this is a gaffe, maybe it was intended.
But it's part of this same tone in which all they're going to do for the next two and a half months is demonize Romney, demonize Ryan with the most over the top preposterous rhetoric that you can imagine.
We're only in the middle of August.
And the polls are either even or have Obama ahead.
And he's talking like this.
Imagine what they're going to be what how they're going to be behaving if they fall behind.
If you're a Democrat, you ought to stand up and say that we deserve better than this.
As you heard, as you may know, I'm from Milwaukee, WISN and Milwaukee.
Fill in for Rush every now and then.
I'm a ground zero, folks.
State of Wisconsin where I'm from has been in the middle of everything for a couple of years.
We had a governor who came in and pref and proposed some pretty serious reforms that went after collective bargaining for government employees in an attempt To balance the budget.
Eighteen months of hell were raised against him.
They had a recall election trying to throw him out of office.
He stood his ground and he won.
Paul Ryan, the Republican candidate for vice president of the United States, represents a congressional district right in the middle of my listening area.
I've known him as long as he's been in Congress.
Plus, we're a battleground state for the presidency.
We're a state that leans a little democratic, that the Republicans need to pick up if they're going to win.
So I see all the political ads.
We're right there in the crosshairs.
I know what people are interested in.
I'm from a classic swing state that's been in the middle of one fight after another after another after another.
Nobody wants to hear a man running for vice president of the United States, who is the vice president of the United States, yakkin's about the Republicans wanting to put people in chains.
Maybe a handful of Democrats believe that.
People don't buy that.
This isn't just political rhetoric.
They're talking like children.
They're talking like buffoons.
Romney killed my wife.
No, he didn't kill your wife.
You're lying, you're making that up.
The ad's a lie.
Biden.
They want us back in chains.
No, we don't.
I support Romney and Ryan.
I don't want anybody back in chains.
Mitt Romney doesn't want anyone in chains, neither does Paul Ryan.
Then, well, they want to destroy Medicare.
No, they don't.
Look at what Ryan's plan says.
Look at what Romney is saying.
There is a reason behind their proposals.
They want to save Medicare because they realize we don't have an alternative.
We've got to be able to provide health care to senior citizens.
They've come up with a plan to save Medicare.
They don't want to destroy Medicare.
What?
They want older people to have no health care.
They want them to die.
That's preposterous.
So why are they talking like this?
Why are they talking so stupid?
Why aren't they discussing their own stance on health care?
Why aren't they discussing their own stance on the economy?
Why are they talking like this?
Because they've got nothing else to say, evidently.
As I mentioned, I'm from Milwaukee.
Ryan was the Ryan announcement to the Ryan selection started leaking out Friday night.
They had the big shebang in Norfolk, Virginia on Saturday morning.
Romney and Ryan came back to Ryan's home area, Waukeshaw, Wisconsin on Sunday.
This is a big local story, obviously for me.
We never in Wisconsin's history have had one of our residents be on a major party ticket for either president or vice president.
Plus, I know Ryan, I like Ryan, I was glad he was chosen, so I'm watching all the speeches.
I watched a weekend worth of speeches from both Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan.
And yes, there's some criticisms of the president, but they were talking substantively.
Paul Ryan got up and said we are going to treat the American people as adults.
We are going to talk to them honestly.
The very selection of Ryan by Romney means that he's serious.
All these consultants that are running around saying this is a mistake, you can't be throwing, bringing somebody out there who actually has positions on issues who's proposed something.
They're actually treating the American people like grown-ups.
And yeah, there are risks associated with it.
Ryan's a risky pick.
Well, of course it's a risky pick.
Ryan has beliefs and ideas.
And Mitt Romney, who hasn't yet been well defined, really for any of us, including a lot of Republican voters, he just defined himself, Romney did.
By choosing Ryan, he defined himself.
He said, I'm going to put on the ticket somebody who is a serious person who has serious ideas about reforming our entitlements and bringing our economy back to strength.
And I'm proud to run with someone like that.
That was a statement by Romney.
Pretty strong statement.
A lot of us who've not been convinced about Mitt.
It's a pretty important move that he made.
And they got out there on the campaign trail and they talked substantively about our issues.
Ryan talked about the American idea.
And how we're going to try to bring it back.
They're today talking about Medicare.
They're talking about the entitlements.
They're talking about serious stuff.
And what are we getting from the other side?
Just this constant demagogic demonizing.
And it isn't even good demagoguery.
It's more rotic.
What next?
Your mother wears army boots?
Who wants to put you back in chains?
This isn't something that's coming from some nut job on the on the left.
This is this is the sort of thing you expect from Keith Olberman.
Crazy as he is, Joe Biden is the vice president of the United States.
It is demeaning to talk that way.
Because other than a handful of people in his fringe, even his own voters don't believe it.
The Democrats don't believe that.
We've had Democratic presidents, we've had Republican presidents.
As I recall it was a Republican president that took the chains off.
What a metaphor to use.
Wants you back in chains.
This is sickening stuff.
They must really be desperate.
Let me tell you something.
It's not all bad here, it's actually good news.
They're desperate.
They wouldn't be talking like this.
They wouldn't be running ads about killing women.
They wouldn't have the vice president out there talking about chains.
They wouldn't be running ads saying you ought to destroy Medicare.
They wouldn't be saying these things if they had something else to offer.
We're at a turning point in America.
Every time we've been at a turning point, the American public has been willing to do something different.
For better and for worse, we were at a turning point when we elected Roosevelt.
They felt the need to move us in a different direction.
And the reason O'Roosevelt was elected for four terms is people were willing to take a look at a new direction for our country.
We were at a turning point in 1980 with Reagan.
Everybody said then the same thing that all those consultants are whining and worrying about now.
Oh well, he's too extreme.
This is how you can't reague he's way out there.
The American public makes these types of changes in the direction of their government when they feel as though we are in trouble.
In my own state of Wisconsin, the initial reaction from everyone when our Governor Walker proposed his reforms, oh my goodness, he's gone too far.
Look at the backlash.
And you saw the same kind of rhetoric there.
Walker wants to destroy the middle class, all the same kind of stuff that you just heard from Biden.
It didn't work.
Walker won that recall easily.
He's more popular now than he's ever been.
If Romney and Ryan stick to their guns, explain their proposals, and tell the American people just who it is that actually is cutting Medicare, Obama, 716 billion taken out of Medicare to fund his Obamacare.
They can not only ride this out, they're going to earn the respect of the American people.
A lot of people have been demanding that Romney get out there.
You gotta respond, you gotta respond, you can't keep taking this.
Well, he does need to respond to the tactics.
But he should not get down in the sewer with Obama and Biden.
The American public don't want them in the sewer.
The contrast between the two campaigns could not be greater than it is right now.
My name is Mark Belling, and I'm sitting in for Rush.
I'm Mark Belling sitting in for Rush Limbaugh.
1-800-282882 is the phone number.
1 800 28282.
Time to hear from the audience.
But before we hear from the audience, let's hear from our classy vice president again.
They're gonna put you all back in chains.
Back in chains.
Chains.
We're already in chains.
Forty-two consecutive months of unemployment over eight percent.
One point three trillion dollar deficits every single year of his presidency, five trillion dollars added to the national debt, spending forty percent, four oh percent more than we're taking in.
No growth at all, the weakest recovery in seventy years.
We're in a death spiral here.
Their only plan for everything is to raise taxes so that we can shut close the deficit.
Of course, that isn't gonna work because it's gonna slow down the economy and tax receipts are going to go down.
The entitlements are going to be even more threatened, so they're gonna raise taxes again.
That's a death spiral.
And people out there sense it.
They're looking for alternatives, they're looking for answers.
And you've got the vice president of the United States with an opportunity to provide his answer, their program, their alternative for the American people, and he's talking about chains.
Let's go to Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
Joe, you're first up on EIB with Mark Belling.
Uh, good afternoon, Mark.
How are you doing today?
I'm great.
Uh well, to quote Ann Richards, the late great Ann Richards, poor Joe.
He just can't have it.
After hearing what he said yesterday, I uh tuned into the five to see if Mr. Beckle would be as enraged over what Biden said, you know, as he was over what Alan West said when he had that little slave's comment in one of his speeches.
And all I got from Bob Beckle was another F bomb over live TV.
I mean, what gives with this guy?
Well, well, here's here's what gives.
Guys like Beckle know that Biden shouldn't have said it.
Most Democrats know that he shouldn't have said it.
Even they had a sense that you don't go start and talking about first of all, he's talking the whole the comment came out of some response to a question of a banking policy, for heaven's sakes.
He shouldn't have said it.
The Democrats right now are very, very frustrated.
And that's why you're seeing these kinds of inane, stupid comments.
Can you imagine if Sarah Palin had said something like this?
Can you imagine if Ryan had said something like this?
A Republican wouldn't be able to get away with saying it.
But I don't think it's my point here, I don't think Biden's going to get away with it either.
I don't think this is what the American people are looking for in this campaign.
They really seem to feel that Americans have become the stupidest species on this planet.
And I am really tired of being insulted, talked down to, criticized.
Every time you say something against Obama, it's well, you don't like him because he's black.
Well, you know what?
He's only half black.
He's also half white, so will I be racist if I don't like the white half?
I I don't I don't know, but it's good that's that's a little bit beside the point.
The point that I was trying to make in talking about this is that I just sense that people think that we are in a precarious situation because we are.
These deficits scare people.
When people actually think about what the numbers are saying, they're worried.
Everybody knows the baby boomers are transitioning from paying taxes to sucking in tax money.
Everybody knows what's going to happen to Social Security and Medicare when the baby boomers all tap into it.
We're seeing unemployment that doesn't want to go away.
We're seeing no growth.
People are concerned about that.
And they want to have a serious discussion, and they're not being given it.
They're not being given it by the president of the United States, for heaven's sakes.
To Texar Kana, Texas, it's Alan's turn on EIB.
Hey, Mark, thanks for your time.
Thank you.
Um I'm I I gotta tell you, as a guy, I'm forty years old, uh, you know, been a Reagan conservative since I was a teenager, really active with the Texas Tea Party groups we have.
I'm I'm really excited, really stoked about having Ryan on the ticket now, because now we have a guy that's a proven grassroots constitutional conservative that I would have voted for Romney anyway, because it's, you know, he's he's an establishment guy, but Obama's a Marxist extremist, so there's no choice there.
But now I'm excited because as a lifetime constitutional conservative, in twenty twenty one, we get a chance to have another guy who believes in all of the bedrock foundations that Reagan stood for.
Well, and I think that the key to this is that Romney picked him.
Romney showed me something here.
I think there are a lot of conservatives who are okay with Romney, or maybe have some doubts about Romney.
The choice of Ryan is a major statement, and I didn't think he was going to make it.
I thought he was going to listen to the consultants and take someone that was rather safe.
And I thought that he was going to run a campaign in which he'd simply trash the Obama economy and not offer any answers.
The choice of Ryan tells us a lot about not only the type of candidate, the type of President Mitt Romney's going to be.
We started the program by discussing the comments made by Biden, in which he talked about the Romney-Ryan ticket wanting to put Americans back in chains.
Said it in front of an audience that included a fair number of blacks.
The thing about Romney and Ryan is they're not the easy Republican target.
What the media and the Democrats like to say about Republicans is the same mantra over and over and over again.
The fallback one, the default is always, they're stupid.
Look at the number of prominent Republicans we've had over the past several decades that they said were stupid.
Reagan's just an actor.
He's a B-movie actor.
He's reading his lines.
He's being propped up by his aides.
He doesn't have any depth.
He doesn't understand anything.
He doesn't pay attention to policy.
He takes the naps in the White House.
He's stupid.
Over and over we heard it.
Same thing with W. He can't pronounce nuclear correct.
He's stupid.
He's a heck from Texas.
Somehow managed to go to both Harvard and Yale, but they told us he's stupid, he's too dumb.
They did it with Quail.
Can't spell potato, the whole thing.
Quail's dumb.
Over and over and over, we're told that anybody who's that the slightest bit right of center is stupid.
Well, how do they do that with Romney?
They can't, on the one hand, say the guy is rich and stupid at the same time.
How'd he manage to make all that money?
And they certainly can't do it with Paul Ryan, who is brilliant.
Ryan's a policy guy.
He knows the details of the federal budget and the entitlements probably better than many of the people who work for the think tanks.
He's a brilliant person.
So they're frustrated.
They can't call him stupid.
The next thing they like to fall back to is accuse them of being corrupt.
They're looking and they're scouring, they're looking for everything on Mitt Romney.
They're trying to find something that happened at Bain, something that happened somewhere.
They're looking at his personal life.
They can't find anything.
They're not going to find anything on Ryan either.
He's a decent guy.
Great family man.
Everybody who knows him likes him.
So they can't go they can't come out and say that he's stupid, that the two people are stupid.
They can't come out and say that there's any type of scandal.
What's the next thing they do?
They're extremists.
Hard to portray Mitt Romney as an extremist.
He got elected in Massachusetts.
Even Ryan, the district that he comes from, is a swing district.
I know the district really well.
It's in my listening audience back in Milwaukee.
So they're frustrated here.
They don't know how to attack these guys.
Look at what they're reduced to.
Maureen Dowd, believe it or not, still has her column.
It hasn't been read by anyone in about six years, but I did happen to pick it up today in the New York Times.
She has to weigh in on Ryan.
This is the best she can come up with.
I've been wondering how long it would take Republicans to realize that Paul Ryan is their guy.
He's the cutest package that cruelty ever came in.
He has a winning air of sad cheerfulness.
He's affable, clean cut, and really cut, with the Irish alter boy widow's peak and droopy winsome blue eyes and unashamed sentimentality.
Who better to reign misery upon the heads of millions of Americans?
He's Scrooge, disguised as a pickwick, an ideologue disguised as a wonk.
And then she ends it.
Ryan should stop being so lovable.
People who intend to hurt other people should wipe the smile off their faces.
What a load of garbage.
Paul Ryan intends to hurt people.
Yep, that's what he's out there to do.
That's why he spent the last fourteen years in the House of Representatives.
He wants to hurt people.
Maureen, is this the best you can do?
You only have to write two of these things a week.
Got all sorts of time, you've got your big staff of flunkies out there.
You can't come up with any kind of an attack better than that.
He wants to hurt people.
Who believes that?
That Paul Ryan's running for vice president of the United States so he can hurt millions of Americans.
You listen to his speeches?
Do you read his proposals?
He's one of the most sincere politicians I've ever met.
What he has is a philosophy different from that of Maureen Dowd in the liberal media.
He believes in the free market.
He believes that we ought to give people the opportunity to excel.
He believes we shouldn't have restraint on capitalism.
He believes that if people succeed, it helps others succeed.
He believes in prosperity.
And he also does believe in the thing that the Democrats say they care about, which is having a social safety net in this country.
Ryan's plans to reform Social Security and Medicare, which are going to morph into the Romney plan.
They're going to be tweaked.
It's not going to be identical.
Mitt Romney's not going to simply embrace every idea that ever came out of Paul Ryan's head.
But they're on the same general page.
Ryan came up with this thing because he says that there's no way by 2020 we're going to be able to keep Medicare going without changes.
He wants to save it.
That's cruel.
He wants to take a program that the Democrats are running into the ground, that they have offered not one single proposal to save.
What's the Obama plan to save Medicare?
Democrats, why don't you call up and tell me what it is?
We've been waiting for it.
What's the Obama plan to save Social Security?
Once you get past tax the rich, which might pay for maybe two days worth of Social Security payments, there's nothing.
Instead, Ryan puts his neck out there.
Several years ago, he draws up this blueprint.
You may recall me putting him on Russia's program a few years ago talking about it.
A specific plan that he says will bring growth back to our economy and save the entitlements.
Furthermore, he builds in a plan to protect everyone who's on Medicare now.
The Ryan plan doesn't change Medicare for anyone on it or for anyone fifty-five and over.
It applies only to people under the age of fifty-five.
Ten years, the next ten years of people who go on to Medicare will see under his plan the exact same program that they have now.
But Ryan realizes that long term, because of the crush of baby boomers coming in, there have to be reforms.
So he developed a compromise with a Democrat, a Democrat, Senator Wyden of Oregon, that says that when those people that are fifty five and under now reach Medicare age of sixty-five, they can either choose to stay on the current type of Medicare or move to a new plan that provides people with payments that allow them to go out and buy private sector insurance plans set up for elderly people.
That's his plan.
He believes that the competition among the private sector insurance companies to get all this business of all these millions of people who will be old will result in creative plans with creative pricing and creative coverages that will be better run than the morass of the government program.
He believes this will allow us to spend less money overall while still delivering high quality health care to senior citizens.
That's his plan.
They're demonizing it saying he wants to destroy Medicare.
It's a plan to save Medicare.
Does that plan to sound like something that comes from a cruel person?
Does it sound like an evil guy?
As I said, I know Paul Ryan.
The guy grew up in Janesville, Wisconsin, still lives in Janesville, Wisconsin.
He actually proposed to his fiance while ice fishing.
He's connected to his district.
He's a warm guy.
He happens to be a conservative.
Just like me, just like many of you.
Do you consider yourself cruel?
Do you want elderly people not to have health care?
Do you want people to die simply because they can't afford a doctor when they're seventy, seventy-two, seventy-five years old?
I didn't think so.
Yet we come up with this ridiculous language from the left because they can't attack his idea.
They won't honestly point out that he doesn't make a single change in Medicare benefits for anyone 55 and over.
They won't offer their own plan.
They won't have an honest discussion about how we do pay for the entitlements.
Instead, they just come up with this rhetoric.
So over the top, so ridiculous.
In the meantime, and I do give Romney credit for this.
The Republicans are now pointing out that there is someone who is cutting Medicare with something that is currently the law of the land.
Under Obamacare, 716 billion dollars is diverted from the Medicare program to pay for health care for the uninsured under Obamacare.
The only plan to cut Medicare that is currently on the books was passed by a Democratic Congress after being proposed by President Obama.
So who really is trying to destroy Medicare?
Obama who's slashing it?
Or Ryan and Romney who are trying to save it?
Now maybe they can offer their point of view as to why there are seven hundred and sixteen billion dollars in cuts are a good idea.
I'd love to hear it.
That would then be an honest discussion.
Romney and Ryan have their proposals.
Obama and Biden have Obamacare.
Honestly defend it.
They don't want to talk about Obamacare.
They don't want to talk about their own plan.
Romney and Ryan are struggling to get the American people to look at their plan.
They want to talk about it.
They want a serious discussion.
You don't put Paul Ryan on the ticket unless you're putting his reforms on the table.
But you have a president and vice president who are doing everything but talking about anything that they have done, and instead coming up with this ridiculous demonizing language.
This country at this point in time deserves better.
The pundits may think, and the political consultants may think that Obama has the upper hand here.
And indeed a lot of the Republican consultants think this is a disaster, so my goodness, they put Paul Ryan on the ticket.
Now you're going to have all these attacks on Medicare.
Maybe.
Maybe the public is actually ready for a serious discussion on this.
I know that I think the upper hand is going to go to Romney.
If on the one hand you've got a president and vice president, through their ads and through their public comments, Talking like children with these terrible attacks that have nothing to do with reality.
And you have on the other hand two candidates that are actually proposing a way out of the mess we're in.
Maybe it's naive, but I don't think it is.
Maybe the public will listen to the cate to the team that is actually offering them some hope for the future.
My name is Mark Belling and I'm sitting in for Rush.
Mark Belling sitting in for Rush.
Troubling story here.
This is developing today.
Fox News dot com, a security guard at the Family Research Council headquarters in Washington, DC.
That's one of the prominent social conservative organizations.
Security guard was shot in the arm by a gunman who sources said expressed disagreement with the conservative group's policy positions.
The guard who was not identified was conscious after the shooting and was being treated.
The shooting occurred in the Chinatown neighborhood Wednesday morning, that's this morning.
The gunman was apprehended and was being questioned by the FBI, sources said.
Sources said he is in his twenties and may have been posing as an intern.
The suspect, quote, made statements regarding their policies and then opened fire with a gun striking a security guard.
Source telling Fox News.
Authorities treating the attack as a case of domestic terrorism.
Try to stay on top of that thing, you know.
Every time some sort of terrible act of violence occurs, they're always trying to find out if the person has any type of conservative beliefs.
This instance this happened at Conservative organization in the early reports at least, indicate that the guy said that he disagrees with the stuff that the uh family research council stands for.
One eight hundred two eighty two two eight eighty two is the Rush Limbaugh phone number.
My name is Mark Belling, and it's time to talk to Kathy in Bedford, Virginia.
Kathy, you're on.
Hi, Mark.
Hi.
I have a new theory about why the Democrats despise Romney and Ryan.
And I have to admit it's a superficial reason.
But the liberals I know are superficial people.
My theory is Romney is exceedingly handsome and elegant.
And now he goes out and picks Paul Ryan, which has those baby blue eyes that any soccer mom would melt into, and he's an absolute dream bolt.
Now compare him to Harry Reed, David Axelrad, Debbie Watserman Schultz.
Oh my goodness, they're scared.
You're you're you're picking some of the more obnoxious looking Democrats to compare them to.
I gotta tell you something about this, Kathy.
On my radio program in Milwaukee on Monday, this was the day after this giant rally that Romney and Ryan held in Waukeshaw, Wisconsin on Sunday, which by the way drew thirteen thousand people.
That's not a campaign number.
That's the actual estimate of how many people were there.
I did a segment on my show in which I just asked for calls from people who are there to talk about the experience.
As my listeners back in Milwaukee will attest, every single call we got was from a woman.
That's unusual.
It reminded me of the early stages of the Tea Party movement, which engaged a lot of women, the so-called soccer moms.
While the pundits have been coming out with this thing that well, Ryan doesn't add to Romney's appeal among women.
I think they're at least open to him, whether it's the cosmetic and synthetic stuff, whether it's the way that Romney and Ryan present themselves or especially Ryan.
I think that there's something there, and it may be one of the reasons why they're reacting the way that they are.
But as I said, I think they're frustrated.
If you wanted to rip Ryan or you wanted to rip Romney, none of the normal fallback things that Democrats do apply here, and that's why they're coming up with these things way out of wackowille.
Harry Reid hasn't paid taxes in ten years.
Lie.
The the TV ad Ryal Romney is responsible for the death of this woman.
Lie.
And now these ridiculous comments from Biden about the Republicans wanting to put people back in shackles.
They're saying all of these stupid things because the normal things that they say clearly don't apply here.
As to your theory that Romney and Ryan may be appealing to women voters, which of course is a core democratic constituency, I think that there is something to that.
Thank you for the call.
I just get this sense that something interesting is happening in American politics.
I had the same sense when the Tea Party movement started.
Conservatives don't show up at rallies, they don't organize, they don't stand out and listen to speeches, they don't protest.
Those are liberal things.
Something was happening there.
Ever since Romney put Ryan on the ticket, the crowds are more enthusiastic.
They've grown in size, and there's a sense of energy there.
Something is clicking with this choice.
And it's real.
You can feel it.
My name is Mark Bellings sitting in for Rush.
Mark Belling sitting in for Rush Limbaugh.
So far talking about the presidential campaign, which sure has gotten interesting.
They're gonna put you all back in chains.
Vice President of the United States, chains!
We're only in the middle of August.
What's he going to be talking about by September?
That the Republicans are going to be beheading everyone.
You take a look at the direction the Republican campaign, which admittedly seemed to be adrift a week ago, the direction that it's moved in right now, substantively talking about the issues, putting a serious person on the ticket for vice president, and you look at what the Obama campaign has degenerated into, the contrast could not be more vivid.
And I think right now most Republicans are proud of their campaign.
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