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Aug. 17, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 17, 2012, Friday, Hour #2
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Welcome to the show, ladies and gentlemen, Doug Ransky filling in for Rush Limbaugh.
I'm thinking back to the telephone call we just had from Mike in New Jersey.
And I know, Mike, that if you hear my voice, you're going to ultimately do the right thing.
This I know.
But I I am I I'm never cease being amazed at how um how people praise Romney for picking Ryan and then turn around and throw cold water on Romney.
Because his choice shows his determination.
I mean, I might get back into this in just a moment here about McCain and Pale, and I don't think there's much of a comparison, but ladies and gentlemen, you know it is.
It's Friday.
Live from New York City.
It's open line Friday.
1-800-282-288-2, 1-800-282-2882 is the phone number.
Your calls are welcome.
Now look.
John McCain chose Sarah Palin.
And then he let the media and member of his own campaign hold her down.
Now why did he do that?
I'll say something a little controversial.
Urbanski believes that John McCain never had the right strength or intellect to run a campaign from the start.
He was the candidate that no one wanted.
We've got a very strong candidate this time.
And I'm almost ready to declare a no Romney bashing zone.
We're 80 days out, ladies and gentlemen, and we've got a very exciting ticket.
Romney was not handed the campaign by the establishment.
Now am I saying that McCain was?
Well, you draw on your you draw your own conclusion on that.
I mean, the rumor was always there that McCain had some sort of arrangement with Huckabee that kept Romney out.
We all remember that.
We've got Obama being exposed as he goes more and more negative.
It's not working.
You watch the negative stuff.
You know, it's like it's a little bit if you've ever known anyone who sadly got divorced in their life, and as they go through the torments of divorce, the hideous things that are involved, at some point, about 90% of the people going through this kind of a breakup get to the point where they say to their lawyer, you know what?
I'm just done with her or him.
I'm just done.
I'm moving, give her whatever she I'm just done.
I think all the negative campaigning, all the Obama specifying is falling on ears of a country that's saying, you know what?
Fine, I'm just done.
Let's move on.
What's the alternative?
Obama's run out of ideas.
Even Obama knows that the country is not better off today than you were four years ago.
Even he must know that.
Think of the economic data.
Between 2008 and today, unemployment then was 6.8%.
Today it's well over 8%.
If you do the right math, even the deficit, 459 billion.
Today it's over 1.3 trillion.
Even more alarming, the federal debt, 10.57 trillion.
Now it's 15.8 trillion, almost 16 trillion dollars.
And this is a significant number.
The federal debt as a share of the GDP was 69%.
Now it's 104.8%.
Household income has dropped.
The poverty rate has gone up.
Heartbreakingly, food stamp recipients.
heartbreakingly, we've added almost 17 million more people receiving food stamps.
The price of gas I don't even need to tell you about because you all know that and experience it each and every day.
We've got more and more federal employees than we've ever had.
An amazing poll has come out.
A Gallup poll.
And what this Gallup poll shows is that Obama is way, way underwater in the areas in which it counts.
The poll asked respondents Whether they approve or disapprove of Obama's performance in seven areas the economy, jobs, the budget, immigration, foreign affairs, education, and fighting terrorism.
The only area where a majority approved of Obama's performance was in fighting terrorism, which is, you know, baffling as it is.
There was a very narrow plurality that approved the job he's done in foreign affairs, which is even more baffling.
Because he's been a foreign affairs disaster.
By the way, so has Mrs. Clinton.
If she's thinking you're running in 2016, we have Mrs. Clinton's foreign affairs record to look at, the so-called Arab Spring.
That's another topic.
But the economy.
Listen, Obama is under 40% in some of these areas.
The economy, jobs, the budget are the areas of greatest importance to voters in this election.
And here's the breakdown.
I don't want to bore you with numbers, but they're so dramatic.
The economy, 36% approve of Obama, 60% disapprove.
Creating jobs, 37% approve, 58% disapprove.
The budget, 30% approved, 64% disapprove.
Now, how does somebody get re-elected with numbers like this?
They compare them here with the approval numbers regarding the economy for presidents who were re-elected recently.
George W. Bush's rating was 46% on the economy.
Bill Clinton's was fifty-four percent, and Ronald Reagan's was fifty percent.
Obama's under forty percent at every one of these polls.
He he trails even George W. Bush by ten points.
His rating, George W. Bush's rating was forty-six percent.
Obama's is um is thirty-six percent.
So they're having a cow over there about Paul Ryan.
Howie Kurtz has written in the Daily Beast.
He what he doesn't like about Ryan is this.
Ryan uh apparently hunts.
And he he apparently you um he butchers his own animals when he is successful in the hunt, and he makes sausage out of it.
And and this is in the New York Times also, and they're they're all crazy.
This is the record, the scandalous record about Paul Ryan they want to talk about.
Now, they will magnify and distort, because from a liberal point of view, these are very, very bad things.
What's different about Ryan is that he actually hunts deer.
And you start to wonder if somebody who hunts deer is capable of having a deer in the headlights moment, which he is certainly not, because we've watched him with Obama.
Ryan knows exactly what he's done in the past.
He knows why he did it.
He can explain what he did to a fault.
You you you you you might not agree with him, but I I guarantee you, well, there's one thing you're never going to think about, Ryan.
You're never gonna be thinking about Paul Ryan.
Oh, he dodged that question.
That is not in the the list of possibilities.
It's driving the Obama campaign crazy that they have a team opposing them who there is no there's nothing to smear.
That's why they invent them.
And the smears you've had thus far.
Uh you know, I wanted to say that the smear about Joe Soptik's wife dying of cancer, that was the appetizer course.
You know what?
It's not even the appetizer course.
It's the free thing that the chef sends out before the appetizer.
If you think smears are coming, they're coming.
And I would urge the people on the left, be very careful.
Because Ryan can make you folks look very silly very fast.
It is opined by liberal thinkers out there that Ryan is a ticking time bomb for the Romney campaign.
Yeah, he's a ticking time bomb, but not for the Romney campaign.
He's planted right in the heart of the Obama campaign.
I mean, what did you well think about this?
What did you know about Barack Obama at this point in 2008?
What do you know about Barack Obama now?
We were told he was an intellectual, and we were told he was black.
Both of those things turned out to be not true.
Aaron and Raleigh, North Carolina.
Welcome to the show.
It's Dunker Bansky filling in for Rush.
How are you today?
Hi, great.
Thank you so much for taking my call.
I've never even tried before, but I was so compelled to uh to try because of your comments about um our ticket being, you know, real men and the metrose sexual comment, stuff like that.
I have to say, you know, I totally agree.
I'm so glad that we have real men on our ticket.
Um I am a young woman, you know, I'm I'm a single mom right now, but um, you know, I've been a stay-at-home mom, I've been a business owner, um, you know, and I just don't, you know, fall for this um, you know, liberal uh feminist garbage, I'm so tired of it, and it's everywhere.
You know, these commercials with, you know, oh, they're gonna send us back to the fifties, and it's just I can't believe that more women aren't insulted by these outrageous nonsensical lies.
And I am really excited about our ticket.
Your last caller was just that's just a sad guy.
He's scared of the colour.
Well, I don't I don't want to beat up.
I don't get it.
You know, Aaron, I don't want to beat up Mike from New Jersey too much because at the end of the day he's going to do the right thing.
I hope so.
Well, I hope so.
I I mean, yes, because but I I I I think that that anyone who thinks that Romney's gonna be worse than Obama, yeah, you start to wonder uh, you know, where the where the head is at.
But I want to ask you something.
I I am I'm very excited, but I think Paul Ryan was uh, you know, he is I think he's uh Ryan's a great choice.
I think he's a good man, he's someone we can look up to and um Did you feel as I did, Aaron?
Did you feel as I did the energy coming off the screen when you saw the two of them together?
Oh, absolutely.
Absolutely.
It was wonderful to be.
I have not been this excited in, in, it really is exciting.
And he's someone that I identify with a lot, um, personally, You know, he comes from humble beginnings, um, has really made a lot out of his life through his own hard work.
He's worked at a McDonald's for goodness sakes.
I mean, he's not afraid of hard work, and um, you know, he's somebody that I can really relate to.
He's Catholic.
That's that's something that I share with him on a personal basis.
It's kind of irrelevant, but I do, and and but I really relate to him.
Well, you know, you wait a second, Aaron.
You say it's irrelevant.
Uh, first off, as you know, as you know, I'm a Catholic as well.
Um, yeah, I mean it's but you know, it's not kind of irrelevant.
I think there's something very beautiful in the Mormon and Catholic ticket.
There is something quintessentially American about the whole thing, their backgrounds, the self-made millionaire, the young politician with the intellect, the narrative of the story.
Do you know I think that Paul Ryan's going to not only attract the youth vote and the women vote, I think he's going to he's gonna help attract a lock on on all kinds of things.
Yeah, we we are told, particularly in the past week.
I don't know if you notice this.
We've been told again and again that the vice presidential pick doesn't mean anything.
And notice notice we've been told this mostly by liberal commentators.
Absolutely they do, and they love to uh they keep on trying to tell us that Ryan is like such a risky choice, and he's not a risky choice at all, in my opinion.
I think he's a great choice.
And it was funny when people magazine first did a little, you know, piece on him, that so many of the comments were about how good looking he was, and I think, you know, there's unfortunately a lot of women who are, you know, um, you know, very easily influenced.
But hey, if that helps us great, you know, we certainly have a good looking.
Including single liberal women.
Um do you know a lot of women who feel the same way you do?
Uh you know what?
I I think th there are so many conservative women who just are just so tired of the constant uh uh uh assumption that they're uh, you know, going to be um liberals.
One more question, Aaron.
Every women's magazine you pick up, every news, you know, report you see the assumption is that you think like us, don't you?
You know, and it's it's tiring.
It's very, very tiring.
Um every time you pick up a fashion magazine or wherever you go, the assumption is that you must not be somehow normal if you're not, you know, um very feminist.
Now, Aaron, I've got a I've got one last question for you.
The president described Romney as looking unhinged.
Do you think that Romney and Ryan look unhinged?
This is my concern.
I want to know what the president is seeing.
And um, you know, those comments that he got away with really just absolutely below the belt disgusting racial uh remarks were so uh disgusting.
I I can't believe that he's getting a free pass on this, and and the news media are just closing ranks to kind of help him get out of this mess of of a comments that he made, and I'm sure it's one of many, but uh he's unhinged.
I mean I can't so that's ridiculous.
Well, Aaron, thank you so much for calling the Marshall Show.
It's a pleasure to speak to you, and And make sure your friends do all the right thing.
You know, Aaron Aaron makes the point.
You get this sense when you watch Romney and Ryan that they believe in America, that they believe in the American people.
The mass media does they go through great efforts to not show this side of them because there's an inspiring dimension.
The mass media doesn't want you to see it.
It runs contrary to the template to the caricature they're creating of Romney and Ryan.
If they let you see Romney and Ryan for real, it's dangerous to Obama.
These guys do believe.
And they're gonna break into the mainstream media, and you're gonna see the contrast become sharper and sharper.
And Romney and Ryan, neither of them, by the way, on a teleprompter.
They know this stuff cold, like it's coming out of their soul.
All right, Dugger Basky filling in for Rush.
We'll be right back.
Somebody said to me that uh Paul Ryan wasn't experienced enough that he um that he had no background as a community organizer.
They have a point.
Have you noticed, though, um Romney suddenly getting very tough on Obama?
This is you talk about a thin skin.
This is what's driving Obama crazy.
Because Romney is as started responding, and this is what caused President Obama to then say Romney looks unhinged, and if you're seeing someone unhinged, it's certainly not Romney and Ryan.
Uh and and and and Mr. Obama, don't you see the American people can see what you're seeing, but they they see someone who's the opposite is unhinged.
So uh Romney comes out swinging finally, the very thing that people have been begging him to do for ages, and he said, What an angry and desperate presidency looks like.
He said, Mr. President, take your campaign of division and anger and hate back to Chicago.
He said his campaign and his surrogates have made wild and reckless accusations that disgrace the office of the presidency.
This is excellent stuff.
Because the people watching this know intuitively how correct he is.
There's nothing to be ashamed about in saying, let's put the spotlight on Chicago Sleaze.
And what it's all about and how it's corruption and dishonorable activities bring this White House to an embarrassing new low.
Not only in front of this nation, but in front of the world, in front of our enemies as well.
I love Romney's new tough talk.
Do you like it?
And I mean this hint from Joe Biden, you know, this very offensive thing about the GOP wanting to reinstitute slavery.
That is just another day.
Wait till they start again.
They have they're gonna keep trying everything they've got.
They're gonna go back to the Mormon thing.
They have no choice but to do that.
I did not see the comments, sir.
What was the Okay, fine.
Mitt knows how to get under Romney uh under Obama.
See, there is a story someplace in my stack that the president has disdain for Romney, and there's another story that he has disdain for Ryan as well.
And the gloves haven't even come off yet, folks.
The liberal onslaught, please remember this, hasn't even started yet.
It hasn't even gotten warm.
They can ask they're dragging out their playbook to open it up after Labor Day.
You can take this to the bank.
Prepare yourself for it.
The liberals hate.
They will lie, they will cheat, they will steal to do anything to keep their agenda alive.
And the real if if politics is war, as Klauswitz said, the real battle hasn't even started yet.
And I disagree with my caller earlier, Joe Biden may be an actual disgrace, but he may in fact be more qualified for the presidency than Obama.
No, I say good look, I say good for Romney.
He has finally realized that you do not take a badminton racket out at a Chicago land gang fight.
He's put the badminton racket away.
And you wait.
I'm just hypothesizing now.
I wonder if during the debates that Obama will have a sense of the questions beforehand.
It's just a theory of mine because I've no teleprompter.
Just wondering if that'll all be arranged the way these people arrange things.
Anyway, look, even Obama knows that we're worse off than we were four years ago.
They know that they've got to face this.
Look, I'm going to get into this when we come back from the break.
Because Obama was at a fundraiser here in New York City the 30th of July, three weeks ago, two and a half weeks ago.
And he was saying that he's going to run a different campaign.
He would not run a negative campaign.
He was raising money on this, and yet we're watching the most cynical campaign.
The most cynical campaign in modern presidential history.
We'll deal with that as soon as we return.
You know, during the break, uh, Mr. Producer handed me a story.
It was a story I really didn't want to talk about, uh, because I'm so uncomfortable with this.
And he said, no, you gotta bring it up.
There is an MSNBC character, a commentator, his name is Torrey, who happens to be black.
And he has annoyed the Romney campaign because he's he he used the N-word to describe the Romney campaign's tactics against Barack Obama.
And they've got this show.
I've never heard of this show.
I don't watch MSNBC.
I listen exclusively in my car to Liberal Talk Radio, as many of you know, but I don't watch the show.
Torrey said in his comments by a Romney by Romney that he said Romney carries a distinct whiff of racial dog whistle politics.
And he talked about Romney's speech, where Romney said the words I said just a little while ago, that this is what an angry and desperate presidency looks like.
And he said, Mr. President, you can take your campaign of division and anger and hate back to Chicago.
And this guy Torrey hears in that something very racial.
He says, This really bothered me.
He says, you notice this about Romney?
He uses the word anger twice.
He's really trying to use racial coding and access some real deep stereotypes about the angry black man.
Ladies and gentlemen, talk about unhinged.
He said this is part of the playbook against Obama.
The otherization.
That Obama's not like us.
By the way, he isn't like us.
But it has nothing to do with race.
He said, I know it's a heavy thing to say, and he says, I don't say it lightly.
And then he said, I think this is, and he uses the N-word.
I will not be using the word on the broadcast, no, sir.
I will not be using the word on the broadcast.
I'm being I'm being taunted, ladies and gentlemen.
It is true, he did say this, but I he did say this.
I'm I I can't do it.
I don't use the word in real life.
I I'm sorry.
I don't.
It's a it's the N-word, and I'm not gonna use it.
Let's just let's just drop the topic, ladies and gentlemen.
But he says this, that Rami is trying to say you're not one of us and that you're like the scary black man we've been trained to fear.
Yes, I'm not gonna say that.
Mr. Producer, you want to get me never invited back here.
I'm not gonna say anyway, ladies and gentlemen, this is this is what they no, sir.
I can't get I I I did say, yes, yes, yes, Obama did say that his grandmother was a typical white woman who crossed the street when she saw a scary black man.
I understand this, but uh the the point here is look, I talk to very intelligent people who will tell me the reason I don't like Obama is because I'm a racist.
I dare wrong to you, there isn't an ounce of racism in my body, not an ounce of it.
And yet I am told this by so-called intelligent white people as the reason I don't like Barack Obama.
Look, we have the most cynical campaign that anyone knows about.
You've got this guy out there, Mr. Producer, Ben Labolt, a former White House spokesman.
He threw out the claim that Romney was the most secretive candidate we've seen since Richard Nixon.
Now, ladies and gentlemen, this claim is untrue.
You know it's untrue.
In truth, the most secretive candidate in American history is Barack Obama.
Romney is an open book, ladies and gentlemen.
That's why they have to invent things.
Obama's out there with the claim he's cut taxes.
Even the Washington Post, which is a left wing paper, says Obama's lying on that one.
Obama knows the truth.
He just doesn't care what the truth is.
His campaign says if we just keep throwing enough lies around out there to the American public, some of it will stick.
Whether it's true or not.
Cynthia in Frederickstown, Ohio, welcome to her.
You've been holding a long time, so Cynthia, hello, it's Doug Rebanski filling it for rush.
How are you today?
Cynthia is gone.
That's all right.
That's no matter.
So yes, he says Obama's out there at this fundraiser.
He says, no, no, it's time, I'm going to stop the uh negative campaigning.
He said this in New York City on July the 30th.
He said to his audience that he was going to pivot to a positive campaign.
He says that we'll be spending a lot of time talking about the specific agenda I present I intend to pursue in the second term.
He said I'm going to get the economy going full guns.
This is what he said last time out.
That's what he said last time out.
Now can you imagine what this guy in MSNBC would say if he heard someone use the word going full guns?
They'd say, oh, that's a racist comment.
Go back to 2007.
Go back with me in the time machine.
Obama's running for his first term.
He was so adamant then about running a clean campaign.
He made the claim that he would fire any staffer who performed opposition research.
Do you remember that one?
And now he's got his own gaffes.
You didn't build that.
Polish death camps.
His economic recovery, he now says it worked.
It worked.
It worked.
I mean, um.
You've got Tim Obama attacking Anne Romney because she rides horses as therapy for a musk must multiple sclerosis.
And only rich people can afford to do that.
He's compiled a list of an enemy's list of Romney donors.
There's a recent poll from The Hill that shows Romney leads Obama with 46, 47% of the voters on strength of leadership.
And Obama's fallen to 44% on the question.
Forty-seven percent of voters also say that Romney shares their values, compared with the 44% who think Obama does.
Now, Mr. Torrey, does that mean that we live in a racist country because people say that Obama doesn't share their values?
Very alarming statistic for Obama.
A majority said that they trusted Romney more than they do Obama.
Well, they've got Obama's record to go on.
These are not good signs for the campaign.
And yet he and the lapdog media, he and his subordinates are going to continue going negative, negative, negative.
I'm waiting to see Axlrod eating at Chick-fil-A.
I'm waiting for the day.
Now Obama thinks he can go back to 2008.
He can make these vague, hopeful promises.
There's a big problem with that plan because we know him now.
We know what he's done.
We know what he's failed at.
You know, promises when they're made by a relative unknown.
In this case, they were accepted by an electorate who wanted change, they wanted a better tone in politics, which is what he was selling.
But those promises, not one of them have come into being.
And anything Barack Obama says has nothing to do to convince people that these promises ever will come into being.
He has said he cannot work with Republicans.
Yet the Republicans are still in Washington.
They'll still be there no matter who's in charge.
They'll still be there.
What'll he be able to get done then?
Nothing.
Does he have a magic plan?
I don't think so.
And why would anyone believe the plans and promises of someone who was unable who delivered ran on Prems and Plans and Promises back in 2008?
And who's been unable to deliver them for three and a half years.
If he knows what to do, ladies and gentlemen, what the heck is he waiting for?
Beyond that, when you listen to the things Obama says that are important to him, they are not supported by most Americans.
Most people don't think the government is there to provide jobs.
Most people think that hard work is what deserves being rewarded.
Most of you think you should be able to keep the money you earn, not the government spread it around.
Most of you think that that huge debt isn't good for the country.
Yes, a positive campaign would be great.
But uh somehow, somehow I don't think you're gonna that you're gonna have any positive campaigning coming out of the uh coming out of the Obama side.
Ladies and gentlemen, it's Dugabanski filling in for Russ, we'll be right back.
Well, we're seeing this negative campaigning is very easy to understand.
You're seeing Obama go back to his roots.
It is commu that is not racialistic code language, no, sir.
His roots are what?
What are they?
I'm talking about his roots as a community organizer.
And this n they they no, it is not racist, sir.
We're seeing uh look, we're watching Obama go back to his roots as a community organizer on a grand scale.
That is why we're seeing the negative campaigning.
It's Alinsky's rule number thirteen.
I have it in front of me.
Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.
In conflict tactics, there are certain rules that should be regarded as universalities.
One is that the opposition must be singled out as the target and frozen.
That's what a community organizer does.
That's what they're doing with Romney and Ryan.
Maria in Dallas, you've been holding a long time.
It's Dugabanski filling in for Rush.
Welcome to the show.
How are you today?
Fine, thank you.
I I was gonna say that I find it offensive and vulgar that Terra would playfully turn that pejorative term and that word into a uh verb uh to to continue pushing this uh this narrative,
this false narrative of turning word and what they do is they turn common everyday words and decide that they're gonna be uh they'd redefine them to s to mean whatever they want it to mean at that given time.
And it's uh it's it's phony, it's false, and it's it's vulgar, and I find it offensive, and they're gonna continue to do that, and what we need to do is recognize that and turn it back on them because they're gonna do it with good words and bad words.
They're just gonna turn them around, and I just think it's vulgar that he would playfully turn this word that we need to eliminate, actually, into a verb so that they can uh and I find it I think it's also interesting because it it def it it makes me wonder if there's a internal uh struggle within him on on this issue.
You bet did you hear what I said a little while ago about people who got divorced?
No, I missed that.
Well, I was making the point that uh unfortunately we've all known people who got divorced, that America and and we we watch when people get way into the throes of settling their divorce, they eventually, after all the fighting, after all the arguing, they say to their lawyer, you know, enough is enough.
Let her have the house.
I I'm just done with her.
I don't want to hear her name again or his name.
And I am having this sense, Maria, that this is America's attitude toward Barack Obama, which is you know, fine, nice enough guy, whatever, but we're just done with him.
Just done.
Just do you get the same sense?
I get especially among the Latino and uh and uh a lot of the black community are embarrassed about this guy.
I mean, this is what they're doing is i embarrassing and uh and ridiculous.
They're pulling it's like uh pulling out straws, you know, they're ridiculous uh words, the words that they say are racist.
It's stupid.
Notice how they're running on their record, Maria?
Yeah, exactly.
Well, everybody can see that we have problems with jobs.
We have problems with small businesses.
Everyone can see it.
It's blatantly obvious, and they're over there playing these word games, trying to attack when they need to be, they should have been working to help them.
Are you energized?
Are you energized as I am about Romney and Ru and Ryan?
Oh, yes, thank God.
You know, trying to uh figure out how to help save our country and jobs and our families.
Yeah, I've not been this excited.
I did I said this earlier in the show, in in since Reagan was running, because I think of some of the terrible teams the Republicans have put forward.
I Dole and Kemp, McCain, um this is this has got some real energy, and you feel like the adults are coming back into the room anyway.
Uh thank you.
How are your friends in Dallas feeling about all this, Maria?
Oh, uh you I'm telling you, they're invigorated and and and they're concerned about this this hateful rhetoric that the that the Democrats are putting out there.
Do you think, Maria, do you think that presidential candidates should be allowed to sue one another for libel?
Yes, I do.
Yes, I do.
You do.
Yes, I do.
And not only that, you know what?
I'm sick and tired of them of the Democrats attacking Christianity.
I'm sick of it.
Right.
Well, that's not gonna happen with the new team.
Maria, it's great to speak with you.
Thank you so much.
Thank you.
Thank you so much, and you too.
Thank you so much for calling.
I got in trouble there with Mr. Producer for asking that question.
About well, no, I asked the question.
Well, yes, but if you're going to say things that are libeless, you murder a woman, you're a felon.
I mean, these politicians have no standard.
There's no there's no repercussions other than to try and answer it.
And you know, if you're Romney and you're running against the media, you you've got no way of speaking over their head since the beginning of our history.
Well, that is probably true.
But look, he cannot reason with these people.
I meant to ask Maria about this.
My biggest issue with my liberal friends is this there is no intellectual curiosity.
You want to say to them, my dear friends, my dear friends, whatever the topic is, please bring some intellectual curiosity, and let's get to the bottom of the matter together.
This is in a nutshell, because you know what?
This in a nutshell is what conservatism is.
You can put it in one sentence.
It's knowing what has worked in the past and doing it again.
Ronald Reagan used different words.
He said it's knowing when to come in out of the rain.
And that's what it is, plain and simple.
Plain and simple.
You can't reason with these people.
It's very hard to present evidence to your liberal friends.
There is no intellectual curiosity.
The Obamaites that I know, the hardcore liberals who are going to defend this man, they cannot be penetrated.
Nothing registers.
They have blind faith in this man and his ideas, and their blind faith and his ideas, they do not examine.
They don't criticize.
It's like a religion.
I'll add this also.
There is a sense among some libs that we're in the 70s again.
And ladies and gentlemen, this is not the 70s.
This is not the 70s.
This is not Jimmy Carter.
This is not his second term.
In the 70s, we threw him out.
But the truth is that compared to now, people were far, far, far to the left of where they are right now.
The left in those days had incense and astrology.
You don't hear them doing any of this stuff anymore, do you, Mr. Producer?
You're done.
The mainstream of America has moved to the right.
And you may not see it in all of the polls, but oh, it's there.
Now, can any one of you imagine the Tea Party in the late 70s?
Of course you can't, and neither can I. It's Duggar Bansky.
Gotta take a quick break.
We'll be right back.
Ladies and gentlemen, 2012 may very well be seen as the year in which the country begins to rise up and get mad.
We are what about 80 days away from an election.
Now think of this.
Let's go back to Wisconsin.
Wisconsin resoundedly defeated the attempt to recall Scott Walker.
These are signs.
These are big signs.
And the polls said it would not happen.
In spite of the huge union spending, the organizing.
Walker, Walker's still there.
They took back their government in Wisconsin.
They told the world that they were done with unbalanced budgets in that state, with out of control state employees' pensions, out of control higher taxes.
And then we had the California primary election, where the citizens of San Diego and San Jose in California, they said no to out-of-control spending with unfunded budget, breaking pensions.
And then you had the Tea Party rise up in Texas.
They seize the state Senate race.
Now that was a Tea Party Republican.
And then you, of course, you have the phenomena of the Chick-fil-A event.
Thousands of people providing Chick-fil-A with its biggest sales day in history.
Now, through all of this, the common theme that you see is Americans rising up and saying with one strong voice we've had it.
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