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Dec. 17, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 17, 2014, Wednesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
What do you mean?
What's the practical meaning of this?
It means you can get Cuban cigars now, for all intents and purposes.
I mean, in limited quantities, but you can go to Cuba and bring back cigars now.
Well, if you get a license, you can go to Cuba if you get a license.
So, Obama, even as we speak, when was the last time he was on time for an appearance?
When is the first time he was on time for today, right when this program starts?
If Obama were acting normally, he'd still be waiting to show up at 12.30 or so.
But since his announcement that the United States has made it official, we're going to use taxpayer dollars to prop up another communist dictatorship in our hemisphere, 90 miles away.
Obama made sure to be on time so that his announcement coincided with the beginning of this program.
And that's a problem, folks.
It's a big problem because I'm a big announcement today.
I think that I have stumbled across what may be the absolute perfect presidential ticket for 2016.
But I'm not going to announce any of that while Obama's out there propping up another dictatorship, the Castro brothers.
Because I don't know how many EIB affiliates are covering it.
We're not going to jip it.
We're not going to join it.
I mean, he's announcing he's lifting the not actually lifting the embargo.
A normalization of trade with Cuba.
But look, parts of this makes sense.
Parts of it don't.
I mean, there are reasonable arguments on both sides of this in normalizing relations with Cuba.
But one of the things that's inescapable that's going to happen here is that the Cuban government's going to remain a communist government under the tight fists of control of the Castro brothers and whoever is in power in that regime.
And we're going to be propping it up.
We are going to be essentially providing financial aid.
We've had this blockade, that's what Castro called it, since JFK 1959, and it's actually been an economic embargo.
And the people opposed to it have blamed the U.S. embargo for the economic plight of the Cuban people, which is, of course, sophistry.
Cuba can and does trade with every nation on earth except the United States.
And since there's nothing exceptional about us, it shouldn't be any big deal.
I mean, we're no different than any other nation, according to the American left, so big whoop.
Okay, so we don't trade with them.
They still trade with the UK.
They trade with the European Union.
They trade with the Saudis.
They trade with the United Arab Emirates.
They trade with Canada.
They trade with the THICOMs.
I mean, they're in bed with everybody but us.
And yet the Cuban people are still living on the equivalent of, what, two bucks a day?
So how can that be?
There is no such thing as American exceptionalism.
There's no such thing as an exceptional America.
The left cannot admit that opening up trade between America and Cuba would save Cuba because that would mean there's something special about us since they can trade with every other nation on earth.
So how do you explain to Cuban people living in squalor?
Even though we must be honest, the regime did give out some rice cookers a couple years ago.
Remember that?
The regime gave away rice no rice, but they gave away rice cookers.
Not well, not all Cubans got their rice cookers and not all Cubans are poor.
But the Castro doing all right.
But the general population, come on, the general population, it is a third or fourth world country outside of the military.
I know Jay-Z went there.
What, second honeymoon or anniversary or some such thing?
Yeah, Jay-Z had a good time there.
You know, there's a lot of people of color there that you might.
Did you hear what Michelle Obama?
You know, these two are just, I'm telling you.
Yes, yes, you know, Obama, somebody mistook him for a valet.
What the hell's wrong with valets?
What in the hell is wrong with valets?
No, I don't believe this.
All these so-called racist incidents happened years ago.
You can't tell me that somebody walked up to Obama yesterday and thought he was a valet at whatever men's club he was attending.
And then Michelle's running around saying, yeah, when she's at Target or wherever, people ask her to get something off a high shelf as though she's an employee.
Well, come on.
I mean, this is just, this is, it's outrageous.
And in Cuba, you have these poor people.
And I'm not kidding, it's squalor down there for the vast majority of the people of Cuba, but they can trade with anybody in the world.
Why isn't worldwide trade minus the non-exceptional United States such a big deal?
Now, no, that's the point.
Trade is not the issue.
International economic trade deals are not the reason the Cuban people are in squalor.
They're in squalor because they live under a communist regime.
They live under a socialist communist regime.
It's because of their government.
There is no liberty.
There's no freedom.
There's very little entrepreneurism permitted.
There's very little free speech permitted.
And yet the left in this country wants to run around, and Obama falls into this trap.
I mean, he uses it.
That somehow the lack of economic trade with the U.S. explains the plight of the Cuban people.
That's something Castro says.
Castro has been the biggest advocate of the blockade, the embargo, for the lifetime the thing's been in place.
There have been, ladies and gentlemen, there have been numerous times Bill Clinton wanted to lift the embargo.
There have been numerous times since 1959 when the United States has gotten close to lifting the embargo and Castro always sabotaged it.
One of the most vivid incidents, he shot down a little Cessna 172 that supposedly had violated Cuban airspace.
And there were missionaries, Christian missionaries taking Van Camp pork and beans to Cuba.
And Castro shot him down thinking it was a military spy plane, the U.S.
And of course, that scuttled any further discussion of lifting the embargo.
Now, I know some of you youngsters go, well, why would Castro want a further?
Because it gave him the excuse.
He'd blame the U.S. for the plight of his people.
Could keep his people focused not on him as the problem and not on their government as the problem, but as the evil United States as the problem and their blockade.
Well, anyway, Obama's decided to normalize relations.
There's a prisoner, Alan Gross, released, just touched down back in the United States.
He's working as an independent contractor for U.S. AID, State Department agency, the Agency for International Development.
And he was down there as a subcontractor, an independent contractor, installing internet systems.
I think, if I read this right, for Jewish people in Cuba, it was a secret internet network that was not going to be controlled by the regime, by the Cuban government.
They found out about it and he's been in jail for the what, what, five years.
And Obama just said that, yeah, we've been working with the Cuban government.
Members of my regime and talking to their regime for the past five or six months about negotiations.
And we finally came to, so we're going to release some Cuban terrorists.
We're going to really, we got Cuban, it's a prison release program.
There's three Cuban terrorists that we're going to release back to Cuba.
They're pro-Castro guys.
And we're going to send them back in exchange for Alan Gross.
And then we're going to relax trade and travel restrictions.
And I know to a lot of people, and don't doubt me on this, the only thing about that that matters to them is this cigar business.
That's the only thing that matters.
I'm telling you, and what?
And what?
Sugar?
What else?
Sugar?
Rum?
Okay, fine.
Coffee?
Yeah, all that's good.
Cuban, look at God-made Cuban soil.
Some of the most fertile on the planet.
Not even the communists have been able to screw it up.
90 minutes away.
I've got a lot of cigar buddies.
And to them, the United States is exceptional.
And they've never understood why.
The United States is the one place on earth that you can't buy the best of something.
It gives it, in their opinion, Cuban tobacco is the, there's only, Cuba's the only place you grow all three types of tobacco needed for a cigar, the binder, the wrapper, and the filler.
But the fuentes in the Dominican Republic have actually made that not true.
Now, the Fuentes have a great cigar called the Opus X. Might look like Opus 10 to those of you in Rio Linda.
And it's the first place outside of Cuba that on the same plantation, the same place, all three types of tobacco were grown.
The binder, the wrapper, the filler.
Most of the wrapper, Connecticut wrapper, there's Cameroon wrapper, Nicaraguan wrapper, but the Cuban soil is just what it is.
And the cigars are really good when the Soviets were underwriting Cuba five, what, billion dollars a year.
The Soviets crashed, and a lot of the Soviet economy went with it.
So Obama says, let us leave behind the legacy of colonization and communism.
Let us leave behind the legacy of colonization and communism.
What do you mean?
Leave behind?
He's accusing us of this.
What we obviously, you know, Dinesh D'Souza got arguably thrown in jail for arguing that Obama is an anti-colonialist and hates Britain, Britain in the U.S. because we're he just said it.
We must leave colonization and communism behind.
In that equation, we are the colonization.
We run around, we colonize, conquer other countries, and they're the communists.
So now we've got to leave both of those behind, and it's going to be a magical, magical new day.
Okay.
What is it?
Official program observer with a question.
What's the question?
Well, Club Gitmo is a U.S. military installation.
I don't think this has anything to do with getting into Club Gitmo any easier.
I mean, as a tourist, I still think you have to engage in terror activity to get into Club Gitmo.
I don't think that's going to be opened up as a place that you can go simply in a trade mission.
Oh, you still get the stuff.
Club Gitmo gear at the EIB store at RushlandBoat.com.
Clearly, still available.
It's timeless, timeless stuff.
Now, here's the stuff about the cigars, just because I know people, after all these years, a lot of people, that's all they're going to care about.
Or some people, the rum, some people, the sugar.
Let me read you the relevant paragraph here in an AP story.
Here we go.
Among the expected changes as a result of the improvement in U.S.-Cuba relations is that licensed American travelers to Cuba will now be able to return to the U.S. with $400 in Cuban goods, including tobacco and alcohol products worth less than $100 combined.
This means the long-standing ban on importing Cuban cigars is over.
Although there are still limits, according to U.S. officials who spoke on condition of anonymity ahead of the official White House announcement.
Those limits aren't going to last long at all.
But what's going to happen with the importation of Cuban cigars is going to be a mess.
And if you care to understand why, I'll explain that to you.
But it's not going to just be as simple as your local cigar store is going to all of a sudden have Cohibas.
Because you've had a lot of American companies and Dominican companies who have spent millions of dollars developing brands, and they're not just going to sit idly by while products under the same trademark are brought in and sold in competition.
My guess is that the domestic cigar manufacturers are going to go to the State Department and they're going to make a, all this understandable.
They'll go to the State Department and they'll say, hey, look, we want first dibs on Cuban tobacco and we want raw tobacco and we want to blend it with our stuff.
We don't want Cuban product on the shelves.
They will make a big deal.
I don't know how successful they will be, but I know that was the plan 10 years ago when everybody expected Castro to have assumed room temperature by then, but he hasn't.
So the scheme could have changed since the last I heard about it.
But at any rate, the sanctions, the blockade, the embargo is on the way to being relaxed.
Okay, now, going to take a break, but let me set up what's coming since Obama has finished with the announcement that we're propping up yet another dictatorship in this hemisphere.
Yesterday I reacted to the news, Jeb Bush had decided to seek an exploratory committee examination of whether I should run for the presidency, the Republican nomination 2016.
My reaction to this, and you heard it on this program, and there was nothing, there was nothing extreme about it, nothing erratic about it, nothing fanatical about it.
It was delivered in reasoned conversational tone and tenor.
And yet the CBS Evening News Limbaugh fumed over Jeb Bush, Mark Halperin and John Heiliman.
Limbaugh up in arms over Jeb Bush.
And then they claim that Republican elites are delighted to see Jeb attacked by me because that means Jeb's an instant shoe-in.
That sounds like what the Democrats say, but this is being attributed to Republican elite.
I can remember when that long ago I was an honorary member of the freshman class.
And now I'm enemy number one.
Anyway, folks, I've got the perfect ticket.
I have the perfect presidential ticket for 2016.
And before this hour is over, you will know what it is.
I just was just asked a question.
Ladies and gentlemen, does this mean that you can now go to Canada and buy a Cuban cigar and bring it back home?
I don't think it means that yet.
We are still here trying to figure out what happened.
And by the way, I need to remind you all of something.
This is chump change compared to what's going to happen the next two years.
I have warned all of you people, I have warned you that these last two years of the Obama administration are going to actually be what he would have done if he'd had total control and not have to worry about the Constitution the first two years.
You better look out because today is just a smidgen exam, all these memos, executive orders, rewriting, overwriting, ignoring the U.S. Constitution.
Wait till we sell Iran a nuclear bomb.
Wait till something like that happens.
You haven't seen anything yet.
This Cuban thing, this is a chump change.
Yes, yes, yes, I'm joking, but I'm trying to illustrate a point by using excessive exaggeration.
You haven't seen anything yet.
This is just the beginning.
This is just a teaser, an appetizer for what is on tap the next two.
Everything Obama thinks this country's guilty of and needs to apologize for, he's going to take care of.
Cuban embargo, our fault shouldn't have happened.
We've devastated the Cuban people.
It never made any sense.
It's a relic, and it comes from a part of the American past which is not honorable, all that kind of stuff.
Get this, you may not know this yet.
The regime has made an official move.
Are you ready for this?
The Obama admit, the DOJ is actually beginning the process of eliminating police officer shootings from grand jury proceedings.
In other words, police officers will no longer benefit from the equality clauses in the U.S. Constitution.
In other words, if there is another police shooting, the local prosecutors will not be able to slough it off to a grand jury.
Grand juries will not be permitted to handle those.
They'll be held directly by the DA or the state attorney or whoever else.
That's a denial of equal access laws in the regime.
Just going to do it.
I could probably announce it with a memo.
And nobody's making any move to stop Obama on this.
Now, in the cigar business, I think right now, you can only bring the cigars, the tobacco products back from Cuba.
I don't think it means you can buy them yet in Canada or the UK.
If you want to be the guinea pig to try it, have had it.
Find out if we're right about this.
But it won't be long, folks.
Be patient.
So I checked the email during the break, as I always did.
Rush, where did you see that story on Obama and the grand juries and the cops?
It's at thehill.com.
Here's the headline.
A White House Task Force to Review Grand Jury's Handling of Police Killings.
A White House panel is examining whether grand juries are the best way to review the use of deadly force by cops in the aftermath of controversial decisions not to indict police officers who killed unarmed black men.
Philadelphia Police Chief Charles Ramsey is co-chairing the panel, and he told NPR on Tuesday: one of the things that we'll be looking at as a task force is independent review of these kind of cases.
And how should that take place?
Grand jury, for example, the proper way of doing it with the DA's involvement and that so forth.
So it's this White House panel, handpicked by Obama, wants to take away police shooting cases from grand juries.
So what happens to equal protection under the law?
Aren't cops American citizens?
Aren't they almost on the same level as illegal aliens?
So why deny them equal protection under the law by denying them the ability for their cases to be heard by a grand jury?
But that's not all.
The White House panel also wants to force local cops to undergo training.
This same White House panel that wants to take away police shooting cases from grand juries is demanding that local cops undergo training.
They admit, the task force admits that they can't tell cops, police departments, what to do, but they, in effect, say that they can threaten to withhold federal money from police departments to make the states and counties do their bidding, which is exactly what the federal government's done to get control of education, if you must know.
The way the feds control curricula is to deny federal funds, school lunch program, or to threaten to, and therefore they get their fingers in the curriculum on education, which is a state and local province.
So, I'm telling you, folks, these next two years, you're going to see things like this pop up all over the place.
And it's going to be machine gun-type cadence, rat-tat-tat.
They're going to be one after another.
And every social injustice that Obama and the left think is occurring in this country, they are going to address it and fix it with the implementation of a Linsky-type left liberalism with the stroke of a pen.
And it's all going to happen, be predicated on the notion the U.S., in the way it was founded, was unjust and immoral, unfair, unequal.
And finally, after 200, some odd years, finally, somebody's going to come along and get it right.
And it's going to be frequent, and you're going to feel overwhelmed, and you're going to be looking to the Republicans in Washington to stop it, and they're not going to have the slightest idea themselves what's happening.
You're going to look in vain at our nation's capital, hoping somebody there would stand up to stop this.
And those who do, such as the Ted Cruzes and the Rand Pauls and the Mike Lees, those who do stand up and try to stop whatever happens, are going to come under assault and attack as kooks and freaks and maniacs and uncooperative and all the other the way the game is now being played.
I have Obama's soundbites of Obama's announcing of the changes here in our relations with Cuba.
And I'll get to that in due course.
You pretty much know it all.
The only thing you haven't heard is, perhaps heard, is Obama in his own words.
Let's now get to the hubbub, if you will, that occurred in the drive-by media in a reaction to my reaction to Jeb Bush saying yesterday that he was going to form an exploratory committee.
We'll first start with the CBS Evening News.
Scott Pelley is the anchor, but the soundbite doesn't feature Pelle.
I guess he handed it off or passed it off to reporter Nancy Cordis.
And this is her report about Jeb announcing that he is formally exploring a run for the presidency.
It was no surprise when the knives came out today from both sides.
On the right, Rush Limbaugh fumed about Bush's moderate positions on immigration and education.
He's not going to pander to the Tea Party.
Nope.
He's not going to pander to conservatives.
He's going to show that you can win the Republican Party nomination without securing the base.
Stop.
Sources tell us.
What's the tape?
Did I fume?
Did I say anything about education there?
Did I say anything about the immigration there?
Let me review what they quote me here as saying, audio soundbite.
I did say this.
I mean, it was me.
He's not going to pander to the Tea Party.
Nope.
He's not going to pander to conservatives.
He's going to show you can win the nomination without securing the base.
That was fuming.
That was a rap rip.
That was nothing.
It was factual.
I'm simply repeating what Jeb himself has been telling these people at the CEO conference he attended, put on the Wall Street Journal.
I'm just quoting Jeb.
I'm not fuming.
I'm fuming now.
But I wasn't fuming yesterday.
This is fuming.
Yeah, also, knives had come out.
Exactly right.
The knives had come out.
I don't have a knife here, verbal or otherwise.
But that's not, go to the next soundbite.
That's not the, let's see.
Yeah, go ahead and play.
Never mind.
Don't need her clothes.
Go to Soundbite 2.
There's a new show now.
Not the CBS News.
This comes from Bloomberg TVs, which means nobody saw it.
With all due respect, co-host John Heileman, who co-hosts the show with his buddy Mark Halperin.
And here is their take, essentially, that I, El Rushbo, was up in arms over Jeb's announcement.
Rush Limbaugh, here's an edited version of his hot take today.
Jeb Bush is out telling donors, potential donors, CEOs, and the like, that he's not.
He is not going to compromise his principles like others have in order to get the nomination.
Meaning, he's not going to pander to the Tea Party.
Nope.
He's not going to pander to conservatives.
He's going to show that you can win the Republican Party nomination without securing the base.
Their wildest dream is to render the Tea Party conservatives an irrelevant factor.
Okay.
Were I up in arms there?
Was I fuming?
Was I angry?
It seems, once again, pretty damn right on factual to me.
But I don't know how you get up in arms.
Now, I know the point here is, folks, what is happening?
I find this, and you'll hear it in the next soundbite.
What's happening here?
You know how the Democrats use me to fundraise?
And the Democrats misappropriate all kinds of things to me, but I never say just to tick off their own base.
There is a belief out there that you, as a public figure, a candidate, or a politician, you can achieve credibility by having Rush Limbaugh disagree with you because the theory goes Rush Limbaugh is so hated, Rush Limbaugh is so reviled, Rush Limbaugh so yuck, that when Limbaugh attacks you, it's the best thing can happen to you.
Well, the change is the Republicans are starting to say this now, as you will hear in the next bite.
And this is Heileman continuing, and Halperin will have a voice in this one too.
We've got an exploratory committee here.
We've got Rush up in arms.
This was Jeb's first move.
What are his next moves?
The Rush Limbaugh thing.
Most people who are thinking of supporting Jeb Bush in the elite class are delighted to see him attacked by Rush Limbaugh.
Yeah, it's delighted.
So the elites, okay, who are the elites?
That would mean the money men, the chamber, big donors, the Republican consultants, maybe the Republican congressional leadership.
They're just happy as can be.
And I didn't even attack.
I didn't attack.
All I'm doing is reacting, which is what I always do.
React to what Jeb said, and I merely added meaning to what he was saying.
Because he is speaking in circles.
He's not going to come out and say that he's going to win this nomination despite the Tea Party.
I am telling people what he means by virtue of what he's saying.
And for this, I'm in fumes.
I'm up in arms.
And now they want you to believe that the Republican elite couldn't be happier.
The best thing for Jeb Bush is for Rush Limbaugh to be up in arms.
It wasn't that long ago I was a featured frequent guest at Republican White Houses.
It wasn't that long ago that I was honorary member of the freshman class.
It wasn't that long ago that I was the titular head of the Republican Party.
2009, going into 2010, I was prominent, important.
One day I was an entertainer.
The next day I was the leader.
You know, we have a ban on MSNBC, but Chris Matthews got even under this at MSNBC last.
You know what his theory is?
His theory is that I want the Republicans to lose.
So that there will, yeah, yeah, his theory is that I'm running a conspiracy theory, that I'm actually doing things to engineer Republican defeats because I want Democrats in the White House to further my ratings, that I can only succeed if I've got something to complain about.
And I can't complain with Republicans in there.
So I want Democrats to win.
So in other words, Chris Matthews is telling his guests that I am lying.
Everything I tell you all that I deeply care about and deeply want for America, for our country, for our people, I'm lying to you.
No, I don't want any of that.
I want the country to continue to plummet into the deepest, darkest, dankest depths of despair.
I don't care because all I care about is my ratings.
And according to that idiot, the only way I can get ratings is if there are Democrats in the White House that I can attack.
So here you have three different examples of the drive-by media all on the same page in this opera opera.
CBS, this Bloomberg thing with Heileman and what's his name, Halperin, and then the lunatic over at MSNBC.
And no matter where you go, Democrat media, Republican media, the biggest badge of honor in America today, the biggest sign that you're doing something right, the biggest success event in your life is to have me up in arms or fuming over you.
My parents, folks, my parents would not believe my life.
They would not believe.
Okay.
Brief timeout.
It's time now to get to what I think would be an ideal presidential ticket for 2016.
I'll explain who and why when we get back.
Amberbach, Rush Limbaugh at the cutting edge of societal evolution.
Ladies and gentlemen, I have made a decision.
I am going to delay this announcement.
I don't mean to make it a bigger deal than it is, but I'm looking at the clock and all the embellishments that I want to engage in here.
I really don't have as much time as I wanted.
And there's a couple, there's just a couple of things I need to check first before I everything here, as you know, is great care is taken to make sure it's as factually correct as possible.
So I'm not engaging in a tease.
I'm just being straight up and honest with you, as Chris Matthews would say, doing it for ratings.
But I'm just going to shift my suggestion of the perfect ticket to the top of the next hour.
Let's go.
No, I just need to check a couple things, and I want to give myself an unlimited time to embellish it, give you the reasons for it, so forth.
And there's going to be a reaction to it as well in the midst of my explanation.
So let's grab a phone call here quick and steadily because we've got a guy on Jeb anyway.
Here's Jim in Detroit.
Jim, great to have you on the EIB network.
Sir, you're up first today.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
Jeb plans to win the primary the same way Lindsey Graham did by dividing the conservative vote.
He's going to have a bunch of people cut each other's throat.
Okay, wait, wait, wait.
You're the second guy who said this.
We had a call yesterday who said that this is how Romney did it, that had a bunch of conservatives seeking a nomination and they split the vote.
How is Jeb in charge of who else seeks the nomination?
He's irrelevant because he has more money.
He is that arrogant that he has a war chest that he could outspend them all and he'll fund phony people like a phony person to suck away conservative votes.
Okay, okay.
So your theory is, let's just complete the theory.
Jeb hears that Romney is serious.
Jeb says, uh-oh, if Romney gets in, that's going to suck up all the money.
I've got to get in now if I have a chance at the money.
Then he gets in and uses all the connections and all the family.
He just hoovers up all the money.
So there's none left for Rick Perry.
There's none left for Ted Cruz.
So those guys don't even bother to get in because they don't have any money.
Marco Rubio doesn't get in because he doesn't have any money because Jeb is hoovering it all up.
Is that what you mean?
No, that's not what I mean.
He doesn't care if there's a Romney.
He thinks that he has a lock.
He thinks that he has.
No, but he does care if there's a Romney.
I think Romney getting serious is why Jeb made the move today, yesterday.
But then if I'm wrong and my theory is announced to you, then you must be talking about he wants as many conservative candidates as possible.
No, no, he wants like a Ken Cuccinelli, how they ran a false conservative.
They ran a false libertarian to suck away the anti-vote, the anti-liberal Republican vote.
That's why he divided the Cuccinelli vote.
That's why we need a multiple-choice voting ballot where you could have a first choice, second choice, and a third choice.
Well, that's not going to happen.
Why not?
Why can't it?
Even if it did, it's not going to get changed in time for 2016.
There's never going to be multiple choice.
But you've got to look at the long-term picture.
That way we don't get liberal Republicans.
We can have a Romney as our last choice.
But the fact that it isn't going to happen.
Look, I hate this.
I'm going to sound mean.
I don't mean to sound mean.
I'm the mayor of Realville.
The fact that it isn't going to happen makes everything else irrelevant other than an interesting talking point.
But if this all hinges on multiple choice ballots, it may be ideal.
It may be perfect, it may be that's the way we ultimately get rid of the libs, but that's going to require so many constitutional amendments and we don't have anybody to act like Obama just change it with his signature.
I'm convinced Jeb got in because of Romney.
I'm convinced that Romney, the news that Romney's seriously thinking about it, I mean, those two guys are going after the same pool of donor money.
I mean, there are Republican fat cats out there, and they're going to spend their money, but you start divvying them up.
So I think, I don't think that that's the sole reason.
I think that might be a factor in Jeb's timing in announcing his exploratory committee, the fact that Romney may be, because it's not a race for votes.
As Jeb has made clear, it's not a race for votes, particularly Tea Party votes.
Right now, it's a race for money.
The donor class folks running the show here, both parties, which is a pretty good hint of my perfect ticket.
Yeah, I saw that Lindsey Graham is thinking of one of these running and looking in 2016 Republican president.
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