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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 you can go to Cuba and bring back cigars now.
You can go what 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 1230 or so.
But since his uh 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.
Uh Obama made sure to be on time so that his announcement coincided with the beginning of his program, and that's a problem, folks.
It's a big problem because I have a big announcement today.
I 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 uh while Obama's out there propping up another dictatorship, the uh the Castro brothers.
Uh because I don't know how many uh EIB affiliates are covering it, you know.
We're not gonna jip it, we're not gonna join it.
I mean, it's he's announcing he's lifting the not actually lifting the embargo.
A normalization of trade um with uh with Cuba.
But look, parts of this make sense, parts of it don't.
I mean, you can there there are reasonable arguments on on both sides of this uh in the normalizing uh relations with Cuba.
But what the the one of the things that's inescapable that's gonna happen here is that the Cuban government's gonna remain a communist government under the tight fist of control of the Castro brothers and uh whoever is in power in that regime, and we're gonna be propping it up.
We uh we we are going to be essentially providing financial aid.
We've had this blockade, that's what Castro called it, since uh JFK 1959, and it's actually been an economic embargo, and the 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 uh United Arab Emirates, they trade with Canada, they trade with the Chicoms.
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 have 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.
Uh well, not all Cubans got the rice cookers, and not all Cubans are poor.
But the Castro doing all right, but but but the general population, come on, the general population, it is it is a third or fourth world country uh 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 uh people of color there that that you might did you hear what Michelle Obama You know, these two are just I'm telling you.
Yes, yes, yeah, you know Obama, somebody mistook him for a valet.
What the hell's wrong with valets?
What in the hell's 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 the 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 the 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 not trap, I mean he uses it, that somehow the lack of uh 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 one of the most vivid incidents, he shot down a little Cessna 172 that supposedly had violated Cuban airspace.
And there were there were missionaries, Christian missionaries taking uh 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 are, well, why would Castro want to further the because it gave him the excuse.
He could blame the U.S. for the plight of his people.
Can keep his people focused not on him as the problem, and not on their government as the problem, but as the evil United States is 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 was 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 uh Obama just said that, yeah, we've been working with the Cuban uh government, uh, 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 gonna release some Cuban terrorists.
We're gonna really we got Cuban, it's a prisoner release program.
There's three Cuban terrorists that we're gonna release back to Cuba.
Uh they're pro-Castro guys.
And we're gonna we're gonna send them back in exchange for Alan Gross, and then we're gonna relax uh 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 I'm telling you, and what?
And what?
Sugar?
You without sugar, rum?
Okay, fine.
Coffee, yeah, all it's good.
The Cuban, look at there's some God made Cuban soil, some of the most fertile on the planet, not even the communists have been able to screw it up.
Ninety minutes away, but I I tell you, I've 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 isn't 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 where 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 uh Cameroon wrapper, Nicaraguan wrapper, but the Cuban soil is just what it is.
And the uh 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 uh 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?
Is he accusing us of this?
What we are obviously you know, Dinesh D'Souza got arguably thrown in jail first for for arguing that that Obama uh is an anti-colonialist and hates Britain, Britain and 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 gonna be a magical, magical new day.
Okay.
What is it, official program observer with a question.
What's the question?
Uh 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.
You 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 uh as a place that uh you can go simply and trade trade mission.
You oh, you still get the stuff, a club gitmo gear at the EIB store at Rushlinbo.com.
Clearly uh still a bit 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 gonna care about, or some people the rum.
Uh some people uh the 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 gonna last long at all.
Um but what's going to happen with the importation of Cuban cigars is gonna be a mess.
And if you care to understand why why, I'll explain that to you.
But it's not gonna just be as simple as your local cigar store is gonna all of a sudden have cohibes.
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 gonna sit idly by while products under the same trademark are brought in and sold in competition.
I my guess is that the domestic cigar manufacturers are gonna go to the State Department and they're gonna make a well, 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 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 I'm gonna 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, and 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 Halpern and John Heilovan.
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 I 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.
By the way, I need to remind you all of something.
This is 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 smidge and example.
All these memos, executive orders, rewriting, overriding, 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 years.
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 we've.
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 is has made an official move.
Are you ready for this?
The Obama admin, 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 have 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 or if you want to be the guinea pig to try it, uh, have at 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, and Rush, where do you see that story on Obama and the grand juries and cops?
It's at the Hill.com.
Here's the headline 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?
With the DA's involvement and that so forth.
So it's this White House panel, hand picked 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 to school lunch program, or to threaten to, and therefore they get their fingers in the curriculum on education, which is the state and local uh province.
So I'm telling you, folks, these next two years, you're gonna see things like this pop up all over the place.
And it's gonna be machine gun type cadence, rat tat tat, they're gonna 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 gonna happen, be predicated on the notion the U.S. in a way it was founded was unjust and immoral, unfair, unequal, and finally, after 200 some odd, finally somebody gonna come along and get it right.
And it's gonna be frequent, and you're gonna feel overwhelmed, and you're gonna be looking to the Republicans in Washington to stop it, and they're not gonna have the slightest idea themselves what's happening.
You're gonna 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 Paul's Nike 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 uh Obama's of sound bites 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 uh perhaps heard is uh Obama in his own words.
Let's now get to the uh the uh 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.
I guess he handed it off or pass it off to reporter Nancy Cortis.
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 gonna pander to the Tea Party.
Nope.
He's not gonna pander to conservatives.
He's gonna show that you can win the Republican Party nomination without securing the base.
Stop sources tell us.
Did I fume?
Did I say anything about education there?
Did I say anything about uh uh this the uh uh immigration there?
Let me let me review what they quote me here as saying.
Audio soundbite.
I did say this.
I mean, it was me.
He's not gonna pander to the Tea Party, nope, you're not gonna pander to conservatives.
He's gonna show you can win the nomination without securing the base.
That was fuming.
That was that was that was rap rip.
That was nothing 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 filming now.
But I wasn't fuming yesterday.
This is fuming.
Yeah, yes, also knives had come out.
Exactly right.
The knives have come out.
I don't have a knife here, verbal or otherwise.
But that's not go to the next soundbite.
That's that's not the uh let's see, uh uh Yeah, go ahead and put never mind, don't need her clothes.
Go to Soundbite 2.
There's a new show now.
Uh not the CBS News.
This comes from Bloomberg TV's, which means nobody saw it.
With all due respect, co-host John Heilmann, uh, who co-host the show with his buddy Mark uh Mark Mark Mark Halperin.
And here is their take, uh, essentially that I, Il 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 gonna compromise his principles like others have in order to get the nomination.
Meaning he's not gonna pander to the Tea Party.
Nope.
He's not gonna pander to conservatives.
He's gonna 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.
Whereas 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 what 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 you know, 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 uh a public figure, a candidate or a politician, you can achieve credibility by having Rush Limbaugh disagree with you because the theory goes Rush Limboy is so hated, Rush Limboy's so reviled, Rush Limbaugh so yuck that when Limbo 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 uh Heileman continuing, and Halpern will have a voice in this one too.
We've got an exploratory committee here.
We've got Rush up in arms.
Uh, 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?
Well, that would mean the money men, the chamber, uh, big donors, the Republican consultants, uh, maybe the Republican congressional leadership.
They're just happy as can be, because.
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 uh prominent, uh.
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 M SNBC 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 he 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'm not, I can't complain with Republicans in there.
So I want Democrats to win.
So, in other words, Chris Matthews is telling his guest 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 uh Bloomberg thing with Heileman and and uh what's his name, Halpern, and then the uh and 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 time out.
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.
Amber back, Rush Limbaugh at the cutting edge of societal evolution.
Ladies and gentlemen, I have made a decision.
I am going to delay this announce.
I don't mean to make it a bigger deal than it is.
Uh, but uh 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, they're just a couple of things I need to check first.
Uh be f before I everything here, as you know, is uh great care is taken to make sure it's as factually correct as possible.
So I'm 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 gonna I'm gonna shift the uh 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 I want to give myself an unlimited uh time to embellish it, give you the reasons for it, so forth.
Um there's gonna be a reaction to it as well, in the midst of uh my explanation.
So let's uh no, let's grab a phone call here quick and steadily, because we got a guy on Jeb anyway.
Here's 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 gonna have a bunch of people cut each other's throat and Okay, wait wait, wait a second.
I've heard you're the second guy who 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?
I mean irrelevant because he has more money.
He is that arrogant that he has a war chest that he could outspend them all and and he'll run phony people like a phony person to suck away conservative.
Okay, okay.
So your theory is let's just let's complete the theory.
Jeb hears that Romney is serious.
Jeb says, uh-oh, if Romney gets in, that's gonna suck up all the money.
I gotta get in now if I have a chance of the money.
Then he gets in and uses all the connections and all the family today.
He's he just hoovers up all the money.
So there's none left for Rick Perry.
There's none left for Ted Cruz.
There's none that 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 he doesn't care if there's a Romney.
He thinks that he has a lock.
He thinks that he No, but he does care if there's a Romney.
I think Romney getting serious is why Jeb made the move today yesterday.
But but can i then if I'm wrong on 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 Cucinelli, 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 Cucinelli 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 gonna happen.
Why not?
Why can't it?
Even if it did, it'd not gonna get changed in time for 2016.
There's never gonna be multiple choice.
But you gotta look at the long-term picture.
That way we don't get liberal Republicans.
We can do a we could have a Romney as our last choice.
But the fact that it isn't gonna happen.
I look, I hate this I'm gonna sound mean.
I don't mean to sound mean.
I'm the mayor of Realville.
The fact that it isn't gonna happen makes everything else irrelevant, other than an interesting talking point.
But if this is all hinges on multiple choice, ballots.
Uh it may be ideal.
It may be perfect.
It may be that's the way we ultimately get rid of the libs, but it isn't gonna that that's gonna 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 c and I'm convinced that Romney the the 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 gonna spend their money, but you 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 uh he's thinking of uh what he's he think of running.
Looking in uh uh twenty sixteen Republican president.
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