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Aug. 25, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 25, 2015, Tuesday, Hour #3
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We've been talking about the question we've really been considering throughout this show is what is the Republican Party for?
I know what the Democrat Party is for, because if you happen to believe in gay marriage, if you happen to believe in transgender rights, if you happen to believe in open borders, if you happen to believe in letting people who are not citizens vote and have driver's licenses,
if you happen to be opposed to private health care, if you happen to be opposed to prosecuting foreign wars effectively, then the Democrat Party delivers to you the world you want to live in very efficiently, which is why, as annoyed as they are, because they'd like even more, Democrats can look back over Obama's two terms and look at things that they have got that they wouldn't otherwise have gotten.
And as I said yesterday, Republicans controlled Washington, certainly for the first six years of the new century.
And in fact, they held the presidency for another two years after that.
And what did Republicans get for that?
What did conservatives get for that?
They got a tax cut that expired after 10 years.
They got one temporary tax cut.
And it's hard for conservatives to listen to the reality of the truth about the ineffectiveness of the Republican Party.
But in a two-party system where one party is effective and the other is ineffective.
And again, I stress I'm speaking at the national level because you have victories, as we were talking about in Washington State just half an hour ago.
You have different approaches at the state level.
But at the national level, the Republican Party is entirely ineffective.
And you can talk about, but when people say, oh, yeah, you're going on about the way Planned Parenthood is shipping babyheads around the country.
That's that icky social conservatism we don't want to talk about.
Or you're going on about gay marriage.
That's that's social conservatism too.
It's over.
We lost.
Get over it.
Move on.
Or you're going on about Hispanics.
Well, we lost that one too.
So now Hispanics are the critical vote in half the country.
So we've got to outreach to Hispanics who are here illegally and persuade them to like us too.
So okay, that's all on the icky social conservative front.
And you guys are fiscal conservatives.
And you guys are fiscal conservatives.
Okay, what have you done for me lately on that?
This country is the highest corporate tax rate in the developed world.
There's corporate taxes that are twice what they are in Canada.
Everybody thinks Canada is a socialist basket case down here.
Its corporate tax rates are half what Americas are.
In Ireland, they're a third of what Americas are.
So, okay, you can't do anything about shipping babyheads around the country.
And you can't do anything about amnesty.
But you're fiscal conservatives.
What's fiscally conservative about the highest corporate tax rates in the world?
Why couldn't you do anything about that?
Why couldn't you do anything about that?
We're told all the time that the reason why the business class, the donor class, the Chamber of Commerce class, the Wall Street class, loathes Donald Trump and Ted Cruz and even Jeb Bush and people who want to talk about immigration is because they want to have their nice cheap Mexican pool boys.
You know something?
Maybe you could afford to pay a Mexican pool boy a living wage if the corporate tax rates were what they are in Canada or what they are in Ireland.
So you wouldn't need to, as a big corporate titan, you wouldn't need to have illegal pool boys if the corporate tax rates were within the realm of sanity.
But no, even that cannot be delivered.
So if you are a Republican, loyal Republican Party foot soldier and you don't want to hear about Donald Trump and you don't want him disrupting your nice cozy little presidential nominating process, then call me, 1-800-282-2882.
We've been trying to get hold of this consultant guy, the one who tweeted Ann Coulter that she's a prostitute and whether she charged Donald Trump extra to perform certain sex acts, because that's the kind of genius line you need a highly paid professional consultant for.
And we can't get hold of him.
We'd said, send us your number, send us your email, and this Rick Wilson guy doesn't want to know.
So if you are another GOP consultant and you've worked on one of the classic Republican campaigns of recent years, if you've worked on the McCain campaign, if you've worked on the Bob Dole campaign, then call us up and tell me, okay, you're not interested in the social conservatism.
They're just whack job Christian evangelicals and you're not interested in hearing about their crazy notions about God and morality.
You're just in it for the money.
Well, why are you so lousy at the fiscal conservatism, too?
What have we got to show for that?
What have we got to show for that?
We have had $10 trillion spent that we don't have.
No one's ever done that in the history of the planet.
Since dinosaurs walked the earth, no one has ever spent $10 trillion and had nothing to show for it.
When the big government types spend money in other countries, they have something to show for it.
When the Swedes and the Danes do it, they have this fabulous bridge, the Orison Bridge, that connects one country to another country.
So that if you're in Malmo, Sweden, and you've got a plane to catch in Copenhagen, it's quicker to get from Malmo, Sweden to an airport in another country than it is to get from downtown Manhattan to LaGuardia and get on your plane and take off.
So they've got something to show for big government.
The Republicans have stood by as Obama has spent $10 trillion on paperwork, on welfare, and no Golden Gate Bridge and no Hoover Dam, nothing to show for it.
And what have they got to say about it?
They've got no serious efforts to rein it in.
We now have a thing.
Do you know why they don't want to have this shutdown?
I read this story out.
It's the plot of Mission Impossible 17.
House GOP leaders desperate to avoid shutdown.
With the clock ticking, Republicans have yet to settle on a strategy to resolve a showdown over Planned Parenthood funding.
So the story is the same as it is.
It's not about the fact that Republicans object to the chopped-off baby heads being shipped around the country, but they're so upset about it that they want to defund the half billion dollars that you and I give to facilitate the shipping of babyheads around the country.
And Republican leaders, Boehner, John Boehner and his team are working to stop that getting in the bill because it might force a government shutdown that wouldn't make any difference.
Instead, they're saying, leave it to us and we'll hold some hearings.
Like the hearings on Benghazi, which are just going great.
Just going great.
We've now got emails showing that Hillary Clinton discussed the travel plans of Christopher Stevens, Ambassador Christopher Stevens, on an unsecured server.
And a year later, he's dead.
He's gone.
And she's lying over his coffin and blaming it.
She's telling the bereaved.
She's telling the families of those who died at Benghazi, we're going to get that video filmmaker, and we're going to throw the book at him.
And they do.
This guy who had nothing to do with it.
He made some YouTube video nobody saw, and he's in jail still, still, to this day.
And yet Hillary Clinton, who illegally, supposedly, in breach of federal law, has the most confidential business in the United States on a server in this guy's toilet in Colorado to the point where foreign ministers of friendly countries will not email Hillary.
Now, you think about that for a moment.
The British Foreign Secretary will not email Hillary directly because he knows her server is insecure.
So in Paris and in London and in Ottawa and in Berlin, they won't email her because they know her.
So she's out the loop.
So they're not talking to her.
They know it's insecure and America's enemies know it's insecure.
And we now have a situation where it turns out she's talking about Ambassador Stevens' travel plans.
And a year later, his travel plans are so well known that these guys know he's not going to be in Tripoli.
He's going to be in Benghazi.
And they go there and they kill him.
And she's still running for president.
What do you got to say about that?
What's John Boehner?
Why is the Republican intransigence the issue here rather than what the Democrats are doing here?
Now, we have another story here.
He wants us to hold, Boehner wants us to wait and hold hearings on Planned Parenthood because that's going to be as effective as it was on Benghazi.
Or the IRS.
New story from today.
IRS finds yet another Lois Lerner email account.
You know, it doesn't matter.
Nobody cares.
She's doing what Hillary's doing.
The revenue agency of the government is corrupt.
It charges you and assesses you, basically, different amounts according to whether you're ideologically in compliance with the ruling party or you're not in compliance with the ruling party.
So if you're going to have all these cockamamie 501c3s, 501c4s, 501c57s, everyone's got to be treated fairly.
She personally signed off in record quick time on Barack Obama's brother, who was illegally operating a tax-deductible facility to raise money for an arrest area honoring Obama's father in Kenya.
They've got this rest area, the Barack H. Obama Senior Memorial Rest Area.
It's the most luxurious latrine in the Kenyan highway system, supposedly.
It hasn't been built yet.
This guy, Obama's brother, has raised all this money tax-free because he got his 501c47 status in record quick time, personally signed by Lois Lerner.
So if you mail in your application from Nairobi or Mombasa, you get the thumbs up from Lois Lerner personally in four weeks' time.
But if you happen to be mailing it in from Houston or Des Moines or Pocatello, they sit on it for four years because you're a conservative Tea Party group.
The revenue agency of the United States is corrupt and Republicans have stopped talking about it.
And Lois Lerner's gotten away with it.
So again, I put it to you.
Let's discuss this in basics.
I know what the Democrat Party is for, and it does what it does very well.
But what is the Republican Party for?
Mark Stein for Rush, 1-800-282-2882.
Mark Stein in for Rush on America's number one radio show.
Mr. Snurdley has just drawn my attention to very dramatic breaking news.
Lindsey Graham says he will beat Trump's brains out.
Lindsey Graham, appearing on CNN not long ago, had some violent words for Donald Trump Tuesday, saying, if he comes to South Carolina, I'll beat his brains out.
This is what we've been talking about.
The way to do it, if you don't like Donald Trump, you've got to butch up and match him.
And now, this is better than these Republican debate formats.
I say we just scrap the next debate and we just meet in the back alley.
We have Lindsay on one side, we have Donald on the other, and we just have him go at it.
But Lindsey Graham on CNN has threatened to beat Donald Trump's brains out.
Let's go to Mike in Newport Ritchie, Florida.
Mike, great to have you with us on the Rush Limbaugh show.
Thanks for waiting.
Well, thank you.
It's really worth you, Mark.
By the way, my Canadian wife, I'm down in Florida, but my Canadian wife is still searching for that 24-7 curling channel on cable you talked about about five years ago.
You can't get it.
You can't get it down here.
I tell you what, I tell you what.
Next time I'm north of the border, you send me a 1,000-mile Ethernet cable, and I'll string it down across the border.
And under the Canadian border wall, when that goes up, I'll run it under the wall and down to Florida for you.
And you can get the 24-7 curling channel.
Because you won't be listening to Russia.
Once you get the 24-7 curling channel, you'll never listen to Rush again.
That is just must-have.
Mark, the reason I called, years ago, I was a subcontractor for Trump.
And when he did the Taj Mahal resort casino in Atlantic City, and he pulled the plug on the project I was built.
I was working on a helicopter he was getting.
And what people don't understand about Trump, and this is why people are appealing to him, yes, he's not conservative in a lot of issues, but Trump is perceived as a leader.
And we're in a time where so many people, like myself, we perceive that we are in a crisis, in a crisis.
You don't want a manager.
You don't want a Devil Chamberlain.
You want a Winston Churchill.
Want a leadership that adopts the old army philosophy that I was in is lead follower or get the hell out of the way.
When Trump pulled the plug on this project at Taj Mahal, he owed me $85,000.
I had a 22-man company here next to a hamburger joint here in Dunedin, Florida.
I sent him a FedEx letter personally on a Tuesday to sell him.
All I knew about him was what I saw on television, but he was an honorable man, and he would do the honorable thing.
Trump holds people accountable.
And what scares the daylights out of the political parties, if he's president, Hillary Clinton will not get a pardon.
He does not work that way.
He does not show partiality to poor or the rich.
So I sent this letter.
I said, you're an honorable guy.
You asked me to do this.
You signed the contract.
You signed it.
I did it.
Plus, and I did not charge you.
That was on a Tuesday.
And Thursday, I got a FedEx envelope with nothing in it but an envelope with a check in it.
Nothing else.
And it was a personal check from Trump signed by himself in his blue felt tip pen for $85,000.
Who would do that?
But I appealed to his sense of honor, and he did it.
When I watched the debate there with Fox, I mean, who would trust the Republican Party?
The do-nothing party.
I wouldn't trust them as far as I could throw them.
And that's what Trump was saying.
When you look across that board, there's a lot of guys there that are really good men, Dr. Ben Carson.
But we want a leader.
He doesn't give a rat's behind about what George Will and Charles Krauthammer and Megan Kelly, all of them think.
If George Will were to invite him to a dinner party, Trump, unless there's something that he's offering, Trump would probably not even show up.
He renders these guys irrelevant.
And that's why behind their discussion of his policies, what's behind it is personal vitriol because they're insulted.
They're part of that elite.
He insults them by not acknowledging their nobility status.
Well, he's saying everybody's attracted to him, his leadership characteristic.
Yeah, I think that's actually a very good point, Mike.
You said nobody's looking for a manager, and you get the impression, and this is a classic sign of great powers in decline.
You get the impression from too many Republicans that they see their job as to manage decline as gracefully as it can be done, which is a classic symptom of great powers in decline.
There's nothing you can do about it.
You just manage it.
And Trump, Trump, through all his life, has never been, whatever you say about him, that's never been his model.
He wants the next big thing.
He wants the next big hit.
He wants the best resort, the biggest TV show, the newest apartment block.
His whole business model is not about managing decline, but about actually reversing it and coming up with something bigger and better.
And as you say, Mike, people understand that on a visceral level.
So what his actual policy is on healthcare or whatever is of less interest to them than just getting that sense of who he is when he sent you that check for 85 grand.
But thanks, Mike.
As you said, that's and I like Mike's detail there, that it wasn't like a corporate check with one of those stamped signatures on it.
He actually signed the check for 85 grand in his own hand, Donald Trump, because he was a man of honor, at least with Mike down in Florida.
Thanks for your call.
We'll take more of your calls straight ahead.
Mark Stein in for Rush on the Golden EIB microphone.
Do not forget that Rush returns live tomorrow.
Yes, America's Anchorman returns live tomorrow.
But in the meantime, this is your EIB anchor baby sitting in and honored to be here.
It's not just Ashley Madison, the big, I think that's a heterosexual meeting site.
And I think statistically, judging from the number of names they have in their database, statistically, at least five of the 17 Republican candidates must be in there, judging from the numbers of guys they got on that.
But Rentboy.com, which is apparently the largest provider of male escorts in the United States, largest online male escort services.
U.S. authorities today arrested the CEO and six employees of Rentboy.com, which operates 10,500 men in 2,100 cities.
That's a bigger ground game than, say, Jim Gilmore's presidential campaign.
Pretty impressive.
10,500 men in 2,100 cities.
Rentboy.com, the CEO and six employees were arrested today.
They said they were completely, they provide these young men.
If you're looking for the companionship of young men, they provide them.
And they were stunned to find the U.S. attorney and his agents kicking the door down to arrest them this morning.
They said they just never saw them coming.
That's their final word for the moment.
LifeSight News says Planned Parenthood, according to this new video, Planned Parenthood sells a lot of aborted babies.
The buyer's looking for 50 livers a week.
That's 50 babies that you've got to be able, that have got sufficiently developed that you can get the liver out of.
And I mentioned, again, I mentioned this yesterday.
The abortion regimes in Europe, a first trimester abortion, all the things that liberals and Democrats say, oh, it's not a baby.
It's just a clump of cells.
It's just a zygote.
It's not a human being.
And it is all blurry, clumpy, clumpy, cell-like thing for most of those European abortions, if you're in Sweden, if you're in France, if you're in Italy.
But when you're looking for 50 livers a week and Planned Parenthood can supply you the 50 livers a week, then you're basically in the baby parts business.
Now, Ted Cruz, because I don't want to talk about Donald Trump as if it's Donald Trump versus 16 other guys.
It's more complex than that.
Ted Cruz has played this Trump phenomenon more cannily than the others.
Basically, Trump is going around boasting now that everyone who comes up against him, he crushes like a bug because they're losers.
So like Rand Paul did this big swaggering you want a piece of me thing at the beginning of the Republican debate and Rand Paul's numbers have nosedived into the briny since then.
So it didn't work out for him.
Ted Cruz has sat off to one side on that.
And he regards it in a sense as a roadblock to his own campaign strategy because in a sense he and Trump are going for the same niche in many respects.
Cruz is more friendly according to what mood you catch Trump in.
Cruz has been more friendly to legal immigration.
But Cruz figures that he actually can talk about illegal immigration less offensively than Trump because he himself is an Hispanic.
He's not actually.
He's a Canadian who for various reasons is pretending to be Hispanic or whatever.
But I would probably do the same thing too if I ran for president.
But be that as it may, Ted Cruz is of Hispanic origin and he can talk about these things in a way that is less offensive supposedly than Trump.
But he can't do it right now because Trump's sucking all the oxygen out of the room.
So instead he's ramping up his campaign on an issue that Trump's largely left alone, this Planned Parenthood thing, and he's going and shoring up pastors and the evangelical vote in all 50 states to try and get Planned Parenthood defunded.
And actually he's showing a smarter strategy than a lot of these guys.
You've got to have the issues.
You know, when I was talking about the IRS earlier, I'm not interested in a people say, well, you know, the Democrats walk the walk and the Republicans just talk the talk.
But actually on a lot of stuff, they're not even talking the talk.
You know, who knows?
Well, what is Jeb Bush's position on the IRS, the corrupt IRS?
If you've got a corrupt revenue, the two most things, you can get away with an awful lot of stuff.
But if you've got a corrupt Justice Department and a corrupt revenue agency, you are no longer a respectable nation.
And the fact of the matter is that under this regime, you have a corrupt justice agency and a corrupt revenue agency.
And Republicans don't even want to talk about it.
Ted Cruz, to his credit, is actually one of the guys who does want to talk about some of these stuffs.
Because if you don't even talk about it, you can't move the meter on it.
And you can have arguments about how you should talk about it.
You should use the nice words.
You should use the fluffy bunny words.
You should use the words that don't frighten everybody into thinking you're a big right-wing meanie.
But the reality is that's not even what we're arguing about.
The fact of the matter is that the other party, the Republican Party, the opposition party, doesn't provide any opposition.
When do they talk about it?
When do they even talk about half this stuff?
They don't.
So we're looking at a situation where you can go to Planned Parenthood, which receives half a billion dollars in funding from taxpayers, and you can say, I'd like to buy 50 livers a week.
That's from 50 babies who are developed enough to have livers that you can use for research purposes, supposedly.
They're not really needed any of these livers for research purposes.
But people just like there seem to be a lot of people who just like baby parts, as far as I can tell.
And Planned Parenthood is in a position to supply 50 livers a week.
And Ted Cruz is ramping up his campaign against Planned Parenthood funding.
And he's figured that Trump in a way is a roadblock for him and a lot of other second-tier candidates.
But that if he can work his way around Trump, there's space for him on issues that Trump is leaving alone.
And that's what you have to do.
But I'm not interested.
And again, I put it to you.
What is the Republican Party for?
Because when you have a corrupt revenue agency and Boehner and McConnell just say, oh, we'll hold hearings for another two, three, four, five, twelve, thirty-seven years, but nothing will be done.
No one will go to jail.
Same with Benghazi.
Same with that.
It's not enough.
You've got to be able to move the meter.
And you can only move the meter on where the public is on this stuff by talking about it.
Mike, just before the break, he brought up the fact that we don't need a manager.
We need a leader.
And that was the situation that a lot of countries faced in the 1970s.
No one remembers, not a single person listening to this will know the name of Jim Callahan, but he was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom before Mrs. Thatcher.
Nothing worked.
Not a single thing worked.
The dead were going unburied.
Garbage was being piled up in the streets.
Everybody was on strike.
The unions held him to ransom.
Nothing worked.
He said to a friend of mine rather movingly that he thought decline was irreversible, that the country that had once ruled, he sat in the office where a couple of years before him, the guy who sat in his chair had ruled over one quarter of the earth's surface.
And he felt that decline was irreversible, and all he could do was manage decline as well as could be done.
And in 1979, the British people said, no, thanks, things have got, you can't even do that.
Things are so bad, things are so kaput that we want something else.
And they voted for Mrs. Thatcher.
And that is, and Mrs. Thatcher persuaded them to vote for her by talking about this stuff.
But not by saying, oh, well, if you bring up immigration, people will think you're racist.
And if you bring up abortion, people will think you hate women.
And if you bring up the extraordinarily high rate of corporate tax, people will think you like big Wall Street plutocrats who all vote for Obama anyway.
It's ridiculous.
That leaves nothing to talk about.
And that's why the Republican Party became a party that makes no difference, even whether it's in, even when it's in office.
If you won't talk about it, you won't even move the meter on where the public discourse, where the center of the conversation needs to be.
And that's why you wind up all the time playing on the other guy's terms.
So you don't talk about abortion, you don't talk about immigration, you don't talk about corporate tax.
There's no point at all.
What's there left to discuss?
And that's the state that the Republican Party was in, even after eight years of Obama.
Mark signing for Rush.
We'll take your call straight ahead.
Mark Stein in for Rush, still trying to get hold of Rick Wilson, but I gather he's busy in a meeting working on the new Strom Thurmond campaign, top GOP consultant.
Barack Obama has just called opponents of the Iran deal, quote, the crazies.
The crazy.
So you see, it's like Donald Trump is totally debasing and destroying political discourse and civilized discourse in this country.
But Obama can demonize the opponents of his deal with the supreme leader of Iran and the Ayatollahs as, quote, the crazies.
And that's just how a prudent, responsible, civilized person expresses differences of opinion with his opponents.
Let's go to Kenneth in Houston.
Yeah, you have to win.
You have to win the office, and then you can call the other guys the crazy.
Kenneth in Houston, Texas.
Kenneth, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Great to have you with us.
Yeah, I just wanted to make a comment on thecher babies, right?
Right.
Well, you know, my parents came here in 1949.
My dad, which he passed away already, he worked all his life until he died as a welder, made a contribution, and my mother also.
And I have an older brother and an older sister.
And they came from Central America, Nicaragua.
Okay, I speak both languages.
I'm bilingual.
And we, you know, we're citizens of the United States.
They came here legally with their, what you call their green cards, whatever.
Now, actually, they're pink.
And they came here to this country, okay?
And like other people now, I mean, I can understand that, okay, if they come here and they want to get a free ride.
And, you know, it's like, I don't know, man.
It's like, I disagree with these, you know, giving them papers just like that automatically.
And, you know, and it's just like, you know, the DREAM Act and all that stuff.
That's a bunch of baloney, okay?
You know what I'm saying?
Yeah, you're absolutely right.
Your parents, as you say, your parents are legal immigrants.
And every nation in the world, until half a century ago, until Teddy Kennedy's 1965 act, every country in the world, it took it as perfectly normal that they had the right, that their immigration policy is supposed to be in the interests of the people who are already here.
And if you're not already here, then they have the right to determine who they let in and who they don't let in.
And that's true whether the United States or whether you're Slovenia or whether you're New Zealand or whether you're Belgium or anybody.
You have the right.
And no one's saying that the Swedes aren't nice people, but how many Swedes get to live in the United States of America is a decision for the American people.
And your parents, when they came, that was understood everywhere around the world, Kenneth.
Yeah.
Yeah.
See, that's what I'm saying.
And that's why everyone, like, you know, I've heard like Rush, okay, and I've heard Laura Ingram and all that.
And in fact, I was going to get on her program, but I didn't get a chance.
It was getting too late for me.
But yeah, that's my situation, okay?
And like I said, when we've been here, we were raised.
We never had no drugs.
We never dealt with no jail.
We don't even know what a jail is.
You see what I'm saying, Mark?
I mean, you were raised right.
Well, I don't know what it was like for your parents in 1949, but when I immigrated here legally, you have to give assurances that you won't be living on welfare, that you're not a criminal, and all the rest of it.
You actually have to go through, you at least have to at least give the appearance of being a law-abiding person capable of supporting themselves.
And that's what immigration is, Kenneth.
Immigration, like your parents in 1949, or when I came some years after that, that what you're doing then is you're immigrating as an individual.
This isn't, what's going on on the southern border now isn't immigration.
It's the dissolution of the border and in fact the moving of the border remorselessly north.
When you've got 13% of the population of California, of California grade schools, no, California K through 12, 13% of the population are the children of illegal immigrants.
And at the grade school level, it'll be a much higher percentage than that.
And at the kindergarten level, it'll be higher still.
What that is, is the annexation of California by an invasion force.
And you can dress it up as fussily as you want and claim that they're just hardworking people who want a shot at the American dream.
So do billions of people around the planet.
Lots of people, if they can't get the American dream, would like a crack at the Swedish dream or the Dutch dream or the Irish dream.
But the fact is that sovereign nations have the right, not only the right to choose who they admit within their borders, but they have a responsibility, a responsibility to the people who are already there, to their own citizens.
An immigration policy is supposed to be in the interests of the existing citizens.
And for the last 50 years, this country's immigration policy has entirely failed the citizens of the United States of America.
Mark Stein, we'll wrap it up in a moment.
Hey, I've had a ball today.
A couple of emailers, no word from Rick Wilson, a couple of emailers say, what was the name of that book of yours?
The title is a disgrace to the profession.
Count Clayton, Count Clayton, asks me, will the new Christmas song, Anchor Baby, be on your next Christmas album?
I don't think I worked it all out.
What did I say?
I think I said at the beginning of the show, what was it?
Anchor baby, slip a passport under the tree for me.
I don't think I've got what'd have been an awfully good girl.
Anchor baby, so hurry across the border tonight.
Oh, I think we might.
I think there might be some mileage in that.
Anchor baby, make the most of that term because when Jeb Bush is using the anchor baby term, even to discuss Chinese anchor babies.
Then the immigration debate is more real than it's been in a while.
And actually, again, I'm not for Trump.
I'm not supporting Trump.
I'm not backing Trump.
I've made no decision on that.
I like the sound of Jim Gilmore.
I think he can make a real push in New Hampshire.
It's going to come down to him and Pataki, and we might as well settle that now.
But when Donald Trump slapped down that dweeby little reporter who said, well, don't you realize anchor baby is terribly offensive and hurtful to people?
So what?
Obama's just called those of us who disagree with him on the Iran nuclear deal the crazies.
We've got to match the rhetoric the way the Democrats are allowed to.
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