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Dec. 24, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 24, 2015, Thursday, Hour #2
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Yes, the season of guest hosts is upon us.
It's Christmas Eve, and this is Mark Stein, your undocumented anchorman, sitting in for America's Anchorman, who is away.
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We've been talking about Trump's lies and why the Washington Post fact checker can't seem to pin one on him and why the fact checkers check what he says and it doesn't make any difference to his rise in the polls.
Here's a story.
This is just like, you can find stories like this kind of every day in one part of the country or another, one part of the Western world or another.
An FBI agent reporting, this was on wcco.com from WCCO in Minneapolis-St.
Paul's, a Twin Syrit Cities terror suspect who once worked at the Minneapolis-St.
Paul International Airport told another suspect he had the ability to build rockets that could take down planes at 2,000 feet.
This testimony came from an FBI agent during a hearing on Tuesday for Abdurizak Warsane.
It's to determine whether he should remain in jail pending the outcome of his case.
He's the 10th guy in Minnesota or the 10th young Minnesotan.
I think you should put Minnesotan in quote marks there to be charged in the last year with trying to join ISIS.
And where did he work?
Well, from December 2013 to April 2014, he worked at the Minneapolis-St.
Paul's airport.
He had a security badge to work on de-icing the planes.
And from April to August, he had another security badge to work for Swissport, which is a baggage and cargo handling company that handles the baggage for a lot of the big international airlines flying out of Minneapolis-St.
Paul's.
So the guys who we have spent a fortune.
We've created the Transport Security Administration.
You shuffle through the lines for hours and hours.
If you're flying home for Christmas, you know what it's like.
God help you if you're somewhere like O'Hare today or if you're at LaGuardia or if that's one of the other things Trump is good about, about the decay in America's airports.
There's no system.
It looks like 9-11 happened last week and they put up some trestle tables and they're just improvising and they haven't yet got the full new system there.
But you'll be shuffling shoeless through those airports.
And in the meantime, the guys they're hiring to de-ice the planes are terrorist suspects who boast to their friends that they can build rockets that can take down planes at 2,000 feet, which is what Abdurizak Warsaim did in Minnesota.
He worked at the Minneapolis-St.
Paul's airport.
And you know, when that Russian plane disappeared out of the sky, got and wound up all over the desert in Egypt, people thought, well, it was taken off from Sharm el-Sheikh.
Sharm el-Sheikh is a big vacation destination, very popular with Europeans, with Russian tourists.
And people think, well, you know, the thought is that it was an inside job, that one of the baggage handlers or someone else working at Sharm el-Sheikh Airport got something on the plane.
And that's why the plane blew up and all these dead people all over the Egyptian desert.
And they're saying, well, you know, Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, what do you expect?
So the tourism business in Sharm el-Sheikh is dead.
The Europeans, the Russians, they don't want to go anymore.
What you have to ask yourself is actually whether it's any better at Minneapolis-St.
Paul's, where they're employing ISIS supporters to de-ice the planes, and it doesn't even make the news.
I got this out of WCCO, which I take it is some TV station in Minneapolis.
And you don't hear it on the ABC news, the CBS news, the NBC news.
And if you did, Obama would be there saying, well, they're just covering this stuff because they want to arouse people's fears of ISIS because they're just chasing ratings.
That's what he says.
When you mention ISIS, when you're covering ISIS, you're just chasing ratings.
So on the one hand, we have a situation where it turns out that Minneapolis-St.
Paul's is hiring people to de-ice the planes who are ISIS supporters who are wanted on terrorist conspiracy charges.
And on the other hand, you have Donald Trump saying, well, look, this is all very complicated.
Maybe we should have a halt to Muslim immigration.
On the one hand, you have John Kerry and Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama saying there's no Islam to see here.
This is nothing to do with Islam.
Whatever it is, we don't know what it is.
We agree with you that there seem to be a lot of body parts all over the street now and again in major Western cities.
But whatever is the reason for it, it's nothing to do with Islam.
That we can rule out.
We can't rule anything else in right now.
But it's violent extremism.
It's a problem with the Second Amendment.
They don't have the Second Amendment in Paris, but maybe they got something like it that also caused that outbreak of violent extremism over there.
But whatever it is, it's nothing to do with Islam.
And here's Donald Trump saying, if that's the case, if we really are not in a position to tell the tiny, tiny, teeny, weeny minimal percentage of people working at Minneapolis airport de-icing the planes who are ISIS supporters,
if we really don't have the capacity to tell which of our plane de-ices at American airports is an ISIS supporter, maybe it is necessary just to, as he says, call a halt to immigration until we can figure out what's going on.
And that's what makes him the crazy guy.
And that's what makes him the crazy guy.
Every single country in the Western world has massively expanded Muslim immigration since 9-11.
Because our reaction to 9-11 was that the most important thing to do was to demonstrate how nice we were, how multicultural and diverse we are.
And the most important thing, when 3,000 people get killed in the heart of your cities, the most important thing is to demonstrate to the world that you're so nice and you certainly aren't judgmental.
And so the best thing you can possibly do is actually increase immigration from Muslim countries.
That would strike.
I mean, people say, oh, well, we shouldn't have interned Japanese people during the Second World War.
We shouldn't have done that.
Today, what would happen is that we would increase Japanese immigration.
During the Second World War, Churchill's response to the problems with Nazi Germany would be to increase immigration from Germany during the Second World War.
FDR's response would be to increase immigration from Japan.
And we would have a situation where, yeah, exactly, there'd be all those little thrillers they used to make about the, what was it, what were they called, the German-American Bund and all these people that they were suspicious.
All that kind of, that world has gone.
There are no enemies.
There are just friends whose legitimate grievances we haven't yet accommodated.
And that's all there is in the world today.
And that is how you end up.
People say, oh, Sharm el-Sheikh, you've got to be crazy going to an all these Russians vacationing in an Egyptian airport.
What the hell were they thinking?
Of course, those airports are, they're not first world airports.
Anyone can work as a baggage handler there.
Who the hell do you think is working as a baggage handler at Minneapolis St. Paul's?
That is the world we have made.
And that is why nothing Donald Trump says doesn't work for him.
It doesn't matter whether it's wrong, right, whether it's got seven Pinocchios, whether it's got 7,000 Pinocchios from the Washington Post.
Our world is so mad that there is nothing he can say that wouldn't work for him in the present circumstances.
And George Will takes the long view here.
And he's got in his column today, which is just merciless, where he's saying that this would be the biggest setback.
It would be the end of the Conservative Party in America.
And he says the Conservative Party, after Barry Goldwater's defeat, it won five of the next seven presidential elections.
The Conservative Party in America won five of the next seven presidential elections in America.
And yet, oddly enough, America since 1964 has got a hell of a lot less conservative.
And things that people, now you can be now you can be prosecuted.
People can the government can ruin your life.
The commissar of pronouns for New York City has told restaurateurs that they could face fines if they accidentally direct a transgendered person to the wrong bathroom.
What the hell is conservative about that?
If we have had all these tremendous conservative victories since 1964, how come America is unrecognizable from the America of 1964?
Well, what's George Will's answer to that?
And that's the difference.
The people, unfortunately for the donor class in the Republican Party, the donor class, they wouldn't have voters.
They wouldn't waste time with the base if they didn't have to have a base.
But you need crowd scene extras once every other Tuesday in November, once every other November on a Tuesday, you need masses of crowd scene extras, millions and millions of them.
You just need them to go into voting booths and plump for the guy with an R next to his name.
That's all the donor class needs you losers for.
Everything else you can leave to the donor class.
But every other November on a Tuesday morning, they need you to go down to your school gym and pull a lever for some guy that they've decided knows best for you losers.
And why the hell you millions of crowd scene losers don't understand that you're just a non-speaking extra.
And the donor class have got this sorted out.
They've got it settled.
Jeb Bush is a brilliant candidate.
He's got $100 million.
Do you think they'd give $100 million to Jeb Bush if he wasn't the smartest genius guy on the planet?
The fact that he's got no skills at retail politics, that's ridiculous to complain about that.
The fact that he thinks illegal immigration is an act of love, that's ridiculous about that.
The fact that his brother launched a highly unpopular war and when he's asked about it on television, $100 million can't buy you a speechwriter who can write you some stupid answer that'll get you off the hook when you're asked about the war your brother started that's highly unpopular and might come up in conversation.
The donor class knows better than you no-name losers.
All you have to do is every other November, trudge down to your town hall, trudge down to your school gym, look for the guy that they've chosen with the R after his name and plump your lever for that guy.
That's it.
It's a non-speaking part.
Nobody's interested in hearing what you think about immigration.
Nobody's interested in hearing what you think about government debt.
Nobody's interested in hearing what you think about anything.
They know best.
And that's why the conservative movement, the conservative party, the conservative government that the donor class has chosen for you has done such a brilliant job in conserving American values this past half century.
Mark's time for Rush.
More straight ahead.
Santa Claus is coming to town.
Let us go to Mike in Virginia Beach.
Yes, yes, Santa, there is a Virginia Beach.
Mike, it's great to have you with us on the radar.
Hey, Mega Dittos from a retired U.S. Marine Corps Cobra gunship pilot from Virginia Beach, Virginia.
Hey, mega Dittos to you too, Mike.
Merry Christmas.
Hey, first, real quick, I'm honored to talk to the greatest political writer of the 21st century.
What Russia to the spoken word, you are to the written word.
That's a very subtle and kind of backhanded compliment, but I'll take it, Mike.
Eric talking about maybe, you know, guest hosts and temporary thing.
And, well, you know how that goes.
Yeah, no, no, no.
I know.
It's murder.
It's murder.
I mean, it's like the second hour, and it's the second hour, the second day, a guest host.
You think what it's going to feel like by January 23rd, you're going to be crawling up the wall.
It's just like nuts.
But what's on your mind other than the quality of the guest hosts, Mike?
Well, just I want to comment on George Will's comment that if Trump gets the nomination, there will not be a conservative party.
And I think he mentioned that specifically, conservative party in 2020.
Now, I've always liked George Will, and I'm not a big Trump supporter, but I wish somebody would ask George Will, what's the conservative party we have now?
Is it the one that just approved the omnibus spending bill?
Tell me, where's our conservative party?
Yeah, I think that's fair.
And again, I don't dislike George Will.
You were talking about writing.
George Will is a beautiful and elegant and informed writer.
There's all kinds of historical facts in this column.
It's, yeah, an elegant, he's an elegant man.
He's an elegant writer.
He speaks elegantly.
He's much more together than I am in this situation, Mr. Snurdley.
I don't know.
But what he's missing here is that he doesn't understand how the Republican Party looks.
If you're a guy who's sitting in some town where there is no economic opportunity, where your kid wants to go to college to do some stupid course you've never heard of that's going to cost you a six-figure sum to get there, and there's not going to be any job for him at the end of it.
There are people who are kind of inside.
George Will is inside a psychologically gated community here, and he's not too clear on what life is like outside the walls, Mike.
I like that psychologically gated community.
Yeah, well, I think that's pretty much it, actually.
Well, to close, I think to quote Mr. Trump, I think, when asked, the best book he ever read was the Bible, and I would honestly agree to that.
But I think After America is certainly in the running for second place.
I'll buy that quote.
If you only buy one book this year, says Donald Trump, make it the Holy Bible.
If you buy two books, make it the Holy Bible and Mark Stein's After America.
I will take that endorsement, Mike.
That's very good of you.
There's a serious point to what George Will is saying here.
And the point that George Will is making is if you take a flyer on Trump, it could all come crashing down around you.
But the only reason people are willing to take a flyer on Trump is because Mike Murphy, the guy who runs Bush's super PAC, the $100 million PAC, said Trump is a zombie frontrunner.
In fact, the zombie frontrunner turned out to be Jeb Bush, and the zombie party turned out to be the Republican Party.
The Republican Party is, I don't know whether it's a zombie, but it's like one of those amusing Frenchmen of the 1890s that used to sit in the cabarets watching the girls undress.
And he seems very nice and charming and sophisticated, but he's riddled with tertiary syphilis inside.
And he's about to collapse.
And that is the state of the Republican Party.
That is what the Republican.
The Republican Party has brought this upon itself.
And there are reasons for that.
As I said, every other Western nation has a fluid party system.
The Canadian election a few weeks ago, if you lived in, wherever you lived in, if you live in Quebec, you had five parties on the ballot, of which only one is older than 50 years old.
The Conservative Party, so-called, is a new party from this century.
The Block Quebecois 20 years old.
The Socialist Party is about 50 years old.
The parties come and go in any kind of fluid system.
In the United Kingdom, in the 1860s, when America's party system froze, every single constituency in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales was held by either a Conservative or a Liberal.
And then lots of Irish nationalist parties started, and then Scottish nationalist parties, and then the Labour Socialist Party.
And now it's like one crazy quilt.
And Northern Ireland's parties, you know, it's got like new parties splitting up into party after party after party.
You don't even know where they're coming from.
America has the same frozen two-party system, and one of them has outlived its usefulness.
Hey, it's great to be with you.
But don't forget, if you are terrified, I'm slightly, I didn't really mean it when I said Rush wasn't returning till March 27th.
I'll be getting these emails from people saying, oh, my God, is that true?
I don't think I can take much more of it.
No, I meant it as a bit of whimsy on my part.
I didn't mean for you to take it seriously.
There's affiliates cancelling the show all across the country.
They say, oh, why can't we get soft and easy favorites?
We'll have Celine Dion back to back for 25 minutes, anything.
No, no, no, no.
He will be back before March the 27th.
You don't need to worry about that.
In fact, yesterday, I was shocked to get a message from Rush during the show yesterday because he could have actually been here.
He was near the EIB microphone in Florida, like wrapping Christmas presents or something ridiculous.
But he is, I'm assured that he is actually cleared out of there today.
So he is on a genuine vacation.
So give the guy a few days off, real days off before you start complaining, folks.
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And those gifts last all year round.
So it's not like it's too late now.
You can't go out the malls.
They've got some protests at the Mall of America in Minnesota there, the Black Lives Matter thing.
There's no point.
Even if you can get through the traffic, the mall will be ablaze by the time you get there.
It'll be looted.
There'll be nothing left in the windows except My Cat album, which is the only thing the looters don't want.
So don't waste your time going to the mall.
Instead, get the loved one in your family a subscription to Rush 24-7 or a subscription to the Limbaugh Letter.
Mr. Snurdley was yelling at me during the break, my little riff on how frozen the party system is here.
Because he said, well, what's the difference?
In Canada, you just end up with some effete pansy loser like Justin Trudeau.
And in London, you just end up with some effete pansy loser like David Cameron.
And in Paris, you just end up with some effete pansy loser like Francois Hollande.
So what difference does it make having all these parties?
And there's a point to that.
Although I would say one of the differences is at least you get the effect pansy loser over and done within six weeks.
You have a six-week campaign.
The problem here is that as the election process has got longer and longer and longer, so you have a kind of three-year election campaign.
You know, basically the minute after Romney loses, everybody who wants to be president basically starts putting in place the elements of their campaign.
And you cannot have a Republican, you can have Republican government if you have short campaigns and candidates like Calvin Coolidge.
But you cannot have a three-year election campaign in a republic and expect people to be interested in a fight, in a bitterly fought-out fight between Jim Gilmore and Lindsey Graham.
They're not going to follow that for three years.
It's like the world's dullest reality show.
The rest of the time they're watching Keeping Up with the Kardashians, and then you're saying, oh, why are you watching Keeping Up with the Kardashians?
For the next three years, you can watch Keeping Up with the Patekis.
Nobody's going to go there.
Nobody's going to do it.
Nobody's going to be interested.
And sooner or later, a guy like Trump was going to realize that the American presidential nominating process was a really bad reality show, just ripe for a relaunch.
And that's what he basically did to it.
The system invites that.
The system invites that.
And I will say this as well.
Here's the danger.
The other thing Mr. Snerdley was yelling at me about was about this consulted industrial complex that you have here, where everybody's doing these turnout models.
You pay all these geniuses to come and advise you and do that.
Again, they largely don't exist in other countries.
So you can be a loser.
You can be a loser a lot cheaper in most countries than you can here.
Here being a loser is very...
Ask Jeb Bush.
He's the most expensive loser in elected politics in the history of politics.
I don't know.
I don't know.
Maybe if you went back to the early days of the Roman Republic, there was some really disastrous candidate.
But other than that, he's the most expensive loser ever, ever.
Now, you look at most of these guys don't exist.
In Australia, for example, they have compulsory voting.
So you don't need to hire Dick Morris to come up with a turnout model because the turnout model is 100%.
So there's no room for a Dick Morris there.
Now, here, here, the turnout model is important because there's actually relatively low voter participation.
No one who isn't Iowan or who lives in a caucus state understands the way these caucuses vote.
I don't understand the way that I live in New Hampshire.
I know how a primary votes.
I don't understand how a caucus state votes.
But the tiny percentage of people who will determine the winner in Iowa, that's a tiny, tiny proportion of the number of people that there are in the state of Iowa.
So who gets to participate in that caucus is critically important.
And we don't know.
It could be that Trump loses really badly because the people who support Trump are not the kind of people who know all the ins and outs of what you have to do to go and stand in somebody's living room during a caucus.
That's what happened to Howard Dean.
Howard Dean had Howard Dean was at 38%, I think the same as Trump, the night before the Iowa caucus, and they all turned out to be young college kids who thought they could vote by leaving a comment on their friend's Twitter feed.
And they didn't realize that you had to actually go, you had to caucus and you had to go and sit in some guy's stand in the corner in some living room or something.
They didn't understand that.
They didn't do that.
So Howard Dean dead after Iowa.
New Hampshire's the opposite.
It has an open primary system so that independents can vote in a Republican primary.
And what nobody alarms people is that Trump is appealing to all these people who don't usually vote in primaries.
And it's easy to vote in New Hampshire.
And if all these people go and vote in the Republican primary, then all the turnout models that Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio have paid a gazillion dollars to their consultants to come up with will be entirely irrelevant.
And that's the most fascinating part of this.
There's people who do not participate in politics at all.
They're not terribly political.
They're not interested.
The disputes that politicians, you know, that politicians argue about are not of interest to them.
But they've taken notice of this.
And if they vote in New Hampshire, then that will change the game and that will render all the turnout models irrelevant.
But what is to go back to what I said about Mike Murphy, essentially the zombie here is the conventions of primary politics in the United States.
And you cannot have a three-year process and expect, and again, there's an element of sophistication about this, that when they have, you know, oh, Lindsey Graham, who do you like?
Lindsey Graham, George Pataki, oh, I don't know.
I'm a little bit, I'm looking more towards Jim Gilmore myself.
You cannot have that and hold interest for three years.
And the turnout consultants know that, so their whole point is to depress turnout so that only the hardcore Jim Gilmore and George Pataki fans are left in the primary system.
And Trump has recognized that what we have here is a really bad reality show, and he has essentially waddled in with a suicide bomber belt and blown the whole thing up.
And whatever the George Wills think that they can somehow regain control of this thing before New Hampshire.
And the question is: who's going to be their candidate?
Who's going to be the guy that enables them to regain control?
Is it Marco Rubio?
Well, he's actually starting to falter in the polls.
Is it going to be Kasich?
Well, people don't really.
He rubs people up the wrong way.
He looks like he's been sleeping in a dumpster for a week.
They're not going to go for him.
Is it going to be Chris Christie?
Well, he's upset people because people remember him embracing Obama.
They need someone.
They're looking for someone who can wrestle this thing back from Trump.
It's getting near to Iowa.
It's getting near to New Hampshire, and they haven't found him yet.
Mark Stein for Rush.
We will take your call.
Straight ahead.
Mark Stein for Rush behind the Golden EIB microphone on Christmas Eve.
Let us go to Jane in Scottsdale, Arizona, where legions of Canadians are just about to descend on that poor metropolis for the next three months.
Jane, it's great to have you with us.
What's on your mind today?
Well, thank you for taking my call.
I noticed the left and the liberal media have got their panties in the wad over Donald Trump saying that Hillary got schlonged.
So I think in order to calm them, we should just, from now on, say that she got Trumped.
She got Trumped big time.
Yeah, I think we should try and introduce that.
Well, the problem with when you say that Hillary got schlonged is that her Media Matters guy, David Brock, said that its code for Obama is a black rapist.
So if you say that she got Trumped, then it's just like white male sexual braggadoccio.
So that's another term.
You know, you get outplayed.
You take your best shot and then you lose.
Yeah, no, no, that's true.
And as Teddy Roosevelt said, speak softly and carry a big schlong or carry a big Trump.
And beat them soundly about the head and shoulders.
That's right.
That's right.
Who are you leading?
Since it's Christmas Eve and just between us, we won't tell Santa.
Who are you leaning towards right now, Jane?
Oh, Trump's the guy.
He's the guy.
Now, what do you say when George Will says this man will single-handedly destroy the entire conservative movement?
Well, that's already been taken care of.
Let me see.
Boehner comes to mind.
Colonel.
Yeah.
John McCain.
John McCain gives me a rash.
Yes.
Well, that's.
I'll put him on the naughty list just for that.
You're right.
But you know what, George Will, the defense of the George Will argument is that John Boehner, Mitch McConnell, Paul Ryan, these are people who, as you say, they're destroying the Conservative movement, but they're doing it incrementally.
They're just doing it 3% at a time, 4% of a time, so that it takes several election cycles before you notice that the entire conservative movement is dead.
What George Will objects to is that Trump is just going to destroy the whole thing basically when he makes his speech at the convention.
As I said, beware of the military-industrial complex.
What's really happening is the elections are bought.
This is an election complex.
And what George Will, I think, is really afraid of is people like Donald Trump who aren't putting the money into it are winning it.
Yeah, it is.
I think it all goes back to the money, personally.
Yeah, he has done something because he hasn't spent a dime except for what he spends on those Make America Great Again baseball hats.
He has run the world's, certainly America's cheapest presidential campaign.
He hasn't had to buy a single ad.
60% of the ads in New Hampshire have been bought by Jeb Bush, and he loses 7,000 primary voters for every ad that goes out.
Then there's the Rubio one where he talks about the second American century.
And that, again, that's just general, that's just general cliché country, and that's not ringing any bells with anybody.
One of the interesting questions, I just touched on it in the last part, though, Jane, is who eventually they've got to make a choice between the establishment candidate.
If you look at the way it went last time around, it was Romney and the un-Romney.
And the person in the un-Romney role changed every couple of weeks.
And it was Michelle Bachman after Ames, Iowa, and then it was Rick Perry, and then it was Herman Kane, and then it was Newt Gingrich.
And the un-Romney changed every couple of weeks, but the Romney stayed the same.
So there was Romney as Mr. Mainstream, and then all these other people coming along.
It's the exact opposite this time.
We have Trump who stays the same and the un-Trump.
Who is going to be the mainstream guy?
Who's going to be Rubio?
Is it going to be Jeb?
Is it going to be Kasich?
Is it going to be Christie?
And I don't know.
There's problems with all those four choices, but they've got to settle on.
Let's go to John in Crofton, Maryland.
John, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh show.
Merry Christmas.
Joyos, Joyers, Noel.
Joyeux Noël.
If you're going to come...
La vida.
Yeah, yeah, if you're gonna try Buon the dale.
That's my nationality.
I'm Italian American, proud of it.
And we never owned any slaves.
We came here after those slaves were freed in the early 1900s.
It's a direct insult to any immigrants that came here and are being blamed and given this title white privilege that, you know, that's the reason that they justify the fact that blacks who were here before everybody else still suck as far as the economy is concerned.
It's their own damn fault.
But I wanted to get back to George.
I'll ask Mr. Snurdley about that.
He's a friend of mine.
He knows how I feel.
Your reparations demand from the IRS just went up 30% for that answer.
So that may not work out.
But okay, here's what.
And actually, come on.
The Italians did kept slaves.
I've seen all those Roman epics where they're like pulling the emperor in those Nubian slaves.
You Romans had slaves from Nubia.
What the hell are you on about?
Our ancestry doesn't go back that far.
But anyway.
Right, right.
Now you're playing the Nubian card, aren't you?
Okay.
Okay, George Will is a neighbor of mine.
I live in the Annapolis, Baltimore, Washington area.
I've been here for over 50 years.
And I remember, and I used to travel for appointments and different things in Chevy Chase, and that's where George Will's house is.
And when Obama got elected the first time, President-elect Obama was feted.
He was given a big dinner at George Wills' house.
And I'm sure George Will had all these friends in the media that he's known for years, like Ricky Roberts and Steve Roberts.
Krauthammer was there.
And so for George Will to appoint himself the judge on what's going to happen to the Republican Party, as far as the conservative wing, when he's not a conservative, I don't even know if he's a moderate.
He's the leftist to me, of center.
But George Will, he's saying that if Trump gets the nomination, that this is going to cause this irreparable damage to the right wing, to the conservatives.
What about if Trump wins the election?
Oh, that'll be even worse, according to George Will.
There's not going to be any celebratory dinners at George Will's house.
Thank you for your call, John.
I hope those Nubian slaves are dragging your Christmas turkey in and getting it all ready for the big day tomorrow.
Mark Stein for us, more straight ahead.
Mark Stein for us, Felice Navidad.
I think I said yesterday I was going to follow my cat album with a cat Christmas album called Feline Navidad, and I yet do that.
The president is enjoying whatever it is, his $7 million vacation in Hawaii.
He sank a 40-foot putt on the golf course on Tuesday, and the crowd cheered.
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