{"id":15175,"date":"2012-07-11T17:51:59","date_gmt":"2012-07-11T17:51:59","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-07-11T17:51:59","modified_gmt":"2012-07-11T17:51:59","slug":"could_it_be_condi_for_vp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2012\/07\/11\/could_it_be_condi_for_vp\/","title":{"rendered":"Could It Be Condi for VP?"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: I\u2019ve been thinking about something. There\u2019s a story I had in the Stack. I didn\u2019t get to this yesterday. It\u2019s a Reuters story, “Romney May Name Running Mate Early in Election Race.” There have been names floating on this. There\u2019s Bob Portman in Ohio. There\u2019s Marco Rubio, who continually says it isn\u2019t gonna be him. Bobby Jindal. Governor Christie — who may be talking himself out of it, if he was in there, but he\u2019s openly said that he would take it.<\/p>\n

Well, he\u2019s openly said that he would seriously consider it. There are a number of names. Tim Pawlenty is considered one of the front-runners. So today Romney goes to the NAALCP convention. One of the names that is also on this list that shows up now and then but not in every story about it, is Condoleezza Rice. Now, I don\u2019t have any idea who Romney\u2019s gonna choose, but when I saw this story yesterday, “Romney May Name Running Mate Early in Election Race,” I thought, “Why?”<\/line><\/p>\n

This is awful early to name a VP.<\/p>\n

Of course, the Reuters headline says “may name.” But it\u2019s a fairly lengthy story about what the advantages in doing so could be, and they list the people that are possible. It mentions here, “Romney is also considering whether to name a woman, his wife, Ann, said.” To the team of people that would select a running mate. And I\u2019ve seen Condoleezza Rice\u2019s name mentioned off and on. Here goes Romney to the NAALCP<\/a>. What are the odds that he would pick Condoleezza Rice next week, coming off of this speech to the NAALCP?<\/p>\n

(interruption)<\/p>\n

<\/a>You think zero? Why?<\/p>\n

(interruption)<\/p>\n

Well, they all say they\u2019ll never do it! They all say they\u2019ll never do it. Every one of these people is saying that. Well, except Chris Christie. Paul Ryan\u2019s name is mention, and a lot of people look favorably at Paul Ryan. But, Rubio, for example, says, “There\u2019s no way I\u2019m gonna do it!” They all say this. But then if they get the call, then this sense of duty overtakes them.<\/p>\n

(interruption)<\/p>\n

What if I got the call? (laughing) I\u2019d ask, “Are you sane?” You know what my answer would be? “I\u2019m not gonna take the pay cut.” But I\u2019m just not oriented towards that. I\u2019m not diplomatic enough to be in government in any way, shape, manner, or form. You remember who was the head of Obama\u2019s selection team? It was Caroline Kennedy. Yeah, it was. She was right in there. But you watch the reaction that regime will have no matter who Romney picks. No matter who he picks, the criticism is going to be profound.<\/p>\n

Of course, when Obama chose Biden, there was no criticism. He chose a lunatic. He chose a plagiarist. And now the guy, Biden, is out there telling sex jokes. Did you hear about this? I think we\u2019ve got it in the Stack here. Biden. Who was he talking to? Was it an Hispanic group? He was talking to some group of people about how small the house was where he grew up and how thin the walls were and how his parents managed to “get away with it” nevertheless.<\/p>\n

I kid you not. (laughing) Honestly! It was La Raza. Biden was talking to La Raza. He said (paraphrased), “We had all the ingredients: Small room, thin walls. You know, just like you.” We do have the sound bite. Somebody tell me what number it is. I know it\u2019s there. Yeah, number eleven. Here it is. This is yesterday Las Vegas at the National Council of La Raza Luncheon.<\/p>\n

BIDEN: I was raised in a… No Horatio Alger story, a normal story. A three-bedroom house, split level, in a new development, in the mid-fifties in Delaware. Those walls were awful thin. I wonder how the hell my parents did it, but that\u2019s a different story.<\/p>\n

AUDIENCE: (laughter)<\/p>\n

BIDEN: I know you don\u2019t know anything about that!<\/p>\n

AUDIENCE: (laughter)<\/p>\n

BIDEN: I know none of you in your families have done the same thing!<\/p>\n