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RUSH: To the phones and Bourbonnais, Illinois. Am I pronouncing that right, Bourbonnais? <\/p>\n

CALLER: (silence)<\/p>\n

RUSH: Ron, are you there?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes, I am. Do you hear me now?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, I hear you now. How do you pronounce where you\u2019re from? <\/p>\n

CALLER: That\u2019s Bourbonnais.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Bourbonnais.<\/p>\n

CALLER: We used to call it Bourbonnais, but we changed to the French way.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, I thought that\u2019s where the Bears complex is; I thought it was Bourbonnais.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Absolutely right! We haven\u2019t helped the Bears a bit, but we\u2019re trying.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, everybody has to be somewhere.<\/p>\n

CALLER: (chuckling) Hey, Rush, I\u2019m — up front — a seminar caller, and I\u2019m calling on behalf of the Black Bibi Netanyahu: The Hermanator, Herman Cain. When are you going to have him on?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Um… (sigh)<\/p>\n

CALLER: (laughs)<\/p>\n

RUSH: Gee, what do I say? I don\u2019t know how to answer this. If I answer this question, I can\u2019t win here. <\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, because I open the floodgates, and you\u2019ve obviously heard we had Trump on.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah.<\/p>\n

RUSH: We\u2019ve got Pawlenty coming in over a half hour, and you obviously want Herman Cain on the program, and Newt was on.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I love Herm.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Here\u2019s the thing. Here\u2019s the thing: The policy of this program is “no guests.” We waive the policy on occasion. When Bush and Cheney were in the White House, if they called and wanted to appear, we welcomed them. Every one of these people that you\u2019ve heard on the program, Ron, called and asked to appear. We do not — I do not — invite people to appear on the program. You\u2019re sitting out there upset that I may be playing favorites, that I\u2019m disrespecting Herman Cain \u2019cause I haven\u2019t invited him to appear here, but I haven\u2019t invited anybody. And one of the reasons… He will be on this program now. I mean, there\u2019s no question about it. Once you start with candidates, you have to let \u2019em all on at some point, just in the interests of fairness and what have you. So I don\u2019t know when, but I\u2019m sure Herman Cain will show up on this program. I like Herman Cain, as you know. I\u2019ve said so many times.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Absolutely. Yeah, yeah. I knew you like him; I like how straightforward he is. You know, there is no beating around the bush about Herman. I think he would take Obama apart in a debate.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You know, the truth is this — and I don\u2019t mean this to be a put-down of Herman Cain; I agree with you. Anybody could take Obama down in a debate if they would! It\u2019s not a question of could they. It\u2019s a question of do they have the fortitude and the guts to try it. Get rid of the fear.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Speaking of Herman Cain: He appeared on Fox News Sunday with Chris Matthews, and Chris Wallace said, “Question: What would President Cain offer the Palestinians to make peace?”<\/p>\n

CAIN: Nothin\u2019, because I\u2019m not convinced that the Palestinians are really interested in peace. If the Palestinians come to the table with Israel with a genuine offer that the two of them can sit down and negotiate the United States would, in fact, try to facilitate that discussion. But if we look at history, it has been clear that the Palestinians have always wanted to push the Israelis and push Israel for more and more and more. I don\u2019t agree with that, and I respect Prime Minister Netanyahu for taking a stand and saying they cannot give that up. Secondly, it\u2019s Israel\u2019s decision, not President Obama\u2019s decision, as to what those borderlines ought to be.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Amen, right on, dooba dooba. No question about it. You\u2019ve seen all the jokes, haven\u2019t you, Snerdley? We ought go back to our 1858 borders or we audit go back to the 1967 budget. All these jokes are circulating around to try to mock Obama\u2019s demand to try to go back to the 1967 borders. And you know, Herman Cain brings up, “Who is Obama?” <\/p>\n

“He\u2019s president of the United States, Rush. That\u2019s what you gotta respect him.”<\/p>\n

Yeah, but who is he to determine Israel\u2019s borders? <\/p>\n

“Well, we give him $5 million.”<\/p>\n

Well, fine, but how come all the demands are on Israel? How come whenever these negotiations start, it\u2019s always Israel has to give up land. It\u2019s always Israel that has to give up and compromise and all this? Why is it always on them? It\u2019s unmistakable. (interruption) What\u2019s your question? You have a que…? (interruption) What? (interruption) Hmm. (interruption) Right. (interruption) Okay. (interruption) All right, Mr. Snerdley has a question for me, the host. He says it\u2019s a bad question. He wants to know: How can anybody expect to be elected president of the United States when they haven\u2019t been elected to anything before. No elective office! Where in the world…? Who does he think he is, right? Is that what you…? (interruption) <\/p>\n

Yeah. I know. Snerdley claims to love Herman Cain but you don\u2019t understand why he thinks that he\u2019s even viable here because he\u2019s not held office? Okay. So that means to you if he\u2019s not served in elective office, he doesn\u2019t have what? What does that mean to you? (interruption) Mmm-hmm. No experience governing. No experience governing, none whatsoever. No experience governing. (interruption) Right, it is a business. There\u2019s no question about it. I did teach that it\u2019s a business, just like any other business, and there are requirements, and you climb the ladder and so Snerdley is saying, “How can he expect to leapfrog to the at the top of the ladder with no experience on this?” <\/p>\n

Okay, dare I in answering this question invoke the name Obama? Okay. Now, I know what you\u2019d say: “Obama was elected to the Illinois Senate for a number of years, and voted ‘present;\u2019 and when he didn\u2019t vote present he was voting to make sure aborted babies stayed aborted. When he was elected to the US Senate, he worked a total of 157 days, and I don\u2019t think sponsored any legislation,” and yet there were no questions about his qualifications. There were no inquiries; there wasn\u2019t any concern about his lack of experience in governing. Some people might also say, in response to your question, that they\u2019re sick and tired of the professional political class and they wouldn\u2019t mind having somebody from totally outside it who nevertheless has CEO experience, top rate CEO experience. <\/p>\n

The answer to your question is anybody can try to run, and they can go as far as their campaign takes \u2019em. Would you sit here, would you tell Herman Cain, “You don\u2019t have any right to do this! Who do you think you are?” Damn right. I guar… (interruption) You don\u2019t think he\u2019s serious about this? You would ask him if he\u2019s serious? He\u2019s dead serious about this. I can tell Herman Cain\u2019s serious about it. So what he thinks, issue-wise, is not enough for you to get past the fact he\u2019s never governed before, he\u2019s never served, he\u2019s never been elected to anything? (interruption) That\u2019s right? Okay. All right. Well, just keep in mind: Snerdley\u2019s the screener, not the host (chuckles) and that\u2019s his point of view. <\/p>\n

I\u2019m not trying to tick you Herman Cain people off. Snerdley genuinely asked me this question. There are others, Ulysses Grant never served in elected office. Herbert Hoover never served in elective office. Dwight Eisenhower never served in elective office. Zachary Taylor, William Howard Taft. None of these guys ever served in elective office. Of course, George Washington never had previous American elective office to serve in, and he did okay. In fact, he rejected the office. They wanted him to be king, and he rejected it. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: By the way, Snerdley, Karl Rove agrees with you on Herman Cain. Karl Rove was on Fox & Friends this morning, and he said the talk radio guy from Atlanta is not gonna be elected president. He\u2019s got a great narrative, personal narrative, he\u2019s got a good narrative about Obama, but what\u2019s he done in elective office? At some point you gotta give people confidence in your experience in elective office and in that business, and Rove said he\u2019s not gonna be there. So you and Rove are on the same page when it comes to Herman Cain. <\/p>\n

Now, Jon Huntsman — and I mentioned early in the program, look for there to be a media and Republican establishment push for Jon Huntsman to take the place that Mitch Daniels was going to occupy in the Republican sweepstakes. Jon Huntsman is having lunch today with George H. W. and Barbara Bush, I think in Kennebunkport, Maine, \u2019cause Huntsman\u2019s on a New Hampshire tour, and Huntsman, ambassador to the Chinese, China for Obama, but he\u2019s from the Mitch Daniels school. We\u2019ve gotta get along with the people that don\u2019t like us, and we gotta be nice, basically, stop the bickering, essentially. <\/p>\n

END TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

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