{"id":27236,"date":"2011-05-19T04:45:36","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T04:45:36","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-02-27T11:22:00","modified_gmt":"2020-02-27T16:22:00","slug":"rush_recaps_the_gop_debate-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2011\/05\/19\/rush_recaps_the_gop_debate-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Rush Recaps the GOP Debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<section>RUSH: Orlando in Miami, Florida, nice to have you, sir, on the EIB Network.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Hello.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Hello.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Good afternoon, Maha Rushie. Greetings from south Florida. I\u2019m a legal Cuban immigrant who applied for American citizenship the very first day I was able to do that back in 1974.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/01125114.Par.43721.ImageFile.jpg\" width=\"379\" height=\"227\">RUSH: Congratulations, sir.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: I\u2019m a proud American citizen. This is the best country in the world.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Thank you, sir, very much.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: And to prove it is that the whole world wants to come here, not many of us want to get out.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: I don\u2019t know anybody that wants to get out. The liberals threaten to leave, but they never do.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Yes, that\u2019s what I\u2019m saying. That\u2019s the proof of how good we are. Now, we, your students, hear you day after day exposing Dingy Harry\u2019s real estate unethical deals, Mrs. Clinton\u2019s unethical campaign funds must be deals, too. And unfortunately, I have seen several presidential campaigns here, and I\u2019m afraid that when the real debate becomes real between the real candidates, the Republican candidate will not expose all the things you say, and the left will continue to get away with murder.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Well, look, I understand this defensive nature that Republicans have. It still exists in a lot of people\u2019s minds that the Democrats are aces; that they are in total control; they get everything done; they never goof up; they never screw up; they never make mistakes; they\u2019re going to outsmart Republicans at every turn and Republicans aren\u2019t going to have the guts to call Mrs. Clinton on the fundraising. I don\u2019t think that\u2019s true here. I think in the case of Mitt Romney and Rudy Giuliani, and McCain especially, given his love for McCain-Feingold, and whoever, you know, Fred Thompson, I think, folks, we have not seen the kind of campaign we are going to see next year. And because of the front-loaded nature of these primaries, we could possibly have the nominees in both parties chosen by February or March.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s going to be a long drawn-out knockout slugfest, and we can\u2019t predict the direction the filth will fly, the dirt will go. But if Rudy\u2019s the nominee, make no mistake, they\u2019re already hammering Hillary. This whole debate last night was about Hillary. I don\u2019t think our guys are going to shy away from it at all. In fact, I think most of our guys in the Republican field want to run against Hillary precisely because of things like this, because it is a gold mine, it\u2019s a golden opportunity. She already has 49% or 50% negatives. So I think that this is something that they\u2019re looking at as made-to-order. I\u2019m going to use your call here, Orlando, as a transition into some of these debate sound bites. We first have Fred Thompson here. The question from Chris Wallace, &#8216;Senator Thompson, have these two guys,\u2019 meaning Mitt and Rudy, &#8216;convinced you that you are wrong and that, in fact, they are both consistent conservatives?\u2019<\/p>\n<p>THOMPSON: Actually, Mitt, I didn\u2019t know there was any room to the left of Ted Kennedy, but maybe there&#8230; (laughter) In fact, I didn\u2019t know there was any room to the right of him, either, but maybe&#8230; (laughter) I was conservative as soon as I put down &#8216;Conscience of a Conservative\u2019 when I was in college. Mayor Giuliani believes in federal funding for abortion. He believes in sanctuary cities. He\u2019s for gun control. He supported Mario Cuomo, a liberal Democrat, against a Republican who was running for governor; then opposed the governor\u2019s (bell) tax cuts when he was there. So I simply disagree with him on those issues. And he sides with Hillary Clinton on each of those issues I just mentioned.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: So they actually started debating each other as to who is the real conservative, who is more conservative. Chris Wallace says, &#8216;Mr. Giuliani, how do you respond?\u2019<\/p>\n<p>GIULIANI: Fred has his problems, too. (laughter) I mean, Fred, was the single biggest obstacle to tort reform in the United States Senate. He stood with Democrats over and over again. He voted against $250,000 caps on damages, which they have in Texas. He voted against almost anything that would make our legal system fairer, &#8216;loser pays\u2019 rules, things that would prevent lawsuits like that $54 million lawsuit by the guy who lost his pants, you know?<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: So they went after each other on this. I thought they all were good last night. I thought that it was a pretty interesting debate because it was more like a debate finally. By the way, news flash, we\u2019re hearing a rumor that the subject matter of Osama Bin Laden\u2019s new audiotape is, in fact, the SCHIP program, the State Children\u2019s Health Insurance Program, and how that money could better be spent from Iraq, take it from Iraq and spend on that program. Later on in the debate, Chris Wallace said to Mitt Romney, &#8216;Governor, is Hillary Clinton fit to be commander-in-chief?\u2019<\/p>\n<p>ROMNEY: The idea that someone wants to be president who\u2019s never worked in the private sector, is really a big question mark. She hasn\u2019t run a corner store; she hasn\u2019t run a state; she hasn\u2019t run a city; she has never run anything. And the idea that she could learn to be president, you know, as an internship just doesn\u2019t make any sense.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: So this is when the attacks on Hillary then began. Chris Wallace said, &#8216;Governor Romney says Republicans aren\u2019t going to beat Hillary Clinton by acting like Hillary Clinton. And the point seems to be that on a lot of social issues, like abortion and gay rights and gun control, that there\u2019s not much difference between you, Mayor Giuliani, and Hillary Clinton. Is there?\u2019<\/p>\n<p>GIULIANI: You gotta be kidding. (laughter) You have got to be kidding. Wait a second. There are two things I agree with Hillary Clinton on. First of all, we\u2019re both Yankee fans. Well, wait a second, I became a Yankee fan growing up in New York. She became a Yankee fan growing up in Chicago. Do you believe that? Second, she made a statement last week, and I\u2019ve been very critical of her, but I want to tell her I agree with this. Quote Hillary Clinton: &#8216;I have a million ideas. America cannot afford them all.\u2019 I\u2019m not making it up. One more time: &#8216;I have a million ideas. America can\u2019t afford them all.\u2019 No kidding, Hillary. America can\u2019t afford you.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Yay! And the applause went on, and on, and on. So, you see, it was a spirited debate, and the focus really was on Mrs. Clinton after they had the debates over who\u2019s the real conservative. But the conclusion that I drew from watching this is that nobody is afraid of her in this field, and they\u2019re eager to run up against somebody with as much baggage as she obviously has. This fundraising thing, the Republicans are going to use it when it\u2019s time. Remember, folks, the election is not for a year, a little over a year.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Let\u2019s get McCain &#8212; let\u2019s be fair &#8212; on the Republican presidential debate last night. Many people think this was the line of the night. Chris Wallace, the moderator, said, &#8216;Senator McCain, you\u2019re running the closest to Clinton, but you still trail her by three points in our latest poll. The biggest issue between the two of you, clearly, is the war in Iraq. You strongly support the troop surge; she wants to start pulling the troops out. Is that a winner for Republicans in 2008?\u2019<\/p>\n<p>MCCAIN: The debate that I have between me and her will be based on national security, on fiscal conservatism, and on social conservatism. It will be a respectful debate. That\u2019s what the American people want. In case you missed it, a few days ago, Senator Clinton tried to spend $1 million on the Woodstock Concert Museum. Now, my friends, I wasn\u2019t there. I\u2019m sure it was a cultural and pharmaceutical event. (laughter) I was tied up at the time. (laughter)<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Meaning he was in the Hanoi Hilton, is what he means by &#8216;tied up\u2019 when Mrs. Clinton now wants to celebrate what was going on at Woodstock. A lot of people think that was a great line &#8212; and it was. No question about it. Huckabee, he was probably at his best, too, last night talking about Hillary. Chris Wallace said, &#8216;Governor Huckabee, I\u2019m sorry to say we didn\u2019t call the horse race between you and Senator Clinton, but you say that she\u2019ll win next November if the Republican Party doesn\u2019t do a better job of reaching out to minorities.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>HUCKABEE: There\u2019s nothing funny about Hillary Clinton being president. (applause) Let me tell you why. If she\u2019s president, taxes go up, health care becomes the domain of the government, spending goes out of control; our military loses its morale, and I\u2019m not sure we\u2019ll have the courage and the will and the resolve to fight the greatest threat this country\u2019s ever faced in Islamofascism. (smattering of applause) We\u2019ve got an enemy that wants to kill every last one of us. We cannot be soft. We must be strong. We\u2019ll sign crazy bills like the Law of the Sea Treaty and give away our sovereignty, and that\u2019s why with all the fun we\u2019re going to have talking about it, there\u2019s nothing funny about Hillary being president.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: There you have it. That\u2019s Mike Huckabee talking about Clinton. You see what I mean? All these guys last night were really on their game. They were to-the-point last night. I\u2019ll give you an example. When I was in Philadelphia on Thursday night, the 11th, I was in a riff on Hillary and the Democrats. I stopped myself in the middle of the riff. That always grabs the audience\u2019s attention. They think I lost my place. &#8216;Oh, no! Is something wrong?\u2019 I stopped. Of course I never lose my place.<\/p>\n<p>I said, &#8216;Folks, does it frustrate you as much as it does me, that we don\u2019t hear this kind of thing &#8212; the things that I\u2019m saying about the Democrats and Mrs. Clinton &#8212; spoken by Republican presidential candidates?\u2019<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Yaaaay!\u2019<\/p>\n<p>They stood up and they cheered and so forth. Well, now all of a sudden, we\u2019re starting to get from these candidates the kind of statements that reflect the views of people who are going to vote for them, one of them who wins the nomination. You know, rather than the policy wonk stuff. This was the best one of the night last night &#8212; and, of course, it\u2019s happening on Fox, and Chris Wallace did a good moderator job. He turned these guys into each other. They were actually debating each other. It was a debate. It wasn\u2019t a glorified press conference. This is the network that the Democrats refused to appear on, I think maybe because they\u2019re a little afraid of it, but it\u2019s also because they just don\u2019t want to validate Fox as a legitimate news organization. Now, Rudy continued to hit on Iran. Wendell Goler, who was one of the moderators from Fox News said, &#8216;Mayor Giuliani, given our experience in Iraq, does the prospect of a nuclear-armed Iran worry you more than the prospect of going to war with Iran?\u2019<\/p>\n<p>GIULIANI: Well, there\u2019s no question that the idea of going to war with Iran or even taking military action against Iran, would be very dangerous. It would be something you would not want to do. It would be a last resort, but if you\u2019re asking me the question, which is more dangerous, a nuclear-armed Iran is more dangerous &#8212; and I think our taking the strong position here would be similar to the difference between Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter, when he was dealing with Iran. Jimmy Carter had hostages for 444 days. In one hour, the Iranians released the hostages and they saw something different in Ronald Reagan\u2019s eyes than in Jimmy Carter\u2019s eyes.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/01125114.Par.37372.ImageFile.jpg\" width=\"249\" height=\"328\">RUSH: The crowd went nuts on that, too. See, people want partisanship. Our side wants to hear what these people are saying about the Democrats. Does this not tell you&#8230;? By the way, the tone of this debate and some of the bites that I played for you&#8230;? I made a prediction that this presidential election is going to be based and centered, not on the war in Iraq per se, as the theme or the number-one issue. It\u2019s going to be about the future of the country and where people like Hillary will take it and where people like guys on our side will take it. That\u2019s going to be the fundamental debate. That\u2019s going to be the fundamental thing that this presidential campaign is about. So on CBS on the Early Show today, the co-host Hannah Storm talked with CBS Face the Nation host Bob Schieffer, and she said, &#8216;Bob, who won the I-am-the-most-conservative prize last night at the&#8230;?\u2019 with derision and so forth and so on. &#8216;Who won the I-am-the-most-conservative last night at the debate?\u2019<\/p>\n<p>SCHIEFFER: Well, it was a contest as they all tried to accuse each other as who was the most like Hillary Clinton. (snickers) You know, I was thinking about this, Hannah. Herbert Hoover, the Republican president, presided over the Great Depression. Franklin Roosevelt started running against Herbert Hoover in 1932, and three decades later Democrats were still running against Herbert Hoover. I think for the Republicans, Hillary Clinton has become the new Herbert Hoover. As you saw last night, they all want to run against Hillary Clinton. They accused each other of being like Hillary Clinton. I came away from this debate wondering, &#8216;What would they do without her?\u2019<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: You know, that is just stunning, because, Bob, I\u2019m going to tell you something: Half of the Democrats in this country that are going to go vote for president in November next year are going to be shocked when they see that George W. Bush\u2019s name is not on the ballot. Who the hell are the Democrats so in love with running against? Who have they been running against? They\u2019re still running against Bush; he\u2019s not even on the ballot! Herbert Hoover was on the ballot. These guys are not on the ballot, Bush isn\u2019t. They can\u2019t stand it when people attack Hillary. They just can\u2019t stand it, folks! They just can\u2019t stand it so they gotta mock Republicans, make fun of them and all that. Back to the phones quickly, Ron in Portland, Oregon, thanks for waiting, sir, you\u2019re on the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Rush.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoover.org\/publications\/digest\/6731666.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/01125114.Par.45688.ImageFile.jpg\" width=\"249\" height=\"317\"><\/a>CALLER: Thank you for taking my call. Listen, John McCain is too old, he talks too slow, and he\u2019s too friendly with Hillary. He said last night he respected Hillary. He\u2019s going to have a respectable debate with Hillary. We don\u2019t want that. The country doesn\u2019t want that. Here\u2019s the gal that\u2019s taking money from Chinese dishwashers that John McCain was supposed to fix, and he respects her! Remember, John McCain was considered by John Kerry to be his running mate. Anybody that is that close to those guys, is no friend of mine.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Well, I noticed. It caught my ears when McCain said he was going to have &#8216;a debate with Hillary, a spirited debate, but it will be a respectful debate. That\u2019s what the American people want.\u2019 You know what that is, Ron? That\u2019s just Senate-speak. &#8216;My good friend Harry Reid&#8230; My wonderful colleague Daniel Akaka&#8230;\u2019 That\u2019s all this decorum that exists in the Senate and so forth by rule. You\u2019ll note that&#8230; Do you know who the last senator elected president was in this country? Take a wild guess. It was John F. Kennedy, right, in 1960. That\u2019s the last time a US Senator has been elected president here. It\u2019s because these guys don\u2019t delegate. They\u2019re in charge of everything; their egos are out of control and that means they can\u2019t delegate to be able to say staffs very well. Their staffs start screwing things up. Hillary is pretty good at delegating because she\u2019s had the war room all along but she\u2019s intimately involved in it as well.<\/p>\n<p>But this &#8216;respectful debate\u2019 and so forth is simply Senate speak, and I don\u2019t know whether the American people want a disrespectful debate, but they don\u2019t want phony nice. That\u2019s a myth. &#8216;The American people are sick of partisanship. The American people want to return to civility.\u2019 All that is, folks, is that\u2019s liberal jive, and what that means is, &#8216;We\u2019ve gotta shut Republicans and conservatives up. We just have to shut \u2019em up,\u2019 because they, in their estimation, it is impossible for them to participate in or create or be responsible for any lack of civility or any partnership. It\u2019s going to be the all Republicans. So when you hear people talk like this, it just means that Republicans have to shut up. So when McCain says it will be a civil debate and respectful debate, Republicans cringe over that because they know that Hillary isn\u2019t going to be polite. She might be polite on stage; she might be polite when they have debates, but the campaign is not going to be polite. Nothing about it is going to be polite. Most campaigns aren\u2019t. Learn it, love it, live it. Get used to it!<\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Orlando in Miami, Florida, nice to have you, sir, on the EIB Network. CALLER: Hello. RUSH: Hello. CALLER: Good afternoon, Maha Rushie. Greetings from south Florida. I\u2019m a legal Cuban immigrant who applied for American citizenship the very first day I was able to do that back in 1974. RUSH: Congratulations, sir. 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