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RUSH: Uh, well, why not Judge Napolitano?<\/p>\nRUSH: Here\u2019s Randy, Salem, Oregon, back to Open Line Friday we go. How you doing, Randy?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Good. Honoring to speak with you, Rush. I think that Trump should consider placing Pence on the ticket next year. My reasons behind saying that are that I think that Pence is low energy, I don\u2019t think that he brings much to the party demographically, and I certainly don\u2019t think he has the charisma to carry the party on his shoulders in 2024. Some fire-in-the-belly people that I would like to see him consider would be somebody like Ted Cruz, maybe a Judge Jeanine, or really blow the Democrats minds and put somebody like Donald Jr. on the ticket in 2020.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Uh, well, why not Judge Napolitano?<\/p>\n
CALLER: I… Uhhh… I don\u2019t know how he thinks.<\/p>\n
RUSH: You know how Judge Nap thinks?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Eh, I\u2019ve heard him. He seems sometimes like he\u2019s wandering.<\/p>\n
RUSH: I\u2019ve heard a lot of names. I\u2019ve not heard Judge Jeanine.<\/p>\n
CALLER: She has the fire.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Yeah, but it\u2019s more than that. Trump is gonna carry the ticket. Trump\u2019s gonna be the demographic and the energetic engine. Pence\u2019s role here… Like so much of the Trump presidency, Trump campaign, it throws out these formulas where you pick a vice president from a state that you don\u2019t think the nominee can win. You pick a vice president because maybe it can get some demographic. That\u2019s not why Pence is there. Pence is there to provide an ideological grounding. He\u2019s a prime adviser to Donald Trump.<\/p>\n
He is in the Oval Office. He\u2019s in the West Wing every day. He doesn\u2019t seek the limelight. He\u2019s not trying to be seen as any kind of equal player. But his role is deeply and profoundly important, and Trump respects the heck out of him. Now, I have no idea if Pence is gonna be on the ticket. I haven\u2019t heard any of the speculation. You bringing this up in this call and the first that I\u2019ve heard anybody really, seriously address it — and anything can happen.<\/p>\n
Pence may decide he doesn\u2019t want to do it again. I have no idea. I don\u2019t know what Pence\u2019s political aspirations are, if he wants to someday run for the White House or whether he wants to go back and be a talk radio host and be Rush Jr. Well, it\u2019d be Rush IV in this case. What was his nickname? He did a talk show in Indiana. They called him “the laid-back Rush Limbaugh,” some such thing as that. But his role with Trump has always been one of an anchor, if you will.<\/p>\n
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Some of the policy things that Trump is engaging on, Mike Pence has a crucial role in being influential about. So he\u2019s not a potted plant, and he does not serve the traditional vice president role. Like, Biden\u2019s gonna have to pick somebody that will help him pick up slack where he doesn\u2019t have any. Trump doesn\u2019t need anybody like that. Trump is not the kind of nominee that people will vote for if they like the vice president. Trump\u2019s gonna win it up or down.<\/p>\n
Pence\u2019s value during a campaign is not to pick up people that Trump doesn\u2019t have. It\u2019s to maintain the base, it\u2019s to continue to provide confidence in the base, and to remind everybody of what the ideological underpinnings of the Trump administration are. Because Trump is not, per se, an ideological guy. His instincts take him straight down the middle of conservatism, but articulating is not what he does. That\u2019s what Pence does. But having said all that, I don\u2019t have any idea what even Pence wants to do going forward.<\/p>\n
BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n
RUSH: Here is Andrew in Bloomington, Illinois. Great to have you, sir. Hi.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Hi. Hey, I know I\u2019m at the end of hour and short on time. I\u2019ve been told to speed it up. I agree earlier regarding getting rid of Pence. Not to dish Pence, but we need a VP who is gonna meet four requirements. They will run in 2020 and have a chance of winning. They will support and continue Trump\u2019s policies. They\u2019re gonna have deep pockets and financial support outside of Washington special groups. And, fourth — which is really gonna be important — is they need to be a minority to appease the “woke” crowd. Now, I agree with your earlier guy. Now, I understand what you said earlier is saying that, you know, Pence has a purpose. But he could serve that purpose as a cabinet member. We need a VP that is gonna be able to continue in 2024. As you said earlier, the last thing we want is like what happened with Reagan. We get Democrats —<\/p>\n
RUSH: No. No. We got exactly what you want! (sigh) Reagan\u2019s VP that ran for effectively his third term.<\/p>\n
Out of time. I gotta go here. I misread the clock. I\u2019m sorry about. Darn it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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