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RUSH: From our old buddies at Mediaite: ‘Bill O\u2019Reilly On GOP 2012 Lineup: If I\u2019m Obama, ‘I\u2019m Not Quaking Over There\u2019 — Bill O\u2019Reilly and Charles Krauthammer discussed a recent column by George Will claiming there are really only five serious Republican candidates for President in 2012: Mitch Daniels, Haley Barbour, Tim Pawlenty, Jon Huntsman and Mitt Romney. Krauthammer agreed with that field of candidates, prompting O\u2019Reilly to conclude with a list like that, ‘if I\u2019m President Obama, I\u2019m not quaking over there,” if it\u2019s one of those five. ‘Krauthammer dismissed the possibility of Mike Huckabee or Sarah Palin running, given that both have lucrative Fox News contracts and have shown no indication that they are taking steps to run. <\/p>\n

<\/a>‘O\u2019Reilly was surprised that Newt Gingrich was left off the list, however Krauthammer didn\u2019t consider him ‘serious\u2019 either. Krauthammer described Gingrich as someone with little chance to win because he\u2019s ‘undicisplined\u2019 and not likely to ‘wear well in the primary season.\u2019 O\u2019Reilly dismissed all of the ‘serious\u2019 candidates, except Romney, as people ‘nobody knows,\u2019 whereas Krauthammer dismissed the possibility of Romney being successful due to his continued ‘illogical\u2019 defense of Romneycare in Massachusetts… Both O\u2019Reilly and Krauthammer agreed that the election in 2012 will be mostly about Obama, and that is why all Krauthammer wants is a Republican candidate who is ‘steady and solid.”<\/p>\n

That was the thrust of the discussion. So I\u2019m just gonna put it out there to you. George Will and Krauthammer, two of the smartest guys in our room, say these are the five: Mitch Daniels, Haley Barbour, Tim Pawlenty, Jon Huntsman and Mitt Romney. Notice also that Huckabee\u2019s name is not in this list. Is Huckabee serious about running? I think Huckabee is serious. You think he\u2019s not? (interruption) Well, forget ‘hope\u2019 here, Snerdley. I\u2019m just asking. Whatever you see, does it look like Huckabee will run? It doesn\u2019t look like Huckabee will run? Okay. Newt obvious is. Newt\u2019s very serious about it. It\u2019s apparent, obvious that Newt is serious about it. <\/p>\n

Yeah, Palin. You know, I keep hearkening back to Byron York. I thought he had a great piece yesterday about 1991, and now here comes H.W. Bush, Bush 41, 90% approval after the Gulf War — and the Democrats, they thought, ‘Let\u2019s sit the big names in our bench. We\u2019re not gonna win this year. I mean, there\u2019s no chance! We got Bush here with 90% approval, Gulf War? Why waste our guys this year? Why get one of our big guns defeated and thrown away?\u2019 So, little did they know at the time that Perot was gonna get serious — and, of course, Bill Clinton didn\u2019t get the memo that Bush couldn\u2019t be beat. So he kept plugging away even through Whitewater, through Gennifer Flowers, all of that stuff.<\/p>\n

And the Perot things become what it became and, lo and behold, a guy with 90% approval — who was likable — ended up losing. Now, there\u2019s a lot of factors here. Some say Bush 41 really didn\u2019t seem to want to be reelected, didn\u2019t seem to take either Clinton or Perot seriously enough early enough. Whatever. Obama, you look at Obama, too. Obama, there was a lot of prepub Obama way before Obama decided to do it, and the same thing with Clinton. These guys get into it late. So it\u2019s still a little early, I think, to start saying these are the five guys and that\u2019s it and without these five nobody else has a chance. But that seems to me the conventional wisdom from the smartest guys in the room, that if it\u2019s not one of these five, forget it. We don\u2019t have a chance.<\/p>\n

And O\u2019Reilly thinks we don\u2019t have a chance if it\u2019s one of these five. (interruption) I don\u2019t know anything about Mr. Huntsman. All I know is he\u2019s the ambassador to China for Obama and he\u2019s now leaving \u2019cause they just had a new ceremony here today and this Chu guy is going over to China. Gary Locke, I\u2019m sorry. Gary Locke. What\u2019s Chu doing? Where\u2019s Chu? Why did I get screwed up with Chu? Well, I don\u2019t know. Chu\u2019s doing something. (interruption) That might be right. Chu may be going over to where Locke was and Locke\u2019s going to China where Huntsman was and Huntsman\u2019s coming back to run. <\/p>\n

Now, Huntsman, you know what they tried to do with Romney being a Mormon, so they\u2019ll try to do that on Huntsman being a Mormon, too, being from Utah. Plus Huntsman big, wealthy family, huge industrialist, major, major wealth there. Oh, yeah. Yeah. But he\u2019s also considered a ‘moderate.\u2019 Now, remember the Democrat candidates in 1988? Let\u2019s go back to 1988. They called the Democrat candidates in 1988 ‘the Seven Dwarves,\u2019 and who were they? You had Bruce Ba-da ba-da ba-da ba-da Babbitt, you had Joe Biden (that\u2019s the Neil Kinnock election where Biden plagiarizd Neil Kinnock), you had Dukakis (‘The Loser), you had Dick Gephardt, you had Algore running in \u201988, Gary Hart(pence), you had the Reverend Jackson, and Paul Simon.<\/p>\n

Now, that\u2019s 1988. That\u2019s the Democrat Seven Dwarves. Those guys look like giants now when you compare to people today! (laughing) But Dukakis eventually prevailed in that group. Gephardt didn\u2019t last long. Algore, of course, was problematic. Gary Hart(pence)? Hart(pence)\u2019s problem was he got into an argument with Jesse Jackson over who could get us out of wherever first. No! That was with Mondull in \u201984. Sorry, I\u2019m confusing the years. Hart(pence) was up against Mondull in \u201984 for the nomination, and they got this big argument, ‘Well, I\u2019ll get us outta South Africa!\u2019 ‘Okay, fine, I\u2019ll get us outta Angola.\u2019 ‘Well, I\u2019ll call you, and I\u2019ll get us out of Kuwait.\u2019 ‘Well, that\u2019s no big deal. I\u2019ll get us out of Bosnia!\u2019 <\/p>\n

That was their campaign. We were just gonna divest everywhere. Meanwhile, Mondull got the nomination, and at his acceptance speech in San Francisco promised to raise taxes! Mondull said, ‘I just told you. They\u2019re gonna raise taxes, too, but they won\u2019t tell you. I just did.\u2019 That was the end of Mondull. Mondull never had a chance. You know when I knew it was over for Mondull? I don\u2019t remember the date. It was during the middle of the campaign and I\u2019m watching the CBS Evening News (which, back then, was hosted by Dan Rather, anchored by Dan Rather) and there was a story. It was after the conventions and there was a story. <\/p>\n

As best I can remember, Rather opened up with a piece of video. The video was a private jet taxiing to a stop, and one guy getting off the plane: Mondale. In the middle of the campaign. And Rather\u2019s report was dry, perfunctory, was not filled with excitement. (impression) ‘Democrat presidential candidate Walter Mondale today arrived in San Francisco. We have a shot of Walter Mondale getting off the plane, and that was it.\u2019 I said, ‘Here\u2019s the presidential candidate getting off a small private jet by himself.\u2019 (sigh) Something just told me, my instincts: ‘What\u2019s he doing here? By himself in the middle of the campaign?\u2019 <\/p>\n

He was obviously going to see some money guy to do something. I said, ‘This is not something that somebody who expects to win or is leading the polls is gonna do.\u2019 Gary Hart(pence) was ‘Hot Pants\u2019 back then. Remember the Monkey Business yacht over there and Bimini, Bimini island? He was the original Clinton, just ahead of his time. Back then it wasn\u2019t cool — and of course Hot Pants forgot all you had to do here was grab the wife, go down the Virgin Islands and put on swimsuits and start dancing on the beach. It doesn\u2019t matter whether you have any music or not, just do it. But he didn\u2019t learn that lesson because it was yet to be taught. That lesson was taught to all of us by Bill Clinton. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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