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RUSH: We are gonna go back to Mike in St. Louis. Mike, great to have you on the EIB Network via KMOX. How are you, sir?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019m fine, Rush. Thanks for taking my call.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You bet. You bet.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I wanted to make a comment about Carly Fiorina. I think that the environment from which she comes, which is corporate America — and I worked in corporate America for more than 20 years — is the most politically correct environment you\u2019re gonna find. I mean, we had diversity training, mandatory diversity training. We were measured. We had to take tests on diversity. And I\u2019m not saying that\u2019s bad. I\u2019m just saying that it creates an attitude towards political correctness, just to use diversity as a particular example, that she would carry into a position like the White House. So that\u2019s why I like Ben Carson and Donald Trump, because they\u2019re standing up against the forces of PC, and I can\u2019t see Carly Fiorina really standing up to the forces of PC.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, you having said that, I\u2019ve had a lot of people, and I\u2019ve read, too, a number of people who watched the last debate, which was universally decided in her favor, that she mopped the floor with those schlubs. And some people said that, “Wait a minute now, she threw the gender card down there. She\u2019s got this victim chip on her shoulder, and she\u2019s not at all restrained in using it and playing it.” Now, given your sensitivity to diversity training and CEO and corporate human resources stuff, did you see that yourself? Did you think that when you watched the debate, if you watched it?<\/line><\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I didn\u2019t watch it. I mean, let me just say that I would prefer her certainly to Hillary Clinton. I mean, there\u2019s no question about that, to any Democrat.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well —<\/p>\n

CALLER: There\u2019s a lot of things about her that I really admire. It wouldn\u2019t be a show stopper for me to not vote for her because I think that she\u2019d be soft on political correctness, but I just think that if you have other alternatives to her, like Trump and Carson, I would prefer them, based on the fact that —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, while I\u2019ve got you here, I have two sound bites. We can listen to these with you on the other end of the phone here. She was on The Tonight Show last night with Jimmy Fallon and we have two bites. The first one Fallon says: “Ben Carson is in a lot of trouble now because –” he\u2019s not in a lot of trouble. He\u2019s in trouble with the screwballs in the media. He\u2019s gaining support. He\u2019s not in trouble. Anyway, the question, “Ben Carson\u2019s in a lot of trouble now because he\u2019s saying he would not advocate a Muslim being president.”<\/p>\n

FIORINA: I think that\u2019s wrong. You know, it says in our Constitution that religion cannot be a test for office. I actually believe that people of faith make better leaders, whether they\u2019re Christians, whether it\u2019s a person of Christian faith or Jewish faith or Muslim faith or other faiths. I think faith gives us humility and empathy and optimism and I think those are important things.<\/p>\n

FALLON: So you would be fine with that.<\/p>\n

FIORINA: Yes, I would be fine with that.<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay, your reaction to that, Mike. Is that a little diversity on parade there, political correctness, or is that okay?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, I think it\u2019s political correctness. I think that it\u2019s really only a half statement. I was reading on the Web what she said. “It says in our Constitution that religion cannot be a test for office,” but she doesn\u2019t mention that religion cannot supersede the Constitution, particularly when you take an oath to up hold the Constitution, when you take an oath for any office, I suppose.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, I don\u2019t know where it says in the Constitution that religion cannot be a test. I don\u2019t know, I\u2019ve not seen that. I know she\u2019s talking about separation of church and state, but it seems to me that Ben Carson\u2019s right on this. Hey, look, if you have a religious belief that makes the Constitution secondary or even third-rate status to your religious beliefs, sorry, bud, you\u2019re not wanted. The oath of office is to defend and protect the Constitution, not to subordinate it.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right, right. And Sharia law would subordinate the Constitution.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Subordinate it? (laughing) It\u2019d be lucky if it got away with just being subordinated. It\u2019d be lucky if it still existed in the National Archives.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right. And I think that the fact that she did not say that is an indication of —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, well, it\u2019s politics. She\u2019s trying to capitalize on what she really hopes is something that tripped Carson, \u2019cause, remember, in the polls it\u2019s her and Carson who are rising and Trump supposedly is falling. Trump\u2019s all ticked off, by the way, people that report that. He\u2019s got another boycott of Fox News going on now because they\u2019re reporting a poll that shows him losing ground. Here\u2019s the next Carly sound bite. Question from Jimmy Fallon. “Vladimir Putin is saying he wants to meet with Trump when he comes here and that he wants to sit down and have a conversation with him. Have you met Putin?”<\/p>\n

FIORINA: I have. Well, the two of them have a lot in common, actually, but — (laughter) — we\u2019ll just leave it at that. I would describe him as a formidable adversary. He\u2019s very confident, he\u2019s very — he actually can be quite funny and charming, but he\u2019s a KGB guy, you know, we should never forget this.<\/p>\n