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<\/p>\nRUSH: Mark, Santa Clara, Utah. Hello, sir. Great to have you with us.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Hi, Rush. Thanks for taking my call.<\/p>\n
RUSH: You bet.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Santa Clara is a suburb of St. George.<\/p>\n
RUSH: What is St. George a suburb of?<\/p>\n
CALLER: (laughing) St. George is a city in southwestern Utah.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Okay.<\/p>\n
CALLER: High desert country.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, it\u2019s great to have you on the program and it\u2019s great to learn the geography.<\/p>\n
CALLER: There you go. You learn something new every day, right?<\/p>\n
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CALLER: There you go. Rush, I\u2019m calling to try to hijack your airwaves to direct my message towards Congressman Paul Ryan of Wisconsin.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n
CALLER: I\u2019m desperately attempting to try to get this guy to enter into the presidential race.<\/p>\n
RUSH: He said he doesn\u2019t want to.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Well, you know, he works for the people, though, he chose his career, and I\u2019m one of the people, and I\u2019m just speaking up, and desperately begging the man to please reconsider. You know, Rush, we have 537 elected federal representatives. Only one has a plan. Five hundred thirty-six are staggering around in circles shooting themselves in the forehead with Botox or whatever they\u2019re doing. One guy has a plan. By Sherlock Holmes\u2019 theory of default, when you eliminate everything else what you have left is your answer. Apparently Paul Ryan is our answer.<\/p>\n
RUSH: You should know that the Wall Street Journal editorial board has I think today, if I\u2019m right about this, just endorsed the economic plan of Jon Huntsman. Now, they previously endorsed the economic plan of Paul Ryan. Yes, “Last month the same editorial writers called on fiscal conservatives like Rep. Paul Ryan and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie to enter the GOP presidential race — calling the declared candidates a ‘weak field.\u2019 But weeks later it seems conservative intellectual class has found its candidate in Huntsman.” So the Wall Street Journal, since Ryan said he\u2019s not gonna run, they just today have endorsed, or this week have endorsed the economic plan of Huntsman. I don\u2019t think they\u2019ve endorsed his candidacy per se.<\/p>\n
CALLER: I\u2019m not even familiar with his economic plan.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Nor am I.<\/p>\n
CALLER: The reason I\u2019m a fan of Paul Ryan is because he has the courage to actually come up with a plan —<\/p>\n
RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n
CALLER: — and also I watched him at the love fest for the health care symposium or whatever it was on a Friday afternoon where the Republicans went to the White House and Paul Ryan stood up and asked the president, why are we even dealing with something like this when we can\u2019t afford the other entitlements, and the president looked like a deer in the headlights and said, lunchtime.<\/p>\n
RUSH: He looked worse, he looked ticked off, he was shooting daggers at Ryan.<\/p>\n
CALLER: He does not like him.<\/p>\n
RUSH: That\u2019s exactly right, he doesn\u2019t like him.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Paul Ryan went after Ben Bernanke one day and said, is not the cruelest thing that you can do to a society to monetize its currency, and Ben Bernanke\u2019s answer was it would be if we weren\u2019t gonna pay it back, which you know how they pay that money back.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Yeah, I do.<\/p>\n
CALLER: That works out. Anyway, I\u2019m trying to focus this — and what I would suggest is that perhaps Congressman Ryan could call your show and explain why he feels that — or maybe he could tell you who he feels is a better candidate for president.<\/p>\n
RUSH: I don\u2019t think he\u2019s —<\/p>\n
CALLER: I\u2019m hoping something like that could occur.<\/p>\n
RUSH: I don\u2019t think he\u2019s going to do that at this stage.<\/p>\n
CALLER: What\u2019s that?<\/p>\n
RUSH: I don\u2019t think Ryan\u2019s gonna identify a candidate yet.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Well —<\/p>\n
RUSH: I could be wrong.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Well, I\u2019ll tell you, John Fund has a piece out today that runs at NewsMax.com in which he says that Sarah Palin is not going to run. Instead, she is going to endorse Rick Perry. That\u2019s what Fund says.<\/p>\n
BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n
RUSH: Now, I had a caller who wanted to know about Paul Ryan, why isn\u2019t Paul Ryan gonna run? He actually explained it last night. He was with CNN political chief analyst Gloria Borger. She interviewed Paul Ryan. She said, “You\u2019ve been getting pressure from people like Bill Bennett and Bill Kristol and others to get into this race and you decided in the end that you didn\u2019t want to do that. Why?”<\/p>\n
RYAN: A lot of people tried to convince me that I should jump in this race. As you can tell, the race has not formed fully yet, my answer really hasn\u2019t changed. If I really wanted to run for president, I would have done it months ago. I think in any job in politics you can have balance with your family, but I\u2019m not so sure you can do that with this particular job. And so I just couldn\u2019t get over that, and when other people want you to run for president more badly than you yourself do, I think that kind of says something.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Yeah. So it\u2019s the family, can\u2019t balance family with this gig, just can\u2019t do it. I\u2019m trying to think, some of you Reagan veterans are gonna have to tell me but I do remember the Reagan Kitchen Cabinet gathered Reagan and persuaded him to run and said, “We need you, pal.” I think Reagan was in part talked into it. I\u2019m not saying that Reagan had no desire to do it and the Kitchen Cabinet did all the heavy lifting and persuaded him to do it, but I do know that there was a loyal cadre of people. I also know that that kind of arrangement would be illegal today, not that it was illegal then, just that laws today are such that you couldn\u2019t get people together with money like that back then in those days to set up an organization necessary to do it. Laws have changed in such a way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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