via Rush Limbaugh Picks His GOP Favorites: Palin, Sanford.
For Democrats, it doesn’t get much better than this: three of its favorite targets brought together during one Fox television segment.
During an interview Wednesday with Neil Cavuto, conservative radio king and
Governor Mark Sanford
prime partisan target Rush Limbaugh was asked to name his favorite “up-and-coming
Republicans.” Limbaugh’s answer: two leading potential Republican presidential candidates in 2010 and also prime Democratic targets.
“I — I like the kind of things I am hearing out of Governor [Mark] Sanford from South Carolina,” Rush said. “I have always admired Governor [Sarah] Palin. I don’t think people have any idea what it’s like to walk in her shoes, after what she has been through with the media coverage. But she doesn’t back down.”
Presidential candidates in 2010? You mean 2012.
He likes the kind of things he hears from Governor Sanford. Sanford spoke today at Fort Mill, SC and held a Q&A session with Rotary members. (Here come the softballs) Here are some of the things that Rush likes to hear from Sanford:
Sanford spoke for about 20 minutes and took questions for nearly a half hour. Before taking questions, he laid out his position using a series of charts and graphs that he said illustrates South Carolina’s bleak financial situation. He said the state continues to rack up debt while trying to keep up with the cost of funding schools and paying retirement benefits to S.C. employees at a time when the state’s revenues are in steep decline.
Ooooooh! Charts and graphs! He should show on his graphs how the state’s revenues are in sharp decline. Republicans have never met a tax cut they didn’t like – then complain as if shocked when the revenues decline! Is Sanford really that thick, or is he playing the populace for fools?
Using the stimulus money to pay the bills instead of reducing debt and spending just defers the problem, the governor said.
Two things. Firstly, paying the bills as they come in is the same thing as reducing debt. If you do nothing, debt accumulates. If you pay down debt, then more bills arrive there is stability of a sort that’s difficult to track. But if you pay bills as they come then the debt stabilizes at a known amount.
The second thing is every dollar invested in early education comes back at rates as high as $17 per every $1. If the Governor of South Carolina handed me a dollar and for every dollar he handed me I gave him back a five or a ten, would that not be a great way to invest the state’s money?
Wait a minute! The questions pitched at Sanford may not be so soft after all.
One terse question came from Guynn Savage, a local real estate consultant and former Fort Mill Town Council member. She noted that Fort Mill’s growth and prosperity were a product of having the highest-rated schools in the state and wondered what would happen “if we don’t take [the stimulus] money and invest it in the education of our children and bring jobs to South Carolina. I would like to keep them here.”
Sanford said, “I hear where you’re coming from,” he replied “but I don’t think these stimulus checks are the key to South Carolina’s recovery.”
In other words: More money isn’t the answer to our money problems.
Rush Limbaugh likes this stupid crap he hears from Governor Sanford.
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