WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.640 --> 00:00:04.799 Attention. You're listening to the Todd Huff Radio show, America's home for conservative 2 00:00:04.960 --> 00:00:09.080 not Bitter Talk radio. Be advised. The content of this program has been 3 00:00:09.080 --> 00:00:12.759 documented to prevents and even cure liberalism, and listening may cause you to lead 4 00:00:12.839 --> 00:00:33.560 to the right. Here's your conservative but not Bitter host, Todd Huff. 5 00:00:35.560 --> 00:00:39.439 All right, my friends, you have tuned in to America's sons Conservative not 6 00:00:39.520 --> 00:00:44.679 Bitter Talk. It's an excellent decision that you made here today. You want 7 00:00:44.679 --> 00:00:48.920 to be part of today's conversation, you can email Todd at Todd Huff show 8 00:00:49.159 --> 00:00:54.399 dot com thoughts, questions, feedback, adoration and praise. 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And by now you almost know for 16 00:01:37.040 --> 00:01:44.719 certain that Mike Pence, former Vice President Mike Pence, former governor of the 17 00:01:44.879 --> 00:01:49.319 Great State of Indiana, Mike Pence, former Congressman Mike Pence, former talk 18 00:01:49.439 --> 00:01:57.000 radio show host. Mike Pence has thrown his name into the proverbial ring in 19 00:01:57.079 --> 00:02:06.959 the twenty twenty four Republican presidential primary process. Now I'll pause and go back 20 00:02:06.959 --> 00:02:09.840 to one of those things some of you may know, some of you may 21 00:02:09.879 --> 00:02:16.879 not know that Mike Pence literally had a talk radio show in Indianapolis. I 22 00:02:16.960 --> 00:02:20.560 don't know if it was elsewhere or not. To be honest, I don't 23 00:02:22.400 --> 00:02:24.479 I don't think so, but it could have been. I'm not sure, 24 00:02:24.560 --> 00:02:31.120 but he had a talk radio show in Indianapolis prior to his running for congress. 25 00:02:32.039 --> 00:02:38.479 He actually lost his first congressional race, and then of course he became 26 00:02:38.560 --> 00:02:44.960 congressman for the I think it was the sixth District was his district, and 27 00:02:45.599 --> 00:02:49.479 of course from there he became governor, and then of course was chosen as 28 00:02:49.560 --> 00:02:55.080 vice president of the United States for Donald J. Trump. I'm pausing because 29 00:02:55.120 --> 00:03:01.199 I was told a story as to how Pence was chosen to be vice president 30 00:03:02.000 --> 00:03:10.000 from someone very very close to Mike Pence, and maybe time permitting, I'll 31 00:03:10.039 --> 00:03:15.360 shared it's a very very interesting story, to say the least, but we'll 32 00:03:15.360 --> 00:03:19.960 hold on to that for the moment. I want to say at the beginning 33 00:03:19.960 --> 00:03:23.759 here that most of you know this, some of you may not, but 34 00:03:23.919 --> 00:03:28.800 being from I am from Indiana. Indiana's home. It's where I was born, 35 00:03:29.960 --> 00:03:35.639 raised, went to high school, went to college. It's been my 36 00:03:35.719 --> 00:03:40.800 home. It's been my home for most almost all of my life. You 37 00:03:40.800 --> 00:03:46.680 could say, you could say all of my life. Although my son says 38 00:03:46.759 --> 00:03:53.080 that we are now honorary Floridians, honorary Floridians, we've been. For those 39 00:03:53.080 --> 00:03:55.599 of you that have followed us and know what we're doing with the Truth Tour, 40 00:03:55.719 --> 00:04:01.719 you know that we were in Florida from basically mid February until well basically 41 00:04:01.840 --> 00:04:06.759 last week. So my son says native or a student, me not native, 42 00:04:06.840 --> 00:04:16.160 I should say honorary Floridian citizen. I guess residents. And the reason 43 00:04:16.240 --> 00:04:26.120 for that, as I've previously stated, anything north of Orlando is has winter 44 00:04:26.240 --> 00:04:29.319 weather that I'm not interested in any longer. I don't know what that says 45 00:04:29.319 --> 00:04:30.920 about me. My toughness. You know, I used to when I played 46 00:04:30.959 --> 00:04:35.560 football. I remember this when I played football at Butler. I remember wearing 47 00:04:35.800 --> 00:04:41.360 you know, we wouldn't wear sleeves in the cold weather. And I wouldn't 48 00:04:41.399 --> 00:04:46.720 do that right now unless, I mean the consequences would have to be off 49 00:04:46.720 --> 00:04:48.680 the charts for me to feel like, hey, that I had to prove 50 00:04:48.759 --> 00:04:54.439 my toughness or be that I would have to wear the short sleeved shirt in 51 00:04:54.439 --> 00:04:58.319 the cold weather anyway. So, but Indiana is home. Indiana is home, 52 00:04:58.879 --> 00:05:04.720 and so as such, UM, I feel like we've had we've had 53 00:05:04.759 --> 00:05:13.920 a from a from a political perspective, we've had the opportunity, I guess, 54 00:05:13.959 --> 00:05:21.120 to watch Mike Pence or to see to see his career path or you 55 00:05:21.160 --> 00:05:25.800 know when when it came from for those that listen to him on talk radio, 56 00:05:26.639 --> 00:05:32.519 um, or just watch him take a different path through governmental or political 57 00:05:32.959 --> 00:05:40.040 elected positions and so forth. And anytime someone runs for governor and actually wins 58 00:05:40.079 --> 00:05:45.759 the governor's race in your state, I mean there's a certain amount of reality 59 00:05:45.800 --> 00:05:48.839 that just says, you're the members the citizens of that state get to know 60 00:05:49.040 --> 00:05:54.560 him a little bit as well. So we've we've got that perspective. I 61 00:05:54.680 --> 00:06:00.199 also, UM, I don't I wouldn't certainly wouldn't say I had no Mike 62 00:06:00.240 --> 00:06:03.240 Pence personally, but I have met him on a couple of occasions. He's 63 00:06:03.240 --> 00:06:10.040 always been gracious, he's always been kind. I do know several people that 64 00:06:10.079 --> 00:06:15.680 are on that are close to Mike Pence who would be I would say, 65 00:06:15.720 --> 00:06:21.360 on team Mike Pence. Those that's all the way back to again those early 66 00:06:21.439 --> 00:06:30.600 days. It's it's hard to I think, be in the Indianapolis area and 67 00:06:30.759 --> 00:06:36.399 not and not get to know some of those people in the Republican Party who 68 00:06:36.439 --> 00:06:42.759 have been closely associated with with Mike Pence. So but all that being said, 69 00:06:43.480 --> 00:06:46.079 I want to tell you something that I take very seriously. I have 70 00:06:46.639 --> 00:06:54.079 personal friends that friends people that I know very well or very well that are 71 00:06:54.360 --> 00:07:00.120 you know, um that know that No Pence or that are closely tied to 72 00:07:00.199 --> 00:07:05.639 him, or two people on his team, and have again nothing but the 73 00:07:05.680 --> 00:07:10.519 greatest of respect for all those individuals. But my job on this show, 74 00:07:11.319 --> 00:07:13.920 the way, the way that I see it, is to come on here 75 00:07:13.920 --> 00:07:17.079 and to tell you what I what I think, and that's what I'm going 76 00:07:17.199 --> 00:07:23.319 to do today. And nothing I am going to say should be construed to 77 00:07:23.319 --> 00:07:28.199 be a personal attack or anything like this because as you know, those of 78 00:07:28.199 --> 00:07:30.920 you that follow Pence or know much about Pence. One of the things that 79 00:07:30.959 --> 00:07:36.199 Pence will say is that he's a Christian, a Conservative, and a Republican 80 00:07:36.319 --> 00:07:44.439 in that order. And you know that I'm a conservative and a Christian as 81 00:07:44.480 --> 00:07:49.120 well, Christian being my ultimate identity. And I don't want to get preachy, 82 00:07:49.160 --> 00:07:54.120 but I do want to. I do want to merge into our conversation 83 00:07:54.160 --> 00:07:59.839 of Mike Pence's decision to run for president through that lens, because I think 84 00:08:00.040 --> 00:08:05.920 it helps us understand understand why he's done it. I'm gonna come, I 85 00:08:05.000 --> 00:08:11.680 come to a different conclusion than his team has and that he has as to 86 00:08:11.800 --> 00:08:15.319 whether or not this is a good idea. But I am going to try 87 00:08:15.519 --> 00:08:18.720 to fairly paint the thinking and the process of how to get there. And 88 00:08:18.800 --> 00:08:22.680 I think in order to do that, you first have to understand the faith, 89 00:08:22.959 --> 00:08:28.720 the faith component of this. And so let me let me kind of 90 00:08:28.759 --> 00:08:33.600 pause it there and say, for the individuals who are followers of Jesus in 91 00:08:35.240 --> 00:08:39.600 this audience, even for those who aren't that are familiar with the Bible, 92 00:08:39.399 --> 00:08:46.960 you know that the stories in the Bible where God has called an individual to 93 00:08:48.000 --> 00:08:54.240 a particular task or mission or whatever you want to call it. When, 94 00:08:54.600 --> 00:09:01.120 for example, God calls Abraham, or he called Abraham to go to the 95 00:09:01.159 --> 00:09:07.519 Promised Land. God called Moses to go and lead his people out of slavery, 96 00:09:07.559 --> 00:09:13.519 out of bondage in Egypt. God calls lots of people to do things 97 00:09:13.600 --> 00:09:18.200 in the scriptures, and God caused people to do things today from a Christian 98 00:09:18.240 --> 00:09:20.480 perspective, Again, I'm not trying to get too preachy. I'm just trying 99 00:09:20.519 --> 00:09:24.200 to paint a picture here and also tell you that I believe these things. 100 00:09:24.279 --> 00:09:30.120 So I take these things. I can relate in that sense to what I 101 00:09:30.159 --> 00:09:35.519 think some of these the thought process, decision making, and so forth might 102 00:09:35.559 --> 00:09:39.320 have been. So I think it's important that we understand that. So, 103 00:09:39.480 --> 00:09:43.200 but anytime someone was called to do something, I don't ever want to say 104 00:09:43.240 --> 00:09:48.039 one hundred percent, because there's always exceptions to the rule, and I don't 105 00:09:48.039 --> 00:09:52.320 want to put God into some box. But there's always seems to be there, 106 00:09:52.320 --> 00:09:58.480 always seems to be a component that says what God often tells people to 107 00:09:58.519 --> 00:10:07.399 do comes cross as well crazy to people. For example, he told Noah 108 00:10:07.559 --> 00:10:13.440 to build a giant boat an arc and it took him a long, long 109 00:10:13.559 --> 00:10:18.799 long time, many many many years in fact, and what was even crazier 110 00:10:18.000 --> 00:10:22.399 was that it had never reigned until that point in time. According to the 111 00:10:24.360 --> 00:10:28.519 scripture, we have the example of Abraham. At the time he was Abraham, 112 00:10:28.759 --> 00:10:33.480 God called him to go to a place that he had never known before. 113 00:10:33.799 --> 00:10:37.559 He would lead him there, he said. He also said that he 114 00:10:37.600 --> 00:10:41.440 would give him a son. And it took a long time for that promise 115 00:10:41.519 --> 00:10:45.720 to be fulfilled. But God did give him a son, Isaac. And 116 00:10:45.799 --> 00:10:48.639 it was that son Isaac that God said, I want you to take him 117 00:10:48.679 --> 00:10:52.600 up Mount Mariah and sacrifice him to me. These things sound crazy, of 118 00:10:52.600 --> 00:10:56.519 course, that is crazy, with the exception of if we don't account for 119 00:10:56.559 --> 00:11:05.559 the God factor in all this, and God often there's a component of that 120 00:11:05.559 --> 00:11:09.000 where it doesn't make It doesn't make a lot of sense. It doesn't make 121 00:11:09.039 --> 00:11:13.720 a lot of sense why three young Hebrew boys named Shadrach, Meshack, and 122 00:11:13.759 --> 00:11:18.639 a Bendigo can walk into a fiery furnace and not have even a head, 123 00:11:18.039 --> 00:11:22.840 excuse me, a hair on their head singed right. It doesn't make any 124 00:11:22.039 --> 00:11:28.480 sense that Peter, through the help of Jesus, can walk on water. 125 00:11:28.639 --> 00:11:35.720 It doesn't make any sense that a dead man named Lazarus can be risen from 126 00:11:35.759 --> 00:11:39.559 the dead. These things don't make earthly sense. But for God, so 127 00:11:41.080 --> 00:11:46.279 a lot of our decisions, a lot of our decisions as followers of Jesus, 128 00:11:46.440 --> 00:11:54.840 we really don't regard those things. If God is saying to do X 129 00:11:56.200 --> 00:12:00.159 and truly and you know right, that's That's the other thing I mean, 130 00:12:00.919 --> 00:12:03.480 I would again not to get preachy, but I this is something I feel 131 00:12:03.519 --> 00:12:07.799 called to. Many of you would say the same thing. You feel called 132 00:12:07.840 --> 00:12:13.759 to some particular mission, trip or something at your church, or maybe a 133 00:12:13.960 --> 00:12:16.879 career endeavor, or to stay home with your children. I don't want to 134 00:12:18.080 --> 00:12:22.120 It can be anything, not just something that you want. But you really 135 00:12:22.039 --> 00:12:28.519 might feel that from a biblical perspective that God may be calling you to do 136 00:12:28.679 --> 00:12:37.720 something, and that when that exists, it's a powerful, powerful conviction almost 137 00:12:37.360 --> 00:12:45.200 and so so you have the conviction, and the conviction. Oftentimes the level 138 00:12:45.240 --> 00:12:52.879 of craziness that you have to endure or walk through or sometimes perform kind of 139 00:12:54.000 --> 00:13:01.840 indicates how much you believe the calling over over what commons would suggest. But 140 00:13:01.879 --> 00:13:05.000 to see the thing is and again lasts a little bit of the sermon here, 141 00:13:05.240 --> 00:13:07.720 I'm really not trying to. I'm just trying to paint the picture so 142 00:13:07.879 --> 00:13:09.600 we understand the thinking, because I think this is a I think this is 143 00:13:09.600 --> 00:13:13.559 a big factor. I don't think it's the only thing. And I don't 144 00:13:13.559 --> 00:13:16.600 mean that as an insult. I do think that they've talked about other things 145 00:13:16.639 --> 00:13:20.039 as well, strategically, and that's that's fine, and that's wise. But 146 00:13:22.080 --> 00:13:30.639 I think that if God, if God is who the Bible says he is, 147 00:13:31.360 --> 00:13:35.080 if God is who the Christian, the truly faithful Christian says he is, 148 00:13:37.080 --> 00:13:41.799 then God will show up. That's what God does. That's what really 149 00:13:43.000 --> 00:13:46.320 the whole Bible is kind of about in a way, right, God showed 150 00:13:46.399 --> 00:13:52.759 up to fix the problem that we created by rebelling against Him, to restore 151 00:13:52.799 --> 00:13:58.320 that relationship. So that is it in a nutshell. When I say it, 152 00:13:58.559 --> 00:14:01.879 I mean the faith component. And so Mike Pence as a Christian, 153 00:14:01.960 --> 00:14:09.279 and I do believe he sincerely seeks to do seeks to try to do what 154 00:14:09.360 --> 00:14:13.480 he thinks God may be calling him to do. I do believe that they've 155 00:14:13.720 --> 00:14:18.960 considered that and they have concluded that that is what God has called Mike Pennce 156 00:14:20.000 --> 00:14:22.440 to do. Now you can, of course, you're free to think, 157 00:14:22.480 --> 00:14:26.200 Oh, that's crazy and wacko. You're free to think. I believe, 158 00:14:26.200 --> 00:14:30.440 you know, I believe in God. I believe God can call us. 159 00:14:30.480 --> 00:14:33.080 But I don't think Mike Pence is being called to do this. You're free 160 00:14:33.120 --> 00:14:37.519 to think that. We can all have certainly have our opinions and interpretations. 161 00:14:39.039 --> 00:14:43.679 I would say, short of that being the case, short of God divinely 162 00:14:43.720 --> 00:14:48.480 appointing this for Mike Pence, this is a bad, bad strategic decision, 163 00:14:48.919 --> 00:14:52.360 A bad, bad strategic decision. I think that there are two people. 164 00:14:52.399 --> 00:14:58.480 I've shared this very very straight forward with you. I think there are two 165 00:14:58.559 --> 00:15:01.360 people in the race that can in the nomination. One is named Donald J. 166 00:15:01.480 --> 00:15:05.279 Trump. It is his to lose. The others named Ronda Santis. 167 00:15:07.720 --> 00:15:13.440 If Trump falters or something else happens with whether or not the Democrats or even 168 00:15:13.559 --> 00:15:18.960 certain Republicans are successful in keeping him from being able to run for office, 169 00:15:20.120 --> 00:15:24.080 run for president again, which is constantly going on behind the scenes. That's 170 00:15:24.120 --> 00:15:28.879 what these indictments are about, and just so much going on, so much 171 00:15:28.960 --> 00:15:35.639 going on there. But that's that I think is a strategic component. It 172 00:15:35.879 --> 00:15:43.840 is people basically waiting for I don't maybe hoping for Trump to not be able 173 00:15:43.879 --> 00:15:50.000 to continue for some reason, any number of reasons, the American or the 174 00:15:50.159 --> 00:15:54.600 Republican primary voter having enough of it. Trump not being able to raise money 175 00:15:54.720 --> 00:16:02.759 because of all of the baggage that's being heaped upon him by district attorneys and 176 00:16:03.240 --> 00:16:07.679 federal this and that, and all the impeachment stuff and everything that he's gone 177 00:16:07.720 --> 00:16:11.440 through and that he's endured over these years. Some people are thinking that it's 178 00:16:11.440 --> 00:16:15.600 eventually going to catch up with him, because really, you get down to 179 00:16:15.679 --> 00:16:19.240 it, Nicki Haley, vivek Ramaswami, who I do like. I like 180 00:16:19.440 --> 00:16:22.639 him actually if you listen to him, he says a lot of things that 181 00:16:22.759 --> 00:16:26.120 make a lot of sense. Mike Pence, Chris Christie, I think is 182 00:16:26.120 --> 00:16:30.159 about to throw his name in the hat or his hat in the ring again. 183 00:16:33.519 --> 00:16:37.360 I'm forgetting someone obviously, to Santis, but de Santis is in the 184 00:16:37.440 --> 00:16:40.759 next the next tier. It's it's Trump, then there's space, and there's 185 00:16:40.799 --> 00:16:44.120 the Santists. Then there's space, and then there's everyone else. And the 186 00:16:44.240 --> 00:16:48.200 only way that the people in the everyone else category are going to win or 187 00:16:48.240 --> 00:16:51.399 have a chance at winning, as if something happens to Trump and they still 188 00:16:51.399 --> 00:16:56.720 got to contend with the Santists, but that's a much more manageable situation for 189 00:16:56.000 --> 00:17:00.440 them than dealing with President Trump. On I got lots of thoughts about this, 190 00:17:02.639 --> 00:17:04.880 but a timeout is in order. I'm gonna take it. You're listening 191 00:17:04.960 --> 00:17:07.920 here, my friends, at the home of Conservative not Better Talk. I'm 192 00:17:07.960 --> 00:17:18.319 your host, Hop Huf back in just a minute. Come back, my 193 00:17:18.680 --> 00:17:26.200 friends. So let's continue this discussion about Mike Pence's decision to enter the twenty 194 00:17:26.319 --> 00:17:32.039 twenty four Republican primary, which, by the way, I think I saw. 195 00:17:32.839 --> 00:17:36.839 I should have looked at this during the break, now that I'm well, 196 00:17:36.920 --> 00:17:41.000 I was thinking about this earlier and I didn't pull this up again. 197 00:17:41.079 --> 00:17:45.079 But I think I saw debates starting, I mean within just a couple of 198 00:17:45.160 --> 00:17:48.240 months. I think I saw August. But then again, the primaries are 199 00:17:48.319 --> 00:17:53.240 actually held right after the first of the year here in six months or so, 200 00:17:53.480 --> 00:17:57.079 seven months, I guess, So we're not that far off. So 201 00:17:57.160 --> 00:18:02.319 you're gonna see the names aially entered the field. Of course. We've got 202 00:18:02.400 --> 00:18:03.960 Trump, We've got to Santis, We've got Nicky Haley, We've got Tim 203 00:18:04.039 --> 00:18:08.160 Scott. I think that's who I was forgetting earlier. We've got Vivek Ramaswami. 204 00:18:08.240 --> 00:18:11.720 We've got Mike Pence. I think we'll have Chris Christie. There may 205 00:18:11.720 --> 00:18:14.920 be a couple of others. I don't know, but we in the first 206 00:18:14.960 --> 00:18:18.680 segment we talked about how we were going to well, I thought to merge 207 00:18:18.720 --> 00:18:23.880 into this conversation as to why Pence made this decision. I think we have 208 00:18:23.960 --> 00:18:26.559 to start with the faith component, because I think that that is a factor. 209 00:18:26.640 --> 00:18:33.559 There's also the strategic component component, which is to say, a lot 210 00:18:33.599 --> 00:18:44.119 of these folks I think are hoping or just positioning themselves to be in well 211 00:18:44.200 --> 00:18:52.720 to be there should Trump be prohibited from running in the twenty twenty four process, 212 00:18:52.799 --> 00:18:57.799 so if they can somehow get Trump convicted. I'm not saying any of 213 00:18:57.839 --> 00:19:02.599 this is going to happen. I'm just saying that this has been the plan 214 00:19:02.759 --> 00:19:07.559 and the dream of some, primarily of the on the Democrat Party side, 215 00:19:07.599 --> 00:19:14.039 the Dramocrats, the radical left, but it also includes some on the Republican 216 00:19:14.119 --> 00:19:18.920 side. Some on the Republican side, so there is the hope by some 217 00:19:18.880 --> 00:19:23.440 that Trump will never be able to run again, whether that means he's somehow 218 00:19:23.480 --> 00:19:30.079 prevented from getting on the ballot, whether that means he's basically unable to effectively 219 00:19:30.160 --> 00:19:36.000 fund raise. Although with Trump you have to wonder if that would even still 220 00:19:37.079 --> 00:19:41.680 stop him, or would he in would he consider spending his own funds to 221 00:19:42.039 --> 00:19:45.680 completely self fund his campaign. I don't know. I'm just saying that these 222 00:19:45.720 --> 00:19:49.759 are things that could happen even if those things did arise and become a reality. 223 00:19:51.799 --> 00:19:56.000 So that's why to me, that lowest tier the Tim Scotts, the 224 00:19:56.079 --> 00:20:03.279 Vivek Ramaswami's, Mike Pence, Nicky Hayley, and then of course the next 225 00:20:03.319 --> 00:20:10.119 tier is the Santis and the other is Trump. So that is what I'm 226 00:20:10.480 --> 00:20:15.319 thinking. The strategic the strategicy, as Bush would say, is in this 227 00:20:15.519 --> 00:20:19.359 particular equation, of course, there's always the possibility, and I'm not I'm 228 00:20:19.400 --> 00:20:26.119 not accusing anyone in particular, but there's always that possibility that some people are 229 00:20:26.079 --> 00:20:33.000 running for president to position themselves for some other appointment, or just to become 230 00:20:33.839 --> 00:20:37.039 politically relevant, or to write a book. Again, I'm not, I'm 231 00:20:37.119 --> 00:20:41.519 not saying that that is the case of any particular person, but it does 232 00:20:41.640 --> 00:20:49.079 certainly play a factor in some In some cases, some people just want to 233 00:20:52.079 --> 00:20:56.079 build their brand. I guess I think politics has become a career or a 234 00:20:56.200 --> 00:21:03.440 tool by which people can make money, which is I think sad. But 235 00:21:03.599 --> 00:21:07.240 anyway, so that's a possible. I'm not accusing anyone, Please don't misunderstand. 236 00:21:07.680 --> 00:21:11.759 I'm just saying that's a question I always I always ask myself as well 237 00:21:11.000 --> 00:21:14.839 looking for an ambassadorship, are they looking for a position in the cabinet? 238 00:21:14.839 --> 00:21:18.039 Are they're looking for an opportunity to write a book or to get a gig 239 00:21:19.119 --> 00:21:23.400 somewhere as a as a guest, someone who's a paid contributor, and so 240 00:21:23.559 --> 00:21:26.799 forth. I don't know, not accusing anyone in this field of that. 241 00:21:26.960 --> 00:21:32.680 I'm just saying that I know that that's in the calculus that has been the 242 00:21:33.960 --> 00:21:38.839 math I guess of some people who have explored the possibility of running for president 243 00:21:40.240 --> 00:21:44.279 in the past. So that's kind of I think, how we got here. 244 00:21:44.359 --> 00:21:48.920 So the question then becomes. The question then becomes, when we look 245 00:21:48.960 --> 00:21:52.519 at this field that is growing, we have to ask ourselves, I think, 246 00:21:52.960 --> 00:21:57.279 a couple of questions. One, we have to ask ourselves what are 247 00:21:57.400 --> 00:22:06.920 we really fighting against. We have to properly understand the the political enemy here, 248 00:22:06.960 --> 00:22:12.119 if you will, meaning what do they stand for? What is their 249 00:22:12.240 --> 00:22:17.519 underlying worldview, What are their objectives, what are their tactics, what are 250 00:22:17.559 --> 00:22:22.519 they willing to do? How much corruption is there? What has to be 251 00:22:22.640 --> 00:22:30.839 done to fully eradicate the drain the swamp, eradicate those in the bureaucratic or 252 00:22:30.920 --> 00:22:37.680 the deep state. What has to be done? Who has the emotional fortitude 253 00:22:38.799 --> 00:22:44.559 to see through the things that need to be done to fix the problems, 254 00:22:44.559 --> 00:22:48.160 and not just fix the issues, but to fix the mess the swamp. 255 00:22:49.279 --> 00:22:56.960 Who has that within them, who has prepared for that, who understands the 256 00:22:56.079 --> 00:23:00.279 depths of that, and who's prepared to do what is necessary? Or the 257 00:23:00.359 --> 00:23:03.039 one that seems to be the most likely to me, These are the questions 258 00:23:03.119 --> 00:23:08.279 that we have to flush out because it's not just about It's not just about 259 00:23:08.319 --> 00:23:12.799 who has the least offensive tweets, or at least it shouldn't be in my 260 00:23:14.039 --> 00:23:21.400 estimation. I'm not saying that statesmanship shouldn't be a consideration at all for folks, 261 00:23:22.480 --> 00:23:26.960 But I am saying that if metaphorically, the United States of America is 262 00:23:26.039 --> 00:23:30.839 like the Titanic and we are sinking taking on water, it's been running too 263 00:23:30.880 --> 00:23:36.559 an iceberg by lovers, A big government from Joe Biden and Kamala Harris to 264 00:23:36.720 --> 00:23:41.319 Bernie Sanders and AOC and people long long before that. If that is in 265 00:23:41.440 --> 00:23:45.240 fact what we're doing, and we're looking for people to save and salvage the 266 00:23:45.400 --> 00:23:52.200 ship somehow, or at least the passengers on the ship, then we shouldn't 267 00:23:52.240 --> 00:24:00.640 be overly concerned if someone on the deck of that ship happens to a four 268 00:24:00.759 --> 00:24:06.000 letter word fly out of his mouth as the ship is going down. That's 269 00:24:06.119 --> 00:24:07.640 kind of how I look at this, and I just want to talk about 270 00:24:07.680 --> 00:24:11.599 that. So timeouts in order to quick timeout is necessary. My friends, 271 00:24:11.640 --> 00:24:15.319 you're listening here to conservative not better talk on your host Ted Huff back in 272 00:24:15.400 --> 00:24:26.519 a minute. Welcome back, my friends. So what is it that we 273 00:24:26.640 --> 00:24:32.920 are really fighting against? I think it stands to reason that as we think 274 00:24:32.960 --> 00:24:36.440 about even though we're early in the process, and even though there's a lot 275 00:24:36.480 --> 00:24:42.079 of emotions still tied around the name Trump, whether it's strong emotion for him 276 00:24:42.240 --> 00:24:48.559 or absolute hatred against him, or any number of things in between, there, 277 00:24:48.240 --> 00:24:56.440 I know it's a it's a politically or an emotionally charged race, and 278 00:24:56.640 --> 00:25:00.960 so we have to begin, we have to begin ask ourselves what are we 279 00:25:02.160 --> 00:25:07.279 fighting against and who is best equipped to address or deal with these issues, 280 00:25:07.359 --> 00:25:11.559 because, as I've said stated on this program so many times before, ever 281 00:25:11.759 --> 00:25:19.759 so eloquently, brilliantly, I might add, whenever Republicans or even some conservatives 282 00:25:19.799 --> 00:25:26.200 are elected, there's the voters. The base often is disappointed for two reasons. 283 00:25:26.000 --> 00:25:32.319 One, the person they elected really wasn't ideologically aligned with them. They 284 00:25:32.400 --> 00:25:37.359 played a game during the election process. They told the voter what the voter 285 00:25:37.519 --> 00:25:42.279 wanted to hear, and then got elected and got into a position and simply 286 00:25:44.240 --> 00:25:47.920 ignored the base, or continue to play the game or what have you, 287 00:25:48.039 --> 00:25:55.759 simply only talking about conservative issues from a conservative perspective. When it's time to 288 00:25:55.839 --> 00:26:03.640 fundraise or when it's time to to actually ask for their vote or to you 289 00:26:03.920 --> 00:26:08.440 to volunteer or get out the vote or whatever the other thing is. We 290 00:26:08.640 --> 00:26:15.599 sometimes have people that are principled conservatives, but they are not strong enough. 291 00:26:15.200 --> 00:26:18.720 This is why, and I've said this before in this program many times as 292 00:26:18.759 --> 00:26:25.279 well. Trump what the media did? The Trump what the Democrat Party that? 293 00:26:25.400 --> 00:26:30.319 The Trump was nothing new. It is the same playbook. It has 294 00:26:30.359 --> 00:26:37.000 been for eons and eons. And the playbook is this, when it's time 295 00:26:37.680 --> 00:26:45.759 to really shut down anything that a conservative or even a Republican wants to do 296 00:26:45.880 --> 00:26:51.440 while in office, when they're actually prepared to take offense and advance their agenda. 297 00:26:52.279 --> 00:26:55.720 They begin They the media, they the Democrat Party, the right which 298 00:26:55.720 --> 00:27:00.319 is run by the radical left today the Dramocrats. They then begin this campaign 299 00:27:00.559 --> 00:27:06.200 of attacking the individual. And it could be Trump, it could be Descant 300 00:27:06.240 --> 00:27:10.440 As, it could be Pence, whoever. And what happens far too many 301 00:27:10.519 --> 00:27:15.599 times. Actually, what's happened almost every time until Trump, was that the 302 00:27:15.720 --> 00:27:22.680 Republican or the conservative who was attacked capitulates. He or she gets cold feet. 303 00:27:22.759 --> 00:27:26.640 They don't want to actually walk through that metaphorical fire. They don't have 304 00:27:26.799 --> 00:27:33.519 the character or the resolve necessary to see through the work that needs to be 305 00:27:33.640 --> 00:27:38.519 done, and so they don't have I would say, the proper amount of 306 00:27:38.680 --> 00:27:45.519 fight in them. And that is what I think most people who are fans 307 00:27:45.559 --> 00:27:49.880 of Trump love about Trump. They are willing to look over a whole multitude 308 00:27:49.960 --> 00:27:56.880 of other factors that might personally hurt other candidates and say, for the first 309 00:27:56.960 --> 00:28:02.000 time in my lifetime, some would say for the first time in their lifetime, 310 00:28:02.880 --> 00:28:10.319 they have or had a president who actually fought for the principles that they 311 00:28:10.400 --> 00:28:18.519 elected him to implement, and that, my friends, creates a loyalty that 312 00:28:18.759 --> 00:28:23.119 is second to none, especially when you are so unique and you are or 313 00:28:23.119 --> 00:28:27.000 at least perceived, You can make the argument that the perception is not reality. 314 00:28:27.119 --> 00:28:30.359 I mean you can make it. I'm not saying I agree with it, 315 00:28:30.000 --> 00:28:34.720 but the perception the facts are that there is a huge chunk of people 316 00:28:34.920 --> 00:28:41.319 who are in that group of core Trump supporters. Is that that describes exactly 317 00:28:41.720 --> 00:28:51.279 how they look at him. And so whenever they look at what is wrong 318 00:28:51.400 --> 00:28:56.279 with Washington, d c. Which is it's run by a bunch of leftists, 319 00:28:56.920 --> 00:29:00.920 which is the deep state is erupt. You need to drain the swamp 320 00:29:02.000 --> 00:29:07.880 whatever you want to call the terms, and the terms are irrelevant insofar as 321 00:29:07.960 --> 00:29:14.000 they only seek to communicate the problem. Right however, we want to communicate 322 00:29:14.079 --> 00:29:17.480 the problem. The problem is we have a bureaucratic state, a big, 323 00:29:17.680 --> 00:29:25.000 inflated, out of control, unconstitutional government operating in ways that it was never 324 00:29:25.160 --> 00:29:30.119 intended to operate. That is working against you, your family, your values, 325 00:29:30.519 --> 00:29:40.400 your principles. Some people would add your elections, your voice, there's 326 00:29:40.440 --> 00:29:45.680 other things that you might add to that list yourself. And so when we 327 00:29:45.799 --> 00:29:49.680 look at this and we look at the depravity, the depravity not of our 328 00:29:49.839 --> 00:29:53.200 system of government, my friends, Our system of government is a beautiful thing. 329 00:29:53.680 --> 00:29:59.799 The founders did marvelous things when they set this constitutional republic up. They 330 00:30:00.279 --> 00:30:07.039 fantastic things. It was brilliant, brilliantly established. What they did not account 331 00:30:07.119 --> 00:30:08.279 for, or dare I say what I don't want to say, they didn't 332 00:30:08.279 --> 00:30:14.480 account for it. What they could not completely account for was that the vast 333 00:30:14.599 --> 00:30:18.599 majority, and by vast I mean vast, vast, vast majority of these 334 00:30:18.720 --> 00:30:22.200 jokers and clowns that are elected, the vast, vast, vast majority of 335 00:30:22.319 --> 00:30:32.000 people in high ranking positions in the bureaucratic state, those folks are corrupt to 336 00:30:32.079 --> 00:30:38.119 the core. Those folks are dangerous to democracy, as we might say, 337 00:30:38.680 --> 00:30:45.680 those folks are undermining liberty and the will of the American people and making people 338 00:30:45.720 --> 00:30:52.880 and no longer citizens of this country and said subjects to the authoritative state. 339 00:30:53.359 --> 00:30:57.920 And so when you understand that, that is what we're facing, that is 340 00:30:59.000 --> 00:31:03.880 what we're up against. Yes, we need someone who understands what to do. 341 00:31:03.440 --> 00:31:10.960 We may disagree in concept or in some detail to the steps or the 342 00:31:11.119 --> 00:31:15.839 order of things that need to be done, but it seems almost more important 343 00:31:15.359 --> 00:31:22.440 to have someone who is prepared and willing and able to take the arrows to 344 00:31:22.680 --> 00:31:27.839 walk through the fire to address the problems that need to be addressed, regardless 345 00:31:29.400 --> 00:31:36.160 of what the media says, regardless of how they are portrayed, regardless of 346 00:31:36.240 --> 00:31:40.440 the negative publicity, regardless of anything else that comes with that. We have 347 00:31:40.599 --> 00:31:47.839 to have someone who is willing to walk through that mess. At almost as 348 00:31:47.880 --> 00:31:52.119 though they would be called tethlon made of tethlon, made of steel, made 349 00:31:52.160 --> 00:31:59.400 of something that is impenetrable by some of the tools and the forces that are 350 00:31:59.519 --> 00:32:04.920 used by the radical left to undermine, undermine the attempts of those who are 351 00:32:05.000 --> 00:32:13.440 trying to eradicate the problems of the morally bankrupt, evil deep state or swamp 352 00:32:13.599 --> 00:32:15.519 or again, whatever you want to call it. You know what I mean. 353 00:32:15.880 --> 00:32:21.599 The people who have corrupted at the people who have looked at the government 354 00:32:21.720 --> 00:32:25.319 not as a place where they could actually engage in public service, instead as 355 00:32:25.359 --> 00:32:28.759 a place they look at it as a place that they can get in power, 356 00:32:28.960 --> 00:32:31.279 where they can get a good retirement plan, where they can kick back, 357 00:32:31.799 --> 00:32:37.240 do less work than the private sector, get paid more money. Tell 358 00:32:37.359 --> 00:32:39.839 the taxpayer exactly what the taxpayer is going to do instead of the other way 359 00:32:39.880 --> 00:32:45.400 around. That's what we have. It's not the system that's broken, it's 360 00:32:45.440 --> 00:32:51.839 that the people who are holding these positions are out of control. Many are 361 00:32:51.960 --> 00:32:54.920 tyrants, truly tyrants. They don't see themselves as such, but that is 362 00:32:54.960 --> 00:33:02.480 in fact what we're dealing with. Anytime an elected official or a public servant, 363 00:33:02.680 --> 00:33:07.359 someone who works for the public looks at the public and says, I 364 00:33:07.839 --> 00:33:14.880 am your boss. You will do what I say and I granted we have 365 00:33:15.000 --> 00:33:20.279 things like enforcing the law, legitimate law. We don't need people out there 366 00:33:20.400 --> 00:33:28.279 enforcing feelings of people or enforcing things, say like election laws that aren't really 367 00:33:28.799 --> 00:33:32.319 laws at all, as they did in twenty twenty. Absolutely they did in 368 00:33:32.400 --> 00:33:37.480 twenty twenty, where the law was ignored in many states, and ballots were 369 00:33:37.480 --> 00:33:43.160 allowed to be collected and all sorts of things. Deadlines were disregarded, the 370 00:33:43.279 --> 00:33:46.240 chain of custody was disregarded, all sorts of things. The point is it's 371 00:33:46.279 --> 00:33:52.160 the people that act outside the confines of the rules and what they're supposed to 372 00:33:52.240 --> 00:33:54.799 do, and actually, in some cases use their authority for even much more 373 00:33:54.920 --> 00:34:00.480 nefarious purposes than that, trying to potentially even undermine a sitting president of the 374 00:34:00.559 --> 00:34:04.119 United States, trying to get him, I don't know, impeached once or 375 00:34:04.680 --> 00:34:08.880 twice, or even after he's out of office, try to get him convicted 376 00:34:09.119 --> 00:34:15.719 either in the court of public opinion or in the courts of law, of 377 00:34:15.400 --> 00:34:20.960 overturning an election, trying to stage accout at all, and trying to eliminate 378 00:34:21.760 --> 00:34:27.000 or override and destroy democracy, which is what has been done to our previous 379 00:34:27.079 --> 00:34:31.079 president. So it's not just someone who has the right ideas, who can 380 00:34:32.199 --> 00:34:37.760 have a easygoing attitude. I mean, this is my friends, This takes 381 00:34:37.800 --> 00:34:44.440 a certain type of character, certain type of individual. We need someone that's 382 00:34:44.440 --> 00:34:46.599 going to hit the ground running, not even on day one, before day 383 00:34:46.679 --> 00:34:52.440 one hits here, before day one arrives. That's what's appealing about Trump, 384 00:34:52.440 --> 00:34:55.599 I think, and I think if he's reelected, I think the Democrats, 385 00:34:55.679 --> 00:35:06.079 the Dramocrats, will come to really regret the decision to well, I guess 386 00:35:06.199 --> 00:35:09.400 regret the outcome of his losing in twenty twenty because now he's had a basically 387 00:35:09.480 --> 00:35:15.559 a halftime, a halftime break to regroup, to reorganize, to restructure, 388 00:35:15.920 --> 00:35:22.440 to stew over the problems, to sit there and just be completely focused, 389 00:35:22.440 --> 00:35:30.440 completely enamored with what's wrong, how he thinks he was wronged and everything else, 390 00:35:30.880 --> 00:35:32.800 and then to come back for four more years after a four year hiatus. 391 00:35:32.880 --> 00:35:36.119 So anyway, along in this segment, my friends, gotta take a 392 00:35:36.119 --> 00:35:37.239 time out. You're listening to conservative not better talk. I'm your host, 393 00:35:37.280 --> 00:35:49.440 Todd Huff Back in just a minute. Welcome back, my friends. Let 394 00:35:49.480 --> 00:35:54.079 me say this, whoever, and this leads into what I want to talk 395 00:35:54.119 --> 00:35:58.559 about in the time we have remaining. I think I said this earlier, 396 00:35:58.639 --> 00:36:01.800 but just to reiterate, we've been talking about Mike Pince's decision to enter the 397 00:36:01.960 --> 00:36:08.480 race for president, filing papers yesterday, making an announcement I don't know today, 398 00:36:08.519 --> 00:36:15.119 tomorrow, sometime this week. I again, I think I've made it 399 00:36:15.280 --> 00:36:21.280 clear. It's this is Trump's to win or Trump's to lose, I should 400 00:36:21.320 --> 00:36:23.960 say. And if it's Trump's to lose, I think the only other person 401 00:36:24.039 --> 00:36:30.880 that can win this is the Santis. I don't understand why everyone else is 402 00:36:30.920 --> 00:36:35.880 in the mix, other than to say some are hoping or even possibly expecting. 403 00:36:35.960 --> 00:36:38.440 I don't think that they're really expecting, but holding on to some strategic 404 00:36:38.519 --> 00:36:44.880 hope that something will happen to Trump to where he cannot be the Republican nominee. 405 00:36:44.920 --> 00:36:47.039 Maybe he just gets they think he'll get tired of it. Maybe they 406 00:36:47.119 --> 00:36:52.639 think that Democrats can keep him from actually running by convicting him, or who 407 00:36:52.719 --> 00:36:59.239 knows right, getting something that prevents him from running because they accuse him of 408 00:36:59.480 --> 00:37:04.440 staging a Kuda ta on January sixth, whatever the case may be, That's 409 00:37:04.480 --> 00:37:08.400 why some people are I think, entering this race because statistically they just don't 410 00:37:08.440 --> 00:37:16.079 have they don't have any any chance of winning. I will support any of 411 00:37:16.119 --> 00:37:22.719 the nominees over anything that the left presents. I do think that there are 412 00:37:22.800 --> 00:37:25.639 better choices, clearly better choices, and I think the more someone is willing 413 00:37:25.719 --> 00:37:31.039 to fight, the more and I mean really fight, the more likely they 414 00:37:31.079 --> 00:37:37.360 are to get my support because the problems that we have to deal with require 415 00:37:37.519 --> 00:37:45.719 someone to have that mentality day one. Now that being said, that being 416 00:37:45.800 --> 00:37:47.679 said, I've made it clear Trump de Santis are the ones that are in 417 00:37:47.800 --> 00:37:51.800 the front, and really that's who this decision should come down to. But 418 00:37:52.239 --> 00:37:55.719 again, I'll support anyone there now, with that being anyone who wins a 419 00:37:55.800 --> 00:37:59.159 nomination. With that being said, I'm gonna take a break, and I 420 00:37:59.199 --> 00:38:01.840 want to share really quickly on the other side of the break, what is 421 00:38:02.000 --> 00:38:09.800 brewing between Trump and the Republican Party as it pertains two debates, quick time 422 00:38:09.840 --> 00:38:13.280 out. It's an interesting thing that may become an issue. I don't know, 423 00:38:13.400 --> 00:38:15.199 sit tight. I'll tell you about it on the other side of the 424 00:38:15.239 --> 00:38:21.840 break. I'll come back, my friends. Not a lot of time, 425 00:38:21.920 --> 00:38:24.159 but I do want to share this. You want to share this. Looking 426 00:38:24.199 --> 00:38:29.599 at an article here Townhall dot com. This will be in the stack of 427 00:38:29.679 --> 00:38:31.800 stuff Todd Huffshow dot com. Just go to the stack of stuff and you 428 00:38:31.840 --> 00:38:37.480 will see it on June sixth, which is today, which, by the 429 00:38:37.519 --> 00:38:40.480 way, is is the day. This is d Day. This is when 430 00:38:42.119 --> 00:38:52.199 American forces during World War Two began the process of liberating Europe from the evil 431 00:38:52.480 --> 00:39:00.840 dictator Adolf Hitler. So let's let's talk here about this current thing with Trump 432 00:39:00.920 --> 00:39:06.559 Headlinetownhall dot com. There are now questions about Trump participating in the first GOP 433 00:39:06.760 --> 00:39:12.719 primary debate. After the RNC the Republican National Convention releases the rules and so 434 00:39:12.920 --> 00:39:15.800 basically, when you look at what the rules of the debate are, the 435 00:39:16.000 --> 00:39:20.719 rules of the debate essentially say a lot of things, But one of the 436 00:39:20.800 --> 00:39:29.320 things they say is that Trump or not Trump, whoever wins the nomination has 437 00:39:29.360 --> 00:39:32.840 to agree or excuse me, whoever participates in the debate has to sign a 438 00:39:32.920 --> 00:39:38.480 pledge that they will eventually support whoever the nominee is in the Republican Party. 439 00:39:38.480 --> 00:39:43.840 And we all remember Trump raising his hand back in twenty sixteen saying he would 440 00:39:43.920 --> 00:39:46.480 not do that, and he's on record saying something similar to that again. 441 00:39:46.599 --> 00:39:50.480 So who knows what will happen here, But I've got to go have a 442 00:39:50.559 --> 00:39:51.719 great day. SDG.