Hmm Rush Limbaugh says Rick Lowrey’s analysis of this is moronic. I say I have to agree.
RUSH: Now, he said that twice. He said, “Well, I’m for collective bargaining as long as it’s not collective hijacking, and as long as it doesn’t create an undue burden on the state.” Again, the attempt here is to make it sound as though he doesn’t know what he’s talking about. But on Libya, when you listen to the whole interview, the whole question and answer, he ended up getting Libya right. His biggest mistake was admitting he was having a hard time focusing. He shouldn’t have said that in front of the enemy, the enemy being the editorial board, but he said I’m having a hard time focusing here.
Federal workers do have collective bargaining. Some of them do. Some federal workers do have collective bargaining. It’s not the same as in some of the states. For example, the air traffic controllers do have collective bargaining over their wages, and some federal workers only have collective bargaining rights over work conditions. Some of them have collective bargaining rights over other aspects, but not wages. It’s all over the ballpark. It is a mistake to say that federal workers, as the editorial board member here said, don’t have collective bargaining rights; some of them do.
In any event, substantively Cain was right. Substantively Cain got it right on collective bargaining for federal unionized workers, and the editors got it wrong. And even the Journal Sentinel article that accompanies the video eventually admitted that Cain got it right in his answer and their editors had it wrong. But no matter, they are attempting to portray via the video here a slow, ignorant, uninformed, unsure of himself candidate who really is just out classed and is just totally out of his league. And the video, under that impression, under those auspices, has gone viral, and that’s the thought accompanying it with everybody who sends it out.
“Hmm Rush Limbaugh says Rick Lowrey’s analysis of this is moronic. I say I have to agree.”
In the long quote you posted, Rush doesn’t even mention Rich Lowrey, nor does he comment on Lowry’s analysis. So why are you making such an outrageous statement?
Cain understands the tension between the two tendencies but hasn't considered it deeply enough to have formulated a specific proposal. Much the same could be said of his positions on foreign policy which, although they are not completely formulated, does not mean that his philosophical instincts would not deliver a beneficial result, particularly because he HAS demonstrated the skill to hire good people and motivate them to do good work.