um all very predictably with the trans agenda am i over the top you know on on pointing out you know that this was also horribly predictable you

know joe you're exactly right and this heightens back to the days when the democrats had full control of government in washington and they viewed everything through an lgbt agenda and merrick garland prosecuted persecuted targeted parents showing up at school board meetings to defend and to fight on what was being done to their kids at school.

We're doing a terrible job of teaching them the proverbial reading, writing, and arithmetic, but we want to indoctrinate them with a radical leftist view And the amendments in Virginia that are on the ballot, essentially what they want to do is elevate to a constitutional right that which God calls sin.

That's what God calls wrong.

The Bible says, what are those who call good evil and evil good? And they want to essentially put you in jail for opposing abortion or opposing the LGBT agenda, specifically homosexual marriage.

And we've seeded that battlefield, haven't we, Bob?

We have.

When you have one party that's opposed to everything upon which we were founded as a country, the Democrat Party, so we just set them aside for a moment.

Why would we want this, yet we keep getting told that this is the new way of the world, Bob? Help us through this morass of appropriate behavior and Our kids can't read, so why are we putting them in the hands of sexual predators to discuss what gender they are in elementary school?

Joe, that's why these constitutional amendments are so important in Virginia.

Morality matters.

God's design for morality, marriage, and the family, it matters.

I was just reading a familiar quote.

I just came across it this morning that you've seen many times.

You probably talked about it on air, I'm sure, but it was George Washington saying, who famously said, of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports.

my leg to a roadside bomb my victory was going from a wheelchair to becoming a weightlifting champion

Yeah

... bring us everything that we need on a daily basis, not to mention how we operate.

We just talked about big farm equipment, other big equipment across the country, construction equipment and so forth.

So diesel is critically important to the American economy, to Amer- uh, to our national security, to our way of life, and so it's critically important that we encourage increased production and, and f- continue to pursue policies as Trump is doing that will encourage and increase production and increase refineries and that sort of thing.

And we...

That, that's another, that's a reason not...

Energy alone is a reason to never vote again for another Democrat.

Yes.

But but first, your thought about the fact that the Democrats in Virginia want to use the due process clause against babies.

How horrific that we were.

elevate to a constitutional right in Virginia, protected by the full force of law, the highest law in the land in Virginia, the right to kill one's children up to the moment of birth for any reason without restriction.

What does that say about us as a culture, as a society?

Is this something the Republicans need to be making a bigger deal about, that the people who hang dissidents in their streets are the ones endorsing the Democrats?

Yes, absolutely.

If the Democrats get full control of government again, you're going to see them turn on the nation of Israel.

We've talked about it all the time this morning, but we've talked about the fact that I have great concern about the growing opposition to Israel on the right.

death in our

country.

We're killing 1.1 million precious innocent children in the great cause of death in this country.

The amount of heart disease cancer, the second and third leading causes of death combined, the number of children that were killing.

And that is directly connected to the culture of death that where 11 or 12 jurors could not convict or would not convict, I should say, a mother who brutally killed her three young children because she was under emotional duress.

because that is the the uh the justification that many give for abortion being legal what about the emotional psychological mental health of the mother life should trump everything else the bible tells us that god forms us in the womb he has plans for us uh from the womb knows who we are uh he he creates us in his image in the womb And the Bible also says that God hates – when you list the things that God hates, the hands that shed innocent blood.

Is there a better, greater example of that than abortion? Now, moving to capital punishment, the Bible also talks about three justifications for the taking of a human life.

So, I mean, is there really a move towards this heinousness of, pardon the glibness, but postpartum abortion? If we're going to kill them in the womb, why stop there?

We were talking about the debt, the value of the dollar and the Republicans' inability to message off of it all the way back to that wave of congressional candidates that won in 2010's midterms.

Yes, we don't have a revenue problem.

We've got a spending problem.

The federal government is taking in more money than it ever has.

It's taking in more revenue than it ever has.

The problem is we're spending more than we ever have as well.

Spending has actually increased under full Republican control of government, not to mention the gasoline issue.

I'm sorry, what was that?

Is there a danger of that too, Bob?

Well, there certainly is a threat, as stated by many Democrats today, where they want to assault the Constitutional Republic that we have.

As you know, they don't believe in the Constitution in terms of its original intent or its original purpose, number one.

Number two, they've said openly that they want to eliminate the Electoral College, the process for which we have to elect our presidents, rather.

They want to eliminate the U.S. Senate.

They've talked about that, which is obviously outlined in the Constitution.

And they want to obviously pack the Supreme Court so that they make the Supreme Court an extension of the legislative body, if you will, instead of a separate and equal.

Why is it so hard for Republicans to message on this, Bob?

And the opportunity in there that I think is important is when we win this, and I'm pretty sure we're going to win this electorally, could we then take that tell the these folks have obviously decided that the unborn child has due process they wouldn't be trying to take it away from them and turn that into a big victory for the pro-life and the the the safety of these babies what do you think about that

well that's a great point and and that's something that we should obviously look into and try to build upon if we're successful in defeating this We've got a culture of death in this country where we're aborting 1.1 million children annually, the leading cause of death in this country.

And this devaluing of children up to the moment of birth is connected to what just took place in Massachusetts, what's taking place now, where 11 out of 12 jurors sided with the mother in her emotional, psychological, mental duress that she supposedly was under.

that contributed to or led to her making a decision to kill her three

I'm sorry, what was that that led to her?

Her decision to kill her three precious children and the fact that it's controversial as to what the consequence should be to her for what she's done or whether or not she should be held to any consequence.

is is connected to this culture of death that's been perpetrated through abortion in this country

We always seem to be in that spot where we're three runs down with two outs to go in the ninth inning.

It is, and it was overwhelming the same way with the same kind of dishonest language.

The funding was overwhelming, disproportionate back in the spring with the referendum on the gerrymandering, the hyper-partisan, unfair, dishonest redistricting efforts.

And yet it barely passed by about 100,000 votes out of 3.1 million.

Now, it did pass.

But it barely passed.

And it would help, though, if the Republican Party at large, if the state Republican Party would engage on this issue and take more of a robust, aggressive stance against it to defeat all three of these amendments.

amendments like this uh it's johnny bar the door in california and connecticut and new york and illinois and places where i mean this stuff you know people probably would be surprised they weren't already in the constitution

No, I knew you were in finance, so I guess that's the stereotype, right? [laughs]

Yeah, working finance for, for the, for the lending division of Citigroup.

But 9/11 is one of those dates, uh, that we obviously hope never to relive a date like that again.

But, uh, we remember where we were, we remember when we heard, when we saw, and how the nation was just sort of frozen in its, in its, uh, being mesmerized by watching the impact, the aftermath, the response to what took place.

Uh, my family and I were living in the Atlanta area at the time, and, you know, rumors began to fly and swirl as those events were unfolding, and there was rumor in the Atlanta community that, that that area was under attack as well.

Uh, Tracy and I can remember going to get our children from school that day.

Our children were just ages seven, four, and two, and like parents across the country, of course, trying to explain to them what was taking place, what was happening, as they were joining us and watching what was happening on television and the aftermath-

Mm-hmm

yes this is true and republicans that go along with them

fair point as you know i i'm going to actually turn to democrats for a change i spent enough time criticizing fellow republicans but the democrat party knows they cannot win they cannot succeed they cannot advance their agenda if the american people understand who and what they are what they truly believe in what what the extremism just look at the democrat socialists of america that's advancing in democrat primary so majority democrats are voting for them but the democrat party uh at least the face of the democrat party is trying to distance themselves because they're heading into the midterms and they know that they will struggle to win or not be able to win if the people recognize who and what they are and that that that's also true with these amendments like you said uh the law in Virginia requires that on constitutional amendments that you use plain text easily understandable that you're accurate and truthful and what you convey but there's no teeth to the law so there's no consequence uh for those who break the law in this respect except for it being challenged legally as it was with the Supreme Court overturning the gerrymandering where it said hey vote for fair elections by voting to rig with unfair district gerrymandering of congressional districts for partisan gain.

So yes, I'm sure that these, well, they're already being challenged, but these constitutional amendments will be challenged that are on the ballot starting, as you said, in a couple of weeks here in Virginia and then ultimately on November 3rd, which try to hide the true purpose of abortion up to the moment of birth in the midst of other things that sound good like prenatal care and postpartum care and reproductive freedom and rights and so forth.

And the same thing with marriage.

They stick in there that, hey, we're trying to protect interracial marriage instead of being explicit about the fact that it's an attack on religious freedom to say you cannot treat differently one marriage from another based on your faith, based on your belief system, but you must – treat all marriages equally irrespective of your belief system, your faith in terms of your church, your pastor, and that sort of thing.

Should there be some sort of ordinance, like a plain language ordinance that prohibits something from going before the voters that isn't in the actual words of the ordinance? I mean, how can you ask somebody to vote for an ordinance and then not show them what's in the ordinance?

Yeah, well, the problem is that the legislature has the authority for doing this, and it's the legislature that determines this.

And when Democrats are in full control, they're willing to lie to the voters and deceive the voters for partisan political advantage.

who

is now the chair of the committee that has jurisdiction over labor policy.

And they meant that as an attack and as a slight and a criticism, of course.

And my team and I, we trumpeted that.

We took their attacks in social media and broadcast them ourselves because, to my knowledge, I was the only member of Congress who openly and explicitly and definitively declared how much I was against labor unions, how I believe they have outlived their usefulness and had long ago helped to right the wrongs and the ills that plagued our workforce policies, our labor policies, if you will, in the U.S. 150 years ago or whenever those times existed.

And how much harm that unions are doing now with hurting artificially inflating costs, hurting our competitiveness, saddling companies, large companies in particular, with the inability to compete and to survive and to do the things that we need them to do or that they need ultimately to do, particularly that's prevalent in our auto industry, as you know.

yes

but the pro act would have essentially forced unionization all across the country eliminated right to work all across the country so states like virginia would have suffered red states where which are prospering under right to work laws would have been forced into Democrat-like policies, blue state policies that would have essentially eliminated any ability for an employer to resist the formation of a union.

Do you see the same things I am, or is this just a feint to fool us into complacency or to look the other way?

It's really hard to say, Joe.

It changes not just by the day, but by the hour, the whole Iran situation.

To some degree, it's, hey, the more they stay the same, the more they change.

You know what I'm trying to say? The more things change, the more they stay the same, if you will, with Iran.

And I support certainly what the president's trying to do and take it to a new level of economic pressure to try to break the regime, to cause, inspire, hopefully motivate an uprising within the country to take over the country, to take back the country for the people who the majority of whom I don't believe support the regime.

But at the same time, I also fear that the radicals, if you will, might try to provoke Trump provoked the United States heading into the election.

How does a conservative campaign in this landscape where, unfortunately, a lot of folks are just pointing at the price of gasoline right now?

So there is a real benefit to having a football team that plays into December and January.

As a friend of mine once said, a university is just an excuse to have a football team.

And those of us who love college football, I tongue-in-cheek say that sometimes.

But Liberty University has done far more for me than I could ever do for Liberty.

Trace and I met there as students.

It represents so much of what we believe, what we stand for.

Our heritage, if you will, our faith was honed there at Liberty University.

bob how is your campaign to get voter turnout uh for against this constitutional compilation uh you know where people will be compelled to do things that they might not believe in and i'm going to leave it at that because i understand that they're about other things as well but at the end of the day as you pointed out so eloquently these constitutional amendments are about compelling people to do things that they wouldn't do otherwise how how has the campaign been so far

What are you hearing?

I think the Democrats' favor will be the propensity for higher Democrat turnout because they're out of power and they're motivated and they don't like President Trump and President Trump's favorability ratings are struggling and tradition and history in the midterm elections, especially with a lame duck president in the final two years of his last term.

However, the redistricting efforts led by President Trump where the states did redistricting help Republicans gain a net of five or six seats, at least the way that the districts lean.

Republicans have a majority – excuse me, an advantage in money, which is very rare.

To your point, you said that earlier.

The Republican Party has about $100 million more in the RNC versus the DNC.

President Trump has hundreds of millions of dollars more, about $400 million in his campaign war chest.

Bob, is that is that how they they managed to wind up this foreign debt?

Sometimes they they do what the law requires, even if they don't want to.

Well, the Democrats would not be able to win any elections, really any place, if they were honest and upfront and truthful about who and what they are and what they want to do, whether it's on climate or energy extremism there, whether it's on defunding the police and eliminating borders, whether it's their open border policies, whether it's their radicalism on moral issues, cultural issues like transgender surgery on children, uh whether the fact they would like to put pro-lifers in jail so with these these and jay jones of course maybe he wouldn't want voters to know what he believes because he basically said republicans and their children should die

because Republicans don't want to be seen as soft on crime because they let the left cede the playing field.

Well, the governor's race in 2021 was decided by, I think, 64,000 votes out of 3.2 million votes cast.

Abigail Spanberger, our current governor, has attempted to uh restore the voting rights for 66 000 felons carte blanche without vetting without qualifying without demonstration that they've been restored or rehabilitated they're on a new path and treating violent felons uh expected repeat offenders if you will uh the same as others who who uh demonstrated that they have reformed their ways And Republican governors, I would submit, have largely tried to do it on a case-by-case basis.

Governor Bob McDonnell was a leader in that respect.

It was kind of risky territory politically for Republicans to do that, to your point, but Governor McDonnell did do that.

And I do think we should have a restorative focus to our judicial system, our legal system, our criminal justice system that does try to help people get on the path to being productive citizens after they've paid their debt to society.

Mm-hmm

... who we think will best represent us, to hold them accountable, to not rubber stamp our vote, even just those of the party that we must, m- might, might be most aligned with, uh, and especially when that party is violating the principles upon which it says to stand for.

And so we ought to be willing to support primary candidates.

It's tough when the president puts his thumb on the scale and overwhelms the primary.

Uh, instead of draining the swamp, we're filling the swamp with the worst kind of members of Congress who they're only getting elected in primaries or winning primaries because of their pledged allegiance or support of an individual, uh, irrespective of their conservative credentials or their qualifications or, or what might distinguish them from other candidates apart from that endorsement.

It is

...

but that's on the, on, on the ballot in November, as well as to enshrine homosexual marriage in the Constitution of Virginia, which will be a direct assault on churches, on pastors, on the, uh, on religious freedom.

It must've been five years ago when you started trying to get this permission from the government.

It was early in my term, which are my time in DC, which as you know, began in 2021, I would say probably 2022 is when we really began to focus on it.

During a visit to Wintergreen, we met with emergency personnel, folks, community leaders in that area.

And it's actually just about 100 feet is all that's needed.

We're trying to do... we were trying to do was connect uh through the national park there uh to build a gravel road that would hopefully lord willingly never be used only be used in the case of emergency where it would be gated off but it could be opened quickly and easily if there ever was an emergency you had to evacuate and so we worked with senators mark warner and tim kaine uh to try to get that passion to get ready and it was really served up and ready to go when we left washington in january of 25 and uh we hope that ultimately comes to pass to keep people safe in that community where there could be as many as 10 000 people with only one exit point at the bottom of the mountain And of course, what we were trying to do is provide an emergency exit point at the top of the mountain as well.

They don't want to be held accountable for anything, but they want credit for doing everything.

Well, yes, and as you know better than most, the founders did not intend for the Senate to be popularly elected to become like the House and subject to pandering to the voters, if you will.

The Senate was supposed to represent the interests of the, as Ronald Reagan used to say, these United States, not the United States, but these United States, which created the federal government.

Do you think we'll get there with this?

intention of making a good deal or abiding by a good deal or keeping a good deal.

They're just trying to buy time for them to continue their pursuit of the destruction of Israel, the destruction of the United States, the development of nuclear capability, and so forth.

I mean, this weekend they're mourning or recognizing, honoring, celebrating, remembering the loss of the Ayatollah.

That's what they're doing right now.

Do you think that is encouraging moderation or a change there? I don't think so.

So with Iran, you've got two options with the deal.

The impact all this, economically speaking, will have on the midterms and holding on to whatever it means to have a Republican majority in the House and Senate.

Right, yeah.

Accomplish two primary things.

One, proof of citizenship to register to vote.

Imagine that, that only American citizens have to vote in our election.

How controversial.

Yeah, that should be supported by everybody, even even Democrats.

And that's where I want to

How controversial.

Yeah, that should be supported by everybody, even Democrats.

And voter ID, you and I and many others continue to be annoyed sometimes at the amount of times we have to present IDs in our society and our culture to do simple things like check into a hotel.

I always laugh a little bit when I get to a hotel desk in the evening, and I say I'm checking in for Bob Good, and someone wants to see my ID as if they have a problem.

People knowing where my hotel stays are showing up pretending to be me and claiming my spot.

But we manage those inconveniences because they're necessary at times, but certainly to vote, to participate in a republic.

So Mike Lee, my good friend from Utah, is the primary driver in the Senate.

What do you make of what happened in New York? Now we've got three House seats flipping in primary to Democratic, Socialist, you know, folks that honestly, you know, they could make AOC the speaker, not Hakeem Jeffries.

Bob, what do you know about the SAVE Act that's keeping it from getting passed? And should it be stapled onto the FISA reauthorization?

Well, you can measure a lot of it just by the fact that two champions in the two respective houses are Senator Mike Lee from Utah, who I would submit is one of the top two or three senators in the country, and Chip Roy from Texas, who I would also submit is one of the top two or three congressmen in the House.

They are the most visible vocal champions have been since this bill was first presented.

And it's very basic, very foundational in what it calls for.

As you know, it calls for proof of citizenship to register to vote.

It's an 80% issue.

Most Americans believe that only citizens should vote in our elections.

So, Bob, what is your take on the deal, the 14-point memorandum of understanding? Because the left and the right are losing their minds over it, it seems.

How do we operate in a sea like this? Because there's no dead reckoning anymore, is there?

There isn't, it doesn't seem.

But in my desire for integrity and consistency and honesty in things, The parties have become so disparate in their worldviews, in their vision for America, in their goals for the country, in what they stand for.

I mean, we have a Democrat Party that embraces socialist communist policies, that embraces open borders, that embraces the radical LGBT agenda, that embraces the view of defunding police and the view of – not cooperating with immigration, sanctuary cities and so forth, the welfare state and all the rest.

So honestly, when we find a compromised Republican in the general election, Now, we ought not to choose them in the primary.

That's number one.

We ought to be more discriminating and more discerning in the primary on who we nominate.

Is there anything that can be done to forestall this insolvency for Social Security?

What is coming up? What have you been doing this week on the podcast?

Well, thanks for asking.

Good for America podcast available on Spotify, Apple, and YouTube.

But we're going to actually – episodes that will be released today will be a speech.

I think I might have mentioned it last week to you, but a speech by Clarence Thomas at the University of Texas at Austin where he talked about the critical importance of not just the Declaration… But that the Declaration wouldn't mean anything if it weren't for the end of it, the last sentence where they pledged their lives, their fortunes, their sacred honor.

In other words, they risked everything for what they believed in and how it would be just beautiful words and just an impressive document if it weren't for the commitment they made that ultimately proved the difference in creating this wonderful country.

But we're also gonna talk about where Republicans are going forward from here, what unites Republicans, what Republicans need to do heading into the midterms, and what the outlook is for Republicans and conservatives going forward.

But now I think this is about something other than what it's about.

But to to actually put some ideas behind in front of the voters.

Well, Republicans do need to give voters a clear choice between them and Democrats, and Republicans might be five months away from losing full control of government.

It wouldn't go into effect for seven months in January, but they could lose it in November.

How would Democrats be motivated if they were in a similar situation, which they were four years ago? They were at risk of losing full control of government.

They ultimately did lose the House.

But Democrats went bold and I'll say courageous from their standpoint, big policy to try to enact as much as their agenda as they could.

Republicans should be doing the same thing.

I don't think it was going to be built as a secure place to hold presidential banquets and things like that.