Larry Gatlin: I Will Support Our Nominee Whomever It Is

RUSH TRANSCRIPT:

DOOCY: “Well, you saw it right here on ‘Fox & Friends’ yesterday. Rick Perry giving his presidential endorsement to —“
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PERRY: “It’s a great privilege for us to be able to endorse Ted Cruz....And I am convinced without a doubt that on day one, this very committed conservative American will be ready to be commander-in-chief.”
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KOOIMAN: “Well, the former Texas governor now officially endorsing fellow Texan Ted Cruz.”
KILMEADE: “OK. You, sir, Larry Gatlin, you are also a friend of Governor Perry. Welcome to our show. Welcome back.”
GATLIN: “Good to see you all.”
DOOCY: “Good to see you. So, you were —“
GATLIN: “I am — you want me to ask the questions or you want to ask?”
DOOCY: “You were for Perry. He dropped out. Now you’re for Trump?”
GATLIN: “Rick Perry has been a friend of mine for 35 or 40 years. He says how is your daddy and your mama? He was a great man, a great governor from my home state of Texas. It would have been a great honor to have voted for him. Not going to get that chance. I respect his opinion. Here’s the way I look at it. A lot of very famous people, celebrity types, I think we have unduly used our celebrity status to try to convince people to do things. I’m not going to do that. To vote. Usually the celebrities are on the left. We see, you know, them and I think a lot of those celebrities couldn’t point to Syria on a map. They believe that it’s okay to kill babies in the mother’s womb and that’s about all they know. So I am not going to do that. I will say — I would have proudly voted for rick Perry and I’ll support Ted Cruz if he’s our nominee. So —“
KILMEADE: “But, who do you want?”
GATLIN: “I think Mike Huckabee would be a great president. He knows more about Israel and the Middle East than anybody. He has executive experience. He is right on the issues. The 42 people in the national review could not have raked him over the coals for not being a true conservative. He’s a little dumpy looking and doesn’t have great hair and he’s not the flavor of the month so I won’t get that chance to vote for him. Again, I wouldn’t tell anybody to do that. So I’m going to vote for our nominee, whoever has an ‘r’ behind their name. You know —“ [crosstalk]
KILMEADE: “So, you’re waiting it out.”
GATLIN: “— if it’s Elmer Fudd —“
KILMEADE: “So, you’ll wait it out? You’re going to wait it out?”
GATLIN: “Right. I’ll support the nominee, but I’m not going to tell people to vote. I say go and do not vote for him because you like all the gold in California and the Gatlin brothers. That’s a bad reason. Look into what the man or woman has said. Their policies. Their statements. Make up your own mind. Do not be a low or no information voter. That’s how we get the doofus-in-chief we have right now.”