Mark Levin is a Lover. Just Don't Mention Obama.

Ever the WABC loyalist, Imus tuned in recently to his pal Mark Levin’s show. “I’m driving around in my Ford truck, dust blowing, gasping for air trying to breathe,” Imus told Levin today, setting the scene a bit too vividly. “And you’re talking about Stockton, California.”
 
More specifically, Levin, a curmudgeonly conservative commentator, had been discussing a case where the Department of Education sent a heavily armed SWAT team into a man’s house because his wife was deficient on her student loans. “Can you imagine what’s going to happen with Obama-care?” Levin cried. “Sorry I didn’t sign up!”
 
Notoriously hyper-critical of the President, Levin didn’t stop there, pointing out Obama’s need to insert himself into the issue of whether disgraced Congressman Anthony Weiner should resign by saying that if he were in a similar situation, he would step down.
 
“He’s asked about Weiner’s weiner, and he wants to talk about his own weiner,” Levin said, adding that Obama appears to have no control over his compulsion to make every conversation about himself. “If you’re talking about unemployment, he’ll talk about himself. It’s just the nature of the man.”
 
With a knowing smile, Imus chimed in, “I really hate people like that.”
 
After stating his oft-invoked line that he’d “vote for a can of orange juice” for president before voting for Obama, Levin told Imus that any members of the Republican field for president in 2012 look good to him, except Ron Paul and Mitt Romney.
 
“Ron Paul keeps embracing George McGovern’s foreign policy,” he said. And while Romney looks presidential, “I know he’s for Romeny-care; he’s for subsidizing ethanol; he believes in manmade global warming.” Thus, Levin concluded, “He’s got some problems.”
 
During last night’s Republican primary debate in New Hampshire, Levin found Rep. Michele Bachmann impressive, along with former Senator Rick Santorum. “He’s a psychopath,” Imus provided, but Levin disagreed with Imus’s claim that Santorum compared homosexuality to bestiality.
 
“That is a Justice Scalia dissent,” Levin explained. “He didn’t say it leads to bestiality. What they said is you can’t have the Supreme Court dictating what is or is not marriage in that way, because if anything goes…where do we draw the line?”
 
Somewhat satisfied, Imus countered that Santorum is “a whack job” anyway.
 
Levin conceded that former House Speaker and current candidate for president Newt Gingrich has issues apart from the fact that almost his entire campaign staff resigned last week. “He’s embraced cap-and-trade before,” Levin said. “And you notice he won’t take a firm position on Medicare.”
 
Even so, Levin stated emphatically that he would vote for “any damn one of them” over Obama. “I’ve had enough of this wrecking ball to our economy and our society,” he said. Accused of being a hater, Levin replied, “I’m a lover. I love this country. I love this constitution. I love the market system. I love capitalism. He does not.”
 
At the very least, Imus observed Obama should get “props” for killing Bin Laden, something former President George W. Bush was unable to accomplish in eight years.
 
“I give him props for not screwing something up for once,” Levin said.
 
It’s probably the nicest thing he’s ever said about Obama.
 
-Julie Kanfer