Rush Limbaugh On Gary Johnson Joke: 'Guess I've Become Show Prep For The GOP Debates'

NEW YORK -- Former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson brought down the house at Thursday night's Fox News/ Google debate when he joked about how his "next-door neighbor's two dogs have created more shovel-ready jobs than this current administration."Johnson’s comment about dogs creating more ‘shovel-ready jobs’ than Obama – actually said first by Rush Limbaugh – earns former governor attention at GOP presidential debateYes, former N.M. Gov. Gary Johnson is still a presidential candidate, though most people paying marginal attention to the GOP primary probably didn’t know it.
Until Thursday night.After being excluded from a number of debates, Johnson was finally allowed into one by Fox News. And while the media focused on the fighting between frontrunners Rick Perry and Mitt Romney, Johnson got credit for the best line of the night.Near the end of the debate, Johnson had this zinger:
“My next-door neighbor’s two dogs have created more shovel-ready jobs than this current administration.” “For a candidate who is clocking in somewhere between asterisk and one percent in polling, the former New Mexico governor had a moment with his ‘my neighbor’s two dogs have created more shovel-ready projects than this president’ line,” the Washington Post’s Chris Cillizza wrote in declaring Johnson one of the debate’s winners. “It will be the most replayed line of the night — without question.”
The Hill said Johnson “seemed nervous” through most of the debate but “pulled himself together for one of the evening’s more memorable lines.”