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Dec. 20, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 20, 2007, Thursday, Hour #3
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Now, the strangest thing happened last night.
Strangest thing.
This hasn't happened to me.
Something like this has not happened to me since the early 70s.
Greetings, my friends, and welcome.
You are tuned to a brand new episode of the Rush Limbaugh program here on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
Great to have you along.
We not only wrap up the week tomorrow, we'll be wrapping up the year.
Usually I take my traditional week of vacation between Christmas and New Year's, and that will be the traditional case this traditional year.
Telephone number here for our final hour, 800-282-2882, the email address rush at EIBnet.com.
Now, I have been very open, ladies and gentlemen, over the course of years on this program, and I have several mistresses out there.
And last night, I went to dinner with, stepped out on the mistresses.
I went to dinner with a woman, just friend, I hadn't seen in a while, and went to the Kobe Club, which is one of my favorite places here into the great steakhouse that's on 58th between 5th and 6th Avenue.
I've described it many times, a Jeffrey Chottereau restaurant.
And there for a couple hours, they're pretty loud and so forth.
And when they brought the bill, the way they bring the bill, they put the receipt, put the bill on a block of wood and they stab it with a steak knife.
Put it there.
So I reached, and it happened that was on my right at the table.
So I reach over and I'm pulling a knife out of the bill.
I'm looking at the bill.
And when I turn to my left, I see a credit card on the table.
I had reached into, yes, I had reached into my pocket, got my credit card out.
I was ready to start, you know, calculating the gratuity and then signing it.
I looked at that credit card and I looked at the woman.
I said, what is that?
What the hell is that?
And she said, well, it stuttered around.
I said, to myself, I said, what is going on here?
Is she offering to pay for the whole thing?
Does she want to pay for her share?
But regardless, this hasn't happened to me.
To me, this was, now maybe I'm too old-fashioned and maybe I don't get this.
But to me, this was the equivalent of in the 1970s being told by a woman, you don't need to open that door for me.
I can get it myself.
I said, what is this?
I stared at that credit.
I started laughing uncontrollably.
I said, put that away.
What is this?
And I was running at my cookie today.
I said, what the hell could this possibly mean?
She said, you know, Russia is just too old-fashioned.
This is New York.
This is the big leagues.
No, there was no asking out.
It was just, it was next time you're in a city, if you got a few moments.
I said, and she said, okay, I guess I initiated it.
I guess I initiated it.
So, yeah, okay, that is relevant.
That is it.
I initiated, and there's a credit card on the table when a bill comes.
And by the way, it was just a cheap old average Visa card.
Well, no, I didn't want to say, but it vanished pretty quickly.
You know, once I said, what the hell is that?
I stared at the credit card.
I looked at her.
I said, what is this?
So anyway, credit card vanished and took the knife out of the bill.
I started calculating gratuity all over again.
And I was so nonplussed by this that I put the gratuity on a total line before I had totaled it all.
So I said, I'm horrible with numbers here.
Anyway, what do you think?
What does this mean?
What could this have possibly meant?
I wouldn't have time to indulge a discussion about this.
I just told her.
I said, my audience is going to hear about this tomorrow.
And I have my theories.
What?
Oh, I don't believe it.
See, Cookie thinks that she was treating me.
No, The whole crew is walking.
Kathleen.
No, because I think she could see the bill.
There was no, trust me here.
There was treating me.
No.
No.
What I think was, I think this was a subtle attempt.
Say she's picking up her share not to be obligated.
You know, these feminist stars.
What are you saying, Creeley?
What do you say?
No.
Nobody.
Well, that's what that.
Well, you can if you ask for a separate check, but she didn't do that, so I could be wrong about it.
All I know is that hasn't happened.
That has not happened since the end.
Nobody, when I'm out with any, nobody offers to pay anyway.
It just doesn't happen.
Nobody throws their credit card out.
I mean, we could stay there 30 minutes after dinner before a credit card pops.
And a bill will be sitting there.
I'm like, okay, reach into the pocket, take care of it.
People ask me, what'd you get for Christmas?
Nothing.
I have fun by giving.
So anyway, well, it remains a mystery.
And I'm not going to ask about it.
I'm not going to ask.
But really, it's just feminism, you know?
It just rears its head at the craziest time.
Even if she was trying to pick it up, that was feminism.
Yes, it was.
Yes, it was.
Look at Mamon's right on this because this thing ended up happening after it was my initiative.
Now, I can understand this if I've been minding my own business and she said, could you abandon your mistresses for a night?
Because I want to talk to you about some stuff.
Which she did, by the way, was sort of business.
Then I could have understood a credit card being there, but it didn't happen that way.
Now, I'm probably making a mountain out of it.
It wasn't a corporate card.
It was a cheap, standard-issue visa.
I was embarrassed to actually have that kind of credit card on the table, a cheap, standard-issue.
This wasn't even a gold card.
This wasn't even a cheap imitation platinum gold.
It was as a standard issue visa with probably a credit limit of $800 on it.
I was embarrassed for it to be sitting there.
I don't know if I'm ever going to see her again.
That's not...
Probably not now.
Well, that...
Well, then I've learned something else.
Cool.
All right.
We still have, we have, we have Lou Ann here from Salt Lake City who held on through the break because she only had 20 seconds when I inadvertently took her call.
So, Lou Ann, welcome back.
Thank you for waiting and welcome to the EIB Network.
Thank you very much for taking my call.
You bet.
That Bingy Harry letter that's on my refrigerator, and I enjoy looking at it every day.
I just wanted to say that I do find this election important.
Yes.
And I do find your opinions very important.
Thank you.
And I do think that everybody's getting endorsements from this person or that person.
And we just recently heard of Lieberman endorsing John McCain and kind of giving him a little booze.
But we don't really hear in the media much about Fred Thompson.
And I do think, like you, that he is a good conservative.
And like you pointed out so eloquently, other people, such as Romney or Giuliani or so forth, are kind of redefining what conservatism is.
And that's kind of like what it is now.
And I do think Fred Thompson does carry forth some of the traditional conservative ideas.
And I think maybe if perhaps you came out and said you are for him, maybe he would get a little bit more notice and people would consider him as more of a viable top-tier one or two candidate because I really do think that he is really good.
I've heard him on other radio shows and I do like his ideas.
And I really think that Giuliani would make a fabulous vice president with him because I think that would take away some of his personal issues.
And I think that Vice President Cheney has redefined what a vice president is.
I don't think they are just somebody who goes around at funerals.
I agree with you.
I agree with you.
I've long stated, in fact, that what bothers me greatly here is this redefinition of conservatism that's going on.
But having said that, whichever one of these guys gets the nomination is going to get my vote.
And it could well be.
You know, everybody's talking about Iowa and New Hampshire, but this isn't going to be over after either of those states on either side.
Rudy's in Missouri, frankly.
Missouri?
What's going on in Missouri?
Well, I'll tell you what's going on in Missouri, February 5th, February 5th, the super duper Tuesday, whatever they're calling it.
That's where you're probably going to get the nominees picked.
But the Republican side right now is so fluid.
Something else I told Cindy Adams last night, the two, right now in Republican National Committee circles, and maybe even with some Republicans, the two dreaded words out there are brokered convention.
And the reason some people are fearing brokered convention, it'd be fun to watch, the reason some people are fearing it is because nobody's launched ahead of anybody here.
It's just that tight, at least according to these pre-primary polls.
But there will be some clarity after the Hawkeye Kaucke and after the New Hampshire primary.
Now, interestingly about endorsements, Zogby conducted a poll recently for associated television news shows, and it discovered this, that voters value the endorsements of the NRA by former President Clinton and President George W. Bush over influential organizations like the AFL-CIO, the National Council of La Raza, or celebrities Oprah Winfrey and Barbara Streisand.
Now, I'm not surprised.
There's even a story here that I haven't a snack here.
Yes, here it is.
What is it?
The Oprah endorsement didn't sway voters.
This is from the Chicago Sun-Times, Jennifer Hunter.
Oprah's efforts might have even backfired, a poll says.
This is the Lifetime Networks and Zogby again.
Interviewed 500 New Hampshire women to look at the views in the early primary state and 1,000 other women across the country.
What the pollsters found was that Oprah made little difference in the way women are looking at the candidates.
In fact, with some groups of women, Oprah's efforts actually backfired.
They said Oprah's stumping, this is one-third of the women under 30, said Oprah's stumping actually made them less likely to support Obama.
73% of the other women said it made no difference to their campaign choices at all.
I don't buy this Clinton, though, as a powerful endorsement.
This guy is a drag.
This guy is an absolute drag on whoever it is.
He goes out there to help.
So sit tight, folks.
It's all going to come into clear focus at the appropriate time.
Things happen as and when they are supposed to.
Kurt Schilling says that Roger Clemens should give the four Cy Young Awards that he has won if it were true that he has used steroids or human growth hormone.
Clemens says, I didn't do it.
I've never done it.
I've never even thought about it.
It's a horrible thing to do.
And then Congress, now Congress back in the act, they want these guys to come up and testify again.
And it looks like some of these members of Congress, yeah, we'd love to hear from Roger Clemens on this.
So convening the committee in January, Betcha Clemens gets a quote-unquote invitation to appear in the hallowed halls of a giant committee room in the great, one of the House office buildings.
Who is this?
Wes in Winney, Texas.
Welcome to the program.
Hello, Merry Christmas, Rush.
Thank you.
My point is this.
I think that the Clinton camp better be very careful with how they handle Obama.
He's coming off very well.
In fact, it appears that he's smarter than the world's smartest woman.
You mean the way he's dealing with this criticism?
The way he's dealing with the criticism, the way, well, the example you played that they asked him about his voting record.
And I don't know if I believe it or not, but he was smooth.
I mean, I don't know if he prepared, but he was ready.
And then yesterday, he responded to a criticism of Hillary saying he had no experience, and his comment was...
Yeah.
Well, you know, she wasn't exactly Secretary of the Treasury either.
Yeah, I thought the same thing about this, number 27.
Let's listen to this here, folks, because this is a clip from Good Morning America today, Chris Kumo saying to Barack Obama, one of the questions that pops up this morning, wonder how, you've been a critic of Hillary Clinton for not having a definite stand on issues.
Turns out that you voted present, as opposed to yes or no, over 100 times as a state legislator.
One vote in particular I want to talk to you about.
The bill was about trying juveniles as adults.
You voted present instead of voting no.
Were you playing politics?
No, as the newspaper points out, this was a standard practice in Illinois.
You oftentimes would strategically vote present because you were still negotiating a bill or because there was some element in the bill that was unconstitutional or had problems that needed to be tweaked.
And there was a signal that you would send to the sponsor of the bill that you were willing to work with them to try to make the bill better.
We understand that more than 4,000 votes, we're talking about about 130 present votes.
When you put yourself out there as the agent of change, that you won't play politics as usual, and then the explanation for why you vote present is inside politics.
Is that sending a mixed message?
No, it wasn't inside politics.
This was particular strategies in order to improve legislation that had an impact on my constituents.
Now, I got to tell you something.
That was cool.
That was calm, not panicked.
He wasn't angry.
He didn't say, he don't, no snide commented, well, I wonder why you're asking me about this now.
I wonder who could have put this in for me.
He just answered it as though it was standard operating procedure.
I don't know whether he's telling the truth or not.
It doesn't matter here because it just buried the whole issue.
That answer and the way he dealt with it, I have to say, I have to say, was very good.
And Wes from Winnie, Texas was exactly right.
Speaking of Obama, former Nebraska Senator Bob Kerry has apologized to Barack.
Do you know how many people apologizing to Obama?
He had all kinds of people apologizing to Obama now.
Who else apologized to Obama?
Oh, Billy Shaheen apologized to Obama and quit the campaign.
And by the way, this Shaheen guy, the cocaine and Obama might be selling drugs guy, he wasn't just a co-chair in New Hampshire.
He was a national co-chair for Hillary's campaign, national co-chair.
He just and Hillary apologized to Obama himself.
Well, she says so.
You know, there's a number of ways of, Obama, that will never happen again.
And Hillary comes out and says she apologized.
I wanted that she used the words, I'm sorry.
I feel horrible that that happened.
We don't know.
We have to take her word for it.
It's a tough charge.
Obama has accepted all these apologies.
Bob Kerry is out there apologizing for any unintentional insult he committed by raising Obama's Muslim heritage while endorsing Hillary Clinton.
Kerry sent a letter to Obama yesterday lauding his qualifications to be president, saying that he never meant to harm his candidacy.
Kerry told an AP in a telephone interview that he had sent the letter on his own.
He had not spoken to Clinton or anybody in her campaign about the comments he made Sunday in Iowa.
What I found myself getting into in Iowa, and it was my own fault, it was the wrong moment to do it, and it was insulting.
I meant no disrespect at all.
And so the references to Obama's Muslim heritage continue being whisked through the wind by the Bob Kerry apology.
Rick in Troy, New York.
Hello, and welcome to the EIB Network, sir.
Merry Christmas, Rush.
Thank you, sir.
I wanted your opinion and take on conservative Lee Pack being elected president of South Korea.
I see this happening, you know, in France and Australia around it.
People are just fed up with the way their country is being dragged down, you know, the morals and the stagnation of their country that you just unanimously voted him president.
I think it's difficult.
You know, these trends, whether they mean anything in the United States, that is tough to discern.
Conservatism does not have a prominent leader in elected circles in this country.
It has plenty of conservatives and a lot of really, really good ones, but they have not become prominent.
Some of the best ones are in the House of Representatives.
There aren't too many in the Senate.
I'm talking about rock-ripped Reaganites when I say conservatives.
And clearly, the presidential candidates, there's not one of them.
You would say there's a Reaganite.
So we're having a massage.
So you can't.
But in France, the people had nowhere else to go.
Germany the same way.
South Korea the same way.
So it is positive in that sense.
I know.
Thank you very much.
Rush Limbaugh behind the golden EIB microphone utilizing talent on loan from God.
All right.
Audio soundbite time.
The Democrats are flooding the zone with Christmas ads, ladies and gentlemen.
Up first, Michelle Obama.
We'd like to take a moment to thank you and your family for the warmth and friendship that you've shown ours, for sharing your hospitality and your stories.
In this holiday season, we're reminded that things that unite us as a people are more powerful and enduring than anything that sets us apart.
And we all have a stake in each other and something larger than ourselves.
So from our family to yours, I'm Barack Obama, and I approve this message.
Merry Christmas.
Happy holidays.
Those are the two Obama crumb crunchers, along with Obama's wife who let it off.
Hillary's ad features her giving handouts.
Universal this, you know, a comprehensive that, mandated other things.
And finally, she finds a present that she lost.
Where did I put Universal Pre-K?
Okay.
Ah, there it is.
Hannah?
Oh, no, that's her Christmas.
No!
Hillary's ad features her giving handouts, universal this, comprehensive that, mandated other thing, and then she finds a present she lost.
Oh, where is it?
Where did I put it?
Oh, Universal Pre-K.
Yes, there it is.
Now, a lot of these people trying to make humorists like Rudy did a parody on the Huckster's ad, sitting there talking to Sandy Claus.
But now, Hillary's not funny.
It is what it is.
Here is the Brett Girl.
One out of every four homeless people on our streets is a veteran.
37 million Americans live in poverty.
Who speaks for them?
We do.
This is the season of miracles of faith and love.
So let us promise together, you will never be forgotten again.
We see you, we hear you, and we will speak for you.
In America, the chance to build a better life is a promise made to each of us.
And the obligation to keep it rests with us all.
I'm John Edwards, and I approve this message.
So that's the Merry Christmas Soup Line America ad from the Brett Girl.
Jeffrey Toobin, the legal analyst over at the Clinton News Network, was on with Anderson Cooper 180 last night, also with New Hampshire Institute of Politics Jennifer Donahue.
And Anderson Cooper says to Toobin, the legal reporter, are these ads effective?
Those ads are so revolting.
I can't even stand it.
Please, do you think any of those candidates care whether you have a Merry Christmas or not?
No, they don't care.
They want your vote.
That's why those ads are on the air.
I mean, I just think this is a new low.
A bunch of phony votes.
What about, you know, an ad that says, I won't raise your taxes, or Huckabee's a bum or Huckabee's great.
I mean, this is what politics is.
It's not total phoniness about Christmas.
I mean, you know, it's bad enough that Christmas has been commercialized.
Now it's being politicized as well.
Okay, Jeffrey.
Well, maybe you should have been watching the CBS Evening News with the perky one, Katie Couric, because she is asking the candidates about infidelity.
Here's what she said to Mrs. Clinton, who has some experience with this.
Katie Couric said, Harry Truman once said a man not honorable in his marital relations is not usually honorable in any other.
Some voters say they don't feel comfortable supporting somebody who's not remained faithful to his or her spouse.
Can you understand or appreciate their point of view?
Well, I can certainly understand why some people would feel that way, and that is their perfect right to do so.
But I think that would be a tough standard for most of American history to be able to meet when we look at people who've made a big difference in our country.
I think there's more to someone's honor and integrity and to their public service.
I think sometimes we confuse the private and the public in ways that are not necessarily useful.
So, of course, it's a deeply personal matter that I take personally.
Not too personal.
But I think on the public stage, there are a number of people who have represented our country, led our country, accomplished great achievements on behalf of our country, who might have some challenges in their personal life, but have made a great contribution.
What else is she going to say?
What is she going to say?
Absolutely, Katie.
I don't think anybody who's run around on anybody could be trusted to do anything.
Mrs. Clinton, do you maybe have a bit of a better question?
Do you have any regrets believing your husband when he lied to you about the purple grass, the stained dress, and the bastard wig conspiracy?
If you're going to believe your husband when he lies to you, you're going to believe Kim Jong-il when he lies to you.
Any number of ways to go, but with the way Katie asked the question, what else is she going to say?
She said, you ever heard of JFK, Katie?
Well, it's a, yeah, we said, JFK had a very, very tough personal challenge there.
Bill Clinton, many, many, many personal challenges in his private life.
All right, Phil in Spartanburg, South Carolina.
Nice to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Rush, mega dittos.
Thank you, sir.
Just want to ask you about the Huckabee craze.
I mean, it's obviously made it down here, and it's still down here in South Carolina, but, you know, it's been so big.
It's changed me.
I was a Romney guy for a while, and now I've been influenced so much.
I'm only 18 years old, so I'm easily influenced, but I'm almost over to Huckabee now.
But I guess my question is, is this going to make it far enough out in the country?
Is this going to spread from the southeast up north, you know, to the Midwest and stay in Iowa and come to Florida and make it in Ohio?
I know when Thompson got in the race late, everybody's saying, you know, here comes Thompson, here comes Thompson, and now it's kind of with McCain.
McCain's making a big run.
So is Huckabee going to be able to carry this far enough to where he can really win this nomination?
Look, as fluid as things are, it is possible.
Anything right now is possible, but we haven't had any votes.
A lot of things are going to become much more clear after the Hawkeye Caucasi and then the New Hampshire primary.
Nothing's going to be settled then.
You know, South Carolina is going to be crucial to a lot of candidates.
South Carolina will probably depend on whether some stay in or not.
Maybe not, but it's, you know, a lot of people have South Carolina in their long-term strategy.
Thompson was one.
He's now reallocating some resources to Iowa because he's in the middle of a little bit of surge there.
But, you know, there are, if you want to make analogies, Howard Dean in 2004 was the darling of the Democrats.
He was supposedly attracting never-before active audience and voters and contributors via the internet.
And the haughty John Kerry was languishing away, having to borrow money from his wife under the guise of taking away equity in his Boston house in order to stay viable in the campaign.
And then when the votes were counted in Iowa, the polling data had been dead wrong about Howard Dean, and it just didn't materialize.
And that's when he started screaming.
That's why I keep telling people to wait for the actual votes to start counting, be counted, and then the votes to be taken.
At this stage, you know, I want to be able to tell you who's going to win this.
I don't know how long Huckabee's going to survive.
I don't know how far he can go.
I think, you know, as happens with all surprise emerging near frontrunners, is that more and more scrutiny is attached.
And as that scrutiny occurs, candidates either try to face it or hide it, continue to not answer questions about various aspects of policy, instead rely on the link and try to promote that link, which in Huckabee's case is his Southern Baptism and his being a minister to have that be what propels him.
But I've found that you can't avoid this kind of scrutiny, and it happens to everybody that climbs to the top of anything.
Everybody comes gunning for it.
I don't care what the business is, be it politics or anything else.
Everybody wants what you've got when you're number one.
So I think it's going to be difficult, frankly, for Huckabee to hold on.
But I don't know.
Everything is so wide open and up in the air here.
It's why I made the comment not long ago, but there's some genuine fear out there in Republican circles that the primaries are not going to decide this, that it's going to be delegates being brokered and things at the convention because it's all jammed up.
And nobody's going to really know until the votes are taken and counted.
And I'm getting blue in the face saying that.
I'm not trying to avoid answering the question, but I'm not going to sit here and tell you something I don't know and make it up just to sound authoritative when I really have no clue how long anybody's going to last in this thing.
We got to go.
Quick timeout.
Be right back after this.
Don't go away.
Oh, I cannot get enough of this stuff.
Mannheim Steamroller, this song especially.
I got to listen to the whole thing because it just builds and builds.
It's called Patapan.
It just listened to this stuff year-round to tell you the truth.
At Christmas time, it just has an even greater emotional attachment and tug.
All right, Elizabeth in Washington, D.C., I'm glad you called.
You are up next on the EIB Network.
Hello.
Christmas Ditto's Rush.
I understand the lady and the Visa card.
She is obviously a woman of a decent reputation who does not want to be mistaken by the restaurant people for one of your mistresses.
Oh, look, I'm open to any discussion of possibility because I still can't figure it out.
And I didn't ask.
All I said is, what the hell is that?
Put that away.
But I didn't ask for an explanation.
Well, let me correct you on another thing.
That Hillary ad is hysterically funny.
I haven't seen it.
Is it funny?
I haven't seen it either, but I heard it on your show, the little part of it that you played.
Yeah, but what we're all trying to figure out is she making fun of herself?
Or is it funny because she's actually going, you know, I have to see the whole ad, which I haven't seen it.
I have just this little 13-second snippet of it, and it's hard for me to understand this.
It makes no sense to me with this out-of-context, brief little blurb.
Does she have a history of making fun of herself?
Well, she's trying to.
The other day when she was in Iowa, she was up on stage of some cattle barn, and she said she'd been to a lot of cattle barns in her day, but she'd never been the cattle like she feels in the campaign.
And she says, go ahead.
You can inspect me all you want.
You can look inside my mouth.
You know, so she's been some kind of self-deprecating.
But she did sound more personable than I've ever heard her sound in that ad.
It's a little bit yucking it up.
So that's why I was confused by it.
Well, you may be right.
Gee, that's a little scary thought.
How are we making fun of herself?
Anyway, Merry Christmas to you, Russ.
Thank you, Elizabeth.
I appreciate it.
If she's making fun of herself, it won't last long.
Mark and Houston, hello, and welcome to the EIB Network.
Hi, yes, Rush.
Before I make my statement, I would like to say thanks for not giving an early endorsement.
I appreciate that.
Thank you, sir.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
I would like to say that I believe the toughest battle for the Republican Party would be to see Hillary as the vice president on the Democratic ticket, doesn't matter who she's running with.
Hillary is the vice president on a Democrat ticket.
That would be tough.
Why?
Because she would not have that control and power that most people fear about her, yet she would have that there is a 40% or so people that for some ungodly reason like her and think she'd make a good president or a good leader and combine that with some other Slick oil salesman, and you've got a herd of people that are going to be a tough battle against her.
Wait a minute.
I realize you're trying to be unique here and come up with something anybody else, nobody else has come up with.
And I'm, how in the world could she be?
This is simple logic.
How could she be more dangerous to the Republicans in an electoral chance as vice president than being at the head of the top of the ticket?
Because she would still be there with her clout that she does carry for some reason.
We know she carries that clout and she would be there.
And she would maintain without having to scare off a lot of people who are scared about her.
I believe, I don't understand why a lot of people have that belief and are polling heavy Edwards.
I'll tell you, I don't know.
I think it's a moot point anyway, because I don't think she'd ever accept it unless the candidate that the Democrats nominate is 85 with a life expectancy of three months and no such candidate is running.
I don't see her accepting it.
Yeah, I wonder if she's even been asked that question.
I think Katie Curry got close to it.
Well, I know.
Of course, I'm going to win.
I'm the candidate of inevitability.
I don't even think about losing.
That'd be a good question for somebody to ask her.
Chicago, Tad, thanks for calling.
You're up next on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hey, thanks.
Hey, thanks, Rush.
You have a quick comment.
A little over a year ago, you indicated you were done carrying other people's water for them.
And recently, you've been getting a static callers asking you to basically support their candidate or confirm to them that their candidate is the one and only conservative candidate out there on the Republican side.
If their candidate, if they believe their candidate is so viable and so conservative, why do they continue coming to you for that blessing?
Because there isn't one candidate breaking out.
They're all bunching up here.
And people think that if I got behind their guy, that it could be perhaps the boost to launch this guy, whoever I would happen to endorse, out of the pack a little bit.
So I understand they're trying.
They've forgotten that I've said I'm through carrying water.
It's a good point.
I actually think, I want you people, I'm flattered that you want me to endorse.
Don't misunderstand here.
But the carry the water thing was meant in this way.
You know, we're in a primary situation.
We're talking about running for president.
It's up to these guys to get noticed.
It's up to these guys with the force of their personalities and their charisma, their policy, their vision for the country.
It's up to them to get noticed.
But Rush, the drive-bys are not fit.
They know that going in.
And that's my attitude about it.
And if just be, I don't know how to say that anymore than I have.
I feel like I'm in a broken record on this, about this endorsement business, but it's all going to work out.
All going to work out.
It'll happen as it will when it's supposed to.
Quentin in Dayton, Ohio.
Thank you for calling and welcome.
Hey, Rush.
Hey.
How are you doing today?
I'm fine, sir.
Thank you.
Okay.
Real quick explanation.
One of the things that's going to win or lose it for the Republican Party is if they try to outdo the Democrats going after that big single mother vote.
They've already disenfranchised a lot of the male base by going and doing, you know, whatever the feminists ask to get that vote.
Wait a minute.
Republicans got to get the single women vote, you're saying?
Well, no, I'm saying they've got to quit trying to out, you know, outdo the Republicans.
Well, that's, look, that's one of the things that's bothering me is we've got too many people trying to out-Democrat Democrats in certain ways.
You know, Reagan conservatism works.
It's been proven.
And the dirty little secret is that whoever gets a majority of white men wins the presidency.
That's the dirty little secret.
We'll be back.
You have those spots, by the way, in there?
Good, because they're vanished.
All right, folks, that's it.
Another exciting excursion in a can and soon to be headed over to that warehouse housing all the artifacts in a future Limbaugh Broadcast Museum.
See you once again tomorrow, Open Line Friday from the Southern Command.
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