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January 7, 2008, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
You are listening to Human Events 2007, Man of the Year, Rush Limbaugh and the EIB Network.
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What is this about Mrs. Clinton pulling out of the race?
Have you seen the drudge?
The only way she's leaving this race is in a straitjacket.
Ladies and gentlemen, I know that you and countless millions of others are counting on me to convince and urge Mrs. Clinton to stay in the race.
And I fully intend to do everything possible.
Mrs. Clinton, you didn't get into this to quit after one caucus in Iowa.
Not true.
She's lost her national lead in the Rasmussen national poll.
She's down in three polls by double digits going into the New Hampshire primary tomorrow night.
And I have also heard under the table here that several Hillary staffers are quietly sending resumes out to join other campaigns.
They're doing it in sort of a tricky way.
If my information's correct, they're not actually sending the resumes directly.
They're sending them to like an employment agency or a clearinghouse in Washington under disguised subject lines, either on the faxes or the emails.
And, you know, it does look like it's bad shape for Mrs. Clinton.
Bill Clinton saying all kinds of...
By the way, do you realize, ladies and gentlemen, Bill Clinton has had quite a life.
When he was 16, he met JFK in the Rose Garden as part of Boys Nation.
And now at age 61, he has met Obama.
It's not everybody who meets truly two such truly great historic figures in his life.
And Bill Clinton has met them both.
JFK and Barack Obama.
Well, I mean, the drive-by is a lot of people are out there portraying Obama as the new JFK out there.
And Bill Clinton has met them both.
There are emergency meetings in the Clinton campaign because of these double-digit poll numbers.
And it does appear that she is in big trouble.
Clinton himself said, hey, look, you know, I can't make my wife any younger.
I can't make my wife any taller, and I can't make my wife a man.
He really said that in New Hampshire, Clinton is showing up and speaking to smaller crowds.
They're walking out.
They appear sleepy.
Same thing is happening to Mrs. Clinton out there.
There's just no excitement on the campaign.
And if indeed there is tremendous, I want to tell you something.
I'm going to spend some time on this, particularly on the Republican side.
No candidate in either party is going to be out of the race because of what happens in New Hampshire tomorrow night.
There is so much beltway conventional wisdom out there that's ridiculous.
And we're going to start pouring through it here very quickly.
But if indeed Mrs. Clinton is in trouble, well, there's no question she's in trouble.
But if indeed what's happened to her is fatal, I want to remind you where it all started.
It happened on this program the day of the MSNBC Democrat debate at Drexel University in Philadelphia.
That was the day that I asked people after reading a story in New York Newsday, which says, you know, this driver's license is for illegal aliens in New York.
Wait, that's a nuclear issue for Mrs. Clinton.
And I chided the reporter, why don't you ask her about it then?
If it's a nuclear issue, why don't you ask her about it?
Because she had been on record telling a newspaper in New Hampshire that she was all for Governor Spitzer's plan.
That night, Tim Russert asked her the question.
She botched it badly.
Two or three flip-flops in the debate, clearly wasn't ready for it.
And it was at that point that the tailspin began and that her husband was brought in and furthered the tailspin, just as I have predicted would happen.
So now the word is that she's got staffers ready to fly the coupe because they want to have jobs for the rest of the campaign.
By the way, that's really under the table stuff, and it's unconfirmed, but it's just part and parcel of some of the things that are happening internally.
Also, Mrs. Clinton has decided that she's going to start defining the terms of her own campaign.
She's going to get rid of all these consultants and all these outside advisors, and she's going to take it over herself.
Now, anybody who believes that that hasn't been the case all along is eating something strange.
The idea that Mrs. Clinton is a puppet and is listening to a bunch of campaign strategerists is absurd.
That is not her personality whatsoever.
She's been running this show from day one.
That's one of the problems.
And Mr. Clinton has been right in there.
That's one of the problems.
It's not 1992 and it's not 1996 any longer.
And there isn't this, I'm trying to tell people this, there is not this massive group population of Americans salivating with bated breath, panting away, hoping for the Clintons to get back in the White House.
They have thought there was, or is, but there isn't.
And the Obama rise sort of indicates, the fact that she's losing to somebody with no experience, the fact that she's losing, do you know this guy?
You look at his record in the Senate.
You won't find a Senate bill with his name on it.
You won't find a Senate bill with the Brett girl's name, other than a couple post offices being named for people in North Carolina.
First-term senators don't get much done, certainly not under their own names.
And she's losing to somebody with veritably no experience whatsoever.
A couple of things.
Before we get into the specifics and the nuts and bolts of this, I watched a lot of the television over the weekend with the debates and the forums and the drive-by media coverage.
And I have to tell you something, I'm getting sick and tired of this whole notion of change.
Change what?
What in the world, the idea, and even some of the Republican candidates now are picking up on this mantra that we must have change.
The dirty little secret is that most of the American people don't want dramatic change, even these people in focus groups who say they do.
Status quo always seems to ring true.
Change, you know, as though some kind of change, any kind of change is miraculous.
Any kind of change is going to be wonderful and good.
I mean, you can do a lot of things to cause change that are very, very bad.
And the kind of change that Obama or Clinton or the Brett girl would bring about is horrible change.
The kind of change that Mike Huckabee would bring about, not good change.
The things that McCain would bring about, not good change.
By the way, I also don't buy the conventional wisdom McCain's going to clean up tonight.
I don't think I don't buy this at all.
I think McCain is vulnerable.
I think he had two really rotten debate performances over the weekend to the extent that people in New Hampshire saw them and to the extent that debates change anybody's minds.
In fact, I was watching some of the drive-bys after one of the debates last night.
I guess it was Chris Wallace who moderated the forum last night at 8 o'clock on Fox.
And he was talking to Britt Hume in a second post-mortem of this thing.
And he said, well, to the extent that debates change people, why if the networks don't even think that debates change people's minds, why do the debates?
Why even do them?
And why analyze them?
And why do all this nitpicking of who was good and who was bad, who had a rotten attitude?
If debates don't change anybody's minds, why have them, period?
That's another bogus assertion.
They have a pinch of potentially kill a candidate.
Well, then they can change the outcome.
But they're saying debates don't change people's minds.
Debates most certainly can change people's minds.
And we'll find out in the voting tomorrow night just how much.
But look, folks, whatever you say, whatever you think, nobody is out of this race after what's happened or what happens in New Hampshire tomorrow.
You've got two very liberal states, particularly on the conservative side.
You've got two liberal states, Iowa and New Hampshire.
New Hampshire is far more liberal than it used to be because people have been leaving Massachusetts to get away from high taxes and moving in there.
And they're either Democrats or independents or what have you.
Why do you think McCain's staking his last claim to this race in New Hampshire of all places?
Because it's filled with the kind of people that he thinks will vote for him.
Independents, big government, open borders types.
More on this, as I say, in really, how should I say this, down-to-the-nub analysis.
I have to tell you a quick story here before we go.
I meant to mention this earlier.
When I went home for Christmas, when I left, I went home for a couple days to Missouri, and the staff here said, your Christmas present from us is in Missouri.
I said, well, why is it in Missouri?
Well, you'll see when you get there.
So I got to Missouri, and I'm waiting around to see what the Christmas present is.
Nothing on Christmas Eve, nothing on Christmas Eve night.
Kids are opening their presents, and I got up on Christmas Day, and my sister-in-law, Lisa, says, by the way, I want to show you the staff sent you something here for Christmas.
She opened a refrigerator door.
It's a rush pack from Allen Brothers.
I said, why in the world are they Allen Brothers?
I have Allen Brothers.
Oh, why are they sending them in here?
And I asked when I got back, they said, because you say that whenever you go anywhere, you never get to get Allen Brothers except at home.
So they sent me this terrific rush pack from Allen Brothers, and it was tremendous.
It was a great present.
We mustered up some of the hot dogs and hamburgers for the kids and everybody for Christmas Day lunch before I got on the airplane and came back.
By the way, speaking of Allen Brothers, they've got some new products that they've done, the heat and surf products.
And these folks, these steaks are, I took some people at Kobe Club who have eaten some Allen Brothers stuff at my home.
And the Kobe Club is great.
I don't mean to insult you, but they said this is some of this Allen Brothers stuff is some of the best I've ever had.
You cannot get it anywhere else.
They've got these new heat and serve things that they've added to their repertoire.
Beef stews, what is it?
Braised beef pot roast, wagyu meatloaf.
That's American version of Kobe.
Beef short ribs, shepherd pie.
They've got four different kinds of pot pies.
They're really expanding because they're successful advertisers here at the EIB network.
ABsteaks.com, ABSTeaks.com.
If you are interested, a brief timeout back with in-depth Republican analysis after this.
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You hear what Mrs. Clinton said on the Today Show Today with Matt Wauer.
She said that Barack Obama hasn't done the spade work necessary to be president.
He hasn't done the spade work necessary to be president, as though she has.
Now, let's imagine, shall we, if Trent Lott or Mitt Romney or Ross Perot had said that Barack Obama hasn't done the spade work necessary to be president, this, nothing that happens in a Clinton campaign is coincidence, folks.
Barack Obama hasn't done the spade work.
Where is the Reverend Sharpton on this?
By the way, big story: Reverend Sharpton waiting on his time to endorse.
He's waiting for commitments.
That means he's probably waiting for money from one of these two camps.
And Bill Clinton, over the weekend, in response to a question from somebody at one of his town hall meetings, what's going on?
He said, he blamed me.
He blamed talk rate.
He blamed me.
He said that the reason Mrs. Clinton has such a rotten image is because people believe me, even me.
He said, people believe all these things are people saying about her.
It's like Rush Limbaugh, even when Rush Limbaugh says it.
So, folks, it's me.
In their minds, the reason Mrs. Clinton is in tough doo-doo right now is me.
And they're right.
You know, when you get down to brass tacks, they are right.
But Mrs. Clinton, don't get out of the race.
You can't quit.
If you're worried about your legacy and going down as a big loser, a big quitter would be even worse.
Please stay in this race and make it count for one and all because the country needs me to be able to persuade you to hang in there and be tough.
Now, I want to remind all of my Republican friends that there are many states after Iowa and New Hampshire where the Republican populations are far more indicative of the conservative base.
And to get caught up in what happened in Iowa, to get caught up in what's going to happen in New Hampshire, as though they're the only two states that matter and that they're going to determine the fallout on both parties is a little bit over the top.
Iowa's a caucus.
It's a weird setup.
New Hampshire allows independents to vote in the Republican primary, which is why McCain is doing as well as he is doing.
And it's why the media want this to be a bellwether against Romney.
I mean, Pat Buchanan came in second.
He came in a very strong second in New Hampshire in 1992.
Now, I'm not saying that these contests are not to be taken seriously here and that they're not to be fought and to be won, but we don't want to get ahead of ourselves.
New Hampshire is no longer the conservative barometer it used to be.
The state has changed.
It is now quite liberal.
A lot of people who used to live in Massachusetts have moved into New Hampshire to escape New Hampshire's high taxation and other problems.
New England generally, the northern states, state like Iowa, is not where the conservative base resides in large numbers.
The drive-by media would love to destroy the conservative coalition.
They would love to destroy the conservative base of the Republican Party.
That's why they are promoting Huckabee.
It is why they are promoting McCain.
The drive-by media, ladies and gentlemen, will tell us each and every day who the true conservatives in the Republican primary are.
And they will tell us by virtue of who they attack and also by virtue of who they prop up.
They are propping up McCain.
They are propping up Huckabee.
The drive-by media hate conservatives.
They want to destroy conservatism.
It is the bulwark standing in their way of power and monopolistic control of all apparatus of the country, government, media, and everything else.
It's one of the best indicators I can offer you.
If you're asking who's the genuine conservative out there, who's most conservative, who's most liberal on the Republican side, just take a look at who the drive-bys are enamored of, and you will be able to answer the question yourself without me having to tell you.
I mean, why do you think that Senator McCain is making his big stand in New Hampshire?
Because he did well there in 2000 and because he knows he runs really well with independence.
He knows that New Hampshire is not a big conservative state.
If McCain were running on a genuine conservative agenda, he'd be focusing on South Carolina, for example, but he's not.
He's focusing in New Hampshire because he thinks conservatives can be outnumbered there by this new influx of independence.
You know, he's up there.
He's up in New Hampshire.
If you listen to McCain touting his left-wing environmental agenda with Joe Lieberman for crying out loud.
Now, recently, there have been an endorsement that there were people scratching their heads.
Jack Kemp, Supply Sider, endorsing McCain?
What's this all about?
I'll give you two reasons.
And I'm just hazarding my own guess here.
But I think it's the old boys club in Washington, the Inside the Beltway establishment apparatus, and the dirty little secret, Senator Kemp is an open borders guy, and so is Senator McCain.
Have you noticed in these forums and debates, McCain doesn't want to talk about immigration?
He doesn't want to talk about campaign finance reform.
He doesn't want to talk about the things that genuinely rile conservatives.
He wants to sweep those issues under the rug, try to redefine what those issues were all about and what his position was on both of them.
Now they're saying, Romney, if Romney finishes second, he's finished.
How can that be?
How can coming in second in the first two states finish somebody?
If he comes in second, may disappoint some people, but it also means that in these two states, he's the only Republican to win high spots in both.
The idea that anybody's finished after New Hampshire and Iowa is absurd.
It's drive-by media spin designed to dispirit and depress people.
They're out there saying, where does Romney go after New Hampshire?
Where do any of them go?
It's wide open.
They go on to the next primary.
South Carolina and Michigan, that's where they go.
I mean, for the Beltway crowd, not just the media, but for people that live and work inside the Beltway to make conclusive statements about who's going to win and who won't.
Based on all this, two states is nuts.
At least as far as Republicans are concerned, there is no one candidate has any front-runner momentum right now at all on the Republican side, back after this.
Having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have from behind a golden EIB microphone at the EIB's Southern Command.
I know it's easy to get caught up in the spin of the drive-by media, and not just the drive-bys, but the whole inside-the-beltway crowd making conclusive statements about who's going to win and who won't based on Iowa and New Hampshire.
At least as far as the Republican Party is concerned, no one candidate has any front-runner momentum right now.
Listen to this: Rasmussen Report's daily presidential tracking poll for yesterday shows McCain and Huckabee tied at 19%, Giuliani at 17, Romney at 15, and Fred Thompson at 13%.
And at some point, we're going to get past these states that work for Huckabee and McCain.
But there's no clear frontrunner on the Republican side.
The only thing that you could say that might happen to somebody on the Republican side after two states is that expectations weren't met.
Now, it's different on the Democrat side.
I mean, you can see the panic in Hillary's camp.
You can see a big slide in her national polling.
Obama has overtaken her nationally.
He's up double digits in two polls in New Hampshire for tomorrow night.
And unlike Romney, Romney has never led in the national polls, even though they talk about him as the frontrunner.
He never has led in the national polls.
You know, who has led in the national polls have been Giuliani.
They speak of Romney as the frontrunner.
They attack him as the frontrunner.
Mrs. Clinton has always been the big frontrunner in the Democrat Party, and she's lost that status now in these national polls.
And she's losing to somebody, Barack Obama, who has absolutely no experience or qualifications to be president.
And that is astounding, and it goes directly to her lack of likability.
Now, I'm not saying she can't recover someplace.
She may be finished.
I don't know.
The point is, nobody knows what's going to happen, even after tomorrow night.
Nobody knows.
And it's silly for anybody to start saying that they do.
I wouldn't be completely certain of her being finished.
You know, she still has the support of the party machine.
Now, that could be threatened.
Stories are out there that Mrs. Clinton's money is drying up.
I thought she'd raised $100 million.
I thought she'd raised all this money.
Now we're getting stories that her donations are drying up.
Staffers are becoming dispirited.
Maybe so.
We'll just have to see how it plays out.
There's no doubt she's in deep trouble.
Make no mistake about that.
But to say that she's finished at this stage is a bit premature.
I'll tell you, there's so much conventional wisdom out there.
I, for one, I just want to repeat this.
I don't think McCain's a lock in New Hampshire tomorrow night.
I believe these debates matter.
I believe people in New Hampshire watch them.
And in both the Saturday night debate and the Sunday night forum, McCain did not do well.
I don't care what anybody tells you.
You can look at the focus groups and see for yourself.
He did not do well.
Came off as sinister, mean, and strident on Saturday night.
Sunday, he came across as tired and out of it, as though somebody had said, look, you're a little too strident last night on Romney.
Back off.
Which he did.
And then for McCain to sit there and whine and moan about attack ads, come on, this ain't beanbag.
Politics is a blood sport.
You know, McCain's run his share of attack ads, but these guys have been in politics all their lives.
They've had attack ads run against them.
Act like big babies.
They can't deal with attack ads.
And by the way, what's an attack ad?
You know, McCain is just like the Democrats in this regard.
If you run an ad that's truthful about their record, all of a sudden you're attacking them.
There have been some truthful commercials about McCain.
McCain has been the author of the first official intervention in the First Amendment in this nation's history.
McCain Feingold.
He has opposed tax cuts, the Bush tax cuts.
Now, to put that out there in an ad is not an attack ad.
It happens to be true.
And all this sensitivity about these attack ads, you don't see Romney whining and moaning about these things.
You don't see Fred Thompson whining and moaning about these things.
You don't see Rudy whining and moaning, but you do see Huckabee and McCain whining and moaning about this.
And it's unbecoming because this is what it is.
Politics is what it is.
Now, my thinking here, I just want to tell you what, I actually think this is based on truth, and it is in fact truth.
The media are out to break up conservatives.
I was instant messaging with F. Lee last night.
And to me, there is no question.
I spent this weekend in intense study of what's going on up there.
I watched more political TV this weekend than I have watched probably in the last six months.
My instincts were confirmed.
Media are out to break up conservatives, dispirit us, destroy us, destroy the Republican coalition of the evangelicals, the social and fiscal conservatives.
They're out to destroy that.
They want to destroy that by getting McCain or Huckabee nominated.
That's how they intend to do it.
And we have pundits, including some who are conservative, who are falling all over themselves to be the first to announce permanent realignments, permanent trends, the end of this era, the beginning of that era.
In truth, all they have to be making such sweeping predictions is the results of the Iowa caucuses, where a couple hundred thousand people voted, 10% of those eligible, in a very odd format.
Now New Hampshire's coming, where the more liberal or populist candidate in the Republican Party now benefits from the flood of independents who vote in the GOP primary and skew the results, which means that you cannot draw conclusions about the Republican Party based on New Hampshire, but they will anyway.
And you've got to keep this in mind.
Whatever happens in New Hampshire tomorrow night, the drive-bys are going to try to spin this as the end of conservatism as it's known.
Now, let me be blunt about some things here.
Governor Huckabee does evangelicals a disservice when he uses faith to promote what is a liberal populist agenda, an agenda that includes large tax increases, which were not offset by tax cuts.
I hope you saw the question from Romney last night to Governor Huckabee about taxes.
He wouldn't answer the question.
It got very testy.
He said, I'm not talking to you, Mitt.
I'm talking to the moderator, Chris Wallace.
So Wallace simply repeated Mitt Romney's question.
Well, did you raise taxes, a net increase, after all your cuts and increases?
He didn't want to answer the question.
And when he finally got around to answering it, he said, well, the courts made me do it.
Court orders were not responsible for $500 billion of tax increases, folks.
I hate to tell you.
There's no governor that can say a court made him raise taxes that many times.
It was a bit sad.
The Huckabee agenda is large tax increases, not offset by tax cuts, open borders, amnesty for illegals, particularly their kids.
It's also nailed on that last night.
Well, Governor, you've said that you want the kids of illegals to stay and go to school.
Well, the federal government hasn't done its job.
Kids have to be educated.
Yeah, but you said that you want to give college students in-state tuition.
The federal government doesn't think about that.
And then he said, well, what's really going to happen here is when we deport all these illegals, they're going to take their kids with them.
They'll take them out of school.
They have to go back to Mexico, get in line.
When they come back, they'll go back and finish school.
But I thought it was great to have them here and stay in school.
It was just all over the ballpark.
And then McCain trying to defend his amnesty by saying it wasn't amnesty because there's a $5,000 fine.
Yeah, right.
Let me say a couple things about the $5,000 fine.
You know, who's going to pay the fine, if anybody?
Their employers are going to pay the fine under the McCain fine, under the McCain-Kennedy amnesty bill.
But besides, there's no enforcement in that bill, or there wasn't, who's going to track these people down and collect the money?
What if they don't have it?
If the $5,000 is paid, then, okay, there's no amnesty.
There's a big penalty, right?
No amnesty.
It's an annuity.
If you're going to get $5,000 from these people and that puts them on the Social Security rolls and on the welfare rolls, it's an annuity.
It is amnesty.
He's going out of his way to say it wasn't amnesty, but it is.
And in New Hampshire, you know, they're not so concerned about it.
In the independents that have moved in there from Massachusetts.
But this kind of stuff is not going to fly once we get out of New Hampshire.
Once we get into South Carolina, some of the border states, it ain't going to fly, folks.
Amnesty is not amnesty because we're going to fine them $5,000.
Everybody knows they're never going to be tracked down to be forced to pay the $5,000 in the first place.
Our memories are not that short here, Senator McCain.
We remember this amnesty bill like it was yesterday.
Our memories are not short on campaign finance reform either.
I mean, you're out there.
I thought you got the money out of politics.
I thought you got all the mean-spirited NASA politics.
Now you're out there complaining about attack ads from Mitt Romney.
I guess we need some more campaign finance reform, don't we, Senator McCain?
Anyway, back to Huckabee.
You start granting amnesty for illegal aliens.
That's going to hurt the incomes and jobs of church-going middle-class Americans.
And by the way, this includes negotiating with Islamic fascists.
Golden rule, treat them like we'd like to be treated and so forth.
These Islamic fascists, they murder American soldiers.
They're set on destroying Israel, threatening to kill President Bush when he touches down Wednesday in Jerusalem.
There just is nothing Christian about dealing with the enemy the way Governor Huckabee has proposed doing it.
McCain, running away from his opposition to tax cuts, he did this last night.
Never mentions McCain-Feingold anymore.
We do.
Even though he wouldn't stop talking about it for years before this election, his support, Senator McCain's support for more rights for the detainees and the closing of Club Guitmo, to me, illustrates a serious weakness in terms of securing this nation.
You know, open borders and closing the borders is as much about national security as it is about the illegal immigration issue.
Senator McCain has repeatedly joined with Feingold and Kennedy and other liberals to undermine one conservative issue after another.
And this will be remembered once we get out of New Hampshire.
We're finished with Iowa.
Once we get out of these places and go to places where the Republican conservative base really is, then all these soothsayers and wise men inside the beltway are going to be in for a huge shock.
We'll be back.
Stay with us.
Hi, welcome back.
Rushlin Boy here on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
Gonna get to your phone calls here in just a second.
Hillary Clinton fighting back tears on the campaign trail today from the politico.
Exhausted facing the prospect of losing the second test of her primary campaign.
Hillary Clinton fought back tears as her voice broke at the close of a sedate event in a Portsmouth coffee shop.
She expressed the sheer difficulty of heading out to the trail each day.
It's not easy, she said, and suggested she faced pretty difficult odds, quote unquote.
With audible frustration and disbelief, she drew the contrast between her experience and Obama's that suggests her campaign's current message, the question of who is ready, matches her profound sense that she alone is ready for the job.
Some of us know that we're going to do on day one.
Some of us haven't even thought that through enough.
The question was innocuous.
As a woman, I know it's hard to get out of the house and get ready.
Asked Mary Ann Pernall, a freelance photographer, who does your hair?
Freelance photographer, ask Mrs. Clinton, who does your hair.
Clinton began by talking about her hair.
She has some help, but she moved to talk more generally about the campaign.
It's not easy.
It's not easy.
And I couldn't do it if I just didn't passionately believe it was the right thing to do.
I have so many opportunities for this country.
I don't want to see us all fall back.
Her voice breaking in the last phrase.
This is very personal for me.
It's not just political.
It's not just public.
I see what's happening.
We have to reverse it.
Some people think elections are a game.
It's about who's up and who's down.
It's about our country's future.
It's about our kids' future.
It's really about all of us together.
So she teared up out there.
A Ed Muskie.
Will it hurt?
Will it help?
A sedate event where a question of how she gets her hair done on a daily basis is what gets reported.
A female asked that question.
They call me the sexist.
You don't cry in politics, just like you don't cry in baseball.
Did you see the Democrat debate on Saturday night?
You want to hear Mrs. Clinton lose it?
She lost her temper.
She had an ashtray.
She might have thrown it.
It all happened because John Edwards decided to throw in with Obama.
Listen to me.
Every time he speaks out for change, every time I fight for change, the forces of status quo are going to attack every single time.
I mean, I didn't hear these kind of attacks from Senator Clinton when she was ahead.
Now that she's not, we hear them.
Wait a minute.
Now, wait a minute.
I'm going to respond to this.
I want to make change, but I've already made change.
I will continue to make change.
I'm not just running on a promise of change.
I'm running on 35 years of change.
I wish we had more of that because she kept on going to the point that she started rambling and her voice got shriller and shriller and shriller.
And here comes his 35 years of change, business.
35 years.
It's a stock line that has lost any impact, if it ever had any.
Larry in Eugene, Oregon, you're next on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
I watched the Fox News Forum last night.
I thought Chris Wallace did an excellent job.
I really enjoyed it.
And I haven't made a decision on a candidate.
In fact, I'd vote for any of them.
They're all infinitely better than what the Democrats offer.
That's my first point.
But I was just a little disappointed that you came out of the shoot kind of focusing on some of the negatives of McCain and Huckabee, which I agree.
That's a valid, constructive criticism, I would hope.
But I thought there was so much positive out of there.
And if you don't mind, I'll give you an example.
I'll point out Rudy Giuliani, where he talked about going into poor neighborhoods and communicating to people that Republican conservative programs help them to get out of poverty as a message that they don't hear enough of.
Well, now, wait, that's an excellent point.
We've got audio sound bites in all of this.
I can't squeeze it all in in the first hour.
But I also, you know, I can't win.
On Friday, everybody upset with me because I won't lead and because I won't endorse and because I won't tell you what I think.
I come out today and say, okay, I've intensely studied it this weekend, and here's what I saw and here's what I think.
And now I'm getting grief for that.
But I will plug ahead using my instincts guided by intelligence.
Most hosts would break down and cry under the assault I have been under for my own audience since Friday.
But I soldier on.
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