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Jan. 9, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 9, 2008, Wednesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
All right, folks, I will admit it, it's all my fault.
I caused this to happen last night, but it ain't bad.
We want a long, drawn-out fight between Hillary and Obama.
It's exactly what we want.
Don't be down in the dumps today.
Don't be doom and gloom.
Everybody got caught up in the end of the Clinton era thinking it was true, and it wasn't.
And I warned you about this all the way back to December 14th.
Greetings and welcome, Rush Limbaugh, back on the middle of the week, Wednesday, here at the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
Great to be with you, folks.
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Now, how is this my fault?
It's easy.
When I heard that, by the way, the drive-by media ought to be so embarrassed that they ought not have the courage to show up today and start pontificating and predicting.
But they are ignoring that, and they're making the same stupid type of predictions about Michigan that they made about Iowa and that they made about New Hampshire.
The big loser last night was a drive-by media.
The only thing is they haven't conceded yet.
But it was I, ladies and gentlemen, it was I, El Rushbo, who begged Mrs. Clinton, who implored her to carry on, to not give up, when all these stories were out there that she's going to get out of the race after one state, and that her team was sending out resumes and abandoning her and that the Hollywood crowd was going to sign up for Obama.
I begged her.
I implored her to carry on to not give up.
And I think she took that to heart.
And she called out the flying monkeys to bus in some voters.
Well, you know, the witch, the wicked witch, the flying monkeys, and the Wizard of Oz.
And here came droves of first-time voters in New Hampshire.
I would like to know, I want to know the numbers.
How many people have voted in New Hampshire were first-time registered voters that registered yesterday?
We had the story way, way back, long, long time ago.
It was in November, November the 27th, about how you can vote in New Hampshire.
And that is, you can go in from out of state, and all you have to do to get a ballot, about which they ran out of, I wonder why, on the Democrat side, all you have to do is go and say, yeah, I'm thinking about moving to New Hampshire.
I'm not be moving here and so forth and so you can vote.
And we have had this confirmed.
I mean, even the Clinton people all day yesterday thinking they were down in the dumps by five or ten points.
But I think Mrs. Clinton was so overwhelmed by my advice and by my heartfelt plea to remain in this race and to not give up that she sort of cried.
And look what happened.
And the tears worked.
The tears worked, folks.
I have done a lot of thinking about this last.
I was up till 2 o'clock in the morning trying to sort all of this out.
And if you look at the Republican polls, they were right on the money.
Within one percentage point of the outcome, the Democrat polls were way, way off.
Now, let me just go in order here of some thoughts that I jotted down in real time that I want to share with you.
In the first place, why all these headlines today about Hillary and McCain pulling up sets?
They didn't.
This was what was going to happen up until three or four days ago when polling data shot through the roof on the other side.
None of these things had happened.
In fact, McCain in 2000 won New Hampshire by 16 percentage points.
He ends up winning it by, what, five percentage points last night?
Um, uh, there were this was not an upset.
If you go back and look at what the uh the pre-election polls from way, way back told us.
Uh, and I really do wonder about how many first-time voters registered from Vermont and Massachusetts yesterday.
We had all kinds of stories on Monday at Hillary rallies Sunday and Monday that the parking lots at her venues had nothing but Massachusetts license plates all over them.
Um, but one scenario after another is out there, and every scenario is based on what happens in one state.
After Iowa, Hillary was finished, talking about the drive-bys here and their polling units.
After Iowa, Hillary was finished, and after Iowa, I mean, this is Romney, right?
Romney has to win New Hampshire.
If Romney loses New Hampshire, he is done.
Now they're saying Romney has to win Michigan.
I thought Romney was out if he lost New Hampshire, but now they're saying Romney has to win Michigan.
What if this goes to the convention and he has a goodly chunk of delegates?
You know, it's getting increasingly difficult to read this stuff.
There are just too many people with too much space to fill on, too many blogs, too many people on television with too much time to fill with endless parades of predictions that are baseless.
And they have been dead wrong.
And when they're dead wrong, they ought to be embarrassed and unable to show themselves in public the next day, but not the case.
They continue to show up and embarrass themselves even further.
You know, I mean, I don't understand these people.
I really don't.
You have a very close contest.
You have battles in state after state.
What is the goal here?
The goal here is amassing enough delegates in each of these primaries to be able to secure victory at your party convention.
If Romney doesn't win in Michigan, he's done.
They said Romney would be done if he lost New Hampshire.
Maybe, maybe not.
But how can anybody say so at the beginning of the process?
Which this is.
Romney, by the way, you want to hear the delegate count after two states.
On the Republican sign, Mitt Romney 24 delegates because he won Wyoming, which has as many delegates as New Hampshire.
In number two, the delegate race is Huckabee at 18.
And number three is McCain at 10.
McCain, because of the margin of his victory in New Hampshire.
So Romney, after three states, leads in delegates.
Now, I know this is all going to change, but you can't come up and say, well, if he loses New Hampshire, he's out.
If he loses Michigan, he's done.
This is mindless.
It's irresponsible.
It's not even based in any kind of thought.
It's just a bunch of individuals predicting things on one particular event after one particular event.
This is not a momentum election, folks.
This is important to understand.
This is not a momentum election because nobody has any momentum right now.
The momentum shifts.
We've had two states.
We've had two sets of winners in both states.
Where's the momentum?
It's impossible to say that there is any momentum.
I do believe that New Hampshire women were terribly upset about the way Hillary was being treated.
I think her tears worked.
I think in the debate, when this guy from the WMURTV asked her what she thought about the fact that so many people dislike her, she said, that hurts my feelings.
I think it resonates with women.
I think there's a whole dynamic here with women that we are missing in this.
And It's not about women supporting chicks.
It's not about women supporting other women.
That's not what it is.
I will explain this in detail as the program unfolds.
I also think one of the other things that happened is I've looked at some of the demographics here.
It appears that because of all the pre-election polling that showed Obama had it in the bag, a bunch of renegade New Hampshire liberal independents abandoned Obama, decided to vote for McCain, and that took away some votes from Obama.
And this was partly the result or the effect of all of these pre-election polls.
Now, as bad, and I've been critical here today, as bad as the drive-bys can be, it is really rare for them to be off by double digits like they were on the Democrat side.
I mean, they're wrong a lot, but these polls double digits.
I think we're seeing some old-fashioned politics here, a la the Kennedys and the Dailies out of Illinois.
You got your walking around folded money spread around, tour buses filled up, brought across state lines, dead people voting, prisoners voting, people voting two, three times.
Who knows?
Somebody's going to have to find this out because right now these pollsters' reputation is not worth the dirt that you would dig up to bury the poll in.
They are going to have to find out what happened here.
It's incumbent upon them to do so.
So I think this is kind of fascinating.
And now let's go back to me.
December 14th, this is what I said on this program.
Until I see the house fall on her.
Now, for those of you in Riolinda, that's a reference to the Wizard of Oz when the house finally fell on a bad witch.
Until I see the house fall on her and those legs curl up underneath the house and the body in the casket, she is not dead.
She is not finished.
Don't forget, folks, there's an old soap opera rule, and she's soap opera figure along with her husband.
And that is, until you actually see the body, the person's not dead.
And in soap operas, villains don't die.
Villains don't get written out.
Good guys get written out.
The Clintons are a soap opera.
Yes, my friends.
I just want you to remember this.
And even on Monday, I was begging her not to get out.
So in this era where everybody jumps on the bandwagon, somebody goes out and says, ooh, Hillary's getting out of the race.
Ooh, she's going to lose by 5 to 10 points.
Ooh.
And everybody gets in that bandwagon, starts writing obituaries.
It is I, El Rushbo, who remained a lone outpost of common sense and level-headedness and perspective right here behind the golden EIB microphone.
A brief timeout.
We'll come back and continue after this.
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Let me tell you what this outcome, and I'm sticking on the Democrat side here for now.
There is chaos on the Democrat side, and I cannot emphasize this enough.
The drive-bys are creating an impression here, as they always do, that is not accurate.
The impression is that the Democrats are basking in glory, even on the Obama side, because they're smoking.
This turnout is going crazy, far greater than the Republican turnout is.
People are more energized to vote for a Democrat.
They're all excited.
This outcome, both in Iowa and in New Hampshire, is less about what Democrats are for than what they are scared they believe we can exploit.
They are scared to death, folks, of having either a black as a nominee or a woman as the nominee because they think, not telling you they're right, I'm telling you what they think.
You know what they think of conservatives and Republicans, racists, sexists, bigots, and homophobes.
And Democrats never think that elections are about issues.
They think it's about marketing and packaging and tricks.
And so their big fear here is that Republicans, the racist, sexist, bigot, homophobes, are going to be able to either use veiled racism against Obama if he's a nominee, or veiled sexism if Hillary is the nominee.
When in fact, as we all know, they are the closet racists and sexists.
You check out what Bill Clinton and Hillary have been saying about Obama, and you tell me if any Republican could get away with it.
They've been insulting his race.
They've been insulting his experience.
They've been doing any number of things to tear him down.
And if any Republican had said, it would be front page headlines on how America still hasn't moved forward.
We're moving back to slavery days.
And so isn't it terrible?
It'd be a bunch of hand-wringing New York Times, Washington Post, and all of the networks.
But you check out what they were saying in code language in rural Iowa about Obama.
The bottom line is they are about nothing.
They're just worried about what we can most easily beat, a woman or a black.
That's where they have their largest concerns here.
I'm telling you, don't doubt me on this.
You think that they're riding high and sitting really pretty and believing that they've got it in a bag because the first black or the first woman's going to be on a ballot.
Their fear is based on BS, but it's based on the fact that we win elections by being racists and sexists and bigots and cheating.
That's what their concern is here.
They are in chaos over how to proceed here.
Remember, this is not about what they are for.
When it comes to Obama or Hillary, you're getting lofty speeches that carry themes of change and all these specious, undefinable things.
Don't doubt me on this, folks.
Now, having said that, do not underestimate the female attraction here.
Women have always played a critical demographic in every modern election.
Sometimes it's overestimated and overemphasized when the votes are all in.
I know no conservative woman is going to be for Hillary.
But by virtue of arithmetic, there are more women than men, and women are more emotional in general.
But the biggest thing for women is not that Hillary is a woman herself.
It's the comeback thing.
Women love validation.
And I'm exempting you conservative women here because you conservative women are oriented toward ideas.
So don't think I'm lumping all women here in a monolithic way.
But when you get outside of conservative, thoughtful, engaged women, the women that have been affected by Oprah, you know, it was back in the year 2000, maybe before that, that I, I, El Rushbow, created the term the Oprahcation of America.
And basically, what does Oprah do?
She cries.
Among other things, Oprah cries.
Oprah has made all women that watch her and believe what she says fall into this victim status.
And when you're a victim, you're an underdog.
And Mrs. Clinton became the victim.
I mean, these guys out there iron my shirt.
I'm telling you that was staged, and I'm telling you it worked.
That's the kind of thing that will infuriate women.
Just infuriate them.
And these guys parading around.
And Mrs. Clinton, of course, looked like she knew it was coming and had this comment about sexism rearing its head.
So the biggest thing for women is not that she's a woman, but the comeback thing.
Women love validation.
They love vindication.
They love revenge.
And you know what else they like?
Now, you can serve.
I'm not speaking of women in general here.
I'm talking about the women who have, because of the nature of their existence, the way they live, who they are, are impacted by oprofocation and other such things.
They love, screw you, mister.
Especially if Mr., if the guy is responsible for making the woman the victim.
So men are making Hillary cry.
Men are parading signs around that say, iron my shirt, by the way, which is a ripoff.
That's another thing that I think is my fault because I, at the Rush to Excellence tours, I open with a halfway true story that evolves into a joke about Mrs. Clinton, who wants to be a real woman in my presence, and I tell her how to do it.
And that got stolen as well.
But more than the tears, folks, or at least equally, was the that hurts my feelings in the debate.
That's, you know, nobody wants their feelings hurt.
It's unfair for Mrs. Clinton to be asked that question, have her feelings hurt.
And she sounded like her feelings were hurt, and she got all girly and so forth.
I'm telling you, it was magnetic to the kind of women who are going to think that Hillary Clinton is being wronged, and they want to stand up and help her get even.
Also, don't discount the fact that Clinton was practically on his knees out there, no pun intended, for his wife.
So I just, I think on the Democrat side, plus on the polling, the wilder effect.
Don't forget, you know what the wilder effect is?
Sometimes called the Bradley effect, sometimes called the Dinkins effect.
But basically it is that people in a poll will tell a pollster, I'm supporting the black guy.
So the pollster won't think they're a racist.
I mean, go in the privacy of the voting booth.
They have no intention of voting for the black guy.
They vote for the white guy.
Now, Iowa could have been the reverse wilder effect because in Iowa, not only you have the pollsters asking you who you're going to vote for, I'm going to vote for Obama.
I'm going to caucus for Obama.
In Iowa, when you caucus, you caucus with your friends watching you.
And so, yeah, I'm for Obama.
I'm for people don't want to be thought of racist, especially liberal Democrats and these kind of people that get all concerned about political correctness.
So the Wilder effect might have had an effect on the polling.
There's any number of things at work here.
Ladies and gentlemen, but don't forget also that these independents leaving Obama to vote for McCain because they thought that Obama had it in the bag.
And of course, with the Clintons running around talking about dropping staff and maybe getting out of the race, I mean, you know this stuff came from their camp.
It creates the impression in the minds of New Hampshire independent.
Even they think it's over.
Okay, well, I'm going to go.
I'm going to have some fun.
I'm going to go vote for McCain.
So he shifted artificially in favor of McCain, away from Obama.
Any number of things going on here, none of it seen by the drive-bys.
Back after this.
Just got an email rush.
Don't you ever get tired of being right.
No.
I love being right.
I love hearing myself when I'm right.
And I like being unique.
And being right is unique.
Welcome back.
It's El Rush Bow, and this is the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
So I went to Missouri yesterday for the funeral of my mother's best friend, Mary Frances Kender, one of the most refined and dignified women ever.
She four sons, grew up with all of them.
She was.
She was in the blue-haired Bloody Mary group.
She hosted the blue-haired Bloody Mary gang group on many occasions.
She was an excellent hostess.
She passed away in 81.
The funeral was yesterday at Sentinel Methodist Church.
And her sons all gave up, got up and gave short histories of her life.
It was really inspiration.
It was, unlike most funerals, it was not a dirge at all.
It was really, really inspirational.
One of the most inspirational funerals that I've been to.
She and my mom are best buds.
They sang together.
My mom had a basset hound named Jason that we got from one of my dad's cousins.
Just the greatest.
When I was maybe 10 or 11, maybe 12 years old, we got Jason.
Jason would let you put a baseball cap on him.
He wouldn't care.
In the wintertime, my mother put little red rubber boots on all four paws to keep him from slipping on the ice, and he wouldn't try to take them off.
He was just the greatest dog.
And they sang with him on stage with a straw hat on top of his head while they sang washboard type music.
They were just quite a pair.
I have all the hope in the world they're up there in heaven singing again today.
They found Jason and they're reliving some of those good times.
Anyway, had to get right back.
Well, I was there.
Of course, you know, I had to go and use the restroom.
It took me 10 minutes to get some hot water where I had to use the restroom.
And I'm thinking, this place needs a Renaiss water.
You know, we talk about these Renai water heaters.
We have been for a long time.
You know, nothing like we want hot water and you're in a hurry and it's not there and you got to wait for it.
It doesn't come.
Sometimes it happens in your home.
It'll never happen if you have a Renaissance tankless water here.
Guarantees an endless supply of hot water.
They've got a website, foreverhotwater.com.
The best thing about it is, you know, would you drive a Model T?
Because that's what these old-fashioned water heaters are, these tanks.
They have not been improved in whatever, 80 years or so.
There is something better out there.
It's an upfront cost putting it in, but the money that you will save and not waste, the money that you will not waste on hot water going forward, if you're remodeling your house, something to think about.
Renai tankless water heaters.
I wish this place yesterday had one.
Not going to name the place to ought to embarrass it.
It's foreverhotwater.com.
Now, let me give you an example, ladies and gentlemen, of the kind of thing I was just talking about in terms of creating sympathy for Mrs. Clinton among women.
The tears worked, whether they were fake, whether they were really worked.
And whether she was acting or not, when she said that it hurt her feelings to be asked a question about how many people disliking her, why is so many people disliking her and so forth?
When men are perceived to be behind this, women will rally.
It doesn't matter.
I'll give you an illustration of how I, on this program, could create the same effect that I think happened in Iowa.
Let us play a soundbite from Mrs. Clinton last night in her acceptance speech in New Hampshire.
I come tonight with a very, very full heart.
And I want especially to thank New Hampshire.
Over the last week, I listened to you, and in the process, I found my own voice.
I felt.
Stop the tape.
Stop the tape.
Okay, now, if we stop it right there, which we did.
Okay, Mrs. Clinton found her own voice.
Well, I could say, Mrs. Clinton, we found your voice too in our archives.
I am sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and you disagree with this administration, somehow you're not patriotic.
And we should stand up and say, we are Americans and we have a right to debate and disagree with any administration.
Now, in doing that, you know, we sit here and we laugh about it, but I'll guarantee you some women out there just get frosted.
That sexist pig, Limbaugh, making fun of Hillary.
She has achieved victim status.
Again, she's achieved the status of a sympathetic figure.
And it is among people who have been affected by the Oprah Winfrey phenomenon.
Now, it's not it.
I am sexist not for playing her words.
I'm not sexist.
That's the point.
You don't have to be sexist for a bunch of wound-tight women to think you are.
You don't have to be.
It's not that I play her words.
It's that I am basically calling her a liar.
I play a tape last night where she says, I found my voice.
Oh, yeah, we have two.
Bam.
And I play this thing.
You didn't do that.
That's old.
That's old.
You're just making fun of her.
You're just trying to hurt her.
But I just, I know what the reactions are out there.
I'm telling you, this was fundamental to what happened in Iowa, in addition to the fraud.
The potential fraud, the possible fraud.
The pollsters are going to have to find out about that.
They really are.
Their credibility is on the line here, as is everybody to drive-by meeting who said this was over.
Do you realize how few of them are getting this right?
Few of them are getting anywhere close to being right about this, the way they are characterizing these primaries, the whole contest, the way they're mischaracterized, misreporting all the results.
Folks, it's embarrassment.
This goes beyond journalistic malpractice.
This is as though these people have never done it before.
You could have gone out and hired a bunch of amateurs who watch television and think they can do it just as well, put them on these shows to analyze what happened, and it would be just as good as what we're getting.
Now, I don't want to play this.
Now, I got a soundbite of me back in 2000, June 30th.
I want to play this because I listened to it.
This is when I was losing my hearing, and my voice is all wacky on this.
But I want to read you the transcript of what I said on this program, June 30th, 2000.
This comes under the umbrella of Rush knows women, and I do.
And I know what makes them tick.
I know why they do various things they do.
I mean, well, no more than anybody else does.
I mean, I know women as much as possible, which is not really very much, but I got it figured out, I think, as much as anybody can.
Let's put it that way.
And the question's been raised in this program a number of times since I've been hosting it.
Rush, why is Oprah so popular?
What is it about that show?
If you've ever watched it, she cries all the time.
I mean, the biggest audience is women.
The fastest way to a woman's heart is cry.
The emotional, it's a magnet.
That's what I said back in June of 2000.
And here is Hillary crying Monday morning in Portsmouth.
It's not easy.
It's not easy.
And I couldn't do it if I just didn't, you know, passionately believe it was the right thing to do.
You know, I have so many opportunities from this country.
I just don't want to see us fall backwards.
No.
Now, the engaged, informed thinker would have one early reaction to this, and it's the reaction that I had when I first heard it.
It's not the tears.
My reaction is you have so many opportunities for this country?
She said, I have so many opportunities for this country.
Wouldn't it be better to say we, as Americans, have so many opportunities in this country?
She doesn't think she's too blinded by the tears.
A lot of people too blinded by the tears and the emotional output to even hear what she was saying.
Those that did hear what she was saying for the first time, they think, heard her say, I want this for you.
Not me.
I want it for you.
And of course, if you've got a dumbed-down electorate on the Democrat side to buy into all this emotion stuff, coupled with a couple little misty eyes, then you got something here that I think was a factor, whether we like it or not.
On Monday after hearing this, this is what I said as we go back to our own archives.
This is the sympathy play.
This is the gender card again.
I'm going to tell you exactly what this is.
This is the latest version of Invading My Space.
This is a reenactment with tears of the Rick Lazio moment.
Ladies and gentlemen, should a man get away with bringing Mrs. Clinton to tears?
Should a man, be it me, be it Obama, should a man get away with bringing Mrs. Clinton to tears who has, she said, I have so many opportunities for this country.
I have so how about we have so many opportunities together, Mrs. Clinton, rather than I have so many opportunities, I this and I that.
Emotional blackmail.
This is calculated.
Make no mistake about it, folks.
This is not spontaneous because nothing with the Clintons is coincidence.
Doesn't matter on the left and with women who are inclined in this manner.
And don't, I'm telling you, do not underestimate the undergirding, if you will, of this.
It is the screw you, mister aspect.
The screw you, pal.
You know, angry women thinking that men are holding them down, keeping them back, and now they're trying it with Hillary and making her cry.
And Hillary came back.
And that's worth a reward.
Now, she can only do this one time.
She can't get away with this again and again and again.
This was a one-time ploy.
But there will be other one-time ploys as we hit on it.
But the bottom line, folks, is this.
Before we go to the break and come back with your phone calls, nothing's over.
We just started.
We've got two states.
The next time you hear, I don't care if it's one of our guys in the punditry or one of the other guys.
Next time you hear them say this candidate's out, if he doesn't win New Hampshire or Iowa, Michigan, blow it out.
Ignore it.
Nobody knows what's going to happen.
Nobody can read and predict and tell the future.
And these people, these so-called wise men and ladies on television, have no clue either.
They've just got too much time to fill.
They got too much time trying to appear to be the smartest people in the room.
And the irony of that is they end up all parroting each other because once somebody does go out on a limb, the others are afraid not to go out on a limb in case that person's right.
So they all go out on a limb and it falls out because of all the weight of their inaccuracy.
Just chill.
Just cool out.
Let things play out as they do.
And by all means, understand that politically, we want a long, drawn-out fight between Hillary and Obama.
That is to our benefit.
We'll be back.
Stay with us.
Now, this is funny.
If you go to the Democrat Underground, one of these kook fringe wacko websites, they think there was fraud in New Hampshire yesterday on the Democrat side, and at least they are being consistent.
Remember, after the 2004 elections, the presidential race, this is so funny to remember this.
All the exit polls had Kerry winning big time.
Bob Schrum, his campaign manager, walked into Kerry 5:30 in the afternoon and said, May I be the first to call you, Mr. President?
And then, of course, all these states came in, Florida, Ohio, and Hillary and Carrie lost.
And the Democrats saying, There's fraud here.
Look at the exit polls.
The exit polls had our guy winning.
Everybody's exit polls.
The real votes were counted as the exit polls are not real votes.
Somebody tampered with it.
Somebody tampered with it.
So in order to be consistent, the Democrats would have to claim voter fraud now since the Democrat polling was so off.
I mean, Obama was going to win by five to ten points, and Hillary wins by, what, two or three?
I didn't see the final tally.
But I mean, if the Democrats are to be consistent, they need to check into voter fraud.
In this case, they may be right.
And I cannot emphasize enough, you know, we know we laugh at, we make fun of these polling units here, and we've got them pegged.
They do all this stuff to make news and to shape news rather than to reflect it.
But this is bad because they were all wrong.
And they were wrong huge.
And they have got to find out what happened.
You know, credibility is everything to these people.
And they had it right on the Republican side, and they had it so wrong on the Democrat side.
There's got to be a reason.
Now, whether they'll have the objectivity to go in and find a real reason and tell us, that's another matter.
But they'll have to come up with something.
And if it doesn't look good for them, whatever they come up with, they'll be shaped and formed into something else that they think we will buy.
Susie in Spokane, Washington, you're up first today.
Nice to have you here.
Hi, Rush.
I have to tell you, first of all, I'm really almost embarrassed to call you, to tell you what I'm going to tell you.
But I want to preface it by saying I've been a businesswoman, hard-charging for 40 years, a Republican, dislike Oprah immensely.
When I listened to Hillary in tears the other night, I felt a touch of sympathy and I had to slap myself.
Yeah, what caused the sympathy?
Was it her tears?
Well, no, because you know what?
I've been there.
I have been in that position as a woman where I've done everything I thought I should do, and it looked like I wasn't going to make it.
And it's a feminine thing.
Because you start out with a deck stacked against you anyway, right?
Yeah.
Yeah, you start out with it in your mind.
Oh, yeah.
In your mind.
You're right.
You start out with a deck stacked against you.
My battery's getting low on this phone.
But anyway, I just wanted you to know that.
People need to know that women, I mean, we do great stuff, but we still have that.
Sadly, I know this because of first-hand experience.
I know this stuff.
So does my husband.
Bless his heart.
And, well, it just, it is what it is.
So here we have even a conservative woman of Spokane.
I got a little lump in her throat here.
Now, Mr. Snerdley, you're going to have to change your approach on this.
He's in there shouting at me.
Don't you understand how pathetic it is?
Right now, I'm not going to characterize it.
I'm just trying to tell you what is, because everywhere else in the media is not getting this, and it is crucial to understand how to go forward here and understand what we're dealing with.
This is not women supporting women because of a monolithic support for gender.
This is women, particularly on the liberal side, but here you had Susie, who's a conservative, who's been there.
The odds are stocked against.
We're talking about attitudes here.
It's a woman thing, Snerdley, and you, of all people, should know this.
You're the expert, you claim.
You should know this.
And somebody made her cry.
And there's not another woman in the race.
And you got a bunch of guys running around saying, iron my shirt.
People, look at, I'm telling you that this is that it's, it's.
It's only on the conservative side you're going to find women are going to be able to laugh at things like this and not take it personally.
I'm just I. I'm i'm trying to help people to understand here, because what's happening in the attempts by the drive-bys to explain what happened in New Hampshire is so off the path.
They are all so wrong.
I'm simply sharing uh, my intelligence, guided by experience, coupled with my wisdom.
But you want to know something else, when all said and done, the Democrat machine candidate wins, wasn't Bill Bradley in 2000, it wasn't Howard Dean in 04 and ain't going to be Obama In 08.
Got an audio soundbite coming up in the next hour that sort of indicates the crying moment was calculated on Mrs. Clinton's part.
We'll share that.
And John McCain on his airplane with reporters claims he has found out how to attract even more conservatives and convince them that he is conservative.
Lots more still ahead, folks.
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