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Jan. 24, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 24, 2008, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24 7 Podcast.
Save the stock market again yesterday, folks.
Did you happen to notice that?
Spoke about what a great buying opportunity yesterday's plunge was.
What was it?
A 600 point swing yesterday was down 300, ended up close to 300.
And right now it's up.
Uh what did I 28?
No, that's NASDAQ.
Well, whatever.
It's up out there.
Greetings, my friends, and welcome back.
Rush Limbo here, well rested and ready to go behind this.
The golden EIB microphone.
Uh here's the telephone number if you'd like to join us today, 800-282-2882, and the uh email address L Rushbow at EIBNet.com.
Well, my stimulus package has been rejected.
My stimulus package has been dissed.
Uh we have a bipartisan stimulus package.
Pelosi and the Democrat side, John Boehner and the Republican side got together singing kumbaya.
They're all happy about this.
Here are the details of the stimulus package in terms of tax rebates.
Checks of at least 300 bucks for all people.
By the way, there's a piece in a Wall Street Journal today by Bill Clinton and Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Just it is incredible.
Get this.
The American dream is founded on the belief that people who work hard and play by their rules will be able to earn a good living, raise a family in comfort, and retire with dignity.
But that dream is harder to achieve for millions of Americans because they spend too much of their hard-earned money on fees to cash their paychecks.
Here is one initiative that can unite progressives and conservatives as well as business leaders and community activists, helping the unbanked enter the financial mainstream by opening checking and savings accounts and working collaboratively with financial institutions and community groups to develop.
They've written a piece about drug dealers and pimps, and a lot of people in the cash society, I mean, this is a new low to have a joint piece by Schwarzenegger and Clinton here.
The little guy.
I know it's for the illegals.
I was going to get to that, Mr. Snur.
This is for the illegals.
We need to get the illegals bank accounts.
The unbanked, the people who go to those...
Folks, I'm going to take a flyer here.
And I'm going to assume that most of you in this audience have bank accounts and checking accounts.
And I'm gonna assume that many of you, when you get paid, do so by direct deposit.
Others of you get your checks and you go to the bank and you deposit them.
I can't imagine.
How many people in this audience, and I probably know, I refuse to believe that I will be surprised.
How many people in this audience get their paycheck and head to one of these?
What do you mean, culture?
It's not cult culturally insensitive.
Let me just ask you, snurdly, would you take any check that you've got and go down to the bail bonds area and find a check caching store, hand it over, and say, cash this for me.
Hell no.
I don't think I've ever known anybody that's done that.
Is that the wrong thing to say?
I've I'm not saying there aren't people to do it, obviously.
Clinton and Schwarzenegger are writing a column in the Wall Street Journal about the unbanked.
Uh the Oh, you've you got experience with this, Brian?
Oh, that's why they go there.
They go there because they get their money earlier.
You go and get the cash right away rather than putting in a bank and wait for the float.
Is that what you're talking about?
Give me a break.
Give.
Uh giving an advance on your paycheck if you just take them on your pay stub.
I know the interest rates are like loan juncts.
Well, all right.
I uh I still uh still say that this whole piece uh focusing on The unbanked.
That's the term here.
The unbanked.
Yeah, the entire American dream threatened because the unbanked are not banked.
And we need Clinton and Schwarzenegger with a proposal to get the unbanked banked.
Of course we know who we're talking about here.
The illegal immigrants.
Oh, well, more.
Let's get back to this bipartisan stimulus package.
Here you go.
On the tax rebate side.
Checks of at least $300 for all people earning a paycheck.
What about those who don't earn their paychecks?
A lot of people get paid but don't earn it.
A lot of slackers out there, Mr. Snerdley.
You know what I'm talking about.
Strange wording.
Checks of at least $300 for all people earning a paycheck, including low-income earners who make too little to pay income taxes.
Families with children would receive an additional $300 per child, while those paying income taxes could receive higher rebates.
Rebates may be capped at $1,200 for couples with children.
Business tax write-offs.
Wait a minute.
Does this mean that I am going to get a check for $300?
There's a cap in this, isn't there?
Of like $150,000 for couples and $75,000 for six.
Yeah, there's a cap in them and so uh nobody on the EIB staff is gonna get is gonna benefit from this.
Nobody.
Let's see.
Right.
Uh business tax write-off, spurring business investment with so-called bonus depreciation, more generous expensing rules, and a change to allow businesses suffering losses now to reclaim taxes previously paid.
Uh housing rescue allowing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to buy loans larger than four hundred and seventeen thousand dollars.
Here's what's out.
This did not make the stimulus package, permanent permanent tax cuts, unemployment insurance.
The Democrats.
This story's tough.
Uh unemployment insurance.
Democrats wanted to extend the benefits past 26 weeks, but that didn't make the cut.
Food stamps did not make the cut.
Medica a boost.
Uh Medicaid did not make the cut, but Democrats uh gave up on including Medicaid payments to the states, and uh low-income heating subsidies.
What's going on here?
Uh low-income heating subsidies, Democrats surrendering the fight to include them.
And also not in the stimulus package, infrastructure spending on transportation or repair projects already underway is off the table.
Well, you know, the the Democrats they wanted all these public works projects as they didn't get as much as they wanted.
It doesn't appear uh to be the case.
But I want to the government's handing out money, but according to what I've seen, there's a floor, there's a ceiling that if you earn 75 big ones, uh that's the ceiling.
If you more earn more if you're single, if you earn more than that, then none of this applies to you on a tax rebate.
And if uh if you're married and you're and your joint income's under fifty grand, then you're so we can't well uh you theory's been advanced here.
You can't stimulate the economy unless you give the big spenders the loot.
Let me just get to the point.
This is all such rigamorole, folks.
This this is this is it's it's an election year, one of the easy talk about bipartisanship.
Everybody's just going crazy about bipartisanship.
Uh, the left and the right and media, they're dancing in the streets to the siren song of bipartisanship.
Isn't that nice, Mr. Limbaugh?
Aren't we caring?
See, we can't all get along for common purpose, Mr. Limbaugh.
Save America.
Right.
Uh let me give you a quick pop quiz, ladies and gentlemen.
When was the last time the left and the administration, and some on the right got together and were cheered by the media.
When was the last time that happened?
It was not campaign finance reform.
It was not homeland security.
It's not the education.
This is disappointing to me.
My own staff, the answer, the answer is three feet in front of your face.
It's that close.
The last time the administration and the left and a lot of Republicans got together and were cheered by the media for doing so was the celebration of bipartisanship that brought us the amnesty bill.
Which is my point.
Kennedy and McCain, the New York Times and the Washington Post, Congress and the White House.
Bipartisan with themselves.
And our leaders have not learned from that.
And they're now on the sequel, The Son of Amnesty.
150 billion dollars for what?
Another scheme, another short-term fix.
It doesn't think through the consequences of its actions.
Democrats love to spread street money around to buy votes.
The administration's terrified of being tarred with another Katrina, getting blamed for political game.
The drive-by's like bipartisan storylines.
So they can get along, and we're all better for it, right?
They can get along when they need to protect themselves.
At any rate, that's the last time we got bipartisanship.
And I always always cringe when we're talking about bipartisanship.
And you know why?
Because the primary thing that happens when we get bipartisanship is that conservatives in power tend to cave on the premise of whatever is on tap to be discussed.
And that's not good.
We'll be back and continue right after this, my friends.
Sit tight.
Later raving show prep.
All right, here's here's a perfect stimulus package.
And this perfect stimulus package, yes, we're gonna get to the Clinton's in the race.
The whole bunch of C I told you so, folks.
The Clinton Southern strategy, they're even admitting to it now.
They're even voicing it.
I know these people like every square inch of my glorious naked buddy.
Getting to get to all that in due course, it's a three-hour program.
Sit tight, be cool, and be patient.
Uh a question, these these rebate checks.
A quick question, Brian, you're the expert here on these payday places, these check caching places.
Can you take your government read rebate check, not before you get it?
Can you take your government rebate check in there and cash that?
I mean, I would think anything with the U.S. Treasury on it, they would cash right at the payday places.
I just I just I want trying to serve the unbanked.
Here.
All right, so we have we have a $14 trillion economy.
What the hell is $150 billion more gonna do?
$150 billion down the top.
It's not gonna do diddly squat.
It might help people's perceptions and attitudes that the government cares, and this will stimulate the economy.
Blah, blah, blah.
But perceptions, sadly, in politics are sometimes reality.
If you want to lower oil costs, you drill for more oil.
See, this is what's missing in all this.
Elementary, basic conservatism 101.
You want to lower the price of energy, find more.
Not new kinds that are not abundant and don't work.
Find more existing energy.
And it's there.
Just go get it.
You want to lower housing costs, you cut property taxes.
You want to create more jobs, you cut corporate taxes.
You want to reduce inflation, you cut government spending.
It's no more complicated than that.
All right, ladies and gentlemen, uh uh C. Uh audio soundbite time.
I'm gonna start with me.
I they the drive-by's continue uh to discuss uh the irrelevancy of Talk Radio and its leading practitioner, me.
Let's go to PMS NBC yesterday afternoon.
Uh anchor Monica Novotney spoke with the political director at NBC, Chuck Todd, who used to be with a hotline, and she said to him, Chuck, one thing we know we'll see, one less candidate, Fred Thompson's dropped out, but who could benefit from that?
Who might get those voters who might have otherwise voted for Fred Thompson?
It was sort of the cranky conservative, but sort of the Rush Limbaugh conservative radio listener was the Fred Thompson supporter.
And that's now what's up for grab that talk radio listener constituency.
And that's actually not very friendly to John McCain, and that's something that he may have problems with down the road.
A head is spinning.
On Sunday And Monday, we were irrelevant.
We were being told by people on our side to shut up.
And now the liberal Chuck Todd at the liberal PMS NBC, otherwise known as DNC TV, is saying that the talk radio listener constituency is up for grabs, and that is huge.
There are so many pieces being written about talk radio once again, and I sit here, I read these things, and I marvel.
I really do, folks.
I marvel at how misunderstood this medium is.
I am mar at people who are in broadcasting, who are also in the information business.
I marvel at how they do not understand it.
And the primary element of their misunderstanding is you.
Their whole basis of being wrong in their conception of talk radio is based on the fact that you are idiots.
And that you are not independent thinkers.
And everything, everything flows from that.
It is, and I understand why they're jealous.
All these critics are jealous of the influence and the loyalty and all of that.
But it still, it boggles the mind to see how wrong they consistently are in analyzing what, A, this show is all about in talk radio, period.
Yesterday on CNN, the Situation Room, Wolf Blitzer spoke with resident curmudgeon Jack Cafferty.
And Blitzer says, I want you to listen to Rush Limbaugh on his radio show Tuesday, Jack.
What we need, ladies and gentlemen, are more people talking about McCain's record.
Not fewer.
They're telling us to shut up.
They're telling us, come on, Limbaugh, you're destroying a party.
You're breaking it apart.
Jack, what do you think about this sort of rebellion within the conservative movement against McCain, who's doing really well right now in his race for the nomination?
The night he won the New Hampshire primary.
We talked at some length on CNN during the election coverage about the fact that the issue of immigration would dog him all the way down the campaign trail.
This was not immigration reform.
This was amnesty.
And the reason that it never got anywhere in Washington was the people of this country didn't believe that the politicians would close the border.
And McCain was right at the front of trying to shove that thing through, and people haven't forgotten that, and they won't forget it.
And immigration is a big, big issue for a lot of people in this country.
So he's got a problem there.
Well, somebody in the drive-by has understands part of what's going on here that immigration is a big issue, and that Senator McCain has problems with it in his own party.
Fred Barnes is still suggesting that Senator McCain call me and come buy my estate here in South Florida while he is here campaigning for the Republican primary uh election here on Tuesday.
This was on Fox News channel last night with Brit Britt Hume, the special report show.
Got Fred Barnes on there in the round table, and uh Britt Hume says, Look, the possibility that the conservatives might coalesce behind uh Romney has been mentioned, but they haven't done that so far.
What what is your thought there, Fred?
Now in Florida, John McCain is campaigning as a conservative.
If I were campaigning as a conservative, I wouldn't worry about what Tom DeLay says, but I would worry about what Rush Limbaugh says.
Because Rush Limbaugh matters.
He has a huge audience, it's mainly conservatives and Republicans, people who are going to vote in primaries like Florida.
That's why my advice would be if I were John McCain and say I'm a conservative and Rush Limbaugh lives in Florida, I'd want to go see him and express my uh conservatism to him.
Yeah, he's not gonna do that, I don't think.
Well, that was uh Britt Hume there.
He's not gonna do that, I don't think.
Uh so here we are at Thursday.
I don't mean to be beating a dead horse, but this is just so you all can put this in your hat and remember it on Sunday and Monday, you were irrelevant, I was irrelevant, we're being told to shut up.
Galway, uh we're breaking up the party, we're causing great damage and so forth, and since then we're riding high as the most crucial element now in the Republican presidential primary, the talk radio audience constituency.
Uh uh Mort Kondracki, after after after Hume said, Well, McCain's not gonna go by Limbaugh's house, I don't think.
Mort Kondraki said this.
If Hillary is the nominee, that will help you.
If you're Rush Limbaugh, would you rather have John McCain or Hillary Clinton?
Mort is uh clearly here not up to speed.
That has been addressed on this program and has been it's been reacted to uh countless times uh in other drive by journals and broadcasts and other things.
On CNN this morning, John Roberts, the anchor talking to McCain.
Said Rush Limbaugh said the other day, if either McCain or Huckabee gets a nomination, it'll destroy the Republican Party.
Senator McCain, can you win those people over?
I mean, do you need to?
And can you be the unifying candidate as long as you got people like Rush Limbaugh with this huge megaphone out there dissing you?
The reason why we got the majority uh more Republican votes than anybody else in New Hampshire and South Carolina from all parts of the spectrum, including upstate South Carolina is because the number one issue with most conservatives is is the threat of radical Islamic extremism.
There's others who care very much about the state of our planet and climate change.
There's others who care very much about the existence of the state of Israel.
And but uh a majority of strong conservatives are very concerned about this struggle we're in against radical Islamic extremism, and many of them believe I'm by far the best qualified.
So I'm confident I can secure the base of the party and win the nomination and win the election.
Well, now who's he talking about here?
Because I've got a poll on uh Florida from Real Clear Politics, and the only group of people that he's really creaming Romney with in this poll, or people over 65, particularly uh women.
Uh but of course the threat of radical Islamic extreme extremism, that that that should be a given for all these candidates.
Nobody holds a special uh attachment to that.
But when he says there's others who care very much about the state of the planet and climate change and about the existence of the state of Israel, that is a direct appeal to which group, Mr. Snurley?
Huckabee's crew.
That's a direct appeal to evangelicals.
We will be back in just a second.
Having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
Great to have you with us.
All the lines are full.
They are always full.
Let me give you the number anyway, 800-282-2882, and the uh email address is L Rushbow at EIVNet.com.
I have to I have to tell you all a story.
This happens every time somebody comes over to my house.
I had a little dinner party back in December, and there's some people here who live near me who had this was the first time that they had been able to accept an invitation.
And they wanted to see the house.
I see, you want to see the whole thing?
Of course.
When I see the bedroom.
Oh, hardly anybody ever asked in the bedroom.
And you know, it's not kosher to show people the bedroom.
You just when you show people your house, it's the one area you don't show them.
Who knows, you know, if you don't have staff and it's not cleaned up, who knows what's on display in there.
Okay, I'll so we got up there and uh and then look at the bedroom, and this woman said, Is that one of those beds you always talk about?
I said, You select comfort, miss yes.
You really use it?
That's what people always ask me.
Do you really use that bed?
Why would I say that I have a sleep number, number 75?
Why would I say I sleep on the bed if I don't?
She said, Well, I I just I just think it's a gimmick.
I said, okay, lay down on it.
And I pull the covers back and say, lay down on it.
I she said, I might drink.
Yeah, everybody's in the room.
It's not just me and her.
Everybody's lay down on it.
And here I gave her remote control.
I said, play with this.
Raise it and lower it.
And she's and she did, and she got it's wow.
She became a convert right off.
I I told her to lay in the bed, exactly or told her, Lady Lady Lee.
I said, lay in the bed and play with it.
I gave her the remote control.
And she's flicking the up buttons and she's flicking the down buttons.
And that thing, that bed is expanding, it's contracting, it's getting more firm, it's getting softer, she's and she was she became a convert.
Do you really use the sleep comfort?
Hell yes, I've been using the bed.
I don't know.
It's over ten years now.
Uh 92% of the people who own a sleep comfort bed recommend it to a friend.
And they come with a 20-year limited warranty, 30-night in-home trial.
And if you if you look, you can take my word for it or not.
If you don't take my word for it, you can just try the try for 30 days, a free in-home trial.
Uh, you won't get rid of it, but if you want to do it that way, you can.
Just call 1800 get a bed.
They've even got a DVD and a brochure that complains explains a whole thing on the uh sleep number bed.
That's 1800 get a bed.
You know how many of these things I could sell if everybody could come to my house?
And I can say, here, lay down on it.
Here, take this, start playing with it.
And then after, you know, after Sheeta, everybody else wanted to get and try it too.
The party was in the bedroom for quite a while.
And then we went down and had dinner.
All right, to the phones we go.
Uh Mary in uh on Alaska, Washington.
You're nice to call.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hello.
Uh-huh.
Uh-huh.
Yeah, hi, how are you?
Hi, just fine.
Listen, I want you to know that not everybody who doesn't use a bank is a drug dealer.
Not everybody has bank accounts.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
Wait, wait just a second.
Are you calling from a McDonald's drive-in?
Okay.
Not everybody has these things.
We don't have any of these things.
I get my news from listening to you from Michael Sabbath and to um Pat Harton.
That's all I do is listen to you guys.
Uh well, what but oh, that's all well and good, but I mean you don't why don't you have a bank?
Because they suck.
I hope that that suck with an S. Nope.
Uh have you seen any black helicopters lately?
Mm-hmm.
Okay.
I like living under the radar.
Nothing on the computer.
There's nothing on uh, I understand.
I I I get it now.
I am I read books.
All right.
So you you don't want anybody knowing about you.
We deal with just now we never have any of it.
Yeah, yeah.
I don't know.
A lot of people out to you.
So you are the unbanked.
Do you agree with Clinton and Schwarzenegger that you need to that the people need to make it easier for you to go get a bank account?
No.
They're idiots.
Thank you, Mary.
You're welcome.
Oh, shit.
Oh, shit.
I should have asked her who she gonna vote for.
I'll bet it's McCain.
Cecil in Lebanon.
Oh, Uh ladies, it should just as easily have been from Rio Linda.
In fact, in fact, you know, the pundits, they have they have been getting everything else wrong in this campaign.
I don't know why I should expect that they should get it right about me.
Why shouldn't they get it wrong about me?
I mean, you heard Chuck Todd, he thinks that this program and you were largely predisposed to Fred Thompson.
I didn't support anybody on this program, and yet a large part of the audience thinks I supported Fred Thompson.
And then the other large part of the audience thinks I supported Mitt Romney.
And then people in Rio Linda think I supported Huckabee.
All right.
Lebanon, Texas.
Cecil.
Uh, you're next on the EIB network.
Hello, sir.
Oh, this is Cecil from Lebanon, Kansas, close enough.
Hey, on this uh Lebanon Kansas.
I thought I didn't think there was a Lebanon, Texas.
Probably not.
The uh news media.
They keep saying you're irrelevant, right?
Uh yeah, they've been doing off and on for twenty years out there, Cecil.
Yeah, whose viewership, leadership, followers, readers, whatever is going up, and whose is going down.
Your audience is increasing, and theirs is decreasing.
Who's really irrelevant?
Yeah, I know.
Uh the newspaper circulation is down, newspaper stock prices are down, newspaper advertising is down, ours isn't.
Um there are some cable networks who are floundering out there as uh as well.
I didn't want to say that myself, Cecil, because you know I'm not prone to braggadocious behavior.
But that's that that's uh for you to say it, that's that's that's instant credibility.
I appreciate it.
You're welcome.
All right.
Uh Roger in Jacksonville, Florida.
Welcome, sir, to the EIB network.
Nice to have you here.
Thanks, Rosh.
Blue Sky Did O's from Jacksonville.
Thank you.
Uh Rush, I'm kind of surprised because when you listen to the Democrats, uh, the number one problem with the economy In the country is the uh tax cuts that Bush gave to the evil rich.
Uh so today we have an announcement that those very same Democrats to stimulate the economy are going to give tax rebates to citizens and tax incentives incentives to businesses, who indeed are those evil riches they talk about.
That is an excellent point, except I I can I can I you you think that you've come up with a way to nail the Democrats on this, because you think that in this stimulus package they are agreeing conceptually with the notion essentially of a tax cut.
If you're gonna give people eight hundred bucks or three hundred, whatever to six hundred dollars or fifteen, depending on number of kids and so forth.
If you're gonna do that, then the Democrats are essentially admitting letting people keep more of their money or have more of their money will stimulate the economy, correct?
Correct.
And that's exactly right.
But the Democrat argument on tax cuts is all based on class envy.
They they say, well, yeah, we need middle class tax really.
We don't need tax cuts for the rich.
They play the class envy.
They're not even talking about economic stimulus.
Uh and if you listen to what they really want to do, Chuck Wrangle and the others, what they really want to do is raise taxes across the board when it when you get right down to it.
But this this is an election year, and in an election year you can always get bipartisanship on giving money away, which is essentially what's happened here.
It's cheap, it is inconsequential, it is unprofessional, it is disingenuous, it's ineffective, it is perfect politics for an election year.
The truth of the Reagan tax cuts and the Bush tax cuts, both.
Uh, do you know that those are really not tax cuts?
They were rate reductions, but the the the so-called rich, the evil rich are paying more in taxes every year as a group than they were before the tax rate reductions.
They are paying a bigger bite, they're paying more.
It was a tax increase.
It was a tax revenue increase.
A brief timeout.
We'll come back and continue.
Uh let me get I'll give you that Florida poll uh on the uh primary, the vote coming up on Tuesday here in Florida, as well as Did you know the Brett Girl has called John McCain crazy?
We'll be back in just a second.
All right, I have it here.
I'm holding it in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers.
It's uh the inside uh uh insider advantage poll that's linked to it real clear politics.
By the way, do you know what?
You know what Santorum's theory about Super Tuesday in Florida is?
Um try this out for Rick Santorum, uh former senator from Pennsylvania, believes that it would be the best thing to be happening would be for Rudy to win Florida, not Mitt.
It'd be better for Rudy to win Florida, because then that would keep Rudy in the game.
Because if Rudy doesn't win Florida, he'd put all his eggs in the Florida basket.
If he doesn't win Florida, he may just, even if he doesn't get out, uh, what is he gonna do in Super Tuesday?
Need Rudy to win Tuesday in the Florida primary, keeping him in a game, go to Super Tuesday, split the liberal vote, the Republican liberal and moderate Republican vote between Mc uh McCain and Rudy, and then Mitt wins big throughout Super Tuesday.
That's a theory.
Now, this insider advantage poll is a Rasmussen poll out too.
The Rasmussen poll, what is it?
Rasmussen with uh I didn't print this out.
The rest must and poll, hang on just a second.
I may have it at the top here.
Yeah, Rasmussen, before I get to this insider advantage, Rasmussen has Romney 27, McCain at 23, and Rudy picking up support.
He's gaining at 20.
Now the insider advantage poll has it Romney 24, Rudy 19, McCain 18.
But that doesn't tell you anything.
When you dig deep, uh, as I have done into the internals here, the only groups where McCain out polled Romney were in the over 65 group, women, blacks, and Democrats.
Uh that's the only area in this poll that McCain beats Romney.
Uh and of those groups, only the Democrats and the seasoned citizens had a difference greater than one percentage point.
The Democrats liked McCain the most in this poll by two point four percent over Romney, and the seasoned citizens like McCain the most by a margin of one point three percent.
Now, it's quite three questions in this poll, and I'm giving you numbers in question two.
Because question two is really the more relevant and the most relevant.
Question two, if you have um you've already voted or likely to vote uh before or on this coming Tuesday's Republican presidential primary, which one candidate is your preference in the primary?
So the total Romney 24, Giuliani 19, McCain 18, Huckabee 12, Ron Paul 7, 15% undecided.
In the age group 18 to 29, Romney 35, Giuliani 15, McCain 12, undecided 27.
In the 30 to 44 demographic, it is Giuliani 27, Romney 18, Huckabee 18.
They're tied there, and McCain in fourth place in that group at 13 and a half.
In the 45 to 64 group, it is Romney 21, Giuliani, well, actually 22.
I'm rounding these numbers off.
Romney 22, Giuliani 18, McCain's 17.
When you get to the seasoned citizens, 65 and plus, it is McCain 27, Romney 26, Giuliani 13, Huckabee 9, undecided seven.
And I could go down this list and break it down by male and female in each of these groups and by party.
But this poll, insider advantage, majority opinion, it's it's uh up there at Real Clear Politics, Romney 24, Rudy 19, McCain 18, and uh Huckabee at 12.
And the Rasmussen poll, it's Romney 27, McCain 23, uh Rudy picking up support at 20.
So uh Florida is still very much up a gravity.
Florida has early votings.
You can you could be voting now via absentee.
But any of you guys uh voted in the Florida primary.
None of the staff here.
Are you gonna vote next Tuesday in Florida primary?
You are?
You're gonna vote next Tuesday in the Florida primary.
Good.
All right, Tom in uh in Ellensburg, Washington.
Welcome, sir, to the Rush Limbaugh program.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
Hi.
Oh, it's wonderful to talk to you.
Thank you.
Listen to you for so many years.
Listen, you uh you mentioned the sleep number bed uh and somebody taking a test drive on it.
Um I heard you uh talk about that.
It's been it several years ago.
Um, and I finally thought, you know what?
Uh my wife's got terrible palsy, I'm a nurse, and and um our bed just sucked.
And so we we ordered a sleep number, and it has been it's an amazing bed.
She, you know, she doesn't have the nearly the pain she used to from sleeping, and she can sleep.
Um I just wanted to give a plug for that.
Well, I appreciate that.
I have it.
I really, you know, I love these testimonials.
I really do.
But at the same time, I got I have to I have to tell you something here, Tom.
My feelings are a slight bit hurt.
Oh no.
That there's something more necessary than my endorsement.
Uh-huh.
That I endorse the bed, and I saw people coming over.
Do you really use this?
And you call to say, hey, you know what you said is true.
It's really good.
As though I am doubted.
I'm sorry.
Well, I can deal with it.
You know, I've I've been criticized my whole life.
It goes, it just bounces off.
I'm just teasing you out there.
Look, Tom, I appreciate thank you.
You bet, Fresh.
Have a wonderful day.
Nice talking to you.
All righty.
Uh, let me take quick timeout.
We'll squeeze one more call and we'll be coming back after this.
Back to the phone.
Say Casper, Wyoming.
This is Jay.
Nice to have you on the EIB network, sir.
Greetings from the Cowboys State Rush.
Thank you, sir.
Uh, on the check caching centers, I am not able to get a bank account due to circumstances beyond my control.
And I would be dead in the water without the check cashing centers.
And they they they they do uh they do rape you when you use them.
I mean, I try either use Walmart more than anything else.
You know, I have to make an observation.
This third call today, the first two callers both you both use the word suck.
You just used the word rape.
There's something out there today.
Okay, so the the uh you say these payday cash checking places they they rape you, and so you try to go to Walmart.
Yeah, and I wish the Democrats would leave Walmart alone.
Yeah.
What happens at Walmart?
What's the difference in Walmart and these other places?
You only get mauled?
Uh well, Walmart charges you a flat three bucks no matter how big the check is.
Three bucks?
Three bucks.
What are these other these other loan shark places?
Uh, it could be as much as fifty bucks for a check that's less than five hundred dollars.
Why in the world are you in this circumstance?
Do you feel like you can divulge it in 25 seconds?
Uh, ex-wife overdrew an account just before a divorce, and I got reported to check systems, and the bank refuses to take us take me off.
That's the same thing.
Even though you're even though you're divorced now and then she's moved on?
Yep.
Well, how long is that gonna last?
As long as the bank wants it there.
It's already been over ten years.
Oh my good lord.
We found a whole new class of upstanding citizens, the unbanked.
You know, and here I uh this this this disheartens me because you know I've been such a staunch family value supporter of marriage guide.
Learn this.
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