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Jan. 29, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 29, 2008, Tuesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of The Rush 24 7 podcast.
Yeah, of course I went and voted.
I did that this morning on the way into work.
I walked in there.
It wasn't too crowded.
It had I don't know, maybe 10 or 12 people in there.
So I walked in, I showed him my driver's license.
Nice lady there, the registrar, looked at me, looked at the driver's license.
Photo.
Said, okay, what's your address?
And I told her what my address was.
She says, okay, so it is you.
Yeah.
Okay, well, here, sign here where the X is.
So I signed to the X's.
She examined the signature that I had just made and the signature on the driver's license.
It's close enough, but it's not really close.
She gave me the card and I went ahead into the machine and I um I voted the machine got stuck.
Uh I cast my vote for my candidate, and then we got an amendment down here on taxes, property taxes.
I cast my vote on that.
When I cast the vote on the candidate, it was the first optionally two things.
First, I hit next and it didn't go there.
Uh so I hit next again, it didn't go there.
Uh and since, you know, I'm I'm used to, you know, uh I know people have windows computers.
I'm used to things sticking and freezing, so I knew what to do.
I just hit the back button.
And I got I got my candidate page again with the vote already recorded there.
So I said, hmm, I wonder if this is going to count twice.
So I unclicked for my candidate.
I clicked back on my candidate, then I hit the next page and it went.
Then I went to the amendment and next to hit here to record your vote.
Uh and I did this.
I don't know if I voted twice.
Probably not, because it only gave me that one option.
But um anyway, greetings, folks.
Welcome.
It's Rushlin.
Bought this, the EIB network.
It's uh the day of the Florida primary and the latest poll numbers.
But one of the uh one of the one of the most accurate polls to date, and they've been all over the park.
Uh, for example, Zogby in Michigan uh had who?
Uh McCain winning by nine or Romney losing by nine, and Romney won it.
I mean, uh, but this is from Real Clear Politics, uh, and it is uh let's see, what is this uh?
Uh I don't even know what it's it's a real clear politics rolling average poll.
Uh Mitchell Interactive, East Lansing, Michigan in Washington, D.C. Anyway, Romney 34, McCain 32, Giuliani 13, and Mike Huckabee at uh 10% is the latest polling data.
Here's the phone number, by the way, if you want to be on the program today, 800-282-288-2, the email address L Rushbow at EIB net.com.
Do you know?
Now this is a potential scandal.
I don't know how widespread this is.
Uh South Florida Sun Sentinel, right down the road there in Fort Lauderdale, is reporting that independents are showing up at polling places and declaring to be Republican, and then are given a card to go vote.
They're given a ballot to go vote.
Let me read the passage to you.
In Northern Coral Springs near the Sawgrass Expressway and Coral Ridge Drive, David Nirenberg arrived to vote as an independent.
Nevertheless, the poll workers uh insisted he choose a party ballot.
He said to me, Are you Democrat or Republican, Nirenberg?
So I said, Neither.
I'm an independent.
And the poll worker said, Well, you have to pick one.
In uh in Florida, only those who declare a party are allowed to cast a vote, of course, in the primary today.
This is this is strict Republicans and no crossovers.
Um Nirenberg said he tried to explain to the poll worker he should not vote on a party ballot because of his no party affiliation.
But uh said a second poll worker was called over who agreed that independents should not use party ballots, but said that they had received instructions to the contrary.
He said, you know, this is kind of funny, but uh it was what we were told.
I was shocked when they told me that, Nirenberg said.
He went ahead and voted for John McCain.
So an independent showed up.
They said you can't vote unless you declare a party.
So he was allowed to declare a party right in the polling place, and then went in and voted for McCain.
In Palm Beach County, an interruption uh was reported at King's Point, South County retirement community, according to the supervisor of elections, Arthur Anderson.
It's just a little bitty passage here in a much longer story about independence.
I don't know how widespread this is, but you'd have to assume McCain's behind this.
Uh If independent I, you know, I did not know.
I I thought when you registered to vote, that's when you had to declare.
I didn't know you could declare or change your status at the polling place.
But they're apparently they're allowing it to happen in certain places here in Florida.
Also, uh, ladies and gentlemen, uh, the Clinton campaign is to announce a major tribal endorsement today at uh 2 p.m.
Hillary going for the tribes.
The Kennedy announcement of Obama yesterday has spooked them, so she's going out and trying to nail down all these various uh independent constituency groups.
Clinton campaign will hold a conference call to announce a major tribal endorsement for Hillary today at uh 2 p.m.
And I just want to assure all of you it is not me.
I have been proclaimed a tribal leader uh and and a leader of a herd uh by uh by numerous columnists on the right.
And when I saw this today, I just wanted to let everybody know that it uh it wasn't me.
By the way, another thing, I've been looking at some exit poll data for Mrs. Clinton.
Uh, and uh seems like that the biggest support Mrs. Clinton is getting comes from the undereducated, which which we knew.
Uh this has been one of the phenomenon uh that has been occurring throughout the primary season, which leads to a question.
Why in the world would Mrs. Clinton want to improve education then?
She's running around talking about improving education, but she's getting a dumb vote, and it would seem to me that it would make more sense for her to keep people dumb, so he'll keep supporting her even after they vote.
Have you seen the editorial cartoon in the New York Post today on page six?
Sean Delonis.
Let me, for those of you watching on the Ditto Cam, let me let me zoom into it here.
Uh that is Ted Kennedy at the Dyke Bridge in Martha's Vineyard, throwing a car off the bridge, or the car is going off the bridge with a Hillary in the bridge, and Kennedy in his underwear or a swimsuit, I don't know what, saying, sorry, Hillary, but I'm going with Obama.
And Mrs. Clinton is shrieking in pain and shock as the car is about to be submerged underwater.
Whoa.
I had so somebody alert me to this today.
I normally don't look at the editorial cartoons when I read newspapers on the uh on the uh on the internet.
Uh and of course, the drive-by's, ladies and gentlemen, are still obsessed with the fact that it is me versus McCain rather than Romney.
On the situation room on CNN last night, Wolf Blitzer talking with Jack Cafferty.
And uh Blitzer said, hey, Jack, between Mitt Romney and McCain out there, they're trading barbs left and right.
All of a sudden, uh John McCain is being decried by the conservative wing of the Republican Party.
Guys like Rush Limbaugh are saying if you if this guy gets the nomination, the party's gonna be ruined forever.
But it's all about electability.
Who can be elected in November?
And at this point, it looks like McCain might be the least objectionable.
All right, now what how do we interpret this?
Uh CNN's resident curmudgeon Jack Cafferty says that despite what I'm saying, McCain is the Republican most palatable to Democrats.
Uh and therefore should be the uh the nominee.
Uh and it boils down.
He's the only guy that can beat Democrats.
Electability comes down to it does not come down to electability with me.
It that's that's been there done that, folks.
Uh that's that's well, I went through all this in great detail yesterday.
Let's let's continue with the audio soundbite same show, a situation room panel discussion.
Uh Jeffrey Tubin and Gloria Borger decide to add this to what Cafferty just said.
It's not all about electability.
I mean, there are real conservatives out there who have principled positions who say that, you know, on immigration, on campaign finance reform, who simply say, you know what, he's just not one of us.
And that's why Romney will stay in, even if he were to lose uh in Florida that Romney's gonna stay in.
I was talking to one of his advisors today who said, look, there's this concerted campaign out there against McCain, run by Rush Limbaugh, et cetera, et cetera.
Why should we get out?
We've got a lot of conservative support.
Oh my God, I did not know this.
They're claiming that a Romney advisor said, hell yes, we're gonna stay in.
We got Limbaugh campaigning for.
There was no meeting, H.R. There has been no meeting.
No, I didn't know.
I d uh nobody sent a limo for me, and I didn't, and nobody got a memo to me either.
I haven't seen any memo.
Um So the Romney camp saying that they're gonna stay in this because they got Limbaugh running interference for him, or what is the exact quote?
Uh uh there's a concerted campaign out there against McCain run by Rush Limbaugh, etc., etc.
Why should we get that's not that has nothing to do with it.
He's not gonna get out because he's got all kinds of money.
He can write a check anytime he wants to.
That's not why he's gonna get out.
Uh there are a lot of people saying that whoever wins Florida wins the nomination.
Um I've had a couple people tell me, Rudy has said that.
Uh whoever wins Florida wins a nomination.
That's it's too soon to be saying anything like that.
Uh but I don't know.
I've just called your attention to the chapter in my early book, my success, not determined by who wins elections.
David Brooks to the Republicans, watch the hatred.
He was on the news hour with Jim Lara.
Uh, and Lara said that what about McCain Romney in Florida?
The wild card here is the hatred.
And it came out today.
It's coming out.
Between these two guys.
Between these two guys.
I think they both are in danger of just destroying themselves.
Well, they should look at what happened on the Democratic side.
This is one country.
I don't know what planet he is on.
Uh this is what happens to conservatives when they end up writing for the New York Times.
This is what happens to conservatives when they write conservatism for liberals.
I think they're both in danger of destroying themselves.
Should look at what happened to the Democrat side.
This is one country.
What does that mean?
Uh and then Ruth Marcus on the same show, Jim O'Lara.
She is from the Washington Post, said, Do you agree there's a message here that the Republicans need to listen to?
I think that there is the within uh between McCain and Romney hatred, but it will also be a test of the resistance to John McCain of seven segments of the Republican Party.
Obviously, Rush Limbaugh has been after him.
Oh, once again, it's me against McCain, and I am being measured against my ability to defeat Senator McCain.
Unreal, is it not, Mr. Sturdley?
I have I I in a primary truth, I have not seen this before.
I've been doing this 20 years.
The closest that the we've come to anything like this was after 1988 when H. W. Bush beat Dukakis.
These people saying, well, that's it for Limbaugh because his side won, so there's uh there's nothing to talk about now.
Then when Clinton won in 92, they say, well, that's it for Limbaugh.
His side's just been discredited.
There's nothing for him to talk about.
Uh but in this case, I have never been matched up as a as a candidate of in effect when I'm not running.
I'm running a campaign and running the McRomney campaign, and now it is a test of me uh versus McCain, according to these people in the drive-by's.
Look at the in a spate of a week and a half.
I've gone from irrelevant to relevant to spearheading a campaign to now being measured by the drive by.
They they would just love to write the story.
McCain wins today in Florida.
They they've already got stories written.
You know this.
McCain trounces Limlaw, Romney in third place.
Something like that.
We'll be right back.
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Now, uh regarding registration in Florida, voter registration of Florida.
My understanding of this is that registration closes 29 days before an election.
That would be December 31st this year, correct?
Right?
We're right on this.
Nobody, nobody who shows up and is not registered with a party is supposed to be able to register with the party on election day, right?
Now the South Florida Sun Sentinel says that is happening.
I don't know how widespread it is.
They give one example, maybe two, of a guy showing up wanting to vote, but he's not a Republican.
He's a little bit angry about it, so they call in a second poll worker, and a poll worker says, Yeah, you can't vote, well, all right, give me a ballot, I'll vote Republican.
And then he goes in, comes out, says he voted for McCain.
So you have to wonder how many independents and moderates are trying to corrupt the Republican Florida primary today, uh, ladies and gentlemen.
I don't know how widespread it is.
Just have this uh this one little example.
Let's stick with Anderson Cooper's uh uh 180.
Last night on CNN interviewed Senator McCain, Cooper said, Look, Senator, you said that Mitt Romney wanted to set a timetable for withdrawal in Iraq, basically surrender.
You know, there are a lot of folks who, even though they support you say that's not the straight talk that they're used to.
He gave a quote in April that he said absolutely straight talk.
Yeah, it's absolutely talking and he said he wanted to set a timetable, and I read it many times.
I'd be glad to read it again.
Well, he said there's no right here, it said, well, there's no question that the President and Prime Minister Al Maliki have to have a series of timetables and milestones that they speak about, but those shouldn't be for public pronouncements.
It's not, I mean, he he's not saying that.
No, you have to create a timetable for withdrawal.
No, you have to sit read the rest of the quote where he says, We're not gonna tell the enemy when we are gonna be gone.
And that's an important part of that quote.
And if you if you'd read it, and it's obvious that he was ready for the timetables.
There's no doubt if you read that entire quote.
All right, so McCain not backing down from this, which is amazing.
George Will has written about this today, and I just want to read relevant excerpts from Mr. Will's piece, uh, in which he starts out uh basically talking about the Democrats uh and the Clintons and the Democrat Party and some of the shenanigans going on.
And then he writes this.
Last week came the radio ad that even South Carolinians who were not squeamish about bite and gouged politics thought was one brick over a load and that the Clintons withdrew.
It was the one that said Obama endorsed Republican ideas because he said Republicans had some ideas.
The Clinton campaign also accused Obama of praising Reagan because Obama noted the stark fact that Reagan had changed the country's trajectory more than some other recent presidents, hello Bill, had.
This was a garden variety dishonesty, the manufacture of which does not cause a Clinton and mid-season form to break a sweat.
And it was no worse than, actually not as gross as St. John of Arizona's crooked talk claim in Florida that Mitt Romney wanted to surrender and wave a white flag like Senator Clinton wants to do, quote unquote.
Because Romney wanted to set a date for withdrawal that would have meant disaster.
Imitation being the sincerest form of flattery, the Clintons should bask in the glow of John McCain's Clintonian gloss on this fact.
Ten months ago, Romney said that President Bush and Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Al Maliki should discuss privately a series of timetables and milestones.
That unremarkable thought was twisted by McCain, whose distortions are notably clumsy, as when Romsey said uh Romney said accurately that he alone among the candidates has had extensive experience in private sector business.
That truth was subjected to McCain's sophistry, and he charged that Romney had said, you haven't had a real job if you had a military career.
If this autumn voters must choose between Clinton and McCain, they will face at least stylistically an echo.
Not a choice.
But that dreary scenario need not come to pass.
Romney seems to have found his voice as attention turns to the economy, a subject concerning which McCain seems neither conversant nor eager to become so.
Obama is running against two Clintons, or one and a fraction of one, given how much she has been diminished by her overbearing spouse.
Romney is marginally better off running against a Clinton impersonator.
George Will has called McCain a Clinton impersonator, has accused him.
George Will saying this.
Will the drive-by medias do stories tomorrow about how George Will was defeated by McCain?
By the way, this is not George Will's first uh such piece on uh on Senator McCain.
He's uh he's been quite thorough uh in his uh disenchantment and his disagreements with Senator McCain, but this does break new ground in saying that essentially there's no difference between the Clintons and Senator McCain.
By the way, this this argument uh that Romney and McCain are having over uh the private sector.
Have you heard the McCain camps claim that private sector business experience is worthless in Washington?
Have you heard how that goes?
Here's how it goes.
What do you mean, private sector?
You can't do that up here.
You can't do it.
You get in the private sector.
You show people what to do, it gets done.
And you can cut their salary, you can raise their salary, you can have a lot of leverage.
But you can't do that here.
Can't just issue orders every get it done.
You gotta know how things work here, or how they don't work here, and how to make them not work and look like you're making them good.
So the McCain camp is doing its best to say that private sector business experience is irrelevant to uh being president of the United States, which is tantamount to saying, look, I'm a big government guy, and government is the instrument of change in this country, and I'm gonna be the guy pulling the levers.
Somebody knows the private sector isn't qualified.
Be a break.
Ha, welcome back.
We are here.
And we are having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
It's the day of the Florida primary.
We're one week away from Super Duper Tuesday.
Just to expand a little bit, Senator McCain does attack the private sector and its relevance, the experience that one who has experience uh in the private sector might bring to Washington.
He ridicules it.
Uh his campaign and McCain himself are actually saying that having private sector experience isn't gonna you diddly squat in Washington, D.C., because when you run the businesses in the private sector, CEO, CFO, whatever, just wave a magic wand and whatever you want done gets done.
Hey, Senator McCain, tell that that the people have been trying to run General Motors for a while.
You think they could wave a magic wand and beat Toyota?
Think that's what it takes to get whatever these CEOs want, they get?
It's impossible with all the government regulations these guys have to follow.
Maybe these free enterprise, entrepreneurial, private sector guys would have a little bit more success if they didn't have to go through so many obstacles placed in their way by government, Senator McCain.
But if you believe that the private sector simply exists by people saying, do it and it gets done, You don't understand the number one problem that every business has.
The number one problem that every business has is people.
It's your number one problem.
Sometimes they do what you say, sometimes they don't, sometimes they're distracted, whatever.
Things do not happen magically.
But the claim from the McCain camp is that because of the way things happen in Washington, which is private under the cover of darkness, in back rooms where nobody knows what's going on, and the public's not supposed to find out, i.e., the amnesty bill.
You need experience with that.
What kind of things are in these guys' way?
OSHA, EPA, family leave, EEOC, mandated expenses on labor, tax, compliance laws.
Of course, these guys in the private sector have all kinds of problems getting things done.
The idea that it's just easy.
Here's but here's the the thing.
John Hood has uh he's right.
What when McCain says, and McCain has said this, McCain says, I didn't manage for profit.
I led for patriotism.
Uh the fact is that McCain didn't have to manage for profit either.
This is John Hood saying this from North Carolina, John Hood saying this, not I. The fact is that McCain didn't have to manage for profit either.
His father-in-law managed for profit and became very wealthy, and McCain and his wife have benefited from his father-in-law managing for profit.
How can it be said that McCain can unite his party and conservatives for the November election when he talks like this?
When he runs down the private sector, profit versus patriotism.
Is that going to be a slogan?
I mean, that's a slogan.
It might come out of the Democrats.
That's something I could hear Hillary and Bill Clinton saying, something I hear Ted Kennedy saying to Obama.
Obama go out and say this.
Profit versus patriotism.
Uh this this this is this is McCain's new line of attack because McCain had to admit the other day that he doesn't know much about the economy.
He's got to shore up on it.
Uh but now he's out he's out ridiculing the private sector and people in it.
He wants you to believe he's a conservative.
Ridiculing the private sector.
Another knee-jerk reaction.
And you know what what this reminds me of?
It reminds me of Senator McCain's opposition uh to the to the tax cuts of 2001 and 2003, the liberal knee-jerk opposition.
We can't take that money away from government.
I mean, take cut take cut taxes without without Shminikutch, and I'm not going to go for Spannycut.
Because I'm not going to have a government get smaller.
Okay, folks, look, it's up to you out there.
You know, we're just sitting here reporting to you what is happening.
Here is Amy in uh Alexandria, Virginia.
Amy, I gotta tell you, Amy's in my one time uh all-time top ten favorite female names list.
Oh, I thank you.
Well, I think your last fifteen minutes will actually prove my point, and I never thought these words would cross my lips.
But I think the drive-by is actually got it pretty accurate when they said that you do not support the pseudo-Republican McCain for the nomination.
And I you know, I listen to your show every day, and I think you make it abundantly clear that if the Republican Party goes the direction of McCain, we are in big big trouble.
So you can beat me up now.
Why would I want to beat you up?
Well, because you were couldn't believe that the media said these things.
You didn't you didn't quote the media right.
Um th you you say that the that the media says I'm not supporting the pseudo-Republican.
That's not what they're saying.
They're saying they're saying that this is a race between me and McCain as though I'm on the ballot running for something, and my objective is to keep McCain from winning.
Now do you accept that?
Do you think that I mean th if I guarantee you here if McCain wins tonight, and it probably will be late before we know, because there are a million absentee and early votes that have to be counted.
Uh manually.
If if uh if McCain wins, you know the drive-by's tomorrow are going to report McCain soundly defeats Limbaugh.
I I just uh I I I think you're right about not supporting him, but I do think it's it's impress you know not impressive.
I think it means a lot the way you feel about it and the fact that you say that, because my husband doesn't get to listen to your show, but I've even told him, I said, Wow, you should hear the way Rush feels about, you know, if we choose McCain.
And I actually have made that point to him, and it made a bit it meant something to him.
And I think that's what they're saying.
Granted, a week ago they said you were insignificant, but I do think it's significant, and I I think it's worthy of reporting.
Uh significant, insignificant, worthy of report.
Look at there are a lot of people opposing Senator McCain, Amy.
It isn't just me.
I'm an one's as big as you, though.
But but none of the others are being positioned as they are positioning me.
Charlie Christ is no Rush Limbaugh.
Uh but Chris is for McCain.
Christ has endorsed McCain.
You're right about Charlie Chris not being Rush Limbaugh, but but uh but nevertheless, I mean I'm I'm a radio talk show host.
What am I Amy?
I'm not arguing with you here.
I'm not beating you up.
Uh so please get that thought out of your mind.
If you thought that you're gonna get beat up, you're very courageous and brave uh for for calling.
What am I supposed to do here when I have definitive, heartfelt, passionate opinions about all of this.
Uh what am I supposed to do?
Squelch them?
Oh no, I think it's awesome that you do it, but I also think that uh the media is okay to r to report what you're saying.
Oh, I may they may be trying to set it up as a fight, but I I do think it's newsworthy that that you feel so strongly about it.
I don't care that they report what I say.
It's not that that's fine.
What they're reporting is that it is me running a campaign, that it is me against McCain.
And they're they're they're they're uh you know, they're very happy when McCain won South Carolina, they ran the stories about how I'm irrelevant that I failed to mobilize my voters.
Uh and and the the fact of the matter is that uh that you have to to to believe that that's what I do here, you have to accept the premise that all of you in the audience are a bunch of mind-numb robots incapable of Thinking for yourselves, you sit out there and wait for me to tell you what to do, then go do it.
That's the only way this analysis works.
Well, unlike most campaigns, you are actually providing hard facts that help us make informed decisions.
I know.
I probably would be a pretty good campaigner, but that's not what I'm doing.
I was a little stunned to hear somebody on CNN say that the Romney campaign said, So why should we get out?
We got Rush Limbaugh running a campaign against me for now that that did sort of set me back, but anyway.
Well, look, okay, so you agree with the drivebys on this.
Look at Amy, I'm glad you called.
Thanks for the is that a little baby that I hear crying in the background.
It well, she's talking, yes, she's three.
Well, talking, crying, it's all the same to me.
What's her name?
Her name is Shelby.
Shelby.
Yes, a good Southern name, Shelby.
Very cool.
Very, very cool.
What does she want to be when she uh grows up?
Uh probably an astronaut.
See, this is good.
Already has an idea.
This is a kind of passion that leads to success.
It's never too early to know what you want to do.
Uh Amy, thanks much for the call.
Uh appreciate it so much.
What am I supposed to do here, folks?
Seriously.
Shut up?
Am I supposed to not tell you what I think?
Am I supposed to squelch my thoughts?
Yes!
If you don't, I will.
Um this program.
Uh John in Orlando.
Nice to have you, sir.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hello, Rush.
Uh Megadiddos.
And uh uh just I would just keep doing what you're doing, man.
I mean, you've you've this is your show.
You've been doing it for years, and uh I think you're doing awesome.
Appreciate that, thank you.
The the reason I'm calling, I I have been working for the last two weeks as an early voter here in Central Florida, so I'm kind of familiar with the uh what's been going on, at least wait, wait, wait.
I want to make sure I heard that right.
You have been working for the last two weeks as an early voter.
I'm sorry, in the early voting as one of the poll workers.
I was going to say, what have I missed here?
Yeah.
Not my fault.
An early voter working on it for two weeks.
Well, not it uh not everyone can be uh an expert at talking like you, Ken Rush.
Okay.
So anyway, you're an early voter, and you're well, you're not an early well, maybe you might be, but you're working in the early voting system.
I I I was working for the past two weeks and in as you know, taking votes from voters.
So I was a poll worker.
Okay.
So, and I basically wanted to call and say, you were correct.
It it is illegal in the state of Florida to uh try to change your party within the twenty-nine days, just as you said, uh about ten minutes is about right as I connected, you then made your point.
So you are correct.
Okay, so uh I guess we just have to chalk this up to um ill-prepared poll workers who are allowing independents to come in and change party affiliation for one day and then vote for Senator McCain.
Um you could.
That's probably the best case scenario, but uh yes, that is what they're doing is illegal, and in fact, if that kind of behavior, if you observe that, you're actually uh uh encouraged by a poster in your polling part uh location.
See, I that's right.
So I would think this is a big deal.
I w I would think that uh poll workers, when given their instructions, would have it drilled into them.
All right, look, this is a winner-take all Republican primary.
No one but registered Republicans can vote on the Republican side today, and yet some guy shows up and says, Well, I'm uh I'm not another Republican.
Well, you can't vote.
Well, it's not fair.
I mean, I want to I want to vote.
I'm gonna so they let him register as a Republican.
I don't know how this happens.
Uh again, that's you know, that's patently illegal, and you know, that needs to be reported as a crime, because that's that's a violation of federal well, actually Florida uh election laws.
Yeah.
And that was briefed as you said, you know, that's you can't change the party.
In fact, we I thought the whole thing was kind of weird because we had the opposite.
We'd have people come in registrate as independents or Democrats or whatever who wanted to change on the spot and they get upset because they couldn't.
So it it it sounds unusual to me.
Yeah, highly unusual.
Yeah.
Uh very unusual.
In fact, you might be part of some organized campaign, uh, perhaps.
Uh And and knowing how things work in this state, uh, can you imagine if um you know one of these independents shows up, wants to register as a Republican, and is told no, and then raises holy hell about it, and the media shows up and so forth, and we'll get the disenfranchised.
Here's a deeply patriotic Florida citizen who wants to vote, has been denied by these evil Republican poll workers who we all know cheat.
Um anyway, uh this campaign finance reform for you, folks.
Um boy.
You you don't know it's good for you.
I'll be patient for a little while, but you better squelch it.
All right, we are back.
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Whoa, Hillary has just received an endorsement out there.
Maxine Waters, ladies and gentlemen, has endorsed Mrs. Clinton.
She's got the uh the tribal uh uh endorsement coming up at uh two o'clock this afternoon.
Maxine Waters and Uncle Bill, if you were, the new term I've used here for Uncle Tom, selling out the race uh in exchange for uh you know staying friends with the white leaders.
Uh let's see.
Uh you know the the next big endorsement everybody is is uh gearing up for is Bill Richardson's.
That's the one that's gonna count.
And Richardson is agonizing over this, supposedly we don't know who he Well, he's a big name, he's been in the government.
I'm just telling you what they're saying.
That uh the next big one is Richardson.
Uh have you noticed now, by the way, since the Kennedy clan has come out and endorsed Obama.
Many in the drive-by say, well, these endorsements, I mean, when do they really count?
What do they really matter?
Well, look at me.
Apparently, some of you in the drive-by's think it's me against McCain.
And that if uh somebody's not on the ballot, not even requesting a single vote, me, if McCain wins tonight, I somehow lose.
Here is Romney.
Last night, Anderson Cooper 180.
Anderson Cooper says, Well, you know, you've had some pretty tough attacks on McCain.
You basically called him a liberal Democrat.
I mean, in some quarters, that's a very personal attack.
What?
How can calling somebody a liberal be a personal attack?
Legislation that he's brought forward, for which he is so well known.
All of those major pieces of level legislation are pieces of legislation that are heralded by liberals and by Democrats.
I don't call him a liberal Democrat, that I wouldn't say.
But for instance, McCain Feingold, which was supposed to take the impact of money out of politics, has made things worse.
McCain Kennedy has been viewed by virtually all as an amnesty bill for illegals.
And then finally, McCain Lieberman, which puts about a thousand dollar tax on gasoline per year for people here in Florida for a family of four.
These are not conservative ideas.
These are ideas that Democrats have warmed up to, and and I'm afraid that if he became president, the some of his conservative ideas would be uh, you know, uh just rejected out of hand by Congress, but his more liberal leanings on the type of issues I've just described would be welcome.
Now, McCain and Robney are trading barbs here.
They're calling each other um each other liberals.
Here is McCain campaign speech in Jacksonville, Florida yesterday about Romney.
As the liberal governor of the state of Massachusetts, he raised taxes by 730 million dollars.
And in West Palm Beach yesterday, Romney uh during his speech said this about McCain.
If you ask people, look at the three things Senator McCain has done as a senator.
If you want that kind of a liberal democratic course as president, then you can vote for him.
And Cindy McCain, the wife of Senator McCain, also in West Palm Beach on the stump during a QA, said this about the primary here in Florida.
Florida is so important to the McCain family, and most importantly, it's important to the nation.
What you will do tomorrow will make or break this for us.
Oh, the wife of Senator McCain says it's all on the line here in Florida.
What you do in Florida tomorrow will make or break this for us.
How do you interpret that, Mr. Snerdley?
What I mean, is it is there's something hidden there that I'm not uh picking up.
That's quite an appeal.
Look, you got it, you gotta vote for John Lamar, because this is make or break for us in Florida.
Quick time out here, folks.
We'll be back.
We'll wrap up this hour in mere moments.
Look at this Los Angeles Times headline about the State of the Union.
No apologies from Bush in final State of Union.
New York Times, a defiant look at what lies ahead.
Say what you want.
Bush has accomplished more than Clinton ever did or Hillary ever will.
And Pelosi says Bush slams as late on economy.
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