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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 said, 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 a 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 voted.
The machine got stuck.
I cast my vote for my candidate, and then we got an amendment down here on taxes, property tax.
I cast my vote on that.
When I cast the vote on the candidate, it was the first option.
Only two things.
First, I hit next, and it didn't go there.
So I hit next again.
It didn't go there.
And since I'm used to, 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 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 to next and hit here to record your vote.
And I did this.
I don't know if I voted twice.
Probably not because it only gave me that one option.
But anyway, greetings, folks.
Welcome.
It's Rushland Boy.
This is the EIB network.
It's the day of the Florida primary and the latest poll numbers.
One of the most accurate polls to date, and they've been all over the park.
For example, Zogby in Michigan had who?
McCain winning by nine or Romney losing by nine?
And Romney won it.
But this is from Real Clear Politics.
And it is, let's see, what is this?
I don't even know what it's, it's a Real Clear Politics Rolling Average poll.
Mitchell Interactive, East Lansing, Michigan in Washington, D.C. Anyway, Romney 34, McCain 32, Giuliani 13, and Mike Huckabee at 10% is the latest polling data.
Here's the phone number, by the way, if you want to be on the program today, 800-282-2882, the email address, illrushbow at EIBNet.com.
Do you know this is a potential scandal?
I don't know how widespread this is.
A 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 insisted he choose a party ballot.
He said to me, are you Democrat or Republican, Nirenberg?
So I said, neither.
I'm an independent.
The poll worker said, well, you have to pick one.
In Florida, only those who declare a party are allowed to cast a vote, of course, the primary today.
This is strict Republicans and no crossovers.
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 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 it was what we were told.
I was shocked when they told me that, Nirenberg said.
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 was reported at Kings 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.
If independent, I did not know.
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 apparently, they're allowing it to happen in certain places here in Florida.
Also, ladies and gentlemen, the Clinton campaign is to announce a major tribal endorsement today at 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 independent constituency groups.
Clinton campaign will hold a conference call to announce a major tribal endorsement for Hillary today at 2 p.m.
And I just want to assure all of you it is not me.
I have been proclaimed a tribal leader and a leader of a herd by numerous columnists on the right.
And when I saw this today, I just wanted to let everybody know that it wasn't me.
By the way, another thing, I've been looking at some exit poll data for Mrs. Clinton.
And it seems like that the biggest support Mrs. Clinton is getting comes from the undereducated, which we knew.
This has been one of the phenomenon 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, still 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 zoom into it here.
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 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 somebody alert me to this today.
I normally don't look at the editorial cartoons when I read newspapers on the internet.
And of course, the drive-bys, 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 Blitzer said, hey, Jack, between Mitt Romney and McCain out there, they're trading barbs left and right.
All of a sudden, John McCain is being decried by the conservative wing of the Republican Party.
Guys like Rush Limbaugh saying, if this guy gets the nomination, the party's going to 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, how do we interpret this?
CNN's resident curmudgeon, Jack Cafferty, says that despite what I'm saying, McCain is the Republican most palatable to Democrats and therefore should be the nominee.
And it boils down to the answer.
He's the only guy that can beat Democrats.
Electability comes down to it does not come down to electability with me.
That's been there, done that, folks.
I went through all this in great detail yesterday.
Let's continue with the Audio Soundbite same show, Situation Room, panel discussion.
Jeffrey Toobin 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.
I understand that.
And that's why Romney will stay in, even if he were to lose in Florida, that Romney's going to 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 going to stay in.
We got Limbaugh campaigning for us.
There was no meeting, H.R. There has been no meeting.
No, I didn't know.
Nobody sent a limo for me, and I didn't.
And nobody got a memo to me either.
I haven't seen any memo.
So the Romney camp saying that they're going to stay in this because they got Limbaugh running interference for him, or what is the exact quote?
There's a concerted campaign out there against McCain, run by Rush Limbaugh, et cetera, et cetera.
Why should we get out?
That has nothing to do with it.
He's not going to 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 going to get out.
There are a lot of people saying that whoever wins Florida wins the nomination.
I've had a couple people tell me, Rudy has said that.
Whoever wins Florida wins the nomination.
It's too soon to be saying anything like that.
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 O'Lara.
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.
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.
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?
And then Ruth Marcus on the same show, Jim O'Lara, she's 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 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. Sterling?
I have, I, I, and a primary truth, I have not seen this before.
I've been doing this 20 years.
The closest that 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 nothing to talk about now.
Then when Clinton won in 92, they said, well, that's it for Limbaugh.
His side's just been discredited.
There's nothing for him to talk about.
But in this case, I have never been matched up as a candidate, in effect, when I'm not running.
I'm running a campaign, I'm running the Romney campaign, and now it is a test of me versus McCain, according to these people in the drive-bys.
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 would just love to write the story.
If McCain wins today in Florida, they've already got stories written.
You know this.
McCain trounces Limnaw, Romney in third place.
Something like that.
We'll be right back.
America's real anchorman, the doctor of democracy, America's truth detector and stealth campaign operative.
Rush Limbaugh, the EIB network from the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
Now, 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, ladies and gentlemen.
I don't know how widespread it is.
Just to have this one little example.
Let's stick with Anderson Cooper's 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 straight talk.
Well, he gave this quote in April.
He gave a quote in April.
It's absolutely straight talk.
Yeah, it's absolutely a great talk, 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's not saying he has to create a timetable for withdrawal.
No, you have to read the rest of the quote where he says, we're not going to tell the enemy when we are going to be gone.
And that's an important part of that quote.
And 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.
Now, George Will has written about this today, and I just want to read relevant excerpts from Mr. Will's piece in which he starts out basically talking about the Democrats 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 gouge 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 in 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 Nouri 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 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 in 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 such piece on Senator McCain.
He's been quite thorough in his 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 argument that Romney and McCain are having over the private sector, have you heard the McCain camp's 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.
In the private sector, you just tell 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.
You can't just issue orders if you're going to get it done.
You got to 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 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 going to 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 in the private sector might bring to Washington.
He ridicules it.
His campaign and McCain himself are actually saying that having private sector experience, he can get a 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 to the people who have been trying to run General Motors for a while.
You think they can wave a magic wand and beat Toyota?
Think that's what it takes?
They 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.
But here's the thing.
John Hood has, he's right.
When McCain says, and McCain has said this, McCain says, I didn't manage for profit.
I led for patriotism.
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 could hear Ted Kennedy saying to Obama.
Obama, go out and say this.
Profit versus patriotism.
This is McCain's new line of attack because McCain had to admit the other day he doesn't know much about the economy.
He's got to shore up on it.
But now he's out ridiculing the private sector and people in it.
Wants you to believe he's a conservative.
Ridiculing the private sector.
Another knee-jerk reaction.
And you know what this reminds me of?
It reminds me of Senator McCain's opposition to the tax cuts of 2001 and 2003, the liberal knee-jerk opposition.
We can't take that money away from government.
I mean, you're going to take cut cut taxes without spinning cuts.
And I'm not going to go for spinny cuts 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 Alexandria, Virginia.
Amy, I got to tell you, Amy's in my one-time all-time top 10 favorite female names list.
Oh, I think you.
Well, I think your last 15 minutes will actually prove my point, and I never thought these words would cross my lips, but I think the drive-bys actually got it pretty accurate when they said that you do not support the pseudo-Republican McCain for the nomination.
And 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 couldn't believe that the media said these things.
You didn't quote the media right.
You say that the media says I'm not supporting the pseudo-Republican.
That's not what they're saying.
No, no, no, no.
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, 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 manually, if McCain wins, you know the drive-bys tomorrow are going to report McCain soundly defeats Limbaugh.
I just think you're right about not supporting him, but I do think it's impressive, 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 think it's worthy of reporting.
Significant, insignificant, worthy of report.
Look at, there are a lot of people opposing Senator McCain, Amy.
It isn't just me.
No one's as big as you, though.
But none of the others are being positioned as they are positioning me.
Charlie Christ is no Rush Limbaugh.
But Christ is for McCain.
Christ has endorsed McCain.
You're right about Charlie Christ not being Rush Limbaugh, but nevertheless, I mean, I'm a radio talk show host.
What am I?
Amy, I'm not arguing with you here.
I'm not beating you up.
So please get that thought out of your mind.
If you thought that you were going to get beat up, you're very courageous and brave for calling.
What am I supposed to do here when I have definitive, heartfelt, passionate opinions about all of this?
What am I supposed to do?
Squelch them?
Oh, no, I think it's awesome that you do it, but I also think that the media is okay to report what you're saying.
They may be trying to set it up as a fight, but I do think it's newsworthy that you feel so strongly about it.
I don't care that they report what I say.
That's fine.
What they're reporting is that it is me running a campaign, that it is me against McCain.
And they're very happy when McCain won South Carolina.
They ran stories about how I'm irrelevant, that I failed to mobilize my voters.
And the fact of the matter is that you have 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 the CNN say that the Romney campaign said, why should we get out?
We got Rush Limbaugh running a campaign against McCain.
Now, that did sort of set me back.
Anyway, well, look, okay, so you agree with the drive-bys on this.
Look, Amy, I'm glad you called.
Thanks for the is that little baby that I hear crying in the background?
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 grows up?
Probably an astronaut.
See, this is good.
Already has an idea.
This is a kind of passion.
It leads to success.
It's never too early to know what you want to do.
Amy, thanks much for the call.
Appreciate it so much.
What am I supposed to do here, folks?
Seriously, am I supposed to shut up?
Am I supposed to not tell you what I think?
Am I supposed to squelch my thoughts?
Yes, them boys squelch them.
If you don't, I will.
Who's next on this program?
John in Orlando.
Nice to have you, sir.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
Hello, Rush Megadittos.
Thank you.
I would just keep doing what you're doing, man.
I mean, this is your show.
You've been doing it for years, and I think you're doing awesome.
Appreciate that.
Thank you.
The reason I'm calling, I have been working for the last two weeks as an early voter here in Central Florida, so I'm kind of familiar with what's been going on.
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.
Oh, I was going to say, what have I missed here?
That's an early voter working on it for two weeks.
Well, not everyone can be an expert at talking like you, Ken Rush.
Okay.
So anyway, you're an early voter, and you're not an, but you're working in the early voting system.
I was working for the past two weeks 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 is illegal in the state of Florida to try to change your party within the 29 days, just as you said, about 10 minutes.
It was about right as I connected.
You then made your point.
So you are correct.
Okay, so I guess we just have to chalk this up to ill-prepared poll workers who are allowing independents to come in and change party affiliation for one day and then vote for Senator McCain.
You could.
That's probably the best case scenario.
But yes, that is what they're doing is illegal.
And in fact, if that kind of behavior, if you observe that, you're actually encouraged by a poster in your polling part location.
See, that's right.
So I would think this is a big deal.
I would think that 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 not a Republican.
Well, you can't vote.
Well, it's not fair.
I mean, I want to vote.
So they let him register as a Republican.
I don't know how this happens.
Again, that's patently illegal, and that needs to be reported as a crime because that's a violation of federal, well, actually, Florida election laws.
And that was briefed, as you said, you can't change the party.
In fact, I thought the whole thing was kind of weird because we had the opposite.
We'd have people come in registrat as independents or Democrats or whatever who wanted to change on the spot and they'd get upset because they couldn't.
So it sounds unusual to me.
Yeah, highly unusual.
Very unusual.
In fact, it might be part of some organized campaign, perhaps.
And knowing how things work in this state, can you imagine if 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.
Anyway, this campaign finance reform for you folks.
Squelch your criticism, Lynn Boyce.
You don't know what's good for you.
I'll be patient for a little while, but you better squelch it.
All right, we are back.
El Rushbow here on the cutting edge of the societal evolution on the excellence in broadcasting that, whoa, Hillary has just received an endorsement out there.
Maxine Waters, ladies and gentlemen, has endorsed Mrs. Clinton.
She's got the tribal endorsement coming up at 2 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 in exchange for staying friends with the white leaders.
Let's see.
You know, the next big endorsement everybody is gearing up for is Bill Richardson's.
That's the one that's going to 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 the next big one is Richardson.
Have you noticed now, by the way, since the Kennedy Klan has come out and endorsed Obama, many in the drive-bys, 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-bys think it's me against McCain.
And that if 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?
The legislation that he's brought forward, for which he is so well known.
All of those major pieces of 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 $1,000 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 I'm afraid that if he became president, some of his conservative ideas would be 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 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.
And in West Palm Beach yesterday, Romney, during a 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 Q ⁇ A, 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. Sterdley?
What I mean, is there something hidden there that I'm not picking up?
That's quite an appeal.
Look, you got to vote for John tomorrow 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 from Democrats who haven't done Diddley's squat in the House.
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