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Jan. 30, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 30, 2008, Wednesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 Podcast.
And now, from EIB election headquarters, Rush Limbaugh is about to make an important statement.
Ladies and gentlemen, ladies and gentlemen, thank you.
Thank you very much for coming.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
No, no.
Thank you, thank you.
Ladies and gentlemen, ladies to all of those gathered here, my loyal staff, my enthusiastic supporters, those those of you who spread the word, every neighborhood, every precinct, thank you.
Thank you so much for all of your tireless hard work.
We all work tirelessly, even I. I personally traveled from my home to my studio and back.
And I traveled from my Florida studio to my New York studio.
But alas, we did not win.
Now I know that there are reports of campaign irregularities.
But I want to point out to all of you, this is no time to quit.
This is no time to feel down.
This is no time to feel defeated.
Thank you, thank you.
Thank you.
The same media, the same media that could not call New Hampshire right, still.
Ladies and gentlemen, please.
The same media that couldn't call New Hampshire right still shamelessly in the prediction game, predicting my demise and your demise.
Well, I say, Bah.
The same media that's losing circulation in readers and viewers and respect.
Is predicting my demise.
Thank you.
Thank you.
We did not win.
But we did not, and we have not lost.
I know of all these reports of campaign irregularities.
It has been revealed and documented, ladies and gentlemen.
My name was left off the ballots in Miami Dade in Palm Beach counties, Broward counties.
My name was not to be found on the ballots in Orlando in Jacksonville in Tampa St. Pete.
No, no, no, no, no.
Elections are what they are, and one thing we know is there will always be another.
This election might have been stolen from us, ladies and gentlemen.
Let me assure you we will not.
I repeat, we will not.
We will not pull an Al Gore and sue anybody.
We will not look at Hanging Chads.
No lawyers, no lawsuits.
Thank you.
Thank you, thank you.
Thank you, thank you.
I love you too.
I love you too.
My friends.
My friends, there's reason for optimism.
There's reason for hope.
By the way, change is a stupid slogan, and so is hope.
But I know some of you want hope.
Be of good cheer from the shadows of this setback.
Let me offer this uplifting thought.
In Florida, half the liberals voted for Mrs. Clinton.
One-third of the Republicans voted for Senator McCain.
Our friends in the media predicting my demise.
Talk about how conservatism is dead.
Let me ask a simple question, ladies and gentlemen.
Why is it that all of the Republican candidates claim to now carry the mantle of Ronald Reagan?
Senator McCain, the most recent.
McCain claims conservative mantle.
Said McCain, it shows one thing.
I'm the conservative leader.
Who can unite the party?
How can I be said to have lost, ladies and gentlemen, when what I stand for is rock rib conservatism in each one of these candidates, each one of them flawed, by the way, which has caused many conservatives to be wandering aimlessly in the electoral woods.
How can it be said that I have lost or the conservatism has lost when all of our Republican candidates claim to be conservative and to carry the conservative mantle?
in fact it looks to me like Fred Barnes's candidate, Rudy Giuliani, has now dropped out.
It looks like David Brooks's candidate, Mike Huckabee has no traction.
He hasn't won anything since Iowa, and he needs to get out.
Tom Brokaw's candidate, Hillary Clinton, she's in deep trouble.
Going into Super Tuesday, the race card didn't work, needs the firewall of the Latino vote.
But Tom Brokaw's candidate is floundering.
Tim Russard's candidate, Barack Obama, seems to be doing better than expected.
Good for you, Tim.
I'm proud of you.
Oberman's candidate Kucinich is now gone.
He's back in Ohio, trying to keep his seat against a primary challenger.
Mort Kondraki's candidate, Ron Paul, gets weirder by the minute.
Thank you.
And I want to stress once again, ladies and gentlemen, and I want to thank you for your support, and I want to assure you that I cannot, and I will not leave.
The golden EIB microphone.
I will not retire.
I will not concede.
I will not drift away.
I will not fade away until every American agrees with me.
As I have always said.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Here is the bottom line, ladies and gentlemen.
I think this is it.
There is a lot of anxiety among a lot of conservatives about Senator McCain.
It's simply indisputable.
But there was no figure in our roster of candidates who rose up to challenge him or galvanize conservative support.
All the candidates on our side for various reasons are uninspiring or worse.
And so, just as I predicted, the base has fractured.
Some going here, some going there.
Senator McCain's been able to cobble together enough votes to win in a few states.
Fine, he deserves credit for that, but to pretend that Senator McCain is the choice of conservatives when exit poll data from every primary state show just the opposite.
He is not the choice of conservatives as opposed to the choice of the Republican establishment.
And that distinction is key.
The Republican establishment, which has long sought to rid the party of conservative influence since Reagan is feeling a victory today, as well as our friends in the media.
But both are just far-fetched and wrong.
Thank you.
Thank you very much for your steadfast support, and I trust it shall continue because I show.
Thank you.
What it what what what it what is that, Mr. Snerdley?
What do you mean?
How do I keep going?
How how do I do this?
You know, I have such a vision for this country.
I I just I have so many opportunities from this country.
They just don't want to see us fall backwards.
You know.
So it's not just political, it's not just public.
I see what's happening.
And we have to reverse it.
And some people think elections are a game.
They think it's like who's up or who's down.
I don't want to fall backwards either.
You think this will help me with a women's vote?
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Uh as uh as you know, ladies and gentlemen, and as I just said in my uh non-concession speech, the uh the same media that could not call New Hampshire rights, still shamelessly in the prediction game, predicting my demise.
The uh same media losing circulation, losing readers, losing advertisers, losing viewers, predicting my demise.
Uh let us go to the audio sound bites.
Start here with number two, Mr. Broadcast Engineer.
Cookie said to me, she's putting these things together, she's watching all the TV last night.
She said, You know what?
I have I mean, you were being discussed everywhere in terms of you having lost, and how sad you were, and how you had to be the most disappointed guy in America last night.
All the while I was having a great time last night, as I try to do each and every day.
Um I could give you I could give you an hour's worth of these sound bites of you.
You were talked about as much as McCain was last night.
I said, Well, I, you know, don't like this whole thing to be about me, just give me seven or eight of them.
So we have seven or eight typical representative sound bites from the drive-by's last night.
We will start.
This is uh last night and this morning, a montage of uh Keith Olberdork at uh DNC TV and Harry Smith uh at the CBS morning show.
Rush Limbaugh's touch screen freezes on him when he casts his Florida ballot.
Rush Limbaugh went to vote and his screen froze.
Did you hear about that?
That's true.
But you know what's surprised?
You believe what a big story that's become?
You ought to see the blogs on this.
You know, one of the one of the wacko liberal blogs is saying, you know the D bull people that make those machines.
It's probably true that every time Limbaugh voted for Romney, he got McCain.
They think I voted Romney, and they think the machine voted it for McCain, and they're just having a blast.
But I happen to mention the machine froze.
I went in there, selected my candidate to hit next.
There were just two pages, one of the constitutional amendment on the property taxes, the other the presidential candidates.
I selected my candidate, hit the next, it didn't go there.
I have experience with computers freezing.
I'm not an old person that doesn't understand these things.
I didn't call somebody over to help.
I said, I don't know what to do.
Just go back.
And I went back to the candidates page, and my candidate's name was still checked.
So I unchecked it, which means I'm starting all over.
Rechecked it, hit next, and it went on to the next page.
I selected my preference on the constitutional amendment and then uh hit next, and I got the page to record the vote.
That's been in newspapers all over the place.
Up.
Uh I guess the drive-bys are still obsessed with voter fraud and machines.
And uh when it happens to me and I talk about it, they went, Yeah, how does it feel?
How does it feel to have it a year?
You were laughing at everybody else now and have the I know how to use the machine.
I didn't whine and moan and complain about, didn't call my congressman.
Like some people down there in Broward County went and voted, didn't I stand a butterfly ballot, call Robert Wexler?
Who does that?
Certainly not I, ladies and gentlemen.
Here is uh here's Mort Kondracki, who's uh whose own candidate Ron Paul, no chance, uh getting weirder by the day.
Here's Mort Kondracki last night during the Fox News channel coverage of the Florida primary, and this is right after Fox called it for McCain.
Seems to me that the saddest person in the Republican Party tonight is Rush Limbaugh.
Rush Limbaugh was spending half of his time on the air denouncing John McCain, trying to make sure that John McCain did not win the Republican nomination for president here in this primary, if Giuliani had not been there, the likelihood is that the moderates and the the liberals to the extent that they're already left in the Republican Party would have just trounced Romney, and that's got to be very sad.
Mort, you uh You know, these guys are starting to disappoint me uh over at Fox.
They really are.
You know, we we do our best here to stand up and support Fox, but these guys are making it really tough.
Uh not because of the personal attacks on me, but because of the the What is this?
If Rudy had not been there, the likelihood is that the moderates and liberals to the extent that there are any left?
To the extent that there are any left, who do you think is nominating McCain?
It is not conservatives, Mort.
I don't mean to raise my voice here, folks, but look, McCain, this is AP.
McCain solidified his status as the front runner with a Florida triumph.
He said it shows one thing, I'm the conservative leader who can unite the party.
I'm the conservative leader who can unite the party.
He thinks he has to proclaim Mort, did you hear this?
How is this a defeat for me?
How is this a defeat for conservatism when all of these people are suggesting, all these candidates are suggesting they are the heir to Ronald Reagan?
When they all stress verbally, not by virtue of action, mind you, but verbally, when they all stress their their their fealty to conservatism.
How in the world can this be a defeat?
McCain is getting the votes of moderates.
He's getting the votes of seasoned citizens, he's getting the votes of the Latino community, particularly in South Florida.
That's a direct tie to uh to immigration.
The Chicago Tribune today, m uh Michael Tackett.
McCain win, it comes with an asterisk.
Uh Huckabee factor puts brakes on Romney, sir.
That's the dirty little secret.
But by the way, this is not a complaint, but Romney's running against three people.
Romney is running against McCain, he's running against Giuliani, and he's running against Huckabee.
And Huckabee's hanging in to tag team with McCain precisely to take out Romney.
They all hate Romney.
I don't know why they hate Romney other than his negative ads, but they do.
They despise Romney.
And now Giuliani, Giuliani, look at folks, I I said this in my in my uh non-concession speech.
There is tremendous anxiety among a lot of conservatives about Senator McCain.
Uh that's indisputable.
But there was there's no figure.
There's nobody in the Republican primary field who rose up to challenge him or galvanize conservative support, all of our candidates.
And I've said this over and over again.
In terms of conservatism, for various reasons, they are uninspiring or worse, or they're flawed.
They've all got something major wrong with them.
In their past, as uh as they worked in government or in their policy suggestions, implementations.
Uh McCain has been I mean, sixty-five percent of the people of Florida voted against McCain, got 36%, they're saying he's a winner.
He did win, and it's an important win, but uh you know, you you if you you take all these other guys out of the race who are splitting the vote, the Romney vote, uh you'd have a whole different story.
But I don't play the if game, and if is for children.
But don't sit here and tell me that if Rudy hadn't been there that McCain have won would have won even bigger.
You know, that's that's that's that's fallacious thing.
That's wishful thinking.
All right, here back to PMS NBC, uh DNC TV, morning show today with uh with uh Joe Scarborough.
Uh Boston columnist Mike Barnacle said this about McCain and me.
I firmly believe that each time, each day, radio talk show hosts across America get on the airwaves and call McCain a liar.
They say he's not a real Republican, he's not a real conservative.
Rush Limbaugh with his huge audience when he's stabbing McCain to death nearly every single day.
I think it helps McCain.
It helps the perception that he's an outsider.
He's outside of the system.
Some Republicans don't like him, and he's always in trouble with his own party.
I think that appeals to people.
No, it appeals to moderates.
It appeals to independence, and it appeals to liberals like you.
You guys don't like it when this kind of stuff goes on in your own party.
You don't sit around and talk about, whoa, this is really good.
All this criticism of Hillary, she likes it.
All this criticism of Bill Clinton, yeah, they like this, and Obama, oh, he loves being criticized by the Clintons.
That's poppycock.
Balder Dash.
It is Irresponsible commentary because it has no basis in truth whatsoever.
McCain, the outsider.
Romney had a great line.
I'm afraid to quote Romney now, you guys are getting the wrong idea, but he had a great line.
He said, How in the world does somebody in Washington for all these number of years changing chairs mean anything different?
How does it mean anything new?
Outsider, I make McCain look like the outside.
Barnacle, would you check and see who's endorsed him?
It is the epitome of the old country club blue blood Republican establishment who's desperate to get the party back from the uh the control of the Reagan conservatives about whom they've mostly been embarrassed to be associated with.
McCain, if any if anybody how how could it be I I think I would be the outsider now.
If anybody's an outsider, I think it would be me.
Do we have time for this next?
Oh, we do not.
Sadly, ladies and gentlemen, the next bite that we have from uh let's see, this is last night also on DNC TV.
It is an exchange between Tom Brocaw, uh, whose candidate Hillary Clinton is uh floundering.
You know, I mean, all these Tom, what are you doing for Hillary?
And everybody talks about how my candidates are losing, or the guy I oppose is winning.
We never do talk about how all these other pundits they have candidates.
You can tell if you read between the lines.
We know who they are.
We'll be back in just a moment.
That's what we do here, uh, ladies and gentlemen.
Make the complex understandable back to the audio sound bites.
Last night, DNC TV, Tim Russert, Tom Brokaw have this exchange about McCain, about Romney and me.
Look what's happening with McCain and Romney.
Romney's getting the social cultural conservatives.
McCain is getting a lot of the foreign policy establishment, the Kissingers and Eaglebergers and so forth, and the economic conservatives, the tax cutters are going with Romney, the deficit hawks are going with McCain.
The Reagan coalition is fracturing between these two candidates.
John McCain is not running just against George Romney.
He is running against those fiscal conservatives.
Russell Limbaugh has devoted uh a lot of his radio time and his website to taking on John McCain.
And it was a very tough column just today by George Will, indicating that in his eyes, at least, John McCain is much more liberal than he is a conservative.
So we are seeing a breakup of the old Reagan model for how to win.
Um these guys have a lot of wishful things.
By the way, it's Mitt Romney, Tom.
Uh George Romney was his the dead.
Uh the candidates Mitt M I T T. No L's in there should not be too tough.
Mitt Romney.
Uh there is the Reagan coalition is not breaking up, Tom.
The Reagan coalition is going in different directions because there isn't anybody from the Reagan coalition in the Republican roster of nominees.
And yet I find it fascinating that they're all claiming to be the heir of Ronald Reagan.
Rudy tried it, Huckabee trying it.
McCain did it last night and in his acceptance speech of South Carolina.
What about you people in the drive-by?
You know, you people who drive by's are sitting here singing this praises of Senator McCain, and we all know that's because you know he's not a conservative.
How do you feel now that after South Carolina and after Florida in both acceptance speeches, he makes a point to say he's the conservative?
He's the genuine conservative, he's the conservative uniter.
I would think that if you guys were consistent, you'd be very suspicious of this.
And you would be attacking McCain's lack of consistency.
Because the reasons you like Senator McCain have nothing to do with him being conservative.
It's just the opposite, right, Mr. Brokow?
The Reagan coalition's fine.
It just doesn't have anywhere to go.
And so the Reagan coalition's made up of social conservatives, it's made up of fiscal conservatives, made up of national defense security conservatives, and it's fractured.
The economic conservatives, where you find the less government uh and the and the tax cut crowd, and of course, all these candidates are talking about their tax Cuts and how they've changed their mind on them and so forth and so on.
Uh McCain is not attracting very many Reagan conservatives.
Romney did in Florida last night.
McCain did not in South Carolina.
And yet after all of these victories, he's claiming to be the conservative uniter.
Now, I'm no problem with this.
I'm just trying to analyze this.
It must tell you guys in the drive-by something.
It's got to tell you that those of us who are Reaganites have not lost anything.
We still command a lot of influence, apparently, because all these guys are going out of their way to appeal to us on the base of trying to tell us, hey, I'm conservative.
I am conservative.
I am conservative.
McCain's saying it, Romney, we are conservative.
Huh could be saying it.
So if the Reagan coalition's fractured a Reagan coalition, you guys are just it's you're just dreaming you're whistling Dixie.
You're hoping against hope the Reagan coalition's gone.
And one of the reasons you like Reagan, or McCain, I'm sorry, is because you think he personifies the fact the Reagan coalition's gone.
You think McCain's beating the Reagan coalition.
You guys can't fool me.
Understand precisely what's going on here.
Here's Brokaw again.
Uh Russert, uh sorry, Chris Matthews actually said to him, the uh Republican regulars have never been enamored of John McCain.
Uh, when do they say uncle?
Um, okay, well, we're gonna go along with it.
The Republican regulars are precisely who's behind McCain, Chris.
Uh Warren Rudman?
Howard Baker.
Uh who else?
Look at the I mean, it's a veritable list of the old country club blue blood establishment.
Anyway, Matthew says, Tom, when do all these Republican regulars say uncle?
And we're going to go along with the guy.
I'm not sure that they'll ever fully embrace him.
If you read the Rush Limbaugh blog, for example, or listen to him on radio or read George Will just this week.
They've been very critical of him.
But they don't have much else of a place to go because they have really never warmed to Mitt Romney.
They have never embraced him in the same way that they did Ronald Reagan.
You know, I don't know how many of you people were liable enough paying attention back in 1976.
But there's so many parallels.
You know, Ronald Reagan was Ronald Reagan back then, and Ronald Reagan lost to the Republican establishment machine candidate, that would be General Ford.
And there was profound, I mean profound depression all through the Republic, the Reagan ranks, because it was so close.
Kansas City in 1976.
And I lived there then.
And it Reagan got so even after Ford won the nomination, the most popular guy to Kemper Arena, where the convention was was Reagan.
And you just knew, even though the establishment had won then, that the Reagan coalition was coming, and four years later, bamboo, there it was.
After what?
After whom?
Jimmy Carter.
One thing we know is that there are elections, and there's another one after the previous one.
They keep happening, which means there's further opportunities.
So, yeah, it looks like McCain's pretty far down the line now and having wrapped this up, but you don't know.
But that even so, we still have the election in November, and then there's going to be another election in 2012.
Uh and and this stuff is by to pronounce the finality of anything, and to say it's over, is short-sighted and wishful thinking.
I mean, you'll never catch us, Tom and Tim and all the rest.
You'll never catch us on this side pronouncing the death of FDR liberalism.
We're not that silly.
We don't sit around hoping and praying that it goes away, and we don't misread tea leaves and suggest when you guys lose elections that liberalism's finished.
We are constantly on guard for you people.
We are always ready and waiting for what you're going to try to wherever we spot liberalism, whether it's in our party, whether it's in your party, whether it's among a bunch of independent moderate jellos, we're going to oppose it.
Just like you guys are going to sit there and oppose conservatism, but you don't have the guts to say you're sitting around hoping and praying it's dead.
And frankly, that's comforting, because if you think you have no enemy, you're not going to prepare for one.
We'll be happy to sit in a tall grass in the weeds for a while, re-strategizing how to get hold of you guys and wring you around the neck politically with all of your arrogance and conceit.
Your cockiness, thinking now you've accomplished what you've wanted to accomplish since 1984, and that is the demise of anything to do with Ronald Reagan.
Last night, also on DNC TV, David Gregory said this.
John McCain has had difficulties with elements of the party, the Rush Limbaughs of the party who can be very influential.
Apparently there's some outreach going on even to Rush Limbaugh by the McCain camp.
And all of that consolidation, I think, begins to happen in earnest now.
Uh some outreach going on even to Rush Limbaugh by the McCain camp.
Now I better ask.
You haven't got any calls in McCain.
Snurdley, you get any calls down there from the McCain camp?
Nope, I have not gotten any calls from the McCain camp.
Uh not the outreach phone calls.
In fact, Senator McCain was asked Stephen Hayes, or the Weekly Standards was asked uh by Stephen Hayes, the Weekly Standard, what about Limbaugh?
You think it's time to reach a No, I'm not gonna reach out to anyone.
But if they want to call me, it's fine.
Because I do think it's time to put things together.
But he's not going to reach out to anybody.
I mean, his why?
Why should he?
He's running the show here.
Uh and and his uh his ego and such, as far as he's concerned, he's beat back all his opponents.
Why should we reach out to him?
I wouldn't.
Oh, I mean, this just silly.
And then there's one more.
Bill Bennett uh with a unique, as Mr. Bennett always is, he is always unique.
On CNN last night, the Clinton News Network, Anderson Cooper says to Bill Bennett, McCain talked about um Ronald Reagan.
Yeah, he did.
Talk about Ronald Reagan, said he is the new Reagan.
He's the unifier.
That's what he did.
How can conservatism be said to have been defeated?
Uh McCain talked about Reagan, talked about judges.
What does John McCain have to do to reach out to conservatives?
He has to talk to conservatives.
And from the line about judges, it sounds to me as if that was an effort to begin that conversation.
The anger and bitterness at John McCain is extraordinary.
But many of the talk show hosts and many of the people who listen, Rush Limbaugh famously.
Right, Rush Limbaugh.
Uh so the I guess the theory that McCain was reaching out to me, and that's what Bennett thinks, is that McCain was reaching out to me uh in the uh speech, or maybe he was just saying that the bitterness and anger toward McCain is coming from people like me.
What have you?
You want to hear a little bit of McCain's speech?
Oh, yeah, we did.
Let's just listen to what the Senator McCain said of.
Here's a portion um his acceptance speech last night after winning the Florida primary.
I stand for the principles and policies that first attracted me to the Republican Party when I heard in whispered conversations and tap codes about the then governor of California who stood by me and my comrades, and who is making quite a reputation for standing by his convictions no matter the changing political winds are thought and popular culture.
When I left the Navy and entered public life, I enlisted as a foot soldier in the political revolution he began.
And I am as proud today to be a Republican conservative as I was then.
All right.
Now he was obviously talking about Ronaldus Magnus in that uh remark.
But again, in McCain's own words, he's he's trying to stake out I'm the conservative.
I am the conservative.
I am a Reagan conservative.
Tom Proca, did you hear this last night?
Because if you did, I have to wonder about everything else that you said after this.
Because McCain is clearly trying to claim he's conservative.
He knows who the Republican base is when you get to the presidential race.
And uh I for anybody who thinks that those of us who are conservative are somehow losing influence when the winner of the South Carolina primary and the Florida primary go out of their way to claim to be Ronald Reagan Jr.
Here's one more before we go to the break from Senator McCain.
The judges we appoint to federal benches must understand that that is their only responsibility and leave to elected officials their responsibility to make the laws they enforce.
Our party has always been successful when we have, like Ronald Reagan, stood fast by our convictions, and we've only suffered when our allegiance to our principles has not been as steadfast as it should.
Uh uh no kidding.
Uh it it just it it it it's just a shame there's nobody on our candidate roster who can say they've done all that.
Just check the email.
So rush, rush, rush, rush, rush, rush.
McCain sounds so good in the speeches that he's giving the concession speeches.
What is your problem?
Okay.
I'll do you really want I'll tell you.
We just heard from Senator McCain about how he enlisted in a Reagan foot soldier army, is uh tried and true principal conservative, is this all of this and that, which is fine, it does sound good.
I wish the rhetoric matched the deeds.
I wish I wish it were true.
I'd have no problem here.
But if Ronald Reagan had ever been in the Senate, I don't think we would have heard about the Reagan Feingold Bill.
And I don't think we would have heard about the Reagan Edwards bill.
And I don't think we would have heard about the Reagan Kennedy bill.
And I don't think we would have heard about the Reagan Lieberman bill on global warming.
Reagan worked with the Libs, yeah.
The objective was to co-opt them.
He worked with liberals to advance his agenda, not theirs.
Don't folks, don't get me started here again.
You know, we've we've been through this, and you still made up your minds yesterday.
We've been through all this.
We move forward.
Charlotte, North Carolina, Jim, welcome to the EIB network.
Hello.
Hey, Rush, how are you?
Fine, sir.
Longtime listener.
Thank you, Chad.
Longtime listener, always been aligned with you and everything.
And uh have to say that now I'm for the first time uh disappointed and genuinely concerned.
With me.
With your with your lack of support of Romney.
Oh.
Uh I really feel like it's a concern within your base.
I think your base is now divided.
Because there's so much that you could have done in this case that wasn't done.
Such as I mean, you know I'm I'm I'm bound by my policy not to endorse in primaries.
Endorsing is not the issue as much as clarifying within the mind of the people that listen to you daily who think the way that you do.
Some of the things that are misconceptions with regard to this guy.
You know, I I I actually I I I would love to agree with you here, but I when I look at McCain's voters, the majority of his voters, I I don't think that they're a majority of my so-called base moderates.
I disagree.
I disagree with you, Russ.
Independent.
If you if you look at the evangelicals as a as a sector, for example.
You, if anyone can correct their ignorance with regard to um his faith, to Romney's faith.
I mean, that's ridiculous.
Uh you know something, and I'm glad you mentioned that.
Um, and I'm I'm I want to address this with you uh from the top.
I can't do that.
I don't talk religion, I don't argue people's faith on this program.
I don't I don't tell anybody that their religion is nuts or that what they think about somebody else's religion is nuts.
I don't go there.
I'm not a theologian.
I also know this.
Really committed people of faith.
Can't change them.
You can't talk them out of it.
It's silly to try.
It's insulting to try to talk them out of their faith uh-based beliefs.
Uh and I I'm not going to be the one to do that.
But candidate has a responsibility here.
Jim.
The candidate has a responsibility to go out and be heard and get support.
Uh if a candidate has that religion problem, then the candidate's got to do something about it.
You know, I I can't believe here I have the brilliant opener of the program, find myself in hot water.
You would think that I got a Renaid tankless water heater right here spewing hot water on me.
And one of our great sponsors are a great sponsor.
They only heat water on demand instead of storing it in a metal tank in your home, uh, which is that it doesn't constantly heat and reheat until you uh until you need it.
It's you know, those tanks are a huge waste of energy and water, and the Renae is the if you're interested in really saving money, a tankless Water heater is something you ought to look at, especially if you're gonna remodel, or if you're one of the precious few that plan on building a house the next six months, you really ought to look at this.
Uh, and you can find out specifically how much money your home can save.
They've got a website, foreverhotwater.com.
Just go to foreverhotwater.com and calculate it for yourself if you were to install a Renai tankless water heater.
Uh that's foreverhotwater.com.
You can actually calculate it.
I feel like I've got one sitting here right next to me.
It's only got one phone call.
All the news is not on our side today.
By the way, Governor Schwarzenegger toying with the idea of endorsing uh Senator McCain.
I think we'd all agree he's strayed from the Reagan Ranch.
Uh, as is Giuliani, who was never really on the Reagan Ranch, and the Brick Girl quitting in New Orleans right now.
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