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January 30, 2008, Wednesday, Hour #2

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	From high atop the EIB building in Midtown Manhattan for a couple of days, I am Rush Limbaugh, America's real anchorman, America's truth detector, the doctor of democracy, all combined into one harmless, lovable little fuzzball.
	Great to be with you.
	Telephone number if you want to join us, 800-282-2882.
	And the email address, lrushbow at EIBnet.com.
	By the way, if you're just joining us and you missed the first hour, you know, the drive-by media last night after the Florida returns suggested that this was a profound defeat for me.
	Our quote-unquote friends over at the Fox News channel, the All-Stars, proclaimed that this had to be the saddest.
	And I had to be the saddest guy in the country last night over what happened.
	And so I opened the program today by continuing to fight on.
	I did not concede.
	And we have that first segment, audio, video, to YouTube video, audio transcript is now posted at rushlimbaugh.com.
	Even Drudge has linked to this.
	Limbaugh does not concede, vows to fight on, developing.
	The Brett girl is quitting today.
	He's in New Orleans, supposed to speak at 1 o'clock Eastern Time.
	He's a little late.
	They always are for these things.
	They're going to get out of the race.
	Not expected to endorse anybody right off the bat here.
	Still parlaying negotiations, no doubt, for either a VEEP nod or Attorney General nod with either Hillary or Obama.
	But ladies and gentlemen, since he's exiting the scene, at least as a candidate, we wanted to go back to the groove yard of forgotten favorites.
	So the only question here left to ask, ladies and gentlemen, with the announcement, the soon-to-be-forthcoming announcement from John Edwards, he's getting out of the presidential race, is which of the two Americas will benefit the most with Edwards gone?
	Only time will tell on this.
	Speaking of the two Americans, or Americas, get this.
	The Federal Reserve appeared set to deliver a fresh interest rate cut today to a struggling U.S. economy just a week after an emergency easing amid growing evidence of a slowdown.
	The Federal Open Market Committee was set to announce a decision around, what would it be, 415, 115?
	Most analysts were expecting a cut in the Fed funds rate, with many predicting a half-point reduction.
	I'm confused why we haven't even had a rate cut.
	I thought the stimulus was going to fix everything.
	Speaking of the stimulus, ladies and gentlemen, from Rasmussen, 41% of American voters favor the stimulus package agreed to by the President of the House of Representatives.
	This is a survey of a telephone survey of 26% oppose the stimulus package.
	33% are not sure.
	So you have the 26 and 33, and you get 59%.
	So a majority are opposed, or not buying the stimulus package.
	It's sort of like a lukewarm reception from voters.
	Voters need a Renaille tankless water heater in order to get all the heat that they can get from the stimulus package.
	I say they're lukewarm about it.
	52% of voters say the stimulus package is at least somewhat likely to help the economy, but only 12% say it's very likely to do so.
	Republicans a bit more optimistic than Democrats and unaffiliated voters.
	Sticking with the Democrats here, ladies and gentlemen, Rasmussen, with an interesting report today from, and actually from yesterday on their website, maybe something really has changed in the race for the Democrat nomination, and it may not be showing up in the numbers yet.
	Barack Obama's landslide victory in South Carolina was expected.
	So were most of the details, including a huge gap along racial lines.
	Since we all knew how this would turn out, it wasn't supposed to change anything.
	Just like a week ago, Clinton was supposed to be cruising to the nomination.
	Still, when it was done, there was a sense that something might have changed.
	Maybe it was the exit poll data suggesting that Bill Clinton's efforts may have hurt rather than helped.
	Of course!
	You don't need Rasmussen for this.
	You just need to listen to me.
	Everywhere he goes to help out, it backfires.
	Maybe it was seeing how little support the former first lady received from white males.
	Maybe it was the way Obama continued to press his case during his victory speech.
	By the time something was over, things were clearly different.
	First, Caroline Kennedy endorsed Obama, the New York Times.
	Then later in the day, word got around that Ted Kennedy was prepared to endorse Obama.
	Rubbing salt into the wounds were stories that Clinton campaigned desperately tried to prevent Kennedy's endorsement to no avail.
	So the question is, will it matter?
	Well, it's hard to tell.
	The numbers still favor Clinton.
	But as every sports fan knows, sometimes the numbers don't matter.
	Sometimes things just fall into place for an upset.
	More often than not, the underdog comes up a bit short, but not always.
	Today, Clinton is leading in most of the Super Tuesday states, expected to walk away from February 5 with more delegates than anybody else.
	But since the Democrats award delegates proportionally, Obama will pick up a decent share as well.
	The Brett girl will get none.
	Well, he might still be on the, he might get some, even though he's pulled out.
	And he is going to have some delegates to award at some point, significant number anyway, with an endorsement or by clearing the way for his delegates to vote for whoever.
	If you add to that the fact that 20% of the delegates are super delegates, these are national committee members, members of Congress, governors, other party leaders that are formally unpledged to any candidate.
	A superdelegate is not bound by the election in his or her state as a delegate.
	It can go anywhere he wants or she wants.
	So theoretically, any candidate who wins 30% of the delegates through primaries and caucuses could end up grabbing the nomination with the support of the super delegates.
	And Hillary has most of them wrapped up because that's a Democrat machine.
	For Obama, that becomes even more possible if he were ultimately to win the endorsement of John Edwards.
	So a lot of people are beginning to think, even though Hillary is still considered to be quite a luck, is there something really going on there?
	And by the way, if you look at everybody, he's talking about what happened on the Republican side in Florida last night.
	But if you look at the Democrat exit polls, yeah, Hillary won by a big margin.
	But I think in the last three weeks, the last month, the Democrat vote split 50-50.
	So there was movement in Florida to Obama after South Carolina.
	There was a bounce in the exit poll data that indicated Barack got a lot closer last night than he otherwise would have.
	And I don't know this, but I would imagine inside Clinton headquarters, if you get past the crime scene tape, I'll bet you it is miserable in there.
	I'll bet you everybody's walking on eggshells around her.
	I will bet you that there is no happiness flowing and that this is not what they had planned whatsoever.
	And you got people in there saying, what is Bill doing and how do we straighten him out and so forth?
	Now the talk is, by the way, resurfaced.
	Is Bill trying to sabotage her?
	Anyway, I got a quick break.
	We'll come back.
	We'll get to your phone calls when we come back.
	Sit tight.
	Audio soundbite number 10, Mike.
	This morning on CNN's American Morning, the co-host John Roberts talking with Mike Allen of the Politico.
	And John Roberts says, will the sheer force of momentum of McCain's victory say to conservatives, you better get on this train?
	Conservatives in Washington, I can tell you, are talking about, is there a way to stop this?
	Do we really want to give him the keys to the Oval Office?
	You saw the endorsement of Governor Romney by Liz Cheney, the vice president's daughter, State Department official.
	That's the leading edge of some Washington conservatives saying we want to stop this.
	Every time Rush Limbaugh goes on the air, he takes the flamethrower to John McCain.
	That's John Roberts of CNN.
	Speaking of the Politico, that Mike Allen from the Politico, here's a story by Ben Smith and David Paul Kuhn.
	Tell me what you think of this.
	Here's the headline: Rudy defeat marks the end of 9-11 politics.
	Rudy Giuliani's distant third place finish in Florida may put an end to his bid for president, and it seems also to mark the beginning of the end of a period in Republican politics that began on September 11th, 2001.
	Giuliani's national celebrity was based on his steady, comforting appearance in Americans' living rooms amid the terror attacks.
	His campaign for president never found a message beyond that moment.
	The emotional connection he forged that day, it seems, has proved politically worthless.
	After months of wonder that the former mayor seemed to have no ceiling to his support, he turned out to have no floor, trading fourth-place finishes with Ron Paul.
	There's a paradox for Rudy, said former Nebraska Senator Bob Kerry, member of the 9-11 Commission.
	One of the things he did very well in 9-11 was say, we got to get back to normal.
	And that's what's happened.
	We've gotten back to normal.
	So, 9-11's over.
	It's over, folks.
	And there's no reason to libs have won on that.
	9-11's over.
	No reason to talk about it.
	No reason to have any concern about it.
	Certainly no reason to use it in politics.
	Look what happened to Rudy.
	See, this is a left successfully trying to get us to stop talking about a security issue because they know that they are weak on it.
	So success in battle and at home has brought on a lack of interest, the drive-bys say, about 9-11.
	I would suggest to you, it's just the opposite, I would suggest, if you look at, again, the exit return sent in Florida, most of the elderly vote went for McCain.
	A lot of the military vote went for McCain.
	And there are two reasons for it.
	One is this notion that he's the only guy that can beat Hillary.
	And the other is he's constantly talking about national security, where the other candidates appeared to be weak on it.
	And I frankly think that it's a mistake for any Republican voter to think that any Republican candidate doesn't care about national security, maybe Ron Paul.
	The Democrats you should have that concern about.
	But just because McCain was the only one talking about it prominently, does anybody believe, well, even okay, Huckabee did sound a little bit unprepared on the issue.
	But does anybody doubt that Rudy or Fred Thompson even or Romney would not respond accordingly if there were another 9-11 type attack?
	That we've only got one candidate in our midst that we can trust to do the right thing?
	That balderdash, flummery, poppycock.
	Here is Lori in Monroe, Michigan.
	Lori, nice to have you on the program.
	Welcome.
	Hi, Rush.
	Hi.
	I'm just calling because I personally believe that there is absolutely no difference between Hillary and John McCain.
	There's absolutely none.
	And I'm a strong, strong Republican, but I'm a conservative first, and I will not cast a vote for McCain come November.
	Now, wait a minute.
	Let me ask you to reconsider.
	No, no, no.
	Let me finish.
	I will vote for local issues.
	I will vote for representatives.
	I will campaign.
	I'm a strong campaign volunteer.
	But I cannot.
	McCain can't stand conservatives, and I know this.
	And I have to stand for my conservative allegiance to my God, my country, the Constitution of this country.
	Wait a minute.
	What do you mean?
	Wait a minute.
	Wait a minute.
	What do you mean McCain can't stand conservatives?
	Oh, he can't.
	He despises conservatives.
	He does everything against conservatives.
	McCain Feingold, McCain Lieberman, McCain Kennedy.
	Come on, Rush.
	Come on.
	He can't stand conservatives.
	He's in bed with the liberals all the time.
	You think McCain, I am blunt about this, but that's how I feel.
	Testing one, two, three.
	There we go.
	Do you think McCain is trying to undermine conservatives?
	What?
	Do you think McCain is trying to undermine conservatives?
	Yeah, he can't stand us.
	We're not to him.
	That's a pretty tough charge.
	I don't understand that.
	There's not one difference that you know of or can cite?
	Not one.
	Hillary says she's to pull out.
	She wants to pull out of Iraq, but she doesn't.
	She's just doing that for the Cindy Sheehan gang.
	Those two really feel the same way with Iraq.
	I know she, I personally feel she knows that we need to stay in Iraq.
	There is no difference between these two at all, except maybe Kennedy would endorse McCain over Hillary.
	All right.
	Well, look, Lori from Monroe, Michigan, I appreciate the phone call.
	Thanks much.
	Let me move on here as time dwindles in this segment.
	Seattle, Dan, you're next.
	Great to have you on the EIB network.
	Well, great to be on Rush.
	And it's a good segue from Lori's call because I was with you 32 years ago.
	I wanted Reagan.
	I did not want Jerry Ford.
	But oh, my God, the alternative was Jimmy.
	And I have not heard you say, I hope you have, and I would like you to, that if McCain is our nominee, and I have my favorites other than he, but if it's McCain versus Hillary or Obama, you will be pulling the lever for McCain, will you not?
	I don't discuss my votes on the program.
	No, no, no, no.
	I understand that you don't endorse in the primaries, but would you not, and I remember your joke about Bill Clinton several years ago about deciding to endorse him.
	Right.
	Well, but that was done to illustrate.
	I was trying to illustrate to people just what kind of guy Clinton was because just telling them didn't seem to be accomplishing anything.
	I wanted to illustrate it, show it.
	Oh, yeah, and Hillary's the same way.
	It's just she's not as slick.
	She's like Al Gore.
	He tries to be as good of a liar.
	He just falls short.
	Nobody meets Bill Clinton's standards.
	Well, let me answer your question this way.
	Sure.
	If McCain is the Republican nominee, and it certainly looks that way, it's going to be an uphill slog for Mitt Romney now because he's running against three people.
	He's running against Romney.
	He's running against Huckabee.
	He's running against McCain.
	Who else?
	There's somebody else splitting the vote.
	Well, Juliana, get out.
	Yeah, Huckabee and McCain, but they're doing a tag team to split the Romney conservative vote.
	As we sit here now, you know, this is a good change.
	This is, we're not even to February here yet, Dan, but you heard the last call.
	I'll tell you, the people inside the Republican establishment at Washington do not understand that her sentiment, Lori's sentiments, are widespread out there.
	And my answer to you, even if I do vote for McCain, it may not matter.
	A man, a legend, living legend, a way of life, a national treasure, and a stalwart here high atop the EIB building, Midtown Manhattan.
	By the way, you know, I'm getting questions here from people out there, such as our last caller.
	Look, if McCain gets the nomination, will you vote for him?
	Let me ask those of you who support Senator McCain: if Mitt Romney gets a nomination, will you, McCain people, vote for him?
	And I would ask this of you, Huckabee people.
	If Romney gets the nomination, could you vote for him?
	You always ask the question your way.
	Well, if McCain gets a nomination, you're going to support him, Rush.
	I understand because I'm a powerful, influential member of the media.
	And people think that my opinion on these kinds of things matters.
	But the question could just as well be asked the other way.
	Gene in Bear Lake, Idaho, thank you for calling.
	Thanks for waiting, and welcome to the program.
	Hi, Rush.
	Hi.
	I've just called to say you taught me how to pay attention, and now I'm a nervous wreck.
	I don't think I like to pay attention.
	What's caused you to be a nervous wreck?
	All this political stuff.
	I'm learning how to be very serious about how to vote for a presidential candidate.
	I consider myself a Christian American conservative.
	The way I vote is everybody that's running gets a consideration.
	Then I do the process of elimination.
	Just about everybody's been eliminated.
	Yeah, well, you know, that's where a lot of us have been all along here.
	I mean, I mentioned this at the beginning of the program.
	One of the reasons why the conservative vote is split is not because the Reagan coalition's gone away.
	It's because, you know, you've got basically three legs of the conservative stool.
	I mean, there are subsets of this, but you've got the economic, the fiscal, you've got the social, and you've got foreign policy conservatives.
	And among these foreign policy conservatives, these are the neocon guys, they believe in a big government.
	They believe in a big, active executive, compassionate conservatism.
	They love this.
	That's why they like McCain.
	He's a big government guy.
	But without anybody in this race that has all three of those legs firmly understood, then the conservatives all over these states and all these primaries are splitting off into one of those three legs, the two, three that matter to the most.
	It's like the social conservatives, a lot of them are going Huckabee because he's a minister and because of abortion.
	The economic conservatives, a lot of them are going to Romney, and those are the small government types.
	The foreign policy, national security conservatives, that's the most important one.
	Those are the ones going to McCain.
	And of course, then he's picking up independents and moderates as well.
	And so the reason of this fracture is, the reason you're a wreck is because there's not one candidate that incorporates all three legs of the stool.
	I'm not liking all these giveaway programs.
	I mean, my father taught me how to fish, and I'm sure you've heard the analogy before.
	I want somebody who will teach us how to fish and not give us the fish.
	Well, then you never vote Democrat.
	I don't care what.
	Never, ever vote Democrat.
	Their objective.
	I paid attention, I did.
	Well, I know, but we fixed you.
	You know, we fixed you, you straightened out.
	You ought to be feeling really optimistic here.
	I mean, look at how educated and informed you've gotten to what you understand.
	The fact that what you deduce disappoints you, that's part of the game.
	That's part of the game of learning how to analyze it.
	We all go through this.
	We all get disappointed.
	You look for the best of the options.
	That's why, you know, whoever is the last standing in this race is going to be the one that we dislike the least.
	It's just as simple as that.
	Gene, look at it.
	I appreciate the call.
	It's great to have you, and congratulations.
	It's a very, very positive thing you've said that you are now paying attention that you're a wreck.
	I mean, you deal with the wreck stuff, but the fact you're paying attention, we like that.
	Cindy in Atlanta, thank you for calling.
	Nice to have you here.
	Yes, thank you, Rush, for having me.
	I just wanted to ask your opinion on what we should do actively if someone like John McCain does get elected.
	I mean, it's all, you know, a lot of people are talking about what will happen negatively, but what can we do to further conservative principles and actually get something accomplished?
	That's impossible to predict because we don't know what the events from day to day are going to be with the next president.
	You know, I think that we'll probably have to stop amnesty again.
	I think that you'll get very frustrated.
	I think Senator McCain will be going out of his way to make deals with Democrats and reaching out to them.
	That's what's launched him in his mind to where he is.
	He will reach out to the media.
	I think you'll get more of the same.
	And death tax will be coming back.
	I mean, there'll be any number of things that, you know, we're on the verge of cleaning out and wiping up.
	We probably won't get income tax cuts made permanent if Senator McCain is elected because remember, he forms alliances with Democrats in the Senate, and that's, I think, what he will do as president.
	And that's going to frustrate you.
	It's going to frustrate a lot of us.
	And there's not going to be a whole lot we can do about it other than behave as we did during the first amnesty bill and flood Washington with, you know, you have to, yeah, you have to fight for it.
	You have to fight for what you believe.
	This fight never ends because liberalism is never going away.
	And there are always going to be Republicans who are not conservative, and there are always going to be Republicans who are moderates and so forth.
	But all of these things are all part of the mix.
	Like I keep saying, I don't want to sound like a broken record on this, Cindy, but we talk about 1976 and how, I mean, the disappointment in the Republican Party, or a large portion of it, was palpable when Reagan lost at that convention and Gerald Ford won.
	But Ford was a likable guy.
	There wasn't a lot of animus to Ford.
	He was just an establishment guy.
	He wasn't conservative.
	Reagan was where the future was.
	Reagan was the excitement.
	Everybody wanted a future now.
	Had to wait four years.
	And arguably, Cindy, you could say that Jimmy Carter played a large role in so wrecking the country, in so destroying it.
	You talk about being humiliated and embarrassed in the world.
	Nobody's done a better job of that for this country than Jimmy Carter.
	And so it may well be that a President McCain or a President Hillary is what it takes to forge a conservative candidate who, as I was saying to previous caller, incorporates all three legs of our stool.
	Okay.
	Thank you very much.
	I'm glad that helps.
	Will in Nation's Capital in Washington.
	Hello, sir.
	Hey, Rush, it's good to be with you.
	Thanks for taking my call.
	Yes, sir.
	You bet.
	I wanted to actually talk to you someone about some commentary you were just making.
	I get to be involved a lot with the college Republicans here at AU being president.
	Went up to New Hampshire and talked a lot of Senator McCain's supporters, and even people down here who support him, even people like Senator Brownback.
	And, you know, the perception I get from them is that they're supporting him simply because they think he's the best we can get.
	And I think that's just a really short-sighted viewpoint.
	I mean, like you had just said, you know, we know that there's going to be a Democratically controlled Senate in the next section and probably a Congress too.
	So we know it's in the self-interest of the Democrats to bring up immigration again, or even on judicial nominees.
	Even if we want to get a pro-life nominee through the Senate, we know that McCain is open to making serious compromises on that judge's view on campaign finance reform, the environment, detainees.
	I mean, the list is endless on the kinds of compromises that we would have to make to even move our attention.
	Okay.
	All right.
	Let me stop you.
	Why?
	You tell me.
	You've just gone through the litany, and I stopped you about 30% of the way through it.
	You still got 70% of the list to go.
	But why?
	The people you talked about, the people voting in the primaries, why does none of that matter?
	You tell me what you think.
	I think that they are looking at a short-sighted viewpoint that puts winning an election and simply having a Republican in the White House over actually moving our values forward.
	I don't think they're putting two and two together in that sense.
	I think they just view it as a best we can get situation, which I don't even think is true.
	I mean, a lot of these people are not principled conservatives.
	They're Republicans.
	They say they're conservatives, but I agree with you.
	Electability is probably what's putting them over the edge.
	But adding to that, do not underestimate the degree of fear with a capital F and the degree of intense dislike people have for Hillary Clinton.
	And there are a lot of people to whom beating her with anybody, I don't care, whoever could do it, if Bozo the clown could do it, they would support Bozo the Clown.
	There's a cadre of that in our party that's just scared to death of her.
	They are so angry with what happened in the eight years of Clinton, they don't want it back anything, anything to keep her out of the White House.
	And if they think McCain's the best guy to do that, and probably they do because the drive-by media loves him and people are still out of care.
	What do you say?
	People are influenced by the drive-by media.
	And so it's, by the way, you know, McCain's out of money.
	And I was, he's out of, relatively speaking, he's out of money.
	And I've been reading at National Reviews online their blog, Corner, and they've got some pro-McCain people there who are really with some of these caustic comments that are aimed at Mitt Romney.
	Look at all his money.
	He needs to spend all that TV money to counter the free media he's getting from the drive-bys, the free, slavish.
	McCain doesn't get one bit of criticism in the drive-by media.
	Not one.
	It's nothing but fawning this, fawning that.
	Romney has no choice.
	But anyway, the bottom line here is, Will, that the electability thing is doubled when you throw in the fear and the dislike that a lot of Republicans have for Hillary.
	We had Senator Obama come to our campus just a couple of days ago to get Senator Kennedy's endorsement.
	And, you know, if the media coverage of that is any indication, I really think the media wants Senator Obama to get the nomination and Senator McCain to get our nomination because here's a guy that can rally the left very well and even encroach upon some independence and make whatever McCain's electability argument is totally worthless.
	Well, that's one of the things people are examining.
	Is there really something going on on the Democrat side?
	Are the drive-bys really, really that irritated at Hillary and are they really, really moving away from him?
	Or is it, as many suspect, they just want some excitement?
	They're bored, that little board covering the Clintons.
	There's nothing new there.
	Here comes this young guy, Obama.
	He's got everybody all fired up.
	Wow, it's a story.
	But at the end of the day, when Hillary gets a nomination, he'll move back to her.
	The new theory is that there won't be at the end of the day because they're going to stick with Obama till he wins a nomination because that's what they want.
	I don't know.
	But at the real end of the day, I don't care if it's Hillary or Obama versus McCain.
	Let's say it's Hillary.
	I guarantee you that all of this stuff that they are saying about Bill and Hillary and the race thing, it'll be forgotten.
	And by the time we get to September, October, November, the drive-bys will be in full Clinton.
	In fact, folks, I have a story in the stack.
	And it's in Newsweek.
	And it hit last night while I'm in the middle of show prep for today's excursion into broadcast excellence.
	And it's a piece by Anna Quindlin about age.
	When is too old?
	Let me find stack did I put this in?
	Let me get the exact headline of her piece.
	Because this is, it's now starting, folks.
	Here it is.
	How old is too old?
	Race, gender?
	They're both up for grabs in this presidential election.
	It's age that's become the new taboo in a vitality culture.
	This is the first little drive-by tentacle.
	They reach into the main camp, McCain camp to start raising questions about his age and everything that goes along with that.
	Then it's going to be his temperament.
	And then has he shown any memory lapses out on the stump?
	And drive-bys are going to wring their hands.
	Well, we really don't.
	Well, we didn't want to talk about this, but I've seen some.
	It's going to start, folks.
	We all know it.
	I told you.
	Ah, yes.
	Talent on loan from God.
	Rush Limbaugh the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
	I got some exit polling data from Florida here in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers.
	See if you can spot a trend here, ladies and gentlemen.
	On most political matters, exit poll questions to voters, on most political matters, do you consider yourself liberal?
	Romney, 24% of his supporters said yes.
	49% of McCain's voters said they consider themselves liberal.
	Next question.
	On most political matters, do you consider yourself moderate?
	21% of Romney voters said yes.
	43 of McCain's voters said yes.
	On most political matters, do you consider yourself conservative?
	37% of Romney's supporters did.
	29% of McCain's.
	So, independents, liberals, vast majority for McCain.
	There's a Reagan coalition for you there, folks.
	McCain says he's putting back together the Reagan coalition, okay?
	Don in Richmond, Indiana.
	I'm glad you called.
	Welcome, sir, to the program.
	Rush, thanks.
	And I'll tell you up front: I've always been a big fan, but I'm beginning to grow concerned, and I'm tempted to even lose respect for you.
	And I'll just be honest with you and tell you why.
	No, you're the second guy today.
	Well, you know, I would be probably considered a neocon by a lot of people.
	A lot of my friends know that I'm very conservative.
	But I'm starting to get a subtle message from you that we would be better off to just go ahead and let Hillary win.
	And if we did, it would rejuvenate the Republican Party and we'd have another revolution like we did in 94.
	And Rush, I want you to know my opinion is if we let Hillary win, it will be for another eight years.
	We'll get another Ruth Bader Ginsburg, another Stephen Breyer, possibly another 9-11.
	And I don't believe our nation can afford that.
	And so if McCain's a nominee, even though he's not my favorite, I'll crawl on glass to vote for him.
	Well, if you are a regular listener, then you know that every election year we get people calling here saying, Rush, we need to lose.
	We need to lose.
	I had people saying it last year in 06, you know, in the midterm election.
	Rush, we need to lose.
	We need these Republicans to be taught a lesson.
	And I'll see how bad it is.
	I've rejected that.
	I would never, ever do something to guarantee my party's defeat.
	All I said to you was, I'm just giving you history when I talk about 76 and Reagan and Ford and Carter in 1980.
	I'm just giving you history.
	My point there was that, you know, Reagan's who he was.
	It was great and so forth, but he might not have gotten there without Jimmy Carter.
	I'm not saying repeat the strategy because I don't think any of that was strategic.
	You know, it just happened.
	I also don't buy the notion Hillary is automatic two-term president.
	But at the same time, the real, you're making this really hard.
	I was asked this earlier today, Don, and I'm, you know, would you vote for McCain even if?
	I'm not going to take action to see that our side loses.
	I don't advocate losing, period.
	I just don't know, and this is bottom line, I just don't know that my vote for McCain would matter.
	If you understand what I mean.
	Okay, a little break here at the top of the, I forgot to mention, we have Vice President Cheney will join us in the opening segment of the next hour.
	He'll be with us for the first segment.
	A couple things to discuss with him, not the presidential race, because he won't say anything about that.
	So I'm not even going to try, but we'll be back soon with that.

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