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Jan. 30, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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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 anchor man.
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, L Rushbow at EIBNet.com.
By the way, if you're just joining us and you missed the first hour, you know, the uh 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 uh 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.
Uh and we have that first segment, audio video, it's a 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 uh in New Orleans, supposed to speak at one o'clock.
Uh Eastern time is a little late.
They always are for these things.
They're gonna get out of the race.
Not expected to endorse anybody right off the bat here.
Uh still parlaying negotiations, no doubt, for either a VEP nod or attorney general nod with um either Hillary or Obama.
But ladies and gentlemen, uh 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 uh 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.
Uh only time will tell on this.
Speaking of the two Americans, or America's 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 uh what would it be 415, 115?
Uh most analysts were expecting a cut in the Fed funds rate, with many predicting a half-point reduction.
Uh I I I'm confused.
Why we haven't needed a rate cut?
I thought the stimulus was gonna fix everything.
Speaking of the stimulus, ladies and gentlemen, from Rasmussen, 41% of American voters favor the stimulus package agreed to by the president and the House of Representatives.
This is a survey of uh telephone survey of uh there's it how many, I'm not sure how many people it was.
Uh 26% oppose the stimulus package, 33% are not sure.
So you have the 26 and 33, and you get uh 59%.
So a majority are opposed or not buying the um stimulus package is sort of like a lukewarm reception from voters.
Voters need a Renai Tankless water heater uh in order to get uh all the heat that they can get from the stimulus package.
Lukewarm about it.
Uh 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 unaffilid unaffiliated uh voters.
Uh sticking with the Democrats uh here, ladies and gentlemen, Rasmussen with an interesting uh report today from actually from yesterday on their website.
Maybe something really has changed in the uh 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.
Uh 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 Sunday 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, uh 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 Breck girl will get none.
Well, he might still be on the 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 superdelegates, 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.
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 superdelegates, 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, you know, beginning to think, even though Hillary's still considered to be quite a luck, is there something really going on there?
And by the way, if you look at everybody's talking about what happened on the Republican side in Florida last night, but if you look at the uh 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 uh Barack got a lot closer last night than he otherwise would have.
Uh and I've 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 who say, 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, uh, 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 Sauter, 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 uh John Roberts of uh CNN.
Speaking of the political that Mike Allen from the Politico, here's a story by Ben Smith and David Paul Coon.
Tell me.
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.
There's a paradox for Rudy, said uh former Nebraska Senator Bob Carey, member of the 9-11 Commission.
One of the things he did very well in 9-11 was say we've 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 then there's no reason to the libs have won on that.
9-11's over.
No reason to talk about it.
No reason to have any concern about it.
Uh 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-by say about uh 9-11.
I would suggest to you, it's just the obs I would suggest.
If you look at the again, the exit returns then in Florida, most of the elderly vote went for McCain.
Uh a lot of the military vote went for McCain.
And there are two reasons for it.
One is this this notion that he's the only guy that can beat Hillary, and the other is uh he's just he's uh constantly talking about national security, uh, where the other candidates uh appeared to be weak on it.
I frankly think that it's it's it's a mistake for any Republican voter to think that any Republican candidate doesn't care about national security, maybe Ron Paul.
Um the Democrats, you should have that concern about.
But just because McCain was the only one talking about it prominently, does anybody believe that well, even I guess okay, Huckabee did uh 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 the we've only got one candidate in our midst that we can trust to do the right thing.
It's that Balder Dash, Flummery, Poppycock.
Uh uh.
Uh here is uh here is uh Lori in Monroe, Michigan.
Lori, nice to have you on the program.
Welcome.
Hi, Rush.
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.
Wait, wait, well, let me ask you to 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, wait a minute.
Wait a minute.
What do you mean McCain can't stand conservatives?
Oh, he can't.
He he despises conservatives.
He does everything against conservatives.
McCain Feingold, McCain Laborman, 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?
I do you think McCain is trying to undermine conservatives?
Yeah, he he can't stand us.
Pretty tough statement.
Pretty tough statement there.
That's a pretty tough charge.
The idea.
I don't understand that.
Not one.
Um 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 don't I know she I 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.
Uh all right.
Well look, Laurie from Monroe, Michigan, I appreciate the phone call.
Thanks much.
Let me move on here as time dwindles in this segment.
Uh Seattle.
Dan, you're next.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Well, great to be on Rush.
And uh it's a good uh segue from Laurie's call.
Yeah.
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 uh I I have not heard you say, I hope you have, and I would like you to, that if McCain is our nominee, and I 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.
Well, on the uh program.
No, no, no, no.
I I understand that you don't endorse in the primaries, but would you not I and I remember your joke about Jimmy uh um Bill Clinton several years ago about deciding to endorse him.
Right.
Uh 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 uh like like Al Gore.
He's he tries to be as good of a liar, he just falls short.
Nobody meets Bill Clinton's standards.
Uh but let me let me answer your question this way.
Sure.
Uh if McCain is the Republican nominee, and it certainly looks that way, it's it's gonna be an uphill slog for Mitt Romney now, because he's running against three people.
He's running against Romney, uh he's running against uh Huckabee, he's running against uh McCain.
Who else really Ron Paul there's somebody else splitting the book?
Well, Julianica that's uh yeah, Huckabee and and uh McCain, but they're doing a tag team to split the you know Romney conservative vote.
Um if if uh i sit here now, you know this is a change.
This is we're not at even to February here yet, Dan, but you heard the last call.
I I'll tell you the people 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 if if 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, hi atop the EIB building midtown Manhattan.
By the way, you know, I I uh getting questions here from uh people out there, such as our last caller.
Look, if McCain gets the nomination, will you vote for him?
Let me ask let me ask those of you who support Senator McCain.
If uh 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 an omin, you're gonna support him, Rush.
I understand because I'm a powerful influential member of the media.
Uh and uh and and people think that the you know my opinion on these kinds of things matters.
But you know, 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 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, you know, that's 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 you got basically a 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 uh the social, uh, and you've got foreign policy conservatives.
Uh and there uh among these foreign policy conservatives, these are the neocon guys, they believe in a big government.
They believe in a big active executive, uh compassionate conservatism.
They love this.
They they they that's why they like McCain.
He's a big government guy.
Uh but without anybody in this race that has all three of those legs firmly uh understood, then the conservatives all over the states and all these primaries are splitting off into the one of those three legs, the two three that matter to the most.
So, like the social conservatives, a lot of them are going Huckabee because he's a minister and because of abortion.
Uh 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 that's the most important one.
Those are the ones going to McCain.
Um and of course, then he's picking up independents and moderates uh as 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.
Um I'm not liking all these giveaway programs.
I mean, I my my father taught me how to fish, and I'm sure you've heard the analogy before.
Oh, yes.
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, you never ever vote Democrat.
Their objective I paid attention I did.
Well, I know, but that's we fixed you.
You know, we fixed you, you straightened out.
Now you ought to be feeling really optimistic here.
I mean, look at how um educated and informed you've gotten to what you understand.
The fact that what you you you you uh deduce uh disappoints you.
That's part of the game.
Uh 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.
Whoever is the last standing in this race is gonna be the one that we dislike the least.
Uh just as simple as that.
Gene, look at I appreciate the call.
It's great to have you and and uh 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 rec stuff, uh, 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 um 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.
Uh that's that's impossible to predict because we don't know what the events from day to day uh are gonna be with the next president.
Uh you know, w you you I 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.
Uh that's what's launched him in his mind to where he is.
Uh he will reach out to the media.
I mean, I I I think you'll get more of the same.
And death tax will be coming back.
I mean, there'd be any number of uh of things that you know, we're on the verge of of cleaning out and wiping up.
We probably won't get uh income tax uh cuts made permanent uh if Senator McCain is elected, because remember he's he forms alliances with Democrats uh in the Senate, and that's I think what he will do uh uh as president.
Uh and that's gonna frustrate you.
It's gonna frustrate a lot of us.
And there's not gonna be a whole lot we can do about it, uh, other than behave as we did during the first amnesty bill and flood Washington with you know, you have to yeah, you 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 the the um you know all of these things are are they they're all part of the mix?
Like I keep saying, I don't want to sound like a broken record on this, Cindy, but uh 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, so was 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.
Uh in so wrecking the country.
In so destroying it's so you talk about being humiliated and embarrassed in the world.
Nobody's done a better job of that for this country than Jimmy Carter.
Uh and so it it may well be that a a uh uh President McCain or a President Hillary is what it takes to forge a conservative candidate who, as I was saying the previous caller, uh incorporates all three legs of our stool.
Okay.
Thank you very much.
I'm glad that helps.
Uh Will in uh Nations Capitol in Washington.
Hello, sir.
Hey Russia, it's good to be with you.
Thanks for taking my call.
Yes, sir.
You bet.
I uh I wanted to actually talk to you someone about your some commentary you were just making.
I 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 uh of Senator McCain's supporters and even people down here support him, even people like Senator Brown back.
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 adjournment.
Okay, all right.
Let me stop you.
Why you tell me.
You've just gone through the litany and I stopped you about thirty percent of the way through it.
You still got 70 percent of the list to go.
But you've you why 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 a short-sighted viewpoint that puts winning of uh winning an election and simply having a Republican in the White House over actually moving our values forward.
I 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 uh situation, which I don't even think is true.
I mean, a lot of these people are not principal conservatives.
They're Republicans.
They they say they're conservatives, but uh uh and I agree with you, electability is probably what's putting them over the edge, but adding to that, don't d 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 they're 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, uh, and probably they do because the drive-by media loves him, and people are still out of care.
What you say people are influenced by the drive-by media, uh, and so it's it's by the way, you McCain's out of money.
And I was he's out of easy relatively speaking, he's out of money.
And uh I've been reading at National Reviews online their their uh blog Corner, uh, and they've got some pro-MCain people there, who are really with some of these caustic comments that are aimed at Mitt Romney.
He needs to spend all that TV money to counter the free media he's getting from the drive-bys.
The free slavish me.
McCain doesn't get one bit of criticism in the drive-by media.
Not one.
It's nothing but fawning this, fawning that.
M Romney has no choice.
But anyway, the the the bottom line here is Will, that uh it you you 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, you know, the the left very well and even you know encroach upon some independence and make whatever McCain's electability argument is totally worthless.
Well, that's one of the things people are examining.
Uh is there really something going on on the Democrat side?
Uh are the drive-bys 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, they're a little bored covering the Clintons and nothing new there.
Here comes this young guy Obama, who's got everybody all fired up.
Whoa, it's a story.
But the end of the day, uh, 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 gonna stick with Obama till he wins the nomination.
Because that's what they want.
I don't know, but uh at the real end of the day, I don't care if it's Hillary or Obama versus McCain.
Uh 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, and 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 was it's in Newsweek, and it hit last night.
While I'm in the middle of show prep for today's excursion and in broadcast excellence.
And it's a piece by Anna Quindlin about age.
When is too old?
We find uh stack that I put this in.
Let me get the exact headline of her piece.
Because it's 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.
Uh this is the first little drive by tentacle to reach into the main camp, McCain camp, and start raising questions about his age and everything that goes along with that.
Then it's gonna be his temperament, and then is this does he show any memory lapses out on the stump?
And drive-by's are gonna wring their hands.
Oh, we really don't well, we didn't want to talk about this, but I've seen some.
It's gonna start folks.
You all know it.
I told you.
I will.
I will.
Yes, talent on loan from a 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 of voters.
On most political matters, do you consider yourself liberal?
Romney, 24% of his supporters said yes.
Forty-nine percent of McCain's voters said they consider themselves liberal.
Next question.
On most political matters, do you consider yourself moderate?
Twenty-one percent of Romney voters said yes.
Forty-three 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.
And uh McCain says he's putting back together the Reagan coalition.
Okay.
Uh Don in Richmond, Indiana.
I'm I'm glad you called.
Welcomes her to the program.
Rush, thanks.
And and I'll tell you up front, I've always been a big fan, but I I'm I'm beginning to grow concerned, and I'm I'm I'm tempted to even lose respect for you, and I'll I'll I'll just be honest with you and tell you why.
No, this is you're the second guy today.
Well, uh, 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 another revolution like we did in '94.
And Rush, I I want you to know my opinion is um 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, I uh if you if you 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, the uh in the in the midterm election.
Rush, we need to lose.
We need these Republicans to be taught a lesson.
And we'll see how bad it is.
I've rejected that.
I would never ever uh 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.
Just giving you history.
Um 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.
Um also don't buy the notion Hillary is automatic two-term president.
But at the same time, uh I I uh the the real You're making this really hard.
I I was asked this earlier today, Don, and I'm you know would you vote for McCain even if I'm not gonna I'm I'm not gonna 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.
Thank you.
Okay, a little break here at the top of the I forgot to mention Further, but we're gonna have Vice President Cheney uh will join us in the opening segment of the uh 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 gonna try, but we'll be back soon with that.
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