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Jan. 30, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 30, 2008, Wednesday, Hour #3
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Greetings, my friends.
Welcome.
It's Rush Limbaugh and the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
And of course, I utilizing talent on loan from God.
Fastest Week in Media, it's already Wednesday.
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A quick programming note.
Because of popular demand, you know, last night after the primary results in Florida, the drive-by media all night and into the day, the newspapers proclaimed me the big loser, even though I was not on the ballot anywhere.
And the question was today, was I going to concede or move on?
and I announced I let off the program by announcing I will not concede I vowed to continued fighting and we're going to replay this announcement of mine that we opened the program with at 2.33 But now I want to welcome back to the uh to the program, Vice President Dick Cheney.
Always, as I say, a pleasure and thrilled to have you here, sir.
Welcome back.
Well, good afternoon, Rush.
Good to talk to you.
Good to talk to you.
All right.
A couple things.
We got you for a limited amount of time, and I want to race through a couple of things.
I see here today an AP story that the House of Representatives has voted to delay the demise of the uh the the wiretap law by uh two weeks.
So we we've got a two-week extension on on uh on FISA.
Um you know, we're in the middle of a presidential election year and uh a lot of people's attention's focused on that, not on FISA and the efforts that uh you and the people administration are doing to continue to uh detect potential attacks.
What's the status of it?
What what what's the big deal about two weeks?
Well, the uh legislation's absolutely essential, of course.
They passed a six-month uh extension last August, which expires on uh Friday.
And uh with the idea that they would finish up the legislation by Friday.
They've had six months to work on it.
Uh one of the main things we need in there, for example, is retroactive liability protection for the companies that have worked with us and helped us uh prevent further attacks against the United States.
Like the phone companies.
The most controversial part.
Right.
And um so far they haven't been able to get it done.
So uh what uh has uh been agreed to is to give them fifteen more days uh to wrap it up and finish it up here.
It's um the president's been holding their feet to the fire.
They claim they can get it done in fifteen more days, and uh the battle right now is focused on the Senate.
The House has already passed a version of it, and uh but we do badly need this legislation.
It's been essential in terms of protecting the country against further attacks.
Uh vital, uh one of the most vital things the President's done since 911, and it would be a tragedy if uh this authority weren't extended.
Um the opposition to Senate primarily from Democrats, correct?
Correct.
Uh people who don't want to uh I guess want to leave uh open the possibility that the trial lawyers could go after a big company that may have helped.
Those companies helped specifically at our request, and uh they've done yeoman duty for the country, and this is the so-called terrorist surveillance program.
Uh it was one of the things that was called earlier.
It's um it's just absolutely essential to know who in the United States is talking to Al Qaeda.
It's amazing this is been been very well managed.
Uh we haven't violated anybody's civil liberties.
It's in fact a good piece of legislation.
Yeah, it's it's amazing that uh it's it's a uh uh political issue.
I uh I want to ask you, is is the Democrats' opposition to this uh uh uh oriented toward uh you know payback for a big constituency of theirs, the trial lawyers.
Is it purely political trying to damage George W. Bush because of their pent-up resentment and success?
Uh or is it something else?
I there's there's a story, I forget where it is.
I just I just finished reading it.
Uh my it's a politico.com.
They say with Rudy Giuliani's defeat last night that the politics of nine eleven are finished, they're over, that nobody is gonna succeed running on nine eleven, and thus the uh continued threat.
Uh is is it is this really part of an effort by some in the Senate to try to convince the American people we don't face a threat anymore, and there's no reason to run the risk of violating people's civil liberties, blah, blah, blah.
Right.
Well, it's been focused uh especially on the uh Democrats and the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Um Pat Lahey, chairman of the committee, has uh opposed uh parts of uh the statute that we think are essential in terms of going forward, including specifically this uh retroactive liability provision.
Um I don't uh like to question people's motives.
I assume he's got uh reasons why he believes the way he does, but the fact is it's uh their inability to resolve that issue that's delayed uh passage on this legislation.
I think there are people out there, frankly, Rush, that don't like what we've done uh that uh are opposed to the bold action uh and tough decisions the President's made since 9-11.
There, I think there were a lot of people who were panicky in the aftermath of nine eleven.
Uh but now that we've demonstrated our ability to defend the country for the last six and a half years, they want to act as though there's no threat, and we don't need to to take uh these uh important measures.
But the fact of the matter is the threat's still there, it still exists.
I look at it every day in our intelligence brief.
We need to perpetuate and protect uh our capabilities here as well as terms of our ability to interrogate prisoners.
Uh you may not be able to answer this, but uh if you feel confident that uh two weeks can take care of this uh retroactivity and uh protecting I think there are forty civil lawsuits that have been filed against the phone companies.
Uh what what what what do the opponents of this want in exchange for going along with us?
Well, I think uh I think the fact of the matter is at this point that they don't have the votes.
That is, I don't think they can prevail.
I think uh there are a number of Democrats, for example, who've indicated they will vote with us on the key issue on this legislation in the in the Senate.
But uh to date it's been it's been hung up um uh through various uh parliamentary maneuvers.
But I think eventually we'll we will get the legislation to say I do think the votes are there, but uh they want more time to let uh the opponents uh sort of uh air their grievances and probably vote on some more amendments before we go to final passage.
Um is is there uh uh any surprise on your part?
You feel any surprise that this issue has not uh specifically this issue that we're talking about today has not been discussed front and center in the presidential camp campaigns.
Well, I think uh I can't speak obviously for the Democrats.
I don't know where they are on uh these issues.
I think generally they have not been uh as supportive of the kind of robust strategy as have that have the Republicans.
I know most of the Republican candidates have, in fact, been solidly supportive of what we've been doing in the global war on terror.
And um I think uh there's probably less enthusiasm, if I can put it in those terms, on the Democratic side for some of those same measures.
All right, moving on because our time is dwindling.
A New York Times story today.
Uh headline, White House shows signs of rethinking uh cut in troops.
Uh the pull quote here, Mr. Bush has made no decisions on troop reductions uh to follow those he announced last September.
Uh in his address to Congress, Mr. Bush spoke of those reductions, but not of any future ones.
Uh what what is the story?
I don't think there's a story here.
It seems like he's delivered on the reductions he spoke of.
He hadn't indicated any others uh as he's is waiting on another assessment from General Petraeus.
So what are they trying to stir up here?
Well, it sounds to me like they're trying to stir something up.
I would agree with you, Rush.
Fact is the President said last fall that um we would uh pull out a brigade uh about the end of the year, that we'd have another review in March when uh General Petraeus could come back and give us his recommendations going forward.
Uh, in the meantime that we would go back to the presurge level.
We had fifteen brigades in Iraq when we started the surge.
We added five brigades uh there now in the process of uh coming out, and um we'll get back to pre-surge levels uh by the summer.
But we've not made a decision to go below that.
That'll depend very much on circumstances on the ground.
The last thing we would want to do at this stage is having made the enormous progress that's been made over the last year with a dramatic drop and casualties and number of incidents, number of attacks by insurgents and so forth, and with all of the the bad guys that we've rounded up and killed, uh you'd like hate to see that reversed by going too fast or uh taking out uh troops too soon.
But we are keeping the uh commitment that's made previously, and as President said he'll listen very carefully to his commanders on the ground and specifically General Petraeus, in terms of what he thinks he needs to to uh complete the measure.
I find it fascinating.
I predicted this.
I find it fascinating that this issue is not even a part of the presidential camp particular campaign, particularly on the uh on the Democrat side, precisely because of what you just said.
The news uh is robust and positive and it it serves them no purpose, but they're still working behind the scenes with the FISA thing and uh other things to to to uh uh eventually weaken the country.
Quick one more quick question topic before we go, and that's the economic stimulus.
I saw a poll, I might be Rasmussen, I'm not sure.
Uh only forty-two percent of the American people are really cool to this.
There's a greater number combined uh not cool or not all as happy about it.
Uh think it isn't gonna matter that much.
We've got a Fed rate cut of a half point that was just announced today.
So uh uh what what is your overall feeling on the economy and where it's headed?
Well, I think we're experiencing a bit of a slowdown.
Um we don't believe we're gonna have a recession, though.
A recession would be two negative quarters back to back.
And uh I think the action that the Fed's taken has been uh very positive.
We think the stimulus package will have a positive effect.
It's obviously uh we're talking here only about uh one percent of GDP that's directly affected by it.
But uh the president believes that um getting uh a stimulus package through on a short term sort of one-shot basis uh will be helpful in terms of consumer spending.
So our hope is that we can get through this rough patch and and uh then continue and resume the growth of three to four percent in the future that we've enjoyed for the in the past.
We've had now over what, fifty-two months of uh uninterrupted job expansion in the economy.
It's an all-time record in terms of longevity and we're hopeful we can keep that up, and I don't see any reason we can't.
What would you say to people listening who are um uh alarmed at the uh well what are you the housing crisis, subprime crisis, the uh people in their homes who uh who see their equity or the value of their home plummeting.
Uh you've been around in politics a long time, you've been through economic cycles, member of Congress and various administrations.
What would you say to people uh who are are feeling a little bit uneasy about the value of their home?
How long is it going to be before this rebounds?
Well, we we clearly have to work our way through the excuse me, have to work our way through the um the current glut, if you will, in the housing market.
We've got a large inventory of unsold homes out there, and that's affecting the price.
And uh they can have consequences for everybody.
But the economy uh I think the economy is very resilient, and we'll work our way through this.
Uh obviously, uh, you know, you want to do everything you can to help those folks who are most uh adversely affected by it, but you can't repeal the laws of economics.
We've got to get through this patch.
The President's got uh work being done by uh Hank Paulson over Treasury and Alfonso Jackson and HUD to try to provide uh uh support and uh opportunities for refinancing for some of those folks who are most directly affected by this.
Um but you also need to be careful here to make sure the government doesn't do something that makes the situation worse instead of better.
Which it can easily do.
All right, Mr. James.
It wouldn't be the first time.
I can remember Rush back in the eighties when I was in Congress, we had another housing crisis and the home builders got upset and they started mailing two by fours into us.
I ended up with my office chocabluck full of two by fours with stamps on them from all over Wyoming, my home state.
And when we came through it, this is what people need to realize.
We always come through these things, we end up stronger in the uh in the well look, I appreciate your time.
Uh it's always it's always nice to talk to you and uh and uh uh appreciate the update on the FISA situation, because it's really off the radar with the presidential campaign going on, so thanks so much for that and your time again.
No, the spital issue, Rush, and it's uh love your show.
It's a pleasure to talk to you again.
Thank you.
Vice President Dick Cheney, and we'll be right back after this.
All right, people have been patiently waiting on the phones, so we go back to Gene now in Manhattan, Kansas.
Nice to have you, sir.
Welcome to the big program.
Hello.
Uh yeah, the I had to get the phone off the uh earphones I could hear better.
Uh yes, uh about the fellow who called in a while ago about jumping your case because you weren't picking out his nominee.
If anybody listens to you enough uh and they understand you, uh uh it it's uh only obvious that when you're telling us about John McCain and who we don't want.
And y uh you think like I do.
I mean, I'm pretty sure I know who you'd like.
And it's pretty much who I would like.
But if you really know who you are and understand you, it's well, I just don't understand uh how he's gonna be able to do that.
Yeah, I know the options have kind of dwindled now.
So that if one speaks against one candidate uh pretty much are not, and you don't speak against the other one, it may be uh it may be pretty obvious.
But I think I think what uh the guy meant, and I'm getting a lot of uh people is why don't you start telling us why you like somebody and what it is you like about them rather than just focusing on what you don't like about uh about Senator McCain.
And that's a that's a that's that's a fair point.
I just I've I've I've made the assumption um that people know those things.
I uh I I'm working on the assumption here that none of these candidates from the get-go from the top when they were all in there, none of them lit anybody's fire.
And you know I'm right about this.
Otherwise, Fred Thompson flirting with getting in would not have caused the fire storm than it did before he got in.
I mean, you can go back and look at any number of events in this thing and you can start lamenting.
I was in Detroit back in May for a rush to excellence tour and also a meeting with some people at General Motors.
And when and and I had a couple of these rushed excellence things in the first half of the year.
Um and I'd go out on stage in a little routine on the Republican presidential candidate nominees, and I get to Fred Thompson, a place erupted in applause.
This is before he had made it official, the people he was rumored to be doing, and and the sole reason for that was that everybody was dissatisfied uh with one or two or or more things about all the other candidates.
And so when you when you boil all this down, uh what what it what you're what you're left with is that not one of these people is has been somebody that a majority of Republicans or conservatives are all fired up about.
Uh and and so I'll tell folks, it is risky uh to start saying uh definitively about any candidate, and I'm gonna tell you this is what I like about this is good and this is good, and then the next day goes out and promises twenty billion dollars a year to the auto industry from the federal government.
You just don't do that when you're not sure of what you're talking about.
So it's been I'm I'm not gonna it these guys come and go, I am forever.
Presidential candidates come and go, I am forever.
Presidents come and go, I am forever.
Clinton's gone, I'm still here, right.
George H. W. Bush is gone.
I'm still here, right?
Fine.
Richard in Vancouver, Washington.
Hello, sir.
Hello, sir.
Uh, thank you for taking my call.
Yes.
I just wanted to mention that I'm a recent convert to your program.
I found you uh in June and uh listened to you daily ever since.
And I find uh you very informative, and uh in fact I even find that I start quoting you when I'm visiting with others when politics come up.
So I just wanted to thank you for uh you know uh giving me that information.
Thank you.
Thank you, thing.
I'm I'm sure you w you're to urge me to hang in there against all these assaults and attacks.
You have my support.
Oh, I appreciate that.
The first encouraging phone call today that I've got.
Not that you others out there who have not called are not feeling this sense of encouragement.
I can handle it either way, because I know myself, I know who I am, I like myself, love myself, uh like hearing myself speak, because I like hearing people who are right.
And I know I'm right, and you know I'm right, and if you talk me out of it, feel free.
But I am rock solid in my that's why I say I'm here forever.
Uh these other people come and go.
But I appreciate uh that, Richard.
Uh I'm only teasing.
I I've I haven't had people rip me today.
They've just um a little bit a little disappointed, uh, have threatened to uh abandon me, uh and have which has happened uh many numerous times, uh, and claim that I disappointed them.
Um for what I could I could have done more.
I could have done more than Romney could have done.
I could have done more than Fred Thompson did for himself.
All right, we're gonna repeat the show open where I vow to fight on the first hour of the program.
We're gonna repeat it when we come back.
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.
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 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.
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 chance, no lawyers, no lawsuits.
Thank you.
Thank you, thank you.
Thank you, thank you.
I love you, too.
Rush, rush, rush, rush, rush, rush, rush, rush, rush.
My friends, my friends, there's reason for optimism, there's reason for hope.
By the way, change is his 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?
*Rainful music*
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 a 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.
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.
Right.
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 shall thank you.
What is that, Mr. Snerdley?
What do you mean?
How do I keep going?
How how do I do this?
You know.
Such a vision for this country.
I I just have so many opportunities from this country.
I 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?
Well, it's a good thing you didn't see that.
I just turned on my microphone, and if you had seen that, I could have gotten a union citation.
Not allowed to do that here in the uh in the New York studios.
I turned it, I turned it right back off before you even saw it.
And since you didn't see it, it didn't happen, and you can't write me up.
All right, we're back.
People have been patiently waiting.
Uh and we so go back to the phones to Peggy in Houston.
Hi, Peggy, thank you very much for your patience.
Thank you.
It's an honor to talk to you.
I just uh I wanted to bring up the fact that we're leaving out one component, and that is the McCain Democrats.
They're gonna cross over.
You can't tell me that they won Hillary, all of them, and you can't tell me that all of them want Obama.
And they'll have just what they need a liberal Republican with a strong uh sense of military.
All right.
So you you you you you think McCain could win pretty handily then?
Yes.
If he gets the nomination.
I'm hoping for mo for Romney, but Oh, I was gonna say I was gonna ask if you are in favor of that.
No, I'm not.
All right, why not?
What what what would be wrong with the with McCain getting a bunch of Democrats and winning by a big margin and beating Hillary?
What would be wrong with that?
Isn't that what we want to do?
We want to attract Democrats and independents and moderates.
I thought that's why McCain was loved with why wouldn't that be a good deal?
Because that's just like having Hillary or Obama.
They're both extremely liberal, except in the military sense.
It would be health care.
He's he spends a lot of money.
Look at all of the the background, uh laws that he had with uh the education, the Kennedy factor, the Yeah, there's Reagan Kennedy, there's Reagan Lieberman, there is well McCain, he's trying to pass himself off as river.
You would never have Reagan Kennedy, you would never have Reagan fine gold.
No, you would never have that.
He believes in the government.
I think what I hear you saying, uh Peggy, and you are very shrewd, if I'm right.
What I hear you saying is that McCain would attract liberal Democrats who don't like Hillary, but he would attract them as Democrats and as liberals.
And this and this would thus water down, maybe dilute to a great extent the identity of the Republican Party.
It could if we let it, but I think that we're strong enough that we won't allow that to happen.
Well, wait a minute.
Wait, how can we stop it if he get if he gets a nomination?
And if you're right, if he's going to attract a bunch of liberal Democrats uh who don't like Hillary, who like the social, you know, the socialist stuff, but they they want somebody can handle national security.
Um if if if McCain successfully attracts a bunch of liberal Democrats to the Republican Party as liberal Democrats, then how can we say what can we do?
I mean the party's gonna be watered down and changed forever.
Well, I don't think that they'll change their polit political affiliation.
I just think that they'll come over to vote for him because the the you you have to do.
Yeah, but don't you see that'll it'll serve as a model for anybody else wanting to win.
The only way to do it it will be to go out and get liberal Democrats to vote Republican, not change party.
Grassroots won't allow the liberal Republicans to take over.
We won't.
It will be a revolution before that occurs.
Yeah, well, that's happened before.
I mean, that's and the uh the the country club blue blood republicans that you're talking about, um didn't like it.
But you're right.
Why you know you're you're you're you're as they say you're very shrewd, and I also like your optimism.
Well, I have to be optimistic.
Look what I'm faced with.
Yeah, I know.
That's the truth.
Uh well, look, Peggy, thank you.
I really appreciate that.
It's my honor.
You bet.
Chuck in San Jose, California.
It's great to have you with us on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hey, Megadiddos Rush.
Hey.
Got uh a long time listener, uh veteran, conservative Christian.
Um, and my question for you is when candidates running for office drop out before Super Tuesday, especially when we had such a diverse field.
Is this just another example of politics as usual?
I think it's more a function of money.
Uh which brings me to the second part of my question.
With in everybody's criticizing Romney for using personal monies.
And I look at the other candidates, Giuliani had a lot of m of money, only spent it in one state.
Couldn't he have better positioned himself to go into Super Tuesday with a better spending plan?
Yep.
Well, not just spending plan.
I think one one of the lessons for people who followed Rudy who want to duplicate it is uh you can't ignore all of the first four states.
You might be able to punt Iowa, but you can't punt New Hampshire.
And you and you and you can't punt Michigan or South Carolina because you're just going to give everybody whoever, even if nobody wins all four, you're just giving your opposition a uh big head start.
They're gonna forget about you.
Now the reason Romney, I want to make this point.
The reason Romney is spending a lot, A, it's his.
So what difference does it make, though?
Who what what business is it of ours?
Why should Romney be subject to McCain's stupid rules?
You know, well, exactly.
But he has to why which is what he said last night when he readdressed the question about shifting chairs on politicians is in Washington is just politics as usual.
Right.
Put a guy in a different chair, doesn't change anything in Washington.
Now the the point is, McCain is is in relatively speaking to uh Romney out of money.
It doesn't matter.
He's got a slavish mainstream media that's giving him I just saw the some project for journalism just did a review of who's getting all kinds of coverage in the drive-by's and and lead story.
McCain's way ahead of Romney in uh in the free media that he's getting.
And his is slavish.
You know, Romney gets ripped and criticized in his mainstream media reporting.
Uh Romney has to spend his own money to counter some of this.
You know, I get all you know a little bent out of shape here when people want to get holier than thou about the money in politics.
And somebody's spending you just buying the election.
What do you think would you rather have somebody spend their own money or go out and raise gazillions and owe everybody else that is donated to them?
You can't tell me you're worried about lobbyists at the same time not be worried about donors extracting their two cents of revenge or whatever.
Frank in uh Barton or Bartow, North Dakota.
Nice to have you, sir.
Yeah.
Well, make a stick down, head up diggers, Rush.
I appreciate uh what you're doing, and I was just calling in the you remind me of my father.
And in a unique way you have an ability to always come around, you're always right.
And I appreciate what you're doing, and I you know, for a while there was a little bit concerned about the direction, but with you and uh other conservative uh shows and programs, it it really makes it for me, especially and uh helps me be optimistic and you know, carrying a the conservative banner forward uh regardless.
And like you said, I think the answer to that is you're gonna be here for a long time, so is this country.
And these people um, you know, hopefully we can, you know, the conservative issues and and the agenda can stay strong and and continue forward.
I think it's important.
Obviously, this I feel like my worst concern is I'm voting for my kids, uh ten-year-old and a four-year-old.
And I I appreciate everything you're giving us.
Well, uh I thank you so much for that.
I uh I appreciate the encouragement.
Uh Fear and I I I will not cave uh on on principles and uh beliefs, core values, those kinds.
I will not cave on them because I don't know how.
I just I don't know how to cave on principles and core values when you're talking about the future of the United States of America and what we all want it to be.
Thanks much.
We'll be back and wrap it up in a second.
Well, that's it, folks.
That's it for today.
Just a 21-hour break coming up.
We'll be back tomorrow, smiling, filled with good cheer and optimism.
By the way, it looks like illegal immigrants may get rebate checks in the stimulus program.
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