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Feb. 4, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 4, 2008, Monday, Hour #3
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Hi, welcome back, Rush Limbaugh.
Lots to do.
Final hour, the EIB.
What are you doing in that computer monitor in there?
Just turned it Royal Blue on me.
Don't mess with I can still read it.
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The New York Giants charter is seven minutes away, eight minutes away from wheels up in uh in Phoenix.
They have uh they've there's a huge line of aircraft waiting to get out of Phoenix.
The Super Bowl champions have been moved to the front of the line uh by air traffic control.
There's some rain out there too.
Uh and uh they should be getting back.
It's about a four and a half, five hour well, for their plane, probably maybe five and a half hours back, five hours back.
Uh big ticker tape parade in New York tomorrow.
One of the things that some people are speculating, will it impact the vote turnout?
The ticker tape parade, and if it does, will it impact the Republican or um Democrat side the most?
Who knows?
We won't know till it happens.
Fox News yesterday kind of can they kind of tricked Hillary and McCain.
They had them both on the show, uh, Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace.
Uh and the idea was that they would both be on separately.
Uh after Hillary finished, they asked Hillary to stay there and stay connected so she could hear what McCain said.
They kept her microphone live.
After McCain finished, she was asked, uh, and McCain was asked if they'd like to speak to each other.
They had no choice, and they did uh speak to each other, very civil about it.
Ed Morrissey at Captain's Quarters uh says that the McCain camp uh was not particularly happy about this.
Uh properly so, because part of the conservative complaint against McCain is his deference to Democrats while treating conservatives much more harshly.
Uh that got put on full display yesterday as Clinton and McCain exchanged not just pleasantries but assurances that a general election contest between the two would be respectful.
Uh Republicans might want somebody less inclined to put the gloves on against Hillary than taking them off against fellow Republicans.
And this the Morrissey is exactly right here.
McCain is far friendlier to his enemies, the people that are gonna try to bury him than he is to people who um well he's he's he's he's he's making friends with his enemies.
Let's just put it that way.
And here's the bottom line, and and Captain Ed is exactly right about this.
Hillary Clinton doesn't have Democrats wondering or worried whether or not the Clintons can fight hard enough against Republicans.
The one thing that Democrats are not worried about with either Hillary or Obama, the Democrats know that either one of those candidates is going to take it to McCain.
And us.
But we on the Republican side do have a concern about how hard Senator McCain will go out and fight these people since he wants to adopt their ideas since they're polling better.
Back to the audio sound bites we go.
This is Fox News Watch, their media analyst show uh or analysis show.
And this is this is how they started the show.
Eric Burns, the host.
I'm Eric Burns, Fox News Watch is on right now.
My friends, in one week.
One week, we will have as close to a national primary as we've ever had in this country.
I intend to win it and be the nominee of our party.
I will not retire.
I will not concede.
I will not drift away.
I will not fade away until every American agrees with me.
You hear that.
Fox News Watch starts the program as though I am a candidate against McCain.
They play McCain saying, I'm gonna win this nominee.
I'm gonna be the party nominee.
I tell you, it's gonna happen.
And they play me with my little non-concession speech from last Wednesday.
And then they got down to the analysis.
Eric Burns said to Jane Hall, Jane, are you also seeing it reflected in mainstream media outlets that some people say would are liberal by predisposition and are Immensely enjoying a serious problem for these uh talk show people.
I wouldn't characterize all mainstream media as liberal.
I do think that media of all ideologies like a fight.
And it is ironic that people were invoking the fairness doctrine and saying Rush Limbaugh was too powerful about a year ago, and now they're saying he's on his way out.
I think there's a certain glee at a split because it's a more interesting story.
Yeah, there's a little bit of the glee is more it's it's not just about that, uh Jane, that there's a split, and that's exciting and interesting.
There is there's glee for uh other reasons.
But she does.
You know, occasionally old Jane will swerve into a good point.
A year ago it was I who stopped the amnesty bill.
They were all talking about the fairness doctrine today.
I'm finished.
I have no influence.
The guy I oppose is winning.
Who needs the fairness doctrine?
Make no mistake.
If Democrats win, they're gonna go right after the fairness doctrine.
That's another subject for another time.
Um meet the press, the round table, Mary Madeline, Bob Schrum have this exchange about uh Senator McCain.
Senator McCain would be strengthened in the long run by having to go after the conservatives.
What he did in a serendipitous process here was he went from the outside in.
You can't have Democrats and crossovers in lieu of conservatives.
You have to have a base plus, because the crossover is going to go to Obama.
He would be strengthened to come back to the President.
Mary, he is being strengthened for the general by people arguing that he's too moderate.
Every time Rush Limbaugh attacks him, he picks up half a point.
This is this is so cool.
This is Bob Schrum, who has yet to be able to claim victory in any presidential candidate that he has worked for, whose campaigns he has run.
Most recently was the uh campaign of the haughty uh John Kerry who served in Vietnam.
So Schrumm, big liberal Democrat, uh excited that uh McCain picks up half point every time I criticize him.
Mary Madeline's exactly right.
Uh McCain is drifting to the left trying to pick up liberals and independents at the expense of conservatives.
Democrats and crossovers in lieu of conservative.
That's exactly what's happening.
And we conservatives are being told that we're not necessary and so forth and are the problem.
We're being asked to shelve our principles, put them aside for the sake of party unity.
And the Republican Party had better understand that there's enough people in this country who feel like they have done that for too long, and it hasn't gotten them anywhere.
I'm talking about conservatives who've donated money.
Uh those days are over.
You're not going to have a whole lot of people say, okay, conservatism doesn't matter to us.
We want to win instead.
And go ahead and welcome the expansion of the Republican Party by bringing in liberal Democrats and independents.
That's just that's, you know, if if the Republican Party wants to go that way, they can go that way, but they're going to do it without conservatives.
And Mary Madeline's point is no Republican nominee can win without the conservative base, and the Republican Party, McCain, and all of his endorsements make it clear that the conservative base doesn't matter to them, that they're more interested in liberal Democrats and independents.
And of course, why wouldn't Bob Schrum be excited about that?
If I were any liberal Democrat, I'd be excited to see the Republican Party basically urinate on its conservatives.
I'd love to see the Republican Party get fractured this way.
I would love, if I'm a liberal Democrat, by the way, do you ever hear liberal Democrats saying they need to expand by bringing conservatives in as conservatives?
You don't see any of this.
They would love it if this were to happen because they know that the party is going to get shellacked in the general election without the conservative base showing up.
*clap*
Don't think for a minute that this liberal Democrat support for McCain is about McCain winning the general.
It's about McCain losing it.
As far as the dem You think these drive-by types and Bob Schrum types who love McCain are going to vote for him in November?
They are not going to sabotage their own party by abandoning it.
They may sabotage their party by doing stupid things, saying stupid things, but they're not going to sabotage it by leaving it or trying to change its structure.
Of course, I think they're in trouble anyway, liberals are.
Moving on, the roundtable, Tim Russert and Democrat strategist James Carville have this exchange about me.
Here's Rush Limbaugh on his radio program on Thursday.
I was watching the uh endorsement of Senator McCain by Governor Schwarzenegger in California.
What a picture this was.
And I'm I'm looking at the picture, and I'm seeing McCain surrounding himself with the left wing of our party.
These guys are Republicans, but they're the left wing of our party.
So he just got the endorsement of a big taxing, big spending, socialist health care, eco-extreme governor who says the Republican Party needs to follow him to the left.
Mr. Carville.
McCain started out like sucking up for these right-wing guys.
He looked ridiculous.
His campaign went nowhere.
He abandoned that strategy.
He went back to being the O John McCain.
He now is going to win the Republican nomination.
And a lot of these people are sort of exposed for not being that sort of powerful within the Republican Party.
So James Carville, who uh does anybody have any doubt who he hopes wins?
You think James Carville is going to support McCain over Hillary?
Oh Barack Obama.
Anybody really think this?
If you do, you need to call a psychiatrist.
It is going to happen.
And yet, Mr. Carville, all excited here that McCain is being back to old John McCain, the Maverick.
What does that mean in real terms?
He's going against his own party.
Going against his own party.
That's what that's what make Liberal Democrats happen.
Of course it would make Liberal Democrats happy.
Mike Murphy, Republican strategist, then said this about me.
A lot of conservative potentates with a mailing list or a radio microphone.
They're important, but they don't rule the Republican primary.
In the regular primary voter world, McCain has been very competitive with the conservatives.
He never would have won South Carolina.
So I I think it's easy to talk to a small group of self-referencing potentates to talk about the conservatives as opposed to what conservatives are actually doing on primary day.
And we're going to find out on Tuesday.
And I think McCain will perform very well, and then in a general election, I agree with Mary, there will be a unity behind it because it's a very simple decision for conservatives for a pro-life leader on the war, fiscal conservative John McCain versus Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama.
That's going to be an easiest pie choice for Rush Limbaugh and everybody else.
No, Mr. Murphy, it's not going to be an easiest pie choice because there isn't going to be any difference.
There isn't going to be any difference.
Anyway, I'm now potentate.
Started out as um uh what did I start out as?
I started out a tribal chief, tribal leader, went to tribal chief, uh, then I became what?
Well yeah, I ran a herd.
I was leading a herd, and now I'm a potentate.
Do you know what a potentate is, folks?
I mean, that's Ernest Howling's lingo.
A potentate is a ruler, a monarch, a potentate.
And uh what's next?
Tribal leader, tribal chieftain, leader of a herd, potentate.
No, not a mulah.
Next, I'm gonna be a mullah.
You wait.
A man, a living legend, a national treasure, a prophet, a potentate, leader of a herd, tribal chief, and leader of the talk radio mafia, Rush Limbaugh, with you on the EIB network.
Back to the phones now, Teresa in um Hartford County, uh, Maryland.
Nice to have you on the program.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
It's such a thrill to talk to you.
Thank you.
Can't even believe I'm talking to you.
Um Rush, in 2004, the media tried to convince us that George Bush was the inevitable loser of that election because nobody liked the way the war was going.
But we backed him because we followed our principles instead of the media tide.
And I wanted to add my two cents to try to answer the question about what is it that's pulling so many people along with the tide and away from our conservative principles.
Go right ahead and give it a shot.
Rush, I think it's what you've been talking about for the past few weeks, and that's ignorance.
People don't pay attention year-round, and they catch bits and pieces of what the media puts out there at them, and they buy whatever message they're selling.
That's right, and the media's choosing our candidate.
I don't disagree with you, Teresa.
People don't recognize the spirit And the ideology that's behind the candidate.
They don't they they can't compare it because they they just haven't been in the Rush Limbaugh school long enough.
Well, they hear the term Maverick and they think rugged individual.
Uh they hear the P.O.W. story, they think great American, and who would oppose a great American?
And Hillary, of course, doesn't have that kind of a resume.
and nor does Romney.
When you summarize somebody, even though it's false, When you can put forth an image in two or three words of somebody that speaks to everybody, that's the secret of what's happening here uh with McCain.
It's not about his philosophy, it's not about his position, so people don't care.
Right.
Well, I just I just hope that people will not worry about who they think can be the Democrat Democrat and just vote for who they want to be the president.
Who's going to carry the torch of conservatism for our country?
Believe me, uh for a lot of these people it is about who can win.
Because we're talking about party officials, people that want to be party officials, we're talking about inside the beltway pundits uh whose measure of success is how much they influence policy.
So if they uh if they if they have a fall in line behind the guy they think it's going to win and essentially be running Washington, then they're going to be in on the uh the power sharing.
So, you know, for even even for some of these so-called conservative guys, uh pundits on our side.
It's not it's not about conservatism at all.
It's about it's about their own personal desires to matter, uh, to have some power, to have some influence, that's how they measure things.
It's not really about the country.
Uh it's about them.
With all these people, it is about them.
And yet, in the midst of all this, those of us in talk radio are having it analyzed as though it's all about us, when our concerns are far greater than ourselves.
Thank you, Teresa.
Doug Orlando, Florida, thank you for the uh call, sir.
Appreciate your waiting.
Hello.
Hello, Geka Biddows.
Thank you, sir.
Listen, uh, uh, you know, I hear all this talk about uh national defense being so important and a McCain's strength, but Al Qaeda's strategy is to defeat us economically, not militarily.
I mean, a president who understands how to make us economically strong uh is the one that uh to me uh serves us better on defense.
Uh I mean Bush has done great work making us militarily strong.
We got a nimble military that's inventive, able to respond to where these guys are, it can be offensive, but uh it's critical to national security.
The next president knows how to keep our economy strong, able to withstand uh an attack like 911.
I mean, nine eleven wasn't a military attack, it was an economic attack.
Well, there was some military to it, but it was scary, and then they used our equipment to do it.
But let me you're right, but let me ask you a question about the economic uh subject matter that you have uh brought up for us here.
If you were to learn that a Republican presidential candidate was eager and excited to adopt the left's philosophy and strategy on dealing with the hoax of man-made global warming, what would you say of that Republican candidate?
Ouch.
I mean, look out.
Well, that is that is Senator McCain, and he has sponsored a bill with Senator Lieberman, it's McCain Lieberman or Lieberman McCain, I don't know what it is, but it it basically and war, we're not gonna drill there because it's it's pristine, we're do uh it adopts almost entirely the notion that uh man-made global warming is happening, that we're to blame for it.
And I'll I'll tell you if if uh any any Republican that adopts the left's belief and philosophy and strategy on the hoax of man-made global warming, uh that it's gonna wreck our economy.
And there are gathering threats to our economy around oil.
I mean, Iran, Venezuela, Russia, I mean, their alliance is an economic threat to us.
That's what they even talk about.
I know, but McCain's reaction to that is well, you know, I I I need to bone up on economics, but that doesn't matter because I'm an American and I care about America and it's gonna be okay.
Because I care about everywhere because I care about America.
I mean, Romney's got the got the know-how in in the private sector to understand how the economy in America works.
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
But notice something else.
You you you know fully well how many people in this country hate the private sector.
They hate the boss, they hate big corporations, they hate people that make a lot of money, they're envious and jealous of them, uh, and b and they somehow have have bought into the benevolence of government, Running as many economic institutions as possible.
Because somehow the government is going to be fair, and the private sector is only going to reward the rich.
And so they don't trust somebody who has private sector experience because their experience is getting screwed in the private sector.
They have no concept or their perception, not their experience, but their perception's getting screwed in the private sector, and they have no concept how government running their lives really shafts them.
Be back after this.
Got up yesterday, she says, and decided to uh endorse Obama.
So she showed up at the little Obama rally in uh well, big Obama rally in Los Angeles with uh the Oprah and uh Michelle Obama out there.
So the Schwarzenegger family has got the basis covered.
Arnold has endorsed McCain, and uh uh Maria has gone with the JFK side of the family endorsing Obama.
They can't lose.
Charlie Wrangle's wife endorsed Obama, but Wrangell is with Hillary, right?
Okay, then they got it covered.
Because the Wrangles can't lose, and the Schwarzenegger's can't lose.
Well, it depends if Hillary wins if Schwarzenegger's uh uh but actually they don't, because there's no difference in Obama and Hillary.
So that family's got it covered.
Because whoever, you figure if I mean they're gonna be happy no matter who wins.
McCain.
The only thing that'd disappoint them would be Romney.
That'd be the only thing.
Back to the audio sound bites.
This is uh Tim Russert's uh PMS NBC show on Saturday.
He's talking to E.J. Dion Jr. and Joe Klein of Time Magazine, uh, and they're talking about McCain, and uh E.J. Dion Jr. says, uh, yeah, he's fought him on a few issues, but he's also never been part of the organization.
It's not about McCain.
The conservative organization, they've always fought him.
Kind of a grudge match, rooted deep, rooted in the past.
And Joe Klein says You listen to Rush Limbaugh, and it's always fun to listen to Rush when he's desperate.
When he's riding high, you you know, I can't handle him.
But listening to him, uh, as I did last week, he sounds wounded.
You know, McCain isn't a real Republican.
He runs against the party.
Yeah.
Why you love him, Joe.
He's running against the party.
Doesn't it, folks?
Maybe, maybe, maybe I've lost touch here.
I mean, it was just six months ago that when liberal media members started singing praise to somebody, we were instantly suspicious.
Especially if they like them a lot.
Uh now it somehow seems.
You know, so many people.
I just thought of something, Snurdley.
How over the 20 years that we have been doing this.
How many times have we taken calls from people who want to say, Rush, maybe the media is getting it?
I saw something on TV last night, MBC AB, whatever, and X, and they thought that the media was, and they and I would say to them, you are setting yourself up for disappointment if you think that you can measure the success of conservatism by whether or not liberal media members all of a sudden get persuaded.
It isn't going to happen.
But look what's happening.
We've got drive-by media members having orgasms over McCain.
And that might be telling somebody, hey, man, McCain, the media likes McCain, and that might be enough for rather than it be a red flag as it should be, maybe because so many conservatives have this terminally defensive posture and are seeking acceptance from the drive-by media, and they see the drive-by support for McCain as as progress.
And they're not, they're not looking at it uh uh wisely, uh, shall I say.
I'm trying to understand this.
I'm just I'm I'm trying I'm uh verbal regurgitation of my thought process, the uh little gray cells and the fertile activity that's going on in them.
Mm-hmm.
Oh, this dead desk.
I'm not desperate.
I know Snurdley's upset because Joe Klein called Me desperately.
Last week we had so much fun last week with my non concession speech.
He mistakes passion for desperation.
That's all it is.
These guys, it's wishful thinking, Snerdley, you know this.
Here's the next one.
And this was the E.J. Dion Jr.
Uh after Klein said that uh, you know, Limboy sounds wounded.
Uh McCain isn't a real Republican, he runs against the party.
Dion Jr. chimed in.
This will be a divorce between the conservative movement and the leadership of the Republican Party.
A divorce after a 28-year marriage since 1980.
John McCain, if he wins this nomination, will be winning it against organized conservatism, not just Rush Limbaugh, but the whole movement.
And if you look at his base uh in the primaries, it's been moderates, liberals, anti-Bush voters, pro-choice voters.
McCain is pro-life, but it's pro-choice voters.
And so, you know, in a sense, Rush Limbaugh does reflect something that's deep inside this movement.
Yes.
E.J. Dion Jr. from the Washington Post.
Salient, correct analysis.
E.J. Well, no one will applaud too loud.
I could harm his reputation with his friends.
But he's right on the money with this.
It is pro-choicers that are voting for McCain.
I mean, that's who liberals are.
Independents and moderates, that's who they are.
They're scared to death to be pro-life because they'd be identified with those cranky Christians.
And those are the ones he's right about.
He's exactly right.
While McCain's out there saying his pro-life, uh, he's getting the pro-choice vote.
And this, this folks is said to be good.
This is said to be a way to expand our party.
Huh.
Uh let's see.
Fred Barnes, and this is what?
Special report on Friday night.
Uh this guest host here, Brett Baer.
And they had Barnes on there in the round table, one of the all-stars, and Brett Bear says, Fred, what does McCain have to do to reach out to the conservative base?
You have to extend uh a hand to somebody like Rush Limbaugh or whomever.
A top Republican strategist told me the thing he needs to do is call the top uh conservative radio talk show hosts who don't like McCain and tell him and say, look, uh, I know you don't like me, you have an independent mind, but just watch the way I'm campaigning.
I'm gonna campaign as a conservative.
If you have complaints or something, here's my cell phone number.
Call me, I'll answer.
Okay, so uh Barnes says McCain's supposed to come by for dinner, come by and say hi, and call us up and what McCain says he's not gonna do that, but he will answer the phone.
If uh if if we call.
Now, Barnes has his uh latest piece in a weekly standard entitled Let's Grow Up Conservatives and Defeat the Democrats in November.
Let's grow up, conservatives.
Fred, you know, you used to be one of us.
You used to be, Fred.
I mean, but now you seem to be all for the party becoming, you know, having its liberal wing, too.
Um, he writes, Republicans are in a sour mood, especially to talk radio mafia that regards McCain as anything but a reliable conservative.
They harbor qualms about Romney, too.
So potentate, tribal chief, tribal leader, leader of a herd.
Uh talk radio mafia.
Don Limbolione.
And of course, Mullow will be uh will be next.
All right, uh, Mark, Sacramento, my adopted hometown.
Hello, sir.
Rush, good to talk to you again.
Thank you, sir.
I was wondering if you could uh compare the Bush presidency to what you anticipate uh McCain president would be should he win.
Well, that'd be tough to do.
I mean, I I actually it wouldn't be tough to do, it'd be pretty easy.
Here's the thing that I've learned about the Bush presidency that I think would be a consistent with the McCain presidency.
And that is if we have another president who is going to spend most of his time reaching out to Democrats in order to get legislation passed, and thereby we know he's gonna McCain Kennedy, McCain Feingold, McCain Lieberman, McCain, whatever, he will continue to do this as president.
He's going to reach out to Democrats.
He and he's going to enjoy doing it.
This is how he will get even with Republicans or what they did to him in South Carolina in 2000.
This is this as to what's going to happen.
You're going to have a Republican Congress that's effectively going to be neutered.
Because when you're president, uh you are the leader of your party.
Don't you see?
And Republicans in Congress, they got all kinds of tarred and feathered in the November elections because they didn't do enough for spending.
They didn't do enough for small government, didn't do it.
Their own president proposed a brand new entitlement.
Medico, what are they supposed to do?
Oppose him?
That's political suicide.
So the same thing would happen with McCain.
You'd have conservative Republicans in the House and some in the Senate having to go along simply out of party loyalty, and you'd be mad.
You'd be you'd be blaming the conservatives for selling out and not bucking up when in fact the problem would be a non conservative president.
Well, it's isn't that the same as what we got now?
I've said as much as Bush is conservative on certain things, but he's not a conservative, and he's not leading a movement.
Um he's not leading an ideological movement.
He's done he's good on tax cuts, uh, which McCain opposed, uh, and he's been good on the wall, uh, national security and so forth.
Uh but he signed every spending bill that came across desk.
Uh and and I I th you know you're it probably would be pretty close uh in uh too many ways.
That's what I thought.
Thank you, Rush.
All right, appreciate it.
Rick in uh Augusta, Kansas.
You're next on the EIB network.
Hello.
Rush, how are you today?
Fine, sir.
Certified diddlehead here, average man, working man.
My uh question is I'd like to know uh McCain's uh economics.
He bragged about how he killed the tanker deal for Boeing.
I'd just like to know the delays over the past five years and the jobs lost because he was mad because he was not included in it, and some of his district did not get the work.
How many jobs and how and the cost accumulated on to of what the aircraft's gonna cost now, today?
Can he economically tell us, or is Mitt Romney the man we need to do that?
Uh yeah, but you know, the larger issue here, I mean that's that's that's an excellent question, but uh the the the way that to look at least the way I look at it is moving forward and looking forward and to take, okay, there's an example.
Senator McCain says, Well, I don't really understand economics and don't care about it that much.
He did say it, he's upset that it was reported, he was upset that it got brought up to him in a debate by uh by Tim Russert.
But then you took what what what in his campaign is he talking about now that would give us pause economically, and one of the big things is siding with the Democrats on this man made global warming hoax.
The economic disaster of adopting what Al Gore and the rest of those people want to do to this economy.
Uh difficult to describe.
That is a disaster that would be absolutely difficult to describe.
It would be so bad if they got everything that they wanted.
I'm a little uh short on time.
I've run long here, so let me take a brief time out.
We will continue in mere moments here on the one and only EIB network.
Stay with us.
My reaction when I saw it was good grief.
That's good grief.
I got a quote, a couple of quotes here for you from uh Ronaldus Magnus.
First one is from 1975.
Some of you might want to needlepoint these on your pillows.
I don't know about you, said Reagan in 1975, but I'm impatient with those Republicans who, after the last election, rushed into print saying we must broaden the base of our party.
When what they meant was to fuzz up and blur even more the differences between ourselves and our opponents.
I would suggest to you that that's exactly what's happening now.
Republicans want to fuzz up and blur the differences between ourselves and the Liberal Democrats.
Don't give up your ideals.
Don't compromise, don't turn to expediency, and don't, for heaven's sake, having seen the inner workings of the watch, don't get cynical.
Jackson what?
Jackson, what M I L L is Mississippi?
Bruce and Jackson, Millissippi.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hello.
Rush, how are you doing?
Just fine, sir.
We just think you're terrific.
But I'm going to tell you something, and I'm passionate about this.
We, I'm one of those, I'm one of those Walmart Baptist folk.
And I'll tell you something.
I wouldn't, we wouldn't vote.
I wouldn't vote for John McCain under any conditions, ever.
And I'll prove something else to you, that I'm not a mind numb robot, and I'm sorry I'm passionate about this, but I take care of my mother.
She's in great health, but we listen to you three hours a day.
It's quality time with her, quality time with you.
And I'll tell you something.
I'm just going to tell you the truth right here.
We would not vote for John McCain, and I'm not a mind-numb robot, because if I tell you something, if at the end of the day you hold your nose, say hold your nose and vote for John McCain, it's the only time I'll ever disagree with you.
At that point, I'll prove I'm not a mind-numb robot, and I will not vote for John McCain.
I think nothing but good about him.
I wish him terrific health, but I will not vote for him.
And my mother won't either.
And she's one of them senior citizens.
We love you, Rush.
Bruce, look at me.
Hello?
Yeah, look at me.
I got a question for you.
Yes.
You realize there are drive-by media people listening to this.
Yes.
They will say that you are saying all this simply because I have brainwashed you.
No, sir.
That you are a mind-numbed robot.
No, sir.
I'm not a mind-numb robot.
I think for myself.
You issued me a you know, not a threat, but a warning.
You said if down the road I tell you to hold your nose and vote McCain, that you're out of here.
Well, I'm not out of your audience, Rush.
Trust me about that.
I'm for you 100%.
But I will disagree with you at that point.
I don't think you'll do it, but even if you do, I still love you.
My mama says hi, she loves you.
But we will not vote for John McCain.
In fact, if I even see that the election's close at that time, I might, I don't, I've never voted Democrat in my life, but I might even consider voting Democrat.
Just uh stick it in the Democrat eye.
Wait a minute.
I got one minute.
You gotta tell people as briefly as you can, why you have this passion of opposition to uh Senator McCain.
He stuck a stick in the eye of Republicans every single time he had a chance.
Now I wish John McCain nothing but good health.
I'm sure he's a fine person.
I respect his military, but I will not vote for him.
He's not a Republican.
And and Rush, we love you.
I just want you to know we just think the world of you.
And uh and anyway, we just we I just I'm sorry I'm passionate about it, but I'm a conservative and I'm a Republican.
Never apologize for your passion.
Never apologize.
And and Bruce, I love you too.
Love you and your mom.
I love all the people in this audience.
Well, I'll tell you she's in good health, but but I she's on a walker, and I take care of her.
I love her dearly.
But I tell you what, you're you're you're a mighty close number two.
We thank the world of you.
Thanks.
Bruce, thank thank you again.
I appreciate it.
Um means more than you can ever possibly know.
We'll take a brief time out and continue right after this, folks.
Stay with us.
You may not have gotten a Super Bowl call, but I got a whole bunch of Hutch emails saying, Are you gonna talk about how right I was?
And he was.
De Brady gets sacks three times or more, and the Patriots lose.
The Hutch called it.
Be back tomorrow, super duper Tuesday.
Have a fine night tonight, folks.
See you then.
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