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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 of new final hour, the EIB.
What are you doing in that computer monitor in there?
Just turned it royal blue on me.
Don't miss one.
I can still read it.
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The New York Giants charter is seven minutes away, eight minutes away from Wheels Up out in Phoenix.
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 by air traffic control.
There's some rain out there, too.
And they should be getting back.
It's about a four and a half, five hour target.
Well, for their plane, probably maybe five and a half hours back, five hours back.
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 Democrat side the most?
Who knows?
We won't know until it happens.
Fox News yesterday kind of tricked Hillary and McCain.
They had them both on the show.
Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace.
And the idea was that they would both be on separately.
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, and McCain was asked if they'd like to speak to each other.
They had no choice, and they did speak to each other, very civil about it.
Ed Morrissey at Captain's Quarters says that the McCain camp was not particularly happy about this.
Properly so, because part of the conservative complaint against McCain is his deference to Democrats while treating conservatives much more harshly.
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.
Republicans might want somebody less inclined to put the gloves on against Hillary than taking them off against fellow Republicans.
And Morrissey is exactly right here.
McCain is far friendlier to his enemies, the people that are going to try to bury him, than he is to people who, well, he's making friends with his enemies.
Let's just put it that way.
And here's the bottom line.
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 soundbites we go.
This is Fox Newswatch, their media analyst show or analysis show.
And 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, in 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 going to win this nominee.
I'm going to be the party nominee on Tuesday.
It's going to 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 are liberal by predisposition and are immensely enjoying a serious problem for these 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, the glee is more about, it's not just about that, Jane, that there's a split.
And that's exciting and interesting.
There's glee for 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 going to go right after the fairness doctrine.
That's another subject for another time.
Meet the press, the roundtable.
Mary Madeline, Bob Shrum have this exchange about 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.
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 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 campaign of the haughty John Kerry, who served in Vietnam.
So Shrum, big liberal Democrat.
Excited that McCain picks up half point every time I criticize him.
Mary Madeline's exactly right.
McCain is drifting to the left, trying to pick up liberals and independents at the expense of conservatives.
Democrats and crossovers in lieu of conservatives.
That's exactly what's happening.
And we conservatives are being told that we're not necessary and so forth.
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.
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 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, 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.
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.
You think these drive-by types and Bob Schrum types who love McCain are going to vote for him in November?
I've got another thing coming if you do.
They are not going to sabotage their own party by abandoning.
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.
But moving on, the roundtable, Tim Russert and Democrat strategerist James Carville have this exchange about me.
Here's Rush Limbaugh on his radio program on Thursday.
I was watching the endorsement of Senator McCain by Governor Schwarzenegger in California.
What a picture this was.
And 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 healthcare, eco-extreme governor who says the Republican Party needs to follow him to the left.
Mr. Carville?
McCain started out by sucking up to these right-wing guys.
He looked ridiculous.
His campaign went nowhere.
He abandoned that strategy.
He went back to being the OJON 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, does anybody have any doubt who he hopes wins?
You think James Carville is going to support McCain over Hillary or 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 make liberal Democrats happy.
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.
And 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 think it's easy to talk to a small group of self-referencing potentates that 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 easy as pie choice for Rush Limbaugh and everybody else.
No, Mr. Murphy, it's not going to be an easy as pie choice because there isn't going to be any difference.
There isn't going to be any difference.
Anyway, I'm now a potentate.
Started out as, what did I start out as?
I started out a tribal chief, tribal leader, went to tribal chief.
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 Holling's lingo.
A potentate is a ruler, a monarch, a potentate.
And what's next?
Tribal leader, tribal chieftain, leader of a herd, potentate.
No, not a mullah.
Next, I'm going to 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 Hartford County, Maryland.
Nice to have you on the program.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
It's such a thrill to talk to you.
Thank you.
I can't even believe I'm talking to you.
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 is 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 can't compare it because they just haven't been in the Rush Limbaugh school long enough.
Well, they hear the term maverick and they think rugged individual.
They hear the POW 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, but 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 with McCain.
It's not about his philosophy.
It's not about his position, so people don't care.
Right.
Well, I just hope that people will not worry about who they think can be the 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, 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 whose measure of success is how much they influence policy.
So if they have a fallen 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 power sharing.
So, you know, even for some of these so-called conservative guys, pundits on our side, it's not about conservatism at all.
It's about their own personal desires to matter, to have some power, to have some influence.
That's how they measure things.
It's not really about the country.
It's about them with all these people.
It's about them.
And yet, in the midst of all this, those of us on 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 call, sir.
Appreciate your waiting.
Hello.
Hello, Giga Biddos.
Thank you, sir.
Listen, I hear all this talk about national defense being so important and a McCain 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 is the one that, to me, serves us better on defense.
I mean, Bush has done great work making us militarily strong.
We've got a nimble military that's inventive, able to respond to where these guys are.
It can be offensive, but it's critical in national security.
The next president knows how to keep our economy strong, able to withstand an attack like 9-11.
I mean, 9-11 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 ask you a question about the economic subject matter that you have 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 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 basically and war, we're not going to drill there because it's pristine.
It adopts almost entirely the notion that man-made global warming is happening, that we're to blame for it.
And I'll tell you, if any Republican that adopts the left's belief and philosophy and strategy on the hoax of man-made global warming, it's going to 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 need to bone up on economics, but that doesn't matter because I'm an American and I care about America and it's going to be okay because I care about America.
Because I care about America.
I mean, Romney's got the know-how in the private sector to understand how the economy is.
Yeah, America is.
Yeah, But notice something else.
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.
And they somehow 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, their perception is getting screwed in the private sector.
They have no concept how government running their lives really shafts them.
Be back after this.
Well, do you see where Maria Shriver got up yesterday, she says, and decided to endorse Obama.
So she showed up at the little Obama rally in, well, big Obama rally in Los Angeles with the Oprah and Michelle Obama out there.
So the Schwarzenegger family has got the basis covered.
Arnold has endorsed McCain, and Maria has gone with the JFK side of the family endorsing Obama.
They can't lose.
Charlie Wrangell's wife endorsed Obama, but Wrangell is with Hillary, right?
Look, then they got it covered.
Because the Wrangells can't lose, and the Schwarzeneggers can't lose.
Well, it depends if Hillary wins at Schwarzenegger's money.
But actually, they don't, because there's no difference in Obama and Hillary.
So the head family's got it covered.
Because whoever you figure if I mean, they're going to 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 Tim Russert's PMS NBC show on Saturday.
He's talking to E.J. Deion Jr. And Joe Klein of Time Magazine, and they're talking about McCain.
And E.J. Deion Jr. says, 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 know, I can't handle him.
But listening to him, as I did last week, he sounds wounded.
You know, McCain isn't a real Republican.
He runs against the party.
Yeah, that's why you love him, Joe.
He's running against the party.
Doesn't it, folks?
Maybe, maybe I've lost touch here.
I mean, it was just six months ago that when liberal media members started singing praise of somebody, we were instantly suspicious, especially they like them a lot.
Now it somehow seems, you know, so many people, I just thought of something, Snerdley.
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, NBCA, whatever, and X, and they thought that the media was, and I would say to him, 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 progress.
And they're not looking at it wisely, shall I say?
I'm trying to understand this.
I'm trying verbal regurgitation of my thought process, the little gray cells and the fertile activity that's going on in them.
Oh, this, that, this.
I'm not death.
I know.
Snerdley'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 E.J. Deion Jr. after Klein said that, you know, Limbaugh sounds wounded.
McCain isn't a real Republican.
He runs against the party.
Deion 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 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. Deion Jr. from the Washington Post.
Salient, correct analysis.
E.J.
Oh, don't want to applaud too loud.
It 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 he's pro-life, he's getting the pro-choice vote.
And this, folks, is said to be good.
This is said to be a way to expand our party.
Let's see, Fred Barnes, and this is what?
Special report on Friday night, this guest host here, Brett Baer, and they had Barnes on there in the roundtable, one of the all-stars, and Brett Baer says, Fred, what does McCain have to do to reach out to the conservative base?
He has to extend 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 conservative radio talk show hosts who don't like McCain and tell them and say, look, I know you don't like me.
You have an independent mind, but just watch the way I'm campaigning.
I'm going to campaign as a conservative.
If you have complaints or something, here's my cell phone number.
Call me.
I'll answer.
Okay, so Barnes says McCain's supposed to come by for dinner, come by and say hi, and call us up.
McCain says he's not going to do that, but he will answer the phone if we call.
Now, Barnes has his latest piece in the 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.
Anyway, 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, talk radio mafia, Don Limboglione.
And of course, Mullo will be next.
All right, Mark, Sacramento, my adopted hometown.
Hello, sir.
Hi, Rush.
Good to talk to you again.
Thank you, sir.
I was wondering if you could compare the Bush presidency to what you anticipate the McCain presidency would be should he win.
Well, that'd be tough to do.
I mean, 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 McCain Kennedy, McCain fine gold, McCain Lieberman, McCain, whatever.
He will continue to do this as president.
He's going to reach out to Democrats.
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.
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, you are the leader of your party.
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.
But their own president proposed a brand new entitlement.
Medica, 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 blaming the conservatives for selling out and not bucking up when, in fact, the problem would be a non-conservative president.
Well, isn't that the same as what we got now?
I've said as much.
I said, Bush is conservative on certain things, but he's not a conservative, and he's not leading a movement.
He's not leading an ideological movement.
He's good on tax cuts, which McCain opposed, and he's been good on the law, national security and so forth.
But he signed every spending bill that came across the desk.
And it probably would be pretty close in too many ways.
That's what I thought.
Thank you, Rush.
All right, appreciate it.
Rick in 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 question is: I'd like to know McCain's 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 to work.
How many jobs and the cost accumulated on two of what the aircraft's going to cost now today?
Can he economically tell us, or is Mitt Romney the man we need to do that?
Yeah, but you know, the larger issue here, I mean, that's an excellent question, but the way to look at it, at least the way I look at it, is moving forward, looking forward, and to take, okay, there's an example.
Senator McCain says, I don't really understand economics.
I don't care about it that much.
He did say he's upset that it was reported.
He was upset that it got brought up to him in a debate by Tim Russert.
But then you took, hey, 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.
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 short on time.
I've run long here.
So let me take a brief timeout.
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 Ronaldus Magnus.
First one is from 1975.
Some of you might want to needle point 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.
Second Reagan quote, 1976, 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.
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 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, 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've never voted Democrat in my life, but I might even consider voting Democrat just to stick it in the Democrat eye.
Wait a minute.
Talk about the Democrat being John McCain.
I got one minute.
You've got to tell people as briefly as you can why you have this passion of opposition to 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 Rush, we love you.
I just want you to know we just thank the world of you.
And anyway, we just, 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 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 she's on a walker, and I take care of her.
I love her dearly.
But I tell you what, you're a mighty close number two.
We thank the world of you.
Thanks.
Bruce, thank you again.
I appreciate it.
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 going to talk about how right I was?
And he was.
Brady gets sacked three times or more, and the Patriots lose.
The Hutch called it.
Be back tomorrow, Super Duper Tuesday.
Have a fine night tonight, folks.
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