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Feb. 7, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 7, 2008, Thursday, Hour #3
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I got a slogan.
I got a slogan for our potential.
For our possible Hillary fundraiser.
Here's the slogan.
Keep her in it so we can win it.
*laughter*
How about that?
No, folks, I'm seriously considering this.
If you're just joining us.
Welcome back to the Rush Limbaugh program here on the EIB network.
The phone number is 800-282-2882.
The email address is Lrushbow at EIBNet.com.
I'm dead serious about considering this.
I mean, you may think this is a joke, but uh it is it is obvious.
I've read things, I've seen things, I've heard people say things, uh pundits on our side.
Don't worry about McCain Rush.
Uh Hillary is so hated and despised and loathed and so forth.
That alone will unite our voters.
The fear and loathing of Hillary Clinton, or fear and loathing for Hillary Clinton.
And it appears that may be what our our strategy is.
Rather than get leadership, conservative leadership from our own party, it may well be that's the thing.
And if she's in danger of losing a nomination, folks, here's this rookie who's been in a Senate for two years.
Uh, and he's smoking her on fundraising.
He is doing everything that he can and is succeeding, and she's had to borrow money and so forth.
And if our uh if our electoral victory in November requires her being in the race, we gotta stop him because there's no fear and loathing on Obama.
You can't run against Obama fearing him or loathing him or dissing him.
It ain't gonna work.
He doesn't have the personality that makes any of that fit.
So we need to keep her in it so we can win it.
I'll have more on this as I give uh future thought to this.
Stand by, let's say, ladies and gentlemen, the uh official program observer is literally having a conniption fit on the other side of the glass.
What happened?
Bill Crystal what?
Said what?
Yes.
Mm-hmm.
Bill Bill Crystal said, I know he's just on Fox right now, but I couldn't hear it because uh Bill Crystal just said at the end of the day, I'm a grown-up.
He said, Rush Limbaugh's a grown-up, we'll end up supporting McCain.
Pretty much that that was pretty much it.
I'm I'm a grown-up, I'll support McCain at the end of the day.
We're not being treated like grown-ups.
We're not.
When when McCain says, we just need to calm down.
I mean, that's treating us like we're six years old.
Look, I we've said what we've had to say about McCain.
You know the drill on this.
Uh if you missed the monologue in the first hour, please catch it at Rush Limbaugh.com later this afternoon we update the site to reflect the um uh uh contents of today's program.
They got hold of Chip Saltzman uh uh at the Huckabee campaign, said you're gonna drop out too.
He said, Hell no.
We're not dropping out, we're in this till the end.
Now, here's the thing.
Here's the funny and interesting thing about that.
Huckabee is no more useful to McCain.
Up until now, Huckabee has been useful.
Cancel Romney here, take Romney's delegates, take the McCain gives up his delegates, give them to the Huckabee in West Virginia, you beat Romney there.
But now Huckabee serves no purpose for McCain.
I mean every vote that Huckabee gets is a vote taken from McCain now, not from Romney.
So this is this will be interesting to see what um what happens.
I I supposed to be a compliment.
I'm a grown-up, I'll see the light.
Is that is that what that would Bill Crystal?
Okay.
Well, okay, so the first outreach has taken place.
The first little outreach is taking place.
Well, I I don't mind being a grown-up.
But see, one of the problems is uh it's not a problem.
One of the great freedoms I have as a human being is to not be a grown-up certain days.
I mean, you don't have to be a grown-up if you don't want to.
You can, you know, play like you're uh still a child's high school, college, whatever, and live your life that way.
But I get his point.
I get his point.
They're sitting there, and they're saying, look, when you get down to November, all this that happens here in the primary, it's all gonna be swept.
These people are grown-ups.
You're not gonna do anything to see to it.
Limbaugh and his crowd not gonna do anything to see to it to Hillary gets elected.
And I've you know, made it clear here today, uh pondering my potential Hillary fundraiser.
Keep her in it so we can win it.
Seems to be the primary strategic Republican Party.
Charles Krauthammer, by the way, on special report where Britt Hume last night in the uh this is off Sunbite number four, Mike, uh, had this to say about McCain, and he does it, he does a good job here of explaining people's problem with McCain.
And when he was starting his making peace, he said everybody should just calm down.
Well, there's a tone problem there.
That's the kind of the thing that you say to a six-year-old having a tangent.
And that's McCain.
I mean, he's got to learn humility, and he's not good at it.
Well, he either has to learn humility or fake it.
He may be too old uh to learn it, so he needs a good coach.
He loves sticking a finger in the eye and showing himself above all of this and being independent.
It's that character issue, which I think is at stake here.
That's a fascinating thing for Charles Krauthammer to say, because the the real uh the real selling point for McCain on the uh on the McCain side is is his character.
And Crowhammer is saying that this uh petulance and is being above it all and not having humility uh is actually a uh childlike.
It's uh sort of a character flaw.
Anyway, uh let's see, what was this?
Uh what was this what did this happen?
Gloria Steinem, where was she?
ASU, Arizona State University Mountain must be Arizona State University.
Appalachian State University, sorry, she was Appalachian State University.
Feminist leader Gloria Steinem visited Appalachian State on Monday and spoke that evening on the progression of feminism.
Where are we going?
She's she's people think I need cheering up.
Steinem started off her presentation addressing the popular sediment that feminism in the women's movement is not necessary anymore.
This movement, the women's movement, it's been going on for something like 35 years, is often treated as if it were over.
We hear words like post-feminism.
That's kind of like post-democracy.
What does that mean?
She addressed how feminism has been demonized, specifically by opponents of the movement like Rush Limbaugh, who coined the term feminazy.
And then she went on to say that because of people like Limbaugh, the feminist movement is still necessary.
I was having dinner last night with some people in Washington.
And I love using this line, especially on people who have never heard it.
And uh there were there were uh a bunch of us, a bunch of women, and uh they had to walk up some stairs to get out of the dining room with a restaurant.
And uh the women were standing aside, letting us men go first.
I said, No, no, no, no, you guys go.
I love the women's movement when walking behind it.
And the ones that have never heard that reaction is they they start to get offended and then laugh, or they just laugh.
Uh right off the uh right off the top.
CPAC, by the way, CPackers have been told not to boo Senator McCain today.
Uh we will see what happens if they No, they have they were they were they they were told not to boo Senator Cain, Senator McCain.
Howard Dean says that uh he's a Democrat National Committee chairman.
He says he voiced a little concern over the prospect of a brokered convention at the end of the uh White House nominating contest.
So the idea that we can afford to have a big fight at the convention and then win the race in the next eight weeks, I think it's not a good scenario.
Uh so they're all they're they're very, very much concerned.
And here's Jim Van De Hay and Mike Allen in the Politico.com five reasons Hillary should be worried.
Hillary Clinton survived a Super Tuesday scare, but there are five big reasons that the former First Lady should be spooked by the current trajectory of the campaign.
Longtime Clinton friends say she recognizes the peril in careening between the near-death primary night experiences and small bore victories.
Although the Friends did not have details, they believe she may go ahead with a campaign shakeup That she had been planning just before her surprise victory in New Hampshire.
Her team is girding for trench warfare.
Telling reporters the nomination will not be decided until at least the Pennsylvania primary on April 22nd, if then.
While Clinton's campaign gloated about having the most total delegates for the cycle so far, her staff nevertheless recognizes that Super Tuesday was no triumph, and here's why.
Reason one, she lost the delegate Derby.
Despite the mainstream media reporting that she won the majority of delegates on Tuesday, she did not.
The only way you can say she did is if you throw her superdelegates in there.
But of the delegates that were selected on the basis of the vote Tuesday, Obama won a majority of the states and a majority of delegates.
Number two, she essentially tied Obama in the popular vote.
They each won just over 3.7 or 7.3 million votes, which is a level of parity unthinkable as recently as a few weeks ago.
Number three, she lost more states.
And particularly in Missouri, his win, Obama's win in Bellwether, Missouri, was impressive by nearly every measure, marked by victories among men and women, secular and church-going voters and urban and suburban voters.
I saw this morning that the Clintons are thinking of uh challenging the count and the uh the vote itself in Missouri, that they it's such a slim margin of something like two percent, and now the Democrats are behaving as we know them.
Uh vote fraud in a Democrat primary.
She also lost the January cash war.
That's reason number four, she should be worried.
Number five, the calendar is her enemy.
So it couldn't be any clearer as to why the supposedly inevitable candidacy is anything but even when she's supposedly winning.
So um uh Mrs. Clinton has had to borrow five million dollars from herself.
She's insisting it's her money.
She's got most of her staff unpaid, including her campaign manager.
And if you missed this, a reporter today this morning said, Well, Mrs. Clinton, uh, your unpaid campaign staff, which basically would you have an unpaid campaign staff, wouldn't you have a bunch of interns?
So the campaign staff or Mrs. Clinton, now a bunch of interns.
And the question was, are your are your unpaid intern staff members uh getting health care coverage?
She dodged the question.
Say, for you drive by media types that uh end up talking to Mrs. Clinton, you know, she's had to borrow five million dollars from herself to fund her ongoing campaign.
It might be wise to just point out to her or ask her, ask her a question.
Mrs. Clinton, you've you've you've you've borrowed five million dollars from yourself.
Do you appreciate the lower tax rates that you and your husband are paying that helped you amass that five million dollars?
Uh because a higher tax rate, I mean, she'd she'd she'd have had to earn more money to get this five million dollars.
So it was it was the Bush tax cuts that helped Mrs. Clinton amass the five million dollars she could loan herself.
Now this will never occur to her, but it would an enterprising reporter, but if a reporter's gonna go out and ask her, Mrs. Clinton, do your unpaid staffers have health coverage?
Do you realize Mrs. Clinton that Bush tax cuts enabled you to amass this five million dollars easier than otherwise?
Oh I also want to go back to this piece.
I missed this, but snurdly caught it.
I want to go back to this political piece by Jim Vandehay and Mike Allen.
The five reasons Hillary should be worried piece.
Listen to this opening sentence.
Hillary Clinton survived a Super Tuesday scare, but there are five big reasons the former first ladies should be spooked.
Spooked by the current trajectory to campaign.
Now, in certain quarters of America, that's code language.
And these white reporters, I'm sure this is inadvertent and does not indicate any latent in institutional racism.
Hillary Clinton survived his Super Tuesday scare.
There are Five big reasons a former first lady should be spooked by the current trajectory.
What's the who's on the trajectory of the campaign?
It's Obama.
She should be spooked by Obama.
So I it's totally slipped my mind because, of course, I don't think in Easter, Mr. Snurdley, who is an African American, very, very, very, very much attuned to this stuff.
And he's offended by this uh blatant drive-by racism, uh, referring to Mrs. Clinton's opponent uh with code language.
Uh spooked.
Uh thank you.
I I had missed this.
All right, we got we got a campaign slogan here for Mrs. Clinton, because obviously uh the best shot for Republicans winning the White House is is Hillary as a nominee.
So I'm thinking of doing this fundraising the slogan, uh she should stay in it so we can win it.
Or stay in it so we well now Obama needs a slogan.
If our slogan is stay in it so she can win it, Obama's slogan is a vote for Hillary is a vote for McCain.
That would work.
It would absolutely work.
The Republicans want her to be the nominee, since that's the best shot for Republicans.
How's that any different from McCain wanting Huckabee to stay in because that was his best shot at beating Romney?
So if I was advising Obama, I'd tell him that by adopting a vote for Hillary's a vote for McCain as his slogan over the next couple of months, he could increase the chance of beating Hillary while constantly reminding disgruntled Republicans of the similarities between McCain and Hillary.
But he's we'll see.
I mean, I'm not running anybody's campaign here just thinking about this uh fundraising effort.
Now she had a loan or so five million dollars.
We all know that the Clinton library and massage parlor is a virtual Fort Knox of uh of donations and and so forth.
Uh and of course, there's obviously a shoe deficit uh that would be Norman shoe uh deficit in the Clinton campaign.
If uh he's out there, this rookie's raising all this money.
She's borrowing five million dollars from herself?
What a what what was what you know she mu she folks, if the Riyabis won't float her any money, if the Lippo group won't come won't come forward, uh there's obviously something seriously wrong inside that uh that that campaign.
And how about the dishwashers and the janitors in Chinatown?
What happened to all that money?
This is Sarah in Bellevue, Nebraska.
Hi, Sarah, thanks for waiting.
You are on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
How are you?
Fine.
Couldn't be better.
I am standing here in my red leather jacket that I bought on my trip to Spain and enjoying the global warming we're experiencing here in the first week of February Nebraska.
How hot is it?
It's 20 some degrees.
You know, I was in Washington.
When I got off the airplane in Washington, it was 76.
When I got on the airplane, it was 65, and it was hot and humid.
And we have it's been in the it's been in the 80s here for the past three weeks, minus a couple days of a dip.
But uh I know you Midwest, you're getting plastered again.
Snow and ice, cold weather and so forth.
John Kerry, by the way, says this because of global warming.
Yeah.
He did.
Uh the reason I called is I want to tell you that the Republican Party, or the conservatives, excuse me, have been suffering from battered wife syndrome for quite some time now.
And I think people have just come to the point of saying enough is enough.
Even now, you mean you got Romney dropping out of the race.
Where does that leave you?
I don't know.
But I, you know, if you're an abusive relationship, at some point you have to stop the insanity.
And the only way you can do that is to change your behavior.
This one more time, one more time, one more time.
It ain't working.
Uh I hear you, I look, I've had a lot of people uh that have voiced your opinion about this.
They haven't put it in your terms of you know, battered uh wife syndrome.
I think we created battered liberal syndrome to explain uh some of the kook fringe left and how they keep getting shafted by their own party in their own way, like the Iraq war, we're gonna end it if you elect us and and uh and this sort of thing.
Uh but it's it look at now that that Romney's out, there's no conservative alternative here.
Huckabee's gonna stay in because he wants to be VEP.
Uh and he's now I don't know, a big threat to McCain, but it's gonna be interesting to see where this all takes us.
Back in a second.
And back to the phones.
We go here to uh Pocahontas, Arkansas.
This is Joey.
Glad you called and glad you waited.
Welcome.
Hi, Rush.
This is Joey from Arkansas.
It's an honor to speak to you.
Thank you.
Rush, what I wanted to say was I'm a Christian conservative and a loyal Republican.
I've voted every year, every election cycle since 1984.
So I'm pretty depressed today because this is the first time that I found myself in a position where I will not work for the nominee.
In fact, hell will freeze over before I'll vote for McCain.
Or Huckabee for that matter.
Uh yeah, I'm gonna sit home this year, and my husband says he is too.
And in fact, I also wanted to say that it's really true what you said about Obama.
He doesn't scare me.
He doesn't I'm not afraid of him.
In fact, I may even vote for him against McCain.
You you you you won't do that when you find out what m what Obama's policies are.
Well, and you know what?
I know that he's a very liberal.
I know that.
But just think of just think of a nice Hillary Clinton.
That's uh in terms of policy.
You're right, you're right.
Maybe even worse.
But I like what's possible.
He's very likable.
Yep, and that matters in a television age.
It does.
Well, I have to tell you, you know, I I uh I know there's a lot of emotion on this right now, Joey and the rest of you in this audience.
I have spent a lot of time today perusing uh public email account, the El Rushball uh email account, the 24-7, the subscriber email account.
I'm telling you, there is after Romney's announcement.
I am stunned.
I I'm I'm close to a record number of emails during a three-hour show in the El Rushbo account, the general public account, and the vitriol for McCain and how they're not gonna vote and a repu no matter what happens, we're a conservative not going to be fooled.
Right now, the emotion is just it's it's it's the anger is palpable here in the uh in the email.
Now, this is February.
I don't know if if uh if if this is gonna be held on to throughout the uh elections and so forth.
There are a lot of people sad.
I can hear the sadness in Joey's voice.
It sounded like she was about to cry.
Because it means so much to her.
The first time nobody in her party she can support, and she doesn't like voting against people.
Uh as she's she's she sounded she sounded very crushed.
Be interesting to see how much of this there is out there.
By the way, uh just uh the Atlantic.com is reporting uh that uh McCain will show up at CPAC today with George Allen, the uh senator, uh former senator from Virginia, who a lot of people were hoping uh prior to this macacas stuff that was so overblown that he would actually enter the presidential primaries and be the true Reaganite and the uh in the roster, and it didn't happen, of course.
So what with all the politicians, the party politicians now are lining up.
This is this are to traditional and and this is what happens.
I mean, people in the party, elected officials, current and formant, are former are not going to wander off the party reservation.
So uh and you're gonna look at this.
Some of you might see the guys, everybody's betraying us, everybody they're just they're playing the game as they know it.
You know, this is their business.
This is their this is their job.
Uh and you don't see executives at Exxon walking out in mass when a CEO makes a decision that they don't like, or when a new CEO is hired after one leaves.
You might see a couple who leave because they're out of the line of succession now, but um you don't see it happen just like you're not gonna see it in politics.
You're not gonna see half the elected leadership or more abandon the Republican Party.
Uh you it yet you do cheer them on in politics, you do cheer them on.
That's party unity.
Everybody wants to be part of unifying the party in the in the in the event you win.
Uh and if you if you lose, you don't want the blame for it.
By so look at this is all CYA.
And no matter how you cut it, This isn't happening by virtue of ideas.
It's not happening by virtue of policies.
This is this is party hectum.
Hackdom.
This is this is this is the way political parties work.
And and so, you know, Allen's getting on board.
Colburn, the conservative senator from Oklahoma is going to introduce McCain at uh at CPAC.
But this is what happens.
The politicians just get on you know, folks, I realize this is a you know, Joey's call from Pocahontas, Arkansas uh hit a nerve, and it's something that that I hadn't considered, and that is she she was really upset.
There's for the first time in her voting life, there's nobody she feels like she can vote for in her own party, not with good conscience.
And she knows how important voting is, it just it distresses her to no end.
Well, when you see all these other party people now line up, which is what they do, uh it's it's it's probably it might depress some of you uh even more.
Joey, thanks for the call.
I appreciate it.
Uh Walter in Falls City, Nebraska.
Nice to have you on the EIB network, sir.
Hello.
Good morning.
Hi.
Hey, uh, you know, he's talking about your select number beds.
And so me and the wife went up and tried one.
And when we bought ours, they had a spatial that they would give you a uh single bed for half price.
So we bought it, and I put it in my truck for when I travel out across country, I can still have my good night's sleep.
No kidding.
So you bought two of them, you bought a single for the cab of the truck.
Yeah.
Now that's ingenuity.
It is so far it's been working good.
Well, if it's working now, it'll continue to work good.
The only thing with the single bed is you don't get the uh number readout.
Well, but no, that's a that's right.
I mean, you you you have to feel it.
But there's nothing wrong with that.
Oh no.
There's nothing wrong with feeling the firmness in the bed.
No, no.
If anybody likes sleeping on air mattresses, these are a lot better because I slept on an air mattress before, but I kept poking hole in them.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
You don't you don't want to compare the sleep number bed to an air mattress.
It's a r it's a bad, it is a it's a genuine real bit.
I appreciate that, Walter.
Thank you.
Sue in Cincinnati, glad you waited.
Uh, madam, and welcome to the program.
Thanks, Rush.
Megadiddoes.
Thank you.
Listen, last week you had a mini debate going on that if uh McCain was the nominee and Mrs. Clinton was the nominee, that it didn't matter who you voted for, they're both socialists, the country was gonna go down, may as well let a liberal take it down.
And there was no difference between the two.
And I think there is a discernible, at the time I thought there was a discernible difference, and that is that I believe Mrs. Clinton could deal the fatal blow to this country.
So I was prepared to vote in the Ohio Democratic primary against her.
Because I think she needs to be, at the time, I thought she needed to be taken out as soon as possible.
Um fast forward to today, we got all this rigmarole with McCain.
Uh Romney's dropped out of the race, and my question is, what do you think, or how effective do you think a writing campaign for Romney would be?
And my second question is just how many female names are on your list of all-time top female names?
Because we know it's more than ten.
What do you mean you know it's more than ten?
I listen to you all the time.
How many names are on my top ten all-time favorite female list?
I actually haven't counted.
You're right, there's more than okay.
The blooms off the rose.
Uh as far as a write-in campaign, you know, this the vote is a very personal thing.
Uh uh I've had conversations with people here uh uh before when uh when they told me they were gonna vote for the somebody that was guaranteed to lose, and I said, why are you gonna waste it?
That was when there was somebody I I thought there was, you know, really worth winning and and and electing.
Uh in terms of the effectiveness of a right and vote, I don't think there'll be enough people to write it.
Now, this is February.
Who knows what can change?
This is this is why I was saying the other day.
Life's so exciting, get up every day, you don't know what's going to happen.
We certainly don't want to know what's going to happen in time we get to convention as through the summertime.
But traditionally a write-in vote is not going to elect anybody.
Uh it's uh it's you know, right if you if you're gonna write in Romney, you're obviously not going to vote for the Republican nominee, so it's gonna have some impact there, and if there's enough write-ins for anybody, uh number of Republicans other than McCain, it'll certainly have an impact there.
But in terms of electing the write-in candidate, uh that'll never happen.
So what's what's the answer?
Because McCain, I mean, when he said to calm down, he was asking us to join together, support the party, and he has done nothing but divorce himself from the Republican Party on principle.
I I look I hear you.
And I have I've been making this point.
McCain is asking us to do exactly what he has not been doing.
That's right.
He'd been reaching out to the other side to people we consider threats to the country, like you just said about Hillary.
We're saying reach out to us.
And now we're told no, you reach out to me while I reach out to them on the left, and and it's just it's it's frustrating.
And it's it's clear here that the the problem, you know, you're there's so many there's so many things working here, and there's so many things that if they go wrong, we're gonna end up with a debacle.
It's not just that Mrs. Clinton might win.
It is what let me ask you this question, because I'm you Sue, you obviously care about that.
What happens if McCain wins by attracting liberals and independence to our party as liberals and independents?
What happens to conservatism in that sense?
The Republican Party on election night would go, they would throw the biggest celebration, it'd be the biggest party.
They would have so much fun, they'd be pointing fingers and be going nya nyan nya.
But the Republican Party would have been victorious by attracting liberals and independents as liberals.
I think I think it's gonna be part of a gigantic cycle where Republicanism and conservatism goes away for a while.
So the Republican Party is gonna be without conservative support, and therefore it's gonna be small and a minority party.
Yep.
And that makes me sad because when this country goes down, if it ever does, I want to be dead.
Yeah, but you you you you um conservatives can't exist in a vacuum.
There's gonna if they do that, they're not gonna have a base, they're not gonna have a place to go.
They're not gonna have a place from which to stage elections.
Well, nothing's permanent, so we'll I know.
Well, look, here like like we said yesterday and emphasized today, it's not just the presidential race that matters here.
Uh there are you know Senate races, house races, it's it's it's important as as hell to make sure that uh there's enough representation there to thwart whatever might come from the White House, regardless who's in charge of it.
Sue, I appreciate the call.
Up against it on time.
Take a brief time out, be back after this.
Yeah, I mean, print something out.
I just I uh I am I'm getting it from all sides in the email.
I'm getting it.
Rush, you need to grow up.
Rush, you're right on.
Rush, I can't tell you how much I agree with it.
But it's all over the place.
This is like it was back during the Perot days.
Even I just read one some guy's been listening for a long time.
He's this guy in the Wall Street Journal, Dan Hanniger, who wrote a column today about you know conservatives getting used to it with McCain, said, you know what?
He's right.
You belong in a monastery.
Leave the radio show, go to a monastery.
You want purity, you want purity and all this.
I am having more fun reading these emails.
Listen to this one.
I know you can't relate to this because you're a man and you've never been a father, but many in your audience will relate to this.
I was thinking that we have nine months until the election.
Nine months.
Same amount of time a woman is pregnant before the feminazes get to her.
God designed it for nine months for a good reason.
That's the amount of time it takes you to get used to and accept the idea.
When you first find out you're expecting, you panic.
Can't do this, no way.
I'm gonna be a horrible parent.
Should I end this?
My life's over.
What was I thinking?
I just can't do this.
It's gonna ruin everything, it's gonna hurt.
But in the course of three trimesters, almost all of us get used to the idea.
No, it's a she.
It's a she writing this.
The point is, that's why she said, I can't relate to it because I'm I'm never gonna get pregnant.
But it's nine months, the time you go through the nine months of a pregnancy when you first panic and you first think, Oh, I can't do this, it's gonna change my life, my life's over.
In the course of three trimesters, almost all of us get used to the idea.
And I'm thinking, Rush, in the next nine months, we're gonna get used to McCain.
We have to, because it's too late to abort him.
And when he's born in nine months, Rush, we're gonna love him.
I'm getting this all kinds of um fascinating things in the email.
Kevin, uh on a 210 freeway in California.
Welcome to the program, sir.
Hello.
Megadetos Rush.
Hey, I've been listening to you since 1991.
Can't believe I finally got in.
Unfortunately, it's such a sad occasion to have to get in for.
I remember when Ronald Reagan was asked about uh why he left the Democratic Party, and he would tell people I didn't leave the Democratic Party, the Democratic Party left me.
Yeah, he said that.
I voted for Romney here in California.
And the next day after the election, I printed out a form and sent it in to drop my affiliation with the Republican Party and go back to having no party affiliation.
So you're an independent?
I didn't leave the Republican Party.
The Republican Party left me.
I assume this is because McCain won in California.
Absolutely.
If they're gonna elect liberals, then you know what's the point?
Okay.
Let me tell you you don't think in nine months you're gonna get over this and realize hey, I'm a father, and my wife and I were so prepared, we never had the panic.
We wanted our children, and we did it when we knew we were ready.
So that's a bunch of BS on that email.
Okay.
All right.
Well, I wouldn't know.
Uh actually I thought it was accurate because that's been exactly my thought.
If I ever thought whoever I was with would get pregnant.
That's exactly what that's why it did relate to me.
But you know that.
I've never hidden that secret from people.
At any rate, you don't think forget this email.
You don't think nine months from now you're gonna mellow out and a lot of anti-MCain people are gonna.
I'm just taking your temperature.
I'm not advising.
I'm not telling you what I'm gonna do.
I'm just asking you specifically.
Republican party's gonna have to work really hard to ever get me back.
Well, you know, McCain's gonna find himself in a new position here.
McCain has he's loved being the maverick.
And because of what happened today, he he can't play the maverick role anymore.
He's he's he's well, he may think he can, but this is this is pretty crucial.
He is the leader of the party right now.
Yeah.
It's not a good thing.
What really burns me up is Reagan didn't win people over to the party by becoming a liberal.
He convinced liberals to become conservative.
I understand, but I'm saying if the fact that he is the leader of the party means that he's he's gonna have to.
If he does, if he has hopes of unifying, he's gonna have to adapt, adopt, whatever.
He's gonna have to do something.
He can't continue to play this maverick and and and uh you know it uh joining Democrats.
He's gotta start attacking Democrats.
He's gonna have to watch.
And he's gonna have to do it in a way people believe him.
That's the hard part.
I know.
All right, I appreciate it.
Um Kevin, thanks much.
Brief timeout.
We'll come back and close it out right after this, folks.
Stay right.
What I say, triple the amount of email today.
And it's all over the place.
The usual complimentary, and then you are a hypocrite.
You're the reason.
You didn't support conservative candidates back when you had a chance.
You supported Spectre, that kind of stuff.
One guy called me, dear Pope Limbaugh.
You need to join a monastery.
Uh, but the volume, this, I'll tell you, people are worked up about this in every which way imaginable.
Uh, Hillary Clinton, potential fundraiser, keep her in it, so we can win it.
Still working on the idea, not etched in stone yet.
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