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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.
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.
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I'm dead serious about considering this.
I mean, you may think this is a joke, but it is obvious.
I've read things.
I've seen things.
I've heard people say things.
Pundits on our side.
Don't worry about McCain Rush.
Hillary is so hated and despised and loathed and so forth.
That alone will unite our voters.
The fear and loathing of Hillary Clinton, the fear and loathing for Hillary Clinton.
And appears that may be what our strategery is.
Rather than get leadership, conservative leadership from our own party, it may well be that that's the thing.
And if she's in danger of losing the nomination.
Folks, here's this rookie who's been in the Senate for two years 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 electoral victory in November requires her being in the race, we got to 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 going to 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 future thought to this.
Standby.
Ladies and gentlemen, the official program observer is literally having a conniption fit on the other side of the glass.
What happened?
Bill Crystal, what?
Said, yes, Bill Kristol said, I know he's just on Fox right now, but I couldn't hear it because Bill Kristol just said at the end of the day, I'm a grown up.
He said, Rush Limbaugh is a grown-up, and we'll end up supporting McCain.
That was pretty much it.
I'm a grown-up.
I'll support McCain to the end of the day.
We're not being treated like grown-ups.
We're not.
When McCain says, we just need to calm down.
I mean, that's treating us like we're six years.
Look, we've said what we've had to say about McCain.
You know the drill on this.
If you missed the monologue in the first hour, please catch it at rushlimbaugh.com.
Later this afternoon, we update the site to reflect the contents of today's program.
They got hold of Chip Saltzman at the Huckabee campaign.
He said, you're going to 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.
McCain gives up his delegates, gives 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 will be interesting to see what happens.
It's supposed to be a compliment.
I'm a grown-up.
I'll see the light.
Is that what that would be?
Bill Crystal, okay.
Okay, so the first outreach has taken place.
The first little outreach has taken place.
Well, I don't mind being a grown-up.
But see, one of the problems is 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 still a child, 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 going to be swept.
These people are grown-ups.
They're not going to do anything to see to.
Limbaugh and his crowd are not going to do anything to see to it that Hillary gets elected.
And I've, you know, made it clear here today, pondering my potential Hillary fundraiser.
Keep her in it so we can win it.
Seems to be the primary strategy Republican Party.
Charles Krauthammer, by the way, on special report where Britt Hume last night in the, this is off somebody number four, Mike, had this to say about McCain.
And he does a good job here of explaining people's problem with McCain.
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 thing you say to a six-year-old having a tantrum.
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 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 real selling point for McCain on the McCain side is his character.
And Krauthammer is saying that this petulance and his being above it all and not having humility is actually childlike.
It's sort of a character flaw.
Anyway, let's see, what was this?
What was this?
What did this happen?
Gloria Steinem, where was she?
ASU, Arizona State University, Mountains, must be Arizona State University.
Appalachian State University.
Sorry, she was at Appalachian State University.
Feminist leader Gloria Steinem visited Appalachian State on Monday and spoke that evening on the progression of feminism.
are we going?
She's, she's, people think I need cheering up.
Steinem started off her presentation addressing the popular sentiment 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 feminazi.
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 there were a bunch of us, a bunch of women, and had to walk up some stairs to get out of the dining room of the restaurant.
And 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, their reaction, they start to get offended and then laugh, or they just laugh right off the top.
CPAC, by the way, CPACers have been told not to boo Senator McCain today.
We will see what happens.
They were told not to boo Senator McCain.
Howard Dean says that he's the Democrat National Committee chairman.
He says he voiced a little concern over the prospect of a brokered convention at the end of the White House nominating contest.
He said, 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.
So they're very, very much concerned.
And here's Jim Van DeHay and Mike Allen in thePolitico.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 the campaign shake-up 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 super delegates 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 challenging the count and the vote itself in Missouri, that it's such a slim margin of something like 2%.
And now the Democrats are behaving as we know them.
Vote fraud in a Democrat primary.
And I want to look at that again.
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 Mrs. Clinton has had to borrow $5 million 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, your unpaid campaign staff, which basically would you have an unpaid campaign staff, what do you have a bunch of interns?
So the campaign staff for Mrs. Clinton got a bunch of interns.
And the question was, are your unpaid intern staff members getting health care coverage?
She dodged the question.
Say, for you drive-by media types that end up talking to Mrs. Clinton, you know, she's had to borrow $5 million 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 borrowed $5 million from yourself.
Do you appreciate the lower tax rates that you and your husband are paying that helped you amass that $5 million?
Because a higher tax rate, I mean, she'd have had to earn more money to get this $5 million.
So it was the Bush tax cuts that helped Mrs. Clinton amass the $5 million she could loan herself.
Now, this will never occur to her.
But it would an enterprising reporter, but if a reporter is going to 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 $5 million easier than otherwise?
Oh, I also, by the way, I want to go back to this piece.
I missed this, but Snerdley caught it.
I want to go back to this political piece by Jim Vandehey 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 lady 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 institutional racism.
Hillary Clinton survived a Super Tuesday scare.
There are five big reasons a former first lady should be spooked by the current trajectory.
Who's on the trajectory of the campaign?
It's Obama.
She should be spooked by Obama.
So it's totally slipped my mind because, of course, I don't think in Eastern Mr. Snurdley, who is an African-American, very, much attuned to this stuff.
And he's offended by this blatant drive-by racism, referring to Mrs. Clinton's opponent with code language.
Spooked.
Thank you.
I had missed this.
All right, we got a campaign slogan here for Mrs. Clinton because obviously the best shot for Republicans winning the White House is Hillary as a nominee.
So I'm thinking of doing this fundraiser, a slogan, 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 as 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 fundraising effort.
Now, she had to loan herself $5 million.
We all know that the Clinton Library and Massage Parlor is a virtual Fort Knox of donations and so forth.
And of course, there's obviously a shoe deficit that would Norman shoe deficit in the Clinton campaign.
If he's out there, this rookie's raising all this money.
She's borrowing $5 million from herself?
Folks, if the Riottis won't float her any money, if the Lippo group won't come forward, there's obviously something seriously wrong inside 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 it's in the 80s here for the past three weeks, minus a couple days of a dip.
But 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.
He did.
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 got Romney dropping out of the race.
Where does that leave you?
I don't know.
But if you're in 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.
I hear you.
I've had a lot of people that have voiced your opinion about this.
I haven't put it in your terms of, you know, battered wife syndrome.
In fact, we created battered liberal syndrome to explain 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 going to end it if you elect this and this sort of thing.
But look at now that Romney's out, there's no conservative alternative here.
Huckabee's going to stay in because he wants to be VEP.
And he's now, I don't know, a big threat to McCain, but it's going to be interesting to see where this all takes us.
Back in a second.
And back to the phones we go here to 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.
I'm going to 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 won't do that when you find out what Obama's policies are.
Well, you know what?
I know that he's a very liberal.
I know that.
Just think of a nice Hillary Clinton.
In terms of policy.
You're right.
You're right.
It may be even worse.
But I love it.
He's very likable.
Yep, and that matters in a television age.
It does.
Well, I have to tell you, you know, 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 public email account, the El Rushbo email account, the 24-7, the subscriber email account.
I'm telling you, there is after Romney's announcement, I am stunned.
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 going to vote.
And no matter what happens, we're a conservative not going to be fooled.
Right now, the emotion is just the anger is palpable here in the email.
Now, this is February.
I don't know if this is going to be held on to throughout the elections and so forth.
There are a lot of people sad.
I could 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 there's nobody in her party she can support.
And she doesn't like voting against people.
She sounded very crushed.
It'd be interesting to see how much of this there is out there.
By the way, the Atlantic.com is reporting that McCain will show up at CPAC today with George Allen, the senator, a former senator from Virginia, who a lot of people were hoping prior to this macacas stuff that was so overblown that he would actually enter the presidential primaries and be the true Reaganite in the roster.
And it didn't happen, of course.
So with all the politicians, the party politicians now are lining up.
This is traditional, and this is what happens.
I mean, people in the party, elected officials, current and former, are not going to wander off the party reservation.
So, and you're going to look at this.
Some of you might see the podcast, everybody's betraying us.
Everybody, they're just playing the game as they know it.
You know, this is their business.
This is their job.
And you don't see executives at Exxon walking out en masse 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 you don't see it happen just like you're not going to see it in politics.
You're not going to see half the elected leadership or more abandon the Republican Party.
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 event you win.
And if you lose, you don't want the blame for it.
Look at this.
It's 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 party hackdom.
Hackdom.
This is the way political parties work.
And so, you know, Alan's getting on board.
Coburn, the conservative senator from Oklahoma, is going to introduce McCain 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 hit a nerve, and it's something that I hadn't considered.
And that is, she was really upset.
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 distresses her to no end.
Well, when you see all these other party people now line up, which is what they do, it might depress some of you even more.
Joey, thanks for the call.
I appreciate it.
Walter in Falls City, Nebraska.
Nice to have you on the EIB network, sir.
Hello.
Good morning.
Hi.
Hey, you know, you're talking about your select number beds.
And so me and the wife went up, tried one.
And when we bought ours, they had a spatial that they would give you a 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.
I could have my sleep.
Now that's ingenuity.
And it's 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 number readout.
That's right.
I mean, 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 a hole in them.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
You don't want to compare the sleep number bed to an air mattress.
It's a bed.
It's a genuine real bed.
I appreciate that, Walter.
Thank you.
Sue in Cincinnati.
Glad you waited.
Madam, and welcome to the program.
Thanks, Rush.
Mega Dittos.
Thank you.
Listen, last week you had a mini debate going on that if 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 going to 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.
Fast forward to today, we got all this rigmarole with McCain.
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 10.
What do you mean you know it's more than 10?
I listen to you all the time.
How many names are on my top 10 all-time favorite female list?
I actually haven't counted.
You're right.
There's more.
It's okay.
The bloom's off the rose.
As far as a write-in campaign, you know, a vote is a very personal thing.
I've had conversations with people here before when they told me they were going to vote for somebody that was guaranteed to lose.
And I said, why are you going to waste it?
That was when there was somebody I thought there was really worth winning and electing.
In terms of the effectiveness of a write-in vote, I don't think there'll be enough people to write it.
Now, this is February.
Who knows what can change?
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 against conventions through the summertime.
But traditionally, a write-in vote is not going to elect anybody.
If you're going to write in Romney, you're obviously not going to vote for the Republican nominee.
So it's going to have some impact there.
And if there's enough write-ins for anybody, a number of Republicans other than McCain, it'll certainly have an impact there.
But in terms of electing the write-in candidate, that'll never happen.
So 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 hear you.
And 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.
He's been reaching out to that side.
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 it's frustrating.
And it's clear here.
The problem, you know, there's so many things working here.
And there's so many things that if they go wrong, we're going to end up with a debacle.
It's not just that Mrs. Clinton might win.
It is, let me ask you this question, because, Sue, you obviously care about that.
What happens if McCain wins by attracting liberals and independents to our party as liberals and independents?
What happens to conservatism in that sense?
The Republican Party on election night would go by.
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, yan, yun, yun, yun, yan, ya.
But the Republican Party would have been victorious by attracting liberals and independents as liberals.
I think it's going to be part of a gigantic cycle where Republicanism and conservatism goes away for a while.
So the Republican Party is going to be without conservative support, and therefore it's going to 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 conservatives can't exist in a vacuum.
If they do that, they're not going to have a base.
They're not going to have a place to go.
They're not going to have a place from which to stage elections.
Well, nothing's permanent.
So we'll.
I know.
Look, like we said yesterday and emphasized today, it's not just the presidential race that matters here.
There are Senate races, House races.
It's important as hell to make sure that 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, let me print something out.
I just, 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 you.
It's all over the place.
This is like it was back during the Perot days.
Even I just read one.
Some guy has been listening for a long time.
This guy in the Wall Street Journal, Dan Henniger, who wrote a column today about 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 feminazis 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.
I can't do this.
No way.
I'm going to be a horrible parent.
Should I end this?
My life's over.
What was I thinking?
I just can't do this.
It's going to ruin everything.
It's going to 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 never going to get pregnant.
But it's nine months.
At 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 going to change my life.
My life's over.
You get used to it.
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 going to 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 going to love him.
I'm getting this, all kinds of family things in the email.
Kevin, on a 210 freeway in California, welcome to the program, sir.
Hello.
Mega Dittos, 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 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 going to elect liberals, then, you know, what's the point?
You don't think in nine months you're going to get over this and realize...
Hey, I'm a father, and my wife and I were so prepared.
We never had to 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.
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 I did relate to me.
But you know that.
I've never hidden that secret from people.
At any rate, you don't think, forget the email, you don't think nine months from now you're going to mellow out and a lot of anti-McCain people are going to, I'm just taking your temperature.
I'm not advising.
I'm not telling you what I'm going to do.
I'm just asking you specifically.
Republican Party's going to have to work really hard to ever get me back.
Well, you know, McCain's going to find himself in a new position here.
McCain has, he's loved being the Maverick.
And because of what happened today, he can't play the Maverick role anymore.
Well, he may think he can, but this is pretty crucial.
He is the leader of the party right now.
Yeah.
It's not.
What really burns me up is Reagan didn't win people over to the party by becoming a liberal.
He convinced liberals to stop conservative.
I understand, but the fact that he's the leader of the party means that he's going to have to, if he does, if he has hopes of unifying, he's going to have to adapt, adopt, whatever.
He's going to have to do something.
He can't continue to play this Maverick and joining Democrats.
He's got to start attacking Democrats.
He's going to have to watch.
And he's going to have to do it in a way people believe him.
That's the hard part.
I know.
All right, I appreciate it.
Kevin, thanks much.
Brief timeout.
We'll come back and close it out right after this, folks.
Stay right.
What did 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.
But the volume, people are worked up about this in every which way imaginable.
Hillary Clinton, potential fundraiser, keep her in it so we can win it.
Still working on the idea.
Not etched in stone yet.
See you tomorrow.
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