Feb. 11, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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| Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast. | |
| Let's see here. | |
| What is the headline? | |
| Look at this headline. | |
| The Wall Street Journal headline, McCain still dogged by Conservatives IR. | |
| This is after presumably wrapping up the Republican nomination. | |
| Does it appear that any unification of the party is taking place here because Mike Huckabee keeps winning out there in these primaries? | |
| It's it and a Democrat side. | |
| Good grief, folks. | |
| I mean, that that that thing is about ready to blow up over there. | |
| Oh, what a day. | |
| What a week this is going to be. | |
| Great to be with you, Rush Limbaugh here behind the golden EIB microphone for three hours of broadcast excellence. | |
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| I want to thank Jim Nance starting off. | |
| Jim Nance uh every Saturday night out at Pebble Beach at the ATT uh National Pro M has uh a dinner. | |
| He tries to recreate the uh the uh social atmosphere when Bing Crosby ran that thing when it was called uh clam bacon. | |
| He has uh he has a dinner every Saturday night of the tournament at the sardine factory on Canary Row. | |
| Uh and it's a great place, and it's always a great dinner. | |
| It's a bit down in a wine cellar, big long table, about thirty people there. | |
| The crowd varies uh depending on who can make it and who can't. | |
| Uh but it's always a great time. | |
| Flew out there Saturday just for the haven't able to play in the tournament this week, of course, because of my devotion and duty to you people here in the audience. | |
| And it's appreciated. | |
| Uh I don't know if it's appreciated or not. | |
| I've got I've got I've I think I've become as polarizing as Hillary Clinton. | |
| I think my negatives are on the rise. | |
| But of course, in Talk Radio, that's good. | |
| Uh if you're running for office, it's not. | |
| But uh Ray Romano was there as he always is. | |
| Uh Kevin James was there. | |
| Clint Eastwood and his wife showed up for the first time. | |
| I I'd never met Clint Eastwood. | |
| This was the first time. | |
| Uh he and his wife Dina. | |
| Just it was a fun night. | |
| Uh, and uh Nance deserves a lot of thanks uh and appreciation for trying to keep a tradition alive uh from the Cosby Days. | |
| It flew back uh uh yesterday after we got back around what it was, 8:30 or 9 last night to pay some bills and get ready for the big broadcast today. | |
| And we are ready to go here for the big big broadcast. | |
| Mike Huckabee not going away. | |
| Mike Huckabee continuing to run as though he has a chance for the Republican nomination. | |
| He swept two out of three states over the weekend, and maybe Washington is up for grabs, and he's up, he's up in arms about it being up for grabs. | |
| They stopped counting with 87% of the votes in, and he's very suspicious. | |
| The party went ahead and declared McCain the winner, and they're gonna have uh final results uh today. | |
| But get this. | |
| Huckabee starting to sound like us. | |
| Mike Huckabee suggested a Republican party could meet the same fate as 1976 if it elected a moderate candidate who does not inspire voters. | |
| He was speaking at a uh press conference uh after addressing the Thomas Road Baptist Church. | |
| That's Jerry Falwall's church. | |
| Uh Huckabee continued to carry compare himself to Reagan, uh, who ran in 76 against the party establishment. | |
| Uh as you know, that led to a floor fight at the convention. | |
| When reminded that the Republicans lost 76, Huckabee said it wasn't because the party was divided, but because Gerald Ford did not energize the party. | |
| He never championed himself as a conservative, not a pro-life person for whom that was important. | |
| He was a really nice moderate Republican, true gentleman, but a member of Congress and more a part of the Washington Republican establishment than representing the grassroots conservatism. | |
| Uh, in a thinly veiled reverence to Senator McCain, Huckabee went on to say, Republicans could lose again with a similar candidate. | |
| So Huckabee is not going away. | |
| This is not sitting well with the Republican establishment, folks. | |
| Uh we were supposed to now be unifying around and behind Senator McCain after his sweep on Super Tuesday. | |
| Uh but with Huckabee continuing to win these uh these uh primaries, uh it it Uh illustrates that there is no unification going on. | |
| As you know, uh Friday or Saturday, I forgot when this was, the days all run together, but the governor of Texas, uh Rick Perry, who is supporting McCain, called Huckabee Friday, said pull out. | |
| Pull out of this for the do a Clinton and pull out for the good of the party. | |
| Uh, according to a Clint uh Huckabee campaign aid, Huckabee confirmed he got the call, said he didn't take it seriously. | |
| Uh I told Governor Perry while I appreciated it with all due respect, since he was already on somebody else's team, I had to discount his advice since he had a vested interest in my not winning and McCain winning. | |
| Since he was endorsing my opponent, uh the the recommendation rang a little hollow to me. | |
| Again, it was a cordial conversation, but uh not one that I would take seriously. | |
| Huckabee also said, Look, I people keep telling me about the math out there. | |
| I didn't major in math, I majored in miracles. | |
| The crowd loves that kind of talk, just uh just ate it up. | |
| And now Huckabee is not going to concede the state of Washington. | |
| The Republican Party is resuming their delegate count out there. | |
| Uh the uh the results of the state Republican caucuses were called into question today after presidential candidate Huckabee challenged the party's declaration that McCain had won the delegate count. | |
| And then the Wall Street Journal today, as I mentioned at the top of the program, McCain's still dogged by conservatives iR. | |
| Ever since he became the presumptive nominee, McCain's had a rough ride. | |
| The bumps continued through the weekend. | |
| Last week he was booed at the Premier Convention of Conservatives, endured harsh criticism from conservative leaders and talk show hosts. | |
| And over the weekend he lost two of three states to Mike Huckabee. | |
| So um here's the delegate count right now, by the way. | |
| McCain 719, Huckabee 234. | |
| A total of 1,191 is needed to claim the nomination. | |
| Uh Huckabee talked about me yesterday to meet the press Tim Russert. | |
| We have the soundbite. | |
| Russert said to Huckabee, Rush Limbaugh's taken after both you and McCain. | |
| This is what Limbaugh said. | |
| Uh I'm here to tell you if either of these two guys get the nomination, McCain or Huckabee, it's going to destroy the Republican Party. | |
| It's going to change it forever, be the end of it. | |
| A lot of people aren't going to vote. | |
| You watch, and Huckabee reacted. | |
| I really like Rush. | |
| I've been a fan for many, many years and love his show. | |
| I think he's been a great voice of of conservativism. | |
| He's he's been one of those guys that has uh used a lot of humor and uh sometimes some sharp-tongued uh zingers to kind of uh uh keep the movement uh thoughtful. | |
| You know, I'm disappointed what he said because I don't think it reflects me and my record. | |
| I think he allowed some people to put information in front of him that was not accurate. | |
| Uh but the point is, you know, he's got a right to say what he thinks. | |
| I will make this observation, Tim. | |
| Uh you know, he did everything he could to knock McCain and me out of the process, and unfortunately for him, we're still the two that are on our feet. | |
| Unfortunately for me. | |
| Okay, and then here's here's um here's here all you're gonna say about that. | |
| Uh look, I've got some things I'm just I do want to get the bites here. | |
| Because I've been musing. | |
| I have I spent the weekend musing. | |
| Uh Nance asked me at this dinner Saturday night, do you want a thing about politics? | |
| No, I don't want to say about politics at this event. | |
| I mean, not to the table. | |
| Everybody stands up and makes some remarks during the course of dinner. | |
| Um, Phil Mickelson and his wife uh were right across the table uh from us. | |
| Uh then Dina Eastwood and uh and f and uh Clint was to the right of Mickelson. | |
| We're all very close in Jim Nance. | |
| Uh and we we're having our little political conversation uh at our end of the table, but I I don't want to stand up. | |
| This is not an occasion to to go through a uh political riff, but I have been musing uh about all of this. | |
| I'll get to those thoughts here in just a second. | |
| I'm just setting up my thoughts with these bites. | |
| Here's one more. | |
| This is in CNN this morning. | |
| Uh John Roberts, a co-host, uh spoke to Huckabee and said, Your campaign figures that there were 1,500 votes that went uncounted in Washington State. | |
| That is not what we do in American elections. | |
| It may be how they used to conduct it in the old Soviet Union. | |
| Uh but you don't just throw people's votes out and say, well, we're not going to bother counting them because we kind of think we know where this is going. | |
| Right. | |
| I mean, I've I was just stunned. | |
| And it's the kind of thing that Republicans across America, not just in Washington State, ought to be outraged over. | |
| Well, and what really bothers us, we were leading, I mean, we'd already won two states, two of the three that were in play. | |
| And then for uh the uh the chairman to make this decision arbitrarily, uh, potentially denying us a sweep of three states. | |
| Uh we just want to get to the bottom of it. | |
| Well, you people of the state of Washington, uh, Huckabee has just compared your tactics to the Soviet Union. | |
| Uh and of course, speaking of that, uh, there is a column from some guy named McKenzie. | |
| Uh Ross McKenzie, who's a former editor, I guess, of the Richmond Times dispatch, who's comparing me and my talk so brethren uh to Maoists uh and Stalinists, because they were the last true ideologue. | |
| No, I'm kidding. | |
| I'm not kidding you. | |
| This is how this is how outrageous this has become. | |
| Those of us who are simply standing for constitutional conservatism are now being called all of these names. | |
| It's funny to watch this happen. | |
| Now, okay, my musings. | |
| I I've been thinking of because I've I'm aware of what's been written. | |
| I'm aware of the Newsweek cover story, I'm aware of all this stuff on television. | |
| I'm aware of in the New York Times what they're writing and all this. | |
| I I've been thinking about this. | |
| Um you know, the the the Bill Crystal David Brooks wing of the party right now consists of about three people Crystal Brooks and McCain. | |
| Uh, and and they're being repudiated, and it may not they may not be comfortable with this. | |
| So I'm thinking that maybe I should support McCain to help them out. | |
| The uh the New York Times McCain wing of the party's in trouble. | |
| I mean, obviously they're in trouble. | |
| Huckabee keeps winning. | |
| And I'm thinking about subscribing to the New York Times and endorsing McCain to help him out. | |
| But then again, Huckabee keeps winning. | |
| And he's not going away. | |
| Maybe I should endorse Huckabee. | |
| Or maybe we should just rally around Ron Paul, at least he believes in the Bill of Rights. | |
| I mean, there's any any number of ways to uh to go here. | |
| I mean, I could back Huckabee. | |
| Uh he keeps winning. | |
| He was the Brooks Crystal team's favorite candidate four weeks ago. | |
| But there's a third way, folks. | |
| I mean, we got all kinds of options here. | |
| Um how about Lieberman for president and McCain for vice president? | |
| All kinds of options. | |
| Uh. | |
| But I will tell you this. | |
| If this keeps up, if Huckabee doesn't get out of this, and if he keeps in there and he keeps winning, and he keeps objecting to the results and keeps calling the Republican uh establishment essentially Stalin-like or Soviet Union like, I tell you what's going to happen. | |
| Senator McCain is going to be in a rocking chair wearing his mother's wig sitting above the Bates Motel. | |
| It's not gonna be alone. | |
| Hi, Rush Limbaugh, America's real anchor man, America's truth detector, doctor of democracy, general all round, good guy, and harmless lovable little fuzzball. | |
| I want to get this news in during our first hour today, because this is the hour broadcast around the world on the Armed Forces Radio Network. | |
| It's from the uh the Times of London. | |
| An Al Qaeda leader has admitted we are in crisis. | |
| There is panic and fear. | |
| Al Qaeda in Iraq faces an extraordinary crisis. | |
| Last year's mass defection of ordinary Sunnis from Al Qaeda to the U.S. military created panic, fear, and the unwillingness to fight. | |
| The terrorist group's security structure suffered total collapse. | |
| These are the words not of Al Qaeda's enemies, but of one of its own leaders in Anbar province, one the one that the group's uh stronghold uh once one of the group's stronghold. | |
| They they were they were set down last summer in a 39-page letter seized during a U.S. raid on an Al-Qaeda base near Samara in November. | |
| The uh U.S. military released extracts from that letter yesterday along with a second seized letter in another November raid that is almost as startling. | |
| U.S. intelligence officials cautioned, however, that the documents were snapshots of two small areas and that Al Qaeda was far from a spent force. | |
| Now, the uh story does mention here on page two uh the Anbar letter conceded that the Crusaders, the Americans, had gained the upper hand by persuading ordinary Sunnis that Al Qaeda was responsible for their suffering and by exploiting their poverty to entice them into the security forces. | |
| Uh so the the point of the story is hey, the Iraqis didn't get to this conclusion all by themselves. | |
| They had to be talked into it by the Americans. | |
| And that isn't fair in a time of war. | |
| The Americans talked the Sunnis out of being with Al Qaeda in Iraq. | |
| So any there in whenever there's good news, it has to be sprinkled and peppered with uh with pessimism. | |
| At the same time, Nancy Pelosi has called Iraq a failure. | |
| She said twice yesterday, we've got the audio on this. | |
| Uh Iraq is a failure, adding that President Bush's troop surge has not produced the desired effect. | |
| The purpose of the surge was to create a secure time for the government of Iraq to make the political change to bring reconciliation to Iraq. | |
| They've not done that. | |
| She then hastened to add, by the way, the troops have succeeded, God bless them. | |
| Let's go to the audio soundbites. | |
| This is near the end of the stack here. | |
| Number 20. | |
| Here it is. | |
| This is from late edition Wolf Blitz yesterday, who said to Pelosi, you're not worried all the gains that have been achieved over the past year in Iraq might be lost. | |
| There haven't been gains, Wolf. | |
| The gains have not produced the desired effect, which is the reconciliation of Iraq. | |
| This is a failure. | |
| This is a failure. | |
| The troops have succeeded. | |
| God bless them. | |
| We owe them the greatest gratitude for their sacrifice, their patriotism, and for their courage, and to their families as well. | |
| This is a a disaster. | |
| And we cannot perpetuate it. | |
| We have to make decisions. | |
| And this is the loss of life. | |
| It'll be nearly 4,000 of our troops, an average of 800 a year. | |
| Tens of thousand injured, some of them permanently, blind, amputations. | |
| Thank goodness. | |
| I am so happy the Democrats are back on page on this. | |
| Here we are in the middle of Iraq. | |
| I I want to send out a hearty congratulations with sincere love and devotion and awe and respect to all of you wearing the military uniform of this country in whatever branch in which you serve. | |
| Those of you in Iraq, those of you in Afghanistan, those of you who have been, those of you who are back, those of you who are back and going back, God bless you. | |
| You are succeeding, you are achieving victory, and let it be heard. | |
| The Democrat Party leadership today has no desire for your victory to be known. | |
| They have no desire for your victory to be proposed and accepted by the American people. | |
| You keep on, because Americans understand that you are succeeding, and we understand this because Iraq is not even on the table as an election issue. | |
| Nobody is even talking about it on the Democrat side here. | |
| Now, what one thing about this um uh there was a Bill Crystal wrote a piece, his most recent piece in the Weekly Standard, and he really took after Rick Santorum in this piece. | |
| Uh and and uh I have to bring this up. | |
| Rick Santorum was excoriated by Bill Kristol as uh as a uh you know Reagan conservative, and Kristal's making the point that we need a new conservatism now that has a new definition that includes a big and activist government doing the kind of things that the new conservatives want it to do. | |
| And he says you can't paraphrasing here, we can't rely on the old conservatism. | |
| I mean, look at Santorum. | |
| Santorum lost by 17 points. | |
| Don't tell me that that's the way conservatism needs to go. | |
| One thing about this that needs to be pointed out, one of the reasons, and I said one of the primary reasons that most supporters of McCain, and I don't care if they're independents, liberals, democrats, or republicans, one of the reasons that people support McCain is because of his leadership on foreign policy and his support of the surge, correct? | |
| People say he'll keep us safe. | |
| He's a war veteran, he's a POW, he's got honor, he's got integrity. | |
| Well, let me tell you something. | |
| Rick Santorum may have lost by 17 points in Philadelphia. | |
| But let me remind you what his number one campaign issue was. | |
| His number one campaign issue in a liberal state was to try to tell the voters of that state, the residents of Pennsylvania, that the big threat we faced was the threat of Islamic jihad, radical Islamo fascism, and he lost by 17 points on it in a liberal state who didn't want to hear it. | |
| And to excoriate Santorum for losing by 17 points when he was using the same issue McCain has used to get the nomination is disingenuous, it is unfortunate, and it's unfair. | |
| It was not just Senator McCain, by the way, if I can insert myself here, uh, who supported the president during the surge, those of us on talk radio who are being excoriated by members of our own party led the way in supporting the president throughout the Iraq war, | |
| throughout four years of Democrats attempting to destroy it, to secure defeat, to own defeat, to prevent the president from succeeding, trying to bog the president down when it comes to his prosecution of the war, who was there every day defending it, supporting the president, and encouraging him to go on, despite what the media was saying, despite what Democrats were saying, despite Harry Reid, despite Pelosi, it was those of us on talk radio. | |
| And yet somehow Senator McCain is getting singular and sole credit for having supported the surge and seen to it that it was successful. | |
| Don't forget Rick Santorum. | |
| He went down to defeat, trying to alert the people of his state what was most important. | |
| Ha. | |
| Welcome back. | |
| Rush Limbaugh here, the cutting edge of societal evolution. | |
| She really uh hung up in there. | |
| Is that right, Mr. Snerdley? | |
| Well, we our first caller was Gloria from Oradell, New Jersey. | |
| Uh, and she said she'd been a twenty-year listener, she's a seasoned citizen. | |
| Twenty-year listener, but never again, never gonna listen ever, ever again, because I am an abomination. | |
| After what I said in the first half hour here, uh making jokes about McCain's mother, was that I did not make a joke about McCain's mother. | |
| Uh Gloria, I'm sorry that you misheard that. | |
| Uh, but I I would not make a joke about McCain's mother. | |
| Uh really wasn't even a joke. | |
| I was just trying to speak in an illustrative way about what might end up happening. | |
| You know, this Obama guy is running away with this. | |
| I mean, you've got you've got the Potomac primary there calling it tomorrow. | |
| He could he could run away with everything. | |
| Mrs. Clinton's looking down the road to Ohio in Texas as her next firewall. | |
| Mrs. Clinton has gotten rid of Patty Solis Doyle, uh campaign manager brought back uh Maggie Williams from her chief of staff days in the White House, the same Maggie Williams, who an investigator says he saw running out of Vince Foster's office with some files when it had been discovered Foster was dead in Fort Marcy Park. | |
| Uh she denied having done that. | |
| She had to spend $140,000 in legal fees defending herself in the Whitewater thing. | |
| Now she's back, supposedly running the campaign, and even Frank Rich, you know, Frank Rich is upset with the Clintons because they're obviously, in fact, Frank Rich stole from me. | |
| He's calling what's going on in the Democrat Party a civil war. | |
| I mean, I referred to it as an uncivil war, but I was first there, folks. | |
| By months I was first to describe what's going on, but besides that, Rich in the New York Times really rips into the Clintons. | |
| Apparently, Mrs. Clinton had this 21 state national town hall the other day, didn't have any blacks in it. | |
| There were no black people in any of these satellite cities standing up to ask questions, only Hispanics. | |
| And uh Rich found that to be uh just reprehensible. | |
| Here's the a woman and her husband who have exploited and depended on black votes for all of these years, now freezing them out just to win a primary, throwing blacks under the bus just to win a primary. | |
| Uh but they are clearly discombobulated at the Clinton camp. | |
| She could be looking at 0 for 7 after we uh after we get through with uh the potomac primary tomorrow. | |
| Uh she's uh kind of hoping against hope in uh in uh uh Virginia, but uh DC's gonna clearly go Obama. | |
| And of course, Obama's just is is is uh messianic to be Barack Obama, folks, says nothing, better than anybody in a long time. | |
| I mean, is saying nothing. | |
| But people are crying, and they're in tears listening to it. | |
| And this is the kind doesn't matter what he's saying. | |
| He can say anything. | |
| It really doesn't matter. | |
| Uh Mrs. Clinton's discombobulated by all this. | |
| This is the last thing they figured it was going to happen. | |
| They thought they had this in the bag. | |
| They can't believe here's one of the problems. | |
| When you're in the left and you're a Democrat, and you get all this puff piece, slavish media holding you up as the greatest thing since ethanol. | |
| All of a sudden you start believing that stuff. | |
| And I believe the Clintons actually think that this country misses them and has wanted them back in the White House ever since they left the White House, that this was essentially a fait accompli. | |
| Never did they factor anything like this from the fundraising side to the popularity of this guy Obama or anybody else running against her. | |
| And this is desperation time, because this is what they've been living for. | |
| Bill Clinton needs this to try to cement a legacy. | |
| Hillary needs this because it's owed her. | |
| Without this, if they don't get this, if they don't pull this off, where do they go? | |
| What do they do? | |
| She stays in the Senate, and what does he do? | |
| They will be lost. | |
| They will have been rejected baby boomers, uh, and it just none of this fit the cards. | |
| This is like a huge slap upside the head that they never saw coming. | |
| Now the Democrats are heading to real problems, too, because I'm sure you're hearing all this talk about the superdelegates. | |
| And the superdelegates are party officials who don't have to vote the way their states went. | |
| And there are 700 plus of them. | |
| I think some of the number I it really doesn't matter. | |
| That's not the uh the controversy. | |
| The controversy is this. | |
| It could well be that after the Democrat primaries are over, Obama will have won the majority of the delegates. | |
| Now, this is before factoring in these superdelegates, we'll get to that in a minute. | |
| He could well win the majority of delegates, but not win the popular vote. | |
| Now, Wizin isn't this juicy, because if you go back to 2000, the Democrats starting in 2000 wanted to get rid of the electoral college because Gore got more of the popular vote but lost the electoral vote. | |
| So Mrs. Clinton, uh, you're gonna have almost a situation that repeats itself. | |
| She could win the majority of the popular vote and lose because of the delegate count. | |
| That's where the superdelegates come in. | |
| And if Obama, when they go to the convention or before, if Obama, some people think, by the way, and I I don't put myself in this camp yet, but some people think that the Democrat primaries, the Democrat nomination is going to be decided before the Republican nomination. | |
| Even though mathematically uh Huckabee has slimmed no chance at all, they still think that the way Obama's just steamrolling this thing that might be over. | |
| If it's not, and they go to the convention, uh, and these superdelegates who are mostly party hacks, who have a long series of loyalties to the Clintons and owe them, if these superdelegates go with Clinton, and she wins a nomination by virtue of people who are not responsive to the way the uh Democrat voters vote, there will be a revolt. | |
| And you couple that with the fact that Obama is black, and you're gonna be looking at a potential 1968 in Chicago all over again. | |
| Now, the Democrat Grand Pooh Bas from Howard Dean on up want to avoid that at all costs. | |
| Uh Donna Brazil says if this if something like this happens, if the guy who wins the most delegates loses because these superdelegates, because these limited number of people, I'm leaving the Democrat Party. | |
| They're already setting the stage here. | |
| Uh Ted Olsen, who recently endorsed McCain has a piece in the Wall Street Journal today about the potential lawsuit uh that could come up. | |
| He says what splendid theater the Democrat Party presidential nominating process is shaping up to be, and they're just getting started. | |
| The real fun would be a convention deadlock a few months from now, the prospect of which is already quickening the pulses of scores of Democrat lawyers who've been waiting more than seven years for an encore of their 2000 presidential election performances. | |
| For over seven years, the Democrat Party has fulminated against the electoral college system. | |
| They gave Bush the presidency over popular vote winner Al Gore. | |
| But they have designed a Rube Goldberg nominating process that could easily produce a result, much like the electoral college result in 2000. | |
| A winner of the delegate count, and thus the nominee over the candidate favored by a majority of the party's primary voters. | |
| As the convention nears with Senator Clinton trailing slightly in the delegate count, the next Step might well be a suit in the Florida courts challenging her party's refusal to seat Florida's delegation at the convention. | |
| And the Florida courts, as they did twice in 2000, might find some ostensible legal basis for overturning the pre-election rules and ordered the party to recognize the Clinton Florida delegates. | |
| That might tip the balance to Senator Clinton. | |
| And we all know full and well could happen next. | |
| The array of battle-tested Democrat lawyers who fought for recounts, changes in ballot counting procedures, even revotes in Florida courts would separate into two camps. | |
| Half of them would be relying on the suddenly respectable Supreme Court Bush v. | |
| Gore decision. | |
| The other half would be preaching a newfound respect for federalism, demanding that the High Court leave the Florida court decisions alone. | |
| Then you have that that he brings up another thing too, and that is the Michigan and Florida delegates. | |
| You know, Hillary was the only candidate on the ballot in Michigan. | |
| Well, Mike Ravel was up there. | |
| And those those states were told you're not going to have your delegates seated because you violated our rules on when you scheduled your primaries. | |
| You know damn well Mrs. Clinton's going to try to get those delegates seated, and you know damn well she's going to try to get them voting for her. | |
| Folks, imagine two things. | |
| As you try to understand where the Clintons are here. | |
| Whatever it is in your life that you have wanted the most. | |
| You have wanted it so badly it occupied your every waking moment. | |
| What you wanted was your soul. | |
| It was nothing else mattered. | |
| There was no other happiness in your life. | |
| You had to be focused on what you wanted. | |
| And coupled with that desire, whatever that is in your life, couple with it the fact that you expect it to happen. | |
| I don't know what it is in your life that you've wanted most. | |
| I don't know that I've ever wanted anything as much as the Clintons want this. | |
| I don't know that I can come up and tell you that I have something in common with them. | |
| But I'm trying just trying to illustrate for you how badly, how consuming, how obsessed their desire for this is, coupled with their arrogant, condescending expectation that it should be handed to them, that they shouldn't even have to really fight for it. | |
| And then imagine. | |
| After eight years of being consumed by this unhealthy desire, coupled with an arrogant, condescending view that you expect it. | |
| Imagine it's about to be taken away from you. | |
| Before you have it, you've thought you've got it. | |
| You've wanted it. | |
| So it's a you're just gonna say, oh, okay, lost. | |
| No. | |
| And then if you're the Clintons, especially, no. | |
| So the idea that they're not gonna try to get these delegates in Florida and Michigan seated, the idea that the superdelegates are going to be told, you know, you guys follow your conscience. | |
| The idea that they're just gonna throw their hands, it's okay, Obama, you won Fair and Square. | |
| So this could be real fireworks. | |
| This, and I think I think the strain of all this uh is is showing on Mrs. Clinton. | |
| She's wearing these oddball little yellow outfits, his crazy facial expressions all day yesterday. | |
| Um is beginning to show then this business about their own telling me if you had a Clinton news network, then you get the farm team, MSNBC, and you've got this David Schuster guy who used the term pimped regarding Hillary's daughter, what's her name, Chelsea, uh, out there calling the superdelegates on behalf of her mother. | |
| And nobody heard it because nobody watches that network. | |
| Who did hear it? | |
| Media Matters for America, the Hillary Front Group, they put it out there, uh, and then all of Mrs. Clinton, do you think she really offended by daughter being referred to as the the actually it it wasn't even a slam on Chelsea, but a slam on Hillary. | |
| Aren't they pimping out their daughter, making her phone calls? | |
| So now Hillary writes his letters to MSNBC, threatens not to appear in their presidential debate. | |
| I think this is just like what happened back in uh right before the Lewinsky scandal hit. | |
| All of a sudden, during the press briefing one morning, Mike McCurry's the press briefing, he stands up and says, and I think that that picture that was published in a major newspaper today showing the Clintons on a beach down there in St. Thomas, that is just beyond the pale. | |
| Everybody said, What picture? | |
| We never heard of this. | |
| What do you that picture show? | |
| And then they show the picture. | |
| They wanted the picture. | |
| They wanted the picture of Mr. and Mrs. Clinton in their swimsuits dancing on a beach where there was no music, where there were no speakers. | |
| They were dancing the silent music. | |
| It was it was two weeks before the Lewinsky scandal was going to break, and it showed them in a loving embrace dancing down there in vacation. | |
| I think the same thing happened here. | |
| I think they wanted to get it out that somebody at MSNBC, David Schuster, had referred to referred to pimping out their daughter, just so everybody would know it, because Mrs. Clinton once again gets to play the sympathy card and gets to be a victim of the mean bad meanies in the press. | |
| But the dirty little secret is it's MSNBC. | |
| Nobody heard it in the first place. | |
| Exactly right. | |
| I mean, I I can't tell you the number of people I have writing me. | |
| So, you know, Russia Democrat thing's over. | |
| Hillary, I mean it's over. | |
| She didn't have a prayer. | |
| This is not a win. | |
| This is an I mean, not an if. | |
| When they steal it. | |
| And they will steal it, and they will do everything they can to steal it. | |
| And there's any number of things they can do. | |
| They can monkey around with the superdelegates, they can uh they can even go to the estates and change some of the delegate counts. | |
| I mean, look at it. | |
| They are the Clinton machine, the Democrat machine, and the machine candidate usually wins in this party. | |
| Uh but if it when when they steal it, we're gonna be able to say that she was selected, not elected. | |
| We're gonna be able to turn this whole Bush thing uh right back uh around on him. | |
| And you have to wonder at some point, Barry is gonna have to start saying something. | |
| You know, he it it's it's only November. | |
| He's gonna have to start saying something. | |
| He's saying nothing better than anybody in a long time. | |
| But he's gonna have to start saying something. | |
| I I have a theory about this, by the way. | |
| I have run in, and I've shared this with you over the course of many, many moons. | |
| Uh little Indian lingo there, and I go out to LA, meet some uh Los Angeles liberals, I go wherever I go. | |
| The liberals hate Bush, but you know, m most or a lot of their hatred is because they don't think he can talk. | |
| He embarrasses them. | |
| The president of their country can't say nuclear. | |
| The president of their country just can't speak. | |
| He did these starts and stutters and um, and it just embarrasses it. | |
| I think one of the I'm I'm not exaggerating this. | |
| I think one of the reasons that there is such a dramatic devotion to Barack Obama is he can talk. | |
| He can speak well in public, and then and then that look at I've always told you. | |
| You learn to read, write, and speak the English language to the best of your ability and above average, and people will think you're smart even if you aren't. | |
| The way you speak, the way you use language will convey intelligence that you may or may not have. | |
| I'm not saying Obama doesn't have it, don't misunderstand. | |
| I'm saying it mask a lot of things. | |
| And uh I I think there is a yearning for uh uh, especially among Democrats, for somebody they think is smart. | |
| And they're making the judge, because he's not saying anything. | |
| He's not saying don't give me that's don't give me this hope business snerdly. | |
| I'm not visiting that again. | |
| Uh don't talk to me about hope. | |
| I mean, he's when you get right there, he's not saying anything. | |
| I mean, it's still platitudes now. | |
| Uh and uh vision uh came a lot. | |
| But he's gonna have to start saying things, and Mrs. Clinton's waiting for when he does. | |
| Um, because eventually, because at some point he's gonna if he gets the nominee, uh he's gonna have to go beyond the the platitudes. | |
| Maybe I'm wrong. | |
| I mean he maybe it's possible that somebody saying nothing better than anybody's ever said nothing in years could be elected president. | |
| Hell, it's possible, I guess. | |
| Any. | |
| I have a quick question, David Schuster, MSNBC, Hillary and Chelsea. | |
| David Schuster abused Chelsea the way um Hillary's husband abused a 20-year-old intern named Monica Lewinsky. | |
| I mean, as I recall Hillary wasn't all that concerned about Monica at the time. | |
| Uh look at all the hateful things said about George Bush on that network. | |
| Has he ever demanded an apology? | |
| No, and he wouldn't get one if he had. | |
| I'm just asking these questions here, uh, folks. | |
| What's really worse? |
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