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Feb. 11, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 11, 2008, Monday, Hour #2
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Hiya, folks, welcome back.
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You know, I spent a lot of time.
I was in the airplane a lot, so I'm watching a lot of news.
I essentially flew 10 hours for a four-hour dinner.
It's cool.
It was fun.
Out to California.
And I noticed something.
And at first, it kind of went over my head because I don't make things about me.
Other people are doing that, but not I.
I kept noticing all these pundits on all these chat shows saying, yeah, you know, the press, they really want Obama to win.
They really want Obama to do well.
And of course, it kind of went over my head.
Of course, I know they want him to do well.
The press is right now, obviously, pulling for Obama.
There's no question about it.
I mean, they like excitement.
They like something other than what the conventional wisdom is.
They like unpredictability and so forth.
And then listening to one of these pundits, I got smacked upside the head.
One of the pundits said, yeah, the press, National Press Corps, the Washington Press Corps, they want Obama to do well.
They want the black guy to do well.
And I said, whoa, wait a minute.
Let some guy on ESPN say that about a quarterback, that the press wants a quarter, black quarterback, that the country shuts down for three days.
The whole NFL season got hijacked because of that guy on television making that claim that the media wanted a black quarterback to do well.
He really wasn't all that great, what everybody was saying, but they just want him to do well.
And the same thing is being said about Obama.
He doesn't have all that much experience, and he probably is not the most qualified, but we really wanted to do us.
Shazam.
And nobody says a word.
In fact, as I say, it went over my head, folks.
But let that guy on television say it about McNabb in the media.
Country shuts down for three days.
NFL goes into a major tizzy and the season gets hijacked.
Speaking of Obama, you know, I've been catching a lot of heat for a lot of things as your host.
But I want to tell you people somehow from the bottom of my heart.
I have never wavered.
I do not moisten my finger.
Put it up in the wind to see which way the wind's blowing and get in front of it.
Meaning, I never try to anticipate what you want or what you think and say it just so that you will like me.
And listen, if it ever gets to the point that 99% of you think that I'm all wet or wrong about something, and I don't think I'm wrong, I'm not siding with the 99%.
I'm going to stay true to my principles, convictions, using my intelligence guided by experience.
One of the things that I have been catching heat over is this.
For the course of this recent campaign, when it has been said of Senator McCain that we can't afford to entrust the presidency to anybody else because war on terror, the war in Iraq, he's the one guy that he's not going to buckle.
You can't tell Hillary Obama, listen, they're going to pull us out of there.
They're going to secure defeat.
And I've always said, no, you're wrong.
The Democrats would love to saddle us with defeat.
While our president is in the White House, they would love to saddle Bush with the defeat.
They would love to gum up and sabotage the war on terror so that Bush would take the hit to improve their electoral chances in 2008.
But I said, once they get into office, they're not going to pull out of there.
They're not going to secure defeat.
They're not going to raise the white flag on their watch.
This is all smoke and mirrors.
And people say, you're crazy.
You don't know what you're talking about.
I said, I've heard him say it.
I said it in a debate.
They said it in a debate.
They were all asked a question, will you commit to getting all troops out of Iraq by 2012, the end of your first term?
Edwards, Richardson, Hillary, Obama.
Well, the only guy who said yes was Kucinich.
They all said no.
Edwards, I will not make that pledge.
Let me.
And I made this statement, by the way, because I think it's silly to assume that, let's just stick to the Republican side.
It's silly to assume we only have one candidate who's going to do the right thing on American foreign policy.
It's absurd to think we've only got one candidate who's going to prosecute the war on terror correctly and defend and protect the nation's safety, security, and constitution.
But nevertheless, that's where we are.
I think it's absurd.
I think it's ridiculous.
I think any of the people on the Republican side could be justice other than Ron Paul.
I mean, you know, you always got a wild card in every deck.
But of the serious contenders here, there's never any question.
The only thing about Huckabee is you wonder about his experience with it, being a governor.
I don't even think he ever called out the National Guard.
You know, when Bill Clinton ran for president, he said, I do have military experience.
You know, Limbaugh's out there saying, I load the military and I do and all that, but I have experience with, I have called out the National Guard on riot gear a couple times.
I understand what it is to deal with the military.
He was using that example.
I don't even think Huckabee has done that.
But let's go.
I'm going to play this audio soundbite of me.
And this is from January 31st of this year.
The dirty little secret is there is no Democrat presidential candidate who is going to saddle himself or herself and his party with defeat in the war in Iraq and the war on terror while they're in the White House.
They would love to have been able to pressure Bush.
They're not going to be able to do that.
They would have loved to have been able to pressure Bush to get the troops out so they could say, Bush lost the war.
Bush admits it was horrible.
It's a big mistake.
But when they're in power, they're in the White House.
I'll guarantee you they are not going to pull troops out of there unless they can claim that victory has been had.
I guarantee you.
So there's no candidate other than Kucinich, Huckabee, Romney McCain, Hillary Obama, all five are going to leave troops where they are.
And of course, you people think I'm nuts.
I've lost my, let's go to 60 Minutes last night on the CBS.
Steve Croft interviewed Barack Obama, and this is a line buried in this Obama puff piece on 60 Minutes last night.
Steve Croft says, you will remove all troops by the end of 2009, regardless of the situation, even if there's serious sectarian violence.
So I always reserve as Commander-in-Chief the right to assess the situation.
Bingo!
Here he had a chance.
He's running for the Democrat nomination.
The Kook Fringe cares about this more than anything else.
He had a chance to continue to appeal to him.
Nope, because this is 60 Minutes.
You can't go in 60 Minutes and not say anything, real well.
You've got to say something on 60 Minutes because they ask you questions.
So he was asked, you're going to get out by 2009, regardless?
No.
Didn't even hesitate?
No.
As commander-in-chief, I reserve the right to assess.
Translation.
Let's say he's elected.
Second week in office, first week in office, the fringe kooks of the Democrat Party are demanding they're marching in the White House out of Iraq now.
Obama says, I hear you.
I'm sympathetic.
But I didn't know a bunch of stuff until I got here.
The Bush administration had not been forthcoming with us.
As you know, they tried to hide a bunch of things.
And I hope, he will say, I hope that we can leave soon.
My hope is that we will be able to get out of there as soon as possible.
But I have assessed the situation, and I'm telling you tonight that this is not the best or the right time to do it.
But I hope that I will be able to revise this policy in coming months.
Mark my words, folks.
Look, don't misunderstand.
I don't want a Democrat in charge of foreign policy.
I don't want a Democrat or liberal in charge of U.S. military.
Don't misunderstand.
But I'm just telling you that the idea that there's only one person out there that's going to do the right thing when it comes to Iraq and the war on terror instinctively is whistling Dixie.
Now, another thing, before we go to the break, people, this was last night.
I was finishing show prep, and a dear, dear friend of mine in New York, very, very much worried about me.
Rush, you're going to endorse McCain at some point, aren't you?
I mean, you know, he's probably going to lose anyway, but if you don't endorse him, you're going to get the blame.
The whole Republican Party is going to blame you.
I wrote back, how?
I'm irrelevant.
I have been defeated.
I have been relegated to the ash heap of the past.
No, no, no, that's all.
You know, that's not true.
They wish you were there, but you're never going to go there.
She wrote back, you are going to get blamed for it.
And I said, no, I'm not.
I mean, some people will.
But I laid down the marker on this last week.
Let me lay it down again.
A lot of people, not just my friend in New York, have been writing expressing this sentiment to me.
This is the big point.
The failure of establishment Republicans, whether they be members of Congress, Washington or New York editorial writers, even some talk show hosts who live and work and socialize in that community.
The failure of those people to uphold conservative principles during the last decade or more has resulted in the mess that they are now complaining about.
This mess, this supposed fracture in the Republican Party, where everybody else has seen the light, but the talk show hosts are now Maoists, Trotskyites, Stalinists.
We've been isolated over here, and we're being blamed for the problems they created.
But this mess that exists is a reaction to them and their failures and their false promises.
Now, these very same people are now demanding that the people they took for granted continue to follow them, continue to be swayed by their demeaning and condescending lectures.
You know, it wasn't that long ago when these people were on board.
But in the past 10 years, they have sought a new definition of conservatism.
And they've sought to put themselves at the head of it.
And it is a new definition of conservatism that is not conservative.
This new definition of conservatism cannot be conservative because it requires, it relies on an expanding government to accomplish these so-called big ideas.
When in fact, you know what's really wrong with this campaign?
Bob Herbert, of all people that I'm going to agree with, Bob Herbert in the New York Times, he's a liberal who writes for liberals in the New York Times.
We have some conservatives who write for liberals in that paper, but he's a liberal who writes for liberals.
And he's asking basically about the Obama campaigns.
Where's the big idea?
But you could ask that about anybody running.
Where is the big idea?
What is the big idea?
Is anybody running on a big idea?
Is that Obama clearly isn't?
Hillary clearly isn't.
What's the big idea?
It's out there.
It's waiting to be grasped, embraced, and turned into a huge majority landslide victory.
But nobody wants to embrace it.
And that is Reaganism, constitutional conservatism.
Instead, people are abandoning that and now blaming people like me for not abandoning it too.
Well, it isn't going to be my fault if things go to hell in a handbasket this November and I have no idea how they're going to go.
But the truth of the matter is this isn't about Rush Limbaugh.
It isn't about any single person.
The same people in Washington and New York who like to write op-eds and editorials to themselves to show how smart they are and how in touch they are missing what's going on.
I don't control the real disaffection conservatives are feeling for the Republican Party and for Washington generally.
This isn't some manufactured view that's turned on or off by me among my audience.
This is the result of years of contempt for the grassroots, years of neglect, false promises, pseudoconservatism.
I mean, you can look, McCain became the presumptive winner after Super Tuesday.
There have been four primaries since.
And other than the state of Washington where the party got involved there, he's not.
You would think, wouldn't you, that a party excited about the nominee in coming debates, coming votes, coming primaries, would rally behind that candidate to send a signal to the Democrats, to send a signal to the country.
And it's not happening.
It's not happening.
And it's not because of me.
Everybody knows these conservatives and our base.
They're independent thinkers.
And so this, you know, this idea here that those of us on talk radio become isolated.
We're a bunch of Maoists, Trotskyites, Stalists or whatever, and we've abandoned the reservation.
The reservation's abandoned us.
And so I'm just laying down the marker because if McCain loses, the first thing that's going to happen is that these people who are changing.
And by the way, I'm going to tell you something else.
I'm going to have to go to a break here pretty quick because I'm going way long here.
But I don't even think for these people it's about McCain.
That's why four weeks ago their favorite candidate was Huckabee.
What it's about is whoever can win that takes us away from Reaganism.
And if they think McCain's the best guy to do that, then they're going to get behind McCain.
But these people that I'm talking about are actually supporting McCain because he's the vessel for them to redefine conservatism the way they want to.
And if it had been Huckabee that had gotten behind Huckabee as they did four weeks ago.
Back in just a second.
Stay with us.
Hi, welcome back.
El Rushbo serving humanity here behind the golden EIB microphone.
I have to go to New York this afternoon.
I have some work being done here at the estate down in Florida.
I have to decamp for four or five days.
I'm thinking of organizing a meeting with the talk show hosts to plan a strategy, to conspire with the other hosts, to see what we do and where we go from here.
I'll let you know if it happens.
I'll let you know with who.
Actually think of, oh, everybody's saying, when are you going to do your time capsule?
I announced last Friday, rather than predict to you today what I think will be the case a year from now, because I don't want to be accused of my prediction affecting anybody's behavior.
So I'm going to go, when I get to New York sometime this week, I'm going to use a DittoCam up there to record my predictions for a year, 14 months from now.
I am going to hold up the newspapers of that day to prove that I made the prediction on that day, which will whatever it would be this week.
I will find other ways to date and time stamp this so that no one can dispute its authenticity.
And then I will make my predictions on any number of things.
If Hillary wins, if Obama wins, if McCain wins, I will make my predictions as to what your reaction will be to it all within two months after the inauguration of any of those people.
It will be an audio video deposit in a time capsule.
And I may make additional deposits in the time capsule, but I'm not going to predict to you today on air or tomorrow or next week what I think the results will be a year or 14 months.
I'm going to do it in a time capsule.
We'll release a time capsule a year from now, 14 months from now, and we'll see if I'm right.
And I'll release it whether I'm right or wrong.
I'm not afraid.
I'm wrong so infrequently that it doesn't upset me psychologically to be wrong.
Laura in Erie, Pennsylvania, we'll start with you on the phones today.
Thank you for waiting and hello.
Hi there, Rush.
Thank you for everything you do, especially for crediting our brave troops for their success in Iraq.
Thank you.
Thank you for letting them hear that from you.
I just wanted to talk to you about your article with Mr. Timmerman in the Limbaugh Letter.
Yes, ma'am.
It was so great describing how, you know, the Democrats use all of this for political gain and how they really want our troops out of there and to lose.
And from all of those that served, including my husband and I, we want to thank you for doing this article because he quotes in there, if Americans are so unlucky to elect the Democratic president in 2008, that we'll shortly be at war with Iran.
And he gives a lot of background reasons for that.
That's true.
You know, and I'm glad you, Laura, called to thank me and remind people about this.
It's the latest interview in the Limbaugh Letters of Kenneth Timmerman, who has written a book about all of the things that are so difficult to explain the last four years been happening in Iraq and U.S. foreign policy.
Thanks, Laura.
Appreciate it.
We will be back.
Hey, man, a living legend.
Hey, Nobel Peace Prize nominee.
A way of life.
A national treasure.
Rush Limbaugh behind the golden EIB microphone here at the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
People have been patiently waiting out there, and it's time for their patience to be rewarded.
Franklin Lakes, New Jersey.
Robert, thank you for holding on, sir.
Hello.
How are you doing, Rush?
Thanks for being here.
Pretty cool.
You bet.
Yeah, what sets me up, gets me kind of peed, is all this talk about the surges working.
It is not working.
So we just happened to find, come across this email or mail out in Iraq that our car is claiming they're getting their asses kicked.
We're also getting, just like we found these Iranian naval ships were attacking our ships.
That turned out to be a hoax.
Just like there was no WMD.
There was no Iranian, Nigerian papers showing that Iraq was trying to buy uranium.
Now, this month alone, we had 38 killed.
Friday, we had five soldiers killed in two separate bombings.
The government is not being held what this surge was supposed to do.
It's not happening.
So, where is this surge working?
All right.
I don't even want to argue with you about it.
That's a waste of time.
I'm not going to change your mind about it.
Your mind's made up and therefore closed.
But are you looking for an improvement if Hillary or Obama win?
I'm looking for them to get us out of there.
No, it isn't going to happen, pal.
Let me just warn you: it isn't going to happen.
Not right away.
It isn't going to happen.
Well, do you think?
I think McCain will pull them out just as he's only saying he's not going to pull them out just to win the Republican votes, but I think he's also going to pull them out.
It's common sense.
We're spending trillions of dollars over there.
Our economy is going down a tubes just to build another nation.
Build America.
Forget Iraq.
I don't care what happens to Iraq.
Build America.
Oh, come on.
You can't be.
Do you really think this?
You know, Robert, you sound like a reasonably intelligent guy with a closed mind.
Do you really think America is being shortchanged with the money being spit to defend and protect this country against Iraq?
This is not against Iraq.
Iraq is simply a theater in the overall war on terror.
And we're beating them.
And we're cleaning their clocks.
And it is working and it is happening.
But why the pest?
Why are you so desperately desirous for your country to lose?
Why are you so desperately desirous for your country to be thought of as a quitter?
It's not.
Well, you're trying to word it that way, but I'll give you why I see things that way.
I have this guy who works for me.
His son's been in Iraq for less than two months.
And his first week there, his truck, his hummer, was hit by one of these explosives.
He survived because he was sitting in the front.
That same night, they took him out of the hospital, put him right back into that Humvee.
Three weeks later, he was shot three times in the same path.
Our soldiers are like, it's target practice.
Why should they be getting pop shot at?
Wow.
Yeah, I know.
It's hard.
No, I think you have.
You know, if you want to start anecdotal stories about soldiers, Marines, airmen, and sailors, I know more than you do, buddy.
You know more propaganda than I do.
I know.
I know more of these people, and I can't tell you to a man.
They are honored and proud to be doing what they're doing, and they know that they're kicking butt, and they tell me this constantly.
They're a little frustrated why their story has vanished from the newspapers now that the news has turned good.
They don't understand it.
I try to talk them up.
Well, they do understand it, but they're still disappointed by it.
The casualties in this war are, all of them, of course, unfortunate, but war is war.
These people joined knowing full well what was in store.
This is why they deserve our respect and our honor and our awe and our devotion.
They know what they're heading into, man.
And yet they do it.
99.9% of the rest of us wouldn't.
In terms of the numbers of casualties, a central proportion is needed here.
We've lost more soldiers in training exercises of World War II than in four and a half, five years in Iraq.
You know, this is unfortunate that people like you, otherwise intelligent, just seem compelled to have your country embarrassed to quit, to lose.
And it's people like me that don't understand this.
We don't understand people that want our own country to be a laughingstock in the world.
And if we pull out of there and quit the way you think your candidates are going to do, we are in for one of the biggest shocks and surprises because we're going to send a message to the rest of the world and to our allies.
You can't count on us to finish what we start.
And that's one of the worst things that could be said about us.
It'll embarrass the U.S. military, especially when victory over there is at hand.
McCain's not going to pull us out of there.
I mean, he's the architect in his mind, the sole architect of the surge.
He's going to see that through so that he can claim that he did it.
Anyway, Robert, I'm glad you called.
It's always a pleasure to talk to you.
Here's Skip in El Segundo, California.
Great to have you with us.
Ditto's Rush.
Hi.
It's an honor to speak to you.
I had the privilege of seeing you in UC Irvine a long time ago.
Wow, that's way back in like 89 or 90.
Way back there.
Hey, I'm curious with all the callers that are suggesting you're responsible for the outcome of the Republican primary.
Those callers should look at the bigotry of the far right that is so concerned about their freedom of religion as long as their religion.
You have the three legs of the party, defense, less government, life, and social issues.
When you do not have a candidate that meets all the requirements, you have to prioritize.
I put country first.
Romney had everything except the rights religion.
And when all the illegals become legal, you can thank the religious right.
I believe the electorate gets what they deserve.
All of us pay the price for this stupidity.
My question to you, is there some way that Romney could be pulled back in the race, say, as an independent?
Because if he was in a presidential bait, he would run circles around the other candidates.
The country needs you.
I look forward to your comments.
No, that's highly unlikely.
It's a pipe dream holding on to something like that.
It's going to be Senator McCain.
People, why is Huckabee hanging in?
Well, there's two reasons Huckabee's hanging in.
He is hoping that by staying in there, he can non-plus Senator McCain.
He's hoping that Senator Cain will have one of his famous temper tantrums.
I'm telling you, look at Romney said it.
He said, look, we're heading to another 1976 nominating an old has-men.
We're going to nominate somebody, not a genuine Republican.
We're going to set his back.
We're going to lose big.
This is all designed to have McCain sit there and start getting a little perturbed about it, maybe lose his temper in public.
The second thing is, Huckabee's staying in this because the donor list keeps getting bigger.
His fundraising prowess keeps increasing.
And the longer he stays in it and is viable, I'm sure the more he thinks that he's going to have a chance to have a say-so in the outcome and maybe a place in the administration or at least cement his place for the next Republican presidential primary set or nomination as a whole host.
But Romney, I don't think, would be turned to in a circumstance like this.
He pulled out.
So those kinds of things are pipe dreams.
Plus, you know, folks, I just have to tell you, I read, I guess it's an editorial.
I'm not sure.
I've got it somewhere here in the stack.
In the Wall Street Journal, which is the Wall Street Journal editorial board, big open borders crowd.
And they're poo-pooing me and the talk show people for claiming that immigration is going to be such a big important issue.
And they're citing California.
Say, California, Republicans, majority of them who cite immigration as the number one issue, voted for McCain in the primaries.
So the Wall Street Journal saying, immigration ain't that big a deal.
The talk show crowd's making it out to be a far bigger deal it is to people.
Where has it gone as an issue?
And yet, when it came time for the stimulus package and the checks to be sent out to people when people in Congress learned that some of those illegals would be getting checks, they raced in there and amended that.
Wonder why if immigration is not such a big deal.
And of course, as I've also said, the states are starting to take over some of this stuff because they realize the anger that exists among their populations.
So there's progress being made on some front.
I think this is also a factor, too.
A lot of people think that they beat the Immigration Reform Act back.
Amnesty was what was attempted.
It wasn't amnesty.
Limbard, you keep saying it was your amnesty.
It wasn't.
They were going to pay a fine $5,000.
It's a fine, a fine, shut amnesty.
Whatever.
Point is, it was beat back.
The proponents retreated.
And a lot of people think, okay, we'd be, it's over.
And they're not thinking that it might come back and so forth.
But for those of you that think immigration is going to be a big Republican presidential issue or electoral issue, period, Republican and Democrat, don't worry about it because the Wall Street Journal says it's not.
Just got a note from a friend that said, you realize that you're going to be getting on your airplane this afternoon at 78 degrees to fly to New York when you get off the airplane.
It's going to be 12.
I said, yeah.
I'm going to be wearing shorts.
I always wear shorts when traveling.
Comfort is the name of the game.
Not going to change clothes in the airplane.
I'll be outside 10 seconds.
Yip, yip, yip, yip.
I don't care what the weather is in New York.
I'm never out in it more than 10 seconds.
Whatever it takes to get from the door to the car, from the car to the door.
And that usually is no more than 10 seconds.
I don't even wear a coat.
I don't even have one.
I've got a little black leather jacket, but I don't have a coat.
I'm just going to make sure this time if I keep a pot of water boiling in the stove there to keep the apartment humidify.
I don't want to lose my voice like happened the last time I went up there when it got, yeah, it wasn't this cold, but it was close to it anyway.
Morgan in Apple Valley, California.
I'm glad you waited.
Nice to have you on the program.
Thank you, Rush.
I do not think that Obama's rhetoric is empty.
I am of the opinion that he is skillfully using soaring rhetoric to make desire fact.
Desire becomes policy position.
I don't hear people saying I agree with his policies and positions.
I hear I believe in Obama.
And rather than write his rhetoric off as empty, I would like to see someone do a thesis-level analysis of Obama's rhetoric from a historical perspective.
Obama's rhetoric frightens me.
I see it as an abusive exploitation of the human religious sentiment in the service of progressivism's political religion.
And you have stated before that progressivism, liberalism is a religious, and I believe that Obama is just their newest priest.
I agree with you 100% on that.
It's very well said.
But when I say saying nothing, I don't mean to be insulting here.
Say, you made the point a different way.
People are not saying I agree with Obama because they don't know what he's saying.
If you ask Obama, what's he for?
They'll say, well, it doesn't matter.
And they won't be able to tell you what he's for.
They'll be able to give you platitudes.
Well, he's for America.
Well, he's for fairness.
Well, he's for justice.
His soaring rhetoric will bring them to him.
And once he has them, he will be able to lead them where he wishes them to go.
This has a historical precedent.
What are we going to be able to do about it?
Expose it, analyze it, lay it side by side with its historical precedent.
But do you think Democrats are going to listen to me on this?
No, no Democrat ever listens to you.
We will, hopefully.
Oh, they listen, but they're not.
The thing about, you know.
Rush, Democrats won't.
Sane people will.
Well, but the point is he's going to get Democrat votes and a lot more.
The Democrats do listen, but they're inclined to do the exact opposite of what I say.
Like, if I really wanted to torpedo McCain, I would endorse him.
If I wanted to torpedo McCain, because that would send the independents and liberals, they're going to vote for him running away faster than anything.
What people don't realize is I'm doing McCain the biggest favor could be done for him by staying out of this.
If I endorsed him thoroughly with passion, that would end the independents and moderates because they so despise me and they so hate me that they, I mean, for example, where did I see this?
Oh, some guy, columnist of the New York Post, and he talked, you know who Tina Faye is?
Not really.
Well, Tina Faye used to be one of the writers at Saturday Night Live, and she did the weekend update.
No, she now is the creator, producer, writer of the NBC comedy show 30 Rock.
And this guy in a New York Post yesterday was quoting her saying, I'm telling everybody I'm voting Obama, but I'm really voting McCain.
Now she's telling people she's voting Obama because with the liberals, that's going to make her sound good, look good, because you're voting for the black guy.
But she says she's secretly going to vote for McCain.
Now, if I really wanted to torpedo McCain, I would endorse him because if I do, and if I come out, if I become the biggest champion and supporter of John McCain there is in this country, the Tina Fays of the world are going to punt.
They're going to think, wait a minute, what's happened here?
What did McCain do to get Limbaugh's endorsement?
That's the way Democrats listen to me, is my point.
Logical, insane people listen to you, and there are enough logical, insane Democrats that will hopefully wake up and understand if Obama's rhetoric has a historical precedent.
They don't care about anything.
They don't care about anything but winning.
Like I said earlier, the fact that he says nothing while saying it well, that's half of why they like him.
They're so sick and tired of a president they don't think can put two sentences together in a way that makes sense.
I can't tell you the number of liberal Democrats I've run into, and their sole reason for hating Bush is they don't think he can talk.
And they think he's stupid, which of course he isn't, but they think he is because the way he speaks publicly.
So here you've got Obama, regardless what he's saying, I mean, speaks much better in public than Hillary does.
He speaks much better in public than even old Bill did.
We know who Hillary is.
We know where she's been.
We know what we stand for.
Obama is impossible to pin down.
And that's scary.
Well, I'm not intimidated by that.
When the time comes, all you're going to need to know about Obama is he's a liberal.
And then you just need to define what liberals are going to do to the country.
And I'll incorporate your well-reasoned thoughts.
In fact, you know what you're really saying is, if there are any mind-numbed robots out there, they are Obama supporters.
Yes.
They don't care what he's saying.
They don't care whether it makes sense or not.
He's like the Pied Piper.
Exactly.
Exactly what I'm accused of being is what Obama is.
But his sweet tune has got to be.
Do you think Morgan, he's seriously going to win the Democrat nomination?
I don't know from here.
I really don't know.
But he might.
Well, he may win it.
He may win it, but he's not going to be the nominee.
Interesting.
Yeah.
That's the Clintons we're talking about here, Morgan.
The Clintons.
May I make a personal note?
You inspire me because of your ability to have overcome what you have been through and get on with your life.
And I listen to you mostly for that reason.
Well, thank you very much.
I sincerely appreciate that.
You inspire me.
Thank you very much, Morgan.
I appreciate it.
By the way, Morgan, one of my all-time top 10 female names.
Back after this, folks.
Don't go away.
All right, we have a lot of interesting and funny audio sound bites.
And we'll get to those in the next hour.
You don't think it's funny?
McCain is saying calm down to his people.
Obama's saying, get fired up.
Isn't that kind of all we need to know here?
We're told to calm down.
Obama's telling his people, get fired up out there.
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