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Feb. 13, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 13, 2008, Wednesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of The Rush 24-7 podcast.
As I said the other day, you know, I I just I love waking up.
I love starting today.
I mean, I you never know.
You just you never know what awaits.
Greetings, folks.
Nice to be with you already Wednesday, the fastest week in media, Rush Limbaugh, high atop the EIB building, the famous EIB building in Midtown Manhattan.
Three hours of broadcast excellence straight ahead.
Here's the uh telephone number.
It's 800-282-2882 and the email address, L Rushbow at EIBNet.com.
I want to tell you something that happened in Maryland last night before we get to the uh Democrat side and then what happened on the Republican side last night.
There was a um uh and this dovetails with precisely uh what I suggested uh to people earlier this week.
Uh you know, the presidential race is gonna be what it is.
It's gonna be McCain, probably who knows, Obama, Hillary, that thing, that race is looking, you know, give you an example.
You know, Democrats, the Democrats hate winners and they hate losers.
Because the winners humiliate the losers and the losers feel humiliated.
So last night in Maryland, it was two to one.
Obama smokes Hillary.
But he only got two more delegates than she got.
They are, you know, they have this proportionality.
The Democrats, he he gets 17 delegates for winning.
She got 15.
He's ahead by a hundred delegates.
She's in Texas, and I'm watching Hillary behave.
You know, she's um I've I've I've I've seen evidence now, again, confirming my theory on how she got through all those scandals and the way just ignore them.
I mean, I think she's an utter state of denial.
She's down there in Texas last night in El Paso today, the firewall state.
She's making all these speeches.
She has yet to acknowledge what happened yesterday.
She has not congratulated Obama.
Uh she's not.
I've got I've got the numbers broken down here, and it's going to be interesting to see how she overcomes this.
She's going to have to win 55% of the delegates from here on out, and then and as she loses more primaries, that number, that percentage of delegates increases like up to 62%, if the outcome in future states holds true.
But what I was talking about in Maryland last night, there was a uh a primary for a congressional seat currently held by an alleged Republican.
The alleged Republican's name is Wayne Gilchrist.
He is from Maryland's first congressional district.
Last night, he lost his bid for renomination to a genuine conservative, a state senator, Dr. Andy Harris.
And Harris is expected to win in November over a Democrat opponent in Maryland.
Andy Harris is a true conservative.
Now, Andy Harris happens to credit talk radio for being a major part of his victory.
Uh...
Specifically, our old buddy Tom Mar, uh, who precedes this program on our blowtorch affiliate in Baltimore.
Uh Gilchrist, the alleged Republican, was endorsed by Newt and President Bush.
The old boy network.
Uh in fact, Gilchrist voted against funding for the war.
I think he was uh uh he voted with Pelosi a lot.
Yeah.
Voted for a yeah, in fact, he voted for a timeline for withdrawal.
This story even made the UK guardian.
Uh it's from Chestertown, Maryland, nine-time Republican congressman, alleged Republican, critical of the Iraq war, has been defeated by a well-funded state senator in Maryland's primary.
Representative Wayne Gilchrist narrowly defeated Tuesday by Andy Harris.
Gilchrist voted to go to war in Iraq.
Later said he regretted the decision.
A year ago, he was one of two Republicans in Congress to vote for a withdrawal timeline.
Gilchrist called the campaign the most intense of his political career.
Andy Harris depicted Gilchrist as too moderate for Maryland's first congressional district, which includes the Eastern Shore and parts of the Baltimore suburbs.
Uh, in an interview and a Tom Mars sent me a note today from down in Baltimore in an interview with the Baltimore Sun editorial board, the alleged Republican Wayne Gilchrist, uh, apparently on tape, personally criticized me.
El Rushbow.
And talk.
And he's in the ash heap.
Now I bring this up, ladies and gentlemen, because this, you know, people have been calling.
What can we do, Russ?
What can we do?
I mean, McCain's not concerned.
You focus at the state level.
This is exactly the kind of thing that uh that I was talking about.
Congratulations there to uh Dr. Andy Harris.
By the way, um, this from the Chicago Sun-Times, angry Chicago Latino parents threatened yesterday to keep their kids home on test day next month if state education officials insist on giving students who are still learning English an achievement test in English.
Yes, ladies and gentlemen, parents protest a test in English.
They're threatening to keep their kids home rather than take the new state exam.
You heard right.
They're gonna keep the kids home.
Reminds me of this, you know, this mosquito device.
We talked about this yesterday.
This have you heard about this, Creeley?
Well, they're using it over in Britain.
Apparently, these teenagers over there got nothing to do, and they loiter.
And they hang around wearing the stupid long shorts, and you know, they did tattoos everywhere, these 16-year-olds trying to grow goatees and stuff, looking grotesque, and they're loitering in these places of business and causing big problems.
People don't want to go in.
It's it's sort of like my famous commentary ban the ugly from the streets in daytime if you want to promote economic recovery.
These people loitering around, and so they've they've invented this device that emits an irritating sound, irritating frequency noise that only young ears can hear.
Uh, once you get past your teenage years and into your adult years, apparently you lose sensitivity to this.
It's called a mosquito.
You lose sensitivity uh to uh to this frequency.
So only kids, and it's working.
The shop owners have these things, they're turning them on, and kids don't know where it's coming from.
They just hear them, they scatter.
Uh, first thing that I thought when I saw that was where do I get one?
I mean so here we have a modified version of the mosquito.
Uh the school is done apparently not going to have these kids come in if they can't take the test in English.
The kids' parents said, Well, we're still learning it.
We don't, we don't.
We don't know it.
The Senate yesterday passed um, after, you know, big long year of wrangling out there.
The Senate uh gave the White House a major victory, voting to broaden the government's spy powers after giving legal protection to phone companies that cooperated in President Bush's warrantless eavesdropping program.
Warrantless eavesdrop.
Remember, this is we had Vice President Cheney on the uh on the program a couple weeks ago, and this is what he primarily wanted to talk about.
He was very confident that it was going to happen.
Uh but but uh they they needed immunity for these phone companies who had cooperated with the government, and the Democrats once again caved.
They caved after all this time.
They they just they rack up defeat after defeat after defeat.
I was I did a little QA interview today with Jay Carney at Time Magazine.
Uh and yeah, I talked to Time Magazine.
I'm talking to New York Times today.
I may talk to the New York Times magazine next week.
I may I may do the today show.
Look it!
They can't get it right.
I figure I'm gonna give one last shot for them to get it right.
I'll talk to them directly to explain what's going on here, snurdly.
So I'm talking to Jake.
I'm talking to yes, I am talking to the enemy.
Just call me McCain today.
Let's call me.
Just call me, just call me McCain.
I'm reaching across the aisle here and I'm talking to the enemy.
That's right.
Uh, but I'm not gonna agree with them like McCain does.
I am going to, for what it's worth, pound of truth, try to permeate this little narrow template and narrative that they have.
But they was telling Jay Carney today.
So, look, conservatism does work if you got a powerful leader running the movement.
I said, Look at Reagan, gave him the story.
Look, look at Reagan.
Uh he was minus 130 seats in the House when he when he was inaugurated, didn't have talk radio, didn't have alternative media, didn't have anything.
All he had was his charisma and his ability to speak directly to the American people.
Look what he got done with a huge Democrat Congress.
And he was, and I said, Jay, he was going against real pros.
Tip O'Neill, no slouch.
I said, today we've got two of the weakest, most incompetent, ineffective Democrat leaders in my lifetime, Reed and Pelosi.
And this is evident.
They can they've got the votes to stop the president, but they can't.
They just can't.
They make all kinds of noise for a year about this to satisfy the kooks and the wackos in their base.
But they cave again.
And folks, this is why.
This is the warrantless wiretap program.
Do you realize how they hated the warrantless wire?
Bush was spying on liberals.
No, he wasn't.
There's nothing exciting enough about a liberal life.
Don't want to spy on.
It's spying.
He's spying on the this is horrible.
It's the Democrats are making this case, but when when the pedal hit the metal, when the rubber hit the road, when real issues of national security come home to roost in an election year, what did the Democrats do?
They caved on FISA.
Now, the FISA bill we've got's not optimum.
There's some things that uh Republicans could have got too, but it's it's a cave for the Democrats.
And I just say this because it buttresses my theory that we just can't conclude that any Democrat winning the White House is going to pull us out of the world.
And pretend that there is now Obama, as I chronicled yesterday, so woefully ignorant.
By the way, I'm thinking of all of endorsing Obama.
Well, everybody's asking me about my endorsement.
And I'm thinking of endor.
In fact, grab grab you got here's here's I want to give you a reason why I'm thinking of endorsing Obama.
Uh listen to this.
There you have some Barack Obama, ladies and gentlemen, is a blank canvas upon which anybody can project their fantasies or their desires.
I mean, you look at Democrats in the audience and they're swooning.
He's saying nothing.
He's saying nothing better than anybody in my lifetime ever has.
And the reason he says nothing so well is because everybody thinks that he's saying what they want.
So they're able to project onto Obama their fantasies.
So, you know, if they believe in um allowing whoever, somebody married a dog, they think Obama will support it.
Therefore, I would like today to announce tentative decision.
I'm still thinking about it, to endorse Barack Obama since everybody is asking, who am I going to endorse?
And here's why.
Barack Obama is pro-life.
Barack Obama is a constitutionalist.
Barack Obama believes in limited government.
Barack Obama is in favor of health care savings plans.
Barack Obama loves free markets and wants to protect them.
Barack Obama is strong on national defense.
Barack Obama is a tax cutter extraordinaire.
Barack Obama makes my leg tingle when I hear him speak.
Barack Obama will end the designated hitter rule.
Barack Obama will establish a college football playoff once and for all, so we will genuinely have a champion.
Barack Obama will get to the bottom of spygate.
Barack Obama will offer free beer Fridays.
That's why I'm well, I mean, whatever you want Obama to be, folks, he's a blank slate.
He's an empty canvas, and this is the nature of his appeal.
Because whatever people fantasize about, whatever they want, they are confident Obama supports it too.
Back in a sec.
In exit polls in Virginia and Maryland last night, there were questions to voters about me.
Talk radio, the Rush Limbaugh effect, uh, as dubbed by the Associated Press.
But before we get to the sound bites illustrating this and the data behind the uh talk radio um exit question, because it's it it it it puts to rest the whole myth that the drive bys have been writing about and broadcasting about for the past two weeks.
Talk radio's dead.
It's on the wing.
It's influence, it's gone.
That's what they hoped.
But and by the way, the exit poll data indicate exactly what I've always said about you.
You're not mind numb robots.
You make up your own minds, you listen for a whole bunch of reasons, but not to have your mind made up or influenced about political issues or votes or this kind of thing.
But first, before we get to that, last night on Cudlow and Company on CNBC, your host, L. Rushbow, personally blamed for forestalling a market rebound.
Larry Cudlow said to the guest, BMO Capital Markets, Andy Bush, shouldn't McCain do very well tonight in these primaries.
He should rout Huckabee.
Huckabee hangs on and continues to call and bring to the headlines all the conservatives who are against McCain.
You rush limbas and so on.
He's providing fodder for the Democrats to go after McCain.
We need that to stop for the Republicans if we're going to get a bounce from the stock market.
Stop criticizing McCain.
Republicans need to unify, or the market will not and Andy Bush of BMO Capital Markets will need a job if I don't get behind McCain.
Folks, can we agree just between us?
Don't repeat this.
Shh.
Don't tell anybody.
Is it not been brilliant?
How I have strategically inserted myself into this campaign at virtually every level.
You know it.
And I know it.
All right, Fox News.com headlines.
Exit polling explains Obama's sweep in Virginia.
McCain grappling with conservative doubt.
And in this story, near the end, talk radio may be playing a big role.
62% of Republicans said they frequently listen to conservative programs like Rush Limbaugh and Hannity and Ingram and others.
Many of those hosts don't endorse McCain.
Their fans seem to have followed suit, voting 48% for Huckabee, 38% for McCain in the Liberal Washington Post.
But even as he dominated the Potomac primary, McCain lost conservatives in Virginia, as he has across the South and parts of the Midwest, trailing Huckabee among that group and evangelicals as he attempts to unite a fractured Republican Party behind his candidacy.
Now McCain did not directly address his challenge among conservatives, but he said, I will not confine myself to the comfort of speaking only to those who agree with me.
I will make my case to all the people.
Meaning I'm staying with the independents, and I'm staying with the liberals.
That's my strength.
Fool speed ahead.
360.
Robert D. Holesworth, uh political science professor, Virginia Commonwealth University, said conservatives have not been ready to put their imprimatur on McCain.
Uh inevitably has not translated into affection, and that is a continuing challenge for him.
He won by nine points in Virginia, I think 5149.
Um this guy, Andy, what's his name?
Andy Bush of BMO Capital Markets, the audio soundbite here from Cudlow Show.
He's got to put McCain should be smoking Huckabee.
Huckabee doesn't have a chance.
Doesn't have a prayer.
Well, he's I believe he majored in miracles.
I take that back.
He does have a prayer.
But but frankly, folks, McCain should be walking away with this now, unifying the party.
It isn't happening.
The conservatives, even knowing full well that they're voting for a guy that's not going to win the nomination.
In fact, Romney and Ron Paul and the other guys got nine votes, 9% of the vote last people that have no prayer either.
So it is a continuing problem for Senator McCain and the establishment.
Ha!
Welcome back.
Great to have you.
El Rushbow having fun, having More fun than a human being should be allowed to have uh from high atop the EIB building in Midtown Manhattan.
AP last night uh highlights of exit poll data in the Maryland and Virginia presidential primaries.
And halfway down is this little paragraph that's headlined with the Rush Limbaugh effect.
Now, the AP is just one of many drive-by news agencies writing of our wane and desire and uh uh or demise.
Now the Rush Limbaugh effect, they're exit polling us, folks.
Republican voters in Virginia who said they frequently listen to conservative talk radio voted 51% for Huckabee, while non-listeners voted 57% for McCain.
The more often people listen to conservative talk radio, the less likely they were to vote for McCain.
Wonder why.
And then the Fox exit polls, it's all the same thing.
Uh talk radio had an impact on the votes for Huckabee, 50%, saying talk radio influenced the vote, and they went for Huckabee.
Also a majority, 52%, said that McCain was not conservative enough.
Uh now, Northern Virginia that was not in at the time, all these exit poll data came out.
McCain was uh trailing Huckabee until Northern Virginia came in.
Um he ended up winning it by nine points, but he should he should have smoked uh Huckabee last night in Virginia.
Uh but you know, he's having trouble winning conservatives in southern states, and the southern half of Virginia is uh is is very conservative and uh somewhat evangelical, and the votes went to Huckabee.
Also, CNN exits.
Twenty-five percent of GOP voters are mildly or seriously dissatisfied with McCain.
Uh he lost those voters big time.
Nineteen percent of Republican voters think immigration's a big issue.
Forty-four percent of those who voted favor the deportation model, and McCain lost those voters by over 20 points.
Sixty percent of voters listen to conservative talk radio.
McCain got whacked there.
Now, nineteen percent of Republican voters think immigration's a big issue.
And some people might say only 19 in front of that.
That's one out of five people.
That is a serious issue when you have a national election.
And it's probably a little bit higher than this in other parts of the country.
This is just Virginia and Maryland.
I'm now since they're exit polling me and uh and talk radio, uh I'm wondering, are they also exit polling uh what percentage of voters are influenced by Bill Crystal and David Brooks uh and uh and and some of the other McCaniacs in the establishment side of the Republican Party.
Let's go to the audio sounds, which is a question.
Go to the audio sound bites.
Uh DNC TV here explaining the exit poll.
Now, I just gave you the exit poll data.
Uh for Virginia.
In Maryland, it was somewhat different.
Maryland's an odds that even the Republicans there are uh in most of this are pretty liberal, pretty moderate.
Uh DNC TV wanted to focus on the exit poll data regarding talk radio in Maryland.
Here is uh the the uh correspondent Nora O'Donnell.
This electorate enjoys listening to conservative talk radio.
In fact, 62 percent say they listen at least occasionally.
And it's pretty interesting number since conservative talk show hosts like Rush Limbaugh have questioned McCain's conservative credentials.
Later on, uh Ms. O'Donnell returned to pronounce that in Maryland they're listening, but they're not doing as they're told.
In our exit polls, we checked on whether these GOP voters listened to conservative talk radio.
And in Maryland, we found that 31% said they tune in frequently, 34% listen occasionally.
That's a pretty big audience for Maryland, for talk show hosts like Rush Limbaugh and Laura Ingraham, who've been saying that John McCain is not conservative enough.
So we ask these voters if what they're listening to is what they're buying.
And we found that among this very conservative electorate, less than half think he's not conservative enough.
Nearly the same percentage actually think he's about right.
So these numbers show that while these voters Are listening, they may not be buying what they hear.
So the template continues.
The drive-by's definition of success uh for me is reflected by how many of my listeners do what I tell them to do.
And I'm failing if if if they don't follow me.
Uh uh.
Right.
Got a big audience in Massachusetts, huge audience in San Francisco.
What are they gonna do?
Uh I know they're dismissing their dis I know they're dismissing half the voters uh by saying that uh the Well, see that they're not following the marching orders.
I just wanted you hear this because it just establishes the template that the drive-by's cannot give up.
Now, over on Fox, the newly engaged, as of New Year's Eve, Megan Kelly was handling the exit poll data reporting for the Fox News channel last night.
Uh and she reports the Virginia numbers here, but with a tidbit that O'Donnell on DNC TV left out.
Most Virginia Republicans, 53% say McCain is not conservative enough.
Forty-one percent say he's about right.
Just three percent think McCain is too conservative.
Talk radio, too, may be influencing this vote.
This is fascinating.
62% of GOP voters in Virginia say they listen often to conservative talk radio.
Programs like Rush Limbaugh.
Now, those stars, as everyone knows, do not support John McCain, and neither, as it turns out, do their fans who went for 48% for Huckabee, 38% for McCain.
That's in Virginia.
Let's also remind you that I have not endorsed Huckabee.
And Huckabee got a majority of the talk radio vote last time.
I didn't haven't endorsed him.
You know, uh I endorsed Obama a moment ago.
But I have I'm gonna scare people who didn't hear that.
It was a joke.
But I did endorse Huckabee.
It's important to point that out.
Okay, let's go to the phones.
When we come back from this next coming break, and we've got four sound bites from Obama's speech last night.
I have purposely selected these personally and purposely to illustrate what I mean when a guy says nothing better than anybody has ever said nothing in my lifetime.
Uh and then I I I want to uh give a little helpful advice to the McCain campaign after those bites.
But let's grab a couple of phone calls here first.
Jared in Spokane, Washington, your first today.
Nice to have you here.
Hey, thank you, Rush.
Thanks very much.
Uh as I told your screener, I am a conservative in Washington State in Eastern Washington, a mo uh a more conservative part of the state, and even I am considering voting for uh Obama just because of the way he communicates.
Understanding, I know that a lot of what he says doesn't have a lot of substance to it.
But the reason why I'm gonna do that.
Do you realize what you I think he is he's a great communicator like Reagan was, and he's inspirational.
Dude, you remember growing up as a kid in the 80s, and the thing that Reagan did for me is he made me feel good again, feel good about the country.
And I think that's what Obama does.
I don't necessarily agree with his politics.
I don't like what he says.
I think he's kind of a socialist.
But I agree with the way he inspires people.
Are you are you are you listening to yourself here?
You're a conservative Republican state of Washington.
Yep.
You want to feel good, you expect a presidential candidate to do it.
Even if he's a socialist, you're gonna vote for him.
You know that his policies are way over there on the left.
Uh you admit that his speech doesn't contain much substance, but it is inspiring like Reagan inspired you.
And you're thinking of voting for him, even though you know he's a socialist lib.
Because the alternative is is John McCain, who you know works with liberals more than any so-called Republican out there.
And what's the difference if I have John McKing working with liberals and a liberal as the president?
There's not a whole lot of difference there.
If the liberal inspires.
I'll tell you what, weird.
That for me is more important.
All I can say is we're in trouble.
Okay, so you've you've decided here McCain's gonna work with the liberals.
Obama is a liberal, so there's a watch.
So it's a watch.
And so you're gonna vote for the liberal who inspires you.
And that's Obama.
That may come down to that.
Yeah.
We're in trouble.
I agree.
You know, we we are in trouble.
There's there's no you know uh we're in trouble.
You you uh you need to really hear what you just said.
Besides that, you know, Reagan, how old do you sound uh relatively youthful?
How old are you?
I am 33.
33.
33.
33, you were you were your teenage years or even younger than that when Reagan was around.
Right.
Uh, and yet he inspired you.
He inspired me, and as I studied him in high school and and growing up further.
Um I I agree to him.
I agree with that.
Well, he was full of substance.
I agree with that.
Yeah, but the INDA is the thing.
The thing is he was full of substance.
Oh, I agree.
He was full of substance.
And he inspired people to believe in themselves and in and believe in their kids.
Yeah, but Obama's not inspiring people to believe in themselves.
He's inspiring them to believe in him.
He is messianic.
He's not, he's not, he's not making making people feel good about themselves, but they're not personally inspired.
They are personally hopeful, and that they are and and Obama is is is who is is who they're inspired of, not themselves.
And it's a cig it's a significant distinction.
Anyway, quick timeout here, folks, as uh we all process what we just heard.
Uh, we'll be back and continue in a second.
All right, folks.
Uh, before we get to the Obama speech sunbites, a quick question.
How many of you spent some time, as I suggested, processing the last call that we just heard on this program?
If you did, let me ask you a question.
How do you know that it was a plant?
Because it was.
That call was so obviously a plant.
Am I the only one?
Probably so.
That's why I'm host.
No, that's not it, Snerdley.
That's not it.
Snurdley's close.
It's not the fact that he wasn't old enough to know anything about Reagan.
And when I asked him about the age thing, uh, he said he learned a lot and was inspired by Reagan in what?
High school.
My friend's name for me a high school.
Anywhere in this country that A teaches anything about Reagan, B teaches anything good about Reagan.
That call had to be a plant.
Reagan is simply not celebrated and heralded in American high schools.
Especially in the state of Washington.
I know Spokane's conservative place, but the public school system is the public scrual system.
All right, now we go to Obama and his acceptance.
Well, whatever it was.
His speech last night in Madison, Wisconsin.
We have four bites.
Here's number one.
I should not be here today.
I was not born into money or status.
I was born to a teenage mom in Hawaii.
My father left us when I was two.
But my family gave me love.
They gave me an education.
And most of all, they gave me hope.
Hope that in America, no dream is beyond our grasp.
If we reach for it and fight for it and work for it.
Understand this.
Hope is not blind optimism.
Hope is not ignorance of the barriers and the challenges that stand between you and your dreams.
I know how hard it will be to change America.
I hope you do.
Because hope never got anything done.
I don't want to go through my hope, Riff.
That's number one.
Here's here's number two, Obama last night in Madison, Wisconsin.
We'll invest in you.
You invest in your country.
Together, America will move forward.
That's what we dream of.
That is our calling in this campaign.
That's our calling to reaffirm that fundamental belief.
I am my brother's keeper.
I am my sister's keeper.
That belief that makes us one people and one nation.
It's time to stand up and reach for what's possible.
Because together, people who love their country can change it.
Yeah, no, but see, Sturdley, I mean, you're the guy that supports all this.
You know, there's I mean, I I I'll tell you what, this is so syrupy, I feel like I'm gonna need to take some medication to keep my blood sugar down.
I think I'm gonna get an insulin attack here.
Here's the third sound bite of four from Obama last night in Madison.
Now, when I start talking like this, I have to say some people will tell you that I've got my head in the clouds, that I'm still offering false hopes that I need a reality check.
That I'm a hope monger.
But you know it's true.
My own story tells me that in the United States of America, there's never been anything false about hope.
At least not if you're willing to work for it, not if you're willing to struggle for it, not if you're willing to fight for it.
And here is number four.
When we instead join arm in arm and decide we are going to remake this country block by block, precinct by precinct, county by county, county, state by state.
That's what hope is.
There's a moment in the life of every generation when that spirit has to come through if we are to make our mark on history.
And this is our moment.
This is our time.
When we instead join arm in arm and decide we're going to remake this country block by block, precinct by precinct, county by hounty, state by state, that's what hope is.
Nope.
What he's describing there is action.
But I don't want to get in my hope riff.
Now, there's no question that this kind of stuff to the right audience can lift them up.
It is in its own way inspiring.
It's telling the hopeless that there is hope in hope.
It's telling the hopeless that there is hope in hope.
Well, that's it.
Look at here's my point about this.
Think what you this was nothing substantive.
There was no there was nothing about policy here.
There's nothing about what he's gonna do in the future.
This is all about a psychological uh this is the operaization of the presidential campaign.
But here's the real point.
If you watched that whole speech last night, you know why he's winning and why Hillary is losing.
And if you agree with Barack Obama, if you are John McCain and you agree with Barack Obama, you will lose.
The thing that McCain needs to understand, this hit me last night after watching this speech.
If he agrees on a lot of issues with Obama, as McCain tends to agree with liberals a lot, he loses.
Because Obama's gonna have this technique and this appeal wrapped up.
You cannot take a part of this and appropriate it as your own in your campaign.
This is Obama.
He owns this, whatever it is.
He has a patent on saying nothing, but he owns it and it's his, and you can't appropriate it.
Senator McCain can only beat this back by embracing conservatism.
You can't outspeech Barack Obama.
Just isn't gonna happen, especially when he has a teleprompter.
You're not gonna be able to out-charisma Obama, and you're not gonna be able to out sex appeal Obama.
Ideas are gonna be the only way to stop this guy because he's his ideas, he's trying to hide.
Like all liberals, he's trying to get away with not having to be public about what his ideas are.
They are socialist slash liberal.
And ideas are the only not embracing him halfway, say, oh, we love Obama.
I think Hillary said this, I'm not sure, I've been, you know, hearing so many things, but I think Hillary said somebody said that Obama has not had one negative ad run against him in this campaign.
Because they're scared to.
And McCain's media guy, Mark McKinnon said, Oh, we're not gonna do that.
Well, if you're not gonna do that, and he that means he hasn't been tested, you're gonna need to beat this guy with ideas.
So Obama talks about the future.
Everybody's for the future.
How can you not be for the future?
I want to come out against the future.
Progress and all that.
Okay.
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