I remember back 1996 in a Bob Dole Bill Clinton campaign.
Bob Dole, of course, was in the Senate.
Was he the majority leader in the Senate at the time?
Did the Republicans control the Senate?
I think they did.
Greetings, folks, welcome back.
Rush Limbaugh here from the subterranean depths of the EIB Southern Command.
Great security, heavily fortified.
We're totally safe here.
Telephone number 800-282-2882 if you want to be on the program.
Email address is El Rushbo at EIBnet.com.
Yeah, so Bob Dole in the Senate, 96 campaign, and the drive-bys, and a lot of people say, how can you serve in the Senate and run for president at the same time?
And so Bob Dole quit the Senate.
Now we jump forward to 2008, and we have three senators running for the White House.
I haven't heard a word from anybody about any of them resigning the Senate in order to campaign for the presidency.
Have you?
I did hear some allusion to the fact that maybe last week some story that McCain might be considering it, but not of Hillary, not Obama, neither of them supposedly even considering quitting the Senate race.
It's fascinating here how things change.
I was also thinking about this, ladies and gentlemen.
I was, you know, during the top of the hour breaks, I take a little respite.
I leave the cavernous broadcast complex here.
I'll stroll into Mr. Snerdley's office.
We had an interesting conversation about phone calls today.
And we just, while I was talking to him, he was acting like he was not paying much attention.
He was channel surfing around.
And I noticed, I mean, I'm, you know, subliminally, subconsciously aware of this, but it just struck me, went to C-SPAN to DNC-TV, MSNBC, went to CNN, went to Fox.
Everywhere he turned, there's a babe, infobabe, anchoring or reporting the news.
And I got to thinking, what if Hillary really does lose this thing?
You know, I'm teetering back and forth.
I've got the sense, I could be wrong about this, but I have the sense that the drive-bys are in the midst here of changing their coverage of Obama and are going to start being a little, oh, how shall I say, more critical, perhaps a little more hard-hitting of Obama, getting past some of these say-nothing better than anybody else ever says-nothing speeches that he makes.
And what if she actually loses?
What if that happens?
And I was thinking, well, all of these women on TV, wherever they are, even those who may not particularly be for her now, I just, I wouldn't be surprised if that happens, that all of a sudden there becomes a similarity in the coverage.
A woman lost.
In 2008, this country is still so sexist that it will refuse to elect a woman.
I can just see them all getting a little miffed, even though those women that were not for her, I can see them jumping in on this too.
And I see things like, I can't believe this country, they actually support an inexperienced black guy over a competent, experienced woman.
These are just random thoughts that occur in the fertile gray matter known as my brain.
And then I got to thinking, it's not just women.
This could end up being, we could be calling this the we get screwed.
We all got screwed campaign.
Somebody's going to get screwed in this campaign.
When this is all over, women are going to think they got screwed.
African Americans are going to think they got screwed.
Seasoned citizens might think they got screwed.
Do you realize what the attitude is going to be when this thing is all over?
And who knows, regardless how it ends up, somebody's going to think they got screwed as a member of a group.
Speaking of Obama, Armstrong Williams has a piece posted today on human events.
Before the primary season began, the Democrat Party reached an agreement with its potential presidential candidates that they would not campaign in Florida or Michigan and that the delegates from those states would be meaningless.
All the candidates agreed, which in effect made the Florida primary and the Michigan primary moot because none of the delegates could be used with the candidates vying for the nomination.
The Clinton campaign was the main advocate for this ban because at the time they felt they were invincible and would have little competition from the field.
A few months later, Super Tuesday arrived.
That was Hillary's chance to wipe Obama out of the picture.
But what happened was shocking and humiliating to the once unstoppable and formidable Hillary.
After the votes retallied, Clinton's campaign had to face the realization that despite winning the big states, she was still in a horse race that was neck and neck with the upstart from Illinois.
Goes on and on to say that because of the way this is all shaken out and because of the, look, everybody in the Democrat Party realizes here that this is up to the superdelegates and Hillary's undies that decided for Hillary that are now undeciding for her and what the Clinton machine is going to do to engineer these superdelegates for her and these delegates from Florida and Michigan.
So here's the money quote, the money paragraph from Armstrong Williams piece.
The word on the street is that the Obama campaign and New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg have already met and devised an incredible plan if Clinton wins the nomination.
Mayor Bloomberg would give nearly $1 billion to Obama's campaign, after which Obama would bolt the Democrat Party and run as independent with Bloomberg as his running mate.
The Obama campaign realizes that Obama is too new at this game, doesn't have the political weight of the Clintons to bring in the true heavy hitters of the party's hierarchy.
So according to sources, it was Bloomberg himself who suggested this strategery.
It's mind-boggling the Clintons are willing to destroy the entire Democrat Party and potentially in the process lose the White House and seats in Congress for their own selfish thirst for power and glory.
It's not at all mind-boggling, Armstrong.
I don't know about this rumor on the street that Bloomberg would give Obama a billion bucks and Obama would bolt the Democrat Party with Bloomberg as the VEP.
But I was one of the first to predict if they have to blow up the convention hall in Denver, they'll do it.
If they have to make this party an absolute shambles, they will do it.
For crying out loud, what is so hard to understand about this?
This is this, folks, this is what it has all been for.
Mrs. Clinton's life, the most cheated-on woman in the world.
The woman who has had to suffer humiliation after humiliation after humiliation after giving up her own independent life in exchange for this deal that leads to this campaign.
This is what it has all been for, the 35 years of not helping children while saying you're helping children.
This has been what it's all about.
And to think they're just going to accept the will of Democrat voters and delegates of the convention and say, sorry, Mrs. Clinton, but we actually want Obama and go happily back to the Senate with Bill back to Chappaqua or wherever.
And everything's hunky-dory.
People do not understand the Clintons.
Armstrong, they will wreck this party in order to get the nomination.
But Rush, but Rush, if they wreck the party, how can they win the president?
Get to that later.
They'll wreck the country next to get the presidency.
But they'll wreck the party first to get the nomination.
I'm exaggerating a bit here.
I'm trying to make a point.
I don't think most of us can understand the lust, the sense of entitlement, wanting something since you were 19 in college and thinking that just because you wanted it, it was yours.
And after planning an entire life, foregoing the normal pursuits of happiness and pleasure in exchange for every day of your life being a calculation, the people you hang with, the friends you supposedly make, all of the money you raise, the obligations that you enter into, all of it engineered not for the genuine human concerns of relationships and family and friends, but for a political prize.
And to have it six months after you thought it was inevitable be up for grabs and to just go away quietly.
Folks, it's not going to be that.
That's why this is, to me, shaking out to be so much fun because we haven't even seen the fireworks start yet.
Just sit tight.
Hi, we're back, El Rush Bull, behind the Golden EIB microphone, America's Truth Detector, America's Doctor of Democracy, and America's harmless, lovable little fuzzball.
I'm thinking about Armstrong Williams piece.
If he's right about this, sources on the street say that if Hillary gets a nomination, Bloomberg is going to give Obama a billion dollars.
Obama will bolt the Democrat Party.
Bloomberg will become his veep.
If that's true, we got to go, Hillary.
We have to support Hillary on this program to get the Democrat nomination, folks, because Bloomberg will then destroy the Democrat Party.
And it won't matter what McCain does.
I mean, that's a way out of this.
Oh, I hope this is true.
Oh, would that not be something?
Mike Bloomberg destroying a Democrat Party with a $1 billion donation to Obama.
Speaking of which, we have here a montage.
We spoke earlier in the broadcast of all the fainting that is going on at Obama rallies, fainting and people falling down.
And it does make you wonder if the fainting is planted, if they are faking it.
We have a string here of a montage of Obama reacting to people fainting over and over again in his audience.
She is an outstanding Congresswoman, Congresswoman Diane Lawson.
We need, if we have a medic.
Somebody just fell.
They probably felt a little bit faint.
Are you okay?
We need some water.
Is somebody still on the ground?
Can somebody get them some water?
Is she okay?
Do we have somebody who fainted?
Hold on, we got somebody who's sick.
Can we get somebody?
We got medical attention coming.
Make some space for her and let her lie down.
It looks like we have somebody who may have fainted.
Can people make some space?
Hold on a second, young lady.
You okay?
Why don't you sit down, though?
Somebody guide her out and let her sit down because she's just feeling a little faint.
She's fine.
You probably didn't eat lunch.
That's the problem.
She'll be okay.
Why don't you help somebody help her just sit?
Somebody help her sit down.
Can we get a chair on the side where somebody can sit down, make a path?
Fascinating column from Yesterday's Chicago Sun-Times by Mary Mitchell.
It is about the shooting at Northern Illinois University.
If you're wondering why Senator Barack Obama's message of hope has resonated with so many voters across the country, consider the shooting rampage at Northern Illinois University.
Despite a decade of scruple shootings, we're never prepared for the horror of someone opening fire on innocent people, then taking his or her own life.
On Thursday, five people were killed.
More than 20 others were injured when a man who was described by Skrull administrators as a former top...
You know what, folks?
The guy was a liberal.
Did you read his guy's website?
He believed in peace.
He believed in love.
He believed in equality.
And so all of the authorities, oh, he was thinking a harmless little guy.
He was sick a good student, Mr. Limbaugh.
He cared about the word, obviously the third.
He was just off his medication.
He was a liberal that did this.
You know, the drive-bys were just hoping this guy could be pegged as a listener to conservative talk radio.
Had he been a conservative, nobody would have been talking about what a wonderful young man and what a wonderful, quiet, undisruptive life he had led.
So interested in peace, they would have just ripped this guy a new one.
Now they're building him up as some fallen liberal, like the Unibomber.
Remember, he was a fallen liberal.
Fallen intellectual, what have you?
Reading Al Gore's book out there in the shack.
Where was it, in Montana, wherever the Unibomber's place was?
Anyway, back here to Mary Mitchell.
Why are people walking around armed to the teeth?
The only reason I can think of, too many people have lost hope.
The pain of hopelessness.
We're living in a time when depression seems to be as common as a cold or flu.
Yet what is depression but an impenetrable cloud of hopelessness?
Hopelessness is behind the violence that erupts on street.
No, it's not, Ms. Mitchell.
It's evil.
Evil is behind the violence that erupts on street corners and behind closed doors in middle-class homes where women have killed their children and tried to take their own lives.
It's evil or it is mental instability.
It is not hopelessness.
Shooting shows why Obama strikes a chord.
Without hope, she writes, nothing changes.
A gift the country needs is hope.
Obama is surging ahead because a lot of people are tired of believing they are powerless to heal an ailing nation.
Were Obama president?
These things such as the shooting at Northern Illinois University won't happen because all we need is hope.
I'm not making it up.
Mary Mitchell, Chicago Sun-Times yesterday, John in Crofton, Maryland.
Nice to have you on the program.
Welcome, sir.
Hey, Rush.
Hey, talk to you.
If this guy were a liberal and Obama's ahead in the polls and Obama's for hope, then why couldn't this guy put it off longer?
You know, that's a great question.
Especially when he does it.
Barack Obama is only 65 miles away from DeKalb, Illinois.
He grew up in Chicago, works in Chicago.
Yeah, that's Obama State, you know, where this guy did it.
And by the way, he did it on St. Valentine's Day.
What did he think he was?
Al Capone?
And he came in with guns, and his shotgun was in a supply.
Let's not besmirch McCone or Capone.
He's a good liberal.
Well, I'm Italian.
I'm not trying to.
No, no, wait.
No, but Capone was.
McCone.
Capone was.
Sorry, folks.
Capone was not involved in St. Valentine's Day massacre.
That took place in Kansas City at Union Station.
And it wasn't a Capone mob.
I forget who it was.
I'm afraid you're wrong, Rush.
I'm Italian.
I know my history.
It was in Chicago.
Capone was in Florida.
He received a phone call after it was done.
Well, now, wait a minute.
Then what happened?
Yeah, it was Capone's gang that.
All right, all right.
Well, what happened in Kansas City then?
I would have thought that.
I don't know.
You're going to have to ask Harry Truman.
Well, I'm going to look this up here on Google in the weekend in the break here because this, well, there was a giant Union Station massacre in Kansas City.
Yeah.
I thought it was St. Valentine, but if you're Italian, you'd know better.
I'm Italian from New Jersey.
I'm not arguing.
I'm not arguing.
But the reason I called is I watched.
Hang on just a second.
Don't go away, but time has.
We'll continue with you right after the break.
That's what we do here.
Make the complex understandable.
Back to John and Crofton, Maryland.
You know, obviously you were right.
The Kansas City Union Station massacre was June 17, 33.
And that was pretty boy Floyd, Vernon Miller, and Adam Rachetti trying to free their buddy Frank Nash, who was a federal prisoner.
And they walked in there and gunned down a bunch of people, including four Fibbies who were escorting Nash around.
That was 1933.
What year did you say the Valentine's Day massacre was?
I'm not sure.
Well, I know it was on St. Valentine's Day.
Right.
Okay.
It was in the late 20s, early 30s.
But anyway, Capone was smart enough to be in Florida at the time it happened.
By the way, they got Capone for tax evasion, and during the Depression, he funded soup lines.
He fed the people to Chicago.
And if he only used that as a tax deduction, maybe he would have been okay with the IRS.
But anyway, St. Valentine's Day massacre was 1929.
Yeah, that's what I thought.
Yeah.
Fox News Sunday had two governors on, Jim Doyle of Wisconsin and Ohio Governor Ted Strickland.
And I guess I was upset by the Ohio governor.
I mean, obviously, he's a Clinton supporter, and they were trying to, Chris Wallace was trying to get him to commit that the superdelegates would vote the way the popular vote goes in the primaries, you know, and vote for the will of the people.
In other words, to just ratify the will of the people.
But Ted Strickland was very coy about the thing.
And then they asked about, well, you know, the votes that aren't supposed to count from Michigan and Florida because, you know, that was the agreement since those states violated the schedule and they had them earlier than they were supposed to.
And he wouldn't commit on that.
And he said, you know, well, you know, we'll cross that bridge when we get to it.
And to me, it reminds me of Florida 2000 when they tried to change the rules after the election.
And the Democrats are telling us that's what they're going to do again, or at least the Clintons are.
So this thing about Armstrong Williams with Bloomberg maybe coming in.
And who's that remind you of?
Like in 1992, we had a billionaire that split the vote, and Bloomberg is going to maybe do the same.
If that's true, but with a billion dollars given to your campaign, you can do more than split the vote if you want to.
If that's true, really tough to believe, but if that's true, it could wreck the Democrat Party.
I hope so.
That really could wreck the...
Well, me too.
I mean, that's what sort of...
And this thing about McCain, obviously McCain is the lesser of two evils, whoever the Democratic nominee is.
We had a primary here in Maryland, and Maryland's the one-party state, so I could have stayed home, but I went and I voted for McCain.
I'm not crazy about McCain.
But, you know, even if you don't like McCain, you got to go vote and vote for the rest of the ballot.
I mean, there are a lot of other offices.
Well, I know.
That's been my whole point with all of this.
It's House and Senate races that are going to count here, regardless how you vote in the presidential race.
And this is going to be my emphasis, and it has been my emphasis.
And in fact, I gave an example last week after the Maryland primary.
A challenging Republican defeated an alleged incumbent Republican.
A guy's name is Wayne Gilchrist.
It voted against the war.
The challenger Republican won big, shocked everybody, especially because, you know, the conventional wisdom here is that the Republican Party is eschewing itself of conservatism.
People got to get rid of it and understand here.
Grab cut eight, Mike, if you would.
People have to understand here, the conservative wing of the Republican Party is losing its power.
It's being diminished here.
It's being redefined.
And we've got to go more mainstream, establish it Republican-type big government, compassionate government, Republicanism, blah, blah, blah.
And yet here in the state of Maryland, Andy Harris, a member of the Senate here, was victorious over Wayne Gilchrist.
And I pointed this out as exactly the kind of thing that needs to take place.
Sunday on C-SPAN on a roundtable looking at the 2008 congressional elections, Representative Chris Van Hollen, who is running the Democrat House elections, says that Andy Harris, the guy who won in this district in Maryland, appeals to me.
But listen to what else he says.
The other seat in Maryland where an incumbent lost, which is Wayne Gilchrist, who is a Republican member of Congress, he lost in the Republican primary to a very right-wing ideologue, Senator Andy Harris, member of the Maryland Senate, is great in reflecting the views of sort of the Rush Limbaugh, very right-wing of the Republican Party.
But he does not represent that district as a whole.
It's a very moderate district.
Wayne Gilchrist was a moderate, independent-minded member of Congress.
And the Democratic candidate who emerged from the primary, Frank Cravitel, is an independent-minded person in the mold of Wayne Gilchrist.
So now we have a candidate who's a much better fit for that district than Andy Harris is.
May I translate this for you?
This is a Democrat.
This is Chris Van Holland.
He runs the Democrat House elections.
And he says that Andy Harris, who appeals to me, Rush Limbaugh, but that their Democrat candidate is more like the Republican that was rejected in the primary.
That's the point.
That's the point.
Their Democrat is going to be running against Andy Harris is more like the Republican that lost.
Precisely.
Now, his point is that their guy is going to win since he's closer to the incumbent.
That's not the way this works.
We shall see.
I love it when the Democrats try to help us, when they try to tell us who we need to nominate to win.
I love it when the drive-bys tell us who we need to nominate to win.
I love it, folks.
What I don't like is when people on our side believe the advice we're getting from liberal Democrats on what we need to do to win.
By the way, Mrs. Clinton, somebody brought her up recently.
I was going to mention this earlier, and I forget the context now, but I want to go ahead and mention this.
Mrs. Clinton, what is her big patter on the campaign trail?
She's saying she'll work tirelessly, right?
She's worked tirelessly for 35 years.
She will work tirelessly every minute, every day she's in office, right?
She said that to New Yorkers when she ran for the Senate.
Now, I ask you a question, especially those of you in New York.
If running around the country losing primaries is working hard for New York every minute of every day, we have lost the meaning of words.
Who's next?
Art in Shepherd, Montana.
I'm glad you called, Art.
Welcome to the program.
Hi, Rush.
You know, I was just listening to the 13-page manifesto by the illustrious Hillary.
And it strikes me that either she thinks most of us are stupid or that she doesn't know what she's talking about.
First place, since the 70s, 60% of our doctors, engineers, and scientists have come from overseas.
If she gets her program through, all those countries that they came from are now very rapidly growing, and they don't have pain and suffering as their lawsuits.
Second thing, she's attacked Exxon, Shell, and other companies.
Well, British Petroleum and BP is British Petroleum.
Royal Dutch Shell is Royal Dutch Shell.
Exxon has offices in Ethel Malaysia, Etho Australia.
How difficult is it to move their corporate offices from the United States to those countries?
You take Hewlett-Packard, Calculators, Electronics, and so on.
Their principal manufacturing place has been Singapore since the 70s.
Texas Instruments has made Malaysia since the 70s.
IBM is moving into China.
Every largest automobile factory in the world is now in China.
How difficult is it for those companies to move overseas and abandon the United States?
I mean, if you go down to Exxon Baton Rouge and you take a look at the job site, the plant down there, if they close that, it immediately becomes a super fund site.
Totally.
Like I say, she is absolutely lying to the American public.
Barack is lying to the American public.
And if I take a look at all the candidates that are currently still viable, Huckleby is not, but even if I consider him viable, the only one that is in favor of the defense of the United States is McCain.
And regardless of whether I like him or not, any other thing, if you don't have security, you don't have a country.
None of the other things matter.
Well, yes.
And if you have open borders, you don't have security.
That's right.
And I dislike McCain for that.
I dislike the McCain Feingold.
I dislike the McCain Kennedy.
I dislike the McCain Lieberman.
And I dislike the Keating 5, and I dislike the gang of 14.
Like I say.
That's a lot of dislikes.
Yeah, but all the others are worse.
That's what I mean.
This is the we all get screwed one way or another election.
I want to talk about Hillary's 13-page manifesto that you referred to here in your speculation that she's either stupid, dumb, or is lying.
I don't think we can take the chance on any of those.
She's a socialist liberal.
I don't think that she is lying.
I think she is telling us what she would really like to do.
You know damn well she is saying what she thinks is going to get her the Democrat nomination.
And that's scary enough.
And Obama is pretty much saying the same thing.
And you listen to what these two candidates are telling their audiences, telling their voters as they try to get this nomination, and you'll find out just where the Democrat Party is today and what they think this country ought to be and how it ought to be changed and what they think it ought to be and how they think it ought to be changed is frightening to me.
Let's go through some of these things very quickly.
I got to take a break.
We'll go through these things after we come back for the timeout, her 13-page manifesto and another typical Democrat trick.
It was once performed very famously and prominently by the Brett girl.
Hillary did it again.
Recently, I have details coming up.
Ha!
How are you?
Welcome back.
Great to have you.
Rush Limbaugh on President's Day.
Having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
Before we get into the Hillary Clinton Economic Manifesto, the superdelegate thing.
Let me get this on the table and just lay it out.
Let's just cut through all a chase.
Because frankly, I'm sick and tired of watching all these cable news networks analyze.
Will the superdelegates go for Hillary?
Will the superdelegates go for Obama?
This is just, it's just irrelevant here.
If the purpose of the superdelegates is to merely ratify the will of Democrats who already voted in primaries, then what's the point of having superdelegates?
There is no point.
Therefore, the truth is the purpose of the superdelegates has always been to counter the will of the voters if the party's grand poobahs believe that they must.
It was established after McGovern took the nomination in order to prevent another debacle of that sort.
The whole reason for the superdelegates was McGovern wins big and they lose in a 49-state landslide to Richard Nixon, who they hated.
The Democrats never ever trust the voters, not even their own.
The whole point of the superdelegates is for the party leaders to wrest control of the nomination for who they think it ought to be.
So we want, after this little blurb here about this rumor on the street that Bloomberg will give Obama a billion bucks to bolt the Democrat Party, Bloomberg be the VEP.
Man, we now want Mrs. Clinton to steal the nomination.
And she will need the superdelegates in order to do this.
It's painfully clear now.
She probably will need the Florida and Michigan delegates, which means that we conservative Republicans must stand up for democracy and the American way and the right that every vote count.
Regardless of the rules, where the rules were cheated rules to begin with.
I mean, if you go back to Florida and Michigan, the whole point of getting rid of Florida and Michigan, Armstrong Williams right about this, the Clintons didn't think they'd need them.
Hillary had a 42% lead in Florida at the time they made these rules.
Didn't think they were going to need any of that.
Super Tuesday came along, changed everything.
So we want her, if she has to steal a nomination, we want her to do that.
She will need the superdelegates.
She has every right to win them if she can get them.
And because they're free to go however they want, so she can campaign for the superdelegates and screw the rest of this on out.
Well, yeah, I do.
I want 1968.
I want Hubert Humphrey got the nomination in 1968 without winning a primary.
I want the Clintons to blow up the convention hall in Denver if they have to.
And then I want Obama to bolt.
I want Bloomberg to throw a billion bucks.
Oh, folks, this is too good to be true.
It's just too good to be true.
The Hillary Clinton Manifesto.
13-page blueprint for fixing the economy.
Detailing her plans to achieve universal health care, address the home foreclosure crisis, and develop jobs for the middle class.
Now, do you realize what she's doing here with this?
If you look at the details of this, I don't have enough time here to go through all the details.
Over the past seven years, big corporations and special interests have been given a free pass to profit, often at the expense of the American worker.
As president, Hillary will make it a priority to scale back special benefits and subsidies to these corporations and put those resources back to work for our economy again.
Whoa.
As though corporate profits don't work for the economy.
She's going to rein in special interests, take back at least $55 billion per year from drug companies, oil companies, and firms that ship jobs overseas and invest those resources to improve the lives of working families.
Socialism, pure and simple.
But whose plan is this?
This is the key.
This is the BREC girl's plan.
The intellectual leader of the left, the grand poo-bah of modern liberalism, is the Breck girl who's out of the race.
Hillary and Obama are both racing to claim Edwards' side of the planet.
She can't possibly mean this.
She can't possibly mean it.
We hope Obama doesn't mean it.
And we do know that when John Edwards put all this to the voters, he bombed.
He blew himself up.
It didn't require the convention hall in Denver being blown up with him in it.
He blew himself up.
And now they're following him over the cliff with this.
Desperation and panic have set in to the Clinton-Obama campaigns back in a second.
And we are back.
Well, but not for long because they're going to close out the hour here, ladies and gentlemen.
Your local news, fair and objective is always coming up next.