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March 4, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 4, 2008, Tuesday, Hour #2
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Thanks, Johnny, and thanks everybody for enduring my company here on God, one of the one days in the calendar that uh that Rush really needed to be here.
But alas, illness has a cruel fate sometimes, so Rush is recovering, and uh we all hope we'll be back with you tomorrow, but in the meantime, it's you and me and the issues of the day, and that room gets pretty crowded.
I'm Mark Davis in Dallas Fort Worth, Texas.
Great to be with you.
Back on the phones with you here in just a moment, as we uh it's kind of a dual sort of a parallel track.
What do you think will happen in Texas, Ohio, Rhode Island, Vermont, and beyond, and what do you want to have happen?
And a theme that we kind of established in the first hour, and Lord knows this is a parlor game that can last for uh uh for for the foreseeable future, is which candidate is strongest against McCain, even though I believe McCain beats them both and told you why last hour, I believe Hillary is the stronger candidate.
In other words, if if if McCain would beat Obama by maybe five percentage points, maybe he'd beat Hillary by three.
And you know, a win is a win, so that's a moot point to me.
But obviously, if I'm wrong by a couple of points, and you know, Hillary just runs a genius campaign and you know, embarrassing photographs of McCain in some compromising position arise, or something happens, then then maybe it winds up uh the the scale slides and it would really be a McCain victory over Obama by only one, and maybe a Hillary victory over McCain by two.
The numbers are making my head hurt, so let's go ahead and hop to a quick story and then your calls.
You may have heard some buzz.
We've already had a caller invoke this, and that is that the um the honeymoon may be over.
Date line San Antonio.
Dana Milbank of the Washington Post writes as follows.
It took many months and the mockery of Saturday Night Live to make it happen.
But the lumbering beast that is the press corps finally roused itself from its slumber Monday and greeted Barack Obama with a menacing growl.
The day before primaries in Ohio and Texas that could effectively seal the Democrat presidential nomination for him, a smiling Obama strode out to a news conference at a veterans facility here, but the grin was quickly replaced by the surprised look of a man bitten by his own dog.
Reporters from the Associated Press and Reuters went after him for his false denial that a campaign aide had held a secret meeting with Canadian officials over Obama's trade policy.
A trio of Chicago reporters pummeled him with questions about the corruption trial this week of a friend and supporter.
The New York Post piled on with a question about him losing the Jewish vote.
Obama responded with the classic phrases of a politician in trouble.
Quote, uh that was the information I had at the time.
Those charges are completely unrelated to me.
I've said that was a mistake.
The fact pattern remains unchanged, end quote.
When those failed, Obama tried another approach.
We're running late, he said and disappeared behind a curtain.
All right, I don't I don't know what that bodes for the future, but I've had this little nugget of a thought in my head, and that is that the it was almost too much.
I was in Iowa and New Hampshire.
I I was in high school gyms and VFW halls watching 400, 500, maybe a thousand people uh go nuts for Obama.
I watched as seventeen thousand people packed reunion arena in downtown Dallas to just go flat out nuts for this man.
And I thought two things at that time.
This is incredible.
It's an amazing lightning in a bottle phenomenon that may be strong enough to capture the presidency.
Or it's just uh a ton of smoke and mirrors, and this act will simply get old.
It is the Obama appeal is um a hundred miles wide and about an inch deep, and that you can scratch through that and maybe Hillary Clinton has succeeded in this, and as we go back to your calls, let's examine whether you think this has in fact happened.
The middle of the night uh telephone ad.
Did that in fact work?
I think that ad will be chronicled as a turning point, if indeed Hillary can Turn it around tonight here in Texas and in Ohio.
People will say that that ad helped her.
That it actually forced the Obama maniacs to say, okay, we're having a lot of fun here.
Oh, this is a great, it's a party.
Woo-hoo!
We're dancing on the ceiling and passing out at the same time, which is hard.
But uh but ultimately who do we really want answering the phone at three o'clock in the morning?
And I know the point can be made, and as Barack Obama has made it, that it's not so much, you know, w whether you've ever answered the phone, which she hasn't really either.
I know the old joke, unless it was Bill saying he's running late.
Ha ha ha ha, okay, good.
That gets insert your own joke here.
Um but it's the judgment of who picks up the phone.
And Barack Obama replied by saying, Okay, look, when I pick up that phone, I'm gonna be the guy who knew that the Iraq war was wrong from the beginning, which of course gets him high fives from the kook uh war hating Bush-hating base that both of these candidates are are fighting over.
But if she can really start to have Democrats think, all right, the Obama thing is fun, this is great, it's playtime, but now we need to get serious about whom we put up against McCain, and we need to get serious about who's actually ready to be leader of the free world here.
And Obama mania.
It's kind of funny.
The Clinton machine may come to an end tonight, or Obama Mania may begin to come to an end tonight.
Now the great likelihood is big night for him and it's over.
And that's probably what happens.
But don't write that headline until it happens.
Okay?
Okay.
I'm Mark Davis filling in for Rush today.
Thank you, Rush.
Appreciate it.
Do get better, please.
Phone number is 1-800-282-2882, 1-800-282-2882.
There's a gentleman on the line from John McCain's home state, and he wants a moment of our time.
Let's go to Tucson and welcome Mike to the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Hey, Mike, Mark Davis sitting in.
It's a pleasure to have you.
Hello.
Hey, Mark.
Uh well, yeah, my sympathies first of all with Rush.
My wife and I are both suffering from the same problem he has, which I know is no fun.
I don't know.
Did SARS or the bird flu happen and we just don't know it?
Everybody I know is sick.
This is nuts.
The point that we are calling to make, and we s we've been living in Arizona and watching John McCain probably more carefully than the majority of the people in the country for the last eight years is this.
We don't think that John McCain is going to point appoint conservative people to the court.
That out-of-the-art argument necessarily isn't a way of saying you shouldn't vote for him.
Because he won't.
Because as your uh person answers the phone said, you know, is that a reason to vote for Hillary?
But saying that he will, I think is is a uh is an out now non-rationality.
Okay, let me let's struggle for for at least thirty more seconds.
What makes you doubt his claim that he will appoint Scalia, Alito, and Roberts style justices.
First of all, I went to high school with Sam Alito.
Yeah.
And I've known him for years.
Uh beginning at 14 is the first piece of evidence that he will not.
It might be.
You know what I think?
I mean, uh before I say that John McCain is an outright liar when he says what he'll do.
I mean, he does it.
Okay, tell me something he's lied about.
Uh the purpose behind that.
Uh the campaign spending raw that he was was in favor of that I think he's gonna appoint justice.
No, no, my Mike Mike, the my Mike, but please answer my question.
Tell me something he has lied about.
He said it was constitutional, and he knew it or he should have known it wasn't.
Well, well, no, Mike, that's not a lie.
That's uh I I agree with your side.
A lie is something that you know to be untrue and you say it anyway, Mike, Mike, Mike.
Mike, but he doesn't, he doesn't.
I think he's mistaken about this, you know, but I I I really, really think you've you engaged in a little bit of understandable confusion between what you don't like and what is a lie.
Uh uh I I appreciate it.
You you have a lot of company in Arizona.
I get a lot of emails and a lot of um I'm sure Rush gets a lot of calls from from folks out there in Arizona who are not McCain fans.
I heard someone say the other day, um uh please, uh Senator McCain, r show us how confident you are.
Resign from the Senate so that if you do lose, at least we are rid of you here in Arizona.
So uh anyway, uh the question remains on the table.
I uh I disagree with Senator McCain about a bunch of things.
I do not believe he is a liar.
Again, remember the definition of a lie.
This is one of the most misused words in all of talk radio.
Where you come up with something that you somebody does that you don't well, he's a liar.
Well, what well, what do you lie about?
Well, you said that uh, you know, Clinton was a good president, or he said that uh, you know, Terry Shavo, you know, should have you know kept the tube in, or he said these aren't lies, these are differences of opinion, and there is a very, very important difference.
A lie is just write this one down.
You ready?
Uh, what is a lie?
A lie is something that you know is untrue.
You know it's untrue, and you say it anyway with the intent to deceive.
Okay?
There you go.
No charge.
A lie is something that you know to be untrue, and you say it with the intent to deceive.
Now, moment on the gang of fourteen, and we'll break and come back to some more year calls.
1-800-282-2882.
I don't know if the gang of 14 is evidence that John McCain has a stripe that might smile on a liberal justice.
Uh is it evidence of uh mushy moderate instincts in him that might lead him to to cough up a Sandra Day O'Connor instead of another Sam Alito.
I don't know.
But I will tell you this.
Either he's just lying about this, which I hesitate to believe, his desire to give us uh um straight constitutionalist justices.
If there's another more plausible example, I would I tend to go with it, and here is that more plausible example.
Not that John McCain is trying to put one over on us and really has a stealth plan uh to give us uh more David Sutter's and Sandra Day O'Connors.
But if think about this, haven't you seen this in his personality?
The man has a fetish for outreach.
Let's reach across the aisle.
Let me get together with my Democrat friends.
When sometimes you just want them say, don't get together with him, beat him.
You know, don't talk it over over coffee.
You know, win.
You know, that that's an instinct that I have sometimes.
And I and I love civil discourse.
And I I miss the days of Reagan and Tip O'Neill, where they could duke it out all day and go out for a beer at night.
I I miss that.
I think we need more of that.
But Senator McCain is so he's civil to a fault.
He's pathologically uh even tempered, even handed, well, even tempered, we'll see.
But here's here's the overall point here.
The gang of 14 was was a group of senators that came together that essentially said, look, if there are really special circumstances that cause enough senators to stop down on the c on the on the subject of a nominee, and we end up with cloture votes and needing that supermajority of 60 and and and this this entire filibustering of justices.
If there are enough people who just want to talk it out a little longer or a lot longer, why not let them?
Doesn't that sound like McCain?
It is that kind of fetish for talking something to death uh just so you could feel bipartisan about it.
That sounds like McCain.
McCain lying to us and saying, Oh, I'll give you more Sam Alito when he what he really intends to do is uh give us more Stephen Breyer.
That does not sound like McCain.
So gee, I hope that made sense.
If it didn't, you have a commercial break to think about it.
1-800-282-2882.
I'm Mark Davis in for Rush Limbo on the EIB network, and we'll be right back.
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I'm Mark Davis.
Rush is uh out sick with a doctor's note, man.
What can I tell you?
We hope he's back tomorrow.
In the meantime, it's a pleasure to be in your company.
We're talking a little Texas and Ohio primary and Rhode Island and Vermont as well, and others lie ahead, folks of Pennsylvania.
I wonder if the people of Pennsylvania, let me have you weigh in.
Do you folks have a wish that Hillary do well tonight, well enough to keep the battle going, so that your votes actually count.
We are a country that is we're we're drunk on this.
Uh in a good way.
And by this I mean usually Iowa, New Hampshire, huh, that's it.
You know, after that, it's like if fa accompli, it's done.
Iowa, New Hampshire, that's it.
And for the rest of us, the the primaries are all about down ballot races in your state legislature and not much else.
But now we don't know what to do with ourselves here in Texas.
At least the Democrats here actually have a say in the presidential race.
We Republicans do too, sort of.
We can pretty well help, you know, put McCain totally over the top, which we probably will do, even though a ton of people in the talk show that I host here in Dallas Fort Worth, McCain was not their guy.
And the um I guess history will observe that the Reagan block of votes, the Reagan-loving conservative base of the GOP was just atomized out across a spectrum that contained Romney, Huckabee, Giuliani for the fiscal conservative, uh, and uh and the 14 people that were excited about Fred Thompson.
I don't know.
We can wring our hands about that forever or just move forward.
Let's move forward on the phone lines.
Let's head into the the lovely Piedmont region of uh of North Carolina, also known to the traveling public as where I-40 meets I-85.
We are in Greensboro, and John Mark Davis, you're on the Rush Limbaugh show.
Hello.
How are you?
Good.
Um I wanted to make a point.
You had a caller from New York that said Hillary was going to make this great comeback and she was going to win the election.
Yep.
And I've got friends that are Democrats.
Um I myself am a registered Republican.
And Dyd in the Wool Democrat friend of mine says he's leaning towards McCain.
He just cannot get excited about either one of the other candidates.
And the other Democrat friends I have are leaning towards Obama because they some reason think we need a change.
I can't imagine.
It's just a change.
It's a change.
Yeah, it's just a change.
We need a change.
We need change of direction.
Um, you know, and I respect their, you know, their opinions.
I I don't think they're well thought out, but that's just my opinion.
Well, let me let me dwell for a moment on the Democrat friends that you invoked who are leaning toward McCain.
This is not a small number of people.
Um McCain is for many people the one Republican they could vote for.
And I know that McCain's obstacle is that there are conservative Republicans who are balking at voting for him, but who I ultimately believe will.
But for every one Republican who stays home in November, just in a fit of peak, isn't it possible that there's at least one moderate Democrat to take his place and say, you know what, all other things being equal, I'll take John McCain.
Well, I would certainly hope so.
Uh as you said Joe Lieberman, uh he's uh he's a guy who's who you can respect his opinions, uh, but he's tough on defense.
He's a Democrat.
And uh I just I just think that McCain is going to garner a whole lot more votes from Democrats than than a lot of these dreamers on the left ever realized.
And it's essentially the same thing that happened in the last presidential election.
When it comes down to it, who do you want to be the leader of the country?
And that's my thought.
George W. Bush, even in the midst of an unpopular war in 2004, got some Democrat votes.
So there was such a thing as a it's not a Reagan Democrat phenomenon, but the Bush Democrat was the person who stepped forward.
It was it was a Joe Lieberman Democrat who stepped forward and said, I disagree with George W. Bush on virtually everything.
But he has managed to keep my family safe from further 9-11s for for a couple of years now.
And uh for three years as of the 2004 elections, and that's and that's not a small thing.
Was that a lot of voters?
No, but it was probably enough uh to help him carry the day.
With McCain, Democrats can see a guy they actually agree with on the borders on campaign finance on a on a a couple of other things.
And maybe, I know I'm really dreaming now, but maybe John McCain is the guy who can take some of Democrat America, some of Liberal America, bring them over and show them that less spending is not bad, that strict constructionist justices on the Supreme Court are not to be feared.
Just as I felt that Rudy Giuliani, being a big honking pro-choice guy, might have been the perfect man to show pro-choice America that Roe v.
Wade needed to be overturned and let every state decide its own abortion laws.
Sometimes uh it takes someone who's a little less ideological to make the sale.
Now that that's a huge pile of ifs, John, I appreciate you weighing in from Greensboro, but I really believe that there's a distinct possibility that uh that that that that's a factor.
I'm Mark Davis, filling in for Rush.
More of you in just a moment on the EIB network.
And let me tell you, he's darn pleased that you are I always enjoy speaking of myself in the third person.
Speaking for Rush Limbaugh here on the show, what an honor.
Thank you and thanks to all of you who are calling in at 1 800 28282.
Let's return in the midst of all of your analysis intermingled with mine here on a big Texas slash Ohio, yes, Rhode Island, yes, Vermont, love you people too Tuesday that may spell um doom or redemption uh for for Hillary Clinton.
It's kind of interesting.
Someone who's been as big and in our faces in as much of our cultural and political lives as she has uh and I don't want to suggest that she's about to die or about to you know leave the face of the planet.
She'll still be a powerful senator from New York but the notion of the Clintons at the uppermost echelons of power, that uh that whole concept may be a just about dying on the vine if it doesn't go her way tonight.
But I'm here to tell you I I won't uh I won't consider that a headline until you can actually officially write it.
Texas uh let's take a couple of more calls but Texas is in some ways tailor made for her to rise like a Phoenix from the ashes here so we'll sort of see how that goes.
Okay, to the phones.
If you're inland from San Francisco, you know going toward like Stockton and Modesto and such, there are a ton of hugely quickly growing little communities and one of them is Tracy, California, and it's a pleasure to welcome Lori from there.
Hello Lori, Mark Davis, and you're on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Hi Mark thanks for taking my call.
I I'm actually originally from Fort Worth and I live in the Bay Area.
I was so happy to hear you say what you said earlier about why McCain wins because there are so many people that will not vote for a woman myself being one because she's a woman and there are a lot of people that won't vote for Barack because he's a black person.
Nothing nothing against him it's just it is what it is.
Well no I'd love to I'd love to pretend that there's no such thing as this phenomenon but it might take us an election or two to get totally to the point of blindness to color.
Now as for gender, we'll talk about whether we have to get past that let's spend a moment on your claim this is great evidence of what I was talking about.
A woman a self-respecting intelligent bright woman and Lori you're basically telling me a woman president not your favorite thing.
Why not?
No, I mean m by no means is McCain my choice.
I mean that he was probably the last person I would have chosen.
I voted for Romney in the primary here and then you know for him to drop out the next day but you know I I can't even fathom the thought of either Barack or Hillary being president and it scares me to death.
Understand but go gin go generic with me for a second so I can make sure I didn't misunderstand you.
Do you also hold a little bit at arm's length the notion of a woman president of any type biggest fear of I mean yes absolutely so obviously you're not misogynistic.
You're not self-loathing, so what's the problem with the woman president I just I don't I think that there's there are a lot of things that you know I'm a mother I and I'm I I don't I just don't think that that women have it in them to make the kinds of decisions and to deal with the kinds of things that a president is faced with on a day-to-day basis.
I mean look at 9-11.
I mean that that's just it's nothing against Hillary.
I just think females just aren't built that way.
Can I I don't want to say rush to your rescue because you don't need it but so that people won't go looking for your home address.
Can can I fine-tune something for just a second there are w there are clearly women who do have it.
One of my favorite world leaders ever Margaret Thatcher ever.
She had it there are women in in leadership in private America, in in political America, who have it.
But maybe they are, I don't want to say the exception rather than the rule, but maybe that's just more a male trait than a female trait.
And you'd have to look at it case by case, but all other things being equal, womanhood and the presidency don't exactly go hand in hand.
Yeah, I agree.
Okay.
Well, that's careful.
That's not me saying it.
Actually, and let me let me say what let me go with what I am saying, and thank you for allowing me to.
I just really wanted to get at the root of really what you what you what you meant.
And every talk show host pretends that they could discern what everybody actually means.
Laurie, thank you.
All right, here boy, you ready for our second uncomfortable moment of the show?
Here we go.
Okay.
Not voting for someone because he is black, just because he's black.
That's racism.
Okay?
You're are you with me so far, as the Eagles once said.
Uh if if there's a candidate whom you admire and uh the ideas in her head are great, uh resume seems fine, da-da-da-da-da-da.
Uh-oh, black guy, deal breaker, forget it.
Well, that's that's that is racism, okay?
Now, but Laurie is the evidence here.
She what she's not a sexist, she is a woman.
Not voting for somebody because of blackness, racism.
It is not, however, apples and apples, such that not voting for a woman means you are a sexist, a misogynist, a woman hater, or something like that.
Now you might be, if someone says, you know, in the world I could vote for a Reds and Franz woman, there's no way in the world.
Well, you know, why?
Because I hate women, they're terrible.
Okay, yes, that's misogyny.
That's that's woman hating.
But show me a hundred people who will not vote for a woman president, and maybe thirty of them hate women.
Maybe, you know, another forty uh uh are are have sort of a you know a neanderthal view of of uh uh of uh of womanly talents.
But maybe the other thirty thoroughly respect women, thoroughly hold them in high regard.
But they simply recognize what is undeniably true, and that is that while differences of race are largely, if not totally irrelevant.
Okay, they should be anyway, differences of gender are very meaningful.
Men and women are different.
We bring different wiring to the table, we bring different thought processes to the table, we bring different temperaments to the table, we bring different dispositions to the table.
Now, again, this is funny, just to insulate myself from from your you know pipe bomb packages.
Uh I'm fine with a woman president.
I I'd I would love to consider Condi Rice.
K. Bailey Hutches, in our own senator here in Texas.
I'd I'd I'd be thrilled by that.
This is not a bugaboo that I have.
But if you have it, I do not presume that you are a misogynist or a woman hater.
Now, if you tell me there's no way you could ever vote for a black guy, I'm here to tell you you're a racist.
But if you're here to tell me that you know what, you could never vote for a woman, I would not jump to that conclusion, because it might not be true.
That is the difference between the hesitancy to vote for a black candidate and the hesitancy to vote for a woman candidate.
There are reasons one can bring to the table.
I would disagree with them.
They're not my reasons, but if they are yours, and and you can put them as skillfully as I have, uh that uh there's a way that you can say no to a woman candidate, any woman candidate, and do so thoughtfully and without uh bias, discrimination, or derision in your heart.
All right.
Here's the second time I'll say this.
Gee, I hope that made sense.
If it didn't call and I will fine-tune it.
Well, I'm a fine-tune it for you, I'll just explain it more.
That should be torturous.
Instead, let's go to more calls.
Uh one, eight hundred-282-2882-1800-282-2882.
I'm Mark Davis, filling in for Rush from Dallas Fort Worth.
Let's go to Chicago.
Mark, Mark Davis, InfoRush Limbaugh.
It's a pleasure to have you.
Hi.
I will um I will vote for McCain, but uh Mark, I just have to disagree with you about this bit about whether he's a liar or not.
Okay.
He lied when he signed that document that the communists made him sign on the way out of the Hanoi Hilton, and he lied when he got home when he philandered around on his first wife.
That's the definition of a liar.
Sorry to tell you, but that's that's the way most people are.
You ever notice how most uh how people lie a lot lately?
A lot of people.
Well, I I guess, but I just if we can go to your examples, uh I think when people talk about a candidate and whether or not he has lied.
And maybe we should mean to anybody ever, but usually what we mean is in a campaign promise, in a public statement, in a position that one espouses without clearly without intending to follow through.
That's usually what we mean when we talk about a politician lying.
No, no, not not not everybody not everybody's been a prisoner of war, and Lord knows not everybody has a perfect marital record.
And yes, those issues of character are important, no problem at all.
But um I don't differ with you.
Well, go ahead.
Go ahead, take the ball.
And I and I know and I know those are pretty tough, tough examples.
I I fair enough.
But let me let me go to where it really hits me hard, and that's this amnesty bill that he he tried to foist on us.
Right.
The jerk.
I mean, and I that makes me so mad when people when they did that.
Boy, I'll tell you, I mean, I was up in arms about that.
We we don't need amnesty for we gotta have like Mitt said, Mitt Romney.
I mean, I would have loved to have him be president.
Um we we gotta I'm all for legal immigration.
But when it comes to this legal, illegal immigration where they're not willing to wait in line.
Absolutely.
I mean, there may be a quote.
I realize, for example, from India that probably there's like a five thousand, you know, person quota coming into the country every year.
But and that's not very big.
But you know what?
Tough.
They gotta get in line and and do it the right way.
Otherwise we screw up our economy, we dilute the the integrity of the value system of this nation, and and it's a mess.
Well said and well said and well documented, Mark.
Thank you.
Totally true.
Now let everyone know, let everyone notice that that we did we engaged in a change of subject there, which is fine, but we went from things that he felt that that Senator McCain was simply dishonest about to an issue that he really vociferously disagrees with him about.
As do I. Uh Senator McCain has not lied about immigration.
He is he will flat out tell you that he's in favor of this stupid guest worker program.
He will flat out tell you that he thinks that that we've got to bring these illegal immigrants.
I love this line.
We've got to bring them out of the shadows.
What?
Why do we have to bring I I think the shadows are a thoroughly appropriate place for criminals to be.
I mean, I'm a big fan of the shadows.
The only reason I want to bring illegal immigrants out of the shadows is so that I can load them in the ice van and send them back across the border.
So yes, I I share the caller's distaste for Senator McCain's immigration position.
But again, those stepping forward to say that McCain is somehow dishonest.
Well, they there's a little bit of a stretch he got to make to get there.
And I I don't begrudge this gentleman his meticulous standards.
I really don't.
But usually when we talk about a lying politician, it's about a lie he's told in public about an act or a position that was clearly meant to deceive.
Okay, 1-800-282-2882.
I'm Mark Davidson for Rush Limbaugh, we'll be right back with you on the EIB.
Okay, clearly, Kit and Mike have set this up for me.
Bumper music from an actual friend of mine, Ted Nugent's free-for-all.
Ted uh from the wilds of Jackson, Michigan, but now a Texan living sort of essentially George W. Bush's uh Crawford neighbor, but uh the Motor City Madman who turns 60 this December.
Wow.
Wow.
And I'll remember that forever because I was at the 50th birthday party.
Next time I fell in, I'll tell you the story.
There's some extortion.
There's there's some extortion.
All righty, 1-800-282-2882, 1-800-282-2882.
Listen, I w we can laugh and scoff and have fun.
But but seriously, as we progress through the middle of this, I don't want the show to end without just a moment of acknowledgement for me uh about what an unparalleled honor it is to sit in whatever seat is the Limbaugh fill-in chair.
So appreciate it.
Sorry that Rush had to be ill for it to happen, and uh, you know, maybe in the future it'll be vacation related, but we'll look to have Rush back fit, healthy, and uh and with you tomorrow.
But in the meantime, two things I want.
I want him to get better, and I want him and you uh and the guys to know how much I appreciate it.
Okay, 1-800-282-2882 on the EIB network.
I'm Mark Davis, filling in for Rush here in Dallas and Fort Worth.
What do we have?
Maybe ten or twelve more space shuttle missions.
If the weather is clear, you can see them from this man's backyard.
We are in Melbourne, Florida.
Anthony, hi, Mark Davis, you're on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Hello.
Hi.
Hi, Mark.
Thanks for taking my call.
Yes, we can't see the shuttles from here.
Not today if one was going up because it's a little too cloudy.
But I'm calling Mark to uh to disagree with your opinion that uh you think McCain will beat either of the two Democrats.
Uh I think either of those two will beat uh McCain, and I've got three uh reasons as to why.
I'm ready.
Uh but first of all, you are right about uh McCain uh being honest because he proved that a few days ago when he had a microphone in his hand and he called himself a conservative liberal Republican.
I know that was that was right in a suburb.
Uh I have that maybe it's been played 700 times.
That is the Freudy Freudian slip of the year.
I have that.
And uh it was it was ten miles from this studio, and uh I bet he'd like to have that one back.
Right, exactly.
But anyway, uh first of all, uh when he became the apparent uh front runner, he indicated uh quite clearly that he was going to uh bring the party together, back together, so to speak.
And I assume he meant to bring the conservative wing back under the fold.
Uh and I've had my ears open for all this while now, and I've not heard him say one thing uh to do exactly that, not not one.
So I think he's got some work to do in that area, obviously.
Uh number two, I think his image is going to hurt him badly, uh, Mark.
Uh uh I envision the debates uh whether they be with uh Clinton or with Obama, and I think either of those two will will pretty much wipe the floor with him on a debate.
I mean, he he doesn't lack energy.
He um is is certainly able to stand up for his views.
I mean, he's seventy-one, but looks pretty looks no older than about sixty.
And if it is even the very, very youthful Obama, uh yes, I mean that that will be youth and vigor up against a guy who's been on the planet for more than seven decades.
But might that look like uh a dad or a granddad delivering uh a lecture to uh uh a young naive whippersnapper.
Uh I don't think so.
I think he's gonna come across as representing the the past, so to speak, uh the country club Republican uh persona that he's gonna uh purvey and and and and I just that don't think that's gonna resonate with the voters.
Uh and the third reason I think that uh, especially Obama, but Clinton also will beat McCain, is because I think that Obama wave is real, that that wave of change uh uh thing.
I think the the Democrat voters and the moderates and uh and uh independents are gonna come out in droves.
Uh and and I do think for those reasons that either Clinton or especially Obama will win the election.
Anthony, I appreciate the analysis.
You may well be right, but oh my lord, I hope not.
So to I be that in a very Christian loving way.
Thanks, man.
Appreciate it very, very much.
All right, shall we relive?
I know there's probably been played 4700 times, but this is in Richardson, Texas.
Here is uh here is John McCain and the Freudian slip of the year.
And I want to assure you that I have in this primary and in my past election campaigns, and in this one, I will conduct a respectful debate.
Now it'll be dispirited.
It'll be spirited because there are stark differences.
I actually love that one too.
It'll be dispirited.
But continuing.
I'm a proud conservative liberal republic conservative republican.
Hello.
Easy there.
That was that's just so golden.
That's so great.
I don't know.
All righty, let's head down to uh no, you know what we gotta do is we gotta get out of here.
So hang on a second.
Mark Davis on the E. B. Network, be right back.
All right, let's close out the hour with a couple of things that a couple of pundits are saying.
Pundit, which a lot of people are pronouncing as pendant, which is driving me nuts, but more on that in a bit.
Mark Davis filling in for Rush, one more hour to go, and we'll be in Charlottesville, New York City, and right here in my own neighborhood in Texas in just a moment.
Michael Goodwin of the uh New York Daily News says this is Barack Obama's third chance to knock her out.
If he can't close the deal this time, maybe he just can't close the deal, period.
So don't view this as a no pressure proposition for Barack Obama tonight.
I mean, Hillary needs it to survive, but he needs it to keep that inevitability um locomotive on the track.
Mark Davis sitting in for Rush, one more action packed hour on the EIB network.
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