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March 5, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 5, 2008, Wednesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
You know what song I've been listening to here to get jazzed up and ready for the program today?
1965, Dave Clark 5.
And I'm feeling glad all over.
Yes, I'm glad all of greetings.
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I threw everything I had at this uh this this flu called whatever.
Zycam, airborne.
Uh, even uh went out there, got some antibiotics.
I took nothing, nothing to chance.
Chicken soup did it all.
And uh feeling much, much better than I was on Monday, and the the cough has subsided uh quite a bit.
And I want to thank all of you for your kind and warm uh get well wishes in the email.
And I also want to thank all of you for your hate-filled messages from last night and this morning over what happened in Texas and Ohio in the uh in the Democrat primary uh uh last night.
I'll have a lot to say about that as the program unfolds today.
KLBJ Radio in Austin is uh is saying that um thirty-five percent of Republicans crossed over uh and voted in the um in the Democrat primary.
Not sure what percentage voted for Obama, not sure uh what percentage voted for Hillary.
Uh Dallas Morning News made reference to it today, as well as a bunch of papers in Ohio.
Uh Mark Davis, thanks by the way, Mark, for sitting on the program yesterday.
Uh sent us a note this morning saying that was all anybody was talking about on his show today at uh at our at our blowtorch affiliate in uh in the Dallas Metroplex uh WBAP.
So it's uh it's quite an interesting day here.
The thing that you people have to really, you guys chill out out there, the delegate count did not change significantly.
Uh Mrs. Clinton's odds of getting the nomination did not increase all that much.
What we did, if we did anything, was exactly what I wanted to do, and that's create a bunch of chaos in the Democrat Party, and it worked.
But before getting into that in great detail, I want to take you back to this program, one of the biggest C I told you so's ever.
January 28th of this year, this is what I said.
My prediction is quite simple, ladies and gentlemen, founded in pure, pure logic.
And it is this.
Remember that picture on the cover of Time magazine that portrayed the African American O. J. Simpson much darker than he actually is.
And remember people said, What the hell is that?
And Time said, Hey, shut up.
This is journalistic photographic license.
No, it's not.
That's not how he looks.
If Time magazine has no compunction about photoshopping a cover picture of O.J. Simpson to make him look blacker than he is.
Don't be surprised, ladies and gentlemen, if in coming Clinton Obama ads, he is made to appear darker than he is.
Did you drive by that?
And did you people at Media Matters for America?
Because I look, I know these people.
I know them like every square inch of my glorious naked buddy.
And not predicting it.
I'm just telling you, don't be surprised if the next time you see a Clinton still shot in an ad.
Be much easier to doctor a still shot than a whole running piece of video.
Much less expensive.
You see one of those things in Obama looks a little darker than he normally does to you.
Well, it's happened.
It happened yesterday.
This is from the Fox News.com website, a controversial new Hillary Clinton attack ad causing an internet stir among critics who claim it deliberately darkens Barack Obama's skin color.
A posting on the liberal site, DailyCause.com shows side-by-side screen grabs of Barack Obama taken during a debate with Clinton in Cleveland last week.
The screen grab used in the Clinton ad shows a clearly darker skinned Obama, prompting some to wonder if it was done to highlight his race.
Despite the strong similarities between the ad on the Daily Cause site and the original ad on Clinton's website, Clinton spokesman Jay Carson said he spoke with a campaign's chief admaker, Mandy Grunwald, who said emphatically the ad on Daily Cause was not their ad.
We don't know what's up there, but it's not our ad.
Now it could be that this just happened when they changed that this was a video ad, and when you change uh resolutions, pixels, um, it could have happened.
But I mean, I was all over this.
And it it is.
Here the here's the picture.
Uh can you see, Mr. Snurley on the right side, you have a much darker Obama, a less clean looking Obama than on the on the left side in the Clinton ad.
Here's the headline today from the Rocky Mountain News.
This is in Denver.
Tuesday's results could mean chaos.
For the Democrat National Committee, there was more confusion than closure in Tuesday's presidential primaries, preserving the prospect of brutal chaos, leading right up to the Democrat National Convention in Denver.
Amen, bro.
This is exactly what we wanted.
The delegate count, what did she pick up?
Something like 22 delegates or something like that.
Um she didn't get that much closer.
Uh she didn't narrow the gap, and the odds are still really, really against her winning the nomination.
Uh if here's here's how it goes.
This is this is how the uh the delegate math were for those of you who are all worried about, and by the way, I've got you wouldn't believe the number of sound bites I got coming up from the drive-by media uh commenting on the limbaugh effect, how much was it, how big was it, and then we have some drive-by people saying here that I am corrupting and perverting democracy, that what I did was ungentlemanly.
I'm not kidding you.
We've got the sound bites coming up.
No, I'm not kidding at all.
I've got the sound bites coming up.
How let me tell you something, folks.
You who listen to this program regularly understand one of the guiding principles of this program, and that is to illustrate absurdity by being absurd.
If the Democrats and if the media can pick our nominee, then why the hell can't we pick theirs?
If it's really fine and dandy and wonderful and bipartisan for Democrats and independents to cross over in the early Republican primaries, in states where there are not a dominant number of conservative Republicans, and essentially nominate Senator McCain.
How come that's all hunky-dory?
How come that's wonderful?
How come that's all sweetness and light?
How come that's democracy in action?
But when Republicans, after our nominee is already chosen, decide to enter the Democrat primary and express their wishes on that side of the aisle, how come that's corrupting democracy?
How is it's not corrupt?
It's just making them mad.
Which is another objective that we succeeded in pulling off.
Today, Mrs. Well, let me give you let me give the delegate math here.
This this just to calm some of your some of your fears uh out there.
If Clinton and Obama basically tie in the remaining twelve contests, Obama would need 164 super delegates to come his way to put him over the magic number of 2024.
Here's the thing that you have to understand.
Because of what happened yesterday, this contest is assured to go another three months to Puerto Rico on June 7th, exactly as we told you uh in a piece written, I forget who wrote it in American Spectator on Monday.
There is no way that either one of these two candidates is going to wrap up the number of delegates by Puerto Rico, which means we're gonna get we're gonna get Florida and we're gonna get Michigan redoes.
It it's gonna by the by the time we get that that'll happen in June sometime.
We're that'll or well, I don't know when it's gonna happen, but I would bet that we get Florida and Michigan redoes.
Uh well, yeah, because you can't disenfranchise all those voters.
It's just not right, Mr. Limbaugh.
We uh can't do it.
Remember when I told you, Snurley, there are no rules in the Democrat Party.
They're only customs and traditions.
Don't frown at me.
Stop and think of that.
You realize what a brilliant observation That is, there are no rules, and therefore there are no rules to break.
There are customs, traditions.
And of course, one of the great Democrat traditions, one of the great Democrat customs, is every vote counts at least twice, and sometimes three times.
It's a great custom.
It's been that way in Chicago for a long time.
It's been that way of West Virginia for a long time.
They tried to make that happen in Cuyahoga County last night.
But again, I keep hearing judges are loathed to keep polling places open.
Democrat judges aren't, certainly not in St. Louis and uh and not in Cleveland.
Anyway, let me let me make a brief timeout here, and we'll come back.
We'll continue with all this.
We'll have your phone calls and a great roster of audio sound bites right after this.
And we're back with Rush Limbaugh, having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
All right, here's the delegate math on the Democrat side.
There are 611 delegates up for grabs in the remaining twelve Democrat contests.
Obama is estimated by ABC News now to have 1,555 of those delegates.
That means that he would need to win 77% of all the remaining pledged delegates to hit the magic number of 2024 to secure the nomination.
This is highly unlikely due to the proportional delegate allocation rules in a Democrat Party.
Hillary would need to win 94% of all the remaining pledged delegates to hit the magic number of 2024.
She's estimated to have 1,449 delegates now by ABC News.
So neither of them, neither of them can get there in the primary process.
Neither of them can.
This, my friends, ishwish the goal.
Limbaugh is doing my job for me.
That's what nobody understands.
Way to go, Rush.
Uh so they're gonna have to rely on superdelegates.
And that's gonna be even more fun.
And then they might have to go back and redo Florida, might have to go back and redo uh Michigan, uh any number of things, ladies and gentlemen.
So the chaos will continue.
Mrs. Clinton now talking about a joint ticket with herself on top.
She is.
Mrs. Clinton is saying, nah, we may have to be on a ticket with myself on top, and Obama says too soon to talk about a joint ticket, much less who's on top.
By the way, by the way, that's her choice of words, not mine, is who's on top business in the uh in the joint.
What do you mean how brazen?
It's a Clinton snerdly.
What do you expect?
You understand.
After last night, that's right.
After last night, well, he's got big problems coming up.
The Resco trial, that's gonna be at start of this week.
They're impaneling a jury, gonna be a drip drip, drip, drip sort of information coming out about the guy that Obama was involved with buying his house.
Look at Obama hasn't had a bunch of negative stuff thrown his way before.
It's just now starting, and it's um it's gonna be fascinating to see how this all plays out.
And it it will lead, it will lead to uh to chaos.
Now, Mrs. Clinton was on Fox News this morning with Steve Ducey.
And Steve Ducey and Hillary had this exchange.
Let me ask about this.
Over the last week or so, Rush Limbaugh has been suggesting to his listeners, Republicans, conservatives mainly, to go ahead in Texas and Ohio to vote for you.
What's your message to Rush Limbaugh today?
Be careful what you wish for, Rush.
Is that it?
I think that's it.
Whoa, Mrs. Clinton has thrown down the gauntlet to your host.
Be careful what you wish for.
Now, we should point out, ladies and gentlemen, she was smiling.
We were hoping for the cackle.
We didn't get the cackle, but she was smiling.
Be care.
All right, you want to hear it again?
Be careful what you wish for, Rush.
Here it is again.
Let me ask about this.
Over the last week or so, Rush Limbaugh has been suggesting to his listeners, Republicans, conservatives mainly, to go ahead in Texas and Ohio to vote for you.
What's your message to Rush Limbaugh today?
Be careful what you wish for, Rush.
Is that it?
I think that's it.
Ooh, How do you interpret this, folks?
Uh I mean, here I why she could have said thank you.
She could have said thank you.
In fact, I was expecting in her acceptance speech last night, or victory speech, whatever, I was expecting to be thanked.
Um I mean, I I helped give Mrs. Clinton uh the biggest and happiest moment and night of the campaign season so far.
Maybe her life, and she tells me, be careful what you wish for, Rush.
Why that sounds like a threat, does it not?
I've got I've got a Democrat presidential candidate and uh threatening your host.
Why I'm stunned.
After all I did.
Now let's go to the audio sound bites for the drive-bys, say that I am perverting uh Democracy.
This is Monday night on uh DNC TV Live with Dan Abrams.
Here's the tease to his show.
Rush Limbaugh and others on the far right now trying to pervert tomorrow's results, calling on Republicans in Ohio and Texas to vote in the Democratic primary for Hillary Clinton.
Not because they like Clinton, but because they want to keep the Democrats in disarray.
Pervert what is perverting the Democrat process.
What did you guys do to our process?
All you Democrats and independents crossing over, not only in 2000, but here in 2008.
Uh nominating and voting for Senator McCain.
You think that what you guys are going to vote for McCain in November?
You think you think we don't understand what you were doing here?
I mean, you're trying to choose our nominee.
Why can't we try to choose yours?
You like people across the aisle so much, you ought to be happy that a lot of Republicans crossed the aisle and voted for a Democrat instead of thinking the process has been perverted.
You know, I got a I got a note from saying William F. Buckley would have never done this.
William F. Buckley would have uh beg your pardon, William F. Buckley did once.
William F. Buckley and National Review Online set up an organization called BuckPack.
And you know what the result of Buck Pack was?
The election of Joe Lieberman.
Buckpack was a political action committee to get rid of Lowell Wiker, a liberal Republican.
Buck Pack most certainly is an example of William F. Buckley standing up for conservative ideals just as what we did in suggesting Republicans elect Mrs. Clinton vote for Mrs. Clinton.
It's the same thing conservative ideal.
Yeah, we're trying to cause little mischief, but how come it's only mischief when we do it?
And how come it's great democracy when a Democrats cross the air corrupt our nomination process?
Little tit for tat here is how I view it.
Now let's go to the show after the tease on DNC TV.
Dan Abrams talking with Democrat strategist Laura Schwartz about my call for Republicans to vote for Senator Clinton in Ohio and Texas.
Abrams said, Did the Democrats have something to worry about here?
I mean, I still think they're going to be some Republicans, even when they want to engage in this kind of mischief, who are going to have problems actually pulling the lever for Hillary.
This is a very sad strategy that the Republicans are trying to employ out there.
America's smarter than that.
Republicans and Democrats both are smarter than that.
I can't see it making a significant difference, I'm sure.
There are some Rush followers that might go ahead and pull that lever, even though they're Republicans for Hillary Clinton.
But come on, let's get with the program.
Let's debate policy.
Uh Laura, this had nothing to do with the Republican Party.
The Republican Party, as far as I know, had nothing to do with it.
This is also Monday night on DNC TV with Dan Abrams and his show, speaking with uh another radio host, Lars Larson.
They have this exchange about a possible revote in Florida.
This Republican governor is saying, oh, you know what?
Those Democrats, they ought to have another vote.
Maybe the process ought to last a little bit longer.
I mean, Lars, it sounds like maybe this isn't just Rush Limbaugh, but they're more on the right involved who are now have something at stake to say we got to keep Hillary Clinton in this as long as possible.
Listen, whatever's legal should be allowed.
I mean, if you want to make a law that says if you vote Democrat in the primary, you have to vote Democrat in the general, you could stop by the city.
We're not talking about the legalities of it.
I'm talking about the morality of it.
I'm talking about the notion of the.
Because you're going in only to create mischief in what is not your party.
This is just Snerdley, don't waste your time getting mad.
This is too rich.
This I know I know who made the Democrats the moral arbiter of what's perverted and what's not in politics and this kind of thing.
This just you have to understand, Snerdley, and the rest of you, you have you have to understand here why they are upset.
They're upset because they know it worked.
They were upset because they knew they were afraid.
Fear.
Fear was coursing through their veins and arteries.
Fear that it would work.
Don't you understand?
This is the network, PMSNBC that's been in the tank for Obama.
And so you have to throw all this into the mix, but once again, it's not mischief when Democrats and independents choose our nominee, is it?
No, no, no, no.
That's democracy and action.
Thank you.
I know.
Firmly ensconced in the prestigious Attila the Hun chair here at the distinguished Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
Back now to the drive-by media, continuing the discussion of how I am perverting the Democrat process, Dan Abrams at DNC TV with his guest Laura Schwartz.
What Limbaugh is saying, and let me play another soundbite from Limbo, what Limbaugh is saying is something different.
He's assuming Obama's gonna win, and he wants he wants bloodied as much as possible his rush.
I want Hillary to stay in this, Laura.
This is too good a soap opera.
We need Barack Obama bloodied up politically, and it's it's obvious that the Republicans are not gonna do it and don't have the stomach for it.
I mean, Laura, this this again tells you the Democrats need to need to change the system.
Well, yeah, that's I think that is a whole separate discussion, Dan and quite a few shows on that.
But really, they simply that the Republicans don't want to run against Obama.
So um no, no, Abrams, they want to they want to end this ability of uh, you know, open primaries.
They don't like that stuff.
Yeah, they want they want to close their primaries now.
Remember, this this was all before it happened.
This was on this was on uh Monday night.
Also, the uh the Fox gang got into it on their election headquarters show, Shepard Smith and former speech writer for Rudy Giuliani, John Evelyn had this exchange about me.
This Rush Limbaugh thing that happened today, he's telling people to go out and vote for Hillary.
A lot of times Limbaugh Nation does what Limbaugh says.
Right, but that's ghetto heads.
Well, if it's this tight in Texas, and any vote can make a difference.
And that would I think be sort of a difficult thing.
It'd be sort of a perversion of the process.
Oh, these people, they will never, ever, ever stand.
What by the way, what what is uh can we talk about here the difference between legal and moral?
Did anything did I suggest people do anything illegal?
And did people who cross over do anything illegal?
And therefore, is it immoral what they did?
Uh John Zogby.
Tuesday morning on C-SPAN's Washington Journal.
Unidentified caller from Oklahoma City says Rush Limbaugh's going on his show talking to Republican voters and telling him to do uh to go out and vote for Hillary.
I think it's a kind of the Lieberman thing.
What what do you say to that?
In terms of the motives of Rush Limbaugh, the motives of other folks, I'm gonna leave that up to almost anybody to speculate on those.
What I do know is it's a rough, rough game out there, and uh it appears as if whatever rules of gentlemanliness uh have existed uh in the past, those rules may be broken just like a lot of other rules are being broken out there.
Oh, so I know now I am breaking gentlemanly rules.
Uh you know, you know, I tell you, you know, the the uh I I guess for these liberals and Democrats to believe as they do, Democrats and independents crossing over and voting in Republican primaries is not corruption.
It's not perverting the process.
Uh it it is not ungentlemanly.
Uh it's it's what it's bipartisan or what have you.
Because we f we know full well that these Democrats and independents in these primaries that are crossing over and And voting for a Republican candidate or trying to choose the one they think would be easiest to beat.
Do we not know that?
Do you think these Democrats and independents in New Hampshire and Iowa and wherever else crossed over to vote McCain because they want him to be president?
Okay, so what is the difference here?
Clearly there's a two-way street, and you arrive at the conclusion of the two-way street because these people have an arrogance and a condescension about them that says whatever they do, it's sort of like what Reagan said about the Soviet Union.
Reagan said the Soviet Union has reserved unto themselves the right to do whatever they want to do to advance their cause.
Lie, cheat, steal.
They think they have every right to advance their cause, including lying, cheating, and stealing.
Apparently, Democrats have that same view.
That they reserve unto themselves the right to do whatever necessary to advance their cause because our side is immoral, our side is dangerous, our side is wrong.
And this is what, you know, I love playing this game with these people, folks.
They they've not had people fire back at them this way.
They've not had people play the game the way they do.
And look what happens when it does happen.
Why it's ungentlemanly, why it's perverting the press.
Why we gotta change the rules to keep Republicans out of our nomination process.
Meanwhile, our candidates hoping to get elected by Democrats.
Our candidates hoping to get elected by moderates and independents.
I have a question for both Hillary and what, Mr. Snur?
Mm-hmm.
Yes, I know.
For years they've been saying I wouldn't reach across the aisles.
For years they have been saying that I was too rigid and immovable and old fashioned and all of these things.
Look what I have done here.
Look what I have done.
I have done this to save the candidacy of the first female, legitimate female vice presidential candidate in the history of the country.
But doing so, knowing full well that no matter what happened yesterday, even if she won as she did, it wasn't gonna change the stakes.
It wasn't gonna change, all it was gonna do is create chaos.
All it was going to do is sustain and prolong the Democrat primary.
Now, let me borrow some other Democrat thinking, liberal philosophy that we have heard over the last couple of years.
We have Hillary and Obama.
And they are mired in a death struggle.
They are mired to a fight to the death.
What's the exit strategy for Hillary or Obama?
What will they do to make sure that the people of this country do not hate the Democrat Party?
What will they do to protect the reputation of the Democrat Party?
Remember, as Rummy said, folks, paraphrasing, you don't go to Denver with the delegates you want.
You go to Denver with the delegates that you have.
Remember Rumsfeld said you don't go to a war with the army you want, you go to war with the army you have.
Remember the liberals had a connection over that?
All right, well, I can say the same thing here, Barack, Obama, and Hillary.
You don't go to Denver with the delegates you want, you go with the delegates that you have.
Would it be fair, ladies and gentlemen, to suggest that Mrs. Clinton is in a quagmire?
It is definitely fair because it's imminently accurate.
She is in a quagmire.
She needs to win 97% of the remaining delegates.
She can't do it.
Obama needs to win 77%.
He can't do it, but he's got a better chance than she does.
But she's certainly not going to win 97% of the remaining delegates in the uh the pledge delegates in the remaining 12 primaries.
So we could say that Hillary is in a quagmire.
Therefore, does Hillary in a quagmire running the risk of a civil war in the Democrat Party?
And Barack Obama, do Hillary and Barack owe America a timetable for withdrawal from the Democrat primaries.
Look at the reputation that they are giving this party around the world.
I mean, it's not good.
You have, who was it, Mahmoud Ahmadinizad?
A foreign minister of Iraq has come out in favor of Iran.
That's what I meant.
Foreign minister of Iran has come out in favor of the candidate for change.
That's Obama.
The North Koreans, same thing.
What is this bloody fight in the Democrat Party doing to America's reputation around the world?
Canada is in turmoil here over what Barack said he would do with NAFTA, and then what he told him privately he wouldn't do with NAFTA.
We've caused an international incident before he's even president.
Folks, the nation's reputation is at stake here, and the Democrat Party has made it so.
And I think both Barack and Hillary owe America a timetable for pulling out of these primaries.
I feel duty-bound, ladies and gentlemen, uh compelled, out of compassion and desire for people to understand.
Got a glimmer of hope and to learn to help the drive-bys and others understand what happened in terms of Republican crossovers in the Democrat primaries in Ohio and Texas yesterday.
And since you obviously are having trouble understanding this because you refer to what happened yesterday as perverting the Democrat process and uh corrupting the Democratic process and mischief making.
Try it this way.
I think I can fix this criticism so that you'll have a better understanding.
Just think of us as Maverick conservatives.
Think of us as independent conservatives.
And what happened last night was that the Mavericks and the independents among us voted for Hillary.
If you think of us that way, maybe you will love us as much as you love our nominee.
We were just following in his footsteps.
We were just being mavericks and independence.
Albeit for one day.
But we showed that we can do it.
We show that we can cross the aisle and meet you two-thirds of the way.
Back to the phones.
We'll start on the phones of Fort Worth, Texas.
Dale, I'm glad you called.
Welcome to the EIB network, sir.
Hello.
Megadellos, Rush.
Thank you.
Hey, I am uh a conservative down here in Texas, and I think that the uh conservative movement of crossing over and voting for Hillary.
Um I am very petrified of Hillary being in the White House for another four years.
I don't think this country could take it.
And she will she will burn that convention down to get in the White House.
Yes, I know.
Well, I know.
I know.
Whether whether I did anything yesterday or whether you crossed over now, I I predicted that last week.
Two weeks is gonna, but they have to blow the place up again, do that.
Well, she loses in Ohio and she loses in Texas, she's done.
And I just as soon knock her out.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
That's what everybody's misunderstanding.
She if she if she she would have had to have got blown out in both those states for the delegate tally to change significantly.
This was always gonna go till June 7th, no matter what happened, it just makes it more likely now, or very likely that it'll go to June 7th.
But it was she would have Obama would have had to smoke her 80 to 20 percent in order to get enough delegates because everything's a portioned in the Democrat primaries for for her to have been, and she wasn't gonna get out anyway because there's always the blow up the convention option.
Absolutely.
So, no, this was this was look it.
Um I realize that you you it was difficult for you to cross over.
You didn't, right?
No, I did not.
You just couldn't do it because you just can't stomach the idea of four years of Hillary in the White House.
Absolutely not.
I'd I would much rather that not take place.
Well, me too.
Me too.
But I also don't want a liberal Democrat in the White House, period.
Means I don't want Obama there either.
And let me tell you something.
Half the country already hates Hillary.
Our work is done there.
Nobody hates Obama, and we're and and nobody's gonna there aren't any negatives about Obama, and our party has signaled that they're not going to be responsible for any.
If you just stop and think of everything I said, this makes such total sense.
Hillary's much more beatable than Obama.
Much more.
Well, keep keep the keep the conservative movement alive, Russia.
We we appreciate all that you do.
The conservative movement uh uh will it'll be kept alive.
It'll be kept alive.
I um let's let's folks let's talk about something else that you're afraid of.
Let's just put it out on a table.
Let's say that there is a joint ticket between Obama and Hillary and they come to an agreement over who's on top.
Frankly, I hope it's Obama on top.
Excuse me.
Well, I actually don't, but I'm just if if if it's Obama on top, and if they happen to win, I just can't wait for Hillary to undermine him during his presidency and lead impeachment proceedings against him.
But that the point is, let's let's say it is Obama and Hillary.
Hillary Obama, let's put a Hillary to top it, put Hillary on top.
That's a position she's familiar with.
Therefore, you've got a woman and black first time ever on the Democrat ticket.
They don't have a prayer.
Uh Michael in uh in uh North uh Olmsted, Ohio.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hello.
Afternoon, Rush.
Hi.
I am a longtime registered Republican.
Every time I've uh had the chance to pick up a Republican ballot, I have, so if anybody's looking at voter rolls, they're not gonna have any question as to who I am.
Right.
But uh as far as I'm concerned, the uh Obama campaign has been courting me.
And it uh culminated in a uh automated phone call two days before the election.
The uh salient phrase uh was uh it doesn't matter uh if you're registered with another party or an independent, pick up a democratic ballot and vote for change.
Absolutely.
They were asking me.
So uh to uh to unfortunately call it.
Amen, bro.
I know exactly what you say.
If they can go out and court you and they can try to convince you to cross over and vote for Obama, and that's not corrupting the process.
And that's not being ungentlemanly.
Well, exactly.
Exactly.
Uh uh as far as the uh the the broader left is concerned, um uh they they have gotten what they that they wished for.
If, in fact, uh listeners of yours or uh uh other Republicans are right, it's people who would not have uh picked up a democratic ballot, did so and uh knocked it to Hillary.
I would even say this.
Thanks for the call out there, Michael.
I appreciate it.
I would even say this.
To you members of the drive-by and new Democrats who say that what I did was corrupting the Democrat process because I have no desire for Hillary to win.
How do you know that?
Maybe I want Hillary to win your nomination, just like you guys wanted McCain to win ours.
Maybe I want that.
You guys gotta be very, very careful how you approach this, because in the process of coming after me, you are Lansing uh yourselves.
Leonard in East Point, Michigan.
Welcome to the uh EIB network.
Hello, sir.
Good afternoon, Rush.
Uh mega perverted blue state redo ditto.
Thank you, sir.
Yeah, you got that right.
Uh, you know, I just wanted to say, you know, we we had a primary here in Michigan, and it was open to any Democratic candidate.
We had a candidate.
She won.
And the the state Democratic Party has already apportioned the delegates.
And this is a very good thing.
Not all of them.
Yeah, but not all of them.
See, that's the thing.
Not all of them are going to be apportioned or seated.
Uh in Florida, none of them will be, but uh in Michigan it's only a portion.
But the other candidates agreed not to be on the ballot, not to campaign in either state because of the rules.
Well, sure, but we are we had a primary.
And I I don't see why why why the state of Michigan should pay for another primary if the Democrats couldn't get their act together.
Oh, no, no.
I think I don't think you need to worry about it.
Senator McCain will uh in an in a in an in uh uh outreach and offer of gentlemanliness and bipartisanship will offer uh that the Republican National Committee pay for the Democrat uh redoes in Michigan and Florida.
Well, I might be willing to accept it on those terms.
I know it always comes down to the money.
Hey, look, folks, get a grip here.
Is it my fault Obama can't close this out?
Obama has not been able to close this out.
He has not been able to close the deal yet.
This is my fault.
I'm not even running.
I'm gonna tell you this straight shoot.
If we lose in November, you can thank the Republican nominee himself.
If he can't beat Hillary Clinton, he was never gonna beat Obama.
And if he goes up against Obama and loses, that's his doing.
But if he can't beat Hillary Clinton, it doesn't matter.
Uh I didn't choose the Republican nominee.
I have helped prolong the Democrat bloodletting, which can only help McCain any way you look at it.
I know I'm not gonna get a thank you call.
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