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March 5, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 5, 2008, Wednesday, Hour #2
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Greetings to you, music lovers, thrill seekers, conversationalists all across the fruited plain, Rush Limbaugh, having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have behind a golden EIB microphone.
Here we are already at Wednesday, the fastest week in media.
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All right, folks, time to fire point blank, dead between the eyes.
I am getting a number of email complaints from people who are identifying themselves, anyway, as conservatives, who are saying that they have lost faith in me, that this is not what conservatism is all about.
This is not the way conservatives should operate.
Let me tackle it this way.
I think, if I may be serious for a moment, we're in a war, a political war in this country, and only one side is fully engaged, and that's the enemy.
And our enemy happens to be liberalism, which is found in the Democrat Party.
I have played soundbites all morning, afternoon long from members of the drive-by media who have accused me of perverting their process, perverting the electoral process.
I have been accused of being ungentlemanly.
All of this because I suggested, did not make, did not demand, did not require, I suggested that Republicans in Texas and Ohio cross over and vote for Mrs. Clinton in the primaries in order to keep the bloodletting in the Democrat Party going, to keep them in a state of chaos, to see to it that their nomination fight wouldn't be not wrapped up until they go to the convention.
Can we talk about who these people are?
Who are liberals?
These are people, you want to talk about perversion?
These are people who've done their best to pervert the Constitution of the United States.
These are people who've done their best to pervert the court system of the United States.
These are the people who have done their best to pervert basic morality.
I mean, after all, here they are wailing and they're whining and they're moaning Monday night, last night, this morning about the immorality of my suggesting that you cross over and vote for Hillary.
The same people who do not want to have a discussion on morality as it relates to abortion are the same people who now want to have a discussion on the morality of people voting when they plainly reserve for themselves the right to cross over into our party and choose our nominee for the express purpose of sabotaging our nomination process.
Do you people actually think that the Democrats and independents that crossed over in the early Republican primaries for Senator McCain did so because they want him to be elected president?
Quite the contrary.
You might be whistling Dixie and fooling yourself, but please, I ask you not to do that.
These are the people who have done their best to pervert the war in Iraq.
These are the people who have done their best to secure defeat in the war in Iraq and the war on terror.
These are the people who seek to pervert any number of American traditions and institutions that have come to define the greatness of this country.
And I, for one, am not content to sit by and let this be a one-sided fight.
I think this is, you know, the quintessential discussion that we're having here.
is who is going to triumph in this battle of ideas within the political arena of ideas to shape the future of the country.
And I just, as you know, if you've been listening here regularly, I'm a little bit alarmed at our party's reluctance to engage the battle for whatever reason.
And look at what happens when you do engage the battle.
Look at what happens to the left when you do engage them.
I told in the first hour, I said, look at you media people, you drive my people all upset here at what I'm doing.
You're looking at us the wrong way.
Look at me as a maverick.
Look at all of these people that voted for Hillary on the Republican side in Texas and Ohio.
Look at us as maverick conservatives.
Look at us as independent conservatives.
What happened last night was that the mavericks and independents among us voted for Hillary.
But if we lose in November, my friends, you'd be foolish to blame me.
One of these two people is going to get the nominee, our nomination.
It's going to be Hillary or Obama.
One of them is.
If we lose in November, who's going to be held responsible?
Who can you thank?
Well, who's on our back?
You can thank the Republican nominee himself.
If our nominee cannot beat Hillary Clinton, he was never going to beat Obama.
And if he goes up against Obama and loses, then that's our nominees doing.
I didn't choose the Republican nominee.
All I'm doing is helping to prolong the bloodletting in the Democrat Party, which can only help our nominee any way you look at it.
And the process, what's happening here, these phony journalists and anchors are exposing themselves.
See, they're upset with me because I helped Hillary.
They're upset with me because I have more influence than they do.
They're upset with me, bottom line, because they've spent months protecting Barack Obama and promoting Obama.
They want him to be president.
It is patently obvious, is it not?
I mean, Saturday Night Live parodied the softball press coverage.
And by the way, don't discount the effect that that's had this past week on the election results last night.
I mean, once Saturday Night, NBC, Saturday Night, when they made fun of their own network, they made mincemeat of both NBC and PMS NBC, the softball coverage of Obama.
You know what that did?
That made the drive-bys get a little tougher on Obama last week.
How malleable are the drive-by media when being parodied on Saturday Night Live can make them buck up, make them shape up, make them start acting like journalists for a change.
They had chosen sides.
Do you think all these drive-bys would be upset if I had been encouraging people to cross over and vote Obama?
It'd be just the, I would be praised as a maverick, as an independent.
And even though they might have thought I was trying to corrupt their process, and they might have said so, they would have secretly been happy that I had done it.
They can't fool me with what their ultimate aim here is.
But folks, you have to realize here, this is, You who listen to this program on a daily basis and have been for the almost 20 years that we've been here, you know full well the degree of corruption of our culture and society liberalism has wrought.
I've probably left out a lot of things.
Courts, Constitution, education system, military, war on terror, war in Iraq.
And they dare accuse us of mischief and immorality by having Republicans cross over.
We're just a bunch of mavericks and independents, ladies and gentlemen.
By the way, do not the Democrats say that every vote should count?
Democracy is sacred.
Well, one of the options in those states, Ohio and Texas, is to permit to allow people to cross over.
And if they choose for what a reason to do so, perfectly fine.
No one should question why.
Voters are exercising their sacred Democrat prerogative, which includes propping up a candidate on the opposing ticket for any reason, including that he or she might be easier to beat or the lesser of two evils president.
To say the Democrats don't do this is absurd.
In deciding whether to prop up Hillary or Obama, you have to consider two things.
One, who's easier to beat?
Two, who would be the worst president?
Because we have to allow the possibility a Democrat candidate can win on both counts.
Probably prop up Hillary.
She'd probably be easier to beat.
Well, I know she'd be easier to beat because half the country already hates her.
I mean, this is the objective of political campaigns is to drive up the negatives about your opponent.
Hers are already there at 49%.
Obama's aren't.
And it's going to be a long haul to get him up to 49% negatives.
But if anybody can do it, it's Hillary.
Don't you understand?
Don't you understand that to the end of the day, all of this is about us winning?
As I said from the very beginning, this is about us winning.
Got to take a brief time out.
We'll do that.
We'll come back and continue.
Your phone calls and more sound bites from the drive-by media after this.
Ha, welcome back.
Rush Limbaugh and the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
We go back to the phones to Washington, D.C. Hi, Marty.
Glad you called, sir.
Yeah, Rush.
Look, I love you, but I'm really upset with what you've done here.
I mean, you have considerable power, and I'm just afraid you've wielded it in the wrong manner, and our republic may suffer here as a result.
I think Bob Beckle expressed my feelings best last night.
He said, sure, she's only picked up 20 delegates, but she's now basically guaranteed a spot on the ticket in some kind of capacity, top or bottom.
And having them both on the ticket makes it tougher to win than if it was only one.
Well, I disagree with that, but I think it makes it even easier.
But I don't think that here we are.
We're just barely in the early days of March.
I don't think anything's guaranteed.
You can't say that this guarantees that she will be on the ticket, top or bottom.
All these wise men and these philosopher kings start making these comments.
The only thing that we can say for certain, Marty, is that the results yesterday guarantee this thing's going to go on through at least Puerto Rico, which is June 7th.
And it's going to come down to superdelegates and maybe they decide to redo Florida and go to the convention.
I also understand that there's a possibility it could come out of this really unified and so forth.
But, you know, what happened yesterday in Ohio and Texas, the net result was not that great a difference had Obama won.
In fact, I just got late-breaking numbers out of Texas.
They had caucuses in Texas after the primary.
And get this, according to Fox News, the numbers out of Texas caucuses last night require an asterisk on Hillary's Tuesday night victory speech showing gains made by Obama in the delegate grab race had all but numerically canceled out her big win in Ohio.
So he won the caucuses.
She won the primary.
But whatever her delegate gain was in Ohio has been wiped out by his winning the caucuses in Texas.
So there's no change here.
Well, I'm glad to hear that.
And I just think that had you not intervened, and there's no doubt in my mind that you're the result of her winning Texas.
I mean, I think she would have won Ohio anyway.
And I, you know, four months ago, I thought the same thing you thought.
Let's make them spend, both of them spend all their money, wipe them out, and I hope that that ends up being the case.
But I think if we had scored a knockout punch with her, you know, I think that would have been better off.
If they're together, you know, as a result, you've got considerable power, but I don't know.
Well, here's my thinking on this, and you're free to disagree, but I'll repeat this again.
I'll ask you a question.
Would you agree with me in my assessment that the Republican Party is reluctant to the point of not going to do it to be critical of Barack Obama?
Oh, unquestionably.
You hit the nail on the head.
Would you agree that the Clintons are the Clintons?
Yeah.
Would you agree that the Clintons, that Mrs. Clinton wants this like none of us can imagine wanting anything?
Oh, I would love to see her go for the jugular rush.
Don't misunderstand me, and vice versa with him.
But the problem is I think it's now in a situation they're both going to have to say, look, this is a bloodlet, and we're going to have to unite.
They may start kissing and making up at this point.
I may be wrong.
The only way that would happen is if Mrs. Clinton concludes that there is a way she can maneuver this to put herself on the top of the ticket.
And the only way that she can maneuver, she can't do that with delegates right now.
So the only way that she can do this is to come up with some dirt on this guy that she can take to him and say, look, you want this out?
This Resco trial starting this week is going to have some details that Barack doesn't want out there.
His clean and pure paradise image is going to suffer this week with some things that are going to come out about people he's been doing business with.
Yeah, but Rush, you know what's going on right now.
I mean, not now.
It's going to happen shortly.
She's going to have that.
Her operatives are going to have that conversation with him.
Say, do you want RESCO out?
He's going to say, look, I don't want RESCO out, but you know darn well what I can come back with.
That's all the more reason I think that's let's strip all this away.
Let's get down to the nub of this.
Because look, I'm very much concerned that people are not understanding my take on this and my objective.
And I also am not comfortable with the fact that some people think I'm goofing this up making mistake.
I think it's just the opposite.
But let's just cut to the nub of it.
You don't think that they can be beaten as a team?
I think it's going to be tougher.
Why?
Don't you?
I mean, doesn't this come down to who our nominee is?
Well, look, that's water under the we're screwed because we got the worst possible nominee.
I mean, we're in a position now where we've got to have.
Okay, okay.
Okay.
So do you believe me when I tell you that my objective here is our side winning and beating?
Okay, you just think I might be making a mistake in my judgment.
Yeah, just a tactical error here.
Tactical error.
Strategic error.
Oh, strategic, yeah, not tactical.
But I don't think it's an error.
I hope you're right.
It's all rooted in the fact that we're not going to play hardball.
They are.
And if we're not going to play hardball, and they are, then we've got to let them play hardball against each other for a while so that there are some people that have some serious questions.
But I actually think, and don't ask me to explain why, but if they're both on the ticket, I think it's actually an easier victory.
I just do.
I think Obama would be the tougher of the two to beat if he alone were on the ticket with his own choice of VP.
If Hillary were on the ticket, that's the easier of the two to beat.
If they're on the ticket together, and she's on top, easier than if Obama's on top, but it's not by any means undoable.
But it still boils down to the fact that people are blaming me here when you admit that we don't have the best nominee we could probably have.
And it's going to, if it's, look, I'm not running for president and I'm not out there getting votes.
I'm not asking people to vote for me.
And I don't know how it can be said, I'm going to lose the election.
I just do not know how that can be said because I'm not going to be urging people to vote for either one of these two Democrats.
Plain and simple.
And I've made that clear as well.
Marty, thanks for the call.
Jeff in Cincinnati, you're next on the EIB network.
Hello.
Rush.
Yeah.
I need to mark this day on my calendar.
What an honor it is to talk to you.
Thank you, sir.
Well, it's March the 5th, 2008.
Duly noted.
Hey, I was just calling to say that the irony of this is delicious.
We are finally, like you were talking to the last caller, we're finally starting to give them a taste of their own medicine.
It's been a source of frustration for me that we sit back and we keep taking these pokes in the ribs and kicks in the teeth from them and their tactics.
Well, it's not even that.
We've been asking for kicks in the teeth.
We've been asking for Democrats to join us.
And we've been thinking that's what makes us good.
Look, it the Democrats want to vote for our guy.
Look, the Independents want to vote for our guy.
Wow, that's really cool.
So we turn it around and we go vote for their people.
That's corruption.
It's ungentlemanly.
You're exactly right.
They have been doing what they can to subvert our nomination process in each, well, 2000, 2004, now in 2008.
And it's a little tit-for-tat.
So, you know, they did bring this on themselves.
You know, one of the things that mild-mannered people don't understand is that the aggressor sets the rules in any conflict.
And it's plain as day, folks, we are not the aggressors here.
And back we are.
Rush Limbaugh, talent on loan from a god.
And I think some of the people who are emailing me, some of the people who are calling me, want to believe that if Senator McCain loses in November, that it's going to be somebody's fault other than his.
All I've tried to do here, folks, is make it less likely that Obama and Hillary will join forces because the bloodletting will continue.
But if they do join up, they would have anyway.
But if the bloodletting gets serious and if the acrimony increases and so forth, especially if Hillary demands to be on top of this Tucson.
Now, I'm going to give you a little story.
You probably have heard about this, but I want to ask you what you think of this.
By the way, our last caller said that Hillary was going to win Ohio anyway, regardless of the crossovers there, right?
Obama was closing in Ohio before the Limbaugh campaign began there.
It was within the margin of error, I believe.
So the EIB election desk, after careful review, is indeed giving me credit for both Ohio and Texas victories.
This notion that I had no role in Ohio, that's just unacceptable here.
We've done a careful review of the pre-election polling, the exit poll data and so forth, and clearly we were a factor.
But McCain had a town hall meeting.
Where was this?
I guess this is in Texas.
It's in Houston.
And a questioner at the town hall meeting took the microphone to level an insult at Mrs. Clinton.
Referring to the introduction of McCain's wife, Cindy, a man in Houston said, unlike other candidates in the race, if Cindy answers the phone at 3 in the morning, she won't be wondering where her husband is.
So there was raucous laughter.
The crowd loved it.
Gales of laughter.
There was applause.
There were lots of smiles, including one from Cindy McCain.
Senator McCain, however, according to thepolitico.com, was forced to dissociate himself from the comments.
While acknowledging that the line was meant in humor, McCain said Americans want us to have a respectful campaign.
And he honors and respects both Senator Clinton and Senator Obama, which also got applause, but not nearly so much as the original line.
So Senator McCain chastises yet another voter, supporter, dissociates himself from another supporter at one of his town hall meetings.
So I'm just not even going to comment on it myself.
I'm going to comment on it myself.
I'm going to throw it out there, let you people ponder it amongst yourselves, see what you think.
Back to the audio soundbites.
Last night on DNC TV's Decision 08, political analyst Nora O'Donnell reported this about the exit poll data.
There are some Republicans who are choosing to vote in the Democratic primary.
First, let's look at the party identification mix in Ohio.
Look at the Republican crossovers down here.
That's really interesting.
10% this year.
That's five times as many in the last election.
Also in Texas, there is, again, that bigger Republican crossover in this primary than in the last election.
Remember, Rush Limbaugh has called for Republicans to cross over and vote for Clinton, essentially to bloody up Obama.
Those were the words he used.
So he may have planted that idea, in a sense, quote-unquote, giving permission to Republicans to cross party lines.
But that is a significant number that has decided to vote today.
But CNN had a little bit different take on their election center last night.
Solided O'Brien and their political analyst Bill Schneider had this exchange about the effect in Texas.
Rush Limbaugh, who was urging Republicans in Texas who can vote in the Democratic primary to go out and vote for Hillary Clinton.
So we wanted to see if that maybe was having some kind of effect on this race.
What did you find?
Not much.
No, only 9% of the Texas Democratic primary voters were self-described Republicans, and they voted for Barack Obama.
53.
46%, almost half voted for Hillary Clinton.
So maybe that was some influence from Mr. Limbaugh.
But not much.
So PMSNBC and CNN disagree with their numbers.
Then on PBS last night, the news hour with Jim Lara, Amy Walter of the Hotline took a neutral position.
She's not sure about the Limbaugh effect.
Russia Lindbaugh got into it saying, hey, go out there and vote for Hillary Clinton, Republican, so we can keep the Democrats fighting and keep this going on for some time.
So we don't know so much of that early voting when we've seen those numbers are coming from Republican counties turning out and picking up Democratic ballots.
Hmm.
Hmm.
Sounds like the conclusion here is rather unmistakable.
Moving on now to Chris Matthews, Election 08, PMS NBC.
Here is an apoplectic Chris Matthews describing to a T why we needed Hillary to win and this primary to continue.
You have to wonder if you are a Democrat watching tonight and you want to win the general election.
If any of this tonight is good news.
Is it useful for the party to face seven weeks in Pennsylvania, six media markets, $30 million spent in both directions, blasting each other out of the saddle in a state you absolutely positively have to carry?
It's not good news to spend seven weeks in Pennsylvania blasting each other if you're Democrats.
This country's in a rut on the war in Iraq, impending wars elsewhere in the Middle East, the economy, everything.
We're in a rut.
We can't fix anything, whether it's Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security.
We can't fix our health care system.
Nothing's done since 1965.
We did a civil rights bill.
People want something done.
Will that something get done if we have an election that bogs down in Pennsylvania with seven weeks of Democrats killing each other?
Aside from the gibberish about nothing getting done in this country, does that not make my point of what we are trying to accomplish here?
This is the last thing the Democrats wanted to see.
And they're going to have to see it.
And it's not just Pennsylvania.
Forget Pennsylvania.
Forget April 22nd.
You are talking June the 7th, Puerto Rico and beyond.
Now, this business about nothing having gotten done since the Civil Rights Act, here's the problem: Medicare, Social Security, Medicaid, health care system, all those things got done, and they are a disaster.
And who got them done?
Who is preventing their reform?
Who's preventing these programs from being reformed?
The very people Matthews is concerned about being bogged down in a campaign for six weeks going into Pennsylvania.
That's what this stuff is all about.
These things are going to break the bank.
And there are ways to fix them.
He left out the public school system and a number of other things which have gone wrong.
CNN's election center, Carl Bernstein, said this about Hillary Clinton going negative.
Our only shot is to go so negative on Obama that something sticks and makes these superdelegates say we don't want him.
And as one Clinton strategist said to me today, we got to mess him up.
I rest my case.
Carl Bernstein, Woodward and Bernstein fame, talking to a Clinton strategerist.
We got to mess him up.
Exactly right.
Because our side's not going to.
They got to do it.
And of course, they're the only ones that can do it.
Folks, you don't realize.
I don't even have the guts to say it.
You don't realize what a brilliant thing this has been.
Of course it's been respectful as hell.
Yes, Mr. Snirdly.
Of course it's been respectful.
Has it been respectful?
It's a good thing it's not Monday because if I'd have had this much laughter on Monday, I'd have been in coughing spasms.
I'd be in a hospital.
Pete in Woodbridge, Virginia, welcome to the EIB Network.
Hello, sir.
Just fine, Rush.
How are you doing?
Thank you, sir.
There's at least eight or nine different reasons for voting for Hillary, and you've enumerated some of them in the last almost two hours.
First of all, fear is Hillary's most effective message against Obama.
And that's also McCain's message.
So as long as she's running her 3 a.m. ad, she's helping to make McCain's point about the importance of experience and national security.
And that's right.
This is actually a great ad for McCain.
Oh, absolutely.
In addition, the Democrats should be thanking you.
This screening process really helps them to ensure that they aren't going to have a Gary Hart or a Michael Dukakis running against McCain in the fall.
And as far as on our side, it extends the time, as you said earlier, for Hillary to get the press to scrutinize him.
Well, not only that, but you know, there's another thing that's possible.
I don't know how likely it is.
But Senator McCain, here's, I heard Carl Rove last night.
Carl Rove was doing analysis on Fox, and he had a good point.
He said, well, one of the problems with prolonging the Democrat battle is that it's going to be on page one, and McCain will now move to page two, page three, page four.
Actually, McCain's going to move to Section B, page one.
He's got to raise some money.
He's got some fundraising challenges ahead of him.
But it's also going to give McCain a chance to continue.
He can start campaigning now.
He can start traveling all over the country and making speeches and establish who he's going to be and how he's going to be it, what he's going to do.
And so while these guys are tearing themselves up, there's an opportunity here for McCain to solidify who he is while these guys are still in their knockdown dragout.
And it is and is an opportunity.
And it's a way also for him to keep himself a little bit more front and center in the media rather than in Section B. Because compared to what's going to be going on the Democrat side, there's not a whole lot that is going to be happening with McCain.
I mean, I just, I didn't get a chance to listen to this because it was on while the program was on, but the president publicly, professionally, officially endorsed McCain today.
They had lunch in the Oval Office or somewhere in there, and then they came at a little joint press conference in the Rose Garden.
Now, it looked to me, and I could be dead wrong about this because I didn't have a chance to watch it or listen to it, but it looked to me like most of the questions were asked of the president.
Mr. President, are you going to campaign for Senator McCain?
I'm going to do whatever if he wants me to campaign against him.
If it'll help him win, that's what I'm going to do.
All of these, well, where are you going to campaign for where you're not going to campaign for him?
And McCain was standing there asking the reporters next question, and the questions always went to President Bush.
President Bush can help him with fundraising, and I'm sure that was on the table today when they had their luncheon.
But this is an opportunity here for McCain to actually solidify who he is because he's not going to have to run any contests against Huckabee anymore.
He's not going to have to go out and get votes and get delegates in any of these remaining states.
And then on the other side of this, everybody's talking about the momentum that Hillary has, the momentum to wear.
I mean, you've got Wyoming.
They've got the Wyoming caucus this Saturday.
I think Obama expects to lose that.
You got Mississippi next Tuesday.
Obama is probably going to win that going away.
But yeah, Hillary may have some momentum to wear the next big state's not for six weeks.
And whatever momentum she has is not going to sustain her that long.
So you're going to have Trying to keep the momentum alive by doing exactly what Carl Bernstein said, and that is, they got to mess Obama up.
That's Carl Bernstein's word.
My word, they got to bloody him up.
Politically, of course.
Don't leave out that word.
You know, I need to get a hold of white comedian, noted white comedian Paul Shanklin.
It's time for another parody tune, Ebony and Ivory, Obama and Hillary singing to each other about the upcoming.
All right, do you want to hear the babes on The View discuss this?
Do you want to hear what they have to say?
I, you know, I, well, women, I literally marvel.
I really do at the obtuseness, the dim-wittedness, the no-there-there-ism of some of these women.
Here do we have here?
We got Elizabeth Hasselbeck, we got Joy Behar, we got Whoopi Goldberg and Sherry Shepard are discussing Hillary's chances in the primary voting that day.
This is yesterday.
This is Tuesday morning.
And Hasselbeck says, Look, on a political, strategic level, I say stick it in because I think she'd be easier to beat when McCain goes against her.
That's what Rush Limbaugh is saying.
Is that why he's encouraging people to vote for her?
Because he's saying that voting for Hillary will unsettle the Democratic Party, and that can only help Republicans.
Yeah, he said, I want Hillary to stay in this.
This is too good a soap opera.
Clinton is more willing than the Republican National Convention and John McCain's campaign to criticize Barack Obama.
We need Barack Obama bloodied up politically.
I don't agree with him, just so you know.
I don't know about Limbaugh, but I don't totally trust anything Limbaugh says because I worked with him, right?
Did you?
Yes, I know him.
And after when I was at the radio station with him, Clinton won.
And he was so happy because he could now be funnier on his radio show.
It has nothing to do with real patriotism or whatever he's talking about.
It's about his show.
So he feels as though he'd have more ammo.
He has more fun with Hillary.
That's all he cares about.
You know, Joy Behar saw me every day.
And folks, I don't know about you.
We were miserable.
I don't want to go through that again.
I don't want to go.
I do not want to live through the misery.
I mean, to say that we wanted Clinton to win because it was more fun, that I was happy when Clinton won.
And then this poor old Elizabeth Hasselbeck is the conservative on this program and is going out of her.
It's pathetic.
This program has the potential to be doing more damage to women than Oprah's doing.
Good Lord.
It's just insulting.
There have to be executives at ABC that understand the literal ignorance that's being broadcast on their network signals each and every day.
I guess they know their audience.
Here is Senator McCain.
Let's go to sub 817.
Senator McCain, last night in Dallas, a portion, listen to this, snortly.
Listen to this, all of you.
A portion of Senator McCain's victory speech.
I want to thank all of you here, all the Republicans, Independents, and independent-thinking Democrats in all parts of the country who supported our campaign for the nomination and have brought us across the finish line first.
An accomplishment that once seemed to more than a few doubters unlikely.
All right.
So apparently McCain can thank the Democrats for making him the Republican nominee.
Can thank independents for making him the Republican nominee, and yet they say we, I am subverting democracy by suggesting that our side vote for Mrs. Clinton in Texas and Ohio.
McCain is praised because he's a maverick.
He attracts Democrats and independents.
See, there's a two-way.
I should have played this soundbite earlier on in the program to put all this in perspective.
Back in a second.
Hillary Clinton Monday night in San Antonio, Texas, finally responded to me in my question of whether we want to watch a woman age, you know, daily in the Oval Office.
She said, granted, I'm a little older, but I have earned every wrinkle on my face.
She did.
I'll get the soundbite.
I'll play it for you when we come back.
One hour left to go, folks.
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