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March 10, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 10, 2008, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Yeah, I know, I've got a dilemma over this.
Let me count them up here.
I've got basically 13 sound bites about me.
And you know, I didn't hear any of these.
These have happened since Wednesday, Wednesday night.
I got 39 soundbites in the roster today, and one-third of them are about me.
I mean, that's a dilemma, you know, for somebody who doesn't like to make the show about themselves, like I do, or don't.
Anyway, greetings, my friends, and welcome.
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Now, the dilemma, I haven't gotten a whole lot.
I mean, not a lot of emails about this, but I've maybe four or five.
And they could be just from malcontents.
But I've been saying, you know, Rush, I don't listen to your show to hear what other people are talking about and saying about you.
I listen to your show to hear what you're saying about other people.
And then for you to keep playing these, your ego is just getting out of control, Rush.
I mean, it's obvious your ego is out of control.
You probably can't even wear a cap out of the golf course anymore because your head's gotten so big because all you care about is what other people are saying.
I don't care.
That's the point.
But I find it fascinating how I am continually misunderstood.
You know what most of these soundbites are about?
And I didn't even know this was a controversy.
Because I, you know, when I left here on Wednesday, I had a pretty social weekend.
It was my local country club's member guest golf tournament.
So I played practice around Thursday.
Then the tournament was Friday and Saturday.
It was social things all night.
Or every night all night.
And I just didn't mess with watching any television.
No, it was last week when it came out that Hillary was maneuvering to put herself on a ticket, whether she wins these primaries or not, wins a nomination or not, and then wants to be on top, I said, a position she's used to being on.
I said, that ticket has no prayer.
And the reaction is that I made a racial statement.
I made a racist and sexist statement.
Oh, yeah.
Well, that's what the soundbites are all about.
Snurdley says, how do you get that out of what I said?
That's what these soundbites are all about.
So, you know, I don't know how many of you heard this stuff, but I can tell you this.
While I was gone, HR, did I get any requests to appear on any of these networks that were running this controversy while I was gone?
Yeah, I thought he would have.
No, he said he didn't get any requests.
He would have told me if I did.
Well, I know it's relevant because Hillary still wants to be on top, and now the Democrats are redefining how you win the nomination.
That is, you win the blue states, the big states.
You win these little hicks, sorry, small states, the Democrats, small states.
That doesn't count.
And these are the states Obama's winning, like Mississippi tomorrow night and Wyoming on Saturday.
Chump change.
Doesn't show anything.
So the Clintons are out there maneuvering for Hillary to be on top of the ticket.
And by the way, folks, I have to tell you something else.
I did finally buckle down yesterday afternoon, start doing some show prep here, getting ready for today.
And tell me if my strategery hasn't worked.
It has worked flawlessly, brilliantly conceived, flawlessly executed strategically.
The Democrat Party is in utter chaos.
Al Sharpton heading to Florida today, threatening lawsuits over what happens to the Florida delegates.
Michigan's going to have the same kind of controversy.
There's just all kinds of chaos reigning throughout this party now.
And the attacks between Clinton and Obama are not just on issues.
They're very seldom very little about issues.
It's some of it personal.
You know, it's personal.
It isn't ideological.
It's fabulous.
She's a monster.
That's right.
She's a monster.
And Howard Wolfson came out and called Obama Ken Starr.
I mean, how much better can this get?
And it was all started by me.
And then there were newspaper stories, a Houston Chronicle in Dallas, the limbo effect.
Did it really work?
And they had quotes, people walking into the polling places in Texas on Tuesday.
I'm a Rush Limbaugh Republican, but I am here to vote for Hillary.
People quoted us saying this.
And then there are some soundbites here about how un-American that was.
Oh, yeah, un-American.
Now, I am un-American because I am trying to sabotage the Democrat primaries by urging people to cross over and vote in primaries for people they have no intention of voting for president.
That's un-American.
My patriotism is being challenged.
It's being challenged by Dan Abrams at DNC TV.
It's being challenged by Donna Brazil.
They're challenging my patriotism out there, just like Dingy Harry challenged my patriotism out there.
And I thought we're not allowed to challenge each other's patriotism.
Meanwhile, Nancy Pelosi last week promised to bring up the FISA bill that has telecom immunity, and she hasn't done it.
You want to talk about patriotism?
The Democrat Party is doing everything it can to weaken our intel capabilities to continue to fight this enemy.
And their attitude is like we don't even have one other than Bush and other than McCain.
And I did this loss in Chicago, Denny Hastert's seat.
Not good, folks.
Not good.
The Obama people.
Did you hear about this, Mr. Turley?
You know what I'm talking about?
Well, it's another super deleted.
That's not the point.
It's not the point.
That is as safe a Republican seat as you can get.
Denny Hastert's seat?
Speaker?
That's as safe as you can get, and the Republicans lost it.
And they're short money compared to the Democrats at the Republican National Congressional Committee, which is the arm that's in charge of getting as many Republicans elected to the House as possible.
And of course, Obama's out there saying, well, this looks good for the future because this election in Denny Haster's district for his seat, I moved a microcosm for me, Obama, versus McCain.
McCain did go in there and campaign for our guy.
And I think there was some other people that also went in there and campaigned.
But this is just going to embolden the Democrats even more to think that they're going to have an even larger majority in the House than even they might have figured.
The Republicans are going to say, this is an isolated special election.
It doesn't mean anything.
Well, you can't say it doesn't mean anything.
You just lost a seat in a special election in a pretty solid Republican district outside Chicago.
There aren't too many of those.
But Denny Hastert's was one of them.
And have you seen the price of oil?
$107, $107 gasoline prices following oil's recent surge are close to surpassing last spring's record.
Gasoline prices were poised today to set a new record at the pump, having surged to within a half a cent of their record high of $3.22.7 a gallon.
Oil prices, meanwhile, surged to $107, a new inflation-adjusted record and their fifth new high in the last six sessions on an upbeat report on wholesale inventories.
Now, a lot of people, I had a thought occur to me about this.
One of the natural conservative reactions to this is: well, yeah, this is supply and demand.
And we don't have enough of our own domestic supply.
We've got to import too much.
We can't drill an end war.
We can't drill in the Gulf.
Well, we can't drill anywhere other than where we're drilling.
We can't build any refineries.
So, how are we going to up the supply using our own supply, which will bring the price down?
I got to thinking, maybe big oil doesn't care.
Have you seen their profits?
Big oil's profits are through the roof, and the Clintons and the Obamas are out there talking about how they're going to take all those profits.
But how much?
Let's say, let's say that miraculously the Congress passed a bill saying, Yep, go ahead and drill an N war.
And miraculously passed a bill, go ahead and drill for some oil in the Gulf to compete with what the Chikoms and the Cubans are trying to do and with the Mexicans.
Suppose Big Oral said, No, we're fine.
Our profits are really super.
We would just as soon not plow any more RD and development money into digging in these places.
We're doing just fine right now.
We're cool.
I mean, if you were big oil and you're making all these profits, why would you want to?
Well, obviously, big oil is going to need oil down the road, but I can see playing it both ways.
At any rate, look, I've got to take a quick break.
I'm going to decide here during the timeout whether or not the.
I haven't heard these myself, folks.
I probably am going to play these soundbites.
And I don't know if you heard them or not.
This comment, these discussions about me and the Democrat ticket.
But it's clear, ladies, and I don't say this out of ego.
I don't say this out of anything other than an objective analysis.
The drive-bys are talking more about me in this campaign than they are Senator McCain.
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Let me grab this phone call.
Is this going to say what I think it's going to say?
This is Jane in Fairview Park, Ohio.
Jane, welcome to the Russian Limbaugh Program.
Nice to have you here.
Thank you very much for taking my call, Rush.
It's my first time, and I'm delighted.
Well, you sound like a veteran.
You sound like a seasoned veteran here.
Thank you so much.
It's my years of teaching school.
It never goes away, does it?
No, it never does, especially dealing with malcontent little crumb crisis.
That's exactly right.
I can't teach school anymore.
I'd be in court in a week.
I wanted to share with you an article from, I'm sure you're aware, the Plain Dealer, our main and only newspaper in this state of Ohio anymore, at least in this area, northeastern Ohio.
And on Sunday, actually, it was a front-page article down in the bottom right-hand corner: 16,000 Republicans switched parties Tuesday in Cuyahoga.
And it goes on to say in about the third paragraph that some of those who changed, it's difficult to say how many, quote, could be in trouble with the law.
At least one member of the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections wants to investigate some Republicans who may have crossed party lines.
Only to influence which Democrat would face presumed Republican nominee McCain in November.
Those who crossed lines were supposed to sign a pledge card vowing allegiance to their new party.
Come on, give me a break.
I'm sitting right here looking at it.
It's my issue, the Cleveland plane dealer.
This is getting absurd.
If it weren't for independents and Democrats crossing over, Senator McCain would not be our nominee.
Mingo.
And of course, that was wonderful.
That was bipartisan thip.
This was people, Mr. Limbaugh, voting for the candidate.
Of course, we all know that these independents and moderates have no intention of voting for McCain in November.
Right.
It says Sandy McNair, who is a Democratic member of the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections, said Friday that the manipulation of the system was troublesome.
Really?
It's something that concerns me.
I think needs to be looked at further.
I'm sure it does.
I'm sure they think it does.
You know, Democrats can tamper with elections all they want.
If you even want to call this tampering, but Republican nowhere.
We're supposed to sit there and not mess around with what they do whatsoever.
And when they want to mess around, when they want to choose our nominee, that's fine.
That's bipartisanship.
That's okay.
When we want to get involved in choosing theirs, somehow a crime has been committed.
Exactly.
And later on, of course, it says that it started a few weeks ago when conservative radio, you know what's coming, conservative radio powerhouse Rush Limbaugh suggested that his Republican following cross over during the primary to vote for Clinton.
You know what?
You ought to send a letter to the editor.
I may do so.
Now, here's what I want you to say in your letter to the editor.
Something, well, use your own words, of course, but in the letter to the editor, say, you don't understand the story because it was only a month ago that Limbaugh was proclaimed irrelevant, tired, worn out, and of no consequence.
Well, that's true, Jane.
Well, but now all of a sudden, you're all-powerful again.
Yeah.
One lady says her niece crossed over after hearing Limbaugh.
And it says that they did interview several of these people who crossed over.
They said they were not asked to sign a pledge card.
Some of them were given pledge cards, and they wrote on the bottom of it for one day only.
I really wish, well, I'm sure you have people who can chase this down.
But yesterday, Sunday's edition, main edition of The Plain Dealer, it's really quite a hoot.
I couldn't believe it.
Remember now, these are drive-by journalists.
These are people who just six weeks ago said that I may as well quit, hang it up, retire, hang the headphones over there on the wall, and head to the golf course.
I appreciate that, Jane.
Thank you very much.
All right, let's start with the audio sound bites here.
We'll start with Dan Abrams live on DNC-TV on Wednesday night.
Limbaugh is upset that I said he was perverting the process by encouraging Republicans to vote for Hillary Clinton in open primaries in an effort to, quote, bloody up Obama.
When you encourage someone to vote for a candidate that they don't want as president, I believe it's actually un-American.
They are willing to increase the chances of what they consider to be a bad candidate winning in the hope they may slightly increase their candidate's chances.
It's shameful.
The naivete, and this has to be ignorance, because this is not a stupid man.
Just has to be the naivete And the ignorance of how the political process works is stunning.
That very thing that he accused me of being un-American for has been going on in the Democrat Party.
I mean, we can trace it back to 2000 when McCain was urging him, the candidate was urging Democrats and independents to cross over and vote for him.
And you had a bunch of Democrats that hated Bush all the way back then who wanted no part of Bush.
And so they voted for McCain, trying to screw up the Republican primaries.
It happened that, look, you know, you people out there, the Democrat Party in the drive-by media, you're just going to have to understand here that while maybe the Republican Party is going to sit around and grab the ankles, bend over forward for you, we are not here.
We are warriors on this program.
And if you are going to mess up our selection process, if you're going to choose our nominee, we're going to help choose yours.
The aggressor sets the rules in these kinds of things.
And you people on the left are the aggressor in this kind of thing.
And if our party's going to sit around and lose seats, if the party's going to sit around and try to get along and appease you people, that's fine.
But I'm not the party.
And neither are the people that listen to this program.
You people have to be stopped.
Of course, in a political sense.
And don't forget, I said Obama needed to be bloodied up politically by Mrs. Clinton.
You guys are leading so much out of this by Mrs. Clinton because our side's not going to do it.
Every candidate has negatives, but our side doesn't seem interested in exposing any of them on Obama's side.
Mrs. Clinton is clearly willing to do it because she's in the process of doing it.
Well, her surrogates are Obama is Ken Starr.
You know what's really irritating these people too, folks, is that the strategery has worked.
There are stories all over the drive-bys about the disarray and the chaos and the problems in the Democrat Party.
Here's Donna Brazil.
This was last Wednesday night on CNN, Wolf Blitzer's Situation Room.
Blitzer said, is Limbaugh right?
A woman and a black serving on a Democrat ticket wouldn't have a prayer in getting elected in the general election?
You know, Wolf, I'm an American and I'm proud to be an American, but I think that comment is, as far as I can tell, a very un-American conversation.
Because African Americans and women fight for this country, we've died for this country.
And to suggest somehow or another that we are not capable of serving this country in the capacity of commander-in-chief is just in my mind mind-boggling.
So, but all due respect to Mr. Limbaugh, just wait, let the people decide.
And I guarantee you, the people will make a better decision than Rush Limbaugh.
Wow, how defensive are these people?
See, this proves the point.
I made no comment about race or sexism whatsoever.
I just pointed out that you have here black, woman, Hillary on the top, Obama on the top doesn't matter.
This ticket has no prayer.
And look at the defensiveness.
Why, all of a sudden, I'm a sexist.
All of a sudden, I am a racist.
I have somehow suggested, by the way, it wasn't me, Ms. Brazil.
A week ago, Obama wasn't qualified to answer the phone at 3 o'clock.
Now he's qualified to be VP.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Welcome back, Rush Limbaugh, and having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
Now, the soundbite that we just played from Donna Brazil, let's play it again here.
Mike, audio soundbite number four.
You know, Wolf, I'm an American, and I'm proud to be an American.
But I think that comment is, as far as I can tell, a very un-American conversation.
Because African Americans and women fight for this country.
We've died for this country.
And to suggest somehow or another that we are not capable of serving this country in the capacity of commander-in-chief, it's just in my mind, mind-boggling.
But all due respect to Mr. Limbaugh, just wait, let the people decide.
And I guarantee you the people will make a better decision than Russ Limbaugh.
Ms. Brazil, I didn't say one thing that you have attributed to me.
I didn't say one thing about a black not being qualified to be commander-in-chief.
I've been one of the early defenders of Barack Obama, by the way, Ms. Brazil, when your side was out there trashing him as a magic Negro, as not black enough, as not down for the struggle.
You people have short memories.
I was one of the first to defend this guy against your party's assaults on him, from Mrs. Clinton's associates attacking his drug use and drug sailing and so forth, to all these other insinuations that have been made.
It was I, El Rushbo, who came to his defense.
However, Ms. Brazil, one thing here.
Remember the Donovan McNabb incident on ESPN?
You know what Donna Brazil said back then?
What Rush said about McNabb was horrible.
My comment was not about McNabb, nor was it a slight of his abilities.
I was speaking about the media.
She says here that I am saying Obama's unqualified, or any black is unqualified to be commander-in-chief.
My comment wasn't about the abilities or qualifications of Obama or Hillary one way or the other.
I'm talking about voters.
Do I have to explain every, I can understand having to explain this to people who don't follow politics every day, but people who are political Bruce Babbitt, for people who are political professionals to have to explain this.
Well, I know what they're doing.
They're purposely taking this wrong so that they can attack me.
But the insinuation here, ladies and gentlemen, is that I have injected racism and sexism into this purported new dream ticket.
All right, drive-bys, Democrats, you want a little race talk?
Let me give you some.
If you want to call this race, you want to know what I was talking about?
I was talking about the voters.
And you people can sit there and dream all day long about the black vote and its impact or the women's vote and its impact.
But you know, as well as I know that it is white men who determine the president of the country every four years.
Whoever gets the majority of white men, you put two liberal senators on the ticket, both of them minorities.
That ticket, especially when one of them has literally no experience whatsoever and Mrs. Clinton has 49% negatives, the people who elect the president in this country do so on the basis of issues.
They don't do it on marketing and packaging.
They don't do it on novelties and this sort of thing.
The people who elect the president of the United States are not, when November comes around, are not going to be caught up in the novelty of this ticket or of the historical nature of the ticket.
They're going to be caught up in assessing competence.
And you've got a guy who has no experience, who's goofing up on NAFTA, goofing up.
Have you heard?
Do you know what he's the Boston Globe?
On, what was it, yesterday?
No.
March 8th.
Was it Friday?
March 8th.
I don't know.
Leave me a calendar in front of me here.
A couple days ago.
Yeah.
In July of 2004, this is by Ferris Stockman, Globe staff writer.
In July of 2004, the day after his speech.
Now get this.
July.
Look at me.
Look at me.
July 2004.
The day after his speech at the Democrat convention.
The day after it catapulted him onto the national spotlight, Barack Obama told a group of reporters in Boston that the United States had, quote, an absolute obligation, unquote, to remain in Iraq long enough to make it a success.
That's just four years ago.
Senator Obama is running around acting like he never said a word about supporting Iraq, that he always knew it was a mistake.
This guy is, if the, his only saving grace is Republicans are not going to attack him on this kind of stuff because they're going to be afraid.
I, of course, are not.
Now, the Boston Globe headlines this, Obama's stance on Iraq shows evolving view.
Evolving my rear end.
Evolving.
It's devolving.
If in 2004, the guy says we have an obligation, absolute obligation to remain there in Iraq long enough to make it a success and now wants to yank us out of there on the threshold of victory.
How do you call that evolving?
That is devolving.
It's a lie.
It's the same thing about NAFTA.
These little things that are going to show his inexperience are going to crop up.
By the time we get to November, people elect the president of this country seriously.
It's a serious thing to people.
It's not a horse race.
It's not a Las Vegas review show.
People are not making a history when they vote.
They're concerned about the future of the country.
So all of these things that the Democrats think that people ought to notice, gender, skin color, whatever else they use to describe people and to categorize them and segregate them into groups, is not going to matter.
And you put two ardent liberals, one of whom, Mrs. Clinton, by the way, you're going to talk about her.
It's apparent, got the stories here in the stack of stuff.
Her campaign organization is a disaster.
It is a mess.
It's an absolute mess.
She won't release her tax reports, her tax returns and so forth.
Obviously got something to hide.
Do you think people really want this soap opera for four more years?
The woman's got 49% negatives, Donna Brazil.
Obama has no experience.
You put that ticket up there, and I guarantee you, you are going to be shocked.
Because I hate to say it, but Senator McCain can run rings around both these people on issues that matter to the American people.
It's just a matter of whether or not he'll choose to do so, you know, because he wants to run an honorable campaign, whatever that means when Republicans say they want to run an honorable campaign.
It usually gets translated into let the Democrats determine what we can say and when we can say it so that they get to define what honorable is.
Terry and Sandy, Utah, as we go back to the phones, great to have you on the EIB network, sir.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
Listen, I'm going to get right to the point, and I hope I'll get my minute and a half because you aren't going to like it.
I am a Republican.
I've listened to your show since 88.
I will be voting for Mr. John McCain, and I'll be voting for him, not because I agree with everything that he does or says, but because he has absolute integrity.
And I'll leave that comment there and tell you why I'm disgusted with you.
The reason I'm disgusted with you completely.
Integrity is the key word here.
I've been a Republican all my life.
I'm 60 years old.
We're better than that.
By that, I mean, just because somebody or the other party wrongs me or wrongs the Republican Party, the Republican Party has always been better than that.
And just because they do it doesn't mean we means we lose our integrity for having done what you had people do in Texas.
I think you lost about 80 points of integrity with me.
I will not listen.
I'm sorry?
How many points?
I'd say about 100 because I've always looked up to you and I've thought you were great.
This one issue I've never called before.
I love listening, but it has absolutely disgusted me because we are better than that.
That's why I'm a Republican.
That's why I'll never vote Democratic.
They're not better than that.
You like losing?
I like integrity.
Listen, here's the key.
You, sir, and I, sir, have only three or four things in our entire life that we have absolute 100% control of, and nobody else can control it for us.
And one of those two or three things is integrity.
Get the picture?
Do you like losing?
No, absolutely not.
Do you like the Democrats winning?
I would sooner live in a country that the majority of the people that are my peers choose if it's against what I want because it's our way.
I will voice my opinion.
I will always voice my opinion.
I will always be on the Republican side.
Yep.
But I will do it with integrity.
Well, there's a difference between you and me then.
There is.
You and I want the same thing.
Yes, but you sound to me like for the first time I've listened to you in all these years.
Come on, what did you think when I endorsed Clinton back in 1992?
You remember that.
You've been listening since 88.
I really don't remember that.
I honestly don't.
Oh, really?
That's one of the big events of this program.
In 1992, I endorsed Bill Clinton.
I honestly don't recall that.
And I have listened because I know all the nuances, the nags, half your brain tightening.
You're going to read that on any Democrat blog.
Rush, I'm being honest with you.
I have been a racist.
I'm being honest with all.
You and I want the same things.
The difference is I'm willing to fight for the victory.
No, you're willing to hold it.
You're willing to accept loss as honorable.
If it costs me my integrity, which I've fought for all my life, I will keep it.
I do not think I am compromising my integrity here at all.
Zilch Zero Nada.
This is simply faking people out.
This happens in all walks of life.
Get real.
This happens in corporate America.
It happens in universities.
It happens everywhere on the line of succession at any business or company that you want to mention.
It happens on the athletic field.
It's called gamesmanship.
But the bottom line is this is political warfare.
This is not beanbag.
It's not Civics 101.
And if we don't watch it, we're going to allow the Democrat Party to totally corrupt our party while we sit around with integrity and let it happen.
You may want that to happen, but I don't.
Period.
Back in just a second.
Stay.
Welcome out.
And welcome back.
It's Rush Limbaugh on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
I must confess having shocked and stunned those of you who somehow think that we are checking our integrity at the door here when we go in and vote for Hillary in these Democrat primaries on the basis that we're losing our integrity.
We need to win fair and square.
All right, good.
Tell you what I'm going to suggest to the next president do.
Shut down the CIA and bring all of our spies home.
And we will do everything we can to win fair and square with integrity without spying on people.
And I'm going to have new directives.
I'm going to suggest that our nominee or our new president have new directives for the military.
And that is we stop trying to fake out the enemy.
We do will not use misinformation on them whatsoever.
We will not plant false stories in foreign media about our false battle plans.
Because that's cheating.
Because that is not integrity.
This is, by the, what was the last caller's name?
He was, it was Terry from Sandy, Utah, right?
Listen to what he says.
Terry, listen to what you yourself said.
You said that voting for McCain said you're going to vote for McCain, but who is McCain?
McCain is the nominee of our party as a result of independence and Democrats saving him in New Hampshire and South Carolina and in Florida.
Now, did you object to that?
Did you object to the Democrats and independents crossing the aisle on purpose in open primaries?
By the way, an open primary means you don't have to vote your party affiliation.
Go in and vote for whoever you want.
How is voting for whoever you want lacking integrity?
But if the Democrats, this is, I don't understand why you people don't understand this.
The Democrats and independents can choose our nominee and you don't get mad at it?
Well, you might get mad at it, but you're willing to live with the result.
You actually think these Democrats are going to vote for McCain in November?
Do you, who are upset with me here, do you object to the McCain nomination as a result of votes from non-Republicans in Republican primaries?
Are you willing to suggest to me that you are supporting a tainted Republican nominee because he was not nominated by Republicans or conservatives?
I mean, even in these last primaries, where he's had the nomination sewn up, he's not sweeping it away.
A lot of enthusiasm out there.
What gets me here is that those of you who agree with Terry in Sandy, Utah, claiming that your position is one of integrity, you remember when we allied ourselves with the Russians to win World War II?
Did we lack integrity because of it?
I know what you're thinking.
Come on, Rush.
The Democrats are not the Russians.
The Democrats are not the Germans.
The Democrats are not the Japanese.
The Democrats are not Iran.
We are talking about the future of the country.
We are talking about the war over the future of the country in the American political system.
We Republicans and conservatives have a diometrically opposed difference, what the country ought to be than the Democrats, and we think some of us think it's worth fighting for.
We are talking about the state of the future of the country.
Is compromising your principles on the Bill of Rights and taxes and capitalism and the like in order to vote for McCain?
Is that the definition of integrity?
You got a bunch of Democrats who don't believe in tax cuts.
They don't believe in capitalism.
They think the Bill of Rights ought to be rewritten so that the government has all kinds of, and they vote for McCain.
Is that lack of integrity?
You know, this is not.
And by the way, we may have to hold our nose and vote for McCain.
McCain has got some things about him, as you well know.
I don't want to go through them here again because you know.
But we're going to have to vote for Senator McCain.
Is that an act of integrity or is it an act of compromise?
See, I think those of you who are calling here and in line, we got some more like Terry from Sandy, Utah.
We're becoming just like the Democrats.
You're urging people to engage in a dirty tricks just like the Democrats.
I can't believe we're going to become just like the Democrats.
This is the same argument that I'm hearing.
We ought to close Club Gitmo.
We ought to stop interrogating terrorists to find out when the next attack is because it's not good for America.
This is not who we are.
Well, if we're not interested in preserving ourselves, then I guess we are an American.
You want fealty to party, not principle.
And if you don't toe the party line, then if I don't toe the party line, then of course I lack integrity.
We're talking principles, not party, at least I am.
And demanding here that I hold fast to party lines is sort of like the Marxist interpretation of integrity.
Look, folks, I don't want to be a happy loser.
I don't want to be happy.
You want to lose happy fun.
I'd prefer the liberals and the Democrats to be happy losers.
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