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March 31, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 31, 2008, Monday, Hour #3
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No, I'm serious.
I think it's a mistake.
I think it's a mistake to keep focusing on the fact that Clinton and Obama lie.
We've got to focus on their liberalism.
We learned from the 90s liberals don't care if their candidates lie.
Obama lies through his teeth constantly, so does Hillary.
Hell, folks, even Frank Rich in his column yesterday, in which he basically said that Hillary's Bosnia lie was the last straw.
It wasn't that she lied that bothered him.
It's that she kept it up after it was discovered so blatantly to be a lie.
The lie didn't bother anybody.
It's that she was not smart enough to stop lying when everybody knew it was a lie.
And Obama, his appeal is so far, but nobody cares what Obama says.
He's his blank slate.
So I'll give you an example.
By the way, greetings and welcome back.
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We'll get to your phone calls here in an El Gifo.
Obama gave an economic speech last week.
And in that speech, he lectured everybody on the ethic of greed in the home lending industry.
Yet he does that while buying his own home that he couldn't afford.
He took advantage of the help of Tony Resco, a racketeer, and his wife.
And I don't think Tony Resco's ever been known for his ethics.
I mean, that was one of the themes of Obama's big economic speech last week, greed and ethics in the home buying markets.
Like George Will said yesterday on this week, they were all talking about predatory lending.
And George Will said, define it.
George Will was up against four liberals, if you count Stephanopoulos, the host, in the roundtable.
And the liberals kept talking about predatory lending, and Will said, define it.
The point was that George Will was making, how come all of you liberals want to make all these borrowers out to be absolute dunces who haven't the slightest idea what an ARM is?
What does adjustable rate mortgage mean?
You go out and you take an adjustable rate mortgage.
You are being told it can change.
Your interest rate might go up.
And when it did, then everybody, they can't afford my F payment.
Predatory lending.
And so the people who took a risk and it went south on them are now portrayed as the victims of predatory lending.
What's predatory lending?
Not one liberal would define it when George Will was asking them about it.
So it's the same thing here.
Ethic of greed in the home lending industry as though the borrower has no responsibility whatsoever as far as Obama's concerned.
The frightening thing is that the American people love this.
They love being exempt from responsibility and things like this.
Quite a lot of them do.
Love being victims.
Love being thought of as being taken advantage of.
Go back to our monologue, Brilliant Monologue Third Hour on Friday.
30 years ago, what were you proud of in America?
You're practically proud of everything.
Today, what are you proud of?
Not much.
You hate the financial markets.
You hate big oil.
You hate big pharmaceuticals.
You hate big retail.
You hate the U.S. mill.
Not you, but I mean, people hate, they have been conditioned for 30 years to despise and hate the institutions and traditions that define our greatness.
They hate the insurance industry, hate the health industry.
Everybody's a crook.
Everybody's stealing from the little guy.
Everybody's making it impossible for the little guy to be happy.
And, you know, you talk about greed and unethical behavior.
There's plenty of it in the way Obama bought his house, in my opinion, anyway.
So, where does he come off talking about greed or ethics involving home loans and purchases when he got sweetheart deals, as did his pastor, went out and bought $1.6 million house for the old preacher and a $10 million line of credit?
What's that $10 million line of credit for?
And who gets it?
So it's going to be interesting.
We've got to learn the lessons of the past.
Liberal Democrats don't care that their candidates lie.
When they start caring, is when their candidates get caught and keep lying and making it tough to get away with the lie.
So back to the audio soundbites as you know, Mrs. Clinton, they're not paying their bills so that they can run campaign ads.
In fact, one story among the debts reported this month by Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign, $292,000 in unpaid health insurance premiums for her campaign staff stands out.
Clinton has made her plan for universal health care a centerpiece of her agenda, but she's not paying for her own staffs.
The campaign provides health insurance to all its employees, their spouses, their partners, and their children.
And that wasn't interrupted by any lag in payments to insurance providers, said Jay Carson, a Clinton campaign spokesman.
Really?
He said the campaign this month paid off all outstanding bills to Aetna Healthcare and Care First Blue Cross Blue Shield.
Those payments will be reflected on a report the campaign will file this month with the FEC.
Isn't that amazing?
The Clintons don't pay, or Hillary doesn't pay her health care insurance premiums, and somehow her staff doesn't lose their coverage.
You and I try that, see what happens.
Isn't that interesting?
Howard Wolfson, MSNBC, this morning, was asked by Joe Scarborough, you have enough money to pay the bills?
I mean, you guys had a pretty good February in March.
We had a great February, and we've had a very good March, and bills are being paid.
They're being paid in a timely fashion, and that's as it should be.
It is conceivable that there are instances in which a bill comes later than somebody thought and doesn't arrive as quickly as people would have liked, but the campaign is paying its bills.
That's it.
These instances, I suspect, are isolated, and the campaign is continuing to raise an awful lot of money.
It's conceivable there are instances in which a bill comes later than somebody.
So it's the fault of the vendor for not sending the bill on time, according to Clinton's payment schedule.
So that Clintons have a payment schedule, and if you, the vendor, don't send your bill on time, then screw you.
You've got to love these people.
Now, Mrs. Clinton is, you know, there are a lot of people who are saying that Operation Chaos is un-American.
Mrs. Clinton has a totally different view, ladies and gentlemen.
Mrs. Clinton in Indianapolis yesterday said this.
You know, there are some folks saying, well, we ought to stop these elections.
I didn't think we believed that in America.
No, it's un-American to force her out, you see.
It's un-American for Mrs. Clinton to get out of the race.
Sunday in San Jose during a California during a campaign rally, former President Bill Clinton.
Don't you let anybody tell you that somehow we are weakening the Democratic Party by telling the people in Pennsylvania and North Carolina and Indiana and Kentucky and West Virginia and Montana and South Dakota and Oregon and Puerto Rico that they count too.
We are strengthening the Democratic Party.
Chill out.
We're going to win this election if we just chill out and let everybody have their say.
He's standing up and endorsing Operation Chaos, ladies and gentlemen.
Let everybody vote.
Keep this whole thing going.
There's no reason it's un-American not to let these states next in line not have their votes.
It's un-American not to let them count.
Why should she get out?
She's still in the running here.
As long as she's got even a 1% chance, she's still in the running.
And her chance is calculated to be at 5%.
Sunday in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, Senator Obama, held a press conference, said this about Hillary dropping out of the race.
My attitude is that Senator Clinton can run as long as she wants.
Her name's on the ballot.
And she is a fierce and formidable competitor.
And she obviously believes that she would make the best nominee and the best president.
And I think that she should be able to compete and her supporters should be able to support her for as long as they are willing or able.
Can I translate that for you?
I don't know why the BIH is staying in.
I feel like a damn hostage here.
But I can't say it because she's a woman.
And if I say that, they're going to jump down in my throat for being a sexist.
All right, back to the phones.
You remember last week, maybe the week before last, we had a call from Philadelphia named Carl, everybody thought it was Charles Barkley, begging me, pleading with me to stop Operation Chaos.
Carl is back.
He's changed locations.
He's in Brentwood, Tennessee.
Carl, welcome back to the EIB Network.
Rush, Rush, Rush, Rush.
What are you doing in Tennessee?
I thought you lived in Philadelphia.
No, no, I was campaigning in Philadelphia with Senator Obama.
I live in Tennessee.
You were campaigning for Obama in Philadelphia?
That's why you're called.
You didn't tell me that.
You didn't tell me you're an Obama campaign aide.
Yes, I am.
I'm one of Obama campaign and spokesperson locally.
I go out and do speeches and talk about Senator Obama's accomplishments at the local colleges.
But Rush, let's get to this point here.
This Operation Chaos, you know it is ridiculous.
It's stupid.
And if you keep doing it, it's really going to help Senator Obama win the election.
Now, I hear some of your callers call in, and I heard you say some things, too, that Senator Obama hasn't accomplished anything.
Okay, well, let me give you a piece of information.
So, all your listeners, all your conservatives.
Say he hasn't accomplished anything.
Yes, you have.
What has he done?
I said Senator Obama has not crossed the aisle and been a part of any bipartisan legislation.
Yes, he is.
Now, and he's talking about here something incidental.
You know, naming next Friday Beaver Day.
Maybe he's done something like that.
But in terms of meaningful legislation, he's not done one thing to unify you.
Carl, Carl, I know.
I'm a host.
I know what I'm talking about, Carl.
You are a partisan.
Rush.
Let me give you some things that he's done as a U.S. Senator.
So all your listeners that call in and said he hasn't done anything can take notes because a lot of these listeners call in.
They don't have any facts, any evidence.
They're just running off at the mouth.
Let me give you some things.
Well, that's really wise, Carl.
Now start insulting the audience.
No, no, I'm not insulting.
All of you say that.
All I'm asking them to do is research.
You say they don't know anything.
No, I'm saying all they got to do is research before they say he hasn't accomplished anything.
We know U.S. Senator.
Have to research anything, Carl.
I do that for them.
Rush.
Carl, you there?
Yes.
Rush, when he was a U.S. Senator, 2006, he did the Secure Fence Act, a bush that President Bush signed into law in October 2006.
Also, also, he was a Republican, introduced the Cobar Act, which is the Cobarn Transparency Act in 2007.
Also, in 2006.
Wait, wait, wait.
What act?
The Transparency Act.
What transparency of what?
The COVID Transparency Act that deals, the act that deals requires a full disclosure of all entities or organizations receiving federal funds in a fiscal year.
2006, his first piece of legislation.
Really?
Really important and moving stuff you're saying here, Carl.
But you all said he hasn't done anything since he's been a senator, and that's totally wrong.
He hasn't done anything.
He hasn't done anything in terms of qualifications to be an executive to lead the country.
You're talking about little incidental pieces of legislation.
It doesn't matter.
He's done something.
Yes.
When he was a state legislator in Illinois, he helped reform ethics and health care laws, sponsor law, enhance tax credits for low-income workers.
He negotiated welfare reform, promoted increased subsidized for child care.
What were we doing?
To all these people that's calling and said he hasn't done anything, look at some of the stuff that he's done first before you start talking.
That's all I'm asking you.
Carl, let me help you.
What this has taught me, Carl, is that you are being so defensive about this, and so are Obama's other supporters.
It tells me that for all intents and purposes, matters of substance were correct.
He hadn't done anything because you have to call here and give us this lame set of examples.
But Obama has defamation.
Obviously, the charge gets to you.
This is going to help us plot, Carl, the way we campaign against Senator Obama, because now we know what upsets you people.
No, no, this is not upset.
We've been giving you some information so your listeners can be on top of their game instead of coming in and making these false statements that he hasn't done anything.
In 2007, he worked with Chuck Hagel and sponsored the IRA.
They can't count enabling acts of Republicans.
Chuck, Chuck.
Come on, now.
Come on, Rush.
Chuck Hagel.
Chuck Sanders.
Chuck Hagel wants us out of Iraq more than Obama does.
You can't say that's reaching across the aisle.
He's not unifying with people who disagree with him on anything, Carl.
He's not showing the ability to unify.
He's not.
We've been through this before.
His preacher's mad as hell at everybody.
So is his wife.
Everybody's inner circle is totally ticked off all the time.
There's no euphoria.
There's no happiness.
There's no eutoria or utopia here in the Obama camp.
But look, it's always great to hear from you.
I'm glad you're not Charles Barkley.
Would you tell this audience you are not Charles Barkley?
I am not Charles Barkley.
I am supporting Senator Baker Obama, who will be the next president of the United States, no matter what Operation Chaos does.
Thank you, Rush.
All right.
Thank you, Carl.
This is a very instructive call.
We've found the soft spot.
You call him a liar.
They don't care.
They don't call here and say, no, here's where he's told the truth.
He didn't let no.
You say he hadn't done anything.
Man, their war room gets going.
And we also know that Operation Chaos has them totally bugged.
Let's see.
Don in Cordon, Indiana.
Am I pronouncing that right?
Yes, that's right.
Thank you, sir.
Hey, it's great to be on your show.
I listened to you for many years.
Thank you.
I decided to have a little fun this weekend, though, and go down to New Albany, Indiana, where Hillary was coming.
And I made a nice sign that said, Rush for Hillary.
And I had your picture from your March issue put on there, and I had my little chant going: Rush for Hillary, six more months.
Rush for Hillary, six more months.
Now, New Albany, that's where Fuzzy Zeller and his crowd live.
Yeah, yeah.
They're very close to that.
They've got.
Yeah, okay.
So, what reaction did you get?
Well, I was really surprised I was the first one there and probably the only one with a sign.
And up front, I had the front position.
And so people thought I was with the Democratic Party.
And we were asking me where to, that she should have gone to this other restaurant next time she comes into town.
Why don't you take her down to this other restaurant?
They didn't understand your sign, Rush.
They asked me to be part of the campaign.
Headquarters that was just down the road, they had me sign up.
And I refused to sign up, but I told them I'm only in this for six more months.
They had no idea you were an Operation Chaos operative.
No, and I even tried to point out people would say, We didn't know Rush Limbaugh was for Hillary.
This is great.
This is great.
This is a testament to the covert success of Operation Chaos that we can even go out and be amongst them and they don't know what's happening to them.
Yeah, it was a fun time.
Were you frightened at all when you made that sign and then decided to head out into the Hillary rally?
Were you concerned at all for your safety?
No, but I did expect a little more something going on, but there was nothing there.
It was little old ladies.
They were excited that I might be for Hillary.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
It was funny.
They just kept questioning me over and over again, like, you're for Hillary?
Rush is for Hillary?
I didn't know Rush was for Hillary.
But it seemed like there weren't a lot of the people that were there.
There were only about 100 people if you counted all four corners.
And you've got the one lone sign.
Now, do you think Hillary saw the sign?
No, I doubt it.
She was kind of hidden the whole time.
We didn't see much of her going in and out of the restaurant.
I did make the news.
I was the only one in the store.
Oh, this stall.
Okay, okay, okay.
So it was a private deal inside the restaurant, where they do you know if she left a tip, while inside the rest she has a history of not paying her bills.
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You know folks, as if Operation Chaos were not enough, now we get cell phones are worse than cigarettes or asbestos.
Have you have you?
Have you heard this story?
Mobile phones this is from, this is from the Independent, the UK Independent.
Mobile phones more dangerous than smoking.
Mobile phones could kill far more people than smoking or asbestos.
Why just leave it at those two?
Why not throw in lead pollution, SUV accidents, food from McDonald's, global warming, rising oceans, melting icebergs computers, artificial sweeteners meat mercury, acid rain, sharks and on and on, and on and on?
This is a study by an award-winning cancer expert.
He says that people should avoid using cell phones wherever possible and that governments and the mobile phone industry must take immediate steps to reduce exposure to their radiation.
The study by Dr. Vinny Karana is the most devastating indictment yet published of the health risks.
It draws on growing evidence, exclusively reported in October, that using handsets for 10 years or more can double the risk of brain cancer.
Cancers take at least a decade to develop, invalidating official safety assurances based on earlier studies, which included few, if any, people who had used the phones for that long.
You know, there has to be, there has to be a trial lawyer right behind this.
Did you ever think that you would hear somebody say that there's anything more dangerous than smoking?
Now, cell phones.
How many times a day do you light up your cell phone, folks?
And I have questions.
Is secondhand cell phoning a risk?
I mean, you've got the cell phone to your ear, but your children are in the car.
Is the radiation risk go beyond just your cranium?
And if you want to, say, make a cell phone call indoors or in a movie theater or restaurant, should you have to go out to the street like cigarette smokers do?
Should you not be allowed to use your cell phone inside?
Should you not be allowed to use your cell phone around children?
When are we going to implement cell phone taxes for the feds and the states to collect?
And how long will it be before there are no cell phone ads on TV?
How long will it be before there are warning labels on the phones themselves and in print ads for the cell phones?
From the Surgeon General.
You know how to interpret this, don't you?
This is just another play to give government more power to regulate what you can and can't do.
I think that there are some liberals who do not like the idea that there's so much freedom of speech and freedom of communication among the citizens with their cell phones.
All right, back to the audio soundbites.
As you know, Pat Leahy, the senator from Vermont, suggested last week that Mrs. Clinton get out of the race.
Well, on Vermont Public Radio on Friday, former Governor Madeline Kunin said this about Senator Leahy.
It seems a bit patronizing to tell her, honey, you've got to drop out for the good of the party.
The women are outraged out there, predicted this too.
Women are fit to be tied.
Hillary herself is saying that these calls for her to quit the race are based in chauvinism.
Even her daughter, Chelsea, is out there saying she didn't know.
She had no idea there was so much sexism until she ran into a woman who said, I just don't think the country's ready for a female commander-in-chief.
So Hillary's out there portraying the calls for her to quit as male chauvinism.
It's a big boys trying to bully a woman.
Now, Adam Nagurney had that on Saturday in the Washington Post Sunday.
She denied this report.
Question, there was a story today that said that you felt the big boys are trying to push you out.
They're bullying you.
Did you use that phrase, Hillary Clinton?
No, I didn't.
I never said that.
I'm always amazed when I read things I supposedly said, like I was dodging Snipper Fire.
I never said I was dodging Snipper Fire.
No, she didn't say that, but I mean, she may as well be here.
Adam Nagordi of the New York Times quotes her.
Do Democrats get misquoted in the New York Times?
No.
Democrats don't get misquoted in the New York Times.
Look, I think what's going on with people trying to shut this process down is very counterproductive.
I think it's not in the best interest of the Democrat Party.
So it's a he said, she said situation.
Carville, back on the reservation.
Late edition Wolf Blitzer yesterday said to Carville, Hillary Clinton, James said this.
I know there's some people who want to shut this down.
I think they're wrong.
I have no intention of finishing what we started until we see what happens in the next 10 contests and until we resolve Florida and Michigan.
And if we don't resolve it, we'll resolve it at the convention.
That's what the Credentials Committee is for.
All right, James, explain what she's talking about.
The Obama strategy seems to be to find some bold white guys with white hair to call on it to get out of the race.
I think they're going to go to McCain and get him to call on to get out of the race before Leahy.
Right.
Usually what a campaign tries to do is to get the most votes and then make it most possible for reconciliation after you win.
This is not helping them in Pennsylvania.
If I were to Obama campaign, I would concentrate on trying to get votes in Pennsylvania, winning North Carolina, cut the margin, and then making my case stronger.
Hint Chicago.
Just go out and campaign and get the most votes you can, and then you have a better position for this.
Stop sending this out because they're not going to get out and not even considering it.
So this is what Obama's being advised to do by Carville here.
Stop whining about it and stop getting these old white guys with long hair, white hair, like that's what he called Leahy.
He was referring to Leahy.
He said, these white guys, bald guys with white hair, instead of getting all these endorsements, just go out there and campaign.
Go out there and try to win and try to get as many votes as you can because they're not quitting.
They're not going to get out.
Meaning the Clintons, not Hillary.
Here's Tom in Galveston, Texas, as we go back to the phones.
Welcome to the program, sir.
Mega Dittos, Rush.
Thank you, sir, very much.
From the man who's taught me the real meaning of truth, justice, and the American way.
Well, I appreciate that.
It's very kind of you to say it.
I appreciate it.
Longtime listener, Rush, you've taught me how to be an optimist when it comes to politics.
Yeah.
And you've taught me how to believe that the American people really can smell snakes in the grass or see snakes in the grass.
I think John McCain, he knows this is his last chance to be president.
And there's a difference between lip service and lying.
And some of the issues that we as conservatives have the most problems with John McCain with, I think basically are kind of chicken manure.
They're small issues.
Like what?
Guantanamo.
I don't care where they haul these guys up.
I could care less.
And you know what?
The media has beat up George Bush endlessly about Guantanamo.
John McCain has taken that off the table.
It's fun.
It's not an issue any longer.
And there's other things, too, that he says that kind of drive you and me nuts, but he sees the media for who they really are.
They're in the bag.
They're in the bag, and he's got to fight fire with fire.
So if he's got to give lip service now to win, to win, Rush, you're the one who taught me it's all about winning.
I'm going to give this guy the benefit of the doubt, but I don't think you should change your position, sir, because the enemy is monitoring the airwaves.
And I think what you've got to do is you've got to keep on doing what you do best.
But don't ever.
Being honest and not suggesting that I'm okay with throwing Club Gitmo overboard just to please the media.
Well, I don't think he's, well, that isn't what I'm saying.
I'm saying.
Yes, you are.
That's exactly what you said.
You said, take it off the table so the media can't make a big deal of it.
Well, let's talk about Club Gitmo.
I've got a throw merchandise business down there.
Who cares where these pieces of dirt are prisoned?
It's not a question of that.
It's not a question of keeping them in prison.
It's a question of letting them out, putting them in American prisons and giving them U.S. constitutional rights and turning over war criminals to the U.S. constitutional judicial system with liberal attorneys getting them out and getting them off and getting them released and sent back home.
Would we have done this with Nazi prisoners of war that we caught in World War II or Japanese prisoners of war?
Would we call them criminals and said, here's your constitutional rights?
We're going to get you a lawyer.
He's going to be a high-paid left-wing lawyer, and we're going to get you off of these charges so you can go back home.
That closing Club Gitmo is not saying we're going to put them somewhere else other than the U.S. criminal justice system.
Well, I think you're overthinking it.
I think that if you were to be able to be a fly on the wall, someplace where John McCain is talking to his closest people, he's not saying he wants to give these guys anything other than a new place to take a shower, shave, and other things that begin with an S.
And I don't care where they are.
And you know what?
But the media has beat up George Bush for eight years over issues that are non-issues.
And I think, I really think that McCain wants to win so bad, he'll say things now to disarm the media.
He'll say things to disarm them, to take these issues off the table and not give them ammunition to fire back at him.
Do you know that to be true?
Do you know that that is factual?
Have you talked to somebody in the McCain camp that has told you that that's their strategy?
No.
No.
But otherwise, but otherwise, I'm an optimist, Rush.
I want to believe that he's our quarterback.
I understand.
Did you hear the first hour of the program today?
No, I didn't.
Well, you've got to go back and listen to it tonight on a website.
I don't have time to repeat it.
But I want to tell you what you're doing here.
You are projecting on Senator McCain what you hope and what you want him to do, but you have no idea whether he's doing it.
I don't do that.
I don't project.
I take what they say and I look at their record.
You know, if I could turn what you said around, Senator McCain is promising us that he's going to make permanent the Bush tax cuts.
And Senator McCain is promising us that he is not going to raise taxes.
But you know what?
Tom, I think he's lying about that.
I think he's just, I think he's just trying to get the conservatives to support him on that.
But I think he's actually going to raise taxes.
That's no different to what you're telling me about McCain and Club Gitmo.
Neither of us know.
Which, frankly, is a damn problem.
Hi.
Welcome back, Rush Limbaugh, talent on loan from a god.
Now, look, folks, the last caller said that I taught him to be an optimist.
I hope that's true.
I have not taught anybody to be a Pollyanna.
Guantanamo Bay is not an issue any longer because McCain agrees with the ACLU.
When you say he's agreeing with the media, the ACLU wants it closed.
What about the security consequences of bringing terrorists to Fort Leavenworth?
That's where Senator McCain wants to bring them.
You don't care where he brings them?
You don't care where those prisoners go.
You think they're going to go to some prison in a foreign country?
McCain wants to bring them to Fort Leavenworth.
That's in Kansas, which barely got by Davidson yesterday.
That means conferring constitutional rights on these people, as I said.
This stuff doesn't just happen in a vacuum.
You know, I think these McCain supporters who excuse all of his liberal activities and statements really don't understand conservatism.
I don't think you understand the Constitution.
I don't think you get the struggle, the history of the struggle within the Republican Party.
It has been monumental.
All of this, if you're going to come up and say, well, you know, he's just saying all this stuff.
He just, I don't care where the prisoners go.
He's just saying all this stuff to, you know, silence the media, facilitate his election.
It's all about winning, Rush.
But trying to maintain the dignity and integrity of our values.
I'll break the embargo that I had in this little speech I gave Saturday night.
I was pretty hard on Senator McCain during the speech and in the QA, some guy in the audience, and just get over it.
And I said, did you say get over it, sir?
Yeah, I just get over it.
I said, no, sir.
You know, I'm an American before I'm a Republican.
I'm a conservative before I'm a Republican.
And I'm not, you're asking me to get over my principles.
And I am not going to get over my principles.
I'm not going to sit around and just tell my party.
I'm not a blind follower of the party.
I got so mad, I muttered a couple of, well, I shouted a couple of obscenities and I threw my napkin on the floor.
I was standing at the podium.
I'm not going to get over my principles, and I'm not going to sit around and just let my principles, conservatism, the principles largely responsible for the founding of the country, be watered down and misunderstood, misrepresented, especially on the basis, well, he's just saying, you know, what he has to say.
He's really not going to do these things, Rush.
You have to understand that.
Tom in Newport News, Virginia, welcome.
We got about one minute, but I wanted to get to you.
Hey, hey, Rush.
Hello from 790 a.m. WNIS.
Thank you, sir.
Hey, I just wanted to say that I think you're misinterpreting what McCain's doing.
I think he's using a former tactic of President Bush, and by owning, not just owning some of the issues, I think he's trying to own all the issues.
I believe that's what's going on, and I think that that's why he's doing and saying the things that he's doing.
Resistance is futile.
He's trying to own all the issues.
Resistance to what is futile?
Resistance to him.
I'm lost.
I'm not resisting McCain.
He's a nominee.
What are you talking about?
What I'm talking about is the issues.
He's trying to own all the issues.
Instead of President Bush taking education, welfare reform, and those particular issues.
This is dangerous.
This is scary.
He's trying to own all the issues.
I feel like a 20-year failure.
All right, I want you to get ready, folks.
There's a 5 o'clock story going to be released by Reuters that over half of American doctors support universalized, socialized health care.
They have a 5 o'clock embargo on the story, but it's headed your way.
It'll be big for the next couple of days.
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