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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 I think I think it's a mistake.
I think it's a mistake to keep focusing on the fact that Clinton and Obama lie.
We gotta focus on their liberalism.
We learn 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.
It's what he's this blank slate.
So I give you an example.
By the way, greetings and welcome back.
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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 Rezco, 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.
It's like George Will said yesterday on this week with Brink, 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 round table.
And uh the liberals kept talking about predatory lending, and Will said, define it.
What's 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, I can't afford my 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 what's predatory lending?
Not one liberal would define it.
When George Will was asking them about it.
So that'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.
Thirty years ago, what were you proud of in America?
You're practically proud of everything.
Today, what are you proud of?
None much.
You hate the financial markets, you hate big oil, you hate big pharmaceutical, you hate big retail, you hate the U.S. military.
Not you, but I mean people hate that they have been conditioned for 30 years to despise and hate the institutions and traditions that define our greatness.
They hate the insurance industry, help the health hate the health industry.
Everybody's a crook.
Everybody's everybody's stealing from the little guy.
Everybody's making it impossible for the little guy to be happy.
And uh, 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 dollar house for the old preacher and a $10 million line of credit.
What what's that $10 million line of credit for?
And who gets it?
So it's um it's gonna be interesting.
We gotta 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 sound bites.
As you know, Mrs. Clinton, they're not paying their bills so that they can run campaign ads.
Uh in fact, one story uh 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.
Uh Clinton has made her plan for universal health care a centerpiece of her agenda.
But she 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 spokes.
Really?
He said the campaign this month paid off all outstanding bills to Aetna Healthcare and uh CareFirst Blue Cross Blue Shield.
Those payments will be reflected on the 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 and March.
We had a great February, and uh we've had a very good march, and uh 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 instant 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 the Clintons have a payment schedule, and if you, the vendor don't send your bill on time, then screw you.
Uh you gotta love these people.
Now, Mrs. Clinton is uh, you know, there are a lot of people are saying that Operation Chaos is unAmerican.
Uh Mrs. Clinton has a totally different view, ladies and gentlemen.
Uh Mrs. Clinton in Indianapolis yesterday said this.
You know, there are some folks saying, well, we ought to stop these elections.
I I 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...
Why should she get out?
She's still in the running here.
As long as she's got even a one percent chance, she's still in the running, and her chance is calculated to be at uh at five percent.
Sunday in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, Senator Obama uh 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.
And she is a fierce and formidable competitor.
And she obviously believes that you know she would make uh the best nominee and the best president.
And I think that uh you know she should be able to compete and uh and her supporters be should be able to support her uh for as long as they are willing or able.
Can I translate that for you?
I don't know why the B.I.H. 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 gonna jump down in my throat for being a sexist.
All right, back to the phones.
You remember last week, uh, maybe the week before last, uh, 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, right.
What are you doing in Tennessee?
I thought you lived in Philadelphia.
No, no, I was campaigning in Philadelphia with uh Senator Obama.
I live in Tennessee.
You were campaigning for Obama in Philadelphia?
That's why you're calling you were got you you didn't tell me that.
You didn't tell me you're an Obama campaign aide, did you?
Yes, I am.
I'm I'm one of uh Obama campaign and spokes person locally.
I go out and and do speeches and talk about uh Senator Obama accomplishments at uh the local colleges.
But but but uh Rush, let's get to this point here.
This is Operation Chaos.
You know it is ridiculous, it's stupid.
And it's and you know, if you keep doing it, it's really gonna 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 has accomplished anything.
Okay.
Well, let me give you a piece of information.
So all your listeners, all your conservatives.
Yes, 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 has.
Now he's talking about here.
Well, something incidentally information.
You don't like 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 anybody and watch.
Carl, Carl, I know from the host, I know what I'm talking about, Carl.
You are a partisan.
Rush, let me give you some things to be done as a U.S. Senator.
So all your listeners that call in and say they hasn't done anything can take notes because a lot of you 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 I start insulting the audience.
No, no, I'm not insulting.
All of us can do is research.
You say they don't know anything.
No, I'm saying all they gotta do is research before they say he hasn't accomplished anything.
Now we know the U.S. Senator.
I do that for them.
Rush.
Carl, you there?
Yes.
Roger, when he was when he was a U.S. Senator, 2006, he did a secure fence act, a Bush that uh President Bush signed in the law in October uh two thousand and six.
Also fence been built, Carl.
Also, he Carl is a fence.
Introduced the Cobart Act, which is the Cobar Transparency Act in 2007.
Also in 2002.
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 organization receiving federal funds in a physical year.
Two thousand and six, his first speech allegedly really important and moving stuff you're signing here, Carl.
But 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 in terms of qualifications to be an executive to lead the country.
You're you're talking he you're talking about little incidental pieces of legislation, defense.
It doesn't matter, he's done something.
Yes, when he was a state legislator in sh in Illinois, he helped reform ethics and health care laws, sponsored laws, enhanced tax credits for low-income workers, he negotiated w a welfare reform, promoted increased subsidized for child care.
What were you doing?
Go quick first before you start talking.
That's all I'm asking.
Carl Carl, let me help you.
Huh?
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 the for all intents and purposes, matters of substance, we're correct.
He hadn't done anything because you have to call here and give us this lame set of examples.
But information.
It's 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 you so your listeners can can be, you know, on top of the game instead of coming in and making these false names that he hasn't done anything.
In 2007, he worked with Chuck Hagel, the United Nations Enabling Act on Republicans.
Chuck Chuck.
Come on now.
Come on, Rush.
Chuck Hagel things that he's oppositionally.
Chuck's a senator.
Chuck Hagel wants us out of a rock 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 hell which we've been we've been through this before.
Is totally ticked off all the time.
There's no euphoria, there's no happiness, there's no eutoria or you f you u utopia here in the uh in the Obama camp.
But look, uh I it's always great to hear from you.
I'm I'm glad you're not Charles Barclay.
Would you tell this audience you are not Charles Barkley?
I am not Charles Barclay.
I am supporting Senator Backer 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.
Uh this is a very instructive call.
We 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 like 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.
Uh, let's see.
Don in uh in Cordon, Indiana.
Am I pronouncing that right?
Yes, that's right.
Thank you, sir.
Hey, it's great to uh 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 uh New Albany, Indiana, where Hillary was coming.
And uh I built made a nice sign that said uh Rush for Hillary.
And I had your picture from your March issue put on there, and uh I had my little chant going.
Uh Rush for Hillary six more months.
Rush 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 what what reaction did you get?
Well, I was really surprised I was the first one there and the 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 uh they were asking me where to uh 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 uh and I refuse to sign up, but I told him 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 it was a fun time.
Uh were you frightened at all when you made that sign and then decided to head out into the uh Hillary rally, were you concerned at all for your safety?
No, but I did expect a little more uh something going on, but there was nothing there.
It was little old ladies and they were excited that I might be for Hillary.
Yeah.
Oh yeah.
It was it was funny.
It was 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 uh it seemed like there weren't a lot of the people that were there.
There were only about a hundred people if you counted all four corners.
And you've got the one loan sign.
This is now d 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 coming in and out of the restaurant.
I did make uh the news, I was the only one here.
Oh, okay, okay, okay.
So it was a private deal inside the restaurant where they do you know uh if she left a tip uh while inside the rest.
She has a history of not paying her bills.
A man, a living legend, a way of life, a national treasure, a prophet, a Nobel Peace Prize nominee.
Rush Limbaugh, the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
You know, folks, as if Operation Chaos were not enough.
Now we got cell phones are worse than cigarettes or asbestos.
Have you have you have you heard this story?
Mobile phones, this is from what's this 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. Vini Carrana is the most devastating indictment yet published of the health risks.
It draws on growing evidence, exclusively reported in October that using handsets for ten years or more can double the risk of brain cancer.
Cancers uh 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, you 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 th 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 sound bites.
As you know, Pat Lahey, 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 Kunan said this about Senator Leahy.
It seems a bit patronizing to tell her, honey, you gotta 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 uh the calls for her to quit as male chauvinism.
Uh it's a big boys trying to bully a woman.
Now, Adam Nagurney had that uh on on Saturday in the Washington Post Sunday.
She denied this report.
Question, there was a story today that um 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 Nagordy 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.
Um look, I 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, uh, 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 ten 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 bow white guys with white hair to call on her to get out of the race.
I think they're gonna go to McCain and get him to call on to get out of the race.
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 the Obama campaign, I would concentrate on trying to get votes in Pennsylvania, winning North Carolina, cut the margin, and and and then making my case stronger.
Hint 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 gonna get out, and not even not even considering it.
So uh this is what Obama's being advised to do by Carville here.
Stop whining about it and stop getting these old white guys uh with long hair, like white hair, like like that's what he called Leahy.
He was referring to Leahy.
He said, These uh white guys, bald guys with uh with with white hair.
Uh 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 gonna get out.
Meaning the Clintons.
Uh not Hillary.
Here's Tom in Galveston, Texas, says we uh go back to the phones.
Welcome to the program, sir.
Mega dittoes, 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.
Long time 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.
This is 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 is taking that off the table.
It's not.
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 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 you are.
That's exactly what you said.
You should take it off table so the media can't make a big deal of it.
Well, let's let's talk about Club Gitmo.
I gotta throw the merchandise business down there.
Who cares where these pieces of dirt are prisoned?
That's not a question of that.
It's not a question of keeping him in prison, it's a question of letting them out, putting him 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 give it would we call them criminals and said, here's your constitutional rights, we're gonna get you a lawyer, he's gonna be a high-paid left wing lawyer, and we're gonna get you off of these charges so you can go back home.
That closing club gidmo is not saying we're gonna put him somewhere else other than the U.S. criminal justice system.
That's Well, I think you're overthinking it.
I think that if you 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 us 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 beat up 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 gotta go back and listen to it tonight on the website.
I don't have time to um to uh to repeat it.
But I want to tell you what you're doing here.
Uh 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 and their you know if 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 a 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 gonna raise taxes.
That's no different to what you're telling me about McCain and Club Gitmo.
Uh neither of us know.
Which frankly is a damn problem.
Ha!
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 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 you think they're going to go to some prisoner prison in a foreign country?
McCain wants to bring him 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 is this stuff doesn't just happen in a vacuum.
I, you know, I think.
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, McCain, he 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, uh, facilitate his election.
It's all about winning, Rush.
Um.
But trying to maintain the dignity and integrity of our values.
I'll break the embargo this speech I gave Saturday night.
During the I was pretty hard on Senator McCain during the speech and in the QA, some guy in the audience said, just get over it.
And I said, did you say get over it, sir?
Yeah, 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 just so my party, I'm not a blind follower of the party.
I got so mad I muttered a couple of his, well, shouted a couple of his 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, uh, Rush.
Uh hello from 790 AM WNIS.
Thank you, Century.
Hey, uh, I just wanted to say that I think you're misinterpreting what McCain's doing.
I think he's using a uh former tactic of President Bush, and by uh owning, not just owning some of the issues, I think he's trying to own all the issues.
Uh I believe that's what's going on.
And I think that uh that's why he's doing and saying the things that he's doing.
Resistance is futile.
Is trying to own all the issues?
Resistance, what resistance to what is futile?
Resistance to him.
Uh I'm lost.
I'm not, I'm not, I'm 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 uh President Bush taking education, welfare reform, uh, and those particular issues he's decided.
This is dangerous.
This is scary.
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 five o'clock story gonna be released by Reuters that over half of American doctors support universal socialized, socialized health care.
They have a five o'clock embargo on the story, but it's headed your way.
It'll be big for the next couple days.
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