April 25, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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| Uh apparently Denver is popping uh late. | |
| Well, it's not apparently Denver is popping uh over contents of this program the past couple days over the possibility of civil unrest at the uh at the Democrat National Convention. | |
| Uh comments made by me, all the television stations, all the radio stations out there discussing this, and we'll get to that in due course. | |
| I'm I'm certain that we're gonna get phone calls about this. | |
| Uh so we'll get to that in due course. | |
| I want to lead off, however, with Senator McCain today. | |
| He hasn't he hasn't been in the news much because of the primary contest between uh Obama and Mrs. Clinton. | |
| But McCain is showing us just who he is. | |
| It I have received emails when McCain started trashing President Bush about Katrina, but not the mayor of law of uh Louisiana, not the mayor of New Orleans. | |
| Um he is now really jumping on these great people in North Carolina about their ad. | |
| He was on the Today Show today, and he basically said that the people of North Carolina just out of touch with reality. | |
| So we we've got to spend some time on this. | |
| Let's uh let's go to the ad. | |
| This is the North Carolina Republican Party TV ad. | |
| In this ad, you're gonna hear the announcer, you'll hear the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, who, oh, by the way, I'm sure you know this by now, Reverend Wright is out there. | |
| He was he's uh the their excerpts of his uh interview with Bill Moyers. | |
| And let me explain something to you about Bill Moyers. | |
| A lot of people uh emails, Rush. | |
| Does Bill Moyers actually agree with this guy? | |
| Why is Bill Moyers giving this guy all this time? | |
| Let me explain Bill Moyers to you. | |
| Bill Moyers despises the new media. | |
| He despises that his old media is no longer a monopoly. | |
| And he he may find I don't know what his thoughts on Jeremiah Wright are. | |
| I don't care. | |
| All he knows is that nobody would know about Jeremiah Wright in his opinion if it weren't for the new media. | |
| So his attack is on the new media. | |
| His his uh willing participation in the attempt to uh sanitize Reverend Wright is is is not really to help Reverend Wright, it is to get back into new media. | |
| He despises us, he hates us, and Reverend Wright was brought to the public attention by us, and so this is Moyer's reason. | |
| And then, and then you have excuse me, then you have what Wright himself is saying. | |
| Wright was asked by Moyers. | |
| What are your thoughts on Obama here and all the and and and uh Reverend Wright said, Well, look, he's saying what he has to say as a politician, and I'm saying what I say as a preacher. | |
| Now you can you can interpret that one or two ways, ladies and gentlemen. | |
| I mean, he may be throwing Obama under the bus, but uh a lot of people are interpreting it that way, because what he's basically saying is look at we all know that Obama doesn't believe half stuff he's saying, he just has to say what he says. | |
| We know that Obama had to criticize me, but he really doesn't dislike me. | |
| He just had to do this for politics. | |
| This is not good to say this about a Messiah. | |
| Uh it's not good to say this about somebody who is uh who's gonna bring hope and change and unity and uh and all that. | |
| The second interpretation is, and I think I think there's some validity to that, but I also think this is going on. | |
| The Obama campaign of the Democrat Party realize they have got to sanitize this guy. | |
| They have got to put him out there as a teddy bear. | |
| And that's their hope. | |
| Now it's it's a it's a roll of dice because it doesn't take much to get old Reverend Wright revved up. | |
| But he's out there, he was very gentle and he was very mighty at a couple of moments where he almost launched into sermon behavior. | |
| But he reined it in. | |
| He's going to be at the National Press Club. | |
| The whole point of this is to put him out there so the American people can see him this way, so that then the campaign can say, This guy, he's harmless. | |
| He works with prisons, he works with age relief, he has soup kitchens. | |
| This is one of the greatest Americans or a former Marine. | |
| This is the primary purpose of the Jeremiah Wright sanitization uh tour uh that begins tonight with Bill Moyers on PBS. | |
| Anyway, here is the ad that uh will run by the way. | |
| Reuters had a story yesterday that the North Carolina Republican Party pulled this ad. | |
| They have not pulled the ad. | |
| I don't know who told Reuters this, or if Reuters just made it up, but they have not pulled the ad. | |
| It is going to run Monday. | |
| We have seen to it, though, even if they do pull it, it's gonna air. | |
| They're not gonna pull it. | |
| And McCain is fit to be tied. | |
| Here is the ad in question. | |
| Uh, the North Carolina Republican Party TV ad Jeremiah Wright and the North Carolina Republican Party Chairman Linda Daves also appears in this uh audio. | |
| For 20 years, Barack Obama sat in his pew listening to his pastor. | |
| And then wants us to sing God bless America. | |
| No, no, no. | |
| Not God bless America, God now, Beth Perdue and Richard Moore endorse Barack Obama. | |
| They should know better. | |
| He's just too extreme for North Carolina. | |
| The North Carolina Republican Party sponsored this ad, opposing Bad Purdue and Richard Moore for North Carolina governor. | |
| That's Linda Daves, the last voice on the ad that you heard. | |
| So today on the Today Show, Meredith Vieira's talking to Senator McCain. | |
| And she said, the ad says Obama's quote just too extreme for North Carolina. | |
| Now you've called this ad degrading, and you've asked the state party to pull it, but so far they've refused to do that. | |
| Why do you think they're not listening to you? | |
| Uh A, uh why do you why why do you believe that they would continue to raise questions about Senator Obama's patriotism? | |
| They're not listening to me because they're out of touch with reality and the Republican Party. | |
| We are the party of Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, and Ronald Reagan. | |
| And this kind of uh campaigning is unacceptable. | |
| I've said that it will harm uh the Republicans' cause, and I've done everything that I can to repudiate and to see that this kind of campaigning does not uh continue. | |
| I have engaged in and will continue a respectful campaign of either Senator Obama or Senator Clinton. | |
| Now, people are rightly livid about this. | |
| Senator McCain loves to make nice with liberal Democrats, loves to be critical of the Republican Party. | |
| The ego in this, I have tried, I have tried, but they aren't listening to me because they are out of touch with reality. | |
| Meredith Vieira then said Senator Obama said that if you wanted to, you could get that ad pulled because you are, after all, a nominee and the standard bearer. | |
| So if you can't get the ad pulled, does it raise any questions about your leadership? | |
| I don't know exactly how to respond to that, except that I would hope that uh Senator Obama would uh repudiate and apologize for his remarks concerning the heartland of America, where his elitist remarks indicated that people are hardworking, dedicated people who harbor traditional values and principles and value their religion and the second amendment of the Constitution would not be treated in an elitist fashion. | |
| I hope he'll apologize for that. | |
| What the hell is going on here? | |
| Is this whole campaign gonna be one side saying you repudiate that? | |
| No, you repudiate that. | |
| I have repudiated that, and I have apologized. | |
| Now you apologize. | |
| This this is the big leagues. | |
| You know, Obama's not gonna repudiate anything, Senator McCain. | |
| He'll send out some underlings to s to to make a make a pass at repudiating things. | |
| This is absurd. | |
| In addition to being insulting, it is absurd to sit there and sit around. | |
| I would hope he would go out and repudiate this. | |
| It got even worse on the CBS early show today. | |
| Uh Maggie Rodriguez talking to Senator McCain, questioned Republican Party in North Carolina planning to run an ad bashing Senator Obama. | |
| I know you oppose the ad, but they're running it anyway, so what does that say about you? | |
| That you haven't opposed it strongly enough or that your own party is blatantly disagreeing and disregarding your wishes. | |
| It means that the Republican Party of the State of North Carolina is dead wrong. | |
| They are an independent organization. | |
| I'll do everything in my power to make sure not only they stop it, but that kind of leadership is rejected, and uh overwhelming majority of Republicans in North Carolina share my view. | |
| But as the Republican nominee for president, couldn't you pick up the phone and call the head of the North Carolina GOP and say, don't run it? | |
| I have communicated that in every possible way, and uh I will uh continue to communicate that. | |
| I saw Linda Davis on TV this morning, and she's she's not gonna listen to it. | |
| Not anything to do with the presidential race. | |
| It's not a racist ad. | |
| You know, McCain's out there, he's been critical of Bill Ayers, who is uh Obama's very close buddy, radicalizing the U.S. education system, even as we speak. | |
| Now, so he'll be critical of heirs, but you put you put Jeremiah Wright in this thing, and well, here comes the very reason for Operation Chaos, and that is the Republican Party don't dare, will not dare offer any criticism of Obama because they for some reason fear the charge of racism. | |
| Uh yesterday on the uh Fox News channel, Studio B was Shepard Smith, he talked to McCain, and he asked him what about that North Carolina ad was offensive to you, Senator. | |
| I think it's anyone who watched it who was offensive in that it uh brought uh elements into this race, which are race. | |
| Excuse me, into this contest of race that are totally unacceptable. | |
| They're the party of Abraham Lincoln and the party of Teddy Roosevelt and Lama Reagan. | |
| That's just not the kind of advertising we want to do. | |
| We want this race decided on the issues. | |
| Obama's associates and his character are issues. | |
| There's nothing racist about the ad. | |
| I will have further brilliant commentary and analysis after our first official EIB scene profit timeout. | |
| Don't go away. | |
| Okay, McCain is attacking the North Carolina Republican Party. | |
| He is saying they're out of touch with reality, as defined by him. | |
| They are not listening to him. | |
| He's gonna do everything he can to get the ad canceled because it's racist. | |
| A question, Senator McCain, what if the North Carolina Republican Party or any other state Republican Party ran the same ad but put Bill Ayers in it instead of uh Jeremia Wright, would you oppose that ad? | |
| Because there's no difference in the two, other than the color of the skin of one of the Obama associates. | |
| I think this is very, very tough for me, folks. | |
| But I think Senator McCain has a responsibility now to explain exactly what is racist about this ad. | |
| This is precisely what the drive-bys want of the Democrat Party. | |
| They want any criticism of Obama to be disqualified and not permitted because it's racist, and McCain's falling right in line. | |
| And don't tell me he's got some grand strategy here to pick up a lot of the black vote in the general election. | |
| That's not what this is. | |
| If you think there's a grand strategy here, you're missing a point. | |
| Keep listening. | |
| Senator McCain owes us an explanation. | |
| Tell us what is racist about this North Carolina ad. | |
| He sounds just like a liberal, asking that we may um take inferences about the North Carolina Republican Party and the people that run it. | |
| I take from this several things. | |
| Number one, it appears to me that Senator McCain is back to his usual tactics of using Republicans as foils. | |
| He's attacking the president over Hurricane Katrina, not the mayor of New Orleans, but the president. | |
| He's trying to prove to the liberal media, the so-called independents and Democrats, that uh that uh he's the eventual nominee of the Republican Party, but that this is all about him. | |
| It's not about Republicans, not conservatives, so no need to worry about him being too much of either. | |
| He's sending a message to Democrats and independents whose votes he wants, don't worry about me. | |
| I'm not one of these wacko conservative right wingers. | |
| It's all about him. | |
| It's not about a grand strategy here. | |
| That's why he is relentlessly pounding away at the North Carolina Party now. | |
| This is a tactic. | |
| He's creating an image of himself at the expense of others, and he does this all the time. | |
| Now I take from this, if you if you do want to talk about strategy, I take from this, that McCain believes he has the South in his back pocket, even though he didn't win it in the primaries, Huckabee did. | |
| But he he wouldn't, he wouldn't risk alienating Southerners over an ad that clearly is not racist if he didn't think he had the Southern vote in his back pocket. | |
| I don't think he understands how livid North Carolina Republicans are about this, and Republicans everywhere. | |
| Now it is obvious to me, and this has been one of my concerns from the get go that Senator McCain has no interest in rebuilding the Republican Party as an institution. | |
| He intends instead to use it to achieve his ends and leave it in whatever state it is when he is done. | |
| Now we know this. | |
| What was the purpose of McCain Feingold? | |
| It was to cripple the party system. | |
| It was to cripple the party system. | |
| It was McCain's revenge when he lost the 2002 or the 2000 GOP primary, which he blamed on party officials in Bush. | |
| And it's interesting, uh uh the Kimberly Strassell at the Wall Street Journal has a piece today on how McCain has is has been uh hoodwinked by his own McCain Feingold restrictions and is now finding ways to get around his own restrictions in McCain Feingold in order to raise money and keep up with Obama. | |
| Now a question I have for Senator McCain and his handlers. | |
| Senator, you you love being praised as a maverick. | |
| You love being praised as an independent. | |
| Why can't the rest of us be independents? | |
| Why can't the rest of us be mavericks? | |
| And I want I want to be very clear about this, folks. | |
| If if Senator McCain is campaigning not as a Republican or conservative, but as a maverick and an independent, why shouldn't we behave in the same way? | |
| Why do we have to fall in line with whatever he dictates? | |
| Why does the North Carolina Republican Party have to fall in line and do what he says when he is free to abandon us at any and all times on the basis of his own desire? | |
| Why should Republicans vote for McCain? | |
| Just because he's a Republican. | |
| McCain himself teaches us that's the wrong thing to do. | |
| His recent Senate career is based not on voting for people or things because they're Republican, but rather other criteria. | |
| So why should conservatives get behind McCain? | |
| Just because he claims to be conservative? | |
| He teaches us that's the wrong thing to do as well. | |
| If if McCain isn't going to be loyal to his own party, and if he isn't going to be loyal to conservative principles, why should Republicans be loyal to him? | |
| Why should conservatives be loyal to him? | |
| The way I see it, folks, we are all mavericks, and we are all independents now. | |
| Senator McCain, with these outbursts, last night and today, seems to have reserved the right to dictate to all Republicans what they should say, what they shouldn't say, what they should think, while at the same time reserving for himself the right to abandon the Republican Party whenever he so chooses. | |
| So we're supposed to do what he says. | |
| We're supposed to not run commercials that he doesn't like. | |
| We're supposed to not criticize Obama in a way he doesn't like it. | |
| We're only supposed to do what he tells us to do, but then he's free to wander off the reservation Any time he wants, and we are not to be critical of that. | |
| So it it's almost it's almost as though that he is demanding, McCain demanding that we follow a cult of personality here. | |
| But since we're not Democrats, and since we're not liberals, we don't do that. | |
| We don't follow cults. | |
| Those of us who are conservative Republicans follow ideas. | |
| We follow issues. | |
| These ideas and issues we believe are the best for the future of America and its people. | |
| And we're not interested in following a cult of personality because he makes us feel good, or because we think he cares, because he thinks he's uh we think he's some kind of messianic figure. | |
| If you want the support of conservative Republicans, if you want the loyalty of conservative Republicans, you have to earn it. | |
| You don't get it by demanding we be loyal. | |
| Well, you aren't at the same time. | |
| You know what's happening in North Carolina is that uh people are sending money to the North Carolina GOP in droves. | |
| For those of you state party Republican uh Republican Party state operatives, uh this is how you raise money. | |
| If the presidential candidate is not going to campaign, isn't it is not going to draw distinctions between uh our party and the Democrat Party, and you need money and you want to do it yourself. | |
| This is look at North Carolina as an example. | |
| They're not backing down, it's not a racist ad. | |
| There's nothing untoward about it at all. | |
| Everything and it's true. | |
| Everything in it is true. | |
| And uh it seems that Senator McCain is uh not having as much influence with the state party organizations as he would like. | |
| Los Angeles Times today headlined more Republican ads target Obama as they promote their candidates and try to pave the way for Republican victories this year. | |
| Republicans have been making their case to voters in advertisements featuring a new star, Barack Obama. | |
| Talk about what's going on in North Carolina in Louisiana. | |
| A Republican TV ad attacking Obama's health care agenda is radical proof so threatening that the House candidate, it targeted Democrat Don Cazyou, distanced himself from Obama on Thursday, yesterday. | |
| The ad worked. | |
| Clinton's tumultuous presence on the national stage long has made her a favorite target of Republican attacks. | |
| Republican strategists said the negative six-week campaign in Pennsylvania produced reams of material that for the first time laid out for them a clear pathway for attacking Obama. | |
| They pointed to much publicized sermons by Reverend Wright, the 60s radical Bill Ayers, and the Senator's own statement at a San Francisco Frontraiser that the bitter clingers. | |
| Some Democrat activists said Thursday they were worried about Obama's prospects in the general election, wondering if certain working class Democrat voters might abandon him for the Republican nominee, particularly in key states as Pennsylvania and Ohio. | |
| So this story is Democrats are worried about the recent stumbles that Obama has made. | |
| It'll hurt him in swing states during the general election. | |
| Republicans now have a clear pathway to attack Obama, given Operation Chaos. | |
| Operation Chaos has produced this pathway by sustaining the Democrat Party nomination fight, which is called I knew Trust me, folks, McCain said it, but we knew it. | |
| Republican Party, nor McCain were going to bloody up Obama politically. | |
| Somebody had to do it. | |
| Who better than the Clintons? | |
| They're experts at bloodying people politically. | |
| It has happened, and it's given state Republican Party organizations, as they say, clear pathway. | |
| In fact, there's a line in this story: target rich candidates. | |
| Hillary's good, but the more you see Obama in action, the more we like him as a rich target. | |
| So McCain's out there chastising the North Carolina Republican Party. | |
| They're not listening to him. | |
| He's upset about it. | |
| We're supposed to do everything he says, but he's allowed to be the maverick. | |
| He can cross the aisle. | |
| He can make deals with Democrats left and right. | |
| He can sell out his own party. | |
| He can he can leave his party in the lurch. | |
| But we are supposed to sit there and follow the orders as dictated by the McCain campaign. | |
| We're not to run ads he doesn't like. | |
| We're not to say things he doesn't like. | |
| We are to say things he does like. | |
| He's free to abandon us. | |
| We have to stay loyal. | |
| He can be a map. | |
| Well, Senator McCain, we are all mavericks now. | |
| We're all mavericks and independents. | |
| And that's that. | |
| Here's Senator McCain. | |
| This is We're up to soundbite number nine. | |
| This this is just. | |
| Well, you listen to it. | |
| Shepard Smith says, Senator, you're going to call on these 527s, the special interest groups, not to campaign on your behalf outside of your rules. | |
| I will ask 527s not to campaign on anybody's behalf. | |
| They should stay out. | |
| If they want to contribute and be part of this campaign, they can do it on both sides. | |
| I'm not saying unilaterally disarm. | |
| I am saying everybody should stop it. | |
| And I'm talking about 27 not to campaign on your behalf. | |
| Not to campaign on my behalf. | |
| I'm telling 527s not to campaign on behalf of my behalf of my opponents either. | |
| And I'm calling on the FEC, if we ever get a viable FEC, to enforce existing law. | |
| Existing law, the 74 law says they are clearly engaged in in activity which is from violation of the law. | |
| But I'm calling on both sides, my friend, both sides. | |
| Folks, I you can say this as well as I can say it. | |
| We only have 527s because of you, Senator. | |
| Campaign finance reform gave us 527s because you didn't want the parties being involved. | |
| And so the money had to go somewhere. | |
| Do you know that George Soros has given that little squirt David Brock 40 million dollars to run a 527 against you, Senator McCain? | |
| You think they're gonna disarm just because you proclaim it from the presidential campaign mountaintop? | |
| They might even lie to you. | |
| Say, okay, we will disarm, but they won't. | |
| By the way, he says he's calling on the FEC if we ever get a viable FEC and who's holding up the FEC having enough members to get into gear? | |
| Harry Reid. | |
| Dingy Harry, he's got he's upset, he's demanding something somewhere. | |
| I don't forget all the details about it. | |
| But I mean, the the very people that Senator McCain loves to make deals with are now stiffing him on the FEC. | |
| Let's go to uh Inez, Kentucky. | |
| Excuse me, this is Wednesday. | |
| Senator McCain held a press conference, said this about the North Carolina Republican Party ad. | |
| We called and asked them not to run that message. | |
| It's not the message of the Republican Party. | |
| April 15th, 2008, hardball. | |
| Chris Matthews, live from the campus of Villanova University. | |
| Matthews interviewed McCain. | |
| They have this exchange about the presidential race. | |
| Would you sit down with the Democratic nominee, whoever it is, Hillary or Barack, and agree to them that there'll be no outside sleaze ball attacks by either side that you will tell your people you will condemn any attack like a Swift Boating, and you'll both agree to do that up front, right after you get the nominations. | |
| Would you do that? | |
| love to do that. | |
| *Clears throat* | |
| Uh uh I snurdly just asked, why am I doing this to you? | |
| Meaning, why am I playing all of these sounds? | |
| Because you gotta know. | |
| You uh I told you at the onset when we started this hour, this was not gonna be easy for me. | |
| This isn't easy for me. | |
| I have never I in my in my life, I have never been in this situation as a conservative in a presidential race. | |
| I have never been in it. | |
| This is virgin territory for me. | |
| And I am not, I am not gonna capitulate and carry water for these people. | |
| It it just this is anathema to me. | |
| The idea that these people on the left are gonna say, Senator McCain, do you know who Barack Obama's best friends are? | |
| Do you understand what you are up against? | |
| You're up against this wacko preacher. | |
| I I I really, folks, I was last night I was having some email back and forth with some friends, and I said, just for the sake of humoring me. | |
| Who do you think would be more damaging to the country? | |
| Hillary or Obama. | |
| And we went back and forth on this and we concluded they're both socialists. | |
| And they're both radicals. | |
| And neither of them would be good. | |
| Here we are. | |
| But this Senator McCain, you you can sit there and want to play nice with Barack Obama all day long. | |
| Do you realize the people on this side what they're going to do to you? | |
| As you're playing nice, and your whole campaign's going to be run every day. | |
| You're going to be damning somebody and telling them to repudiate what they had just said. | |
| Every day. | |
| You're going to be talking about how you're offended. | |
| This is not the kind of campaign we need to be running. | |
| Please repudiate that. | |
| Please apologize. | |
| You know, like a new age encounter group from the 1970s. | |
| Is what this presidential campaign's shaping up to be. | |
| This guy Obama. | |
| It has been learned now that his chief internet blogger, whatever, is is uh, you know, red-led communist riots in France. | |
| These things cannot be coincidental. | |
| Bill Ayers. | |
| A lot has been learned about what Bill Ayers is doing. | |
| This guy, you know, he hasn't reputed any of his uh terrorism and violence in the past. | |
| But he's now an accredited educator and he's leading the charge in in genuinely polluting the minds of American school kids, K-12 into college, on the evils of capitalism. | |
| Saul Stern the Manhattan Institute's writing about this. | |
| Stern didn't even think it's that big a deal. | |
| Um and I think it is. | |
| Anyway, this is this is this is the kind of people that uh Senator McCain are up is up against. | |
| And if he thinks he's gonna get a straightforward campaign, Senator McCain, if you think Obama's gonna be honest about what his intentions for the country are, so that you can knock them out of the park. | |
| I don't know where you're coming from. | |
| I I I just we're just using intelligence guided by experience here. | |
| It get worse. | |
| This is in New Orleans yesterday, a press conference, Senator McCain talking about Hurricane Katrina. | |
| The people of the Ninth War, the people of New Orleans, the people of this country. | |
| Never again, never again will a disaster of this nature be handled in the terrible and disgraceful way that it was handled. | |
| Never again. | |
| And he was focusing on President Bush and the federal response, the local response sort of got a pass from uh from Senator McCain. | |
| I gotta run a quick timeout. | |
| We'll come back, get to some of your phone calls after this. | |
| All right, it's open line Friday. | |
| To the phones we go, we'll start an Ocean Isle Beach in North Carolina. | |
| Hello, Joe, and I'm glad you're first up. | |
| Hello. | |
| Yes, nice to talk to you, Rush. | |
| Um Rush, even you do not, I don't think you understand how mad people in North Carolina are. | |
| Yes, I do. | |
| Yes, I do. | |
| I am absolutely livid to to claim that that ad is racist, to go down to New Orleans and pander to a group of people who have been on the dole for sixty years. | |
| Um, and and then to say that we're out of touch with the Republican Party, if there's anybody out of touch with the Republican Party, he is. | |
| You're out of touch with reality. | |
| Yeah, well, not just the Republican Party, you're out of touch with reality. | |
| My reality, Rush, is that the only way we're going to get control of this again is to do it on the local levels. | |
| Right now, whether he becomes president or not, I don't care. | |
| Because I don't think I can vote for him. | |
| But I can vote for people for Congress and for the Senate who represent what I think and what I believe. | |
| Amen, bro. | |
| Let me let me ask you a question. | |
| I want to know how you really feel about one thing. | |
| No, no, no, no, no. | |
| I'm not trying to be funny. | |
| Okay. | |
| I want you to I want you to tell us how you really feel when you hear Senator McCain say that he's upset that the North Carolina Republicans are not listening to him, and that this ad is racist and they should stop it because they're out of touch with reality. | |
| But the thing that I really he said you're not listening to him. | |
| Well, I if he would give me something to listen to that I could believe in, it'd be something else. | |
| But is what is his name? | |
| Is it is it John Reed Pelosi McCain? | |
| Because it sounds to me like he's he's he's a Democrat. | |
| Why if you're gonna talk like that, if you're gonna speak like that about us, then just why don't you just become a Democrat? | |
| This is not the way To unify your party. | |
| This is not the way this is not the way to unite the party behind your own campaign when you're running for president. | |
| And he has the opportunity, if he would only learn from what's been going on, to he can beat either one of these candidates, and he can do it as a conservative Republican, and he could get the country behind them to do it. | |
| But not the way that the United States is. | |
| Wait a minute, that's not his experience, and we have to keep this in mind. | |
| McCain's experience is succeeding not as a conservative. | |
| He thinks conservatives denied him the nomination in 2000. | |
| McCain sees his success as a maverick, as making deals with Democrats. | |
| The media loves McCain. | |
| The Democrats loved McCain. | |
| That's where he is. | |
| And he thinks because he can cross the aisle, sit across the aisle, whatever that makes him bigger and better than uh simple partisans and so forth. | |
| So no, it is he that's he doesn't look at conservatism as uh as having anything to do with his uh with his success. | |
| And when you understand that, then you you well, you don't agree with it, you'll understand why he's he's doing what he's doing. | |
| But you you take a look. | |
| We all know the Republican Party has had trouble raising money for a long time. | |
| These state parties, I guarantee you, are gonna be rolling in contributions. | |
| North Carolina's probably gonna have to go out and open a couple new bank accounts to handle all the money going in there because they are showing they understand what's necessary to beat back the liberal opposition in this election. | |
| By the same token, Senator McCain's having trouble raising money. | |
| And it's no wonder why. | |
| And now the story is Wall Street Journal today, Kimberly Strossell, with details on how he's having to circumvent his own campaign finance reform rules in order to go out and raise money. | |
| It's just it's mind-boggling. | |
| And then the 527s, which exists solely because of McCain Feingold. | |
| Now he wants everybody to stand down. | |
| Only his 527s to stop it. | |
| I don't know. | |
| I can't relate to the ego in one sense. | |
| I can't relate to standing up and saying to both political parties, as though you're Moses and just come down from the mountain with the with the tablets. | |
| Okay, here are the rules. | |
| Here are the proclamations. | |
| I'm delivering them to you. | |
| I want everybody to stand. | |
| I I do not understand. | |
| I can't relate to it. | |
| And as you people know, I mean, I have I have one of the healthiest egos known to exist in all humanity, but I can't understand his. | |
| And let's not leave old Barry Obama out of this way. | |
| We're gonna get to the Democrats here, and of course we'll talk about what's happening in Denver as the program unfolds today. | |
| Barack Obama today blamed high gasoline prices on Washington and a political establishment that he says hasn't stood up to oil companies. | |
| So Senator Obama, do you have the slightest idea who sets price oil? | |
| I'm I'm not defending the high price, but do you have any idea who sets it? | |
| The oil companies don't set the price of oil. | |
| Senator. | |
| Senator Stupid. | |
| Gas prices only spiked, oil prices only spiked when the Democrats took over Congress in 2007. | |
| How about that, Senator? |
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