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Sept. 2, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 2, 2008, Tuesday, Hour #2
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It's great to be with you, Rush Limbaugh and the Excellence in Broadcasting Network, where I, your highly trained broadcast specialist, demonstrate daily how it's done, meeting and surpassing all audience expectations daily.
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Drive-by media demonstrating exactly why we call them drive-by media.
Running around wildly ruining people's lives with me coming behind to mop up the mess while they head on down the highway to destroy somebody else's life.
There's a whole lot of new.
Do you know there are three stories, Dawn?
Three stories today on the front page of the New York Times about Sarah Palin's family.
One way to put this in perspective, those of you who have teenage daughters in the age range of 15 to 17, imagine everything about your daughter and you being national news and the subject of national drive-by media investigations, all for the express purpose of destroying you or your husband who seek political office.
Try to relate to what they're going on.
I know you say, well, that's the ballgame.
That's the territory.
And that's why a lot of people don't get into this.
You're right.
But this is not a media anal exam.
This is a media uterus exam, a uterus exam that is taking place here by the drive-by media shamelessly.
I know people know this getting into the game.
This is what it's about.
You don't get in it if you don't expect this to happen.
But I hope they keep this up because it is going to backfire on them in a major way.
Stop and think of this.
What are we really talking about?
What are the drive-bys talking about?
We're talking about a woman, Sarah Palin, who gave birth to a Downs syndrome child.
And now they're suggesting that she shouldn't have done that.
And I've got the audio coming up, and that she shouldn't have flown while she was pregnant with the Down syndrome child.
She's being totally irresponsible here.
And on the other side, we have Barack Obama, who supports infanticide, who supports the killing of babies born alive as the result of botched abortions.
And guess where the drive-bys find the controversy?
And you have to listen to this one more time.
This is a staunch Democrat supporter, Sean P. Diddy Holm, Combs, running some organization called Vote or Die.
He was on the Bad Boy Records YouTube channel.
He submitted a video here.
These are the kinds of people that you would have rattling around an Obama White House, P. Diddy, ludicrous.
Reverend Jeremiah Wright, here is P. Diddy on Saturday on YouTube.
Alaska?
Alaska.
Alaska?
Alas.
Come on, man.
I don't even know if there's any black people in Alaska.
What in the Alaska?
You are bugging the f ⁇ out.
Sarah Palin.
You ain't ready to be no vice president.
Alaska?
What the f ⁇ ?
What is the reality in Alaska?
There's not even no crackheads in Alaska.
There's not even no black people.
There's not even no like crime or like foreign policies.
Y'all may be versed on foreign policies.
Y'all need to get versed on black policies and youth policies.
We the future.
John, you're bugging the f ⁇ out, man.
That's P. Diddy, ladies and gentlemen, a man America has made enormously wealthy by buying up his rotgut music and insulting John McCain and Sarah Palin.
By the way, P. Diddy saw this over the weekend.
P. Diddy has decided to ground his private jet.
Now, P. Diddy says he has a private jet that costs $45 million.
Now, I know a little bit about these.
And if he's got a jet that costs $45 million, we're talking basically Gulfstream 4, a 450 or a 4SP, somewhere in that range.
You might be looking at some sort of a Falcon jet, but regardless, $45 million.
And P. Diddy said that gas prices are too mother-blanking high.
As you know, I own my own jet, and I've been flying back and forth to Los Angeles pursuing my acting career.
Now, if I'm flying back and forth like twice in a month, that's like $200,000 or $250,000 for round trips.
Screw that.
I'm back on American Airlines right now, okay?
As though anybody cares.
But I can just tell you that if he's got a $45 million airplane, there's no way, even with current jet fuel prices, that he's paying more than $4,000 an hour to operate his airplane.
So you figure, let's average, and I say a coast-to-coast trip is LG4, maybe 10 hours, and maybe 5.5 to get out there, and 3.5 to 4 coming back, depending on when.
So you're basically talking 10 hours at $4,000.
They're starting $40,000 an hour.
Now, I'm not, the only point I made, he don't even know.
He doesn't know what he's talking about, period.
And I suspect that he's using this figure of $250,000 a round trip just to impress people.
Let's go to the audio sound bites.
And this, Snerdley, is where I win the bet or offer audio proof of winning the bet.
And I made with you on Friday an astounding conversation this morning on DNC-TV, Scarborough talking with Mikab Zezhinsky, Willie Geist, and Ruth Marcus, The Washington Post, Gene Robinson of the Washington Post, Jonathan Alder.
And Mikab Zezzynski says, Ruth and Eugene have pieces in today, and part of it evolved out of a conversation we were having.
I can't wait to hear how it evolved into your piece today because it's an interesting discussion and debate.
And then Ruth Marcus chimes in with this.
I wrote about what Governor Palin was thinking when she knew her 17-year-old daughter was pregnant and decided to accept the vice presidential nomination.
And my first reaction was, how could you go ahead and do this?
You're exposing this poor child who's already in a terrible situation, not probably of her own choosing, to a lot of attention.
You don't need to focus on you like that at a time like this.
Poor child already in a terrible situation.
Yes, she's pregnant.
And she's pregnant at 17.
She's in a terrible situation, probably not of her own choosing.
What does that mean?
She was raped?
Or the daughter, I know what it means.
In Ruth Marcus's world, Sarah Palin's daughter wants to get an abortion, but Sarah Palin, her dad, won't let him.
And so she doesn't even want the baby.
The drive-bys respect.
She doesn't want the baby.
I will explain again why Ruth Marcus is wrong, and I'll answer the question.
How could you go ahead and do this, meaning accept the vice presidential nomination?
Because she's a classy lady, Ms. Marcus, and she's a loving mother, and she doesn't want to saddle her 17-year-old daughter with the lifelong burden of being the reason her mom didn't get to be vice president.
She's thinking of her daughter as well as of herself and her country.
This is so easy.
For people that have standard traditional American values, this is a no-brainer.
Imagine the opposite.
No, Senator McCain, I can't accept a nomination.
My 17-year-old's pregnant.
My 17-year-olds messed up my wife.
My 17-year-old, I can't do it.
You know that the drive-bys are trying to ferret out.
Why didn't she accept it?
And they would be dumping on her from the opposite side of the street.
It's very simple.
She doesn't want to burden her daughter.
As I explained, then here's where they blame her for taking the plane while pregnant.
Mika Zhazhinski, I think she's here representing a progressive new woman similar to Michelle Obama, who I think is a very modern woman.
Wait a second.
Now, well, about that.
You know, Michelle Obama got two little girls and she went to work at the hospital at the University of Chicago.
She left the kids at home.
What's the difference here?
Michelle Obama's a pretty modern woman, and Sarah Palin's an old-fashioned twit.
What is this?
Anyway, the rest of the question from Mikabzinski: she's representing a progressive new woman similar to Michelle Obama, who I think is a very modern woman.
But in this case, I mean, Sarah Palin reportedly went back to work several days after having a baby.
I thought it was brave.
Six weeks.
Three days.
Three days.
And she got on the plane while she was in labor.
See, but that's okay.
I'm sorry.
And with all respect, she's governor.
Governor Palin is an amazing woman.
But isn't that crazy?
Isn't it crazy to get on an airplane when you're in labor?
What does that know about that?
It is what it is.
These people are telling us exactly who they are, and it becomes.
I mean, if you let yourself, you'll be infuriated by it more and more each time you hear it.
But trust me on this, folks, this is the Wellstone Memorial times 10.
It's going to backfire if they keep this up.
This is rallying all kinds of people to Sarah Palin.
And by the way, Susan Reimer, yesterday's Baltimore what?
Baltimore Sun, I guess.
Is that the name of the thing?
Just second page.
Yep, Baltimore Sun.
A woman, but why this woman?
You want to look like a maverick?
Like you think outside the box, pick a woman for running mate.
You want to look good to the evangelicals?
Choose a running mate with a Down syndrome child.
When James Dobson, the conservative Christian radio host who fancies himself a kingmaker, jumped up to say that the selection of Palin meant he can now put a lever for McCain.
I almost felt sick, writes Susan Reimer.
I don't know what I'll do if she trots out the story of her five-month-old baby to shore up the Republican base.
What?
It's okay for Obama to trot out all his family.
It's okay for O'Biden to trot out his family.
It's not okay for Susan, Sarah Palin to trot out her family.
And there's more to this champion high school athlete, beauty queen, married to Rehaskruel sweetheart, carpooling supermom who went from PTA activist to mayor of her tiny Alaskan town, fisherman, sportswoman, hunter, speaks truth to power in a state corrupted by oil, has a son headed to a rock, a woman who made the decision to carry to term a baby she knew to be developmentally disabled.
I'm just telling you here, this is Susan Reimer yesterday in the Baltimore Sun.
This is where you lost a bet.
And Alan Colms posted a similar thing on his blog and took it down after a while.
A woman who made the decision to carry to term a baby she knew to be developmentally disabled.
After writing this, fisherman, sportswoman, hunter speaks truth to power in a state corrupted by oil, has a son headed to a rock.
A woman who made the decision to carry to term a baby she knew to be developmentally disabled.
She makes McCain, Naval Academy graduate, fighter pilot, and prisoner of war, look like just another grouchy, old, rich white guy.
Oh, right, he is.
Susan Reimer, they're bitter.
They are angry.
They are fit to be tied out there because they know they've got nobody like her in the Democrat Party.
We'll be back.
All right, ladies and gentlemen, one more audio soundbite, and then I will lay out for you brilliantly, as only I can, the contradictions of the American left on feminism and liberalism.
Last night, CNN's Election Center, the host, Campbell Brown, said this about the news that Governor Sarah Palin's daughter is pregnant.
In an ideal world, it would be private.
But you know, this is a presidential campaign, and nothing is private.
The world is watching.
And if we, you know, as much as everyone might want to give this young woman her privacy, you know that's not going to happen.
And so you do risk putting her through an incredibly difficult process by accepting this job if you're her mother.
So she shouldn't have accepted the job.
She shouldn't accept the job because she's subjecting the daughter to an unending, relentless media act of destruction.
Campbell Brown admits it.
Hey, we don't care.
We're going to try to destroy the daughter.
We're going to try to destroy the mother.
So she shouldn't have put her there.
doesn't.
Why am I wasting my breath?
Liberal women are not going to understand this.
She doesn't want to give her daughter a lifelong burden of being the reason why her mom didn't accept the invitation he offered to be vice president.
Let's talk about the religion of liberalism for just a second, ladies and gentlemen.
What do liberals believe?
Well, among other things, listen to me on this.
What do liberals believe?
They believe that a woman is more than just being a mom at home.
That's what they say they believe.
They believe that a woman is every bit as qualified to hold public office as a man.
They believe that premarital sex and sex by teenagers is normal, natural, and we shouldn't try to stop it because we can't stop it.
They're going to have sex.
They want to deal with it by having sex education in schools.
Liberals say they believe that a woman should have a choice over whether she kills her baby or not.
And liberals believe it's nobody's business to question that choice.
Correct?
Okay, now, that's what they say they believe.
But now here they are pretending that they actually believe the following in order to get elected by tearing down Governor Palin or family.
I just went through with you what they believe.
Here's what they are pretending they actually believe, that a woman cannot responsibly be more than a mother in her home.
She can't do both.
Woman can't do both according to the new priests and priestesses of liberalism.
She can't work at home or outside the home and be a mother.
They're pretending to believe that a woman, Sarah Palin, who is a mother of small children, must not hold public office and must step aside so that a man, Obama, who is a father of small children, can hold higher office.
They think a woman, get out of the way.
This is Barry's turn.
We're in the Belwite client.
You're getting in our way.
You shouldn't be running for office.
They are pretending to believe that premarital sex by a teenager, Palin's daughter, is terrible, awful, and indeed so horrible the mother must be hounded off the national stage.
While they tell everybody else that premarital sex is wonderful.
There's love involved.
We should give them condoms.
We certainly shouldn't try to stop it because we can't stop it.
But now it's all of a sudden they're pretending they think it's horrible.
Liberals are pretending that a woman, Palin's daughter, should have had the abortion.
And here liberals are now pretending that a woman, Sarah Palin, should have had the abortion, given her Down syndrome fetus.
And liberals are pretending that it is in the national interest and the common good to denounce both of these women for their choices to give birth and to give birth and to work outside the home and to get married and to raise a family.
Liberals are trying to make us believe they believe this.
And all of this is to serve their religion.
Their religion is getting elected.
The major sacrament to the religion of liberalism is abortion.
All right.
People have been patiently waiting.
It's time now to go to the phones.
And we're going to start in Jacksonville, Florida with Liz.
Thank you for waiting.
I appreciate it.
Welcome to the program.
Hey, Rosh, longtime listener.
I still have my ditto head cup from last time you were here in Jacksonville.
Whoa, that's going back to 1989.
Yes, sir.
That's how long I've been listening.
But I wanted to weigh in on Governor Sarah Palin, if I could.
Feel free.
Feel free, of course.
I know it's going to be tough because what is there to say after the first hour and a half of this program brilliantly executed by me, but give it a shot.
Well, I wanted to first just start off by just saying thanks to John McCain for choosing a black president who I really think represents the voice of conservative women in America.
I think it was gutsy.
I think it was bold what he did.
I was able to listen to her acceptance speech because admittedly she was not who I thought he was going to pick.
And so I made a point to watch her acceptance speech.
And I had an instant connect to her.
And Rush, I identify with this lady.
She's a working woman.
She's married the same man for over 20 years, great moral values.
And I applaud, I applaud the way she and her husband has handled the situation with her daughter.
All of us have known families who have been in the same situation.
And they've handled it responsibly.
They've told her daughter, this is what you need to do.
And I applaud it.
I just, it endears me to her, and I'm just excited about that.
A lot of people are.
You know, you are sharing and reflecting an attitude that a lot of Americans have.
Not just conservative women, not just conservatives.
You know, there are a lot of people who are admiring this woman because of the things that you said.
She is intact.
She is secure.
And she can take care of herself.
If she's demonstrated anything, it's that she can take care of herself.
And she's tough, and she is committed.
She's secure and confident in her beliefs and her values.
And really, in life circumstances, controversies, debates, decisions, it is confidence that gets you through things.
It's confidence knowing your subject, knowing who you are, knowing what you think is best for yourself, your family, your friends.
That's what carries you through.
Those things do not lead to indecision.
Lack of confidence, fear of having people discover that you're not who you say you are, fear of having people discover you're dishonest, that leads to lack of confidence.
And you can see it and insecurity and unsuredness, uncertainty, if you want.
And I think we see a lot of that, by the way, from Obama.
And if it's not written, it's a little bit challenging.
As I said, and I need to repeat this, folks, very quickly, just so you understand.
If you remember what it was like when Clarence Thomas was nominated to Supreme Court, it was an all-out effort to destroy him because of what he meant to liberalism, what his ascension to the high court would mean to the liberal civil rights coalition.
Sarah Palin is an even larger threat to liberalism.
She's the antithesis of everything they believe, and they will stop at nothing to destroy her.
And the process, I'm hoping they destroy themselves.
In Sarah Palin's acceptance announcement speech last week with Senator McCain in Dayton, Ohio, she said, she mentioned that even in difficulty, blessings are given, which to me is an interesting worldview.
I phrase it a different way, but there's always good in something that happens to you if you just look for it.
There always is something good.
She says that even in difficulty, blessings are given.
And people might have been thinking about that was her Down syndrome child, might have been about her daughter's child.
But the point of it is to me is that she sees this as a deeper opportunity to expand their love for this daughter and child.
And just because there's a family challenge, it's not a reason to sidestep what they all think is her God-given duty to her country.
She's not that selfish.
And the drive-bys just can't, that's one thing.
They can't understand somebody that doesn't look at everything through a political prism.
Can't understand somebody who is not career-oriented, fast-track, selfish.
Look at, we have now learned, ladies and gentlemen, that both McCain and they knew about the pregnancy.
So did McCain.
They just didn't see that family issue as a deal breaker.
The same thing as Joe Biden doesn't see his son and brother being indicted as a deal breaker to accept Obama's nomination.
Where has this story been?
The last thing I could find on it was August 24th in the Washington Post.
A son and a brother of Senator Joe Biden are accused in two lawsuits of defrauding a former business partner and an investor of millions of dollars in a hedge fund deal that went sour.
Court records show.
I've been missing the 24-7 discussion on this in the drive-by media.
The Democrat vice presidential candidate Son Hunter, 38, brother James, 59, assert instead that their former partner defrauded them by misrepresenting his experience in the hedge fund industry and recommending that they hire a lawyer with felony convictions.
Illegal actions have been playing out in New York State Supreme Court since 2007, and they focus on Hunter and James Biden's involvement in Paradigm Company's LLC, a hedge fund group.
Hunter Biden, a Washington lobbyist, briefly served as president of the firm.
A lawsuit filed by their former partner, Anthony Letito Jr., asserts in court papers that the deal was crafted to get Hunter Biden out of lobbying because his father was concerned about the impact it would have on his bid for the White House.
Biden was running for the Democrat nomination at the time the suit was filed.
How come we haven't seen a 24-7 expose of this?
How come Biden's family happens to be off limits?
And by the way, another question about Senator Biden.
If plagiarism and being a bold-faced liar was sufficient to torpedo his run for the Democrat nomination against Dukakis back in 1988, why is it not sufficient to disqualify him for the vice presidency now?
What's the difference?
You see the double standard.
Three stories today.
New York Times home page.
The top three stories on the Republican Convention, New York Times homepage.
One, disclosures on Palin raise questions on vetting process.
Number two, in the political realm, family problem emerges as test.
And number three, Palin Daughters Pregnancy Interrupt Script.
Somebody tell me, I don't know, has the Times done a story on Obama and Bill Ayers yet?
I don't know because I don't read the Times regularly.
I don't think so.
Have they done a story about Obama and Tony Rezco yet?
Have they have any news analysis?
Have they even reported on any news in the first place on the Washington Post report that Senator Obama pushed for $3.4 million in earmarks for a lobbyist who just happened to be Senator Biden's son?
Did you know about that?
You didn't know about that?
Obama pushed for $3.4 million in earmarks for a lobbyist who just happened to be Senator Biden's son.
Where's the story on this?
I'll tell you what, folks, if Palin has them this worried, it's a very good sign.
Back to the phones.
This is Angie in Clarkston, Michigan.
Thanks, Angie, for waiting.
Great to have you here.
Hi, Rush.
It's an honor to talk to you.
I've been listening to you for about 11 years, and I have three girl wrist babies that listen to you all the time.
Thank you.
And I just wanted to bring up another pregnancy.
This pregnancy would be one of Stanley Ann Dunham, I think.
Yeah, Dunham.
And she got pregnant right about the same age as Sarah Palin's daughter, and she gave birth to Barack Obama.
Yes, she was an unwed mother.
She was a single mother.
I mentioned that at the top of the program.
Absolutely.
That's right.
If they want to bring up this family stuff, the Obama's family is going to be a little bit more risky to explain than Sarah Palin's.
Absolutely.
I wonder if the drive-bys.
Now, they wouldn't suggest that Obama's mom should have aborted him being a single mother, right?
They wouldn't go back and do that now, would they?
If they had, then we wouldn't have his gracious presence with us now.
Yes, yes, I know.
Well, I'm flattered you caught that because, you know, I'm people ask me, how do you stay so optimistic?
Because more and more people are starting to see how the drive-by meeting of the Democrat Party operates.
You didn't have to be told about it.
You just instinctively went to it.
I'm proud of you.
Make me happy.
Well, I've been reading that book, The Obama Nation.
So I've been reading about his childhood and his upbringing.
Jerome Corsi wrote the book.
They're trying to destroy Jerome Corsi, too.
Yes, they are.
All right, Angie, thank you much.
I appreciate it.
Thank you.
You bet.
This is Mary.
Look at this.
It's been all women today.
Is this by accident?
Are you just being overwhelmed with Qualston?
All right.
All right.
Here we go.
This is Mary in Soldotna, Alaska.
Am I pronouncing that right?
That's correct.
We are.
Thank you very much.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Great to have you here.
Well, it's good to have finally heard the ring instead of busy signal, which I've gotten for years.
Well, there must be some reason for you to get through today of all days.
Oh, maybe so.
I originally called because last week you had a caller.
You asked, he was from Homer, Alaska.
Yes.
And you asked him a specific question.
And what he picked out was so mundane.
I mean, it's on everyone's mind.
You asked him, what were Sarah's accomplishments here?
And he had an ability to tell you a whole litany of things.
And he picked out, you know, oh, she's going to send us some money.
Well, yeah.
It's a small part of a much larger plan by the state.
Well, but wait a minute.
That can help us out.
No, no, I knew what he was talking about at the time.
Alaskans, She gave them a rebate on rising gasoline prices added to whatever it is you guys already get for allowing the Alaska pipeline and other things up there.
But she was simply saying, she made it a point in her announcement to say that she didn't keep the money as a governor and put it in government coffers.
She sent it back to the people who were experiencing this rapid increase in gasoline prices.
And remember, Obama at the time, the gasoline prices were skyrocketing up.
So, well, I'm not really worried about the price, but I am concerned about how rapidly it got there.
Yeah, it was disgusting.
She turned it back to the people.
That's all.
No different than a tax rebate.
Right.
No, that's what was the original idea of the original permanent fund in the first place, because the oil revenue of the state, according to Jay Hammond, our governor at the time, belonged to the people.
And so the people get a tiny little portion of the interest.
And that's what that dividend is about.
But I wouldn't have chosen that as her most important accomplishment.
Frank Murkowski was expected to be a really good governor.
He was just a bust.
She beat him in the primary, and she filed his deal that he had made with the gas companies or the oil companies.
She filed that right in the trash.
Yes, she read.
She most recently turned down an arrangement by two other oil companies who wanted to build the pipeline without any input from the state at all.
And just finished the deal in a special session.
And so she will be remembered for the $40 billion gas pipeline that will be built.
Well, that's, you know, it's an excellent point.
And I got a little note here today from Frank Gaffney, who is a guy who runs the Center for Security Policy.
Frank Gaffney is a brilliant defense analyst, national security analyst, and he's one of us.
And he's written a rejoinder here to people accusing Sarah Palin of having no experience.
And it goes pretty much to what you were just saying here, Mary.
He writes, listening to her critics, one might think that John McCain's chosen running mate is a complete ignoramus when it comes to matters of national security.
In fact, Sarah Palin's background in Alaska, including most recently her service as that state's governor, suggests that the judgment of the Republicans' candidate for vice president with respect to this portfolio is likely to be substantially better than that of either Obama or Biden.
Consider the following factors.
Governor Palin has spent much of her adult life dealing with matters long central to the Alaskan experience and now of surpassing importance to the nation as a whole, namely energy security and how we can provide for it.
Having managed her state's department responsible for oil and gas exploration and exploitation, having negotiated a long-delayed natural gas pipeline through Canada to the lower 48, having been married for nearly two decades to a blue-collar worker in Alaska's North Slope oil fields, she knows more about the subject than all three of the others on the two-party tickets put together.
If Governor Palin can bring to bear her insights into the need for expanded yet environmentally sensitive drilling, including an ANWAR, together with an appreciation of the need to introduce fuel choice in our transportation sector,
the object of the bipartisan Open Fuel Standards Act introduced in both the House and Senate shortly before the August recess, she will demonstrate unsurpassed leadership in what is arguably the single most important national security challenge of our time: energy, production, use, dependence, independence.
She does it.
She has demonstrated it.
I love this, Gaffney.
She's got more experience on a national security issue of crucial importance than all three of the other people on both tickets combined.
Here's Kathy in Sarasota, Florida, next on the EIB network.
Great to have you here, Kathy.
Thank you for waving, too.
Thank you, Rush Limbaugh.
After hearing you talk today, I just want people to know that as an American, I am super proud that she's running.
She's a true American woman.
No matter what problems she's been confronted with, she's accepting them and she's dealing with them.
And I'm proud of her.
She didn't give up the child that's retarded.
Her daughter made a mistake.
They're doing her daughter a favor right now, putting her mother down, because that daughter's going to stand proud and say, even though I made a mistake, my mother didn't judge me either.
And that's what a proud American does.
Don't judge people.
We need to stand up for our young people and be proud of what they make.
We've all made mistakes.
And I'm proud that she's going to the White House because she is going to the White House because she is a true American and she's going to be McCain's best asset.
And I hope everybody that's listening to your program today knows that.
Don't doubt me.
They do.
Don't doubt me.
She's wonderful.
She is a true American.
And these people out there that are putting her down, they're doing her a favor.
Her daughter isn't going to be botched up or hurt by her.
She's going to stand tall and go, my mom's proud of me, and she's doing the right thing, and she's going to get married.
And even if she didn't get married and didn't want the kid, there's a family out there that's looking for a child.
She's a great candidate to make another family happy.
That's the true American way, isn't it, Rush?
Of course it is.
There's no question about it, Kathy.
Were you always on board for McCain before this pick anyway?
Always.
I've always been for him.
Always for McCain.
I'm a Republican.
I'll always be a Republican.
Good.
All right.
Well, I appreciate the call.
Thanks very much.
You hear the enthusiasm that all of these women have calling here today.
They're fired up.
And I tell you, you know what?
It's interesting.
Most of the ones that Snergley has put up, I don't know what all he's getting in there.
We reject 15 for everyone we put up.
But what I find fascinating here is these callers are spending more time rallying around and talking positively about who Sarah Palin is and what she is rather than whining and moaning at the drive-by media.
I love that.
And by the way, you know, there are a lot of drive-bys out there who are saying, gee, I wonder what Limbaugh is going to say today, because the last we heard from Limbaugh, nobody knew that Sarah Palin had a 17-year-old daughter who was pregnant.
So what's Limbaugh going to do?
That's not a question for me.
What do you drive-bys?
What do you liberals think?
The woman has a 17-year-old daughter who's pregnant.
We're going to say get an abortion?
What are we going to say?
Those of us who believe in the sanctity of life, how are we going to find any problem with this?
Oh, maybe the promiscuity of her daughter?
Is that what you're thinking we find a problem with?
You misunderstand all this.
We are not judgmental people.
Kathy here just said it.
We have cultural values that we think have determined the greatness of this country.
We want as many people as possible to adhere to them, maintain them, defend them and protect them, and so forth.
And the sanctity of life is at the top of the list.
Because once that goes, then what else is worth it?
If you're not willing to do what you can to protect the sanctity of life, then what about freedom?
And then what about speech and all these other things?
I don't see, you know, you libs are always looking to find hypocrisy among conservatives, but you think that when you find it that somehow all of conservatism is discredited, the fact of the matter is we do have standards, we have values, and we have human beings who violate them.
We have human beings that don't live up to them.
A clue, a little hint here.
Most human beings, in fact, all human beings fail to live up to perfection.
And that's where you liberals are so out of way.
You think perfection, either in a country or in individuals, is possible when you're running a show.
And you think we're sitting here all judgmental and so forth.
We are judgmental when people make bad decisions that are destructive to the things that we hold dear.
But there's nothing destructive here in Sarah Palin's life so far.
And the desire that you have to find out some way that we can be shown as hypocrites, disqualify Sarah Palin, is a waste of everybody's time.
And it also demonstrates to us just exactly who you are, which we all know anyway.
We're just gathering more evidence.
We'll be back.
Stay with us.
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You know, I was thinking, Barack Obama had lots of women to choose from to help with that female demographic, but he went with a white male to get that vote.
And that means that his biggest problem is with white men.
He's having problems broadly appealing to the whole electorate.
I am convinced Biden was not his first choice.
I really do think he wanted somebody like Kathleen Sebillius.
I do think, well, he couldn't risk it because he's so weak in white men.
And I'll tell you what, people in this country, they like an attractive, smart, accomplished woman like Sarah Palin is.
This is a good thing.
She can become a huge, huge figure.
And unlike Hillary, ladies and gentlemen, she built her own political career.
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