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Oct. 6, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 6, 2008, Monday, Hour #3
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That claim possibly in doubt.
We're looking to reinforce that for the remainder of today's show.
Oh, my confidence is high and my spirits are high for some bizarre reason.
I don't know.
Because I still consider Barack Obama unelectable.
And let's take a look at the electoral map.
People are emailing me now and saying, okay, back it up, back it up, talk show boy.
How do you see John McCain actually winning in view of, for example, the fairly bleak RealClearPolitics.com electoral map?
And John McIntyre and Tom Bevin and those guys up at Real Clear Politics, man, they are my heroes.
And if you only go to one website a day, it's like a laisse potato chip.
You only go to one website a day.
Bet you can't visit just one.
Make itrealclearpolitics.com.
Okay, maybe right after rushlimbaugh.com.
I'm filling in for Rush just today.
He's back tomorrow.
I'm Mark Davis from WBAP in Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas.
Great to be with you.
Let's do some numbers.
I know, don't know ciphering on the radio.
I know that's an old rule, but I'm going to make this really, really simple because, quite frankly, it is really, really simple.
Let's move over here to the big Microsoft touchboard.
Is that cool?
Are we enjoying the Microsoft Surface thing?
Chuck Todd's got one at MSNBC.
I just don't know.
I just keep waiting for him to hit some wrong thing somewhere and have some old pinup of Suzanne Summers pop up instead of the California electoral vote.
I don't know.
Anyway, but on the map that's in front of me at realclearpolitics.com, here are the scary numbers.
Right now, if you take the states, here's what RCP does.
Folks at Real Clear Politics make an electoral map every day.
The states where Obama or Biden have a solid or it's strong blue, light blue, strong red, like red, whether it's solid blue, leaning blue, solid red, leaning red.
If you take all those into account and then throw in your toss-up states, it goes as follows: Obama Biden this morning, 264.
McCain-Palin, 210.
Toss-up, 64.
Now, here's how depressing that can get.
That's giving McCain and Palin Florida and Ohio.
That would mean that Barack Obama can lose Ohio and Florida and still win the presidency.
All right.
But I want you to do something to this.
Take Pennsylvania, where right now Barack Obama has a little lead, and flip it.
That reallocation of Michigan resources, plus the good, you know, it's so weird.
It's like a Klansman parody.
The hardworking white people.
It's such a guy that used to call Howard Stern when he mattered in American radio.
Wake up, what people?
The working class folks in Pennsylvania who have been demographically identified so many, call them what you will.
You remember when Obama and Hillary Clinton were running?
It was the working class whites.
Everything was working class whites.
And the distaste, the strong distaste they had for Barack Obama.
Was it race for some of them?
I'm sure it was.
Maybe for the vast majority, I'm guessing it wasn't.
They just preferred Hillary for whatever reason.
But the reason I'm giving Pennsylvania to McCain is I think that Pennsylvania is filled with Democrats who don't like Barack Obama.
So if you take those 21 electoral votes and flip them, it goes from 264 to 10, Obama over McCain, 264, 210.
Flip those 21, and it becomes 243, 221.
A lot closer.
243, 221.
But still, that's like 20 electoral votes, right?
Where do you get those with a snap of a finger?
Two of the toss-up states are Virginia and North Carolina.
Do you really think Barack Obama is going to win North Carolina?
Do you really think Barack Obama is going to win Virginia?
I don't.
That's 28 electoral votes, and that gets you to 248-243, McCain.
248-243, McCain, leaving the following four states, meaning everything in our natural lives.
Colorado, Nevada, Missouri, and Indiana.
Missouri and Indiana have 11.
Colorado, 5, Nevada, 5.
Colorado, 9, Nevada, 5, excuse me.
So if you just get half, having achieved 248-243, if you flip Virginia, North Carolina, and yes, Pennsylvania, then of those electoral votes in Nevada, Colorado, Missouri, and Indiana, split them, and McCain wins.
That's how it happens.
Now, those are big ifs.
I understand those.
I mean, I know some stuff has to happen for this to actually play out.
And in these last 29 days, stuff's got to happen.
Some stuff's going to happen tomorrow night.
I think Senator McCain is going to have a real good night tomorrow night.
Actually, both debates so far, the one presidential and the one vice presidential.
I think everybody's brought at least, if not their A game, then their B game.
I think everybody's done just fine.
I think everybody's done what they wanted to do.
I know Senator Obama did.
He actually, you know, avoided a meltdown while off the prompter.
Senator McCain did fine scoring big points on experience and national security.
In the vice presidential debate, Joe Biden did fine.
No gaffes, no condescension, no bullying, no pandering, no patronizing.
Excuse me, no patronizing, plenty of pandering.
And Sarah Palin has to just be thrilled with how well she did.
I think we see more of the same tomorrow night.
I think Senator Obama will do just fine.
I think Senator McCain will do just fine.
So heaven forbid, it may come down to the actual content that comes out of their mouths.
It really may come down to what they say, which is why we've spent so much of today's show talking about what you want Senator McCain to say.
You know, what's the best way for him to fight the onslaught of an Obama presidency?
How much time should he spend talking up his own agenda versus talking down Senator Obama's occasional moments of bad judgment?
So this plus other things in the news and other things political are all welcome at 1-800-282-2882.
1-800-282-2882 on the Rush Limbo Show.
We're in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
See hi, Mark Davis, filling in for Rush, and it's nice to have you.
Welcome.
Hi, Mark.
Great job.
My first-time caller.
I always like listening to you.
Yeah, I want to return to something you said about why should we care about Franklin Reigns.
Well, careful.
I care a lot.
I wonder how much of American people.
The American people.
But they should be made to care because they're mad.
And they want to know whose fault this is, how we got here, why nobody warned us.
And on the whole, that's the Democrats' fault.
They pushed these loans.
They prevented oversight.
They didn't warn us.
McCain did try to warn us.
And Franklin Reigns was in the midst of all that.
And I think people want an investigation.
I think McCain should do the shaking up that he wants to talk.
He keeps talking about.
He should shake up Washington.
He should call for the investigation.
He talks about working across, reaching across the aisle all the time.
Well, okay, that would really be a shaking up if he actually accused the other side, actually wanted an investigation of the people across the aisle.
Reaching across the aisle with indictments, as it were.
Exactly.
And I mean, why isn't he coming out?
It's a gift that keeps on giving.
Yeah, I don't.
This is much more important to me than, well, let me just finish my.
Ooh, finish that sentence.
Much more important to you than what.
Yeah, yeah, well, than the Bill Ayers thing.
Bill Ayers is good.
I mean, if people are just starting to pay attention to the election, that needs to get out there, yes.
But it's going to only be neutralized by the fact that the Obama campaign is now linking McCain to Keating and saying, oh, that whole SNL scandal then is partly why we're in the mess we are now.
No.
McCain needs to reverse it and say, no, what Obama was doing was directly causing the crisis for In Now because he was part of Acorn, which is a kind of organization like Freddie and Fanny, pushing it.
Let's engage in a moment of political theater.
I'm energized by what you're saying.
Not at the debate, but at a campaign event, perhaps maybe a day or two after the debate, he and Governor Palin joint appearance, and they step forward, and he says there's a lot of talk, even after the bailout.
It seems like a done deal.
Yes, I supported it.
I felt I had to.
Some Americans disagree with me.
I understand that completely.
But if there is one thing we all agree on, we do not want to repeat this mistake of history.
So as the bailout gives us the opportunity to heal our markets, we can only truly heal those markets if we discover and study how we got here.
For that purpose, I pledge when my hand comes off the Bible on January 20th of 2009, I will launch a bipartisan investigation of what agencies, what politicians, what Wall Street wizards, and what behavior by the general public got us into this so that we never get there again.
How does that play?
It does, but I'd even like him to name some names.
Ahead of that?
Okay.
I mean, okay.
A part of that.
Part of that.
All right.
All right.
Yeah.
And if he had, why aren't you, why aren't they listening to you?
Trust me, it's the Limbaugh Show.
They are.
I'm benefiting by default here using Russia's enormous megaphone.
I guarantee you that this thought will filter into somebody's head.
The spare guy they had filling in for Limbaugh today had a really good idea.
Why don't we put that up there on the podium on Tuesday for John?
See, thank you.
My best to everybody in New Mexico.
Thanks, Santa Fe's beautiful town.
Love you.
Thank you very, very much.
Oh, I don't know how much of this filters into real campaign operatives.
They are all so tightly huddled and so completely neurotic about every little change in every single day.
And what I'll be interested in, it'll take maybe tomorrow.
I mean, let's take a look at some, because poll numbers coming out right now, even right now today.
Anytime you see a fresh poll, a poll is only so fresh.
Because if something came out this morning, some of it was probably taken before the vice presidential debate and some of it after.
I want to see the first polls that are purely from after the vice presidential debate.
I trust they will be better than the ones taken just before the vice presidential debate.
1-800-282-2882, I'm Mark Davis, Infor Rush, and back in a moment on the EIB Network.
A big shout-out for the people of Chicago, Tampa Bay, Los Angeles, and Boston, the four media markets where Monday night football will probably not reign supreme tonight.
Well, it might in Tampa and in Chicago because you're basically dealing with October baseball versus Monday night football and what it's the Vikes and the Saints on Monday night football.
But wow, how about those Angels?
They're the best team in baseball, and a World Series without them would simply be problematic.
God bless all of you in Boston, but we'll see what happens.
The Angels managed to stay alive.
The Red Sox probably win tonight with Lester on the mound, but the Angels really put up a fight into 12 innings late last night, and that was something.
And the Tampa Bay Rays, God love them.
You know, they're great, and not even their own fan base cares that much, it seems, but they will if they can dispatch the White Sox and move on to the ALCS.
Wouldn't that be something?
All right, love me some October baseball.
And so, oh, wow, Cubs fans, so sorry.
And Brewers fans, so sorry.
My, oh, my, oh, my, oh, boy.
Because you know what it is?
What a roller coaster that is, especially for the Cubs.
I mean, maybe this is it after a century-ish, and the Brewers' first time in the postseason in 25 years.
Man, this is going to be great.
Turn your head.
You know, what was that?
That was the Phillies.
Oh, okay.
And God bless the Phillies.
Good for them.
And the Dodgers.
You know, so, you know, to the winners go those spoils in the National League.
All righty, all this plows through October.
I love October.
October is just one of my favorite months of this particular October, filled with action.
Let's go to some more of our action on the phones.
I'm Mark Davis at WBAP in Dallas-Fort Worth, filling in for Rush just today.
He's back with you tomorrow.
And let's see who's with us on the phones.
We are in the magical screen, Elizabeth.
It says Tri-Cities, Tennessee.
Would that be Bristol, Kingsport, and Johnson City?
That's right.
I can't believe this.
Well, I have to say, you're a very smart man, and I agree with so much.
There are many intelligent callers today, but I have to disagree with you.
The man from Mississippi was totally right.
He said that there is a crisis of confidence in the market.
Well, I think what I understood him to say was that the market was not having any confidence in the government's latest decision.
And I just think that is totally right, and I'll tell you why.
I think the majority of government people, I think the majority of people in this country are economically ignorant.
And I think it's a result of the systematic efforts of government schools, grammar, high school, college, to make sure that we don't know anything.
And so then we elect our leaders, and they're doing their best, but they really are just clueless.
But if you are a self-employed person or if you have studied how things work, it's not that hard.
I mean, it's really pretty simple.
Economics are pretty simple.
But these dudes that passed this law, the guilty ones, not the ones that stood for our liberty.
Principles of freedom and democracy.
Right, go ahead.
David Davis, bless his heart.
Anyway, the ones that voted yes, that's what the market is reacting to today.
And it's just so frustrating because.
Well, for those who didn't hear the earlier gentleman, for those that didn't hear the earlier gentleman, his point was that the markets, the reason the markets have not just thrilled to the wonderful aroma of the bailout is that the markets know that the problem has not really been fixed.
It's a band-aid over top of a seething wound, and they know that it could come again.
I didn't really disagree with the gentleman on that point at all.
It is more like another knife in the wound.
I mean, let us fix this problem with more government money.
I mean, that's our money.
That's money taken out of the economy into bureaucracy that's going to mismanage and corrupt.
I mean, it's just a mess.
All right, Elizabeth, you're a thoughtful woman.
I have a parting question for you.
If you are John McCain and you did not have the guts to stand up against this pig in a poke, what is the best thing you could say in the debate tomorrow to make clear that you are the guy to pilot this ship through the post-bailout waters?
Okay, that's a hard question, but this is what I would say to McCain.
I would say spend your time between now and tomorrow night doing some homework.
Don't be ignorant on economics anymore.
I mean, you have made the wrong decision.
You've, well, gosh, your whole career.
But anyway, he needs to learn how things work.
If he wants to lead us, and we need him to lead us because we can have Barack, but he needs to get educated and it would not take all night.
You know, he could call the Heritage Foundation.
He could call some local businessman that's going crazy because his stock is screwed up because of this.
I don't know.
And if Heritage and that businessman tell him that the bailout was a terrible idea, how does he run with that ball?
Yeah, I can't tell him what to say.
All I can say is that the decision that was made this week or last Friday, what day is today?
I don't even know.
Anyway, this bailout bill is just totally opposite from what we need.
He needs to figure out why, and then he can talk about it.
He's a smart man.
Indeed so.
It's going to fall to him.
And Elizabeth, thank you.
Wonderful call and a noble answer there.
Let me see if I can answer my own question.
If 60 seconds of on the fly, hopefully wisdom.
All right, I'm John McCain.
I have voted for the bailout that most of America doesn't like, and I want most of America to vote for me for president.
Okay, go.
It's like an improv game at a frat party.
Go.
All right, how about this?
I know many of you did not approve of the bailout that I and Senator Obama and Senator Biden and President Bush in a rare moment of bipartisanship actually agreed on.
But we did what we did to fend off what we sincerely felt was going to be a disastrous shockwave hitting the economy.
We'll never know now whether that would have happened or not because the bailout has passed.
And now the best way that I can offer you a plan for the future in the first four years of my administration is to promise you that with those $700 billion of your tax money on the table, that with every additional billion dollars of your tax money that's on the table,
I'm going to fight hard to make sure that you are paying less in taxes, that we are spending less in government, and that every spending decision we make is free of bloat and free of corruption and honors the kind of free markets that you and I like best under ideal circumstances.
These were not ideal circumstances.
If the circumstances improve, you'll look for me to rely on conservative principles of lower taxes and lower spending.
How's that work?
Beer at Back.
I'm Mark Davis, filling in for Rush Limbaugh and feeling good, except for a small case of the rock and pneumonia and the boogie woogie flu, all of which I believe there's antibiotics for.
It is the sixth day of October, Monday, debate eve, and we're looking at what Senator McCain and Senator Obama might throw at each other figuratively, if not literally, on the debate stage.
Let's take a look at a couple of ads that they are running.
Here is an Obama ad essentially characterizing John McCain as a mental patient.
It's lost this year.
Let me start.
There we go.
Three-quarters of a million jobs lost this year.
Our financial system in turmoil.
And John McCain, erratic in the crisis, out of touch on the economy.
Erratic in crisis?
Is that a reference to suspending the campaign?
Because if that's the case, they probably kind of have a point.
No wonder his campaign wants to change the subject, turn the page on the financial crisis by launching dishonest, dishonorable assaults against Barack Obama.
Struggling families can't turn the page on this economy, and we can't afford another president who's this out of touch.
I'm Barack Obama, and I approve this message.
God, I hate when Senator Obama gets to use actual stupid things that the McCain campaign has done and a campaign aide saying, well, we're looking, and I know what he meant.
It's like when he said we're looking to turn the page on the economy, it's like, all right, that crisis averted in quotation marks, if that's what you call it, and now we want to get into a home stretch of talking about the future of the economy, talking about the future of the war, talking about the future of healthcare, talking about the future that we'd like to build with a McCain administration.
Know what the guy meant, but rule number one in politics is: don't say things that the other side can bludgeon you with.
Don't phrase things so inartfully that the other side can pick it up and beat your brains in with it.
Oh, heavens.
All right, here's a here.
This, however, all right, let's get our spirits back up to back up to some appreciable level here with the latest John McCain ad, which brings some of Senator Obama's words back to hopefully haunt him.
Who is Barack Obama?
He says our troops in Afghanistan are just air raiding villages and killing civilians.
How dishonorable.
Congressional liberals voted repeatedly to cut off funding to our active troops, increasing the risk on their lives.
How dangerous.
Obama and congressional liberals are too risky for America.
I'm John McCain, and I approve this message.
Hmm.
How'd that work out for you?
I like that.
That's a good one.
Let's go to the state that Senator McCain has told us that he's going to bail on.
It's killing me.
It's killing me.
It's going to be all right.
It's going to be all right.
That would be Michigan, and that would be Battle Creek, Michigan.
Some cereal factories, I'm guessing, up there.
Brenda, hello, Mark Davis in for Russian.
It's a pleasure to have you.
How are you, Mark?
And it's a pleasure to hear you.
I just got back from spending some time with my parents in Vegas and got to listen to your show on the late night on the Vegas station.
We do not carry you here.
Wow.
We need to get you back here in Battle Creek.
Yes, I'm sitting there anxiously waiting for the debate Thursday night.
I turn on my local news and I get the big announcement that Senator McCain is suspending everything in Michigan.
He's been flooding our TV with ads.
He's won in Michigan before.
The only thing Barack has going for him is that our governor is not on the ballot this year.
Everybody hates her.
She's lost every single job in the state and there's no jobs here.
But, Brenda, here's the thing.
With jobs bleeding the way they are in Michigan, that absolutely helps Senator Obama, and that's why he has a pretty good lead.
I don't understand that, though.
Well, neither do I, but listen, I mean, but because we can't figure it out, don't lose sight of the fact that it happens.
In times of economic strife, and maybe this is a possible explanation.
In times of economic strife, we go weak at the knees and we start to lean, if not lunge, toward big daddy government to save us.
Not everybody, but enough people to provide a bump in the polls to any Democrat.
My husband's been at his job for almost eight years.
Two years ago, he had his best year ever.
For the last five years, I haven't worked.
I took care of my husband's father.
My parents have been ill.
I've been back and forth about 15 times to Vegas in the last three years.
And I haven't had time to work.
I understand.
Now things are tight.
I'm barely, I have a moderate house.
I have a $60,000 mortgage on a $140,000 home.
With the taxes and everything going up, the food and the gas going up, we're barely making it.
I need to go back to work and help him, and I can't find a job because I've been out of the market for five years.
Well, there are a lot of people who are in the same straits that you have.
Not exactly situationally the same ones, but they're still Democrat, and I keep pouting him over that.
I said, Tony, you had a great job.
Yep.
Look at all the taxes they're taking out of your track.
If you vote Democrat, they're going to just take out more.
Exactly.
Get with your hardworking hubby and tell him that Barack Obama will rape the job-creating class in America.
When he talks about, oh, 90, 95% of people are not going to get a tax increase.
The other 5% or 10% are the people who create jobs in Michigan, the people who are going to create a job that you and your husband can survive and thrive in.
He's going to suffocate all of us with taxes beyond anything we have ever seen.
And oh, by the way, he might just lose the war where we won't even have the luxury of sitting here talking about the job that we can't find because our houses are surrounded in plastic and duct tape.
So once you hit him with that, let me know how it works out.
I may have stunder.
I've stunder with my clarity.
Sorry.
1-800-282-2882.
1-800-282-2882.
I never want to have callers actually pass out in the midst of something I'm saying to them.
So let's see what happens next up in Mathis Vineyard up to the great Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Hello, Joe.
Mark Davis, filling in for Rush, perhaps for the last time.
How are you, sir?
What's going on?
Hey, Joe.
Okay, here we go.
Third time's a charm.
All right, let's see.
We've alienated one call.
We made one completely spontaneously combust.
Maybe if the guy's five miles from these studios here in Texas, Larry is in Dallas.
Hi, Larry.
Mark Davis in for Rush.
How are you doing?
How are you, Mark?
I'm good.
I have a question for Mr. McCain, for Senator McCain to ask Obama tomorrow.
And that is, why did he inject himself into the negotiations with Iraq and undermines our government's negotiation with him to end the war and then present himself as if he were in the position to be the king for our government?
And then one of the things I didn't say your screener, I'd like to comment that I think McCain should close with, and that would be two questions to the public.
And that is, one, ask them to look at their check stuff from eight years ago versus now and see what percentage of tax they were paying then, what percentage of tax they're paying now.
They're paying less now.
And also, the last question is to ask themselves, when's the last time a Democrat lowered your tax?
But the main question is, why did he inject himself into Iraq, negotiations with Iraq, and basically, at worst, commit treason, at least undermines our government's ability to negotiate with trying to get to end this war.
I can sense people wanting you to bolster that.
In what manner would you suggest that Senator Obama thrusted himself into quote-unquote negotiations on Iraq?
Well, he actually went to the foreign minister for Iraq and told them not to negotiate until after the presidency, until after the election.
And then he implied, according to the reports, and I don't understand why this hadn't gotten more traction.
No, I remember this.
I remember the same report.
I wanted to know what I remember the same thing.
I don't know if a lot of people will identify that as getting involved in the negotiations.
It's not that you don't have a point because you do.
And in fact, there is a larger point on your exact theme that Senator McCain can make, and that is when it's time to go eyeball to eyeball with terrorists, who do you want arguing the side of the United States of America?
People make a big point about Sarah Palin.
Well, what if she has to actually go up against Putin?
Well, what if she does?
I'd rather have her go up against Putin than Barack Obama.
Barack Obama goes up against Putin.
They're playing solitaire or they're playing Jin Rummy.
They're agreeing about everything.
Solitaire.
Good move, Mark.
They're playing cards.
They're enjoying vodka and cigars because Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin agree on many things, like America is the problem.
At least if it's President Sarah Palin, God forbid, should John McCain die in office, or if she's the 45th president of the United States by natural progression after a full four years of McCain, or eight, but probably not.
At least we'd have a president who disagrees with tyrants rather than one who shares their distaste of America.
Larry, thank you.
Appreciate it.
It's the Rush Limbaugh Show.
It's a Monday.
It's October 6th.
Debates are tomorrow night.
Rush is back tomorrow to get you all prepped up for them.
And we're together for about another 18 minutes.
I'm Mark Davis in Dallas filling in for Rush, and we shall continue.
If this guy comes to your town, go see him.
Steve Miller, one of the guys who's still got it going on well into his 60s.
Fly like an eagle here.
Is that a good 35-year-old record now?
Just tremendous.
Just tremendous.
All righty, 1-800-282-2882.
Mark Davis filling in for Rush Limbaugh.
Let's head to Akron, Ohio.
Sam, hi, Mark Davis in for Rush.
How are you?
Hi, Mark.
I'm actually Akron, Pennsylvania.
I love when states have towns that are more famous in other states.
What's up?
Well, I have just been waiting forever for John McCain to lambast the Democrats on energy.
And I mean, this is a crucial economic issue that I don't see that we can lose on.
You can hardly lay this energy problem at anybody's feet except the Democrats.
If OPEC wanted to make a plan to increase their profits in oil, what better plan could they have than to reduce production of energy in the nation that is the largest user of energy in the entire industrial world?
Isn't that what the Democrats' foolish plans have played into?
Yes, and you have phrased it as well and as concisely as I believe it can be phrased.
And I would be thrilled if voters from Akron, Pennsylvania, Akron, Ohio heard, or Akron, Wyoming, if there is one and there probably is, heard that coming out of Senator McCain's mouth tomorrow night.
I completely agree with you.
I'm going to pick up the pace a little bit, try to get as many people on as we can.
1-800-282-2882, you know, 30-second stop-down.
Rush will never burden you with this, but I will, because I want to go to bat for this guy because I owe him so much because he is the wind beneath my wings when I'm filling in here.
EIB Chief of Staff Kit Carson wants you to know, he doesn't ask much of you, but if you're calling from a place that has a famous name, because bless Sam's heart, he said, I'm an Akron.
That's true, factually correct.
So enabling me to say Akron, Ohio, and then him to say Akron, Pennsylvania.
If indeed the place you are from has a name that is more famous somewhere else, then toss out a little more information.
Otherwise, you might end up with Rush burdened in the following way.
Hey, Bill is with us in Manhattan.
How are things going in the Big Apple?
Oh, no, Rush, that's Manhattan, Kansas.
Don't let this happen on the talk show you love.
Full information, please, for whoever screening calls.
It's the least we can all do.
1-800-282-2882.
Can you tell it's the closing quarter hour?
I'm punchy.
Did my own show doing rush.
Better get me out of here quickly.
1-800-282-2882.
Let us go to Chattanooga, Tennessee.
Lots of East Tennessee action here.
Lots of stuff going on in the Smokies.
Ed Mark Davis filling in for Rush.
How are you, sir?
I'm well, Mark.
How are you today?
Good.
Thank you.
Yeah, I think for me, you know, I've never been a big McCain fan, but, you know, at the convention, it was very dramatic when he stood up there and said, fight with me, fight with me, and just whipped the crowd into a frenzy.
And I thought, well, you know, maybe he's kind of gotten religion and maybe he really means it, you know.
But then he turns around and, you know, here he is, he's pulling out of Michigan, you know, and he keeps up this reach across the aisle business.
And I mean, the only time the Democrats ever reach across the aisle is when they need political cover like they did last year.
Yeah.
And the notion of I might have Democrats in my cabinet.
Oh, shut up, sir.
With all due respect, shut up.
It's unbelievable, you know, and I want to, I mean, I would like to support him, but I'm not going to vote for him.
He wants me to vote.
Well, here's the thing.
You know, you have to.
No, no, no.
He wants me to vote against Obama.
And I'm not going to vote against a candidate.
I want to vote.
I want to vote for a candidate.
In a perfect world, of course, we all like that better.
But here's some logic I'll throw at you, clumsily though it may be.
It is a very positive thing to fend off a disaster.
I always hate people who sit around in meetings and say, oh, you know, that's a negative thought.
We only want positive thoughts.
It just makes you want to go for their throats and say, look, it is a positive thing to beat down bad ideas in your office.
It is a positive thing to prevent a bad hire at your office.
And it's a very positive thing to do everything you can do to prevent a bad presidency.
Well, Bill Clinton had some really bad ideas in 1993.
And two years later, the House of Representatives swung 60 or 70 votes the other way.
Well, you can't bet on that.
I'm not betting on it.
But, you know, he just, I mean, John McCain, I'm more than glad to fight for him, but time's running out, and he needs to stand up and he needs to espouse some real conservative.
I completely agree with you.
I so completely agree with you.
I mean, please.
I mean, absolutely.
But if the thought, if your spirits sink and you think of staying home, listen, don't do it for McCain or even Sarah Palin if you grow squishy on her.
Do not let Barack Obama become president of the United States.
Do not do that to our troops and do not do that to our Constitution.
I think substitute hosts get to beg.
So that's what I'm doing.
And I love you.
And stay with me and stay with Rush because he's here back tomorrow and every day thereafter.
And drive to Dallas-Fort Worth and listen to me every morning.
And I'll pick up this noble quest a little later on.
All right, we'll pick up the show right after this final break.
1-800-282-2882.
I'm Mark Davis in for Rush.
He returns tomorrow.
Be right back with you.
You know, we started the show pounding out some pretty good disco era bumpers and we finally wrap up.
Oh, is it the tramps, right?
And Disco Inferno.
Yeah, they don't ride them like those anymore.
All right.
I so, so much want to thank Kit Carson and Mike Mamon back at the HQ for piloting me through this.
Thank you for your calls.
Thanks most, most profoundly to Mr. Limbaugh for letting me keep the chair warm today.
He is back with you tomorrow.
As we close up, I wanted to leave you with a thought.
Oh, you're going to be inundated with polls, right?
One of my most infuriating poll questions is the one when people ask, do you believe the country is headed in the right direction or the wrong direction?
And of course, 80% of everybody says wrong direction.
What kind of idiot says, everything's great.
You're always supposed to be upset about something.
But usually people are referring to the war, the economy, or whatever.
But I think we're headed in the wrong direction in some ways you don't hear enough talk about.
The extinction of personal responsibility, like the bailout, our perverse reliance on government from womb to tomb, the abandonment of our Constitution as a basis for what our laws should say and do, the softening of our national spine such that we're tired of wars that last longer than 18 months and we're not interested that Islam is invading and poisoning what was once Europe.
Yeah, you know, the country is headed in the wrong direction, but not in the same ways that most people say who are answering those polls.
Thank you.
Appreciate it.
I'm Mark Davis at WBAP in Dallas-Fort Worth, a proud Limbaugh affiliate.
And he's back on all the affiliates tomorrow, the Rush Limbaugh Show here on the EIB Network.
I'm Mark Davis.
God bless our country.
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