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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.
Um because I 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 uh John McCain actually winning in view of, for example, uh the fairly bleak uh RealClearPolitics.com electoral map and John McIntyre and Tom Bevan 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 lay's potato chip.
You only go to one website a day, bet you can't visit just one.
Uh make it real clearpolitics.com.
Okay, maybe right after Rush Limbaugh.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.
Don't no 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 uh Microsoft uh touchboard.
Is that cool?
Are we enjoying the Microsoft uh surface thing?
Chuck Todd's got one at MSNBC.
I just I 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 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 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 uh uh 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, two sixty-four.
McCain Palin, two ten.
Toss up, sixty-four.
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 um, you know, it's if it's so weird.
It's it's it's like a Klansman parody, the hardworking white people.
It's such a it's like the guy that used to call Howard Stern when he mattered in American radio.
Wake up, what people.
The the working class uh 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 and the distaste, the strong distaste they had for Barack Obama.
What was was it race for some of them?
I'm sure it was.
Maybe for 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, 264-21.
Flip those 21, and it becomes two forty-three, two twenty-one.
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 eleven.
Colorado five, Nevada five.
Colorado nine, Nevada Five, excuse me.
So if it if you just get half, having achieved two forty-eight, two forty-three, if you flip Virginia, North Carolina, and yes, Pennsylvania, then uh of those electoral votes in Nevada, Colorado, Missouri, and Indiana, split 'em, and McCain wins.
That's how it happens.
Now those are big ifs.
I understand those.
I mean, I know that's the some stuff has to happen for this to actually play out.
And in these last twenty-nine days, stuff's gotta happen.
Some stuff's gonna happen tomorrow night.
I think Senator McCain's gonna have a real good night tomorrow night.
I actually li uh both debates so far, the one presidential and the one vice presidential.
I think everybody's brought at le 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, uh uh avoided a meltdown while off the prompter.
Senator McCain did fine scoring big points on experience in national security.
In the vice presidential debate, Joe Biden did fine, no gaffs, no condescension, no bullying, no pandering, no patronizing.
Excuse me, no patronizing, plenty of pandering.
Uh and 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 uh to 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 um moments of bad judgment?
So this plus other things in the news and other things political are all welcome at 1800-282-2882.
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 first time caller.
I always like listening to you.
Um, I want to uh return to something you said about uh why should we care about Franklin Raines.
Um, careful, I I care a lot.
I wonder how much of America would care about Franklin Raines.
But they they should be made to care and it because they're mad and they want to know who 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, uh, they didn't warn us.
McCain did try to warn us.
Um and Franklin Raines 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, you know, 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 re if he actually accused the other side, you know, actually wanted an investigation of uh of the people across the aisle.
Reaching across the aisle with indictments, as it were.
Exactly.
And and I mean why isn't he coming out?
The gift that keeps on giving.
Yeah, I don't this is much more important to me than um well, let me let me just finish my finish that sentence.
Much more important to you than what.
Yeah, yeah, I well um that than the um then 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 if it's going to only be neutralized by the fact that the um uh the Obama campaign is now linking uh McCain to uh Keating and saying, oh, that whole SNL scandal then is partly why we're in the mess we are now.
No, uh McCain needs to reverse it and say, no, what Obama was doing was linked with was directly causing the the crisis for in now because he was part of uh Acorn, which is a kind of uh uh organization like Freddie and Fanny, pushing words.
Let's engage in a moment of political theater.
I I'm energized by what you're saying.
Uh not at the debate, but at a at a campaign event, perhaps uh 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.
We yes, I supported it.
I felt I had to.
Um 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 twentieth of two thousand nine.
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?
Uh okay.
I mean, okay.
All right, all right.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
And and if he had why aren't you uh 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 uh uh megaphone.
I guarantee you that this thought will filter into somebody's head.
Well, 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 and what I'll be interested in.
It'll take um 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 f a poll is only so fresh.
Because if it's something came out this morning, it was 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, i it might in uh in Tampa and in Chicago.
Uh because you're basically dealing with October baseball versus Monday night football and what it's the uh uh Vikes and the Saints on Monday Night Football.
But uh wow.
How about those Angels?
Uh they're the best team in baseball, and a World Series without them would simply be problematic.
Uh God bless all of you in Boston, but we'll see what happens.
The Angels manage to stay alive.
The Red Sox probably win tonight with uh with Lester on the mound, but uh the Angels really put up a fight into twelve innings late last night, and that was something.
And and the Tampa Bay Rays, God love them.
You know, th they're they're great and and not even their own fan base cares that much, it seems, but I they will if they can dispatch the White Sox and move on to the uh to the ALCS, wouldn't that be something?
All right, uh love me some October baseball.
And so oh wow, Cubs fans, so sorry.
And Brewers fans, so sorry.
My oh my, oh my uh boy.
The v because you know what it is?
What a roller coaster that is.
To t especially for the Cubs.
I mean, maybe that maybe this is it after a century-ish, and and the Brewers first time in the postseason in twenty-five years.
Man, this is gonna be great.
Turn your head, pff.
You know, what was that?
That was the Phillies.
Oh, okay.
And God bless the Phillies, good for them.
And the Dodgers.
You know, though, you know.
So the winners go, those spoils in the National League.
All righty, all this plows through October.
I love October.
October's 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 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 colors today, but I have to disagree with you.
The man from Mississippi was totally right.
Um 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 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 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 uh dudes that passed this law, the the guilty ones, not the ones that stood for our principles of freedom and democracy.
David Davis bless his heart.
Anyway, the the ones that voted yes um that's what the market is reacting to today and it's just so frustrating because for those who didn't hear for those who didn't hear the earlier gentleman for those that didn't hear the earlier gentleman his his point was that the markets the reason the markets have not just thrilled to the 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 I didn't really disagree with it 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 gonna mismanage and corrupt I mean it's just a mess.
All right Elizabeth you're a thoughtful woman I have a 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.
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't 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 in that case...
that businessman tell them 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 that the decision that was made this week or last Friday is today.
I don't even know anyway this this 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 part man he's just indeed so and I mean it's it's gonna fall to him if and Elizabeth thank you I that a wonderful call and uh and a noble answer there to see if I can answer my own question.
If if if sixty 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 impr 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 fraud.
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?
Be right 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 I believe there's antibiotics for.
It is the sixth day of October, Monday, debate eve, and we're looking at what uh Senator McCain and Senator Obama might throw at each other uh 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.
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 and kind 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 you 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 health care, talking about the future that we'd like to build with a McCain administration.
I 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 in artfully that the other side can pick it up and beat your brains in with it.
Oh, heavens.
All right, here's a McK here uh this this, however, all right, let's get our spirits uh back up to uh 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.
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 uh Senator McCain has uh told us that he's going to bail on.
It's killing me.
It's killing me.
Uh, it's gonna be all right.
It's gonna be all right.
Uh that would be Michigan, and that would be Battle Creek, Michigan, some cereal factories, I'm guessing up there.
Brenda, hello, Mark Davis InfoRush, and 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.
Um yes.
I'm sitting there anxiously waiting for the debate Thursday night.
I turn on my local news, and I get the big uh announcement that uh 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 take 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 in your state of Michigan.
Well, neither do I, but but listen, I mean, but because we can't figure it out, don't uh don't lose sight of the fact that it happens.
In times of economic strife, uh 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.
Um 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 uh sixty thousand dollar mortgage on a hundred and forty thousand dollar home.
The 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 straights that you're not exactly situationally the same.
But they're still Democrat and I keep pounding him over the chance.
Yep.
You you you're look at all the taxes they're taking out of your check.
If you vote Democrat, they're gonna just take out more.
Exactly.
Get get with your hardworking hubby and tell them that Barack Obama will rape the job creating class in America.
That when he talks about, oh, 90, 95% of people are you know not gonna get a tax increase.
The other five or ten percent 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.
Uh well, I may have stunder.
I've stunned with my clarity.
Sorry.
Uh one-eight hundred two eight two two eight eight two, one-eight hundred two eight two, two eight eighty two.
I never want to 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 in my maybe at 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. McKay for Senator McCain to add Obama tomorrow.
Uh huh.
And that that is, why did he inject himself into the negotiations with Iraq and undermines uh our government's negotiation with him then the war, and then you know, and present himself as as if he were in the position to be for our government.
And then I one of the things I didn't say your screener, I'd like to that uh comment that I think should McCain should close with, and that would be a two question uh uh to the public.
And that is one, ask them to look at their um their checks up 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 I also the last question is ask themselves when's the last time a Democrat lowered your taxes.
But the main question is is why did he inject himself into Iraq, negotiations with Iraq, and basically at worst commit treason at least undermines our government's uh ability to negotiate with uh, you know, trying to get in this war.
I I can sense people wanting you to 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 he uh actually uh went to the uh foreign minister for Iraq and uh told them not to negotiate um until after the presidency, until after the election.
And then he implied, according to the report, and I don't understand why this hadn't got more traction.
No, I I remember this.
I remember the same report.
I wanted to know what uh I remember the same thing.
I um 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 uh and in fact, there is a larger point on 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 uh you know go up against Putin?
Well, I 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 they're they're agreeing about everything.
Solitaire.
Good move, Mark.
They're they're playing cards.
They're they're in they're enjoying uh 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 forty-fifth president of the United States by natural progression after a full four years of uh 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.
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 sixties, fly like an eagle here.
That's a good thirty-five-year-old record now.
Just tremendous.
Just tremendous.
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 uh I'm actually Akron, Pennsylvania.
Oh.
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 lambass the the uh the Democrats on energy.
And and I mean, this is a a crucial uh uh economic issue that I don't see that we can lose on.
You can hardly lay this uh uh this energy problem at anybody's feet except the Democrats.
If if if OPEC wanted to uh wanted to make a plan to increase their profits in oil, what better plan could they have than to uh then than to s reduce production of energy in the nation that is the largest user of energy in the entire uh industrial world.
Isn't that isn't that what the Democrats' foolish plans have 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 uh if uh voters from Akron, Pennsylvania, Akron, Ohio heard uh or Akron, Wyoming, if there is one, and there probably is, uh heard that coming out of Senator McCain's mouth tomorrow night.
I I completely agree with you.
I'm gonna pick up the pace a little bit, try to get as many people on as we can.
Uh one-eight hundred, two eight two-282, you know, thirty-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 in 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're 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's 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 I think for me, you know, I I I've never been a big McCain fan, but you know, at the convention, it was very dramatic when you stood up there and said, fight with me, fight with me.
Yeah.
And just whip the crowd into a frenzy, and I thought, well, you know, maybe he's kind of gotten religion and and maybe he really means it, you know.
But then he turns around, and you know, here he is.
Um 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.
He wants me to vote.
Well, here's the thing.
He wants to be able to do that.
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.
Why not?
Or I want to vote for a candidate.
In a perfect world, I oh 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 I always hate people who sit around in meetings and say, oh, you know, that's 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 in 1993, and two years later, you know, 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, I he just I mean, John McCain, I'm I'm more than glad to fight for him.
Yep.
But time's running out, and he needs to stand up and he needs to espouse some some real conservative.
I completely agree with you.
I so completely agree with you.
I I mean, please.
I mean, I'm uh absolutely.
But uh but i if the thought if if your spirits sink and you think of staying home, uh listen, don't don't do it for for McCain or even Sarah Palin, if you grow uh, you know, a 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 and drive to Dallas Fort Worth and listen to me every morning, and I'll I'll pick up this uh this noble quest a little later on.
All right, we'll pick up the show right after this uh final break.
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I'm Mark Davis in for Rush, who returns tomorrow.
Be right back with you.
You know, we started the show pounding out some uh pretty good disco era bumpers, and we uh finally wrap oh, is it the tramps, right?
And Disco Inferno?
Yeah, they don't write on my goes anymore.
All right.
I I so so much want to thank Kit Carson and Mike Mamone back at the HQ for piloting me through this.
Thank you for your calls.
Thanks most, most profoundly to Mr. Limbaugh for letting me uh keep the chair warm today.
He is back with you tomorrow.
As we close up, I wanted to leave you with a thought.
We we talk oh, you're gonna be inundated with polls, right?
One of my most infuriating poll questions is the one where people ask, do you believe the country is headed in the right direction or the wrong direction?
And of course, eighty percent of everybody says wrong direction.
What kind of idiot says, yeah, 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 though I think we're heading 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 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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