RUSH: Rick in Charlotte, North Carolina -- I want to grab a phone call quickly. Great to have you with us, sir. Hello.CALLER: Oh, my friend, Rush. My friend, Rush, you have really picked a pretty interesting way to fight this situation regarding Huckabee. About two weeks ago, starting on the Monday that you left, Mike Huckabee has been subjected to the biggest... job you could imagine among all of these candidates, among Republicans. He's going to go in bloodied, beaten, brutalized, and hobbled...

RUSH: This is Doug in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Doug, I'm glad you waited. Welcome to the EIB Network. CALLER: Hey, Rush. How you doing?RUSH: Good, sir.CALLER: Mega dittoes from snowy west Michigan here.RUSH: Thank you, sir.CALLER: Good deal. Hey, this wasn't the reason I called, but I want to touch on it since you've been yakking about it for so long here, but I think Huckabee showed great restraint in responding to Mitt Romney's attacks so I wanted to voice my opinion on that. If this is...

RUSH: The primary season is about to get real here, folks, and I think it's time for me, your host, to be more forthcoming. I know many of you have been eagerly awaiting an endorsement from me, and I'm not going to make one in a direct fashion. It's not who I endorse or who I don't endorse. What I'd rather discuss today as we move into the real primary season with first votes of the primaries to be cast in the cauci tomorrow night, I want to discuss with you my qualifications, the qualifications...

RUSH: Fredericksburg, Virginia, people have been waiting patiently, gotta go to the phones here. Will, nice to have you on the program.CALLER: Thanks very much, Rush.RUSH: Yes.CALLER: Dittos from an evangelical who supports conservative Mike Huckabee for president, and I really appreciate you being gracious enough to allow some of us on the air today.RUSH: Absolutely. Go ahead, sir.CALLER: Well, my point is that you've been talking a lot about identity politics, and I do identify with Mike...

RUSH: I'm sure by now you've all heard of what I think was a Clintonesque performance, Governor Huckabee, at a press conference, unveiling an attack ad against Mitt Romney and then pledging not to run this attack ad, hoping to appeal to the voters in Iowa who are sick and tired of negative ads. So he's got the press assembled in this hotel room, or wherever it was, and he tells people about the ad. He spent all day in Arkansas filming this ad. It was an Ed Rollins idea, and they spent $30,000...

RUSH: Let me deal with the latest here involving Governor Huckabee that happened on the break. When we were last together on Friday, December whatever it was, I had finally decided to react to a statement made by an alleged Huckabee campaign advisor in Washington. I don't even remember the exact words, but it mischaracterized me and this program the way Democrats do: "He's just an entertainer, part of Washington-New York media axis. Whatever the RNC talking points are, that's what you'll hear...

RUSH: This is Doug in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Doug, I'm glad you waited. Welcome to the EIB Network. CALLER: Hey, Rush. How you doing?RUSH: Good, sir.CALLER: Mega dittoes from snowy west Michigan here.RUSH: Thank you, sir.CALLER: Good deal. Hey, this wasn't the reason I called, but I want to touch on it since you've been yakking about it for so long here, but I think Huckabee showed great restraint in responding to Mitt Romney's attacks so I wanted to voice my opinion on that. If this is...

RUSH: This is Doug in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Doug, I'm glad you waited. Welcome to the EIB Network. CALLER: Hey, Rush. How you doing?RUSH: Good, sir.CALLER: Mega dittoes from snowy west Michigan here.RUSH: Thank you, sir.CALLER: Good deal. Hey, this wasn't the reason I called, but I want to touch on it since you've been yakking about it for so long here, but I think Huckabee showed great restraint in responding to Mitt Romney's attacks so I wanted to voice my opinion on that. If this is...

RUSH: Fredericksburg, Virginia, people have been waiting patiently, gotta go to the phones here. Will, nice to have you on the program.CALLER: Thanks very much, Rush.RUSH: Yes.CALLER: Dittos from an evangelical who supports conservative Mike Huckabee for president, and I really appreciate you being gracious enough to allow some of us on the air today.RUSH: Absolutely. Go ahead, sir.CALLER: Well, my point is that you've been talking a lot about identity politics, and I do identify with Mike...

RUSH: From news just after I left the microphone on the Friday before Christmas, Hillary Clinton predicted on Saturday, December 22nd, that just electing her would cut the price of oil. "When the world hears her commitment at her inauguration about ending American dependence on foreign fuel, Clinton says, oil-pumping countries will lower prices to stifle America's incentive to develop alternative energy. 'I predict to you, the oil-producing countries will drop the price of oil,' Clinton said,...

RUSH: This is Doug in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Doug, I'm glad you waited. Welcome to the EIB Network. CALLER: Hey, Rush. How you doing?RUSH: Good, sir.CALLER: Mega dittoes from snowy west Michigan here.RUSH: Thank you, sir.CALLER: Good deal. Hey, this wasn't the reason I called, but I want to touch on it since you've been yakking about it for so long here, but I think Huckabee showed great restraint in responding to Mitt Romney's attacks so I wanted to voice my opinion on that. If this is...

RUSH: I'm sure by now you've all heard of what I think was a Clintonesque performance, Governor Huckabee, at a press conference, unveiling an attack ad against Mitt Romney and then pledging not to run this attack ad, hoping to appeal to the voters in Iowa who are sick and tired of negative ads. So he's got the press assembled in this hotel room, or wherever it was, and he tells people about the ad. He spent all day in Arkansas filming this ad. It was an Ed Rollins idea, and they spent $30,000...

RUSH: Let me deal with the latest here involving Governor Huckabee that happened on the break. When we were last together on Friday, December whatever it was, I had finally decided to react to a statement made by an alleged Huckabee campaign advisor in Washington. I don't even remember the exact words, but it mischaracterized me and this program the way Democrats do: "He's just an entertainer, part of Washington-New York media axis. Whatever the RNC talking points are, that's what you'll hear...

Katie in Winona, Iowa, nice to have you with us on the EIB Network. Hello.CALLER: Hey, Rush, it's Monona, with an M.RUSH: What did I -- whoa, whoa. What did I say?CALLER: You said Winona.RUSH: Oh, well, you know, the computer monitor, I have to tell you this, Katie, the computer monitor, actually the program, our call screener program dates back to the eighties. It looks like your old DOS computer, with the green and so forth, and so a W looks like an M without my glasses on. I don't have...

RUSH: It actually is great to be back with all of you. I spent an amazing week, and I'm going to be very honest about this. I needed to recharge. I needed to chill out, and, by the way, folks, I want to let you know, I have canceled both of my scheduled appearances in the Bob Hope Chrysler Classic scheduled for this month and in the AT&T National Pro-Am in February because of the presidential primaries and the election season. It's too important. I'm not going to be gone during those periods....

RUSH: Rick in Charlotte, North Carolina -- I want to grab a phone call quickly. Great to have you with us, sir. Hello.CALLER: Oh, my friend, Rush. My friend, Rush, you have really picked a pretty interesting way to fight this situation regarding Huckabee. About two weeks ago, starting on the Monday that you left, Mike Huckabee has been subjected to the biggest... job you could imagine among all of these candidates, among Republicans. He's going to go in bloodied, beaten, brutalized, and hobbled...

The Iowa caucus is, of course, tomorrow. It's very fascinating to watch, Democrats are spending about $200 a vote in the Iowa caucus. Do you know that less than 3%, less than 5% of Iowans actually, participate in this? Generally the extremes of both parties who show up at these cauci 125,000 people tops, maybe 150. If it's above 150,000 that participate, the conventional wisdom is that Obama's going to run away with it because he's bringing a bunch of independents in. If it's less than 150,...

RUSH: The primary season is about to get real here, folks, and I think it's time for me, your host, to be more forthcoming. I know many of you have been eagerly awaiting an endorsement from me, and I'm not going to make one in a direct fashion. It's not who I endorse or who I don't endorse. What I'd rather discuss today as we move into the real primary season with first votes of the primaries to be cast in the cauci tomorrow night, I want to discuss with you my qualifications, the qualifications...

Rush's Morning Update: One Year LaterJanuary 3, 2008Watch It! Download Morning Update Video in QuickTimeListen to It! Windows Media Player|RealPlayer Last year at this time, the drive-by media and their Democrat party allies were in high spirits. They were preparing for the coronation of the first woman Speaker of the House, the San Francisco Treat, the Queen Bee: Nancy Pelosi. This was supposedly a defining moment of history; the glass ceiling had been broken! Washington would no longer be...

You're Missing Out on Thousands of Rush Quotes! Join Rush 24/7 NOW!"In 2008, we need a candidate who is willing to say he's a conservative and espouse those principles, or we are going to lose big.""If anybody doubts the aspect of Benazir Bhutto's gender in her assassination in a militant Islamic country, then you are missing one of the key elements of the enemy that we face.""When I was gone I did not watch news television at night. I never do when I'm away. It is amazing how much my mental health...

Story #1:Another Sign of Global Warming: the Florida FreezeRUSH: Just another sign of global warming, ladies and gentlemen. Tomorrow morning every state in the continental United States will have areas where the temperature is 20 degrees or colder at 7 a.m. Even here, in lovely south Florida, it is going to be below freezing. There is a crop and a citrus warning out for tonight and tomorrow morning. Now, where we are here on the extreme East Coast, we're going to be above freezing because of the...