RUSH: Jake in Clearwater, Florida, welcome to the program, sir. CALLER: Thank you, Rush. You just said exactly what I was going to say, because compromising our principles is what we set it off with. I was selected as a delegate to go to the Republican convention in Orlando back in October, on October 20th and 21st at the debate and at that time there was a small group of us conservatives that were called in and said that if we didn't compromise our position, we would end up with a Democrat...

RUSH: This is Saturday in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and we move on to Governor Huckabee now. He held a press conference, unidentified reporter said, "Governor Huckabee, why are these conservative leaders going to Governor Romney's camp and not Senator McCain's?" HUCKABEE: Some suggest that the fact that Bain Capital owns a major stake in Clear Channel and is on Sean's network, that maybe there's a correlation. I don't know. RUSH: Whew. Now, I happen to know something about this. This is...

RUSH: I want to clarify something that I said in the last hour. I had a caller who was talking about the three legs of the conservative stool, and I said that one of the reasons why voters on our side are going to three or four different candidates is because not one candidate embodies all three legs of the stool. The more accurate way to have stated that was that at the outset of our campaign, there wasn't one who had all three legs. Well, there was one. Fred Thompson did, but he was never really...

RUSH: This is The Tonight Show last Thursday night, Jay Leno interviewing Senator McCain. They had this exchange.LENO: On conservative radio, Rush Limbaugh especially: "The Republican Party is dead if John McCain gets elected." What do you do there? Do you try to win those guys over? Do you just ignore it, hope they come around? I mean, because the right-wing radio thing is pretty powerful. I mean, would you go on his show if he invited you?MCCAIN: I'd go on most any show if I was invited...

RUSH: I got the sound bite roster from Cookie at about ten minutes prior to show time, and the first 20 sound bites are about me, and most of them are from the Sunday shows, some are from last Friday. I didn't watch any of the Sunday shows yesterday. So I didn't know any of this, and nobody had sent me e-mails. I guess it's so common now that I get mentioned all over the Drive-By Media that nobody sent me any e-mail. So I'm reading the roster here today, and I'm literally stunned at all...

Rush's Morning Update: Straight TalkFebruary 5, 2008Watch It! Download Morning Update Video in QuickTimeListen to It! Windows Media Player|RealPlayer To mollify conservative voters, one Republican candidate now says the reason he voted against President Bush's tax cutswas that spending cuts weren't on the table.But that's not true;it's not what he said. At the time, this candidate said he couldn't "in good conscience support a tax cut in which so many of the benefits go to the most fortunate...

You're Missing Out on Thousands of Rush Quotes! Join Rush 24/7 NOW!"We're being told to rally behind McCain, when he's not even the nominee yet. The Patriots were inevitable until they played the game.""Who are these Drive-Bys? I mean, here they are ripping me to shreds, and yet they want me on their news networks to analyze election results? I'm going to save my comments for you people!""It's pro-choicers who are voting for McCain.Well, that's who liberals are; they're scared to death to be...

Story #1: The Hutch Called It: Great Win for the Mara FamilyRUSH: Yeah, it was a great game, but I practically blew it -- I blew a gasket last night. I literally started yelling and cursing and screaming so loud. I had 40 people over last night for a Super Bowl party. I had about 25 of them in the theater room, and the others were in my library. The Patriots fans in one room; the Giants fans in the other, and they were going back and forth. I started screaming after Belichick punted after...