RUSH: I want to hit you between the eyes here. I keep hearing from people who say, "Rush, we're screwed. We are screwed, no matter what happens here. Whatever scenario you just announced, we're screwed. If McCain is the president, big-time Democrat majorities in the House and Senate, we're screwed. If Obama the president, big-time majorities in the House and Senate, we're screwed." I don't think we're screwed.If I thought we were screwed, I would retire. What would be the point here? A friend...

RUSH: Okay, what should the Republicans do about this? Republicans in Congress, Republican senators running for reelection, what should they do? The stories in the Stack of Stuff today do not show promise. Soul-searching Republicans turning to an unlikely savior, John McCain, as they try to stave off an electoral disaster. This guy is going to be running against his own party, and he's not even going to try for coattails. And they hope that his brand is better than the House Republican brand...

RUSH: Here is William, Falls Church, Virginia. It's nice to have you on the EIB Network. Hello, sir.CALLER: Hey, Rush, how are you?RUSH: Pretty good, sir.CALLER: I'm a longtime listener, one-time talker with you. We agreed on so much, which is nice. I'm going to tell you, you had today one of the I think most important shows I've ever heard, and you really stuck us with these two options. I'm in favor of option one. And the reason for that is, we're going to have to get rid of most of the...

RUSH: Ladies and gentlemen, this is not a commercial. Some of you may not know, but it's true, Chevrolet, General Motors, big advertisers here on the EIB Network. And at present, we are driving around one of their new hybrid Chevrolet Tahoes, the Tahoe Hybrid. There's an argument here among the staff over who gets to use it. Great gas mileage and all this stuff. It's a genuine SUV. I was a year ago at General Motors a year ago and I saw it, Bob Lutz showed it to me. It was inside the building...

RUSH: James in the United Arab Emirates. We got a call from the UAE?CALLER: Hi, Rush. Tons of conservative commander-in-chief, strength and honor mega dittos.RUSH: Thank you, sir, very much.CALLER: Hey, I'm a 24-year Air Force veteran, 18-year listener, first-time caller, and I am proud of President Bush, our commander in-chief. He threw a true stun grenade today into the Obama Hussein campaign, and now they're running around trying to defend him. That's my first point. Good on the president....

RUSH: I want to hit you between the eyes here. I keep hearing from people who say, "Rush, we're screwed. We are screwed, no matter what happens here. Whatever scenario you just announced, we're screwed. If McCain is the president, big-time Democrat majorities in the House and Senate, we're screwed. If Obama the president, big-time majorities in the House and Senate, we're screwed." I don't think we're screwed.If I thought we were screwed, I would retire. What would be the point here? A friend...

RUSH: Okay, what should the Republicans do about this? Republicans in Congress, Republican senators running for reelection, what should they do? The stories in the Stack of Stuff today do not show promise. Soul-searching Republicans turning to an unlikely savior, John McCain, as they try to stave off an electoral disaster. This guy is going to be running against his own party, and he's not even going to try for coattails. And they hope that his brand is better than the House Republican brand...

RUSH: The big news today is that George Bush is over in Israel, and in a speech at the Knesset he made some comments about how talking to tyrants is not the way to defeat them. Magic words are not going to convince your enemies to all of a sudden realize they are wrong. He said this is appeasement. The Obama campaign is erupting. They all think it's about them. Puff Daschle went, for him, what is ballistic on Fox today on the phone. I think the Puffster was actually spitting and might have...

RUSH: This is Lee in -- is it Haslett, Michigan? Hi, Lee. Welcome to the EIB Network.CALLER: Hi, Rush. Good morning. I have two things I'd like to talk to you about real quick. One is just really quick about Bush, about getting bashed about what he supposedly -- who he was referring to, Obama --RUSH: He was referring to every damn liberal in the world that's run a country and dealt with tyranny, and these guys want to run around and take it personally. He was talking about socialists. He...

RUSH: I am still struck by the -- because she started crying, she was on the verge of tears -- the woman, Lee, from Haslett, Michigan. She just got a Constitution out, started reading it recently, and she was just devastated over what's happened to the country. She's a former liberal. She became a Reagan Democrat. This is what's happening, and it's tragic. What's happening is that all of these Democrats who were converted to conservatism in the 1980s are now wondering what to do. They are...

Rush's Morning Update: BattlegroundMay 16, 2008Watch It! Download Morning Update Video in QuickTimeListen to It! Windows Media Player|RealPlayer You know, North Carolina voters are usually ignored by Beltway pundits during election cycles. This year's high-profile primary was the exception, because of the Democrats' ongoing uncivil war.But there are at least two reasons conservatives interested in winning ought to take note of events in North Carolina. The first is the state Republican Party's...

You're Missing Out on Thousands of Rush Quotes! Join Rush 24/7 NOW!"I will tell you when it's time to give up, when it's a lost cause, when there's no hope left -- and we are nowhere near that point yet.""I don't like negative people, either, and I used to be one! When I'd get a massage, two minutes into it I'd say, 'Darn it, this is going to end.' And if I bought a new car, I'd say, 'Yeah, this is great, but someday the new car smell is not going to be here.'""If Obama can call 'em sweetie, then...

Story #1: When Black People Go Off on Obama... RUSH: While we're on Obama, I found something fascinating in The New Republic by a guy named Cinque Henderson. He's a TV writer. He's working on a book about Abraham Lincoln. He is a black man who supports Hillary, and explains why very cogently here. But what you'll hear, when black people go off on Obama, they really go off on the guy. Wait 'til you hear this! "Ninety percent of black Democrats support Barack Obama. So that might leave an observer...