Do Your Show Prep: Everything Rush reads to prepare for the show.

Some of the topics we're loaded with today: Unemployment Rises to 9% In February || Obama Peddles Modest American Dream || For Boomers, It's a New Era of "Work 'Til You Drop"  || Romney Barely Tops Santorum in AZ || A Bill of Rights for Dolphins

“As Rick Santorum Campaigns on Faith, Family Issues, Could He Alienate Moderates?” That’s an actual headline from Monday’s Detroit Free Press. Let me suggest a few alternate headlines regarding our incumbent President.

RUSH: The Republican establishment has, in effect, for the past year, in its own way, governed against the will of its own voters. And they find themselves where they are today trying to figure out how to save their own bacon by having a convention that simply ignores everything that's happened so far in the primaries.

RUSH: I, your host, El Rushbo, have ruined politics by spawning thousands of local talk show hosts who hold politicians' feet to the fire.

RUSH: Does it not sound a little strange to you that Obama only has $59,000 in his super PAC?

RUSH: Obama believes that, if folks work hard and become successful, they should be punished with higher taxes and the loss of all their deductions. That's what happens to you in Barack Obama's America.  So you better keep your limitations in sight.

RUSH: It's all about beating Obama, and the Republican base thinks it's possible. They know it's possible. And that's the objective.

RUSH: My staff once again thinks that I have stepped in it big time and that I essentially have lost touch with you.

RUSH: Bill McGurn, full disclosure, is a friend of mine. He writes at the Wall Street Journal, and this piece is an unexpected surprise.  It's unexpected in that it is rare that anyone is advising a principled conservative like Santorum to basically continue to be who he is, be himself.

RUSH: It's all good, folks, it's all good. The long campaign is just fine. 

RUSH: The price of gasoline's up 90% since when Obama took office, folks.

RUSH: Can I give you the details of this? This $170 billion bailout hinged on squeezing last-minute concessions out of private holders of Greek debt. This is the same way Obama bailed out GM and Chrysler.

RUSH: That stuff is out there. It's headlined on Drudge and the left has it, and Santorum will have to deal with it. He'll have to answer it. I don't know. It's just not the kind of stuff you hear a presidential candidate talk about. It's not ordinary in that sense.

RUSH: This is the star of the Democrat Party... "Twenty-five women coming through there every day looking for Bill Clinton."