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| March 5, 2008 |
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Story #1: McCain's Habit of Throwing Supporters Under Bus
RUSH: I guess this is in Texas, was in Houston, and a questioner at the town hall meeting took the microphone to level an insult at Mrs. Clinton. "Referring to the introduction of McCain's wife Cindy, a man in Houston said, 'Unlike other candidates in the race, if Cindy answers the phone at three in the morning, she won't be wondering where her husband is.'" So there was raucous laughter, the crowd loved it, gales of laughter, there was applause, there were lots of smiles, including one from Cindy McCain. Senator McCain, however, "according to The Politico.com was forced to dissociate himself from the comments, while the acknowledging that the line was meant in humor, McCain said, 'Americans want us to have a respectful campaign" and he honors and respects both Senator Clinton and Senator Obama, which also got applause but not nearly so much as the original line." So Senator McCain chastises yet another voter, supporter -- dissociates himself from another supporter -- at one of his town hall meetings. So... I'm just not even gonna comment on it myself, not gonna comment on it myself, just throw it out there; let you people ponder it amongst yourselves. See what you think.
 Story #2: Drive-Bys Sweat, Fret Three More Primary Months
RUSH: Here's the headline today from the Rocky Mountain News. This is in Denver. "'Tuesday's Results Could Mean Chaos for the Democrat National Committee.' There was more confusion than closure in Tuesday's presidential primaries, preserving the prospect of brutal chaos leading right up to the Democratic National Convention in Denver." Amen, bro, this is exactly what we wanted. The delegate count -- what did she pick up, something like 22 delegates or something like that? She didn't get that much closer, she didn't narrow the gap, and the odds are still really, really against her winning the nomination. Here's how it goes. This is how the delegate math -- for those of you who are all worried. By the way, you wouldn't believe the number of sound bites I have coming up from the Drive-By Media commenting on the Limbaugh Effect: How much was it? How big was it? And then, we have some Drive-By people saying here that I am corrupting and perverting democracy, that what I did was ungentlemanly. I'm not kidding you. We've got the sound bites coming up. No, I'm not kidding at all. I've got the sound bites coming up.
Let me tell you something, folks. You who listen to this program regularly understand one of the guiding principles of this program, and that is to illustrate absurdity by being absurd. If the Democrats and if the media can pick our nominee, then why the hell can't we pick theirs? If it's really fine and dandy and wonderful and bipartisan for Democrats and independents to cross over in the early Republican primaries in states where there are not a dominant number of conservative Republicans and essentially nominate Senator McCain, how come that's all hunky-dory, how come that's wonderful, how come that's all sweetness and light, how come that's democracy in action? But when Republicans, after our nominee is already chosen, decide to enter the Democrat primary and express their wishes on that side of the aisle, how come that's corrupting democracy? It's not corrupting, it's just making them mad, which is another objective that we succeeded in pulling off.
Let me give you the delegate math here to calm some of your fears out there. If Clinton and Obama basically tie in the remaining 12 contests, Obama would need 164 superdelegates to come his way to put him over the magic number of 2,024. Here's the thing that you have to understand. Because of what happened yesterday, this contest is assured to go another three months to Puerto Rico on June 7th, exactly as we told you in a piece written -- I forget who wrote it -- in American Spectator on Monday. There is no way that either one of these two candidates is going to wrap up the number of delegates by Puerto Rico, which means we're going to get Florida and we're going to get Michigan redo's. That will happen in June sometime. Well, I don't know when it's going to happen, but I would bet that we get Florida and Michigan redo's. "Well, yeah, because you can't disenfranchise all those voters. It's just not right, Mr. Limbaugh, we can't do it." Remember what I told you, Snerdley, there are no rules in the Democrat Party; there are only customs and traditions. Don't frown at me. Stop and think of it.
Do you realize what a brilliant observation that is? There are no rules, and therefore there are no rules to break. There are customs, traditions. And of course one of the great Democrat traditions, one of the great Democrat customs is every vote counts, at least twice, and sometimes three times. It's a great custom. It's been that way in Chicago for a long time; been that way in West Virginia for a long time. They tried to make that happen in Cuyahoga County last night. I keep hearing judges are loath to keep polling places open. (laughing) Democrat judges aren't, certainly not in St. Louis and not in Cleveland.
Story #3: Chicago Press Begs Barry to Come Clean on Rezko
RUSH: The Chicago Sun-Times, by the way, is all over Senator Obama. Jury selection began Monday in the trial of political influence peddler Tony Rezko. This would be the time before a single witness takes the stand for Barack Obama to finally share every detail of his relationship with Rezko. This is an editorial from the Chicago Sun-Times. "Rezko stands accused of funneling state business to companies that lined his pockets and made campaign contributions to Governor Blagojevich. Rezko allegedly directed 10 grand to Obama's 2004 campaign to the US Senate. The criminal charges against Rezko in no way implicate Obama in any wrongdoing, but they do raise the question of the dealings between the two men. For months, sometimes investigative reporters have had a standing request to meet with Obama face-to-face to get answers to questions such as these: 'How many fundraisers did Rezko throw for Obama?' 'Obama's donating $150,000 to charity that Rezko brought into the campaign, but how much in all did Rezko raise?' 'Did Rezko find jobs for Obama backers in the Blagojevich administration or elsewhere?' 'Why did Obama only recently admit after Bloomberg News broke the story that Rezko had toured his south side mansion with him in 2004 before he bought it?' Dribs and drabs of people's lives have a most unfortunate way of coming out in trials." And so the Chicago Sun-Times, "Hey, Barack, to prevent the dribs and drabs, tell us in advance."
I mention all this only because if you don't think Clinton, Inc., is going to be keeping a sharp eye on this, I mean, how many Clinton, Inc., jurors will there be? And, of course, Obama could fire back with Norman Hsu stuff if he wanted to; plenty of stuff to fire back at here. Hope it happens, that's the whole point. "As questioning of potential jurors wrapped up Tuesday in the corruption trial of political fund-raiser Tony Rezko, a new accusation has surfaced that Rezko paid a $1.5 million bribe in an effort to win a $50 million business deal in Iraq. In a court filing, Rezko's lawyers say that prosecutors accused him in a closed-door meeting of paying the bribe to Aiham Alsammarae, Iraq's former minister of electricity. Rezko's defense team called the accusation 'baseless.' They accused the prosecution of relying too heavily on the word of Daniel Mahru, a former Rezko business partner who is expected to testify against Rezko." Drips and drabs, drips and drabs. Here's Obama, all hot to trot on his anti-Iraq policy, should not have gone there, shouldn't have had anything to do with what's going on, bad mistake, Bush should have never gone. The guy, therefore, who enabled Obama to buy his house at below market price is now accused of paying a $1.5 million bribe in an effort to win a $50 million business deal in that very same Iraq that Obama says we have no business being in.
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