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RUSH: I think I remember a year ago, six months ago, maybe 12 months ago, 13 or 14 months, a little over a year, maybe, friends of mine panicking over Senator McCain and his candidacy. ‘Rush, he\u2019s not a conservative.\u2019 I said don\u2019t worry. Don\u2019t worry. Senator McCain will implode at some point. I think the implosions have begun. He\u2019s imploding here at Romney, accusing Romney of flip-flopping. He imploded with Cornyn. What that was all about was here are they guys in the Senate, Republicans in the Senate are trying their best to hold their own, some of them are, on the immigration deal with the Democrats and Ted Kennedy, and McCain\u2019s out there missing all kinds of Senate votes and he\u2019s out there running around campaigning, and he\u2019s really intentionally out of town because he hasn\u2019t raised as much money as he\u2019s wanted or needed. All of a sudden at the last minute, the eleventh hour, he buzzes into town, heads into the negotiation room and starts talking about what should happen. Cornyn said to him, ‘Look, you fly in here after being out of town for three months, start telling us what we\u2019re going to do, get in line, pal,\u2019 something to that effect. And here came the F-bomb from McCain. (Doing McCain impression) ‘I know more about this legislation than anybody in this room. You got that, sailor? You got it?\u2019 Just blew up. That got reported. <\/p>\n

McCain\u2019s people tried to downplay it; even some of the Republican senator staffers tried to downplay it, obviously. And now the Romney flip-flop. I\u2019ve seen stories — I haven\u2019t reported them or haven\u2019t shared them with you — but there have been stories in the last couple of weeks about McCain\u2019s health. Writing about his inability to get off his Straight Talk Express bus smoothly, bum knee, not moving around as fluidly as he used to, and they\u2019re beginning to wonder, some of the Drive-Bys are starting to speculate, ‘Hey, is his age becoming a factor here?\u2019 Seventy years old now, I think, and he\u2019s had two bouts of melanoma. <\/p>\n

This story about John Edwards, too. Now, let\u2019s look and see where this story comes from, shall we? This is from the San Francisco Chronicle. The San Francisco Chronicle qualifies as the Drive-By Media. ‘Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards, who recently proposed an educational policy that urged ‘every financial barrier\u2019 be removed for American kids who want to go to college, has been going to college himself — as a high paid speaker, his financial records show. The candidate charged a whopping $55,000 to speak at to a crowd of 1,787 the taxpayer-funded University of California at Davis on Jan. 9, 2006 last year.\u2019 Now, this is just coming out now. Why is this being reported? The Drive-Bys didn\u2019t go out and sniff this out. This is in his financial reporting information. But why are they reporting it? They normally sweep this stuff under the rug. He\u2019s one of their guys.<\/p>\n

John Fund has a piece today, the Wall Street Journal, speculating that it\u2019s getting to be even too much for the Drive-Bys to ignore and look the other way. The guy is such a blatant hypocrite. He goes to this hedge fund where he ostensibly is going to learn about poverty. It\u2019s an offshore hedge fund. He\u2019s got statements on the record opposing tax shelters that are brought about by having offshore hedge funds. He goes to work for one. After he comes out of his little consultancy deal there making whatever, 400 and some odd thousand dollars I think he made, he said he learned about poverty. What did he learn about the offshore hedge funds, tax shelters and so forth, he claims to want to put down? Then there was the story, after bashing Wal-Mart to hell, one of his staffers is sent to Wal-Mart to get a PlayStation 2 or 3 or something for one of Edwards\u2019 kids. Fund\u2019s theory is that they\u2019re beginning to wonder if the guy\u2019s not just a total and utter phony. The Chronicle noted that parents might be excused for wondering, given that the University of California system is being hit with a 7% tuition increase that will impact a lot of struggling students. Why didn\u2019t Edwards offer to do his speech gratis for a public institution? The senator\u2019s office wouldn\u2019t comment, but journalists covering Mr. Edwards have lately started connecting certain dots. <\/p>\n

<\/a> ‘Sooner or later the public\u2019s going to have to make a decision about whether Edwards with his $400 haircuts, his 29,000 square foot house, his lucrative hedge fund employment, walks the populist walk that he talks.\u2019 Now, this is Joe Klein, a columnist at TIME Magazine. ‘Other reporters recall on the same day last November, Edwards participated in a union conference call criticizing Wal-Mart. One of his staffers trying to obtain a coveted PlayStation 3 console for his family by calling the local Wal-Mart and bypassing the hordes of ordinary Americans waiting in line, and then Edwards issued a bizarre statement claiming the staffer was acting apparently without our knowledge. The former senator either knew what was being done in his name or he didn\u2019t.\u2019 The fact that this stuff is being reported, and you could say some of it\u2019s coming from Clinton, Inc., and you could say that Hillary\u2019s out there, got her pals in the Drive-By Media and they want to take out some of Hillary\u2019s opponents as quickly as possible. And, by the way, remember that press conference when John Edwards and his wife Elizabeth announced the return of her cancer? The Drive-Bys started speculating about how great this was politically and what a wonderfully executed political press conference and how it was going to buy — they\u2019re all saying this — how it was going to buy a little cover for Senator Edwards. He\u2019s going to be a little bulletproof now because how do you go out and attack the guy politically whose wife just announced that her cancer has come back? Well, it\u2019s happening. I guess there was a little grace period there, but now it\u2019s happening. It\u2019s the Drive-Bys that are doing this. <\/p>\n

The guy is phony. There\u2019s no two ways about it. It\u2019s just stunning to me that the Drive-Bys have turned on him. I guess it shouldn\u2019t be. They don\u2019t want him. The Drive-Bys\u2019 candidate of choice right now, believe it or not, is Algore. They\u2019re literally going bonkers. What do you think Matthews is doing that bit that we played for you<\/a> last night about Hillary and Bill and how often they stay under the same roof at night, and TIME Magazine has been going on and on and on about Algore and all that, and Obama has been built up. It strikes me that there\u2019s not a whole lot of love and affection for Mrs. Clinton. Now, this could be that they\u2019re just trying to provide obstacles for her to overcome to make it look like she\u2019s not the candidate of inevitability, that she can get into fights and win these things. But it doesn\u2019t look like she can on her own. She has to send Bill out to fund-raise, to make campaign appearances for her. The Drive-Bys always end up touting and supporting the wrong guy. Algore in 2000, Kerry in 2004, and if you listen to the Drive-Bys, they will come through and pick a Democrat presidential loser I\u2019d say eight out of ten times. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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