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RUSH: Will in the nation\u2019s capital, in Washington, hello, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, Rush, it\u2019s good to be with you. Thanks for taking my call.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yes, sir. You bet.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I wanted to actually talk to you somewhat about some commentary you were just making. I guess being involved with a lot of College Republicans here at AU, being president. I went up to New Hampshire, talked to a lot of Senator McCain\u2019s supporters and even people down here support him, even people like Senator Brownback — and the perception I get from them is they\u2019re supporting him because they think he\u2019s the best we can get, and I think that\u2019s really a shortsighted viewpoint. Like you had just said, we know that there\u2019s going to be a democratically controlled Senate in the next session and probably a Congress, too. So we know it\u2019s in the self-interests of the Democrats to bring up immigration again, or even on judicial nominees. If we want to get a pro-life nominee through the Senate, we know that McCain is open to making serious compromises on that judge\u2019s view on campaign finance reform, the environment, detainees. The list is endless on the kinds of compromises that we\u2019d have to make to even move our agenda forward.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay, let me stop you. Why? Tell me. You\u2019ve just gone through the litany, and I stopped you about 30% of the way through it. You\u2019ve got 70% of the list to go, but the people you talked about — the people voting in the primaries — why does none of that matter? You tell me what you think.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I think that they are looking at a shortsighted viewpoint that puts winning an election and simply having a Republican in the White House, over actually moving our values forward. I don\u2019t think they\u2019re putting two and two together in that sense. I think they just view it as a best-we-can-get situation, which I don\u2019t even think is true<\/p>\n

RUSH: I think a lot of these people are not principled conservatives. They\u2019re Republicans. They say they\u2019re conservatives, but… And I agree with you, ‘electability\u2019 is probably what\u2019s putting them over the edge, but adding to that, do not underestimate the degree of Fear — with a capital F — and the degree of intense dislike people have for Hillary Clinton. There are a lot of people to whom beating her with anybody — I don\u2019t care, whoever could do it. If Bozo the Clown could do it, they would support Bozo the Clown. There\u2019s a cadre of that in our party that\u2019s just scared to death of her. They are so angry with what happened in the eight years of Clinton, they don\u2019t want it back. Anything — anything — to keep her out of the White House, and if they think McCain is the best guy to do that (and probably they do because the Drive-By Media loves him and people are still, I don\u2019t care what you say, influenced by the Drive-By Media), and so it\u2019s… By the way, do you know McCain\u2019s out of money? Relatively speaking, he\u2019s out of money; and I\u2019ve been reading at National Review Online blog, The Corner, and they\u2019ve got some pro-McCain people there, really some caustic comments that are aimed at Mitt Romney. ‘Well, look at all this money!\u2019 He needs to spend all that TV money to counter the free media McCain\u2019s getting from the Drive-Bys, the free slavish media. McCain doesn\u2019t get one bit of criticism in the Drive-By Media, not one! It\u2019s nothing but fawning this, fawning that. Romney has no choice. But anyway, the bottom line here is, Will, the electability thing is doubled when you throw in the fear and the dislike that a lot of Republicans have for Hillary.<\/p>\n

CALLER: We had Senator Obama come to our campus just a of couple days ago to get Senator Kennedy\u2019s endorsement, and if the media coverage of that is any indication, I really think the media wants Senator Obama to get the nomination and Senator McCain to get our nomination because here\u2019s a guy that can rally the left very well and even encroach upon some independents and make whatever McCain\u2019s electability argument is totally worthless.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, that\u2019s one of the things people are examining: Is there really something going on in the Democrat side? Are the Drive-Bys really, really that irritated at Hillary and are they really, really moving away from them, or is it — as many suspect — they just want some excitement? They\u2019re bored, they\u2019re a little bored covering the Clintons. There\u2019s nothing new there. Here comes this young guy, Obama; he\u2019s got everybody all fired up. ‘Wow, it\u2019s a story!\u2019 But at the end of the day when Hillary gets the nomination, they\u2019ll move back to her. The new theory is that at the end of the day they\u2019re going to stick with Obama \u2019til he wins the nomination, because that\u2019s what they want. I don\u2019t know, but at the real end of the day, I don\u2019t care if it\u2019s Hillary or Obama versus McCain…. Let\u2019s say it\u2019s Hillary. I guarantee you that all of this stuff that they are saying about Bill and Hillary and the race thing, it will be forgotten. And by the time we get to September, October, November, the Drive-Bys will be in full Clinton force. In fact, folks, I have a story in the stack, and it\u2019s in Newsweek, and it hit last night, while I\u2019m in the middle of show prep for today\u2019s excursion into broadcast excellence. It\u2019s a piece by Anna Quindlen about age. When is too old? Let me find this. Which stack did I put this in? I want to get the exact headline of her piece, because it\u2019s now starting, folks. Here it is: ‘How Old Is Too Old? Race, Gender, They\u2019re Both Up for Grabs in this Presidential Election; It\u2019s Age That\u2019s Become the New Taboo in a Vitality Culture.\u2019 This is the first little Drive-By tentacle to reach into the McCain camp and start raising questions about his age and everything that goes along with that. Then it\u2019s going to be his temperament, and then, ‘Has he shown any memory lapses out on the stump?\u2019 The Drive-Bys are going to wring their hands, ‘Oh, we really didn\u2019t want to talk about this, but I\u2019ve seen some things…\u2019 It\u2019s going to start, folks. We all know it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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