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RUSH: I\u2019m still struck by Senator McCain\u2019s attack on Mitt Romney today. Mitt Romney simply said, in response to the letter that Bob Dole sent me, he could think of somebody better to send the letter than Dole. What he meant was, ‘Hey, Dole ran a campaign like you\u2019re running, big military guy, war hero, against a Clinton. We lost that one. It\u2019s probably going to happen again.\u2019 McCain retorts, ‘Romney ought to apologize, Romney never served in the military,\u2019 blah, blah. I want to issue this caution. If Senator McCain becomes the Republican nominee and tries to pull this ‘you didn\u2019t serve in the military line,\u2019 which, by the way, I think the purpose of that is to conceal the rest of his record, you think it\u2019s going to work telling Obama, ‘You didn\u2019t serve in the military, I did, I know what I\u2019m talking about, you didn\u2019t serve. Hillary, you didn\u2019t serve.\u2019 Hillary\u2019s gotta comeback, ‘I wanted to join the Marines but they wouldn\u2019t let me because I was a woman.\u2019 She\u2019s already tried that. But it won\u2019t work. Democrats and independents in the liberal media are not going to be intimidated by that in the general election. <\/p>\n

The Democrats and independents in the media don\u2019t give a damn about military service or the military period. They won\u2019t care about the surge, either, once Senator McCain becomes the nominee, they\u2019re not going to care about any of that. This is going to lead to Senator McCain having to defend that part of his record that he can\u2019t and doesn\u2019t want to defend. That would be McCain-Kennedy, McCain-Feingold, McCain-Lieberman, McCain-Kennedy-Edwards, whatever the hell it was, Gang of 14. Now, I mentioned when I was reading Bob Dole\u2019s letter that Warren Rudman was the Republican responsible for fooling everybody on the bona fides, the conservative bona fides of Supreme Court Justice David Souter. Bush nominated him, he was recommended to then Chief of Staff John Sununu by New Hampshire Senator Warren Rudman. Rudman happens to have, I think, a prominent role in the McCain campaign. I don\u2019t know what his title is, but he\u2019s got a prominent role. The guy that McCain is telling everybody, ‘Conservative judges, I want to make sure we get those guys, constructionist, strict constructionist,\u2019 the guy who misled us all on David Souter happens to be a top honcho on McCain\u2019s campaign. <\/p>\n

What happened to the media on the court, by the way, when Souter got there, he proved himself to be among the most radical of the justices. He has voted for every liberal activist issue to come his way. The guy who recommended him, Warren Rudman, is a high ranks official in the McCain campaign, general chairman in fact of the McCain campaign. Senator McCain thinks so much of Warren Rudman he\u2019s put him in charge of the overall operation. People have said to me, though, and I get e-mails, ‘But, Rush, what about all these endorsements? What do you make of all these endorsements?\u2019 Well, we\u2019ve read some op-eds about all these endorsements. I find them to be a little odd, frankly. For example, I think a candidate uses endorsements to create different impressions, even conflicting impressions, as a way of pandering to certain voters. For example, Tom Coburn has endorsed McCain. Now, Coburn is a fiscal conservative from Oklahoma. Schwarzenegger has endorsed McCain. He\u2019s a big-spending liberal who supports socialist health care in California. Now, what are we to make of these two endorsements? Just as an example. What we make of them is that there\u2019s something more to it than just the endorsement. <\/p>\n

The endorsement is designed to show, create an impression for the voter. Coburn and Schwarzenegger don\u2019t agree on much, but yet they\u2019re endorsing McCain. Now, when you have such an illogical combination of endorsements, and when that\u2019s noted, by the way, the McCain camp\u2019s response is, ‘Well, this shows how he can unite the Republican Party.\u2019 But Coburn and Schwarzenegger have almost nothing in common. Their economic positions could never be squared. Then we have Rudman. Warren Rudman is running the campaign and Ted Olson. Both of them are supporting McCain. Rudman, as I said, gave the nation David Souter, a total disaster on the Supreme Court. Ted Olson is a huge favorite with conservatives and the very conservative Federalist Society. Rudman and Olson have absolutely nothing in common when it comes to the selection of Supreme Court justices, yet both now endorse McCain. What is a conservative to make of such endorsements? And the answer is, to those of you who have asked me, nothing much. <\/p>\n

Senator McCain basically sought the endorsement of anybody Republican, regardless of philosophy or past record, because he\u2019s trying to create the impression of inevitability by releasing lists of Republicans who are supporting him, regardless of their views, and he\u2019s trying to use various endorsements to justify a nonmainstream record, especially on domestic issues. I\u2019ll give you an example of that. He holds out Jack Kemp as someone who vouches for his position on taxes, even though McCain is not a supply-sider like Jack Kemp is. Follow me on this. He holds out the endorsement of Jack Kemp, a supply-sider, who McCain is not. At the same time, he holds out the endorsements of Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins, who are huge tax-and-spend liberals in the Republican Party. What are we to make of these endorsements? Now, this will all play out to the detriment of the McCain campaign, the GOP and the conservative movement, should he become the nominee. All these questions I\u2019m asking are questions that are going to be raised after McCain wins the nomination and we head down to the general election. He\u2019s trying to be all things to all people now, even though we know by virtue of his record and what he does, not what he says, what he does, he\u2019s a McCain-Kennedy, McCain-Lieberman, McCain-Feingold Republican. <\/p>\n

And again I ask, we know what Kennedy and Lieberman and Feingold got out of all that. What did McCain get? Or, more precisely, with McCain-Kennedy, McCain-Lieberman, McCain-Feingold, we know what Kennedy, Lieberman, Feingold and the Democrats got out of that, and we know what McCain got out of it. But what did the Republican Party get out of McCain-Kennedy, McCain-Lieberman, and McCain-Feingold? What did we get? We got screwed. The Republican Party got the shaft, if you would prefer to put it that way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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