{"id":28382,"date":"2008-02-14T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T04:15:29","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-19T04:15:29","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T04:15:29","slug":"mccain_adman_won_t_fight_obama_today_s_gut_feeling_says_hillary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2008\/02\/14\/mccain_adman_won_t_fight_obama_today_s_gut_feeling_says_hillary\/","title":{"rendered":"McCain Adman Won\u2019t Fight Obama; Today\u2019s Gut Feeling Says Hillary"},"content":{"rendered":"
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RUSH: Mark McKinnon is the former adman for George W. Bush. George McKinnon left the Bush administration midway through the second term, after 2006. Mark McKinnon joined McCain. He\u2019s a Democrat — a former Democrat; maybe still a Democrat. I\u2019m not sure about that. But he joined the McCain campaign as its adman, image maker and so forth, and Mark McKinnon has said… Here it is, in his own words. He was on All Things Considered yesterday on NPR talking to the hostette, Michele Norris. She said, ‘You\u2019ve said you would not work in a general election if Barack Obama is the opponent. Why would you sit that out, if you have such strong feelings for John McCain?\u2019<\/p>\n

MCKINNON: I would simply be uncomfortable being in a campaign that would be, inevitably, attacking Barack Obama. It would be uncomfortable for me and I think it would be bad for the McCain campaign.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, this… He needs to be fired. Today! This is mutiny! McCain\u2019s adman says he\u2019s not going to run critical ads of Obama. He just can\u2019t see himself doing it in a presidential race. It doesn\u2019t mean you have to be dirty, but the guy\u2019s got a record you can go after! The guy is an earmark specialist. He and Hillary Clinton have personally set earmarks records. His economic plan? He\u2019s spelling things out now and then. He doesn\u2019t have much of a paper trail, but there are going to be plenty of things to criticize this guy on policy-wise; and McKinnon has just said, as McCain\u2019s adman, he\u2019s not going to do it. You know, I keep changing my tune on the Democrat race anyway. Today, I\u2019m not thinking it\u2019s going to be Obama. Well, gut instincts. It just changes every day with new revelations. Now polls out today in Ohio and Texas taken by Quinnipiac. The margin of error is 2.3%, I think, in both of them; and Hillary is way up in both polls, and she was three weeks ago, too. Two, three weeks ago, both states, Ohio and Texas; she was way up. These are ‘firewalls.\u2019 It\u2019s going to come down to these super delegates, and there\u2019s a big battle there. I\u2019m going to explain that in due course as the program unfolds today, as well as the delegates from Michigan and Florida. The Reverend Sharpton has weighed in and said, ‘There might be fires.\u2019 <\/p>\n

Bill Clinton might actually see his first black church burn, folks, if they try anything funny on these delegates from Michigan and Florida. Sharpton is coming close now to coming out for Obama. I\u2019m relying more on human nature. Here\u2019s an interesting thing. In ABC\u2019s The Note today, a lot of people have run the math. The Obama people are out there saying there\u2019s no way Hillary can catch up,. There\u2019s just no way. But the math, if she does well in Ohio and Texas, as these polls now indicate, Pennsylvania is on the 22nd, Ohio — no. What\u2019s in March? What\u2019s March 4th? Texas is next, and then Pennsylvania and Ohio. Regardless, they\u2019re all coming up. She\u2019s going to take the month off. She\u2019s going to do a Rudy strategery. She\u2019s going to take this month off. She\u2019s waiting \u2019til Texas and Ohio. So it says today. But the math works out, in ABC\u2019s The Note today, says, ‘It looks like it\u2019s very likely that neither Obama or Hillary will have the required number of pledged delegates wrapped up by the end of the primaries,\u2019 which is going to throw it, then, to the super delegates and of course the coming or raging debate and argument, over the super delegates. Well, the delegates in Florida and Michigan as well. <\/p>\n

Now, if this is true, if that math works out that neither of these two are going to get the required number of delegates by the end of the primaries, then look out, folks. That\u2019s where the Clintons go into gear. The only reason that she has put up with all that she has put up with for the last 35 years, is this! This. She\u2019s not gonna let some upstart that nobody\u2019s got the guts to criticize take it away from her. He\u2019s young. He can have his time down the road. ‘This is mine. It\u2019s mine. It\u2019s all mine!\u2019 And they\u2019re going to do whatever they have to do in order to secure it. We forget who these people are. We\u2019re looking at Obama and we\u2019re seeing this… By the way, we\u2019ve got a new Obama commercial. The Obama people are big spenders here at the EIB Network. <\/p>\n

(playing of Obama parody ad) <\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019ll tell you, these are really effective commercials. They really get to the point of the Obama campaign. Some of the best media supporting a candidacy and a campaign. These ads are just perfect symmetry with the campaign. No slip-ups, like in the Clinton campaign. They\u2019re having arguments in there. There\u2019s a big story today in the Wall Street Journal. You got Mandy Grunwald in there who apparently puts together the ads, and you got Mark Penn who polls things, and then you got some other guy in there, and they\u2019re playing potential television commercials that Hillary can run, and somebody in the room says (paraphrased), ‘That\u2019s horrible. This is just worthless. We can\u2019t run that,\u2019 and then somebody says, ‘Well, it\u2019s never the message, is it? It\u2019s never the message.\u2019 Meaning it\u2019s never our candidate that\u2019s bobbling things up; it\u2019s the ads? ‘Well, I quit. I\u2019m leaving the room.\u2019 They\u2019re having all kinds of arguments in there. There\u2019s a lot of stress inside the Clinton campaign…so we\u2019re told. It\u2019s the Clintons! It\u2019s the Clintons, and how would anybody know what\u2019s going on in these rooms unless Clinton people are yakking about it? If Clinton people are yakking about it, Clinton people lie, right? Exactly right. That\u2019s exactly right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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