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RUSH: Elmhurst, New York. This is Eileen. Hi, Eileen. Nice to have you here. Yeah, Eileen what\u2019s shakin\u2019?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, Rush. I total disagree with this strategy. You setting up a Clinton-Obama reconciliation ticket. You\u2019re going to get two of the most immoral, unscrupulous Clintons back in unchecked power and we are going to be screwed.<\/p>\n

RUSH: We\u2019re already screwed. What we have to do is limit the being screwed to as small a screwdriver as it can be. And here. Here\u2019s the thing. The strategy is not to have these guys win. They may form a fusion ticket at some point down the road. Do you understand what the purpose of the strategery is?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes. To keep Clinton in, to keep Clinton in. You think they\u2019re going to claw their eyes out.<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, the strategy is… Yes. The strategy is to continue the chaos in this party. Look, there\u2019s a reason for this. Our side isn\u2019t going to do this. Obama needs to be bloodied up. Look, half the country already hates Hillary. That\u2019s good. But nobody hates Obama yet. Hillary is going to be the one to have to bloody him up politically because our side isn\u2019t going to do it. Mark my words. It\u2019s about winning, folks!<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Look, folks, I understand out there, many of you are worried here about my strategy. I don\u2019t even know if it\u2019s going to work. I don\u2019t know how many Republicans tomorrow in Texas, are going to cross over vote for Hillary. I don\u2019t know if it\u2019s happening in Ohio, either. I\u2019m not urging action. It sounds like I\u2019m urging action, but you know I don\u2019t give marching orders here. I\u2019m just thinking aloud and telling you what I think is important to happen here. If either one of these two get the nomination — and one of these is going to get it; it\u2019s either going to be Barack Obama or Hillary — they\u2019re both ripe targets if we just don\u2019t run around and act afraid of them, and if we don\u2019t try to steal their voters at the expense of our own. Anyway, that\u2019s for later on down the line. There\u2019s a great piece today in the American Spectator Online, and it\u2019s by Mark Hyman, and it\u2019s entitled, ”The Coming Brokered Democratic Convention\u2019 — There is only one thing the public can be certain of regarding the Democratic presidential nomination: without a miracle, there will be a brokered convention. Senator Barack Obama was leading Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton in the delegate count going into the Super Tuesday II primary elections on March 4. Obama held 1,193 primary delegates to Clinton\u2019s 1,038. <\/p>\n

‘The status of the superdelegates is meaningless because their pledges today may not carry any meaning come the Democratic nominating convention in Denver during the last week of August. A Democratic candidate needs to reach a minimum of 2,025 delegates to clinch the nomination outright. Clinton will not reach that figure before the last primary election is held in Puerto Rico on June 7. Neither will Obama,\u2019 says Mr. Hyman. He ‘needs 832 more delegates to reach the magic number of 2,025. There are only 981 remaining primary delegates that are up for grabs. Three hundred seventy delegates will be decided on March 4 and 611 will be divvied up across 12 primaries between March 8 and June 7. Obama would have to win an astonishing 85% of the remaining 981 delegates in order to claim the Democratic nomination outright. There are no winner-take-all primaries for the Democrats. Obama will never get the needed 832 delegates. He may fall short of reaching 2,025 delegates by as many as 250\u2019 delegates, and we\u2019re not factoring, again, the Democrat superdelegates, here. <\/p>\n

As Mr. Hyman says, ‘[N]either Obama nor Clinton will tally the needed 2,025 delegates when the primary election season is completed. The pair will have eleven weeks between Puerto Rico\u2019s primary election on June 7 and the convening of the Democratic convention on August 25 to persuade superdelegates to support their candidacy. A lot can happen in 11 weeks. There will be horse trading, influence peddling and cajoling. It will be a real knife fight to the end. Layer on top of this real-world events. Everything from the economy, Iraq, terrorism and damaging revelations of the ties between Obama and Antoin ‘Tony\u2019 Rezko, the land developer currently under federal indictment, could greatly influence the superdelegates\u2019 commitments. Still, the only date that really matters for the superdelegates is the day they cast their ballots in late August.\u2019 Now, let\u2019s go to the audio sound bites on this, because now there\u2019s talk of redoing the Florida Democrat primary. And getting some of that talk started is none other than Florida\u2019s governor, Charlie Crist. He was on Late Edition yesterday with Wolf Blitzer. Blitzer said, ‘Let\u2019s talk about the Democrats first. One-point-seven million Democrats or so voted in the Democrat primary, but that vote\u2019s not going to be counted in your state. Are you, as the governor, ready to let the Democrats have another primary if necessary to seat those Democrats, those Democrat delegates at the convention in Denver?\u2019<\/p>\n

CRIST: That would be fine with me. I — I think it\u2019s very important, though, that those delegates are seated. I\u2019m hopeful that the national Democratic Party, the Democrat National Committee comes to the conclusion it\u2019s the right thing to do. Every vote must count, every vote should count — and for the Republicans as well. They\u2019re not counting half of ours.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Whoa! So here\u2019s Charlie Crist. I think Governor Crist perhaps may be a stealth practitioner of the Limbaugh strategy here. Do you not think so, Mr. Snerdley? There is no question Charlie Crist doesn\u2019t want this Democrat contest to end. There\u2019s no question that Charlie Crist wants — and now Howard Dean weighs in. He was on the same show, and here\u2019s Wolf Blitzer. ‘You heard Governor Crist just tell me moments ago that he\u2019s ready to go ahead, support a redo here in Florida. Are you ready to accept his offer right now?\u2019<\/p>\n

DEAN: That\u2019s a very helpful thing for him to say because money is an issue here. Look, there\u2019s two possibilities. One is that there would be such a redo as Governor Crist might suggest, and two is that the party would come and have some other alternative that they would try to push with the credentials committee but we\u2019re very willing to listen to the people of Florida.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Whoa! Howard Dean here, throwing gasoline on the fire; opening up the possibility that if Florida pays for it, that they\u2019ll have another Democrat primary here! Now, you might be, ‘But, Rush, the rules, the rules!\u2019 Folks, let me tell you something I learned over the weekend. This is an important distinction. In the Democrat Party, there are no rules. There are just traditions and customs. There are no rules in a knife fight. Let\u2019s not play Civics 101. Let\u2019s not play junior high school, senior class president election. There are no rules. There are traditions. There are customs in the Democrat Party. What are you talking about, Rush? Stop and think about it. If you want to break the rules, talking about, ‘Hey, you people in Florida, you blew it. You people in Michigan, you blew it. You violated Democrat Party rules.\u2019 The party really didn\u2019t have any rules. There was a tradition that they bucked. This is a tradition. They went against the party\u2019s request, but now we see that we can\u2019t disenfranchise Democrats from two major states in the country. So the tradition that every vote must count — the custom that delegates from every state will be seated, will now be employed — with no rules being broken. You see how easy this is? I mean, we\u2019re talking J. R. Ewing and Sue Ellen here on one side (Hillary is J.R.) and we got Cliff Barnes and his family on the other side. That\u2019s Obama. ‘Once you take the ethics out of this,\u2019 as J.R. said once, ‘the rest is easy. ‘<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: So, anyway, folks, the bottom line here, according to Mark Hyman, American Spectator Online, all these primaries are just beauty contests, neither one of these two can win the delegates necessary by the end of the campaign season, which is June 7th in Puerto Rico, and then the real fun is going to begin after that. He says there\u2019s no question the Democrats are going to find a way to seat these delegates from Florida and Michigan. If Hillary has to go to court, she\u2019s going to do it. That\u2019s absolutely right. This is all she\u2019s lived for. All these news stories, who\u2019s going to tell Hillary to get out, there\u2019s a news story today, who\u2019s going to tell Bill to tell Hillary to get out. They\u2019re not going to get out and if she wins one of these two states tomorrow, look out, folks. The media is starting to get a little tougher on Obama now. This is going to be fascinating to watch. I\u2019m telling you, I think this is an excellent point. And of course all this is good, if you ask me, because it keeps the party full of chaos and tumult.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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