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RUSH: Jack in Boston, I\u2019m glad you waited. Welcome to the EIB Network, sir. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, Rush — <\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: — you know, all these disaffected female Hillary voters, you mentioned awhile back about Sarah Palin, think about a woman candidate to run with McCain. And I don\u2019t know if maybe her or some other, but she seems like she — you haven\u2019t mentioned her in a while and she fit the bill, not only I think the most popular governor in the United States, 80 something percent but also with the Alaska oil drilling thing, I haven\u2019t heard much about her lately, but wouldn\u2019t she be a good pick for McCain?<\/p>\n

RUSH: You know, I\u2019ve been gone for four days. I was in Southern California on a guy golf trip. In fact, played Torrey Pines yesterday, US Open course, shot 86. That was fun. Everywhere, I cannot escape this, ‘Who do you think is going to be McCain\u2019s VP?\u2019 I haven\u2019t the slightest idea. I couldn\u2019t tell you. It seems like every day the short list changes. One day Tom Ridge is there, the next day Rob Portman from Ohio. I don\u2019t have the slightest idea. People ask me, ‘Who\u2019s Obama going to pick? Do you think he\u2019ll pick Hillary?\u2019 I have no clue.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Rush —<\/p>\n

RUSH: As far as Sarah Palin is concerned, we\u2019ve discussed her on this program before. Didn\u2019t I just read that she\u2019s big pro-life? She just had a Down syndrome baby? <\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, I\u2019ve heard that. But in view of the energy situation up in Alaska, things like that, I mean let me put it this way, doesn\u2019t John McCain even listen to your show, maybe take your advice, if you suggested her.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, come on, John McCain I don\u2019t think listens. He says he doesn\u2019t listen to the show. Says he doesn\u2019t listen. And he\u2019s not going to take my advice or anybody else\u2019s. In fact, you know, I understand that the interest people have in the vice presidency, people have said, and I\u2019d tend to agree with them on this, that McCain\u2019s vice presidential pick will be the most important vice presidential pick on a presidential ticket in a lot of our lifetimes, for obvious reasons. I don\u2019t think it\u2019s that important with Obama. But a lot of people seem imbued with the fact that the only way the Democrats can unify is if Hillary is on the ticket as the vice president. I don\u2019t see that. Folks, I\u2019m even hearing people say that Obama may not have a choice, that the Democrats may force that on him. Now, I don\u2019t buy that for a second, either, for this reason: Obama is moving in on the Democrat National Committee, trying to take over. It\u2019s a secret move, but Nedra Pickler at the AP found out about it, they\u2019re already trying to oust Howard Dean. Obama\u2019s getting his people in there trying to take over. McCain\u2019s already done that at the RNC. <\/p>\n

But I want to give you a little mental picture here: Democrat convention, Thursday night. Now, Thursday night at the Democrat convention is the 40th year anniversary of Martin Luther King\u2019s ‘I Have a Dream\u2019 speech. So you\u2019ve got Obama up there. Do you think that Barack Obama or his lovely and gracious wife, Michelle (My Belle), do you think they want to share the stage with Hillary and Bill Clinton? Can you see the four of them standing there with the balloons dropping and all that, all holding hands raised in unity? Do you think Barack Obama wants Bill Clinton lurking around anywhere in his administration, even as the wife of the vice president? Do you think Obama wants Hillary lurking around anywhere? That\u2019s something I don\u2019t see, but then again, the Democrats, you know, they\u2019ve got big problems, and they may have to do something like this in order to unify it. With Bill Clinton on that stage, Obama\u2019s not going to exist. I mean, Clinton\u2019s going to take over on that stage.<\/p>\n

If he\u2019s up there as the wife of the vice presidential nominee, and the balloons dropping and they\u2019re holding hands and all, and Benny Benack and his orchestra playing their limited repertoire of songs that Democrats can sing, and they\u2019ve got these four up there holding hands. Bill Clinton\u2019s going to be acting like he\u2019s the nominee. He\u2019s not going to be able to help it. I just can\u2019t see them doing this. As far as the McCain side is concerned, you know, frankly there\u2019s something else that needs to happen before this vice president stuff, because that\u2019s going to happen in due course. I was talking to my buddy F. Lee Levin this morning, and we have decided we are sick and tired of this term: the Republicans need to rebrand themselves. This whole thing about rebranding the GOP, it\u2019s just inside the Beltway mumbo jumbo. The Republican Party needs to reform itself, and there\u2019s one word that can describe the reform, and it\u2019s called conservatism. That\u2019s all that needs to happen here. VP can do it, so be it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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