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RUSH: You have to feel for Senator McCain a little bit. He goes on the Today Show yesterday, and Matt Lauer asks him when the troops are going to come outta there in Iraq, and McCain says, ‘When they come out is not important,\u2019 blah, blah, blah, blah. He said we still have troops in Germany, still have troops in Japan. We got troops in places. Getting them outta there is not the important thing. Winning the war is important. He\u2019s exactly right, folks. I must say, he\u2019s exactly right. But he\u2019s finding out today (he started finding out yesterday) just how his buddies in the Drive-Bys — and they\u2019re just getting warmed up — are going to carry the water for the extreme leftists in the Democrat Party. You had John Kerry (who served in Vietnam), the haughty one, out there saying McCain\u2019s old. He\u2019s confused. <\/p>\n

This is crazy. McCain can\u2019t believe it. He thought he was best buds with Kerry. He\u2019s got Dingy Harry out there saying, ‘Yeah, we can\u2019t trust McCain. He\u2019s got a bad temper. He can fly off the handle at any time.\u2019 McCain was doing a little press conference somewhere this morning and he had the usual coterie of supporters standing behind him, and a reporter gets up and asks again about this comment. ‘Well, Senator McCain, why is it unimportant when the troops come back?\u2019 And you could just see, you could just see. He took a couple pauses. He was ready to dive into that crowd and strangle that stupid reporter, something I would have applauded. But he stood there calmly and said, ‘This is why we need town debates. This is a sound bite problem. This is why we need town hall meetings; the American people asking the questions, so they can hear the whole answer in context,\u2019 and so forth — and he repeated his Iraq position. I support this; I support that. <\/p>\n

He didn\u2019t directly answer the guy\u2019s question. LA Times today: ‘McCain\u2019s Remark Sparks an Uproar.\u2019 They\u2019re trying to say that McCain doesn\u2019t care about the troops, by clipping his quote where he says getting them outta there, when they come outta there is not important. Lieberman is now mad. He\u2019s responding. He says, ‘I\u2019m disappointed by these reflexive attacks. The part that I find really most outrageous is the suggestion that Senator McCain is out of touch with the needs of our troops and insensitive to their families,\u2019 which is what the Drive-Bys are saying. These were his base. The Drive-Bys were his base! He\u2019s gotta be sitting there wondering, ‘What the hell happened? These people used to love me!\u2019 Well, they never did love you, Senator McCain. They used you! You were willing to go on their stupid little shows and rip your own party and rip your own president. Of course they\u2019re going to do that. <\/p>\n

They called you the maverick! But guess what? Now you\u2019re not a maverick. Why, you\u2019re Bush 3! That\u2019s like the worst thing a maverick could be called, is Bush 3. Get ready, Senator. This is only the tip of the iceberg of all the ammo they have aimed and trained on you. Here\u2019s what I\u2019m hoping, ladies and gentlemen. I\u2019m hoping at some point relatively soon McCain gets ticked off enough about this that he comes to his senses on the issue of energy independence in this country. Do you realize that if you look at any poll out there taken of the American people, they want energy independence? They want drilling for our own energy supplies. They want nuclear. They don\u2019t want all of this Kyoto stuff. They don\u2019t want taxes to go up. They don\u2019t want the price of gas to go up even a penny by 60 some odd percent, if the purpose of the increase is to fight global warming. They want cheaper gasoline, and they know how to get it. This is an issue. It is an issue made to order. <\/p>\n

Now, McCain has changed his mind on a couple things. This would be a goody. This would be a huge one. Somebody could get to Senator McCain and say, Senator, you want to win this election? You want to contrast who you are with Senator Obama and the leftists in the Democrat Party? Here\u2019s your issue. ‘Drill here. Drill now. Energy independence.\u2019 Start now and get on this, and I\u2019m telling you, he would see a miraculous thing happen in his campaign. But I don\u2019t know who can tell him these things. It\u2019s just a sitting duck. It\u2019s a sitting duck. Victor Davis Hanson today has a piece. I think I read it in the New York Post. Victor Davis Hanson, as you know, is a classicist, a historian, he\u2019s a brilliant writer. He\u2019s occasionally been upset with me over my positions on Senator McCain, but nevertheless we\u2019re still on the same team out there. Now, the Hoover Institution where he works is at Palo Alto at Stanford, and that\u2019s the San Francisco peninsula. He lives there. <\/line><\/a>He also happens to be a framer in the Central Valley of California. And he happened to be driving down three hours south of where he lives. He ran into some rural Californians at a gas station, and he describes in this piece their cars, basically jalopies. And he talks about how the need to get around hasn\u2019t lessened even though the price of gasoline has increased, but he notes that they\u2019re driving these secondhand cars, these old jalopies; but it\u2019s taking two days of work for these people to fill up their tanks — a major, major alteration in their lifestyle. Then he recalled the lifestyle of the liberals up in the San Francisco peninsula where we have all the liberal elitists elites and it\u2019s a home to all the environmentalist wackos. He said, ‘They don\u2019t seem to care about rising gas prices at all. They\u2019re very happy about it. They\u2019ve got the money to deal with it, where it doesn\u2019t really count, and it doesn\u2019t really faze them.\u2019 <\/line><\/p>\n

And he said, ‘What\u2019s fascinating about this to me is that liberals who have all this care and concern for the little guy, all this care and concern for the nation\u2019s downtrodden, are oblivious to the impact on the lives of most Americans of the rising gasoline price.\u2019 Well, good! If liberals are unaware and cavalier and don\u2019t care about the impact of rising gasoline prices on the people who make this country work, then it is even more of a great issue for McCain and the Republican Party to latch onto and claim as their own. Now, I know he probably thinks he\u2019d take a hit if he did a flip-flop on this, and he\u2019s gone pretty much over the cliff here on carbon emissions and all this global warming stuff. But it\u2019s not too late, here. He\u2019ll needs his party on his side. Obama is already in trouble. This is a golden opportunity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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