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RUSH: Ben Smith has it in The Politico today: ‘John McCain\u2019s communications director, Brian Rogers, takes a sledgehammer to McCain primary foe J.D. Hayworth,\u2019 and this is true. Hayworth announced his candidacy for McCain\u2019s Senate seat yesterday. He had a speech or two out there to make, and the McCain people didn\u2019t like very much about what J.D. had to say. So look at this: Here they are taking ‘a sledgehammer\u2019 to a Republican on day one. Now, McCain never did take a sledgehammer to Obama, who is destroying the country — and we\u2019re going to get a chance now, I guess, to see if the era of McCain is over depending on how this primary goes out there. But I just remember during the McCain-Obama campaign, it was going to be ‘honorable,\u2019 and remember Mark McKinnon and Steve Schmidt were worrying about ‘civility\u2019 and ‘staying above the fray\u2019 and McKinnon even said he would quit if there were attacks on Obama by the McCain campaign because of the historic nature of the Obama campaign. <\/p>\n

So what we have here, folks, is a teachable moment about RINO Republicans: They will go after conservatives more than they will ever go after any liberal, including ones who are destroying the country! ‘Senator John McCain has full confidence that the people of Arizona will again return him to the US Senate this year and will work hard to earn their continued support. … Former Congressman Hayworth obviously disagrees, and it was sad to see [Hayworth] use blatant lies and fabrications to attack Senator McCain when he ‘officially\u2019 entered the race for US Senate today. … Mr. Hayworth falsely said [blah, blah]. Mr. Hayworth falsely said [blah, blah]. Mr. Hayworth falsely said [blah, blah]. Mr. Hayworth falsely said [blah, blah, blah, blah]. … One would think that when asking Arizonans to entrust him to represent them in the US Senate, Mr. Hayworth would have the decency to at least respect them enough to tell the truth. <\/p>\n

‘Instead, Mr. Hayworth has started his campaign with a litany of lies. Sorry J.D., the people of Arizona aren\u2019t stupid. They\u2019re on to you.\u2019 This is McCain\u2019s spokesman! ‘Mr. Hayworth has obviously resorted to lies and distortion today because he has no record of his own to stand on.\u2019 Now, this is a great line coming out of the campaign McCain. Why the hell didn\u2019t they use it against Obama? Why DON\u2019T they use it against Obama? Talk about no record of his own to stand on! He was a community agitator. He had a five-minute career. (angry McCain impression) ‘That\u2019s right, Limbaugh! That\u2019s right! But we were running an honorable campaign, something you wouldn\u2019t understand. See? See!\u2019 I guess not. But the honorable campaign was designed to lose. But I just wanted to point out here, folks, how RINO-type Republicans will go after conservatives. I mean, it\u2019s like nothing you\u2019ve ever seen, but they wouldn\u2019t go after Democrats this way, and they wouldn\u2019t go after a president who\u2019s literally destroying the US private sector this way. I\u2019m just pointing it out. Just saying it. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: Victor in Boca Raton, Florida, I\u2019m glad you waited, sir. You\u2019re on the EIB Network. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Great. Hello, Mr. Limbaugh. Mega dittos to you from your fans at the Free Republic.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you, sir, very much.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Sir, I would like to hear your opinion on Sarah Palin\u2019s endorsement and campaigning for John McCain. Thank you, sir.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, I\u2019ve been waiting for this question to come up, and I see there\u2019s a story out there today that Joe the Plumber says that he cannot and will not support Sarah Palin because of her endorsement of McCain. It is problematic, but you know what\u2019s going on here. She\u2019s a Republican. She\u2019s not a tea partier, she\u2019s not a third party person. She\u2019s a Republican. McCain picked her. No matter what has been written about how she wasn\u2019t supported by some people, I think — and I\u2019m not coping out here — I just think I understand the reality of the circumstance. Maybe she coulda stood mute and not said anything but it would have really, really caused some problems in the other direction for her if she had not endorsed McCain. She\u2019s in a no-win in this situation as far as I can tell. I\u2019ll have more when we come back.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: I haven\u2019t forgotten about Sarah Palin and McCain, I\u2019m not avoiding this. Folks, I\u2019ll say again, Sarah Palin is not a tea partier, she spoke there, but she is a Republican, and I\u2019ve interviewed her a couple times for my newsletter and the radio show, but I haven\u2019t gotten into any of this kind of thing. We talked about her bio and her book. So my guess is as good as yours. But I think if she\u2019s going to have a political career, it\u2019s going to have a big capital R next to her name, not a capital TP or some other party, not third party. She\u2019s going to go Republican. And there are just rules. Politics is repulsive to a lot of people for a lot of different reasons, but the one thing that she knows — I mean, you\u2019ve seen the story about how she went into Daytona and totally took over the place. Danica Patrick who? <\/p>\n

Sarah Palin went in there and was mobbed at the Daytona 500 on Sunday. She was in there to speak I think to the Daytona Chamber of Commerce on Monday, and she went into the drivers meeting before the race on Sunday and got standing O\u2019s from everybody on every crew. She could not get out of there, signing autographs, and there\u2019s one person that made that happen, and that\u2019s John McCain. Despite whatever happened during the campaign to belittle her and closed budget and all that stuff, one thing she knows is that nobody would know any more about her than they knew before McCain picked her were it not for the fact that he picked her. You remember how upset everybody got at George W. Bush back when Specter was still a Republican, was running in the primary against Pat Toomey, and Specter was a Republican disaster, but Bush is out there endorsing him and raising money and I think he did a couple campaign appearances, and people: ‘What the hell is this? Why didn\u2019t he get behind Toomey? Where are the conservatives?\u2019 It is a problem in a lot of people\u2019s views. This is just how parties work. <\/p>\n

This is why, folks, the tea party movement must stay oriented on reclaiming the Republican Party and not going third party, but reclaiming it, and then establishing a new set of principles here that rewards conservatism first, foremost, and down the line. It\u2019s going to be a slow evolutionary process because the RINOs are entrenched in this party, and a lot of them are very wealthy, personally and corporately. And they\u2019re not going to give up the power that they\u2019ve got easily. It\u2019s going to be an ongoing battle. We\u2019ve talked about this battle for two years. As conservatives you and I know that we\u2019re persona non grata in the RINO Republican Party and in the liberal Republican Party, the New York elitist, Washington corridor Republican Party. We know those are the people saying the era of Reagan is over. They\u2019re the ones that didn\u2019t like Reagan in the first place. He was embarrassing, they didn\u2019t like abortion. It boils down to the social issues with these people. <\/p>\n

There\u2019s this new group of Republicans called the Mount Vernon group, and they\u2019re coming out with position papers on stuff. The Republican Party is fighting the tea party people now for control of the party, there\u2019s a big battle going on. And I think personally four or five of these very prominent members of this Mount Vernon group said, ‘I\u2019m not joining if the social issues are going to be part of our mission statement, I don\u2019t want any part of it,\u2019 meaning they don\u2019t want this party having a thing to say about any social issue, not just abortion, but anything else that\u2019s cultural. They want it to remain fiscal and political only, not cultural. So the battle is going to be raging. And I hate to put words in Sarah Palin\u2019s mouth because I\u2019m just guessing and I\u2019m neither defending nor criticizing, I\u2019m just observing and I think I understand why she\u2019s doing this. I don\u2019t think in her mind she has a choice. She wouldn\u2019t be who she is, she wouldn\u2019t have all of this opportunity in front of her had McCain not chosen her. So this is the obligatory payback and I think after this it\u2019s over. <\/p>\n

This is the right thing being done that is required, given circumstances, and then don\u2019t talk about it anymore, don\u2019t go into any appearances, don\u2019t do that, just do the endorsement and move on. And we\u2019ll see if I\u2019m right. Usually am. But I haven\u2019t spoken to her about this, so I apologize if I\u2019ve got this all wrong, I\u2019m not trying to put words in her mouth, I was asked what I think about it and that\u2019s what I think about it. And, frankly, one more thing, it doesn\u2019t matter. Her endorsement of McCain doesn\u2019t dampen anything I think about her. It has nothing to do with it. This is issues, issues, issues to me and look for consistency on that side. But, you know, I\u2019m not kingmaker, I even feel a little strange here saying, ‘I\u2019m going to be watching.\u2019 I\u2019m just a guy on the radio telling you what I think about it every day, and that\u2019s what I\u2019m doing here. Snerdley, would you get the smirk off your face? You wouldn\u2019t even let me try to be humble!<\/p>\n

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RUSH: You also have to think of something else here, folks. Imagine if Sarah Palin had not endorsed McCain. Can you imagine the media field day with the following: ‘Oh, wait a minute! Governor Palin, he\u2019s good enough to be president — he\u2019s good enough for you to be his vice presidential running mate — but he\u2019s not good enough to be Senator from Arizona?\u2019 Can you imagine what they\u2019d do? By the way, did anybody who seriously read her book know that she would do this? She doesn\u2019t have one bad thing personally to say about McCain in her book. With all of the record straight that she did vis-a-vis the McCain campaign and some of the staff, every comment she made about McCain in her book was positive. But I shudder to think what woulda happened if she\u2019d endorsed somebody besides McCain and the media gets on this. <\/p>\n

‘Oh, yeah! He\u2019s good enough to be president, but not good enough to be Senator from Arizona.\u2019 You know, loyalty is loyalty, and sometimes people want ideologue purity over loyalty and not realizing that loyalty is actually part of a party. By the way, Joe the Plumber has backed off, too. At BigGovernment.com, Joe the Plumber says he shouldn\u2019t have said what he said about Palin, that he likes her and thinks that she\u2019d make a good president. Hillary Clinton has said that if Palin\u2019s elected president she\u2019s going to be visiting Canada a lot more, which is where Clinton\u2019s girlfriend is. So there could be a double meaning there. But that\u2019s not a bad notion, Hillary in Canada a lot. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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