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Now, this is my opinion, but I happen to know that there are a lot of inside the Beltway Democrats who are very uncomfortable with this guy, because he\u2019s not any further ahead than he is. He doesn\u2019t carry the day when he walks into a room, he doesn\u2019t get noticed, he doesn\u2019t fire people up, he doesn\u2019t inspire, he doesn\u2019t motivate, he doesn\u2019t move people emotionally. He\u2019s a dryball, folks. Poor guy, he can\u2019t help it, that\u2019s who he is. We all are who we are and he\u2019s a dryball. And I don\u2019t know if you\u2019ve noticed this or not, but how many Democrats do you see out there stumping for this guy? How many Senate Democrats, how many House Democrats do you see out there on the campaign trail for this? He\u2019s not well liked. We heard about this late in the primary process when it appeared that he was making a move. He\u2019s not all that liked in the Senate for a host of reasons. He\u2019s not a likable guy. We are who we are. Poor guy can\u2019t help it, that\u2019s just who he is. <\/line> <\/line>So he isn\u2019t engendering a whole lot of support. That\u2019s why all of these outside groups are moving in and that\u2019s why this whole Democrat campaign is based on getting rid of Bush. And I\u2019m telling you, it\u2019s really a crapshoot, folks. I know some of you continue to be pessimistic and negative about this, but you know what we face out there. May I just take a moment and remind you? This is going to tell you how significant a poor choice John Edwards actually is. We are, in effect, in the middle of the Third World war, and it is a religious war. We are at war with extremist Islamists. We are at war with people who are fighting, not just us, they\u2019re trying to exterminate the Jews, they are trying to take over other countries with the immigration policies in those countries being lax, probably would try to do the same thing here. They will use any form of violence they can, they know no limits, they know no rules, this is not conventional war in any way, and we have a Democratic Party, one of the two political parties in this country trying to pretend it\u2019s not happening in this country because their position on it is not a winning position. They\u2019re in an untenable position on this. They have a couple candidates now. Their veep doesn\u2019t even talk about this. <\/line> <\/line><\/a> You remember the Meet the Press appearance<\/a>? We were in Iraq, it had already started, and John Edwards was on Meet the Press and this was a big coming-out appearance, and Russert just asked him question after question after question having to do with foreign policy, what would you do at the UN, how would you handle the situation in Iraq. Every answer was pathetic. Every answer, “Well, we need leadership on this, Tim. We need leadership on this.” Every answer was pathetic, everybody was talking about how he just destroyed his future. He has just made himself out to be a total lightweight outside the courtroom suing some company, he can\u2019t handle it. Cookie, go grab those bites. I forget when this was. I think it was it a year ago in May? Yeah, I think it was a year ago in May. Well, I don\u2019t remember where I was, but something tells me it might have been in Miami, but I don\u2019t recall. I\u2019m just trying to peg when this was. But it was astounding. So you\u2019ve got a guy on the ticket who can\u2019t even answer questions about — well, probably can now — but couldn\u2019t then. <\/line>These bites of his appearance on Meet the Press are going to be replayed. Then you\u2019ve got Kerry whose votes and record on national security and intelligence and weapons systems are what they are, and he has opposed them. And the most notable line and, you know, I heard [talking to staff] who was it? Jeff Greenfield said this morning, I think it was this morning, the hours and days are running together as I hopscotch the fruited plain in pursuit of life. But I\u2019m telling you, it was Greenfield, he kept talking about how this one line that Kerry uttered, “I voted for it before I voted against it” is the number 1 most recognizable thing about him, and it\u2019s a negative. And I was sort of surprised to hear this said, coming from the elitist mainstream partisan media.<\/line><\/p>\n

So things are not well in this campaign and this choice today proves it, but the big issue — and even the Democrats keep talking the big issue is Iraq, they\u2019re trying to, you know, down sell the economy so that people don\u2019t think it\u2019s all that good, but they\u2019re having trouble doing that because it is great. So they\u2019re all talking about Iraq and they\u2019re trying to separate Iraq from the war on terror. It\u2019s all the same thing. Just like we fought Japan and Germany in World War II, at two different places. We were all over the world in World War II, but it was all the same war, we just had different theaters, same thing here, and we\u2019ve got the Democratic Party trying to make believe this war isn\u2019t happening. They are trying to make people believe that Iraq is not part of it, that we are not there for any valid reason, there\u2019s no justification for being there, it\u2019s a total mistake, American soldiers are dying for nothing. Imagine how their parents feel when they hear Democrats say this. They\u2019re dying for nothing. They had been lied to, they\u2019re being sent out to die on the basis of a lie, and John Kerry says he\u2019s never going to lie to the troops when he sends them off to die. They\u2019re going to know why they\u2019re going off to die, yip yip. <\/line> Well, they know. They\u2019re signing up. It\u2019s a volunteer army. They know why they\u2019re going. It\u2019s a great generation of young people that are being raised in America today and have been, and to try to say that this war doesn\u2019t exist when it is the number one issue on people\u2019s minds? It\u2019s incomprehensible they could be this politically inept. And so since they don\u2019t have anything they can run on, since they can\u2019t say, “We\u2019ll protect you,” they can\u2019t say,”We\u2019ll defend you, we take the war on terror seriously,” they can\u2019t say it because they\u2019re trying to pretend it doesn\u2019t exist. All they can do is gin up a bunch of propaganda, lies, misstatements, and hatred aimed at George W. Bush and try to get to the independent swing voters who don\u2019t pay attention half the time, don\u2019t know what\u2019s going on, go in and watch a bunch of propaganda, think it\u2019s a real movie, they think it\u2019s real stuff. That\u2019s what they\u2019re relying on. And this choice doesn\u2019t do anything to change that. This choice of Edwards almost amplifies the fact that they\u2019re trying to pretend this war isn\u2019t going on, that there are religious extremists that want to wipe us out. And they\u2019ve taken Spain out. They have nullified Spain. Look how easy it was, and look how they did it. <\/line>They engineered a socialist liberal type government being elected, bammo, they own Spain. Spain is no longer a threat to these people. It isn\u2019t going to be long before France — France is never a threat — France is going to surrender. I think I read the other day 20% of the French population is already Muslim. How much of that is militant Islamists moving in under the guise of being peaceful Muslims? Doesn\u2019t take much. Just takes 10 or 12 of them to wreak a little havoc, and who knows how many of them are here. We\u2019ve got open borders, and they\u2019re not all that well controlled. And yet we\u2019ve got one political party who\u2019s not even up to bat, not even on the field in this war. It\u2019s just stunning to me. It really is, and when we get down to what we call the nutcracking time, folks, a little football lingo there, we get down to nutcracking time and I\u2019m talking about November, October and November, all this stuff is going to be what matters, and all this hubbub excitement today of breaking bread and the choice and the Bush ad and McCain this, it\u2019s not going to be the factor. It\u2019s just stunning. I don\u2019t know how else to say this.<\/line> <\/line>Oh, this all started with the vice presidency. And does it matter, and does it help? It doesn\u2019t. Because people don\u2019t vote for the vice president, I don\u2019t care what anybody tells you. Because if people voted for the vice president, the vice president would be leading on the bumper stickers, it would say “vote Edwards-Kerry.” Might be a wise thing for the Democrats to do anyway. Come up with new bumper stickers Edwards-Kerry, put Edwards on top, put Edwards first, whatever, make Edwards bigger than Kerry\u2019s name, put Kerry first but Edwards\u2019 name in a bigger font. See, if that\u2019s what they\u2019re trying to do here, fine. Ferraro really helped Mondale, right? Lord Bentsen really helped Clinton, yeah, it was Bentsen, it was Dukakis. Dukakis didn\u2019t get any help from Lord Bentsen, did he? Where are all these veeps? In fact, if I asked you, if I asked you name for me Michael Dukakis\u2019 veep I\u2019ll bet you couldn\u2019t have done it. I\u2019ll bet you people, see, that\u2019s a good trivial pursuit, that\u2019s right, this was Lloyd Bentsen, who remembers? And the only reason people remember Geraldine Ferraro is because of her husband\u2019s financial problems she had to explain and the fact that she was the first babe that was named to be on the vice presidency — on the ticket as a vice president candidate. So it isn\u2019t that big a deal. I mean, you can sit out there and romanticize and fantasize all you want but it means (raspberry) when you get down to November.<\/line>COMMERCIAL BREAK<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: I said what I said about the vice presidency but let me throw a possibility out there. Let\u2019s play the game. Let\u2019s say that Bush decides that he wants to jettison Cheney or Cheney says, “Ah, I\u2019m tired of this. I\u2019m tired of being beaten up. I\u2019m not a crook, a corrupt crook. I love Halliburton. I\u2019m getting outta there.” And he picks Giuliani. Now, would Giuliani deliver as a veep? [talking to staff] Oh, he\u2019d deliver New York, too, I think. He certainly would. Would Condoleezza Rice, would Condoleezza Rice deliver? Who would deliver better as a vice president? Giuliani or Condoleezza Rice, do you think? Giuliani — oh, I do too, I do, too. So I mean there are exceptions to this. There\u2019s no question. But the press would have no problem destroying Condoleezza Rice and they would do it. The Democrats would do it. Giuliani would be a tougher thing. But they\u2019d do it. They\u2019d do it. And they\u2019d go personal. They will go personal.<\/line> <\/line>And speaking of which, speaking of which, just to illustrate, I know you don\u2019t need to hear this because you\u2019re smart enough now to figure out yourselves, but if the situation reversed and if it was a Democrat incumbent, we had this long list of vice presidential possibilities, and it came out through polling couple days, couple weeks before the announcement that the front-runner was somebody, you know the press would be in there already doing the media anal before this guy was even chosen, to find out what the candidate knew, didn\u2019t know, whether he was a good choice or not. Well, the media has known that Edwards is the top of the poll list, they\u2019ve known it\u2019s going to be Gephardt or Edwards, and where is the examination? Where is the in-depth media anal? It isn\u2019t there. It\u2019s going to be done by others and it will get out, but there hasn\u2019t been this in-depth examination as there would have been were the situation reversed and it were a Republican challenger and he was naming a veep from a list of people, they would have all been given the microscope treatment.<\/line>END TRANSCRIPT<\/line><\/p>\n

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