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RUSH: All right, folks, I need to ask you a question, personal question from me to you. Do I sound like I need cheering up here? I\u2019m getting e-mails from friends, ‘Boy, you sound like you could use a little cheering up.\u2019 And they\u2019re sending me these stupid little Internet jokes, ‘for you to smile,\u2019 like an Internet joke would cheer me up. Spam would cheer me up. But do I sound like I need to be cheered up? I can\u2019t wait \u2019til the Drive-Bys get hold of my thought, my consideration of helping Hillary raise money. They\u2019ll miss the reason. They\u2019ll just publicize, ‘Limbaugh is so upset at Romney getting out, he\u2019s thinking of raising money for Hillary, period.\u2019 But the reason for raising money for Hillary is because that apparently my party is relying on fear and loathing of Hillary to get the nomination, to unite Republicans, who are, some of them, off the reservation. The Republicans do not seem to be relying on leadership in their party to unite the party. They seem to be relying on all these external things, nobody is going to vote for Hillary, negative turnout factor. What if she\u2019s not the nominee? We\u2019ve got make sure she\u2019s the nominee if the Republican Party is to be unified. What more loyal thing could I do than to run a fundraiser for Mrs. Clinton? You watch, though, you watch how that will be questioned. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: I\u2019m dead serious about considering this. I mean, you may think this is a joke, but it is obvious. I\u2019ve read things. I\u2019ve seen things. I\u2019ve heard people say things, pundits on our side, ‘Don\u2019t worry about McCain, Rush. Hillary is so hated and despised and loathed and so forth. That alone will unite our voters: the fear and loathing for Hillary Clinton.\u2019 It appears that may be what our strategy is. Rather than get leadership, conservative leadership for our own party, it may well be that that\u2019s the thing — and she\u2019s in danger of losing the nomination. Folks, here\u2019s this rookie who\u2019s been in the Senate for two years, and he\u2019s smokin\u2019 her on fundraising? He is doing everything that he can and is succeeding, and she\u2019s had to borrow money and so forth? If our electoral victory in November requires her being in the race, we gotta stop him; because there\u2019s no fear and loathing on Obama. You can\u2019t run against Obama fearing him or loathing him or dissing him. It isn\u2019t going to work. He doesn\u2019t have the personality that makes any of that fit. So we need to keep her in it so we can win it. I\u2019ll have more on this as I give future thought to this.<\/p>\n\n

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RUSH: For you Drive-By Media types that end up talking to Mrs. Clinton, you know, she\u2019s had to borrow $5 million from herself to fund ongoing campaign, it might be wise to just point out to her or ask her, ask her a question: Mrs. Clinton, you\u2019ve borrowed $5 million from yourself. Do you appreciate the lower tax rates that you and your husband are paying that helped you amass that $5 million?\u2019 Because a higher tax rate, I mean, she\u2019d have had to earn more money to get this $5 million. So it was the Bush tax cuts that helped Mrs. Clinton amass the $5 million she could loan herself. Now, this will never occur to her, but an enterprising reporter, if a reporter is going to go out and ask her, ‘Mrs. Clinton, do your unpaid staffers have health coverage?\u2019 ‘Do you realize, Mrs. Clinton, that Bush tax cuts enabled you to amass this $5 million easier than otherwise?\u2019 I also want to go back to this piece — I missed this, but Snerdley caught it — I want to go back to this Politico piece by Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen, ‘The Five Reasons Hillary Should be Worried\u2019 piece.<\/p>\n

Listen to this opening sentence: ‘Hillary Clinton survived a Super Tuesday scare. But there are five big reasons the former first lady should be spooked by the current trajectory of the campaign.\u2019 Now, in certain quarters of America, that\u2019s code language. And these white reporters — I\u2019m sure this is inadvertent and does not indicate any latent and institutional racism — ‘Hillary Clinton survived a Super Tuesday scare. But there are five big reasons the former first lady should be spooked by the current trajectory.\u2019 Who\u2019s on the trajectory of the campaign? Obama. She should be spooked by Obama. It totally slipped my mind because I don\u2019t think in these terms. Mr. Snerdley, who is an African-American, very, very, very, very much attuned to this stuff, and he is offended by this blatant Drive-By racism, referring to Mrs. Clinton\u2019s opponent with code language, ‘spooked.\u2019 Thank you. I had missed this. <\/p>\n

All right, we have a campaign slogan here for Mrs. Clinton, because obviously the best shot for Republicans winning the White House is Hillary as the nominee, so I\u2019m thinking of doing this fundraiser, the slogan: ‘Stay in It So We Can Win It.\u2019 Well, now Obama needs a slogan. If our slogan is, ‘Stay in It So We Can Win It,\u2019 Obama\u2019s slogan is, ‘A Vote for Hillary Is a Vote for McCain.\u2019 It would work. It would absolutely work. The Republicans want her to be the nominee since that\u2019s the best shot for Republicans. How is that any different from McCain wanting Huckabee to stay in because that was his best shot at beating Romney? So if I was advising Obama, I\u2019d tell him that by adopting, ‘A Vote for Hillary Is a Vote for McCain,\u2019 as his slogan over the next couple of months, he could increase the chance of beating Hillary while constantly reminding disgruntled Republicans of the similarities between McCain and Hillary. We\u2019ll see. I\u2019m not running anybody\u2019s campaign here, just thinking about this fundraising effort. She loaned herself $5 million. We all know that the Clinton Library and Massage Parlor is a virtual Fort Knox of donations and so forth, and, of course, there\u2019s obviously a Hsu deficit, that would be Norman Hsu deficit in the Clinton campaign. He\u2019s out there, this rookie is raising all this money; she\u2019s borrowing $5 million from herself? Folks, if the Riadys won\u2019t float her any money, if the Lippo Group won\u2019t come forward, there\u2019s obviously something seriously wrong inside that campaign. And how about the dishwashers and the janitors in Chinatown? What happened to all that money? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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