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RUSH: We gotta talk about the Hawkeye straw poll in Ames, Iowa. It was expected that Romney would win. Number two was Huckabee. Now, I mentioned this at the top of the program. It\u2019s a big deal for Huckabee, and I don\u2019t want to trivialize this — the winner or whoever, or runner up or any of that, or Iowa. I don\u2019t want to trivialize this. It\u2019s just so early. It\u2019s six months until the first primary, 15 months \u2019til the actual election. Three of the four leading candidates didn\u2019t even participate. But the excitement with which the political press is treating this… I think they\u2019re living lives of quiet desperation. They really have one-track, singularly focused lives. By the way, every voter in this thing had to pay. I\u2019m still going to play the audio sound bites from this because it happened out there. I should also mention that most campaigns pay the voters, so that\u2019s why I saw a headline today: ‘Romney Bought His Victory,\u2019 and I\u2019m not trying to put him down. Don\u2019t misunderstand this. Tommy Thompson dropped out of the race. He\u2019s more qualified than any of the Democrat candidates. I\u2019ll tell you what\u2019s really interesting to me about this, and I still have to temper this with the fact that three of the top four weren\u2019t there. You had Romney as the winner. You had Mike Huckabee came in second. What do they both have in common? What do Romney and Huckabee have in common? They\u2019re both governors. They are not senators. Senators do not… It\u2019s a long hall. JFK was the last Senator that got elected president, from the Senate. So anyway, we have a montage to get things rolling here. The Drive-Bys have fallen in love with Huckabee. They\u2019re referring to him now as ‘McCainesque,\u2019 and they\u2019re making a big deal out of his surprise win.<\/p>\n

GREGORY: Mike Huckabee is a big story. <\/p>\n

TODD: The Huckabee story is amazing.<\/p>\n

CARLSON: You usually get what you pay for. Huckabee got more than that.<\/p>\n

YORK: As far as Huckabee, a really, really big win for him. <\/p>\n

YEPSEN: Governor Huckabee was arguably the biggest winner.<\/p>\n

STEPHANOPOULOS: How about Governor Huckabee? <\/p>\n

BRAZILE: Huckabee, I thought, gave a great speech. <\/p>\n

DAWSON: Huckabee\u2019s conservative credentials have never been in question.<\/p>\n

WALLACE: Mike Huckabee was a surprise second. <\/p>\n

BARONE: Huckabee surprised people. <\/p>\n

DOUGLASS: He\u2019s been a media darling all along. He\u2019s a straight talking &aacute;la McCain of 2000. This breathes some life into what reporters hope is going to be a story about Mike Huckabee.<\/p>\n

RUSH: See? See? ‘This breathes life into what reporters hope is going to be a story about Mike Huckabee.\u2019 I like Huckabee. I don\u2019t want anybody getting offended by any of this. This is just a little early. Let\u2019s go to Huckabee. He was on Slay the Nation. The fill-in host, Jim Axlerod, who said, ‘You ever look at the national Republican front-runner, Judy Woodruff, the pro-choice, pro-gun control, pro-gay rights, Rudy Giuliani, and you say to yourself, ‘How come I haven\u2019t been able to get any traction?”<\/p>\n

HUCKABEE: I think yesterday showed that we are getting traction. I\u2019m one of the few Republican candidates that\u2019s having the courage to talk about how we need to really separate ourselves from being the Wall Street Republican Crowd. We need to be the Main Street Republican Crowd. We need to quit being a wholly owned subsidiary of the major fund managers on Wall Street and start being more concerned about people out there in places like Iowa.<\/p>\n

RUSH: (sniff) Ahem. Ahem. Ahem. (sigh) Who was the last person I heard say that? I don\u2019t remember who. I just know it was a Democrat. Well, that\u2019s why they\u2019re calling him McCainesque. That\u2019s why they\u2019re calling him McCainesque on this stuff. Here\u2019s the next question. ‘Draw some contrasts between you, Giuliani, McCain, and Romney. What makes Mike Huckabee different?\u2019<\/p>\n

HUCKABEE: I became governor and was able to get things done in the way of tax cuts and transportation, to rebuild roads, some of the most significant education improvements, and some innovative things, frankly, that many people wouldn\u2019t expect out of a Republican, focus on music and art and education, health care innovations that have… You know, I didn\u2019t grow up a child of privilege, and I can relate to a lot of people out there who understand what struggle is like because a lot of Americans every day get up and they don\u2019t face the decision between, are they going to vacation in the Caribbean or the Riviera. They face whether they can squeeze the handle on the gas pump and put enough fuel in the tank to get to work.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And Mitt Romney was on Fox News Sunday, and Wallace said, ‘You got the 4500 votes. By way of comparison, eight years ago when he was first running, George W. Bush got 7400 votes, David Yepsen, Des Moines Register, kind of guru here, called your victory a bit hollow.\u2019<\/p>\n

ROMNEY: I\u2019m very pleased to win, let me tell you. I got a higher percentage even than the president got eight years ago — and, you know what? It was a warm day, and actually it was difficult turning people out. We hoped to get out about 4,000 to 5,000. We did. They came, they voted, I won. Can\u2019t do better than that. That\u2019s exactly what I was hoping for, and frankly the key for me is building that organizational base that propels me.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay. So that\u2019s it, that\u2019s the roster of sound bites we have from the straw poll in Iowa, where you have to pay to get in. The candidates generally pay the voters to show up. Now, I understand whoever comes in second is always … You got an expected front runner. You have Romney was going to win this because none of the other top tier is there. There has to be somebody who comes in second, and the media is looking for a story to sort of get out of their boredom and the humdrums. So whoever would have come in second would have been, ‘Ah, ah, ah, what\u2019s this? Who is this? Where did this guy come from? Hucka — Hucka-whatta? Huckabee from Arkansas. I thought Clinton ran Arkansas. Oh, he\u2019s the new governor. Oh, okay. Good! We\u2019ve got a story,\u2019 and that\u2019s what\u2019s propelling this. <\/p>\n

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