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RUSH: All right. We still have Lou Ann here from Salt Lake City who held on through the break because she only had 20 seconds when I inadvertently took her call. So, Lou Ann, welcome back. Thank you for waiting, and welcome to the EIB Network.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thank you very much for taking my call.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You bet.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I have that Dingy Harry letter on my refrigerator and I enjoy looking at it every day. I just wanted to say that I do find this election important.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yes?<\/line> <\/line>CALLER: And I do find your opinions very important.<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: And I do think that everybody is getting endorsements from this person or that person, and we just recently heard of Lieberman endorsing John McCain and kind of giving him a little boost. So we don\u2019t really hear in the media much about Fred Thompson, and I do think, like you, that he is a good conservative — and like you pointed out so eloquently, other people, such as Romney or Giuliani or so forth, are kind of redefining what conservatism is, and that\u2019s kind of like what it is now. I do think Fred Thompson does carry forth some of the traditional conservative ideas, and I think maybe if perhaps you came out and said you are for him, maybe he would get a little bit more noticed and people would consider him as more of a viable, top-tier, one or two candidate, because I really do think that he is really good. I\u2019ve heard him on other radio shows, and I do like his ideas, and I really think that Giuliani would make a fabulous vice president with him, because I think that would take away some of his personal issues. And I think that Vice President Cheney has redefined what a vice president is. I don\u2019t think they are just somebody who goes around at funerals and stuff.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I agree with you. I\u2019ve long stated in fact that what bothers me greatly here is this redefinition of conservatism that\u2019s going on, but having said that: Whichever one of these guys gets the nomination is going to get my vote, and it could well be… You know, everybody\u2019s talking about Iowa and New Hampshire, but this isn\u2019t going to be over after either of those states on either side. Rudy\u2019s in Missouri, frankly. ‘Missouri? What\u2019s going on in Missouri?\u2019 Well, I\u2019ll tell you what\u2019s going on in Missouri: February 5th. February 5th is Super-Duper Tuesday, whatever they\u2019re calling it. That\u2019s where you\u2019re probably going to get the nominees picked. With the Republican side right now so fluid (this is something else I told Cindy Adams last night), right now in Republican National Committee circles and maybe even with some Republicans, the two dreaded words out there are ‘brokered convention,\u2019 and the reason some people are fearing brokered convention — it would be fun to watch — is because nobody\u2019s launched ahead of anybody here. It\u2019s just that tight, at least coordinating these preprimary polls. But there will be some clarity after the Hawkeye Cauci, and after the New Hampshire primary. <\/p>\n

Now, interestingly about endorsements, Zogby conducted a poll recently for Associated Television News shows, and it discovered this: ‘that voters value the endorsements of the National Rifle Association, by former President Clinton and President George W. Bush over influential organizations like the AFL-CIO and the National Council of La Raza or celebrities Oprah Winfrey and Barbra Streisand.\u2019 Now (sigh), I\u2019m not surprised. There\u2019s even a story here in the stack about this. The Oprah endorsement ‘didn\u2019t really sway voters.\u2019 This is from the Chicago Sun-Times, Jennifer Hunter: ‘Oprah\u2019s efforts actually backfired,\u2019 a poll says. This is the Lifetime Network and Zogby again. ‘The pollsters interviewed 500 New Hampshire women — to look at the views in this early primary state — and 1,000 other women across the nation… [W]hat the pollsters found was that Oprah made little difference in the way women are looking at the candidates. In fact, with some groups of women, Oprah\u2019s efforts actually backfired. … [O]ne-third of the women under 30 said Oprah ‘stumping actually made them less likely to support Obama.\u2019 Seventy-three percent of the other women said it made no difference to their campaign choices at all.\u2019 I don\u2019t buy this Clinton, though, as a powerful endorsement. This guy is a drag. This guy is an absolute drag on whoever it is he goes out there to help. So sit tight, folks. It\u2019s all going to come into clear focus at the appropriate time. Things happen as and when they are supposed to. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: All right, Phil in Spartanburg, South Carolina, it\u2019s nice to have you on the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Rush, mega dittos.<\/p>\n

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

CALLER: Just want to ask you about the Huckabee craze. I mean, it\u2019s obviously made it down here, and it\u2019s still down here in South Carolina, but it\u2019s been so big it\u2019s changed me. I was a Romney guy for a while, and now I\u2019ve been influenced so much — I\u2019m only 18 years old, so I\u2019m easily influenced, but — I\u2019m almost over to Huckabee now, but I guess my question is, is this going to make it far enough out in the country? Is this going to spread from the Southeast up North, you know, to the Midwest and stay in Iowa and come to Florida and make it in Ohio? I know when Thompson got in the race later, you know, everybody said, ‘Here comes Thompson! Here comes Thompson,\u2019 and now kind of with McCain. McCain\u2019s making a big run. So is Huckabee going to be able to carry this far enough to where he can really win this nomination?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Look, as fluid as things are, it is possible. Anything right now is possible, because you haven\u2019t had any votes. A lot of things are going to become much more clear after the Hawkeye Cauci and then the New Hampshire primary. Nothing\u2019s going to be settled then. You know, South Carolina is going to be crucial to a lot of candidates. South Carolina will probably depend on whether some stay in or not. Maybe not, but a lot of people have South Carolina in their long-term strategery. Thompson was one. He\u2019s now reallocating some resources to Iowa because he\u2019s in the middle of a little bit of s surge there. But if you want to make analogies, Howard Dean, in 2004, was the darling of the Democrats. He was supposedly attracting never before active audience, and voters, and contributors via the Internet. And the haughty John Kerry was languishing away, having to borrow money from his wife under the guise of taking away equity in his Boston house, in order to stay viable in the campaign, and then when the votes were counted in Iowa, the polling data had been dead wrong about Howard Dean, and it didn\u2019t materialize, and that\u2019s when he started screaming. That\u2019s why I keep telling people to wait for the actual votes to start counting, be counted, and votes to be taken. At this stage, I wont to be able to tell you who\u2019s going to win this. <\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know how long Huckabee is going to survive. I don\u2019t know how far he can go. I think, as happens with all surprise emerging near front-runners, that more and more scrutiny is attached. And, as that scrutiny occurs, the candidates either try to face it or hide it, continue, you know, to not answer questions about various aspects of policy and instead rely on the link and try to promote that link, which, in Huckabee\u2019s case is his Southern Baptistism and his being a minister, to have that be what propels him. But I\u2019ve found that you can\u2019t avoid this kind of scrutiny. It happens to everybody that climbs to the top of anything: Everybody comes gunning for you. I don\u2019t care what the business is, be it politics or anything else. Everybody wants what you\u2019ve got when you\u2019re number one. So I think it\u2019s going to be difficult, frankly, for Huckabee to hold on, but I don\u2019t know. I really don\u2019t. Everything is so wide open and up in the air here. It\u2019s why I made the comment not long ago: There\u2019s some genuine fear out there in Republican circles that the primaries are not going to decide this, that it\u2019s going to be delegates being brokered and things at the convention, because it\u2019s all jammed up, and nobody\u2019s going to really know \u2019til the votes are taken and counted. I\u2019m getting blue in the face saying that. I\u2019m not trying to avoid answering the question, but I\u2019m not going to sit here and tell you something I don\u2019t know and make it up just to sound authoritative when I really have no clue how long anybody\u2019s going to last in this thing. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: Chicago, Tad, thanks for calling. You\u2019re up next on the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, thanks, Rush. I have a quick comment. A little over a year ago, you said you were done carrying people\u2019s water for them, and recently you\u2019ve been getting static callers asking them to basically support their candidate or confirm to them that their candidate is the one and only conservative candidate out there on the Republican side. If they believe their candidate is so viable and so conservative, why do they continue coming to you for that blessing?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Because there isn\u2019t one candidate breaking out. They\u2019re all bunching up here, and people think that if I got behind their guy, that it could be perhaps the boost to launch this guy — whoever I would happen to endorse — out of the pack a little bit. So I understand their trying. They\u2019ve forgotten that I have said I\u2019m through carrying water. It\u2019s a good point. I actually think… I want you people to know I\u2019m flattered that you want me to endorse. Don\u2019t misunderstand here. But the carry-the-water thing was meant in this way. You know, we\u2019re in a primary situation, and we\u2019re talking about running for president. It\u2019s up to these guys to get noticed. It\u2019s up to these guys with the force of their personalities and their charisma and their policy, their vision for the country. It\u2019s up to them to get noticed. ‘But, Rush, the Drive-Bys are not…\u2019 They know that going in. That\u2019s my attitude about it. I don\u2019t know how to say it any more than I have. I feel like I\u2019ve been a broken record on this about this endorsement business, but it\u2019s all going to work out. It\u2019s all going to work out. It will happen as it will when it\u2019s supposed to. <\/p>\n

RUSH: Quentin in Dayton, Ohio, thank you for calling, and welcome.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, Rush.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Hey!<\/p>\n

CALLER: How are you doing today?<\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019m fine, sir. Thank you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay, a real quick explanation: One of the things that\u2019s going to win or lose it for the Republican Party is if they try to outdo the Democrats going after that big single-mother vote. They\u2019ve already disenfranchised a lot of the male base by going and doing whatever the feminists ask to get that vote.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wait a minute. The Republicans have to get the single-women vote, you\u2019re saying?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, no. I\u2019m saying they gotta quit trying to outdo the —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh. Oh, oh. Oh, okay. Yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: — Democrats in trying to go after the woman vote.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, that\u2019s one of the things that\u2019s bothering me, is we\u2019ve got too many people trying to out-Democrat Democrats in certain ways. You know, Reagan conservatism works! (laughs) It\u2019s been proven, and the dirty little secret is that whoever gets a majority of white men wins the presidency. That\u2019s the dirty little secret. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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