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RUSH: Before I play the sound bite, I need to ask those of us who were listening to this program at about this time yesterday, the first half-hour of this program yesterday, I want to ask all of you, Mr. Snerdley, Dawn, Brian, did I, on this program yesterday, did I suggest that Mike Huckabee should be McCain\u2019s vice presidential nominee? I did not say that at all, did I? Did I praise Huckabee on this program yesterday and suggest that that would be my choice to make this ticket one I could support? All right, I didn\u2019t think so, but I say a lot, and sometimes it\u2019s hard to remember specifically without checking the transcript. Let\u2019s go to Tucker Carlson last night. He had David Shuster and McCain campaign advisor Frank Donatelli.<\/p>\n

SHUSTER: Mike Huckabee got some praise today from Rush Limbaugh, who as you know has suggested that McCain does not represent his view of the Republican Party, and there was Rush Limbaugh today praising Mike Huckabee, and he said, ‘Republicans cannot win the White House, cannot win a presidential race without winning in the South, and McCain demonstrated he can\u2019t do that unless he puts the Huckster on the ticket as the veep.\u2019 What\u2019s your reaction, what\u2019s the McCain campaign reaction to this blatant suggestion that Mike Huckabee ought to be John McCain\u2019s running mate?<\/p>\n

DONATELLI: Well, I\u2019m delighted that Rush has changed his mind on Mike Huckabee. You know, he was critical of him for many months, maybe he\u2019ll change his opinion on us and give Senator McCain a little benefit of the doubt in the near future.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You know what alerted me to this? I was sitting at home last night, I was minding my own business, just relaxing, and all of a sudden I got four or five e-mails from people who hadn\u2019t heard the program yesterday, ‘Did you endorse Huckabee as vice president?\u2019 ‘No, I didn\u2019t.\u2019 ‘Well, they\u2019re saying all over MSNBC that you did.\u2019 I think what I said here yesterday was talking about regional politics, and I did point out McCain won his Super Tuesday votes in these blue states that he\u2019s not going to carry in the general election, and he\u2019s going to need somebody to get Southern votes, because he didn\u2019t get them, and Huckabee did. I think what I actually said was, during the course of the program yesterday, that McCain\u2019s going to throw Huckabee overboard now that he doesn\u2019t need him, Huckabee\u2019s been around to split the Romney vote. In fact, I said yesterday that McCain\u2019s not going to put Huckabee on the ticket, there\u2019s no way he\u2019s going to do that. It isn\u2019t going to happen. He\u2019s going to throw him overboard. So from the fundraiser of Hillary to this, your host, being misrepresented profoundly on the Drive-By Media. Hardball with Chris Matthews, spoke with reporter David Shuster, part of the previous sound bite. Also, Chrystia Freeland from the Financial Times. Matthews says, ‘What\u2019s Huckabee\u2019s stake in your black eye, what\u2019s his role?\u2019<\/p>\n

SHUSTER: To rally people like Rush Limbaugh. Rush Limbaugh today said that if John McCain wants to win the presidency he\u2019s gotta put Mike Huckabee on the ticket. They want to show John McCain that, look, you need us. If you want to carry the South, if you want to get evangelicals behind your candidacy, put us, put me, Mike Huckabee, on the ticket, or at least recognize some of the issues that we care so deeply about.<\/p>\n

MATTHEWS: Chrystia, is Rush Limbaugh now Boss Tweed, is that his role, King Caucus? Does he now dictate these things? Is he the kingfish of the Republican Party now?<\/p>\n

FREELAND: Well, I think he would certainly like to be, and I think he needs to be a little bit careful not to overstep the mark. For one thing, John McCain historically has not been that good at listening to Bosses Tweed. His personality is a little bit adverse to that sort of thing.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Folks, it\u2019s the Twilight Zone. That\u2019s Chrystia Freeland of the Financial Times. ‘Is Rush Limbaugh the Boss Tweed?\u2019 After just writing, after just broadcasting it, I have lost totally because McCain is the presumptive nominee, all because they misunderstood what I said about Huckabee yesterday. They think that I have advocated Huckabee on the ticket, all of a sudden now I\u2019m Boss Tweed, the kingfish, King Caucus. (laughing) I dictate things? (laughing) I\u2019ll tell you, the Limbaugh machine, they are bugged. I didn\u2019t even say it. I did not say I\u2019d support the ticket with Huckabee on it. I didn\u2019t even recommend it. I said McCain\u2019s going to need somebody in the South to get votes. I said McCain\u2019s going to throw Huckabee overboard now that he\u2019s through with him. One more on this. Morning Joe today, Scarborough\u2019s show, MSNBC, Chuck Todd, their political director, and Scarborough on the phone, all had this exchange about me.<\/p>\n

SHUSTER: Rush Limbaugh said the other morning about, well, if John McCain wants to unite conservatives, especially in the South and be competitive, he ought to put Mike Huckabee on the ticket.<\/p>\n

TODD: This is where I\u2019m confused by Rush. I thought a week ago he said that if either McCain or Huckabee were the nominee, it would ruin the Republican Party. Now he thinks the two of them should run as a ticket.<\/p>\n

SCARBOROUGH: That is very confusing.<\/p>\n

RUSH: It\u2019s only confusing, Joe, because I didn\u2019t say it. Your reporter, Shuster, cannot get this right. But neither can CBS in New York get right my Hillary fundraiser purpose. Diane Sawyer was on the verge of not getting it. You all are in good company. CNN The Situation Room, correspondent Mary Snow, CNN comes close to getting it right on this.<\/p>\n

SNOW: Don\u2019t expect conservative radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh to hop on the Huckabee bandwagon any time soon. Limbaugh has been highly critical of McCain and raised this question on his nationally syndicated radio talk show.<\/p>\n

RUSH ARCHIVE: Now what\u2019s going to happen is all of us are going to say, ‘Okay, who\u2019s the conservative alternative? You gotta go to Huckabee now, Rush?\u2019 There is no conservative alternative in the race. It\u2019s just that simple.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So CNN gets it, comes close; PMSNBC doesn\u2019t. I don\u2019t know. So I\u2019m tribal chieftain, I\u2019m leading the herd, King Caucus, Boss Tweed, kingfish, potentate, kingmaker, and who knows what else is coming down the pike.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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