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RUSH: Mike Huckabee is continuing to run as though he has a chance for the Republican nomination. He swept two out of three states over the weekend, and Washington is up for grabs and he\u2019s up in arms about it being up for grabs. They stopped counting with 87% of the votes in, and he\u2019s very suspicious. The party went ahead and declared McCain the winner, and they\u2019re going to have final results today. But get this, Huckabee is starting to sound like us. ‘Huckabee suggested the Republican Party could meet the same fate as 1976 if it elected a moderate candidate who does not inspire voters. Speaking at a press conference after addressing Thomas Road Baptist Church,\u2019 that\u2019s Jerry Falwell\u2019s church, ‘Huckabee continued to compare himself to Ronald Reagan, who ran in 1976 against the party establishment, which led to a floor fight at the national convention. When reminded that the Republicans lost the 1976, Huckabee said it wasn\u2019t because the party was divided, but because Gerald Ford did not energize the party. ‘He never championed himself as a conservative, not a pro-life person for whom that was important,\u2019 Huckabee said. ‘He was a really nice moderate Republican, a true gentleman. But a member of Congress and more a part of the Washington Republican establishment than representing the grassroots of conservatism.\u2019 And in a thinly veiled reference to McCain, Huckabee went on to say Republicans could lose again with a similar candidate.\u2019<\/p>\n

So Huckabee is not going away. This is not sitting well with the Republican establishment, folks. We were supposed to now be unifying around and behind Senator McCain, after his sweep on Super Tuesday. But with Huckabee continuing to win these primaries, it illustrates that there is no unification going on. As you know, on Friday or Saturday, I forget when this was, the days all run together, but the governor of Texas, Rick Perry, who is supporting McCain, ‘called Huckabee Friday asking him to pull out for the good of the party, according to a senior Huckabee campaign aide. Huckabee confirmed he received the call, and said he didn\u2019t take it seriously. ‘I told him that while I appreciated it, with all due respect, since he was already on someone else\u2019s team that I had to discount his advice since he had a vested interest in my not winning and McCain winning. Since he was endorsing my opponent, the recommendation rang a little hollow to me. Again it was a cordial conversation but not one that I would take seriously.” Huckabee also said, look, people keep telling me about the math out there. ‘I didn\u2019t major in math … I majored in miracles.\u2019 The crowd loved that kind of talk, just ate it up. And now Huckabee is not going to concede the state of Washington. <\/p>\n

The Republican Party is resuming their delegate count out there. ‘The results of the state Republican caucuses were called into question Sunday after presidential candidate Mike Huckabee challenged the party\u2019s declaration that Arizona Sen. John McCain had won the delegate count.\u2019 Then the Wall Street Journal today, as I mentioned the top of the program: ”McCain Still Dogged By Conservatives\u2019 Ire\u2019 — Ever since he became the presumptive Republican nominee, John McCain has had a rough ride, and the bumps continued through the weekend. Last week, he was booed at the premier convention of conservatives and endured harsh criticism from conservative leaders and talk-show hosts. And then over the weekend he lost two of three states to Mike Huckabee.\u2019 So here\u2019s the delegate count right now, by the way. McCain 719, Huckabee 234. A total of 1,191 is needed to claim the nomination. Huckabee talked about me yesterday to Meet the Press\u2019 Tim Russert. We have the sound bite. Russert said to Huckabee, ‘Rush Limbaugh has taken after both you and McCain. This is what Limbaugh said: ‘I\u2019m here to tell you if either of these two guys get the nomination, McCain or Huckabee, it\u2019s going to destroy the Republican Party, it\u2019s going to change it forever, be the end of it. A lot of people aren\u2019t going to vote, you watch.” And Huckabee reacted.<\/p>\n

HUCKABEE: I really like Rush. I\u2019ve been a fan for many, many years and love his show. I think he\u2019s been a great voice of conservatism. He\u2019s been one of those guys that has used a lot of humor and sometimes some sharp-tongued zingers to kind of keep the movement thoughtful. You know, I\u2019m disappointed with what he said because I don\u2019t think it reflects me and my record. I think he allowed some people to put information in front of him that was not accurate. But the point is, you know, he\u2019s got a right to say what he thinks. I will make this observation, Tim. You know, he did everything he could to knock McCain and me out of the process, and unfortunately for him, we\u2019re still the two that are on our feet.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Unfortunately for me. (laughing) (interruption) Look, I\u2019ve got some things. I want to get to the bites here because I\u2019ve been musing. I spent the weekend musing. Nantz asked me at this dinner Saturday night, ‘Do you want to say anything about politics?\u2019 ‘No, I don\u2019t want to say anything about politics at this event, not to the table.\u2019 Everybody stands up and makes some remarks during the course of dinner. Phil Mickelson is and his wife were right across the table from us. Dina Eastwood and Clint were to the right of Mickelson. We were all very close, and we\u2019re having our own little political conversation at our end of the table, but I didn\u2019t want to stand up. This is not an occasion to go through a political riff. But I have been musing about all of this. I\u2019ll get to those thoughts here in just a second. I\u2019m just setting up my thoughts with these bites. Here\u2019s one more, this is from CNN this morning, John Roberts, a cohost, spoke to Huckabee and said, ‘Your campaign figures that there were 1500 votes that went uncounted in Washington State.\u2019<\/p>\n

HUCKABEE: That is not what we do in American elections. It may be how they used to conduct it in the old Soviet Union, but you don\u2019t just throw people\u2019s votes out and say, ‘Well, we\u2019re not going to bother counting them because we kind of think we know where this is going.\u2019 I mean I was just stunned, and it\u2019s the kind of thing that Republicans across America, not just in Washington State, ought to be outraged over. And what really bothers us, we were leading — I mean we\u2019d already won two states, two of the three that were in play, and then for the chairman to make this decision arbitrarily, potentially denying us a sweep of three states, we just want to get to the bottom of it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wow, you people in the state of Washington, Huckabee has just compared your tactics to the Soviet Union. And of course, speaking of that, there is a column from some guy named Mackenzie, Ross Mackenzie, who\u2019s a former editor I guess of the Richmond Times-Dispatch, who\u2019s comparing me and my talk show brethren to Maoists and Stalinists because they were the last true ideologue. I\u2019m not kidding you. This is how outrageous this has become. Those of us who are simply standing for constitutional conservatism are now being called all of these names. It\u2019s funny to watch this happen. <\/p>\n

Okay, my musings. I\u2019ve been thinking, because I\u2019m aware of what\u2019s been written. I\u2019m aware of the Newsweek cover story. I\u2019m aware of all this stuff on television. I\u2019m aware of the New York Times, what they\u2019re writing, and all this. I\u2019ve been thinking about this. The Bill Kristol, David Brooks wing of the party right now consists of about three people: Kristol, Brooks, and McCain. They\u2019re being repudiated, and they may not be comfortable with this. So I\u2019m thinking that maybe I should support McCain to help them out. The New York Times-McCain wing of the party\u2019s in trouble. Obviously, they\u2019re in trouble. Huckabee keeps winning. I\u2019m thinking about subscribing to the New York Times and endorsing McCain to help him out. But then again, Huckabee keeps winning, and he\u2019s not going away. Maybe I should endorse Huckabee. Or maybe we should just rally around Ron Paul, at least he believes in the Bill of Rights. There\u2019s any number of ways to go here. I could back Huckabee. He keeps winning. He was the Brooks-Kristol team\u2019s favorite candidate four weeks ago. But there\u2019s a third way, folks. We\u2019ve got all kinds of options here. How about Lieberman for president and McCain for vice president? All kinds of options. But I will tell you this, if this keeps up, if Huckabee doesn\u2019t get out of this, if he keeps in there and he keeps winning and he keeps objecting to the results and keeps calling the Republican establishment essentially Stalin-like or Soviet Union-like, I\u2019ll tell you what\u2019s going to happen. Senator McCain is going to be in a rocking chair wearing his mother\u2019s wig sitting above the Bates Motel. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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