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RUSH: Mark in Schaumburg, Illinois, glad you waited. Welcome to the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Rush, this is the first time I\u2019ve had the privilege of speaking with you. Thank you for taking my call.<\/p>\n

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

CALLER: I was a Romney supporter, and I honestly felt he was the only Republican who had a chance of winning against either Hillary or Obama. Isn\u2019t McCain sort of a moot point? And I have another question for a follow-up, if you will indulge me.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Isn\u2019t McCain sort of a moot point? You mean because he\u2019s going to lose?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I just don\u2019t think McCain can win against either Hillary or Obama.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Why not?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I just think he\u2019s a loose cannon. He is old. There\u2019s just all kinds of problems with him.<\/p>\n

RUSH: But conventional wisdom is that McCain can\u2019t lose, \u2019cause he\u2019s going to win by attracting Democrats and independents to join the Republican Party and thereby take votes away from Obama or Hillary.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, you know, I — I just — I think that —<\/p>\n

RUSH: The question is, if that happens…? The real question is, ‘If that happens, who wins?\u2019<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: The Democrats win in that case. This is —<\/p>\n

CALLER: Exactly.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Sorry.<\/p>\n

CALLER: The question, if they vote for him, why would they just vote for the Democrat? That\u2019s my point. <\/p>\n

RUSH: There\u2019s an answer to that. You could walk around New York and you could find some of these liberals who want to vote for McCain over these other two clowns, and what it boils down to is the POW story and honor and national security. In New York, liberals do care about national security. Outside of New York and New Jersey, they don\u2019t care about it much, but here they do. I don\u2019t think that they necessarily trust Hillary, certainly not Obama, but they do trust McCain — and McCain is saying just enough things on the social side to satisfy \u2019em. So there are a lot of liberals in New York that might vote for McCain.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Can I ask you my second question?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Sure! By all means.<\/p>\n

CALLER: And this is based on the premise, you know, that McCain is going to lose. I\u2019ve heard predictions that whoever is elected in 2008 will be a one-term president, and I\u2019ve even heard that McCain said he will only serve one term, which is why I think —<\/p>\n

RUSH: He hasn\u2019t said that. He hasn\u2019t said that. If he said that… He hasn\u2019t said that.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay, great; which is why I think Romney is aiming for 2012. What do you think?<\/p>\n

RUSH: A lot of people are going to be aiming for 2012. You know… (sigh) You\u2019ve brought me dangerously close to an area here I don\u2019t want to discuss, and I think I\u2019m going to practice my restraint and discipline here not to go there, in terms of this one-term business. But let me say this about the one-term business. What\u2019s fascinating about it to me is, Obama, I think, can afford to lose. He\u2019s got a future. He\u2019s young. If Hillary doesn\u2019t make it this year, and let\u2019s say the next Republican — let\u2019s say McCain and his vice president — end up serving two terms. That means it\u2019s, what, 2008, 2016? Hillary will be 68. I think she\u2019s 60 now. This is it for her, I think. Trust me on this, folks, for reasons I\u2019ve explained previously, that people wrote about. Trust me: This is it. That\u2019s going to make them so desperate, too. But I think there are a lot of people looking at 2012. I don\u2019t know that the conventional wisdom is right, that whoever wins is only going to serve one term. I don\u2019t know where that comes from. I haven\u2019t necessarily… You mean only last one term, might get defeated after one term. I think the odds of that happening are pretty good if the Democrats win. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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