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RUSH: It is heating up, the Wisconsin primary today. Seventy-four delegates on tap for the Democrats. Superdelegates are being paid by both Barry Obama and Mrs. Clinton, Mrs. Clinton going after Obama\u2019s pledged delegates, and there\u2019s nothing to stop her. The pledged delegates do not and are not required to vote for any particular candidate on the first ballot. They are all up for grabs. It\u2019s like I\u2019ve been saying, ladies and gentlemen, it\u2019s almost like these primaries don\u2019t really count. The pledged candidates are not pledged, and it\u2019s Democrat Party rules. It\u2019s not something the Clintons are finagling. It\u2019s Democrat Party rules. That\u2019s why the superdelegates are there because Democrats never trust voters, even their own, to do the right thing. So the superdelegates are there to mediate and to send the party in the direction the party pooh-bahs want it to go. Now, there is an Arkansas Times journalist, his name is Max Brantley. Max Brantley, one of Hillary\u2019s biggest and most important supporters in Arkansas. He\u2019s known her forever, and he has a little piece here at the Arkansas Times blog. And the title of his post is, ‘It\u2019s Over.\u2019 And when he says it\u2019s over for Hillary, when Max Brantley says it, it has impact. <\/p>\n

He writes: ‘I\u2019d be happy to be wrong. For a variety of reasons, I\u2019d prefer Hillary Clinton to be the Democratic presidential nominee. But it\u2019s not going to happen. She\u2019ll be clobbered in Wisconsin tomorrow. She might run ahead, even win, the popular vote in Texas, but the delegate count will be close, probably pro-Obama. The media talk, the popular mood, the times — they all work for Obama. Finally, there\u2019s been the Clinton campaign. Fighting, seriously, today about Obama\u2019s borrowing of rhetoric from a friend is a sign of desperation. Obama is derivative. So is everyone. And Bill Clinton — who knew? — has proved to be a negative. The media megaphone can\u2019t be underestimated. Some of it is crazy. Some of it unfair. So is life. Obama will win the nomination. Polls today say he\u2019ll beat McCain everywhere — in every key state and nationally. Those same polls said the same thing about Hillary Clinton\u2019s sure dominance a few months ago.\u2019 And he closes by writing, ‘For the record.\u2019<\/p>\n

So big-time journalist in Arkansas, knows Clinton well, biggest, most important media supporter, says it is over for her. One thing, one caveat. Mr. Brantley here makes my point about polls. Some months ago, the polls said that Hillary was inevitable and that it was over and it was just a matter of time, all we had to do was let the calendar click by, be over. The same thing was said about Rudy Giuliani. I remember people getting all hot to trot about polls last March and April and May, and I kept trying to tell people, ‘They don\u2019t mean anything yet. We haven\u2019t even gotten to the first primary and cauci state. They don\u2019t mean anything.\u2019 Even now, we\u2019ve got a little bit more under the belt, the delegate count is in Obama\u2019s favor. Clearly the polls have a little bit more relevance today than they would have nine months ago. But there\u2019s a lot of things that you have to factor in here that polls do not measure, and that is the interworkings of the Democrat Party and how Mrs. Clinton is attempting to wrest delegates away from Obama. And, by the way, I\u2019m sure he\u2019s trying to do the same thing. I don\u2019t want to make this sound like it\u2019s one-sided, but I just don\u2019t want anybody to think here that this is a senior prom election or a class president election where they\u2019re voting and they\u2019re counting the votes and whoever gets the most delegates is going to win. Not in this party. Not in this race. Not with the Clintons involved.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: John in Salt Lake City, we\u2019ll start with you on the phones. Great to have you here, sir. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Pleasure to meet with you today, Rush.<\/p>\n

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

CALLER: My question for you today is, how long do you think this fervor for Obama can last? Do you think they can sustain that religious fanaticism all the way through November?<\/p>\n

RUSH: No. No, in fact, the Drive-Bys are already starting to poke holes in it and tear it down. I\u2019ve got a whole stack on that that I was going to get to today. They\u2019re starting now to — see, he\u2019s not even writing his speeches. You know who\u2019s writing his speeches?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh, yeah.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Ted Sorenson, Theodore Sorenson is the primary — he\u2019s not the actual speechwriter — but he\u2019s the primary advisor. He wrote speeches for JFK. His speechwriter is 26 years old, but the Drive-Bys are already starting to take some shots here now at some of this messianic aura that surrounds itself, the halo effect, if you will, over the head of Barack Obama. But it\u2019s not just that. You know, I\u2019ve always believed that the American people do not have that deep an emotional reservoir to begin with. I always use this as the example. I will never forget, it was the eighties, I was in Sacramento, and at the time the leftists in this country and around the world were all fed up with F. W. de Klerk, who was the grand pooh-bah, the head Afrikaans of South Africa. Nelson Mandela was in jail. They weren\u2019t going to let him out of jail, and so the divestment in South Africa move began, and every university and every company was urged to divest from South Africa. It was never-ending. It went on for months, and after a while, I got sick and tired of hearing about it, and so did a lot of other people, and I warned the advocates, if you keep this up, people don\u2019t have the ability to feel angry or sad or sorry at the level you need them to be to accomplish this. The emotional reservoirs run dry and they fill up with some new issue or some new cause for concern. This kind of messianic approach that Obama is taking is going to have to be replaced with some specifics at some point if he does get the nomination, and once you start debating with Senator McCain and the media is going to change it\u2019s focus as well as time goes on. I mean, he\u2019s going to have his supporters that will still have this attachment to him and you\u2019re going to have supporters who won\u2019t care what he says as long as he says ‘hope\u2019 and ‘change\u2019 every other word. But in terms of having this — well, no other better word for it than messianic, that can\u2019t be sustained from now to November.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Do you think Hillary\u2019s done at this point?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, no. (laughing) It may look like it on paper, she may be done, but she\u2019s not done. These are the Clintons. Remember, this is my phrase: Even if he wins the nomination, she\u2019s going to be the nominee. Meaning they\u2019ll fix this at the convention. She\u2019s not going to get out of this. She may lose Wisconsin. She\u2019s a couple of points ahead, maybe three points ahead or four in both Texas, and, where else did I see? Ohio. She\u2019s down by four-and-a-half in the Real Clear Politics rolling average in Wisconsin. Even James Carville is saying that if she loses Texas and Ohio, she\u2019s toast and she\u2019s done. There may be some numbers here that might prove to be insurmountable, but, remember, none of these delegates are pledged, and this is nothing new. This has always been the case. It\u2019s never mattered in the Democrat Party, because they\u2019ve always had their nominee by February or March. But remember, as I so pointed out yesterday, 1968, and that\u2019s memorable for a number of events, of course, the Chicago riots. Also in 1968, Hubert Humphrey was the Democrat nominee. He didn\u2019t win one primary, folks. Now, I know it\u2019s a little different circumstance today than it was then, but 40 years ago the Democrat nominee did not win a single primary. <\/p>\n

Walter F. Mondull in 1984 stole pledged delegates to Gary Hart, stole \u2019em. And Walter F. Mondull ended up being the nominee. I have a theory about this. I went to that convention. I was at the Democrat convention in San Francisco. It was my first-ever political convention. I was doing a morning show in Kansas City, so we had to go on the air, what was it, four in the morning, we were getting up at two, actually, we were staying up all night, sleeping during the day because we had to go to the convention. I remember going to a reception, and that\u2019s where I met Gephardt for the first time. And there was a man from Sikeston, Missouri, a good family friend, a big Democrat, forget his name now, and he was there as a delegate. He was a honcho of the party. And I walked in, and he saw me, and I didn\u2019t see him, he came up and said hello, said, ‘What are you doing here?\u2019 I said, ‘I\u2019m working this for a radio station in Kansas City.\u2019 I said, ‘What do you think your odds are here?\u2019 Now, they had chosen Mondull by this time. He said — I\u2019ll never forget this. ‘You spot me a hundred electoral votes and we can win this.\u2019 I said, ‘Spot you a hundred electoral votes?\u2019 He said, ‘Yeah, I know, I know, I know.\u2019 <\/p>\n

They knew that they were going to lose so big, they knew he was going to lose, and I actually think they didn\u2019t mind nominating Mondull because it was Mondull\u2019s turn after Jimmy Carter. Mondull had been an old war horse, time to get him out of the way when they had no chance of winning anyway, sort of like us in 1996 and perhaps other years. I think that\u2019s what happened. But Mondull, before all this happened, actually out there stealing delegates from Gary Hart. And once Hart was found on a boat, the Monkey Business boat, and that was really close to home, because Gary Hart\u2019s wife was the sister of Martha Keyes, who was a prominent state legislator, a congressional member from the state of Kansas at the time. It\u2019s all incestuous, folks. It\u2019s just incestuous out there. So it\u2019s too early to say that Mrs. Clinton\u2019s out of this, with all due respect to Max Brantley at the Arkansas Times. He\u2019s looking at the numbers. And, according to the numbers, she\u2019s toast, doesn\u2019t have a prayer, but it\u2019s the Clintons. This is the only reason they\u2019re alive; it\u2019s the only reason that they\u2019re living. This whole nomination is the sum total of every Christmas morning in their lives, with themselves as Santa Claus. So this is going to be juicy. <\/p>\n

You got Obama\u2019s wife out there, ‘For the first time in my life, first time in my life I\u2019m happy and proud to be an American.\u2019 That is so repugnant. Do you know even McCain has let his wife Cindy go to the microphone on this. Cindy McCain is saying, ‘Well, I know you heard the comments yesterday. How many of you are proud of your country?\u2019 We\u2019re all proud of our country. That\u2019s the interesting thing. There are so many people in this country who aren\u2019t. They are leftists, they are — (interruption) what? Would I go to a Democrat convention today? I wouldn\u2019t go to a Republican convention today. You kidding me? I wouldn\u2019t go to either one. But it was fun. I also went to the Houston convention, Republican convention in 1992. Wait a second. I went to the Republican convention in \u201984, too, when Ronaldus Magnus was being renominated. That was in Dallas. Oh, yeah. I\u2019ll never forget that. I went to the Texas School Book Depository, did a report from there, yeah. That\u2019s where I met George Will down in the bowels below the convention hall. <\/p>\n

The last convention I was at was the Clinton convention, \u201992 in New York, Madison Square Garden because the broadcast facilities were right there. That\u2019s where we sent Lo Bianco out with the grape Kool-Aid as the Democrat delegates were walking — we thought we were going to smoke Clinton. We thought this hayseed from Arkansas that they\u2019ve nominated. We found the C-SPAN cameras buried in the shrubbery outside the Garden and put Lo Bianco in front of them with a sign, a sandwich board, ‘Grape Kool-Aid for Democrat Delegates.\u2019 They all had a good time with it. But that\u2019s the last one that I\u2019ve been to. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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