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RUSH: Here\u2019s the headline today from the Rocky Mountain News. This is in Denver. ”Tuesday\u2019s Results Could Mean Chaos for the Democrat National Committee.\u2019 There was more confusion than closure in Tuesday\u2019s presidential primaries, preserving the prospect of brutal chaos leading right up to the Democratic National Convention in Denver.\u2019 Amen, bro, this is exactly what we wanted. The delegate count — what did she pick up, something like 22 delegates or something like that? She didn\u2019t get that much closer, she didn\u2019t narrow the gap, and the odds are still really, really against her winning the nomination. Here\u2019s how it goes. This is how the delegate math goes — for those of you who are all worried. By the way, you wouldn\u2019t believe the number of sound bites I have coming up from the Drive-By Media commenting on the Limbaugh Effect: How much was it? How big was it? And then, we have some Drive-By people saying here that I am corrupting and perverting democracy, that what I did was ungentlemanly. I\u2019m not kidding you. We\u2019ve got the sound bites coming up. No, I\u2019m not kidding at all. I\u2019ve got the sound bites coming up. <\/p>\n

Let me tell you something, folks. You who listen to this program regularly understand one of the guiding principles of this program, and that is to illustrate absurdity by being absurd. If the Democrats and if the media can pick our nominee, then why the hell can\u2019t we pick theirs? If it\u2019s really fine and dandy and wonderful and bipartisan for Democrats and independents to cross over in the early Republican primaries in states where there are not a dominant number of conservative Republicans and essentially nominate Senator McCain, how come that\u2019s all hunky-dory, how come that\u2019s wonderful, how come that\u2019s all sweetness and light, how come that\u2019s democracy in action? But when Republicans, after our nominee is already chosen, decide to enter the Democrat primary and express their wishes on that side of the aisle, how come that\u2019s corrupting democracy? It\u2019s not corrupting, it\u2019s just making them mad, which is another objective that we succeeded in pulling off. <\/p>\n

Let me give you the delegate math here to calm some of your fears out there. If Clinton and Obama basically tie in the remaining 12 contests, Obama would need 164 superdelegates to come his way to put him over the magic number of 2,024. Here\u2019s the thing that you have to understand. Because of what happened yesterday, this contest is assured to go another three months to Puerto Rico on June 7th, exactly as we told you in a piece written — I forget who wrote it — in American Spectator on Monday. There is no way that either one of these two candidates is going to wrap up the number of delegates by Puerto Rico, which means we\u2019re going to get Florida and we\u2019re going to get Michigan redo\u2019s. That will happen in June sometime. Well, I don\u2019t know when it\u2019s going to happen, but I would bet that we get Florida and Michigan redo\u2019s. ‘Well, yeah, because you can\u2019t disenfranchise all those voters. It\u2019s just not right, Mr. Limbaugh, we can\u2019t do it.\u2019 Remember what I told you, Snerdley, there are no rules in the Democrat Party; there are only customs and traditions. Don\u2019t frown at me. Stop and think of it. <\/p>\n

Do you realize what a brilliant observation that is? There are no rules, and therefore there are no rules to break. There are customs, traditions. And, of course, one of the great Democrat traditions, one of the great Democrat customs is every vote counts, at least twice, and sometimes three times. It\u2019s a great custom. It\u2019s been that way in Chicago for a long time; been that way in West Virginia for a long time. They tried to make that happen in Cuyahoga County last night. I keep hearing judges are loath to keep polling places open. (laughing) Democrat judges aren\u2019t, certainly not in St. Louis and not in Cleveland. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: All right, here\u2019s the delegate math on the Democrat side. There are 611 delegates up for grabs in the remaining 12 Democrat contests. Obama is estimated by ABC News now to have 1,555 of those delegates. That means that he would need to win 77% of all the remaining pledged delegates to hit the magic number of 2,024 to secure the nomination. This is ‘highly unlikely, due to the proportional delegate allocation rules\u2019 in the Democrat Party. Hillary would need to win 94% of all the remaining pledged delegates to hit the magic number of 2,024. She\u2019s estimated to have 1,449 delegates now, by ABC News. So neither of them — neither of them — can get there in the primary process, neither of them can. (McCain impression) ‘This, my friends, is the goal! Limbaugh is doing my job for me. That\u2019s what nobody understands. Way to go, Rush!\u2019 So they\u2019re going to have to rely on superdelegates — and that\u2019s going to be even more fun! (laughing) And then they might have to go back and redo Florida, might have to go back and redo Michigan, any number of things, ladies and gentlemen. So the chaos will continue. <\/p>\n

Mrs. Clinton is now talking about a joint ticket, with herself on top. She is! Mrs. Clinton is saying we have to be on the ticket with myself on top, and Obama says it\u2019s too soon to talk about a joint ticket, much less who\u2019s on top. By the way, by the way, that\u2019s her choice of words, not mine, this ‘who\u2019s on top\u2019 business. (interruption) What do you mean, ‘How brazen\u2019? It\u2019s the Clintons, Snerdley. What do you expect? Do you understand, after last night… (interruption) That\u2019s right. After last night… Well, he\u2019s got big problems coming up. The Rezko trial, that\u2019s going to be big. That started this week. They\u2019re impaneling a jury, going to be a drip, drip, drip, drip sort of information coming out about the guy that Obama was involved with buying his house. Look, Obama hasn\u2019t had a bunch of negative stuff thrown his way before; it\u2019s just now starting, and it\u2019s going to be fascinating to see how this all plays out. It will lead to chaos. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: Now, let me borrow some other Democrat thinking, liberal philosophy that we have heard over the last couple of years. We have Hillary and Obama, and they are mired in a death struggle. They are mired in a fight to the death. What\u2019s the exit strategy for Hillary or Obama? What will they do to make sure that the people of this country do not hate the Democrat Party? What will they do to protect the reputation of the Democrat Party? Remember, as Rummy said, folks, paraphrasing, you don\u2019t go to Denver with the delegates you want; you go to Denver with the delegates that you have. Remember Rumsfeld said, ‘You don\u2019t go to war with the army you want; you go to war with the army you have.\u2019 Remember the liberals had a conniption over that? All right, like I said, the same thing here, Barack Obama and Hillary, you don\u2019t go to Denver with the delegates you want; you go with the delegates that you have. Would it be fair, ladies and gentlemen, to suggest that Mrs. Clinton is in a quagmire? It is definitely fair because it\u2019s imminently accurate. She is in a quagmire. She needs to win 97% of the remaining delegates. She can\u2019t do it. Obama needs to win 77%. He can\u2019t do it, but he\u2019s got a better chance than she does. But she\u2019s certainly not going to win 97% of the remaining delegates in the pledged delegates in the remaining 12 primaries. <\/p>\n

So we can say that Hillary is in a quagmire. Therefore, does Hillary, in a quagmire, running the risk of a civil war in the Democrat Party, and Barack Obama, do Hillary and Barack owe America a timetable for withdrawal from the Democrat primaries? Look at the reputation that they are giving this party around the world. It\u2019s not good. A foreign minister of Iran has come out in favor for the candidate for change. Psst! That\u2019s Obama. The North Koreans, same thing. They\u2019re in favor of the candidate of change. What is this doing to our reputation? What is this bloody fight in the Democrat Party doing to America\u2019s reputation around the world? Canada is in turmoil here over what Barack said he would do with NAFTA and then what he told them privately he wouldn\u2019t do with NAFTA. We\u2019ve caused an international incident before he\u2019s even president. Folks, the nation\u2019s reputation is at stake here, and the Democrat Party has made it so, and I think both Barack and Hillary owe America a timetable for pulling out of these primaries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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