{"id":30276,"date":"2008-08-29T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T03:25:17","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-19T03:25:17","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T03:25:17","slug":"sarah_palin_babies_guns_jesus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2008\/08\/29\/sarah_palin_babies_guns_jesus\/","title":{"rendered":"Sarah Palin: Babies, Guns, Jesus"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n

RUSH: This is Sarah Palin and her accomplishments. Obama cannot make a speech like this.<\/p>\n

PALIN: In serving as the team mom and coaching some basketball on the side, I got involved in the PTA and then was elected to the city council and then elected mayor of my hometown where my agenda was to stop wasteful spending and cut property taxes and put the people first! (cheers and applause) I was then appointed ethics commissioner and chairman of the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission. And when I found corruption there, I fought it hard and I held the offenders to account. (cheers and applause) Along with fellow reformers in the great state of Alaska, as governor, I stood up to the old politics as usual — to the special interests, to the lobbyists, the big oil companies, and the good old boy network. (cheers and applause) When oil and gas prices went up so dramatically and the state revenues followed with that increase, I sent a large share of that revenue directly back to the people of Alaska — and we are now… (cheers and applause) We\u2019re now embarking on a $40 billion natural gas pipeline to help lead America to energy independence.<\/p>\n

RUSH: She\u2019s doing it.<\/p>\n

PALIN: I signed major ethics reforms and I appointed both Democrats and independents to serve in my administration, and I championed reform, toned the abuses of earmark spending by Congress. In fact, I told Congress, ‘Thanks, but no thanks,\u2019 on that Bridge to Nowhere. If our state wanted a bridge, I said we\u2019d build it ourselves.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Sarah Palin: babies, guns, Jesus. Hot damn!<\/p>\n

Back to the phones. Chuck in Oswego, New York. You\u2019re next on the Rush Limbaugh program. It\u2019s Open Line Friday, great to have you here.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Rush, it\u2019s great to be here. Can I paraphrase Michelle Obama real quick?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Sure.<\/p>\n

CALLER: ‘For the first time in years, I am proud to be a Republican.\u2019<\/p>\n

RUSH: (laughter) Very funny. That\u2019s cool.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I love it, man. Thank you, because you are in a great sense responsible for her being there, because you paved the way for conservatism to become mainstream in this country, not just you but the other people that are on the radio, the websites, everything. You are partly responsible for this, and God bless you for it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Chuck, thank you very much. It makes me so happy you say that. Thanks very much.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019m so excited about this, I\u2019ll tell you. I saw a couple weeks ago, I was so worried — you know, because my nickname for John McCain is the Warm Beer Candidate, and I was so worried — that he was going to go with, you know, a Tom Ridge or Mitt Romney. Mitt Romney was my governor.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Let me tell you what was going on with that. There are a lot of different factions in the McCain camp. He made this decision himself, but there are a lot of factions in that camp. He surrounds himself with people like Lindsey Grahamnesty, and Grahamnesty was the one pushing Lieberman. Grahamnesty thought that would be the bold pick, or Ridge. The McCain camp does not have any full-fledged right-wingers in it. There are people that are more conservative than they are a moderate, but really right-wingers, there aren\u2019t any there. So whatever the message was that I told McCain, if he really heard it — if he wanted clear sailing and he wasn\u2019t worried about any reaction — he wanted Lieberman, that\u2019s what was put out. <\/p>\n

Now, I don\u2019t know if that\u2019s the Lindsey Graham faction putting that out, \u2019cause all these people were leaking these different names in an attempt to put pressure McCain to pick them, to run trial balloons on them or what have you. But the bottom line is when it came right down to it, after Biden was chosen, you just knew — and especially if you tracked the McCain campaign the last six, seven weeks. They\u2019ve done a 180 and they\u2019re focusing on the base; they\u2019re focusing more on conservatism than they have. You\u2019ve seen the poll numbers rise. It just didn\u2019t make any sense, especially after the Saddleback Forum, to put somebody pro-choice on the ticket. I don\u2019t think it was ever something that was really that close to happening. I really don\u2019t. It might have been close in the minds of some of McCain\u2019s camp, and I think it\u2019s probably true that if he could have, he would have, but he\u2019s not that stupid. <\/p>\n

He\u2019s just not that stupid. Regardless the process, regardless how it came out, it\u2019s just a great choice here. An absolutely fabulous decision was made here — and they kept it secret. They brilliantly executed the whole ceremony today, the whole appearance, knocking coverage of Obama\u2019s messianic descent from the heavens last night in Denver. They just obliterated it. Obama is nowhere. He and Biden are opening their campaign in Beaver, Pennsylvania, on the day that McCain named Sarah Palin as his vice presidential running mate. Besides that, I don\u2019t know if you people were here in the first hour, but we decided to JIP McCain\u2019s announcement ceremony today, \u2019cause it was historic. Talk about historic? We got history, too, on our side! <\/p>\n

You get worried when you start JIPing things like this, joining in progress things like this because there are commercial breaks. This is a business. And it\u2019s not just our commercial breaks, the local affiliates. In dire straits emergencies, you can blow them out but you have to make \u2019em good at some point, and that becomes an organizational problem and a logistics problem. So we were keeping our fingers crossed today that we could cover and JIP the McCain-Sarah Palin announcement ceremony and still hit our spot breaks — and damned if it didn\u2019t work! McCain hit the spot break at the bottom of the first hour perfectly. He didn\u2019t start the ceremony \u2019til after our first spot break in the first hour, and he got the announcement done in the second segment, and then Sarah Palin hit the spot break in the second half hour. They kept to the format. They hit the format like professionals — like the professionals I know that they are.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Mary in Las Vegas, you\u2019re next on the EIB Network. Great to have you here.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, Rush. What a perfect ending to the Democrats\u2019 convention. I am so excited about this woman. I jotted some things down as I listened to her speech. She\u2019s smart, she spoke from her heart, she\u2019s compassionate —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Authentic.<\/p>\n

CALLER: — she\u2019s attractive, not in a superficial Hollywood way, she\u2019s just an attractive woman, she\u2019s experienced, she\u2019s tough, she\u2019s comfortable in front of the audience, she was very easy to listen to. I am just like, I think McCain hit it out of the park with this, and I\u2019m just so excited about it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: A lot of people are, and I think it\u2019s justified. I agree with you. It\u2019s a great pick. She\u2019s not shrill.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: She\u2019s not going to remind anybody of their ex-wife, she\u2019s going to remind men, ‘Gee, I wish she was single.\u2019<\/p>\n

CALLER: Exactly.<\/p>\n

RUSH: It\u2019s good. It\u2019s good all the way around. I\u2019m glad you called, thanks, Mary, very much. <\/p>\n

Homer, Alaska. This is Martin. Martin, great to have on the program.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, Rush, how you doing today?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Fine, sir, great, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019m absolutely excited to be on the phone with you. We are all so excited about Governor Palin being picked. We are ecstatic. I got goose bumps.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, so do the Democrats, but not the way you do. I wonder if Chris Matthews has a tingle going up his leg as he listens —<\/p>\n

CALLER: He just might! Just might.<\/p>\n

RUSH: — to Sarah Palin.<\/p>\n

CALLER: She\u2019s done so many great things here, Rush, so many great things.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, I know. Which one are you speaking of?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, just recently, she passed a thing where you know how we get our dividends here every year?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah. Yes, we know that.<\/p>\n

CALLER: She added a $1,200 energy bonus on there —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Cause of the gas prices.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh, yeah, and our gas prices are way higher than anywhere down in the lower 48.<\/p>\n

RUSH: What are you paying up there in Homer?<\/p>\n

CALLER: $4.76 a gallon.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Has it come down any in the last month or so?<\/p>\n

CALLER: It came down about ten cents.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You can find it for $3.50 in certain parts of the United States.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh, yeah. And there are so many people here that heat their homes with propane, that\u2019s the big one right now because you\u2019re looking at for, you know, a hundred gallon, you\u2019re looking at $400, almost $500 dollars for a hundred gallons, and most people are using close to a thousand gallons of propane a year.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, she mentioned this. She didn\u2019t mention numbers, but she mentioned this bonus program in her remarks with Senator McCain. It\u2019s great to hear from you, Martin. Thank you very much. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

RUSH: This is Sarah Palin and her accomplishments. Obama cannot make a speech like this. PALIN: In serving as the team mom and coaching some basketball on the side, I got involved in the PTA and then was elected to the city council and then elected mayor of my hometown where my agenda was to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nSarah Palin: Babies, Guns, Jesus - The Rush Limbaugh Show<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2008\/08\/29\/sarah_palin_babies_guns_jesus\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Sarah Palin: Babies, Guns, Jesus - The Rush Limbaugh Show\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"RUSH: This is Sarah Palin and her accomplishments. Obama cannot make a speech like this. PALIN: In serving as the team mom and coaching some basketball on the side, I got involved in the PTA and then was elected to the city council and then elected mayor of my hometown where my agenda was to […]\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:image\" content=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/01125111.Par.89380.ImageFile.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"admin\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"8 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/\",\"name\":\"The Rush Limbaugh Show\",\"description\":\"Excellence In Broadcasting\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2008\/08\/29\/sarah_palin_babies_guns_jesus\/#primaryimage\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/01125111.Par.89380.ImageFile.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/01125111.Par.89380.ImageFile.jpg\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2008\/08\/29\/sarah_palin_babies_guns_jesus\/#webpage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2008\/08\/29\/sarah_palin_babies_guns_jesus\/\",\"name\":\"Sarah Palin: Babies, Guns, Jesus - The Rush Limbaugh Show\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2008\/08\/29\/sarah_palin_babies_guns_jesus\/#primaryimage\"},\"datePublished\":\"2011-05-19T03:25:17+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2011-05-19T03:25:17+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/#\/schema\/person\/911066e449df26406b107ca78cbbde0b\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2008\/08\/29\/sarah_palin_babies_guns_jesus\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2008\/08\/29\/sarah_palin_babies_guns_jesus\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2008\/08\/29\/sarah_palin_babies_guns_jesus\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Sarah Palin: Babies, Guns, Jesus\"}]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/#\/schema\/person\/911066e449df26406b107ca78cbbde0b\",\"name\":\"admin\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/#personlogo\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f18195e0073013fa0e16b040686c2924?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f18195e0073013fa0e16b040686c2924?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"admin\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/author\/admin\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Sarah Palin: Babies, Guns, Jesus - The Rush Limbaugh Show","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2008\/08\/29\/sarah_palin_babies_guns_jesus\/","twitter_card":"summary","twitter_title":"Sarah Palin: Babies, Guns, Jesus - The Rush Limbaugh Show","twitter_description":"RUSH: This is Sarah Palin and her accomplishments. Obama cannot make a speech like this. PALIN: In serving as the team mom and coaching some basketball on the side, I got involved in the PTA and then was elected to the city council and then elected mayor of my hometown where my agenda was to […]","twitter_image":"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/01125111.Par.89380.ImageFile.jpg","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"admin","Est. reading time":"8 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/","name":"The Rush Limbaugh Show","description":"Excellence In Broadcasting","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2008\/08\/29\/sarah_palin_babies_guns_jesus\/#primaryimage","inLanguage":"en-US","url":"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/01125111.Par.89380.ImageFile.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/01125111.Par.89380.ImageFile.jpg"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2008\/08\/29\/sarah_palin_babies_guns_jesus\/#webpage","url":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2008\/08\/29\/sarah_palin_babies_guns_jesus\/","name":"Sarah Palin: Babies, Guns, Jesus - The Rush Limbaugh Show","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2008\/08\/29\/sarah_palin_babies_guns_jesus\/#primaryimage"},"datePublished":"2011-05-19T03:25:17+00:00","dateModified":"2011-05-19T03:25:17+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/#\/schema\/person\/911066e449df26406b107ca78cbbde0b"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2008\/08\/29\/sarah_palin_babies_guns_jesus\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2008\/08\/29\/sarah_palin_babies_guns_jesus\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2008\/08\/29\/sarah_palin_babies_guns_jesus\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Sarah Palin: Babies, Guns, Jesus"}]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/#\/schema\/person\/911066e449df26406b107ca78cbbde0b","name":"admin","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/#personlogo","inLanguage":"en-US","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f18195e0073013fa0e16b040686c2924?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f18195e0073013fa0e16b040686c2924?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"admin"},"url":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/author\/admin\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30276"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}