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RUSH: Dan in Muskegon, Michigan, welcome to the EIB Network. Hello, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, Rush, what a total honor it is to talk to you, a foreman mailman dittos to you, sir.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you very much. I appreciate that.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Our local Fox affiliate is quoting Obama as saying McCain has taken experience off the table by picking Sarah Palin and McCain has made experience his campaign issue. So isn\u2019t by default Obama saying and admitting he has no experience?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah. But he\u2019s wrong in his analysis, too, \u2019cause it doesn\u2019t take it off the table because it\u2019s McCain versus Obama.<\/p>\n

CALLER: This is true. Now, listen, this pick does not make everything all better with me as far as McCain goes. I think he sold out his base and I think he continues to sell out his base. The pick is good. But what about those of us who are in Democratic states like Michigan, who will probably go for Obama? Should we switch our votes from the GOP to the Libertarian party to send a signal to the GOP that we\u2019re sick and tired of this watering down of our issues?<\/p>\n

RUSH: This is a dilemma that we have discussed on this program for many, many months now, and I have come to this conclusion: We can\u2019t afford Barack Obama. We can\u2019t afford it as a nation, and the foundational values that have defined this nation\u2019s greatness, and we can\u2019t afford it in our back pockets. There is no guarantee the Republican Party is going to lose anything by winning. At this point, this pick is going to help the Republican Party, it\u2019s going to help the base. It illustrates what the Republican Party needs to do to win. McCain\u2019s the nominee. I was telling some people last night who, you know, word kept leaking out about Lieberman, and that just rubbed \u2019em so wrong, they couldn\u2019t believe it but they could believe it because it\u2019s McCain. And I said, you know, there\u2019s nothing we can do about McCain being the nominee. There\u2019s nothing we can do about it now. He is the nominee. Some people are saying, ‘Look, if he picks Lieberman the convention doesn\u2019t have to accept it.\u2019 That\u2019s true. But you still can\u2019t do anything about McCain as the nominee. <\/p>\n

I reminded them of the Harriet Miers circumstance. I guarantee you that when Barack Obama nominates Cornel West to be a justice on the US Supreme Court, there is not a damn thing we will be able to do about it. But, I don\u2019t want to say this too loud, but we kept hearing it was going to be Lieberman or Ridge, we got Sarah Palin. We got a pro-life conservative. So if, for example, hypothetically speaking — please don\u2019t tell anybody I said this, folks, all right, just keep this to yourself, just between us, I want to whisper this. If McCain gets elected and nominates, say, Ridge, to the Supreme Court, we\u2019re going to have a little more opportunity to have something to say about that than if it\u2019s Obama nominating Cornel West, or whoever he would nominate. We have more to work with. We cannot afford Obama, plain and simple. The guy is inexperienced. Folks, in his speech last night, you know, we are a great nation at risk in a dangerous world. He never talked about the dangerous world we face. He talked about himself. He was trying to justify his qualifications on the basis of who he is and what party he\u2019s a member of. We didn\u2019t hear, in platitudes or substance, what he thinks of our enemies, how he\u2019s going to deal with them. We had surrogates, Bill Clinton and Biden, ‘Don\u2019t worry, when the guns start firing at us, Obama will be there.\u2019 Well, that doesn\u2019t reassure me. And he didn\u2019t talk about any of these things last night. We can\u2019t afford him. <\/p>\n

We can\u2019t afford the radical liberalism, leftism that Obama would bring to the Oval Office. We\u2019ve never had anything like it with that much power in the Oval Office in this country, we\u2019ve never had it. Liberals do not win elections, not national elections. Clinton was a liberal, I know, but he campaigned as this moderate, Democrat Leadership Council and so forth, got in there, tried to do as much liberal, but we checked him with the Republican house in 1994. We cannot risk this \u2019cause it\u2019s gonna take 30 years to undo it. It\u2019s time we started thinking progress and offense rather than just undoing and defense, and part of that, folks, as I have shouted from the mountaintop in all of my countenance, we have got to stop letting the left define the issues that we debate. We have got to stop letting them set the agenda or the premise that we then respond to, \u2019cause it keeps us on defense. Conservatism has to advance. It has to advance aggressively on offense, setting its own agenda. We\u2019re not going to have a chance in heck of doing that for a long time if Obama gets in there and just populates the federal bureaucracy with people like him that are going to be there for life. Supreme Court and federal court nominees like him, like Bill Ayers, like Jeremiah Wright, for life. It\u2019s too risky. We simply cannot afford it. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Richard in Baytown, Texas, welcome to Open Line Friday with Rush Limbaugh. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi there. It\u2019s an honor to speak with you.<\/p>\n

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

CALLER: Listening to some of the news reporters today brought me back to thinking about the Bush-Quayle, Dukakis-Bentsen race in regard to vice presidents —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yes.<\/p>\n

CALLER: — candidates.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yes.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Because Bentsen was well respected on both sides, and in fact, they made a credible point, that he was possibly more qualified to be president than either of the top tickets. And the Republicans countered that very effectively, I thought, with the statement that isn\u2019t it better to vote for a candidate and hope that he lives than vote for a candidate and hope that he dies? Even though Biden —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wait a minute. Are you saying you don\u2019t like the choice of Sarah Palin?<\/p>\n

CALLER: No, I do like her.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Because you think Biden is going to make mincemeat of her like Lloyd Bentsen supposedly did with Quayle? <\/p>\n

CALLER: No, I think she\u2019ll hold her own against Biden. But we have a similar kind of ticket in that the vice presidential candidate on the Democrat side was more prepared than the presidential candidate at the top of the ticket. <\/p>\n

RUSH: All right. I understand. I\u2019m not using the language here. Obama and Biden are not prepared. They\u2019re wrong. They\u2019re dangerous. They\u2019re prepared to be disasters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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