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RUSH: Now, what of tonight, ladies and gentlemen, let me be honest with you, as I always am. I\u2019m just a little old talk show host here, and you are the loyal, brave, beloved audience. We all have a vested interest because that convention and this ticket represent our dreams and hope for the future in beating back the forces that we think are trying to redefine Americanism. <\/p>\n

This convention, these past two days, has exceeded everybody\u2019s expectations. There were a lot of people whose expectations were quite low, they were quite depressed, because we weren\u2019t quite sure whether this party would have the courage and the guts to try to unify the Republican base into the rest of the party and get us all operating as one. Well, lo and behold, it happened. The last two nights, the McCain campaign has totally unified the party, they have unified that convention, they have electrified it, and they\u2019re ready to go out and hit the streets, knock on doors, raise money, contribute money, I\u2019m thinking for the first time in my life, sending some loot in. I\u2019ve never done that. Not to the RNC, because, you know, media business, but what the hell, folks. I mean, it\u2019s not like nobody knows what I stand for these days. So what of tonight? Now, I don\u2019t think anybody expects Senator McCain to outperform either Rudy or Sarah Palin, but being, shall we say, loyal to the theme that this convention has developed the past two nights I think is crucial. So what I\u2019m hoping is that, because the character and the honor and the person of John McCain has been well established… I\u2019ve heard things about McCain I didn\u2019t know, I\u2019ve heard the story of his POW period in a way I\u2019ve never heard it explained by Fred Thompson. <\/p>\n

There\u2019s a lot to build on here. This is just little old me speaking. I\u2019m not issuing orders, no threats here. Sharing my thoughts that are worth no more than yours or anybody else\u2019s with you. The worst thing that could happen tonight — I don\u2019t even want to put it in those terms; the thing I hope doesn\u2019t happen — I hope for one night that the McCain campaign can broom from the speech the notion of how well he crosses the aisle and works with Democrats. They\u2019ve already done that with Lieberman, they got that established two nights ago. That\u2019s fine. For tonight, Senator McCain has got to join all the rest of us under the concept that we want to beat Democrats, and we will be happy to work with any of them who are left over after November. But for tonight, keep hammering on offense what this team is, what this campaign\u2019s agenda is, deemphasizing the notion that somehow the American people are hell-bent on finding two parties that can work together. <\/p>\n

This convention is proving that the members of this party, that are the movers and shakers, are not interested right now in working with Democrats. That\u2019s not how they define a successful Republican politician. Just one night, next week, go back to it all you want. Send people out of there tonight on television, around the country and out of the convention hall as fired up as they\u2019re going to walk in. My only, I don\u2019t even want to say hope, it is my only request, it is the only thing that I truly want to see tonight. I think McCain could do it, I think he\u2019s up for it, I think he\u2019s gotta be more up, inspired, thrilled than he\u2019s been in a long time about all this. I\u2019ve seen him, that video of him greeting the Palin family on the tarmac yesterday, just genuinely, just walking up — oh, and there\u2019s a snarky AP story that, of all places, the Washington Times ran, some AP cultural writer saying that McCain made it a point to go out and greet the 17-year-old girl who had been knocked up by her boyfriend, or impregnated, whatever, maybe not knocked up, but that\u2019s how I interpreted it when I read it. That\u2019s not what he was doing, you doofus! What McCain was doing was comforting this family, welcoming this family and assuring them that they\u2019re okay with him and they\u2019re solid because of the unmerciful attacks on that 17-year-old girl and her boyfriend. <\/p>\n

So he came on that stage last night, and that place was rocking, and from last Friday forward I\u2019ve never seen McCain as happy as he is. So just broom the talk of working with Democrats, just for one night, just broom it for one night. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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