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RUSH: Here\u2019s Sophia from Perry Hall, Maryland. Welcome to the program.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi. This is Sophia from Perry Hall.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Hi, Sophia, this is the state, by the way, where Bob Wexler lives while he represents Florida.<\/p>\n

CALLER: (laughing) Right. Well, let me tell you, I am ebulliently going to push the lever for John McCain. This morning I had homemade stickers all over my car. I am so excited for Sarah. She threw down the gauntlet. She\u2019s telling Nancy Pelosi, she\u2019s telling Sally Quinn, and she\u2019s telling Maureen Dowd, ladies, I\u2019m here to do a job. I\u2019m not here to pick you ladies out for bridesmaids, and I\u2019m excited.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Good. I can\u2019t tell you how excited I am to hear this enthusiasm from all of you. You know, she\u2019s really illustrating what lightweights people like Pelosi are and even Hillary. Hillary playing the victim card all over the place, and do you know what Hillary\u2019s big selling point was during her campaign? ‘I have fought for 35 years for childhood health care,\u2019 and they still don\u2019t have it. Her qualification was that she fought. Sarah Palin was governor, mayor, two or three years, look at what all got done, a gas pipeline, all kinds of things. ‘I fought for 30 years. I\u2019ve been fighting for 35 years.\u2019 And for all 35 years been complaining that the things she\u2019s fighting for haven\u2019t been done because there\u2019s always a Republican standing in her way. <\/p>\n

Ralph in New York, I\u2019m glad you called, sir. Welcome to the Rush Limbaugh program.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, Rush, thanks for taking my call. I was trying to get you all summer. I want to tell you, congratulations on your 20th year at the EIB Network, and may you have a hundred more, bro.<\/p>\n

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

CALLER: Oh yeah, and mega Labor Day dittos from your favorite foreign correspondent behind enemy liberal lines in New York City. Last night I was so excited when Sarah Palin was talking and giving her speech, my landlord knocked on my door, he thought I was watching the Yankee game because the Yankees beat up on the Tampa Bay Devil Rays last night, and I was screaming, ‘Yeah, yeah!\u2019 And he goes, ‘Yo, the Yankees are doing good?\u2019 ‘I\u2019m watching the lady for vice president that John McCain picked.\u2019 He\u2019s like, ‘You\u2019re yelling that loud for politics?\u2019 I\u2019m like, ‘Yeah, I\u2019m pumped up and excited.\u2019 But more than anything, Rush, what I saw last night, because when you take away all arguments and all the issues and everything, when you slip it all down, what I seen was two mature adults that want to run the country. And when you look at these Democrats, I\u2019m 41 years old, when I picture Joe Biden, 30 years older than me, 20-something years older than me, I see children trying to act like men. That\u2019s literally what I see. And, you know, it makes me sick sometimes, it really does.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, that\u2019s an interesting observation. I have always looked at Obama as a man-child, you know, an effete man-child, and Biden, I\u2019ve never quite qualified him that way, I\u2019ve never gotten that far, there are other things that distract me about Senator Biden. But you were making enough noise that your landlord thought you were cheering for the Yankees. By the way, it\u2019s not the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. They determined that was politically incorrect, so it\u2019s just the Tampa Bay Rays. I know to a Yankee fan they might be the Devil Rays, but the correct name is the Rays. But I got a note from a friend of mine that I cannot identify, there was cheering, he could hear in his house people cheering outside in his neighborhood during the Sarah Palin speech. He lived someplace where the windows are open, I guess, but I could never hear people cheering outside my house. I don\u2019t live near enough anybody or be close enough with my hearing to be able to hear that, but he swore that he heard people cheering outside his house during the speech. Let\u2019s listen to a little bit of Rudy because Rudy was on fire last night doing the keynote address. Just a couple sound bites here at random.<\/p>\n

GIULIANI: He ran for the state legislature, and he got elected, and nearly 130 times he couldn\u2019t make a decision. He couldn\u2019t figure out whether to vote yes or no. It was too tough. He voted, he voted ‘present\u2019! I didn\u2019t know about this vote ‘present\u2019 when I was mayor of New York City. Sarah Palin didn\u2019t have this vote ‘present\u2019 when she was mayor or governor. You don\u2019t get ‘present.\u2019 It doesn\u2019t work in an executive job. For president of the United States, it\u2019s not good enough to be present.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And this is Rudy describing what Obama has led.<\/p>\n

GIULIANI: He is the least experienced candidate for president in the United States in at least the last 100 years. Not a personal attack, a statement of fact. Barack Obama has never led anything, nothing, nada. Nada! Nothing.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Nothing. Keep in mind, Rudy\u2019s teleprompter got all screwed up last night, too. Here he is defending Sarah Palin\u2019s experience.<\/p>\n

GIULIANI: She\u2019s already had more executive experience than the entire Democratic ticket combined! She\u2019s been a mayor. I love that. I\u2019m sorry, I\u2019m sorry that Barack Obama feels that her hometown isn\u2019t cosmopolitan enough. I\u2019m sorry, Barack, that it\u2019s not flashy enough. Maybe they cling to religion there. As far as I\u2019m concerned, the first day she was mayor, she had more experience as an executive than Obama and Biden combined.<\/p>\n

RUSH: We haven\u2019t seen this out of the Republican Party in I don\u2019t know how long. They came fighting back like this, just hammering these people, just turning their words back on them like this. It was rah-rah all night long, and then this.<\/p>\n

GIULIANI: How dare they question whether Sarah Palin has enough time to spend with her children and be vice president! How dare they do that! When do they ever ask a man that question? When?<\/p>\n

RUSH: And the question could be asked, when did President Clinton have time to be president with all the women he had on the side? Well, that was just sex Rush, that was just sex, and of course it didn\u2019t interrupt his ability to do his job. Well, then why would Sarah Palin\u2019s relationships with her family cause the same problem? The double standard coming out of these liberals\u2019 mouth is a delight to behold. Anderson Cooper thought it was time to fire back here, defend The Messiah on Rudy\u2019s charges that he had no experience.<\/p>\n

REPORTER: Rudy Giuliani made a big point of saying factually Barack Obama has never led anything, he has no executive experience. I mean you could argue he\u2019s done something — I mean he\u2019s led a campaign with several thousand employees that did something that Rudy Giuliani was not able to do, which is win the nomination of his party.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Way to go, Anderson, way to go. Way to not understand that Obama is running out of money, spending more money than he\u2019s taking in. This is really who you want to pump up as your candidate for president, that he has run a campaign. Carry the water for them, Cooper. Anderson, just go ahead and just attach yourself to the hip, or whatever body part you find attractive, attach yourself to the hip and go there and stay there, carry the water, do whatever you need to make sure nothing happens to the little Messiah, make sure no criticism of The Messiah is unanswered on CNN. Gotta hear this. Now, we have a sound bite from Mitt Romney here, and when I was reading Drive-By reviews of the speeches last night, it\u2019s amazing, the Drive-Bys just hated Romney, just hated Romney\u2019s speech. They were belittling it, just throwing it away, just an absolute waste, what was he doing there? That was just horrible. Let me give you one example why they hated it.<\/p>\n

ROMNEY: Is a Supreme Court decision liberal or conservative that awards Guantanamo terrorists with constitutional rights? It\u2019s liberal! Is a government liberal or conservative that puts the interests of the teachers union ahead of the needs of our children? It\u2019s liberal. Is the Congress liberal or conservative that stops nuclear power plants and offshore drilling, making us more and more dependent on Middle Eastern tyrants? It\u2019s liberal! Is government spending putting aside inflation, liberal or conservative, if it doubles since 1980? It\u2019s liberal! We need change all right. Change from a liberal Washington to a conservative Washington.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That was all last night. I mean, the liberals are getting bashed every which way from Sunday, and that is why the Drive-Bys did not like Romney. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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