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RUSH: Carlos in Weston, Florida. Carlos, I\u2019m glad you waited. Welcome to the EIB Network. Hello, sir. <\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, Rush, thanks for taking that guy Joe to the woodshed earlier.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you very much, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Rush, that Tony Blankley piece that you read earlier is a perfect example of why John McCain needs to get ahead of this thing. He had a golden opportunity on 60 Minutes and he just pandered and now they\u2019re hitting them over the head with it on that New York Times piece. So I just want to know when you think he\u2019s going to start naming names on this thing.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, they are hammering the New York Times today, did it in a press release on their website. Look, they\u2019re naming names in ads. They\u2019re naming names in the voices of others. But McCain is not doing it. I gather it\u2019s just not in his nature.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, it\u2019s the only way that he\u2019s going to get the attention of the people that need to hear it, you know, above and beyond who\u2019s already hearing it on the Internet. But it\u2019s just frustrating because he has a golden opportunity to take advantage of this and doesn\u2019t do it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Isn\u2019t this the four-year lament we have about our candidate no matter who it is?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, it is.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Be it the House speaker, be it anyone, they just don\u2019t fight back. They continue to try to reach across the aisle and make friends of these people. These people are trying to destroy them. I know it\u2019s frustrating. I\u2019m not a psychiatrist, I cannot explain McCain. Look, he\u2019s been around a long time, he\u2019s 73 years old, he thinks he knows the right thing to do, and I can\u2019t tell you the number of people who say, ‘Rush, do you have an inside line to that campaign? I want to tell them what they ought to do about X.\u2019 These are people that you would know their names.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I have the same fear that you have, that they\u2019re watering down Palin and they should let her just be herself.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Let Palin be Palin. See, they\u2019re keeping here on a script so that she mirrors McCain in this reform business. He thinks the election\u2019s about reform.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah. Well, he\u2019s being hit over the head with it, you know, this guy, Joe, that called earlier that had the audacity to try and blame McCain for this is just a perfect example of how out of touch they are.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Not just that. Presented with the facts to refute his point he didn\u2019t say, ‘Oh, thanks, I didn\u2019t know that.\u2019 The facts didn\u2019t matter. This is why we can\u2019t debate these people in a rational way. This is why they will not come into the arena of ideas. They don\u2019t have the facts, they\u2019re wrong, and occasionally they\u2019ll send out little infantry men like Joe here to try to get into our high command. But it doesn\u2019t work because the arena of ideas doesn\u2019t lie, and these guys don\u2019t have ideas, they\u2019ve got propaganda. I was going to say I\u2019ve got so many people that call me, e-mail me, ‘Rush, I gotta talk to whoever is running the McCain campaign,\u2019 after they see him on television, ‘We gotta get a message in there. There\u2019s a better way to do this.\u2019 And I say, ‘I don\u2019t have that information. I don\u2019t know what the back channels are, but I know what the reaction would be.\u2019 I mean the people running McCain\u2019s campaign are professionals, and if they start hearing from everybody in the world they\u2019re going to start resenting all the advice they\u2019re getting because they\u2019re gonna hear it as an insult or as endless criticism. And they\u2019re going to say, ‘Look we\u2019re the guys running this show, we\u2019re the guys McCain hired. We know what we\u2019re doing; back off.\u2019 <\/p>\n

McCain\u2019s running the show here. He\u2019s setting out the pattern and the tone that he wants to use and the main ideas he\u2019s trying to get across. This New York Times stuff, part of the purpose of this is just to keep McCain constantly on defense and saying, no, that\u2019s not true, no, that\u2019s not true, no. They just flood the zone with lies. Obama\u2019s doing it with an ad out there saying McCain opposed stem cells. The whole Obama campaign is just flooding the zone now with lie after lie after lie, and so the McCain campaign is stuck at the rapid response theory, okay, we have to respond to that. Some of these are so bad even the media is ripping Obama for it. But they\u2019re doing it in a way that says, ‘Ah, 15-yard penalty.\u2019 They kind of lackadaisically half jokingly say, ‘Look at old Barack, he-he, another good lie,\u2019 sort of the way they marveled at the way Clinton did it, still lied, it\u2019s cleverly done though, we barely caught it, da-da-da-da, what have you. That\u2019s why the guy Carlos in Weston is right. Go on offense here. McCain is the opponent. Wall Street\u2019s not the opponent. Chris Cox is not the opponent. Let Sarah Palin loose. Let her start electrifying things again. It can happen. <\/p>\n

This is Kaelin in Highlands Ranch, Colorado. Great to have you here. What a great name, Kaelin, one of my all-time favorite top ten female names.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Somehow I\u2019ve heard that before.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Rush, I have waited for — unlike your previous caller, I have tried for 16 years and waited to say the word, mega dittos! I\u2019m so excited to talk to you.<\/p>\n

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

CALLER: I am really concerned. You mentioned earlier not to be concerned with the Washington Post poll that came out today, but if you cite like say Florida, for instance, on Fox &amp; Friends this morning they mentioned that although McCain is leading in that poll that at least 500,000 more Democrats are registered to vote. Furthermore, my daughter, who is a Republican delegate, national delegate at her college and a political science student, she mentioned that the effort to register voters, college students, has been huge. They\u2019ve gotten down several. And she said that in the past it isn\u2019t just that they\u2019ve slept in and haven\u2019t been able to vote, they weren\u2019t registered. And she says Obama\u2019s campaign pays people to register, people to sign up and register.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s the Chicago street money.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Do we need to be concerned about that?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah. I mean you always gotta be concerned, the Democrats can\u2019t win without cheating and that\u2019s why you gotta be worried about what ACORN is out there doing, fraudulently registering as many people as they can. It\u2019s a small bit of comfort, but every four years we hear about college-age voter registration, how it\u2019s setting the records, we hear about Rock the Vote, we have that idiot, that sheer, stupid, brainless amoeba, P. Diddy with his Vote or Die voter registration effort, and we hear every four years about how, oh, man we really rock \u2019em and sock \u2019em, we got college kids, they really want Obama, and they never show up in nearly as large a number as we\u2019re told. All of this is propaganda. You\u2019ve got to learn, Kaelin, all of this that you\u2019re seeing, all these polls right now, the truth is that Obama is going to spend a whole lot of money in Florida because he\u2019s in trouble in Florida. He\u2019s in big trouble in Florida. He\u2019s going to dump a lot of money in here, and he partly wants to do that so that McCain will get tricked into spending a lot of money here and wasting it in a state that he doesn\u2019t need it. There\u2019s so much going on here behind the scenes. The bottom line is you are like everybody else. You watch even Fox, these polls right now, don\u2019t ignore them, but don\u2019t give them whole lot of credibility and don\u2019t let \u2019em affect your attitude. The purpose right now is to have you all depressed and think that there are 500,000 more Democrats in Florida than there are Republicans. ‘Oh Florida, oh, it\u2019s horrible.\u2019 You\u2019re subject to a propaganda effort that gets ratcheted up every four years by the media for the Democrat candidate.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay, so I\u2019ve got to stay strong and not fall for that.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019ll tell you, I\u2019ll tell you when it\u2019s time to panic.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019ll tell you — and it\u2019s not.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I trust you, Rush.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You can, don\u2019t doubt me. It\u2019s not time to panic. It\u2019s time to be really mad about what\u2019s going on in Washington. And, folks, this is very simple. If you want health care run like the financial mortgage system, if you want more and more of this economy reflected by what happened in the mortgage business, then do, vote Obama. This is what you\u2019re gonna get. You\u2019re looking at the people who broke this thing represented by Barack Obama. This notion that the economic downturn is benefiting Obama is conventional wisdom. Some polls even say it\u2019s true. But it\u2019s just conventional wisdom. This is a sitting duck like energy prices are a sitting duck, and this is where McCain ought to go on offense, knock this out of the park. This is Democrat corruption from the top to the bottom. He doesn\u2019t want to do that because he wants to work with them. Somebody needs to tell that campaign, ‘the Democrats are who you need to beat,\u2019 but he doesn\u2019t look at it that way. So that\u2019s why turn Palin loose and let her rip. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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