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RUSH: Rahm, in El Segundo, California. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes, Rush, good to be with you, Dittocam watcher dittos. Just wondering how you think the Hoffman defeat is gonna affect Sarah Palin\u2019s movement towards the Oval Office, and I\u2019ll take your comments off the air. Thank you so much.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You are more than welcome. I don\u2019t know that she has intentions of moving toward the Oval Office. People are surmising this, but I don\u2019t know that she\u2019s going to do that. Now, she\u2019s laying the groundwork for it. You gotta write a book. And in her case I think she actually wrote it. She\u2019s got these people in the press in such a tizzy. There is an anti-Palin book coming out. Two people were interviewed on a CBS morning show today, the experts on Sarah Palin. One of them who wrote the book happens to work at CBS. I\u2019ve always said that the Democrats will tell us who they really fear. The Democrats will tell us who on our side really, really threaten them, and there\u2019s no question that Sarah Palin is that. We had a good caller earlier, guy said, you know, it\u2019s not just the Democrats, you know, the elite Republicans, they don\u2019t like her, either, because she\u2019s an average person. She\u2019s a normal person and normal people are not welcome at the highest level of electoral politics. She doesn\u2019t have the right pedigree. She doesn\u2019t come from the right part of the country and therefore she doesn\u2019t hobnob with the right kind of people. We\u2019ve got Diane Sawyer on Good Morning America today and the media couldn\u2019t wait. This is just one example of what was happening today all over television.<\/p>\n

<\/a>REPORTER: What about the congressional race in upstate New York where as we all know Sarah Palin and Rush Limbaugh intervened to push the moderate Republican candidate out of the race in favor of a conservative candidate. Well, it seems to have handed victory to the Democrat.<\/p>\n

RUSH: They\u2019re doing anything they can to ignore Virginia and New Jersey. So the talking points are, ‘Limbaugh and Palin lost.\u2019 Intervene. I have never been to Watertown, New York. I have never spoken to Doug Hoffman. Although, as the titular head of the Republican Party, I, of course, was behind fixing the mess, which was Dede Scozzafava. I forced her out. I single-handedly intervened, I forced Dede Scozzafava out. If I coulda got her name off the ballot I would have done that but I only had so much power. Sarah Palin is not damaged at all, to answer the guy\u2019s question. Sarah Palin is not damaged at all by the good showing of Doug Hoffman. Not at all. She\u2019s not damaged, folks. <\/p>\n

I had some people over for dinner last night, and it happened, I lost my temper, I started throwing a napkin, \u2019cause I got questions. These are my friends, people that listen to my show, these are people that I talk to a lot, and these guys, one of them, started spouting questions to me that just reflected every criticism of her that has been in the media. The Katie Couric interview and I said, ‘Look, the –‘ well, I\u2019m not going to tell you what I said \u2019cause it was waste. But I went on for five minutes, and I\u2019m pounding the table and I\u2019m throwing my napkin and picking it up and throwing it again, and everybody at the table is spellbound, and when I finish they all pick up their napkins and they start throwing them, and the guy says, ‘All right that\u2019s what I wanted to hear.\u2019 I really have a tough time juxtaposing what I have seen with my own eyes, what I heard her say, I\u2019ve heard her speak, I\u2019ve read what she\u2019s written, I have seen the crowds that she draws, I know what she thinks about things, and I don\u2019t buy any of the conventional wisdom about it, that she needs bone up on this, she needs to bone up on that. <\/p>\n

For crying out loud, folks, don\u2019t anybody tell me, please, that in a contest of what we got going on in this country now, led by Barack Obama, that Sarah Palin wouldn\u2019t be a welcome change. So would any of our people. Don\u2019t misunderstand. But, for crying out loud, I don\u2019t understand the disconnect. I understand the liberals being afraid of her. I think that should make us be confident in her. But this inability that some people have to distance themselves from the impact of mainstream media, Democrat Party criticism, is really curious and troubling to me. I\u2019m not saying she\u2019s perfect. I\u2019m not endorsing her. I\u2019m not doing anything of the sort. But I\u2019m going to tell you something, this woman is one hell of a strong woman. They have tried literally to crucify her. They have done everything in every venue of media, popular culture media, music, television, books, they\u2019ve done everything to destroy her reputation, her image, her life, they\u2019ve even brought her kids into it. ‘Well, Rush, she brought her kids into it.\u2019 Well, every politician brings their kids into it, but most politicians\u2019 kids end up being off-limits, and she\u2019s still hanging in there. <\/p>\n

She obviously has a deep belief of the principles that she holds and she considers it very important. So I don\u2019t think the results of the Hoffman race is going to damage her, give her any kind of a problem. And I don\u2019t know if anybody knows that she actually intends to run for president. Everybody is assuming so, because of the pattern here, the track is similar to the path that others who have done this have taken. But we\u2019ll just have to wait and see. Regardless, I don\u2019t think the thing with Hoffman hurt her at all. It didn\u2019t hurt me. Can I be honest about something? For twenty-one years, whenever something like the New York race happens, ‘Hey, Limbaugh bombs out, Limbaugh blew it, Limbaugh rejected by New York-23.\u2019 When Clinton was elected: ‘Limbaugh rejected, what\u2019s Limbaugh gonna talk about?\u2019 And I\u2019m still here more popular than ever terms of ratings. We\u2019ve never had a down business year. I know I\u2019m not a politician running for office seeking votes, you know, getting votes is much different than getting listeners. But nevertheless, it hasn\u2019t hurt. It arguably has helped. Same thing with Palin. The criticism of Palin, it\u2019s so transparent anyway. I mean if you\u2019re going to say that Palin really is harmed by what happened in New York, I tell you what, Obama five times in New Jersey, and the same people are saying, it\u2019s not about him, wasn\u2019t about him. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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