RUSH: I want to spend a little time here on the Democrat side of things, other exciting news items out there. Have you ever stopped to think back to the New Hampshire primary, the couple days leading up to it, remember the Drive-Bys all excited that Mrs. Clinton, in pre-election polls, was going to lose anywhere from 5-to-12 points, and throughout the day the New Hampshire primary and their coverage, all excited about this. This didn’t hit me until a little bit later, but it was, to me, unique. The Drive-Bys, up until recently, would just bend over forward, grab the ankles for the Clintons, you know, whatever. But we started noticing in the summertime and in the fall some pretty hard hitting hit pieces from former slavish Clinton reporters like Ron Fournier of the Associated Press and our old buddy Nedra Pickler of the Associated Press. There was a lot of serious dumping on the Clintons. And then the New York Times in the week leading up, ‘Bill’s not attracting any crowds, his audiences are half asleep, they’re walking out early.’ It got me to thinking — and there was a reason for this — and I think that the reason all the Drive-Bys — and I mean all — you’d be hard-pressed to find one who was not dumping on Hillary last week. You know what I think? I think the reason they did that, the reason they were falling all over each other to trash her, was out of sheer relief that she might not be the candidate.
I don’t know if it’s going to happen, but if Jim Clyburn decided to endorse Obama in South Carolina, that’s one endorsement that might have an impact. For all this talk about Bill Clinton being the nation’s first black president — and how stupid was that? That’s something that survived as well. So I have detected that the Drive-Bys are not that enamored of the Clintons anymore and were just looking forward to her getting shellacked. It may be they’re just tired of being slaves those eight years.