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Hour 1: Limbaugh Compares Iranian Election To Minnesota Senate Election

Published Tue, Jun 30, 2009 1:33pm ET

This hour of the Limbaugh Wire brought to you by Obama's third, fourth, and fifth terms
By Simon Maloy

We've noted in the past that when it comes to President Obama and Iran, conservatives enjoy playing a rhetorical game called "Do Something." The idea behind the game is that some conservative in the media will say the president should do "something" about Iran, not explain what that magical "something" is, and then yell and stamp their feet when Obama doesn't do "something," claiming that Obama's failure to act has denied the Iranians the freedom and democracy they deserve. Rush, for example, attacked Obama for not "trying to hold to account a bunch of tyrants rigging an election," but offered no clue as to how the president could do that. The argument is silly enough on its face, and it's also contradicted by a slew of conservatives who actually know something about Iran and say Obama is handling things just right. Well, it turns out that the American people don't buy it either -- a new CNN poll found that "[s]ixty-one percent of people questioned in the poll say they approve the way President Barack Obama's responded to the events in Iran," and "74 percent think the U.S. government should not directly intervene in the post-election crisis, with one out of four feeling that Washington should openly support the demonstrators who are protesting the election results."

Rush got things rolling today by announcing that yet another of his sage-like prognostications had been proved correct. He aired audio from his January 9 show, in which he said that the media is going to create false stories to set the stage in people's minds that the economy is recovering when it really isn't. Then Rush aired a bite from CNN this morning, in which correspondent Christine Romans talked about slowing job losses, a spring stock revival, and the market thinking that things are going to get better. Rush said that things aren't getting better -- the market is down today and Reuters says that consumer confidence unexpectedly dropped in June. What's more, said Rush, Obama's "approval index" in the latest Rasmussen poll is at -2.

Then Rush returned to yesterday's discussion of the "chickification" of the news, explaining that he had missed an example -- a Politico article by Erika Lovely headlined: "Inside Sandford's Love Letters." Rush mocked the concept of a "romance coach," and said that women in the media are going nuts over Sanford's love letters. After a quick parody of yesterday's Time article on obesity in married couples (hilarious, as always...), Rush said that the state-run media in Iran is reporting that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad gained votes in the recount. Rush added: "[J]ust like in our country. Norm Coleman wins in Minnesota in a recount, and they keep having recounts, and Al Franken wins. So they had the recount in Iran, and shazzam! Ahmadinejad gained votes!"

After the break, Rush returned to the CNN sound bite from earlier, in which Christine Romans talked about slowing job losses and the spring stock revival, saying that this is "journalistic malpractice." This is absolutely absurd, he said, noting that Obama himself said he doesn't pay attention to the daily fluctuations of the stock market. Well, she wasn't talking about the daily fluctuations of the stock market; she was talking about the market's performance over the past few months, and she was right. Since March, the Dow has gained 2,000 points. Anyway, Rush continued, saying that the truth is that American families have lost 20 percent of their wealth. Trillions have been lost in 401ks and pension portfolios. Rush noted that the AP is reporting that unemployment in metropolitan areas rose for the fifth straight month in May, and he dared say that the vast majority of these metropolitan areas are run by Democrats.

Rush then noted that yesterday, when talking about cap and trade, he explained that he missed the fact that the people doing the trading will be on Wall Street and speculated that these Republicans that voted for "this abomination" did so because of campaign cash from Wall Street. Well, Rush said, the Examiner reported that "Political Action Committees (PACs) connected with the League of Conservation Voters, the Sierra Club, Ocean Champions and Republicans for Environmental Protection have made donations to most of these same eight Republican lawmakers in recent election cycles." Those of you living in those districts, said Rush, should know that the money donated to their representatives meant more to them than voting on your desires.

After another quick break, Rush noted that the AP reported that Gov. Mark Sanford had more than one liaison with his Argentinian mistress. Rush "guaranteed" us "that news chicks across this country are now swooning." Then Rush took his first caller, a gentleman claiming to be calling from Honduras. The caller said that this wasn't a coup, it wasn't violent, and the military put control back in the hands of the Congress. Rush said that the president wanted to defy the constitution and remain in office, and Chavez, Castro, and Obama agree with the dictator. Actually, Obama said that the situation should be resolved peacefully through Democratic processes. That's not standing with a dictator, that's seeking to avoid violence. Anyway, Rush agreed that it wasn't a coup, it was the Honduran constitution being upheld and sustained.

Then Rush endeavored to explain why Obama, in Rush's view, supports and endorses Marxist dictators. Apparently, it's a consequence of ideological genetics: "He certainly, clearly, seems to have inherited Marxist tendencies from his father, Barack Obama Sr." It only went downhill from here, folks:

LIMBAUGH: But I think Obama is easily typecast. I think he has natural sympathies toward authoritarians. He has sympathy for dictators; he relates to them. He inherited his father's Marxism. And it's not me saying this, it's somebody from The American Thinker, the Nigerian woman writing last week, referring to Obama as an average African colonel [sic]. You have to wonder if Obama is just trying to lay a foundation for not being a hypocrite when he tries to serve beyond 2016.

Got it so far? Obama's alleged support for the Honduran president is all some big ploy to grant himself a few extra-constitutional presidential terms. You might be wondering how he's going to accomplish this. Well, aside from the assistance of the ACORN boogeyman, he's also going to get a hand from all those "minorities" and "illegal aliens" who don't care about the law:

LIMBAUGH: And I'll tell you, folks, this business about serving beyond 2016: You know, the thing that -- when you look at Obama's followers, and we've discussed it here, they are a cult-like bunch. And their attachment to him is not political, it's not ideological, it's not issue-wise -- it is cultish. It includes a wide percentage of minorities, by the way, who -- for different reasons -- who will come to think that he simply cannot be replaced.

Let all these -- let him succeed with amnesty for example, and all the illegal aliens who are instantly made citizens. He'll be too important. Just like right now he's too big to fail as far as the drive-bys are concerned, he's too important to be replaced. No one else can lead the nation, they will say. And they won't care a whit about the legalities that might be trampled. Half of them wouldn't care about the legalities anyway. They don't even know about them because they haven't been properly educated.

Rush concluded this jaunty spelunk into the depths of fevered conspiracy theorism by saying: "Anyone who thinks he constitutionally intends to go away in 2016 is nuts."

After one more break, Rush said that the Honduran president doesn't see any way to negotiate with Obama, and there are whispers in Tegucigalpa that Venezuela is going to attack. This is exactly what Hugo Chavez wants, said Rush, and it's absurd that Obama is siding with dictators. Rush said we need to know what the Obama foreign policy doctrine is -- if it supports Marxist regimes, that has to be stated publicly.

Rush took one more call to round out the hour, this one objecting to Rush's admonishment yesterday of a gentleman who called Michael Jackson a child molester. Rush said he didn't defend Jackson, he just attacked the media.

Greg Lewis and Zachary Pleat contributed to this edition of the Limbaugh Wire.

Highlights from Hour 1

Outrageous comments

LIMBAUGH: Look at this. From Iran's press television, the state-run media in Iran: Ahmadinejad gains votes in recount, just like in our country! It had -- just like in our country. Norm Coleman wins in Minnesota in a recount, and they keep having recounts, and Al Franken wins. So they had the recount in Iran, and shazzam! Ahmadinejad gained votes!

[...]

LIMBAUGH: You know they have to be laughing at us in the Middle East -- from Saudi Arabia to Iran to everywhere around the world. They're laughing at us because they're laughing at the naïveté or at the good fortune that they have witnessed in having this man, Barack Obama, be president of the United States. He certainly, clearly, seems to have inherited Marxist tendencies from his father, Barack Obama Sr.

[...]

LIMBAUGH: But I think Obama is easily typecast. I think he has natural sympathies toward authoritarians. He has sympathy for dictators; he relates to them. He inherited his father's Marxism. And it's not me saying this, it's somebody from The American Thinker, the Nigerian woman writing last week, referring to Obama as an average African colonel [sic]. You have to wonder if Obama is just trying to lay a foundation for not being a hypocrite when he tries to serve beyond 2016.

[...]

LIMBAUGH: And I'll tell you, folks, this business about serving beyond 2016: You know, the thing that -- when you look at Obama's followers, and we've discussed it here, they are a cult-like bunch. And their attachment to him is not political, it's not ideological, it's not issue-wise -- it is cultish. It includes a wide percentage of minorities, by the way, who -- for different reasons -- who will come to think that he simply cannot be replaced.

Let all these -- let him succeed with amnesty for example, and all the illegal aliens who are instantly made citizens. He'll be too important. Just like right now he's too big to fail as far as the drive-bys are concerned, he's too important to be replaced. No one else can lead the nation, they will say. And they won't care a whit about the legalities that might be trampled. Half of them wouldn't care about the legalities anyway. They don't even know about them because they haven't been properly educated.

Ladies' man

LIMBAUGH: By the way, the Associated Press just breathlessly reported that Mark Sanford has admitted to more than one liaison with the girl from Ipanema. I know Ipanema Beach is in Brazil; it just fits. The Argentinean babe -- and I'll guarantee you that news chicks across this country are now swooning -- this is just fascinating.

Hour 2: Paranoid Rush: For Obama, "Getting Rid Of The 22nd Amendment Is Chump Change"

Published Tue, Jun 30, 2009 2:34pm ET

This hour of the Limbaugh Wire brought to you by Captain Planet and Jay Gatsby
By Simon Maloy

Rush got the second hour going by saying that he received a lot of emails from listeners telling him that he's lost his mind on this 22nd Amendment business. Rush read one email in which a listener wrote that the president can't just unilaterally do away with portions of the Constitution, and what Rush is saying is dangerous. Rush was incredulous at the claim that the president doesn't have that kind of authority, telling the emailer to look at all the stuff that's happening in the country right now that the president is doing that he doesn't have the authority to do. Rush spent the rest of the segment enumerating these alleged excesses of presidential authority, including the GM bankruptcy, cap and trade, Obama's "czars," the bank bailouts, and pretty much every other action Obama has taken over the past five months. Rush even read verbatim from a press release on the cap-and-trade bill from House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) as more evidence of Obama's alleged presidential excesses. Rush concluded the segment by saying that, in our hemisphere, the Marxists are rising, adding: "Folks, let me -- getting rid of the 22nd Amendment is chump change compared to what this man's already achieved that nobody thought could happen."

After the break, Rush said that most House Democrats are nuts, but Rep. Jose Serrano (D-NY) is so crazy that he introduced a bill to repeal the 22nd Amendment earlier this year. This means, said Rush, that they're already trying to get rid of it! This smear has actually already been debunked by FactCheck.org, which noted that Serrano introduced the same bill three times during the Bush presidency. So Serrano isn't interested in installing Obama as dictator for life, he just has a beef with term limits. Anyway, Rush continued on this "crazy" Democrats theme for a little longer, saying, "You have to be a whacked-out, environmentalist nutcase fraud to think that cap and trade is going to help anything. You have to be practically insane to believe that man has an effect on the climate of this planet."

Rush then noted that Zbigniew Brzezinski explained the "Obama Doctrine" on Charlie Rose last night, saying that the world has been "politically awakened," and "so we have to be able to conduct a foreign policies that's far more flexible, imaginative, and aware of the mood of the rest of the world, in which great many people are really yearning and claiming self-respect. Because until recently, they were dominated by the West, through colonialism and imperialism. And if we understand that, if we don't act like a latecomer to the age of imperialism in the way we treat others, I think we can manage the world. And this is for Obama, his credentials and his intellect are very pertinent and very much historically on time." Rush said that to say the masses have awakened politically is "absurd" because in this country, they're going to sleep. Rush wanted to know where is this political awakening taking place, "in Obama's brother's hut?" This is more left-wing claptrap, said Rush.

Then it was on to another caller, who said that her husband has been laid off from Caterpillar since January. Rush said she's mistaken -- Obama said Caterpillar was going to recover because of the stimulus. Then Rush read from the AP story on metropolitan unemployment -- again. And then he guaranteed that most of these cities have been run by liberal Democrats -- again. Rush's next caller said that cap and trade will destroy the oil and gas industry. Rush said that's the intent: to destroy traditional forms of energy and make us use these green technologies. Rush said Obama is saying that the bill will give us energy independence, but that's not true. Every day, Rush lamented, is becoming a crock.

Another break and Rush was back with another caller, who wondered if prospective home buyers will be denied mortgages by banks if they want to buy a house that's energy inefficient. Rush said the way he sees it is that they're not going to allow you to sell an energy-inefficient home until it's brought up to Obama's standards. But the standards can shift at any time, said Rush, so people who've already tried to bring their house up to standard could get screwed. This has already happened in the House, Rush warned, and it could happen in the Senate because there are some squishy RINOs in there who buy into this environmentalist stuff.

Then Rush read from George Will's "great column" in The Washington Post this morning regarding yesterday's Ricci ruling, in which Will lamented the "egregious behavior by [New Haven's] government, in a context of racial rabble-rousing, did not seem legally suspect to even one of the court's four liberals, whose harmony seemed to reflect result-oriented rather than law-driven reasoning." Rush asked us to remember what F. Scott Fitzgerald allegedly once said to Hemingway: "The rich are different from you and me." Rush expanded on this: "Liberals are different from you and me." Then Professor Limbaugh showed up to give us a biochemistry lesson: "The liberal brain fires in a totally different way. Years and years and years of propaganda has robbed liberals of the ability to reason and think. They are programmed human robots. Somebody got a hold of 'em, either in the '60s, in college, junior high, when they're watching cartoons on TV, Captain Planet, whatever it is. They don't think like we do. They just don't." Hearing this, we thought of a Hemingway quote as a rejoinder: "An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools," and suddenly we found ourselves with a game plan for tomorrow's show...

Anyway, Rush continued in this vein, saying that liberals practice racism -- they side with minorities and believe that the majority in this country is corrupt and must pay, and the courts are one way in which they must pay. This is how liberals think, said Rush, and it's misplaced hope to think that liberals are going to see reason in the law. They don't look at it as a means to find legal adjudication. They look at it as a way to level the playing field according to their view of how it's unfair.

One more break and Rush announced that he had struck "pay dirt," noting that Time's Mark Halperin posted the transcript of his Obama-22nd Amendment lunacy on his website, The Page. Rush said that the cable networks will get at least two or three days out of it.

Rush then took a call from a woman who wanted to know how anyone can think the Sanford affair is romantic. Rush said she's asking a rational question about liberal women in the media, who think differently. They are swooning over this, these liberal media babes. Rush's next caller said the more people are unemployed, the more they're going to be dependent on the government to take care of them. Rush said he's sized it up pretty well, and Rush is convinced this is all part of a plan. The Obama people, said Rush, love chaos; they view it as an opportunity to grow government. They're building the foundation for it. Remember, Rush said, that he said back in January that the media were able to convince people, during an economic boom, that we were in a recession. Well, said Rush, now the economy's in the tank and they're trying to convince you that it's good.

Rush closed out the hour by attacking Robert Reich's Salon.com column yesterday, saying that Reich is upset that Obama "ain't coming through."

Greg Lewis and Zachary Pleat contributed to this edition of the Limbaugh Wire.

Highlights from Hour 2

Outrageous comments

LIMBAUGH: Folks, let me -- getting rid of the 22nd Amendment is chump change compared to what this man's already achieved that nobody thought could happen.

[...]

LIMBAUGH: You have to be a whacked-out, environmentalist nutcase fraud to think that cap and trade is going to help anything. You have to be practically insane to believe that man has an effect on the climate of this planet.

[...]

LIMBAUGH: Folks, do you remember what F. Scott Fitzgerald said about the rich? He said the rich are different from you and me. Liberals are different from you and me. I think it's time to forget holding out hope for liberal judges, folks. They are not like us. They don't look at the judicial system the way we do. They don't look at the law the way we do.

The liberal brain fires in a totally different way. Years and years and years of propaganda has robbed liberals of the ability to reason and think. They are programmed human robots. Somebody got a hold of 'em, either in the '60s, in college, junior high, when they're watching cartoons on TV, Captain Planet, whatever it is. They don't think like we do. They just don't.

Hour 3: Limbaugh: "Liberal Infobabes" "Already In Heat" Reporting On Sanford Affair

Published Tue, Jun 30, 2009 4:00pm ET

This hour of the Limbaugh Wire brought to you by "infobabes" "in heat" over Sanford story
By Greg Lewis

Rush got the final hour started with another observation on Honduras. The Honduran Supreme Court, Congress, and military "stopped" an attempted coup, said Rush, because the president was going to "attempt" a coup by trying to stay in office. The Brookings Institute's Kevin Casas-Zamora offers up a different take on the situation: "An illegal referendum has met an illegal military intervention, with the avowed intention of protecting the constitution. ... At the very least, we are witnessing in Honduras the return of the sad role of the military as the ultimate referee in the political conflicts amongst the civilian leadership, a huge step back in the consolidation of democracy."

Surprising even us, things just went downhill from there. Rush pointed to the in-depth, Pulitzer-worthy coverage of Obama's "stink eye" on Drudge today. Rush explained the cultural significance of the "stink eye" in Hawaii, which is where Obama is from, but according to Rush, he is not a "native-born Hawaiian." Well, as we've had to point out so many times, this is stupid.

Then Rush played a clip from MSNBC earlier today, in which Andrea Mitchell asked Google CEO Eric Schmidt about his outlook on the economy. Schmidt noted that the stimulus was beginning to bring the economy back around, to which Mitchell agreed, commenting that a centrally planned government is able to push through stimulus projects more easily. "Did you hear that?" asked Rush. "Andrea Mitchell, agreeing with the CEO of Google that dictatorships, not always centrally planned governments, can at least do some things a little more easily than our own legislative debates -- accepting the premise that government creates jobs, that government creates wealth, that government solves economic decline. Damn, if we only had our own dictatorship!" "On MSNBC, they're dreaming of a dictatorship," exclaimed el Rushbo.

From there, Rush moved on to his "stack of stuff," which must have been only one article deep today because he got caught up on the first item in the stack. It was a Wall Street Journal column by Roger Altman, a Clinton and Obama "guy," who, as Rush explained, is also a "whistleblower" like Walpin and the "suppressed" EPA report author. Rush says the takeaway from Altman's column, which says to expect Congress to seriously consider a Value Added Tax, is that the two most meaningless words in the Obama presidency are "Obama said" because everything Obama is doing is a tax increase. Rush also said that someone might want to call Altman's office to see if he's still there or if anyone can find him. Excellent -- in one show, we have Rush claiming that Obama is going to install himself as dictator for life and resurrecting the Clinton-era smear that the Democratic administration will "disappear" its critics. Undoing the Constitution and murder? Wheeeeee!!!

After a commercial break, Rush continued to expound on the way female "liberal" journalists were reacting to the Mark Sanford story: "Do you realize how the liberal women are going to eat this up? The liberal infobabes, oh, they're swooning, folks. I will guarantee you they are having to excuse themselves and run to the bathroom here to control themselves." He later commented that he was "looking at this from the perspective of liberal women who are already in heat reporting this." Classy.

Then Rush took a caller who explained how he grew up in a Jewish communist household in Detroit, and how he remembers the power grabs by the unions, and that people his parents knew were being accused of being communists by McCarthy. Rush said that McCarthyism was "correctly accusing" people of communism. Before our collective minds had the opportunity to implode, Rush allowed that some people were wrongly accused. Anyway, the caller explained how he began to see how conservatism made sense, and accused liberals, including Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI), of not supporting Israel. Rush went on about this for a few minutes, saying that liberals are liberals first, regardless of what religion they are. Citing poll numbers that found more people identify themselves as conservative than liberal, Rush explained that the "l" in "liberal" is still a scarlet letter, yet Republicans are still losing to fruitcake nobodies in elections.

It might be worth nothing that on both sides of the break, Rush repeated that he was told that Obama was actually born in Toco, Texas. We don't know what in the world he was talking about, but he also said that doesn't know exactly where Obama was born, because there isn't any "independent confirmation" that he was born in Hawaii, but he didn't want "to go there." So, let's see if we have this straight: Rush is perfectly willing to spend nearly a third of his radio program laying out his lunatic claim that Obama's Marxist tendencies -- passed on through his father's blood -- will impel him to unmake the Constitution so he can install himself as president for life, but he doesn't want to get into the equally lunatic and many-times discredited claims by the Birthers that Obama is not a U.S. citizen by birth? We're pretty confident that there is no hard limit on lunacy on The Rush Limbaugh Show, so it could be that Rush doesn't want to waste time with conspiracies that aren't of his own creation.

After another break and some more rambling about how female journalists have reacted to the Sanford story, and some more ramblings about the John Edwards affair, Rush moved on to animal rights and "environmentalist wackos." To introduce the story, he played the Andy Williams song, "Born Free," accompanied by sound effects of animal noises and bombs exploding. Great. Anyway, the story was from the Gateway Pundit, and it claimed that the polar bear population is actually "booming." Then Rush bounced over to a CNN poll that found that two thirds of people thought the firefighters in the Ricci case were discriminated against. Rush thought the number should have been 90 percent.

Finally, we arrived at the final segment of today's programs, with a brand spanking new topic for Rush to riff on. Rush played audio from Obama's speech today in which he remarked on our military withdrawal from Iraqi cities. Rush said he was offended by what Obama said:

LIMBAUGH: This is a guy who sought their defeat. This is a guy, Barack Obama, who voted against every progress in Iraq vote that came up. This is a guy who was out there impugning the United States military along with everybody else in his party, in both the House and the Senate. And everybody in his audience up there, other than the military people, wanted us to lose in Iraq.

And now he runs -- I told you, I told you, folks, that these people were not going to lose it, that they were going to try to take credit for the victory.

[...]

LIMBAUGH: That was you and your party, Mr. President. You are the ones that -- it would've evolved into a civil war had you succeeded in getting our troops out of there.

Rush added that it was Obama and Democrats in the Senate who were the biggest obstacle the U.S. military faced in Iraq. Covering himself a bit, Rush had to add that they weren't a bigger obstacle than the "armed terrorists," but "they were an obstacle our troops had to overcome."

That wraps up another edition of the Limbaugh Wire, folks. We hope you'll tune in tomorrow for more fun in the sun. Not sure what to expect? Take a look at our Limbaugh archives. They're increasing at an exponential rate, and we're concerned that they might soon become self-aware, but that's no reason not to at least take a quick peak.

Simon Maloy, Zachary Pleat, and Hannah Kieschnick contributed to this edition of the Limbaugh Wire.

Highlights from Hour 3

Outrageous comments

LIMBAUGH: Did you hear that? Andrea Mitchell, agreeing with the CEO of Google that dictatorships, not always centrally planned governments, can at least do some things a little more easily than our own legislative debates -- accepting the premise that government creates jobs, that government creates wealth, that government solves economic decline.

Damn, if we only had our own dictatorship! Andrea, we're close to it. You're helping us get what you're dreaming of. On MSNBC, they're dreaming of a dictatorship, "I'm dreaming of a dictator," along with the Google CEO. Gosh, you know, it's amazing how fast these dictators are on a roll 'cause then they get things going. Talk to the people in Venezuela about it. Talk -- this is just mind-boggling to observe.

[...]

LIMBAUGH: I don't know about you, but this offends me. This is a guy who sought their defeat. This is a guy, Barack Obama, who voted against every progress in Iraq vote that came up. This is a guy who was out there impugning the United States military along with everybody else in his party, in both the House and the Senate. And everybody in his audience up there, other than the military people, wanted us to lose in Iraq.

And now he runs -- I told you, I told you, folks, that these people were not going to lose it, that they were going to try to take credit for the victory. You didn't hear him talk about George Bush, did you? Not in this sound bite. No, it's Obama.

Well, he praised the troops, and I don't -- first time. Those who've tried to pull Iraq into the abyss of civil war are on the wrong side of history? That was you and your party, Mr. President. You are the ones that -- it would've evolved into a civil war had you succeeded in getting our troops out of there.

America's Truth Rejector

Rush still pushing birther garbage:

LIMBAUGH: Well, good point, Snerdley. Obama is not native Hawaiian, but he did grow up there. Not native, yeah. Slap myself. That's -- now that's a mistake that's just borne of, like, three hours' sleep. I'm -- thanks for the catch. Correct, he's not -- yeah, not native-born Hawaiian.

Ladies' man

LIMBAUGH: All right, if there are any liberal newswomen in this audience, stop what you're doing. I have more Mark Sanford news. This guy is amazing. He's already being heralded by liberal infobabes for being really great at love letter writing, and he's really in love with the babe down in Argentina, and he just ought to go for it. I mean, they're schmaltzy, they're embarrassing, but, man, how romantic. Oh, it's just wonderful.

Remember when I said last week this guy could've been our JFK, still to this day, educated liberal reporters do not understand this. They think that I'm saying that Mark Sanford has some sort of great political reputation, image, charisma that could cause him to win a landslide -- no.

If you have to explain -- well, no, I'm not going to explain it. You people understand it -- the drive-bys do not. But here are the two AP alerts: First, South Carolina governor tells AP that the mistress down in Argentina is his soul mate, but he will try to fall back in love with his wife. AP alert number two: South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford tells AP he crossed lines with women other than the mistress but never had sex with them.

This guy is loyal to the mistress. This guy does not cheat on the mistress. Do you realize how the liberal women are going to eat this up? The liberal infobabes, oh, they're swooning, folks. I will guarantee you they are having to excuse themselves and run to the bathroom here to control themselves.