Rush Limbaugh on Sarah Palin's McCain Endorsement

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Rush Limbaugh was aked by a caller on his show Tuesday for his opinion on Sarah Palin's endorsement and campaigning for John McCain. Here are some excerpts from his reply, via RushLimbaugh.com:

RUSH: Sarah Palin went in there and was mobbed at the Daytona 500 on Sunday. She was in there to speak I think to the Daytona Chamber of Commerce on Monday, and she went into the drivers meeting before the race on Sunday and got standing O's from everybody on every crew. She could not get out of there, signing autographs, and there's one person that made that happen, and that's John McCain. Despite whatever happened during the campaign to belittle her and closed budget and all that stuff, one thing she knows is that nobody would know any more about her than they knew before McCain picked her were it not for the fact that he picked her.

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Her endorsement of McCain doesn't dampen anything I think about her. It has nothing to do with it. This is issues, issues, issues to me and look for consistency on that side.

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Imagine if Sarah Palin had not endorsed McCain. Can you imagine the media field day with the following: "Oh, wait a minute! Governor Palin, he's good enough to be president -- he's good enough for you to be his vice presidential running mate -- but he's not good enough to be Senator from Arizona?" Can you imagine what they'd do? By the way, does anybody who seriously read her book knew that she would do this? She doesn't have one bad thing personally to say about McCain in her book. With all of the record straight that she did vis-a-vis the McCain campaign and some of the staff, every comment she made about McCain in her book was positive. But I shudder to think what woulda happened if she'd endorsed somebody besides McCain and the media gets on this.

"Oh, yeah! He's good enough to be president, but not good enough to be Senator from Arizona." You know, loyalty is loyalty, and sometimes people want ideologue purity over loyalty and not realizing that loyalty is actually part of a party. By the way, Joe the Plumber has backed off, too. At BigGovernment.com, Joe the Plumber says he shouldn't have said what he said about Palin, that he likes her and thinks that she'd make a good president. Hillary Clinton has said that if Palin's elected president she's going to be visiting Canada a lot more, which is where Clinton's girlfriend is. So there could be a double meaning there. But that's not a bad notion, Hillary in Canada a lot.

- JP