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“Arrrrr. Ahoy! Another t’ rumor blamed on Rush: [snip]” ~ MaestroLC

It’s quite the other way around. Your source attempts to say that Rush started the rumor a couple of days ago.

In reality, the one who started the “rumor mill” email, merely picked up on what Rush made note of back in the beginning of the month when people were taking bets on how soon McCain would be dumping Palin.

Rush said on Fox that if anyone was going to be having second thoughts about his VP choice, it would be Obama.

Here are the pertinent bttt excerpts:

Rush’s prediction about Biden and Hillary on two different days; September 3rd and September 5th:

We’re Running Against the Entire Washington Government Machine
September 3, 2008 http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_090308/content/01125106.member.html

“.....[The MSM] are trying to force her [Palin] off the ticket. I know how mad you people are, but I want to tell you, you tune into that convention tonight, to her speech tonight, and they better have those rafters reinforced at this convention hall tonight because they’re going to blow the roof. This crowd cannot wait to hear this woman.

This crowd wants to be involved in promoting, defending, and advancing the cause and the career of Sarah Palin. This crowd is going to do whatever it can to put her at ease, to make her feel welcome, and she’s up to the challenge here, and it’s going to be a fascinating night. She’s gotta be up to the challenge. I mean it is what it is. The media isn’t going to change. They’re getting worse. Some say they’re destroying themselves. I think they’ve been in the process of destroying themselves for a long time, but clearly there’s no journalism going on with what the Drive-Bys are doing. They’re just an opposition research branch of the Democrat Party. Their templates never change. ...But they’re trying to force her off the ticket.

There’s even online betting sites that you can visit, online prediction market weighing in on whether McCain will drop her from the Republican ticket.

I think once this gets going, and as I said yesterday once this hits full stride, the Barack Obama campaign’s going to realize what a loser choice it made in putting Joe Biden on the ticket, mark my words. There’s going to be a huge reversal of this by the time this all shakes out. But why are they trying to force her off the ticket? If she’s this big a trailer trash, and if she’s so inexperienced, why not leave her there? She should be easy to beat, right? Well, that’s the key. They’re scared to death of her. They are frightened like they haven’t been frightened in a long time. They thought they had succeeded in nullifying and eliminating the conservative wing of the Republican Party. They thought that they had succeeded in creating an impression among Americans at large that conservatism was in disfavor, that it was in a funk, that it was a minority, and here comes Palin, Sarah Palin just in her being, in her essence, simply destroys every myth and every lie that the liberals have told us that they want in women. Andrea Peyser today in the New York Post, great piece: “’A Time-Warped Sexist Assault’ ... But women on the left, who fought long and hard for the ability to raise children simultaneously with election cash, are in spasms. (Some have simply kept silent. Nancy Pelosi, Hillary Clinton — where are you?) ... The stupendously sexist New York Times printed a front-page article noting that some unnamed women argue over ‘whether there are enough hours in the day for her to take on the vice presidency, and whether she is right to try.’” [end excerpt]

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Obama Turns to Hillary, Oprah, and NAGs to Counter Sarah Palin
September 5, 2008 http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_090808/content/01125107.member.html

RUSH: Look at this... Look at this, right here in the New York Times, the headline says it all: “Obama Camp Turns to Clinton to Counter Palin.”

Clinton campaign says, “I don’t think we can save you. I got campaigning and fundraising to do for Senate candidates.”

“....I was on Greta Van Susteren at Fox last night just after midnight, she’s been asking me all week, and I finally relented. ...but I told her, I said, “You know, the conventional wisdom here is never right, Greta, and I won’t be surprised if somewhere down the road it’s the Obama camp that thinks they need a new vice presidential running mate.”

“You really think they will just drop Biden?”

I said, “No, it won’t happen that way. There will be some tragic emergency that pops up or some such thing as that.” Everywhere you look, this guy, he needs Hillary to help him out.

This is in the New York Times: “Obama Camp Turns to Clinton to Counter Palin.” It says here that Obama will “increasingly lean on prominent Democrat women,” meaning the NAGs. Obama is going to go out and beg the NAGs to bail him out, including Oprah.

So now Obama’s gotta go out there and get the NAGs, and that’s really going to work, that’s falling right into our hands.

This is a rope-a-dope times two, to bring the NAGs out there to campaign against Sarah Palin. Hillary, they want Hillary to come to Florida on Monday. It says here, Obama was “dispatching Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton to Florida on Monday and bolstering his plan to deploy female surrogates—” i.e., NAGs, “—to battleground states.” By the way, NAGs for those of you new, National Association of Gals. Don’t misunderstand. We’re not making any other comment. We just think the National Organization for Women is bogus. They’re not an organization for women. How many members they got now, 125,000? They never have had more than 250,000, they never have spoken for the whole female population....

So Obama is going to dispatch Hillary. Nobody dispatches Hillary. Hillary is sitting in Chappaqua looking at the security cameras, the spy cameras, see where Bill’s been, all of a sudden gets a phone call from the Obama campaign, “We’re dispatching you to Florida.” “I’m not going to Florida, there’s a hurricane coming in down there and I’m not going to be it.”

“Mrs. Clinton’s campaign event in Florida, her first for Mr. Obama since the Democratic convention, will serve as a counterpoint to the searing attacks and fresh burst of energy that Ms. Palin—” it’s Mrs. Palin, New York Times, “—injected into the race with her convention speech on Wednesday, Obama aides said. With the McCain-Palin team courting undecided female voters—” Hey, who wrote this? Patrick Healy, Jeff Zeleny, you two guys gotta understand something: Sarah Palin courted us guys, too. Sarah Palin is courting Americans. We on the right, we don’t groupify everybody. We don’t do this identity politics stuff. I’ll tell you what, I knew Sarah Palin was talking straight to me when she was giving her speech. She was talking to Americans.

Now, let’s go to the second page of this story: “Advisers to Mrs. Clinton said that she stood ready to help the Obama-Biden ticket, but they urged the campaign not to overestimate the impact Mrs. Clinton could have.” So the Clinton campaign has told Obama, “Don’t think we can save you, buddy. Don’t count us.”

Clinton campaign advisors noted that “she had other commitments this fall, like campaigning and raising money for Senate candidates.” “Sorry, Obama, I may not be able to squeeze you in here. I gotta raise money for myself and for Senate candidates.” “Obama aides said the Clinton trip had been in the works before Ms. Palin was named the running mate.”

Yeah, right. Yeah, I’m buying that. So, they’re worried out there in Obama land. ...”

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New York Times: Obama Camp Turns to Clinton to Counter Palin