“It wasn’t a big winner for them. Didn’t work out the way they had all envisioned, Didn’t and hasn’t worked out the way they had all hoped,” he said. “The excitement, the thrill, the anticipation. [They had said], ‘Limbaugh’s finished, we’ve got the women back, we’re marching on the victory. It’s a done deal.‘”

The conservative radio host who had found himself in the middle of a national controversy after calling Fluke a “slut” and a “prostitute” for testifying about contraception coverage on Capitol Hill, was especially amused Tuesday about numbers in the CBS/New York Times poll that showed that the president’s approval rating among women had fallen.

“Obama lost ground with women. I can’t begin to tell you the dismay and the shock and probably panic that exists in the White House and in the salons of the elites of the Democratic Party over this,” he said. “They didn’t even consider this a possibility. This never entered their mind. This was going to be the end – not just of me, folks … the end of talk radio.”