Palm Beach radio talker Rush Limbaugh swore off marriage after three ill-fated attempts at domestic bliss.

But that was before he met striking West Palm Beach resident Kathryn Rogers, a woman almost half his age and a direct descendant of founding father John Adams.

It was also before she nursed him through a heart attack and before she laid some balm on the conservative firebrand’s bruised ego when the NFL rejected him as a potential owner of the St. Louis Rams.

For once, El Rushbo is eating his words.

Limbaugh, 59, is set to marry Rogers, 33, next week in an intimate ceremony at his beachfront compound.

Limbaugh wouldn’t confirm any details but asked for privacy in an e-mail to Page Two.

“We try to live our lives as normal people,” Limbaugh wrote. “We do NOT seek media attention, we do not want it, especially for this. It is very special, obviously, and we just don’t want any media attention.”

Rogers, a VIP liaison for the last two Super Bowls in South Florida, has been sporting a blinding sparkler on her ring finger for more than a year now.

No word yet on the guest list, menu or dress code, but stay tuned.

The couple sent out invitations to family and friends in February. If you haven’t received yours, don’t bother crashing. Security will be tight.

Limbaugh and Rogers met in 2004 when she ran a golf tournament/fund-raiser for legendary golfer Gary Player’s charity. Limbaugh was a celebrity guest. At the time, Limbaugh was getting divorced from Marta Limbaugh, his third wife.

By the summer of 2007, the GOP’s favorite radio personality and Rogers, the daughter of one of Sen. John McCain’s classmates at the Naval Academy, were an item.

“I grew up so differently, traveling around the world, that I’m sometimes not able to relate to the average person my age,” the soft-spoken Rogers told me in 2008, when the two stepped out together publicly for the first time. “Rush has such amazing experience.”

Rogers has made her presence felt by Limbaugh’s side. Gifted with gentle, old-society manners, she has managed to humanize a man often considered by liberals to be a bad guy.

She also made him change some of his lifestyle, starting with his eating habits.

Last year she convinced the radio host, who by then had ballooned to 300 pounds, to go on a diet. By fall, he had shed 100 pounds.

Rogers, meanwhile, appears in several passages of the new Limbaugh biography, Zev Chafets’ Rush Limbaugh: An Army of One.

In one, Chafets describes Rogers as “a soft-spoken listener who, on the radio, shouts rude, sometimes vulgar personal insults at (Limbaugh’s) ideological enemies.”

Chafets did ask Limbaugh about marrying Rogers.

The response: “If Kathryn and I were to get married, I know they’d go after her. I’m always going to be a villain. . . But Kathryn, I don’t know how it would be for her, all the gossip and the nastiness. I worry about it.”

Two self-described Brooklyn dudes have started a website to collect money to help Palm Beach radio talker Rush Limbaugh move to Costa Rica now that health care reform is underway.

And, a buck at a time, the duo claims to have raised $1,158 in the first 18 hours since the bill was voted on, and claims 62,500 visitors to the site.

Limbaugh earlier this month said on his midday radio show that he’d move to the Central American nation if Pres. Barack Obama’s health care bill passed. He later clarified his statement on Page2Live, saying he’d seek medical treatment in Costa Rica because U.S. health care companies are forming alliances with Costa Rican hospitals.

Well, the bill passed late Sunday, insuring millions and forcing insurance company to act in a humane way.

So money is pouring into www.aticketforrush.com. There’s already enough for a first-class ticket, never mind that Limbaugh has a private jet! The website will shut down and stop taking donations April 30 and those who run it hope to have enough for a down payment on an apartment in San Jose, Costa Rica’s capital city, as well as movers and Spanish lessons.

What if Rush refuses to accept the gift and stay home? Well, he won’t like what Mike and Patrick plan to do. They’ll give the proceeds to Planned Parenthood in his name.

I reached out to El Rushbo for comment but haven’t heard from him yet.

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Palm Beach radio talker Rush Limbaugh is pulling an Alec Baldwin!

Ten years after the staunch Democrat star of 30 Rock swore he’d leave the country if George W. Bush won the White House, GOP leader Limbaugh said on his show Monday that he, too, would leave — if Prez. Barack Obama’s health care reform becomes law of the land!

Rush Limbaugh with galpal Kathryn Rogers Saturday at Mar-a-Lago

Limbaugh said on his show (WJNO-1290 AM) Monday that he’d hightail it outtahere if doctors were banned from seeing private patients under the new health care plan.

“If it passes and it’s five years from now and all that stuff gets implemented — I’m leaving the country. I’ll go to Costa Rica,” Limbaugh said.

But like Baldwin, who never made good on his promise even after two terms of Bush, Rush seems hesitant, and clarified his statement in this e-mail to Page2Live this morning: “If U.S. doctors aren’t allowed by law to see patients in private practice outside the coming government health care monopoly, I will consider leaving the country for any major medical treatment.”

Costa Rica?

El Rushbo tells me that insurance companies are already bankrolling clinics in that Central American country in anticipation of the reform.

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Rush Limbaugh cares as much for baby turtles as he does for the Democrats’ jackass.

Palm Beach radio talker Limbaugh is sick of laws protecting the giant marine reptiles, and he wants everyone to know.

Limbaugh is buying newspaper ads this week — one in today’s Shiny Sheet and another later this week in the Palm Beach Post – to poke fun at the Town of Palm Beach’s policy that force the 300 or so households lucky enough to live on the beach to turn off outdoors lights from March 1 until October 31.

Within that time span, giant sea turtles — including several endangered species — dig the sand in the middle of the night to lay eggs, and their babies hatch in early fall.

Artificial lights are known to confuse the animals. They use the moon to navigate to nesting grounds then back to the ocean.

The Conservative lightning-rod Limbaugh lives on a $50 million-plus beach compound that includes a 32,000-square-foot home smack dab in the middle of turtle country. (see it here)

In his ad, Limbaugh mentions a phony group, the Turtle Preservation Society of Palm Beach, welcoming back turtles and hatchlings.

“The lights are off in eager anticipation of your arrival in May,” the ad reads.

A picture show a turtle roaming the sand in broad daylight.

“Kathryn (Rogers, Limbaugh’s galpal) and I bought a full page ad in the Shiny Sheet Sunday to make a subtle protest of all the local and state ordinances requiring people who live on the beach in Palm Beach to go dark EIGHT months of the year (!!!!!) for sea the turtles,” Limbaugh told Page2Live in an email.

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You, too, could live like Rush -- for $13.95 million (Click on the photo for a tour)

Palm Beach radio talker Rush Limbaugh is severing some of his ties with the Big Apple.

He’s selling the pied-a-terre he’s owned on the 20th floor of a Fifth Avenue skyscraper since 1994.

According to the New York Web site Gawker, the Conservative leader wants $13.95 million for it. Corcoran Group Real Estate has the listing.

For that kind of dough, the buyer will get 4,600 square feet, four bedrooms, five-and-a-half baths and a staff bedroom. (See it here)

Maintenance ain’t cheap, at $7,823 a month. Property taxes? Try $72,000 a year!

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