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"The Republican Party is a big-tent party. You know what the tent covers? The country."
"Obama's now making robocalls for Corzine. He's on your TV, he's on the Internet, he's in magazines, he's on the radio. I would think that the last thing you'd want is for your phone to ring and the voice on the other end be Obama, because, damn it, folks, he's everywhere!"
"This is where conservative Americans are drawing the line: New York 23. This is where we are fighting. This is where we will take a stand against both the liberal wing of the Republican Party and Obama and the Democrat Party."
"I don't know how Obama, the Democrats, and the State-Controlled Media can spin the outcome of today's elections as some great achievement for Obama and his socialist agenda. They're going to try, but it will require the worst kind of propaganda and deceit to pull it off."
"Our Democrat buddies will tell us who they really fear, and I'll tell you right now who they really fear is Sarah Palin. They have done everything in their power to destroy her -- but they haven't."
"All this business about centrists and moderates abandoning the party… Do you really think David Plouffe gives a rat's rear end about the health of the Republican Party? Do you really think Obama, Axelrod, Rahm Emanuel and David Plouffe sit around and say, 'Boy, we'd really hate to see the Republican Party destroy itself'?"
"Number nine moderate moment in GOP history: Bush-Quayle '92. The number eight moderate moment GOP history: Dole-Kemp '96. The number seven most moderate moment in Republican history: Ford-Dole '76. See a pattern here?"
"Speaking of big tents, let's count all of the pro-lifers in the Democrat Party. What happens to them? You know, this big tent stuff… throw it right back in their faces."
"Story: 'Tuesday's three big races are in no way a referendum on the president, said Robert Gibbs.' Oh, no. We just sent Biden up to NY-23 to get him out of town. We just sent Obama in to New Jersey for Corzine because he secretly had a date with Michelle in downtown Newark."
"I think Obama heard every word Reverend Wright said in those sermons. I think Reverend Wright is President Obama. Did you hear that, Mr. Matthews? I'll say it a little louder: Reverend Wright is President Obama."
"People have been asking me: 'Rush, what are your predictions for Election Day?' Well, it's tough to make predictions here, because you don't know what the ACORN factor is going to be."
"I'm going to tell you Blue Dog Democrats the dirty little secret: Nancy Pelosi would love for you to vote for this health care thing and go home and lose. She doesn't like Democrats in her caucus who are not as leftist and radical as she is."
"If it were George W. Bush with this vaccine shortage, it'd be all you'd hear about. But no, the media has to protect the little man-child. They have to protect Barry."
"Now, Dede Scozzafava is a liberal woman. I thought she could take care of herself. Why do these wimp liberal guys have to come out and start defending these women? I mean, what happened to feminism in this country?"
"When I think I'm offering brilliant analysis and commentary -- unheard anywhere else but on this show -- I then find the next day that the liberals are in a brand-new tizzy because they haven't the intelligence or the sense of humor to understand the slightest thing that I said."
"I'll tell you what: The moderate Republican and the Rockefeller gang… they're just as worried about New York 23 as the Democrats are."
"The White House is saying that GOP party affiliation is at an all-time low. Well, then if Republicans win today, why, it has to be because of independents, by their own definition. I'm going to hang that around their necks tomorrow, and I can't wait."
"I think some people are born with a gene that turns them into liberal journalists. Those journalists have several template beliefs, and one of the template beliefs is that the Republican Party has to be a big-tent party if it has any chance whatsoever of winning."
"By definition, folks, moderates cannot be governed by principle. They can't be -- moderates don't have principles! If they had principles, they'd be one thing or the other. Plus, they're just a bunch of arrogant, conceited, and at the same time, ignorant people."
"Now, this big-tent thing. The current leaders (who cannot be named) of the Republican Party have built such a big tent on the advice of the Democrats that nobody's in it. I mean, General Powell left the tent. Chuck Hagel left the tent. McCain, essentially, left the tent."
"Castro wrote a little column in which he called Obama conceited and superficial, and yet the White House didn't get mad at Castro for saying that. No, they get mad at me. Why? It's not fair."
"Robert Gibbs, the White House press secretary, said that no vaccinations are at Gitmo and none are on the way. Well, now, wait a minute: the State-Controlled Media told us that there were. A bunch of you-know-what must have hit the fan when that news hit, folks!"
"Let's be honest about this: If a fairly conservative Republican can win the governorship of New Jersey, it's historic -- whether the media want to say so or not."
"The big tent concept was created by Washington establishment elites on the left. Now, in Washington, there are also establishment elites that are Republican, and the common denominator there is elites -- and they are the smartest dumb people in the country."
"The Republican elites desperately want to be respected and liked and allowed into the Elite Club by the liberal Democrat elites, and so they do this by accepting every premise that the liberal elites put forward, such as, 'You're never going to win with all those pro-life hicks down in the south in your party.'"
"Every campaign ad running right now is stressing what? Cutting taxes, cutting spending, and growing the economy. This is why elections are held in November -- it's about as far away from April 15th as you can get."
"From The Hill: 'Gibbs Downplays Election Day Expectations'. Whoa. I wonder what their polling data is telling them? Or this could be a double fake-out. You never know with this bunch."
"I don't believe Reverend Wright wants a colorblind society, and I don't believe President Obama wants a colorblind society. They're carrying around too many grievances here."
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RUSH: Let's talk Election Day today. People have been asking me, "Rush, what are your predictions? What are your predictions?" Well, it's tough to make predictions here because you don't know what the ACORN factor is going to be and you don't know what the vote fraud factor is gonna be, particularly in New Jersey. ABC News radio at the top of the hour here on cue -- by the way, CNN is doing the same thing -- said that the White House is insisting that these governor races should not be seen as a judgment on the White House. It's tough being CNN today. They've got a poll out that shows Obama at 54% approval. Now, what timing, the day of the election and the day before the results are analyzed. So if Obama is at 54% approval and the Democrats get shellacked today, why, it has nothing to do with Obama. But they bury something very important in their own poll. Obama health care approval: 42 for, 57 against in the CNN poll.
I'll tell you something else about these elections. This election today, all of these elections are precisely why Obama and everybody wanted to get this health care done before the August recess, so that they'd be able to go to these elections and claim some big achievement, but they were unable to do that and if these elections go total Republican today, it should be a nail in the coffin of Obamacare. This is what they knew all along. I said on Fox News Sunday, every day I get up and I feel like I'm in the trenches of a war. No bullets being fired, but it's just every day you get up and there is another assault on liberty and freedom and the founding of this country, every day. It never stops. So people have been asking me for my predictions.
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RUSH: Now the predictions. I'm not going to predict the races. I'm going to predict the media to you, because I've already got examples of it in the audio sound bite roster here and a couple of news stories. The media tonight and tomorrow are going to be working hard, my friends, to deliver you not the news but Obama talking points about this election as in ABC Radio News just 15 minutes ago: White House insisting that these governor's races should not be seen as judgment on the White House. That's ABC falling right in line, CNN has, too. First, there's Virginia. Whatever the vote totals in Virginia, the State-Controlled Media will report that the turnout was not as big as expected, that the vote for the Republicans and against the Democrats was not as big as expected, and besides, everybody knew that the Republicans would win. It's no surprise. The White House even knew it. Why, the White House threw this guy Creigh Deeds under the bus a couple weeks ago. The White House knew he ran a lousy campaign.
You could just see this coming, mark my words. We knew that the Republicans would win because the Democrat governor was so poor, he was so inept, he dismissed early offers by the Obama team for help, he was a goner from the moment the general election began. So the State-Controlled Media will say Virginia stands for nothing, just ignore it. I predict to you that will be the outcome; that will be the media spin. I know these people, folks, I know them. You know I know them. That will be how they spin Virginia.
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RUSH: We turn to New York-23. If Hoffman wins -- and polls suggest that he will -- the race there will be dismissed as an outlier. Here's how they're going to categorize this -- and I'm talking about the media. I'm predicting the media coverage tonight and tomorrow on New York-23.
They'll say that the right wing concentrated all its hate and all its anger and all its resources on a congressional race that is of little national importance or consequence. They will portray this as the Republican Party being fractured and divided with even greater problems down the road. The state-run media will further tell us that the battle in New York-23 was really just a fight among Republicans, not about Obama or his policies; and that the far right, while successful in this district, will have difficulty extending this victory into other districts and states because they will have driven so many independents and moderates out of the party. There are actually...
I think it's Gloria Borger in the audio sound bite roster saying that Republicans are driving independents out of their party. It's just the opposite. Independents are flocking to these Republicans in these races! It's just the opposite of that they're gonna cast New York-23 as unimportant, of little consequence, more an illustration of how the Republican part is fracturing. It doesn't matter what happens to New York-23. This Hoffman guy will be invisible once he gets to Washington. He's not that big a deal. Nothing to do with Obama, nothing to do with Obama. "And the Republicans," they will say, "will have difficulty extending this victory into other districts and to other states." Now (chuckles), here's the antidote to that.
The fact that the "former" vice president, according to CNN yesterday, Joe Biden, campaigned in the district yesterday... "That was nothing! Don't make anything of it. That was nothing more than a classy White House display of loyalty for a Democrat candidate who never really had a chance." Folks, I want you to print these words out. I want you to get the transcript off my website. I want you to print these out, I want you to distribute them, I want you to carry them with you, and we'll just see how close I am to being right. So the State-Run Media will say, "New York-23, the race is more about the demise of the Republican Party and anger on the right than Obama or his policies," and Biden is just a loyal act to help a Democrat that never really had a chance.
Let's move on to New Jersey now. Obama has actually been in New Jersey many times. I think in the last 24, 48 hours he's been there, and he's making robocalls. In fact, you want to hear one? Obama's making robocalls for Corzine. I mean, he's on your TV, he's on the Internet, he's in magazines, he's on the radio. The last thing I would think you would want is for your phone to ring and the voice on the other end to be Obama. 'Cause, damn it, folks, he's everywhere. He won't leave us alone. If you get one of these Corzine robocalls from Obama, this is what you'll hear.
OBAMA: I want to apologize for disturbing you, but there's an important election this coming Tuesday. Last year we started the movement for change. Now we need to keep it going. That's why I'm asking you to get behind Governor Jon Corzine. Together we can fix our schools, improve health care, and turn around the economy so it works for all Americans. So please get out and vote on Tuesday and vote for my friend and your governor, Jon Corzine. Thanks for listening.
RUSH: I think it's pretty desperate for the president to be doing this, robocalls -- and that's just a rehash of his now meaningless campaign rhetoric from a year ago, 18 months ago: "Fix the schools, improve health care, turn around the economy so it works for all Americans," which means it works for none. (chuckles) "All" and "none" meaning the same thing here. So that's Obama and his robocall in New Jersey. One of his most trusted confidantes and campaign operatives, Obama's, took over the Corzine campaign a few months ago. Now, basically in looking at New Jersey you have to understand this: Corzine is a straw man for the Obama White House. That's how you have to look at it. He is a straw man for the Obama White House.
And if Corzine loses in New Jersey, which is among the bluest of blue states, the State-Controlled Media repeating the Obama talking points will do all it can to run interference for the White House. The damage control spin will be that the president was heroic in his efforts to save a hopeless candidate. "Corzine was surrounded by corruption. He destroyed New Jersey's economy. He was enormously unpopular. But the president decided to make a courageous stand and to try to save him. And despite Corzine losing, look how close the election became. But for Obama and his team, New Jersey would have been a wipeout, not a nail-biter. So New Jersey is actually an Obama win, even should Corzine lose."
This is how it will be portrayed: "Such a heroic effort! The man put everybody but himself first. He put Corzine first. He put his agenda first. He put the state of New Jersey first. But it was just too much to overcome, unpopularity, corruption, questionable friends, a rotten economy that Corzine destroyed as governor of New Jersey, and his Wall Street connections came back to hurt him." They'll come up with everything to say that Obama gave it everything he got. Now, if Corzine wins... We'll of course look at this in that way as well. If Corzine wins, the State-Controlled Media, following the White House spin, will report that Obama's personal popularity and the popularity of his socialist agenda won the day. The fact is, Corzine, if he does win, will likely win with less than 50% of the vote.
And the fact that he could not muster 50% of the vote in this heavily Democrat state will be completely ignored. His win by a plurality of the vote, not a majority, will be said to have been momentous, that it "shows that Obama is as strong as ever and that he still owns the blue states and states trending blue -- and those who defy him, including in his own party, such as Blue Dog Democrats, do so at their own peril." That will be the message if Corzine wins. Now, here's the truth. A year ago today Obama won in Virginia, the news reported his election there as historic and as a realignment. If the election results come anywhere close to what the polls predict recently, the Republicans are going to have a huge win today, and anything over 6% is a huge win. Now, I know this because when Obama won the presidency by 6% the media told us it was a huge win. So anything over six is big.
Virginia's outcome is going to be downplayed as much as possible, but it is very important. Because if Virginia were to go 6% in favor of the Democrats today that would have been a huge boost to Obama and the Democrats nationally. So to say when the opposite occurs, that it doesn't matter, is just nonsense. Virginia was key to the national realignment only 12 months ago today. Today we are told to ignore it. If Republicans can hold onto states like Virginia, then they can build from there and aggressively go after states that have too often been written off and ceded to the Democrats by a weak and squishy GOP. Now, the New York-23, that's a major turning point, which is why the establishment Republicans and their media promoters are downplaying it along with the Democrats. A moderate Republican held this seat for a lot of years. He was selected by Obama to serve in his administration because Obama believed he could take that seat and keep it Democratic. The race sized up exactly as the White House had hoped with the Democrat in the lead, and the Republican establishment bosses picking Scozzafava.
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RUSH: Okay. Now, let's start again here on this so I don't have to interrupt myself on the importance of New York-23, because this is a turning point, and, in fact, there are stories throughout the State-Controlled Media today -- got one here, the LA Times: "Conservatives Emboldened by Moves in New York Election." There are conservative candidates popping up all over the country who are going to challenge incumbent Republicans in House races. I've read about 10 or 12 of them are going to happen now. This New York-23 is big, it is a turning point, and it is precisely why the media and everybody is trying to portray it as nothing more than the Republicans falling apart, having big unity problems and so forth. I'll tell you what, the moderate Republican, the Rockefeller gang, they're just as worried about New York-23 as the Democrats are.
Now, this is a key point. New York-23 was held by a moderate Republican. That seat was held by a moderate Republican for many years. But Obama picked this guy to serve in his administration. You know why? Obama wanted that seat to go Democrat. So the Democrat, Owens, gets nominated and the race sized up exactly as the White House had hoped, the Democrat in the lead, the GOP establishment bosses picked the left-wing moderate Republican, just exactly as the Democrats want. They want Republicans to stay moderate squishy because they know that's when Republicans lose. So it was going exactly as the White House had hoped. She was gonna lose. But then up stepped this guy, this little accountant, Doug Hoffman, a conservative, and in stepped groups like the Club for Growth, conservative talk radio stepped in there, the tea party activists, citizens from across the country, the blogosphere. Erick Erickson at RedState.com has been all over this since it began. And eventually some Republican politicians were forced to get in on this at the tail end and endorse Hoffman because of this wave of support that had blossomed for him.
This is where conservative Americans are drawing the line. New York-23. This is where we are fighting, this is where we will take a stand against both the liberal wing of the Republican Party and Obama and the Democrat Party. And that's what's happened here. To the great distress of people like Lindsey Grahamnesty and the Rockefeller Republicans, the great distress of Obama, the Democrats in the media, that's exactly what has happened here. And Hoffman is now said to be in the lead. Now, whether he wins or not, what happened in New York-23 was a huge statement by conservatives and traditional Republicans against the left in both parties. And should Hoffman win, as I think he will, his campaign is gonna give confidence and energy to scores of others across this country where momentum will grow right up to next year's election. So that's the truth of New York-23.
Now to New Jersey. Here's the truth there. Let's be honest about this. If a fairly conservative Republican can win the governorship of New Jersey, it is historic, whether the media want to say so or not. By all accounts, Chris Christie is a tax-cutting, spending cutting, law and order kind of Republican. He also said he's pro-life. Here's who he's up against in New Jersey. He's up against Obama. He's up against the national Democrat Party. He's up against the SEIU, the union. He's up against the NEA. He's up against the AFL-CIO. He is up against ACORN. He is up against the Daily Kos. He is against the New York Times and a billionaire who has spent $30 million trashing him. And that would be Corzine. Corzine has spent $30 million of his own money trashing Chris Christie. That's who Christie's up against, and this race right now is too close to call. With all of that going on, Christie ought to not even be visible. In New Jersey, in this bluest of blue states, with all of that Democrat firepower and money arrayed against him, he ought not even show up in the polls.
Now, if a fairly conservative Republican can win the governorship against those odds, not to mention the hugely lopsided voter registration disadvantage, it would be a smashing victory, it would be a smashing defeat, it would be a profound defeat for Obama and his ilk. There's simply no getting around that if he pulls this off. Now, if Christie loses, and if he loses by a small margin, the White House and the State-Run Media are going to play it up loudly as a great achievement. But the fact is they will have barely won, despite all of their great advantages and numbers and resources. And even if they just barely win, I guarantee you that they're going to be quietly talking among themselves about how they are in deep trouble. Because, folks, if the Obama election 12 months ago was a realignment and the media said that it was, it was so smashing, I mean it changed the face of America, then the Democrats and Obama should not be celebrating a bare victory which required an extraordinary effort to pull off in a state where a Republican shouldn't even show up in the polls. They will know that they are in trouble if they have to fight so hard to hold a reliably dark blue state.
So to sum it up, I don't know how Obama, the Democrats, the State-Controlled Media can make the outcome of today's election some great achievement for Obama, some great achievement for liberalism and his socialist agenda. They're going to try, but it will require the worst kind of propaganda and deceit to pull this off.
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MATTHEWS: Bestiality is an interesting reference point. She, quote, "has screwed every rhino in the country." That is a metaphor from hell.
ROBINSON: Very bizarre. And we don't want to psycho analyze that.
SANCHEZ: I'm not going to say it. Let Rush Limbaugh say it.
RUSH: And they're in a tizzy and what's happened now is that Owens has come out and issued a statement defending Dede Scozzafava against this outrageous personal attack launched by me. Now, Dede Scozzafava is a liberal woman. I thought she could take care of herself. Why do these wimp liberal guys have to come out and start defending these women? What happened to feminism in this country? I mean, why did she quit in the first place? That's not what feminism taught women to do. Anyway, here is my prediction. (interruption) Can't be serious about what? Yeah, they did. Oh, they did. Snerdley, 'cause I said it. I knew it was going to be the Media Tweak of the Day when I said it. I wish I could find this damn thing. I've got 13 stacks of paper here and I don't know where I put what. You know, here I am one of the most advanced computer guys in the world, and I still print this stuff out 'cause there's no way I could do this on the computer. I can't put all this stuff on one monitor. But I'll find it. Maybe I was looking at the wrong stack. (interruption) Stack czar? Maybe I need a stack czar.
Here it is. Here it is. Here it is. "'Owens: Limbaugh's Attack On Scozzafava "Offends Me Personally" And "Exemplifies Exactly What's Wrong With Hoffman"' -- Democratic NY-23 candidate Bill Owens is jumping to the defense of Dede Scozzafava, his Republican former rival who dropped out of the race and endorsed him against Conservative Doug Hoffman, following an attack on her by Rush Limbaugh. Limbaugh declared today that Scozzafava was 'guilty of widespread bestiality. She has screwed every RINO in the country.'" (laughing) They have no sense of humor, folks. That's the problem here. They have zero sense of humor. That's just the opening line of a brilliant analysis of how Dede Scozzafava, supposedly a moderate Republican, has come out and shown the country who RINOs really are. At the end of the day they're liberal Democrats, and that's why I say that's how she screwed every RINO 'cause now the secret's out. You know, the genie is out of the bottle. These guys, these Republicans-in-name-only are not Republican and they're not moderates. They're liberals.
Here's Owens' statement: "This despicable attack on Assemblywoman Scozzafava offends me personally and exemplifies exactly what’s wrong with Hoffman and his right wing backers. Assemblywoman Scozzafava is an honorable public servant who has served Upstate New York as an independent and principled leader who always prioritized the best interests of Upstate New York ahead of a partisan agenda." Which is BS. "Rush Limbaugh and the rest of the right wing special interests that are running Hoffman’s campaign can’t even begin to compete with what she has accomplished over her career. ... Doug Hoffman ought to denounce Limbaugh immediately." That's Owens. She can't speak up for herself I guess. More liberal wimps. Let's see, I've got maybe a couple other examples of this. So every day when I think I'm offering brilliant analysis and commentary, unheard anywhere else but this show I find the next day that the liberals are in a brand-new tizzy because they haven't the intelligence or the sense of humor to understand the slightest thing that I say.
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RUSH: You know, I was just thinking about something here, folks. Why would somebody be "personally offended" -- personally offended -- by bestiality? Unless they have some personal experience with it, how could you be "personally offended" by that? And, you know, ladies and gentlemen, I think I understand why these people are all upset and out of whack. It's because any jokes or cracks about bestiality are probably a hate crime now. Isn't bestiality protected in the defense bill, hate crime laws? (laughing)
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RUSH: This is this morning on the Today Show, Meredith Vieira is talking to former Obama campaign manager David Plouffe. And she said, "Obviously he's not on the ballot, but what will the outcome say about the president's ability to deliver?"
PLOUFFE: The results of these elections tend to be overread. The most important development coming out of today actually has nothing to do with the results, it's that congressional race in New York 23 where the Sarah Palin, Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck wing of the party drove out a moderate, not just out of the race, but out of the Republican Party.
RUSH: It wasn't a moderate, she was a liberal, but see how this shapes up, (imitating Plouffe) "Oh, no, no, the results tend to be overrated, the most important development here, nothing to do with the results, Sarah Palin, Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck wing of the party drove a moderate out of the party." You can see how this is shaping up, 'cause they know what's going to happen in New York 23. So already the spin has begun from the Obama: "Oh, no, it's not about our guy." So Vieira then said, "He wouldn't be campaigning for them if he didn't think the race was important, right?"
PLOUFFE: This tends to be overcovered, it's a place I agree with the Bush administration in '01 and '05. These are local races. There's 18,000 lifetimes between now and next November.
RUSH: Ah, it doesn't mean anything. I guarantee if it was going the other way in the polling all Plouffe would be talking about here is, "Look at the power of Obama, Obama has swept this country. He has captivity this country, the mind-set of America is now Obamas." Now it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. This stuff tends to be overcovered. And finally David Plouffe and Meredith Vieira have this exchange.
PLOUFFE: Palin continues to be something in our party we treasure. Because what she's doing up in New York 23 along with her partner --
VIEIRA: Supporting the conservative right?
PLOUFFE: Yes. I think they're driving moderates out of the party. And, let's remember, comparatively, the Republicans are at the lowest point they've been in their history. Why? Centrists and moderates are abandoning that party.
RUSH: It is conservatives who are the largest identified group in the latest Gallup poll, Mr. Plouffe. You can throw your party politics out of here. It's conservatives at 40, you guys at 20, and the moderate independents or whatever they are at 36%. You guys are at the bottom of that totem pole. But you see there's two things about this. They will tell us who they fear. Our Democrat buddies will tell us who they really fear and I'll tell you right now who they fear is Sarah Palin. They have done everything in their power to destroy her, and they haven't. If they really, really believe that Sarah Palin was the death knell of the Republican Party, they'd be shutting up. They would be encouraging her, some other way to go out and get seen, be seen as much as possible. And this business about centrists and moderates are abandoning the party, do you really think David Plouffe gives a rat's rear end about the health of the Republican Party? Do you think Obama and Axelrod and Rahm Emanuel and David Plouffe sit around and say, "Boy, you know, we really hate to see the Republican Party destroying itself. I mean, can you believe the Republicans are driving moderates and independents out of the party? I mean we gotta help 'em out here. We gotta figure out a way for them to hold onto those moderates and independents."
If the moderates and independents are being driven out of the Republican Party, I ask, where are they going? They're going to the Democrat Party, you would presume, and that should make them happy. This is why you gotta be very careful in accepting the premises of these people. They wish we didn't exist as a party, and they are trying to wipe us out politically. They're not worried that we're losing moderates and independents. They're worried that conservatism is on an ascendancy, they are scared to death of it, and they are really scared of Sarah Palin. They will tell us who they fear the most by trying to destroy them. I find this laughable. David Plouffe, all concerned, (imitating Plouffe) "Oh, driving moderates and independents out of the party, oh, it's horrible, look what's happening to the Republican Party. Oh, we care about the Republican Party so much. We really wish they weren't driving all these moderates and centrists out of the party 'cause we wish to have a viable opponent." What? These people think we're idiots? They do. They obviously do think that we are idiots.
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RUSH: It's not easy being CNN. They got a poll out today: 54% job approval for Obama. Nobody believes that. Nah. Nobody. In their same poll, only 42% support Obama's health care plan. How do those two work out for you? Forty-two percent support the health care plan, but 54% support his overall presidency. It doesn't jibe. And then here's John Roberts, CNN's American Morning cohost says this about me and New York 23.
ROBERTS: Rush Limbaugh and others said she's too liberal to be representing the Republican Party so she has now quit. She is, uhh, supporting bill Owens but people are watching this race to find out if this will have an affect on the 2010 midterm elections if conservatives will be ascendant.
RUSH: He got it right! He got it right! They're going to have to slap this down. You'll not hear that anywhere on CNN the rest of the day or tomorrow. That's not the spin. John? John? Let me clue you in. The spin, you gotta get... I'm sure you got the memo from the White House, probably from Gibbs. Look it up. The Republican Party is falling apart. The Republican Party is split. The Republican Party is done, and the Democrats are really worried about it, John. I mean David Plouffe is on television today saying, "Oh, no, moderates and independents are leaving the Republican Party! Oh, my God, they're stupid! How could they let this happen? Hmm?" I mean, that's the spin. Actually, I'm kind of happy to see independents leaving the Democrat Party because that's apparently what's happening. (chuckles) Here's tortured logic from Gloria Borger again back to CNN, the Situation Room last night with Wolf Blitzer. Blitzer says, "The Wall Street Journal said, 'Democrats did themselves no favors driving Lieberman out of their party. Conservatives will do their cause no good, forcing Republican candidates in Illinois, California, and Connecticut, to sound like Tom DeLay. If conservatives now revolt against every Republican candidate who disagrees with them on trade, immigration, abortion, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid will keep their majorities for a very long time.' This coming from a conservative editorial page."
BORGER: Very conservative. Not to mention probably helping to keep Barack Obama in the White House. I've spoken with lots of Republicans today about this, and they say, "Look, this is a strange situation. This candidate was chosen behind closed doors by the Republican establishment. People don't like that. She was kind of to the left on a lot of cultural and economic issues." However! Unless this party gets big tent -- and there's always a fight when you're not in power between the big-tent folks and the purists, but they say if the party doesn't grow big tent -- they're going to lose those independent voters who are the margin of victory in any presidential race. And as Mary just pointed out, they're also the margin of victory in this congressional race.
RUSH: And where are they going, Gloria? They're breaking big for the Republican! They're breaking big for Hoffman. What tortured logic. So if I heard her correctly, if a conservative Republican wins a race, proving he can get the votes of independents, that's bad for Republicans and good for Obama. 'Cause it will drive independents away. How does that work? If Hoffman can win, that means conservatism can attract independents. And that's exactly what's happening here. But here again we have the fake, phony concern from Gloria Borger about the health of the Republican Party. This big-tent argument... I think it's a gene. G-e-n-e. I think people are born with a gene that turns 'em into liberal journalists, and they have several template beliefs.
And one of the template beliefs is that the Republican Party has to be a big-tent party if it has any chance whatsoever of winning. The second template is that "big tent" means attracting moderates and independents. Their view on this is narrow. They got blinders on and it's totally wrong. The Republican Party is a big-tent party. You know what the tent covers? The country. The Republican Party big tent is the United States of America. I don't know where these people get it in their thick heads that we are exclusionary. We are people of principle, conservative principle and belief: Individual freedom and liberty, private property rights, the whole nine yards. Colorblind society, respect for life, the pursuit of happiness, all of these things.
Things that every American values or should. People that are in favor of policies that limit freedom, that promote the loss of freedom, that take away economic opportunity, I'm content to let the Democrat Party have and lose with those people. Why do we want people in our so-called tent that do not and are not grounded by the principles of the American founding? So we welcome anybody. But this is the problem I had with McCain. I love the Republican Party to be as big as it could but I don't want to go out and get Democrats as Democrats and say they're Republicans but not change their mind about anything. What...? Big whoop! What does that do for the country? So the Republican Party's tent covers the country. And we have satellite tents: Hawaii and Alaska. We didn't waste time building a tent over the Pacific Ocean on the way to Hawaii because all that's there is a bunch of whales and fish, and we haven't figured out a way to get them to vote yet. But we have the tent over Hawaii. We want every American to stand up for the principles that made this country great. Okay, a quick time-out here, folks. Much, much more straight ahead.
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RUSH: All right, folks, look at me. Look at me. I want to issue you a profundity here. If any Republican wins today, it has to show that it is attracting independents, right? Because the White House, David Plouffe and all these people are saying that GOP party affiliation is at an all-time low. If party affiliation is at an all-time low and Republicans win today, why, it has to be independents, by their own definition. I'm going to hang that around their necks tomorrow, and I can't wait.
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RUSH: Seriously, my friends: If any Republican wins today, it has to show that the Republican Party is attracting independents, because you heard the sound bites earlier. David Plouffe and Axelrod and these guys are all out there saying that the Republican Party affiliation is at an all-time low. That's what they're going with -- and they seem so concerned about that! They seem so concerned that we're losing the moderates, that we're losing the independents. (Gasp!) They're really, really worried. Heh-heh. Not! And if indeed Republicans win -- by their own definitions, by the measurements that they have set -- it will have to be with independent voters, will it not? Indeed. Gloria Borger continued on The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer. Blitzer said, "So if the conservative candidate Doug Hoffman goes on and wins tomorrow, how will that impact the Republican Party?" Get this.
BORGER: Well, lots of Republicans I talked to said they're going to overreach and overread the results of this and what that may mean, for example, you may have a situation in Florida, in the Senate race, where you have John McCain endorsing, uh, Governor Charlie Crist and you may have his former running mate Sarah Palin endorsing the more conservative candidate, Marco Rubio.
BLITZER: And so if you're a Democrat, you want to see this kind of stuff going on.
BORGER: You want to see this stuff because, you know, you split the Republican Party right down the middle, and you're going to get those independent voters. So be careful what you wish for in this victory in the 23rd.
RUSH: All right. So these two wizards of smart, folks... (laughing) It's almost not fair playing these sound bites and commenting on them. These two wizards of smart have come to the conclusion that if Hoffman wins it's great news for the Democrats. Did I not tell you that before I even heard the sound bites, in my brilliant monologues in the first hour of today's program predicting media spin and reaction? So here she is. Gloria, you know, you're... I got an e-mail. I'll tell you the story. I got an e-mail about a quarter 'til one, Eastern Time, 25 minutes ago, from a journalist at a magazine. And the e-mail said, "You know, Rush, we'd like to offer you a thousand words or 2,000 words to write a column making a case for a third party, looking at what's happening in New York 23."
So I wrote back during the commercial break, "Sorry, but I can't make the case for a third party. What's happening in New York 23 is not anything to do with a third party. There was no primary there. Party bosses picked a losing candidate and Republicans in the district got fed up and one of them decided to run himself on the Conservative Party line. The Conservative Party is not a third party. It always backs the Republican Party when it's worth it, in New York. So find somebody else to write your pro-third-party business, because as far as I'm concerned the third party means eternal victory for Democrats." So she writes back, "Oh, oh, I... Uhhh, I... You know, I haven't looked at it that way. I think I see your point." As for Gloria Borger, how many Republicans has she actually met who are conservative?
The Republicans she talks to? Who are the Republicans she talks to? She's talking to moderate, independent, liberal Republicans. That's who she talks to. Those are the Republicans that she knows and would probably deign to spend time with. She talks to Washington Republicans and claims that they're conservatives. She'd have been saying the same nonsense when Reagan was taking on Gerald Ford. This is the thing. You've gotta understand: This is the exact kind of thing that the media was saying back then. "The Republican Party is tearing itself apart. It's blinding itself. It's splitting itself in half. Ronald Reagan," blah, blah, blah, and look at what happened. Have I chosen the Democrat candidate yet Snerdley? Have you picked...?
No, I haven't yet. I haven't picked. You know, ladies and gentlemen, depending on the outcome of these races today, I, as the leader of the Republican Party (and its number one entertainer as well) will have a statement tomorrow where I will explain fully what has happened today, and I'll take my rightful credit for it. Of course, if we lose it's not going to be my problem. But if we win, it's another situation.
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RUSH: I'm going to tell you something else, folks. A lot of people voting in these races today, these elections, they're not voting Republican, Democrat. They're voting pocketbook. People are hurting and there is no relief in sight, and they are voting pocketbook. That's another thing for Mr. Plouffe and Mr. Axelrod and Mr. Emanuel and Mr. Obama to remember. At the end of this day, the pocketbook party is what will be triumphant if Republicans win here. Because you, Mr. Plouffe, and Mr. Axelrod, and you Mr. Emanuel, and you, Mr. Obama, are stealing money from people. It is not yours. They have earned it, and you're taking it, in many cases before they've earned it.
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CALLER: Hey, Rush. Greetings from a fellow radio broadcaster.
RUSH: Thank you, sir.
CALLER: I was reading the story on Politico, and it just blew my mind. And you talked about this so many times about -- you predicted there wouldn't be a postracial society after Obama. And so the headline is: "Racial disparity: All active ethics probes focus on black lawmakers." And so basically what the Congressional Black Caucus is saying is that there's this big conspiracy to only target black members of Congress for these ethics investigations. And I'm like, wait a minute, "Aren't they the ones committing these violations? Shouldn't they be investigated?" It's like, do we have racial quotas now for ethics violations?
RUSH: Well, we do. You have to understand these people are a perpetual minority, and as Dr. Hutcherson wrote in his hot column about me, this is a perfect illustration of the minority thought pattern which is the white guy has made me a perpetual victim, and Dr. Hutcherson developed that theory and he's black, he's African-American, and it perfectly fits what's happening here. Let me give you the details of the story, hang on here, Matt.
CALLER: Okay.
RUSH: "The House ethics committee is currently investigating seven African-American lawmakers -- more than 15 percent of the total in the House. And an eighth black member, Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-Ill.), would be under investigation if the Justice Department hadn’t asked the committee to stand down. Not a single white lawmaker is currently the subject of a full-scale ethics committee probe. ... 'Is there concern whether someone is trying to set up [Congressional Black Caucus] members? Yeah, there is,' a black House Democrat said. 'It looks as if there is somebody out there who understands what the rules [are] and sends names to the ethics committee with the goal of going after the [CBC].'" Now, who would be doing this? Can the Republicans start any kind of -- isn't this Democrats doing this?
CALLER: I mean they control the committees.
RUSH: They control committees. The ethics committee supposedly is independent, but I would love, you know, since I run the Republican Party, I would love to say, "Hey, gang, I'm doing this, I'm behind this 'cause I'm trying to show the NFL how fair I can be." But I really can't make that claim. But it is interesting that the only people being investigated are African-American when I know full well you can throw Barney Frank in there, I mean all kinds of people could be investigated. John Murtha with his airport thing there in his district in Pennsylvania. So anyway, what was the point you wanted to make about it?
CALLER: I just, you know, you've made the point so many times that we weren't going to be headed for a postracial America after Obama, and this struck me, it's like they perpetually think that somebody is after them, and I'm sitting here thinking, they're the ones in control right now. They still act like the Republicans are in control. They want to blame Republicans and conservatives for everything.
RUSH: That's the minority thought pattern. You have perpetual victimhood status, perpetual minority status. Because you see, having that attitude allows you to be racist without being racist, because it is said you don't have the power to implement or act out your racism, so you really aren't racist. That's one of the brilliant theories of the Reverend Jackson. But you're right, the big deal is here, wait a minute, we're entitled to these ethics violations. We're a minority. We're entitled to these. We're just trying to get what's rightfully ours, it was denied us for so many years and so long, we're entitled to this. And why are they only looking at us? If I were these guys in the black caucus upset about this, you know they've got the goods on some other guys, I mean let's start naming names here. Let's get the circular firing squad going. That's what I want to see.
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CALLER: Yes. Hello, Rush.
RUSH: Hi.
CALLER: Thank you for taking my call. I was calling today --
RUSH: This guy's got an amazing set of pipes.
CALLER: Yeah. Thank you. I was calling today in reference to the swine flu shots that we've been promised those for a year now, that they'd have them for us. We still don't have them, all that we need, and I'm one of those that haven't even been able get my regular flu shot. They've been out of that vaccine here in central Illinois. But yet people like Nancy Pelosi and Obama, they want us to believe that the government health program is going to take care of our operations or pills or doctors and supply all that, and they can't even, with a year's notice, get us the flu shots.
RUSH: Yeah. I've been studying this myself. In fact, I'm prepared for your call. I really admire your pipes.
CALLER: Well, I'm available --
RUSH: (laughing)
CALLER: -- to go to work.
RUSH: Look, you're probably wondering why there's no outrage about this.
CALLER: Yes, sir.
RUSH: And it's because there's a Democrat in the White House. If this were George W. Bush and this vaccine shortage were happening it would be all you'd be hearing about, but they gotta protect the little man-child. They got to protect Barry. They have to protect him from this. There's a great story in the New York Post today about this bill from Robert Goldberg. He's vice president of the Center for Medicine in the Public Interest. "The shortage of swine-flu vaccine results not from drug- company greed --" wow, I thought everything was the result of big corporate greed. No, "The shortage of swine-flu vaccine results not from drug- company greed or outsize demand but almost entirely from the government's decision to pander to unfounded and unscientific fear. As The Wall Street Journal reported last week, the US government set out to have the H1N1 vaccine produced largely in single-dose syringes -- a demand that has set back production considerably, because multidose vials are far easier to make."
So once again -- your instincts are right, Bill -- once again we see what happens when government makes business decisions and then they blame the manufacturer for not having high enough yields of the vaccine. They no doubt changed demands after the manufacturer said they could do what they wanted and so forth. "The only reason to seek single-dose production was to please people needlessly worried about the preservative thimerasol, which is used to provide multiple doses of the vaccine. The fear -- utterly groundless and repeatedly debunked is that thimerasol can cause autism and other neurological disorders in infants and other young children. If not for that decision, we'd have more than enough vaccine. Instead, because the government yielded to pressure from antivaccine fringe groups, we're behind the curve on protecting millions of children from swine flu."
So this guy, Goldberg, is blaming the anti-vaccine fringe. I don't know that I would do that, but I think he's right, this autism theory has been debunked. But the bottom line here, the bottom line, folks, is that this was a hysteria that Obama created, the media hyped, and they failed to meet their own expectations. This ought to be their Katrina. This ought to be Obama's Katrina. This is no different than FEMA supposedly screwing up and not getting down there in time to New Orleans. But they have to protect the little man-child. And so, yeah, they'll spread the hysteria, and then they'll make it look like the drug companies are evil and don't care about people and want them to die.
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Number ten: Newt Gingrich does a PSA on global warming with Nancy Pelosi in 2008. Number nine moderate moment in GOP history: Bush-Quayle '92. The number eight moderate moment GOP history: Dole-Kemp '96. The number seven most moderate moment in Republican history: Ford-Dole '76. Do you see a pattern here? Top ten moderate moments in Republican history number six: Jumpin' Jim Jeffords jumps from the Republican Party. Top ten moderate moments in Republican history number five: Arlen Specter switches parties. Top ten moderate moments in Republican history. Number four: Richard Nixon resigns in disgrace. Top ten moderate moments Republican history number three: Dede Scozzafava endorses the Democrat, Owens, in New York-23. Top ten moderate moments in Republican history number two: The McCain campaign of 2008.
And -- dadelut dadelut dadelut dadelut dadelut dadelut! -- The number one top ten moderate moment in Republican history: Colin Powell endorsing Barack Obama, the Democrat, for president in 2008! If you want to talk about moderates and you want to look at great moderate moments in Republican history -- and I'm sure you can add to this list, and we can come up with a thousand of these. But these are the top ten. And every one of them got us where? Every one of them took us where? Backwards! Every damned one of them. These are the people and these are the things that should define the Republican Party. You know, I hear David Plouffe and yesterday was Axelrod wringing their hands over losing moderates and independents and the Republican Party, it's just horrible! Oh, they're losing them.
And, you know, I then remember them saying that Colin Powell, General Powell, the ideal future Republican. And people like David Brooks said the same thing. The ideal! If the Republican Party loses people like Colin Powell, it's over. And so General Powell, in a strategic moment of timing, endorses the Democrat candidate. After we're told that he is the epitome, he is the prototype Republican, and the endorsed the Democrat. And I'm sitting there saying, "Why do people in our party allow themselves to be defined, manipulated, flaked, formed, shaped, whatever, by these Democrats?" 'Cause they appease them. They want to be liked. They want to be accepted where they live, in Washington, DC, and in New York.
By definition, folks, moderates cannot be governed by principle. They can't be. Moderates don't have principles. If they had principles, they'd be one thing or the other. Moderates like to think, "Well, you know, we're smarter than the average person. We're a cut above. We examine things issue by issue. We're not narrow-minded. We're not narrowly locked into a single narrow set of agenda items. No, no, no, no! We are far more sophisticated and nuanced (sniff) than the ideologues in our party. We see the right way on abortion, these social, cultural issues. Yes, yes, yes." And they're just a bunch of arrogant, conceited -- and at the same time ignorant -- people.
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CALLER: Mega dittos, Rush.
RUSH: Thank you.
CALLER: I just wanted to say thanks for the education I get outside of my college classroom and also thank my dad real quickly, who actually gave me your Limbaugh Letter when I was 13 years old because he feared I was being indoctrinated.
RUSH: Smart man. Smart, smart man. I'm proud to know you.
CALLER: I just wanted to call and ask, you know, with this conservative Hoffman that we have, which I think is a great thing, assuming he wins, and you made a comment earlier about how possibly 12 other people are going to be running as conservatives, do you think that it's going to have a bandwagon effect where we're going to have RINOs disguised as conservatives simply because of the cornerstone that we have in the Republican Party?
RUSH: Well, this is quite possible. This is a very, very informed and educated question by you. I can tell you you've been reading the Limbaugh Letter and listening to this program. And, yes, there have been many fraudulent, fake conservatives. I mean I can name two right off the top of my head that I won't because it won't serve the purpose here, it would be unnecessarily provocative. But, yes, if the RINOs see that the way to victory in the Republican Party is to spout conservatism, they'll spout it and they'll try to make you think that they are. For example -- Cookie, get together with Mike and get that RNC ad that we ran yesterday, it's a radio ad. By the way, I asked yesterday, "Why didn't they mention his name?" And the RNC sent H.R. a note saying they legally couldn't. Independent expenditure or independent something, they couldn't mention his name which is why they had to harp on the fact that he's conservative. But the point is, I listened to that ad and I haven't heard any official Republican National Committee member say anything like that for eight years.
Here it is. Now, listen to this. I'm glad they're running the ad, it's just a radio ad, but it proves that somewhere in the building they get it. But it goes to his great question. Will they bring it out of the hat and use it when they have to? Yeah. But do they mean it? If RINOs see that the only way to get elected as a Republican is to go conservative, they run that campaign, there's a bunch of them in the House of Representatives. It happened. They ran as Republican conservatives, they got up there and for whatever reason forgot who they were or never were who they told us they were. There was a mixture of both. And the interesting thing about this is that most of the RINOs, we'll be able to find out if they're fake, we'll be able to find out if they're RINOs. They'll have a record. The people that are going to be popping up initially, depending on how this all goes tomorrow, they're going to be genuine conservatives. This is going to provide some momentum. Listen to this ad. It's for Hoffman, but they can't mention his name, and I want you to ask yourself, when is the last time any member of the RNC or a powerful Republican anywhere, elected or otherwise, said these things?
ANNOUNCER: The eyes of the nation are on the North Country. What we decide on Tuesday will echo from Albany to Washington. Whose side are you on? The Pelosi-Paterson tax-and-spend train wreck or do you believe in Republican, conservative values, like thrift, personal responsibility, and family? Let's tell the liberals enough is enough. No more bailouts, taxes, and budget busting spending. It's time to create jobs with proven conservative ideas like lower taxes. Let your voice be heard. Join the movement to bring real conservative change. Tell the politicians, "No more. We won't let you bankrupt America." We need conservative leaders who stand up for our values, fight back, vote conservative. It matters like never before.
RUSH: Now, had we had a candidate running last year that actually believed that stuff and could articulate it, it would not have been a contest. Barack Obama would not be anywhere near the White House. He would be resuming his five-minute career in the Senate. So it's in the building. I mean somebody had to write this. Maybe it's a recycle from the Morning in America days. I don't know. I'm not jumping on the RNC here. When I heard this ad yesterday, "Whoa, where did this come from?" I mean, this wasn't just a "let's get close to sounding conservative." This was hammering the left, "bankrupting the country." It's exactly what's handing has happened. Liberals, that word used throughout this. You wouldn't hear McCain talk about liberals. You wouldn't hear him be critical of these guys at all. (imitating McCain) "Need to work with the other side of the aisle. I'm the guy that can cross the aisle, I can cross the aisle, I'm the one guy that can work with the other guys. Get it?" as though that's what the American people wanted.
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RUSH: I just got a note from somebody listening to every syllable of this program today. "Dear Rush: Listening to you today it sounds like the smart people think that the best thing that could happen for the good of the Republican Party is if it never won an election again. Only by never winning can the party attract enough people to keep on never winning." Now, that's an interesting observation, because we played David Plouffe, we played Gloria Borger, we have had Axelrod yesterday and a couple other sound bites. "Republicans are destroying themselves! I mean, they're losing all these moderates and losing all these independents," and so these smart people think the best thing that could happen for the good of the party is if it never won an election again by holding onto those people, which is exactly what they want!
They want the Republican Party to keep losing. Now, this big-tent thing. The current leaders who cannot be named of the Republican Party have built such a big tent on the advice of the Democrats, that nobody's in it. Let me explain this, 'cause this is another profundity, ladies and gentlemen. We've had all these people, all these years say, "You know, you Republicans, you're too rock-ribbed conservative. You got too many pro-lifers. You got too many religious right people in there and the angry talk show people. You got a gotta spread out!" The Democrats, the liberals, the media, tell the Republicans, "You gotta have a bigger tent. You gotta attract independents in that party and you gotta have moderates in that party. You can't continue to grow, you can't continue to exist if all you are is conservatives."
Of course, the Republicans who want to get along with those people say, "Yeah, yeah, it's a good point." So big tent. And we went out there, we did everything we could to attract all those people. Right? We nominated all the right people. General Powell even out there showing us how to do it by endorsing a Democrat. So we've got this giant big tent out there, built on the advice of Democrats in the media but nobody's in it. General Powell left the tent. Christopher Buckley left the tent. Chuck Hagel left the tent. McCain essentially left the tent. McCain's out there saying he wants to rebuild the Republican Party in a moderate image. Lindsey Grahamnesty left the tent. I mean, when you line up with John Kerry or whoever he lined up with on cap and trade, you don't call yourself a Republican.
Arlen Specter left the tent. In some ways George W. Bush left the tent. Peggy Noonan left the tent. Newt Gingrich left the tent. Joe Lieberman! He was in the tent but he left. By the way, Dingy Harry's out there saying (Reid impression), "Ah, don't worry about Joe. At the end of the day Joe will be there voting for me." Told you. So Christopher Buckley leaves, Colin Powell leaves, Chuck Hagel leaves, McCain leaves, Lindsey Grahamnesty leaves, Arlen Specter leaves, George W. Bush walked out a couple times, Noonan left, Newt left, Lieberman walked out of the tent, and a lot of real conservatives walked out of the tent, too, and said, "To hell with it!" So we got this giant big tent. Well, what the hell good is it if nobody's inside? There's no one inside the tent. Nature abhors a vacuum, and conservatives and independents are filling that vacuum today. So these smartest people in the room on our side, they built that tent just like the Democrats in the media told them and there's nobody in it now.
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RUSH: Ladies and gentlemen, I got an e-mail during the break here. And Snerdley even said, "You know, you need to go through this big tent thing again, because nobody, nobody looks at things that way. Nobody analyzes things that way, and you ran through that pretty quickly." Here it is, basically. I'm tired of all this talk -- and we hear it all day today from select members of the State-Controlled Media on TV -- about the Republican big tent. "What happened to the big tent?" they say. Now that we nominated a conservative and the conservative may win in New York 23, the media and the Democrats are wringing their hands, "Oh, no! What happened to the big tent?" as though they want us to be a big thriving party!
"What happened to the big tent? (crying) For crying out loud, we're so sad the Republicans are losing moderates and independents." Yet they say Republican registration, identification in polls in at an all-time low. If Republicans win today, if that's true then we gotta be attracting somebody besides Republicans, do we not? This big-tent business here folks, the big tent concept was not created by us. The big tent concept, again, was created by Washington establishment elites on the left. Now, you also have in Washington establishment elites that are Republican, and the common denominator there is "elites," and they are the smartest dumb people in the country. They have an arrogance and a conceit about them, whether they're liberals or conservatives and Republicans. They have an arrogance and a conceit about them that is insufferable, and it blinds them to reality.
But the Republican elites desperately want to be respected and liked and allowed into the Elite Club (capital E, capital C) by the liberal Democrat elites, both in the media, politics, and academia. So they do this by accepting every premise that the liberal elites put forward. And that is, "You're never going to win with all those pro-life hicks down in the South in your party! I mean, for crying out loud, it's bad enough you gotta show up at your convention with these hayseeds arriving with gun racks in the back of the pickup truck and then you gotta put up with the Pat Robertsons and the Jerry Falwells and the all-God crowd? Why you guys you're never going to win your wives are never gonna stop nagging you unless you fix this abortion issue."
And the Republican elites stroke their chins, and say, "Hmm, I think they may have a point. Yes, we certainly don't have much in common at all with (sniffs) this unsophisticated hicks and rubes that live down there. (sniffs) They really do have a point." And then the liberal elites say, "You know, you guys are going to have to expand your party. You're too narrow. You're just all conservatives, and those people, you know, they're Neanderthals. You're going to have to go out there and get people like us in your party. You're going to have to go out and get intelligent moderates. You know, people that are not rock-ribbed ideological."
And the Republican elites go "(sniffs) That sounds exceedingly wise and intelligent. (sniffs) Yes, and especially since this is what the people we wish to be accepted by think, too. We want to get along. W want to be considered part of the Elite Club, and if that's what they think, we'll think it, too." So, bammo! You get the recipe that Democrats tell these gullible elite Republicans (laughing), "Here's what you need to do to start winning elections," (laughing) and the stupid elite Republicans say, "Oh, yeah!" and they buy into it hook, line, and sinker when in fact it's a recipe for eternal Democrat victory and eternal Republican defeat. So the big-tent concept was born, and the big tent concept was articulated in such a way that we want to attract people from across the aisle.
"And we're willing to walk across the aisle to deal with these people and meet them halfway, to show them that we don't blame them, to show them that we're good people, show them that we're worthy of being loved and liked by the liberal elites who run Washington and who run New York." So the big tent concept is born, and this attracts the very people (supposedly) that we are supposed get in order to win. And then these people, they are Republicans, happy in their big-tent party -- and I would contend to you that the tent is empty. There's nobody in the tent right now, and there's a vacuum being filled by conservatives and independents who are filling the vacuum with the candidacy of Doug Hoffman and New York 23, Creigh Deeds and the McDonnell race in Virginia and of course what's going on in New Jersey. Let me give you some names.
We were supposed to build the big tent to attract the very people who have left it. Colin Powell has left the big tent. Christopher Buckley left the big tent -- and they didn't just leave, they endorsed Obama. And on their way out of the tent, they lobbed some hand grenades at the people still in the tent for forcing them out. Chuck Hagel left the big Republican tent. McCain left the big Republican tent. Lindsey Grahamnesty, he left. I mean, he calls himself a Republican, but he's making deals with Democrats. He's doing exactly what we're supposed to do to win elections, right? Arlen Specter. Arlen Specter left the big tent. George W. Bush left the big tent on a couple of occasions. Peggy Noonan left the big tent. I mean, the very people that the big tent was designed to accommodate and attract! The big tent has nobody in it.
Newt left the big tent. Joe Lieberman left the big tent. And a lot of conservatives left the big tent, too, because there was a big tent, but it was just a tent. There was no foundation, there were no principles, there was nothing identifying about this other than it had a bunch of disparate people in there who were more concerned about being liked and being thought of as smart rather than being guided by any principles. So there's no one inside the tent. What good is a tent if no one's in it? This tent was built on the advice of Democrats, and the Democrats achieved exactly what they wanted: Nobody in it! Republican Party identification is at an all-time low. Conservative identification is at a high: 40%; 20% liberal identification; 36% independent. So as you know there's a vacuum in there welcome back and vacuums get pilled up, and the people filling the vacuum are conservatives and independents.
And this party is now undergoing the first stages of being rebuilt from within. And these people who have left the tent, they're going to want back in at some point when the party gets rebuilt, and they're going to do the same thing that they did that caused them to leave it. They're going to start running in and say, "Well, this party is okay, but it's too strong conservative," and the whole cycle will repeat. I don't know why it is that we should build a party on people who are gonna leave the tent, and not just leave the tent but they're going to go join the other tent. The Big Tent State is New York. Now, how are they doing? New York's a big tent. We got every kind of Republican you can imagine in New York, from Dede Scozzafava to Rabbi Nate Segal. How is that Republican Party working out? How is the big tent working out for New York? What's happening in New York? What's getting all the fire and brimstone going in New York? Why, a conservative candidate! So that, ladies and gentlemen, is what's happening.
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RUSH: All right, folks, speaking of big tents, let's count all the conservatives in the Democrat Party, shall we? And let's count all the conservatives in the Democrat National Committee, and let's count all the conservatives in the Obama administration. Let's count all the conservatives in the Big Media. Let's count all the conservatives in Hollywood. Let's count all the conservatives in academia. You want to talk about big tents? Let's talk about all of the pro-lifers in the Democrat Party. What happens to them? You know, this big tent stuff, throw it right back in their faces. Tell them they need the big tent. They're the exclusionary ones.
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WRIGHT: From the victims of neocolonialism, to the victims of the chameleon nature of racism and from the Cold War in the days of its infancy to the needless wars of Vietnam in its second decade through wars of greed in Afghanistan and Iraq in its sixth decade; this magazine unflinchingly has tackled the tough issues, from McCarthyism to militarism, from the Chinese revolution to the Ghanan revolution, to the Cuban revolution, from the lies told by United States presidents to the lies told the by the United States media.
RUSH: I think Obama heard every word Reverend Wright said in those sermons. I think Reverend Wright is President Obama. Did you hear that, Mr. Matthews? Ahem. I'll say take a little louder: Reverend Wright IS President Obama! And now he thanks these people for their socialist and Marxist perspective.
WRIGHT: Thank you for -- for fulfilling the invaluable purpose that you had in mind to offer a forum for commentary and analysis from a specifically socialist perspective. You dispel all the negative images we have been programmed to conjure up with just the mention of that word "socialism" or "Marxism." You have championed the interests of those who are the victims of Martin Luther King's famous menage a trois: Militarism, capitalism, and racism.
RUSH: Reverend Wright IS President Obama. President Obama IS Reverend Wright. I'm sorry. You don't hang around people like this for 20 years and not be influenced by them. You don't hang around the people he hung around and not be influenced by them. President Obama IS Reverend Wright. And it didn't stop there.
WRIGHT: Walmartization of the world proceeds from the premise of profit. Is it oppression masquerading as democracy and globalization? Is it militarism dressed up in a costume calling itself "peace," making the world safe for capitalism, the profit of a few -- or making the world livable for all the level playing field for all? My work with liberation theology, with Latin-American theologians with the Black Theology Project and the Cuban Council of Churches taught me 30 years ago the importance of Marx and the Marxist analysis of the social realities of the vulnerable and the oppressed who were trying desperately to break free of the political economies undergirded by this country that were choking them and cutting off any hope of a possible future where all of the people would benefit.
RUSH: President Obama IS Reverend Jeremiah Wright. They're indistinguishable. Black theology, black liberation theology teaches hatred of the United States of America. Obama's out apologizing for it. Look at this. "My work with liberation theology, Latin-American theologians with the Black Theology Project, with the Cuban Council of Churches taught me 30 years ago the importance of Marx and the Marxist analysis of the social realities of the vulnerable and the oppressed." He might as well have said, "I'm going to return the nation's wealth to its, quote, unquote, 'rightful owners.'" Reverend Wright IS President Obama and vice-versa. (interruption) Well, I mean check the transcript, Mr. Snerdley. I don't think we've got Reverend Wright praising Chairman Mao but there are enough people in Obama's administration doing that. He's praising Castro and Marx. I mean can Chairman Mao be far from his conscious mind? No. He wasn't through, ladies and gentlemen.
WRIGHT: If I help a homeless child they'll call me a saint. If I ask, "Why are there homeless?" (angry) they'll call me a socialist! That's what Martin Luther King said he was. I will be proud to be called a socialist because I want to know why in this country there are homeless. When people are the priority, it causes us to see the law from a different perspective. It was only when I was introduced, Attorney Tiger, to the brilliant mind of Appellate Court Judge A. Leon Higginbotham that I began to understand the problematic (sic) between the law and how poor people and people of color are seen in this land of the greed and home of the brave -- excuse me. Uh, land of the greed and home of the slave.
RUSH: "Land of the greed and home of the slave." President Obama IS Jeremiah Wright. Jeremiah Wright IS President Obama: Happy to be called a socialist. Look, I've heard Obama say similar words in interviews, talking about the court not going far enough in redistribution, when Reverend Wright here said, "The problematic between the law and how poor people and people of color are seen in this land of the greed and home of the brave -- excuse me -- land of the greed and home of the slave." (interruption) I don't know who the slaves... (interruption) Well, the slaves are as many people of color that Reverend Wright can convince they are slaves. You've got guys like this preaching all over this country teaching black people that slavery still is around. This is what black liberation theology is all about. He's not letting go of the past. (interruption)
Well, you would know better than I, liberation from what. But my point is, I make the mistake of assuming. I live it. We live in a colorblind society and I assume that. That's what everybody wants when they say they want a colorblind society. I don't believe Reverend Wright wants a colorblind society. I don't believe President Obama wants a colorblind society. I don't believe they want a postracial society whatsoever. They're carrying around too many grievances here. Now, when I listening to this man, I understand why to this day there's still so much anger. It's because it's being stoked! It's being fueled from pulpits. (interruption) Yeah, I'll play the Marx one one more time. This is audio sound bite number three. No, it's audio sound bite... I'm scanning for the word "Marx." Yeah, it's number three. Here. Hit it again.
WRIGHT: Walmartization of the world proceeds from the premise of profit. Is it oppression masquerading as democracy and globalization? Is it militarism dressed up in a costume calling itself "peace," making the world safe for capitalism, the profit of a few -- or making the world livable for all the level playing field for all? My work with liberation theology, with Latin-American theologians with the Black Theology Project and the Cuban Council of Churches taught me 30 years ago the importance of Marx and the Marxist analysis of the social realities of the vulnerable and the oppressed who were trying desperately to break free of the political economies undergirded by this country that were choking them and cutting off any hope of a possible future where all of the people would benefit.
RUSH: Reverend Jeremiah Wright. This is from September of this year, at a magazine's 60th anniversary celebration. He was the featured speaker. And here is finally Reverend Wright on slavery and the Constitution.
WRIGHT: For 150 years racism was built into the legal fabric of this country such that by 1787 when you get the Constitution of the United States, the legal document which makes this country a -- the foundation legally of the country, you have racism built into the Constitution. Africans are defined as property, not people. Women are denied the vote, not seen as equal persons under the law. Indians are not important, and property rights trump human rights. What else would you expect after 150 years of racist legal precedent? If, however, if we saw Africans and Asians, women and same-gender loving persons, Indians and the indigent at people, our laws and our legal system would possibly not be as jacked up as they are today.
RUSH: You know, he coulda written that hoax on Obama's thesis. Reverend Jeremiah Wright and President Obama: They are interchangeable. Let's not forget Reverend Wright's greatest hits.
WRIGHT (screaming): Barack knows what it means to be a black man living in a country and a culture that is controlled by rich white people! [snip] Hillary ain't never been called a nigger! [snip] Bill did us just like he did Monica Lewinsky!
CONGREGATION: (cheers)
WRIGHT: He was riding dirty. [snip] In white America, US of KKKA: black men turning on black men. [snip] I am sick of Negroes who just do not get it. [snip] Not God bless America, God (bleep) America! It's in the Bible. For killing innocent people, God (bleep) America! [snip] (screaming) And now we are indignant because of stuff we have done overseas is now brought right back into our own front yards!
CONGREGATION: (cheers)
WRIGHT: America's chickensssss are coming home to roost.
RUSH: A greatest hits of the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, President Obama's pastor for 20 years.
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“Liberals Have a Cow Over Bestiality Joke About Scozzafava and RINOs The Democrat candidate is “personally offended.” Personally? What do we not know about him?”
ROFL . . . beyond genius
BACHMANN: To come and let the members of Congress know that all of the messages that came out in August at the town halls and tea parties are still relevant. People don't want to have government take over their health care. They kind of forgot that message. This is it. This is the Super Bowl of freedom this week because this will change our country forever, dramatic tax increases that will cost senior citizens $500 billion in health care and truly, Gretchen, the only way they're going to listen is if real freedom loving Americans come here to Washington, noon on Thursday, look at the whites of their eyes of their members of Congress and say, "Don't you remember, I told you don't take away my health care."
RUSH: In an e-mail to me, Michele Bachmann earlier this week said that e-mails and phone calls have lost their impact, with the Democrats anyway, because they're going to do this regardless. It's her belief that lots of human beings, lots of Americans prowling around office buildings in Washington, congressional office buildings trying to find members of Congress and look 'em right in the eye and say, "Nope, nope, nope, we do not want this." Now, here's the dirty little secret. The Republicans in Congress can't alone stop this and Michele Bachmann's asking for help, and people ask me all the time, "What can I do?" Here's an event. Now, the big tea party thing they had in August on a Saturday, they had months to plan for that. I just heard about this yesterday. This is Tuesday, right? I just heard about this yesterday. So they're trying to pull off an amazing feat here in a few days. Gretchen Carlson then said, "These people might have some kind of impact on conservative Democrats, right?"
BACHMANN: That's the point, because they are squarely sitting on the fence right now, Gretchen. If they see their constituents coming to Washington, DC, that will make the difference, it made a huge difference as you know in August. Had we had the vote in August, no question it would have failed. But again, Speaker Pelosi has been able to bring the hammer down on these Blue Dogs for the last two months, and we need to remind these members again of the lesson of August and the tea parties.
CARLSON: Okay.
BACHMANN: People don't want this to pass.
RUSH: The Blue Dogs continue to be an interesting thing. I want to go back to that front page Washington Post story where the Obama White House threw Creigh Deeds overboard because he was losing. When Creigh Deeds was no longer worth anything to Obama, it was worth throwing him overboard and humiliating him publicly, front page Washington Post, all to protect Obama's reputation and image. Now, you Blue Dogs have got a real decision to make on this because I'm going to tell you the dirty little secret. Nancy Pelosi would love for you to vote for this thing and go home and lose. She doesn't like Democrats in her caucus who are not as leftist and radical as she is. She thinks that she can hold onto power -- they get this health care thing, and then next comes cap and trade -- she thinks that if she can lose some of you Blue Dogs and still hold onto power, still have enough Democrats to give her a majority. And I mean this. I'm not trying to use anything but genuine sincerity in speaking to you Blue Dogs.
You've got a decision to make. You listen to your constituents and vote "no" on this thing and you go home and you run for reelection and you could proudly stand and say, "Yeah, I'm a fiscal conservative. I'm not for irresponsible spending, government growth, and I voted against it," and you'll be reelected. And you get back there and Pelosi's, you know, treat you like dirt. On the other hand, you can vote for it, and then you can go home and you can make whatever lame excuse you want for your constituents as to why you voted for it, and then you lose, and Nancy Pelosi wins twice. She gets rid of you, and she gets her health care bill passed. I don't want any of you Blue Dogs to underestimate what I'm saying here. She doesn't like you being in the caucus. You are not pure enough. So that's where we are. And Michele Bachmann is of the opinion that boots on the ground, so to speak, are what it's going to take to make an impact on the vote because I think the vote is scheduled for Friday.
Kristin in Worthington, Ohio. We go to you first on the phones today. Great to have you with us.
CALLER: Well, hello, Rush. It's such an honor to speak with you.
RUSH: Thank you.
CALLER: I've never done anything politically before in my life other than vote and listen to you and make myself educated and watch Fox News. I heard Michele Bachmann on Friday, and I thought, "Boy, that's a great idea. I hope she can get it pulled together and have a few people there." I mean, it's less than a week away. By Sunday on the As a Mom website that I follow, they were encouraging all of us moms, if we could, to get to Washington, DC, and they were providing us with a template for a T-shirt we should make so we can all find each other when we get there. They also provided a link to a local grassroots organization that was organizing transportation for this event. So Sunday while my family and I were eating dinner I mentioned it and my husband said, "Well, you should go." And I said, "I'd love to go but, you know, I'm thinking the mom thing. I've got a family to take care of, meals to fix, kids to get to school and all of that." And the three of them almost in unison said, "We can take care of ourselves, mom. You need to go." So I've never done anything like this before. It's very much out of character for me. But I have my confirmation and --
RUSH: Well, you know what? You're going to be joining a whole lot of people just like you. People on our side have not used the public protest as a rule. We're too busy working and so forth. We're not malcontents, generally. But people like you understand that the Republican Party simply doesn't have the votes. They simply don't have the strength to stop this in either the House or the Senate. And all these tea parties and all these town hall meetings at congressional offices, these were spontaneous. There were so many people that were there for the first time in their lives at something like this. It's fabulous. Go ahead and do that T-shirt thing, Kristin, but you will not need it to recognize your compatriots because you'll be able to recognize them very simply, they'll be smiling. The liberals are constantly enraged, constantly angry, just keep a sharp eye out for the union thugs that will show up and try to cause some problems. Just find the people smiling. I don't think you'll have any problem finding your buds.
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RUSH: Here is Claudia in Milton, Washington. I'm glad you called. Welcome to the program.
CALLER: Rush, it's such a pleasure to speak with you. I saw you in 2000, you remember when you and Bill Bennett came to the Puyallup fairgrounds and --
RUSH: Yeah, I do.
CALLER: -- and like 20,000 people came out?
RUSH: We went out there for John Carlson, and we were out there at that giant arena, 40,000 people.
CALLER: Okay, I'm sorry. I was wrong on the numbers. Well, anyway we were parked over in the parking lot, and we saw your helicopter take off. It was almost like watching a rock star.
RUSH: (laughing) Yeah. Well, I remember. That was a fun day.
CALLER: That was a good day. Thank you for what you do. I watched your interview on Fox News Sunday. You looked swell.
RUSH: Thank you very much.
CALLER: I was going to mention a little bit about how terrible our medical care is here. I'm saying that facetiously. My husband flunked a treadmill test a couple of weeks ago and within 20 minutes we were in a cardiologist's office one floor down and within five days he was having an angiogram. And it came out great, you know, which was a answered prayer.
RUSH: Well, I wouldn't say flunked it. I'd say the test probably did what it was designed to do.
CALLER: Exactly. Exactly. But my point being, I don't think that we would have received the -- you know, within a week we were being seen, to under this beast that they have waiting for us.
RUSH: Hm-hm. Let me tell you something. Mike Pence has cut a video. We got a YouTube address of it here. It takes three minutes to play the whole video but it's got some really, really excellent points. It's about health care. "As President Ronald Reagan said: 'Since the American founding, we have been a people with a government, not the other way around.' Now comes the Pelosi plan for a government takeover of health care. It is a freight train of runaway spending, bloated bureaucracy --" you know, 111 new bureaucracies are created, 111 new bureaucracies have been found so far. "If the liberals in Washington have their way, they will forever change the relationship between the government and 'we the people.' If the Pelosi plan for a government takeover of health care passes, we will each become dependent --" this goes to right what you were going to say "-- on the political class in Washington for the provision of services of the most urgent and personal nature."
CALLER: Well, I thought about all of the red tape that we would have had to go through to see the cardiologist and to set up the cardiac catheterization, and it would have been a nightmare. Everything happened in a five-day period. I'm grateful we have really good medical coverage and a great doctor and a good hospital and he's feeling well and back to work, and it's scary as heck. I'm reminded of that gal that called a couple of calls ago, Christie. I'm a housewife, I started listening to you in 1998, it was a liberal relative that turned me on to you, and it took a sex scandal to get me involved --
RUSH: Ah, the Lewinsky thing.
CALLER: And suddenly I was listening to America held hostage, and the My Heart Will Go On song that you would play. And I really haven't missed a day since then. You know, a day without Rush is like a day without sunshine.
RUSH: A day without oxygen.
CALLER: That too. And I thank you for what you do and keep fighting the good fight and I'm pleased to speak to the titular head of the Republican Party.
RUSH: Thank you.
CALLER: I went and looked the word up. I hadn't ever used it in conversation before.
RUSH: Yeah. Titular head of the Republican --
CALLER: Anyway, God bless you, Rush.
RUSH: Thank you Claudia, same to you. God bless you. Thanks very much.
CALLER: Bye-bye.
RUSH: Bye. I want you to hear the rest of what Pence had to say here. "If the Pelosi plan for a government takeover of health care passes, we will each become dependent on the political class in Washington for the provision of services of the most urgent and personal nature. Illness, our own, or more importantly the illness of a parent, or a spouse, or a child, has the capacity to suspend our priorities. What was important before the crisis grows dim in the harsh light of disease affecting a loved one. The Pelosi health care plan targets us when we are most vulnerable. The Pelosi health care plan makes us dependent on the state at the most urgent moment in the life of our family. Their hope: that little by little, we’ll yield our freedoms and our resources to the ever-growing appetite of the federal government.
"After years of runaway federal spending, borrowing, bailouts and takeovers, it’s easy to give way to despair; but I assure you: there is a remnant that still cherishes freedom, personal responsibility and limited government all across this land. I have seen it in the faces of ordinary Americans who have traveled to rallies, town halls and tea parties. I have read it in my mail. I have heard it from friends and neighbors who have lost their jobs but not lost their faith in America. The time has come for those who still cherish our ideals -- the ideals of our founding: life, liberty and the pursuit of the American dream -- to arise. Wherever you are, whoever you are, let your voice be heard. Republicans in Congress who are standing in the gap, cannot do this alone. I often tell my colleagues that a minority in Congress plus the American people equals a majority. 'We the people' have the power to stop out-of-control spending at the federal level. 'We the people' have to power to stop the Pelosi health care plan, in its effort to take over one-sixth of the American economy."
"Let Your Voice Be Heard," is the title. Mike Pence. There was a YouTube link to it here, and it's going viral out there on the Internet.
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Tim in Suffolk, Virginia, welcome to the EIB Network.
CALLER: Hey, Rush, thank you very much. I appreciate what you do for conservatives and, of course, what you do for me as well. I'm surviving this Obama depression real well but you mentioned earlier how the media and these Democrats talk about how moderates are leaving the Republican Party. If that were true the Democrats would be happy. You and I would be high-fiving each other if the Democrat Party were falling apart. If it were true moderates are leaving the Republican Party why aren't they happy? Look at Axelrod on TV or Gibbs or any of these Democrats, are they happy? No! They're glum. Here in Virginia, the three candidates, I'm in Virginia, we've got a governor's race, attorney general, lieutenant governor, all three of these guys are being cast as conservatives by their opponent and by the media. And they're up by ten points -- I don't know what's going to happen here in Virginia but it certainly looks like three top offices are going to people that are being cast as Republicans. The three Democrats, they're Milquetoast -- if anything, they're moderates, but why aren't these Democrats all excited that moderates are leaving the party?
RUSH: It was my point earlier. I watched Plouffe on TV today, and Axelrod,and they're all so alarmed that the Republican Party is losing its moderates. It's as though they're sitting at the White House, "Gee, we want that party strong, we want the Republican Party strong so that we can stay on edge. We want a good competitor." The last thing that Barack Obama and his pals don't like: opposition.
CALLER: Absolutely.
RUSH: They sweep the field. They clean it up. They get out, they get rid of it. And, of course, we have idiots on our side, Tim, my brother, who believe them. "Oh, yeah, it's an honorable thing to have moderates in the party," and so forth. I look forward to the day when the Republican Party ceases accepting any premise put forward by the Democrats, the liberals, and the media. All right, a quick time-out here, folks. Thanks, Tim, for the phone call.
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Rush nails it again.
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