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Wednesday Quotes: Leader of the Opposition
November 4, 2009
"Democrats losing in New Jersey is like Stalin losing in Moscow.
It's like Castro losing in Cuba.
It's like Ted Kennedy losing in Massachusetts."
"Last night may well have been Obama's Waterloo.
My first clue that the White House was really bugged by it was when they tried to tell everybody that Obama wasn't watching the returns.
Ha! What was he doing? Chain smoking? Shooting hoops?"
"For crying out loud, folks! Don't anybody tell me that in a contest of what we got going on in this country right now -- led by Barack Obama --
that Sarah Palin wouldn't be a welcome change!"
"I just expressed a little shock that our president will not accept an invitation to go to the anniversary of the falling of the Berlin Wall, and I got a lot of e-mails:
'Rush, communists don't celebrate their failures. Obama will be back when they rebuild the wall. He'll autograph it.'"
"Folks, there are moments where even I think I'm great.
I know you do every day, but I don't have time to think about myself that way very often.
But today is one of those days where I join you and agree with you: this has been a kick-butt show."
"'Not even Jesus Christ could save Corzine'?
Bob Beckel, do you know how nuts you are?
How in the world can you compare one visit from Jesus Christ with five visits from Obama?"
"Maureen Dowd has a column about me today in the New York Times… I don't know: either Michael Douglas broke up with her again,
or they raised taxes on bourbon. That's the only thing I can think of to explain why she's so snarky to me today."
"This woman, Sarah Palin, is one hell of a strong woman. They have done everything in every venue of media --
popular culture media, music, television, books -- to destroy her reputation, and she's still hanging in there."
"I am very, very proud that three of the most vocal, principled, action-oriented, not-standing-down-but-standing-up-to-all-of-this-onslaught
in our party are women: Sarah Palin, Michele Bachmann, and Marsha Blackburn."
"Conservatism is ascending. It was a large factor in both these guys being elected in Virginia and New Jersey last night,
and do not let anybody else tell you otherwise."
"Folks, I've been looking at all the exit poll data and all of the election analysis that I can find… I
'm trying to find out how many votes Obama created or saved in New Jersey and Virginia."
"The media's trying to say this isn't about Obama: 'Oh, no, Rush! It's not about Obama! Look at the exit polls! It's about the economy!'
Yeah, right -- who's killing it? Obama is killing it!"
"The results last night tell us one certain thing, and that is that the Democrat Party is in trouble.
It is led by a radical. It is stuck with extreme leaders in Congress who continue to advance an extreme agenda that will undo that party."
"Not only does Obama have no coattails, he may actually hurt candidates when he campaigns for them.
The media can't say this wasn't about him. I mean, they can say it, but we know the truth: he's defending states he shouldn't have to defend."
"I guess we could say here that there's a civil war brewing in the Democrat Party and that they need to go more in the middle.
The Democrat Party needs a bigger tent. The Democrat Party needs moderates.
Turn their template right around and smack 'em with it."
"I've always said that the Democrats will tell us who they really fear and who really, really threatens them, and there's no question that Sarah Palin is that person."
"The huge story of New York 23 is the shambles the Republican Party made of it.
They nominated a horrendous candidate, a liberal Republican, and stuck by her for too long.
I mean, they basically told over half of the Republican voters in that district, 'Screw you!'"
"Another reason I don't believe this exit poll stuff is because I think a lot of people come out of the polling place and they get,
'Was your vote about Obama?' ' Oh, no, no, no! Don't call me a racist! Oh, no, no, no! My vote had nothing to do with Obama!'"
"Now, folks, this is unprecedented: an American president, not showing up at a citadel of freedom and extolling the virtues of what happened there?
I mean, hell, Obama should go to Berlin even if he wants to praise Gorbachev for making it happen!"
"I think one of the reasons Obama may not want to go to Berlin is because he probably fears he'll be upstaged by the memory of Ronald Reagan.
If it's not about him, he's not showing up."
"The conventional wisdom is that the Republicans have to get a big tent, have to get moderates in there.
Don't believe any of it. It's all intended to get you to adopt beliefs that will secure defeat of our party, and,
sadly, some of our 'smart' people have fallen right in line with it."
"NewsBusters headline: 'Obama Watched HBO Special About Himself Instead of Election Returns'.
I can't believe Robert Gibbs thought it would look better if the commander-in-chief was watching a self-indulgent,
fawning documentary about himself, rather than the returns."
"Obama watched a documentary about himself last night?
I mean, this is like Citizen Kane alone in a 45,000-square-foot mansion, sitting in front of the 500-square-foot fireplace,
drinking Brandy as his empire is crumbling all around him -- and thinking he's having a good time. This is just weird."
"Have they dared to wake Obama up and say, 'By the way, we got our clocks cleaned in Virginia and New Jersey last night'?
Does he even know yet? Does anybody have the guts to tell him? An excellent question posed by El Snerdbo:
He is such a narcissist -- does he care?"
"It's not just the Democrats -- the elite Republicans don't like Sarah Palin, either, because she's an average person.
She's a normal person, and normal people are not welcome at the highest level of electoral politics."
"I have never been to Watertown, New York. I have never spoken to Doug Hoffman.
Although, as the titular head of the Republican Party, I, of course, was behind fixing the mess -- which was Dede Scozzafava.
I forced her out. I single-handedly intervened."
"I don't want to say it, but I have to say it: I'm not going to be here tomorrow and Friday. I
'm sorry, but I have some important responsibilities and commitments that I made.
Snerdley says that I should tell you that what I'm actually doing is previewing a documentary that people are making about me."
"Teresa, I have to say, you thought of something that I didn't, and it is rare when that happens. You should be very proud."
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RUSH: Folks, I've been looking at all the exit poll data. I've been looking at all of the election analysis that I can find. I've had my staff working diligently trying to find something. I can't find it. I've tried to find out how many votes Obama created or saved in New Jersey or Virginia. I mean we know everything else about the vote in Virginia and New Jersey, but I can't find out how many votes were created or saved there. Five hundred thousand is what I'm guessing, may have been more. See, even though Obama's candidates lost, let me tell you something, folks, losing New Jersey is like Stalin being defeated in Moscow. It's like Castro being defeated in Cuba. It's like Reagan winning 100% of the vote in the Upper West Side of Manhattan. It's like Hu Jintao being thrown out by the street sweepers of Beijing. It's like Kim Jong-il, the little pot-bellied guy over there in North Korea being eaten by dogs. I mean, Virginia is big, too, but New Jersey, the bluest of blue states.
And they're trying to say this isn't about Obama? "Oh, no, Rush, it's not about Obama, look at the exit polls, it's about the economy." Yeah, right, who's killing it? Obama is killing it. Look, he inherited -- ha-ha -- two blue states and they've gone red. It's no wonder that Michelle took the two daughters out to see Miley Cyrus last night. Why watch dad's humiliation at home on TV all night. Get the kids out of the house. That's a good move by Michelle (My Belle) Obama out there. I mean, folks, I'm trying to find the number of votes that have been saved or created in Virginia and New Jersey because even though Obama's candidates lost, I mean, if they follow through on the way they're analyzing everything happening here in the economy Obama can still declare a victory that his campaigning is working, even though he promised victories and his campaign plans failed, Obama's campaign plans for Corzine and Deeds are working exactly as he expected.
In fact, Obama's campaigning exceeded his expectations. I mean, that's what they're saying about the stimulus. That's what they're saying about the economy. That's what they're saying about his efforts to save it and create jobs. It's going to hell in a handbasket and it's not coming back any time soon and they're talking about what a great job he did. So I would expect Bob Gibbs out there, the White House press secretary in his briefing today, to claim victory in New Jersey and Virginia on the basis of jobs saved, jobs created. I'll tell you what, folks, the results last night tell us one certain thing and that is that the Democrat Party is in trouble, it is led by a radical, it is stuck with extreme leaders in Congress who continue to defy the public and advance an extreme agenda that will undo that party. I predicted this. I predicted this months ago. This Virginia victory, too, I think they're both big in equal ways, but the Virginia victory is massive because it's only the second time one party has swept all three statewide races. That happened before we knew the results of New Jersey, and so you combine Virginia and New Jersey and what you have is a blowout.
I think the worst is yet to come for the Democrats. Folks, psst, I know the media is actually listening to hear what I have to say about New York-23, but I want them to hear what I think about all these other things first. So I'll get to New York-23 in just a second. Psst, don't tell anybody. Don't give away the plan here. I know they're out there. If they're not, they got assigned people listening because they want to know what I'm going to say about New York-23 and they're going to be shocked and stunned when they hear what I say about New York-23, and so will you. But I want them to hear this other stuff first. Shhh! Shhh! Shhh!
Okay, where was I? Oh, yes. The worst has yet to come for the Democrats. Gosh, this is fun. Pushing not only health care but cap and trade and soon amnesty. I'll tell you something, you look at the exit polls, health care is way the hell down at the bottom in both Virginia and New Jersey, way down there at the bottom, like 14% in one place and 20% in another. I love they're focusing on the exit polls. In one state, I forget which, Virginia, 60% said it wasn't about Obama and in another state 55%. Well, that means 40% said it was about Obama in a state that he swept, in two states that he swept, 40 to 45% said it was about Obama. When the exit polls say in both states that the economy is number one and jobs and taxes, I mean if that isn't about Obama, I don't know what is. Do you think they're still voting against George Bush out there? I don't think so, folks. How is that hope and change working out for you?
Now, taxes are heading up, unemployment keeps edging up, Obama's policies cannot reverse this, and they're not intended to reverse this course. They are intended to do exactly what they are doing, as I have bravely, singularly said anyplace I've had the chance. Obama has now put several blue states in play, the red states are hardening. Don't believe any of the accurately predicted by me yesterday media spin today. This is a nightmare for the Democrats, what happened in Virginia, and the truth of the matter when we get to New York-23 that's not all that big a deal for them. I'll explain that when we get there. I mean, folks, let me tell you something. I think last night Virginia and New Jersey -- and, by the way, in New York, upstate New York, Republicans were winning all kinds of little local offices, same thing in Virginia. It's a huge sweep. This last night may well have been Obama's Waterloo. I'm not kidding about that, it may have been Obama's Waterloo last night.
My first clue that they're really bugged by it was when they tried to tell everybody he wasn't watching the returns. Ha! What was he doing? Chain smoking, shooting hoops? You know, the interesting thing about all this, folks, is that it is anti-Obama. This is not to take away from McDonnell or Christie. McDonnell, as the campaign wore on, started sounding more and more conservative and saying so, testifying to his conservative credentials, and Christie did, too, toward the end of the campaign. And they're going to try to say there's a war in the Republican Party because of New York-23, but, no, no, no, no, no, there is a war in the Democrat Party.
I have two stories, one is by Byron York in the Washington Beltway Examiner: "MoveOn.org is sending out e-mails today seeking more contributions for its campaign to defeat any Democratic senator who does not fully support Obamacare. Yesterday the left-wing activist group asked members to contribute 'to a primary challenge against any Democratic senator who helps Republicans block an up-or-down vote on health care reform.' Today, MoveOn reports that it has received $2 million in pledges in less than 24 hours. 'It's a clear sign of how angry progressives would be at any Democrat who helps filibuster reform,' MoveOn executive director Justin Ruben writes in the new e-mail." I also have buried in the stack here someplace, not going to waste time finding it now, I'll find it during the break, I've got a funny post from the Daily Kos, Markos Moulitsas, whatever his name is, and it's funny. I mean these guys are blaming these losses on the fact that the Democrats were not socialist enough, the Democrats are not communist enough, didn't go far left enough.
So for all this talk about an attack and a war going on in the Republican Party, believe me when I tell you there is one happening in the Democrat Party at their grassroots level. Make no mistake. Look, folks, losing New Jersey is like Ted Kennedy losing Massachusetts. I mean, it's huge. I gotta take a break but let me get one more thing in here and then we'll get to New York-23 and some other details and sound bites all straight ahead. Obama now has to defend his base. He can't count 'em. That's what this Move On stuff means, it's what the Daily Kos stuff means, these returns last night is what it means. He's turning purple states red. He's making red states redder. And he's now defending states he should never have to defend. He should never have to defend in New Jersey. New Jersey! And 18 points in Virginia! They thought they had Virginia forever after the 2008 election and not only does Obama have no coattails, he may actually hurt candidates when he goes in there and campaigns for them.
I mean he put it all on the line in New Jersey. They knew it was over, threw Creigh Deeds overboard a couple weeks ago but they were all in New Jersey. They can't run around and say this wasn't about him. I mean they can take it and the media acolytes, sycophants will say it, but we know the truth. He's defending states he should never have to defend. He's on defense. The party, trust me when I tell you, the party is unraveling. It was always a weak coalition disparate elements and his policies, Obama's policies are so radical that he's changing the map in ways that are killing his own party. Trust me on this. Look at Virginia. Twelve months ago it was said to be lost to conservatives. Obama's defeat there was smashing, embarrassing, humiliating. And you tack New Jersey on to it, and it's hubba hubba.
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RUSH: Here's this post. It's from last night at the Daily Kos. "There will be much number-crunching tomorrow," he says here, "but preliminary numbers (at least in Virginia) show that GOP turnout remained the same as last year, but Democratic turnout collapsed. This is a base problem, and this is what Democrats better take from tonight: 1. If you abandon Democratic principles in a bid for unnecessary 'bipartisanship', you will lose votes. 2. If you water down reform in favor of Blue Dogs and their corporate benefactors, you will lose votes. 3. If you forget why you were elected -- health care, financial services, energy policy and immigration reform -- you will lose votes.
"Tonight proved conclusively that we're not going to turn out just because you have a (D) next to your name, or because Obama tells us to. The choice is yours. Give us a reason to vote for you or we sit home." You know what's amazing about this? It sounds just like conservatives angry at the Republican Party. It's almost just like that. So this guy is saying that the problem was with the Democrat base not turning out and that going along with Blue Dogs isn't the way to cure that. So I guess we could say here that there's a civil war brewing in the Democrat Party and they need to go more in the middle. The Democrat Party needs a bigger tent! The Democrat Party needs to go to middle. The Democrat Party needs moderates! The Democrat Party needs to expand it's base! Everything that they are saying from a template about us on the Republican side we could turn right around and smack 'em with.
Really. "Look at this. Why, your base is unhappy with you. Your base is threatening to stay home and not vote. Obama is not even enough to get them out there. You need moderates in your party. You can't let these far left-wing extremists run the show! They're going to take you down to defeat." The same thing that they say about us we can say about them. I mean, every template, every premise that is falsely presented we're about to throw it right back at them -- and in our case we will be telling the truth. Now, New York 23... Oh, one little bit of information here before getting into New York 23, I have a friend who lives in Westchester County in New York. That's deep blue, deep blue West Chester County. A Republican there, Rob Astorino, won by 16 points over a longtime Democrat incumbent. And Rob Astorino has a day job.
He runs the Catholic Channel for Sirius XM satellite radio. He hosts a weekday show with the Cardinal. Now, folks, this is a deep blue place. I mean, the Democrats ought to be terrified by this. It means they can no longer win in races for offices that have nothing to do with social issues in blue states by scaring voters about conservatives' positions on social issues. Because as far as liberals are concerned, you can't get any scarier than a Catholic talking to the Cardinal every week on the radio. So a Catholic in a deep, deep blue county talking to the Cardinal every day on a Catholic by satellite radio wins by 16 points and they want to try to tell us the social issues scare people off? Don't buy any of it! Don't buy any of the template, any of the conventional wisdom that's spouted by the State-Controlled Media.
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RUSH: Barbara, Westchester County in New York, deep blue it is. Welcome Barbara.
CALLER: Hi, Rush thank you very much for taking my call.
RUSH: Thank you.
CALLER: I think you're great, really --
RUSH: Thank you. Thank you very much.
CALLER: I can't believe I'm talking to you. That's just great. Look, I was calling you because in Westchester County we did a great thing last night. We voted out Andy Spano, who is the county executive and was our county executive for 12 years.
RUSH: Yeah?
CALLER: And the Republican, Rob Astorino, won by 16%. And, get you, that Andy Spano, not only did he raise our taxes 60%, but at the same time he was not only on the line, you were talking about the man upstate, but in Westchester County Andy Spano was on the ticket not only as a Democrat, but Andy Spano was running for county executive was on the ticket as a conservative. There is a backroom deal that's another whole story, but believe it or not, he was on there "conservative."
RUSH: Right.
CALLER: And we won. We won because the people in Westchester County are fed up, fed up with the property taxes.
RUSH: Let me repeat, Barbara, what to me is fascinating, because all of what you said is true, and I'm sure it was a huge factor. One of the things also that we are told is that the social issues are going to kill any chances the Republican Party ever has. Abortion and all this attention to cultural issues will be the certain death, doom of the party. Well, who is the guy who won? Who is he? He has a day job. He hosts the Catholic Channel on Sirius XM satellite radio, and he interviews the cardinal once a week. Now, you're in Westchester County. You have a 12-year incumbent, you have a man who hosts a Catholic radio network, runs it, interviews the cardinal once a week, in deep blue Westchester County winning by 16 points. Now, the Democrats up there, I'm guaranteeing you, a guy that hosts the Catholic Channel in deep blue Westchester County? That's like showing the cross to Dracula, and the guy wins by 16 points!
You can't get more social issues than somebody running the Catholic network and talking to the cardinal once a week. You can't get more social on issues and culture than that. You know, everybody thinks Catholic Church is hated and despised and so forth. How do you explain this? There's a lot of factors here. Barbara is exactly right. The corruption and raising taxes and all these things, it's arrogance which rubs people the wrong way, but I don't think that you can take out of the equation his day job. See, folks, here's my point. Exit polls say no, it wasn't about Obama. Conventional wisdom: Republicans have gotta get rid of social issues. Conventional wisdom: Republicans gotta have a big tent, get moderates in there. Don't believe any of it. Don't believe a word of it. It is all intended to get you to adopt beliefs that will secure defeat of your party. And, sadly, some of our smart people have fallen right in line with it.
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RUSH: Snerdley has a good question. I think I have an answer for it. Barbara from Westchester County called in just outraged about property taxes. I got my property tax bill yesterday. Did you guys get yours? Percentage-wise a staff member is saying that they may be paying a higher percentage than do I. Yeah, you're in New Jersey. Well, we'll compare percentages. Anyway, in my case I write the check for the property taxes. The question certainly is, "How come people get so upset about their property taxes but not their overall tax burden?"
I've always believed that people are not as aware of income taxes that are withheld 'cause they never see it anyway. They might look at the gross on a pay stub or the automatic deposit slip, but they see the net. I don't know how many people, you know, property taxes are part of the mortgage payment. But you still make the payment, you're still paying it, you still write the check so you know how much it is. You add to it now the plummeting value of most people's homes, and the rising property taxes, and then you realize we've been lied to all this time. This is not about assessing the value of our homes, they're just taxing what they think we'll pay, what we'll put up with, 'cause if it was really about accurate assessments, our taxes would be going down. But they're not. So there's a whole lot of reasons, Snerdley, why this is irritating to people.
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RUSH: Here's Denise in Austin, Texas, as we go back to the phones. Thanks for waiting Denise nice to have you with us.
CALLER: Thanks, Rush, it's an honor and a thrill to talk to you.
RUSH: Thank you.
CALLER: First I want to say I loved your comments on the Berlin Wall. If they weren't so true it would be funny. What I wanted to tell you: The race in New York was so reminiscent of letting the liberal press pick or candidate for president last year.
RUSH: Yeah, I know. It's pretty much like that. It's like letting the liberal media and the Democrats pick our candidate.
CALLER: Yeah. I mean, if we had any other candidate, any forever or mayor, I think we would have won. It's just (snorts) it's so frustrating.
RUSH: See, that is the dirty little secret of New York 23 is how the smart thinkers in the Republican Party totally blew this. They picked the wrong candidate, stood by the wrong candidate, sent the wrong candidate 900 grand. The wrong candidate gets shellacked and pulls out and they praise her (clapping) "Oh, we love Dede," and she endorses the Democrat. Had there been a primary up there -- I know it's a special election but had there been a primary up there -- none of this would have happened. And don't forget, now, Hoffman got a larger percentage of the vote up there in New York than any candidate has in a conservative line. I'm not talking about total numbers of votes. I'm talking about percentage. He got even a higher percentage than James Buckley got when he won a Senate seat running on the conservative line. Richard in Mary Pennsylvania. Hi.
CALLER: Yes, sir. A pleasure.
RUSH: Thank you.
CALLER: What I'm worried about is the split. All right, Virginia, McDonnell won by I think 20%, they said on Fox.
RUSH: Eighteen, 18%, but who's counting.
CALLER: All right, yeah. But the other races were like three to five percent. What I'm worried about is this so-close split, how are the conservatives -- not the Republicans, not the Republicans --
RUSH: Wait a minute. What races are you talking about three to five percent?
CALLER: Well, Corzine, New Jersey.
RUSH: That was 5% in --
CALLER: That's what I'm saying. And then Hoffman. What did he lose by, six or seven percent?
RUSH: He lost by five, but that's because 5% went to a candidate that wasn't even still in the race.
CALLER: I understand, sir. I understand. But I'm saying is, we're on this divide. We're so split, sir. How do we turn it conservative?
RUSH: Who is this "we"? Who are you talking about when you say "we"?
CALLER: I'm talking about conservatives. Not Republicans. Conservatives. How do we turn it, you know, to... We're so close. How do we turn it to our...? You're the one that can answer this, sir.
RUSH: You want to know how we can get bigger majorities?
CALLER: That's right. I want to know how we can get instead of three-five percent, how do we get ten, 20 percent, besides Virginia?
RUSH: Well, now --
CALLER: McDonnell won pretty good.
RUSH: Wait a second. (sigh) I'm trying to be patient here. Let's look at both of these states. Don't tell me you're unhappy with 18% in Virginia?
CALLER: No, no, I'm not unhappy with Virginia.
RUSH: All right.
CALLER: But I'm saying with that Hoffman.
RUSH: All right. Now let's go to New Jersey, then. New Jersey is so blue, it's almost black. It's a navy blue state. I mean, it is deep Democrat. For a Republican to win by one vote in that state, it says something. The last Republican that did was Christie Whitman, I believe. Maybe there's something about the name "Christie" that people vote for in New Jersey. Maybe every Republican has to have the name Christie in there, first or last name. But the corruption in this state is such that the most popular jewelry item among elected Democrats this year has been a set of handcuffs, and even at that Democrats usually still win. To have a 5% win in New Jersey is nothing to sneeze at. We're just starting. We just had big, big Obama victories in these states a year ago ad they were talking about "realignment." This is...
I think there are two things going on here, Richard. One thing: Obama has been stopped. There is no question this is an anti-Obama vote. And largely when you see the exit polls say it's the economy, there can be no other person that's associated with the economy than Obama. They're not voting against Bush 'cause he's not around. The whole business of expanding majorities has to be that the Republican Party's gotta finally decide: Is it going to be conservative or is it going to go moderate light, David Brooks type? And if it goes that way we're going to lose and we're not going to be talking about majorities, winning majorities. The conservative movement here is on an ascendancy and it's got a fresh opportunity here, and this was a great start yesterday to have these two margins of victory. Eighteen percent is huge in Virginia, and it was all the way down the ticket, Bob, all the way down the ballot for the statewide offices. So there's a lot to build on here.
And both these candidates, Bob, you know, I've had people say in e-mail, "Well, Rush, I'm listening to the media talk about McDonnell in Virginia. They're saying, 'This is the candidate Republicans need to nominate: a moderate candidate. Moderate! He's somewhat conservative but not a right-winger. You Republicans need this. This is the kind of candidate you need." What people don't want to admit here is that both Christie and McDonnell, in the last weeks of the campaign, went pedal-to-the-metal conservative. Particularly McDonnell when he saw the margin that he had. Had Hoffman been in this race from the get-go as a conservative with no turncoat, no liberal Republican on the ticket in New York 23 -- she was still on the ballot in two places, Bob. She gets 5% of the vote yesterday. That's just a mismanaged campaign, election from the get-go by the "smart thinkers" in the Republican Party. There's every reason to feel optimistic about this.
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RUSH: Wayne in Roanoke, Virginia, welcome to the EIB Network. Hello.
CALLER: Hey, Rush, it's a pleasure to speak to you, I've been listening to you for close to 20 years, it's the first chance I've had to catch up with you.
RUSH: Thank you, sir.
CALLER: It's wonderful to listen to you and everything. Oh, by the way, I wanted to tell you I was born in Missouri, born and raised in Missouri, too.
RUSH: What part?
CALLER: I was in a little town called Marshall about 80 miles east of Kansas City.
RUSH: Yeah, yeah, I know where Marshall is.
CALLER: Yeah. You remember old Truman saying "The buck stops here?" Well, Obama passing the buck starts there. Hello?
RUSH: Yeah, I'm listening.
CALLER: I wanted to tell you about I'm down here in Roanoke on the west side with Bob McDonnell winning, it really is a statement against Obama. I mean we have people down here that was winning just on the cap and trade issue alone. It's going to devastate the western part of Virginia, and I heard a lot of people they were talking about the cap and trade, the spending, and, of course, health care. It definitely was a statement against Obama. Absolutely.
RUSH: I don't think there's any question about it. When the exit polls say that people's primary concern was the economy, I don't know how you can say that has nothing to do with Obama. I mean it's his! He owns it! He's destroying it. I think people are aware of this. Look, folks, nothing he said was going to happen has happened. It's the exact opposite. It's gotten worse. There aren't any new jobs. The infrastructure is not being fixed. I mean the stories of the money, that $213,000, Syracuse University or wherever it is to study the sex lives of freshman female college students. (interruption0 It's a dead story? What do you mean it's a dead story? Did they cancel the money? No, they didn't cancel the money. See, people would do that for a dollar. You don't have to spend $213,000 for that.
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RUSH: These are my thoughts on New York 23. In the first place I'll have to double-check this but I'm reasonably sure that this was the highest percentage of the vote ever won on the Conservative Party line by a House or Senate candidate. I think Hoffman had a higher percentage of the vote than even James Buckley, who won his US Senate race against this Goodell guy, Charles Goodell, in the seventies. So that's one thing. But the right message... We cannot forget how this whole thing happened in the first place. There was not a primary. The right message here would indict the way party bosses, Republican Party bosses and these "big thinkers" like Newt, screwed the whole thing up from the get-go. From their standpoint -- and I think this is probably still true today -- they'd rather say that Reagan conservatism can't win in New York and that we need more David Brooks-type Republicans.
Meantime... I mean that's probably what they're thinking today on our side, "Yeah, you see, Reagan conservatives can't win in New York. We need Chris Shays-type guys. We need moderates like David Brooks-kind of Republicans to win." But if the party... See, this is the dirty little secret: If the party had gotten behind Hoffman from the beginning, he would have won going away. I have no doubt about that. I'll tell you something else. People are now talking about Hoffman's lack of charisma and familiarity with local issues. The huge story of New York 23 is the shambles the Republican Party made of it. They nominated a horrendous candidate: A liberal Republican. She was far more liberal than this Owens guy, who ended up winning.
They stuck by her for too long. They basically told over half of the Republican voters in this district, "Screw you! We'd just as soon you not show up. We're making a stand here with our naming of this candidate." They were trying to define themselves. The big thinkers, the party bosses were trying to define themselves -- once again to the Big Media types they so want love and respect from -- by putting up this Scozzafava babe. And then when she left, they praised her, even as she turned around and endorsed the Democrat! Now, I think it seems strange to start offering explanations for what happened without even mentioning what happened; and this is what happened, and she remained on the ballot. In fact, she was on the ballot twice. This is screwiest looking ballot. I just got this.
Here's the ballot: Democrat Owens, Republican Scozzafava, Independence Scozzafava, Conservative Hoffman, Working Families Owens. There were five parties on the ballot. Two of them endorsed Owens -- the Democrat Party and the Working Families Party -- and two of them endorsed Scozzafava, the Republican Party and the independents party. Only one of them endorsed Hoffman. So Scozzafava's name not only appeared twice on the ballot, but because the Independence Party drew more voters in the previous governors race than the Conservative Party did, her name appeared twice on the ballot before anybody even saw Hoffman's race -- and she was out of the race. She got 5% of the vote because her name was still on the ballot. So there's a lot to be said here. But what did not lose, what did not lose was conservatism. What lost was Republican ineptitude and incompetence in selecting the wrong candidate from the get-go, staying with her for too long and then sending her off packing while she endorses the Democrat.
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RUSH: By the way, let's not forget also that the GOP gave Dede Scozzafava $900,000. They gave her $900,000 to run the campaign, and she dropped out. She dropped out and she endorsed a Democrat. Now, I'll tell you something else about this. If this doesn't silence all the third-party people out there, it should. People were mistakenly looking at this as a third-party race, and it wasn't a third-party race (as I keep saying) because there was no primary there. Had there been a primary who knows who would have won. Hoffman might have won. See, New Jersey is a great contrast. In New Jersey, they had a primary. There was a guy that was more conservative than Christie, Steve Lonegan. They had a primary and Christie won the primary and the party got behind the winner.
That's how it happens. There was no primary in New York 23. The "smart people" wanting approval from whoever it is they want approval from picked the absolute most horrendous candidate they could, and then she ends up bombing out and dropping out, and then endorsing the Democrat. If there'd have been a primary up there, Hoffman would have won that thing and the would have party gottten behind him, bam, bam, bam. This would not have been close at all. So don't... In fact, strangely enough, there is one person in the state corrode media who comes close to getting New York 23 right and I'm going to probably inflict great harm on her reputation by pointing her out. Her name is Deborah Feyerick. She works at CNN. And this morning on CNN she said this.
FEYERICK: An unknown coming out of nowhere to catch the attention of party conservatives like Sarah Palin, Fred Thompson, Rush Limbaugh. Doug Hoffman getting more than 40% of the vote. Now, had the moderate Republican who pulled out of the race just a couple of days ago and who threw her support to the Democrats --had her name not been on the ballot -- it's very likely that Doug Hoffman would have done even better than he did because her name on that ballot ended up being the spoiler and shifted the race in favor of the Democrats. Now, I spoke to a journalist who's covered politics in northern New York for more than 30 years. He tells me that he was surprised by the depth of anger within Republicans in this area. He had not seen anything like it before saying that the message of conservatives is they want to take back this country.
RUSH: I know it's hard to believe, folks. You gotta trust me. That's CNN's Deborah Feyerick getting it right. Scozzafava's name was on the ballot twice! Owens' name was on the ballot twice! She got 5% of the vote. And had that not happened, why, Hoffman would... This is a textbook case in how not to select a candidate and how not to run a campaign.
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RUSH: Charlie in Boulder, Colorado. Great to have you on the program, sir. Hello.
CALLER: Hi, Rush. Thanks, this is a big honor. I heard you first back in '87 or '88 when you were still in Sacramento, I believe.
RUSH: Yeah, that's right. That would have been the case.
CALLER: We've loved you ever since because you say what we already believe, not because you turn us into mind-numbed robots.
RUSH: Thank you, sir. Thank you very much.
CALLER: You're welcome. Let me get to my point. I think the real lesson of New York 23 is the sentiment, the same sentiment that hates Sarah Palin, and that is the self-anointed, whether Republicans or Democrats, they will not tolerate an average person standing up and running for office. The Republicans would rather have a Democrat win than have that happen and have the people that are supposed to be the ruled standing up and taking our country back.
RUSH: Well, you know, I hate to agree with you about that with the Republican Party, but I think you're right about a lot of people in that party, average people not welcome, gotta have the pedigree. Now, I never like to make this program about me. It's becoming harder and harder not to but, folks, I got audio sound bites of the media, "Oh, big loss for Limbaugh! Big loss for Sarah Palin!" The New York Daily News, every sentence is a prediction of mine come true yesterday about this. It's the snarkiest thing. They're all over the place and I, of course am just an average guy. I don't come from any pedigree. I come from the Midwest, a little town of 30,000, well, 25,000, some people have moved in since I moved out. But you're right. I think certainly the Democrat Party. And they are the real hypocrites about it, Charlie, because they're the ones who claim to be for the little guy.
CALLER: That's right. And I think this bolsters your point, Rush, which is the message to the leaders in the Republican Party is, don't put up these establishment folks because we will defeat your candidate even if it means the Democrat is going to win and they need to learn that lesson.
RUSH: You know what, I was reading Erick Erickson today at RedState.com, and he was the real first behind Hoffman guy. I mean, he was really pushing it on his blog, and he wrote today -- I'll paraphrase it -- he wrote, "Look, the message out of this is we took out a horrible Republican. We kept a horrible Republican from possibly winning and totally redefining the party in a way that would make it a permanent minority party." So in Erick's view, yeah, it would have been great if Hoffman won, but the real victory was making sure that a Republican-in-name-only did not win, and that dovetails here with what Charlie said.
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RUSH: By the way, folks, one more thing about New York 23, when this all started look at where Doug Hoffman was. He was down there in last place, nobody had ever heard of him. He was at 20%. And despite all the incompetence and despite the party being against it, remember the Republican Party ran ads against Hoffman. Remember this now. And he still climbed, with 45% of the vote, he still ended up there. Now, I'm telling you, the percentage of the vote that Hoffman got has put the fear of 2010 in the mind of every Blue Dog and in a lot of RINOs. This guy almost pulled it out with his own party running ads against him and endorsing a liberal Republican, and then praising her when she leads and then she endorses the Democrat. And all this is done in 30 days? You need to keep all this stuff in perspective about New York 23 and again not buy into the media template on this at all.
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RUSH: So I just checked the e-mail during the break here. You know, I just expressed a little shock, stunned amazement that our president is not going to accept the invitation, will not accept the invitation, Angela Merkel, to go to the anniversary of the falling of the Berlin Wall. I got a lot of e-mails from people, "Rush, Rush, Rush, Rush, Rush. Communists don't go celebrate their failures. Obama will be back when they rebuild the wall, and he'll autograph it."
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RUSH: I think I've got an idea on how to get Obama to go to Germany. It's really not complicated at all. Angela Merkel should call him back and say, "Hey, President Obama, there's going to be an emergency meeting of the Olympic organizing committee to reconsider the choice of Brazil for the next Olympics.
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RUSH: Here is Teresa, Hartford County, Maryland, welcome to the EIB Network.
CALLER: Hi, Rush.
RUSH: Hi.
CALLER: You are a gift from God, literally. It's my birthday and I can't believe I got through to you.
RUSH: Happy birthday.
CALLER: Thank you. Listen, I have a theory on why Obama won't go to Berlin and I'd love your opinion.
RUSH: Oh, okay.
CALLER: The man-child is throwing a temper tantrum because when he was running for office he wanted to speak at the Berlin Wall and they wouldn't let him because he hadn't accomplished anything.
RUSH: You know what? You may be right. He wanted to speak at the Brandenburg Gate.
CALLER: Right.
RUSH: And, no, that's reserved for leaders who have achieved something, who are serving in office or something. So you know what? I think that does explain it. He's in a snit. He's in a snit. You wouldn't let me, so screw you. This is what I meant by man-child, immature, when I said all of this on Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace this past Sunday. Yeah, Teresa, I have to say that you thought of something that I didn't and that is rare when that happens. You should be very proud.
CALLER: Well, thank you for taking my call, Rush.
RUSH: Okay, Teresa, thanks much.
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CALLER: Yes, Rush, good to be with you, Dittocam watcher dittos. Just wondering how you think the Hoffman defeat is gonna affect Sarah Palin's movement towards the Oval Office, and I'll take your comments off the air. Thank you so much.
RUSH: You are more than welcome. I don't know that she has intentions of moving toward the Oval Office. People are surmising this, but I don't know that she's going to do that. Now, she's laying the groundwork for it. You gotta write a book. And in her case I think she actually wrote it. She's got these people in the press in such a tizzy. There is an anti-Palin book coming out. Two people were interviewed on a CBS morning show today, the experts on Sarah Palin. One of them who wrote the book happens to work at CBS. I've always said that the Democrats will tell us who they really fear. The Democrats will tell us who on our side really, really threaten them, and there's no question that Sarah Palin is that. We had a good caller earlier, guy said, you know, it's not just the Democrats, you know, the elite Republicans, they don't like her, either, because she's an average person. She's a normal person and normal people are not welcome at the highest level of electoral politics. She doesn't have the right pedigree. She doesn't come from the right part of the country and therefore she doesn't hobnob with the right kind of people. We've got Diane Sawyer on Good Morning America today and the media couldn't wait. This is just one example of what was happening today all over television.
REPORTER: What about the congressional race in upstate New York where as we all know Sarah Palin and Rush Limbaugh intervened to push the moderate Republican candidate out of the race in favor of a conservative candidate. Well, it seems to have handed victory to the Democrat.
RUSH: They're doing anything they can to ignore Virginia and New Jersey. So the talking points are, "Limbaugh and Palin lost." Intervene. I have never been to Watertown, New York. I have never spoken to Doug Hoffman. Although, as the titular head of the Republican Party, I, of course, was behind fixing the mess, which was Dede Scozzafava. I forced her out. I single-handedly intervened, I forced Dede Scozzafava out. If I coulda got her name off the ballot I would have done that but I only had so much power. Sarah Palin is not damaged at all, to answer the guy's question. Sarah Palin is not damaged at all by the good showing of Doug Hoffman. Not at all. She's not damaged, folks.
I had some people over for dinner last night, and it happened, I lost my temper, I started throwing a napkin, 'cause I got questions. These are my friends, people that listen to my show, these are people that I talk to a lot, and these guys, one of them, started spouting questions to me that just reflected every criticism of her that has been in the media. The Katie Couric interview and I said, "Look, the --" well, I'm not going to tell you what I said 'cause it was waste. But I went on for five minutes, and I'm pounding the table and I'm throwing my napkin and picking it up and throwing it again, and everybody at the table is spellbound, and when I finish they all pick up their napkins and they start throwing them, and the guy says, "All right that's what I wanted to hear." I really have a tough time juxtaposing what I have seen with my own eyes, what I heard her say, I've heard her speak, I've read what she's written, I have seen the crowds that she draws, I know what she thinks about things, and I don't buy any of the conventional wisdom about it, that she needs bone up on this, she needs to bone up on that.
For crying out loud, folks, don't anybody tell me, please, that in a contest of what we got going on in this country now, led by Barack Obama, that Sarah Palin wouldn't be a welcome change. So would any of our people. Don't misunderstand. But, for crying out loud, I don't understand the disconnect. I understand the liberals being afraid of her. I think that should make us be confident in her. But this inability that some people have to distance themselves from the impact of mainstream media, Democrat Party criticism, is really curious and troubling to me. I'm not saying she's perfect. I'm not endorsing her. I'm not doing anything of the sort. But I'm going to tell you something, this woman is one hell of a strong woman. They have tried literally to crucify her. They have done everything in every venue of media, popular culture media, music, television, books, they've done everything to destroy her reputation, her image, her life, they've even brought her kids into it. "Well, Rush, she brought her kids into it." Well, every politician brings their kids into it, but most politicians' kids end up being off-limits, and she's still hanging in there.
She obviously has a deep belief of the principles that she holds and she considers it very important. So I don't think the results of the Hoffman race is going to damage her, give her any kind of a problem. And I don't know if anybody knows that she actually intends to run for president. Everybody is assuming so, because of the pattern here, the track is similar to the path that others who have done this have taken. But we'll just have to wait and see. Regardless, I don't think the thing with Hoffman hurt her at all. It didn't hurt me. Can I be honest about something? For twenty-one years, whenever something like the New York race happens, "Hey, Limbaugh bombs out, Limbaugh blew it, Limbaugh rejected by New York 23." When Clinton was elected: "Limbaugh rejected, what's Limbaugh gonna talk about?" And I'm still here more popular than ever terms of ratings. We've never had a down business year. I know I'm not a politician running for office seeking votes, you know, getting votes is much different than getting listeners. But nevertheless, it hasn't hurt. It arguably has helped. Same thing with Palin. The criticism of Palin, it's so transparent anyway. I mean if you're going to say that Palin really is harmed by what happened in New York, I tell you what, Obama five times in New Jersey, and the same people are saying, it's not about him, wasn't about him.
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SCHOOLKIDS: We believe in Barack Obama! He loves you and he loves your mama! We believe in Barack Obama, yeah! With all the change he's building! Gonna bring hope to the children! We believe in Barack Obama, yeah! Change! That we can believe in. Change! That we can believe in. Change! That we can believe in.
RUSH: "We believe in Barack Obama! He loves you and he loves your mama!" That's the Gotham Avenue School, February 7, 2009. This was again Breitbart's BigHollywood.Breitbart.com. There's the James W. Hennigan Elementary School, a portion of a group of grade school kids singing a song praising Obama as "fresh," as "cool," and an added bonus, in this song the kids trash Bush and McCain.
SCHOOLKIDS: Obama is fresh. Obama is cool. He has two daughters that like to go to school. It's hot outside, they jump in the pool. (garbled) to follow the rules. Obama is President and has a new residence. There’s people all around who questions all the evidence. Michelle wants her daughters to think their own things. She doesn't want their colors to do it instead. The 44th President of the USA because he beat Senator John McCain. Obama in charge of the oval office. He told Bush and his cabinet to get off this. A – a-a-a-aay. Obama is President of the USA-aaaay. Tomorrow’s a new day – ay – ay- ay- ay. And we’re living our life!
RUSH: That's the James W. Hennigan Elementary School, July 16th. There are 11 of these? I'm having a mental block now on how many there are. I think it's 11. And at Big Hollywood, the website, the transcripts of all these songs are there as well as videos of this. It's obvious this is not random anymore. It never was random. Here is the Giffen Elementary School March 29th.
SCHOOLKIDS: We're here to tell you about the man. His name is Barack Obama he's the leader of this land. He was born in Hawaii then he lived in Illinois. His father moved to Africa when he was a little boy. He got into some trouble when he was 17 and he got himself clean now he's on TV! He likes civil rights and better health care. He wants to make sure that we all will have care. He wants to reform the current (garbled) system. He's very educated and he's got a lot of rhythm. First black President with a heart that's only true. He wants to make the world better for me and you. At Chicago University he used to be a teacher... (garbled) At the Democratic National Convention, the name Barack Obama became (garbled). Say, "Yes We Can!" Say, "Yes We Can!" Say, "Yes We Can!" Say, "Yes We Can!" Say, "Yes We Can!" Say, "Yes We Can!" Say, "Yes We Can!" Say, "Yes We Can!" Say, "Yes We Can!" Say, "Yes We Can!" Say, "Yes We Can!" Say, "Yes We Can!" Say, "Yes We Can!" Say, "Yes We Can!" Say, "Yes We Can!" Yes We Can!
RUSH: I wonder if they've learned yet that 2 + 2 = 4.
Gallup poll is out, tracking poll. It's on the edge. Fifty to 43, job approval to disapproval. Fifty. And I bet they had to work real hard to get it to stay at 50. He's below 50 in the Rasmussen poll.
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I want to know where the hell the GOP was on the Michigan senate seat. We got ourselves another SEIU supporting republican.
http://www.seiu517m.org/politicscope/SEIU_Endorses_Nofs_for_19th_Senate_Seat.aspx
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RUSH: RUSH: Obama's not a narcissist, he's not a narcissist. He watched a documentary about him while the election returns were coming in last night. That's what Bob Gibbs tells us.
Welcome, Rush Limbaugh, the EIB Network, and the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
Folks, I would be embarrassed if somebody put together a documentary about me the way this has been put together about him. I mean it is godlike. But I have a question. He's the president. This thing aired live last night at nine o'clock on HBO, you mean to tell me that they didn't send him a screener copy or a preview copy? You mean to tell me he had to wait to see this thing? I, frankly, folks, can't believe that he hadn't seen it and didn't help in having the whole thing put together, 'cause it's the most fawning. If a documentary could get anal poisoning, this one could. I mean it's just kiss butt, kiss butt, kiss butt all over the place, and here he's watching it, he's watching a one-year-old version of himself and events? This is like Citizen Kane alone in the 45,000 square foot mansion sitting in front of the 500 square foot fireplace drinking Brandy as his empire is crumbling all around him and thinking he's having a good time. I mean this just weird. It's just weird.
He doesn't have time to decide on Afghanistan, doesn't have time to go to Berlin, but he did have enough time to campaign for Democrats in various states who lost anyway. And, by the way, he did not go to New York where the Democrat won. The one place Obama didn't go is where the Democrat won. Virginia was a landslide. It was not just the governor's race. It was all the way down the ticket. All the major candidates' numbers in Virginia were almost identical to each other. This was about the lack of coattails, the lieutenant governor, few points lower since he was incumbent, but basically McDonnell, the lieutenant governor, the attorney general got the same percentage of the vote. There's no question it was anti-Obama coattails working its way down the ticket.
Now, I was waiting for this. Axelrod has spoken out. CBSNews.com: "As Barack Obama marks one year since his historic election, one of the architects of his campaign acknowledges the president has not forged the post-partisan atmosphere that he had hoped to achieve. Senior Adviser David Axelrod said the president 'is not a magician. You don't with a wave of a wand make everything different.' The top White House aide said while the president has 'extended a hand of cooperation, some in the other party made a political decision that isn't in their interest.' ... 'There's an awful lot of pressure from the right wing of the Republican party that has made it more difficult for moderate Republicans to step forward,'" and join us. (laughing) Wait a minute, though. He was The Messiah. He was the one we were all waiting for: the hope, the change, post-partisan, post-racial. Now it's even post-accomplishment because there isn't any of that, either. (laughing) So now it's my fault; it's right-wing Republicans.
Meanwhile, you know, I've talked to Mitch McConnell, I've talked to John Boehner, they can't get a meeting with the president. He's not talking to Republicans. I guess that's my fault. And remember when Boehner did go up there with the congressional leadership back in February, Obama said, (paraphrasing) "You gotta stop listening to Rush Limbaugh, that's not how things get done in this town." His defense secretary can't get a meeting, McChrystal can't get a meeting. He's watching a documentary about himself. He's not a narcissist.
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RUSH: My friends, do not ever doubt me. I expressed incredulity moments ago when I heard that Obama did not watch election returns last night because he was watching himself, an HBO documentary on his campaign and election. And I said to myself, "This doesn't make any sense. He's president! He doesn't have to wait for this thing to air live. He'd get a screener copy of it." I said, "To hell with that. He probably had a role in approving the damn thing." Talking Points Memo, a lib blog, November 1st, 6:17 p.m. "White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs says Obama has already seen 'By the People,' produced and directed by Alicia Sams and Amy Rice, and backed by actor Edward Norton. Gibbs told TPMDC Obama's review: 'Thumbs up!'"
Now, this is November 4th. Last night was November 3rd. Gibbs told us that Obama was watching himself last night, but we know that he's already seen the damn thing. Oh, of course he wasn't watching the returns! He didn't care about that. He watched a rerun about himself. If that's what happened -- if he actually did, he watched a rerun to see if the version that aired live was the same one that they had sent him -- and can you imagine? He's probably watching the rerun, "Boy, boy, do I look good! Do I look good!" Do we buy any of this? He was watching himself? Why would Gibbs say it? Even if he was doing it, do you realize...? Why announce on election night you're president of the United States you would put it all on the line. The signs in New Jersey have your name above Corzine's, you flew in there -- and you don't care? You're not interested? You are watching yourself?
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RUSH: We have had people here going through the Barack Obama documentary, called combat pay, and we put together a little montage here. The documentary is entitled By the People: The Election of Barack Obama. From the film November 7th, 2006, during the midterm elections here is a montage of Obama and Robert Gibbs talking about the returns.
OBAMA: Do they have a count on the House seats yet?
GIBBS: That's the only one was a pick up. Though (unintelligible) in Louisville is up with %96 in --
OBAMA: That's what I'm talking about.
GIBBS: Yeah, but they haven't called it.
OBAMA: My goal is every candidate I campaign for I want to win, every single one. I love elections. It's so much fun. It's even more fun when you're not on the ballot.
RUSH: My goal is every candidate I campaign for I want to win. Ah. Ah. And that was in the documentary that aired last night. I guess it doesn't apply anymore to Corzine as Bob Beckel called him.
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RUSH: Just a couple sound bites. Here is me making a prediction about Virginia yesterday.
RUSH ARCHIVE: 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.
RUSH: CNN, Jeffrey Toobin.
TOOBIN: The question is are Virginia voters, were they more excited by Barack Obama or Creigh Deeds? That's a pretty easy question and a pretty easy answer. He was a lousy candidate, he didn't have a message, he distanced himself from the Democratic Party, and he lost big. I don't draw a lot of conclusions from that.
RUSH: You know these people ought to just listen to me and say something different from what I predict just to not make me right, because they hate it when I'm right. Okay, here's Tavis Smiley. He was on Larry King Alive last night.
SMILEY: Virginia is very close to DC but in terms of voting patterns Virginia could not be any different than DC. What Barack Obama did in Virginia last year was out of the ordinary, terribly extraordinary, and we celebrated that last year, but tonight just says that we've returned to business as usual. I don't think anybody in the country expected that this race was going to be any different, that is for governor, in the state of Virginia.
RUSH: Do I know these people or do I know these people? Everybody knew he was gonna lose, it was not unexpected, blah, blah, blah, blah. Lousy candidate. Now, Rush prediction comes true in New Jersey. First, what I said yesterday.
RUSH ARCHIVE: 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's actually an Obama win, even should Corzine lose.
RUSH: Here is Howard Fineman on MSNBC's election coverage.
FINEMAN: The White House thought accurately that Corzine was a very weak candidate, no people skills, didn't follow through on tax cuts, has the Goldman Sachs tie, the Wall Street tie, all of what Chris Matthews was just talking about. They did however suck it up and stick with him, they did what they could. It wasn't enough. They were trying to nudge Corzine out. They knew he was a weak candidate.
RUSH: Can we play these two again? Folks, there are those days and moments where even I think I'm great. I know you do every day. I don't have time to think about myself that way very often. But today is one of those days where I join you and agree with you. This has been a kick-butt show. Place four and five back-to-back. This is uncanny.
RUSH ARCHIVE: 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's actually an Obama win, even should Corzine lose.
FINEMAN: The White House thought accurately that Corzine was a very weak candidate, no people skills, didn't follow through on tax cuts, has the Goldman Sachs tie, the Wall Street tie, all of what Chris Matthews was just talking about. They did however suck it up and stick with him, they did what they could. It wasn't enough. They were trying to nudge Corzine out. They knew he was a weak candidate.
RUSH: You know, these guys, Howard, Tavis Smiley, I thought Virginia was realignment. After this big sweep a year ago, they were all talking about how Virginia was a realignment. And, by the way, lest we forget, the Washington Post lost the election yesterday, too. They backed every loser for statewide office. They backed many of the losers for delegates in the state. So the question is what clout does the Washington Post really have anymore? Because here's the media, and you'll hear it in a minute, "Limbaugh, Palin, rebuffed, Limbaugh-Palin responsible for loss of Doug Hoffman, New York-23, Limbaugh Palin, Limbaugh-Palin." How about the Washington Post? The Washington Post tried to destroy McDonnell the way they destroyed George Allen. You still can't find the word Macaca in the dictionary anywhere. You can't ignore that the Washington Post did everything they could for Creigh Deeds. By the way, Toobin pronounced him Craig Deeds, it's Creigh Deeds.
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RUSH: We're going to go to my prediction coming true about media spin in New Jersey. We'll follow it back-to-back by Joe Trippi on the Fox News Channel last night and Bob Beckel on the Fox News Channel last night. Here goes.
RUSH ARCHIVE: 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.
TRIPPI: I don't think so. I think Corzine with the -- the approval ratings he had, that most consultants or pundits would say those numbers were terminal. If Christie had been a stronger candidate he should have really -- really done some damage here. He's barely going to win this thing. Maybe a hundred thousand votes, maybe. He's held that margin throughout the night and we'll see how that holds up. But I really think this is throwing out the ins with the outs.
BECKEL: Are you kidding me? The Second Coming wouldn't have saved Corzeen (sic). It's the reason I predicted Christie was going to win yesterday. Yes. Could say it's a good night for the Republicans? Yes. But it's not going to change things. Obama is 51% favorable. Obama doesn't have much to worry about.
RUSH: The Second Coming! That means Jesus Christ. Not even Jesus Christ could have saved Corzine. (interruption) Yeah, he said "Corzeen," right. I mean, they're really dissing the guy now. They're throwing him out. But not even Jesus Christ could save Corzine! Beckel, do you know how nuts you are? How in the world do you compare one visit from Jesus Christ with five visits from Obama? He had five visits from The Messiah, from The One. And you're bringing Jesus Christ into this? Jesus Christ doesn't stand a chance! With one visit Obama had five in there, Beckel. Folks, I'm having more fun today than I've had with this stuff in a long time.
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RUSH: One more prediction. And actually I got a Limbaugh echo here from F. Chuck Todd. This is a point yesterday. I hammered it home.
RUSH ARCHIVE: 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 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.
RUSH: Last night on hard-boiled, Chris Matthews was talking to White House correspondent F. Chuck Todd. And Matthews said, "This guy Corzine, big-money guy from Wall Street, I mean, let's face it, he can't walk away. Who would want to walk away from that? But he's got it on his back."
TODD: The other thing out of this, and I just don't want us to lose this fact. The independent -- the Republicans, win or lose in New Jersey tonight, will carry independents in Virginia, will carry independents in New Jersey, and are going to win independents in that New York 23 race. That is not insignificant, and that should be a warning -- sort of like a yellow light, not a red light to the White House, but a yellow light.
RUSH: It's a red light, F. Chuck. So it's a warning. Limbaugh Echo Syndrome. And let's go to the LA Times headline: "Republican Victories Send Message to Democrats." In the first paragraph: "giving the GOP a lift and offering warning signs to Democrats ahead of the 2010 midterm elections." And then we go to the Washington Post, which endorsed Creigh Deeds. I guess the Washington Post really doesn't have all that much influence, does it? Headline: "Contests Serve as Warning to Democrats: It's Not 2008 Anymore." Warning, warning, independents have abandoned ship. Republicans can win independents with the right message. The media spins what the message is in the next story: "Now, the Hard Part: Continuing to Straddle the Center and the Right," as McDonnell's lead widened he poured on conservatism, however. "In the final days of the campaign, as his lead widened in polls, McDonnell more often declared conservative intentions. He spoke daily of limited government, low taxes and free enterprise. He said he would 'stand up strong' against same-sex marriage and to 'protect the unborn.'" Conservatism is ascending. It was a large factor in both these guys being elected in Virginia and in New Jersey. Do not let anybody else tell you otherwise.
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REID: First of all, we're not going to be bound by any timelines. We need to do the best job we can for the American people. We want quality legislation and we're going to do that. We're going to do this legislation as expeditiously as we can, but we're going to do it as fairly as we can also.
RUSH: Now, wait a second. Wait a second. What was this big press conference about last week announcing this thing? Done, sent over to the CBO to have it scored. Pelosi, going to have a vote Friday. And now Reid can't commit to it being done this year. There's an ABC story by Jonathan Karl: "'Senior Congressional Democrats Now Say Reform Before End of Year is Highly Unlikely.' -- Senior Congressional Democrats told ABC News today it is highly unlikely that a health care reform bill will be completed this year, just a week after President Barack Obama declared he was 'absolutely confident' he'll be able to sign one by then. 'Getting this done by the by the end of the year is a no-go,' a senior Democratic leadership aide told ABC News. Two other key Congressional Democrats also told ABC News the same thing. This may come as an unwelcome surprise for the White House, where officials from the president on down have repeatedly said the health care bill would be signed into law by the end of the year. 'I am absolutely confident that we are going to get health care done by the end of this year, and Nancy Pelosi is just as confident,' Obama said Oct. 27 at a fundraiser for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee." But after Reid made his comments, other spokesmen out there are saying, "We're not going to be finished this year."
"The delay is causing some frustration among Reid's fellow Democrats, but Reid said of his colleagues, 'They want us to do this the right way, not the fast way.'" Well, now, something doesn't jibe here, folks, because last I heard about this there was going to be this giant vote Friday in the House, Harry Reid was getting his bill back next week from the CBO, and that it was a pretty done deal. I'm wondering if all of this is not just a giant, big bluff that's been called to try to make people think something was a fait accompli next week when it's not. Now all this talk about not getting it done before the end of the year, I wonder if the purpose of that is to sort of tame the crowd that's going to show up tomorrow in Washington. Folks, don't believe anything you hear coming out of this. We're dealing with Democrats, we're dealing with people that do not care what you think, but they don't want to stare you in the face when they hear you tell 'em that you don't tell what they're doing. But to all of a sudden have this news out that they're not going to get this done by the end of the year? Obama has said, by the way, that if it doesn't get done by the end of the year it doesn't get done. I mean, that's how precious the timeline on this is, and now Dingy Harry not committing to it.
And here's something else. Dingy Harry sent his bill, his health care bill, over to the CBO to have it scored. And everybody's been commenting about the contents of the bill and the cost. The Republicans haven't seen it. So the Republicans sent him a letter: "Could you please release the text of the bill to us?" And Dingy Harry wrote back and said the bill does not exist. It hasn't been written yet. "Apart from my decision to include a public option from which states may opt out, no final decisions have been made -- and none can be made until we get more information about how CBO would score different combinations." This is all in quotes from Harry Reid's response letter. "No final decisions have been made. There is no bill to release publicly. It does not exist." There is no bill in the Senate, the Baucus bill was not a bill. It was a draft and it had phony numbers in it. It got scored by the CBO a certain way, didn't have the public option. That's how Olympia Snowe was brought on board, Dingy Harry getting heat from the left: we're going to have a public option with a state opt-out. I think we're being hosed. I don't think they're anywhere near where they want to be on this, but they want us to think it's imminent.
Regardless, this rally in Washington tomorrow, you know, Levin is going to be there and Jon Voight, and people from all over the country are showing up at this thing, and I just wonder if all this news here isn't designed to make people relax and think they don't have to go. Don't fall for it, folks. There's something about this, I'm really not comfortable saying they're bluffing, because when you say they're bluffing, you allow yourself to be convinced that they're not close. But I know how desperate they are to get this, and I know that they will do whatever they can to get this. I also know that the "no" votes on this will be influenced by people in person, in Washington, shaking your finger and saying, "No, you don't. We don't want this." Now Dingy Harry won't commit to it the end of the year. White House is upset, concerned. What is going on? Anybody got any ideas?
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RUSH: "Joe Lieberman says Harry Reid lied is in fact true," that Fox has reported it. "Yesterday Senator Reid's office reported that the Majority Leader and the Connecticut Senator reached a secret deal where the Senator will not vote for a filibuster but will continue to vote against the bill in the final roll call: But sources said Reid’s staff is telling liberal interest groups that Lieberman (Conn.) has assured Reid he will vote with Democrats in the necessary procedural vote to end debate, perhaps with intentions to change the bill. 'Lieberman keeps assuring Reid that he's OK,' said one source. 'But he's one of those characters -- you never know with Joe.'" But "A spokesman for Sen. Joe Lieberman refuted a report Tuesday that the Connecticut senator struck a secret deal with Majority Leader Harry Reid in which he promised not to block a final vote on health care reform. The Hill newspaper reported Tuesday that Reid's staff told liberal interest groups that Lieberman had assured Reid that he will vote with Democrats... Lieberman spokesman Marshall Wittmann vehemently denied reports of a clandestine understanding between the two lawmakers, telling Fox News, 'If you believe this story is true, you will also believe that I am replacing A-Rod in game six of the series.'" So Harry Reid is just lying about it. Just lying about it. So that's that. I'm happy I was able to straighten that out.
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CALLER: Rush, I love your show. Thank you so much for taking my call.
RUSH: You bet.
CALLER: I really appreciate you. You know, I've been on hold for two hours but it's been worth it because if my wife is on schedule these listening to us right now.
RUSH: Well, excellent!
CALLER: I wanted to tell you we are fired up about this protest tomorrow. My wife is actually... We don't have to a lot of money. I'm a truck driver. I'm actually in Bristol, Connecticut, now right down the road from ESPN. But we don't really have a lot of money because I took a huge pay cut this year. We're going to take 180 bucks, take our kids out of our school. And my wife and my daughter Katrina and Miranda are going to DC and they're going to get in our congressman's face and we're going to say, "Just say no." We're tired of this. They work for us, not the other way around.
RUSH: I know but they don't look at it that way. It's long past them look at it like that. And why would they when they can vote themselves raises?
CALLER: Yeah, that's true.
RUSH: If they worked for us... I mean, I've never had a say-so on whether they get a raise.
CALLER: Oh, no, they never asked me because I sure as heck wouldn't vote for it, but that's not the point. I mean, we've already got a conservative in line to take his seat. Our congressmen is Tim Ryan, 17th of Ohio. This guy is going down. He actually voted for the cap and trade, even though he was on the radio a couple days later saying, "Well, all my constituents said they don't want me to vote for it but I voted for it anyway." You just told your bosses you didn't want to listen to them! He's toast, guy.
RUSH: That's happening on the Democratic Party side of this. But your call is illustrative that this is effervescent. There is a bubbling up out there.
CALLER: Oh, Rush, it's like fire in me.
RUSH: I was asked about Sarah Palin a moment ago. I think... You know, Sarah Palin is an average, normal person. You can see her at anybody's house having dinner. And the more people attack her, the more they are attacking middle class, average, ordinary, everyday people. I think there's a line that's already been crossed with her. You watch her book sales. You watch.
CALLER: Mmm-hmm.
RUSH: The people are going to be stunned over this. They're trying to harm her book sales, they're trying to assure they perceived as a joke -- and she keeps out there plugging and I don't know if she's going to be at this thing tomorrow. I haven't heard.
CALLER: I'll tell you what: You know who else better watch is Michele Bachmann. She's going to be well into the next speakership.
RUSH: You know, that's another one: Marsha Blackburn in Tennessee. Now, I find this... I'm very proud. I want everybody to listen to me. I am very, very proud here that three of the most vocal, principled, action-oriented, not-standing-down-but-standing-up-to-all-of-this onslaught in our party are women. Sarah Palin, Michele Bachmann (who is helping to organize this thing tomorrow) Marsha Blackburn, and there are others. We've had to go through this mindless criticism that we are anti-female, anti-this, anti-that -- and, of course, nothing could be further from the truth. It's great and I'm proud that that's the case in our party. Thanks very much for the call out there, Bob.
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You are the “Queen” of cut and paste!!!!
What does your local and state GOP have to say about this?
Be careful around me with sharp objects though. ;-)
m’Lady....Barack Fitzgerald Obama flew out here to the Democratic People’s Republic of NJ 3 times to campaign for the Bentley Bolshevik Corzine. One time, he even took Air Force 1 on a flight from one Ghetto, Camden, to another Ghetto, Newark which is about a 7 minute flight. Sort of like flying to visit your neighbor down the block.
Can’t blame em, he doesn’t want to hang out with the thugs. He may be a Marxist but he is not stupid.
As if anybody believes he wasn’t watching the election results. They really must think people are stupid.
Apparently nothing. That’s actually who I meant but forgot to type it in.
Americans need to understand that the democrats have simply started running as republicans and we better study our candidates very closely.
In my congressional district, the democrat who lost in 06 is challenging for the GOP nomination for next year’s race.
Oh, Sir Eric!!!
I wanted to ask you something ...
WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED IN NEW JERSEY LAST NIGHT? ;-)
Oh, gees. Is that a sign of what Michigan has become then?
Its apparently a sign of what the nation has become.
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL.
Yeah, especially with the clip that Rush played today with him saying that elections are important and fun, huh?
At lunch on Monday, I chatted with a very nice gentleman who lives next to LaBron James (professional, in other words). He goes between his NYC and CLE offices. We started talking about Bloomberg after he mentioned he sat next to him at a table at some event. I told him how much NYC needed sometone like Rudy.
The fact that the freelance tyrant Emperor Bloomberg had to spend $85 million of his money to get 557,000 votes which is $152 per vote to barely keep his throne is in a lot of ways the biggest upset of last night.
He could have walked around the city and handed crisp hundred dollar bills and packs of cigarettes that cost $10 in his utopia to every citizen and still saved $40 per vote.
Make that a CARTON, Sir Eric. LOL.
Ping for later
bttt
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