Posted on 07/27/2004 6:45:18 PM PDT by wagglebee
RUSH: I'll share with you some of the notes I took during the speeches because everybody loves those. Everybody wants my notes. You know, people say, "I wish I could sit there and watch one of these things with you. That would really be fun." It might not have been fun last night, folks, because it was basically taking notes. I'll share them with you in a moment, but first this kind of analysis I just finished could be done on charge after charge made by Clinton. For example, false claims that we're cutting funding for veterans. We're not cutting funding for veterans. We're increasing it. He claims that the president has withheld promised funding for "no child left behind." This is the old cuts in education business. There are no cuts in anything. There are no cuts in Pell grants, there are no cuts in the No Child Left Behind Act, there's no cuts in education. We have increased spending on education by the president by more than 40% since 2001. There's provisions for greater testing and accountability.
I mean, you could go through almost everything President Clinton said and find these kinds of just willful distortions and untruths and lies, and I'll tell you what, this is not a camouflage. This is a Bush bash from the get-go last night, they just didn't mention Bush's name but it was pure and simple. It was red meat for the delegates. In fact, you could call this red meat night if you wanted to. But as I'm watching this, I'm watching Clinton and I'm listening to all these speakers, you know what I can't help but think of? That this ought to be a lesson to the Bush administration because they have engaged in record domestic spending and it's still not enough for these people. Every speaker bashed the cuts, these mythical cuts. You can look at the budget every year and I defy you to find from one year to the next where the budget gets smaller overall. There was not a single word of recognition from anybody last night, including Bill Clinton, of all the new spending, the new entitlement, in Medicare, the Medicare entitlement. No, that's not good for seniors because Republicans did it. No, that's just a sop to the pharmaceutical companies. If the Democrats had come up with this, it would have been a great thing for seniors and it would have screwed the pharmaceutical companies. Since a Republican did it, Bush is just doing an under the table deal for big pharmaceutical, and screwing the seniors! I mean, it's literally amazing. You can't win with liberals by trying to outdo them. You can't give them a little of what they want, you can't give them all of what they want because it's never enough.
The tax cuts, they kept railing on these tax cuts. How many times have I told you people that Bill Clinton is obsessed with his own wealth and is obsessed with telling everybody how rich he is? He can't make a speech today without referencing the fact that he's now in the top 1% of income earners and taxpayers, and then goes on to make it look like everybody in the audience is paying for his tax cut. And, boy, he really wanted to give $5,000 back to eliminate some sort of education problem. Remember that, in that speech? He and 200,000 other rich guys like him, rich people, just a tax increase of $5,000 a year, but, boy, the Bush administration wouldn't go for it.
Hey, Bill, write a check, pal. If you're that wealthy, and you're worried about this program going out of business or defunct, which is a myth anyway, take care of it, pal, where's your charitable concern? Why are you waiting for the government to take your money and redistribute it if you're so willing other people to have it, just write 'em a check. You phony, plastic banana good-time rock 'n' roller. He and his wife are obsessed with being rich, and she mentioned it, too. And she mentions it every time she introduces him, how rich they both are, and then they try to make it seem like they've got no choice. They've been thrown into this upper income bracket and they've been thrown into this unfair tax cut that they don't want and it's how Bush loves him now because he's one of these rich -- it's just the most disingenuous, phony thing. And if I were a delegate to the convention I'd say, "Shut up, stop telling me how richer than me you are," because that's all he's trying to do. It's just no class.
The tax cuts, all about him, not about creating jobs and wealth for everyone, but about him. The tax cuts have worked. This economy is roaring back, the tax cuts are the primary reason that there are new jobs, that there are all kinds of great economic indicators. They work every time they're tried, just like abstinence does. He does this stuff all the time, he gets away with it. He spoke of unity, but then used the usual class warfare on Social Security and Medicare to divide people. He was for energy independence. But supported a radical environmental agenda. He's for a strong defense, but never paid for one. On and on and on it went. It was typical double-speak all night long. He does it like a preacher and it is spellbinding to some, but these guys talking about unity, all the unity that existed after 9/11. Can we be honest? Before 9/11 happened they were trying to destroy George Bush. Before 9/11 happened these guys were trying to divide the country, the rich versus the poor, as they always do, the sick versus the healthy, men versus women, the young versus the old. You take any group, the black versus white, you name it, divide and conquer is their strategy. Then 9/11 happened, and they had no choice but to act unified. But they weren't even able to stay unified for three weeks.
The Saturday prior to the Sunday that we finally launched our attack on Afghanistan, the Democrats, Tom Daschle and all those guys go out there, have this big announcement on Saturday, the Bush administration isn't do anything. They're not acting fast enough to get even with those who attacked us on 9/11. The next day, bam, go into Afghanistan. They just stepped in it, and then they stepped in it again and put their foot in their mouths. And they just can't help it, and now they've been trying to destroy Bush. He's illegitimate, Florida is the thing that motives these people, it's the source of their rage and hatred, he's illegitimate, they got the election stolen from him, he's a dunce, he's an idiot, he's a cowboy, destroyed our alliances, and they talk about unity last night. They talk about unity when all they've done is do everything they can to divide this country. They've tried to make everybody in their party scared to get up and go to work every day, they have tried to inject fear and loathing in as many Americans as possible, they have embraced some of the most insane lunatics the entertainment industry of this country provides, and they've tried to legitimize them, and they have attempted to make them seem rational and so forth, create a big stars out of these people.
It is just breathtaking to behold, and then, in the midst of all this, these people talk about 9/11 and its aftermath as though they can be trusted to deal with it. If the Republicans bring up 9/11 at their convention, these same people are going to be shouting, "Exploitation, unfair exploitation of family angst and anger and sorrow. You can't do this." If Bush even gets near ground zero the press and the liberals are going to have a conniption fit that he's exploiting 9/11, but they can talk about it all night long with the false assurance that they can be trusted to deal with it.
Well, there was one thing missing when they talked about 9/11 last night and the war on Terror. They said all the right words, "John Kerry and John Edwards can be trusted to do the smart and the right thing, to rebuild our alliances, to make sure the terrorists are fewer in number and our friends are greater in number." But they just didn't connect on this. It was words but I didn't, as an audience member, as a viewer, I didn't get the sense they really felt it. They don't care about it. I didn't feel like they were reaching out of that screen to really make me feel secure that they could handle it. They were just saying it, providing lip service because they had to say it. They couldn't go through the convention without saying it, but they didn't want to because I'm convinced they are trying to create in the minds of as many Americans as possible the notion that this country is alive and well as it was on September 10th, 2001, that 9/11 hasn't happened. They want to try to keep the issue off of foreign policy, off of terror, keep it on Iraq but off of terror because they know they have nothing to offer. They want to keep it on domestic issues that they think they trump Bush on, and to do this they gotta make as many people in the country as possible think that the war on terror is over. There isn't going to be another 9/11, but if there is we can handle it, don't worry about it, but there was just no connection from them on this, it was hollow. And it confirmed some of my suspicions. But the idea that these people have camouflaged who they are, they've gone soft and are looking for the soulful side. It was the same bunch of people last night saying the same bunch of things, trying to divide this country and instill fear in many of you as possible. They just didn't mention George W. Bush's name very much.
Jimmy Carter, "we won the Cold War." I'm not watching this on TV and I said, "What is this 'we', paleface?" He's the guy that got all this terrorism stuff started. I mean, it all started back in 1979 with the capturing of our hostages and Jimmy Carter bringing the country to a screeching halt while he did nothing about it. Well, actually that's all he did was deal with it. And gas lines, I mean, to show you just how confident they are, why, do you realize this is the first convention Jimmy Carter's been invited to appear at? Why is that? Because he's associated with absolute economic disaster, malaise, 18% inflation, 20% unemployment, whatever those numbers were, it was astounding. You talk about bad economic news today? For crying out loud, gas lines from Pittsburgh to Cleveland, if you were lucky to get in one. The reason they trotted him out is because he's won the Nobel Peace Prize for bashing Bush on abandoning our allies and human rights and all that stuff. They are confident that bringing Jimmy Carter out is not going to remind anybody of bad economic times. Why is that? Because we're not in bad economic times. They couldn't bring him out if we were really in bad economic times, because if we were really in bad economic times he would remind everybody of it and they would get the hook and drag him out of there, even if he tried to get on, I'm sure Rosalyn is back there pushing him out there anyway because she's the ones that really cares about this.
When he starts talking about allies and the Cold War and the bipartisan effort and terrorism, it just boggles the mind that they think they can get away with this. But he was mean. The point is, he was mean. I saw those eyes darting around. I always watch the eyes, ladies and gentlemen. I watch the eyes for signs of stability. And I didn't like what I saw. And I'm firing off e-mails to my friends last night. They're firing e-mails back to me. We got these little things going back and forth. We always do this during these big events. And I said, "Look at those eyes. These eyes are darting around like they're looking for a terrorist out in the audience. These eyes are darting around, they don't trust anybody else in this room. 'Is George Bush hiding out, coming to get me?'" Whatever was in his mind, I have no idea.
This nails it! IMHO Every major problem we have today can be traced to Carter's lack of strength and leadership when America was challenged.
THUMBS UP!
Damn Straight!!!!
Have you read "The Real Jimmy Carter: How Our Worst Ex-President Undermines American Foreign Policy, Coddles Dictators and Created the Party of Clinton and Kerry" by Steven F. Hayward?
Lot of similarities to Kerry.
I've read exerpts of it, but haven't bought it yet.
Has anyone even tried to talk to a Sheep about this? Watch the eyes and listen to their voice; they HAVE forgotten 9-11 ever happened. The media rubbed their bellies and put the beast back to sleep.
Awesome Rush!
Hmmmm? I didn't watch the DNC mess, but I did see a couple of snipets of x42. I heard him say something about "the majority of Americans DO NOT LEAN TO THE RIGHT". Which is a BIG fat lie. Did anybody else hear that ..??
Unfortunately, Rush brags about being rich as much as bubbafucco.
I nearly jumped out of my chair and yelled "Hallelujah!" when I was reading this. Rush is da man.
Rush does it to bug people..Bubba does it to say, "I am rich and I do not mind paying more taxes".
There is a difference.
He ripped Ann Coulter off!
No cuts in anything. Vote for us ! We're spending like Demoncrats !
We Republicans are just as socialist as Demoncrats, plus, we have totally trashed liberty in the name of security !
Vote Republican ! Kerry is even worse !
No cuts in anything!
Ever!
This from a man who never ever got a MAJORITY of the vote?
I saw Ann say that on Hannity and Colmes last night and heard Rush say it this afternoon on the radio.
Ann said it first for sure. But who knows, she might have got it from him.
Exactly. The week after 9/11 I wrote a screed about Carter and sent it to all my address book. I wish I still had it.
And of course, She Who Must Not Be Named quickly said, "Well, we don't elect a president based on the popular vote..." (or something like that)
She, of course, is the same person who said (when Al Gore won the popular vote but lost the EC), "It's time to get rid of the Electoral College..."
It's time to roll out the video tape.
And every 'other' problem can be traced to a Liberal and 'Liberalsim'.
Pull the thread and follow just follow it. . .
Carter was despicable. The nerve of him saying we'd lost credibility in the world after his handling of Iran.
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