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They Claim To Speak For the People, But the People Keep Defeating Them
Rush ^ | 11/4/04 | Rush Limbaugh

Posted on 11/04/2004 1:52:51 PM PST by NotchJohnson

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To: Dont Mention the War

My husband and I are going to the school tomorrow!


21 posted on 11/04/2004 2:55:36 PM PST by MamaLucci (Libs, want answers on 911? Ask Clinton why he met with Monica more than with his CIA director.)
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To: NotchJohnson
I was thinking about the exit polls and how wrong they were, and several scenarios to explain them.

1- It was simply massive error, bad sampling, misinformation from voters, basically bad luck.

2- The exit polls were deliberately skewed in Kerry's favor to ignite the Dem base, scare the Pubs and make standing in the rain for Dubya seem pointless. More likely than #1.

3- This is the idea I'm leaning toward now. The Dems deliberately skewed the exit polls toward Kerry so that when Bush won, and the actual vote didn't match the exit polls, they could claim proof of their Diebold/black box voting conspiracy theory. So many on the left are screaming that the exit polls were right, so Bush must have cheated. They don't accept the idea that exit polls could be wrong. So therefore, that proves in their little minds that Bush has gone from selected President to hacker President, further deepening his illegitimacy.

22 posted on 11/04/2004 2:57:12 PM PST by Sender (*F*O*U*R*M*O*R*E*Y*E*A*R*S*!!!)
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To: Rummyfan

Susan Estrich on Fox Tues. was very puffed up about exit polling, that it was all HER idea, and RATS had adopted it. 'Exit polls were 100 per cent accurate,' she all but shouted. Evidently this was her ticket back into RAT inner circles. She's been out in the cold since Dukakis and the tank and Willie Horton, and that long, long hesitation by Dukakis about what he'd do if some criminal raped and murdered his wife, Kitty. Susan's been marginalized all these years, and she wants back in. Well, when Brit suggested to her that the polling numbers looked peculiar, she was very indignant and took full credit. So we probably won't see her hanging around Hill anytime soon. Hehehehehe.


23 posted on 11/04/2004 3:03:24 PM PST by hershey
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To: Rummyfan

I was listening to Howie Carr this afternoon, and he said Even Thomas said Kerry's aides had to take his cellphone away from him because every time reporters asked how Kerry felt on this or that question, Kerry would call up fifty or one hundred pals to find out what they thought. Then he'd adopt the last opinion as his own, which is why all the flip flops. Unbelievable. That suit of his is really empty.


24 posted on 11/04/2004 3:06:07 PM PST by hershey
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To: Rummyfan
I've been baffled by McLaughlin's behavior the last several months. He predicted Kerry would win on the pre-election broadcast. He's been on the wrong side of most of the major issues during the campaign. It seemed to start around the same time as the Abu Grab incident. He started agreeing alot more with the left side of the room (Clift and Whatshisname) and acting really hostile towards Blankley and Co.

I used to watch the show regularly and McLaughlin was usually right-on in his opinions and seemed to know his stuff. Something strange happened with the guy.

25 posted on 11/04/2004 3:12:47 PM PST by sawoody
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To: sawoody

I haven't watched McLaughlin in years, but the same sort of thing happened about 10 years ago when he got mad at Novak and booted him off the show.


26 posted on 11/04/2004 3:57:50 PM PST by afraidfortherepublic (Re-elect Dubya)
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So like the Dims to crow about their victory before the game has even started! Came the kickoff - the polls closing and real vote tallies coming in - and it was a totally different picture. Susan Estrich....

Did you say Susan Estrich?

She's one of these... but I'm not sure which...


27 posted on 11/04/2004 4:00:53 PM PST by MarineBrat
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To: MamaLucci; sweetliberty; Tax-chick; TaxRelief

Y'all have to see mama's post #10!! Mama, I'm praying for something to be done to this anti-American teacher and praying for you and your family. This is utterly despicable.

In a similar vein....I just logged on and the AOL page had something like this: "Does the election give GWB a mandate?" WELL, DU-UH! It's staggering.


28 posted on 11/04/2004 4:04:42 PM PST by viaveritasvita (God poured His love out on us! Romans 5:5-8)
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To: MamaLucci; Tax-chick; netmilsmom
What do I do about this!??

Do whatever it takes to provide homeschool or private school.

29 posted on 11/04/2004 4:09:44 PM PST by TaxRelief (RINOS rule?)
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To: MamaLucci

It is never too late to homeschool!
That being said, I would get the story to any of the local newspapers or TV stations. Right now I think the MSM is looking around in shock.

What a perfect way for them to show they are with the mainstream!


30 posted on 11/04/2004 4:18:04 PM PST by netmilsmom (Zell on DEM Christianity, "They can hum the tune, but can't sing the song.")
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To: MamaLucci

Get your daughter Ann Coulter's books, and rehearse liberal-baiting scenarios with her! Some of our older youth are in shape to confront the libs in their dens, and it may be that yours is one of them, if you give her the commission and the tools and the backup.

Liberals ... they're what's for dinner!


31 posted on 11/04/2004 4:59:06 PM PST by Tax-chick (First we had all the money, then we got all the votes, now we have all the fun!)
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To: afraidfortherepublic
I never knew that Novak was on McLaughlin. That would have been interesting.

If McLaughlin doesn't settle down now that the election is over I going to stop watching. Might as well..McLaughlin has been giving Clift way too much squawking time.

32 posted on 11/04/2004 8:38:19 PM PST by sawoody
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To: MamaLucci
What do I do about this!??

You could punch her out?

I'll try to briefly relate a personal response to a similar situation.

My oldest daughter was probably a junior when this little dust up happened with her social studies(?) teacher. Her teacher and I via my daughter had several exchanges regarding society, culture and the like. Nothing really adversarial, basically exchanging ideas through my daughter who was taking ol' dad's side.

In an effort to put things in some perspective for my daughter regarding the millstone that the ever zealous beauracrats and liberal legislators place around our necks I used as an illustration , "It's not a good idea to f@rt in a crowded elevator, but a law banning such wouldn't be necessarily advisable or even useful." I had no intentions of her actually using the illustration in class discussion, but guess what? Yep.

So, my daughter comes home the very next day I believe, and tells me the kids in her class got a huge kick out of my example. (Wha??? I say to myself). Anyway, apparently it got the teacher's goat since I gather she was not a little embarrassed by the class response. So, she informs my daughter that kids didn't have to conform to or accept their parents' values. (Wha??? I say to myself again). This is nuts!

I had her teacher on the phone within 3 minutes max and informed her that I was on my way to the school to have a "visit" with her. It took me about another 5 minutes to get to the school. Good thing; it gave me time to cool off some.

After some discussion she agreed that a society and a culture survives by passing from generation to generation the best traditions and values of the preceding generation. Those values that have been tested over time and are shown to maintain, if not improve, that culture/society. That when a culture/society is presented with changes, they should be approached with extreme caution and skepticism.

This is getting longer than I had anticipated ;^)

But, I informed her she had no business telling my daughter or anyone else in her class they didn't have to accept their parents' values(they'll deal with it soon enough on their own without it being institutionalized). That as part of her job as teacher, she was intrusted with supporting the values of the community within which she taught. And, if she didn't accept this basic premise that I wanted hear it so I could share it with others. Including the principal, who was a good man and coincidentally, an acquaintance. AND if she didn't agree with this basic premise that I would also like to share it with the school board.

Well, she told me she had never had it explained to her in quite those terms(absolutely true I suspect), and that yeah, it made sense. She assured me she would be more careful in the future. Apparently so. My daughter never came home with anything afterward that dripped of indoctrination.

Sorry for the length, but it was as condensed as I could make it.

FGS

33 posted on 11/04/2004 11:15:47 PM PST by ForGod'sSake (ABCNNBCBS: An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly.)
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To: sawoody
I never knew that Novak was on McLaughlin...

About 10 years ago the panel was Bob Novak, Eleanor Clift, Jack Germond, and Pat Buchanan with McLaughlin ?moderating?. That is where I first heard of Novak, but he got kicked off the show eventually.

34 posted on 11/05/2004 7:14:26 PM PST by afraidfortherepublic
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