Posted on 01/25/2006 5:45:47 PM PST by wagglebee
RUSH: Bob in Corpus Christi, Texas, welcome to the program, sir. Nice to have you with us.
CALLER: Yes. Hi, Rush. About Hillary.
RUSH: Yeah.
CALLER: You're wrong if you don't think she can win. Be afraid, be very afraid.
RUSH: (sighing)
CALLER: It's very simple. John Kerry almost won. He lost by three points, and he based his whole campaign on three and a half months in a swift boat. And his background, his voting record was buried. He made his name in VVAW, a bunch of bogus psychopathic radicals. He told a bunch of twisted lies about being in Cambodia. He goes to Paris and meets with the enemy during Vietnam and works on their behalf. All that was buried and he almost won. If it hadn't been for the alternative press, he would have won. (eStack: John F. Kerry Stack Catalogs the Near-Disaster)
RUSH: Yeah, the alternative --
CALLER: The same thing could happen with Hillary. They're going to bury all her past; they're going to portray her as a moderate like they did Kerry.
RUSH: One of the things you have to understand, though, about Kerry. I think it's a little bit mistaken to compare Kerry to Clinton because in truth, Kerry was an unknown to most of the people in the country. He was this dog-faced senator who didn't do much throughout his career, then when he runs for president he had a little bit of --
CALLER: Rush, consider this.
RUSH: Well, wait a minute.
CALLER: Think about -- think about -- he sounded like --
RUSH: No, the point is everyone knows who Mrs. Clinton is. That's my point. John Kerry would love the kind of fawning press that Mrs. Clinton has received for 13 years, and it's resulted in 51% of the people saying they definitely don't want to vote for her. Now, look it, you can sit there -- and I'm not going to disagree with you. She could win. I mean, anything can happen. Who knows the future? I'm just saying telling you there's no reason to be afraid of it.
CALLER: Rush. Rush, hold on. Consider Kerry's appearance. He looks like Frankenstein, he's got a boring, patrician voice that puts everybody to sleep. They can't stand it.
RUSH: Bob, hang on. Grab cut 13, Mike. You want to start comparing voices? Here's John Kerry, puts himself to sleep, puts everybody to sleep, contrasted with this.
HILLARY: I am sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and you disagree with this administration somehow you're not patriotic, and we should stand up and say, "We are Americans, and we have a right to debate and disagree with any administration!"
RUSH: Now, really? I mean, that's my point, you're going from one extreme to the other. Why do you want to be afraid? Seriously, Bob, why do you want to be afraid of her?
CALLER: Because she is something to be afraid of, and fear helps to motivate people. If it wasn't for people like you and me, we gotta get out there and stop people like Hillary.
RUSH: Well, I understand --
CALLER: We were able to stop Kerry and we've got to keep going because they're going to keep putting up people like Hillary and Kerry.
RUSH: Yeah, and where's it gotten them? The point is, look it. If you want to talk about fear, I'll allow it in this context. I would be afraid of a Hillary presidency. I mean, who wants that? But in terms of running a campaign and dealing with the potential candidacy that she might get nominated, the attitude to have is oppose her. Now, if part of the campaign is to warn people what will happen, issue by issue by issue, if she is elected, yeah, if you want to call that fear, I think that's just informing people. There's a big difference between trying to gin up a bunch of fear and paranoia than informing people on the truth and giving them facts and so forth. I guess when I say that I don't have any fear, I'm really speaking about her inevitability. I am not one of these people who think, and I haven't ever been, that she has an inevitability to be elected president or that she has an entitlement to it.
I don't think it's written in clouds, etched in stone, etched in the beach, wherever it gets written that that's something this country must have and that she must achieve, and a lot of people do, and I think when you end up being motivated by fear, sometimes it could be a good motivator. But a lot of times it makes you behave irrationally and assume things that aren't, and one of the bad things about fear is it goes hand in hand with assumption, and assuming things you don't know is a dangerous thing, and fear is going to make you assume negative things, and that's not productive, either. So I'm just trying to point out to you here that, despite all of this spin campaign that has been ginned up on her behalf for the last 13 years, it hasn't worked, for a whole host of reasons, but the main reason is her. There's just not that much likable about her, and there really hasn't been.
The sense of entitlement that the media, the Democrats have attached to her, is as I said in the last hour. Here she was this Chicago woman that went to school at Yale and met this horn dog from Arkansas, and she could have had a brilliant career on her own. You know, she was the leading feminist light. She made it plain as day she was a feminist, in every possible way. You could tell by looking. And she was going to go to all kinds of great heights. And then, and then she met and fell in love with a horn dog and gave it all up, gave it all up to move to the swamps of Arkansas, and had to lower herself to work in some place called the Rose Law Firm, so beneath her talents, so beneath her potential. Look at the years she sacrificed, and look at what she put the up with, Gennifer Flowers and who knows who else. And she stood behind him, and she was the reason he became elected president, and now it's her turn to be rewarded. That's been the whole thing that's propelled her. That's it. Her health care plan had a large role in the Republicans winning the House in 1994 in those elections. We're not dealing with somebody here who is unbeatable or who is even that formidable.
Hey Hey!!! I like American Idol!!!
no mushy middle here!
;)
They've already committed to following them off a gradual cliff.
I have to disagree with Rush about Kerry when he says "He was this dog-faced senator" - NO Rush, Kerry is a HORSE faced Senator.
Maybe, but I hope a strong candidate will unmask her.
Nor should he.
Abortion is the Holy Grail of the Democratic Party, and the root cause of that party degenerating into madness.
Better to lose a race for the right reasons than to win one for the wrong ones.
According to this article, Warner will have several defenses, including that most other states automatically restore felons' voting rights after release from prison, that he had to clean up the backlog of applications left by the previous administration, and that George Allen restored the voting rights of 460 felons while governor of Virginia.
Gephardt is in the "finally raking in private sector cash after retirement from politics" phase of his career. I wonder if he really wants the job, or could afford the pay cut.
Lieberman is too far right for today's Democratic party, he looks old, and he has the charisma of a lawn chair.
I guess Richardson is a contender, at least on paper. Somehow he doesn't seem presidential.
The nomination of Guiliani or Frist or, God save us, McCain, would, I suspect, keep a huge proportion of conservatives home.
Can someone post a link to the audio file? Hannity plays it all the time.
All the republicans need is a thirty second commercial with Hillary screaming like that. Every married man in America will run like hell to the polls on election day to make sure he won't have to listen to that for four years.
LOL, that was fast! She looks like she's 'biding her time'!
So Hillary will talk some populist third-party candidate into running, drawing off half the conservative vote, and she wins by getting a plurality. Hey, it worked for her husband...
"And the answer to that question is far from certain, despite what Rush maintains. Many millions of American literally idolize both Clintons and would follow them off a sudden cliff to their deaths."
A couple years back I'd have agreed with you. Not any longer. I think the clintoons are long out of power. They destroyed any chance they had for her to be elected nationally. For one thing, if she's so great and has the black vote locked up, why is she pandering to blacks by dropping the race card? "You know what I mean", the constant plantation references.
She's also attempting to change the rat rules for the dim caucus to open in Iowa. She wants it to open in "another state"..presumably one such as NJ or NY or even MA where she'd win the first day of primaries in a largely libnut state. That tells me that her internal polling must be abysmally low in Iowa.
She can't even think of appealing to the majority of American voters, she's too unlikeable and that screeching, my GOD! She's more annoying and who could possibly listen to anything she says? She's got her horndog hubby speaking for her on many occasions but lately he contradicts her, which leads me to believe even HE doesn't want her in the White House. I don't think his bloated ego could handle it but no worries, she's toast.
"My biggest concern is McCain pulling a Ross Perot by running independant and screwing us over by splitting the conservative vote. "
Why would Mcvain willingly give up his senate majority seats on committees and willingly roll over to allow hitlery to win? It doesn't make any sense, but you're not the first person who's mentioned this here. If he went Indie, he'd give up what he's worked for in the senate for years. You have to remember that the GOP is the majority, senators don't drop from the majority party unless there is something in it for them. He would never want to be her VP either. There's no "there" there. I don't think Mcvain is even involved unless he can win the presidency for himself. Not sure he will even run.
The old bat will be flying her broomstick up here to Watertown tomorrow.....
As much as I hate foregoing my favorite HIllary! nomenclature---namely, The Hildabeast---I think we should all take a cue from Rush and begin to incessantly refer to The Hildabeast as
MRS. BILL CLINTON
It's very important to remind the country at every opportunity that voting for MRS. BILL CLINTON is still the infamous Klintoon "two-fer" they were selling back in 1993. It should never be forgotten that putting MRS. BILL CLINTON back in the White House would also put the Sinkmeister back in the White House (though in separate wings).
Ick and ick.
Right on...bring it on! Maybe Ginsburg and Stevens will finally tire of being in the "minority" on the SCOTUS and it will push them to retire. I will love seeing two more Bush SCOTUS wins, after Alito. Can't get much better than this. LOL!
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