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.
Keep them in your prayers. Prayers for a comfy retirement. ;o)
I've heard him speak several times and he got standing ovations. Yes, I was among those standing and applauding, but the primary topic was his views on opposing terrorism. (I give him extra points for being a cute East Coast Italian, which I find hard to resist.)
My guess when I saw that thread a few days ago was that it was simply another leftist media story designed to assist Hitlery's campaign. As far as the left and their media accomplices are concerned, Hitlery is the only possible winner in 2008.
You've gotta love the fact that Clinton put an old woman in there while Bushes put the youngest, healthiest people they could find. I TOTALLY think that's why Bush was so concerned about Robert's excercise regimen.
He can use that as his excuse, that it was worth sacrificing his more moderate social views in order to be mayor and clean that city up (which he did very well). So if he does "rediscover" his Catholic Faith, he'll be a shoe in.
Bingo!!!ark_girl...this is precisely the most likely scenario....nobody EVER references the fact that Slick Willy could never get more than 43% of the vote....while McCain would do this just for the fun of seeing himself in the news every day for 9 months...
She does, unless she goes up against somebody like Arlen Specter. He's not likeable at all.
Pick a Republican who doesn't fit the likeability mode. Tom DeLay, even before the bogus charges against him, never was a candidate for Mr. Congeniality. He couldn't win the Presidency.
Frist could. He seems like a nice guy. Schwarzenegger could, but he's not eligible.
Jeb Bush would win in a landslide. He IS a nice guy.
Hillary is not a nice guy. She can only pretend to be one for a little while but once she gets off script she's whatever expletive you want to call her, and you'd be accurate.
I don't think she'd survive the rigors of a presidential campaign and end up looking like the nice guy.
The South and non-coastal western states are not easily fooled.
The country's most prolific voting bloc, the Christian Right, will never vote for him. Gun owners will desert him.
If the G.O.P. nominee is Giulini then it will be the G.O.P., and no one else, responsible for allowing Hillary Rodham Clinton to capture the White House.
Hate to break it to you, but Guiliani would crush Hillary. But Hillary ain't gonna be there.
We should hope that Hillary wins the nomination, because she has no chance of winning the presidency. Bill and Hillary are better at mobilizing the Republican opposition than anyone, including Republicans.
My guess is that it will be George Allen vs. Mark Warner.
Well now there's an idea...
TOO nice. Spineless and he looks like he wears blush and lipstick. (IMO)
LOL!
Her husband was elected ... twice. Of course we ran two very weak candidates against him but who in the Republican party stands out besides Dr. Condi Rice?
It may not be a bad thing if Hiltery manages to get elected, as long as Republicans maintain majorities in both houses.
More of the Republican agenda was accomplished when Bubba Clinton was president than it is now.
Are we the only people who think that Fred Thompson with Condi Rice as VP could not BEAT ANY DEM??
This would help with Giuliani, but what would we do about Rudy's gun-grabbing?
I think at this point, the GOP nomination is definitely George Allen's to lose.
The 'Rat nomination will be whoever seems the most likely to get the moderate vote, and I think Mark Warner probably ruined that by giving former felons in Virginia the right to vote. I think the most likely 'Rat nominee is either Bill Richardson, Joe Lieberman or Dick Gephardt.
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