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.
Nope, if he runs, he will tack right, enough to win the nomination. He's not stupid enough to think he could win it any other way.
Unfortunately, the strongest R candidate appears to be McCain. Better than Hillary. Dealing with post-war Iran will be important and maybe McCain can do that, but aside from that he is a reformer as much as most Ds.
George Allen will be the GOP nominee, with either Rice or Guiliani as his running mate.
Hillary is also ticking off the left wing of the Dimocratic party. She has no chance if she can't get them aboard.
He'd win in Washington and like states, but those that still have a sizable population of good, old-fashioned, Constitutional lovin', God-fearing Americans will shun a Giuliani-type candidate in mass numbers.
Reap what you all sow.
About ten years ago, I saw Fred Thompson becoming the next Reagan, at this point, I think he is too old.
What I worry about is Giulini getting nominated, and then Hillary not getting Nominated, and some far leftist Democrat (EG Kushinch or Dean) winning the nomination, and winning the White House
I like Rudy. He's just a likeable guy. However, I have several "litmus tests" for any candidate, here's how Rudy grades, based on his mayorship, and things he's said:
-guns F
-abortion F
-fiscal/taxes B-
-WOT A-
-borders C-
Trust me, if they have any sense of self-preservation, they will back the Hildabeast.
Rush said she goes over like somebody's 1st, 2nd and 3rd wife rolled into one! I had that sense for years. He defined it today in words.
Doesn't matter. It's all who you're being compared to.
If the choice is Guliani or Kerry/Hillary/Feingold/Algore, I'm quite certain who will carry the majority of the South. I told you this is contingent upon him lurching right on the social issues, which he will HAVE to do.
Dog Gone, you are correct.
We tend to forget, as we FReepers are such political junkies, that the vast, vast majority of people simply don't care about politics. If they pay attention at all, it will be to vote for the most likeable. Say what you will about the 'Toon, he was more likeable to the average schmo than Bob Dole.
Even the majority of my friends, highly educated, professional, successful people one and all, don't give a flip about politics. They roll their eyes when I start! (But at least they are all conservatives or malleable enough for me to win them over!) That is the average voter in this country and Hillary can't get their votes--she's too shrill and frankly, tries too hard...
I heard this today and for once Rush is wrong. We need to fear mrs. bj clinton until she takes her last breath! They're both pure evil and there are enough idiots in this country who'd vote for either one of them.
Rudy's problem with running for president is his personal life - two divorces (the second one was extremely public and nasty - he had moved his mistress into the Mayor's Mansion before his divorce had finalized). Red State America might be willing to overlook one divorce (Ronaldus Magnus comes to mind), but Rudy's situation is a whole different ballgame.
...and you can put down Diane Lane as my choice.
Gore and Kerry went before her, and they came way too close for comfort. There is NOTHING special about them.
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