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.
Your selection has been registered. ;o)
I know other things you can think about. Women who loudly complain, bitch and moan turn off most people. Yet men who loudly complain, bitch and moan can get some sort of ragtag bunch together. Both are wrong because they don't define why others should listen to their solutions to a problem.
Remains to be seen. Will the pubbies take a Bob Dole type (Frist) and lose, or select a "maverick" like Rudy or McLame?
Or better yet, will we get a competent, electable conservative to run???
Of course this was the same Rush who six years ago said that the former first lady would never go through with a campaign to be Senator from NY. Let's see. Who's the junior senator from New York? Oh yeah, the one he said would never run or could never be elected.
Hillary reminds me of someone who is famous for being famous.
Everyone is overlooking one very important point: SHE'S NOT QUALIFIED.
What administrative experience has she ever had ? She was a partner in a smallish law firm ?
Hillary never ran a government agency or major corporation or any large organization.
Being one of the partners or one of the senators is like being one of the indians and is very different from being the chief.
Let me hear an 'Amen'.
(I don't know if God is a FReeper, but I'm certain He lurks here :^)
You may not understand how many Americans have such faith in Bill Clinton that they would follow them into eternity.
All you wrote is true, but many Americans like her so much that they will support her forever regardless of the consequences.
Let's put her in a car with Fat Teddy and see what happens...
That was one of the better Rush excerpts I've read.
I kinda wish she would get the nomination. Then, Dr. Rice would have to run. Wouldn't that be fun.
"Everyone is overlooking one very important point: SHE'S NOT QUALIFIED."
Well, yes, she's not qualified, but when it comes to the average, ignorant voter, I doubt that will matter much. Scharzenegger had no executive experience, and he won in a landslide, mostly I think because of his name recognition. Hillary certainly has name recognition.
I think she'll win the Dem nomination because of her star status, she controls all the money in the Dem party, and she probably controls the Dem media, too. All the Dems who are complaining she's moved to the right will be back with her when it counts. In their hearts, they know she's an out-and-out leftist, just like we know she's an out-and-out leftist.
Once she has the Dem nomination, then we have to have someone solid to beat her. Kerry was just as weak a candidate as Hillary may be on the national stage, and he came way too close to winning.
Mrs. Bill Clinton never could handle a job where she was in charge of indepenent people to complete a task. And Mrs. Bill Clinton's voting record in her liesurely Senate stunt is all she has. That's why plain old senators don't go farther.
Nail on the head. We don't have to fear Hillary. But we should be scared sh!tless of the republican party.
If the Hildabeast is nominated, the republicans will be publicly castrated by the press, et al, EVERY SINGLE TIME anyone criticizes anything she says, has said, does or did. While she is calling her opponent a Nazi child molester nothing will be said, but a pubbie calls her a liberal and watch the fireworks. Do the republicans have the guts to simply show her record? Play clips of things she has said or highlight her voting record? *Maybe*. But if they do, will they stand up to the crys of "hate speech" and the like they will be sure to get from 98% of the press? If so, it will be a first.
Sobering thoughts, and not very pleasant conclusions I'm afraid.
C'mon. Offing BJ-Bill (if she could avoid blame or arrest) would win her BIG acolades from the network liberal media hacks.
I can see it now.
The media would transform her into this sympathetic female elder, one who unfairly suffered at the hands of the male-dominated establishment -- yet she continued fighting the good fight on behalf of "helpless underdog" women everywhere.
Besides, with skirt-chasing BJ-Bill out of the way, the Dems would not have to worry about any White House scandals, and believe me, THAT is one of the things that weighs heavy on the minds of Democrat rank & file voter robots.
As a writer,I can already see the storyline emanating from the mouths of Donaldson, Matthews and Couric: "Hillary: an 'eligable' tough-as-nails female who, due to her husband's tragic demise, must fulfill a mission to reshape the world into some great liberal/socialist society because "THAT'S what Bill would have wanted."
The media would have a field-day trying to set Hillary up with a future husband.
Keep telling yourself that -- maybe, just maybe you are right! But mark me as "skeptical" to say the least.
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I agree it will take solid candidate and an inspired campaign to beat Hillary. She is a seasoned campaigner and with the Clinton organization behind her she will be formidable.
There is a difference between the perception and her demonstrated lack of ability and that has to be made plain to the voters.
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