RUSH: Yeah.Posted on 02/02/2012 12:44:53 PM PST by Kaslin
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RUSH: Pete, South Hold, New York, glad you waited, welcome to the EIB Network, sir. Hello.
CALLER: Hey, Rush how you doing? I love you.
RUSH: Thank you, sir, very good. Thank you very much.
CALLER: You're the only thing that keeps me sane, but after 25 years of watching politics, listening to you, I'm giving up. I've come to the realization that people aren't misinformed or ill-informed. They're just plain stupid.
RUSH: Yeah.
CALLER: Obama's got 48% approval rating. Who are these people? What planet do they live on?
RUSH: That happens to correspond to the number of households that are receiving a government check of some kind.
CALLER: Well, it's just too much to overcome, Rush. I have ten good years left, I can't put up with the aggravation. I talk to these people every day. They give me every reason in the world why they support this clown in the White House.
RUSH: Let me give you two words. New Zealand.
CALLER: (laughing.)
RUSH: I know what you mean. I know exactly what you mean. Take any person in this country who's totally absorbed in pop culture. The big thing in their life is watching Entertainment Tonight. They vote. If they vote, we're screwed. You know damn well they haven't the slightest idea what's going on. But that's always been the case. There's nothing new about it, Pete. The number of people who are clueless, uninvolved, no interest whatsoever, they've always had a sizeable percentage of the American population that qualify for that characterization. You're just older than most and you're far more informed than most, and you're saying, "How come other people can't see it?" And you're singing my tune.
CALLER: It's gonna take 150 years to turn that attitude around, Rush. I just haven't got the time.
RUSH: Well, if you've only got ten years left it's not your problem.
CALLER: (chuckles)
RUSH: I'll work on it. Look... (sigh) It's dire, this health care bill. And I want to tell you again: If this guy with his 42% approval rating, with his unpopularity issue to issue -- you look at Obama issues and look at how they poll -- if this guy gets reelected? Katie, bar the door! When there's no accountability, when there's not another election to win, it isn't gonna matter. The next four years is where Obama is gonna be totally devoted to fully implementing the agenda he's been trying to hide in large part these three years. It's going to be earth-shattering, and the next four years is when where you wish were happening now is going to happen. The next four years, if he gets reelected, is when people are gonna say, "Oh, my God, what have we done?"
You think it should be happening now. Wait 'til the next four years if he gets reelected. That's when it's going to happen. Because nobody is going to be untouched by this. Everybody is gonna be made poorer. Everybody is going to lose a significant amount of liberty, just in Obamacare alone. Everybody is going to see the elementary basics of life shoot up in price: Food, gasoline, whatever. It's going to skyrocket, and that's when people are going to say, "Oh, my God, what happened?" At a certain point in time in the future, there isn't going to enough money in the hands of other people to tax it and redistribute it. They will be bled dry. The Golden Goose won't exist.
If this guy gets four more years, there's nothing stopping him. The fact that he won't have to get reelected. There won't be any games of extending the Bush tax cuts, for, for example. There won't be any health care waivers. There won't be any delaying the onslaught of the massive increase in the size, reach, and scope of government. There's a reason Obamacare doesn't fully implement 'til 2014. If it fully implemented by now, no Democrat would be reelected in November. That's why this is important. That's why so many people are pulling their hair out over the Republican primary and demanding -- hoping, praying -- for a genuine conservative. That's why people are willing to overlook some of the baggage, because the people that do get it, Pete, like you, understand what's at stake here.
People that don't yet understand it, 'cause they're too clueless, in a fog, wandering around... I know what you're wondering: How can people get up every day and be happy? How can people get up every day and laugh with what's happening in the country. I know. You turn on your television and you watch a sporting event or you watch a television show, whatever it is, and you wonder: "How come these people don't get it? How can these people not understand what's going on?" You expect there to be, expressed by everybody, an awareness that we are in trouble. And when you don't see it, you scratch your head and ask, "What are these dummkopfs not seeing?" I know exactly how you feel. It's what we're trying to change here.
We're all in the same boat together at the same time. In 2013, no more nice Obama. Another thing about the airlines. I left something out that's very important and I shoulda sent it. This is on top of the list in terms of reasons. The unfunded pension plans that they are responsible for, they're talking $10 billion to $50 billion in underfunded pensions, if you look industry-wide. I'll guarantee you... I can't say this conclusively without looking it up and confirming it. But my wild guess would be that of the airlines year-to-year that do well, they're either not union, or a very small percentage of the workforce is union. And the airlines that are in huge, big trouble owe money years and years and years in the future to retired employees who aren't going to be productive. And it's choking 'em. That would be probably at the top of the list, to answer the question.
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Sorry to hear it my friend...that’s got to hurt.
Are we stupid enough to nominate Romney?
Who is this 'we'? Must be speaking French.
If you can't appreciate the pure beauty of the violin after hearing this, something's wrong with your ears.
Or you can get raw with these strings.
How about this gamechanger from America's Got Talent (which they SHOULD have won).
And finally, this, dedicated to the one and only rdb2, whose eyes are growing dim.
Either way, the violin is sweet yet LETHAL.
Do it!
By any stretch of the imagination Santorum would have dropped out weeks ago, by strangely enough he continues to stay in the race. Why? Because every primary he pulls 10-12% of the Conservative vote away from Gingrich.
My bet is that as soon as it is certain that Gingrich cannot achieve the nomination, Ricky Boy will graciously bow out. Could be one of two reasons: One, he believes it will get him the VP slot; or Two, he has already cut a deal to cut Gingrich's nuts off in turn for the VP slot.
Look, I don't like ANY of these losers. This was the best we could do? Very sad. But let's wait and see if I'm right. Romney will probably go for a Conservative ala Palin because he knows the Conservative's hate him and won't show up for him. Just sayin'!
My husband and I registered in 1979 as republicans, and President Reagan was the first President we voted for in the general election. We both have never voted for a democrat in the national elections and never will. In our local elections we have no other choice then to vote for dems. The last mayor we had was a registered republican, but he was a true RINO and everyone was glad when he was voted out
Yes. Romney is here to seal the deal.
I have watched him over the years when he was still in the Senate
Very well said
We just have to make it clear to the GOP that we do not want Romney and no matter what the pundits and the State Run Media says
If Romney, the last term of George W. Bush will seem like the good old days.
I believe eight years of Romney and/or another Democrat will do more harm to the nation that four years of a lame duck Obama Presidency.
Voting Republican sometimes makes things worse. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Michael Bloomberg and Christie Todd Whitman are proof that. Why do you think Romney is any better than those three?
If Romney wins, the last term of George W. Bush will seem like the good old days.
I believe eight years of Romney and/or another Democrat will do more harm to the nation that four years of a lame duck Obama Presidency.
Voting Republican sometimes makes things worse. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Michael Bloomberg and Christie Todd Whitman are proof that. Why do you think Romney is any better than those three?
No, that's YOU who is saying/hoping that. Don't try hiding behind others.
Thanks for your honesty!
If you can't appreciate the pure beauty of the violin after hearing this, something's wrong with your ears.
Or you can get raw with these strings.
How about this gamechanger from America's Got Talent (which they SHOULD have won).
And finally, this, dedicated to the one and only rdb2, whose eyes are growing dim.
Either way, the violin is sweet yet LETHAL.
Do it!
Yes, I always think it's a laff riot, myself, when RiNO's suck it up and start accusing conservatives of electing libtards and Prog-Stalinists, for not knuckling under to the East Coast Cocktail Party and voting for this or that RiNO POS. Mike Castle comes to mind, as does your no-doubt palladium and lodestar of responsible cocktail-party-line Republicanism, Arlen Specter -- or as I like to call him, "Howlin' Sphincter". Whatta paragon!
You destroy any credibility you have by making that charge--not that you care.
If it's credibility with you, that's right -- I don't care.
Whatever Mitt's failings, no one with half a foot in the real world could make that assertion with a straight face.
How many postcards from Luserville are you guys going to send us, before you run out of postage? .... Poppy Bush, Bob Dole, Gerry Ford, Wendell Willkie, Tom Dewey, John McLame .... the list of your East Coast Yacht Club failures is so long, it defies common sense to say that you guys care about actually winning anything.
Pass the Tabasco sauce .... you're blanding me to death.
Romney is the least desirable of the possible selections, but anyone of them, even (gulp) Paul would be eons better than Obama in a second term .....
Drop by the Stop-N-Rob, won't you, and pick up a few IQ points? The people pushing that RiNO meme are the same ones who said Dutch would be a dizzassssterrr! Oh my Gaaaaawd!! and that we just had to nominate Poppy Bush or Gerry Ford. That's two Lusers, to one conservative of damn-near-Rushmore quality.
And here you are, in 2012, singing that same old damned lie. "Conservatives can't win -- their negatives are too high!"
Well, maybe if people like you would quit slipping around to whisper hateful little rumors in Hatey Katie's ear, or shovel sludge to Drudge, or slip cocktail-napkin mash notes to Joe McGinniss about Sarah's baby,
....then maybe they wouldn't have quite so many lies to work with, when blackguarding conservatives to "Drive their negatives up"!!!!
How 'bout that, RiNO surrender-monkey?
Bump to that. Are you listening, Sudetenland?
Sometimes a bad, soggy Republican is worse than a Dem. I can think of two or three Texas Dems of the last 30 years who'd have been better than Mittens. Starting with Big John Connally, who had the lights to leave the 'Rat Party. Even Lloyd Bentsen would have been better than The Willard -- he'd have done less damage, being observant (unlike the Progs, or Willard) of the Constitution and its boundaries, and of certain outrages against nature like Willard's clammy embrace of homophilia.
stevie, check me on that last one -- you know more about Lord Bentsen, who was at least honest enough to quit Slick when the really slippery Rubinesque Tesoro-bond crap started.
Yes, you are correct sir...He is clammy...I had to shake his hand back in 2007 when he bee-bopped thru Houston on his last failed attempt to be that, what do they call it???
President of the United States...
I told him to his face, that I cannot support him for President...
Don’t blame me for my short-sightedness, I voted for Fred...
Good man. Me, too. And roger on the "clammy" .....
The Mittbots are out in force on a number of threads, sounding the "At least Willard isn't a Communist like Obama!" surrender-meme, calling for us to crater and lick the proffered hand.
Guess what I'm telling them! LOL!
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