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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The fine distinctions are not fine at all. Mitt Romney is a full-blown liberal RiNO, another Jim Jeffords-Arlen Specter-Mike Castle disaster. He makes John McCain look like Rushmore material.
Four years of fighting off Obama with one, perhaps both, houses of Congress on our side, to bork and dump his Supreme nominees, might be actually better than having Mittens send up two or three more Souters. Remember, Romney is gay-friendly and gun-grabber-friendly. And his record on access capitalism and budget profligacy stinks -- he'd be Denny Hastert on wheels.
Think again.
K.M.A. ???
I’m only guessing of course...;-)
The fact that the establishment Republican party is trying to force Romney down our throats (and seems to be succeeding at the moment) indicates that we are indeed stupid enough to give this worthless communist a%%hat another 4 years.
“Are We Stupid Enough to Reelect President Obama.”
Uh huh, yup, certainly, ah yeah, without doubt, hm hm, yes,
indubitably.
IMHO
Listen to yourself:
“Four years of fighting off Obama with one, perhaps both, houses of Congress on our side...”
You’ve already accepted the loss of the white House as acceptable, a given even.
Obama in a second term will be a full blown tyrant. He will shout “Mandate!” He will wield the bureaucratic state like a saber. And, given the feckless track record of Boehner and McConnell, I wouldn’t count too much on Congress behaving in a conservative, constitutional manner. Remember the “Super Committee?” So much for holding the executive branch accountable.
If I could vote today, Santorum is my guy, but I’ll go to the end for whoever is the nominee. Obama must be defeated.
Has Rush apologized to the nation for Operation Chaos yet?
But you will surrender to Obama in the end!
And congratulations to you too!
“The quote about fooling the people is attributed to Lincoln, I believe Barnum is supposed to have said,There is a sucker born every minute.”
I stand corrected. Thank you.
When the premise is the nomination of Mitt Romney, yeah. Done deal, Pubbies lose -- and deserve to.
Then the GOP had better not nominate him!!
Don't ascribe to me, the ruin of the GOP when it's clearly the RiNO RNC, the Bush family, the Yacht Club hangers-on like you, who are engineering this.
And don't ascribe to me the evil deeds of the Atlantic Yacht Club, or the consequences of their self-absorbed folly.
But they threw the traces, bolted, and voted against their minders three times -- once for George C. Wallace, and twice for Ronald Reagan.
Some people just don’t get it.
Corruption and fraud will get the man re-elected. That’s all. Read up on HSBC banking fraud with stolen identities. Some of these identities were undoubtedly used to pump money into the Obama election machine, because this bank and many other international institutions wanted the man in office.
Get rid of the fraud and corruption and an actual real American might get elected.
Let him. What was the field of Waterloo full of? Dead French cavalrymen.
It only takes ONE member of the House of Representatives to introduce articles of impeachment -- and he is always in order, and has the floor. Think about it. All 200-plus GOP House members, including the Tea Party Class of 2010, gutless wonders?
Don't think so.
Listen to you. "Ronald Reagan would campaign for The Willard." What a joke.
I'm going to let that idea linger in lights -- let's see how many FReepers believe you.
FReepers? How about it?
And blah, blah, blah.
I've forgotten more about Ronald Reagan and/or Lloyd Bentsen than you've ever heard about. Get lost, Romneybot.
Just like a RiNO -- claim to be a conservative, claim to support some conservative candidate, and then push the RiNO, Romneybot meme as hard as you can, slagging everyone who opposes The Willard.
Been nice knowing you -- not.
Get me a beer.
Great. Now, you have lowered your principles so far that you'd be satisfied with a third Clinton term? Unbelievable.
The second term of Bush was a DISASTER. Have you forgotten Democrats nearly gained filibuster-proof control of Congress because of Bush's massive spending? We'll have just as many loses under Romney and Romney won't even be as conservative as Bush was.
That you would see this nation subjected to a second term of Obama with all the "executive orders" and departmental rulings, that will ensue proves your lack of devotion to our nation and our Constitution.
Let him try and we'll have another mid-term in 2014 like we had in 2010.
A growing conservative majority in Congress with Obama in the White House is a lot more likely to achieve something conservative than a shrinking Republican minority with Romney in it.
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