The Rush Limbaugh LIVE Radio Thread

AND NOW . . . amidst billowing clouds of fragrant, aromatic first- and second-hand premium cigar smoke. . . it is time for . . . that harmless, lovable little fuzz ball, the highly-trained broadcast specialist, having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have, from behind the golden EIB microphone, firmly ensconced in the prestigious Attila-the-Hun chair at the Limbaugh Institute of Advanced Conservative Studies, the Mandarin of Talk Radio, with talent on loan from G-d, at the cutting-edge of societal evolution, with half his brain tied behind his back — just to make it fair, the all-knowing, all-caring, all-sensing, all-feeling, Maha-Rushie! America’s anchorman, truth detector, and doctor of democracy. A Real Man, a living legend, a way of life. Commander in Chief of U.S. Operation Chaos. Chief Waga-Waga El Rushbo of the El Conservo Tribe. Chief of the Patriotism Police. A Weapon of Mass Instruction. El Rushbo (a little Spanish lingo, there). He is the man who is running America (you know it and I know it). He knows the Democrats like every square inch of his glorious naked body. He is ready to do what he was born to do—that’s host. Get ready to what you were born to do—that’s listen (and post your comments on the Rush Limbaugh LIVE Radio Thread).

Here’s what Rush is talking about:

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/227/story/55350.html
Posted on Wed, Nov. 05, 2008
How will President Obama deploy his Internet army?
Frank Greve | McClatchy Newspapers

WASHINGTON A powerful new lobbying force is coming to town: Barack Obama’s triumphant army of 3.1 million Internet-linked donors and volunteers.

In a mass e-mail thanking them, written moments before his Grant Park victory speech, Obama put them on notice. “We have a lot to do to get our country back on track, and I’ll be in touch soon about what comes next,” he wrote.

Many are eager. “I’m going to be sitting at the phone, asking, ‘What do you want me to do next? I’m ready,’ “ said volunteer Courtney Hood, 37, a mother of three from Owings, Md.

How Obama will use his ardent laptop-armed cadres is unclear. So is the extent to which they’ll rally behind his priorities, press him for their own or both.

Joe Trippi, the Internet politics guru whose computer geeks made Howard Dean a contender in 2004 and who went on to design Obama’s socially networked campaign machine, offers a provocative and educated guess.

Trippi predicted that Obama would use his forces, first and foremost, to intimidate congressional foes of his agenda, rally his allies and forge “one of the most powerful presidencies in American history.”

Certainly, Obama reaches the White House with the biggest, best organized, fastest-acting grass-roots army in the history of presidential campaigning.

Moreover, because his Internet operation was miles ahead of Republican John McCain’s, Obama’s liberal-to-libertarian electronic activists are in a position to dominate the new political medium much as conservative Republicans dominate talk radio.

As for political utility, many thousands of volunteers such as Hood will be deployable within hours, with great precision and at almost no cost, thanks to the campaign’s state-of-the-art information-management systems.

The president-elect’s political operatives know, for example, the ZIP codes and hence the congressional districts of each of Obama’s million most active campaigners, those who volunteered via his Web site mybarackobama.com. It’s a social network that the campaign set up to communicate needs, events and assignments to volunteers.

The profiles that Obama campaigners submitted to the site also reveal which supporters in each district are environmentalists, concerned about health care or keen on government reform.

Moreover, because the so-called “MyBO” site quantified volunteers’ participation and fundraising totals digitally, there’s a numeric score for each participant’s success. It’s even adjusted to give more credit for recent help.

“We really know who Obama’s community leaders are,” issue by issue, said Thomas Gensemer, the managing director of Blue State Digital, the Washington-based mobilizer of online communities created by four Dean campaign veterans.

Instead of e-mailing members of Congress, Gensemer continued, Obama’s most effective supporters will meet with them in their district offices and press them at local town hall meetings.

Trippi offered a more dramatic scenario: “Obama will be able to say these are the 10 members of Congress standing in our way on health care. Basically, it’ll be the president and the people united, with some members of Congress in between, which won’t be a very comfortable place to be.”

A million Obama activists nationwide translate to an average of nearly 2,300 for each of 435 congressional districts. “And if someone in my district had a list of them with e-mail addresses and a lot of good will, I’d pay a lot of attention to them,” said Scott Lilly, a senior staffer for Democrats in the House of Representatives for nearly 30 years.

One question, Lilly continued, is whether Obama’s activists are concentrated in liberal urban Democratic districts, where Obama needs no help, and not much of a presence in conservative ones, where resistance is most likely.

For example, Lilly wondered how numerous Obama supporters are in, say, Panama City, Fla. It’s a hub of Florida’s 2nd Congressional District, in the state’s conservative Panhandle and represented by Allen Boyd, a Blue Dog Democrat.

Asked that question in late October, Alvin Peters, the chairman of the Democratic Party in Bay County, which includes Panama City, responded with shock and awe: “I’ve never seen so much political energy in this district ever,” he said. “It’s 10 to 20 times more than Kerry maybe 1,400 in little Panama City alone and it’s all local!”

That’s great news for Obama, whose legislative fate may depend most on his ability to persuade conservative Democrats.

What his supporters will accomplish in Republican districts is another uncertainty.

“If they’re networked into PTA meetings and barbershops and call-in talk shows, they can let people know that their guy isn’t doing what we want him to do. That could be an extraordinarily powerful tool,” Lilly said.

He and others presume that Obama will pass on his activist database to the Democratic National Committee and/or a new nonprofit that takes direction from the Obama White House. That’s permitted under MyBO’s privacy policy, which says that its names and data may be turned over to “organizations with similar political viewpoints and objectives, in furtherance of our own political objectives.”

The Federal Election Commission is unlikely to step in, said Washington lawyer Jan Baran, who’s a specialist on federal election law, ethics and lobbying. “The FEC has generally laid off regulating Internet-based activity by political organizations and individuals,” Baran said.

Reform advocates who see the Internet as a tool want to reduce Washington’s grip on power by providing universal Internet access to more government deliberations and records. It’s an idea that appeals to lots of Obama activists, who can be expected to push for it.

Obama has promised to create a “transparent and connected White House.” He’s also promised to appoint a Cabinet-rank chief technology officer to promote openness in federal agencies and help the new president communicate with the electorate. More generally, Obama supports expanding high-speed broadband Internet access, which roughly half the nation lacks.

An easy and popular step toward transparency would be for Obama to reverse the Bush administration’s secretive policy on Freedom of Information Act requests for government records. That could be done by declaration, without congressional involvement, noted John Wonderlich, the program director of the Washington-based Sunlight Foundation, which promotes transparency.

Visionaries in the realm of Internet politics, several of them well-known among Obama activists, would like to see Obama go further and use Internet social networks for ideas and collaborative problem-solving.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2126769/posts?page=18#18

Here is what I sent out to my email lists this morning:

I view this election result as “opportunity time”. The RINOS lost, we didn’t. We now have the opportunity to take our Party back from the RINOS who are busily trashing the only conservative voice we had on the Republican ticket; Sarah Palin. We cannot allow them to get away with it because their next target will be Bobby Jindal. The RINOS will do everything in their power to stop those two from being the future of the Republican party. I was a Thompson supporter before deciding to work on Romney’s campaign after Thompson dropped out in the primaries, but Romney is the main one that I can see who would benefit from taking those two out, since I know he wants to run in the next presidential election. He (through surrogates), may be behind this trashing. I hope not - because I will work against his efforts every step of the way.

I’ve been working over on the west coast of Florida since Tuesday (election day) and didn’t get back until late last night, so this is the first chance I’ve had to comment on this disastrous election. Here are my comments:

How could I have been so wrong?

This is what I wrote back in February of this year:

America’s first president of color will NOT be a “REgressive” (who calls himself a “PROgressive”) from the Marxist Left political spectrum.

America’s first president of color will be a true progressive visionary. He or she will be a classic liberal (nka a “conservative”) after the order of America’s Framers, F.A. Hayek, Ronald Reagan, et.al.

As I said previously here on FR, the election of Barak Obama (or any other Marxist, Leftist black), would only serve to FURTHER EMPOWER shake-down artist, race-baiters like Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, the ACLU, et.al., ad nauseam.

It would be IMPOSSIBLE for anyone who doesn’t “embrace the same leftist ideology” or isn’t a “person of color” to criticize the policies of an Obama administration without either being labeled an “Uncle Tom” or a “racist”.

That is THE number one reason why Obama will NEVER get the votes of sober-minded, intellectually honest people who love America, and care about what’s in the best interest of ALL of her people.

I think we still out-number the racists, the criminals, and the rest of the greedy, self-serving dregs of society who put personal ambition ahead of their country.

We still have the numbers to defeat the ones who stay up at night inventing ways to cause America’s defeat at the hands of our enemies.

Because of that, I don’t believe that either Mrs. “Stalin” Clinton, or Barak “empty suit” Obama could be elected to the presidency of the United States of America. ...

I’ll reiterate the bottom line:

“It would be IMPOSSIBLE for any BLACK PERSON who doesn’t “embrace the same leftist ideology” or isn’t a “person of color” to criticize the policies of an Obama administration without either being labeled an “Uncle Tom” or a “racist”.

“... the election of Barak Obama (or any other Marxist, Leftist black), would only serve to FURTHER EMPOWER shake-down artist, race-baiters like Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, the ACLU, et.al., ad nauseam.

That is THE number one reason why Obama will NEVER get the votes of sober-minded, intellectually honest people who love America, and care about what’s in the best interest of ALL of her people. ..”

If you want to help put your fellow citizens into the position of not being able to criticize the policies of the president of the USA without being labeled an “Uncle Tom” or a “racist”, you go right ahead - don’t say you weren’t warned.

Only conservative persons of color / minorities wouldn’t attempt to play that race card, or any of the other class-envy cards.

71 posted on 02/24/2008 4:29:45 PM EST by Matchett-PI (Racists, criminals, and all the dregs only have a voice in one Party - all vote ‘RAT)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1975497/posts?page=71#71

So learn this - and learn it good (paraphrasing Rush from yesterday - URL at bottom):

We (Reagan conservatives / “classic liberals”) did not lose the election. Conservatism was not on the ballot. The Republican Party has not sought to be conservative since the new tone was initiated by the Bush administration in 2001.

The frustrating thing about McCain’s campaign was that we didn’t really have a chance to contrast ourselves with Obama and the radicalism of his campaign. In four-and-a-half hours of televised presidential debate, not one mention of any of the extremism that Obama has said he was for.

John McCain’s concession speech was a testament to his campaign. His whole campaign was a concession speech! We have now demonstrated to one and all how to lose. We know how to lose. There are those that we are talking about here who have been the architects of this defeat, and it is going to be crucial to point this out as the reestablishment of conservatism takes place.

Some say not to worry because Obama’s going to have to govern from the center. He’s going to have to because look at the economic crisis and look at all the bailout money and look at terrorism.

Read the New York Times! They are demanding, A, he close Gitmo; B, he raise taxes right now; C, he get out of Iraq.

The left thinks they got somebody that’s going to implement their agenda even before he gets to the White House. Their rage is going to go someplace. These people live and thrive on rage. It is their fuel, and they’re going to find an outlet for it somewhere. They are perpetually miserable. They are perpetually unhappy. They might be in a moment right now of bliss, but the hard stuff hasn’t started yet, and it’s going to very soon.

[] Governing from the center?!! His first appointment, his chief of staff is Rahm Emanuel. He is good a old-fashioned Chicago thug just like Obama is a good old-fashioned Chicago thug. On the night of the Clinton election, Rahm Emanuel was so angry at the president’s enemies that he stood up at a celebratory dinner with colleagues from the campaign; Rahm Emanuel grabbed a steak knife and he began rattling off a list of betrayers. As he listed their names, he shouted, “Dead! Dead! Dead!” and he plunged the steak knife into the table after every name. This is not a bunch of people that are going to govern from the center. These are left-wing extremists. They are radicals, and we’re not gonna let these people either on our side or on the left say, “Well, we didn’t really know that much about this guy.”

McCain said, “Ladies and gentlemen, my friends, my friends, I want us to come together tonight in unity with Senator and President-Elect Obama.”

Unity with President-Elect Obama? Abandon 57 million Americans who voted Republican and want no part of an Obama agenda. Unity with Obama?

What little we know about Obama is precisely that he is a radical.

Do you plan to unify with a radical extremist who is not going to govern from the center? Pelosi and Reid are not gonna govern from the center. What the hell do people think they wanted to win this election for? When do liberals govern from the center? The only time they do that is when they have to, when there are enough Republicans around to keep their extremism in check — and that’s going to be interesting to see if we have enough now.

I know McCain wanted to sound gracious, but what is the point now of saying unify with Obama? Does Obama say he wants to unify with us? No.
There is no unity with Obama. He doesn’t cross the aisle.

Let me ask you which of the following Obama and Democrat agenda items you want to sign on to:

Do you want to compromise with them on the Employee Free Choice Act? These are things that they have said they’re going to do.

Do you want to sign on with the Employee Free Choice Act? Do you want to have union thugs in your small business being able to harass your employees who cannot vote secret ballot on whether to unionize or not? Do you want union thugs visiting your employees’ homes to pressure them, to vote to unionize your small business?

Any of you who want to make nice out there want to compromise and unify on the Democrat Party’s position on the Fairness Doctrine? Chuck Schumer just yesterday suggested that the federal government can legislate and regulate porn on the airwaves, what’s the difference in talk radio?

How about the nationalization of health care?

Estate tax increases. You want to unify with Obama on increasing the death tax when you croak?

Unify with Obama on driver’s licenses for illegal aliens?

Unify on capital gains tax increase?

Unify on defense cuts? Barney Frank wants to cut the defense budget 25%, get out of Iraq, get out of Afghanistan; while Putin’s loading up Europe with missiles and the Gaza Strip is coming alive.

Unify around the notion of liberal judicial appointments to the federal bench, including the Supreme Court? Left wing judges who attempt to by-pass the will of the people through their legislatures and make laws themselves from the bench (rather than interpret them as the constitution demands).

Unify around racial and ethnic preferences and reparations? You want to agree that we’re a bunch of racist pigs, sexist, bigots, homophobes, and expand the whole concept of racial preferences and quotas and affirmative action. (Black leader from the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Charles Steele, Jr., said: “We haven’t accomplished anything. This doesn’t mean anything. Obama doesn’t have slave blood. His wife has slave blood, but he doesn’t. So he doesn’t come from the down-with-the-struggle crowd.”)

[] Can we oppose the idea that confiscatory taxation produces prosperity, when in fact it punishes economic growth? Yes, we can!

Can we oppose the notion that our national greatness is derived from an ever growing government instead of the freedom from government our Founders envisioned? Yes, we can.

Can we oppose the belief that one’s earnings must be redistributed for the false promise of fairness? Yes, we can.

Can we oppose the belief that it is immoral to secure our own borders or defend ourselves from terrorists intent on destroying us? Yes, we can.

Can we do all that and more? Yes, we can. Because now it is plain for one and all to see that taking the moderate path of appeasement leads to abysmal defeat. Bush’s new tone came home to roost when Obama won the election.

And the last thing we’re going to unify around is the notion that what really killed McCain was Sarah Palin.

Those “insiders” (I think many of them are previous Romney supporters who want to kill her - and maybe Bobby Jindal - off because Romney wants to run in the next presidential race??) blaming Palin for McCain’s loss are the very people who reneged on their promise (done-deal-negotiated) to allow O’Reilly and Megyn Kelly to interview her, choosing rather to set her up for interviews (to be “edited” later) with their friends and former working colleagues. Nicolle Wallace (a CBS news analyst until February 2008 when McCain hired her as his campaign adviser) kept her away from them in favor of her friend, Katie Couric, et.al.

Lots more on that score, here: http://rsmccain.blogspot.com/2008/11/worthless-gop-campaign-hacks.html

And here:
Yes We Can: The Reestablishment of Principled Conservatism Begins
November 5, 2008
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_110508/content/01125106.guest.html

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