All Episodes
Previous Next
Aug. 2, 2005 - Rush Limbaugh Program
34:53
August 2, 2005, Tuesday, Hour #2
| Copy link to current segment

Time Text
The views expressed by the host on this program make more sense than anything anybody else out there happens to be saying 17 years of consistency and reliability.
On the Excellence in Broadcasting Network, I am Rush Limbaugh with talent on loan from God.
You're going to be on the program.
It's 800-282-2882.
The email address is rush at EIBnet.com.
I saw this today.
I thought this is a spoof.
This has to be somebody's idea of a parody.
So I was very careful about this, folks.
I went into research mode.
I went to a bunch of different sources trying to confirm this.
And lo and behold, it's not a spoof.
On the PR Newswire today.
A Democratic National Committee press release.
Bush should stop playing games with physical fitness.
The White House, by the way, the contact on this is Josh Ernest.
Josh Ernest of the Democrat National Committee staff.
The following is a fact sheet released today by the DNC.
The White House this weekend announced that President Bush received good news during his annual physical.
Doctors pronounced the president to be in superior physical condition, which media reports attributed to his rigorous six-day-a-week exercise routine.
While President Bush has made physical fitness a personal priority, his cuts to education funding have forced schools to roll back PE classes, and his administration's efforts to undermine Title IX sports programs have threatened thousands of women's college sports programs.
President Bush has dropped the ball when it comes to fully funding physical education in public schools and women's athletic programs at the college level, said the DNC spokesman Josh Ernest.
His personal habits indicate that physical fitness is not just fun and games for him.
Don't our kids deserve the same opportunities to be physically fit?
Can you believe this?
You can't be physically fit unless the federal government's paying for it?
Now they're making fun of Bush for being physical fit.
Now they're being critical of him.
Look at when Bill Clinton was in the White House, Bill Clinton was, he was eating Big Macs.
His weight was fluctuating up and down.
He finally had open heart surgery.
Does anybody recall the Republicans using those incidents to attack Clinton's policies?
Of course not.
I mean, to take the fact that the president is in great shape and then say, well, it's good enough for him.
Why didn't he do it for everybody else?
Would somebody tell me what federal program or what school President Bush attends that has this rigorous regimen imposed on him?
Where did President Bush learn to do this, folks?
I guess you can only learn physical education in school.
And if you don't learn it in school, then you will never be physically fit.
I don't think it takes one bit of school time to go jogging or whatever you want to do for exercise.
And to somehow attack the president's physical fitness program as unfair, because while he's benefiting mightily from his own PE program, America's kids are sadly losing because of his cuts in education, of which there are none.
There haven't been any cuts in education.
We're spending more on education.
We can choke a bunch of toad frogs with what we're spending on education.
It is outrageous, and it's hilarious, and it once again shows the absolute nothingness that these people have.
They're just throwing things up against the wall, hoping that they will stick.
Doctors gave President Bush a clean bill of health at his annual checkup this weekend.
A White House spokesperson Dana Perino proclaimed him to be in superior health.
However, America's youth are not so lucky.
While obesity has been declared an epidemic in this country, Bush's education policy is putting children at risk with cuts in physical education and school athletic programs.
You know, folks, this is, I don't know, to me, it just indicates how vulnerable these people are.
They're so bereft of any ideas.
All they can do is criticize.
When are they going to learn that this is not getting them anywhere?
I hope they don't, but at some point, you've got to think that somebody will figure it out eventually.
Democrats are also very excited today because there is a special election in Ohio.
And this special election, the Democrats, you keep an eye on this because this could be a bellwether.
This could be a bellwether election for what's going to happen in 06.
This is the congressional district number two in Ohio and Batavia, Ohio, typifies much of the 2nd congressional district, which has not sent a Democrat to Washington in nearly 40 years.
But there's a special election today, and that competitive race for the seat has surprised many election watchers.
Michael Margolis, a political science professor at the University of Cincinnati, said the second district of Ohio is normally not competitive.
It's an unusual set of circumstances here.
The vacancy opened in April when the Senate approved President Bush's choice of Republican Representative Bob Portman as U.S. trade representative.
Portman's congressional district was considered historically safe for the GOP, with the seven-term Portman never winning less than 72% of the vote.
Now, that Republican sense of security has been shaken with the candidacy of Paul Hackett, an attorney and former city councilman.
Hackett is an unusual Democratic candidate for the district.
He supports gun rights as a U.S. Marine reservist who served in Iraq where he led troops in combat in Fallujah.
Said he believes his service will win votes in a district that twice delivered a two-to-one margin for President Bush.
He admits that he and the commander-in-chief don't see eye to eye on Iraq.
He says, I agree with the president.
We need to get the job done there.
Stay there.
Don't set an exit date.
Agree with him on that.
But I disagree with him.
I don't think we should have gone into Iraq originally.
Gene Schmidt is his Republican opponent, former Ohio State House representative, who has the endorsement of Portman.
And of course, she disagrees profoundly.
But this guy, Hackett, he's as liberal as he can be.
He says paying even higher taxes would make him happy.
He's led in fundraising or trailed in fundraising by three to one.
And I think he's trailing in polls by three to one.
Is he not, Mr. Snirdly?
A little tighter.
I thought it was three to one of the polls.
Snurdley's going to check it out anyway, but here's the seat.
Bush won this three to one, and it's been a Republican seat forever.
And so the Democrats are eagerly, eagerly eyeing this.
Because if this guy Hackett can unseat, well, take the seat here from Gene Schmidt, his opponent who's never served in Congress.
The Democrats are then going to say, see, see, everything that's happened up till now was a mirage.
This just proves the Republicans are going to lose the House in 2006.
The Democrats are going to win it back because if a Democrat can take this seat, we can take any seat.
Blah, So they're eager.
They are excited.
And this is how desperate they are.
They're looking at one special election, which does have special circumstances to it, unique ones.
And they're looking at this, and they've got their fingers crossed, and they are hoping like hell they can win this.
And they got a candidate running for higher taxes.
You know, this, the, the, you know, Hackett is a guy who has said that the president of the United States, George Bush, is the greatest threat to the United States today.
And he has not apologized for that.
The comments he made to U.S. USA Today, he said, I've said I don't like the SOB that lives in the White House, but I'd put my life on the line for him, he's quoted as saying in the USA Today story.
Schmidt said there's something wrong when a person says that the greatest threat to the U.S. is not Osama bin Laden, but the man in the White House.
So that's who the Democrats are putting up, and they're all excited about it because this guy has gone around and he's articulating the kind of things that the Nancy Pelosis and the Barbara Boxers and the moveon.orgs want said, and that is that Bush is the biggest threat to freedom in the country.
Bush is the biggest threat to peace in the world.
He's an SOB, according to the Democrat candidate running for office there.
And the Dems are happy about this.
And keep a sharp eye on this because they're looking at this.
They've got their fingers crossed.
This could be, as far as they're concerned, the beginning of the restructuring and the reacquisition of their utopia.
Quick timeout.
We'll be back after this.
As we go back to the phones, this is Rick in Milford, Ohio.
Glad you called, sir.
Nice to have you with us today.
Hi, Rush.
Ditto's from the 2nd District.
Thank you.
Nice to have you.
I thought it was interesting.
Mr. Hackett runs television commercials here, and nowhere on his commercials does he say he's a Democrat.
Is that right?
Either verbally or in writing.
Is that right?
Is that right?
Well, he doesn't mention he's a Democrat.
Nope, nowhere.
He plays the same ad over and over, and it's all about he went to Iraq.
He doesn't address any issues.
It's just that he went to Iraq, and you should vote for him because he went to Iraq.
Are the Republicans running any counter ads talking about his quote on paying more taxes and Bush being the most dangerous man in the world?
The Republican Congressional Committee is running an ad like that, but Gene Schmidt herself is not.
Okay, well, it doesn't matter.
The ad's in the district, though.
Is it running with any frequency?
Which ad do you see the most?
Well, they've stepped them all up in the last three or four days, so they're probably both about the same.
Have you voted?
Are you going to vote?
I've already voted first thing this morning.
Now, they're expecting a turnout to be 20% today.
Is that pretty right, pretty accurate?
Probably.
I was there at 7 o'clock, and I was number 20.
With 20% turnout, I can't wait for the Democrat stories about how people were denied the right to vote.
Voting machines were stacked against them or whatever.
That's true.
Well, what's your sense of it out there, Rick?
I think Gene's going to take it.
What were the pre-election polls?
I'm a little confused.
I haven't seen a whole lot of polling.
They had Mr. Hackett on the other night on Chris Matthews, and I just caught the tail end of it, and Chris was asking him about if he had a concealed carry permit, and he said, yes, he did.
Matthews just kind of worked him over about that pretty good.
If he was going to pack heat if he went to Congress of all things, well, nevertheless, the media is looking at this with bated breath.
The Democrats are looking at this with bated breath.
And I just find this so telling.
Here they're looking at this as a bellwether election, and their candidate will not even admit to being a Democrat, which means they're still in the we've got to deceive people mode.
If we tell them where's a Democrat, that isn't going to fly in this district.
This district is not going to elect Democrats.
Yet the media is looking at this as a bellwether election.
If a Democrat wins here, why, we can win anywhere, and we're going to be back.
You know, I was having a little fun yesterday with the people at ABC News The Note, their political unit's little blog on their website.
And they get a little snarky with me today about this story.
They say Schmidt versus Hackett will be the topic du jour in most political shops in D.C. and Ohio as the two compete to replace Rob Portman in Ohio's strongly Republican 2nd District.
As we suggested yesterday, if the Democrat wins, it will be quite a story.
And no rush.
That's not bias, simply fact.
I got on them for being, well, I didn't get on them.
I just mentioned they are.
They're a bunch of Democrats at the Note.
So what?
It's mainstream media.
At any rate, you got a Democrat running who's not a Democrat, who won't admit to being a Democrat, and only mentioning in his ads, apparently, that he served in Vietnam, nothing about the fact he supports higher and higher taxes, and nothing in his ads about saying that Bush is the greatest threat to the United States today.
And then saying, in USA Today, I've said that I don't like the son of a bit me, but that I'd put my life on the line for him.
That was in a USA Today story.
So he's running ads that do not mention any of that, nor that he is a Democrat.
Yet the Dems look at this as a bellwether.
Interesting.
Mark in Cincinnati, nice to have you on the program.
Welcome.
Rush, great pleasure to talk to you, first-time caller.
And I had to call today because I'm in Cincinnati and I voted in the second district.
I voted for Gene Schmidt.
I voted this morning.
But Ms. Schmidt might be in trouble, and I'll give you my reasoning.
I'm a staunch Republican, but I'm sick of Republicans, especially in the state of Ohio and Hamilton County in particular, not acting like Republicans, especially from a fiscal standpoint.
There was an article in a Wall Street Journal last week penned by Ken Blackwell and Art Laffer about how Ohio is losing jobs, growing very slowly, and has one of the higher growth in tax rates in the nation.
Hamilton County is following that.
Hamilton County is a very, very strong Republican county.
And I have friends who are staunch conservatives who toyed with voting for Hackett just to send a message that we're sick and tired of Republicans spending like drunken Democrats.
Well, you know, this is a it's a it's an interesting dilemma.
I understand my entire 17 years here.
I've I've spoken from time to time with angry Republicans such as you who want to send a message.
And I've always tried to talk them out of that as a reason for a vote.
At the same time, you talk about the rising tax rates in Ohio.
You know, it's not just Ohio.
There is a mass exodus occurring from the upper Midwest and the Northeast.
I saw the article on Connecticut this week about Jeb Bush welcoming the death tax enactment in Connecticut.
I agree.
I totally agree with you.
I did not vote Democrat.
I couldn't vote for Hackett.
He's a liberal Democrat socialist.
So I agree with that.
You have to vote with what is reality.
But I'm going to tell you that, especially in Ohio and Hamilton County in particular, taxes are becoming a and have become a huge, huge election balloting issue.
Now, Hackett doesn't propose anything to fix that.
No, other than higher taxes.
But see, he's not saying that in any of his ads or his campaign appearances, apparently.
A liberal Democrat message isn't going to win him any votes, but third party possibilities are a real threat, and that would threaten Republican unity, continuity, and majorities.
Yeah, I actually think that, and I've commented on this before, I actually think that immigration is the issue that may cause the rise of another parole-like third-party candidate nationally.
I'm not speaking just of Ohio here.
I think immigration has a great possibility of being the issue that does that.
But, you know, the thing about Hackett, you just said that a liberal Democrat message is not going to win him any votes.
Well, okay, if that's the case, then why are the Democrats and the media looking at this as a bellwether?
They're not running a liberal.
Well, they are running a liberal Democrat who won't admit it.
They're running a Liberal Democrat is trying to sound like a hawk on a rock by the fact that he served there and he has a concealed weapon permit.
So he's supposed to be this big gung-ho conservative type guy.
So once again, they're participating here in a little deceit.
How can we fool him today?
I don't know if he's going to win or not, but if he does win, I'm not going to accept the notion that this is a bellwether anything until a liberal Democrat who campaigns as a liberal Democrat says, I want to raise your taxes and I want the state of Ohio's government to get even bigger.
And I do think George Bush is the most dangerous man in the world.
If that guy then runs and gets elected, then I will accept it as a bellwether election.
But if this guy wins today and doesn't campaign on what he really believes and what he has said elsewhere, then this is no bellwether whatsoever.
It won't mean anything.
And I'll be more than happy for the Democrats to take the wrong message from it.
If a liberal Democrat message is not going to win in this district, then we'll just see what happens when the returns come in tonight.
Back in a moment.
Hannah coming out of the woodwork from the 2nd District of Ohio.
We go to Batavia, Ohio.
Joanne, I'm glad you called.
Great to have you on the program today.
Rush, thanks for taking my call.
I'm so glad that you are mentioning this.
You know, we fought this battle and won in November with 71% of the vote in my county alone going to George Bush.
And people are not defining Paul Hackett for who he is.
He is John Kerry, 20 years younger.
He's just using a different war, exploiting it for political gain.
And we take issue with that here in this county because a lot of the fallen soldiers have come from our very own neighborhoods.
He does not stand what we believe in.
Life, liberty, limited government.
We made that decision in November, and we're going to support it, back it up, and give it the resources to succeed.
Out of way, you keep talking and you keep thinking the same way.
Thanks, Rush.
I'll tell you what, this guy to me sounds like a typical lib.
He runs while trying to conceal his true beliefs and is running as a Marine.
Of course, the implication there is that he's to the right of Gene Schmidt.
But folks, he's not running as a Democrat because if he were running as a Democrat, he would run anti-war.
He would be an anti-war candidate.
It's not enough.
And he's not saying that.
He's not even saying he's a Democrat.
He's not even admitting what he has said elsewhere.
Thinks Bush is the most dangerous guy in the world and that he wants to raise everybody's taxes.
But what's going to happen?
I just want to warn you, if this guy wins in this election with a 20% turnout today, which is what they are expecting, libs all over the place are going to be saying that this was a test of Bush and Bush lost.
Bush thought he could get this seat saved if he plucked Portman out of it to be the trade representative, but Bush took it on the chin.
It'll be a referendum on Bush, and it's not because you have a liberal running as a conservative.
You have a liberal running as a military hawk.
She's exactly right.
You've got a guy that's John Kerry Jr. running 20 years, 30 years later in a different war.
And I just keep this in mind because I have no idea what the outcome of this is going to be.
Mr. Snerdley, have you found the most recent polling data?
Snerdley is still looking for the most recent polling data.
I thought for sure that I heard she had a three-to-one lead.
Now, last night, again, I could be confused.
It might be the fundraising lead that she had, which is mentioned here in the story.
But I'm just going to tell you, folks, this is no bellwether whatsoever.
When you've got a Democrat that won't run as a Democrat, when you've got a Democrat who will not say everything Democrats are saying, and then they try to say he won the race, don't fall for this.
This is more smoke and mirrors.
And it's a great example of how the left and the Democrats continue to lie to even themselves.
Jim in Warsaw, Kentucky.
Hello, sir.
Nice to have you on the program.
Rush, it is a great honor.
Thank you.
I've been listening since I was a sophomore in high school.
I'm 31 years old now.
I'm in the Cincinnati metro area.
Something else I can't believe the callers haven't mentioned.
Hackett's television commercials actually start off with President Bush giving a speech about defending the American way of life.
And then Hackett comes on the commercial and says, I agree with the president.
That's why I went to Iraq and fought for this country.
And they say this is a bellwether election.
My ass, this is a bellwether election, folks.
I tell you, these people are just laughably reprehensible.
And I don't care.
If this guy wins, it doesn't matter to me.
If they can't even be honest with themselves, if their only hope is trickery and lying and deceit, they have no hope in the big picture.
So this election, I have no clue how it's going to go.
Do you have any idea, Jim, how it's going to go?
Local radio has been, it seems like there's a pretty heavy leaning towards Gene Schmidt.
Well, that's good.
How do you mean that?
Local radio is leaning towards you.
You mean the people on the air?
Local talk radio, a lot of callers calling in.
The only time I don't listen to local is when you're on, actually.
A lot of people calling in on the local talking about their outrage about the Hackett commercials.
They're upset that he's trying to pull a fast one on them.
And just seems like a lot of the people who are getting involved, the people who care and get involved, as usual, seem to gravitate towards the conservative.
If the second district is as Republican as the returns in recent elections indicate, I would conclude that there aren't a whole lot of people in that district that are going to be fooled by this.
I wouldn't think very many.
There's a small group in Cincinnati, the city itself, like many urban areas that are just anti-Bush.
And anybody who is against Bush, they're going to vote for.
But I would really, really be shocked if he were to win this election.
Yeah, well, we'll have to wait and see.
What would be funny is if this Gene Schmidt babe wins this thing three to one.
I want to see all the stories tomorrow about the bellwether election that we had here because I can't tell you how high their hopes are on this at the DNC and in the Washington media.
I mean, believe me, folks, they just, they're so desperate for anything they can portray as a win.
You understand just how much they're losing, how often that they're losing?
You may think that they don't look at themselves as losers because they've got the mainstream press on their side, but they're losers, and they know they're losers.
And the nomination of Roberts, I think, was the final nail in that coffin.
And then yesterday, sending Bolton up there on a recess appointment.
I mean, Bush and his agenda is getting passed.
He's not a lambduck.
They're really not able to slow him down here.
He's still outsmarting them.
of these things and the only thing they apparently have to rely on is running trick candidates who cannot be honest about who they really are in a republican district hoping to capture it matt in new york you're next nice to have you on the program hi rush good to talk to you again i first talked to you in 95.
well great to have you back just wanted to uh say or ask you if you think that this bellwether reference is into what in uh reference what hillary will try to poo a poll in 08 where she's strong for the military but hiding the other part of her ideology.
I'm going to tell you something about Hillary.
I haven't gotten that far with her candidacy yet.
We've talked about the notion that Hillary is trying to duck and cover and act as a centrist here.
And, you know, she came out, she let it be said the other day.
She really, she really angered Chucky Schumer because she, and this is, I think, either while I was gone or a couple days before I left, but she, some, some assistant or some aide of hers said that she was supportive of Roberts and Chuck Schumer had a had a cow over that.
I don't, look, I don't think Mrs. Clinton is going to be able to pull off any move to the center and come off as a centrist or a conservative.
And I think it's wishful thinking.
That's not who she is.
People on the left keep forgetting we have a more educated, more informed, participating public today in our national affairs than we've ever had.
And the old tricks of trying to be somebody you're not are not as easily pulled off.
I just, I don't think that's going to, I just don't even think it's a relevant factor.
Now, I know a lot of the people, conservatives inside the beltway, who are so close to all this policy wonk stuff that they sometimes get negative and pessimistic and they think that, oh, we've got to watch out for her.
Look what she's pulling off.
But that's based on the fact that the people out there are easily fooled today.
And I don't think they are anymore, especially not by the left.
The left is not fooling anybody anymore.
They're not easily or any other way fooling people anymore, especially now when they're not even really trying to.
So Hillary moves to the center.
All she does is demonstrate how left the Democratic Party really is.
She's got her voting record.
That'll be easy to show that she's as liberal as anybody they could nominate.
But I'm still not convinced that she's the choice, folks.
I mean, I've got this stack here.
And I'll tell you what I'll do.
During the upcoming commercial timeout, I'm going to find a couple stories in this stack from last week about the problems of Hillary's electability and the problems with the fact she has no charisma, that she's basically a dryball.
She's not a likable personality when you see her on television, when you see her.
She doesn't have that it factor that reaches out of the TV and says, magically, you like this woman.
She just, she's cold.
And there are a lot of Democrats worried about this.
I think both these stories have Democrat sources, concerned about her electability and concerned about the fact that she's stiff.
She's not that exciting as a personality.
So we'll take a break here in just a second and I'll find those for you.
And I tend to think that everybody's jumping the gun.
We're three and a half years away from the election.
Well, a little over three years away from the election.
So much can happen in an even shorter period of time than that.
Plus, I always, I have this thing, and it's a trait of mine that I've had my whole life.
I just have this natural inclination to buck conventional wisdom.
Conventional wisdom is groupthink.
And I've always just been inclined to buck it.
Now, I will also admit that in the past, I've been wrong about Hillary.
I didn't think she'd run for the Senate, but she did in New York.
So I will gladly admit that error and still claim that I'm not convinced.
Not that she's not going to run here, but I'm not convinced that she can win.
She might win the nomination, but I'm not one of these people who thinks it's a slam dunk that she either gets a nomination or that she wins the race for the president.
There are a lot of Democrats that want this.
Names you're not hearing a lot about.
Forget the John Kerrys and the John Edwardses and these has-beens.
You've got to think about people like Evan Bayh.
There's a story out about him recently.
He's raising money like crazy out there, Indiana.
And then there's Mark Warner from Virginia.
And these guys are loved and adored by people in Hollywood.
I think it's Hollywood.
I'll have to double check this.
I think it's Hollywood types that are not convinced of Hillary's electability.
At any rate, let me take a break and find those two stories.
I'll have them for you when I come back after this.
All right, I just saw the ad, the Hackett ad.
If you watch this ad, you convince this guy's the Republican in the race.
It is the most deceiving and disingenuous, dishonest ad, given who this guy is.
And I have seen it in a long time.
And what we're doing, we're getting the audio from that link, from that ad to play for you here.
And I just instructed Coco Jr.
Coco is on vacation this week.
So Coco Jr. is running the website.
And I just sent the link to Coco Jr.
I said, Coco Jr., I want you to link this ad, the video, on our website and do it ASAP.
And let me know when it's up so people can go see this ad.
It's just, it's, it's, Mamon, did you get the email with the audio link?
Yeah, he did.
You're working on the on the audio link even now, so we'll have it.
But it's just, it's funny.
You think this guy's the Republican, folks?
It is the most deceitful ad.
And I hate to sound like a broken record, but to those of you at ABC's The Note and anywhere else in the media and at the DNC, this is not a bellwether election for you all.
You are not putting George Bush on trial.
You are running a candidate here that's trying to make everybody believe he's to the right of George W. Bush.
The Democrats are not running who they really are.
There's nothing bellwether about this.
And it'll be interesting to see if this ad fools a district that traditionally has voted 70% for Republican candidates.
Now, these two Hillary stories, the first Hillary story is from Slate magazine, slate.com, and it was from July 29th.
It was by Jacob Weisberg.
But why can't Hillary win?
Political insiders mostly agree, despite being an early frontrunner for the 08 Democrat nomination, Hillary Clinton faces long odds of ever being elected president.
But if she can't win, why can't she?
Well, one facile argument often voiced by Hillary loathers on the right is that she's too far to the left.
The real Hillary is closer to Howard Dean than Bill Clinton, a recent piece in National Review asserted.
That's wrong.
An unhedged supporter of the war in Iraq, Senator Clinton stands at the hawkish interventionist extreme of her party on foreign policy.
Despite her pandering vote against CAFTA, she's a confirmed free trader and deficit hawk on the cultural issues that often undermine Democrats.
She seeks common ground, sometimes with flat earth conservatives like Rick Santorum, and has been nattering about the tragedy of abortion.
In fact, Senator Clinton's political position couldn't be better for 2008.
Despite being a shrewdly triangulating centrist on the model of her husband, she remains wildly popular with the party's liberal core, seems to share the right's erroneous view of her as a closet lefty, draws closer to her with every inane conservative attack.
But nevertheless, I'm one of the few in the semi-inner circle who don't think she can win, said her advisor, Harold Ickes, to Time magazine, just after the 2004 election.
It'd be a brutal and bruising fight.
It would make this year's race look like kindergarten.
Ickies is surely correct that any contest involving Hillary will get nasty and ugly.
What then of the complaint that Hillary is doomed by association with her president or perhaps by the marital issues?
And they go on and talk about these things.
But when you get right down to it, they say this.
Hillary does face a genuine electability issue.
One that has little to do with ideology, woman hating, or her choice of life partner.
Plainly put, it's her personality.
In her four years in the Senate, she's proven herself to be capable, blah, She can make Republican colleagues sound like star-struck teenagers, but she still lacks a key quality, like ability.
Hard as she tries, Hillary has little facility for connecting with ordinary people, for making them feel that she understands, identifies, and is at some level one of them.
You may admire and respect her, but it's hard not to find Hillary a bit inhuman.
Whatever she may be like in private, her public persona is calculating, clenched, and relentless, a little robotic.
Hillary isn't as obnoxious as Gore or as off-putting as Carrie, but she's got the same damn problem and it can't be fixed.
That is slate.com.
And then we have Robert Novak from Saturday, July 23rd.
Prominent New York City liberals are concerned about Hillary Clinton's electability, quietly talking up Bill Richardson as her alternative.
Richardson intrigues Democrats because he's Hispanic American with a Mexican mother.
Richardson would be expected to pin down the burgeoning Latino vote.
So all I'm telling you is that on the left, there are real big concerns.
The woman can't win because she's not likable, doesn't have a likable personality, and just isn't electable.
So all the conventional wisdom out there is to the ops.
Okay, we got the audio for the ad.
This is the audio to the ad.
Paul Hackett, a Democrat, is running in Ohio.
The election today, special election, 2nd District.
Remember, this is a guy who has said he wants to raise taxes, that George Bush is the most dangerous man in the world.
He's provoking all these situations that endanger America.
Call him an SOB in a USA Today ad.
This is the audio to the ad, or in a spot, rather, a story.
And he's not saying anything about being a Democrat.
He's not running anti-war.
He's trying to run as one of Bush's big supporters, one of Bush's big buddies, when in fact he's called Bush an SOB and has said that Bush is the most dangerous guy in the world today.
Now, here's, this is just classic.
A lib who has to lie about who he is in order to win anywhere in a conservative district or wherever doesn't matter.
So there's nothing bellwether here, but I'm telling you, listen to that.
You think this guy's the Republican candidate, wouldn't you, Mr. Snurdley?
Quick timeout.
Be right back.
Don't go away.
Okay, if you go to the top of our homepage at rushlimbaugh.com, you'll find a link to see this Hackett ad.
And it is amazing.
The Libs, once again, trying to hide behind a military uniform.
It didn't work for Kerry.
I can't imagine it's going to work for Hackett.
Well, we'll see.
But you got to see this ad to believe it.
▲
Export Selection