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Aug. 3, 2005 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 3, 2005, Wednesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
I guess we could say the more things stay the same, the less they change.
The Democrats lost an election in Ohio, and they're proclaiming victory.
They lose the Senate.
They talk about minority rights as though they won the Senate.
Greetings and welcome, ladies and gentlemen.
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And I've fired up a Ditto Cam again today here at the top of the program.
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But barring any such unforeseen circumstances, the Ditto Cam will be on for all three hours.
By the way, those of you watching, you might see over my right shoulder there an orange Club Gitmo car flag, one of the new items here at the Club Gitmo gift shop.
And it's right under my blue neon name there.
And it's pretty big.
It's actually made to put on your car as you drive around like some people have been waving the American flag around since September the 11th.
And we got some travel coffee mugs in here today and some Club Gitmo soap on a rope to be able to demo later today all those things available at Club Gitmo gift shop.
We got a great photo for the Club Gitmo Photo Gallery.
A guy from Mechanicsburg, Maryland went up on a vacation in Northeast and he decided to go to Chappaquittic.
And Chappaquiddick, I don't know, he's stopped by a sign that says Chappaquiddick on it.
And he's wearing swim flippers and a swim mask.
He's impersonating our caricature of Ted Kennedy in his photo.
And it's posted in the Club Gitmo Photo Gallery.
All right, so last night, I had a super secret website to get election returns out of the 2nd District of Ohio.
And it seesawed back and forth, but it eventuated that Gene Schmidt was victorious by a little less than 4,000 votes.
Now, if you go back to yesterday's program, you'll recall, ladies and gentlemen, that I made a big deal out of this man, Hackett, and his ad, his fraudulent ad, in which he tried to portray himself as a Bush buddy and a hawk on the Iraq War.
His ad never mentions that he's a lib, never mentions that he's a Democrat, never mentions that he called the president an SOB, never mentions that he referred to the president as the most dangerous man in the world, and never references his support for tax increases.
And so yesterday, if you recall, the Democrats are all abuzz about this, all excited, man.
They couldn't wait because they knew this guy was, they just knew he was going to win.
And they were calling this a bellwether election.
It's a huge Republican district, Ohio's number two is.
And so they said, if this guy wins, that's it, that's it.
That means it's over for Bush.
It means that the country's fed up with all these Bush policies.
And of course, that was just flat out wrong because this guy wasn't running as a Democrat.
He was not running as a Howard Dean.
If this guy had run as a Democrat, he would have run as an anti-war kook.
He would have said in his ads that Bush is the most dangerous man in America.
He would have called Bush an SOB in his ads, all these things, but he didn't.
You couldn't tell from watching his ad.
And we had, I can't tell you how many thousands of hits we had yesterday on the ad at rushlimbaugh.com.
You couldn't tell from people watching this ad whether he was a Republican or a Democrat.
It's not just like a Republican.
And so I made a point yesterday to tell all the people in the Democratic Party and the media, if you think this is a bellwether, you are missing the point.
You're not running an honest campaign.
You're not even being honest with yourselves.
But I knew it didn't matter whether he won or lost, they're going to spin this as a win because that's what they do.
So I'm watching television yesterday afternoon, and I want you people to know something.
I don't do this anymore.
I do not watch news programs in the afternoon.
After this program's over at 3 o'clock, what more do I need to learn?
What more is there to learn?
I don't do this, but I did yesterday because I knew what I was going to see, and I wanted to see it, and I wanted to know that I was right in saying I knew what I was going to see.
And lo and behold, there on CNN was Ronald Brownstein, the political reporter for the LA Times, CNN consultant or contributor, whatever.
And he says, you know, if this guy hackett, if he can at least get to 45%, why, that's a moral victory.
Why?
This is such a huge Republican district.
I said, hmm.
And then an hour later, and this is really painful.
When you turn over to MSNBC, you know, this is painful.
But there she came.
Nora O'Donnell, about whom I once said she looks like her bathwater wouldn't even stink.
I might even drink it.
She said the same thing.
If this guy gets to 45%, even Dawn's laughing at that.
If this guy gets to 45%, why this is a victory?
I was saying, well, hubba, hubba.
It looks to me like facts talking points have gone out from the DNC to all their willing accomplices in the press because it was all being spun.
If this guy at least gets to 45%, it's a moral victory, essentially, is what they were saying.
So then I began to say, maybe they've got exit polling data that shows the guy's going to lose, and they're trying to get out in front of this.
So then I watched the election returns all night, and it ebbed back and forth.
But I want to tell you people, I was never worried.
I was never worried.
And then there was the delay.
At 9.53, the official returns website reported in at 88%.
Precincts reporting in the, I think Schmidt was up by just about 1,000 votes at that point.
And they'd been updating every 10 to 15 minutes.
But then every 10 to 15 minutes went by and there were no updates.
And there wasn't an update for an hour.
From about 9.53 until close to 11 o'clock, there were no updates.
And I said, hmm.
So I began looking into why.
And you know what?
There was a problem with humidity and the voting machines.
And the ballots were sticking together out there, Brian.
And so they had to count these things by hand.
And I knew what that would then cause.
Voter fraud charges.
Lo and behold, that happened.
If you turn on some Democrat websites, if you look at those things, it was funny, but they ended up counting them by hand.
And then about an hour later, they posted the results close to 11 o'clock, about 4,000 votes.
So at that point, I packed it in.
I threw away the little half bottle of Romani Conti that I'd been consuming and sipping and nursing all evening.
And I headed up to bed with my latest sex thriller novel and went to bed after reading about 120 pages of it.
It's a page turner.
I love those sex thriller novels.
I mean, it's a sex espionage novel.
Amy Fetzer wrote the book called Naked Truth or Naked Something.
And she's the wife and the husband.
No, the wife.
She's the daughter, wife, and mother of Marines.
And boy, she's a saucy writer.
This is, it's got to be fun at her house.
No, I don't know anything.
This is all what it says about her in the book.
No, she lives in South Carolina.
She's written 29 novels.
I had the novel recommended to me by a woman.
So I said, okay, a female sex thriller writer.
I'll look into it.
And I did.
So anyway, got up this morning and I knew what I was going to find here, folks.
And I've got a stack of things here that I have indeed found.
Here's one from the cybernewservice.com.
Democrats brand Ohio loss as shockwave of voter discontent.
Rom Emmanuel, the Democrat Congressional Campaign Committee chairman, said in a press release, this election is a shockwave of voter discontent.
It'll be felt all across the country.
Every Republican in Congress should consider himself put on notice.
Emmanuel was pleased with the outcome, which he called nearly the biggest political upset in recent history and considered by many to be an early sign of widespread discontent with the Republican Congress around the country.
They are totally misreading this.
And this illustrates their biggest problem.
Rahm and the rest of the Democrats in the media cannot be honest with themselves about what's happening to them.
Unlike them, I can be honest with the problems that we Republicans find, that we cause.
Well, not we, because I had nothing to do with this, but the Republicans in Ohio are close to blowing something.
And it leads me to a larger point.
And that is you can't sit on a lead and you can't squander it and you can't turn over your party to a bunch of moderates after the conservatives win elections for you.
You can't have a governor out there that's going to sit around and raise taxes.
And then this candidate, Schmidt, voted for a couple of those tax increases.
You just don't do that, not after it's the conservatives that put you in office.
The Democrats had nothing to do with this, this campaign.
This guy had to run a fraudulent campaign to get this far.
What happened in this campaign, in this election yesterday, and I've got the total votes from 2002, 2004, and yesterday.
And it's quite obvious that a lot of Republicans stayed home yesterday is what happened because they're fed up.
And we had a couple calls about it from people in this district who are fed up with the rising taxes.
The Democrats want to sit there and say that this guy got close because the people of the 2nd District of Ohio are fed up with Republican in Washington and in Congress and fed up with Bush.
Let them keep lying to themselves.
They're never going to fix their problems as long as they keep doing that.
And you well know, folks, that if you're finding yourself in a problem of some kind or you're in a downspiral, you have to examine yourself, find out what you might be doing wrong if you're ever going to get to the real root of whatever problem exists.
You can't just blame it on everybody else.
And the Democrats just are incapable of this.
Let me quick time out.
I'll come out, come back and illustrate in some detail exactly that which I have just been speaking.
Quick timeout, back with more after this.
So where are we?
Well, we're on the Rush Limbaugh program in the EIB network, but we're also here.
The Democrats once again lose an election, running an ultra-liberal hiding behind a military uniform.
They once again lose an election pretending to be something that they are not, a hawk on the military and a hawk on the war and a rock.
They run again, once again, as deceivers, and once again, they lose.
But no, for they didn't lose.
They don't lose.
Even when they lose, they win.
More quotes here from Rah Emmanuel, who runs the Democrat Congressional Campaign Committee in the House.
He said, tonight, we have seen rock-solid Republicans say that they've had enough of a Congress that is in the grips of the special interests, roiled by ethics investigations, and doing nothing to help solve the pressing challenges facing the middle class.
If there's ever a statement that is more at variance with the truth, I have not seen it.
This is so completely spin.
And it is incompetence coming from somebody like Rahm Emanuel.
This is not even believable.
We've seen rock-solid Republicans say that they've had enough of a Congress that's in the grips of the special interests, roiled by ethics investigations, doing nothing to help solve the pressing challenges facing the middle class.
The economy is roaring.
The economy is now stronger and healthier than it was at any time in the Clinton administration, folks, by any number of measurements.
Democrats don't want to admit that.
The ethics investigations have all fizzled and bombed, so much so that the mainstream press is going back to delay today.
They're all over Tom Delayed.
They've dropped Karl Rove.
That didn't work.
Now they're going back to prisoner abuse.
They just keep recycling these things.
They haven't had a prayer with any of this.
That had nothing to do with these election returns that happened in Miami's or Ohio's second district yesterday.
And then, of course, Nancy Pelosi herself had a statement.
She said, well, the issues, politics and ethics and environment, good for Democrats.
And Paul Hackett's campaign in a Republican district proves it.
Republicans are on notice.
Americans are demanding a change.
Americans will no longer tolerate the, they lost.
You get that.
This statement is as though they won.
Republicans are on notice.
Americans are demanding a change.
Americans no longer tolerate the Republicans' continued abuses of power and catering to corporate special interests at the expense of the public interest.
All right.
Ladies and gentlemen, the simple fact of the matter is that neither Rahm Emanuel nor Nancy Pelosi have gotten themselves anywhere near the truth as to what happened yesterday.
Here are the returns, the total votes from the last three elections, including yesterday's, in this district in Ohio.
In 2002, there were 184,100 total votes cast.
In 2004, there were 310,000 votes cast.
Yesterday, 111,000 votes cast.
So if you go back to 2002 and then you look at 2005 and then you add up the fact that this is a heavily Republican district, what do you find?
You find that Republicans stayed home.
The Republicans didn't show up and vote against somebody.
They didn't show up and vote for Packet.
They stayed home.
At the same time, the Democrats, if this is true, then there are reports out there, and I'm not certain if this is true, but everybody's talking about how much money that Gene Schmidt spent.
Well, the Democrats were not paupers in this rate.
The Democrats spent a lot of money, and they got relative to 2002.
In 2002, the Democrat candidate in this race got 47,618 votes.
In 2005, yesterday, Hackett got 54,401 votes.
So that's 6,783 more votes.
If it's relative to 2004, they lost 35,197 or 40% of the voters that they had only nine months ago.
They had 89,000 people that showed up and voted in 2004.
They had 54,401 that voted yesterday.
You can't tell me that this race is anything resembling the way the Democrats are spinning it.
This is about one thing.
The Republicans stayed home in this Republican-heavy district.
Now, the question is why?
Well, first big reason, it's a special election.
It took place in August.
It's in the summertime.
It's a totally different atmosphere than an election that takes place in November.
But here's where I part ways with my old buddy, Ram Emmanuel and my old buddy, Nancy Pelosi.
They cannot be honest about themselves.
They cannot be honest about their party.
They can't even be honest and admit they lost.
Well, I'm going to tell you what this means, because this woman, by all rights, should have smoked this guy in this district.
Now, there is a reason that she didn't.
And you have to say that there are two factors and maybe more.
One of the factors is this guy's fraudulent campaign.
For the longest time, this guy runs a campaign making people in this district think he's a big hawk on the war, making everybody think that he's a big buddy of George W. Bush's, when that's 180 degrees out of phase.
It's a total lie, 100% fraud.
The guy is the exact opposite.
He's a full-fledged liberal who didn't have the guts to admit it.
So don't Democrats, don't you try to tell me this means anything for you because all it says is that you can't even win when you're frauds, much less win when you are honest.
You don't even try to be honest.
You don't even give that a roll of the dice, but you will try the fraud route and you can't even win lying to people anymore.
You can't, you are loot.
You used to be able to win lying.
You used to be able to win with all your fraud, but now you can't even do that.
The second thing that needs to be said here is you got an unpopular governor in Ohio, Mr. Taft.
He has raised taxes.
Gene Schmidt voted for those taxes.
And we had calls from people yesterday.
And I'm telling you what, you've got a moderate governor.
And this Gene Schmidt is said to be a Reagan Republican, but today's the first time I heard that.
I know she ran a positive uplifting campaign.
She didn't do a dirty campaign.
But the fact of the matter is, folks, the conservatives do the heavy lifting in this party.
And then if they're represented by a bunch of moderates who undo the work, the Republicans are saying, okay, screw you.
I'm staying home.
I'm voting for you and I'm putting you in office and you raise my taxes.
That's being honest.
The Republicans can squander their lead if they turn it over to moderates.
That's the lesson of this election yesterday.
Making the complex understandable.
Emitting vocal vibrations coast to coast.
Rushlin boy here, the EIB network.
By the way, I want to credit the National Review Online Buzz blog for the figures here on the last three elections that took place in the 2nd District of Ohio.
Also, you know, the note, ABC's the note, a couple days ago was talking about this being a bellwether election, everybody looking forward to it.
And I had some comments on that.
Yesterday, they had some comments about my comments, a little snarky, claiming that, hey, Rush, it won't be bias if we talk about this guy winning.
It'll be facts.
So I was eager to see what the guys at the...
And we love the people at the Note, Mark Halpert and those guys.
He's the political director.
They are a bunch of liberals, but we love them anyway.
And so I wanted to see what they said today.
Because I wanted to go see if this bellwether business would survive.
I knew the Democrats would do it, but I wanted to see if the media would be carrying this water here today, trying to turn a loss into a win.
So our friends at the note say, let the spinning begin and let it end mercifully in a draw with the GOP holding the seat.
With the all precincts reporting, Schmidt had 52% to Hackett's 48%, closest election in the district since 1974, said Howard Wilkinson of the Cincinnati Inquirer.
The race was tighter than expected.
Schmidt winning her home county of Claremont, neighboring Warren County in Hamilton County, where Hackett, 43, is a trial lawyer in Indian Hill.
Hackett won mostly rural Adams, Brown, Skyoto, Pike counties.
This is one of those cases, the people of the notes say, when both sides will argue their cases with passion.
For the Republicans, a win's a win.
For the Democrats, they'll argue that coming this close shows that the war at Iraq and the scandals in the Ohio GOP foreshadow Republican weakness down the road.
Both cases have their merits, but we wouldn't draw too many national conclusions from this local one race.
They were all prepared to two days ago.
They were all prepared.
That's what everybody was.
They were all prepared.
The whole Democrat media establishment was salivating over drawing national conclusions from this one local race.
But now that the Republican won, no big deal.
And then, of course, if you went to some of the Democrat websites, you should have seen.
I went to Democratic Underground last night just to look at the titles of the threads.
Such things, what is happening to democracy?
Can't we ever win anything?
What about the machines?
You know, D-Bolt makes the machines.
I don't trust this at all.
This is more voter.
It was just hysterical.
It was hysterical to read these little kids who, I guess, feel entitled to win elections.
And when they lose, they start questioning the value of democracy and wondering where it has gone.
There's also this Democrat blog, and it really is a wackle blog.
It's teetering out there so far on the edge, it's all about to fall off.
It's the daily cause.
I think that's how you pronounce it.
From the looks of it, the margin was under 4%.
So the state GOP avoids a devastating blow, but only by the hair on their chinny chin chin.
Ohio 02 saw the resurgence of the Democratic Party.
The GOP had to spend 500 grand they hadn't otherwise planned on spending, and a Democratic star is born.
Paul Hackett.
The postmortems will come in in the coming days, but for now, I'm happy with what everyone accomplished in Ohio.
It's a new day for the Democratic Party, one in which no Republican district is safe.
You lost.
You guys lost.
You know, this is, well, you can come up with your own analogy, but it just shows you how desperate they are.
If they even get close, they think it's a win.
But I hate to throw cold water.
Well, actually, I love to throw cold water on all this spin, but I have here the latest Gallup poll.
And the headline here of the latest Gallup poll is this.
Election 2008, colon, Republican candidates fare better in early trial heats.
Subheadline, public's view of John Kerry growing more negative.
Oh, and we just had a new star born yesterday, Democrat Party, right?
John Kerry Jr. trying to hide his ultra-liberalism behind a military uniform.
And this is the new star of the Democrat.
This is the new star of the Democratic Party.
You guys are just admitting to us that you're going to run as frauds all over the country because you can't dare be honest about who you are.
And you got a real problem because you can't win as frauds and you can't win as being who you are.
I don't know.
What do they turn to?
When you can't win as a fraud, and when you can't win being honest about who you are, what next do you do?
Well, I guess what you do is call your defeats victories, which is where they are now.
Against either.
The sum total of this Gallup poll story, the summary, I guess, would be against either of two Republican frontrunners, the two Democrat frontrunners would be trounced in this poll.
Even though the next presidential election is more than three years away, those who might pursue the office are already testing the waters in New Hampshire and Iowa and at other gatherings where party power brokers are present.
The latest Gallup poll assessed the public's overall view of four possible contenders for the orifice and tested how they would fare today in a hypothetical election.
The majority of Americans say they have a favorable view of Republican and former New York City Mayor Rudolph Rudy Giuliani, Senator Hillary Rodham Rodham, Senator John McCain.
On the other hand, more Americans view Senator Kerry unfavorably than favorably, and his ratings have grown more negative since his loss to George W. Bush last year.
The trial heat matchups show the two possible Republican candidates holding an edge over the two Democrat candidates among registered voters.
It's not an edge, folks.
It is a trounce.
Giuliani would beat Hillary 64-50.
Well, that's favorable, unfavorable.
Let me get trial heat matchups.
Okay.
Hillary Clinton versus McCain, McCain, 50-45.
Hillary Clinton versus Rudy.
Rudy, 50-45.
John Kerry versus McCain.
McCain 54.
Kerry, 41.
John Kerry, 41.
Giuliani, 54.
Now, I don't know why they threw Kerry.
Is Kerry the other frontrunner?
I guess he's assumed to be now.
But nevertheless, for all of you who think it's a new day because of this election in Ohio yesterday, once again, you have sadly, sorrowfully missed the vote.
And until the day comes that you're able to be honest with yourselves about why you're losing, you're going to keep losing.
And I hate to keep beating the dead horse on this, but the Republicans have lessons in this election last night, too.
Can't run away here and say, oh, we won.
Everything's cool.
This should have been a slam dunk yesterday.
Being honest with ourselves.
Should have been a slam dunk.
Should have been enough excitement to get this voter turnout up so that this was a slam dunk.
But there are moderates running Ohio and the GOP, and a lot of the conservative voters who sent them into office are unhappy with them.
And this is what happens.
For the Republican Party, turning it over to moderates and letting them run the show as moderates, it ain't going to work.
It never has.
It's not the way to win elections, and it's not the way to govern, because governing also is a factor in whether or not you keep winning elections.
A quick couple phone calls here before we have to go to the break.
This is Paul in Cincinnati.
Nice to have you, sir.
Welcome to the program.
Thanks, Rush.
You're 100% on target as usual.
This election for the Republicans was definitely one where people were staying home.
And one reason, along with the TAFT issue, is the Senator DeWine issue.
He has been an embarrassment.
Well, because he joined a gang of 14.
Absolutely.
Well, how about the votes that he's made against President Bush?
Well, how about Boinovich, too?
Oh, same oath.
You can't leave him if you're going to throw DeWine in there.
You're going to talk about Voinovich and Bolton.
Exactly.
I couldn't talk my wife into voting yesterday because she was so mad at DeWine.
You couldn't talk your wife into voting.
That's right.
She was mad.
Sounded like a typical husband to me.
Well, you know, when they're happy, you're happy.
Yeah, but is it true the other way around?
Oh, yeah.
Oh, good.
Good.
No doubt about it.
I'm as old as you.
I've learned my lesson a long time ago.
Okay.
Well, as long as it works for you, that's cool.
But thanks a lot, Rush.
All right, thank you.
Appreciate it.
Nice to hear from you, Paul.
This is Cliff in Washington, Missouri.
Great to have you with us, sir.
Hey, good morning, Rush.
Hey, Rush, I think Hackett can thank you for his loss yesterday and your show that you had on yesterday.
It was the Swift Boat Veterans All Over Again.
Well, all I did was tell the truth about the guy.
You say you love the men in military, but when they get in a public arena, you rip them a new one, and I don't understand that.
All I did was be honest about who Mr. Hackett is.
Desk puke?
Staff puke?
Isn't that what you said?
He was a desk puke.
I asked, we had a naval officer.
You know, this is made to Democrat websites, too.
That's where you probably heard about this.
I had a naval officer on, and he was telling me that what this guy Hackett had done is a disservice to the Marines and to his country and all this in talking the way he had talked about Bush being an SOB and the most dangerous guy in the world and all this.
And I had a Washington Post story here that said that Hackett was a civilian officer.
And I asked the Navy guy, what is that?
And he said he works with the staff and a liaison with the public in these various theaters of combat.
And because I had once talked to a guy who did the same thing at Fort Bragg, who was called by an enlisted man a staff puke, I said, oh, he's a staff puke, which is what enlisted men call civil liaison.
It's not a term of derision.
It's a descriptive staff puke.
And so the naval guy said, yeah, pretty much.
People in the military know about it.
I wouldn't expect liberals would know what goes on in the military, but it wasn't meant as a deriding thing.
You guys, it's my fault now.
It's my fault.
Well, I'll take the credit because all I did was tell the truth about Mr. Hackett, which something he was not willing to do.
We'll be back after this.
Amidst billowing clouds of a fragrant aromatic premium cigar, Rush Limbaugh, the EIB network.
One more thing about this Gallup poll.
It did not escape my notice that the Gallup poll put Rudy and McCain up against Hillary.
And both Rudy and McCain in the trial heats here trounce her.
Now, what do you notice?
When I say Rudy and McCain, what word comes to your mind?
Moderates.
Right.
So the question, ladies and gentlemen, is this.
If a couple of moderates can trounce Hillary, what could a conservative Republican candidate for president do to her?
If a couple moderates can do this, and then furthermore, what does it say about Hillary's attempted move to the right, to the center, whatever, to be perceived as a moderate?
It means that even among the moderates, you can't be a fraud.
You have to be a genuine moderate or they're not going to vote for you.
So this is, I don't care how you guys slice this.
Now, it's three and a half years off in the presidential race, but you Democrats, I don't care how you slice this.
You've got no good news here.
I mean, even if you want to say that Bush's approval rating is 44%, what did Gene Schmidt guess?
You got 52% of the vote yesterday in Ohio.
So you can't say there's a referendum on Bush.
There's no way.
There's no way you can spin this.
Well, I mean, you can, as you are, but it's a joke.
And they're all on the same page.
They're all saying the same thing.
So there are facts talk points going out.
So they all stay on the same page.
It's just amazing.
Everett and Cincinnati, a cell call.
Welcome, sir.
Nice to have you with us.
Rush, Magaditto.
It's what an honor and a privilege to speak with you.
I've been with you since Anita Hill, and it's been a wonderful ride.
Thank you, sir.
Quick comment about Gene Schmidt's campaign.
I'm new to the Cincinnati area.
She ran an only positive campaign going back to the primaries up to now.
She talked about the war in Iraq, defending our borders, the economy, and representing our values when she gets to Washington, which I would think would be a good thing to do.
We are not happy with McCain or with DeWine and Boinovich, but your insights are exactly right.
Well, I know she ran a positive campaign.
She didn't run a name.
And I see, let me tell you something.
I have this problem with negative campaigns.
With the terminology negative campaign, it would not have been negative for her to run a spot telling the truth about this guy.
Now, the Democrats say that that's a vicious attack.
If you tell the truth about them, you have engaged in a vicious attack.
But it's not an attack.
It's not a vicious attack.
And it's not negative to correctly identify your opponent or to point out how your opponent is a fraud.
But she didn't do that.
She did run one of these optimistic uplifting campaigns.
But nevertheless, you still had a lot of Republicans that didn't show up yesterday.
They stayed home.
And there are reasons for that that go beyond the fact that it's a special election or vacation time or what have you.
And you go to that state and you'll find out that Republicans there are not happy with the GOP leadership in the state, the two senators, and they want to send them a message.
And they're not voting for the other guy, but they're staying home.
And that's what happened yesterday.
Even with over half the registered voters staying home, the Democrats still can't win, and they're still talking about how they did.
Love it.
Here's Andrew in Cincinnati.
Welcome, sir.
Nice to have you on the program.
Hey, Rush, mega Texas Aggie Dittos living here in Cincinnati.
And the only reason I voted yesterday, both me and my wife, is because we heard your program.
We were fed up with these rhinos, Republican, and name-only people that seem to run this state and spend too much money.
And honestly, we were going to stay home yesterday, but I got so fired up listening to your program, I went home, grabbed my wife.
We went out and voted.
Let me ask you a question about that.
Before we did the program yesterday, did you know about Paul Hackett, what we were saying?
The only thing I needed to know about Paul Hackett yesterday was he was a trial attorney, and we have enough attorneys in Washington.
I don't think we need any more.
But Jeannie Schmidt is not conservative enough for me.
But after listening to your program, I have two businesses here, and I don't want to be taxed out of existence.
And I said, you know what, me staying home would be a disservice.
And I got out and voted.
Good for you.
I always appreciate it.
It's always good to vote.
I understand protests and so forth.
But like I said, I'll never forget it was 1980.
It had to be 84, or maybe it was 86.
Alan Cranston was running for reelection in California, and I forget his opponent's name, but he was a high-tech guy from Silicon Valley.
And this guy was pro-choice, but he was nip and nip with Cranston.
And Republicans stayed home in that election because this guy was pro-choice, and Cranston won.
And it was after that that we had the Bork business and so forth.
You shoot yourself in the foot sometimes when you stay home.
I know people do it to make a statement, but I think voting, if you're registered, if you want to participate, it's always the best thing to do.
Quick timeout.
We'll be back and continue.
I cannot wait to share with you the details of a column by a guy named Reg Henry in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
The headline of Reg Henry's column, this niceness of Roberts is unnerving.
So now the Supreme Court judge nominee is too nice for the libs.
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