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June 7, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 7, 2006, Wednesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 Podcast.
Ladies and gentlemen, as I have been uh advising uh and warning uh uh you over countless recent uh weeks and months, don't doubt me.
Just don't doubt me.
Greetings, welcome.
Great to have you.
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All right, so we know what happened.
We know that Meathead's thing went down to a stinging defeat in California.
You know that it only got 46% of the vote in uh Santa Cruz.
I mean, the meathead, the Prop 82, the uh the the uh preschool thing just went down to a flamer defeat, folks in the state of California, went uh and it was nothing more than a huge tax increase on the rich.
Uh then you go to uh California 50 and uh Brian Bill Bray, 50 to 45 percent over Francine Busby.
Busby can't get above 45 percent no matter what happens in that race.
And as uh as I predicted to you, uh ladies and gentlemen, when the last polls came out that showed that they were basically tied, but then he had moved up two points.
Uh I said it's gonna be bigger than that, uh, and that the Democrats are going to proclaim this a moral victory.
And the reason why, I said I didn't predict that, because I was just reporting that.
Some guy that works at the hotline, which is an inside the beltway tip sheet, uh, had had pretty much uh some weeks ago said, Yeah, this is gonna be a big moral victory, even if Busby loses.
And here's just a sample.
I mean, you can find this on any Democrat kook blog that you uh go to today, but here's just a sample.
This is from uh what is the blogger?
My direct democracy, I guess it's called.
No matter what the media says, no Democrat should be mistaken about this result.
First, this is a huge seismic shift in our favor that bodes extremely well for November.
If we receive an 18% shift nationwide, we will win the House easily.
If Republican candidates are pulling only 20% of the independent vote, the Indocrat realignment is still on.
So the Democrats are indeed portraying this as a moral victory, ladies and gentlemen, even though Francine Busby loses by their four and a half uh to five points.
Let's look at the circumstances surrounding this victory by Bill Bray.
Bush's approval numbers are in the 30s.
And have you do you remember the generic congressional ballot that the Democrats always cite in polls taken by the drive-by media?
They say that the uh uh the generic congressional ballot, meaning you're gonna vote Democrat, you're gonna vote Republican in your next congressional election.
Uh they don't mention any names in a generic ballot.
Uh, all those generic ballots give the Democrats, you know, 10, 11 point, 12 point margins of victory.
And yet when the real votes are counted outside of polls, it just doesn't seem to matter.
Now Democrats are out there running on this uh on this culture of corruption strategy, and and some might say, well, they kind of gone soft on that because of the Congressman William Jefferson Democrat Louisiana fiasco.
Yeah, but they didn't go soft on it out in California 50.
It was a major impetus of Francine Busby's campaign trying to refer to Bill Bray as a lobbyist and uh uh just trying to taint him as uh as a Tom DeLay type.
Um this this is a let's not forget the guy whose seat this used to be is in jail, or is his going to soon be in jail.
You can't get a better example of the culture of corruption than that, and it still didn't portray the Democrats to uh to victory.
Now, here's here's Bill Bray himself.
Um, last night, after the uh election has pretty much been determined to be his, he had this to say about why he thinks uh he was victorious.
President proposing amnesty was absolutely a big problem.
And in fact, it wasn't until I was able to highlight the fact that I did not agree with my friends in the Senate or my friend in the White House on amnesty that they really saw the toll start supporting me strongly.
All right, what he thinks, what he's saying there is basically you stick with the president on what you can, and you stand up for what you believe in uh when it comes to uh immigration.
Now, the uh the the previous notion um I mentioned the site for the hotline guy John McCurio in the hotline uh had said earlier that forty-eight percent uh for Francine Busby would still count as a win for Democrats.
And as we know, she's around 45 percent, which is the same thing she got in the primary, by the way.
She did not gain any ground from the primary to uh to this election.
And 45 percent, don't let anybody tell you that this is a huge shift.
They're all citing, well, Bush carried this district by 55 percent back in 2004.
Well, the most important number is to look how Democrats do in this district traditionally, um and in the in the 50th district of California, getting 45 percent of the vote in a congressional race, pretty much what the Democrats always manage to uh to pull off.
There was also uh uh you know another candidate on the ballot, uh really pro-immigration, uh anti-immigration, made it the central theme of his campaign.
He got like what, four point seven percent of the of the vote.
Uh if you add that to uh Bill Bray's, I mean you you you see the same thing had happened in the primary.
All the Republican candidates uh split the vote.
That's why why Busby uh got the uh uh lion's share of the vote in the primary where the Democrats were just excited uh as they could be.
Uh so nevertheless, uh it's another disagreement.
I'm telling you, I don't care how the Democrats are spending this publicly, I don't care how their kook fringe bloggers are spending it, this is not something they were hoping for.
And then if they want to continue to have m uh moral victories like this all over the place, we should grant them.
Now, what of the Republican side of this?
Now there's one thing to keep in mind.
This this election's gonna uh take place again in November, folks.
This is just uh a special election to uh fill uh Duke Cunningham's seat, and it'll probably be Busby again.
I mean it probably will run uh the Democrat that has not been able to win.
She never won against Cunningham, obviously, never even got close.
Uh and they'll they'll probably run her again.
Uh and you're hearing from a lot of people outside if you're if you're paying attention, well, the Republicans ought not take this um too much uh for granted.
Uh take this there's still storm clouds out there on the horizon.
And I you know, I I understand, you know, not wanting to beat your chest and gloat and and and that sort of thing, but there are lessons here for um uh Republicans to learn, as well as lessons for Democrats to learn.
But the one thing we're confident of is the Democrats will not learn the lesson they need to learn from this.
Uh and and that is uh liberalism isn't gonna win in in a district like this, and they're not gonna be able to succeed in this culture of corruption business for the Republicans if uh if if the thing about it, folks, is this Republicans are the where the party of ideas is, and people want ideology in their elections, and they want ideas and they want uh they want principles and so forth, at least on the Republican side.
Uh and it's it it has been this way for uh for many years now.
There's no mystery here.
So this this definitely uh uh an upside here for the Republicans, and if they want to tell themselves, well, well, we shouldn't be too excited about this.
Well, you know, we're still got problems now that we still got to lose the House of Representatives.
I understand the desire to temper it all and and as I say, not uh not gloat, but uh make no mistake about it.
The Democrats targeted this seat just like had targeted the seat that Paul Hackett lost in Ohio.
And uh th this was this was gonna this is gonna confirm for them that the uh the path that they're following here on this culture of corruption uh and and everything else is a winner for them.
And uh if to the extent that they think it is, you know, hallelujah.
Quick time out.
We'll be back.
We'll continue here in just a moment after this.
In other election news in uh California, California voters appeared to have rejected well, they have rejected uh ballot measures to authorize the state to sell six hundred million dollars in bonds for libraries.
That'd be libraries uh for those of you in Rio Linda, and of course the meatheads proposition, Prop 82.
That was a landslide loss.
That was a 60-40 loss uh for the meathead.
Here's what the meathead had to say last night in California after his uh Prop 82 went down to a landslide defeat.
The media have so many problems now.
I have great deal of sympathy for the people in the media who have to fight this because their financial model is under siege.
And nobody knows how to do that.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
Ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho.
Uh, does that say number two?
Uh it does.
That's not number two.
That is uh easily that's number that's number uh that's number 10.
Well let me just read to you what um uh what Reiner said.
All year, these are the real leaders of this state who put their heart and soul into this campaign, so they saw that every child got what they needed, and they're not going away.
And I'm not going away, said the meathead.
Right now it doesn't look good, but it doesn't matter.
Win or lose, we have raised the profile of the importance of early childhood education in preschool in this state, and it'll never go away.
Uh I don't think Meathead, you need to raise any consciousness to education at any level.
It is one of the things that most parents are concerned about.
Uh, Meathead here, another Democrat declaring winning doesn't matter.
Win or lose, we did good.
Now, one thing about this that they're the that the meathead is right about, and you need uh to remember this, they never go away, folks.
The left never goes away.
They're patient, they're persistent, and the meathead is telling you the truth here when he says we've got our consciousness raising accomplished here.
They're just they're just you'll come back for it again at some point or somebody else will, because it's big government, it's it's increased taxes.
This was a tax the ri uh rich measure, specifically tax the rich measure, which is one of the building blocks of uh of liberalism, a Democratic Party, and it went down to a stinking, stinking defeat.
Uh so it's not good news for Democrats, no matter where they look.
Uh most of these elections yesterday did not insert office holders.
These were just primaries, but California 50 did actually elect somebody uh that will serve, and that's uh Brian Bill Bray.
All right, let's try the audio sound bites again.
Uh do you show number three as being Bob Schiefer, uh, Mr. Broadcast Engineer?
All right, good.
All right, so I don't know what happened there to the meathead number two, but we want to do a comparison side by side.
Bob Schiefer last night on the CBS evening news a portion of his report on the election for California 50.
Democrats believe they have a chance to take back control of Congress from the Republicans this year, and they're looking to a special election tonight for a sign that they may be right.
It is an election in the 50th Congressional District in Southern California to fill the remaining seven months of Duke Cunningham's term.
Yes.
The point here is they're looking to a special election for a sign that they may be right.
So how did Schaefer cover the results?
Well, he appeared this morning on the early show on CBS.
Hannah Storm talking to him says Democrats were hoping to get that seat.
That district's been described as ruby red, but they came pretty close.
What do you make of the election?
I think it just shows that there's a lot of turmoil out there.
Um, the Democrats didn't win, but I mean, in that particular district, it would be uh if a Democrat like got elected, it'd be like George Wallace winning a seat in Harlem.
Come on, stop the stop that tape.
It was never portrayed that way.
You guys thought you had a full-fledged chance.
You were racing to victory.
This was gonna happen.
You had a couple people out there saying it was just gonna be a moral victory if you it would be a moral victory if you lost.
But come on, Bob.
You know, this this is this is the way you you reported on your flash poll after a Bush speech by telling everybody basically your poll was worthless because it mostly sampled Republicans, but yet you reported it anyway after you try to discredit your own poll.
It was never portrayed as like George Wallace winning a seat in Harlem.
You guys in a Democratic Party were salivating.
You were panting.
This was in the palm of your hand.
He said there are probably more American Eagles just off the endangered species than there are Democrats in that district.
Here's the rest of the bite.
American eagles, which are just off the endangered species list, and there are Democrats in that district.
But I think it is still a warning shot for Republicans.
This has to be a sign to Republicans that they might lose the House, I think.
Okay, uh uh how how how do how's that?
How how would the Republicans possibly look at this and see that it is a sign they could uh they could lose the house?
What is there there are I know that there are some we got look in the Republican Party.
We've got our own fatalists.
We have our own pessimists, and they'll come up with statistics.
Yeah, if you don't win this by fifty five, there's been a there's been a switch out there.
This is a big problem for us so forth.
Fine if it keeps you tuned in and and uh and working on repairing damage, you know, all well and good.
But what what what what what is the indication here?
Just as what was the indication in Ohio that the results here showing a Republican victory would tend to make the Republicans nervous and convince them they might lose the House.
This again is the drive-by media reporting what they hoped would be the case, and when it didn't turn out, they still report it as though well still could be, though, because this is not very good.
Uh there's a lot of turmoil out there.
There's a lot of turmoil everywhere.
He also says that um uh there aren't that many Democrats out there.
Democrats get forty-five percent of the uh of the vote in this district, 40 45 traditionally.
It was not it was not uh that unusual a turnout for Democrats in this district that Stephen Carlsbad, California.
You're up first today.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Yeah, Rush, this this race wasn't even close.
It was more like 55 to 45 because it was fifty of Bill Bay and five percent of another candidate who was totally against illegal immigration.
This is the number one thing with illegal immigration on everyone's mind, and it's this is a severe blow to the White House's position, and also to John McCain.
They lost terribly 55 to 45.
Yeah, that's a good point.
I did mention that the uh the uh the the other candidate, third candidate got about four point five, four point seven percent of the vote.
So if you add that to uh Bill Bray, you do get fifty-five opposed to uh the Democrats.
Certainly not a ringing endorsement for um for Senator McCain uh at all.
Of course, McCain will say, Well, I didn't go out there.
How can you say it uh not a ringing endorsement for me?
Uh well it was a it was a vote not in favor of uh Senator McCain's legislation.
Steve, sell fall can't sell call in Canton, Ohio.
You're next, and welcome to the program.
Hey Rush, uh Megadeth's too.
Hey, I was out on the uh 26 state website, and uh I noticed that in 2004, Dude Cunningham got fifty-eight and a half percent of the vote against this same Francine Busby, uh hardly a rock solid ruby red Republican district.
It's a competitive district that means Republican, but the average winning margin in California in contested races in that year with 68.7 percent.
So it was a competitive race in 04.
It should have been a competitive race this time around.
The Democrats really should have wrote won it, considering all the things that were in their favor.
Uh well, it's a good point.
Uh, but she didn't get over 45 percent, and she's never gotten over 45 percent.
And you can't say that she's not a known candidate.
I mean, she runs, she'll probably be the candidate again in uh in November.
She most likely will.
Uh, she got 36 point something percent in 04.
Uh with against against uh Cunningham.
Against Cunningham, an incumbent, you know, without any of this uh corruption stuff at that time.
Right.
So what is your what is your ultimate point?
I'm having a little bit of trouble understanding you because of the phone lines, not your problem, but what is your ultimate point?
Uh my point here, Rush, is that this is not a bedrock Republican district.
This is a competitive district.
So Democratic attempts to say, well, this was Republican, they should have won it anyway.
Not true at all.
You know, okay, now you you may have a point on that, and again, the reason I'm gonna that that's that's pretty good thinking on your part out there, Steve.
The Democrats uh uh and and the media, the drive-by media did set this up.
It's based on on the uh last election in 04 with Cunningham, who brought a lot of credentials before the corruption stuff hit.
He's a hero from Vietnam, a fighter pilot, an ace uh fighter pilot.
He was uh loved and adored out there.
This is this is all before the corruption stuff hit.
Because of that turnout and that that result, uh it was stated, oh yeah, slam dunk Republican dish.
Democrats don't have a chance out here.
And that was done, I think, to um to to prepare uh for today.
When Busby gets close, it's portrayed as a moral victory.
It's uh it's it's it's it's moving the goalposts in order to change the perception of the uh of the of the results.
So his point is that it's a con it's a it's a uh competitive uh district.
It's not something the Republicans win automatically, and the fact that the Democrats had everything in the world going for them here.
Up until uh last weekend when Busby made that uh comment about illegals don't need papers to vote.
That was Republicans are saying, yeah, well, that that no doubt helped Bill Bray, but you can't count on Democrats being that stupid in every election.
You just can't count on the Democrats making those kinds of mistakes.
Hell yes, you can.
The reason you can the Democrats make a mistake any time they tell us what they really think.
The Democrats, as liberals, make a mistake every time they open their mouths and are honest.
And at some point, look at look at Angeletis.
He won the primary.
He's gonna run as Walter Mondale the second.
He's gonna run on raising taxes.
He's gonna say it has to be done.
He thinks he's even after what happened to the Meatheads proposal.
Uh and and so when they when they come out as who they are, even in a state like California, where you'd think they'd love paying taxes, apparently they don't.
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One more uh audio son by here.
This is some CNN this morning in their American morning show, Miles O'Brien talking to the senior political correspondent Candy Crowley.
Uh O'Brien says this is a heavily Republican district.
Cunningham, when he was doing well, would get fifty-eight percent numbers.
Are the Democrats gonna be able to spin this one into some sort of win?
He was kind of the canary in the cave or the bellwether.
Uh, and while he did not get the numbers, which I'm sure Democrats will point out, uh, he did nonetheless win the seat in something that Democrats really thought uh they might pick up.
I think you'll hear a lot about immigration too, because one of the reasons uh that the Democrat may have lost uh is some sort of intemperate remarks she had to say that made her look as though she was asking illegals to come vote for her.
So uh there's a lot going on in that race, uh, which made me sort of to begin with think I'm not sure what kind of bellwether it is, because we can see a lot in it uh that may or may not uh have national implications.
Uh W is a W, I guess.
Damn it.
Uh W is a W, I guess.
Damn it, he wanted to say.
So now it's not even a bellwether, folks.
He was the canary in the in the coal mine, but now uh Bill Bray was, but now it's not even a bellwether.
It's just uh one of these elections.
There's so much going on out there.
You know, we really are we can't read too much into this.
It's a I'm gonna just tell you this, folks.
If Francine Busby had won this race, all we would have been hearing about all summer is this race and how it portends the doom of the Republicans and their control of the House.
Now this race, this victory is gonna be swept under the rug.
Typical drive-by media illustration here.
They get everybody all worked up, they throw a bunch of bombs into the crowd, getting them all excited about this.
It doesn't come out the way they all hope and the way they predict.
Eh, okay, time to move on back into convertible, head down the highway, find another group of people to lob a bunch of bombs and mortar fire and to get them all agitated.
Uh that, of course, uh uh will be Haditha.
The every stop that the drive by media engages in will be uh Haditha.
Have you have you heard the I mean, sure you've heard this, the uh the old saw that um Royal Canadian Mounties always get their man.
Remember Dudley Do Wright and all that, the Royal Canadian.
I tell you, it was never been more true than now Canadian Mounties uh are to get married in the uh forces' first same-sex wedding.
Constable couple have been partners since their college years.
It's a Washington Post story, so it's actually come to pass now.
The Mounties, at least one Mounty is well, two mounties have got their man.
Uh one way of looking at this.
Uh it promises to be a grand June wedding.
Two scarlet coated officers of the famed Royal Canadian Mounted Police standing before a justice of the peace with an escort of similarly spiffy mounties observing the nuptials on the eve of Canada Day, which is a national holiday.
Speaking of all that, as was expected, the Senate today rejected the gay marriage amendment.
It was defeated.
Supporters, though, say that new votes for the measure represent progress that gives the Republican uh party base reason to vote on election day.
Senator Sam Brownback of uh Kansas said, People, people are gonna be responsible for this vote.
We're making progress in America on defining marriage as a union between a man and a woman.
I want to go back and I want to read a quote to you that comes from 1996, September 10th, 1996.
And you you just in your in your mind as I read this, uh uh pretend you're talking to me and tell me who you think said this.
Quote, this argument for same-sex marriage reflects a demand for political correctness that's gone berserk.
We live in an era in which tolerance has progressed beyond a mere call for acceptance and crossed over to become a demand for the rest of us to give up beliefs that we revere and hold most dear in order to prove our collective purity.
At some point, a line's gonna have to be drawn by rational men and women who are willing to say enough.
This is spoken in opposition to anything who would allow same-sex marriage.
Uh, if you're thinking that it was uh President Bush or Pat Robertson or Jerry Fulwell or some extremist right winger, you would be wrong.
Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia uttered those words back on September 10th, 1996, when he joined then Senator Don Nichols, a Republican from Oklahoma, in co-sponsoring the Defense of Marriage Act.
Byrd said uh that in his nearly fifty years of service in Congress, he never envisioned such a measure would be required.
He further said it is incomprehensible to me that federal legislation would be needed to provide a definition of two terms that for thousands of years have been perfectly clear and unquestioned.
That we have arrived at a point where the Congress must actually reaffirm in the statute books something as simple as the definition of marriage and spouse is almost beyond my grasp.
Bob Byrd, Senator Sheetsbird from 1996, expressing his utter frustration and lack of understanding with why the hell the term marriage had to even be redefined.
That we've taken political correctness and tolerance way too far beyond now simple acceptance, and it's time that somebody stood up and said enough.
I don't know how he voted on the amendment yesterday or this morning whenever it happened, but uh clearly expressing sentiments there that a vast majority of the American people would agree with Fort Walton, Florida, and Eric, you're next on the EIB network.
Hi.
Thank you, sir.
I wanted to suggest a Chris Matthews suicide watch because he had the yesterday's elections tied to everything from Katrina to Abu Ghraib to uh illegal immigration.
And I really don't see how he's gonna get through this.
Uh he'll find a way forgot that he said it.
Do you think he'll address it tonight at all on his show or not?
I want to call it.
I don't know why don't you watch and call me tomorrow and tell me.
Uh am I gonna get paid for it?
Yeah, no.
Hardy pay one person to do this so that I don't have to.
Uh it's it uh what's the what's the proper way to respond to?
By the way, I've noticed somebody every caller that we have had today, including you, uh, Eric, and I this is a positive.
Every caller that's called today is excited.
They are up.
They are speaking so fast, I'm having trouble keeping up with them.
You guys got a big oompa last night, didn't you?
On these election returns.
Everybody's got their confidence up today.
I can just tell it in the people who'd have called this program.
And uh I, you know, I've been urging you to be confident throughout.
I know it helps when actual results come in, uh, because that's substance to buttress the confidence, but uh it's great to hear in your people's voices uh that you're all revved up about this now.
Uh and also noticing that the drive-by media is gonna be doing a 180.
I I I don't know what Matthews will do, it'll be difficult to predict, but uh my guess is since he was so invested in this that there will be some kind of in-depth analysis on his next program uh to explain what happened.
And my guess is let's just see if I'm right.
My guess is they'll say if this Hadith stuff had broken earlier, that would have been the straw that broke the camel's back.
Can I tell you something about Hadithah?
Now I have been telling you people for the last uh week and a half.
Brace yourselves because this is gonna be a one-sided story.
The people who um who cannot speak about this are the people who know most about it.
So they can't speak about it because the there's a there'd be fear of of corrupting the case when and if it is brought and tried.
So they can't say did the least squat.
So the field is left wide open to the drive-by media and the Democrats to basically say whatever they want about this, and then to expand and extrapolate on it to make it sound like it's the absolute worst thing that's ever happened to the U.S. military.
This is this is this is typical of what they are.
We've got to get out of Iraq, we've got to disband these units, this is this horrible, blah, blah, blah, but it's going to happen.
Here's the result, though.
And this is where the drive-by media will miss it.
It's just like Abu Grab, and it's just like uh Club Getmo.
The vast majority of the American people aren't going to care.
They are not going to be able to make Haditha a weapon by which the American people will support pulling out of Iraq.
Now, they might succeed with these wimps inside the beltway.
That's a whole different ball of wax, but as far as and I'm confident of this, as far as the American people are concerned, the the the sizable percentage, if not a majority, is going to get outraged at this never-ending, continuing assault on the people in this country who volunteer to offer their lives in sacrifice to protect freedom and democracy in this country and help spread it elsewhere.
Now some of you would rush, look what they've done to Bush's poll numbers.
Why they're negative reporting over Iraq over all these years, they brought Bush's poll numbers down.
I'm not convinced that all of those poll number falls have to do with uh with Iraq.
I think there's a whole bunch of things that have contributed to the president's approval number going on, including history, including cycles.
It's just this way uh in uh in president's second terms.
And they usually rebound toward the end of these uh second terms anyway.
But I'm confident of this, folks.
I think they'll just like everything else, they're gonna overplay their hand, they're gonna overdo it on Hadithah, and people are gonna get sick and tired of uh of hearing a an elite bunch of people who really have no respect for the U.S. military in the first place, start ripping the shreds out of the entire armed services over this incident and trying to equate this incident with normal standard operating behavior in the U.S. military.
Watch and you will see.
Quick timeout, be right back.
The all-knowing, all-caring, all concerned, all-powerful.
Increasingly popular, Rush Limbaugh program on the EIB network.
Here is uh uh Owen in uh Yorktown, Virginia.
You're up next, sir.
Welcome to the program.
Mega Ditto is from the true birthplace of America, Rush.
Thank you, sir, very much.
Uh, the analysis that you uh mentioned earlier that Chris Matthews will undoubtedly do tonight will absolutely go down in flames, and exhibit number one concerns the uh special election in the 50th district.
Uh one factor that everyone in the drive by media seem to forget is that this was a statewide democratic primary, and they only had 30 percent turnout.
Uh in other words, this was their best chance to make their mark, and they blew it.
And I feel that what this means is that it will be even worse for the Democrats in the November general election.
Well, um it's that that's uh it's tempting to uh to go there, but you um you c primaries traditionally do not attract huge uh turnouts uh and and this this is in June especially.
This is uh summertime people away from home traveling around even with uh $3.50 to a gallon gasoline uh out in California.
I wouldn't go too far with that.
I don't know what the turnout was in California 50.
That's the only race where somebody was actually gonna be installed in office.
Uh the the uh if this sort of it it'd be difficult to say that this is typical and representative of what's gonna happen in November because the majority of the state of California is Democrat.
And during a general election, you're gonna have a much greater turnout than even during a primary.
Uh what this says is that uh what was on the ballot statewide was not all that big a deal to people, uh, including the uh the Democratic gubernatorial primary.
Uh but June's a tough month to have one of these things, uh, even in uh an off-year election.
But having said that, uh you're you're you're exactly right as far as this is concerned.
The Democrats can try to look for all kinds of strong signs out there, and they're just not going to find them.
And lurking right underneath them on this culture corruption business is William Jefferson.
Democrat Louisiana.
More and more is coming out about this, and the Democrats are starting to pull the whip now, and Stenny Hoyer is is getting serious about yanking him off the uh ways and means committees.
Come on.
And at the very least, a guy's got ninety grand in cash in his freezer.
He's on the ways and means committee.
It's a tax writing committee.
At least he's got a tax problem, if nothing else.
You put ninety grand in your freezer that nobody knows how you got.
Well, we do know how he got it.
Uh he was paid off.
They didn't he didn't withdraw that money from one of his own accounts, uh for which there would have been a record.
Uh so Democrats are they're starting to get the the picture on this.
I mean, you have to understand, folks, nothing's really changed here.
I know it's hard for you to believe uh and uh I can say don't doubt me as long as it takes.
But I know until hard and fast results show up, you're still gonna have some doubts.
But it's been this way since 2002.
The Democrats open a door and break their nose and bloody themselves.
They did it with the Wellstone Memorial.
They thought oh two, they were gonna run away and retake the House.
They thought Kerry was gonna retake the the White House.
They th and and that the House and Senate were gonna go Democrat back in 04.
Um they're they're fooling themselves, they're lying to themselves.
They still have not come to grips with the fact that they are the party losing votes and losing interest in themselves.
Uh people are losing interest in Democrats left and white.
They're not inspirational, they're not attracting.
Look at who their outreach is aimed at.
Their outreach is aimed at felons and illegal aliens.
Now they can fool themselves all day and say they're gonna go out and try to get the values vote by injecting uh spirituality uh in into their campaign.
By the way, it's it's it's religion, not spirituality.
If you really want to have a chance at uh getting the values vote Democrats, you're gonna have to start using the right term.
Start talking about spirituality, and you're gonna come off as a bunch of new age wackos at the top of Mount Shasta doing harmonic convergences while while m uh uh getting in these mantras like oom, and you're not gonna get anywhere.
And you'd have the guts to get religious.
Uh uh just it's you know religion scares you people on the left uh because it's uh it's too judgmental.
It has too much uh gray, or not enough gray, too much black and white.
Some things are definitely wrong, some things are definitely right, and it just doesn't mix uh with the moral relativism of uh of modern day liberalism and the Democratic Party.
Uh let's see.
Let me grab somebody else because I'm gonna need more time with this guy in Philadelphia than what I've got.
Uh Terry from the 50th District of California.
Great to have you on the program, sir.
Hi, Russ.
It's a privilege.
Um one thing I wanted to point out is that uh the third um candidate in this district who garnered four points of this process.
And he was the only one in that uh in that race that was endorsed by the Minutemen.
And I think that the Republicans need to walk away from this with a lesson.
Um if they can reinforce their uh stance on illegal immigration, meaning the house side of it, um, they they'll they'll gain f at least four points uh wherever they go, uh you know, whichever uh whichever you know race that they're running.
But you know, I d I can't see the Democrats seeing this as a as a as a victory in any sense of the word because their their uh soft touch on uh immigration cost them.
You know, even if she hadn't said the thing, once she uh once she said that she agreed with McCain, this district just turned their back on her.
Um, we we we'll always have the uh the the peace loving crowd in this part of California.
And uh that that's mostly um mostly the uh the constituency that she catered to and you know, let me tell you, I've I've got to stop you because of the uh the constraints of time here.
But as far as the Democrats uh telling themselves that they won, I I think a number of them are.
Seriously.
These are people not grounded in reality, folks, and they haven't been for the longest time.
I mean, they still haven't they really don't even look at themselves as having lost the House and Senate in reality.
It's been taken from them.
Day seven of hurricane season, and all quiet out there, folks.
Relax.
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