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July 4, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 4, 2006, Tuesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Ladies and gentlemen, as I have been advising and warning you over countless recent 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, it only got 46% of the vote in Santa Cruz.
I mean, the Meathead, the Prop 82, the preschool thing, just went down to a flamer defeat, folks, in the state of California.
It was nothing more than a huge tax increase on the rich.
Then you go to California 50 and Brian Bill Bray, 50 to 45% over Francine Busby.
Busby can't get above 45% no matter what happens in that race.
And as I predicted to you, ladies and gentlemen, when the last polls came out that showed that they were basically tied, but then he had moved up two points, I said it's going to be bigger than that 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, had pretty much some weeks ago said, yeah, this is going to 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 go to today, but here's just a sample.
This is from, 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 IndyCrat 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 4.5 to 5 points.
Let's look at the circumstances surrounding this victory by Bill Bray.
Bush's approval numbers are in the 30s.
And have you, you remember the generic congressional ballot that the Democrats always cite in polls taken by the drive-by media?
They say that the generic congressional ballot, meaning you're going to vote Democrat, you're going to vote Republican in your next congressional election.
They don't mention any names in a generic ballot.
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 culture of corruption strategy.
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 just trying to taint him as a Tom DeLay type.
This is a, let's not forget the guy whose seat this used to be is in jail or is 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 victory.
Now, here's Bill Bray himself.
Last night, after the election has pretty much been determined to be his, he had this to say about why he thinks he was victorious.
The 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 College 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 when it comes to immigration.
Now, the previous notion I mentioned the site for the hotline guy, John McCurio, in the hotline, had said earlier that 48% for Francine Busby would still count as a win for Democrats.
And as we know, she's around 45%, which is the same thing she got in the primary, by the way.
She did not gain any ground from the primary to this election.
And 45%, don't let anybody tell you that this is a huge shift.
They're all citing, well, Bush carried this district by 55% back in 2004.
Well, the most important number is to look how Democrats do in this district traditionally.
And in the 50th District of California, getting 45% of the vote in a congressional race, pretty much what the Democrats always managed to pull off.
There was also another candidate on the ballot, really pro-immigration, anti-immigration, made it the central theme of his campaign.
He got like, what, 4.7% of the vote.
If you add that to Bill Bray's, I mean, you see the same thing had happened in the primary.
All the Republican candidates split the vote.
That's why Busby got the lion's share of the vote in the primary when the Democrats were just excited as they could be.
So, nevertheless, 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 if they want to continue to have 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 election is going to take place again in November, folks.
This is just a special election to fill Duke Cunningham's seat.
And it'll probably be Busby again.
I mean, it probably will run the Democrat that has not been able to win.
She never won against Cunningham, obviously, never even got close.
And they'll probably run her again.
And you're hearing from a lot of people outside, if you're paying attention, well, the Republicans ought not take this too much for granted.
There's still storm clouds out there on the horizon.
There's a lot of problems.
And I understand not wanting to beat your chest and gloat and that sort of thing.
But there are lessons here for 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.
And that is liberalism isn't going to win in a district like this.
And they're not going to be able to succeed in this culture of corruption business for the Republicans.
The thing about it, folks, is this.
Republicans are where the party of ideas is, and people want ideology in their elections, and they want ideas, and they want principles and so forth, at least on the Republican side.
And it has been this way for many years now.
There's no mystery here.
So this is definitely an upside here for the Republicans.
And if they want to tell themselves, well, we shouldn't be too excited about this.
Well, we've still got problems now.
Well, we're still going to lose the House of Representatives.
I understand the desire to temper it all.
And as I say, not gloat, but make no mistake about it.
The Democrats targeted this seat just like they had targeted the seat that Paul Hackett lost in Ohio.
And this is going to confirm for them that the path that they're following here on this culture of corruption and everything else is a winner for them.
And to the extent that they think it is, you know, hallelujah.
Quick timeout.
We'll be back.
We'll continue here in just a moment after this.
In other election news in California, California voters appeared to have rejected, well, they have rejected ballot measures to authorize the state to sell $600 million in bonds for libraries, the libraries, for those of you in Riolinda.
And, of course, the Meatheads proposition, Prop 82.
That was a landslide loss.
That was a 60-40 loss for the Meathead.
Here's what the Meathead had to say last night in California after his Prop 82 went down to a landslide defeat.
The media have so many problems now.
I have a 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 it.
Wait, ho, Does that say number two?
It does.
That's not number two.
That is easily, that's number 10.
Let me just read to you 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 and preschool in this state, and it'll never go away.
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.
Meathead, here, another Democrat declaring winning doesn't matter.
Win or lose, we did good.
Now, one thing about this that the meathead is right about, and you need 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.
He'll come back for it again at some point, or somebody else will, because it's big government.
It's increased taxes.
This was a tax the rich measure, specifically tax-the-rich measure, which is one of the building blocks of liberalism, the Democratic Party.
And it went down to a stinking, stinking defeat.
So it's not good news for Democrats, no matter where they look.
Most of these elections yesterday did not insert office holders.
These were just primaries, but California 50 did actually elect somebody that will serve, and that's Brian Bilbray.
All right, let's try the audio soundbites again.
Do you show number three as being Bob Schieffer, 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 Schieffer 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 Schieffer 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.
No, the Democrats didn't win, but I mean, in that particular district, it would be, if a Democrat got elected, it'd be like George Wallace winning a seat in Harlem.
Oh, come on, stop the temple.
Wait, wait, just a horse.
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 going to happen.
You had a couple people out there saying it was just going to be a moral victory.
It would be a moral victory if you lost.
But come on, Bob.
You know, this is the way you reported on your flash poll after a Bush speech telling everybody basically your poll was worthless because it mostly sampled Republicans, but yet you reported it anyway after you tried 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 that are just off the endangered species list than 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.
How's that?
How would the Republicans possibly look at this and see that it is a sign they could lose the House?
What is there?
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 55, there's been a switch out there.
This is a big problem for us so far.
Fine if it keeps you tuned in and working on repairing damage.
You know, all well and good.
But 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 reported as though, well, still could be though, because this is not very good.
There's a lot of turmoil out there.
There's a lot of turmoil everywhere.
He also says that there aren't that many Democrats out there.
Democrats get 45% of the vote in this district, did 40-45 traditionally.
It was not that unusual a turnout for Democrats in this district.
Steve in Carlsbad, California, you're up first today.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Yeah, Rush, this race wasn't even close.
It was more like 55 to 45 because it was 50 of Bill Bray and 5% of another candidate who was totally against illegal immigration.
This was the number one thing was illegal immigration on everyone's mind.
And 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 other candidate, third candidate, got about 4.5, 4.7% of the vote.
So if you add that to Bill Bray, you do get 55 opposed to the Democrats.
Certainly not a ringing endorsement for Senator McCain at all.
Of course, McCain will say, well, I didn't go out there.
How can you say it not a ringing endorsement for me?
Well, it was a vote not in favor of Senator McCain's legislation.
Steve, sell call in Canton, Ohio.
You're next, and welcome to the program.
Hey, Rush, Mega Digos to you.
Hey, I was out on the California Secretary of State website, and I noticed that in 2004, Duke Cunningham got 58.5% of the vote against this same Francine Busby, hardly a rock, solid, ruby-red Republican district.
It's a competitive district.
It means Republican, but the average winning margin in California in contested races in that year was 68.7%.
So it was a competitive race in 04.
It should have been a competitive race this time around.
The Democrats really should have won it, considering all the things that were in their favor.
Well, it's a good point.
But she didn't get over 45%, and she's never gotten over 45%.
And you can't say that she's not a known candidate.
I mean, she runs.
She'll probably be the candidate again in November.
She most likely will.
She got 36 point-something percent in 2004.
Against Cunningham.
Against Cunningham, an incumbent, you know, without any of this corruption stuff at that time.
Right.
So 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?
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.
Okay, now you may have a point on that.
And again, the reason that's pretty good thinking on your part out there, Steve.
The Democrats and the media, the drive-by media did set this up.
It was based on the 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 fighter pilot.
He was loved and adored out there.
This is all before the corruption stuff hit.
Because of that turnout and that result, it was stated, oh, yeah, slam dunk Republican district.
Democrats will have a chance out here.
And that was done, I think, to prepare for today.
When Busby gets close, it's portrayed as a moral victory.
It's moving the goalposts in order to change the perception of the results.
So his point is that it's a competitive 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 last weekend when Busby made that comment about illegals don't need papers to vote, that was Republicans are saying, yeah, well, 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 anytime 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 Angelitis.
He won the primary.
He's going to run as Walter Mondale II.
He's going to run on raising taxes.
He's going to say it has to be done.
He thinks he's even after what happened to the meatheads proposal.
And so 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.
Quick timeout.
We'll be back right after this.
Stay with us.
Hell's Easy Top Bumper Music, easing us back into the programming content portion of the program.
One more audio soundbite here.
This is from CNN this morning in their American Morning Show, Miles O'Brien talking to the senior political correspondent Candy Crowley.
O'Brien says, this is a heavily Republican district.
Cunningham, when he was doing well, would get 58% numbers.
Are the Democrats going to be able to spin this one into some sort of win?
He was kind of the canary in the cave or the Melwether.
And while he did not get the numbers, which I'm sure Democrats will point out, he did nonetheless win the seat in something that Democrats really thought they might pick up.
I think you'll hear a lot about immigration, too, because one of the reasons that the Democrat may have lost is some sort of intemperate remark she had to say that made her look as though she was asking illegals to come vote for her.
So there's a lot going on in that race, 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 that may or may not have national implications.
A W is a W, I guess.
Damn it.
A 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 coal mine, but now Bill Bray was, but now it's not even a bellwether.
It's just 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.
I'm going to 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 going to 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.
That, of course, will be Haditha.
Every stop that the drive-by media engages in will be Haditha.
Have you heard the, I mean, sure, you've heard this, the old saw that Royal Canadian Mounties always get their man.
Remember Dudley Dewright and all that, the Royal Canadian.
I tell you, it has never been more true than now.
Canadian Mounties are to get married in the 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 Mountie, is well, two Mounties have got their man.
One way of looking at this.
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 seminarily 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 Party base reason to vote on Election Day.
Senator Sam Brownback of Kansas said, people are going to 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 just, in your mind, as I read this, 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 going to have to be drawn by rational men and women who are willing to say enough.
This is spoken in opposition to anything that would allow same-sex marriage.
If you're thinking that it was President Bush or Pat Robertson or Jerry Falwell 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 that in his nearly 50 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 Sheets Byrd 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 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.
Did those rush.
Thank you, sir.
I wanted to suggest a Chris Matthews suicide watch because he had yesterday's elections tied to everything from Katrina to Abu Ghraib to illegal immigration.
And I really don't see how he's going to get through this.
He'll find a way.
I forgot that he said it.
Do you think he'll address it tonight at all on his show or something?
I don't know.
Why don't you watch and call me tomorrow and tell me?
Am I going to get paid for it?
No.
Already pay one person to do this so that I don't have to.
What's the proper way to respond to it?
By the way, I've noticed somebody, every caller that we have had today, including you, Eric, and 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 have called this program.
And I've been urging you to be confident throughout.
I know it helps when actual results come in because that substance to buttress the confidence.
But it's great to hear in your people's voices that you're all revved up about this now.
And also noticing that the drive-by media is going to be doing a 180.
I don't know what Matthews will do.
It'd be difficult to predict.
But my guess is since he was so invested in this, that there will be some kind of in-depth analysis on his next program to explain what happened.
And my guess is, let's just see if I'm right.
My guess is they'll say, if this Haditha stuff had broken earlier, that would have been the straw that broke the camel's back.
Can I tell you something about Haditha?
Now, I have been telling you people for the last week and a half, brace yourselves because this is going to be a one-sided story.
The people who cannot speak about this are the people who know most about it.
So they can't speak about it because there'd be fear 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 typical of what they are.
We've got to get out of Iraq.
We've got to disband these units.
This is just horrible, blah, blah, blah.
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 Ghraib, and it's just like Club Gitmo.
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 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 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 in presidents' second terms.
And they usually rebound toward the end of these second terms anyway.
But I'm confident of this, folks.
I think they'll, just like everything else, they're going to overplay their hand.
They're going to overdo it on Haditha.
And people are going to get sick and tired of hearing 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.
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Here is Owen in Yorktown, Virginia.
You're up next, sir.
Welcome to the program.
Mega Dittos from the true birthplace of America, Rush.
Thank you, sir, very much.
The analysis that you mentioned earlier that Chris Matthews will undoubtedly do tonight will absolutely go down in flames.
And exhibit number one concerns the special election in the 50th district.
One factor that everyone in the drive-by media seems to forget is that this was a statewide Democratic primary and they only had 30% turnout.
In other words, this was their best chance to make their mark and they flew it.
And I feel that what this means is that it will be even worse for the Democrats in the November general election.
Well, it's tempting to go there, but primaries traditionally do not attract huge turnouts.
And this is in June, especially.
This is summertime, people away from home traveling around, even with $3.50 a gallon gasoline 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 going to be installed in office.
It'd be difficult to say that this is typical and representative of what's going to happen in November because the majority of the state of California is Democrat.
And during a general election, you're going to have a much greater turnout than even during a primary.
What this says is that what was on the ballot statewide was not all that big a deal to people, including the Democratic gubernatorial primary.
But June's a tough month to have one of these things, even in an off-year election.
But having said that, 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 Steny Hoyer is getting serious about yanking him off the Ways and Means Committee.
So come on.
At the very least, a guy's got 90 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 90 grand in your freezer that nobody knows how you got.
Well, we do know how he got it.
He was paid off.
He didn't withdraw that money from one of his own accounts for which there would have been a record.
So Democrats are starting to get 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.
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 going to 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 02 they were going to run away and retake the House.
They thought Kerry was going to retake the White House.
And that the House and Senate were going to go Democrat back in 04.
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.
People are losing interest in Democrats left and wide.
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 going to go out and try to get the values vote by injecting spirituality into their campaign.
By the way, it's religion, not spirituality.
If you really want to have a chance at getting the values vote, Democrats, you're going to have to start using the right terms.
Start talking about spirituality, and you're going to come off as a bunch of new age wackos at the top of Mount Shasta doing harmonic convergences while giving him these mantras like, oh, and you're not going to get anywhere.
And you'd have the guts to get religious.
Religion scares you people on the left because it's too judgmental.
It has too much 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 with the moral relativism of modern-day liberalism and the Democratic Party.
Let's see.
Let me grab somebody else because I'm going to need more time with this guy in Philadelphia than what I've got.
Terry from the 50th District of California.
Great to have you on the program, sir.
Hi, Rush.
It's a privilege.
Thank you.
One thing I wanted to point out is that the third candidate in this district garnered four points of this process.
And he was the only one in that race that was endorsed by the Minutemen.
And I think that the Republicans need to walk away from this with a lesson.
If they can reinforce their stance on illegal immigration, meaning the House side of it, they'll gain at least four points wherever they go, whichever race that they're running.
But, you know, I can't see the Democrats seeing this as a victory in any sense of the word because their soft touch on immigration cost them.
You know, even if she hadn't said the thing, once she said that she agreed with McCain, this district just turned their back on her.
You know, we'll always have the peace-loving crowd in this part of California.
And that's mostly the constituency that she catered to.
And, you know, let me tell you, I've got to stop you because of the constraints of time here.
But as far as the Democrats telling themselves that they won, 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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