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Oct. 20, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 20, 2006, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
And greetings to you, my good friends.
And welcome to the Rush Limbaugh program.
This, the Excellence in Broadcasting Network, it's Friday.
You know what that means.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
And that's the day that I, America's leading media figure, talking to the most informed audience, the most informed audience in all of broadcast media, according to Pew Research Center.
Take a huge, huge, huge career risk because I, when we go to the phones, turn over the program on Friday to veritable rank amateurs, whatever you want to talk about, feel free.
Questions, comments, you name it.
That's what Friday is about.
Your call does not have to be interesting to me.
It doesn't have to be about something I care about.
Monday through Thursday, it does, but not today.
No, I am not mocking them.
But we've got the audio soundbites of this.
Anyway, here's the telephone number if you want to be on the program 800-282-2882 and the email address rush at EIBnet.com.
Now try this headline.
Now, this is an AP story by our old buddy Jennifer Lovin.
Bush stumps for adulterer, candidate accused of slurs.
President Bush campaigned Thursday for a congressman who has confessed to adultery and a senator accused of using racial slurs, seeking to boost incumbent Republicans, once safe for re-election, but now in peril.
Bush's appearance for Congressman Don Sherwood in Laplum, Pennsylvania, and for Senator George Allen in Richmond, Virginia found the White House on the defensive over the decision to try to help candidates in such straits as the GOP struggles to keep control of Congress.
So the headline, Bush stumps for adulterer, candidate accused of slurs.
Do you think we would ever see the following headline, Clinton, comma, an adulterer, stumps for candidate who tolerates racial slurs?
That would be Clinton campaigning for Ben Cardin against Michael Steele, whose supporters have used numerous slurs against Steele in Maryland.
Funny how that headline didn't make it in the Maryland newspapers.
Clinton, comma, adulterer, stumps for candidate who tolerates racial slurs.
Jennifer Lovin, you know who she is.
She's the White House Press Corps, and she is incessantly partisan and idiotic in her questions to the president.
She's married to some former Clinton guy.
Well, who isn't?
Who isn't married to somebody that used to be in the Clinton administration?
I mean, that's in the media or in a federal judgeship.
These people are incestuous.
They are all over the place.
You see this headline or this story about invisibility?
Try this, folks.
Taking a page from movies and comic books, researchers at Duke University have developed what they call an invisibility cloak, a rudimentary device that hides objects by bending electromagnetic waves so that they flow around the object like water around a rock.
Because none of the waves are reflected back at the observer, the object seems invisible.
Their device, reported today in the online version of the journal Science, works only with microwave radiation, not visible light waves, and only in two dimensions.
And it does not yet provide complete invisibility.
It provides a small shadow that can be detected.
The current device cloaks a copper cylinder about four-tenths of an inch tall.
The team is now building a version that'll cloak an object the size of a toaster in all three dimensions.
Democrats are going to seize on this.
Anything that can make liberalism appear to disappear.
Anything can make liberalism invisible.
You know, they'll be.
In fact, they probably already have this device.
I would assume liberal scientists are the ones who've admitted this.
The media hides liberals every day, such as Hillary Clinton is a centrist.
And there is a story.
I don't know.
The Washington Times is drinking the Kool-Aid these days.
There's a story in the Washington Times today that, hey, Nancy Pelosi is no luck.
She's no shoe-in for Speaker of the House, even if the Democrats win the House, because there are some moderate Democrats in there that don't like her policies and won't vote for her.
Moderate Democrats.
What a myth.
There are no such things as moderate.
Joe Lieberman's the last one, and he's an independent.
You got the audio soundbites that they've been delivered up there.
All right.
Folks, this is hilarious.
PMS NBC is running our PSA on cut-and-run conservatives.
They've run it twice so far this morning from what we've seen.
First off, anchor Alexandra Witt.
Here's how it went.
Many political experts say the Mark Foley scandal has battered the Republican base and may prompt values voters to stay home on Election Day.
But then some conservatives say that is basically throwing in the towel.
Rush Limbaugh drove the point home with a satirical public service announcement on his radio show.
Feeling let down by Republicans this year, then join the millions of true conservatives who have become cut and run conservatives and sit this one out.
If you're unhappy with anything the president, House, or Senate has done in the last two, four, or 12 years, then show your patriotism by teaching them all a lesson they won't forget.
Kind of funny.
They didn't play the funniest part.
So you got the PSA there.
Okay, well, hang on.
Let's see what they do.
Nora O'Donnell played it a little bit later and asked a Washington Post reporter what he thought of it.
What Rush Limbaugh did was essentially a satirical public service announcement on his radio show where he was taking aim at any voters among the Republican base that plan on staying home this election day.
Republicans couldn't have helped for a better message than like that from Rush, huh?
Well, you know, I think there's real concern among party operatives on the Republican side that things like immigration, things like increased spending and the federal deficit growing, those kind of things are going to keep these reliable conservative voters at home.
Yeah, you wish.
There's movement happening out there, folks.
I think this movement in the media to suppress Republican turnout has peaked.
No, Democrats are staying home and no Democrats are going to lose.
Not one incumbent Democrat is going to lose and no Democrats are going to stay home.
Have you noticed, by the way, in the last two to three weeks, we haven't heard a word about all the anger at Democrats from their kook left-wing blogs?
Have you noticed we haven't seen any of this?
Any discord of the Democratic Party has been buried.
I'm still not sure what Nora O'Donnell meant here.
And I'm only curious because I don't know that she gets the point of the PSA.
She talks about it.
It says, Republicans couldn't have helped or hoped for a better message than that from Rush, huh?
Do you have any idea?
What does she mean by this?
Oh, she's worried this is going to be effective.
Well, here, they didn't even play the funniest part of PSA.
It's hard to say which of this is the funniest part, but you got to play the whole thing to get it.
So, Mike, the honor is yours.
Feeling let down by Republicans this year, then join the millions of true conservatives who have become cut and run conservatives and sit this one out.
If you're unhappy with anything the president, House, or Senate has done in the last two, four, or 12 years, then show your patriotism by teaching them all a lesson they won't forget.
So take a stand, Conservative America.
Become a cut-and-run conservative and sit this one out.
And wait until you like everything Republicans do before you ever vote again.
Paid for about George Soros.
If I had known this would work, I wouldn't have wasted my money on She-Hat.
I have to admit, I'm getting emails.
Some people are very mad about this.
You know, it is somewhat a replay of the Perot period, and there have been a couple others.
I forget the events, the issues, people.
Well, the Buchanan run for president, but the Perot was the biggie.
But there have been a couple things since then, and I go through this, it seems, rather regularly.
In fact, who was he?
The Washington Times extensively quotes from me and this program in their report today on my analysis why those who may be staying home are doing it.
All that coming up.
But I talked about the polling data.
Joe Lieberman has a 17-point lead over Ned Lament, 52 to 35%.
Lieberman leads Lament, 70% to 9% among likely Republican voters, 18% for Schlesinger, and 1536 among likely independent voters.
881 likely Connecticut voters in this survey conducted between October 17th and the 19th.
And then there's this, the New York 26th congressional district.
This is the district that houses the evil Tom Reynolds of the Mark Foley, of Mark Foley fame.
And this is Survey USA, I think it was Survey USA done for WGRZ TV in Buffalo.
And this is just the way they word it.
In an election in New York's uniquely volatile 26th congressional district today, October 19th, yesterday is when this came out.
Republican incumbent Tom Reynolds comes back off the mat to now recapture a tiny lead against Democrat challenger Jack Davis, 49 to 46.
Little momentum.
And then in Indiana, Democratic Representative Julia Carson was in a close race three weeks before Election Day with an underfunded Republican challenger who has raised questions about her years of health problems, according to a new poll.
Carson, seeking her sixth term in the 7th district, includes most of Indianapolis, was the pick of 42% of those surveyed.
Republican Eric Dickerson had the support of 45% of the poll released Thursday.
He's got a Republican challenger leading a six-term Democrat incumbent.
My guess is there are races like this out there being totally ignored by the drive-by media because they don't fit the action line.
Colorado 5th District in an election in Colorado's 5th congressional district today, again, dated yesterday.
Republican Doug Lamborn defeats Democrat Jay Fawcett 51 to 38 percent, according to a survey USA poll conducted exclusively for KUSA TV in Denver.
This is a race that was trending Democrat, one of the pickups the Democrats were counting on, and it's reversed itself.
And there are other signs of such things happening out there as well.
Ladies and gentlemen, I'll give you more details as the program unfolds.
Kim Jong-il expressed regret about his country's nuclear test to a Chi-Com delegation and said that Pyongyang would return to international nuclear talks if Washington backs off a campaign to financially isolate the country.
Okay, so the little pot-bellied dog-eating dictator has apologized.
And what that means in our culture today is never mind.
Never mind, because if you say that you are sorry, the libs will wipe the slate clean.
In fact, if you say you're sorry, they will blame Bush.
They will join you in blaming Bush for it.
However, the latest report from the North Koreans is that they are denying that they are sorry, and they are denying that they said they are sorry, thereby squandering the goodwill they could have had with the American left and the worldwide left.
Brief timeout.
We'll be back.
Open Line Friday continues right after this.
America's real anchor man, wrapping up another week.
An exciting week of broadcast excellence from the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies, a trouble in paradise out there.
As you know, the New York Times company posted a profit loss of 39% earlier this week.
And one of the problems is lower advertising revenue.
Really?
What is the other source of revenue you people have?
Payoffs?
Of course it's advertiser revenue.
Now, why is advertiser revenue down?
Because circulation is down.
Fewer people see the ads, thus fewer people respond.
It's 101.
It isn't complicated at all.
The problems go far beyond just the New York Times.
They also are impacting the Boston Globe, which is also owned by the New York Times Company, which is a company run by Little Pinch.
And so there's this story where this is from editor and publisher.
An unusual letter to New York Times Company Chairman Pinch Schulzberger from a collection of Massachusetts politicians, which of course is the drive-by media charming way to phrase a bunch of fat liberals, ranging from Senator Edward Kennedy to local Boston City Council members, urged the owners of the Boston Globe to resist likely cutbacks at the financially strapped newspaper.
The letter was dated yesterday, states, quote, it is our interest and duty to help preserve quality journalism in Boston and throughout the New England region, adding that Boston Globe journalists have risked and in some cases given their lives in pursuit of news from the world's most dangerous war zones and treacherous locales.
Oh, yes, they are so brave.
But the writers quickly turn to the Times ownership of the Globe, criticizing the media chain for what they contend to have been poor stewardship of the paper.
Progressively, over time, since the New York Times company acquired the Boston Globe in 93, a troubling pattern of disinvestment, downsizing, outsourcing, and cost, they're accusing him of being a Republican.
This is right out of their playbook.
They're accusing Pinch Schulzberger of being conservative Republican.
A troubling pattern of disinvestment, downsizing, outsourcing, cost-cutting has emerged.
So there's panic.
So the Libs are getting hold of the head hauncho of their allied agencies in the drive-by media saying, don't downsize our newspaper.
I'm sitting here thinking, you know, everybody who campaigns with Bill Clinton is campaigning with an adulterer.
I mean, that would not be a difficult headline to write.
One more poll result, ladies and gentlemen.
This is from Rasmussen via Real Clear Politics.
Montana Senate race, Conrad Burns, who is, by the way, toast.
To help you put this in perspective, Conrad Burns is toast.
It's over.
Feeny, that's it.
Has now moved within three points of John Tester, the Democrat in Montana.
I don't know.
I'm looking at all this and I'm smelling movement of some kind.
And I'm drawn also, ladies and gentlemen, to our astute phone call from yesterday.
He said, you know, these pollsters need credibility at the end of the day.
And he fully expects all these polls to tighten up in the next two weeks or so as we get close to the election.
These widespreads that we've seen up to now in the polls are designed to depress conservatives and Republicans and thus to suppress turnout, make it look like it's a lost cause, to help along this notion that it is a sweep across the board.
I know Republican pollsters are saying the same thing.
Republican strategists filled with doom and gloom.
This is the Washington crowd, folks.
They're all drinking the same Kool-Aid.
They're all subject to the same aura that is there inside the Beltway.
But there clearly is some movement here, and it probably will continue.
I was thinking more and more about this Republican base not showing up, anger and so forth.
And, you know, there's a story I saw on Fox this morning out of Oregon.
Now, Oregon is not a Republican state.
Oregon is not anywhere near a conservative state.
But the big issue that is propelling Republicans to lead in the polls in Oregon right now in national and local races is illegal immigration.
There are 176,000 illegal immigrants in Oregon.
Now, what they said on Fox was that if they all lived in the same place, that would constitute the second or third largest city in the state of Oregon.
Now, many of them don't work in Oregon.
They live in Oregon and work elsewhere, but they live in Oregon because benefits are easier to obtain in the state of Oregon.
And it is this issue, illegal immigration, that the Democrats are losing big.
And that's the context in which Fox reported this.
Democrats are losing on the issue of illegal immigration.
And it just, it makes, it makes me mad.
This election wouldn't even be close if the Republican Party had been on the right side of the illegal immigration issue from the get-go and had hammered it, hammered the Democrats with it and forced them to take a losing position, which is what's happening in Oregon.
If it would adjust, but of course, the president had different ideas, and so the Republican Party was forced to sort of downsize its enthusiasm for the side of the issue opposite the president's.
We'll be back.
Stay with us.
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Rush Limbaugh, your highly trained broadcast specialist to the phones we go since it's open line Friday.
And Stephen Orlando, you're next, or first, I should say.
Good to have you with us and welcome.
Letter carrier Ditto is from O'Cully, Florida.
Rush.
Thank you, sir.
I just want to say I admire you, and although I'm a little upset with you right now, I do love you.
I'm just, I'm one of those people who is, I'm going to protest.
I'm not going to be voting.
And let me give you some reasons why I'm not going to be voting.
They've been in power for 12 years.
We have a border situation where you have 30 million illegal aliens in this country, and they are not doing a thing about it.
The Dems take it to us now, everything.
Education, the judges.
Look what they've done to Catherine Harris.
They basically have thrown her under the bus over here in Florida.
I'm of the opinion that when you go to a restaurant and you get really, really bad service, I mean, just abysmal service, you don't tip them.
And the Republicans basically, right now, have nothing to do with it.
Let me ask you something.
If you go to Cracker Barrel and have something to eat and you don't like it, do you say, screw you, I'm never coming back here.
Go to a place that will serve you poison.
I'm trying to see what your point is there.
If I get really bad service, that's one thing.
You get a bad meal every now and then, no matter where you go.
And if it's not prepared, you started with immigration.
Let's talk about that here for just a second.
Sure.
As you know, the Congress has passed a border fence.
The president is going to sign the bill, and there will be a border fence.
I bet on it, Rush.
Well, I'm very happy.
All right.
So it's not going, okay.
Well, forget the border fence.
You're right.
You know, you're absolutely right.
It ain't going to happen.
We're not going to do anything about illegal immigration, and we're going to be overrun.
We've lost the country already.
It's time to get what you can and get out.
But let me talk about your problem with the House.
Republicans have had 12 years and so forth.
Who are you really mad at?
Bush or the Republicans in the House and Senate?
I'm not mad at President Bush.
I am not upset with him.
And immigration is your number one issue.
If you're upset at immigration, you've got to be upset at him.
In that respect, yes.
He is the reason.
He is the reason the Republicans in the House are unable to pass an immigration bill that you want.
And they did anyway about two months ago, or right before the August recess, they did anyway because they were fed up.
And they knew that people like you were out there thinking that this issue is important.
And they broke with the president.
And they did this in August.
And they passed a bill.
It went nowhere in the Senate.
The White House said they're not going to sign it because it doesn't jibe with the bill they want amnesty.
The House bill does not grant amnesty.
It focuses on border security.
They passed it.
The Republican, now they may not have done it soon enough, but I've explained this.
They've got a Republican in the White House, but he's not a conservative.
He's not leading a conservative movement.
They are conservative in the House.
The leadership is, and the majority.
It is very difficult to buck your own president and survive.
It's much easier if the president on issues like this is of the other party so that you can speak out.
If your own president is not a movement guy, just a Republican, conservative on some things, but not a conservative.
I understand.
I don't think you do because you're still going to sit out and you think you're doing a valiant thing here.
Not saying I'm doing a valiant thing.
I never said that.
But what you're doing, which you're antagonizing the conservatives.
You're speaking ill of fellow conservatives, which is one thing Ronald Reagan said we should never do.
Gee, come on.
You have got to be kidding.
No, I'm not kidding.
I'm serious.
Okay, so you want me to embrace the people in this party who will secure our defeat.
First of all, I see what you're saying.
Tough hearing the truth, isn't it?
Tough hearing the truth.
No, What is it you really want?
What is it you want to feel like you've got some power in the political process?
That has to be what it is because nothing you're going to do by not voting is going to advance anything you believe in.
It's not going to be public.
I'm not going to move one thing for.
Well, then why do you care about the stuff if you don't care whether it advances?
Because they're not conservative anymore.
They're not conservative.
You're going to sit there and tell me that they're as conservative as they promised to be back in 1994.
They have just very, very short, slowly gone more and more to the center and almost to the left.
Let's face it, the Democratic Party.
Who are you talking about?
Who are you talking about?
I'm talking about the Republican Party in general.
No, give me some names.
They're moving to the center.
They didn't do what conservatives said they were going to do.
In fact, they're moving to the left.
Give me some names.
Well, I can't give you any names, Rush.
Well, then, why do you think?
I mean, as a party.
I mean, as a party.
Let me ask you, are you going to switch parties and become a Democrat?
Absolutely not.
I will not.
Well, you may as well, because you may as well, because if enough people join you, Nancy Pelosi is going to be the speaker, and we'll have you to thank.
Well, I can see your point.
I mean, I honestly, I can see where you're coming from.
But what upset me the most was the way you're giving the left some ammunition, and they're already starting to use it.
I'm giving the left ammunition?
Right.
I mean, you're sitting there and you're basically impugning the fellow conservatives who are upset.
Let me tell you something.
I can understand why you think that, Steve, old buddy, but you think they need any?
What have they been doing for as long as you've been alive?
Impugning conservatives, making fun of conservative Christians, laughing.
That's one of the things I don't understand.
Why you're not more angry at them for what they are trying to do than you are angry at people on your own team.
I've been through this enough.
I've walked people through the stages of this, and I don't want to sit here and devote every show to this and end up being redundant.
But politics is like life.
You don't get everything you want.
You don't get perfection.
There are mitigating circumstances and everything, but you are on a team.
And you can look at the two teams out there, and there's nothing that you can find on one of those teams that's going to advance anything you care about.
In fact, they're going to do just the opposite.
They're going to make the things you care about get worse.
At least the team you're on has people in it who believe things like you do and are fighting to get them done.
But if you abandon the team, you're not making the team stronger.
You're not advancing your own principles.
You're simply engaging in punishment.
And you can do that.
I mean, people can vote or not vote for any reason they want.
And if you want to punish your own team, that's fine, but you're not immune from the punishment you're meeting out to yourself as well.
Anyway, I'm glad you called.
I appreciate it.
But I don't think I'm antagonizing anybody here.
And if I am, then it just proves one thing to me.
And I think, Steve, there may be a factor here that because let me ask you, how old are you?
Is he still there?
He is gone.
Did he sound young to you?
He did not sound yoke.
Did to me.
This is something that happens, and I have noticed this over the 18 plus years that I have led this program and this movement.
And that is younger people are coming in it all the time.
And younger people, they're the ones fired up.
They have the idealism.
And they're the ones most let down and disappointed by the failures of the people that they really believed in.
And they're very enthusiastic because this is all new to them.
And it all makes sense.
Conservatism, they love it.
They get all riled up.
And then the minute it goes by the wayside or doesn't meet their expectations, they feel let down, abandoned, and then they get angry.
And they say, I'm going to teach you.
And I think a lot of this is comprised of people who feel powerless, who don't want to feel powerless.
They want to feel like they've got some power.
And they're angry and they want to reach out and punish those who have let them down, lied to them, they think, or what have you.
And in the process, make no mistake about it, there are people out there who will be very happy if they can convince themselves they're the reason their side lost, because it will give them meaning.
It will give them a sense of power that goes along with their powerlessness.
And all of this is quite natural because we all want to matter.
Not everybody can matter as much as I do, but we all want to.
And people will take oftentimes many steps, many different types of action in order to make themselves feel like they are relevant and have power and matter.
And there's also something exciting about bucking the trend, going against what they perceive to be conventional wisdom and being mavericks and so forth.
I think these are all factors in this.
But the interesting thing is to me is that we hear none of this going on in the Democratic Party.
No, why those Democrats there are so unified?
Why they're all at love at one and in love with each other in their party.
There isn't one disaffected Democrat in this country.
You know that there's not one Democrat who's saying, I don't care about this, I'm not voting.
There's not one Democrat who's thinking of not voting for a Democrat.
There's not one Democrat who is going to vote for a Republican.
No, folks, they're just, it's a juggernaut out there.
These problems only exist in the Republican Party.
And yet, when you go look at Democrat turnout in their primaries this year, you see that it was 15%.
So, again, we've got a media template and an action line that is designed to create feelings as expressed by our previous caller.
Anyway, a little timeout here.
Got to go.
Back with much more after this.
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I want to say one thing to those of you out there who are frosted about illegal immigration.
And I want to remind you of something.
Long ago, back in the summertime, when the talk of Republicans losing the House was up and down during the years, it was cyclical.
And just before the Foley thing hit, the Republicans were trending back, president and everybody else.
But one of these occasions when Republicans were hitting down and the media was giving their reasons for it, I poo-pooed their reasons.
I said, there's going to be one reason if Republicans lose the House.
It's going to be immigration.
It's going to be the illegal immigration.
And I saw this thing on Fox this morning about what's going on out in Oregon with Republicans surging ahead, Democrats on the defensive and losing because they're on the wrong side of the illegal immigration issue.
And I just, it's simple.
However, I want to say, I want every one of you people that's just fit to be tied over illegal immigration.
And I'm one of you, but you don't.
Well, I'm one of you.
I want to just remind you of one thing: the only reason the McCain Kennedy amnesty for all of them immigration bill isn't law right now is because of House Republicans.
That is the only reason they refuse to even convene a serious conference committee report with the Republicans and the Democrats in the Senate over this bill.
If the Republicans in the House, and I'm not, I don't want you people to misunderstand.
I am not describing perfection here.
And I'm not a paid political consultant, and nobody's asking me to do this.
I'm sharing, as I always have, and I always will, what's in my sizable cranium, rapidly firing neurons in my little gray cells and in my heart.
And I'm just telling you, if it weren't for the Republicans in the House of Representatives, where would be amnesty right now for all of these illegal, however many it is?
Everything in the McCain-Kennedy bill would be law today, except the House Republicans.
They are the only reason that that bill is not law as we speak today.
Now, it's getting, well, I don't know.
I want to say frustrating.
I enjoy talking to every one of you who call the program, but I just have to ask those of you who are the cut and run conservatives out there who abandon the cause for whatever valiant, valorous reason that you have concocted.
I wonder how many of you have gotten involved in party politics at the local and state levels.
And I wonder how many of you have worked in the primaries for conservatives against more moderate candidates in the Republican Party.
I wonder how many of you have actually gone out and gotten involved, as opposed to how many of you are there's no criticism here, but there's a point.
How many of you are just watchers, you're just spectators, you're just and you care and you're sitting around watching all this stuff.
But how many of you have ever gotten involved?
And how many of you have seen up close and personal the damage Republican moderates have done to the conservative cause?
Republican blue-blood country clubbers.
How many of you have seen the damage that they have caused?
And then when you realize the damage that they have caused is manifested by people like Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton being elected, look at the damage Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton did to this country.
They continue to wreak havoc on this country.
They are the two ex-presidents alive today who freely comment in a partisan political way on their successors.
George H.W. Bush never did.
Gerald Ford doesn't.
Ronald Reagan never did when he was alive.
These two guys set the cake, take the cake along with Al Gore.
Look at the damage Nancy Pelosi and Dingy Harry Reid would do to the country.
When you've worked up close and personal and hard for this and you've seen your efforts go awry because of that, it changes your perspective on all this.
And it doesn't make you want to cut and run and get out.
It makes you want to stay in the mix and to help further expand the movement within your own party.
And that's what I think is missing in a lot of circumstances here.
Now, you and I believe the same things.
If this program had a stated mission, mission statement, it would be that we believe the people in this country get essentially what they want.
There are exceptions.
The way people get what they want is to become informed, more informed than the other side, more informed than as informed as they can be, and take that information to the polls and vote.
You win it in the arena of ideas.
And I know you believe that too.
When you see yourself losing in the arena of ideas, that's when you get mad and you think, well, you know, they're letting me down whatever reason you conjure up.
But the ongoing effort to strengthen your own team, strengthen your own party, is something that's never going to end.
Your party, your movement is never going to be exactly what you want it to be, ever.
Back in just a second.
I have to correct myself, I was wrong.
USA Today, in the editorial page today, does write about disarray in the Democrat Party.
I'll have details.
Lots of other stuff, too.
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