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Oct. 27, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 27, 2006, Friday, Hour #2
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And greetings to you music lovers, thrill seekers, and conversationalists all across the Fruited Plain, the award-winning thrill-packed, ever-exciting Rush Limbaugh program.
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All right, Ben Carden and Michael Steele.
Michael Steele is running a new ad in Maryland.
As one of the posters at the Powerline blog reports today, I'm pretty confident Michael Steele's going to beat Ben Carden in Maryland's Senate race, in part because Cardin keeps shooting himself in the foot.
He's now running one of those disgraceful Michael J. Fox embryonic stem cell research ads, which misrepresent Steele's position on the issue, as well as President Bush's.
Now, we don't have the audio of Steele's ad, but I've got the text.
Here's the response ad to the Michael J. Fox ad.
Steele opens by saying, I'm Michael Steele, and I approve this message.
Next voice, I'm Dr. Monica Turner.
Congressman Ben Cardin is attacking Michael Steele with deceptive, tasteless ads.
It's the Fox ad.
He is using the victim of a terrible disease to frighten people all for his own political gain.
Mr. Cardin should be ashamed.
There's something you should know about Michael Steele.
He does support stem cell research and he cares deeply for those who suffer from the disease.
How do I know?
I'm Michael Steele's little sister.
I have MS, and I know he cares about me.
In the meantime, Cardin has voted against stem cell research, and Fox and Cardin are running ads, nevertheless, for Cardin.
Now, last night, Michael J. Fox appeared with Katie Couric on the CBS Evening News.
Katie sent me an email prior to the interview with Mr. Fox and asked for some things from me that stipulate my positions on this.
I sent her five or six paragraphs.
She used one line from the five or six paragraphs.
She did not tell me that she was going to use the video that everybody else is using in a distorted manner, in a misrepresentative manner, to make it look like I'm mocking or making fun of Michael J. Fox.
As I explained yesterday, that's not the case.
We've sent the transcript out, by the way, to George Stephanopoulos and Chris Wallace because they're both doing shows on Sunday.
I'm going to be out of town this weekend.
They asked me to appear.
Can't, don't want to, wouldn't do it anyway, but it did send the transcript of yesterday's program explaining all of this as I explained it to you yesterday.
Katie did not in her email tell me she was going to use that video from the Dittocam that you've seen all over the drive-by media, which attempts to, with the commentary that they attach to it, distorts what I was doing here on the program.
As I have mentioned, I just finished watching the ad.
Never seen Mr. Fox that way.
I was shaken and stunned.
I have a camera here, and I was describing it for people.
This is radio.
Many of us on radio act out.
As you know, I'm a mimic anyway.
And I was trying to illustrate what I had seen, not in a mocking way, but an informative way for people who are watching the program and hundreds of thousands of do each day on the Ditto Cam.
By the way, welcome to those of you who are.
So the purposeful and willingful distortion of this continues, which we addressed yesterday, is totally understandable to me why it's being done.
Even today, they continue to talk about me, not the substance of the issue.
Now, I only want to comment on two things that Michael J. Fox said in his interview with Katie Couric yesterday.
And I'm going to tell you right now that both of these are responses, and it's not because of anything Katie posited to him.
She only asked him or didn't even ask him to resign.
She put up the statement that I had made that I resent the notion that Democrats can put forth victims of whatever disease or circumstance because they think they're immune from any criticism, even in the political arena.
That was the, and I said her quite a lot to explain my position on it.
In fact, I'll tell you what, Coco is gone today.
He's taken a day off from the website, but Dean's up.
Dean, go ahead and post that.
As I sent the email up to the website yesterday, what are you looking at, Snurdy?
She asked for this day off back in February for some reason.
And I, you know, go ahead.
I'm great to work for.
Well, what do you want me to say?
No, you can't leave.
I can't do the show without you.
Is that what you people want to hear?
No, you can't leave.
I can't do the show.
No, if you need a day off, take a day off.
I do.
Now and then.
Yes, I know I'm the boss.
It helps, but it doesn't mean much sometimes.
Anyway, Dean, go ahead and post what I sent to Katie Couric since that interview is being with Michael J. Fox is being, again, reported in the way it's being reported is typical of the way this whole story has come down.
But the two things that he said here that I have to respond to because they are direct responses to the criticism of the substance of the ad.
He said that he appeared in the ad only to advance his cause.
Disease is a nonpartisan problem that requires a bipartisan solution.
Well, excuse me, I'm the one who said that earlier this week.
He has not said it in this ad of his or these ads.
In fact, one of the things I said that distressed me about this whole ad campaign was the fact that curing disease has traditionally been a bipartisan effort in this country, curing cancer, breast cancer, heart disease, any number of things.
Now we're politicizing diseases, first with Christopher Reeve, and then with others and Alzheimer's, and now we're politicizing Parkinson's disease.
It is traditionally been bipartisan, but nothing Mr. Fox is doing is bipartisan.
I mean, I watched, I was sort of stunned to hear this.
And then he said, you know, I don't really care about politics.
Disease is a nonpartisan problem, requires a bipartisan solution.
He's only doing commercials for Democrats.
In fact, one of the Democrats, Ben Cardin in Maryland, has opposed what Michael J. Fox is for.
And then I don't really care about politics.
Campaigned for John Kerry.
He campaigned for Arlen Specter.
I mean, this is difficult to believe.
But then the Corker, after saying that he didn't really care about politics, he said, we want to appeal to voters to elect the people that are going to give us a margin so we can't be vetoed again.
So after saying that he's not interested in politics and that he wants bipartisanship, he then ends up by saying he needs a margin for his side that are going to give them a veto-proof margin so that their bills can't.
And this is disingenuous as it can be.
It's...
It's not honest.
And that is the, for the last three days of this, has been the focus that most people have not put on.
We've tried to here, focusing on the substance of the content of this ad or these ads and the issue involving these ads.
So Katie didn't ask anything about bipartisanship.
He just volunteered that.
I don't know of anybody this week other than, I don't listen to everybody, but I don't know of anybody else who was talking about the tradition of tackling killer diseases in a bipartisan manner.
That's the way we've always done it in this country.
It's sort of like politics used to end at the water's edge, foreign policy and war.
That's out the window now.
And now we're going to politicize disease.
And the bottom line is that the message of the Democratic Party is that Republicans will keep you sick.
Or you can put it another way.
What was the theme of yesterday's program, Mr. Snerdley?
Little pop quiz?
That's damn it.
Democrats lie to sick people.
Democrats cruelly lie to sick people.
They create false hope.
They are telling in this ad, voters are being told that Michael Steele and Jim Talent oppose medical research that will lead to the cure for diseases.
That is unconscionable.
That stinks.
That is a dirty ad.
And that's why more and more people are beginning to characterize the ads of Mr. Fox as disgraceful because of the content and because of the substance.
All right, a brief timeout.
Dean, let me know when you get that posted up there on the website, the thing I sent Katie Couric at her request.
So for people who either saw this interview on CBS or are reading about it, by the way, she didn't promise to use it all.
Don't misunderstand.
She asked me if she could quote from some of it.
She ended up taking one thing that I said.
I just want you to know what I sent her that didn't make it.
I want you to know what I sent her and what of it she chose to use.
Because that's important in understanding how the drive-by media works as well.
Back in just a second.
Hey, continue to write.
You know, yesterday was Tennessee.
Yesterday it was Tennessee and Virginia that the Democrats need the rural vote.
Tennessee, Virginia, and what was the other state?
It was an L.A. Times story.
Tennessee, Virginia.
They need the rural vote.
And that, of course, is the hick vote.
And was it Missouri?
Okay, they're saying it about Claire McCaskill now.
She needs the rural vote.
She needs the hick vote.
In addition, ladies and gentlemen, to all that, there are stories that are saying, what did I do with them?
I've got them here.
I know.
Yes.
Yes.
When I see stories like this, I wonder about the conventional wisdom that Democrats are going to sweep to victory.
This is from, let's see, a couple days ago, St. Louis.
Hundreds of bogus address changes have surfaced near St. Louis.
And the election board is warning voters to make sure they get a polling place notification card.
If the card doesn't show up, the voter's address may have been fraudulently changed, the county elections director said.
The bogus address changes are among fraudulent voter registration cards turning up in St. Louis County within the past couple of months, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
The bogus registrations included at least one dead person.
And in fact, the Post-Dispatch story is dated October 11th, suspect voter registration cards found in St. Louis.
There are a number of stories like this.
For example, a blogger today wonders this.
If the Democrats are going to sweep into power on November 7th, why are a majority of Democrats in hotly contested House and Senate races rejecting a timetable for withdrawal in Iraq?
Why are they not taking the standard Democrat position?
Why is it that Democrats won't debate their opponents?
You know, Cardin walked out of a debate, didn't show up at a debate with Michael Steele in Maryland.
The Washington Post has this story.
Washington Times too.
This is about something to do with the NAACP.
Bob Casey in Pennsylvania will not take a position on anything, ladies and gentlemen.
And in fact, if the Democrats are going to sweep to power on November 7th, why are there hotly contested House and Senate races involving Democrats?
Why is there such a thing as a hotly contested race involving a Democrat if they are going to sweep to power?
Here's Jerry in Noonan, Georgia.
You're next on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hello, Rush.
Hi.
Meghadiggos.
Thank you, sir.
Damn Colin, I was listening to the Sunday talk shows, and I heard Senator Obama talk about bringing in Syria and Iran into the talks to help stabilize Iraq.
And I said, well, this must be just a clueless liberal Democrat.
But then later on, I heard Senator Lugar say the same thing.
Are all senators getting clueless?
No, they're panicking.
Luger, I think, is panicking.
He's a Republican.
He's not up, but he's a Republican, and Republicans are getting beat up on the war.
And there's no strategy, and there's no plan.
And Bush is inflexible.
And we've got to do something.
And there's a notion among elites, moderate Republican elites, liberal elites, that we can just solve all this by talking to the enemy.
If we just go talk to them.
Now, I made the point yesterday, ladies and gentlemen, that in Germany, and I'll get to Obama here in just a second, Jerry.
Germany has a new poll.
61% of German citizens fear Islamo-fascism.
There is a creeping fear in Germany that Islamo-fascism is sweeping the country.
Now, how can this be?
I asked yesterday.
Germany didn't go to Iraq.
Germany wasn't part of the coalition.
Germany, they opposed going to Iraq.
They were with the French at the Security Council of the United Nations.
They were buying, I thought, some insurance.
I'm sure they thought they were buying insurance.
But the fact of life and human nature cannot be denied.
When you have terrorists or evil people who are bent on domination and control, they zero in on weakness.
And for, look at what's happening to France.
Every day there's a story in France about youths rioting.
You can't find out that it's Muslim youths.
They won't write about it, but there are youths rioting, trying to relive the old days of last summer.
Germany now has this fear, but it shouldn't happen because the Germans had no quarrel with Iraq, and they had no quarrel with militant Islam, and they didn't support the United States.
Why Germany, they should be leaving Germany alone as a sense of gratitude.
Same thing in Spain.
Spain actually got rid of the government that joined the United States in the war on terror because they elected this socialist government and they want to send a message to terrorists and leave us alone.
Terrorists have not left them alone.
This is going to keep happening and all these people are eventually going to become our allies at some point.
I don't know when.
As for Obama, you have to understand what Obama is doing.
Obama's been in the Senate two years.
He thinks he's qualified now to run for the presidency.
He's seriously thinking about it.
Obama's tactic is the Bill Clinton tactic, Jerry.
Obama is attempting to position himself as neither a Republican or Democrat in his public statements.
If you look at his voting record, he's as liberal as any of them.
You know, he voted against John Roberts for the Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
There were only, what, 23 or 24 Democrats that voted against him.
Obama did this for two reasons.
That was a presidential candidacy vote.
That was a vote intended to be seen by Democrat-based voters over the years as Obama is a loyal liberal.
Now, he'll go out and he'll talk a good game.
Well, we need to change course.
We need to change what we are doing.
We need to work together with people.
We can't continue to look at everybody as an enemy.
And what we're doing now hasn't worked.
The Bush administration's given it a good shot.
Their intentions here were, he said this, Jerry.
The Bush administration's intentions where Iraq is concerned are very, very honorable, but we have to admit it hasn't worked.
There has to be a better way.
And hello, famous third way.
Obama standing above the fray, looking down at everybody else, praising them for their intentions, and then suggesting it's time for a new way.
And of course, his new way is we need to involve Iran and Syria.
And if we don't involve Iran and Syria, we're not going to have peace.
Now, your reaction to it, hell, these are the people stirring the place up.
These are the people causing the problems.
Iran is the source for many of the IEDs that are being sent into Baghdad that are blowing up people.
It's patently absurd to talk to enemies.
Luger does this now and then.
Luger is Luger, the moderate Republican, and Republicans in Washington have a tendency to get panicky based on the conventional wisdom every day of the drive-by media.
Back in just a second.
Let me give you another illustration of Barack Obama.
A peace story from yesterday.
Democrat Senator Barack Obama, a vocal defender of Senator Joe Lieberman earlier this year, is urging Connecticut voters to rally behind his rival, Ned Lement.
The Illinois senator and potential 2008 presidential candidate sent an email message Thursday praising Lament.
He said, Ned Lament has waged an impressive grassroots campaign to give the people of Connecticut a choice in the November Senate election.
Please join me, Barack Obama, in supporting Ned Lament with your hard work on the ground in these closing weeks of the campaign.
Lament aides said that they welcome the support of Obama, who's enjoyed a surge in popularity in recent weeks.
What's surge in popularity?
It's been a...
I guess we can't deny...
Is it a...
Is it a surge of popularity or is it just media attention?
Is it media, the time cover, and other news media exposes that provide the impression that he is popular?
What is this new surge in popularity?
It's manufactured, folks.
It's manufactured by somebody.
It's manufactured by Barack Obama's people in concert with the drive-by media.
Makes you wonder why.
Now we're getting all kinds of stories, by the way, trickling out.
They're coming out from gay websites that Hillary's changing her mind on gay marriage.
She's speaking to transgender, gay, and lesbian groups.
I have the story here in the stack of stuff.
She's for gay marriage.
She's for it.
She used to be against it.
Now she's for it.
I'll get to it in just a second.
But look at the way this is written here.
Lament aides said they welcome the support of Obama, who has enjoyed a surge in popularity in recent weeks.
As speculation about his national ambitions mount.
Manufactured from the beginning to the end.
Obama has also given $5,000 to Lement's campaign through a political committee.
Ned Lament and I share a commitment to bringing our troops home safely from Iraq, to achieving energy independence, to helping all of our citizens realize the American dream, and to empowering the American people to reclaim their government, Obama wrote.
But just last spring, Obama traveled to Connecticut to speak for Lieberman.
Now, what do you think goes on here?
This is another move that has to be assigned to his presidential aspirations.
As is this move of suggesting that we need a John Roberts vote.
Now we need to talk with Iran and Syria.
And now he's switching his support from Lieberman to Lament to be in line with the Democrat base.
There's no question what he is doing here.
Dan in Dover, Delaware.
Thanks for calling, sir.
Hey, Rush, how are you doing today?
Fine, fine and dandy.
Thank you.
Well, I'm fired up, so I'll get right to it.
You had a caller in the first hour that just kind of pushed one of my buttons.
And this goes right along with what seems to be today's theme of truth versus fiction.
He was talking about how we should hate the Bush administration because how badly the war in Iraq is going.
And it just, it's another one of these examples of, you know, they lie, but they lie so overwhelmingly all the time that just people start accepting it.
We already won the war in Iraq.
Saddam Hussein is in jail.
There is no Iraqi army that's opposing us there.
Yes, good point.
And I've made this point before when the Democrats start ridiculing Bush landing on the aircraft carrier.
The invasion of Iraq was to depose the regime, to cause regime change.
There's a lot of success in Iraq.
What people would describe now as the insurgency effort, the effort to make the peace.
And that's why they're folks at Rumzo.
Well, the after plan screwed up.
But what you have to remember is at every stage, the Democrats changed their tune.
First, they were going to war with us.
They were all for it.
They wanted a resolution, in fact.
They wanted to debate a new resolution so they could go on the record in October of 2002 saying, we support this.
And then we start the war.
And then there's Bush goes to the aircraft carrier and lands in it.
And Democrats don't like that.
Claiming victory too soon makes Bush look good.
Then we don't find the weapons of mass destruction.
And the Democrats had demanded a resolution so they could debate it and make sure the American people knew they were all for it.
So we were lied to.
Bush lied.
Bush lied, people died.
And so they began to retreat from this.
Then they said the elections would never happen.
We can't do these elections.
There's not enough freedom in this country.
It's going to be a book.
When the elections happened, well, that doesn't mean anything.
This government's not going to put a constitution together.
That's the next stage, and that won't happen.
At every stage, they have said can't, won't work, what have you.
Now they're saying that the aftermath, the battle plan for the for the after the invasion was a total mistake.
Rumsfeld unqualified, disqualified, didn't have any knowledge of what we were going to face.
Nobody did.
I just, frankly, I get sick of it.
And the idea that they don't seem to want to see anything positive about anything is one of the reasons why I have never had any real fear that they're going to have this sweeping victory.
I don't know on what it's based.
It's just mind-boggling.
I know human nature, and I know there's some unease in the country about the war.
There always is when you're at war.
But I tell you, folks, the aftermath, there was no plan for after the invasion took place and all this.
Rumsfeld has to go.
Rice has to go.
She's no good.
Rove's got to go.
Rove needs to be indicted.
Cheney needs to go.
Bush needs to be impeached.
It's just a never-ending litany.
And Dan here is making what some would consider a just a semantic point.
Yeah, but most people, Dan, don't look at it that most people look at this as, wait a minute, what are we doing?
We're the United States of America.
Why can't we wrap this up?
This is a band of insurgents?
Why can't we wrap this up?
And that's where the frustration is.
And telling them, well, we won the war.
We deposed Saddam.
Hell, a lot of liberals are beginning to put forth the notion now that that was a mistake to take Saddam out.
The Iraq would have been much better off.
We'd have left him in power.
Wouldn't have had all this killing, wouldn't have had all this loss of American life, wouldn't have had all this consternation in the country, blah, They're constantly rewinding the tape and going back to using hindsight, 2020 hindsight, in order to criticize never offering a plan themselves other than cut and run and get out.
John in Columbia, South Carolina.
Welcome, sir, to Open Line Friday.
Hi, Rush.
How are you doing?
Hi.
The reason for my call was something different than I'm going to say real quick about Bush and the ongoing thing in Iraq.
Simply put, how many, I mean, for a minimal loss of life, Bush has managed to maintain us a mega base right in the middle of things there in the Middle East.
Also, we have one in Afghanistan.
We don't need it to end right now.
And I feel sure that there's probably some thermal nuclear devices somewhere on those bases.
But to my point, about I'm sure you're sick of hearing about Michael J. Fox, but something that hit me the other day was I was listening to NPR, and they had a program on touting the patents that have been applied for by persons like the guy who did Dolly the Sheep.
He's got a patent on the new humans and so forth.
And they were very proud of themselves.
Then they followed up the program with a program with Iraq Obama or whatever.
And he was on the gene research, talking about the gene research.
And it occurred to me, sort of like the Nutra Suite thing and the trailer tape that the senators all have stock in the companies, and then they passed the law to get the proper things in motion.
What do you think?
I'm not sure I understand at all what you're saying.
Let me ask you a question.
Are you saying that the supporters of embryonic stem cell research are actually invested in it and stand to gain financially, and that's why they're pushing it?
I wouldn't be surprised.
All right, well, here's, let me tell you about Missouri.
Let me tell you about Missouri.
is a couple that alone has spent $28 million on advertising to get Amendment 2 ratified and passed by the American, by the by the citizens of Missouri, Missouri, Missouri, at Missouri.
$28 million.
Now, some people are wondering, what, $28 million by two people to get an amendment to the Constitution passed?
So there are people beginning to wonder, people have a financial interest in this.
I've always said follow the money and you will get to many answers to many questions that you ask.
And I think your point's a good one.
Look beneath the surface.
See, it's just like the environmental movement.
The environmental movement wants us to believe that their only concern is us and the planet and cleanliness, anti-pollution, fresh water, plenty of animals, no extinct species, people living at one in happiness and in communion with each other.
When in fact, everybody in the middle of the environmental movement is out there raising money left and right, flying around on their private planes, cutting down redwood trees for their backyard decks, and they've got a financial stake in it.
Plus, they're ideologues.
They're anti-capitalist.
And they're using this environmental movement as an advancement of their anti-capitalist views.
When it comes to stem cell research and embryonic stem cell research, precisely because there is no evidence it works.
There's none, folks.
You can sit out there and have hope all day, and you can hope until the end of the world.
And if there's no evidence, your hope is going to be just that.
It's sort of like, I'll draw a parallel.
1984, watching this week with David Brinkley and all these global warming scientists are starting to fearmonger.
And we only got 20 years.
We can't afford to wait.
We don't know if what we think is right.
We're pretty sure.
But we have only 20 years.
If we don't act in 20 years, it's all over.
We'll lose the ability to reverse the controls of the effects of greenhouse gases and climate control.
Well, there never has been, I don't care what anybody says, convincing, unassailable with empirical data proof that human beings are causing climate destruction.
I saw a story the other day.
Global warming will cause floods, famines, earthquakes.
Hell, folks, we have those anyway.
Don't we?
We have famines.
We have earthquakes.
We have floods.
We have big thunderstorms.
We have hurricanes whether it's global warming or not.
Scare tactics.
I mean, you can't say that those are going to be the effects of global warming when they happen anyway.
Now we've got embryonic stem cells.
There's no evidence.
There's no evidence.
It's just, I'll give you another analogy.
The October surprise, 1980.
Remember what that was?
Reagan supposedly sent George Bush in an SR-71 to Paris to talk to the Iranians.
They cut a deal.
Keep those hostages in there until after the election.
We'll make a deal with you.
You let them out.
And that's exactly what happened.
When Reagan was elected, the Iranians let the hostages go.
There was no evidence.
A guy came out, a Columbia professor, a Princeton professor, somebody, a guy named Gary Sick, wrote a book.
He was all over television confirming that Bush had been flown in a plane or whatever, gone over to Paris to meet the Iranian.
It wasn't true.
Tom Foley, Speaker of the House, says, despite the fact there's no evidence, the seriousness of the charge demands that we investigate.
So there was a long investigation, blue ribbon panel to find out there was an October surprise.
That's what's happening in embryonic stem cell research.
There is no evidence.
There's evidence that plenty that other attempts, other types of research and techniques are showing promise.
But no, no, no, we've got to focus on embryonic.
There's no evidence.
And yet, people are investing $28 million.
There's a reason for this, folks.
I'm a little long here, but I'm going to keep going.
There's a reason for this.
The argument with embryonic stem cells is over federal funding because there is no venture capital going into the movement.
Venture capital, meaning private investors, people like you and me with a lot of money who are looking, yeah, you know what?
That looks promising.
I want to get on a ground floor of embryonic stem cell research and I will clean clocks.
I'll make so much.
There's none of that money going into it because nobody looks at it as anything other than a black hole.
But if you can get federal funding, if you can tug at people's heartstrings, and if you can say that Jim Talent, and if you can say that Michael Steele don't want people to get cured that only Claire McCaskill and Benjamin Cardin do, if you want to tell people that the cure for disease resides totally in the election of Democrats, then you can do it.
And you can lie through your teeth and you can mislead and you can cruelly misinform people, which is being done.
But there's no evidence.
And yet it remains the big push.
So there's got to be some other thing involved here.
And it's the desire on the part of these people to get limitless federal money, your tax dollars, to be spent on a black hole.
Back in just a second.
All right.
As I said, I went long in that last segment.
This is going to be very short.
I apologize for that lousy programming decision-making by me, but at least I can admit making it because I did it.
Drent, Northfield, Minnesota, welcome to the EIB Network.
Hi.
Megadalo's Rush.
A couple weeks ago, you had a spoof where you predicted that the Republicans would pick up 40 to 50 seats in the House.
And as we know, sometimes when you make a spoof, it comes true.
I'm beginning to think that the Republicans have a sporting chance of picking up some seats in the House and the Senate.
Why do you think that?
Well, I'm looking at the Senate race in Minnesota.
Over the past month or two, the Star Tribune published some polls that showed Klobuchar just cleaning Kennedy's clock.
And people would write in and challenge the polls themselves and how they were conducted.
So I think the Republicans have a shot at picking up at least that Senate seat.
I'm also looking at the House race in my district, and Colleen Rowley's running against the incumbent, John Klein.
And I look at the Star Tribune's endorsement, and all they can do is cite her passion.
No issues at all.
And, you know, I've heard John Klein speak, and he's very thoughtful, well-spoken.
I think he's done a great job.
And then I look at the Senate races, you know, Missouri, Tennessee, Maryland, Virginia, and how the Republicans are gaining strength there.
Who knows?
I think they got a sporting chance.
Well, it's, look, it's going to be up for grabs, and it's going to be close.
It is going to be close.
And we're not going to know the day after the election who wins the House.
They're going to be some close races.
There are going to be recount demands, lawsuits, voter fraud allegations.
This is going to be an interesting election night.
This is going to be one of the most fun election nights in quite a while.
But I've always thought that the big blue wave that the liberal media, dried by media Democrats have been predicting is not going to materialize, and they know it too.
Everybody's ratcheting down now.
New York Times, all a Twitter here over the New Jersey gay marriage ruling.
That has energized Republican candidates all over the place.
Oh, no.
And then black voters seem to be not energized.
They're upset.
They don't think they're getting a fair shake in the polls anyway, so why show up?
And then this, Michael J. Fox said, I don't care what the Drive My Media wants to say.
This has focused attention on this whole issue of stem cell research and cloning that the Democrats were trying to hide.
And that is problematic for them as well.
One of my all-time favorite tunes, Bozk.
And a lowdown.
One hour to go on Open Line Friday, ladies and gentlemen.
Sit tight.
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