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Oct. 30, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 30, 2006, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
No, I'm not kidding you.
I had, I don't normally eat these things, but since they're going to get rid of trans fat soon, I went in there and did get a little dose of it.
I had some french fries, and I swear they tasted like lipstick.
And I saw Dawn eating some, too.
You ever had french fries that taste like lipstick?
Greetings, my friends, and welcome Rush Limbaugh, the big push.
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I made a last-minute change of plans late last week.
I was invited to this year's annual prostate cancer charity golf tournament and event at the Wynn Hotel in Las Vegas.
And I was at the first part of last week, I wasn't going to be able to go.
Something else had come up.
And Mike Milken and his wife Lori, and they're just great people, said, no, come on out.
You have a good time.
So I went out there and I got out there Friday night.
I had a blast all weekend long.
And it's a tremendous charity.
Mike Milken's done so much to raise consciousness and awareness on prostate.
What are you looking at?
What is the smirk?
No, I was in Las Vegas.
I was in Las Vegas, yeah.
And that was just a, I did.
I had a.
I had a tremendous time.
In fact, I got there a little late Friday night because they have this big gala dinner that kicks everything off on Friday night.
It was in the Penske Wynn Ferrari dealership, which is in the Wynn Hotel.
And I was staying in an area of the hotel near the golf course.
So it was a trek.
I mean, I needed meal money to get to the dealership where the dinner was.
And I'm walking past the poker room as I guess we're playing Texas Hold'em in there.
And about three people jumped up.
Three or four people jumped out of their table slots, came out to say hello to me.
One guy had his iPod.
He's playing poker while listening to the podcast of this program on his iPod with his wife.
It was just a great week.
I got back late last night, ladies and gentlemen.
Well, not too late, but was up late doing show prep, getting ready for the program today.
But I wanted to thank the Milkens and Stephen Elaine Wynn.
I wish everybody could attend something that these people sponsor because it was just top-notch all the way with tremendous people.
Has anybody seen Nancy Pelosi?
I think we need to put, oh, oh, I forgot.
I met Harry Reid.
Harry Reed was at the dinner on Friday night.
Yeah, I hadn't seen Harry Reid in two weeks.
And I haven't seen Nancy Pelosi.
I wonder, do we need to put out an amber alert for Nancy Pelosi?
Where is she?
Since the puff piece on 60 Minutes, we haven't seen either of these people.
And Milken said, would you like to meet Senator Reed?
And I kind of smiled and I said, yeah, yeah, I would love to.
So he walked me up, introduced me to Senator Reed, had a two or three sentence conversation, asked him if he was playing golf the next couple of days.
He said, no, no, he wasn't playing golf.
And then he sauntered off to another area of the party.
And I didn't see him again after that.
I didn't ask for the real estate tips.
And I didn't ask him about the election.
I just told him.
No, There were not profanity-laced sentences from anybody.
I mean, you know, he was perfectly nice.
I think he was a little surprised, but see me, but other than that, I mean, no, it was totally civil.
It was the way moderates dream of Washington life being.
It was entirely civil.
No pictures.
Not that I know of.
I mean, there were photographers snapping away all night, but I don't know if there were any pictures.
Well, I did pose for a lot of pictures of people, but I don't think I posed for one with Senator Reed.
Whether there were some candid shots taken, I know not.
But at some point, I'm sure I will find out.
Now, there's a reason, folks, why both of these people have gone underground.
You know, if you go back to 1994, I mean, just for comparison's sake, if you go back to 1994, Newton boys were everywhere in the final week leading up to the election.
Now, it's not a big deal, but there is a reason for this.
I mentioned this last week, and yet here is another story.
The LA Times had the story last week.
The New York Times has it today.
In key House races, Democrats run to the right.
In their push to win back control of the House, Democrats have turned to conservative and moderate candidates who fit the profiles of their districts more closely than the profile of the National Party.
One such candidate, Heath Schuler, courted by Republicans to run for orifice in 2001.
Mr. Schuler, 34, retired NFL quarterback, running in the 11th district in North Carolina.
Now, if this crop of moderate and conservative Democrats arrived on Capitol Hill as members of a Democrat majority, they wouldn't have much power individually to change the face of Congress, an argument that's been used against Mr. Schuler by the incumbent Charles Taylor, who's chairman of the House Appropriations Subcommittee.
So here's the, and by the way, if you look carefully at Jim Webb, James Webb, the have you noticed, by the way, the Washington Post has the funniest story.
It's just unseemly.
It's unseemly for George Allen to go into his novels and to select phrases and passages.
Let me tell you, folks, it is obvious to me that this Webb guy has issues.
I mean, it's obvious.
But I don't remember the Washington Post or the Brian Ross of ABC News, I don't recall having any problems whatsoever publishing verbatim excerpts of the Mark Foley instant messages or the Mark Foley emails.
But now all of a sudden, we are to condemn the George Allen campaign for what it is doing vis-à-vis the novels written by Jim Webb.
A story in the Washington Post about somewhere else.
You'll find us here in the stack someplace.
That really Webb is as conservative as you can get, except for one issue, the war.
Now, the bottom line here is, and this is politics.
It's okay.
I'm just spelling out the modus operandi for you.
The Democrats will do whatever it takes to win.
I think there's something like 10 of these House Democrat candidates who are very, very conservative.
And if they win, you know, this is why Pelosi is being quiet.
She doesn't want to go out with an agenda.
Neither does Dingy Harry.
They don't want to go out with an agenda that's bellowed through bullhorns because it would embarrass these guys.
And they'll deal with these guys after they win.
I'll tell you how it'll happen.
And Luis Gutierrez admitted this.
He's a congressman from Chicago.
What will happen is these guys will be brought in because there's party discipline on the Democrat side.
These guys, if they win, they'll be brought into the Speaker's office and they'll have their rights read to them and they'll have their future spelled out for them.
And they'll be told, okay, look, you're here.
You're just one of our majority, and you are worthless unless you vote with us.
Unless you vote party lines, unless you go the way we want you to go, you're not going to be here a second term.
You're not going to get any campaign money outside your district.
You're not going to get any help from us.
And that's how they'll be brought into line.
Right now, they will do whatever they have to to win.
Jim Webb, same thing.
They don't care.
His one issue, and even the Democrats that are supporting him don't care that he is socially conservative or conservative in a number of ways.
All they care about is that he is anti-war.
And that seems to be the big issue that the Democrats are going to hinge their bets on or hedge their bets on the whole week.
Everybody waiting for the next Osama bin Laden tape.
He seems to have a desire to impact Democrat elections or American elections in the final days, as happened in 2004.
So we got Lynn Cheney, who, and I watched this on the airplane flying out to Las Vegas.
Lynn Cheney laid into Wolf Blitzer on CNN Friday afternoon.
They sandbagged her.
She's got a new book out.
They brought her in.
And Wolf Blitzer is reading off Democrat talking points, literal Democrat Party talking points.
And she's answering questions about why did she write lesbian love scenes in the book and so forth.
Let's draw a distinction here.
There's a big difference in writing about genuine love scenes in a book and writing perverted incestual stories as Webb has done in his books.
And yet they tried to diminish what Webb had done by jumping all over Lynn Cheney and she wasn't having any of it.
We have the audio sound bites in case you missed this.
You've probably heard it being discussed.
Also, do you know that Harold Ford used to date a white woman?
I'm sorry, sir.
No, hold it a second.
It's not racist, Mr. Snerdley.
It's not, he did, and she has a blog.
Me bringing up what Harold Ford did is racist.
I'm just telling you that there's an ad that was pulled because the Republicans got cold feet.
And it turns out there's a basis for it.
I'm not criticizing.
I am not.
Let the NAA LCP have a cow.
Do you think, do you think I'm going to back down?
He did.
He did date a white woman.
I can't help it.
It's what happened.
We're into truth on this program.
Look, I got to take a little break.
I'm a little long here in this segment.
We'll be back.
We will continue in mere moments here on the EIB network.
Stay with.
I don't care if he did.
Okay, folks, let's see how long it takes for this one to make the rounds.
Have you heard that the Dixie Chicks are lip-syncing every song in their concert tour, their latest concert tour?
They're lip-syncing everything.
Dixie chicks.
And now back to programming here on the EIB network.
Here's the excerpt from the blog.
It's by Julia Allison.
Actually, it's not a blog.
She wrote this in Cosmopolitan in July of 2006.
And here's the pull quote from it.
Harold Ford actually didn't do much of anything scandalous by dating me.
Sure, I was younger and a dating columnist and white, but he was single, so it's sort of a moot point.
I did think it was hilarious, though, when Lloyd Grove's assistant rang my noise, a gossip columnist, rang my dorm room asking, is it true that you're 18 and dating Congressman Ford?
I was pretty sure I was at 18, and I told her as much.
Then I called Harold, who brilliantly responded, wait, you're 18.
You're not 18, are you?
I remember thinking, you idiot, if you didn't notice that I legally drank adult beverages with you on multiple occasions, you deserve to be caught dating an 18-year-old.
A lot of screaming over the ad.
It turns out that Harold Ford has dated a white woman.
Once again, no problem here.
Go for it.
I'm just pointing out the ad was not a stretch.
It's something else that Harold Ford has said that has really raised some hackles.
Saturday in Paris, Tennessee.
This is Harold Ford Jr.
My friend Lincoln Davis, who chairs our campaign, says there are one big difference between us, this boy, and the Republicans when it comes to our faith.
He said that the Republicans fear the Lord.
He said Democrats fear and love the Lord.
All right.
So Harold Ford is quoting his friend Lincoln Davis saying Democrats love Jesus better than Republicans love Jesus.
That Republicans fear the Lord.
Democrats fear and love the Lord.
Now, let's go back.
By the way, we have a comment from Harold Ford's opponent, Bob Corker.
Sunday, Fox News Channel's Carl Cameron interviewed the mayor of Chattanooga and Bob Corker.
And the question, you hear Congressman Ford Jr. saying that Republicans fear the Lord, but that Democrats fear and love the Lord, suggesting perhaps to some that Republicans don't love the Lord as much as Democrats.
And so now we go to the former mayor of Chattanooga, Republican U.S. Senate nominee Ford's opponent, Bob Corker.
What do you make of that, sir?
We've seen a number of characteristics from the congressman ever since the meltdown in Memphis a week ago Friday.
And obviously, this is not the kind of thing you would expect somebody who's running for the United States Senate to say.
It's very offensive, I think, to people of all walks of life, whether you're Republican, Independent, or Democrat, to be claiming that one group of people love God more than another.
Well, it's not unprecedented for this to happen.
Let's go back.
December 13th of 1999, MSNBC Iowa GOP debate.
John Bachman, the moderator, asks then-Governor George W. Bush, what political philosopher or thinker do you most identify with and why?
Christ.
Because he changed my heart.
I think the viewer would like to know more on how he's changed your heart.
Well, if they don't know, it's going to be hard to explain.
When you turn your heart and your life over to Christ, when you accept Christ as a savior, it changes your heart.
It changes your life.
And that's what happened to me.
A lot of applause for that.
Now, that didn't sit well with the drive-by media.
On December 13th, same day, hardball after the debate, Chris Matthews talking to Senator Chuck Hagel of Nebraska, and Matthews said this.
They were supposed to name their favorite philosopher, I guess, the thinker in the world from any era who influenced their values and their thinking about life.
And it was quite a contrast.
You had George W. Bush of Texas mentioning Jesus Christ, which floored me.
And then you had your candidate naming Teddy Roosevelt.
What a difference.
A reformer and a savior.
That's quite a competition of idea makers there.
I don't know how you put the two together.
This isn't about religion.
It's about who gets to be the Republican nominee for president.
And one guy pulls God out as his co-pilot and the other guy pulls out Teddy Roosevelt.
So what?
Let the voters decide.
Chris, relax.
But that was the reaction six years ago, actually seven, 1999, the 2000 campaign.
Harold Ford.
Let's listen to the ad again.
I know the Republicans have pulled the ad, but we haven't.
We have the audio of the ad, and this is the ad the Democrats say is racist.
Harold Ford looks nice.
Isn't that enough?
Terrorists need their privacy.
When I die, Harold Ford will let me pay taxes again.
Ford's right.
I do have too many guns.
I met Harold at the Playboy Party.
I'd love to pay higher marriage taxes.
Canada can take care of North Korea.
They're not busy.
So he took money from porn movie producers.
I mean, who hasn't?
The Republican National Committee is responsible for the content of this advertising.
Harold, call me.
Harold, call me.
Now, you've heard the setup to this.
So Harold Ford, I don't know how much reaction there's been in the drive-by media.
There's been some outrage, obviously, in certain places.
As Harold Ford says that Democrats love Jesus better than Republicans.
Is this not absurd?
The degree to which all of this has sunk.
But nevertheless, I mean, it gives you an idea of what the problem issues for Democrats are, what they think the problem issues are.
They have to go out now and try to tell values.
I mean, it's really a smart move.
You're trying to sweep in values voters.
As Chris Matthews describes them, these hicks in the roadside taverns at midnight on a Friday night, drinking beer and smoking cigarettes, watching this Harold Ford ad.
Those are the people you're trying to get.
The rural, that's what Democrats call them, rural voters.
The translation for that is hayseed hicks.
These are the people that pick up trucks, gun rack in the back, park in the church parking lot on Saturday night to get a good spot in church the next day after being at the Roadhouse tavern, a roadside tavern on Friday night.
You would think that to go out and try to get those people, you would not say that they don't love God, that they fear God, and Democrats actually love God more.
These voters are going to look at this and not see any evidence of this since it is Democrats and the left that's just done everything it can, or they can, to remove any public reference to God anywhere they can because they fear it.
They fear what it'll mean to them electorally.
Now, on Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace yesterday, Harold Ford Jr. appeared and the question, do you think the fact that the woman in the ad against you was a white woman was coincidental?
No, I think it was smut.
I don't think race had anything to do with that ad.
I just think it was an uncalled-for, despicable, inappropriate ad for children to be watching at 7, 8 o'clock Central Time with their parents after dinner in the living room.
They know it was bad.
The Party of Family Values should not have run that in Tennessee anyway, for that matter.
Or anywhere else, for that matter.
It was smut.
Well, no, I don't either.
What was smutty about it?
I met Harold at the Playboy Party.
Harold, call me.
Especially when you learn that it may have actually all happened.
America's real anchor man.
Half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
There's talent on loan from God.
800-282-2882.
Is a black guy dating a white woman a big deal?
Because the Democrats are sure acting like it is.
It's not to me either.
I mean, go for it.
But it seems like they're really upset about this.
Got to pull that ad.
Harold Ford calls the ad smut.
Are they, what are they, embarrassed about this?
Because they're the ones that seem to be making an issue of it.
They're the ones that start a raising holy hell because the ad ran.
They're the ones.
That's racism.
Why?
That's the southern strategy.
Why?
That's beneath contempt.
Blah, blah, blah.
Of course, nothing the Democrats say or do about anyone is beneath contempt.
And of course, the Republicans pulled the ad.
It was on long enough, I think, to be effective.
And we have, let's see, we just, I think one more, maybe two, If I can find, yes.
This is back to Fox News Sunday.
By the way, soundbites with Lynn Cheney destroying Wolf Blitzer on Friday on CNN are coming up.
You have to see this.
I say, I've watched this on the airplane flying out to Las Vegas.
And I'll tell you why I was drawn to it is because Blitzer kept promoting it.
And he kept promoting it to all his guests.
You've got to see that.
Oh, we had Lynn Cheney.
You've got this interview you don't want to miss.
And she was tremendous.
I mean, if I had been CNN and I had scheduled an interview with the wife of the vice president using Democrat Congressional Committee talking points, moving moveon.org talking points, and if I had been blown out of the water by the wife of the vice president of the United States, I don't know that I would have been promoting this as Wolf was, other than the desire for ratings, which, of course, is omnipresent in the media.
It's just that news people will not be honest with you and tell you they care about that.
Oh, getting ratings.
Well, that's beneath my mission.
Oh, no, as a member of the media, I am to go and find the facts and get the irony and get the true story.
I couldn't care where the chips fall financially unless they want to cut my salary, of course.
And I couldn't care about the bottom line.
I don't care about ratings.
I can't be concerned with such minutia, which, of course, is precisely what this was all about.
Here's the question from Chris Wallace: Congressman, as we've said, you vote pretty conservative for a Democrat, but the fact is that if you win, and if you're part of a Democrat take over the Senate, that means that Harry, well, he meant to say Reed here.
Harry, I said Ford, Harry Reid becomes a Senate majority leader, Ted Kennedy becomes a committee chair, so does Joe Biden.
Does it a Harold Ford victory as part of a Democratic takeover doesn't that end up helping liberals?
What Tennesseans will get will be a Jesus-loving, gun-supporting believer that families should come first, that taxes should be lowered, and America should be strong.
When Tennesseans send us to the Senate, that's what they'll get in my votes, and that's what they'll get in the kind of leadership that we have not had in the Senate over the last six years.
Dream on, Harold.
You're not going to be heard from once you get there for the precise reasons that Chris Wallace mentioned.
Folks, I have to unload here for a second.
This really, when I first saw this last week, all these conservative Democrats running for seats in the House, and here's Harold Ford with what he claims his agenda is: Jesus-loving, gun-supporting believer.
Family should come first, their taxes should be lower.
America should be strong.
There's none of that, the Democrat Party message.
Literally none of that, particularly the Jesus-loving.
Usually, Democrats start talking about that.
They get a phone call from Howard Dean.
And it just illustrates this is a really frustrating thing to me.
This is, without question, a conservative country, particularly on social and fiscal issues.
The vast majority of the people in this country identify themselves as Republicans or conservatives over liberals and Democrats.
And yet, here we have Harold Ford and a number of House Democrats running in these states where conservatism rules as conservatives.
And they're standing out because of it.
They're standing out.
Why is this?
There's a poll from CNN.
CNN, by the way, is shameless.
The push that they are putting forward as a responsible news organization.
If they would just say, we are in competition with MSNBC, we're doing our own telethon to cure the country of the dreaded disease known as the Republican majority.
If they would just say that's what they're doing, it would be one thing.
But they're presenting this whole week what went wrong with the right.
An ongoing series.
What went wrong with as though the election's over, the right is lost.
went wrong with the right and the treatment that Mrs. Cheney got and so forth.
It's just it is utterly shameless.
And then, not to mention airing propaganda video from terrorists in Iraq and admitting that they, in order to get the video, promised the terrorists that they would get a fair shake.
Mrs. Cheney didn't get a fair shake from CNN.
Very few Republicans get fair shake from CNN, but the terrorists did in exchange for their propaganda video.
But check this poll.
A quarter century after the Reagan Revolution and a dozen years after Republicans vaulted into control of Congress, a new CNN poll finds that most Americans still agree with the bedrock conservative premise that as the Gipper put it, government is not the answer to our problems.
Government is the problem.
The poll released Friday also showed that an overwhelming majority of Americans perceive correctly that the size and cost of government have gone up in the past four years when Republicans have had a grip on the House of Representatives, the Senate, and the White House.
Now, this is uniquely timed and uniquely worded, is it not?
That most of the CNN finds all of a sudden when it can hurt Republicans, oh yes, the majority of the country is conservative.
And right here, let's blame the Republicans for abandoning it.
This is what happens with the absence of elected conservative leadership.
This is what has been so frustrating to so many conservatives is that they know it wins.
They know, especially in the climate in America today, coupled with the foreign policy threat that we have, the national defense, national security threat that we have, conservatism wins every time it's tried, other than the usual outposts where liberals and leftists and socialists dominate the political landscape.
But it just, it frosts me to see all these debts.
Listen to Harold Ford, what he's talking about.
I mean, this ought to get him excommunicated from the Democratic Party, but it won't because all they care about is winning.
And they'll deal with Harold Ford later.
When he gets into the Senate, he won't be talking like this very long.
He may be allowed to vote this way now and then, but his next election, if he wins, won't be for six years.
So he'll handle this in his own way.
The idea now is to get elected and say whatever you think is going to get you elected.
And that happens to be conservatism.
And it's irritating to me that there are some Democrats who are able to go out there and out conservative in their rhetoric and speeches, Republicans and incumbent Republicans to boot at the same time.
Here's another CNN poll.
This is from earlier last week.
Most Americans do not believe the Bush administration's gone too far in restricting civil liberties as part of the war on terror.
This would explain why the ACLU has dropped its challenge to the Patriot Act.
I don't know if you've heard this, but the ACLU.
Never mind.
Just dropped it.
Because most Americans don't believe the Bush administration's gone too far in restricting civil liberties.
This was a tree the Democrats tried to climb that didn't lead them anywhere.
And then there's this.
This is so patently absurd.
Democrat or a CNN poll, despite politicians' complaints about judges having too much power, two-thirds of Americans do not believe elected officials should have more control over federal judges, according to a new CNN poll released on Saturday.
67% of 1,013 people surveyed by Opinion Research Corporation on behalf of CNN said that federal judges and the decisions they make should not be subject to more control.
Only 30% said that they should.
I don't know what the questions in this poll were, but I'll bet you one of the questions wasn't this.
Do you think judges should have the right to tell local communities that they can take away your property in exchange for somebody who's going to build something bigger that pay more taxes to the city?
Do you think with questions like that in a poll, we would get results like this?
I doubt it.
By the way, Democrats are still, even on this national security business, the ACLU may have dropped its lawsuit and its pitch against the Patriot Act, but the Democrats haven't.
The Democrats are still promising to investigate Bush's domestic spying program.
That's what they purposely mislabel the foreign surveillance program.
They're going to inspect and investigate terrorist detentions.
They're going to inspect all of the investigate all of these transgressions of law by the Bush administration, even though they say they're not.
They won't be able to stop themselves.
And besides that, Nancy Pelosi is not going to have control over the people that run these committees.
She may think she will, but it's going to be tough to stop people like Chuck Wrangell, Charlie Wrangell, and what's his name, Conyers.
I mean, they're getting up there in years.
It's their big splash swan song.
It's going to be difficult to reign these guys in if they do end up running the show.
Brief time out.
We'll come back and continue.
And we'll get to your phone calls, El Quicko, folks.
Sit tight.
Back with more right after this.
Yeah, I just keep thinking about the Democrats and their reaction to this Harold Ford business.
Let me run through some things here.
They keep telling us, they're so offended at that commercial that would imply that Harold Ford dates white women.
And he does.
He did.
Fact is fact.
No big deal.
They're the ones that seem bothered by it.
What is it about that that so offends them?
They keep telling us that the ad's racist, but I'm not aware that Republicans or conservatives or southerners could care about it, couldn't care less about it.
It seems to me that the libs are the ones who are obsessed with this, and it's not just the Ford thing.
They were obsessed with Mark Foley's sexuality.
They tried to, they didn't try.
I think they goofed up by equating male homosexuality with pedophilia.
They had to out Foley.
It was a liberal employee, supposedly, of the human rights campaign.
But it seems to me when you look at their reaction to all this, it's the Libs and the Democrats that got problems with race and sex.
But while they have problems with race and sex, they run around defend James Webb and the really sick wanderings that come from his perverse imagination in those novels.
And then after they defend Webb and all that, of course, Webb actually followed defending Bill Clinton and his sexual abuse of women, and yet they attack blacks like Michael Steele and Clarence Thomas on frivolous terms.
I mean, it really is fascinating to watch this.
You're going to learn a lot by people by watching them express their outrage over things.
These are the supposed tolerant among us, the compassionate, the understanding, the caring, the forward-thinking, the people that see the nuance in every situation.
Don't see just the simplistic black and white.
No, these are people that are much smarter than the rest of us.
Boy, it didn't take much to offend them.
And they blare their hypocrisy in the process.
Quick phone call, Joshua, in Johnson City, Tennessee.
I'm glad you called.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
Washington on our Totsi.
Enjoy the presentation immensely.
Thank you.
I watched the debate Saturday night between Bob Corker and Harold Ford.
And Harold Ford is a slick operator.
I mean, we're talking, I think he's got a bright future in the Democratic Party for right or wrong reasons, whatever, even after this election, even if he doesn't win.
The way that he presents himself in the debate as a conservative.
But then the biggest thing, the most glaring double point that he made was that he's running on a referendum against the Bush policy and the way things have been done by the White House for the past six years.
What?
He doesn't think the Bush White House have been conservative enough?
Well, no, he's saying that if you don't like what's happened in the past six years with the Republicans running Congress and a Bush White House, then vote for him and send him to the Senate so that we can have change.
But my point is that, and I was thinking of this while watching it, he's the one that's been in D.C. the past six years, if not more.
You know, is not he the insider and Bob Corker the outsider?
True.
But you're illustrating a good point here.
You're basically saying that he's slick.
He's a good speaker.
He's a good talker.
And as such, people remember what they heard yesterday.
They're not going to remember that Harold Ford's been in the House for all these number of years and hasn't affected any change and so forth.
This is, you know, they're just trying to capitalize on what they think is a large volume of discontent over the direction of the country.
And hey, you know, it's six years into a two-term presidency.
You know what?
I looked it up the other day and I mentioned this to you last week.
The average loss in the House is 44 seats in an off-year election like this.
And I think it's a little bit less than that since World War II.
This is a national average, but it's still pretty close to the 44.
You know, the internal polling you look at, it's hard to tell because people, and Mike Barone has a great piece on this today.
It's just really hard to tell about these polls and how to read them because of the way they sample.
In the body politic, the difference between people who identify themselves as Republicans versus conservatives, pretty small compared to the sample that pollsters are using, giving anywhere from five to nine-point advantages in their sample to Democrats, particularly in generic ballot polls.
Here's Mike in Attleboro, Massachusetts.
I'm glad you waited, sir.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Thank you, Rush, and Ditto's from here.
This Harold Ford ad, I saw it on YouTube, and it's magnificent.
Had they presented the bleach blonde bimbo as a minority, you can present that in the media as a fluozy.
That would have been a thunderstorm of condemnation.
It works as a beach blonde bimbo.
It doesn't work as any other sort of thing.
It's a good question.
Wait, how can you say it worked?
The Republicans pulled it.
It did create a firestorm precisely because this woman is portrayed as a floozy.
It created a firestorm, but not because the Republicans were upset over the black-white thing.
It never recurred to us.
It only occurred to them.
Well, that's my point.
The Democrats are the ones who got offended because they're frightened.
They're really, really worried about it.
They're worried.
One of the most least talked about things in the upcoming election.
You've seen scattered stories about it.
But one of the things that has Democrats worried in this election, and they're not worried about much, you'll have to admit that.
I mean, this race is already over.
They're spiking the ball on the 10-yard line before they even got to the end zone.
One thing that does have them worried is black vote suppression.
They just don't see a lot of enthusiasm in the black vote in that community in this off-year election.
Unions have come in strong with all their money, but the black vote, they just don't see these signs of it.
And they think an ad like this will suppress it even further for a black candidate.
I'm glad you called out there, Mike.
A quick timeout.
We'll be back.
The Lynn Cheney soundbites from CNN on Friday.
We'll lead off the next hour.
Now, well, not enough time to say it.
So sit tight, and I'll say it when I come back.
It's an explanation of why the black vote and Democrats are worried about it.
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