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Nov. 6, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 6, 2006, Monday, Hour #3
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Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen.
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I am your real anchorman, Rush Limbaugh.
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A thrill and delight to be with you.
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All right.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
Once again, Tony Snow, former talk show host, former speechwriter in the first Bush White House and now the press secretary for President Bush in Pensacola.
Welcome, Tony.
You must be having a time of your life.
You just have to.
I can tell by watching you.
You're enjoying this.
You're smiling.
And if you pardon me for this, you put such a great face on everything.
Everybody's so proud to have you where you are.
Well, what's not the love, Rush?
Here I'm working for the President of the United States.
We're in the middle of an exciting election campaign where we've got a lot of I told you so moments right now, because polls are tightening and people are thinking about issues and say, wait a minute, president's got an idea about how to proceed and the Democrats got empty saddlebags and all they're doing is throwing mud at him.
So no, it's a great time to be there and, in a funny way, I guess everything I've done in the media business for the last 27 years sort of fits into this press secretary job.
So I just love it well, and you look like you are, and that's that's infectious in its own way for audience people who watch you and have a chance to hear what you're saying.
Let's talk about these polls tightening.
You know, I have been suspicious of polls for a long time, in the sense I believe that news organizations use them to make news that reflects their editorial pages and same with the editorial opinion of broadcast network people and some of the like.
The PEW POLL internals show massive shifts in in 30 days of public opinion.
One of the things in the PEW poll is that the Democrats have lost all white people, they've lost women, they've lost men, they've lost women.
You're absolutely right, I mean and i'm glad you pointed that out captain Ed Morrissey was one of the guys who I don't know if you saw that this morning, but he was going through them.
Uh there, there have been really big shifts going on and I think it's it's kind of a natural byproduct that people really taking a look at what Democrats are doing, which is literally running around and heckling the president rather than trying to think seriously about how to deal with Osama Bin Laden or a global war on terror.
They're certainly not saying anything constructive about the economy, and when you come to an election, when the very big issue is Iraq and the other side really doesn't have anything to say about it, you got to wonder if they're a serious political party, and I think I think a lot of undecided voters are now also scratching their heads and saying, the Democrats want me to vote for them.
Why?
And at the same time Rush, you're also starting to see evidence that the strategy in Iraq, which is to make the Iraqis capable of governing themselves and defending themselves and not only sustaining themselves helping us out in the war on terror You're starting to see evidence of that.
I mean, this Saddam verdict is the result of a legal process where they protected Saddam's rights, something that he never did with them.
They had an orderly trial at a time when there are threats of violence.
They conducted it in a responsible and respectable way.
They've got a verdict.
So far, knock on wood.
They have not had big eruptions of violence.
I mean, I'll tell you what, this is a pretty astounding thing.
We've also got the Iraqis saying we want control of our military forces because we want to go after the sources of terror.
We want to go after sectarian violence, and we want to do it quicker because we've got better intel.
I mean, that's what I want to be hearing from those guys.
I think people are starting to connect the dots because they see, even though it's been tough work and it's required a lot of patience, that, hey, wait a minute, what the president's talking about, A, makes common sense, and B, is working.
Do you have an opinion on whether or not John Kerry is contributing to this shift at all?
Look, I think what he did is he reiterated those comments and maybe the refusal to respond to them.
Now, keep in mind, I may not be an objective observer because I'm a stuffsuit White House mouthpiece.
Yeah.
And I'm Dolly.
We're on the same team here.
Exactly.
But look, I think a lot of people are trying to figure out when Democrats say they support the troops, but they think the troops are on a fool's errand, or they support the troops and they think the troops are losing.
The Washington Post had a really interesting piece today when a reporter finally did something I've been challenging him to do for weeks, which is, hey, why don't you talk to the troops?
And the troops said that what Democrats have been proposing would be absolute disaster.
You know, again, so I think what John Kerry's comments did was reiterate the fact that Democrats tend to have a view of the military that is not always fully respectful.
And even when they say they're supporting him, they're undercutting him.
I mean, they not only undercut him by refusing to fund the ongoing operations in Afghanistan.
Iraq remember Senator Kerry voting for it before he voted against it, but also constantly trying to undermine public confidence in that military by describing as defeat what many on the ground see as hard-won victory.
I mean, these people, don't you think these people deserve our respect?
Oh, of course.
I mean, and I think there's been no question that they've been impugning the troops while trying to get credit for supporting them.
What is cut and run?
I mean, they're admitting that essentially that we can't win, that the United States military can't win.
And that's their reaction, knee-jerk and otherwise, to virtually every military conflict since Vietnam.
We can't win it.
We're not good enough.
Our troops aren't trained enough.
And, of course, they're just a volunteer army.
They're just the poor and the bedraggled.
I mean, Kerry, he said what many of them have been saying and thinking.
He just goofed it up.
He wasn't supposed to talk.
Yeah, no, that's absolutely right.
And the other thing is, none of these folks have really spent enough time around the all-volunteer military to understand we've got the best educated, the best trained, and also the most professional military we've ever had.
These folks, and I know you've been out there, remember when you went to Afghanistan, these people are amazing.
Yeah, they are.
We ought to be, I mean, this ought to be a source of incredible national pride.
And we should not spend our time trying to show pictures of snipers picking them off.
We ought to spend more time talking about the way that they have, under incredibly trying circumstances, been rebuilding a country.
And by the way, showing them what Americans are made of.
Because you know this.
The war is more popular in Iraq than it is in the United States because the Iraqis actually get to see the Americans in action.
Have you been with the president throughout?
I know you're in Florida today.
Have you been with him when he was in Missouri and Colorado?
Yep.
Is he talking about Iraq constantly?
Yes.
I ask this because, and I'm sure you've had to have seen this.
There's an L.A. Times story today by James Gertzenzang and Tom Hamburger.
The headline alone is all I need to tell you about.
As race gets tighter, Iraq's still the focus.
Well, now, what does that tell you?
If the race is getting tighter.
I thought Iraq was supposed to cause Democrats to show up in droves and depress the Republican turnout.
But if the polls are tightening and Iraq is still the focus, what's that tell us?
That tells us that people are finally starting.
What they constantly get on television and newspapers is a failure narrative.
They hear body counts.
They don't hear about successes.
But despite all that, Saddam verdict, you've got Nouri Al-Maliki, who is the prime minister of Iraq, being very assertive about wanting to have control on military operations.
You have Iraqi police the other day, police who have been the last to be trained up and they're still the most difficult challenge, going in and taking out something like 69 al-Qaeda members the other day, killing 53 and capturing 16.
There's important progress being made.
And all of a sudden, what's happening is as we talk about it in a more comprehensive way, and also as people realize that if we lose this and terrorists get a hold of Iraq, they'll have access to the world's second largest oil reserves.
They'll have untold wealth.
They'll be able to buy whatever weapons they want.
They'll be able to go after governments in that region, including on the Arabian Peninsula.
They'll be able to control an enormous amount of the world's oil supplies.
They'll be able to pit us against the Europeans and the Asians.
And meanwhile, they'll be able to export terror more effectively than ever.
In other words, we do, quote, phased redeployment.
What we do is we invite a whole lot more September 11th.
And Americans get this.
I mean, it's not that hard.
We've heard what Bin Laden has to say, and we've gotten a glimpse of the evil in the hearts of these guys.
And so it is important to talk about Iraq precisely because when we win there, we will have said to the terrorists, guess what?
You gave it your best shot.
You tried to humiliate people.
You tried to kill.
You tried to use violence as a weapon.
You tried to play with the heads of the American people by using grim and awful pictures as a way of trying to commit propaganda, and it didn't work.
And the whole world's watching Rush, and especially in the Middle East, because in the Middle East, when we succeed, everybody's going to get the message.
Talking with Tony Snow, the White House press secretary, just a few more minutes.
I want to go back to the Pew Poll.
And you mentioned Ed Morrissey, who took a really, really good inside look at that poll.
I want to go back to the economy because he has the startling data pulled from the poll that households earning between $50,000 and $75,000 have both now slipped to the GOP.
The Democrats had a 14-point margin, and that's become an eight-point Republican lead generic poll in just a month.
Now, the president's been talking a lot about the economy, so I assume you think that's resonating too.
Why?
Well, I'll tell you why.
When you say to people, just quick question.
Do you have more money in your pockets than you did a year ago?
Do you feel like you're better off?
Rush, if you back up five years, American workers have performed miracles, and they perform miracles because the president believed in them and said, at the depth of the recession, we're going to cut taxes because when you give people more money, they do amazing stuff.
So we have been through September 11th.
We've been through a recession.
We've been through Enron.
We've been through the costs of wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
We've been through Katrina.
We've been through the gas price run-up.
And we've got more people working than ever before.
They're making more than ever before, and they know it.
They see it.
So when you make the point, do you want more money in your pockets or less?
And do you want a party that after American workers have pulled us through all of these challenges, Democrats want to reward them by saying, well, thank you very much.
Now we're going to take your money away.
People get that.
And it does resonate because people have worked awfully hard to get us through an incredibly challenging economic time.
And American workers have done miracles, and not because we called upon them to do it, but just because we took the chains off a little bit, gave them some tax cuts, and allowed them to do what comes naturally, which is save, invest, buy, and make the economy grow.
You sound so Reagan-esque.
I mean, you have a future in this.
Quick question, but I love this stuff.
I'll tell you what, I'm so proud of what's going on in this country.
What you got with Howard?
Let me just ask you a simple question.
When's the last time Howard Dean made you feel better about yourself or your country?
Well, obviously never, nor does Nancy Peloton.
None of them do.
They anger me at why they are so opposed to progress in this country on every angle.
No, I think that's right.
And they also want to cast every success as an occasion for gloom.
I'm just not buying it.
I mean, if you look at what our forces have done in Iraq and Afghanistan, it's miraculous.
We ought to be celebrating them.
If you look what American workers have done, it's miraculous.
We ought to be celebrating him.
And you've got a president who's looking at the next two years saying, I want to roll up my sleeves and do more.
There is no more positive politician in America today than George W. Bush.
I'll tell you what.
If you're going to talk to him, if I know he's due on in five or six minutes in Pensacola and wherever else today, tell him to remind people about judges.
We need Republican committee chairmen in order to make sure he's going to have some more nominations, Tony.
Oh, yeah.
And he's got a lot of nominations that are right now being held up by Democrats.
No, he mentions them at every stop, and I guarantee you we'll mention it today in Pensacola.
We're going to be mentioning it later today also when we travel on to Arkansas.
We'll be in Benville, Arkansas.
We're going to be in Dallas later in the day.
And I've actually stayed here at the naval station in Pensacola.
You're right, the president will be giving a speech in a couple of minutes.
And, you know, he's going to remind the crowd of what great things we've done and what great things we can do.
And you've got to have a Republican Congress to pull it off.
Tony, thanks very much.
All the best.
And again, congratulations.
You've overcome a lot, and you've triumphed over illness, and you've risen to great heights.
Everybody just couldn't be prouder of you.
And thanks for everything you're doing.
Well, Rush, I want to thank you not only for your support but for your friendship and the things you did for me when I was sick.
I will never forget.
God bless you and thanks so much.
Same to you.
Tony Snow, the White House press secretary in Pensacola.
We have to take a quick timeout.
We have a lot left to do, and we'll get with all that right after this.
Stay with us.
Okay, it's back to Carla now in Kensington, Maryland.
I really applaud your patience, Carla.
No problem.
I wanted to get your reaction to what Clinton said.
Let me play this song.
You're going to grab Senbite number eight again because I think this is they're joking about terrorism, joking about illegal immigration from a president, a former president, who never took either seriously.
He's campaigning with Ben Cardin in Maryland.
You have to vote for us because our opponents are no good.
And because they'll tax you into the poorhouse.
And on the way to the poor house, you meet a terrorist on every street corner.
And when you try to run away from the terrace, you'll trip over an illegal immigrant.
Isn't that their thing?
That's what they're saying.
Laughing about all of this.
You can say what you want about John Kerry, but he just laid out exactly what the Democrats will do.
They will tax all of us back to the poorhouse.
They will not take terrorism seriously, and they will not take illegal immigration seriously.
They simply laugh at it.
What's your thought?
My thought is it's their same, it's like what you say, their same playbook.
They're out of ideas.
And that's what has struck me in this whole campaign is I am a Republican who has definitely been frustrated with the overspending and the constant drip, drip, drip of negativity.
But I don't see what the Democrats have to offer other than we hate Bush.
Well, did you ever think about not voting?
No.
I, You know, since Katrina, especially, you know, I was overjoyed when Bush won in 2004, but this past year, I have to admit, if you listen, if I read the Washington Post, if I listen to the, you know, the drive-by media, I have gotten very depressed.
You can't do that.
But I never, certainly, I was never so depressed that I thought, well, the answer is to go out and vote for Democrats.
See, and that has been my point all along.
I have never, no matter how angry Republicans have made, it's still a party of ideas.
It's still where conservatism and Republican Party politics is where all the idea debates are taking place.
I have never understood what it was the Democrats were doing to inspire anybody outside their own ranks.
Rage and hatred are not inspirational.
They don't inspire people.
You don't build movements with this.
I've never, that's why I've had trouble believing these polls.
And I just, it defies human nature.
It's not how human nature works.
In any other setting, why in politics should rage and hatred of somebody who's not unlikable?
Bush is not a dislikable guy.
Why should that work when it doesn't work anywhere else?
Anyway, moving on to Kathy in Weymouth, Massachusetts.
I'm glad you waited too.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hi, Rush.
You know, I called because I've gotten phone calls from GOPAC and the presidential coalition and all of these different Republican groups the last two years because I used to give money, and so I'm on the list.
And I would end up wading through everything so I could just argue with the people that were on the phone because I've been so irritated over illegal immigration, which is, I think, what most people, most Republicans are upset about because I think most of us go along with the Iraq war.
But it's time to come home to circle the wagons.
This is our party.
To me, it's like a family.
And we're not going to let Nancy Pelosi and Charlie Wrangell and Henry Waxman and LC Hastings and John Conyers drag President Bush through the mud.
We're not going to do it.
We're all going to be there at dawn with you tomorrow because it's time.
We do meet at dawn.
By the way, folks, this does not mean the radio show starts at noon.
When I say we meet at dawn, it's on the battlefield.
That's your polling place tomorrow.
Right.
Some people will say, oh, you're going to be on at noon tomorrow.
Where can I hear that?
No, no, no.
All right, dawn tomorrow.
I will be on the air at noon.
At dawn, I will be asleep because I will have been up late.
Rush, I'm from Massachusetts.
And my representative is Bill Delahunt.
Oh, Hugo Chavez is buddy in oil.
And I'm sure he is celebrating Daniel Ortega today.
He's probably having his pre-celebration.
And Patrick Duvall is having a big celebration tonight, kind of the way Kerry celebrated before and then ended up losing.
So I'd like to tell the people, I want to move to Pennsylvania.
If Patrick Duvall wins, I'm leaving.
I've had it with Massachusetts.
And I want to tell the people of Pennsylvania, Rick Santorum is such a good man and does everything he does, he believes in.
He helped people on welfare and they came to work for him and he helped them go through college and he kept them working.
What is wrong with the people in Pennsylvania?
Did you hear what Peggy Noonan quoted him as the Peggy Noonan had a great piece on Santorum on Friday, Wall Street Journal, and Santorum and his wife pray every night for Bob Casey and his wife because they know this is a tough process on them too.
He is a rare and unique individual.
I'm puzzled too over what's happening at Santorum in Pennsylvania and I wish it weren't happening.
And I hope and pray that it isn't.
And we'll be back.
Stay with us.
Yes.
Here we are, ladies and gentlemen.
Talent on lawn from God And Rush Limbaugh.
All right, let's go back to the audio soundbites on Sunday.
CNN's reliable sources, the host Howard Kurtz of the Washington Post is talking to CBS News Jim Axelrod.
Rush Limbaugh said during his interview this week with President Bush on the subject of Iraq, to a man and woman, they are shocked.
They say when they get back here, turn on the news and look at the reporting of how things are going.
They think there are tremendous successes that have taken place in Iraq.
He's talking there about soldiers returning from Iraq, watching the news coverage and feeling like it is distorted.
We've heard a lot of this in the administration.
What's your take?
Well, to a man and a woman, I'm not sure about that.
I mean, talk to anybody who's been on the ground in Iraq by way of media as well.
And, you know, you're talking about a situation that I think is incredibly violent and bloody.
And I know it would be a convenient way for the administration to frame things to say, wait a minute, there's all kinds of other measures, but what are they?
Why don't you quote the president?
I do an interview with the president and they pull a quote from me.
That's number one.
Number two, it's an out-of-context quote or it's an incomplete quote.
I prefaced the remark.
Here's what they have me saying.
To a man and a woman, they are shocked, they say, when they get back here.
I said, Mr. President, we talk to a lot of people who've been in Iraq, who are in Iraq and who've just gotten home.
And to a man and a woman, they say, the ones talking to me.
I have never said I've spoken to every soldier in Iraq.
I said the ones communicating with us, which is a large number.
That didn't make the cut when they put the piece together.
And so Axelrod, to a man and a woman?
Why, I don't think so.
Why, I'm not sure about that.
I mean, talk to anybody who's been on the ground.
All right.
The Washington Post did your work for you, Mr. Axelrod.
We talked about this earlier.
Soldiers in Iraq say pull out would have devastating results.
It's by Josh White.
We've been through this with a caller today.
But I just wanted to play this for you to illustrate how these things are done and taken out of context and how the template is.
There's bad news in Iraq and nobody sees anything other than bad news.
And by God, anybody says otherwise, why, why, why then?
Well, why?
Here's Janice in Fort Scott, Kansas.
Hi, Janice.
Glad you waited.
You're next on the Rush Limbaugh program.
Hi.
Hey, Rush.
I am so excited.
Megha Dittos from a conservative Christian wife, mother, and grandmother.
Well, it's great to have you with us.
Target audience.
Thank you.
And I'm sitting here thinking how ironic life is.
I have been trying to call you for three weeks.
We're having global warming right now.
They used to call it Indian Summer.
I was outside working in my yard.
I've got the Sixth Sense.
I knew it was time for you to be on the radio.
I came to my back door and the phone was ringing.
I picked it up.
It was you.
You called me.
When was this?
It was just this morning, about 5 after 11 Central Standard Time.
Wow, I called you right after the show started.
Right.
Right.
That was me.
It was you telling me everything I was going to get if the Democrats won, everything I don't want, and to vote Republican.
And I was so excited, I thought, I have got to get through and call him.
And I did.
How many such calls are you getting over the collection?
I had one over the weekend from Rudy Giuliani.
Really?
Yes.
You are a popular woman.
I don't know why.
I'm a red Republican.
I told Rudy that you're my exclusive call.
Thank you.
Here he is encroaching on my territory with you.
Thank you.
You have made my day.
You're a voice of sanity in an insane time.
Well, I appreciate that.
You've made mine, too.
Well, I would like to say one more thing.
I've been trying to call you for three weeks to talk about Jim Ryan's run for the House.
He's a conservative Christian, the incumbent in eastern Kansas.
He's running against Nancy Boyda, who is a Democrat, of course, backed by the ACLU.
And about a week ago, people were phoned between the hours of 10 and 3 and told that it was a survey from Jim Ryan's office.
They kept him on the phone for about 10 minutes and then hung up.
Wait a minute.
Between 10 and 3 in the middle of the day?
In the middle of the night.
Middle of the night?
You mean Democrats are calling people at 3 o'clock in the morning and trying to make a sound reason?
I think it's probably Democrats.
They're trying to sound like Richard.
Well, there's no question it is.
If your friends are getting phone calls at 3 in the morning and they're saying they're calling us Republicans, they're trying to make you mad.
What a dirty little trick.
That's a nice practical joke.
I have to put that one in the hopper.
But that smacks of utter desperation.
Between 10 and 3 overnight.
That's too much.
All right.
Look, Janice, thanks so much for the call.
I appreciate it.
I'd love to spend more time, especially since I've got competition now with Rudy, Giuliani, but I've got a lot of things I have to do here before the program ends.
And you've got to hear this next ad.
You just, this is an ad that Democrats are running against Jim Talent in Missouri.
They are using children to make you think that Jim Talent wants people to die.
Next summer, I'm going on a camping trip with my friends.
On my way home, I'll be in a car accident and I'll be paralyzed for the rest of my life.
In 20 years, I'll have Alzheimer's.
I won't recognize my husband or my kids.
Next week, my mommy and Ned here are going to find out that I have diabetes.
This is my senator.
Senator Jim Talent.
He voted against stem cell research.
Is he a doctor?
Is he a scientist?
Why did Senator Talent bet my life that he knows best?
Help me.
Help me.
Who knows?
Maybe I'm your mother.
Maybe I'm your grandson.
Maybe I'm your little girl.
How do you know I'm not you?
Stem cell research could save lives.
Maybe yours or your family's.
Someone you love.
Only Senator Talent said no.
How come he thinks he gets to decide who lives and who dies?
Who is he?
The Media Fund is responsible for the content of this advertising.
It's a typical Democrat ad.
This is just, this is despicable.
It is tasteless.
It is misleading.
It is factually wrong.
Jim Talent is not against stem cell research.
He doesn't want to criminalize anybody who engages in stem cell research.
He is all for adult stem cell research.
He is all for cord blood research on stem cells.
It's just that I hate to tell those of you in a listening audience here who have hope, but you have been sold a bill of goods.
Embryonic stem cell research has led to nothing.
Other forms of stem cell research have.
And I just want to be as honest with you as I can about this.
The whole embryonic stem cell research project is a federal money grab.
There isn't any private sector money.
Well, there is.
I actually look this up.
There's something like $40 million that's been donated over the years, which is peanuts, by the way, to embryonic stem cell research.
In terms of the private sector, venture capitalists, people that invest money for profit rather than for political purposes, there's no money in it because it doesn't show any promise.
So that's why these people are making a move on federally funded embryonic stem cell research so they can open the federal bank and the vault and let anybody under the guise of research stick their hands in.
And of course, the money in that vault is yours via taxes.
But this is really, this is exactly why I had the reaction to the Michael J. Fox ad that I had.
This is below and beyond the pale.
This is absolutely mean.
It is misleading.
And it creates false impressions in people.
At the same time, it gives them false hope.
I can't think of a civilized word that described my emotions when I heard this ad.
I know I've only heard it.
I haven't seen it.
I imagine if I saw it, I would be even angrier.
But just listening to the dialogue, the audio of this ad is infuriating.
It, to me, depicts the absolutely subhuman levels that Democrats and liberals will descend to in order to tug at your emotional heartstrings because the last thing they want you doing is thinking about this.
And to try, once again, your little girl's going to get diabetes if Jim Talent is elected.
Your grandmother's going to get Alzheimer's.
Nope, they didn't put Parkinson's in here, I don't think.
I didn't see, I've got the transcript.
But your little girl's going to get diabetes.
You're going to get Alzheimer's.
You're going to be in a car accident and be paralyzed for the rest of your life.
Look at the way these people look at life.
Look at the future they see for you.
It's just, help me, help.
It is a just shameless and despicable ploy.
And the point of it all is that all of these horrible things are going to happen to you, and you're stuck if Jim Talent gets elected.
Now, does anybody anywhere think that any political candidate anywhere wants sick people to stay sick?
You need to ask yourself when you hear rot, garbage, drivel, and bilge like this, is there a political candidate anywhere that wants anybody to stay sick, to get sick, to get Alzheimer's, to have an automobile accident and be paralyzed?
Is there any political candidate that wants this?
And if your reason and common sense are answering no, well, then ask yourself, why in the hell is this ad put together?
It's time to question the people doing these ads rather than the candidates about whom they're speaking.
This is just excrement, folks.
This is just plain old excrement.
Here's a new ad, by the way, Audio Soundbite 14 from the Democrat Congressional Campaign Committee.
That would be Rom Emmanuel.
Ted, when I grow up, is there still going to be a war in Iraq?
No.
Because people are going to make them stop?
Yeah, they're going to make them stop.
What about other things, like the world getting too hot or spending so much money that there won't be any left when I get older?
You don't have to worry about that stuff.
Because you're going to take care of it?
What are you going to tell your children to do it?
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is responsible for the content of this advertising.
So they've trotted out the children.
You can't assail children.
You can't attack kids.
Oh, no, no, no.
Harmless level.
We all love the children.
Yeah, when I grow up, is there still going to be a war in Iraq?
No.
Because people are going to make them stop?
Yeah.
They're going to make them stop?
Well, what about other things?
Like, the world is getting too hot.
It's spending so much money, there won't be any left for me.
This represents the peak of liberal intellectualism today.
And it makes it plain that you have nothing to do with your son's future.
That's what the Democrats don't want you concluding that, but I'm going to tell you that's what they want you to conclude.
You have no hope, and your kid has no hope because whatever the future holds, you don't have enough to do about it.
You don't have enough brains, power, and only the Democrats can make sure your son, your kid's future is okay.
Are you leaving it up to any politician for your kid to be okay, folks?
Let me just ask you this: Are you leaving it up to your political party?
You talk to your kids, say, you know, son, I know you'll go to college because Democrats will get you a loan.
Son, I don't think you're going to be able to go to college if the Republicans are in power.
They'll deny you a place at the university.
Who is it that runs all these universities?
It's got tuition sky high to the point that nobody can afford them.
It's the Democrats.
Son, you don't have a prayer surviving an automobile accident if Jim Talon's elected.
Mom, you're going to get Alzheimer's in 20 years.
There's nothing we can do about it because Republicans are in power.
That's the Democrat message.
We'll be back.
Stay with them.
That is not the question.
What if we did a spot that showed kids forced to become Islamic terrorists?
That's not the question.
What if we did a commercial of an orphaned young boy whose father died on 9-11?
Dad, when I was alive, we never thought this could happen, but I'm dead, Dad.
Will this happen again?
Can you imagine if the Republicans ran such an ad of an orphaned young boy whose father died on 9-11?
I died on 9-11, and my dad says that'll happen again unless we wreck Republicans.
Can you imagine what the reaction would be among the drive-by-media and the Democrats?
See, they can politicize the war, but if the president even mentions Iraq on the fifth anniversary of 9-11, he's accused of playing politics with a war on being called patriotic, the left being called unpatriotic, and so forth.
But they can do all the despicable BS like that that they want.
You find it fascinating, folks, that the same people, you may forget this, the same people that decried the paper ballot in 2000 and demanded 21st century technology, now the same people complaining about the unreliability of the touchscreen systems just a week before the elections.
Do you know how much money has been spent on modernizing elections?
$4 billion.
The U.S. Congress authorized $4 billion to upgrade elections.
They did it electronically because of Florida, where voters down here couldn't figure out the butterfly ballot.
The hanging Chad syndrome.
So we got these machines out there, and none other than Nancy Pelosi, who has surfaced, is raising fears as recently as last week over the weekend.
She said, I know where the numbers are in these races, and I know that they're there for the 15 seats.
Today, we're going to pick up 22 to 26 seats, Pelosi said on Friday.
She cautioned that the number of Democratic House victories could be higher or lower and said her greatest concern is over the integrity of the count, from the reliability of electronic voting machines to her worries that Republicans will try to manipulate the outcome.
That's the only variable in this, Pelosi said.
Will we have an honest account?
So Nancy Pelosi's answer or prediction of the election is, we win or they cheated.
These are the same people that demanded modernizing and standardizing elections after Florida in 2000.
Now they're the same people, same people who decried the antiquated systems used in 2000, demand all this 21st century technology, and now they are scared to death of it.
It's just like the Democrats all voted for the war in Iraq, well the 90% of them in the Senate did, all voted for it, but you would not find one to say so today other than Lieberman.
And look what happened to him.
Be right back.
Wrap it up after this.
Ladies and gentlemen, some time ago I told you, I warned you about Colin Powell.
His trusted aide and lieutenant, the leaker in the Valerie Plame story, Richard Armitage, is in Australia.
He said the Republicans would pay the price for the United States exporting our anger and fear and our hatred for the terror attacks on New York and Washington.
We were showing a very snarly and angry face to the world, said Armitage in a speech at Parliament in Australia, Canberra.
I think it's understandable to a certain degree, but we're well past that now, and it's time to turn another face to the world.
And then he predicted Democrats will win 20 to 25 seats in the House of Representatives.
We had a measured response.
Most of us don't think we've done enough, ladies and gentlemen.
But here you have it.
Once again, it's our fault.
And another intellectual, pointy fan elitist condemning his own country.
We'll see you tomorrow.
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