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Nov. 8, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 8, 2006, Wednesday, Hour #3
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Hi, folks, and welcome back.
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I have intended, I had no idea the president's press conference is going to go as long as it did.
It went 45 minutes.
So we're going to go to the phones early in this hour in this segment, because I know a lot of you want to comment raise questions or what have you, and you've been waiting a long time.
I appreciate your patience.
Telephone number is 800-282-2882.
Email address rush at EIBNet.com.
Just to reiterate, ladies and gentlemen, uh going to get worse before it gets better.
Not trying to be negative, trying to prepare you here for what is coming.
It is it is obvious uh from the president's press conference that his view is the Democrats won the election yesterday, and that means they get some of what they want, if not a lot of what they want, if not all of what they want.
Specifically, here's what you can look for.
You can look for there to be a minimum wage bill.
The president was uh passionate about one thing in this press conference, came alive when he has uh asked a question about what does this mean for your immigration policy?
Yes, I think we have a better chance of getting uh immigration reform now with a Democrat-controlled Congress.
So, and I told you this before the election.
I told you the reason we don't have amnesty in a guest worker program is because of the Republicans in the House.
Now a Democrats running the place, you're going to get it, and the president's excited about it.
We're going to get a guest worker program, we're going to get amnesty, it's going to be called immigration reform.
Uh, and and this we're gonna get a minimum wage increase.
The president's gonna talk to these people about entitlements, and when you sit down with Democrats to talk about entitlements, you're not talking about getting rid of them.
Uh you're talking about reforming them, maybe, or perhaps even new ones.
Some of the exit poll data yesterday is still questionable whether or not you can believe it.
Eleven uh uh by an eleven percent margin, voters who voted yesterday believe that Republicans are the big government party now.
How can you blame them?
How can you blame them with the Medicare entitlement and with all the education spending, all the uh the spending on everything, the uh the the lack of discipline on uh reducing the size and scope of uh of government.
So uh and I I was during the break, uh channel surfing around, and uh Tim Russert uh made this point.
He said that with Robert Gates coming in to replace Rumsfeld, and by the way, I don't know, I don't know what's gonna happen here.
My my experience has always been that when you give the left a scalp, uh they just want more.
Uh so who will be their next target?
Connellisa Rice, Cheney.
Uh I can tell you that uh that that some of the fringe kook Democrats, and it remains to be seen since they bombed out with their chosen candidate, Nett Lament.
Uh it remains to be seen just how much influence they're gonna have over Democrats governing.
Uh, but they're gonna make demands for Rumsfeld to be uh brought up uh with war crimes investigations uh in uh in Congress.
And I think some Republicans say it's a smart political move to get rid of Rums.
But just get that distraction off the table.
Do it now.
Don't wait till the end of the year, do it now, and take that issue off the table for the Democrats.
The problem is, my experience in the past, it doesn't take issues off the table, it just makes them hungrier.
It just, okay, we got one scalp, we can go get another.
You know they've been calling for the resignation or the impeachment of all these people for a number of years.
Rice, Rumsfeld, Cheney, uh, a whole bunch of them.
Uh so uh, and then they're I think the subpoenas are gonna be flying.
I don't know if Pelosi is going to try to control it uh or not.
Uh the president uh during the campaign said that he was he was convinced that uh if the Democrats won the uh one power that uh the war on terror would suffer a setback, they're not that interested in the victory.
Totally took that back today, said, Well, people say things on campaigns.
You know, but campaigns over, and a Democrat's won.
Uh, and so it's um uh what do you want?
That was the what do you want press conference?
You want immigration reform?
Aha, you got it.
You want a minimum wage increase, you got it.
You want Rumsfeld, you got him.
Uh Bush has seen this before, and this is how you get out of town in two years with an approval rating that is above the 30s.
Uh, and maybe into the 50s or the uh or the sixties.
Uh stem cells, uh another thing.
Just The whole point here is we're gonna do everything we can to make everybody happy.
We're gonna do what we can to make everybody happy.
Russert said, after pointing out that uh Bush 41 guys are not going to be running the Iraq War, Robert Gates and the new Secretary of Defense, uh and James Baker running this uh this uh this commission here looking into what we do uh about Iraq.
Russert's point was we're gonna have hard-headed pragmatism now.
The ideologues are out.
No more ideology in the war on Iraq.
And of course, that's not new, ladies.
There hasn't been any ideology in the Republican Party, any conservatism uh for at least two to maybe maybe four years.
I mean, I you could argue Bush was more of an ideologue in the presidential campaign of 04.
But in looking at what happened yesterday, it wasn't conservatism that lost.
Conservatism won uh when it when it ran as uh as a Democrat, it uh it won in a number of places.
Republicanism lost.
You know, rhino Republicans, country club blue blood Republicans, uh this nonpartisan uh uh Republican identity, that's what went down in uh in flames.
I've always believed that you, uh those of us who are conservative believe in the ideology.
We believe it wins.
We believe it's best for the country, we believe it's best for the people, we believe it's ultimately compassionate.
Uh and it has not been present.
And I mentioned to you at the uh conclusion of the of the previous hour that I I've uh people have been asking me how I feel.
All night long.
And I get, boy, Rush, I wouldn't want to be you tomorrow.
I wouldn't want to have to do your show.
Oh, I'm so glad I'm not you.
No, folks, I love being me.
I can't be anybody else, so I'm stuck with it.
But the way I feel is this.
I feel liberated, and I'm gonna I'm just gonna tell you as plainly as I can why.
I no longer am gonna have to carry the water for people who I don't think deserve having their water carried.
Now you might say, well, why have you been doing it?
Because the stakes are high.
Even though the Republican Party let us down, to me, they represent a far better future for my beliefs and therefore the countries than the Democrat Party does and liberalism.
And I believe my side is worthy of victory.
And I believe it's much easier to reform things that are going wrong on my side from a position of strength.
Now, I I'm I'm liberated from having to constantly come in air every day and and try to buck up a bunch of people who don't deserve it, to try to carry the water and and make excuses for people who don't deserve it.
Uh I just I did not want to sit here and participate willingly in the victory of the libs, the victory of the Democrat Party, I did by by sabotaging my own.
But now with what has happened uh yesterday and today, it is an entirely liberating thing if if if uh those in our party who are going to uh uh carry the day in the future, both in Congress and the administration are going to choose a different path than uh what most of us believe then that's liberating.
Uh I don't say this with any animosity about anybody, and I'm I don't mean to make this too personal.
I'm not trying to tell you that this is about me.
I'm just answering questions that I've had from people about how I feel.
But uh there have been a bunch of things going on in Congress.
Some of this legislation coming out of there that that I have just I've cringed at.
And it has been difficult coming in here trying to make the case for it when the people who are supposedly in favor of it can't even make the case themselves.
And to have to come in here and try and and try to do their jobs, and I'm I'm a radio guy, and I understand what this program has become in America, and I understand the leadership position it has, and I was uh I was I was doing what I what I thought best, but at this point uh people who have have don't deserve to have their water carried uh or have themselves explained as they would like to say things but somehow don't be uh aren't able to.
Uh not not under that kind of pressure.
Am I making myself clear on this, Mr. Snerdley?
No, I'm not lying, and the sturdley's concern.
I'm I've not lied about anything I've said.
Let me let me try this a different way.
Um I'm gonna have to think about this.
I I tried to make it as clear as I can.
Uh I'm but I'm not gonna I that's right, I'm not gonna eat my own, and I'm not gonna throw my own overboard, particularly in a campaign, and particularly when the country is at war, and I'm not gonna do it for selfish reasons, and I'm not gonna do it to stand out, and I'm not gonna do it to be different.
I'm not gonna do it to draw attention from our enemies.
I'm not I'm not gonna do anything I do so that the drive-by media will like me or think that, ooh, limbow is true, ooh, limbs coming up th that's not my thinking.
My thinking is the left doesn't deserve to win.
My thinking is the country is imperiled with liberal victory.
We may not have the best people on our side, but they're better than what we have on the left.
But it has been difficult sometimes when these people on our side have not had the guts to stand up for themselves, have not had the guts to explain what they really believe and why they're doing what they're doing.
When they haven't had the courage to be who they are, when they haven't had the courage to be conservatives, and it has been it has been a challenge to come in here and look at some of the weaknesses and some of the missed opportunities and try to cover for them and make up for them and make sure that the opportunities are not totally lost.
Uh but at some point you have to say, I'm not them, and and i th I can't assume the responsibility for their success.
It isn't my job to make them succeed.
It isn't my job to make elected Republicans look good if they can't do it themselves.
It's not my job to make them understandable and understood if they can't do it themselves.
Not in perpetuity, not in uh ad infinitum.
So all I can tell you is I feel a little liberated.
Uh and I think this is all gonna result in uh a lot of cleansing in uh in a number of areas, areas I will explain as they pop up and happen.
But let me take a brief time out.
We'll come back and go to your phones uh as you have been patiently waiting, and I want to reward that as soon as possible.
Stay with us.
Al Wilson, and that's what this is today, show and tell day here on the EIB network.
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Snerdley said, Well, give me an example of what you're talking about.
Okay, let me give you an example.
I'm not gonna mention any names, but what have I been I've been sticking my neck out to defend people who won't defend themselves.
And in the process of sticking my head and neck out, I get it cut off by other people who disavow what I'm doing and saying.
And yet, if I didn't stick my neck out, these people have gotten swamped and defeated by far bigger margins than they did.
Uh I I bring a lot of passion to my belief in conservatism and and and my belief that liberalism is harmful to individuals in this country, that it leads them to lives of misery and unfulfilled potential.
And those beliefs drive me, and I believe that we are the good guys.
And when the people on my side, the good guys, don't have the guts to defend themselves as strongly as I'm willing to defend them, uh then you get to the point where what what's the point?
I'm not running in their races.
I'm not asking, I'm not I'm not on the ballots, I'm not getting their votes.
That is up to them.
And so it's a little liberating.
All I'm saying is a little liberating.
Now, once once I see the direction we're headed, and then I look at the reaction to everybody in our movement after this loss, um they can take it the way they want to take it.
And I'm not gonna defend whatever way they go just because they're on my side.
If I don't believe in the method that they're using or the direction they're taking.
It's that simple.
And now back to the phones.
Thomas Harrow, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
Nice to have you, and I appreciate your patience.
Welcome.
Thanks for taking my call, Rush.
I'm a big fan, been a listener since just prior to Gulf War One.
Um I think the pres the tone and tenor of the President's news conference uh will illustrate the point I'm about to make, which as a conservative I don't make with any kind of glee.
I think this election uh kind of sounds the death knull for conservatism as a viable political ideology, And here's why I'm saying that.
Um, with the Democrat victory, and most assuredly, they will complete that in 08, and their propaganda machine firmly in place and stealing their oats so that any of their excesses, bad policies, false failings, etc.
will be spun properly.
The Republicans will feel the need to go center to be competitive.
When they do that, the center will go left, and ostensibly, conservatism will lose its any kind of voice in the public uh political arena.
Um I can understand your pessimism to that degree, and it's entirely possible.
I don't see it that way.
I do see some troubling signs out there, however, uh along these lines, and let's let's start with the president's press conference.
It's clear he believes the Democrats won the election, that means that they get what they want.
In fact, CNN, uh some infobabe on CNN uh a few minutes ago said, for the first time, for the first time, is Bush listening.
So it's working from the White House standpoint.
They're getting they're getting sympathy and they're getting compassionate reporting and they're they've they've they want to turn the boat around.
They want to go back to Crawford with their 68% approval number.
Uh uh this is a desire that all elected officials have.
Uh even Reagan's people had the desire.
I don't think Reagan was as much concerned with it uh as uh as as most presidents are.
Uh in terms of of uh of of uh the conservative movement uh look at without elected conservatism at the top, without elected conservative leadership leadership somewhere, yeah, we we we do run a risk of uh of being deluded.
What what counters that is that the people of this country are basically conservative.
Look at I just cited an exit poll in which the voters who voted yesterday th think by an eleven percent margin that the Republican Party is the party of big government.
Now you ask, how can that happen?
Because guess who's been running a show for six years with a brand new entitlement and all this brand new spending?
The Republican Party.
And it has not been a conservative ideology that has run the Republican Party, it's been something absent conservative ideology.
Now, where are these future conservative leaders?
Obviously, there's not a new Reagan out there.
Now there are people who are going to try to be.
Mike Pence is going to try to run the House on the Republican side.
Reagan is his idol.
We'll see how that goes.
John McCain is trying to from his appearances last night on television into today.
McCain's trying to set himself up as Mr. Conservative.
The guy who gave his campaign finance reform, the guy who opposes tax cuts uh is is now going to start talking as though he is Mr. Conservative.
Uh that's that's going to be a hard sell uh to real conservatives.
Then you have the conservative punditry.
Now to what extent they matter, that's uh arguable.
But the conservative punditry, depending on where it's located, is is uh is interested in being accepted in the overall punditry club by leftist pundits, democrat pundits and so forth, and the way you do that is to break away from uh conservative ideologues to show that you're open-minded and uh uh uh larger-minded and uh and and not uh close-minded.
And uh so there there's I think they're going to be fissures uh and cracks uh within the conservative movement.
There are a lot of people in this for themselves, folks.
To a lot of people, it is about them and uh their notification and their notice and their uh their the attention that they can garner for themselves, and the way you do that is stand out.
And the way you stand out as a conservative in Washington is to not be as much a conservative as everybody else is, so you get your approval from the left.
Uh we've been through this uh countless times, but I don't think conservatism is going to dwindle off into the into the twilight and be invisible at midnight and never return.
This is what people were saying in 1976, when Reagan lost to Ford and Ford lost to Carter.
Those were dark days, folks.
But then along came Jimmy Carter.
You can always count on the Democrats at some point to revive conservatism in this country by being who they are.
And who they are is uh very liberal, as we as we all know.
Uh this uh you know the normal ebb and flow is is and cyclical nature of politics is is obvious.
It's just so damn frustrating to have made such progress in 1994, and it's it happened here again.
What happened in two years after 94, the conservatives made the mistake of thinking that the country'd become conservative and they stopped being ideological and they stopped teaching.
They stopped leading a movement and and and began um what they began.
It happened here again.
The assumption that, okay, conservatism is in power now, the people know who we are, they like who we are, stop teaching.
You can never stop teaching.
Back in a second.
Half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair back to the phones.
This is George in St. Louis.
Hi, George, nice to have you with us.
Hey, Rush, it's an honor to talk to you.
I'm a first-time caller and a longtime listener.
Um, I think that uh the loss that we had uh really needs to be put in a positive spin.
You know, it's better to lose now than in two thousand and eight.
You know, hopefully the president will not buckle in the Democrats, but what we need is good Republican leadership that uh takes the lead, and for the next two years, they put together a good conservative agenda.
Well, I'm gonna tell you right, it's gonna be up to them.
Yeah, I know it is uh it's it's gonna be I I wouldn't look for this in the Senate among the Senate Republicans.
The only place it's gonna happen in the House uh in terms you would hope it would happen in a presidential candidate.
I mean, that's where it really needs to happen.
I and and I, you know, you you you tell me who's out there that fits the bill.
Well, I don't know, but you know, I think that the Republican staff needs to start looking.
You know, uh we're gonna have an opportunity where um we have the Democrats who elected a lot of uh conservative Democrats, and are they gonna be doing what they said they were gonna do, or are they are they gonna be following the the liberal leadership?
Let me let me tell you let me explain how that's gonna work, because everybody is wrong about this, I think.
Everybody thinks that these uh conservative Democrats, particularly in the House, are gonna cause Nancy Pelosi problems.
And anybody who thinks that doesn't know Democrats.
The first thing that's gonna happen is all these conservatives, and by the way, Nancy Pelosi contributed to many of their campaigns.
They owe her personally.
She will be their leader.
She will be their their godfather, their Don Corleone.
And when they get to Washington, it's time to organize the caucus, these people will be brought in during their in their uh uh what do you call it uh uh Orientation, and they'll have private meetings with Pelosi.
And the questions go like this.
Thank you for everything you did to join us here in the 100 whatever Congress it'll be.
Do you want to stay here beyond two years?
Do you want it matter here?
Do you want to be on significant committees?
Do you want to have a chance to be committee chairman?
Because if you do, you you are gonna follow my dictates in how to vote on important bills that come up.
And if you buck me and if you go against me, you can you can have fun here as uh as you can try to have fun for two years, but after that, you're gone because nobody's gonna help you get re-elected.
You th the whole purpose of running these people, uh, these conservative Democrats was to provide cover so as to elect a far-left leadership.
Nancy Pelosi was nowhere to be found for two weeks in this campaign.
Same thing with Dingy Harry.
All this is all this was a noise being made, all these conservatives.
It wasn't hard for conservative Democrats to out conservative Republicans because Republicans didn't have the guts to be conservative.
So these conservative Democrats who couldn't even put two sentences together and sound educated, end up winning in some cases.
And uh and so everybody's expecting now that you're asking, well, what about their constituents?
What about their well that that's up to the Republicans to take advantage of if these conservative Democrats and the only reason Pelosi put them up, this is why she's gonna be speaker, it was her strategy.
It was her strategy, and the and Thomas Sowell said it right.
This was a pretty good example of voter fraud.
Put a bunch of people as Democrats who are not liberals, get them elected as conservatives because the Democrats know how conservative this country is, more so than the Republicans do.
That is so frustrating, I can't tell you.
The Democrats, particularly in geographic areas of this country, they know they don't stand up prayer as liberals.
So they put these conservatives up.
That allows Democrats to win the House, electing a far-left leadership.
And it's the leadership's going to run the House, not these ten or twelve new freshmen that are going to owe Nancy Pelosi everything.
So I I it in two years down the road, you say, well, if they don't do what their constituents do, that's going to then depend on Republicans in those districts to nominate candidates who can go out and tell the voters, hey, guess what?
The Democrats fooled you back in 2006 and nominated a bunch of people that said had your values and they may have, but when they got to Washington, Democrats didn't allow them to practice your values, it's up to you to get rid of them.
That's where that's what campaigns are for.
It's what I mean about not carrying water for these people.
If they can't come up with this on themselves for themselves, then fine.
This is so simple to me.
Yeah, go ahead.
You want to say something, I'm sure.
And I agree 100% with you, but uh we as Republicans need to capitalize on that and start building our campaign now to show all these things to the public.
And uh Well, let me tell I I'm gonna be doing that uh because that's what I believe.
But let me let me tell you what's gonna here's here's the here's the you want to hear my fears, here's one of my fears.
The president is demonstrated today with this press conference that he's gonna meet with the Democrats and whatever whatever they want, they're gonna get all or a portion of.
And as a result, the president's gonna get some favorable coverage, and the president's poll numbers are gonna go up.
And Republicans are gonna see this and want a taste of it themselves.
And so my fear is is that in order to get approval numbers and love and good press from the drive-by media, uh, they will articulate some of the same things in terms of working together, getting along.
We understand the Democrats won.
Uh you contrast this to the way Democrats act when they lose.
Have you noticed there aren't any lawyers running around today protesting results?
There aren't any lawsuits.
There are nobody out there challenging voting machines saying that they were rigged.
Have you noticed that's not happening?
Republicans take their losses and say, yep, we deserved it.
Okay, moving on, see you in two years.
You don't see any of it.
You see the Democrats when they lose, saying, All right, we lost.
We gotta get along now.
What do you want, Republicans?
We'll help you get it.
You see any of that?
You do not.
These people have an entitlement to power.
It's their birthright.
They think it is theirs by virtue of their existence, and when they don't have it, it has been stolen from them, and they are gonna do whatever they have to do, including lose a war to get it.
Our side responds to all of these catcalls and negativism.
It isn't true.
We must show we can get along and so forth.
Uh you know, the uh Republicans right now, by the way, they've lost the Senate for all intents and permanents.
You hear Republicans running around demanding shared leadership or minority rights status like the Democrats did in 2002?
When they went out and they stole with 2000 or 2002, whatever it was, they stole Jim Jeffords.
They demanded uh uh equal number of uh senators on every committee, power sharing agreement, uh represent minority.
Remember when a minority was the majority when the Democrats were in the minority?
You see Republicans doing any of this?
They're gonna follow the president's lead.
All of these people, it's everybody in politics, folks.
It's I don't care.
Most everybody in public life lives and dies for love and affection from the media, and uh in in in approval ratings and so forth.
They think it translates to uh votes and so forth.
Uh and so you you you what what you go back, ask yourself, well, what is it that gave rise to a Goldwater?
And then what is it that gave rise to a Reagan?
Uh so many years of liberalism and the cold war and appeasement with communists who swore to exterminate us.
And guess where we are?
Again, we got a whole new group here that's swearing to do that.
Uh the i i it the conservatism arose from the primordial gunk simply because the left had so made it possible that by by threatening the country and botching things and uh expanding the uh size of government and so forth.
I don't know what what now is going to cause this uh to happen again.
It will happen at some point, uh, because the majority of people in this country are conservative.
And here's another thing.
It's uh this is a variable that we don't know.
What are Democrats going to do with this power?
How are they going to come across?
Is Bush rolling the dice?
Okay, Nancy Pelosi, what do you want?
You want minimum wage?
You got it.
You want amnesty and a guest worker program.
You got it.
You want to talk about new entitlements or entitlement?
You got it.
If the Democrats uh react to this in their usual way, you know, they they've got a stake in the game now.
I mean, that they they can't just sit around on the sidelines, things go wrong and say it's Bush's fault, it's Bush's fault, it's Bush's fault.
We hate Bush get out of Iraq.
Also, if we don't get out of a rock real soon, what are these voters that the elected Democrats thinking we're going to get out of Iraq soon going to do?
There are a lot of variables here that we can't possibly anticipate.
We can't possibly know because they haven't happened yet.
But don't make the assumption that the Democrats are not going to screw up.
Don't make the assumption everything they do is going to be perfect.
One assumption you can make is that the press, the drive-by media will portray everything they do as perfect.
You're gonna be you're it won't be long before you're gonna start seeing glowing stories on the economy.
How wonderful it is, and you're gonna get stories are gonna go out there if you're gonna talk to people, and these people are gonna say, I've never had more confidence in my future and my family's future, my country's future than ever before.
And it's just gonna happen to coincide with Democrats being in power.
And you're gonna watch this and you're gonna get livid.
And you're gonna wonder why the American people don't see through this.
And I'll be with you.
I'll be with you on it all the while doing what we can to inform as many people as possible here.
Thanks for the call out there, George, a quick timeout back in just a second.
Drudge has it uh posted that uh it's one of his developing stories that uh John Bolton is our United Nations ambassador is the next fly to be swatted away by the uh by the Democrats.
Of course, they've hated Bolton and they've uh he had to get uh recess appointed.
He never got a full-fledged uh vote from the United States.
We got it, he didn't get enough, he didn't get the uh uh enough of a vote to win.
So, but he's been there at uh at any point.
So the again, I don't know what the source of this is, but the apparently the next scalp that they're hunting for is John Bolton.
And his uh recess appointment expires in December anyway.
And I I think there are ways to extend it.
I'm not exactly sure.
I think there are things that can be done.
But uh just uh I'm saying this with uh sketchy memory, uh having discussed it with some people some time ago.
But you start throwing them scalps under the guise that it's uh good political move, and uh well, at least good political moves get you love and affection from the press.
Bush is finally listening.
CNN is saying he's finally listening to us.
They mean Bob in Orlando, Florida.
Nice to have you on the program, sir.
Hello.
Megadidos Rush from a 18-year listener, uh chartered 24-7 subscriber, and probably one of the few people in the world that still has your Russia Excellence videotape.
Thank you, sir.
Those things are still out.
They're bootlegged all over the place.
Don't be so sure you're the only guy that has them.
Well, I still enjoy mine.
That was uh We know all the secrets to your uh to your show.
Um, I myself have two of those videos, for example.
Do you?
I think it's uh important that Republicans get an answer to the question of whether or not we got the votes out and they voted Democrat, or whether the Democrats were more effective in getting their voters out.
And in light of what has happened, do you think that yesterday's results will help or hinder the remaining Republicans in the House of Senate to develop a spine.
I I have to tell you so I nobody is out there claiming fraud today, and and that's not how Republicans operate.
But John Fund has a piece that well, I didn't have a chance to get into this today, and I'd hoped to go through the whole day, but you called and I'm going to address it.
I had hoped to Go through the whole day without blaming anybody else for this loss, because I hate that.
I, you know, when you when you when things go wrong, you have to look inwardly and you have to say, what did you do wrong?
Uh can't can't blame voters.
You know, voters are voters.
You gotta go get them.
But Fund has a fascinating piece about Acorn, this group that started in the 1970s, uh that had all the 35,000 fraudulent voter registrations in Kansas City alone for indictments.
Um there was um I got a couple emails from people in Joplin, Missouri last night, which is Republican stronghold state, part of the state.
They ran out of ballots.
Uh so many Republicans showed up to vote, they ran out of ballots and people left and didn't vote.
Didn't have time to come back.
Uh I I'm I'm not yet convinced that um we'll we're gonna we can answer these questions.
I know we're gonna study the uh result, and people like Mike Barona will look at it and analyze it as as though it was all legitimate.
Um for the most part we're gonna accept it as it as it was.
But I you know, I I I think we start asking questions that uh we get our turnout out and did they actually vote uh for Republicans or vote Democrats, or did uh Republicans sit home.
I know in Virginia the turnout was fifty percent.
I don't know party makeup of that, but the turnout in Virginia for the Senate race and some of the other battled initiatives was uh was fifty percent.
Another interesting thing about that, by the way.
You know, they had a merit at marriage amendment on the ballot in Virginia.
And that thing won by a huge majority, establishing marriage as that institution between one man and one woman.
Now you would think people voting in that percentage for that conservative an issue would vote for George Allen.
Well, Jim Webb came across as conservative as George Allen did on many, many things.
Look at J.D. Hayworth in Arizona.
Here is a guy who has been leading the charge on immigration in the House and in Arizona, and he was one of the 94 freshmen, and and uh there's he had an opponent who I think was a state senator in Arizona who literally copied his campaign.
Said the same things that J.D.'s been saying about immigration.
Everybody's out there saying immigration is not a winning issue for Republicans.
They cite J.D. Hayworth, uh, and the Democrats say, see, you go down to two of his up and JD was complaining about this.
His opponent was echoing everything he was saying about immigration and then running against the corruption of the Republicans and so forth.
Uh so I mean there's a lot of unanswered questions about who made up the voters and and so forth.
I I think it it's a uh this acorn bunch is worth looking into.
They're a union-backed bunch that's been indicted uh for fraudulently registering voters in in in uh in Kansas City, uh, and and they they do this nationwide.
They've been they've been out there since um uh the 70s, and they have uh they have other organizations.
They are a huge, huge business.
And I uh I've always been under the impression that uh that the liberals liberals and Democrats cannot win with just their votes alone.
So did they get a bunch of Republicans joining?
Did Republicans cut and run and stay home?
We're gonna find that out as all these uh votes are analyzed.
It's gonna take some time to do that, but Mike Barone is the specialist at that with his book, The Political Almanac, and we're trying to secure an interview with him for the next issue of the um of the Limbaugh letter.
Jeff in Salisbury, Maryland, I have a minute here.
Can you do it in a minute?
Absolutely.
Thank you.
Well, the the reason I'm calling, uh I believe that modern day Republicanism, or actually Reagan Republicanism as we know it is now dead.
Um remember how how um how all the Democrats lost their identity over the last six years.
Uh how do you mean?
How how'd they lose their identity?
Well, when they're always they were second guessing every election, how you know why can't we win?
Why can't we win?
Why can't we win?
And so all of a sudden they start putting pushing people out from the middle.
Uh I think that's what you're gonna see now with the Republicans saying, why did we lose?
And you're you're gonna see more of John McCain out front, all the centrist Republicans, and that's gonna become the new the new face of Republicanism.
I think the Democrats are gonna be the ones who actually uh engineer our our own conservative destruction.
Yeah, no, no, that Democrats aren't gonna go conservative.
Not the way they govern.
Don't fall for that.
They may throw up These conservative candidates in district uh here, district there in order to win.
They're libs, they're not gonna be anything else.
Republicans can't make up their mind to be conservatives.
That's the problem.
Some of you writing me emails claiming that you're upset that I am referring to um Rumsfeld's scalp.
Uh the Democrats getting his scalp, uh, thinking it's offensive.
All right, fine.
I'll I'll change it.
Uh they got Rumsfeld's head.
Rumsfeld be headed today.
Bolton next.
See you tomorrow, folks.
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