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Nov. 10, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 10, 2006, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
You know, nothing is the way it was.
Everything's changing out there.
I I used to say, ladies and gentlemen, that the left was far more fun when they were out of power.
When they're in power, they're dangerous.
I may have to revise them, they're still dangerous in power, but my gosh.
This is getting hilarious already.
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Let's go.
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As you know, the uh Al Qaeda in Iraq leader has uh released a new tape, a new audio tape today, and a claims in this tape to be winning the war faster than expected in Iraq, saying that it had mobilized 12,000 fighters.
The Al Qaeda in Iraq leader, meanwhile, vowed that his fighters will never rest until they've blown up the White House.
Now this.
I'm sorry to laugh at that.
I know this is that they mean it.
But what's funny is I think back to before the election, and I said if you're the Al Qaeda in Iraq leader and you're winning this war hands down and you're recruiting all these terrorists, why in the world wouldn't you want to keep the current American leadership in power since it's enabling your victory?
And instead, uh the tape praises Democrats, it praises the American people.
Uh and it's I mean, there's I don't know if you heard today's morning update, but I'm gonna go through it again for you because it's it's folks.
You just have to laugh at this stuff given, I mean, if it if it if it were not for the election results and the Democrats and who we know they are, uh it wouldn't be funny.
And it isn't really funny.
I'm just sorry, I cannot help laughing at this.
Let me just give you uh a couple lines from this news story.
Again, the headline, New Al Qaeda tape says 12,000 activated.
Abu Ayyub Almasri, also known as Abu Hamza Al-Mouger, uh urged the United States to stay in Iraq so that his group would have more opportunities to kill American troops.
They don't want us leaving.
Then why did you support the Democrats?
Al Mujer became the leader of Al-Qaeda in Iraq after Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi was killed in a U.S. air strike in June.
Now the tape has not been independently verified, but we'll assume that it will be by uh the end of the day.
The Al-Qaeda in Iraq leader praised the outcome of Tuesday's elections.
I mean, I'm sorry.
They're getting George McGovern involved in the in the timeline to pull out, folks.
George McGovern is going to advise the Democrats.
This Al-Qaeda in Iraq guy just finishes praising Bush for recruiting 12,000 new terrorists, says, don't leave.
We want to kill more of you, and then praises the election where the Democrats win.
All right.
I must regain my composure here.
Uh the Al Qaeda in Iraq Iraq leader praised the outcome of Tuesday's elections in which Democrats swept to power in the House and Senate, in large part due to uh U.S. voter dissatisfaction over the handling of the war in Iraq.
The American people, said the Al Qaeda in Iraq leader, uh, He's talking about you.
The American people have put their feet on the right path by realizing.
By realizing.
I'm sorry.
I thought I could get through this.
Um, hang on just a second.
Blow the nose.
Sorry, there's no way of doing this silently.
Uh it is what it is.
All right, take three.
Yeah, let me let me let me try this a different way.
Let me let me translate it.
Um The Al Qaeda in Iraq leader said, my fellow Democrats.
The American people have put their feet on the right path by realizing their president's betrayal in supporting Israel, so they voted for something reasonable in the last elections.
Describing President Bush as the most stupid president in U.S. history, uh, as his Democrat Party allies have also done, Al-Masri reached out to the Muslim world, said that his group was winning the war in Iraq faster than expected due to U.S. policies.
We want to should want those policies to have continued then, correct?
He urged Bush not to withdraw U.S. forces so that Al Qaeda could have more opportunities to fight U.S. soldiers.
We haven't had enough of your blood yet, he told the United States.
Al Qaeda in Iraq leader also referred to Rumsfeld's resignation and called on the lame duck Bush not to hurry up and escaping the same way the defense minister did.
They are getting ready to leave because they're no longer capable of staying, the Al-Qaeda leader said, referring to U.S. forces.
Remain steadfast in the battlefield, you coward, he said to George Double.
Yet he praises the electorate for electing the cut-and-run Democrats.
And they won't rest.
Again, Al Qaeda will not rest until they have blown up the White House.
Now this happens to come on a uh on a day in which uh Patrick Leahy, who's going to become the uh chairman of the Judiciary Committee, is saying openly, and I have the story in the stack here that we're gonna get rid of this foreign survival.
Well, we're not gonna get rid of the foreign surveillance program.
We're gonna get rid of the surveillance without warrants.
We're not gonna get we're not gonna have the American people spied on anymore.
So we're gonna have the program, but we're gonna get every everything that the government wants to listen to has got to be done with warrants, and we want in a he says the Senate and the Congress are gonna run the program.
So uh I I hope that they luck out and uh intercept the plans and the date and the time that Al-Qaeda chooses to blow up the White House.
Now we we uh we seem yesterday to have have uh a slight verbal backtrack from uh speaker in waiting Nancy Pelosi.
The AP reports recognizing Congress's limitation.
Pelosi said that when it comes to Iraq, it's it's not about the Democrats in Congress forcing the president's hand.
Really?
Yeah, she said that.
I mean, but that's news, ladies and gentlemen.
I mean, the entire thrust of the anti-war campaign has been to elect Democrats who would force Bush to get us out of the Iraq quagmire now.
And now's Pelosi says, Well, and meanwhile, John Merth is saying he has no power, he's not the pre.
He's a president, but he has no power.
Mertha's saying we are gonna get out, and they're having meetings with George McGovern to discuss ways of getting out.
The messages are already off message.
The message coordination unit is not succeeding.
Now, the expectation, by the way, was been raised with the Democrats that we're gonna get out of there.
And people that went to the polls on Friday with that as their issue, uh firmly believe Democrats are going to get us out of there.
And that's not, by the way, the expectation only in America.
That expectation uh exists around the world because Democrats promised the world that we would get out of Iraq, and the world believed.
For instance, here is uh uh a statement, a joint statement, in an extraordinary joint statement, more than two hundred socialist members of the European Parliament hailed the American election results as the beginning of the end of a six-year nightmare for the world, and gloated that they left the Bush administration seriously weakened.
Hugo Chavez uh said this is great.
A repudiation of Bush's Iraq policy said he was filled with optimism over the Democrats win in France, Dominique somebody else, the uh the Institute on International Relations said there is less White House in America now and a little less America in the world.
But the money quote yesterday, well, I don't know if the m- the money quote has to be everything that the new Al-Qaeda in Iraq leader said today.
Well, the money quote yesterday came from Iraq, a political ally of Muki Al-Sadr, said this.
The vote shows the Iraqi and American people are of one mind about withdrawing U.S. troops.
We hope the Democrats don't forget their campaign promise.
This is our enemy in Iraq.
Surreal.
This whole thing.
We hope.
My fellow Democrats, we hope you do not forget your campaign promises.
They again guy went on to say, if they don't, uh, we'll deal with them in a brotherly way once the last American soldier pulls out from Iraq.
A brotherly way in Al-Qaeda terms or Mookie terms.
The Democrats let these people down.
So Nancy and Harry, I mean, you raise these expectations.
Uh not just here, but around the world.
And now you've got the Al-Qaeda in Iraq leader saying, Glad you're elected, but don't leave because he's not through killing our guys, wants more blood, calling Bush a coward.
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Associated Press.
Late yesterday afternoon, Iraqi president says Democrats told him they will not pull out quickly.
President Jalal Talabani said Thursday that he had been assured by Democrat congressional leaders during a recent visit to Washington that they had no plans for a quick withdrawal of U.S. forces.
Talbani is a Kurd whose post is ceremonial, said the Democrats also backed the idea of placing U.S. troops in bases while putting Iraqis in charge of security in and around the cities.
They all told me that they want the success of Iraq's democratically elected government and continued support for the Iraqi people to uh defeat terrorism, Talibany said about his trip to the U.S. in late September.
One of them, a Democrat leader, told me that any early withdrawal will be a catastrophe for the United States and the world.
Talibanny was speaking from his northern hometown in Iraq, uh told the Dubai-based Al Jazeera satellite broadcaster all this stuff.
Asked whether the resignation of Rumsfeld meant a collapse of the Bush administration's policy.
Taliban said, I know George Bush as a clear and strong man who does not bow down to blackmail.
All right, what are we to make of this?
That's understandable that Democrats would talk to Talibany when he comes to Washington.
It'd be a different thing if Democrats had flown over there for a John Kerry behind the scenes meeting.
Uh but uh I mean, I'm they I can understand why they would be talking to the guy uh and why he would meet with them.
But man, I mean, he's out there saying that they told him we're not pulling out of there.
We'd have no intention to be a catastrophe if we got out of there.
Now, how is this going to play with it?
Look at the the you're not going to hear about this anywhere in the drive-by media, so uh it's not gonna get wide play.
But you throw this in the mix of all the stuff today, and it's just surreal.
The whole thing is just surreal.
Then you add this, George McGovern, the former senator, and 1972 Democratic presidential candidate.
It strikes me, but 1972, that's uh 34 years ago.
Knowing how uh inept the public education system is in this country, it is entirely possible we have members of this audience who don't really know who George McGovern is.
They may know the name and they But they may not know why George McGovern who's uh nearing the twilight would be gathering with Democrats.
This is one of the this guy lost one of the most lopsided elections in the history of this country.
To of all people, Richard Nixon.
He promised to give every American a thousand dollars in his campaign.
He was an anti-war dove.
He was, I mean, I'm not he was a military guy.
He flew fighter fighter planes uh in uh in World War II.
But he became the he became the Democratic Party's elected nominated symbol of the anti-war movement in the 60s.
Uh what's that?
Uh John Mertha of his day, if if that if it out if that helps you.
I mean, McGovern, you know, we talked yesterday about the sons of the 60s.
McGovern is one of the fathers of the 60s.
Now, just to help you put this in perspective, and I've always told you people, one of the things I've noticed is that failure, humiliation, and embarrassment seem to vault Democrats to the top of the pole of stature.
Jimmy Carter, George McGovern, all of their big losers, humiliating losers.
The only exception to be Dukakis.
He ended up in Hawaii teaching school somewhere.
I don't think he sought to become big in the Democratic Party after his loss, but that's the only exception I can think of.
These guys are just elevated to stature that that they have not earned at all.
So if you if that helps you understand, McGovern was the was the original cut and run uh Democrat just get whatever he was uh uh as as enamored of U.S. defeat then as Democrats are today, which makes sense.
But here's the story this out of Lincoln, Nebraska.
George McGovern, former senator, 72 Democrat presidential candidate, said that he will meet with more than 60 members of Congress next week to recommend a strategy to remove U.S. troops from Iraq by June.
If Democrats don't take steps to end the war in Iraq soon, they won't be in power very long.
McGovern told reporters Thursday before a speech at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln.
I think the Democrat leadership's wise enough to know that if they're going to follow the message that election sent, uh then they're gonna have to take steps to bring the war to a conclusion.
Well, you just heard the Iraqi president, Jalal Taliban, said he met with these Democrats back in September and October, and they have no intention of leaving.
And you've heard the Iraqi in Al Qaeda in Iraq guy say, we're not we're not gonna rest till we blow up the White House.
We don't want your troops to leave.
We want to blow your troops to smithereens.
We want more of your blood.
Bush, you coward, don't run out on us now.
Then they praise the election of Democrats.
McGovern will present his recommendations before the Congressional Progressive Caucus, which means the socialists and others.
Uh it's a 62-member group led by representatives Lynn Woolsey and our old buddy Barbara Lee from the Bay Area.
The best way to reduce this insurgency, Mover McGovern said, is to get the American forces out of there.
That's what's driving this insurgency is us.
We've created more well uh the terrorists love chaos and insurgencies.
And they're telling us today he don't want us to leave.
McGovern told the audience Thursday that the Iraq and Vietnam wars were equally foolish enterprises, and current threat of terrorism developed because not before uh the United States went to Iraq.
The current threat of terrorism developed because we went into Iraq not before.
That's what he 9-11 didn't happen, as far as George McGovern is concerned, nor did the 93 World Trade Center.
No terrorist attack before 9-11 on U.S. uh.
territory abroad happened.
We caused it all.
McGovern's plan is outlined in his book, Out of Iraq, a practical plan for withdrawal now, calls for the U.S. to remove hired mercenaries from the region, push for the removal of British troops, and establish a temporary transitional force similar to police, made up of uh Muslims from that region.
I've talked with a lot of senior officers, generals, admirals in preparation for this book.
They say this war can't be won.
That the problems now are not military problems.
There isn't going to be any decisive victory in Iraq.
It's vital that Republicans and Democrats find common ground with one another, and President George W. Bush, McGovern said.
So he's on the same page.
I mean, Pelosi doesn't even call it a war.
Pelosi says it's a situation it has to be solved.
McGovern's calling it a war.
The uh Iraqi president uh is saying Democrats have told him we didn't they're not gonna pull out of there, it'd be a catastrophe.
And the Al Qaeda in Iraq leader is saying, we love it.
We don't want you guys this.
Bush is a coward, don't run off on us now.
Bush, we want to kill more of your troops.
We don't have nearly enough of your blood.
By the way, we praise the Democrats for winning the election and the American people.
And then the uh Muki Al Sadr guy is uh telling Democrats if you don't follow through on your promise to get out of here, we will deal with you brotherly in a brotherly way.
This folks, I'm I did a good job of keeping a straight face the last 20 minutes of this.
But this is just a hoot.
All right, it uh gets even better.
John Murtha was on um where was he on?
NPR.
It's on NPR.
I've never listened to NPR, other than we have sound bites from them here.
What's that stand for?
National Public Radio?
I've never listened to it.
Anyway.
Regarding Iraq, Murtha said, winning is not a strategy.
Victory is not a strategy.
On what the Democrats will do, Mirtha said, We're gonna say, here's a plan that we have, and Speaker Pelosi has signed on to the plan that I have.
Stability in the Middle East, stability in Iraq comes from redeployment of our troops, and that's gonna be what we'll work for.
Oh, redeploy them.
He's the guy, by the way, that suggested redeployment to Okinawa, among other places in Kuwait.
And on the presidency, Murtha said, Listen, this isn't a dictatorship.
The president can say all he wants to.
The president has no power.
The president is a perception of power, and he's lost that power in this election.
That's that's your modern day George McGovern.
This guy is the George McGovern of the 2006 Democrat Party.
Look, this is a dictatorship.
President can say all he wants to.
The president has no power.
He's a perception of power, and he's lost that power in this election.
And by the way, winning is not a strategy.
Victory isn't a strategy here.
Can't have that as a strategy.
Audio sound bites.
Joe Scarborough last night on Scarborough Country.
Listen to this.
He moved around for a couple of seconds.
And as you and I have both said, we all screw up, we all make mistakes.
This guy talks three hours a day.
We made a mistake, and I'll say it right here we made a mistake when I was out in Las Vegas doing a show.
We actually ran that on a loop for probably five, ten seconds, making it look like he was doing it for a lot longer than he did.
And we weren't alone, of course, when we came back and found out we didn't do it again.
Who do you think he's what do you think he's talking about?
That's right.
He's talking about the Michael J. Fox uh uh video from the Ditto Cam here that was being played all over the place, and it was looped in a lot of places, and it was sped up, speeded up in a lot of places.
Joe Scarborough um saying that uh, yep, they did it too.
And when they found out about it, though, they stopped playing the loop.
And they made it look like it went on, and they made it look like it was something that it wasn't.
Uh I appreciate this.
Um interesting how these things happen after the election, isn't it?
It's like I've got a story in the stack here about how great things are going in Afghanistan.
So we're gonna start hearing good news on the foreign affairs front here pretty soon, too.
Once the Democrats have established in the minds of the public and the drive-by media that the president, like Murtha said, is just a figurehead here.
He's lost all of his power.
Once it's established that Democrats are running things, while the economy's never gonna be better, have been better, and uh and uh foreign policy, it's brilliant the way it's working out now.
Uh all this cooperation from all these uh former allies that now love us that oh, folks, it's gonna be Kumbaya time.
Just prepping you.
And uh I I told you yesterday, ladies and gentlemen, the thing that you have to keep in mind here about the Democrats, and this is this is serious.
When they sit down to plot their agenda, their future, whatever, it's got one objective, many objectives.
The number one objective is to never ever lose this power again.
They are not gonna go through it under 1994.
They're gonna do whatever it takes to hold.
They're never gonna if they can help they're not it's the biggest objective they have is to not lose the House the next uh two years, not lose the Senate, never ever to lose them again because they own those institutions, you know.
They own them by birthright.
And so in order to do that, they have to um they have to s continue to make credibility hits on the people that they think stand in their way of that objective.
With that in mind, we go to the audio sound bites.
Anderson Cooper had this exchange with Senator elect John Tester from uh Montana, Democrat for Montana, of all the people that he can ask Tester about, who do you think he quotes asking Tester for a reaction?
Rush Limbaugh said that Republicans lost this election, but not conservatism.
And this is what he had to say about the Democrats in this election.
Quote, they advanced no agenda other than their usual anti-war position.
They have no contract, they really did not get specific.
Their message was one of vote for us, the other guys have been in power too long.
Is that fair?
I really don't care much for labels.
I don't think they they provide uh I don't think they provide good leadership, quite frankly.
So to call somebody a liberal or a conservative or or whatever, uh really doesn't get us where we need to go.
Sure where we need to go is to find the common ground, work together.
As I went around this state, you know, everybody had basically the same problems.
They weren't all Democrats, they weren't all Republicans, but they all had the same problems.
That's why we need to work together and really change the direction of this country.
And I think that's what this election said to me.
Uh uh yeah, what is the direction?
I mean, that you guys did not run on an agenda.
You ran on labels, you ran on hate, you ran on negativism, you ran on we aren't them.
You didn't put forth an agenda.
This is uh folks, I'm you don't you do not know uh how uh uh how difficult it is for me just to not break down into hysterical laughter, uncontrollable hysterical laughter listening to this.
Number one, I don't even know this guy.
I didn't say much about this guy in the campaign, and all around his he goes on television, the first person they ask him about is me.
Now, there is a reason for this, ladies and gentlemen.
You can figure it out on your own.
I don't like talking about myself on this show, so I don't want to waste time on that.
I really don't care much for labels.
I don't think they provide, I don't think they provide uh good leadership quite for what.
Um so to call somebody a liberal or a conservative or whatever, it really doesn't get us to where we need to go.
Yeah, it doesn't help liberals get where they want to go if they're identified that way.
He's uh correct about that.
What we need to do is find the common ground.
We need we need to work together.
Um he didn't even answer the question.
He really didn't answer the question that was uh that was put to him.
So this is uh I don't know what this new, inexperienced or what have you, but this this sounds like uh to me a pure empty suit of we we need to work together, we really need to change the direction of this country, and I think let me tell you what best way to sum up this election, and everybody's got their theories, and I've shared with you mine.
But I think these Democrats are gonna really fool themselves if they convince themselves that liberalism won.
You know, it's a mistake that we've made back in 1992 or 94.
I mean, conservatism won, but we made the mistake of assuming that the country at large, or a majority of it, had intellectually crossed over and understood it.
And that wasn't the case.
So we immediately started implementing things that shocked a lot of people because they were not ideologically prepared, and it was easy for the press to mischaracterize via labels, by the way, Senator electers, uh, people like Newt Gingrich and the whole Republican leadership.
The Grinch that stole Christ the the Gingrich that stole Christmas or whatever, these kinds of things, covers of Time Magazine were labels, of course.
I remember having dinner.
I wonder if I should tell this story.
I better not.
I can't tell that.
Very prominent Democrat at a very prominent charity dinner.
This very prominent Democrat was seated next to me by the host.
This very prominent Democrat, a female, arrived after everybody had been seated.
She's circling the table, looking for her place setting.
She sees that she's sitting next to me and balks and looks to the host and says, You can't be serious.
The host says, sit down, you'll open your eyes.
I think you'll have a good night tonight.
Well, we had pleasant discussions about Worth Avenue here in Palm Beach.
This person had had intimate experience here where we live.
We have some common ground discussions.
And I, of course, was my usual charismatic and charming self surprising all who meet me that I'm actually a nice guy and actually quite lovable and harmless and even fun and funny to be with.
So the conversation evolved and went further, and uh this prominent Democrat got uh very comfortable and started discussing issues.
And uh you know one of the biggest problems we have in this country is we label everybody.
We've got to stop labeling it.
Just what Tester said here.
Now I'm going back five or six years ago when this happened.
We've got to stop labeling people.
It's just it's just bad.
And I said, W what do you mean?
Well, you know, the the government can be good to to because the government can advance our common humanity.
But we can't advance our common humanity unless we get rid of all these labels.
And I'm I'm looking at it and I'm lost.
I said, What what do you mean common humanity?
Well, the labels stand in the way of us all coming together with our common humanity.
We've got to stop these labels.
And somebody else at the table said, Oh, you mean like conservatives are racist, sexist, bigot, homophobes?
And we go back to the uh uh sound bites.
I want to play this soundbite once again with uh John Tester.
Again, Anderson Cooper on Anderson Cooper 180 last night having this question and answer session with John Tester.
Rush Limbaugh said that Republicans lost this election, but not conservatism.
And this is what he had to say about about the Democrats in this election.
Quote, they advanced no agenda other than their usual anti-war position.
They have no contract, they really do not get specific.
Their message was one of vote for us, the other guys have been in power too long.
Is that fair?
I really don't care much for labels.
I don't think they they provide uh I don't think they provide good leadership, quite frankly.
So to call somebody a liberal or a conservative or or whatever, uh it really doesn't get us where we need to go.
Where we need to go is to find the conversation.
Wait, wait, see, stop a second.
I didn't use the only labels I used in there, or that Anderson Cruder Cooper uh quoted me as using were Republicans and Democrats.
I didn't say conservative or liberal.
Uh said that had this to say about the Democrats in the election.
Quote, they advanced no agenda other than their usual anti-war position, they have no contract, they really didn't get specific.
Their message was one of vote for us, the other guys have been in power too long.
Is that fair?
I never talked, he didn't quote me as using conservative or liberal, and yet here comes Tester, I don't like liberals.
What did T here listen to the rest of the answer and I'll make a point.
As I went around this state, you know, everybody had basically the same problems.
They weren't all Democrats, they weren't all Republicans, but they all had the same problems.
That's why we need to work together and really change the direction of this country.
And I think that's what this election said to me.
All right.
What his answer proves is my point, they don't stand for anything.
They beat something with nothing.
Now, I mean, they won't go on the record.
They of course stand for well, no, they don't stand for anything.
They try to hide behind and mask what they stand for.
All right, to the phones.
Uh Greg in Schaumburg, Illinois, I'm glad you called, and welcome to the program, sir.
Rush, sixteen years of mega ditto listening to you.
Thank you, sir.
Um, I'm going to ask you two questions, and in my studies at the Limbaugh Institute here.
Yeah.
You've emphasized two things.
First, the need to win an election in order to be a player in the process.
And then secondly, don't compromise Reagan-based conservative principles.
Right.
We must sometimes rise above our principles.
My questions are going to be as follows.
Can you discuss what Reagan conservative principles are absolute and non-negotiable?
And then my second question is other than trying to get everybody else to listen to your show, what should Republicans do from a tactical perspective, primarily as it relates to communication, to make sure these principles win?
And can I succinctly tell you why I ask you these questions?
Yeah, I'd be uh you know, you you uh I appreciate being asked.
I'd also like to hear what you think.
Okay.
Well, here's where I mean it is what open line Friday is about.
Where I'm coming from is that Republicans barely won in 2000 and 2004.
Um they there's established individuals who didn't deviate from conservative principles like Santorum and Lynn Swan and many others across the country.
Um I personally feel it's the effect of the news media.
You know, negative ads, particularly here in Illinois, were shown to have worked and worked really well.
Yep.
And now they're the Democrats have got quasi Reaganites within their midst that as you have just discussed, the um news media can pick up and pow up with.
So my question's again essentially, what's absolute in terms of our principles and how do we win?
Well, uh absolute in terms of criminals uh principles.
I'm gonna have to think about that.
That's something off the top of my head.
That that that is a thesis, or at least a uh 1500 word op-ed in uh in thought process.
Because those, you know, principles are not relative, but but um you have to you have to uh look at w where to apply to.
For example, one of the big uh uh bits of research uh from exit polling data so far, and then it'll be it'll be uh more nailed down than this as actual returns are looked at.
But one of the things that uh people are trying to say happened was that uh the moderates were the largest voting block in this election, and they left the Republican Party in greater.
Well, we had we had uh we had kept them with conservatism.
I think it all boils down to there was no elected conservative leadership at the top in Washington.
Yeah, Santorum was uh standing stall, uh standing tall and and standing firm.
But uh again, Santorum uh again by by virtue of political tradition, uh did not endorse a conservative candidate over uh Arlan Specter when Spector was up, uh, endorsed Spectre.
That didn't help.
Uh there are there are a number of variables here when you when you uh when you start talking about individual, you can't conservative principles are not going to win everywhere.
Pennsylvania's demographics, you have to take into account Santorum's talking about the future, he's talking about the war.
He is talking about freedom and the and the future of the country.
Meanwhile, you got a large aging population in Pennsylvania doesn't care about anything about the next five years, because they may not be alive more than that, and all they want to know is are they going to be taken care of in the next five years?
They they're not worried about their kids, their grandkids, because they think their financial concerns are too pressing for them, and they have been grown up and with it's a it's a it's a very, very blue state, and they've been conditioned to exist by virtue of government largesse.
So we haven't we haven't made Pennsylvania a red state.
So I mean that's you to to apply blanket conservative principles, you can do it, and you can do it as a means of educating a certain segment of the population.
But you're right, we're always going to be opposed by the drive-by media, and more so now that if these people are feeling their oats, they think they won this election every bit as much as any Democrat did.
And they're gonna join with the Democrats to continue to do what they do.
They never are again are gonna lose their power and influence.
We've got we have our work cut out for us.
And I'm just gonna tell you, we are not gonna gain any ground.
If we think the solution here is becoming more like them.
Because the truth is that's what lost it for us.
Liberalism didn't win anything here.
Conservatism did.
Unfortunately, it was the conservatism that was uh uh nominated as candidates on the Democrat side.
What really happened to this, I think one of the reasons Reagan Democrats and some of these moderate so-called independents, one of the reasons they left, because the Republican Party in Washington took this country too far left.
It embodied elitism and out of touch ism.
And that's the real nature of our problem.
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Establishing what I was talking about with the guy from Schomburg, Illinois, Greg, latest survey from John McLaughlin and Associates, the pollster, six in ten Americans favor smaller government, and the Republicans are perceived as growing it.
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