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April 3, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 3, 2007, Tuesday, Hour #2
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I just had a conversation with our official call screener today, Bo Snerdly in his office says uh people on the phones are fit to be tied, particularly at Nancy Pelosi, throwing the word traitor around uh all over the place.
And it leads me to try to explain in a little bit more depth uh an answer to question we got from a caller near the end of the last hour.
Guy's just is is he was beside himself, former Navy man.
And his perception is the American people buy everything the Democrats say, and he doesn't understand it.
After they said Reagan was the biggest problem facing the free world, Reagan dispatched the Soviet Union.
He said there if his point was that there are so many instances where you can look historically and find that liberal Democrats are wrong in what they claim, not just in foreign policy, but their whole social program safety net has been a disaster.
And why it is people don't see this.
And it's very frustrating thing to him.
And he wanted to know why I thought that was the case.
And I had a minute and a half to give an answer, and for a minute and a half it was a brilliant answer.
Better answer anybody else could utter in a minute and a half.
That's because I'm a highly trained broadcast specialist and understands the nature of brevity as the soul of wit.
But let me expand on this because it is a frustrating thing, and I feel it sometimes too, even in the midst of my optimism.
Remember, I have said that during all of this, the Democrats are sowing their seeds for a massive landslide defeat.
There is history for that too.
There is plenty of history that the American people don't buy what the Democrats sell.
The reason so many of you think that most Americans are is because of the drive-by media.
Now the drive-by media no longer has its monopoly, but it's still very powerful.
And it's a one-note samba.
It is pro-Democrat, it is pro-liberal, it is anti-Bush, it is anti-Republican, and it is relentless.
And I want to remind you of something else.
Uh everybody knows that the three nightly newscasts on the major three networks are not as large, singularly as they used to be in terms of audience.
Combined, they still reach about 30 million people a night.
Uh whereas Cronkite used to do that all by himself.
And there is a new media, and there's an alternative, and there's it's growing, it's burgeoning, and it's uh it's creating problems for the liberal Democrats, although those problems are not often recounted on their house organs or in their house organs, such as the New York Times and the Washington Post and the uh the drive-by television networks, the cable networks.
Uh so you're looking for validation that they are weakening, and you don't see it because what you watch on television, uh 90% uh portrays the Democrats as omnivorent, uh and powerful uh all over the place, uh, gaining strength.
The American people love and support them, and that uh that impression uh has to be considered somewhat valid.
What with the election results of last November?
But at the same time, I don't think it's as pervasive as it is as it used to be.
But let's talk about the people that watch the nightly newscast, for one thing.
Uh many of you in this audience are multitaskers, and you access a whole lot of different sources of media.
You'll listen to this program, and you go on the internet, uh, you watch some cable news.
You're all over the place, and you're finding a number you read various different things.
You would be surprised at the number of Americans whose only source of news is the nightly newscasts.
Now they're primarily elderly, uh upper middle age and beyond.
You can see that by looking at the commercials.
And I don't mean this to sound funny, even though it is, but when you you're watching a newscast and and the commercials are burial plots here and uh the preparation H over there and Heart Medic here and uh Lipitor over there, and basically 80% of the commercials are medicines to sustain your life for another five years, you know who the audience is.
And that's habitual.
They they have not transformed into the new media.
They are out there, and these are people too that have landline telephones.
These are people that have not moved into cell phones in the internet, and guess who it is that pollsters call?
Polsters have a tough time getting hold of people with cell phones, and they having a tougher and tougher time getting hold of people who use landline phones.
But this crowd that we're talking about does.
They still do.
Uh the this generational shift has not been completed yet.
Uh and the people that produce these nightly newscasts are well aware of this, and they're always making efforts here to try to lower their demographics and but they get a problem because their newscasts happen at the end of the day when a lot of people already know what they're gonna see when they turn on the nightly news.
But those who watch it, and there's 30 million of them every night, average if you combine all three.
It's their first taste of the day, and they believe it.
It's hook, line, and sink.
It's as the Bible to them.
And that's it.
So there's a large chunk of it.
Um and then you have sadly, ladies and gentlemen, you you you you have a lot of people who are just sponges.
And they access the drive-by media and they they just believe it.
It it carries with it uh the this this uh note of authority.
Uh you know, from your own experience.
Growing up, if you read it in a paper, it was true.
It's just like law enforcement never, ever falsely charges people.
Law enforcement never screws up.
They say somebody did it, you think they did it.
I mean, that's just that's human nature.
I'm not even talking politics here.
There's certain institutions in this country that have always enjoyed a tremendous amount of credibility and respect, and very few people have ever questioned it.
The drive-by media is one of those.
And that's the that that's really the root of the question.
How in the world can people continue to believe this stuff, not just the media?
But how can they believe the Democrats when time and time again everything the Democrats say turns out to be not true?
And how can it be?
Here's a Navy man calling, how can it be that uh people are not outraged over Pelosi?
How can it be that they're not outraged over the fact that the Democrats are trying to secure the defeat and unfund, defund the United States military?
Why are there not massive protests in the street of anger and outrage over this?
Well, there are answers to this, uh, and they're traditional.
Most of the people that would do those kind of protests don't ever protest.
The protesters are the malcontent leftists who make it their job.
They go out and they secure retombs and they try to create chaos and tumult, and this is what the media is doing.
And the Democrats, they don't want you happy.
They don't want you content.
Not with a Republican in the White House, and certainly not with a Republican they think is illegitimate, and certainly not when the Republicans run the House and Senator ran the House and said they didn't want, they don't want you happy.
And then we you've got to factor in a human nature.
Sad to say, it's much easier to be a pessimist than it is to be an optimist.
It's much easier to be doom and gloom.
It's much easier to think the worst is gonna happen than uh to believe the best will happen.
And most people's experiences in their lives are that uh, you know, excrement happens.
Uh and good things are rare, and they're unique, and that's that's that's why they're rare and unique, because they don't happen that much.
They factor all of these things uh together, you know, why is it that Nancy Pelosi is not the equivalent of Jane Fonda for crying out loud.
Trying to undermine her own country, trying to undermine for the for for her own self-interest and the interests of her party.
And I know it's frustrating to watch this stuff and and and uh think that uh most of your fellow citizens are just a bunch of blithering ittery idiot sponges soaking it all up.
I don't think it's as bad as you think, but it is a problem.
There are a lot of people who are not thinkers.
There are a lot of people who are not curious, there are a lot of people who want to be mired in misery or doom and gloom.
It's a natural mindset.
And uh it's fed to them each and every day.
But as I say, if you go back and look at a number of things historically, Democrats don't win every election, and everything that uh you think is going to happen doesn't, in regards to their prominence and uh and victory.
And I'm I'm telling you, I I I know some of you just think I'm whistling Dixie here, but far more people in this country than you might believe or you might be aware of are watching what's happening and are just as outraged as you are.
And when it comes time for them to express themselves, they'll do so, and the Democrats are cruising for a major humiliation again.
I don't know how soon.
It may not be 2008, it may be 2010 or 2012.
I'm talking about electorally, but it is going to happen.
Um they they're reconstructing the exact circumstances they created uh post-Vietnam going into Watergate, and they think that that led them into the promised land.
Of course, they lost in a 49-state landslide uh with George McGovern as their nominee.
Guess who Democrats are talking to about advising them for their future?
They're out there having conferences with George McGovern.
I mean, they've got a perverted sense of their own success and when it's defined and when it happens, or how it's defined and when it's happened.
Uh and and this is um something that's just going to take time to play out.
A tough thing for uh for those of you who uh are affected by this is you never ever see this, even when they do lose.
Even when they're shellacked, you don't see humiliation or embarrassment in the drive-by media.
The minute they lose, they ratchet it up and go, okay, what are the Democrats going to have to do to win?
There is never credit for Reagan, never credit for Bush, never credit for victorious Republicans.
Uh it they always uh slough it off to, well, again, they're the right-wing Christian hayseeds.
You know, they came through Democrats failed to some some other thing.
The the victory is is is never legitimate.
It's because of some mistake Democrats made, and they start about uh trying to correct the mistakes, and the media helps them out with this.
So it's a it's a one-note sum, but for the most part uh in the in the drive-by media.
But it's it's not as as one-sided and as bad in terms of the perception of the majority of the American people as believe as you might think.
I mean, you you know, listen to the number of you who call here asking this question.
You are not just lone voices appearing on this program.
There are countless others, thousands, hundreds of thousands, who are sitting out there and throwing things at the radio, going, yeah, yeah, say it again, say it louder.
They're just as irritated as you are.
They don't have an outlet.
And they uh they're not interviewed by the drive-by media and so forth.
Um, news is a product like any other product that's marketed and packaged and put on the grocery shelves or any other store shelf for sale.
I don't care how lofty they think their position is because it's constitutionally protected.
I don't care about any of that.
These people put together, they have an agenda.
There are people that they're working right now, putting together these newscasts this afternoon and tonight.
And uh don't tell me that they're not putting these things together with their own agendas and their own desires.
Uh and and what they think will look good, what they think will get ratings in some cases, but uh for the most part uh it it it's it's not about objectivity or reporting real news and anything of the sort.
It's uh you know, their their worldview is what it is, and things that don't fit in their worldview, they don't even see.
So it it's it's just uh it's buck up time.
I I you know I hate see being an I told you so.
I warned everybody back in October this was the kind of thing you're gonna have to put up with if the Republicans lose the election.
It's bad enough when they win the Democrats are relentless in the drive-bys.
But now they've won, and of course they're puffing their chests out and they're beating their chests like uh King Kong, Tarzan, uh mighty Joe Young, whatever you want.
And they're just they're feeling their oats right now, and it's that pompous arrogance and condescension that's also offensive in the way they uh in the way they go about things.
But you gotta have faith.
Uh folks, uh the Democrats have not totally triumphed and they never will totally triumph.
Uh there are too many of you uh who care too much who will uh who'll stop it.
But yet one other factor, and I've mentioned this before too, uh particularly when it comes to the war on terror war in Iraq.
Uh the drive-bys have done one hell of a job of convincing enough Americans that there's no threat.
In fact, not only is there no threat, uh, there wouldn't be a threat at all if we weren't attacking Muslims.
If Bush weren't in the White House.
9-11, why just a mere episode, and most people don't want to remember it.
Most people they don't want to remind.
They don't want to think that they're going to be on their whole lives constantly on a vigil, protecting themselves, waiting for the next attack.
That's not what being an American is.
You have to being an American isn't being is to be insulated from the stuff that happens in the Middle East.
Insulated from the stuff that happens in the third world, insulated from the stuff that happens in places like Afghanistan, what's going on in the Philippines now and in uh in in some of uh Indonesia.
That's not what being an American.
An American is about having a as carefree a life as possible with the normal trials and tribulations, but it does not include getting up every day and worrying to death over whether another couple jets are going to go into another couple buildings, another three thousand people.
And if anybody comes along and convince the American people they don't have to worry about that, then they'll gladly take debate.
And voila, it is happening.
And because of our affluence and and and prosperity, uh people are able to go live live their lives however they choose and paid scant or no attention to this whatsoever.
And then some of these people, after deciding that they don't want to pay any attention to this and that they don't want to live their lives when in under under constant fear, constant threat that this could happen again.
They don't want to be vigilant about this, vigilant about this.
All it takes to add to that is every day a pummeling of the president and the whole thing about the war on terror and how we're creating circumstances where now the Iranians are doing what they're doing because us, they were peace-loving people before we came along.
The Iraqis that would have been better off with Saddam Hussein.
So you you you couple all of that natural mindset of of what it is to be an American or what it has been to be an American with a desire for that to continue, and then you portray the threat to being an American as living in the embodiment of George W. Bush.
Well, you can see how some people would buy into that.
Uh because everybody wants to blame somebody other than themselves.
And you might say, well, why don't they blame why they blame the Democrats?
The Democrats Um because nowhere in the media are the Democrats being blamed.
other than here.
And we're not insignificant.
We're not small by any stretch, but it's, I'll tell you that, you know, Fox News is what it is, but it's a spec compared to the three networks, all the rest of the drive-bys and the magazines and the newspapers and so forth and so on.
So there are reasons for this.
There are explanations for it.
So Solutions.
Bill.
My case I just rely on the ultimate judgment and decency of the or a majority of the American people, uh, the vast amount of times to prevail.
And I still believe that.
Now I got to take a break here because I'm a little long, which means the next segment's gonna be a little short.
You have been warned.
Yes, yes, yeah, I'm gonna get to the Mitt Romney stuff here in just a second.
I can't start it now, because this segment is uh gonna be social.
I apologize for that, folks.
It's not good to have such short segments, but uh well, in the midst of brilliant monologues, there's no reason to cut them short and lose the train of thought.
I can do it, but I don't want you to lose your train of uh of uh of consciousness there.
Here's St. Louis and Rich.
A little stormy there today, Rich.
Hi, how are you?
Uh I I'm from the opposition, but I do want to point out to you, I listen to you a lot.
I love you're the absolutely the greatest spin master there is.
But I have a question for you, okay.
My question to you is uh on 9-12, 13-14, that week after 9-11, the president's popularity was at 90 percent.
Could you please explain away why it's about 30 or 28 or 29 percent now?
And I really mean this sincerely.
I just did.
And my in the previous monologue, a lot of it is that, but there's another factor.
Another factor, and that is the president does not confront his opposition.
The president, I think, I'm guessing, based on some experience, I think the president views the presidency as uh such a revered office that it's beneath the office of the presidency to get into partisan ideological confrontations with uh the opposition party.
And as such, he hadn't fought back on any of this stuff.
Uh he's not retaliated against any of the personal assaults that have been hailed uh his hurled his way.
He doesn't doesn't react to uh 90 percent of what uh Democrats have said the last six years.
Uh and another thing, just for me personally, he's conservative on some things, but he's not a conservative, and as such, he's he's not he's not leading a movement uh when when he articulates his uh his agenda philosophy.
If you listen to Reed, if you listen to Pelosi, every time they speak, it's based on their ideology.
They are articulating a movement, liberalism.
The president doesn't do that, so there's a conservative vacuum out there, which when there's a conservative vacuum, conservatives are not going to respond to somebody that's not or is not articulating it.
It's something I've said constantly.
There's a one of the real problems in Washington is the absence of elected conservative leadership.
This there's no reason for him to be in 30 percent in the polls right now, other than his um lack of intervening on behalf of himself.
Turn up that volume to at least eight hundred seventy-five decibels, ladies and gentlemen, so that you miss not one syllable of the brilliant articulation emerging from your radio via this.
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Back to the phones, one call, and we're gonna get on to the drive-by is in a snit fit here over Mitt Romney's fundraising.
Barry in Henderson, Kentucky.
Hello, sir.
Good morning, Mr. Limbaugh.
How are you, sir?
Fine and dandy, never better.
Um, unlike your previous caller, I'm not a part of the opposition.
I'm on the team of which you are the captain.
I'm fifty-two years old.
I live in a pretty small town in Kentucky, and I listen to you when I can.
There are times, Rush, that you are so on your game that it it kind of brings little bumps up on my arm.
And this was one of them.
That's one of the most brilliant monologues I ever heard you give.
And one of these days, um, this group that represent you, me, and others who think like-minded, are gonna step up and they're gonna wake up.
I don't know what it's gonna take, but I just am so honored to get a chance to tell you just how strong that monologue was and how it spoke directly to my feelings about the current political climate in America.
Well, I appreciate, sir, uh very much.
Uh what it's gonna take, and I I I don't say this regretfully, it's just it's human nature.
What it's going to take is leadership.
The American people are desperate for it.
I I will tell you that you look at this 30 percent approval number that the uh the caller from St. Louis asked me to explain uh after Bush had had 90 percent.
Uh the Iraq war is what?
The fourth or fifth year, whatever it is.
Cite for me from your memory, Barry.
Give me one day you remember where there was positive news out of Iraq or B a story of the heroism and valor of United States troops.
For ten years in a row, I listened to you.
You have awakened me.
I am a sane individual who sometimes watches the evening news.
I'm not a part of that, Gerrital said yet.
And it is not happened.
And it is not going to happen.
And you can almost tell within the first moment that you mentioned or talk to anyone about this subject that that is their only source of information.
And you're right.
It is not happened, it is not going to happen.
And couple that with not only have can you not recall, nor can anyone else recall a single story highlighting the success in the drive-by media in Iraq.
Now, I'm you might be able to remember uh stories that are reacting to all these negative stories.
Oh, yeah, there's great news out here, but it's it's not it's not, you don't see it in the drive-by's uh newscasts or on their print pages.
Couple with that, look at all of the stories on what a bunch of barbarians the United States is because of Abu Ghrab and Guantanamo Bay.
And take a look at all the stories of the Koran being flushed down the toilet, all the torture and all the mistreatment, and how and the and the military in this country uh being uh co-opted by the judiciary in this country, the commander-in-chief being co-opted by the judiciary, uh unable to practice the um uh or to execute the war according to constitutional authority.
You look at four to five solid years of this, seven days a week.
It's relentless, as you think.
It's relentless.
And when well, but there's a there's another component to it, as I said, when there's no retaliation other than well, uh the sometimes the president goes on telling us, yeah, I admit it's bad, but we're working, we gotta change it around.
So there just hasn't been any retaliation to this.
There has been no response to it.
It's been allowed to sit out there unchallenged.
Well, you can't blame people for not for for for for accepting it and for not challenging it on their own.
That's just that's not the way people work.
I mean, four years of a steady diet of any piece of information, a central theme with uh uh exclamation points and and various derivatives that you're gonna people are gonna believe it when there's no when there's no counter to it.
Pardon me, sir, I didn't mean to it's a form of brainwashing that's ongoing and relentless, as you said.
And Russia, I know you have lots to do, and I don't want to take a minute of your time, but I know all of us who have careers and jobs uh have challenges, and I know that that pressure's relentless on you at times.
Son, you just keep it up.
You are the voice.
And you are that a part of that leadership this country needs.
Well, I thank you, but I'm not.
I mean, I'm well, I I look, I'm not trying to reject what you say, but I'm not elected.
Uh uh and I I appreciate what you know when people think I face a lot of pressure in my life.
I folks, my life is charmed.
Um a lot of people say to me, how do you put up with these lies and distortions about what you say and what you do?
Uh I have three hours every day to address it.
I can respond to it.
The stuff that's worth responding to.
Most of it's not.
Most of it's from small fry.
If I came in and complained every day for what they're saying, it just elevates small fry into significant characters, and that's the last thing I'm gonna do.
You know, some nameless, faceless, irrelevant blogger writes about me, and I'm gonna talk about it's worth it's not it's not worth it.
You know, the old it's the old competitor's creed, you don't talk about the people that don't exist.
And in my world they don't exist.
This is the this is um to me that's just a sign of effectiveness.
I take all that stuff a sign of success.
It was tough.
I I I tell people this.
I didn't expect any of this.
Nobody prepared me for this.
And I I must convince you or repr uh uh be honest with you, when I started and wanted to be in radio that was never envisioned that this would be how it would manifest itself.
And I remember I I talked to my mother every day.
Uh when I moved to New York 1988, talked to her every day.
Call her and she'd ask me how the day was, and after a while I said, you know, mom, I guess it was pretty good day.
I mean, half half the country hates my guts again.
And she would laugh, no, they don't.
And I said, Well, maybe not half, but uh a decent number of them do.
And the toughest thing for me personally has had been to take that as a sign of success, as a measure of success, and stay sane.
Most people do not grow up wanting to be hated and despised.
Most people grow up just the opposite, want everybody to love them.
And they'll do whatever it takes to make them love them.
Uh and I uh this is just it's just what it is.
That was the hardest thing uh to but even with all of that that happens, it's just part of the territory now, and you know, my life is charmed.
I I've it just is.
All that other stuff is just little gnats running across the rug.
It hasn't harmed me.
It hasn't, it hasn't uh they haven't succeeded in damage me in any way, stations, uh business-wise, there's been no damage to any of this.
So why should I be concerned about it?
People are gonna hate me, you're gonna hate me, or people are gonna hate Bush, or gonna hate Bush, or gonna hate Gingrich or hate anybody, they're gonna hate them no matter what they do, what they say, no matter what's said about them.
The thing here, though, that uh you you talk about I mentioned leadership.
And this is key, folks, and this is why I have lamented the construct of the current GOP presidential field.
I still believe, and this is based on knowledge.
This is based on a review of history, this is based on experience.
If there were a profound conservative leader who was elected or running for office, you would see an entirely different political landscape.
All of you people out there who are echoing the sentiments here of Barry, uh, or who uh when I did the monologue about a half hour ago, if if you thought I was describing you to a T, I'll guarantee you that if there were somebody running around nationally in the political arena, you'd bond.
You would rally, and you wouldn't you wouldn't see this 30 percent approval.
You wouldn't see all this uh this doom and gloom.
The American people will respond to effective leadership.
And there's an absence of it right now on our side of the aisle.
I'm talking about elected conservative leadership or somebody who's conservative seeking to be elected.
Uh and we had a lot of Republicans running, and they're all good people, but not one of them is what I would call from top to bottom of a conservative.
And I'm not holding out for 100% purity, because you get that very rarely, if at all.
Uh but the thing that I have constantly told you that worries me is that whoever of these three or four nominees out there happens to prevail, don't tell me that they are the new definition of conservative.
Uh I don't I don't want to sit here and have conservatism redefined so that it fits the character, the mold, or the policies of a particular candidate who is not conservative.
Now, it doesn't mean it won't support whoever the nominee is.
I'm not saying this at all.
But conservatism is the key here, and somebody who's eloquent and articulates it and can and can do so with verve and vigor and confidence would own the country.
Look at the number of you out there.
You're that's really what you're crying for.
You're you want somebody that has more power than you do to stand up and say about what Pelosi or Reed or any of these other people that it is flat out B.S., it's almost treasonous.
We've brought Jane Fonda back, and we've made her speaker of the house, and you're fit up and fit to be tied with it.
And you look to your party and you don't see anybody who has even the slightest bit of emotion about this.
Uh and so that's the void.
The void is not the American people have changed in their buying hook, line and sinker what the drive-by media are saying.
It's just there's no outlet for them.
And so you're you've got to contain your frustration within yourself, your friends and your family.
You call here, other programs invent and uh and this sort of thing.
I mean, I you know, if if I were running, if I were one of these three Republicans running for the nomination, I would have been already over this Pelosi stuff so fast that the drive-bys wouldn't have time to be celebrating her.
I would have created such a media storm over this.
I would have said what I thought this is all about, how destructive this is.
I'd be out there saying the Democrats are engaged and wanting to quit, they want to lose this war, they want the United States to lose.
I'd be out there saying the Democrats are imperiling the future of this country as we have known it.
They're over making friends with terrorists, they're over there trying to essentially what Pelosi's doing is what John Kerry said he wanted to do, and what they've always done in the past.
She's over there talking to Basher Assad and these other people say, just sit tight, sit tight, wait till we're in charge, and you won't have a problem with us anymore.
That's what they're saying.
State sponsor of terrorism.
And if she had the guts, if she had the chance, she'd go to Iran and meet with Ahmadinejad and do the same thing.
And she may well do it before the 2008 election.
I wouldn't put it past her.
That's what Clinton and Gore have been doing by going over to the European theater all through Bush's administration.
Just sit tight, just sit tight.
We know our president is an idiot.
We know our president's a cowboy fred guy.
We know that he's going to blow up the world, but sit tight when we're back in power, everything's going to be okay, and you can like the United States.
They're out there selling the country out.
That's what I would be saying if I happen to be one of these Republican nominees, and if I was serious about wanting the admin uh the nomination.
But that's not uh that's not who they are.
Um obviously they're not they're not saying this uh at all.
And there are plenty of domestic things you could talk about with the same with the uh with the same type of approach, the same type of attitude.
Look, I take a break here, or I'm gonna goof up and have a two short segment following.
So sit tight back at it.
Shots fired at the CNN Center in Atlanta.
A couple victims have been transported by EMS people to hospital.
A suspect is in custody after the uh shooting at the CNN Center in Atlanta.
Just joking with Mr. Snerdley, I wonder if one of the executives targeted there because they heard they were talking to me about a potential job over there.
But that can't be because it isn't true.
But you never know what kind of rumors go around the uh the building.
Uh it's uh you know that that whole thing's a big complex.
There's a lot of stuff going on in there besides CNN, so it may have nothing to do with CNN's preliminary reports, say a couple people came down the escalator having an argument uh about something.
Wade in Middletown New York, welcome, sir, to the Rush Limbaugh program.
24-7 dittoes, Rush.
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Uh my question.
Last election season, you uh you put forth the theory that uh the Democrat Party is preparing themselves and the nation uh for circumstances in which they'd uh they'd never lose another another election.
Uh that's something I believe, and if you read uh if you've read The Shadow Party by David Horowitz and listened to you, uh I I I easily believe that.
But more recently, as a matter of fact, today you have uh indicated that they're preparing themselves for a rather large embarrassment embarrassment and are election defeat.
Right, but they don't know that.
Well, I'm not saying they're doing that.
No, it's not it well, it appears contradictory, and I am thus glad that you called and let me explain this.
Prior to the election, I was telling people, folks, this election counts.
It matters, don't sit it out or don't vote against Republicans simply because you want to teach them a lesson, because when the Democrats win, the first thing they're gonna do is see to it that what happened in 1994 never happens again.
They're gonna get the House back and they're gonna do whatever they can to see to it.
It never ever is controlled by the Republicans.
That's what they're gonna do.
Consolidate their power.
Then when they get the White House in 08, they're gonna do everything they can to see to it that they never lose that.
Although that's a little bit more problematic.
But they know that they controlled the House for 40 years, and they have been wandering aimlessly in the desert since 1995, and they're not gonna go through it again.
That's what their objective was.
Now, they won.
And that's what they're setting about doing.
They think I d I haven't changed my opinion.
They think that they are, by short first uh shoring up their base, which is the far left wing anti-war crowd in this country.
That's what they're doing with all this.
Uh they think that they are setting the stage and doing step one or two now in order to secure lifetime perpetual control of Congress by their party.
What they're doing is going so far overboard, off the cliff, over the edge with their arrogance and condescension, that they are they they they constantly misread the election results.
People who lie to themselves about what they are will lie to themselves about anything.
And they have lied to themselves about what why they won the election.
They think they won the election.
The Republicans made the same mistake in 1994, by the way.
The Republicans assumed the country had gone conservative.
The Democrats are assuming the country's gone back to majority liberal, and that their election is a triumph of of their return to liberal dominance.
And so their the the mask is off somewhat.
The camouflage is not as thick, and so they feel more comfortable and free than ever before to go out and be who they really are.
So there's Pelosi over talking to Basher Assad.
And here they are trying to secure defeat, and they think this is what they were elected to do.
They have told themselves this so much and so often they be they believe their own lies.
Or they believe their own mistakes or errors.
And in the process, they're gonna they're gonna go overboard and shoot too far.
Uh I don't change either side of what I said.
They that they are in the process of trying to consolidate a perpetual control of Washington, D.C., electoral control over the House of Representatives, but they're going to blow it.
Because they are not.
The current wing of the Democrat Party that's that that is reflected in the leadership in both the House and the Senate is not a reflection of the United States of America and a majority people of the population.
It just isn't.
There is no way it can be.
The country's ideological identity does not shift on a dime like this, just as it didn't in 1994 when the Republicans won the House.
Didn't mean the country had gone conservative.
And the Republicans, uh big mistake, then they stopped teaching.
They stopped saying the things that got them elected.
They assumed everybody already understood it, and so bam bam, uh, pedal to metal, here we go.
Uh they're gonna overstep.
They always do, because they are not people who have a majority of things in common with a majority of Americans.
I promise you people, I am gonna get to this Mitt Romney stuff before today's show is his dwell.
Lots of stuff still ahead, a lot of news haven't gotten to.
We'll cram it all in if we can next hour.
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