Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Well, our armies here on the move out there, ladies and gentlemen.
Operation Chaos Armies preparing to deploy in less than 24 hours in the Pennsylvania primary.
And it's fascinating out there to listen to the drive-by media attribute all the Republican registration.
Now they're saying that most of it is due to Republicans loving Obama.
Even Robert Novak is saying this.
I'm not going to talk about this as the program unfolds today before your very eyes and ears.
I've been watching the John Adams miniseries on HBO.
And that, folks, that's a tearjerker, too.
It's stunning in all kinds of ways.
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The John Adams series on HBO is amazing because of its accuracy and because of its devotion to the truth of the founding of this country.
It's a tearjerker if you watch this.
You have to get the all the episodes are great, but it really doesn't kick in and start hitting you in the heart in terms of patriotic reactions until a second episode and maybe for some people a third.
And it's, you know, I'm struck as I watch this, A, that it appears on HBO, that it somehow passed, I mean, HBO is not known for this kind of stuff.
I mean, they're known for tawdry and over-the-line cultural depravity, and that's, I mean, it's at their, other than the movies they play, that's their, their original programming is known for depravity.
I mean, it's what it is.
The fact that this thing somehow got cleared to me is reason for optimism.
Same thing with the Pope's visit, which concluded last night in New York.
But all of this, when I watched this, what strikes, I got a note from a friend over the weekend who had been one of my 15 visitors last weekend and was very distressed just reading the newspaper every day and was one of these people asked me how I maintain my confidence and so forth.
And it got me to thinking about how many people, how many kids, how many young people who would watch the John Adams series on HBO would care.
And I think, you know, I've been thinking a lot, folks, about how to go after Obama.
Now, Drudge has got some internal Hillary polling day that shows she's up by 11.
This is Clinton internal polling, and they're all excited in a Clinton campaign.
They think this is going to be a big, big win for momentum.
They carry her.
She's moving on, I guess, to North Carolina, Indiana tomorrow night's where she's going to be.
They seem pretty confident.
Obama's not predicting a win in Pennsylvania, so maybe their internal polling is correct.
But I've been listening to, and pardon me for being scattershot here, I am going to tie all this together.
Just stick with me.
But I have been listening to all of the attempts that people are making to bring Obama down.
And by the way, these attempts are not so much to destroy him or harm him in the Democrat primary because it'sn't going to happen.
So we're looking at the general election in terms of Obama.
And I have run into this weekend.
I ran into some Republicans who are for Obama.
And they know full-fledged he's a liberal.
They don't care.
They like his personality.
And so when you tell them about William Ayers, they don't care.
When you tell them about Jeremiah Wright, and they know they don't care.
Because to them, that's the past.
And Obama's not about the past.
Obama's about the future.
Obama's not even about now.
Obama's about the future.
And so when you, how does this tie to the John Adams series?
Well, you take some average Americans who went to the public school system and graduated, say, the last 20 years and make them watch that.
How many of them would care?
Well, that's the past.
It's the past.
And my point is this: people who support Obama don't care about anything in the past, including American history and the founding, or they're not that much interested in it.
They don't think it's relevant.
And all of this, as I have been feverishly pondering over the weekend, dovetails or ties into how Obama is to be attacked as a campaign opponent once the general election begins.
It ain't going to happen.
I mean, the guy is every bit as big a liar as Bill Clinton.
And we know that didn't get us anywhere by pointing out to people of Bill Clinton lie.
They didn't care.
They liked Bill Clinton's personality, which frosted a whole bunch of us.
We couldn't understand it, but they did.
They like Obama's personality.
Calling him a liar, calling him a liberal, those kind of things aren't going to work.
Pointing out his liberalism, it's in the past.
Obama's not about the past.
The past doesn't matter to a whole lot of people because they're so concerned about the future.
The recent past that they know is one they don't like.
Some Republicans, and especially the Democrat side, the Bush administration, the war in Iraq, they don't care.
And when you're talking about Democrats anyway, anything goes.
I mean, it doesn't matter what the past.
The past was so bad, as far as liberals are concerned, that whatever it takes to erase it, erase it, is fine with them.
So what's the only avenue open?
I mean, we can shout Bill Ayers, William Ayers, terrorist ties, all these.
We can find out everything Obama said at that secret meeting they had in 1995 when Ayers hosted a little party to inaugurate Obama's campaign for the states.
None of it's going to matter.
None of it's going to matter because the past doesn't matter.
This is one of the things that it just struck me over the weekend when I was watching the John Adams.
I don't know what the click was in my amazingly fertile mind, but there it was right there on television, and it was accurate and it was inspiring.
And it was every bit the tearjerker that much of last week was at the White House with the Battle Hymn of the Republic and the Pope's message and the president's men and all of his celebrations of mass over the weekend that took place were genuine tearjerkers.
And yet, when people, this gets back to the notes that my friend sent me, when young people especially don't care about the past, they only care about the future because the past is the past and Obama's not the past, he's the future.
And when they don't know about John Adams, they don't know about the founding of the country.
I mean, they may know it, but I mean, they don't know the intricate details.
They don't know the fundamental.
Without these three acknowledgments, we wouldn't be here today as a country.
We are endowed by our Creator with certain inalienable rights, among them life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Without those three concepts being in our founding documents and enshrined as having come from our Creator, we wouldn't be here as a country.
I don't know how many people are taught that anymore today.
I don't think very many at all.
And so it's the past, and they don't care about it.
And one of the reasons they don't care is because they haven't been taught.
So you've got a massive education Failure while at the same time a massive education project in order to inspire concern and to have people be interested in the past because the past is where you learn.
It's like Mitch Daniels, Mitch Daniels in the Reagan administration.
Mitch Daniels, the governor of Indiana.
Snerdley, did you hear what Mitch Daniels said over the weekend?
Mitch Daniels said it's time to let Ronald Reagan go.
He delivered his remarks to a room full of fellow Red Staters at the Fund for American Studies annual conference and a donor retreat at the museum in Washington, D.C. Said nostalgia is fine and Reagan's economic plan was good, but we need to look towards the future rather than staying in the past.
Now, when's the last time you ever heard a liberal Democrat say it's time to let JFK go?
It's time to let FDR go.
They never will.
And if any in their party would say it, they'd kick them out as fast as they kicked out Zell Miller and Joe Lieberman.
They would run them out of the party.
Now we've got Mitch Daniels, who is a conservative guy.
It's time to get over Reagan.
Time to let Reagan go.
Asinine.
It's stupid.
The past, particularly the country's past or our conservative movement's past, is fundamentally crucial that people understand it.
When people don't, then they will forget it because it was nothing worth remembering in the first place because nobody told them about it.
So we have a very, very weak education system.
The fundamentals that built this country and hold it together are no longer taught with reverence.
If they are taught, they're probably taught with scorn more than reverence.
And so now we have a candidate on the Democrat side about whom people do not care his past.
They are uninterested.
We can shout the name Bill Ayers all we want.
We can shout Jeremiah Wright all we want.
We can play those sermons all we want.
We can have McCain out there as he took a little jab over the weekend at Obama.
We can have McCain out there saying that these relationships he has are very troubling, but I'm not questioning his patriotism.
Make sure you shade that little boy.
I'm not questioning his patriotism.
Yeah, see, we always, these relationships he has with the radicals, they're very troubling, but I'm not questioning his pain.
Of course not.
So the only way, folks, the only way to sort of take away this aura of mystique and mysticism about the future surrounding Obama is going to be putting Chinks in his personality, like happened in the debate last Wednesday or Tuesday, whatever it was, in, was it maybe the days last, was Wednesday, they're running together.
Now, it didn't particularly matter in that debate because the drive-bys are going to circle the wagons and go after the media for exposing Obama's weakness.
When this guy's not got a teleprompter, when he doesn't have a speech written for him by Axelrod or somebody, he can't take a punch.
He's got a glass jaw.
He's got a sense of entitlement about him.
It says, I do not and will not be criticized.
I'm too important.
And there are media people that drive-bys are going to shield him in that regard.
He's so important, no criticism is worth it.
It's not valid.
It's all in the past.
So whoever is going to be in charge of the campaign to defeat Obama is going to have to find a way to trip him up so that he exposes the fraud that is this mystic messianic personality that he has.
And I say this for two reasons, just to sum it up.
One, where Obama's concerned, the past is the past, and it's not relevant to him.
He is the future.
His support is not based on issues.
It's not based on, look, there are some Republicans who are enamored of Obama.
They like it.
And they know he's a full-fledged liberal.
They know he's a socialist.
They don't care.
They don't care.
It's something else that binds them.
It's this mystic, it's this youth, it's this personality, it's this hope for change.
All that stuff is working on them.
I don't know how many, but it's certainly some.
And you're not going to, you're not, if there are a significant number of Republicans who want to vote Obama for president for those reasons, you're not going to turn them off to Obama by running around.
Well, you know what he's going to do to your taxes?
You know what he's going to do to your liberty?
They don't want to hear it.
I mean, they have a different kind of attraction to the guy.
Even though he has not been on that message ever since Ohio and Texas, since those primaries were over, he's been forced off that message.
And who knows?
There may be some problems for him in the primary right now.
The superdelegates, a lot of them still aren't committing.
I don't want to talk about it.
Clinton's got this internal polling station.
He has 11 points up.
We'll have to see what happens.
Operation Chaos goes into effect in less than 24 hours.
Soldiers ready to march to the battlefield.
We'll develop this a little further.
I've got to take quick time out here, but we'll develop this a little further during the course of the program today as we get to all that's here, and it's a lot.
So sit tight.
We'll be right back.
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All right, let's give an update on the Leukemia Lymphoma Society Radiothon from last Friday, which was, if you were here and you recall, it was an incredible three hours.
Last week, particularly the last three or four days of last week, were just over the top for me personally, in terms of the inspiration and the fun and the meaningfulness of it all.
And we capped it with the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society Radiothon.
And all during the program, I kept marveling at how far ahead we were from last year.
And we were all sort of surprised and gratified about that because of the challenging economic circumstances this year as opposed to last with the price of staples being up gasoline and food.
And, you know, they're starting to ration food out in California in certain stores.
There's not enough of it.
They say it's a dollar is low and the fuel prices are high.
And of course, they tag on toward the other biofuels might be also causing a problem with the use of crops that we eat now going to make ethanol and other sort of thing.
But even despite all that, we ended up with a total take of $2,519,643 with the Leukemia Lymphoma Society Radiothon last week.
You want to know how impressive and how wonderful this is?
You might think that we spent three hours doing this, and it was a three-hour radio program in telethon.
And we kept the numbers and the websites open, the donation lines open throughout the week, and I think they're still open today, too.
But not all of the program, not the entire three hours, is devoted to discussing the fundraising.
We might have spent a total of 45 minutes on it out of the three hours.
And out of that 45 minutes where it was mentioned and the phone number was given and the address and the website for online donating, $2,519,643.
Look at it this way.
In one day.
So thank you all profoundly once again.
Last year, the total was $2,358,420.
Plus, there was a standalone donation that came in from an individual last year after we finished.
And that individual donated a million.
So you could actually, if you want to sum it up, the total last year was 3.3, but we don't look at it that way because it was a standalone came later.
It was not part of the audience totals.
The audience totals this year, 2519643.
Last year, 2358-420.
So thank you all very much.
Once again, a successful Leukemia Lymphoma Society curathon.
If I have time today, I had a lot of emails over the weekend from people who were reacting both to the leukemia radiothon, the leukemia lymphoma society radiothon, and the pope's visits last week.
Some of these emails are just great.
And if I have time today, I'll sprinkle them in as phone calls.
Now, I want to start going to the audio soundbites, ladies and gentlemen, as Operation Chaos and soldiers prepare to deploy in less than 24 hours.
The drive-by media is doing everything it can to suggest that these new Republican registrants in Pennsylvania are registering because they love Obama.
And the Politico has a story today about the surge in Democrat voter registration from Republicans.
And their number is that 62% of the switchers, 62% of you Republicans who are switching registration to Democrat Party for the Pennsylvania primary are going to Obama.
So this is the theme now.
And we will see how this plays out tomorrow.
Of course, the bottom line here is that Operation Chaos does not have a chosen candidate to win this.
Operation Chaos has as a simple single mission to keep the campaign going, to keep chaos reigning supreme, to get the Democrats continuing to conduct their war with each other on all fronts.
And by the way, Nora Efron, movie writer and so forth, do you ever see the movie You've Got Mail?
I never saw it.
She wrote it.
And she's married to Nick Peledgi, who wrote it, Goodfellas.
She's got a piece today on the Huffington Post that is just, it's unbelievable.
These are people, the enlightened among us, the reasonable, the tolerant, the compassionate, the caring, and the concerned.
And her piece is all about who white women or white men hate more in Pennsylvania, blacks or whites.
And that will determine who wins the Pennsylvania primary.
Who do white guys hate the most?
A black guy or a white woman.
And it is just, I'll have to get the whole thing for you in detail here, but it is just stunning to know how they think.
And by the way, it pretty much sums up that she agrees what Obama said to that bunch of elitists out in San Francisco about people in small towns.
Quick time out.
Back with more after this.
Yes, I'm going to get to the sound bites.
Folks, I have to tell you, I keep, I meant to start the last segment with the sound bites.
When I start talking, I even find myself interesting.
I know you do.
And so I was unable to be quiet because I found what I was saying so fascinating, even as I was listening to it.
But I'm going to, we'll get to the soundbites here in just a second.
Now, Politico today, a story by Johan Cummings, Gene Cummings.
Dem voter surge could cut Clinton margin.
Now, here are the basic nuts and bolts of the story.
In Pennsylvania, more than 178,000 Republicans have switched their party ID to Democrat.
Well, 178,000 people switched.
82% of that number have gone to the Democrat Party.
They are 7% Republicans who registered as Democrats are 7% of the electorate for the Tuesday primary in Pennsylvania.
They've taken a poll of the people that switched party registration, and it was released by some polling outfit called Madonna, or maybe that's somebody that works at the polling unit.
It doesn't matter.
Obama was the preferred candidate for 62% of these Republicans who've registered as Democrats.
Clinton insiders said they are bracing for the same 60-40 splint among newly registered Democrats.
So everybody thinks that most of the Republican registrants are going to vote for Obama, and the drive-bys are out there pumping this notion on the basis that these Republicans actually love and are enamored of Obama.
JLA TV, WJLA Capitol Sunday in Washington, Leon Harris is interviewing Charles Matthiason from the Politico, and they have this exchange about me and Operation Chaos.
Is this the kind of thing that Rush Limbo is going to claim credit for that we've been hearing about this plan of his, Operation Chaos, I think he calls it, getting Republicans to register as Democrats just to skew the primary and then go ahead and switch back to Republicans in the general election.
Is that part of what's working here?
No, not in this case.
This is the real deal.
It's the kind of thing you may have seen maybe 10, 15 years ago in the South where you see an entire region sort of transitioning from one party to another.
And this is sort of, I think, part of a larger movement in the northeast part of the country.
Pennsylvania has been a little bit later than the others.
Leon Harris then asks of Mr. Matthiason, well, then is Obama then the equivalent of the Reagan Democrats?
Well, some people say that.
They say, as you know, Leon, they talk about the Obamacaans, you know, which is sort of the generation two of the Reagan Democrats.
It's hard to say.
Clearly, Obama has an effect on these people.
And polling shows, polling of these newcomers that have just come into the Democratic Party shows that they're favoring Obama by about 60 to 40 percent over Clinton.
We shall see.
But the notion that these Republicans switching to vote for Obama because they genuinely love Obama are the equivalent of Reagan Democrats is absurd.
And it's absurd for the very reasons I espoused in my opening monologue.
Reagan Democrats were brought to the Republican Party on the basis of issues.
They were brought to the Republican Party of the conservative movement on the basis of tax cuts, limited government.
They were brought in as conservatives.
Republicans are not becoming, if they're supporting Obama, they're not becoming liberals and they haven't thrown away their beliefs.
They just are enamored of the concept of change and the personality.
People are caught up.
It's like a cult.
And they have been caught up in it.
The idea that there are, look at, why would any, let me put it to you bluntly, why would any Republican want to leave the Republican Party to vote for Democrat when we got our own Democrat running?
It's not about issues.
These Republicans are abandoning because if they are, if these numbers are true, and some of them are.
I've run into them, I've talked to them, and they're abandoning simply on the basis of personality.
They're caught up wanting to feel good.
Guy makes them feel good.
They don't care what he says.
They don't care what critics say about it.
It doesn't matter.
It's something that it's ephemeral.
It's hard to get your arms around.
That's why all this chatter about Obama not telling the truth, a stupid preacher and running around with all these wacko radicals and so it ain't going to stick.
It isn't going to stick.
In fact, it may wear people out if it goes on deep into the general campaign.
Michael Steele, a good friend of this program, was on CNN, I'm sorry, Fox's election headquarters on Sunday, and the hostette was Jamie Colby.
Michael Steele, the former lieutenant governor of Maryland, and she said to him, you know, a key voting group on Tuesday in Pennsylvania could be the more than 200,000 people, Democrats, who just registered want to take part in this race.
How influential do you think they are?
And will they actually show up?
I suspect if you just registered, you're going to go to the polls.
The interesting thing about that is that about a quarter of those newly registered Democrats are former Republicans.
And I don't think it's the Rush Limbaugh kind of all Republicans go vote for Hillary type thing.
I think, you know, these are disaffected individuals who felt that the GOP has lost its way over the last six or seven years and have now found a resonating message in either Clinton or Obama.
They ain't half right there.
There's no resonating message with Hillary.
But there is a resonating message with Obama, but it has nothing to do with issues.
It has everything to do with personality, charisma, and all this sort of thing.
He sounds intelligent.
Things like this.
He sounds capable.
It's just, you know, it's frustrating.
It's maddening that so many people don't care.
They just want to feel good and they haven't felt good the last six or eight years on the basis of personality.
Now, one thing I'm not sure he's correct about here when he says that 25% of these newly registered Democrats are former Republicans.
More than that, 178,000 have switched party registration of Pennsylvania, and 92% of them are Democrats.
So there's a, it's far greater than 25% of Republicans of the new registrants.
It's like 92%, if I'm reading this right.
So, ladies and gentlemen, those of you in Operation Chaos, those of you about to be deployed to the battlefield tomorrow, you brave volunteers in Operation Chaos, as Sink Commander-in-Chief, Operation Chaos, I have to call on you to press on.
I do call on you to press on, despite all of these efforts to diminish your numbers, to diminish your impact.
Remember, we're not doing what we're doing to get credit for it.
We're doing it.
The more underneath the cover we can do it, the more underneath the radar we can do it, the better.
The mission is to continue chaos in the Democrat Party, and that mission has to date been profoundly successful.
Look at, I know as Commander-in-Chief, you know, we all know that sooner or later, this current phase of Operation Chaos is going to end and Obama will triumph because the superdelegates in the Democrat Party will not heed my warning of last week to bag both.
I'm telling you, the way to beat Obama was on display in that debate.
He was not, there was nothing likable about the guy.
There was nothing magical.
He was just your common, ordinary, everyday politician who didn't have a whole lot of experience, didn't quite know what he was talking about.
That's what it's going to take to beat the guy.
The superdelegates, I warned them, this is this, if the Republicans have any wits about them, this is what they're going to do in the general.
Your guy's dead.
Hillary's dead.
You need to bag these people and come up with a third candidate.
They obviously will not listen to me.
Even though I assure you privately, some are considering.
Because what happened last Wednesday night, even though the drive-bys are trying to cover it up, there are some people on the Democrat side who were really worried, who thought Obama was just going to sweep to massive big-time victory, and there were all kinds of vulnerabilities.
And it wasn't the questions he was asked.
It was the way he answered them, the way he got irritated at having to answer them.
And he clearly can be rattled.
He has not matured as a candidate and faced real, consistent, tough opposition, and he doesn't even think he should have to.
That's how he lead us and how important he thinks he is.
Remember, he's got a messianic complex, and so does his supporters, a lot of them, look at him in that way.
But the odds are that Obama will be the nominee and our current phase mission will end.
But I remind you, you brave volunteers in Operation Chaos.
This fight was not about anybody winning or losing.
It was about more chaos than less chaos.
We wanted more chaos.
The longer the chaos goes on, the more chaotic the chaos gets.
And we want chaotic chaos.
We want chaotic chaos to continue to be chaotic.
We want ongoing chaos regardless when this ends.
When that happens, all the more reason to say that we have triumphed.
So as the outcome becomes more and more obvious, I ask you to remember these words.
Remember the Alamo.
Remember Masada.
Remember the 300.
Tomorrow we face the Battle of Pennsylvania.
We can win.
We shall win.
We must win.
A win is defined as Mrs. Clinton continuing.
We will win.
Big break.
Stand by.
Coming right back.
All right.
We're back.
One more thing to you courageous and brave volunteers in Operation Chaos about the Politico.com story that I just read.
62% of supposed Operation Chaos volunteers will be voting for Obama.
Let's slow down.
How about it, you people at the Politico?
How about a little reality here?
We keep hearing all about the transformational nature of Barack Obama, the transformational nature of his campaign.
It's something new.
We haven't seen it.
And one of the things that it's oriented around and based on is unity, bringing us all together.
Well, the way I see this as the commander-in-chief, U.S. Operation Chaos, is that Obama can't close the deal.
This is the way I see it.
This should be over.
All the money he's raised, the ineptitude of the Clinton campaign, the high negatives, this should be over.
He should have put her away long ago.
Hasn't happened.
He has been unable to defeat Hillary Clinton in a decisive way.
He has been unable to run away with this primary.
There's one out.
There's a poll out there, and I have the story here that says that he is losing badly among white voters, but has a big lead among blacks.
He has lost the popular vote in New York, in Massachusetts, in New Jersey, in California, Ohio, and Texas.
He will probably lose the popular vote in Pennsylvania tomorrow.
Where is this great sea change in the American political landscape then?
Where is it?
Just like Obama himself is a puff piece and an image that bears no resemblance to his reality, so is the way the drive-by media is covering this guy.
The facts are, he hasn't been able to put anybody away.
And why not?
Operation Chaos.
U.S. Operation Chaos has come onto the scene.
He has not been able to put her away.
He is getting, let me repeat this to you again because it's crucial to understand what everybody thinking is just a fait accompli now.
He has lost the popular vote in New York.
He's lost the popular vote in Massachusetts, in New Jersey, in California, in Ohio, in Texas.
They'd probably lose it in Pennsylvania tomorrow.
All of these people supposedly becoming Democrats to vote for Obama, he's still expected to lose in Pennsylvania?
See, that's the question I had when I see all this 60-40 split, these Republican Operation Chaos volunteers voting Obama.
How can he lose then?
How in the world can he lose?
But he's expected to.
There is no political sea change with the Obama campaign.
And look at this.
Barack Obama's efforts to woo white voters in the Pennsylvania Democrat primary have been hurt by his comments on small-town bitterness and his association with an outspoken pastor, some residents of Muncie Valley, Pennsylvania, say.
Local people called the senator arrogant, unpatriotic, and unchristian after his remarks that residents of small towns, you know, blah, blah, blah, they're bitter because of job losses and they only cling to religion and guns when Washington is ignoring them.
Now, my common sense, brimming mind has a question.
If Barack Obama represents such a magical and wonderful sea change of the American political landscape, then how the hell can this be?
How can he be losing the popular vote in these big states?
How can he be losing the white voter?
How can that be?
If he's transformational.
See, he's not.
The entire Obama campaign has been a Hollywood movie.
As I so cleverly and poignantly, presciently pointed out to you last week, the whole notion of high concept in getting movies made.
We have two of them here.
One high concept.
And by the way, high concept is a term Hollywood uses when they're doing fiction movies.
You don't talk about high concept if you're doing a documentary, a biography, or some such thing.
High concept is associated with fiction.
High concept number one, Mrs. Clinton, the first white woman with a serious chance to be elected president of the United States.
Obama, high concept.
First black American with a chance to be the first black president.
High concept.
And liberals, of course, get mushy, not when the Pope speaks, when they hear patriotic hymns.
They get mushy when minorities rise up, regardless how, affirmative action, you name it.
So this whole thing's been a story.
It's a fairy tale.
The Obama campaign's a fairy tale.
He's a fairy tale in terms of the image.
He's a real guy that poses a real danger to the country.
You point that out to his supporters, right?
Now, they're going to work.
Quick, we go to the phones.
Mark in Eureka, Illinois.
We'll start with you today.
Nice to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hey, Rush, thanks for taking my call.
Committed by hellos from Eureka.
Hey, Rush, I agree with all your comments this morning, and the question I have...
They make a lot of sense, don't they?
Oh, they make more than a lot of sense.
I know, that's true.
Thank you for saying that.
Here's where I'm struggling, Rush.
You have said for many years, and I have always agreed with you, and I'm not talking about your audience, that you have faith in the American people to make the right decision in the end.
I do.
But as you look what's going on now, Rush, I'll be honest.
I'm losing that faith.
I'm losing that faith.
I mean, if you dissect it, you got McCain, you got Hillary, you got Barack.
And real quick, I'll bring it close to home.
I live in the far western suburbs of Chicago, and we lost Danny Hastert's seat to a Democrat this year.
That's like Chicago going Republican.
And if you put all of that in the future, let me tell you something, pal.
My faith in the American people remains strong.
Hastrt lost that seat because the Republicans didn't do anything to defend it.
The Republicans are not giving anybody reason to vote for him.
The American people are not stupid.
They're not sheep.
They're not going to vote for, especially conservative Republicans.
The Republican Party is giving them no reason to what.
In fact, prominent conservatives are running around, forget that you're a conservative.
Forget Reagan.
We got Reagan who was Reagan in the past.
My faith in the American people's intelligence, especially on our side, is buttressed.
I mean, there's really no reason.
You know, Haster's, it's not owned by the Republicans.
It's not automatic.
Nothing in politics is.
But I don't want to get too deep.
I've told you all that I was profoundly stirred in my soul last week with everything that happened.
And I came to realize something: that my faith in the American people is actually a faith in this country because I do believe it's been blessed by God.
And that's the source of my optimism.
Nora Efron at the Huffington Post: This is an election about whether the people of Pennsylvania hate blacks more than they hate women.