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October 6, 2008, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Boy, that Republican revolution seems about a million years ago, doesn't it?
Hey everybody, Mark Davis at WBAP Dallas Fort Worth, in for rush just one day, just one day we ask your indulgence.
Rush will be back with you tomorrow.
He has a very important family obligation.
He'll tell you about upon his return.
And that return will be tomorrow.
So today, this sixth day of October, on the eve of the second presidential debate, and maybe on the eve of a global financial collapse.
Let's put all of these stories together and see what we think of them.
1-800-282-2882, you know the number.
I want to know your thoughts on a couple of questions.
I'm just gonna spit out a couple of questions that I have for you.
I of course have my answers, but I want to see if your answers and mine are the same.
Questions like these.
Inside 30 days, right?
The election's four weeks from tomorrow, or 29 days.
Is it brilliant or is it counterproductive for the McCain campaign to go after some of what you might call the Obama character issues?
Sarah Palin, this very morning, on the campaign trail in Florida, essentially, let me just phrase it to you this way.
Do you want to hear more?
Or do you want to hear less of things like this?
And then there's even more to the story.
Barack Obama says that Ayers was just someone in the neighborhood, but that's less than truthful.
His own top advisors said that they were, quote, certainly friendly.
In fact, Obama held one of his first meetings of his political career in Bill Ayres' living room.
And they worked together on various projects in Chicago, and you know, these are the same guys who think that patriotism is paying higher taxes.
Remember, that's what Joe Biden had said.
And I am just so fearful that this is not a man who sees America the way that you and I see America as the greatest source for good in this world.
There's Sarah Palin on the campaign trail maybe three hours ago.
Now, I confess that made me tingly.
I liked that.
I want to hear more of that.
But if we're going to have more of that, and if we're going to have more of it from the actual nominees, Senator McCain, should he choose to visit those topics, and if in particular we're going to hear it from him, maybe in a courageous moment, tomorrow night in the town hall style debate, then it had better be seasoned by about a two to one ratio with reasons why he and Governor Palin are uplifting positive picks.
Everyone's talking this past weekend.
Is it wise or unwise to go harshly negative?
As if it's going to be nothing but harsh negativity.
You've got to do both since the beginning of time.
The way you win elections is by making it clear why you are a good candidate and why your opponent is not.
If you do an insufficient job of either one, you're probably going to lose.
So I'm all about the uplifting messages of free market solutions and more American oil exploration and all manner of things.
You know, winning the war.
Gee, there is that still, isn't there?
We do still have some people who care about actually winning the war.
So by all means, let the McCain Palin ticket step out there and talk about all of those positive things that they want to do.
But I don't mind if about a third of their time is spent convincing the undecided voters of America that Barack Obama simply is not fit to be the leader of the free world.
And if that means invoking the name Bill Ayers a few more times, then that's what you do.
If that means reminding everyone of the abysmal judgment he displayed by staying in that church with that poisonous America-hating Reverend Wright.
If it means and I know that's gonna sound so much like yesterday's news.
Oh, they're still talking about that.
You're darn right we're still talking about that.
Because it is exhibit A of a judgment issue that shows that this man is willing to consort with people who despise this country.
It doesn't mean he's one of them.
Barack Obama is not Reverend Wright.
Barack Obama is not Bill Ayers.
What he is is insufficiently repelled by them.
Insufficiently willing to turn the other direction and run from such radioactive characters.
The failure to do so is an issue in judgment and yes, an issue in character.
So there's my answer.
Shoot yes, you talk about that.
You talk about it a lot.
Not at the expense of your free market plan for health care, not at the expense of your actual plan to win the war rather than surrendering, not at the expense of your still deep devotion to cut taxes.
Please talk about those things.
Talk about those things twice as much as you talk about the Obama judgment issues.
But do not neglect the Obama judgment issues.
All right, there's question number one, and my answer.
Does yours differ?
1-800-282-2882.
Here's my other question for you.
I got I got a bunch of 'em.
It's it's a quiz.
I'm grading on a curve, though, so it's okay.
Punting on Michigan, bailing out of Michigan.
What are they thinking?
What in the not in bailing out of Michigan, but in making it so abundantly clear that you're bailing out of Michigan.
A skilled campaign bails out of states, and the people in those states don't even know it.
Did you know that Barack Obama had pulled out of Georgia?
Did you know that Barack Obama has pulled out of Nebraska?
Did you know that Barack Obama has pulled out of Arkansas?
Arkansas, excuse me, Alaska, AK, not AR, out of foiled by my own postal abbreviations, that he's pulled out of Georgia, Nebraska, North Dakota, and Alaska.
Did you know that he was gone out of those states?
People in uh Anchorage and Minot and Omaha and Atlanta probably didn't even know that.
You know why?
Because they didn't telegraph it all over God's creation.
Oh, the McCain people leak it out all over the place.
Oh, Michigan, uh, yeah, we're we're gonna pull out of there and uh focus on Pennsylvania.
Well, you know what?
That might actually be quite smart.
That might actually be quite smart.
I mean, I'd certainly leave a skeleton crew in Michigan.
I'd let Sarah Palin do what she said she wanted to do.
I'll have that audio for you here in just a little bit, uh talking to Carl Cameron of Fox News, the famous, oh, come on, do we have to?
Where Sarah ever chip herself said, listen, let Todd and me walk around some of those uh some of those automobile factories.
And I'll tell you what, you know what those automobile factories are filled with?
Do you know those GM plants and those Ford plants are brimming with in Detroit and elsewhere in Michigan?
Hardcore Democrats who cannot vote for Obama.
Hardcore lifelong Democrats who will not vote for Barack Obama.
So I I I've got to share well, I don't know, maybe not as caustically.
Let me share a little bit of analysis from Martin Seif of United Press International.
He has a piece running in newspapers across America today.
McCain's Michigan pull out, latest bad tactical move.
See if you go with this guy's opening paragraphs.
What profiteth Senator John McCain if his running mate wins her debate, but he gives up on Michigan?
The McCain campaign's decision to give up the fight in Michigan is one of the stupidest tactical decisions made in this presidential race.
Only Al Gore's refusal to let President Bill Clinton campaign for him in key states eight years ago even approaches it.
If Mr McCain loses, it is likely to rank alongside his failure in the first presidential debate as one of the two turning points in the campaign.
Let me put the buzzer here.
Excuse me, Mr. Seif.
Uh I don't happen to think that Senator McCain failed in the first presidential debate.
I I think he did quite well.
I think he mopped the floor with Senator Obama in terms of experience and national security.
But I think we can sort of see where Martin Seif is coming from.
But that doesn't mean he's wrong.
That doesn't mean he's wrong about this.
He says Mr. McCain must have Michigan with seventeen electoral college votes, it's one of the key prizes in the Midwest, and its influence extends into its neighboring states as well.
To win, Mr. McCain must hold on to Florida and Ohio, two states where he was looking strong until his meltdown over the last few weeks, and where he is now struggling to run neck and neck.
For Senator Obama to win, the Democratic presidential nominee must take Pennsylvania and Michigan.
If Mr. McCain can win either Michigan or Pennsylvania, he wins the presidency.
It's as simple as that.
Pennsylvania's voted Democrat in every presidential election for the last 20 years.
Mr. Obama was dangerously weak there until the recent turnaround in his fortunes.
Now he looks close to having a lock on the place, and Mr. McCain is just handed him Michigan on a platter.
All right, these are the words of Martin Sef at United Press International.
Um I share his view that you don't punt Michigan.
I do not share his scenario of ruin for having done so.
Because Mr. Seif is right that Pennsylvania, uh and you could re you know the moment Pennsylvania turned blue, both in terms of its spirit and its political color.
Uh Pennsylvania turned blue when they booted Rick Santorum, one of the best U.S. Senators in recent history, booted him back into private life.
Then it pretty well became, you know, that's it.
Fay accompli, Pennsylvania, blue state.
But again, what's Pennsylvania filled with?
Don't get ahead of me.
What's Pennsylvania filled with?
Labor people, those those those white uh middle class, working class, whatever code language you want to use.
Uh yeah, those people that handed Hillary an enormous victory, that's right.
Pennsylvania filled with Democrats who don't like Barack Obama.
Senator McCain can win Pennsylvania.
I suggest he will win Pennsylvania.
He'll win it partly with the resources that he just allocated over from Michigan.
But did you have to telegraph so clearly that you were giving up on a state that is so emblematic of our current economic woes?
Oh, and by the way, not to ignore the lead story of the moment.
Speaking of those economic woes, how's that bailout working out for you?
How's that bailout working out for Wall Street?
As the opening strains of the pretenders my city was gone signaled the beginning of the Rush Limbaugh show today, the Dow Jones Industrials were down four hundred and thirty-six points.
Four hundred thirty-six points.
Down below ten thousand for the first time since October 2004.
Silly me.
I thought the bailout was supposed to make Wall Street comfortable.
Well, I'll tell you what would make me comfortable.
A nominee who stepped forward and said the bailout was wrong, and who promised to bring the real spirit of a Maverick, the real spirit of an independent, the real spirit of a fighter.
Can you imagine the adrenaline that would be coursing through our veins right now?
Not just, you know, wandering in to vote for McCain Palin because we like her and can't stand Obama and we're freaking out at his presidency.
But can you imagine the proactive, wonderful, positive, love the guy feelings that we would have for Senator McCain if he'd stood up in this last week and said not just no, but hell no, to a bailout that saddles American taxpayers so that Wall Street can be more comfortable and that Henry Paulson and Ben Bernanke can say they did something.
But listen closely, and what you'll hear is silence.
Oh, there were members of Congress who did it.
Senators like Jim Bunning, Congressman from here in Texas, and maybe in some of your necks of the woods, there were plenty of there were plenty of politicians found who who said that, but in the end, not enough and not a living soul on the presidential campaign trail.
Although don't you get the feeling that Sarah Palin would like to say it?
One of our other themes today will be things Sarah Palin wants to do and say that maybe Senator McCain doesn't.
We'll we'll talk about that.
We'll talk about a bunch of things, and in fact, let's begin doing so.
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My name's Mark Davis.
I sit here in rainy Dallas Fort Worth, Texas, a proud affiliate of the Rush Limbaugh Show for a long, long time here at WBAP.
On whatever affiliate you're listening, we thank you.
Rush is back tomorrow.
I'm thrilled to be here with you today.
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I'm Mark Davis at WBAP Dallas Fort Worth, Texas.
Let's head to some of these calls that are gathering.
Some choosing to answer the questions I'm asking about McCain's strategy, what do you want to do in the closing 30 days?
Others simply bringing things from a news heavy weekend gone by.
Bring one, bring all to one eight hundred two eight two two eight eight two, one eight hundred two eight two two eight eight two.
Let us begin in the just recently talked about state of Pennsylvania and in Erie.
Hi, Valerie Mark Davison for Rush Limbaugh, how are you?
Hi.
How are you doing?
Good.
Most people are now paying attention to the election.
So I think bringing up Mr. Obama's relationships that has gotten him to this place in life is apropos.
I think it's a good idea, but I don't think we have to stay on it all the time.
But here's the thing John McCain needs to understand that actions speak louder than words.
And his vote for the bailout and his insistence on legalizing illegal immigrants speaks loudly to the U.S. citizens.
Well, so are we asking him to change his mind?
I mean, on immigration, he has tailored his view to say let's I've he says I've heard what you all are saying.
Let us enforce the borders first and talk later about what to do about the illegals we have.
That has calmed some for a while.
Are we asking him to do a 180?
Uh I would love it.
I mean, that wouldn't be a f it's never a flip-flop when you go to the right answer.
And are you suggesting that he needs to step forward and announce his epiphany, the bailout is wrong, and I'm it's getting a little day late and 700 billion dollars short, but is that what you're looking for him to do?
I would think it would be appropriate, but I also think that because of the illegal immigrant issue, you're talking fifty-three billion dollars a year.
That's an economic issue.
I know.
And this is one of those things, Valerie, on which you are 100% right and yet it is of zero percent value.
This is so funny, but because it here's here's what's weird.
We've just went through a bailout so-called crisis, where we had to solve this arcane unfathomable economic crisis, and we had to do it in 48 hours or 72 or a week of the outside, and yet the crisis of millions of illegals pouring over our southern border.
Oh, we could take forever to cure that crisis.
The word crisis is defined very weirdly in Washington.
And right now, if this if if the economy and its issues surrounding it are so overarching that you can't even get a conversation started about the war, you sure can't get a bunch of people worked up about illegal immigration right now.
Not in these last thirty days, you can't.
What would happen if John McCain let Sarah Palin go crazy and say that it was it was crazy to vote for this bailout?
Well, uh without appropriate hearing.
Right.
There would be two reactions.
The first one would be, oh my God, not only is she a maverick, I mean, she's a maverick on her own ticket.
She doesn't mind disagreeing with Senator McCain, and there would be a certain charm to that.
But after that, the only headline would be look at John McCain.
He can't even control a woman running mate.
Well, I'll take chances.
I tell you what, uh it to at least have uh let's paint a picture in which that could be done.
So at least somebody on some ticket is speaking for the 70% of America that knows that the bailout stinks to high heaven.
Sarah Palin steps forward and says, you know, out of deference to, you know, the man at the top of the ticket, I've sort of suppressed my personal feeling that the bailout was wrong.
But in keeping with his continuing character to welcome opinions from all sides, even when they come from his own uh party and his own presidential ticket.
Uh Senator McCain is going to allow me to give voice to many of you in America who did not agree with the bailout, and who wish your members of Congress would have voted against it, and who wish Senator McCain would have voted against it.
Like immigration, like any one of a number of other things, this is an issue where Senator McCain knows there's going to be an ongoing debate.
And he wants you to know that there is room on this presidential ticket for views that are in discord with his, just as he knows that there is room in America and among his voting base for views that are in discord with his.
Would That be a an energizing moment of candor and a rare moment on the campaign trail of someone running for the one of the top two jobs who speaks the words that America wants to hear spoken, that the bailout is terrible?
Or would it be just an instant invitation for everyone to write a 18-point headline story?
John McCain can't even achieve message control on his own ticket.
You know, they're gonna write stories bashing him anyway.
So maybe this lady in Erie PA is right.
Let Sarah get out there and speak ill of a bailout.
A little trial balloon for a couple of days.
See how that works.
1800-282-2882, 1-800-282-2882.
I'm Mark Davis, InfoRush on the EIB Network, and we'll be right back.
But I'm loving it.
Hey, Mark Davis at WBAP Dallas Fort Worth filling in for Rush today and only today.
Rush is back with you tomorrow.
Those of you who are with us on the phone lines right now, here we come.
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Examining a little bit of philosophy of the McCain campaign inside 30 days.
What do you want to do?
What do you not want to do?
And the flavor we take in if you're just joining us is it smart or not smart to put the pedal of the metal a little more on Bill Ayers and Reverend Wright?
Because one of two things is going to happen.
In fact, they're both going to happen.
The question is, to how many people?
If Sarah Palin or Senator McCain himself, especially, and I gotta tell you, does he have the stones to turn to Barack Obama and speak to him in the second person in the town hall meeting tomorrow night in the debate and say when you were in that church for 20 years, that was a display of abysmal judgment.
And when you refuse to distance yourself sufficiently from an unrepentant domestic terrorist like William Ayers, that speaks volumes about the value set that you bring to to the to the threshold of the Oval Office.
Wow, I just gave myself tingles.
I uh so does that mean that that would be a good thing for Senator McCain to do?
Obviously, there'd be millions of voters who said, Yeah, yeah.
There'd also be millions of voters, how many millions, I don't know, and that's where the mystery lies, and well, maybe we can work on together today.
There'd be millions of voters who'd go, oh, shut up about William Ayers and Reverend Wright, all I don't want to hear about that or the Keating Five or any of this ancient history nonsense.
Tell me what you're going to do.
Tell me what you're going to do in office.
So the premise that I bring to you today is I'm getting greedy.
I want both.
I want Senator McCain and Sarah Palin to talk with broad smiles about the economic liberty that they want to bring to people with lower taxes and reduced spending.
I want both Governor Palin and Senator McCain out on the campaign trail and in their respective debates talking about winning the war, bringing democracy to Iraq and Afghanistan, and you don't have to pick between the two.
Even Peggy Noonan, how much do you love Peggy Noonan?
I love this woman.
I talked to her on my local show here with the uh the her wonderful book tour that she's got going.
She's a new book out.
It's wonderful, and I love her.
And she wrote a great piece, well, an interesting piece about the uh the Palin Biden debate.
And she she said, This populism, this populism is divisive.
Well, maybe if you are one of the Georgetown cocktail set, Peggy, maybe it sounds divisive, but to the rest of us, it sounds like Sarah Palin is talking to real America.
And on the subject of the war, Ms. Noonan, again, whom I worship, gave me a few seconds of this clap trap that, well, the war.
The notion of of succeeding in Afghanistan and Iraq is that's romantic.
Romantic?
I d I didn't have misty eyes when I got on board for this war.
I had the clearest of vision and the sharp the the sharpest of of thought when I said let's do both.
Once again, I'm greedy.
Let's succeed in Afghanistan and succeed in Iraq.
I don't believe that America has to pick one or the other.
So anyway, I'll stop beating on Peggy Noonan for five minutes, because I I she she is great and I do love her, but golly, that was a real disconnect to hear that coming from her.
So the other way in which I'm greedy is I want the the McCain Palin ticket to speak well of its plans and do so with the kind of upbeat, unapologetic conservatism that is the hallmark of Ronald Reagan.
But every once in a while, and maybe tomorrow night would be a good time to start, I want Senator McCain to remind Americans of the growing list of reasons why Barack Obama is simply not fit to be president of the United States.
So who's with me?
Who's not?
Agree or disagree, we're here for you 1 800-282-2882.
1-800-282-2882.
We are in Zenia, Ohio.
Barb, Mark Davis in Texas, in for Rush Limbaugh.
It's very nice to have you.
How are you doing?
Hi Mark, I'm doing great.
Thanks for uh taking my call.
Sure.
Um in regards to your question, um yeah I totally agree that um McCain needs to bring up Obama's past associations to um that question his character and his judgment definitely needs to be talked about.
And um I think that Sean Hannity's show last night provided a lot of detail behind that.
I hope a lot of people were able to see that.
I'm sure if they didn't they'll they'll have a chance to to see it again.
and I'm sure he'll air it over and over again.
But McCain also needs to talk about Obama's plans, like where he gets up and he says he's going to not take away capital gains on small businesses.
Well, small businesses don't pay capital gains, so that needs to be brought out.
Also, McCain needs to talk about specifics on Obama's, he's going to lower taxes on 95%.
percent of the people a lot of people don't understand exactly what that means so I think it's going to be up to McCain to explain exactly what that means and contrast it with what he's proposing.
So I totally agree that uh McCain Palin needs to bring up Obama's character I think it's um I think it's a good move.
I think that those people who are on the fence who are undecided right now, yes they are going to look at the issues but if they have this information about Obama's character, that's going to be on their mind too when they go to vote and um maybe sway their decision to the McCain Palin ticket because they're going to have that that doubt about the judgment that Obama has made in the past.
So Barb you're you're you're total genius you're r there's plenty of time to do all of this.
These are not mutually exclusive choices that need to be made thank you and my best to everybody in Ohio a little bit of an important state here with uh November fourth.
So let's let's take Barb's lead here and and and set up almost a slicing of the pie.
I'm good with the McCain Palin ticket spending sickty percent of its time talking about why they will be a great administration.
That leaves forty.
All right let's go twenty-five for why the Obama administration is something to be feared in terms of policy, taxes, losing the war, stuff like that.
And 15, just a lowly 15% of the time reminding everyone that Reverend Wright and Bill Ayers exist and Barack Obama is not nearly dismissive enough of them.
Who's with me?
Does that pie slice up well for you?
1-800-282-2882 1-800-282-2882.
Let me head down close to our own listening area here in the Lone Star State and go to Windsboro, Texas.
Phil Mark Davis in for rush how are you?
I'm doing great Mark how you doing man.
Doing wonderfully thank you.
Hey I just had a quick comment first of all I think um I think Palin's going to have to attack uh the ticket because you know McCain's not going to and the media's definitely going to continue to push Obama and attack uh tech McCain.
But um my question for you is over the last few months you have repeatedly said that Obama is unelectable here at VAP and I wonder if you still feel that way.
I do.
And I will feel that way until I have hard evidence to the contrary.
The only asterisk I've ever placed on this is if there is some bizarre earth shattering development of the sort that makes America childishly lunge Democrat like a thousand point drop in the Dow on November third or something like that, then all bets are off.
But I have said for a year that a Republican will win because if it's Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton, neither one of them is electable right now.
And I absolutely have not wavered from that one bit.
I know it doesn't look so great right now, but it didn't look so great a month ago, and then McCain picked up eight points in the polls.
You can pick up seven or eight points in in a week or two.
And I think that there's room for this plot to change twice, maybe even three times, and I just hope that it's swinging McCain's way on the fourth of November, and I ultimately believe that it will.
And and here's another reason why.
Um I'm sure you're go you're going to hear a term if you haven't already, uh a little thing called the Bradley effect, in which a lot of people said in California that they were going to vote for former LA mayor Tom Bradley for governor of of California.
Very nice polsters with very nice clipboards and very nice shopping malls.
Asked him who you gonna vote for, and a bunch of people said Tom Bradley, and then turned around and did not, in fact, vote for Tom Bradley.
Will Senator Obama be victimized by this phenomenon?
Yes, he will.
How much?
I don't know.
One percent, three percent, five percent.
Add that on top of of the people who and and this this is not something to be proud of, and uh and nor is the Bradley effect.
I wanna I like people to tell the truth to pollsters.
Let's I mean, we beat the living daylights out of polsters all the time and with good reason with their slanted questions and uh and bizarre sample uh demographics.
But it's good when polls accurately reflect things, and most of the time they do.
But the number that Barack Obama can't get past is there is either three or five or ten or eleven or seven percent of America that will not vote for a black guy.
Period paragraph, that's it.
That number will dwindle, it's dwindling now.
Forty years ago, it's probably sixty percent of America wouldn't vote for a black guy.
Now it's single digits, probably.
That's unbelievable progress.
But in a close election, uh it's a killer.
And that is why, yes, he remains unelectable.
All righty, one-eight hundred-two eight two two eight eight two, one-eight hundred-two eight two two eight eight two.
My God, I hope I'm right.
I'm Mark Davis filling in for rush, and we'll be back with more of your calls in a moment on the EIB network.
It is Monday, the sixth of October here on the EIB network, Rush Limbaugh, back with you tomorrow.
He and I promise.
I'm Mark Davis, filling in from deep in the heart of Texas at WBAP Dallas Fort Worth, heading back to some more of your calls.
Let us go about an hour north of the city, as they say, in Summers, New York.
Pat Hi, Mark Davis in for Rush.
How are you?
How are you?
I am great.
I have a fifty-year-old daughter who says, Is he kidding, talking about McCain?
He can save this country.
Because his country has been going down the toilet for years.
I mean, I wonder how many people, Mark, caught the Fox News new business program.
It was the first program Saturday night.
Uh I can't uh the the the the uh the fellow that that did it was a one of the reporters used to uh talk at lunch.
I can't think of his name.
But he's what was the content that uh all through Fannie Mae and uh Freddie M and who did it and he started way back in the 30s, it came it was a very documented good program, just speaking about the responsibility of those two things, and then it went up to Carter, then it went up to Clinton, and then all his people I mean, every everything was democratic.
Then it showed that McCain, it said Senator McCain uh prepared a bill to to you know look on look this all over in a lot of trouble in ninety-five, and then you saw Barney Frank saying, Oh no, there's nothing wrong with it.
And then you saw uh uh Chris Dodd, oh no, this is it we're not of course it never passed.
You know, Republicans, Mark, want to be liked.
This is ridiculous.
I mean, the other people let me uh let me ask you a question, because anybody who's listened to Rush over these last few weeks has heard uh him wax eloquent about this, has heard the audio bites that he's brought, sp most notably from the crucial year of 2004, when Democrat America said, Oh, please, Fanny and Freddie are fine, and Republican voices tried unsuccessfully to step forward and take a look at this this hole that we were digging.
So here's my question to you.
You know it, I know it.
Is this the kind of thing that can be turned into an edible muffin that the electorate will go ahead and eat and swallow, or will it be so unfathomable is it's such a thing that makes people's brain leak out their ears that they're never gonna pay attention and we have to remain with sort of broad, easy to uh easy to summarize talking points.
I don't think we should be easy on anything.
I think you should look right at Obama tomorrow night and say, let's let me t let me make a I may have made of an error in judgment and I should have voted no.
Okay, that's number one, because this was all government, you know, what uh d done and uh take Pelosi.
He also ought to mention her.
She's already put a the kibosh on the GOP.
We did it all.
Yep.
Take Obama's ties to acorn, which push lit lenders to make bad loans.
The other night, Mark, they get when they during this program, they said then it was sold to another Mulker's company.
Then it was resold under another, then it was a I was stunned.
I mean, this was a dirty thing.
It was terrible.
And then I'm I have a one friend that's a Democrat and I said, How can you vote?
You people would vote for a toothbrush.
Now you have to be careful here.
We can save McCain and Palin can save this country.
And and will they get the chance?
Will they get the chance?
Pat, I appreciate the the strategic uh the recommendations there.
And and I want to let let's take Pat's words and and let me ask you, because what I asked her, I'll ask all of you.
Because, yeah, if you pay really close attention to this, if you paid really close attention to Rush documenting all of the the the Democrat malfeasance that helped dig this hole.
And you listen, there's there's enough blame to go around.
There are some Republicans who are blind to it, and some that didn't work hard enough to stop it.
But it this can absolutely be wrapped like an anvil around the neck of the Obama Biden ticket.
Theirs is the party that helped dig this hole.
Theirs is the party that absolutely made a moral necessity of extending bad loans to people who were totally unequipped to pay them back.
Listen, there was poor white folks in there too, so it doesn't have anything necessarily to do with color, but it had to do with color when they did it.
In the 1990s, when under the the the heavy boot of the Clinton administration, horrible loan after horrible loan after horrible loan was extended to undeserving uh borrowers.
It was because no one dared be perceived as denying a loan to a black person.
No one dared be perceived as denying a loan to a Hispanic family.
When when someone would show you the paperwork and say, look at this.
They they they they scarcely they're living on a dirt floor.
What are you talking about?
You these people can't pay back alone.
I'm very sorry, but they can't pay back a loan.
Well, give it to them anyway.
And banks would do it anyway because they knew that if they failed to do so, woe be unto the bank.
Oh, whoa be unto the bank that refused a loan to someone of color, even when the paperwork, if you took race out of the equation, would be an obvious negatory, an obvious no, an obvious red stamp, pmm, see you next time.
Banks were under pressure to not reach those decisions.
They were under liberal societal pressure to extend those loans because it was kind, because it extended and I've heard people mock this.
I've heard Democrats, oh, you you Republicans, oh, you're all about the ownership society.
Yes, we're about the ownership society, but you need to have the money to own something before you actually own it.
Silly silly us.
All right, so the minutiae of all of this and the culpability of Democrats.
Is that a winning thing for Senator McCain to spend time on in the debate tomorrow night in campaign ads, or for Sarah to take out wherever she's going, good idea, bad idea, let me know.
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Mark Davis in for Rush Limbaugh be right back on the EIB network.
It is Monday, the 6th of October.
I'm Mark Davis in for Rush Limbaugh on the EIB network.
The election is four weeks from tomorrow, and the town hall debate is tomorrow night, and we're sort of asking, how do you think both of those are gonna go?
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Next up, we are in Stillwater, Oklahoma, and Ashley, that's you, Mark Davis in for Rush, and it's a pleasure to have you.
Hi.
Hi, how are you?
Good, thank you.
Well, I remember listening to you back when I was a student at South Lake Carroll High School on Tremendous the Fighting Dragons, one of the finest high school football teams in America.
I know it.
Well, look, here's my comment.
I just think that now is such a crucial time in this election that we have to pull out all the stops.
And John McCain, frankly, he's dropped the ball.
He had every opportunity to just slam dunk Obama at that debate, and he didn't do it.
We have to call him out for what it is.
The truth can be ugly, and in this case, it's hideous.
And if we don't come out and say it and get it done, that may be our only shot.
We already have the media against us.
You know, we're not getting any passes.
I just was turning through my channels, and I have the 73 Obama Network Plan for America channel on my TV.
Ashley, the hour is done.
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