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Oct. 17, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 17, 2008, Friday, Hour #2
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Hiya folks, great to have you with us.
It's Rush Limbaugh, the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
It's Friday, and that means live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's Open Line Friday.
Open Line Friday.
Telephone number 800-282-2882.
If you'd like to be on the program, the email address, Elrushbo at EIBnet.com.
You know how many emails we got yesterday?
210,000.
210,000 emails.
Yesterday, ladies and gentlemen, on our server here.
And you know the rules on Open Line Friday.
We go to the phones.
You own the program.
You can discuss that which interests you, even if I don't care.
I will fake it.
Monday through Thursday, this is only about what I care about, but on Friday, I open it way up.
Now, I want to, you know what the drive-bys are worried about?
I just got a quick glimpse of a story here before the hour began.
You know what the drive-bys are concerned about?
They are concerned about their election night coverage.
They are concerned that the blowout is going to be so huge.
The landslide Obama victory is going to be so huge.
The race is going to be over before most Americans have had dinner.
How do they keep coverage interesting in the face of such a landslide?
Drive-by news executives are wringing their hands over this.
While AP has it 4442, some other group has it 4846.
But they're still worried about this.
Now, well, they used to rely on talent.
They used to rely on talent.
Now, I want to bring up, I want to give you another analogy here about Joe the plumber, because one of the things that the drive-bys are trying to do, and by the way, do you realize we know more about Joe the Plumber than we know about most of the terrorists who blew up this country in 1993 and 1999?
The drive-by media has had more interest in exposing whoever Joe the Plumber is.
By the way, his name is Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher, whatever.
Anyway, his name's not even Joe.
Yes, it is.
Joe is somebody comfortable with his middle name and allows it to be used, as opposed to who?
There's this kid out there named Obama, and we're not allowed to mention his middle name, which is Hussein.
But Joe Wurzelbacher is very comfortable having his middle name mentioned.
And what they're trying, they're trying to disqualify, because they know the Obama vulnerability here.
The vulnerability is Obama's answer to Joe's question, not what Joe said.
So they're trying to disqualify Joe's question.
Well, Joe really isn't a plumber, and Joe really doesn't make 250.
So Obama's answer doesn't count.
Obama's answer is irrelevant because Joe lied in his question.
So let me give you an illustration of this.
Suppose Obama's going door to door in South Florida or in Brooklyn.
And somebody knocks on somebody's door and the door opens and the person inside, you know, Senator Obama, as a Jew, I want you to promise to support Israel.
And Obama said, Israel's going to have to pay.
They've got an unfair advantage, and they're going to have to get up half their land.
They're going to have to pay.
They've got an unfair advantage over there.
Those people are poor.
Israel's wealthy.
They're going to have to pay.
Later, it's found out that the person asking the question was not a Jew.
So Obama's answer doesn't count?
That's what they're trying to say today.
That Obama's answer does not count.
Obama, I've been watching him.
He's making a speech somewhere today.
He's uptight.
He has been focusing in this speech.
You know, McCain has hit him hard.
Senator Obama, my name is not George W. Bush.
And if you wanted to run against George Bush, you should have done that four years ago.
And McCain hammered him on that last night, too.
Obama's defensive as hell.
He got mad.
He's out there.
He's focusing on that wherever he was.
He's in Virginia today.
Why is Obama in Virginia?
He's supposedly up 10 points in Virginia.
Why is he wasting time and money in Virginia if he's up 10 points there?
And if he's up 10 points, how the hell can he lose Virginia with such little time to go?
Right now to the Alfred E. Smith dinner.
Last night, McCain killed.
He really did bring down the House last night.
63rd annual Alfred E. Smith benefit dinner.
This is a Catholic Charities Foundation dinner that is held every year.
They raised over $2.5 million last night.
We have a series of bites from both candidates, McCain first.
This campaign needed the common touch of a working man.
After all, it began so long ago with the heralded arrival of a man known to Oprah Winfrey as the one.
Being a friend and colleague of Barack, I just called him that one.
Friends, he doesn't mind at all.
In fact, he even has a pet name for me, George Bush.
The laughter went on and on and on and on.
And we've cut the laughter for the time constraints here.
And here is Senator McCain skewering the Clintons while sticking it to Obama.
Even in this room full of proud Manhattan Democrats, I can't shake that feeling that some people here pulling for me.
I'm delighted to see you here tonight, Hillary.
Where's Bill, by the way?
Can't he take one night off from his tireless quest to make the man who defeated his wife the next president?
When Larry King asked President Clinton a couple of weeks ago, what was the delay and why he wasn't out there on the trail for Barack, Bill said his hands were tied until the end of the Jewish high holidays.
I just know Bill would like to be out there now, stomping for Barack until the last hour of the last day.
Unfortunately, he is constrained by his respect for any voters who might be observing the Zoroastrian New Year.
This is great stuff.
And the laughter went on and on and on.
This is a great McCain line on Obama and the economy.
And they cut to Obama during all these jokes.
And Obama laughed at some of them.
But you can tell some of these things are really getting to him.
And he's to me, last night anyway, I learned Obama does not have a sense of humor.
Let's see, here's the next one.
We all know that Senator Obama is ready for any contingency, even the possibility of a sudden and dramatic market rebound.
I'm told that at the first sign of recovery, he will suspend his campaign and fly immediately to Washington to address this crisis.
Yeah, baby.
The markets start doing great.
Obama's going to stop and head to Washington to deal with it, find out what happened.
He then went after the media a little.
My old friend and green room pal, Chris Matthews.
He used to like me, but he found somebody new.
Somebody who opened his eyes, somebody who gave him a thrill up his leg.
And we've talked about it.
I told him, Maverick, I can do, but Messiah is above my pay grade.
I know, I know, I know you're asking, where the hell has this been?
Where the hell's this kind of stuff been?
Because what it, now, I don't know who wrote this for McCain.
Obviously, somebody did, but I mean, this is somebody, somebody behind the scenes knows full well who Obama is, what the Clinton relationship with Obama is, what the Clinton's desires regarding Obama are.
You know, humor just works so well.
When you skewer somebody and everybody's laughing when you do it, it's just it is profoundly good.
Now, let's one more, and this is the classy McCain.
I think this is generational, by the way.
You know, a lot of things get lost in terms of class as generations pass and come and go.
The old days of being gracious and complimentary to your opponent and so forth, those days they've gone by the ball for the most part.
But McCain is old enough to have had that been part of his upbringing and so forth.
And this is near his close.
This is not how he closed it.
He closed it with more humor, but this is what he had to say about Obama.
My opponent is an impressive fellow in many ways.
Political opponents can have a little trouble seeing the best in each other.
But I've had a few glimpses of this man at his best, and I admire his great skill, energy, and determination.
It's not for nothing that he's inspired so many folks in his own party and beyond.
Senator Obama talks about making history, and he's made quite a bit of it already.
I can't wish my opponent luck, but I do wish him well.
Now, I know you're saying this.
Why do you have to compliment Obama?
Because he knows his audience.
He knows who the audience is.
He knows what the purpose of this dinner is.
He knows what's called for.
And he gave it all.
He gave the humor.
He did the humor well.
He was properly respectful of the host of the event and the guests, honored guests, and so forth.
Katie Couric was up there.
She had her Sarah Palin hairdo last night.
Brian Williams up there.
The New York elite is who's in the crowd.
All right, brief timeout.
We'll come back and let you hear Obama on the same dais.
Got another poll, and I hate to say it, but I warned you people this was going to happen.
I told you these polls are going to tighten up as we get close because the pollster's credibility is, at the end of the day, is something they count on.
We've already got AP out today, 4442.
And the story accompanying their poll is all about how McCain is losing favor with people.
That people are growing more rancorous with McCain.
Yet the poll is 4442.
That has McCain and Obama both down.
But the story of the poll doesn't contain the results.
You have to go to the PDF file that they released at the same time.
We've got the Gallup tracking poll today just out today.
Likely voters still at 4947.
Obama.
And they also add this at Gallup.
If turnout in this year's election follows traditional patterns by which the voting electorate skews towards those who usually vote, as well as those who are interested in this year's election, this race, a close one, with Obama holding onto a two-percentage point margin, 4947, which is in the margin of error.
Here is Obama.
Now, let me tell what happened.
I did not see this when it was going live last night.
I had forgotten it was even on.
And I had the baseball game on in the background.
At home, I have to turn away from the TV to use the computer.
I turn to my left.
I've got an L-shaped desk there.
And I'm the computer and I'm working on today's show and a number of other things and occasionally glance at the screen to see how bad the Red Sox are getting blown out.
Then my email, I got a flash from a friend.
McCain is killing tonight.
What's going on tonight?
Oops, Alfred E. Smith.
So I turned on C-SPAN and I caught the last line of McCain and a crowd going nuts.
And then I saw Obama introduced.
And I did watch Obama live.
Watched Obama live.
Then I went back and I found the McCain stuff Before I went to bed last night.
And I sent my friend who had sent me this note, oh, McCain is killing tonight.
I fired back.
I said, Obama's bombing.
Now, I admit I was a little bit reacting to his telling me that McCain had killed.
I hadn't seen McCain, but I've seen that Bush killed at these things.
Bush just was fabulous at these things.
It's all about who writes them.
I'm told that Matthew Scully wrote McCain's last night, who also wrote Palin's speech at the Republican Convention.
Well, you've got to be able to tell a joke, and McCain's timing was impeccable.
His timing last night was impeccable.
You got to be able to do that.
I don't know who wrote Obama's.
I'm thinking somebody Saturday Night Live like Lauren Michaels, or maybe they went and got the teetering normalcy Al Franken to write it because this was bitter.
There were parts of it that were bitter and that really weren't funny.
And something else I noticed as I watched Obama, he was ad-libbing the part where he got to praising McCain.
And I think, I'm just guessing, but I'm pretty good analyzing this stuff because I'm a highly trained analyst and specialist.
But I'm pretty sure that Obama did not have any words for McCain in this, or not very many.
And then after McCain goes on and on and on praising Obama, Obama, I'm going to have to say something here.
And he's ad-libbing.
We don't have tape of that.
But he's just, he's just, I'm just passing this off to you.
Let's just get to the Obama bites.
We have four of them here.
Here is Obama making fun of his middle name.
Many of you know that I got my name, Barack, from my father.
What you may not know as bra is actually Swahili for that one.
I got my middle name from somebody who obviously didn't think I'd ever run for president.
Okay, now that one was so good that he then went on to say, we don't have tape of this, but he did was not born in a manger.
Contrary to popular opinion, he was not born in a manger.
He was born on Krypton.
And he was sent here by his father, Jor L, to save planet Earth.
That fell flat.
No, no, no, I wasn't born in a manger.
I'm not Christ.
I'm not Jesus.
I'm Superman.
I know he's trying to be self-deprecating and laugh at himself, but I don't think Obama laughs at himself.
I don't think Obama laughs much.
That's what I picked up from this.
Here's the second joke about his middle name.
In the spirit of full disclosure, there are a few October surprises you'll be finding out about in the coming weeks.
First of all, my middle name, it's not what you think.
It's actually Steve.
That's right.
Barack Steve Obama.
See, the first middle name joke went over so well.
Swahili is for that one.
Barack is Hussein or Swahili, Barack, whatever, making fun of his name.
He closed out.
But let's go to 29 here.
Let's go to 29 first.
This is the one that made me think he is bitter.
Well, I know he's bitter about this because in the debate, he was crying.
He was whining and moaning about how if it weren't for Fox News, he'd have three or four more points in the polls.
To which the retort is: if it weren't for MSNBC, CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS, the New York Times, Washington Post, L.A. Times, USA Today, blah, you wouldn't be at 30% into polls.
But he's going to go, Fox News, Fox News.
So he got in a little dig here at Rupert Murdoch.
the other day, Fox News actually accused me of fathering two African American children in wedlock.
By the way, John, I'm just curious, is Fox News included in the media?
Because Because I'm always hearing about this love.
Just curious.
Now, this I don't know, folks, this doesn't, this is not a guy who can rise above this kind of stuff.
This petty little stuff.
Man, if you're running for president, you can't take the media and you can't handle, you can't handle one dissenting voice.
Can you imagine if Obama were a Republican?
But he can't handle one.
And Fox, by the way, I don't know if you saw the post-debate analysis, Obama, but the Fox All-Stars want to fix you breakfast every morning and they want to put you to bed every night and they want to drive your car every day.
You got to look around and find out you got real friends over at Fox News, Obama.
This guy's, he's got something, something here, folks, just doesn't sit right here.
He closes with a little bit of class warfare about New York City.
Beyond the walls of this hotel, on the streets of one of the greatest cities in the wealthiest nation on earth, there are men and women and children who've fallen on hard times and hard luck, who can't find work or even a job that pays enough to keep a roof over their heads.
And some are hanging on just by a thread.
Now, there's Obama saying this while dressed in white tie.
This was a white tie dinner last night.
And that meant the babes can bring out all the finest baubles and jewels that they either rent or own and the finest gowns and all this.
New York page six reports, though he's battling GOP accusations, he's an Ivy League elitist, Barack Obama has a lifestyle of the rich and famous like Robin Leach, who always signed off champagne wishes and caviar dreams.
While he was at a meeting at the Waldorf Hysteria at 4 p.m. Wednesday, Michelle Obama called room service, ordered lobster hors d'oeuvres, two whole steamed lobsters, Iranian caviar and champagne.
And there's Obama waxing eloquent about all the suffering outside the hotel on the streets of one of the greatest cities in the wealthiest nations.
So had to get a little class envy.
Not funny.
It was not warm even.
Some of these jokes, he was laughing at them alone.
He was laughing at his own jokes himself.
We'll be back.
Stay with us.
If the assault on an American citizen by the name of Joe Wurzelbacher, Joe the Plumber, about whom, by the way, McCain will come to his defense in Miami today during a speech.
I have the comments.
I have the transcript, but it's embargoed until McCain delivers the speech.
He's going to come to Joe's defense.
If you think what's happened so far, if you still, it's not bad.
Rush, I mean, it's politics.
Democrats got to go out and, you know, anybody's got to destroy their critics.
If what they've done so far to Joe the Plumber hasn't really offended you, try this.
This is Joe Biden last night on the Tonight Show with the chin, Jay Leno.
Joe the plumber guy.
You know, I don't know.
I didn't have many of those partners in my neighborhood.
Yeah, you know, I think more people are afraid of plumbers and terrorists, actually, when you think about it.
No, but it just seems awful convenient and all that.
I'm a little suspicious, but that's me.
You know, worried about taxes.
Does it seem real?
Does that seem like a real?
Well, let me put it this way.
I don't know the neighborhood I grew up in, even the neighborhood I live in now, which is a really nice neighborhood.
I don't know many plumbers are making $250,000 a year worried about it.
You're kind of worried about, you know, Joe the fireman, Joe the policeman, Joe the real plumber with a license.
So in addition now to just comparing, you know, being more afraid of plumbers than terrorists, I mean, this is this is, they're trying to be funny, but they're being funny at the expense of an average ordinary American here.
And you had a couple of elitists here, especially Biden.
But I don't know if you caught this, but Biden's point is that if you make over $250,000, you're not worried.
You're not worried about it because you can afford it.
If you make over $250,000, you can afford Obama's tax increases.
People aren't worried about it.
But Joe the fireman, Joe the real plumber, Joe the real plumber with a license.
I'll tell you, these are some of the plain and simple meanest people you are ever going to run into.
And I'm telling you, I watched Obama today in Roanoke, Virginia, and he's not happy.
This man is not the unifier.
He is not sitting there like he's sitting on this big lead.
He is mad as hell.
His facial expression betrays it, the energy in his speech.
This is not the cool, calm customer that the people at Fox News and some of our conservative pseudo-intellectual journalists on our side keep referring to him as.
He's, to me, starting to crack a little bit here.
A lot of things that are getting to him, particularly, you know, McCain's calling him senator government, and McCain's saying, my name isn't George Bush.
You had a chance to run against him four years ago.
He focused on that through a lot of this speech.
Well, I know he's not George Bush, but I'm running against Bush's policies.
Blah, blah, blah.
Very defensive.
He has been put on defensive.
Barack Obama today is on the defensive, and they're on the defensive with a plumber.
Back to the phones.
This is Duncan in Lincoln, Nebraska.
Hi, Duncan.
Nice to have you on the EIB network, sir.
Hello.
Hello, Rush.
How are you doing today?
It's not to talk to you.
Yeah, great, sir.
Thank you.
And the reason why I wanted to call in today was I'm a student here at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and they just announced yesterday that they had invited William Ayers to come speak at the university.
And, you know, I was pretty upset about that.
Yeah, I think it's November 15th.
It is 9 o'clock in the morning.
It's after the election.
Yes, that's correct.
But still, you know, I kind of feel like they're providing a platform for him to spout his anti-American socialist agenda.
I mean, he's an unrepentant terrorist, and, you know, in my view, I mean, he's no different than, you know, the Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVay.
I mean, the only difference is, you know, Timothy McVay was caught and Ayers was acquitted.
Airdro beat the rap, yeah.
But that's not the important thing, though.
What's happening with Ayers is that the highfalutin members of academe all over the country are circling the wagons and they're having up these, just like they had at Durham or at Duke University in Durham, all the faculty signed this thing condemning the lacrosse team and praising the lying through her teeth rape victim.
So now faculties across the country are circling the wagons to protect Ayers because Ayers is one of them.
He is a huge leftist.
He is a radical professor of education in Chicago.
But it's more than that what he has done.
I mean, just two years ago, he was down in Venezuela praising Hugo Chavez, a socialist dictator, for his education policies.
The education policies in Hugo Chavez's school are all about overthrowing capitalism and establishing the greatness and the brilliance of socialism in as much of the world as possible.
That's what Ayers is doing.
Ayers is devising curricula that is being used in a lot of public schools around the country.
He is advising, training teachers how to teach kids to be reactionaries, radicals, and not teaching them math, science, and all this sort of stuff.
And so he's being rewarded.
He's being praised by other academics as they circle the wagons, try to fix it.
Sort of like when the media circle the wagons around Dan Rather after Rather made up the story about Bill Burkett and Bush's National Guard.
These people are holding together and they're trying to protect one of their own.
Well, I mean, and this is the guy that they're inviting to come and speak.
You know, and it just, you know, a lot of people have tolerate the man.
He's one of them.
You can look at, look at, I hate to tell you, Duncan, but he's one of them.
They admire him.
They respect him.
They are trying to prop him up.
This guy wrote glowingly of Ward Churchill.
Bill Ayers did.
Well, you know, I mean, I just don't think that it's something that should be done.
And a lot of people, you know, have called in and voiced outrage about that, too.
So, I mean, I just giving this guy a platform like that is, I don't think, is a good idea at all.
Well, here's the thing about universities.
I always believed, even though I did not like the campus, it just was not a place for me to camp high or too many people there conforming with everything.
I mean, it's a factory.
You got to conform to this.
I felt like I was in prison every time I was in any classroom.
But I always thought that college campaign were supposed to be citadels for the free and open exchange of all ideas.
And maybe in the past they have been, but they're no longer that.
They are indoctrination centers for radical leftism.
And so, under normal circumstances, if they want to bring Bill Ayers in, let them bring him in.
What will happen is if they tried to bring in, say, well, a well-known conservative academic, that's when the protest, that's when the students at University of Nebraska will be ginned up and try to stop that person from speaking.
I don't know that you're going to see too much of that with Ayers.
And I haven't heard anything about that either.
No, you don't.
As far as the students are.
Let's face it, 9 o'clock in the morning.
I mean, even in Lincoln, the bars stay open late.
There aren't going to be all that many people out of bed to go over there.
Let me check the date of the.
What was it?
I'm finding real quick here with the date of the week for the 15th.
This is going to be crucial in terminating the.
Well, hell, this can't.
Maybe I got the date wrong.
The 15th is a Saturday.
That can't possibly be.
I think I've got the date.
Do you know the exact date that he's coming in?
I don't.
I don't.
They just said that it was next month.
Maybe it's the 25th, which is a Tuesday.
It can't be the 15th.
That's a Saturday, and that's Nebraska's playing football that day somewhere.
So anyway, Duncan, I know some Nebraska alums, and they are like you.
They think the world's coming to an end.
How can this possibly happen?
But all the leftists are circling their wagons to try to protect the guy because he's properly under assault here.
Glad you called.
We move on.
Open line Friday to Miami.
And Richard, welcome to the EIB Network, sir.
Hello.
Thank you, Rush.
Pleasure to talk to you.
Rush, I read on your website that we can't expect McCain to hold Obama to the fire on many issues like Acorn, Fannie Mae, and his anti-American mentors.
So I thought, just as Obama is so ready to sit down unconditionally, you know, so brave to meet with these terrorist leaders from all over the world, I thought, why don't you challenge him publicly through the liberal media, New York Times, full-page ad or something, kind of like the way the old boxers used to challenge each other to a one-hour no-holds-barred meeting with you.
Let's see if he has the guts to stand up to your conversation with him.
That's one point.
Well, if I were to do that, I wouldn't go the showbiz route.
I wouldn't put an ad in the New York Times.
I'm not going to spend a lot of money.
I'm not going to waste a lot of money on what I know the answer is going to be.
You have to understand something here, Richard.
And that is, Barack Obama is more afraid of somebody like me than he is Mahmoud Ahmedine's out.
Of course.
Obama's playing pre-vent difference.
You have to understand he's not going to be aggressive.
That's what made his appearance in Roanoke today so remarkable.
The Obama game plan right now is to coast.
Don't do anything that could upset the Apple Cart.
Don't do any more.
We want to just spread the wealth around.
His whole philosophy is don't make a mistake.
You're a football fan?
Yep.
Well, there's a thing in football called a prevent defense.
And let me explain to you: do you watch football ever at all?
Sure.
Okay, here's the prevent defense.
Fourth quarter, one team is up by two touchdowns, and there's five, six minutes to go, maybe seven or eight minutes to go.
The losing team gets the ball.
The defense only rushes three guys.
They put everybody back in the secondary and they give up all the yardage in the world.
They give up 10-yard passes, 15-yard passes, but they don't want to give up the bomb, the long bomb to the end zone that could beat them.
But in the process, they give up all this yardage.
They do give up all this ground, hoping that the other team will take a whole lot of time to gain the ground and run time off the clock.
The prevent defense is one of the things that people accuse it of is preventing victory because it lets the other team back in.
You just play your standard defense.
You do run the risk of giving up the big play, but how often does a big play happen?
You want to go three and out, make him punt, get the ball back, and then freeze the clock.
Anyway, Obama right now is playing the prevent defense.
He's backing off.
He's going to let whatever McCain says, he's not going to engage.
He's not going to get aggressive.
He's trying to run out the clock.
Now, the danger in this is that he doesn't have that big a lead to be running out the clock, according to two pretty reliable polls out today, and one out yesterday, the IBD Investors Business Daily TIP TIPP poll, which has Obama up three.
So he's running out the clock, but I think even he's slipping out of that because this appearance in Roanoke today, there was no smiling and there was no, it wasn't the usual Obama appearance.
He was responding in anger to things that McCain said last night at the Alfred Smith dinner and in the most recent debate.
And I didn't get to see enough of it, see if he brought up Joe the Plumber, but he did yesterday making fun of Joe the Plubber.
His whole campaign is doing that too.
Meantime, we have to go to an extreme, obscene EIB profit break.
We'll do that.
Be right back after this.
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800-282-2882, Kimberly in Dayton, Ohio.
Nice to have you back.
I remember you, I think.
Last time you called, you were a little put out with me, were you not?
Oh, yeah, I was a little put out.
I called you in 2006 because I had been trying to get in touch with you and tell you that I was on the ground and things were not looking good, and I needed you to know that.
And I was just, I was pretty frustrated.
But I want to tell you now that you're right.
And I'm still on the ground, and I see what's going on.
I'm talking to these people.
I'm one of the hundreds of nameless spaces that you talked about in 2004 where the people that are on the ground working.
And I can tell you, if it weren't for Sarah Palin, we wouldn't even be doing that.
So McCain gets kudos for that one.
But I go to the next one.
Wait just a second here, Kimberly.
We've got to refresh people's memory.
You may not have heard your call 2006.
You called the last election, the midterms in 06, and you told me I was wrong about what?
I told you that you were wrong, that it was not going to go well, that people were going to the polls, and their specific purpose to go to the polls was to vote one party out.
And the reason why was to teach that party a lesson.
They wanted, they were going, Republicans were going to the polls, voting Democrat, to teach the Republican Party a lesson.
It was happening.
And on voter election day, I cannot tell you.
We go to the polls every year and we pass out these voters.
And they're nonpartisan voter guides.
And we pass them out because in places where the Democrats are strong, they'll look at these voter guides.
They'll take them from us because they don't have Republican on them and they didn't even have Bush on them or anything like that.
And so they would take them from us and they would leave voting a candidate.
Wait a minute.
Hold a minute.
I'm still a little confused.
What was I saying in 06 that you thought I was wrong about?
You were saying that you didn't think that people were going to go to the election and just vote a party out.
You didn't think they were going to teach them a lesson.
You didn't think people were really going to be able to do that.
Okay, so I was, so but you think I was wrong then, but I'm right about what now?
You're right now that people are not, this election is not by any means in the bank.
And I don't know where they're getting these polls from and who they're talking to, but I can tell you that I see an energy on the ground like I have never seen.
And I said that in 2004.
This is beyond comprehension.
They have a victory center that they opened in Hubert Heights, Ohio, which is just north of Dayton.
And it's run almost completely by homeschoolers.
And people go there and volunteer all day long.
And people have been driving up there from Kentucky to get signs, Ncaine Palin signs, because they can't find them.
They have a waiting list that's constantly 20, 30 people long.
As soon as they get the signs in, they're gone.
People are buying signs.
Some guy, the other day I went into this, to pick up some signs they were supposed to hold for me and gave them away.
And there was a guy who came in.
His wife had designed a sign called, and it says, I like her with big red lipsticks, signs on it.
He was selling them for $5, and he came into the office, and the guy said, well, I'll buy 10 of them and see how they go.
And I said, I'll buy four right now.
And he looked back at the guy and he goes, you know what?
We may need more.
Okay, okay.
Why are people so jazzed?
They are jazzed because there is, and it's not because she's a woman.
Okay, let's make that very clear.
This isn't about race, and this isn't about gender.
This is about someone who finally has the backbone to stand up and say what we all feel.
Okay, so what you're saying is the difference between 06 and 08 is that the Republicans voted Democrat in 06 because they were mad at Republicans want to teach him a lesson.
Right.
Now have somebody on the Republican side they love and can vote for and it's Palin.
Yes.
All right.
And how much sentiment against Obama is also responsible for motivating these people and their attitude?
Well, I would have to say that about two weeks ago, I would say not much.
But within the last two weeks, especially the last, I'll tell you, since Joe the Plumber, things have changed dramatically.
And there have been people who have had their eyes open to exactly what he's doing.
There are two issues that are really driving people right now, especially women and moms, which are moms who are out there worried about their families.
You know, there is something, I think, to what she's saying here about the enthusiasm for the Republican ticket this time around, based on the size of the Palin rallies, which is not being reported all that much.
In fact, what's being said about the Palin rallies is all the radicals that are found there and shouting all these insulting things when, in fact, it's a reporter making it up or maybe shouting it himself.
I wouldn't be a bit surprised if a stupid reporter is the one that made it up and shouted it himself.
And that's how he says, truthfully, I heard somebody say it.
I said it.
The Democrats are worried about a lot more than they want you to let on, as are the drive-by media.
It's interesting.
And this is in Dayton, Ohio, by the way.
This is swing state, Ohio.
And where, by the way, if you're just tuning in, as you know, the Secretary of State there, Jan Bruner, found that there were 200,000 fraudulent registrations.
And the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals said, you got till today to verify those for the counties where they're registered.
And she said, I don't have time to do that.
This is too big a job.
And she went to the U.S. Supreme Court and they upheld for her.
She basically went to the U.S. Supreme Court and said, let me cheat.
U.S. Supreme Court said, you go right ahead.
You go right ahead and cheat.
So we're got 200,000 registrations that are questionable in Ohio.
And I'm sure that's firing people up too.
It's going to fire a lot of people up.
Drudge just posted a link that said Saturday Night Live has a script, a little skit coming on Joe the Plumber as John McCain's imaginary friend.
They keep piling on, folks, and I'm smiling about it.
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