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Oct. 26, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 26, 2009, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Thanks, Johnny.
Thanks, everybody.
Thank you, Rush, for letting me have the chair for one day.
One day, Rush is back tomorrow.
I always enjoy the phraseology of that intro, custom crafted for me.
I'm honored.
You know what the difference is, though, between the Republican Revolution of 94 and me?
I never lost my rudder, at least.
And God bless Newt and God bless the Republicans of 94.
And now Newt's everywhere, you know, cranking out appearances in books about every other hour.
And people are talking about maybe Newt needs to run for president.
Maybe Newt needs to be president.
Somebody needs to be president that can undo what's being done now.
And some interesting comparisons are being made between the atmosphere of 1994, when things looked very dark for the Republican Party.
Bill Clinton had just won, defeating George H.W. Bush, whose approval levels had been in the 90s, just a blink of an eye earlier.
Not since Watergate had things looked so dark.
And then Republicans simply said, you know what?
We're going to hit the ground harder and faster and better.
We're going to do that contract with America, and we're going to look like we deserve power back.
Isn't that what right now is all about?
Isn't that what 2010 is all about?
1-800-282-2882 is the Rush Limbaugh Show telephone number, as you well know.
And Rush is back tomorrow.
I'm Mark Davis at WBAP in Dallas, Fort Worth.
And I figured today what we would do is look at some broad thematics of what we're all trying to do every day to kind of refocus our energies and achieve some success in 2010 and 2012 for conservatism, but also take a look at some things that are brand new in the headlines this morning, brand new from the weekend, topical TV shows and such, and intersperse some thoughts that I have with some things that are on your mind from the weekend gone by.
A little open line Monday, you might almost call it.
And once again, very, very grateful to be given the opportunity to hang out with all of you today.
One of the battlegrounds, which is already proving to be a very interesting petri dish for what kind of Republicans do we want, right?
Isn't that the question?
What kind of Republicans do we want in the Senate, in the House?
What kind of candidates are going to earn conservative favor in 2012?
But let's go right to ground zero for that battle.
And that is the 23rd district of New York.
Never has so much attention been paid to such a lovely, relatively sparse and pastoral part of our country.
I'll bet it's beautiful up there.
Never been, but if Vermont's right next door, so is Canada.
And you know what that means?
It means you got a sort of a different breed of Republican candidate up there.
You got a sort of a different breed of Republican voter up there.
The New England Republican has always kind of intrigued me.
I had a chance to speak with former Rhode Island Senator Lincoln Chafee on the occasion of the publication of a book of his last year.
I found myself asking, sir, why are you a Republican at all?
I mean, we've all heard the rhino acronym, Republican in name only.
But boy, it just, it tickled my fancy to wonder why weren't you just a Democrat?
But from him to Susan Collins and Olympia Snow in Maine to various other folks that you can find.
You remember the whole Jim Jeffords thing in Vermont where he just was, he just couldn't stay in a Republican party that actually stood for conservative things.
So up in that part of the country, Republicanism is really interesting and probably farther from mainline conservatism than almost anywhere else in the country.
So it is into that arena that we have a fascinating battle brewing.
And the battle is brewing not just within the 23rd District of New York.
It is brewing throughout the state.
It is brewing throughout the country.
If you're new to this and just starting to pay attention, I'll give you some of the basics.
And then I just want to invite a bunch of your calls because it goes right to the heart of how to take the Tea Party passions, the town hall passions, how to play hard and play smart, and try to bring about what I think a really big percentage of the Rush audience wants, what a really big percentage of Republican voters want, what a really big percentage of conservatives want,
and that is a Republican party that is unapologetically conservative, that has its rudder set correctly, that knows where it wants to go, doesn't make excuses, doesn't apologize for it, argues in an upbeat, pleasant way that the things we want, smaller government, the things we want, lower taxes, the things we want, personal responsibility, the things we want on the social agenda, are things that are good to believe in.
So here's where this field is striped.
The congressman in District 23 up in New York used to be a gentleman named John McHugh.
He resigned to become U.S. Secretary of the Army.
So into that vacuum, rush our cast of characters.
There is no primary.
New York state law allowed for this.
You know, you got to move kind of quickly, quick on your feet.
And so what we wound up with in New York was party insiders.
The smoke-filled backroom imagery hangs heavy here.
But through what appears to be a lawful method, the Republican Party of New York offers up a state assemblywoman, a businesswoman named Didi Scozafava.
Now, is she a real, you know, is she Sarah Palin?
Is she, I mean, is she, it doesn't have to be a woman, is she a really tried and true conservative?
No.
Because one can argue, would a really consistent down-the-line conservative even win that district?
Well, we're about to find out.
Because as soon as the Republican Party offered up Didi Scozafava as the Republican combatant up against Democrat Bill Owens, who stands to benefit from all of this, along comes a gentleman, an accountant, community activist, an Army veteran, a noble and honorable and decent guy, and by many measures, an actual conservative named Doug Hoffman.
So the lack of a really actual conservative in the race led Doug Hoffman to run, and it has now led a bunch of people in New York and a bunch of people around the country to rally behind him in an effort to see if we can get the third-party guy,
the conservative party, to beat not just the Democrat Bill Owens, but to beat the thoroughly unsatisfying, to many, Didi Scozafava.
There you are.
So far, so good, right?
Here's what I was talking about last week on the show that I host here in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
First thing that occurred to me, and I heard all these people lining up behind Doug Hoffman, and I was inspired by it.
The idea of an actual conservative riding in to the rescue of conservative voters in this district, left with an unsatisfying choice between a liberal Democrat and a fairly liberal Republican.
Here's an actual conservative.
Wonderful story.
I love it.
Except for one thing.
I don't know if Doug Hoffman can win.
Sitting here today, I don't know if Doug Hoffman can win.
In fact, I have enormous doubts.
Nothing against Doug Hoffman or his candidacy or the support that he is garnering.
That's all very inspiring.
But Dee Dee is apparently the mirror image of most issues of the actual incumbent who did win in a district that went 52% for Obama.
This is not a district in Utah or Mississippi or even my part of Texas.
This is way upstate, almost New England, New York, where precisely two Republicans are in their delegation.
One of them is one of my favorite guys ever, Peter King.
Newt Gingrich has come out and endorsed Dee Dee.
But you know what?
The host of this show ain't doing that.
And our mutual buddy Mark Levin ain't doing that.
Sarah Palin ain't doing that.
And a lot of people are saying, you know what?
I don't really care if we hand this to the Democrat Bill Owens.
I mean, they care, like not to do it.
But on principle, we're going to back Doug Hoffman.
And if Republicans lose that seat, let that be a lesson to them in other districts not to offer up squishy moderates, but give us reliable conservatives whom we can have faith and confidence in.
So my first question for you today is, is that smart?
It's inspiring, no doubt about it.
How do you not love this?
Ton of people that we all love and admire getting behind Doug Hoffman.
Yeah, man, let's see if we can put him over the top.
Well, he's third in the polls.
Mr. Owens, the Democrat, has about 35%, which is interesting.
That means 65% don't want him.
And most of those 65% are split between the Republican, Didi Scozafava, and the conservative party's Doug Hoffman.
We've seen all kinds of things like this happen right next door in New Jersey.
We may be seeing a similar thing, or a more conservative independent may end up letting John Corazine keep his job because Chris Christie can't survive the challenge from his right.
So is it good when we do this?
Is this helpful?
Maybe it is.
Because as recently as the end of last week, I was telling the Texas audience down here, you know, guys, be careful what you wish for because all these Tea Party passions, all these town hall passions, yeah, let's get behind this independent or yeah, let's get behind this third party.
Okay, get ready when you help Democrats win because that's exactly what you're going to do.
Then I started to read my emails and I derived from them, as I may well derive from your calls today, the degree to which many of you view that as a price worth paying.
One seat out of 435.
And if conservatives across America can get behind Doug Hoffman, even if it elects Bill Owens, the Democrat, the lesson from that for the Republican parties of our states, for Republican voters, for Republic of the Republican machine, is you better get behind reliable conservatives or the blood will hit the walls or there will be trouble.
And the number of people who are willing to, even as much as all, it seems like all we want is beat Nancy Pelosi, try to win some Republican seats back.
It's all we want to do.
Well, apparently it's not all we want to do because many of the folks I've been talking to are willing to hand this seat to Bill Owens if that's what it takes to deliver the message that when someone has an R by his or her name, it ought to actually mean something.
A very good friend of mine, Congressman Pete Sessions of the 32nd District of Texas, is the chairman of the NRCC, the National Republican Congressional Committee.
And he is getting lit up like a Christmas tree.
And I wonder to what extent is this happening in your town, in your state, are pretty reliable conservative Republicans lining up behind Didi because they just don't want to lose that seat to Nancy Pelosi.
I think that's an argument they can make.
It's an argument I was making much of last week.
But I've really had my eyes opened to the degree, to the depth of passion that says if we got to walk through some tough times, even tougher than now, to deliver the message to your Republican anointers that squishy moderates either need not apply or will be summarily punished, then that's what you do.
So I'm asking you, is that what you do?
I have some of the material that the NRCC is going to use to make you feel better about Didi.
I'll put it to the test and see if it works.
And what better Petri dish than the Rush Limbaugh Show for that?
And mostly I want to just ask you what your thoughts are about that whole brouhaha and various others that we'll talk about today as well.
So that's just one thing.
There's plenty more to come.
1-800-282-2882.
I'm Mark Davis in For Rush.
Just one day.
Pleasure to be here.
Rush is back tomorrow, and you and I are back after a short pause on the EIB network.
It is the Monday Rush Limbaugh Show.
I'm Mark Davis, deep in the heart of Texas, doing that fill-in-host thing I get to do from time to time, and very grateful to be here with you.
I can't think of a call that's better to kick us off than one that is from that beautiful pastoral corner of the Empire State in the 23rd District of New York.
Bob, Mark Davis, welcome to the Rush Limbaugh Show.
How are you?
I'm wonderful.
Well, I'm angry, actually.
How about yourself?
It is possible to be both wonderful and angry at the same time.
So that's okay.
Might be the makings of a talk show hosting you.
What's going on?
Well, I heard you talking about the 23rd District, and by George, that's me.
I'm fed up with rhinos, Republicans in name only.
Didi Skozafava ran as a Republican.
She votes as a Democrat.
George Pataki, our former governor, did the same thing in the last time he was in office.
He ran as a Republican, and after he got elected, he gave the liberals everything they wanted, higher taxes.
He was for homosexual marriage, and he lied to us also.
I'm supporting Doug Hoffman because he's an honest conservative.
I would rather have an honest Democrat in office than a lying Republican.
This is rural country farmland.
We're the home of Fort Drum, which is the home of the 10th Mountain Division, the most deployed unit in the military.
We're conservative here.
We still go to church.
We still raise the flag.
The kids still say the Pledge of Allegiance.
It's on the radio in the morning.
Indeed.
Let me back up a second.
We're conservative here.
You're conservative to a degree there because the Republican prior incumbent John McHugh wasn't exactly a modern-day Reagan.
And the district went 52% for Obama.
Because we had a choice.
The worst of two evils.
We had John McCain or Mr. Obama.
We knew that working out for you.
What's that?
How's that working out for you?
McCain supports Obama.
It was a flip of a coin.
Yeah, it's okay.
You are perfect.
Here's why.
I understand and share the frustrations of that.
No, no, no, no.
I understand completely.
Here's the thing.
With the frustrations that can arise of insufficiently conservative Republicans, do we deliver a valuable message by denying those people that we agree with half the time in order to what winds up happening is we end up electing people whom we agree with none of the time.
Tell me how that's helpful.
I think it's helpful because the people who do not vote can now see what they will get if they do not vote.
They got Obama, and now they disagree.
And now maybe they'll get off their couch and go vote.
That's in 20 in 2010, even before 2012, in 2010 to try to undo some of this radical agenda that they didn't see coming.
So to bring it to your district, if the activism behind Doug Hoffman helps the Democrat Bill Owens win, you, because you're in the district and the rest of us around the country, we get a little bit of an I told you so, so that in 2010, we say, all right, you got a real Democrat.
You got an Obama actual down-the-line ally in Bill Owens.
If you don't like that, let's tee it up again in 2010.
And this time, give us Doug Hoffman as the Republican nominee, and we'll actually win.
I think Hoffman will win.
I think what's happened in Washington and the fact that the Republicans have no say and the fact that they're being quiet about it has enough people aggravated that they will support Mr. Hoffman.
I am fascinated by it.
And thank you enormously, Bob.
That is geographically and in terms of content.
I couldn't have taken a better first call.
I try hard, and we should all try hard, to separate what we hope to happen from what is likely to happen.
And Bill Owens is a predictable down-the-line Democrat who has broad Democrat support.
Even with the war of words between Didi Scozafava and Doug Hoffman, she's going to still get a big chunk of Republican votes, but how big?
But how big?
I don't know if Hoffman can win.
Nothing would thrill me more if he did.
And maybe there's some history on his side that I'll tell you about next on the EIB network.
1-800-282-2882.
Going back to your calls, as soon as I share a little bit of history, I have shared with you, because I just think honesty requires me to, my huge doubts that Doug Hoffman can win, not because of any criticism I have of him or his campaign.
I'll believe it when I see it.
And I hope to see it.
I hope next time I get the honor of filling in here, I'll say, wow, my doubts about Doug Hoffman's chances were ill-placed.
So what leads to my thoughts about that is that Bill Owens is a good candidate, a good Democrat candidate in a district that won 52% for Obama.
Didi Scozafava is getting pretty pilloried these days.
Some of that is absolutely striking home, but there are plenty.
The big answer, the big question is how many, but plenty of Republican voters in 23 who are going to vote for her because they voted for John McHugh and they view her as John McHugh in a dress.
I was going to scrub my brain of that imagery.
Sorry about that.
But this is the kind of Republican that won the last time a Republican won.
And so we can sit here and wish all day and hope all day that every district that had a Republican incumbent is absolutely looking for down the line, tick them off, reliable, conservative on absolutely everything.
But the fact of the matter is that's not what every single district is looking for.
It's what I'd like to have.
It's probably what you'd like to have.
It's what Bob, our last caller from New York 23, would like to have.
The big, and there's still 12% undecided here.
Still 12% undecided.
And right now, the latest poll, and this was commissioned by the Daily Cost folks, so take that with whatever size grain of salt you want.
35 for Democrat Bill Owens, 30 for Dee Dee, and 23 for Doug Hoffman.
Now, can you make that up?
If all 12% of the undecided go for Hoffman, which ain't going to happen, he's still, you know, it's, it ain't going to happen.
The only thing that can happen between now and that election day is, I guess, for that poll to be wrong and for just an unbelievable swell.
People are going to have to bail from Scozafava so profoundly that Hoffman can take the lion's share of the conservative leaning, Republican-leaning votes in that district.
Now, can that happen?
Yes.
Is it likely?
No.
So we find ourselves talking about what are we doing here?
You're going to hand Nancy Pelosi another ally in Bill Owens, but a lot of folks say that's a price worth paying to deliver a lesson.
You want to lose some more?
You want to lose some more seats?
Wall Street Journal editorial essentially took this tone.
It's like they're trying to lose this seat by offering up someone so sufficiently unsatisfying to so many as Didi is.
So here's the history I wanted to offer you.
New Yorkers will tell you about this, at least the ones who've been paying attention to their own state.
Remember the early to mid-1970s?
I know, unfair question.
For those who do, here's what happened to what was essentially the Bobby Kennedy Senate seat from 1971 through 1976, essentially till just before Carter was inaugurated.
James Buckley was one of the two United States senators from New York.
He was not a Republican.
He was not a Democrat.
He was a member of the Conservative Party.
Here's how that all happened.
In 1968, a liberal Republican, Jacob Javits, was running for reelection, and Mr. Buckley, James Buckley, challenged him and got creamed.
But, but James Buckley got a lot of votes from various disaffected conservative Republicans.
And this was in 1968.
In 1970, he ran again for the U.S. Senate.
This time, he was running against another liberal Republican, Charles Goodell.
Who's he?
Goodell had been appointed to the Senate by Governor Nelson Rockefeller following Bobby Kennedy's assassination.
So Buckley had a campaign slogan in 1970 that I think was genius.
Isn't it time we had a senator?
So Goodell and the actual Democrat, a gentleman named Richard Oettinger, split the liberal vote, and James Buckley won with 38% and was sworn into the Senate on January 3rd, 1971.
That is what Doug Hoffman needs to have happen.
Now, 38% may well win this.
Right now, Doug is more than 10% behind that.
But it's not like he's got 5%.
He's not doing what the average third party or independent candidate does, which is wallow down there in the single digits.
And I figure Doug Hoffman's numbers can only grow.
I mean, they might grow more.
I don't know.
But that's the history that you could say is on Doug Hoffman's side.
But we need to find out if Doug Hoffman is James Buckley.
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We are in Waverly, Nebraska.
Terry, Mark Davis, in for Rush.
Welcome to the Rush Limbaugh Show.
How are you?
Man, it is a great thrill to talk to you.
And I love when you feel in for Rush.
Rush is great.
You're great.
I looked at you guys on KFAB, and it just couldn't be better.
The squishy, squishy, squishy Republicans.
They're trying to tell us what we want, just like the Congress and the Senate and Obama.
You don't want that.
You want this.
They're stupid.
They're ignorant.
And I'm just disappointed in them.
I just thought Steel would be a lot better than what he is right now.
He should be pushing some of this baloney out the window.
And it's just frustrating.
Let me give you a piece of logic because this is what here's the other side of that.
And I'm probably going to offer it up to a lot of people today because that's the other argument.
I want to see how they respond to it.
Because it is the NRCC argument, a lot of incumbents in Congress.
It's the Newt Gingrich argument.
And we all love Newt to varying degrees.
But again, this is where the sides are split.
And right now, it seems that most people are most vocal about what you're saying.
But here's the other side of the coin.
And that is that we can wish all day that Doug Hoffman were the Republican nominee, but he's not.
His likelihood of winning is slim at best.
And isn't Dee Dee, who's going to vote against cap and trade and is endorsed by the NRA, but may be otherwise thoroughly unsatisfying as a conservative, better than Bill Owens, who is a down-the-line Democrat.
Do you want to give Nancy Pelosi another Democrat?
The story that you just said about Bobby and Kennedy and That would be great if it would happen again because maybe we lose a little bit again, but we can come back and we can be stronger.
We need somebody in the Republican Party that's going to say, hey, you know what?
We need to stay strong.
We need to stay conservative.
We need to preach our truth.
And the truth is, the conservatives work.
It conservatives work.
As Rush has said countless times, as he has said countless times, when Republican candidates are reliably, unapologetically, and strongly conservative, the party succeeds.
Terry, thank you.
And the reason I'm going to put a number of people through that exercise, and here's the data coming back.
That as much as there is urgency to winning back seats in the House, as much as there is urgency to winning back seats in the Senate, there is a portion of Republican America and a big portion of conservative America that will even live with this a little longer.
They will even, and I don't know if this transmits on to the presidential race.
I don't even want to get there yet.
We've got a million miles to go before 2012.
But in 2010, if Nancy Pelosi keeps that majority, which he's probably going to do even under the best of Republican scenarios, realistic scenarios, if the message can be delivered in 2010 that all over the place, that ideologically, all over the place, Republicans are not going to be met with favor by conservatives in the district, however many there are, and by a Republican Party desperately seeking to rediscover its rudder,
if the painful message is that Didi has to lose and that helps Bill Owens win, so be it, is the message I'm getting from a ton of people.
So as we work our way through this Monday Rush Limbaugh show, we're evaluating the price of that because it will come at a price.
Because this is just one special election here in New York 23.
You think this isn't going to play out over a ton of other districts?
And so many people are hanging on the fate of Doug Hoffman.
If, I don't want to say fails, Doug Hoffman can lose this race and still help prove a huge point.
In fact, if Bill Owens wins, the Hoffman candidacy will have absolutely proven a point.
It's called Don't Give Us Any More Didi Scozafavas.
But if he actually wins, bar the door.
These Tea Party passions, these town hall passions are going to be lit even hotter than they were in these last few months because finally the definition between Republican and conservative will be clear and one of two things will happen.
Either the Republican Party will pay a price and will actually see the conservative party sprout legs or the Republican Party power brokers will realize that they'd better look and sound and act more conservative than they currently do and start backing more people like Doug Hoffman and fewer people like Didi.
There is an enormous lesson for countless people that lies ahead in this November 3rd special election in this little district in the uppermost corner of New York State.
Let's talk about it some more and various other things still await.
It is the Rush Limbaugh Show for Monday.
I'm Mark Davis, 1-800-282-2882, and we'll continue in just a moment.
It is the Monday Rush Limbaugh Show.
I'm Mark Davis filling in from a proud affiliate WBAP in Dallas, Florida.
But you know what?
While we're tossing out props for various Rush Limbaugh show affiliates, always a pleasure to say hi to the good folks at WREC in Memphis.
Spoke to them on the morning show today.
Used to work there, fun times.
I was just this past week enjoying the hospitality of Laurie Cantillo and the good people of the big 77 WABC in New York.
If I seem oddly, strangely familiar, it's because I was on the Hannity panel on Wednesday night in between Deirdre Imus observations about H1N1.
It was a joy to meet her.
And Jesse Lee Peterson from Bond, just a, it was great to be on the on the Hannity panel and great to be up there in New York.
But it gave me a chance to be in the state and talk to some people about New York 23.
And that's what we're doing largely with you here as well.
1-800-282-2882.
Let's do calls between now, top of the hour, and then we come out of the beginning of the next hour.
The Republican power structure, the National Republican Congressional Committee, lots of Republican congressmen, Newt, others, are saying, essentially, hold your nose and go with Dee Dee, and are doing two things.
They're trying to bolster Didi's conservative credentials.
I have some of the material with which they seek to do that, and we'll see if you're buying it or not.
And they also have some little bit of criticism of Mr. Hoffman.
So we'll see if you think that's fair or unfair.
Right now, though, to the phones once again, and we're in Fort Myers, Florida.
Mike, you're on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Mark Davis, how are you?
Hi, Mark Davis.
It's great to talk to you.
I do love it when you fill in for Rush.
The point I want to make is that if we try and win this battle this way, it's going to take another step toward losing the war that we seem to have been losing slowly but surely for decades.
I want Democrats to wear their policy.
I want them to own it.
I don't want the general public to see Republicans voting 80% of the time with Democrats and thinking that's what we're about.
So I don't think that having a person with an R over his name that's going to vote against one or two things in the House is going to be a victory.
I mean, Newt Gingrich and those that are backing this guy may view it as such, but whenever the general public that doesn't spend a lot of time paying attention to political details and are just trying to work and earn a living for their families, when they catch the general situation and what they get off the news, all they're going to get is, well, you know, Republicans, Democrats, what's the difference?
Are they really?
I mean, to a degree, they will.
And I completely hear what you're saying.
Is it realistic, though, for us to maybe in New York 23, we may be about to learn that an actual conservative can win in New York 23.
There are some districts where someone as conservative and Mr. Hoffman cannot win, but somebody who's a little more centrist can, if that's become a bad word.
And do we blow that away?
Or do we try to establish a standard that says it's got to be a certain kind of Republican, a 90 to 100% conservative Republican, no matter what, and if somebody is 60% Republican or 30 or whatever, that we're going to say no, even if it means helping elect a Democrat.
Is that just what we're saying?
Let me make my point by asking you this.
Do you think the compass of the country, as a matter of policy from the federal government, has been moving to the left or to the right over the past, say, 30 years?
Woof.
Well, tricky answer.
It's hard to say we were moving to the left toward the Reagan era, isn't it?
Which is encompassed in the last 30 years.
Okay, I'm sorry.
Well, that was right before I started voting.
I'm actually only 30%.
No, I understand.
But you make your point, but make it right now.
We certainly appear to be lurching leftward right now.
We keep moving slowly.
We take two steps backward and then one step forward when we put in a liberal Republican, and then it just keeps sliding further and further down.
I think it's time that we stop trying to win these small little battles that in the long term, I think, hurt us more than anything by putting Republicans that don't represent what we're about in office.
I don't think it helped it.
Okay, Mike, thank you.
Appreciate the call from Fort Myers.
And again, we're about to find out what New York 23 is.
They had a moderate to liberal Republican as the incumbent.
He left to become Secretary of the Army.
I mean, that's proof positive of how fairly unconservative he is.
Got tapped to be an Obama Army Secretary.
52% for Obama, but if they could replay that election, is there some buyer's remorse up there in New York 23 where maybe it wouldn't go that way?
And can this conservative challenger actually win?
You know what's funny?
Got a break here real quick, and in the last segment, we'll address this a little and then in the two hours to follow.
A ton of this depends on the lessons we learned from what the actual voter turnout is, on what actually, really happens to Didi, what happens to Ms. Gozafava, what happens to Bill Owens, because then we'll really have something to chew on because it'll be a reflection of what the voters actually did.
Right now, we're sort of talking about what we want those voters to do.
But I'm good with that.
1-800-282-2882, Mark Davis in for Rush.
Be right back.
Just a few precious seconds remaining in this first hour of the Monday Rush Limbaugh Show.
I'm Mark Davis filling in, as I will do for the two subsequent hours.
Rush is back tomorrow.
All right, a lot of Didi's problems arise from some oddities of New York state politics.
There's a thing in the Empire State called the Working Families Party.
There have been some cross-endorsements.
That whole Working Families Party just has a kind of a liberal sound to it, doesn't it?
Well, yes, it does.
And that means you have Republicans running, sort of cross-referenced with some Republicans.
Didi seeks to distance at the moment.
We'll see if she successfully does in some materials from the NRCC.
I'm Mark Davis filling in for Rush.
Stick around.
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