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Nov. 3, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 3, 2009, Tuesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 247 podcast.
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All right, let's talk election day today, and let's talk about people have been asking me, so Rush, what what what are your predictions?
What are you what are your predictions?
And I said, Well, it's it's it's it's tough to make predictions here because you don't know what the acorn factor is going to be, and you don't know what the the vote fraud factor is gonna be, particularly in uh in New Jersey, ABC News radio at the top of the hour here on Q, by the way, CNN's doing the same thing, said that the White House is insisting that these uh the governor races should not be seen as a judgment on the White House.
I mean, CNN writed it's tough being CNN today.
They've got a poll out that shows Obama at 54% approval.
Now, what timing?
What timing?
The day of the election and uh the day before the results are analyzed.
So if Obama's at 54% approval and Democrats get shellacked today, why it has nothing to do with Obama?
But they bury something very important in their own poll.
Obama health care approval, 424, 57 against in the health care bill.
I'm gonna tell you something in the CNN poll, I'll tell you something else about these elections.
This election today, all of these elections are precisely why Obama and everybody wanted to get this health care done before the August recess.
So that they'd be able to go to these elections and claim some big achievement, but they were unable to do that.
And, you know, if if these elections go uh you know, total Republican today, it could be a nail in the coffin of Obamacare.
This is what they knew all along.
You know, I said on Fox News Sunday, every day I get up and I feel like I'm in the trenches of a war.
No bullets being fired, but it it's just every day you get up, and there is another assault on liberty and freedom and the founding of this country every day.
It never stops.
So people have been asking me for my predictions.
And I want to tell you what my predictions are.
Oh, by oh, by the way, grab audio soundbite number 18.
You remember my great line yesterday about Didi Scuzzafaba?
The Libs are outraged by it.
And Hoffman in New York 23 has come out to defend Didi Schazafava against this this this brazen personal attack launched by me.
And all I said was, well, I think it was a fabulous line.
I mean, I like the line so much I'm gonna repeat it for you.
Dizzy Didi Scazafava.
Dizzy Didi Scafava.
Let me find the exact quote, but it's it's uh let me find I've got it in one of the early stacks here.
I want to find the exact quote.
Um I'm sending this on the fly here, folks.
This is what it's gonna be like trying to get the audio sound bites in order today, too.
Well, I guess that put it somewhere, and I can't know where it is.
But anyway, I accused her of of uh uh bestiality.
She screwed every rhino in the country.
And the play on words there is rhino, republican in name only.
By screwed, I meant she just gave him the shaft.
She just gave me she just showed the world what rhinos are.
Oh, because they think I actually was accusing her of bestiality.
Here's here's a montage of liberals offended by it.
Bestiality is an interesting reference point.
She quote has screwed every rhino in the country.
That is a metaphor from help.
Very bizarre, and we don't want to psychoanalyze that.
I'm not gonna say it.
Let Rush Limbaugh say it.
And uh they're they're in a tizzy, and and uh what's happened now is that this Hoff uh uh uh what's the guy's name up there, the Democrat.
What's his name?
Owens, yeah.
Owens has come out and issued, that's what I was looking for and can't find here.
Uh he's come out and issued a statement Defending Didi Schazafaba against this outrageous personal attack launched by me.
Now, Didi Skazafava is a liberal woman.
I thought she could take care of herself.
Why do these wimp liberal guys have to come out and start defending these women?
What happened to feminism in this country?
I mean, why did she quit in the first place?
I mean, that's not what feminism taught women to do.
Anyway, um, here is my prediction.
Can't be serious about what?
Yeah, they did.
Oh, they did.
Oh, yeah.
Snerdle, it's because I said it.
You know, I knew it was going to be the media tweak of the day when I said it.
I wish I could find this damn thing.
I've got I got 13 stacks of paper here.
And I don't know where I put what.
You know, I here I am one of the most advanced computer guys in the world, and I still print this stuff out because there's no way I could do this on the computer.
Uh the I can't put all this stuff on one monitor.
Uh, but I'll find it.
Maybe I was looking at the wrong stack.
Um, Staxar.
Maybe I need a stag.
Here it is.
Owens.
Limbaugh's attack on Skazafava offends me personally and exemplifies exactly what's wrong with Hoffman.
Democrat New York 23 candidate Bill Owens is jumping to the defense of Didi Schuzzafaba, his Republican former rival who dropped out of the race and endorsed him against conservative Doug Hoffman following an attack on her by Rush Limbaugh.
Limbaugh declared today that Skazafava was guilty of widespread bestiality.
She has screwed every rhino in the country.
They have no sense of humor, folks.
That's the problem here.
They have zero sense of humor.
Screwed every rhino and that that's that's just the opening line of a brilliant analysis of how Dee Dee Skazafava, supposedly a moderate Republican, has come out and shown the the country who rhinos really are.
At the end of the day, they're liberal Democrats.
And that's why, so that's how she screwed every rhino, because now the the secret's out.
You know, Genie's out of the bottle.
These guys, these Republicans in name only are not Republican and they're not moderates.
They're liberals.
Here's here's Owen's statement.
This despicable attack on assemblywoman Scuzafava offends me personally and exemplifies exactly what's wrong with Hoffman and his right wing backers.
Scuzafava is an honorable public servant who has served upstate New York as an independent principal leader who has always prioritized the best interest of upstate New York ahead of a partisan agenda, which is BS.
Limbaugh and the rest of the right wing special interests that are running Hoffman's campaign can't even begin to compete with what she has accomplished over her career.
Doug Hoffman ought to denounce Limbaugh immediately.
That's Owens.
And I, you know.
More the I she can't speak up for herself, I guess.
More liberal wimps.
Let's see if I get...
I've got maybe a couple other examples of this.
Okay.
So it's every day.
Everyone, I think I'm offering brilliant analysis and commentary.
Unheard anywhere else but this show.
I find the next day that the liberals are in a brand new tizzy because they haven't the intelligence or the sense of humor to understand the slightest thing that I say.
Now, this predictions.
Um I'm not gonna predict the races.
I'm gonna predict the media to you.
And I'm because I've already got examples of it in the audio soundbite roster here, uh, and a couple of news stories.
The media tonight and tomorrow are gonna be working hard, my friends, to deliver you not the news, but Obama talking points about this election, as in ABC Radio News just 15 minutes ago, insisting White House insisting that these governors' races should not be seen as judgment on the White House.
That's ABC falling right in line, CNN has too.
First, there's Virginia.
Whatever the vote totals in Virginia, the state-controlled media will report that the turnout was not as big as expected.
That the vote for the Republicans and against the Democrats was not as big as expected.
And besides, everybody knew that the Republicans would win.
It's no surprise.
The White House even knew it.
Why, the White House threw this guy Kree Deeds under the bus a couple of weeks ago?
The White House knew he ran a lousy campaign.
You can just see this coming.
Mark my words.
We knew that the Republicans would win because the Democrat governor was so poor, he was so inept.
Uh, he dismissed early offers by the Obama team for help.
He was a goner from the moment the general election began, so the state controlled media will say Virginia stands for nothing.
Just ignore it.
That that's what that that's predict to you, that will be the outcome.
That will be the media spin.
I know these people, folks.
I know them, you know I know them.
That'll that'll be how they spin Virginia.
Now we'll get to New Jersey and New York 23 after the break.
Don't go away.
You know, I was just thinking about something here, uh, folks.
Why would somebody be personally offended, personally offended by bestiality.
I mean, uh uh unless they have some personal experience with it.
Well, how could you be personally offended by that?
And you know, uh uh, ladies and gentlemen, uh any I think I understand why these people are all upset and out of whack.
Because, you know, any any jokes uh cracks about bestiality, probably a hate crime now.
I think isn't bestiality protected uh uh uh uh under in in the uh defense bill.
Hate crime laws.
All right.
We turn to New York 23.
If Hoffman wins, and polls suggest that he will, the race there will be dismissed as an outlier.
Here's how they're gonna categorize this.
I'm talking about the media.
I'm predicting the media coverage tonight and tomorrow in New York 23.
They'll say that the right wing concentrated all its hate and all its anger and all its resources on a congressional race that is of little national importance or consequence.
They will portray this as the Republican Party being fractured and divided with even greater problems down the road.
The state-run media will further tell us that the battle in New York 23 was really just a fight among Republicans, not about Obama or his policies, and that the far right, while successful in this district, will have difficulty extending this victory into other districts and states because they will have driven so many independents and moderates out of the party.
There are actually I actually I think it's Gloria Borger in the audio soundbite roster saying that Republicans are driving independents out of their party.
It's just the opposite.
Independents are flocking to these Republicans in these races.
It's it's just the opposite of that.
So they're gonna they're gonna they're gonna cast New York 23 as uh unimportant, of little consequence, more an illustration of how the Republican Party's fracturing.
It doesn't matter what happens to New York 23, this Hoffman guy will be invisible once he gets to Washington.
Not that big a deal.
Nothing to do with Obama.
Nothing to do with Obama.
Uh and the Republicans, they will say, will have difficulty extending this victory into other districts and to uh to other states.
Now, here's the here's the antidote to that.
The fact that uh the former vice president, according to CNN yesterday, Joe Biden campaigned in the district yesterday.
That was nothing.
Don't make anything out of that.
That was nothing more than a classy White House display of loyalty for a Democrat candidate who never really had a chance.
Folks, I want you to print these words out.
I want you to get the transcript off my website.
I want you to print these out.
I want you to distribute them, I want you to carry them with you, and we'll just see how close I am to being right.
So the state-run media will say New York 23, the race is more about the demise of the Republican Party and anger on the right than Obama or his policies.
And Biden is just a loyal act uh to help a uh a Democrat that never really had a chance.
Now, let's move on to New Jersey now.
Obama has actually been in New Jersey many times.
I think in the last 24-48 hours he's been there, and he's uh making robocalls.
In fact, you want to hear one?
Obama's making robocalls for Corzon.
it's um.
I mean, he's on your TV, he's on the internet, he's in magazines, he's on the radio.
The last thing I would think you want is for your phone to ring and the voice on the other end to be Obama.
Because damn it, folks, he's everywhere.
He won't leave us alone.
Here's if you get one of these Corzine robocalls from Obama, this is what you'll hear.
I want to apologize for disturbing you, but there's an important election in New Jersey this coming Tuesday.
Last year we started the movement for change.
Now we need to keep it going.
That's why I'm asking you to get behind Governor John Corzine.
Together we can fix our schools, improve health care, and turn around the economy so it works for all Americans.
Please get out and vote on Tuesday.
And vote for my friend and your governor, John Corzine.
Thanks for listening.
I think it's pretty desperate for the president to be doing this uh robocalls, and that's just a rehash of his now meaningless campaign rhetoric from a year ago, 18 months ago, fix the schools, improve health care, turn around the economy so it works for all Americans, which means it works for none, uh, all and none meaning the same thing here.
So that's that's Obama and his robocall in New Jersey.
One of his most content uh confidence, trusted competents and and campaign operatives, Obama's, took over the Corzine campaign a few months ago.
Now, basically, in looking at New Jersey, you have to understand this.
Corzine is a straw man for the Obama White House.
That's how you have to look at this.
He is a straw man for the Obama White House.
And if Corzine loses in New Jersey, which is among the bluest of blue states, the state-controlled media repeating the Obama talking points, will do all it can to run interference for the White House.
The damage control spin will be that the president was heroic in his efforts to save a hopeless candidate.
Corzine was surrounded by corruption.
He destroyed New Jersey's economy.
He was enormously unpopular.
But the president decided to make a courageous stand and to try to save him.
And despite Corzine losing, look how close the election became.
But for Obama and his team, New Jersey would have been a wipeout, not a nail biter.
So uh uh New Jersey's actually an Obama win, even should Corzine lose.
This is how it'll be put such a heroic effort.
The man put everybody but himself first.
He put Corzine first, he put his agenda first, he put the state of New Jersey first.
But it was just too much to overcome unpopularity, corruption, questionable friends, a rotten economy that Corzine destroyed as governor of New Jersey, and Wall Street connections came back.
They'll come up with everything to say that Obama gave it everything he got.
Now, if Corzine wins, we'll of course look at this in that way as well.
If Corzine wins, the state-controlled media, following the White House spin, will report that Obama's personal popularity and the popularity of his socialist agenda won the day.
The fact is, Corzine will, if he does win, will likely win with less than 50% of the vote.
And the fact that he could not muster 50% of the vote in this heavily Democrat state will be completely ignored.
His win by a plurality of the vote, not a majority, will be said to have been momentous.
That it shows that Obama is as strong as ever, and that he still owns the blue states and states trending blue.
And those who defy him, including in his own party, such as Blue Dog Democrats, do so at their own peril.
That will be the message if Corzine wins.
Now, here's the truth.
A year ago today, Obama won in Virginia.
The news reported his election there as historic and as a realignment.
If the election results come anywhere close to what the polls predict recently, the Republicans are going to have a huge win today.
And anything over six percent is a huge win.
Now, I I know this because when Obama won the presidency by six percent, the media told us it was a huge win.
So anything over six is big.
Virginia's outcome is going to be downplayed as much as possible, but it is very important.
Because if Virginia were to go six percent in favor of the Democrats today, that would have been a huge boost to Obama and the Democrats nationally.
So to say when the opposite occurs, that it doesn't matter, is just nonsense.
Virginia was key to the national realignment only twelve months ago today.
Today we are told to ignore it.
If Republicans can hold on to states like Virginia, then they can build from there and aggressively go after states that have too often been written off and ceded to the Democrats by a weak and squishy GOP.
Now the New York 23, uh, that's a major turning point, which is why the establishment Republicans and their media promoters are downplaying it along with the uh the Democrats.
A moderate Republican held this seat for a lot of years.
He was selected by Obama to serve in his administration because Obama believed he could take that seat and keep it Democratic.
The race sized up exactly as the White House had hoped, with the Democrat in the lead and the Republican establishment bosses picking Skazafaba.
More on this when we get back.
Okay, now let's start again on here on the interrupt myself here on the importance of New York 23rd, uh 23, because this is a turning point.
And in fact, there are stories throughout the uh the state controlled media today, got one here at the LA Times, conservatives emboldened by moves in New York election.
There are conservative candidates popping up all over the country who are going to challenge incumbent Republicans in house races.
I've read about 10 or 12 of them are going to happen now.
This this New York 23 is big, it is a turning point, and it is precisely why the media and everybody's trying to portray it as nothing more than the Republicans falling apart, having big unity problems, and so forth.
And I'll tell you what, the the moderate Republican, the Rockefeller gang, uh they're they're just as worried about New York 23 as the Democrats are.
Now, this is a key point.
New York 23 was was held by a moderate Republican.
That seat was held by a moderate Republican for many years.
But Obama picked this guy to serve in his administration.
You know why?
Obama wanted that seat to go Democrat.
So the Democrat Owens gets nominated, and the race sized up exactly as the White House had hoped, Democrat in the lead.
The GOP establishment bosses pick the left-wing moderate Republican just exactly as the Democrats want.
They want Republicans to stay moderate, squishy because they know that's when Republicans lose.
And so it was going exactly as the White House had hoped she was gonna lose.
But then up stepped this guy, this little accountant.
Doug Hoffman, a conservative, and in-stepped groups like the Club for Growth.
Conservative talk radio stepped in there, the Tea Party activists, citizens from across the country, the blogosphere, Eric Erickson at redstate.com has been all over this since it began.
And eventually some Republican politicians were forced to get in on this at the tail end and endorse Hoffman because of this wave of support that had blossomed for him.
And this is where conservative Americans are drawing the line.
New York 23.
This is where we are fighting.
This is where we will take a stand against both the liberal wing of the Republican Party and Obama and the Democrat Party.
And that's what that has what is that's what's happened here.
To the great distress of people like Lindsey Grahamnesty and the Rockefeller Republicans, the great distress of Obama, the Democrats, and the media, that's exactly what has happened here.
And Hoffman is now said to be in the lead.
Now, whether he wins or not, what happened in New York 23 was a huge statement by conservatives and traditional Republicans against the left in both parties.
And should Hoffman win, as I think he will, his campaign is going to give confidence and energy to scores of others across this country where momentum will grow right up to next year's election.
So that's the truth of New York 23.
Now to New Jersey.
Here's the truth there.
Let's be honest about this.
If a fairly conservative Republican can win the governorship of New Jersey, it is historic.
Whether the media want to say so or not, by all accounts, Chris Christie is a tax cutting, spending cutting, law and order kind of Republican.
He also said he's pro-life.
Here's who he's up against in New Jersey.
He's up against Obama.
He's up against the National Democrat Party.
He's up against the SEIU, the Union.
He's up against the NEA.
He's up against the AFL CIO.
He is up against Acorn.
He is up against the Daily Coast.
He is against the New York Times.
And a billionaire who has spent $30 million trashing him.
And that would be Corzine.
Corzine has spent 30 million of his own money trashing Chris Christie.
That's who Christie's up against, and this race right now is too close to call.
With all of that going on, Christie ought to not even be visible.
In New Jersey, in this blue of blueest of blue states, with all of that Democrat firepower and money arrayed against him, he ought not even show up in the polls.
Now if a fairly conservative Republican can win the governorship against those odds, not to mention the hugely lopsided voter registration disadvantage, I mean, it would be a smashing victory.
It would be a smashing defeat.
It would be a profound defeat for Obama and his ilk.
There's simply no getting around that if he pulls this off.
Now, if if if Christie loses, and if he loses by a small margin, White House and the state run media are going to play it up loudly as a great achievement.
But the fact is they will have barely won, despite all of their great advantages in numbers and resources.
And even if they just barely win, I guarantee you that they're going to be quietly talking among themselves about how they are in deep trouble.
Because folks, if the Obama election twelve months ago was a realignment and the media said that it was, it was so smashing.
I mean, it was just changed the face of America.
Then the Democrats and Obama should not be celebrating a bare victory, which required an extraordinary effort to pull off in a state where a Republican shouldn't even show up in the polls.
They will know that they are in trouble if they have to fight so hard to hold a reliably dark blue state.
So to sum it up, I don't know how Obama, the Democrats, the state controlled media, can make the outcome of today's elections some great achievement for Obama, some great achievement for liberalism and his socialist agenda.
They're gonna try, but it'll require the worst kind of propaganda and deceit to pull this off.
Let's go to some audio sound bites to illustrate already what I'm talking about.
This is this morning on the Today Show on uh see Meredith Vieira is talking to former Obama campaign manager David Plough.
And she said, obviously, uh uh he's not on the ballot, but what will the outcome say about the uh president's ability to deliver?
The results of these elections tend to be overreaded.
The most important development coming out of today actually has nothing to do with the results.
It's that congressional race in New York 23.
Where the Sarah Paling, Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, wing of the party drove out a moderate, not just out of the race, but out of the Republican Party.
It wasn't a moderate, she was a liberal, but you see how this shapes up.
Oh, no, no, the results here that tend to be overrated.
The most important development here, nothing to do with the results.
Uh Sarah Palin, Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, wing of the party drove a moderate out of the.
You can see how this is shaping up, because they know what's going to happen in New York 23.
So already the spin has begun from the Obama.
Oh, it's no, it's not about our guy.
So Vieira then said, well, uh he wouldn't be campaigning for them if he didn't think the race was important, right?
This tends to be overcovered.
It's a place I agree with the Bush administration in 01 and 05.
Uh these are local races.
Uh there's 18,000 lifetimes between now and next uh November.
Oh, it doesn't mean anything now guaranteed if that was going the other way.
In the polling, all fluff would be talking about here is look at the power of Obama.
Obama has swept this country.
He has captivated this country.
The mindset of America is now Obama's.
We can't be some.
Now it doesn't matter.
Yeah, it doesn't matter.
It just stuff tends to be overcovered.
And they finally David Plough and uh and uh Meredith Vieira have this exchange.
Palin continues to be something in our party uh we treasure uh because what she's doing up in New York 23, uh along with her partner.
supporting the conservative, right?
Yes.
I I think they're driving moderates out of the party.
And the let's remember, comparatively, the Republicans are at the lowest point they've been in their history.
Why?
Centrists and moderates are abandoning that party.
Uh, it is conservatives who are the largest identified group in the latest Gallup poll, Mr. Plough.
You know, throw your party politics out of here.
It's conservatives at 40, you guys at 20, and the moderate independents or whatever they are at 36%.
You guys are at the bottom of that totem poll.
But you see, there's two things about this.
They will tell us who they fear.
Our Democrat buddies will tell us who they really fear, and I'll tell you right now who they fear is Sarah Palin.
They have done everything in their power to destroy her.
And they haven't.
If they really really believe that Sarah Palin was the death knell to Republican Party, they'd be shutting up.
They would be encouraging her some other way to go out there and get seen, be seen as much as possible.
And this business about centrists and moderates are abandoning the party.
Do you really think David Pluff gives a rat's rear end about the health of the Republican Party?
Do you think Obama and Axelrod and Rom Emanuel and David Pluff sit around and say, Boy, you know, we really hate to see the Republican Party destroying itself.
I mean, we uh can you believe that Republicans are driving moderates and independents out of that party?
I mean, we gotta help them out here.
We gotta figure out a way for them to hold on to those moderates and independents.
If the moderates and independents are being driven out of the Republican Party, I asked, where are they going?
They're going to the Democrat Party.
Well, you would presume that's what these guys that that should make them happy.
You know, that this is why you've got to be very careful in accepting the premises of these people.
These people don't care a rat.
They wish we didn't exist as a public uh uh party, and they are trying to wipe us out politically.
They're not worried that we're losing moderates and independence.
They're worried that conservatism is on an ascendancy.
They are scared to death of it.
And they are really scared of Sarah Palin.
They will tell us who they fear the most by trying to destroy them.
I I I just I find this laughable.
David Plough, all concerned.
Oh, they're driving moderates and independents out of the party, oh, it's horrible.
Look what's happening to the Republican Party.
Oh, we care about the Republican Party so much, we really, we really wish they weren't driving all these moderates and centrists out of the party because we wish to have a viable opponent.
What?
These people think we're idiots.
They do.
They obviously do think that we are idiots.
There's more of this.
We barely getting cranking here, folks.
Sit tight, coming right back.
It's not easy being CNN.
They got a poll out today.
54%.
Job approval for Obama.
Nobody believes that.
Nah, no, nobody.
Uh, in their same poll, only 42% support Obama's health care plan.
How do those two work out for you?
Forty-two percent support the health care plan, but 54% support his overall presidency.
It doesn't dive.
And then here's John Roberts.
CNN's American morning co-host, says this about me and New York 23.
Rush Limbaugh and others said she's too liberal to be representing the Republican Party.
So she is now quit.
She is uh supporting Bill Owens.
But people are watching this race to find out if this will have an effect in the 2010 midterm elections if conservatives will be ascended.
He got it right.
He got it right.
They're gonna have to slap this down.
You'll not hear that anywhere on CNN the rest of the day or tomorrow.
That's not the spin.
The spin, John, John, let me clue you in.
The spin, you gotta get, I'm sure you got the memo from the White House, uh, probably from Gibbs.
Look it up.
The Republican Party's falling apart.
The Republican Party is split.
The Republican Party is it's and then Democrats are really worried about it.
John, I mean, David Fluff is on television today say, Oh no!
Moderates and independents are leaving the Republican Party.
Oh my god, they're stupid.
How can they let this happen?
Well, I mean, that's the spin.
Actually, you know, I'm kind of I'm kind of happy to see independents leaving the Democrat Party, because that's that's apparently what's happening.
Here's here's tortured logic from Gloria Borger again, back to CNN.
Situation Room.
Last night with Wolf Blitzer.
Bletcher says Wall Street Journal said Democrats did themselves no favors, driving Lieberman out of their party.
Conservatives will do their cause no good, forcing Republican candidates in Illinois, California, Connecticut to sound like Tom Delay.
If conservatives now revolt against every Republican candidate who disagrees with them on trade, immigration, abortion, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reed will keep their majorities for a very long time.
This coming from a conservative editorial page.
Very conservative, not to mention probably helping to keep Barack Obama in the White House.
I've spoken with lots of Republicans today about this.
And they say, look, this is a strange situation.
This candidate was chosen behind closed doors by the Republican establishment.
People don't like that.
She was kind of to the left on a lot of cultural and economic issues.
However, unless this party gets big tent, and there's always a fight when you're not in power between the big tent folks and the purists, but they say if the party doesn't grow big tent, they're gonna lose those independent voters who are the margin of victory in any presidential race.
And as Mary just pointed out, they're also the margin of victory in this congressional race.
And where are they going, Gloria?
They're go they're breaking big for the Republican.
They're breaking big for Hoffman.
What tortured logic?
So if I heard her correctly, if a conservative Republican wins a race, proving he can get the votes of independence, that's bad for Republicans and good for Obama, because it'll drive independence away.
How does that work?
If if Hoffman can win, that means conservatism can attract independence.
And that's exactly what's happening here.
But here again we have the fake, phony concern from Gloria Borger about the health of the Republican Party.
This big tent argument.
And this, you know, this is a uh I think it's a gene.
G-E-M-E.
I think people are born with a gene, it turns them into liberal journalists, and they have several template beliefs.
And one of the template beliefs is the Republican Party has to be a big tent party if it has any chance whatsoever of winning.
The second template is that big tent means attracting moderates and independents.
And that's it their view on this is narrow.
They got blinders on, and they don't, it's it's totally wrong.
The Republican Party is a big tent party.
You know what the tent covers?
The country.
The Republican Party big tent is the United States of America.
I don't know where these people get it in their thick heads that we are exclusionary.
We are people of principle, conservative principle and belief, individual freedom and liberty, liberty proper private property rights, the whole nine yards, colorblind society, respect for life, the pursuit of happiness, all of these things.
Things that every American values or should.
People that are in favor of policies that limit freedom, that promote the loss of freedom, that take away economic opportunity.
Uh, I'm content to let the Democrat Party have and lose with those people.
Why why why why do we want people in our so-called tent that do not and are not grounded by the principles of the American founding.
So we welcome anybody.
But you know, this is the problem I had with McKay.
We I uh I love the Republican Party to be as big as it could, but I don't want to go out and get Democrats as Democrats to say they're Republicans, but not change their mind about anything.
What big whoop.
What does that do for the country?
So the Republican Party's tent covers the country.
And we have satellite tents.
Hawaii and Alaska.
We didn't waste time building a tent over the Pacific Ocean on a way to Hawaii because all it's there is a bunch of whales and fish, and we haven't figured out a way to get them to vote yet.
When we get the tent over Hawaii, we want every American to stand up for the principles that made this country great.
Okay, quick time out here, folks.
Much, much more straight ahead.
All right, folks, look at me.
Look at me.
I want I'm wanting to issue you a profundity here.
If any Republican wins today, it has to show that it is attracting independence, right?
Because the White House, David Plough and all these people saying that GOP party affiliation is at an all-time low.
If party affiliation is at an all-time low and Republicans win today, why it has to be independence by their own definition.
And I'm going to hang that around their necks tomorrow.
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