All Episodes
Previous Next
Nov. 4, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
36:53
November 4, 2009, Wednesday, Hour #1
| Copy link to current segment

Time Text
Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Folks, I've been looking at all the exit poll data.
I've been looking at all of the election analysis that I can find.
I've had my staff working diligently trying to find something.
I can't find it.
I'm trying to find out how many votes Obama created or saved in New Jersey of Virginia.
I mean, we know everything else about the vote in Virginia and New Jersey, but I can't find out how many votes were created or saved there.
500,000 is what I'm guessing.
Maybe even more.
Even though Obama's candidates lost, let me tell you something, folks.
Losing New Jersey is like Stalin being defeated in Moscow.
It's like Castro being defeated in Cuba.
It's like Reagan winning 100% of the vote in the upper west side of Manhattan.
It's like Hu Zhintao being thrown out by the street sweepers of Beijing.
It's like Kim Il-sung, Jong-il, a little pot-bellied guy over there in North Korea being eaten by dogs.
I mean, it is just that you cannot overstate Virginia is big too, but New Jersey, New Jersey, the bluest of blue states.
And they're trying to say this isn't about Obama.
There's, oh, no, Russia's not about Obama.
Look at the exit polls.
It's about the economy.
Yeah, right.
Who's killing it?
Obama is killing it.
Look at he inherited.
He inherited two blue states and they're going red.
I mean, it's no wonder that Michelle took the two daughters out to see Miley Cyrus last night.
Why watch at home their dad's humiliation on TV all night?
Get the kids out of the house.
That's a good move by Michelle My Bell Obama out there.
I mean, folks, I'm trying to find a number of jobs or votes that have been saved or created in Virginia and New Jersey.
Because even though Obama's candidates lost, I mean, if they follow through on the way they're analyzing everything happening here in the economy, Obama can still declare a victory that his campaigning is working.
Even though he promised victories and his campaign plans failed, Obama's campaign plans for corresponding deeds are working exactly as he expected.
In fact, Obama's campaigning exceeded his expectations.
I mean, that's what they're saying about the stimulus.
That's what they're saying about the economy.
That's what they're saying about his efforts to save it and create jobs.
It's going to hell in a handbasket, and it's not coming back anytime soon.
And they're talking about what a great job they did.
So I would expect Bob Gibbs out there and the White House press secretary in his briefing day to claim victory in New Jersey and Virginia on the basis of jobs saved, jobs created.
I'll tell you what, folks, the results last night tell us one certain thing, and that is that the Democrat Party is in trouble.
It is led by a radical.
It is stuck with extreme leaders in Congress who continue to defy the public and advance an extreme agenda that will undo that party.
I predicted this.
I predicted this months ago.
This Virginia victory, too.
Now, that, I think they're both big and in equal ways.
But the Virginia victory is massive because it's only the second time one party has swept all three statewide races.
And then that happened before we knew the results of New Jersey.
And so you combine Virginia and New Jersey, and what you have is you have a blowout.
And I think, folks, I think the worst has yet to come for the Democrats.
Look, I know, folks.
I know the media is actually listening to hear what I have to say about New York 23, but I want them to hear what I think about all these other things first.
So I'll get to New York 23 in just a second.
Don't tell anybody.
Don't give away the plan here.
I know they're out there.
If they're not, they got assigned people listening because they want to know what I'm going to say about New York 23.
And they're going to be shocked and stunned when they hear what I say about New York 23, and so will you.
But I want them to hear this other stuff first.
Okay, where was I?
Oh, yes.
The worst.
The worst has yet to come for the Democrats.
Gosh, this is fun.
Pushing not only health care, but cap and trade and soon amnesty.
And I'll tell you something.
You look at the exit polls.
Health care as an important way the hell down at the bottom in both Virginia and New Jersey, way down there at the bottom, like 14% in one place and 20% in another in the economy.
Oh, and the exit polls.
I love they're focusing on the exit polls.
In one state, I forget which, Virginia, 60% said it wasn't about Obama.
And in another state, 55%.
Well, that means 40% said it was about Obama in a state that he swept, in two states that he swept.
40% to 45% said it was about Obama.
And when it's, anyway, when the exit poll says in both states that the economy is number one in jobs and taxes, I mean, if that isn't about Obama, I don't know what is.
You think they're still voting against George Bush out there?
I don't think so, folks.
How's that hope and change working out for you?
Now, taxes are heading up.
Unemployment keeps edging up.
Obama's policies cannot reverse this.
And they're not intended to reverse this course.
They are intended to do exactly what they are doing.
As I have bravely, singularly said any place I've had the chance.
Obama has now put several blue states in play.
The red states are hardening.
Don't believe any of the accurately predicted by me yesterday, media spin today.
This is a nightmare for the Democrats.
What happened in Virginia?
And in the truth of the matter, when we get to New York 23, that's not all that big a deal for them.
I'll explain that when we get there.
I mean, folks, let me tell you something.
I think last night, Virginia and New Jersey, and by the way, in New York, upstate New York, Republicans were winning all kinds of little local offices.
Same thing in Virginia.
It's a huge sweep.
This last night may well have been Obama's Waterloo.
I'm not kidding about that, ladies.
That may have been Obama's Waterloo last night.
My first clue that they were really bugged by it was when they tried to tell everybody he wasn't watching the returns.
Ha!
What was he doing?
Chain smoking, shooting hoops?
You know, the interesting thing about all this, folks, is that it is an anti-Obama vote.
But this is not to take away from McDonnell or Christie.
McDonnell, as the campaign wore on, started sounding more and more conservative and saying so, testifying to his conservative credentials.
And Christie did too toward the end of the campaign.
And they're going to try to say, well, there's a war in the Republican Party because of New York 23, but no, no, no, no, no.
There is a war in the Democrat Party.
And I have two stories.
One of them is by Byron York here.
Let me grab it for you very quickly.
Yes, Byron York in the Washington Beltway Examiner.
MoveOn.org sending out emails today seeking more contributions for its campaign to defeat any Democrat senator who does not fully support Obamacare.
Yesterday, the left-wing activist group, George Soros' bunch, asked members to contribute to a primary challenge against any Democrat senator who helps Republicans block an up-or-down vote on health care reform.
Today, MoveOn reports that it received 2 million bucks in pledges in less than 24 hours.
The executive director there said it's a clear sign of how angry progressives would be at any Democrat who helps filibuster reform.
And I also have buried in the stack here someplace.
I'm not going to waste time finding it now.
I'll find it during the break.
I got a funny post from the Daily Coast, Marcos Malitsis, whatever his name is.
And it's funny.
These guys are blaming these losses on the fact that the Democrats were not socialist enough.
The Democrats are not communist enough.
They didn't go far left enough.
So for all this talk about an attack and a war going on in the Republican Party, believe me when I tell you there is one happening in the Democrat Party at their grassroots level.
Make no mistake.
Look at folks.
Losing New Jersey is like Ted Kennedy losing Massachusetts.
I mean, it's huge.
So I got to look.
I got to take a break here, but let me get one more thing, and then we'll get to New York 23 and some other details and soundbites all straight ahead.
Obama now has to defend his base.
He can't count them.
That's what this move on stuff means.
It's what the Daily Coast stuff means.
These returns last night, it's what it means.
He's turning purple states red.
He's making red states redder.
And he's now defending states he should never have to defend.
He should never have to defend in New Jersey.
New Jersey!
And this win in 18 points in Virginia.
They thought they had Virginia forever after this 2008 election.
And there's, you know, not only does Obama have no coattails, he may actually hurt candidates when he goes in there and campaigns for them.
I mean, he put it all on the line in New Jersey.
They knew it was over, threw Creedees overboard a couple weeks ago, but they all, I mean, they were all in in New Jersey.
They can't run around and say this wasn't about him.
I mean, they can say it.
And the media acolytes, sycophants, will say it, but we know the truth.
He's defending states he should never have to defend.
He's on defense.
Party, trust me when I tell you, the party is unraveling.
It was always a weak coalition of disparate elements.
And his policies, Obama's policies, are so radical that he's changing the map in ways that are killing his own party.
Trust me on this.
Look at Virginia.
12 months ago, it was said to be lost to conservatives.
Obama's defeat there was smashing, embarrassing, humiliating.
And you tacked New Jersey onto it, and it's hubba-hub.
All right, New York 23, we get back.
Sit tight.
Hi, welcome back.
It's Rush Limbaugh here at the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
Telephone number, if you want to join us, 800-282-2882.
Here's this post that's from last night at the Daily Coast.
Going to be a lot of number crunching tomorrow, he says here, but preliminary numbers, at least in Virginia, show that Republican turnout remained the same as last year, but Democrat turnout collapsed.
This is a base problem.
This is what Democrats better take from tonight.
One, if you abandon Democrat principles in a bid for unnecessary bipartisanship, you will lose votes.
Two, if you water down reform in favor of blue dogs and their corporate benefactors, you will lose votes.
And three, if you forget why you were elected, healthcare, financial services, energy policy, immigration reform, you will lose votes.
Tonight proved conclusively we're not going to turn out just because you have a D next to your name or because Obama tells us to.
The choice is yours.
Give us a reason to vote for you or we sit home.
You know what's amazing about this?
This sounds just like conservatives angry at the Republican Party.
It's almost just like it.
So this guy is saying that the problem was with the Democrat base not turning out and that going along with blue dogs isn't the way to cure that.
So I guess we could say here that there's a civil war brewing in the Democrat Party and they need to go more to the middle.
The Democrat Party needs a bigger tent.
The Democrat Party needs to go to the middle.
The Democrat Party needs moderates.
The Democrat Party needs to expand its everything that they are saying from a template about us on the Republican side.
We can turn right around and smack them with.
Really, look at this.
Why, your base is unhappy with you.
Your base is threatening to stay home and not vote.
Obama's not even enough to get out there.
You need moderates in your party.
You can't let these far-left-wing extremists run the show.
They're going to take you down to defeat.
That same thing that they say about us, we can say about them.
I mean, every template, every premise that is falsely presented about it, throw it right back at them.
And in our case, we will be telling the truth.
Now, New York 23.
Oh, one little bit of information here before getting into New York 23.
I have a friend who lives in Westchester County in New York.
That's deep blue.
Deep blue.
Westchester County.
A Republican there, Rob Astorino, won by 16 points over a long time Democrat incumbent.
And Rob Astorino has a day job.
He runs the Catholic channel for Sirius XM satellite radio.
He hosts a weekday show with the Cardinal.
Now, folks, this is a deep blue plot.
I mean, the Democrats ought to be terrified by this.
It means they can no longer win in races for offices that have nothing to do with social issues in blue states by scaring voters about conservatives' positions on social issues.
Because you can't get, as far as liberals are concerned, you can't get any scarier than a Catholic talking to the Cardinal every week on the radio.
So a Catholic in a deep, deep blue county talking to the Cardinal every day on a Catholic channel on satellite radio wins by 16 points.
And they want to try to tell us the social issues scares people off.
Don't buy any of it.
Don't buy any of the template, any of the conventional wisdom that's spouted by the state-controlled media.
All right.
Here is, these are my thoughts on New York 23.
In the first place, I have to double check this, but I'm reasonably sure that this was the highest percentage of the vote ever won on the Conservative Party line by a House or Senate candidate.
I think Hoffman had a higher percentage of the vote than even James Buckley, who won his U.S. Senate race against this Goodell guy, Charles Goodell, in the 70s.
So that's one thing.
But the right message.
We cannot forget how this whole thing happened in the first place.
There was not a primary.
The right message here would indict the way party bosses, Republican Party bosses, and these big thinkers like Newt screwed the whole thing up from the get-go.
From their standpoint, and I think this is probably still true today, they'd rather say that Reagan conservatism can't win in New York and that we need more David Brooks-type Republicans.
Meantime, I mean, that's probably what they're thinking today.
On our side, yeah, we need, you see, Reagan conservatives can't win in New York.
We need Chris Shays type guys.
We need moderates like David Brooks kind of Republicans to win.
But if the party, see, this is the dirty little secret.
If the party had gotten behind Hoffman from the beginning, he would have won going away.
I have no doubt about that.
I'll tell you something else.
People are now talking about Hoffman's lack of charisma and familiarity with local issues.
The huge story of New York 23 is the shambles the Republican Party made of it.
They nominated a horrendous candidate, a liberal Republican.
She was far more liberal than this Owens guy, who ended up winning.
They stuck by her for too long.
They basically told over half of the Republican voters in this district, screw you.
We'd just assume you're not sure we're making a stand here with our naming of this candidate.
They were trying to define themselves.
The big thinkers, the party bosses were trying to define themselves, once again to the big media types they so want love and respect from by putting up this Scazafaba babe.
And then when she left, they praised her, even as she turned around and endorsed the Democrat.
I think it seems strange to start offering explanations for what happened without even mentioning what happened.
And this is what happened.
And she remained on the ballot.
In fact, she was on the ballot twice.
This is screwiest looking ballot.
I just got this.
Here's the ballot.
Democrat Owens, Republican Scazafaba, Independent Scazafaba, Conservative Hoffman, Working Families Owens.
Now, there were five parties on the ballot.
Two of them endorsed Owens, the Democrat Party, the Working Families Party, and two of them endorsed Scazafaza, the Republican Party, and the Independence Party.
Only one of them endorsed Hoffman.
So Skaza Faza's name not only appeared twice on the ballot, but because the Independence Party drew more voters in the previous governor's race than the Conservative Party did, her name appeared twice in the ballot before anybody even saw Hoffman's name, and she was out of the race.
She got 5% of the vote because her name was so.
So there's a lot to be said here.
But what did not lose, what did not lose is conservatism.
What lost was Republican ineptitude and incompetence and selecting the wrong candidate from the get-go, staying with her for too long, and then sending her off packing while she endorses the Democrat.
By the way, let's not forget also that the GOP gave Didi Scozafava $900,000.
They gave her $900,000 to run the campaign, and she dropped out.
She dropped out and she endorsed a Democrat.
Now, I'll tell you something else about this.
If this doesn't silence all the third-party people out there, it should.
People were mistakenly looking at this as a third-party race, and it wasn't a third-party race, as I keep saying, because there was no primary there.
Had there been a primary, who knows who would have won.
Hoffman might have won.
See, New Jersey is a great contrast.
New Jersey, they had a primary.
There was a guy that was more conservative than Christie, Annigan.
Anyway, they had a primary, and Christie won the primary, and the party got behind the winner.
That's how it happens.
There was no primary in New York 23.
The smart people, wanting approval from whoever it is they want approval from, picked the absolute most horrendous candidate they could.
And then she ends up bombing out and dropping out and then endorsing the Democrat.
If there had been a primary up there, Hoffman would have won that thing and the party got behind him, bam, bam, bam.
This would not have been close at all.
In fact, strangely enough, there is one person in a state-controlled media who comes close to getting New York 23 right.
And I'm going to probably inflict great harm on her reputation by pointing her out.
Her name is Deborah Feyrick.
She works at CNN.
And this morning on CNN, she said this.
An unknown coming out of nowhere to catch the attention of party conservatives like Sarah Palin, Fred Thompson, Rush Limbaugh, Doug Hoffman getting more than 40% of the vote.
Now, had the moderate Republican who pulled out of the race just a couple of days ago and who threw her support to the Democrats, had her name not been on the ballot, it's very likely that Doug Hoffman would have done even better than he did because her name on that ballot ended up being the spoiler and shifted the race in favor of the Democrats.
Now, I spoke to a journalist who's covered politics in northern New York for more than 30 years.
He tells me that he was surprised by the depth of anger within Republicans in this area.
I had not seen anything like it before, saying that the message of conservatives is they want to take back this country.
That's, I know it's hard to believe, folks.
You've got to trust me, that's CNN, Deborah Feirick, getting it right.
Skaza Faz's name was on the ballot twice.
Owens' name was on the ballot twice.
She got 5% of the vote.
So, and had that not happened, why Hoffman would have, this is a textbook case in how not to select a candidate and how not to run a campaign.
Here's the CNN stuff.
And by the way, CNN posted this.
They couldn't wait.
5.30 last night before the polls closed.
Exit poll.
Obama, not a big factor in Virginia.
There have been plenty of talk by local pundits that Virginia's gubernatorial contest was a referendum on Obama, but voters don't agree.
According to data from CNN, which, and by the way, I don't believe his exit poll stuff.
I just want to get it out there.
I don't trust it.
I don't believe it.
Ever since the 2004 election, when they had John Kerry elected at 5 o'clock in the afternoon, and Bob Schrum was walking in there saying, may I be the first to say, congratulations, Mr. President.
And then when the real votes started counting, they started being counted.
Remember, the left thought the fraud was in the real vote count?
So I don't believe his exit.
I'll tell you another reason I don't believe his exit poll stuff is because I still think there are a lot of people that are coming out of the polling place.
And what's your vote about Obama?
Oh, no, no.
Don't call me a racist.
Oh, no, no, no, no, don't call me a racist.
No, my vote had nothing to do with Obama.
I don't believe any of this for a moment.
They came out of there and they said the number one issue was the economy.
Well, I ask you who it is that's destroying it.
Who is it that is inexorably tied to it now?
Who is it that owns it?
Who is it that's out there talking about, hey, we've come back from the brink?
Who is it whose stimulus plan has lost 3.3 million jobs with more on the way?
I guarantee them to you, folks, people were not walking in a ballot box yesterday voting against George Bush.
Do you believe, by the way, did you hear this?
Angela Merkel invited President Obama to Germany for the anniversary of the falling of the Berlin Wall.
He said, I'm too busy.
I guess he's working on Afghanistan, folks.
I guess he's working too hard now.
He can't go.
Now, folks, this is unprecedented.
An American president not showing up at one of the most famous sites for the destruction of tyranny and the outbreak of freedom.
Being invited by the chancellor, the president of Germany, and not going?
An American president not showing up at a citadel of freedom and extolling the virtues of what happened there?
I mean, hell, he should go even if he wants to praise Gorbachev for making it happen.
I think, you know, Reagan is there.
Reagan is there in spirit.
Reagan is there.
Mr. Gorbachev tear down this one.
I think one of the reasons Obama may not want to go is because I think he probably fears he'd be upstaged by the memory of Ronald Reagan.
And whatever speechifying goes on is going to be including, it will include mentions of Ronald Reagan.
But it's just to not go, to not go, I got other things on my mind.
I got other things to do.
I can't fit it into the schedule.
If it's not about him, he's not showing up.
But I just, it's unprecedented.
You know, Jack Kennedy would be there.
Hell.
For that matter, even Jimmy Carter would go.
They'd all been there.
But not Barack Obama.
Mm.
Mm.
So exit poll, CNN.
Obama, not a big factor in Virginia.
55% said Obama was not a factor in how they voted.
But you go over to, who is this?
This is don't know who this is.
Looks like ABC's website.
09 exit polls, vast economic discontent spells trouble for Democrats in 2010.
I really need to know who this is.
Vast economic discontent marked the mood of Tuesday's off-year voters pretending potential trouble for incumbents generally and Democrats in particular in 2010.
But if Virginia repulsed closed at 7 p.m., Creede's main problem looks to have been Creeded's.
His main problem is he's a Democrat.
His main problem is he's a Democrat, and so is Obama.
Half of Virginia voters, 51%, said they approved of the way Obama's handling his job, and that rose to 57% of New Jersey.
This is in the exit polls again, which I don't trust and I don't believe.
And especially person to person, you're walking out of the polling place and here comes some pollster and says, hmm, your vote having to do with Obama.
What are you going to do?
Oh, I love Obama.
Oh, well, I'm out of here.
They're just not going to say.
And AP Election 09 tests not voting well for Obama.
Republican declared winner in Virginia gubernatorial race.
So somebody at AP forgot that the whole template, this is not about Obama.
And they ran a story saying that it is.
Then the French news agency, I thought you'd be interested in this.
Republican victories taint Obama anniversary.
Republicans won two key state elections, dealing a stinging blow to President Obama and his Democrats 12 months after they swept to power.
You know, I can imagine what they're thinking in the way.
You know, it's really despicable.
It's just despicable, the Republicans, to taint our dear leader's anniversary this way.
We're coming to the anniversary of his election, and they have to taint it with this off here stuff.
Have you ever noticed, by the way, these exit polls, have you ever noticed how they always say exactly what the Democrat Party once said?
Whatever the Democrat Party wants the message to be is what the exit polls are.
It wasn't about Obama.
Oh, no.
No, we weren't even thinking about Obama when we went in.
Oh, no.
Whatever the Democrat Party wants the message to be, it seems like that's always what the exit polls tell us.
It's not just the French, by the way, saying Obama's anniversary has been tainted.
The U.K. Telegraph Republican wins in the battles for the New Jersey, Virginia governorships have tainted the first anniversary of Obama's presidential election victory.
With almost all votes counted in the two key elections, the gain of a vacant congressional seat in a strongly Republican district of New York State was scant compensation for the U.S. president.
Brief timeout.
We'll grab some of your phone calls when we come back after this.
So I just checked the email during the break here.
I just expressed a little shock, stunned amazement that our president is not going to accept the invitation, has not accepted, will not accept the invitation, Angela Merkel, to go to the anniversary of the falling of the Berlin Wall.
I get a lot of emails from people.
Rush, rush, rush, rush, rush, rush.
Communists don't go celebrate their failures.
Obama will be back when they rebuild the wall.
And he'll autograph it.
Here's Charlie.
A lot of those.
Charlie in Boulder, Colorado.
Great to have you on the program, sir.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
Thanks.
This is a big honor.
I heard you first back in 87 or 88 when you were still in Sacramento, I believe.
Yeah, that's right.
That would have been the case.
We've loved you ever since because you say what we already believe, not because you've turned us into mind-round nobody.
Thank you, sir.
Thank you very much.
You're welcome.
Let me get to my point.
I think the real lesson of New York 23 is the sentiment, the same sentiment that hates Sarah Palin, and that is the self-anointed, whether Republicans or Democrats, they will not tolerate an average person standing up and running for office.
The Republicans would rather have a Democrat win than have that happen and have the people that are supposed to be the ruled standing up and taking their country back.
Well, you know, I hate to agree with you about that with the Republican Party, but I think you're right about a lot of people in that party, average people, not welcome.
Got to have the pedigree.
Now, I haven't, you know, I never like to make this program about me.
It's becoming harder and harder not to.
But, folks, I got audio soundbites of the media.
Oh, big loss for Olimbaugh.
Big loss for Sarah Palin.
Oh, the New York Daily News.
Every sentence is a prediction of mine come true yesterday about this.
It's the snarkiest thing.
They're all over the place.
And I, of course, am just an average guy.
You know, I don't come from any pedigree.
I come from the Midwest, a little town of 30,000.
And, well, 25,000 to some people who moved in since I moved out.
But you're right.
I think, especially, certainly the Democrat Party, and they are the real hypocrites about it, Charlie, because they're the ones who claim to be for the little guy.
That's right.
And I think this bolsters your point, Rush, which is the message to the leaders of the Republican Party is don't put up these establishment folks because we will defeat your candidate, even if it means the Democrat is going to win.
And they need to learn that lesson.
You know what?
I was reading Eric Erickson today at RedState.com, and he was the real first behind Hoffman guy that I know.
I mean, he was really pushing it on his blog.
And he wrote to him, I'm going to paraphrase it.
He wrote, look, the message out of this is we took out a horrible Republican.
We kept a horrible Republican from possibly winning and totally redefining the party in a way that would make it a permanent minority party.
So in Eric's view, yeah, it would have been great if Hoffman won, but the real victory was making sure that a Republican in name only did not win.
And that dovetails here with what Charlie said.
Here's Barbara, Westchester County in New York, deep blue it is.
Welcome, Barbara.
Hi, Rush.
Thank you very much for taking my call.
I think you're great.
Really?
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
I can't believe I'm talking to you.
That's just great.
Look, I was calling you because in Westchester County, we did a great thing last night.
We voted out Andy Spano, who is the county executive and was our county executive for 12 years.
And the Republican, Rob Astorino, won by 16%.
And get you, that Andy Spano, not only did he raise our taxes 60%, but at the same time, he was not only on the line.
You were talking about the man fat upstate, but in Westchester County, Andy Spano was on the ticket not only as a Democrat, but Andy Spano was running for county executive, was on the ticket as a conservative.
There was this backroom deal.
That's another whole story, but believe it or not, he was on there conservative.
Right.
And we won.
We won because the people in Westchester County are fed up, fed up with the property taxes.
Let me repeat, Barbara, what to me is fascinating because all of what you said is true, and I'm sure it was a huge factor.
But one of the things also that we are told is that the social issues are going to kill any chances the Republican Party ever has abortion and all these attention to cultural issues will be the certain death doom of the party.
Well, who is the guy who won?
Who is he?
He has a day job.
He hosts the Catholic channel on Sirius XM Satellite Radio, and he interviews the Cardinal once a week.
Now, you're in Westchester County.
You have a 12-year incumbent.
You have a man who hosts a Catholic radio network, runs it, interviews the Cardinal once a week in deep blue Westchester County, winning by 16 points.
Now, the Democrats up there, dayhead, that I'm guaranteeing you, that's got the scare.
I mean, a guy that hosts a Catholic channel in deep blue Westchester County, that's like showing the cross to Dracula, and the guy wins by 16 points.
You can't get more social issues than somebody running the Catholic network and talking to the Cardinal once a week.
You can't get more social on issues and culture than that.
You know, everybody thinks the Catholic Church is hated and despised and so forth.
How do you explain this?
And there's a lot of factors here.
I mean, Barbara is exactly right.
Corruption and raising taxes and all these things.
It's arrogance which rubs people the wrong way.
But I don't think that you can take out of the equation his day job.
So there's some, see, here's my point.
Exit polls say, oh, it wasn't about Obama.
Conventional wisdom.
Republicans have got to get rid of the social issues.
Well, conventional wisdom.
Republicans got to get a big tent moderates in there.
Don't believe any of it.
Don't believe a word of it.
It is all intended to get you to adopt beliefs that will secure defeat of your party.
And sadly, some of our smart people have fallen right in line with it.
We'll be back after this.
I was at the website newsbusters.com and I saw a headline.
Now, this has to be a joke.
Has to be a joke, but it's not.
Newsbusters headline, Obama watched HBO special about himself instead of election returns.
And I quoted Gibbs.
Robert Gibbs said, well, he was actually watching, you know, the HBO special about his year-long campaign.
Gibbs thought it would look better if the commander-in-chief was watching a self-indulgent, fawning documentary about himself rather than the returns.
He's watching a special.
By the way, I haven't seen that thing, but we ought to talk about that because we have to go to a break.
▲
Export Selection