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June 10, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 10, 2010, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 247 podcast.
First thing I have to say on today's show, that was a great goal by Patrick Kane.
It was just an absolutely great hockey goal.
So good the TV announcers didn't even know he made the shot.
Stanley Cup went to the Chicago Blackhawks.
First time in uh fifty years.
I don't know if there's you know how they have that thing with the Super Bowl that if the NFC wins, it means the party in power wins the presidential election or something or another.
I don't know if there are any hockey indicators, but if the Blackhawks can win the Stanley Cup in hockey, anything can happen in 2010.
I want to start the program by talking about the election results from Tuesday.
Now, for those of you who confuse we guest hosts, I'm the Mark that's from Wisconsin.
We've got very, very hotly contested races in my own home state that I've been watching closely there, so I think I have at least something of a feel for what's going on this year.
Now, it's always dangerous to take a few primary elections from very, very different states and then come up with one magical super trend.
This is the message of the voters, and the media always tries to do that.
This is what the voters were saying.
Well, there were primary elections in other states three weeks ago.
Were those voters saying those things too?
I think you can overread these things when you try to come up with a big national message off of primary elections in several states, particularly since these states are so different.
South Carolina, Arkansas, Nevada, California.
South Carolina's an overwhelmingly Republican state.
California's been an overwhelmingly a Democratic state.
I think you can overread all of this stuff.
But nobody has gotten it right at all.
I've been looking through here, I've got all my clippings provided by the staff.
The center fights back, blow for incumbents, victory for incumbents, they're all contradicting one another because none of them have it right.
While it's dangerous to overgeneralize, as I mentioned, I think a couple of things can be said with confidence.
And for starters, the thing that I see most of all out there is the public really is open right now to real change.
I don't mean Obama talking about change like he did two years ago.
People like the fact that he didn't define what his change was.
Hope and change.
It's time for change.
He never defined change, meaning nobody really knew what they were voting for.
They did sort of understand that they were unhappy with the drift under President Bush for most of the decade.
I mean actual concrete change.
They're open to it now, and they've overlooked a lot of things that in the past would have caused problems for certain candidates.
The second thing that I think is overwhelmingly apparent and that these elections just scream out is that all the action right now is on the Republican side.
All the ideas being debated are on the Republican side.
All the interest in the primaries across the country are on the Republican side.
All the really, really rough fights are on the Republican side.
In some states, including my own, you've got Republicans that are fighting very hard against one another.
We saw that in Nevada as well.
Some fear that this is going to result in weakened candidates in the November election.
Well, the reason they're fighting is because everyone knows if you win a Republican primary this year, you're probably going to win in November.
All the actions over there.
Look at the Democrats.
They aren't even paying attention to their own primaries.
In South Carolina, they nominated for governor, a guy who's facing felony charges.
And they just found out about it after the election.
The Democratic candidate for governor in South Carolina who won the primary is facing felony charges.
The chairman of the Democratic Party in South Carolina is asking him to step down as the nominee, a nomination he won two days ago.
How screwed up are the Democrats?
Why didn't they know this before the We're not talking about something that happened in his past thirty-five years ago that some blogger ferreted out he was charged with some internet sex thing from November.
They're not even paying attention to their own candidates.
Having said all that, I want to take a look at a couple of these races.
And by the way, the Republican candidate for the United States Senate in Nevada, the woman that's going to run against Harry Reid's going to be with us on the program in about 20 minutes or so, right around Sharon Angle, right around the bottom of the hour, and you're going to have a chance to hear from her.
I want to talk about a couple of these elections and why I think what's going to happen this fall might surprise a lot of people.
Let's start with California.
California is a state the Republican Party has just allowed to get away.
California used to be a swing state, if anything, a trended Republican.
California's the state that gave us Nixon and Reagan.
But for the last 20 to 30 years, it's been an overwhelmingly democratic state, and there are a lot of reasons for it.
The influx of the Hispanic population, Californians being more socially liberal than the rest of the country, all of that stuff.
But it's a state that it has gotten toward one party government.
The legislature's overwhelmingly Democratic.
The governor has been mostly a Democrat.
We've got to had a sort of Republican for the last couple of years.
They tend to vote overwhelmingly Democratic in the presidential elections.
Yet you have, for both governor and the United States Senate in California, Republicans who have real chances of winning.
Look at the race they have for governor.
The Republicans chose Meg Whitman.
She's one of the founders of eBay, multimillionaire, successful businesswoman.
A lot of people on the right are a little leery.
They don't know if she's conservative enough, but it didn't stop most of them from supporting her.
I think that's interesting.
They're willing to overlook the fact that she may be squishy on some social issues.
She may not be a Tea Party type, but they look at her as someone who could win.
California's a basket case.
Every economic problem that we have in America is exacerbated in California.
Their budget deficit is enormous.
They're faced with significant cuts in public spending.
Businesses are leaving the state in droves.
And I think you've reached in California the point where the majority of that state, including people who vote for Democrats almost all the time, are saying we might have to try something different.
It's almost like the decision that leads the alcoholic to go to the AA meeting.
We've gone too far, we've hit rock bottom.
California has hit rock bottom.
There are so many problems in that state, some their own doing, others not their fault.
The illegal immigration problem is not California's fault, but the excessive spending, the overregulation of business, the high taxation that's driven corporations out, that is their fault.
They're open to something new.
And look at the response from the two parties.
The Republicans, rather overwhelmingly, it wasn't that close of a race, chose Meg Whitman.
What does she bring to the table?
She's somebody who was one of the founders of an innovative and successful new business.
There really was nothing like eBay before eBay came around.
It's become an iconic business in only a decade.
They're looking at her as somebody who was able to make a success of something, who was able to manage something.
She exudes competence in a state that has been ridden with incompetent, flaky leadership.
I think she can win.
I think she can win in that state.
And she ran for office as a conservative.
Look at the alternative the Democrats are presenting.
Their candidate is Jerry Brown.
The point that I was making about how all the action is on the Republican side.
The Republicans went out and chose.
One of the founders of one of the most successful and dynamic businesses of the last 10 years.
The Democrats dug up a fossil.
Jerry Brown.
It's like nominating Woodrow Wilson.
Jerry Brown was their governor in the mid-70s, not the late 70s, the mid-70s.
Jerry Brown ran for president of the United States nearly 30 years ago.
More than 30 years ago.
Jerry Brown ran that state in the days in which Jerry Ford was president.
Now he's hung around, I think he even was a talk show host for a while, got himself elected mayor of Oakland, then he became the attorney general.
He's had 19,000 different incarnations.
They used to call him Governor Moonbeam because he was so weird.
I still wasn't Linda Ronstadt his girlfriend.
Like a hundred and fifty years ago?
How do you come up with Jerry Brown?
It's the largest state in the Union.
What is the population?
Forty million?
Forty five million?
And all the Democrats can find as a potential governor?
Is somebody who did the job three decades ago?
There's no debate on the Democratic side anymore.
There's no alternatives being explored by the Democrats.
There's no internal thought process within Democrats in California.
What do we do about our budgetary mess?
What do we do about the fact that we can't pay our public employees?
What do we do about the fact that our pensions are on tilt?
What do we do about the fact that we've driven businesses out of this state?
There aren't any new ideas being debated there.
They're just playing back to the future.
I don't know who's going to win, but I do know this.
Meg Whitman represents trying something different.
Jerry Brown doesn't represent anything other than I mean putting tie-dye shirts back on.
I think that race will be fascinating to watch.
In the meantime, a very similar candidate was chosen to run in the Senate race.
Republicans in California chose Carly Fiorina, former head of Hewlett Packard, to run against Barbara Boxer.
Barbara Boxer is the classic American liberal.
Yet she's been re-elected repeatedly in California.
If Carly Fiorina can beat Barbara Boxer in California, it's a message as strong and powerful as Scott Brown winning his race in Massachusetts.
And I think it's possible.
Do you get the sense that Californians have started to realize that liberalism is a path to nowhere?
They're seeing it firsthand in their own home state.
The fact that Republicans were willing to choose two people from non-traditional, non-political backgrounds.
Meg Whitman's never run for anything in her life.
Carly Fiorina's never run for anything in her life.
To put against these two long time career hacks, Jerry Brown and Barbara Boxer, is I think very, very interesting.
It's an indication to me that the voters out there are getting very serious and they are open to new ideas.
And I think that underlines all the results that we saw in Tuesday's election.
My name is Mark Belling and I'm sitting in for Rush Limbaugh.
I'm Mark Belling, sitting in for Rush Limbaugh.
The one thing I am convinced about in 2010 is that there is a real groundswell in America.
It started with that Tea Party movement last year, and I don't mean just the people who've gone to the Tea Parties.
I think the Tea Party movement is a term that people try to lump in and say, well, you're referring to those people who are standing there at those rallies.
No, it's something greater than that.
As long as I've been around, covering politics, the one thing that you could always say about rallies and protests is that They were almost always from the left.
Liberals are professional protesters.
They work for do gooder agencies, so it's their job to run around and carry signs.
They get off on going to this rally this night and that rally the next night.
Most people who are conservative have jobs and lives and kids' soccer games to go to and gate things to watch on television and sports to follow.
They don't go walking around carrying protest signs and agitating and so on.
It's never been a conservative thing.
Other than pro lifers and occasionally the pro-gun movement, the activism's always been on the left.
In the last year, we've seen all over the nation, people who've never attended a political rally or a political meeting in their lives, going out to these tea parties.
And more than that, on the health care issue.
There are millions of Americans who have never ever written an email or a letter or picked up a phone to call a public official and they contacted elected officials and said, vote against health care.
There's the old Buffalo Springfield song, uh think for what it's worth was the title, but I quote this on my Milwaukee program all the time.
There's something happening here, what it is ain't exactly clear.
I don't totally have this figured out.
What I do know is that there is a real backlash in this country to the direction that Obama and the Democratic Congress have taken us.
People are terrified.
They are afraid about what's happening in the United States.
Last week when I guest hosted for Rush, I had Wisconsin Congressman Paul Ryan on the program.
He's the guy that's written the Republican roadmap to entitlement reform.
And he made this comment that he thinks people are now finally ready to hear alternatives to the way we've been doing things forever.
In the past, if you dared to talk about reforming Social Security, or if you dared to talk about reforming Medicare, the Democrats would destroy, hey, he's gonna destroy Social Security, hey, he's gonna kill Medicare, and the public didn't want any part of it.
Ryan's point, and I agree with him, is that people are now open to these things.
They know we can't just keep spending this money the way we have.
They know we can't continue in this direction.
The deficit is freaking people out.
The level of taxation's freaking people out.
The idea that we're not going to be able to have control over our own health care decisions is scaring people.
They are open to alternatives, and I think they are tuned in.
And that's why all the action right now is on the conservative side, is on the Republican side.
The one thing you can say about everybody who won on Tuesday, whether it be Meg Whitman and Carly Fiorina in California, Sharon Angle in Nevada, Nikki Haley in South Carolina, even Blanche Lincoln who won a Democratic primary in Arkansas.
They all moved to the right, except in the case of Angle, who was already there.
They all moved rightward from where they were when they started their campaigns.
Blanche Lincoln kept saying, I hear you, Arkansas, I hear you, Arkansas.
She was doing everything she could to pass herself off as a populist.
There is a rejection going on of the direction that President Obama and the Democrats in Congress have taken this country.
Let's go to Indianapolis, Indiana.
John, you're on the Rush Limbaugh program with Mark Belling.
Well, hey, Mark.
My quick comment is I believe Miss Angle can turn the Department of Education elimination into a real positive.
And I think all she has to do is ask Senator Reed is primary, secondary, and collegiate education better off in this country because of the Department of Education or Susan has informed.
It clearly isn't.
It's probably worse.
And you could say the same thing about the Department of Energy.
Where's that bonded energy independence we've been looking for for 37 years?
Yeah, we're go ahead.
Go ahead.
Well, I don't know a lot about Sharon Angle.
We're going to have her on the program in a few moments.
I do know that her positions have been strongly conservative.
And I also know that the Democrats felt that she was the candidate that they would have the best chance of being able to defeat because she's been staunchly conservative and she takes stands like getting rid of the Department of Education, which conservatives like, but might give some voters in the middle of the heebie jeebies.
The point I'm making here is that I think people are going to be willing to overlook those attacks this year and deal with more serious things like the fundamental direction of our country.
That race out in Nevada is fascinating because you don't have Harry Reed challenged by a moderate.
Sharon Engle is a conservative.
You've got the personification of the Democratic Congress.
When people think of that Congress, they think of two people.
They think of Nancy Pelosi and they think of Harry Reed.
You've got the personification of the Democratic Congress running in a swing state against a woman who is an unapologetic conservative.
Since it's Nevada, I think the reference works.
If I was betting here, I'd bet on her beating him.
I think people know that the direction that Harry Reid and Barack Obama and their kind are trying to take this country right now is dangerous and it's not working.
Mark Belling in for Rush Limbaugh.
Do you want to correct the record on one thing I said about the guy facing the felony charges in South Carolina?
He's running for the United States Senate against the great Senator Demint, one of my heroes, and not running for governor.
We're joined right now by Sharon Engle, who won on Tuesday the Republican nomination for the United States Senate in the state of Nevada.
That means she's going to run against uh Harry Reed.
Sharon, good afternoon.
Good afternoon, Mark.
Thank you so much for asking me to come on your show.
It's great to talk to your audience about what's now become a nationwide campaign.
Yeah, you're it really is, and uh I said good afternoon, you're in Nevada, it's good morning there.
So good to wherever you are.
Do you realize how much is riding on your shoulders?
I mean, there are people all over the country who want Reed beaten.
Yeah, the nation is very, very much interested in defeating Harry Reid.
They understand, as we do here in Nevada, that he's truly the Obama whisperer, and he's uh the one that has been running this ball continually through the legislature there at Washington, D.C. And Obama can have uh proposals, but it is uh Reed that has to do the disposing, and we need to defeat him.
And so, of course, we're we're very much interested in in doing our patriotic duty in defeating Harry Reid.
Well, that's the first thing that I want to ask you about.
While Harry Reid is the Democratic leader of the United States Senate, we don't elect congressional leadership nationally.
They are simply individuals that are chosen in the case of the House and districts, or uh the Senate by by state.
Do you think your race is going to become a national referendum on Reed and the Democratic Congress, or is it more likely to relate to Nevada issues in which it wouldn't be interpreted so much as a referendum on the Democratic Congress and President Obama?
You know, Mark, this thing has become almost international because if people want to see what's going to happen to America on their way to being Greece, all they have to do is look at Nevada and the way that Harry Reed has waterboarded our economy here.
We have 14 percent unemployment.
We have the highest foreclosure rate in the nation.
We have the highest rate of bankruptcy in the nation.
So it's not just a referendum in Nevada, it's a referendum on the economy, and it's a referendum on the good old boy system and its corruption all the way to the penthouse at the Ritz-Carlton in Washington, D.C. Yeah, I a lot of conservatives are always afraid that Republicans are going to be a little bit too squishy, and they aren't committed conservatives.
And reading about your background, you're you're the real deal.
You've been fighting out there for years on conservative causes, and you've taken on the establishment of both parties.
Tell Russia's audience a little bit about yourself, your background, and uh how you got involved in politics.
I I started out as an art major in college, got married in my senior year to a fellow that was going to be in land management in the rural parts of Nevada, changed my major to education, moved out to Ely, Nevada for three years, Winnemuca for eleven, Tonopah for eight years, and I know those are probably strange, strange city names.
Most people think of Nevada and they think of Las Vegas, but I've lived in Nevada.
I am a Nevada and people think of me as one of them.
I started out on a school board in my County, Nevada, as a result of a fight that I had in the legislature with a uh judge, actually, who said, I know it's the law, Mrs. Engel, that you can homeschool your children, but the law ought to say that you can't homeschool your children unless you live fifty miles away from the school.
And so that was my first encounter with government intrusion, and ten years later I ran for the school year school board there in Nye County.
Then I served eight years on the Nevada State Legislature, uh, really fighting as you said against the establishment, good old boy politics.
You took on the Republican governor.
You took on the Republican governor a few years ago on tax increases, right?
Well, he he said that we needed to have a gross receipts tax in Nevada, and he actually sued the legislature.
And in that lawsuit, what he said was we know that the people of Nevada think it should take a two-thirds majority to pass any tax or fee increases, but we want to do this because education is at stake and do it by a simple majority, which cast down our Constitution.
At that point, I hired uh Dr. John Eastman, and we went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court defending our Constitution, and uh I received the Ronald Reagan Freedom Medallion for those efforts.
So we've we've been in the in the fight, and we're not really uh concerned about who we have to take on in order to win what we feel are the the valuable battles and that is to preserve our constitution and the freedoms here in the nation.
Uh Sharon Engel, Republican candidate from the Senate from Nevada.
You did you won the primary you won on Tuesday was a very hotly contested three-way race, and most of the analysts a couple of months ago said the election was between Danny Tarkanian, whose name is probably familiar to some people, son of the old UNLV basketball coach, and Sue Louden, who was supported by a lot of the Republican establishment.
You really came out of nowhere.
How did that happen?
Well, you know that Nevada is the home of the stealth airplane, and money many good things come out of nowhere, we say here.
And so we were we were just running like we knew we had to.
We had a plan to peak at the time when voters were the most engaged in the process, and it's a wonderful thing when the plan comes together.
But truly we we give God most of the credit.
This was a miracle in the making.
You captured the fascination of the Republican voters.
That's clearly the case.
On the other hand, you beat a couple of candidates who were backed by a lot of influential Republicans in Nevada.
What is the lay of the land right now?
Have you been able to unite the party?
Do you think you're going to be able to do that?
Or are there still battle skies for the people who work very hard for the couple of opponents that you did defeat, and now you're going to be able to unite the Republicans to defeat Harry Reid?
I've been talking with my opponents in the primary, and they're all ready to help me.
We've been building a coalition of the willing, as Reagan said.
And as you know, I'm sure Mark, we've got over 45 different endorsements from groups that reach across party lines to independent voters and conservative Democrats, gun owners of America, Tea Party Express, Club for Growth, uh, Phyllis Schlafley, and then here in Nevada, Nevada Concerned Citizens, Nevada Republican Assembly, Nevada Homeschool Network, just many, many folks.
And my opponents, Sue Laddin, Danny Tarkanian, John Chatchis, Bill Parson, they've all given me a call and said, We're on your team too.
We were ready to be a part of that coalition of the William willing and move forward to defeat Harry Reid because we all know what the ultimate goal is, and that's why I ran such a clean campaign here is because we had to keep the focus, and that is to fire Harry Reid.
Harry Reid has, until recently, been popular in Nevada.
Most of his reelections, he won rather easily.
He's known for being a good pork barrel and bringing federal dollars back to Nevada and all of that stuff.
Something though has changed.
Is it the fact that he became the Democratic leader and exposed himself as a doctrinaire liberal?
What's changed and what's made him vulnerable this year as he clearly is when he really wasn't in the past.
Well, Mark, you have really um nailed it with the idea that he is exposed now.
He used to run independent like Nevada, and he's a consummate politician, you know.
He votes on both sides of the issues, uh real real flip-flopper, if you will, and people couldn't see that because he would pull out the issue and say, you know, I'm so good on guns, or I'm so good on pro-life, and yet we know that he would appoint or confirm actually those uh Supreme Court justices who want to take away our second amendment rights.
So he goes on both sides of the issue is and yet when he became the Obama whisperer, he had to say what he was really truly all about, which is stimulus, bailouts, Obamacare, and now cap and tax.
And those are the issues that really people are very important um interested in, especially here in Nevada.
They don't care anything about pork.
What they care about is their jobs and staying in their homes.
And Harry Reid from his Pence House suite in Washington, D.C. is completely out of touch with the issues and with Nevadans.
They're going to hammer you.
I mean, because Reed is the leader, they don't want him to lose.
His seat is probably going to be the highest priority of Democrats in the United States this year.
They don't want to lose the seat of the leader because it would be a repudiation of the of the entire Congress.
He's going to be raising a fortune from all over the country.
First of all, he's got clout because he is the majority leader, and this is going to be this is you know, this is the line in the sand for the Democratic Party.
Do you think you're going to be able to have the resources to beat what's going to be a very, very big money campaign against you, and probably a pretty mean-spirited one.
Harry Reid says he needs 25 million.
I need a million conservatives with $25 to send that money to Sharonangle.com, S-H-A-R-R-O-N, A-N-G-L-E.com.
That's two R's and sharing.
It's all about we the people.
We're going to take back our government...
And that's the message we're sending to Harry Reid and the good old boy politics as usual, corruption machinery there in Washington, D.C., and also here in Nevada.
Well, we wish you the best of luck.
You're uh fighting the fight of the angels, Sharon.
Congratulations on your win and good luck in the campaign.
Thank you so much, Mark.
I really appreciate being on your show.
Thank you.
That's Sharon Engel.
She is the uh she's a member of the state legislature in Nevada.
She's from the Reno Carson City area, which is the northern part of the state, not the Las Vegas area, which is in the southern part of the state.
She won and her victory was something of a surprise.
She took the lead in the polls a couple of days before the election, but she was considered and also ran several weeks ago.
She got the support of a lot of conservative groups.
What you can describe as the Tea Party movement clearly backed her.
She's a staunch conservative.
She's talked about withdrawing from the United Nations, so she's not somebody who apologizes for very, very solid hardcore conservative positions, and she beat those other two Republicans.
Just in listening to her, I mean, I don't want to overly overgeneralize, but boy, doesn't she remind you of the same appeal of Sarah Palin?
She uh she talks a good game.
She uh you get the impression that she's somebody who can go toe-to-toe with Harry Reed.
She's a very, very interesting candidate.
She's clearly informed on the issues, and she's ready to take them on.
I I just keep looking at races like this, be it Meg Whitman against Jerry Brown in California, Carly Fiorina against Barbara Boxer in California, now Harry Reed, the guy that runs the whole Democratic show in the Senate.
I really think all of these people are vulnerable.
And I think messages like the one you just heard from Sharon can work this year.
Again, on her website, she does spell her name with two R's.
It's Sharonangle.com, and that's two R's in the word Sharon, and I'm guessing that all of you are checking her out right now.
She did win the Republican primary in Nevada.
Really, really lightning candidate.
Uh fun to listen to her.
My name is Mark Belling sitting in for Rush Limbaugh.
I'm Mark Belling sitting in for Rush Limbaugh.
There's a Rasmussen poll out, obviously reflecting a bump from the primary win.
Sharon Engel leading uh Harry Reid in Nevada, fifty percent to thirty-nine percent.
They also asked a couple of uh issue questions.
Do you support or oppose repealing health care?
Overwhelming number, fifty-eight percent say repeal it.
Only 41 percent say keep it.
Well, that plays to Sharon Engle.
Uh sixty-two percent of people in Nevada say they support sixty-four percent of voters in Nevada pass favor passage of a tough immigration law like Arizona's.
Sharon Engels on that side of the issue.
I think the issues in swing states right now are on the side of Republican candidates.
Passaic, New Jersey and Jerry Jerry, you're on the Rush Limbaugh program with Mark Belling.
Hello.
Hi, Jerry, you're on.
Oh, yes.
Well, like I was saying, the Republican leadership, it's nice that we won these major elections, but some of our leadership, people like McConnell and Colburn and the Mint, where are they in terms of supporting uh Jan Brewer?
They're supposed to be conservatives and they're supposed to be for basically protecting the weavia people and then no place in sight.
Well, that whole Arizona issue is one that I think maybe leaders of both parties ought to be staying out of and allow Arizona to decide it for themselves.
I don't know if to mint is weak on it.
I know some of the National Republican leaders haven't wanted to talk about it.
They've got this phobia that if they come out in support of the Arizona law that in states with big Hispanic populations, it's going to cost them in the November elections.
And I don't think that there's anything to indicate that.
The people the the Hispanics that are liberal are probably going to vote for Democrats.
But this issue is one that I think is going to transcend issues like that.
Uh I do agree with you that there hasn't been a lot of support for what's going on in Arizona, but the public is clearly there.
I mean, what's what's a guy like Harry Reid going to do?
Criticize his Republican opponent for supporting the Arizona law when the majority of people in his state and almost every state support what Arizona has done?
I don't think so.
My name is Mark Belling.
I'm sitting in for Rush Limbaugh.
I'm Mark Belling sitting in for Rush Limbaugh on EIB.
That race in Nevada is just fascinating.
Harry Reed is being challenged by a Republican candidate who is not a moderate.
She's the Republican that Harry Reid and the Democrats wanted to run against.
They think they can portray her as being outside the mainstream, one of those extremists.
Well, what she is is she's a conservative.
There's a conservative running against one of the best known Democrats in America.
If Sharon Engle can win that election, what is that saying?
Somebody who's un an unapologetic conservative running on conservative principles, beating a legendary and famous Democrat.
It would be a repudiation of everything this Congress has done.
Let's go to Reno, Nevada and Diva.
You're on the Rush Limbaugh program with Mark Belling.
Hi, Mark.
I just wanted you to know that I voted for Danny Tartane, but I am absolutely a hundred percent behind Sharon Engle.
I I love what she stands for.
I did think that Danny had a better chance at winning against Harry Reid, but now that he's out of the picture on this race, she's got my vote, and she also has the vote of several friends of mine who had also voted for people other than uh Sharon Engle.
Well, that was the question that I asked her.
Can she unify the Republican Party?
And based on based on what you're saying, it's already happened that there's just it happened before the primary.
I mean, there were people that were kind of it was a toss-up between the candidates, and there were numerous people that picked a candidate without uh uh huge uh level of devotion to that candidate, and now that there is a candidate against Harry Reed, all four feet are gonna be jumping into the ring.
Yeah, I mean, I there are people who would I think love to move to Nevada just for the opportunity to be able to vote against it.
I I do know that every election is determined in part by personalities and by state issues and things like that.
But do you all know out there how the whole country is going to be watching what you folks do in Nevada?
I hope so.
I hope so.
Uh Danny Kartinian uh uh had uh electronic town meetings, which I thought was a very classy thing to do.
And I had hoped that I would hear from Sharon Engle in that respect, but I didn't.
And um I did I do.
I guess the point that I'm uh I'm raising here is that you know that every conservative in America is rooting for people like you to get out there and organize and beat Harry Reed because beating him would be such an incredibly devastating blow to the Democratic machine.
Thanks for thank thanks for joining us.
I think she has a chance to win.
I think they're gonna try to portray her as a right-wing loon, they're gonna try to portray her as an extremist, and I'm not sure that stuff works right now.
Something is changing in America.
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