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Aug. 31, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 31, 2010, Tuesday, Hour #3
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Mention on yesterday's program that the old Buffalo Springfield song that included the line, I think Steven Stills wrote it, there's something happening here, what it is ain't exactly clear.
I keep going back to that over the last year because there are things happening in American politics and really in American life that we have never seen before.
Our side is not the activist side.
Our side isn't the go out and hold the rallies side.
Our side isn't the set up the chain emails side.
Our side isn't the one that has the permanent infrastructure of agitators.
We don't have that.
Something's changed.
We know why it's changed.
We don't know how it's going to play itself out, though.
You've got people who in the past were never all that active involved.
You've got people looking forward to an election that used to put look upon voting as an irrelevancy.
You have people who now think they have an obligation to step up on behalf of their country.
You're also seeing across America, with exceptions, of course, different kinds of candidates running.
American politicians have generally been people who sought office for the purpose of seeking office.
They've chosen politics and government as their lives.
That's their vocation.
And that's really the problem.
We aren't any more governed by our peers.
We're governed by people who want to govern us.
That's changed.
In my own state of Wisconsin, we have a United States Senate election this year in which an entrenched politician, a career incumbent, 18-year veteran, Russ Feingold, was thought to be invincible.
Then everything changed a few months ago.
Guy who owns a plastics manufacturer in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, who's never run for anything in his life, said I'm going to run.
Now, because I'm from Wisconsin and do a show there, I've been following this race closely, and I think the story is fascinating, and I want to share it with you for a few moments here on uh Russia's program.
So I'm joined right now by Ron Johnson.
He is the front-running Republican candidate for the United States Senate from my own state of Wisconsin.
Ron, good afternoon.
Hello, Mark, how you doing?
I'm great.
I want to get into because I had you on my program right around the time you were declaring, and I asked you a couple of questions, and the answers just struck me.
When I ask people why they're running for office, they usually give the same vague platitudes.
Your answer was different.
Here you are, you're a guy that owns your own business.
You've never run for anything in your life, and all of a sudden you've decided that you want to be a United States Senator.
What made this happen?
Well, well, Mark, the final straw for me really was when they passed the health care bill.
And I just viewed that as the single greatest assault on our freedom in my lifetime.
And the reason that is so close close to my heart, quite honestly, is my first child, my daughter, was born with very serious congenital heart defect.
And you know, the first day of life, uh, she was rushed down to Milwaukee Children's Hospital where a wonderful man, Dr. John Thomas, saved her life uh at about one thirty in the morning, and then eight months later, she had the uh upper chamber of her heart totally reconstructed uh by another surgeon.
And uh, you know, I realized you know, first of all, to skip ahead, you know, it's a really good news ending story because she's twenty-seven years old right now.
Her heart is backwards.
But uh she's a nurse herself in a neo-nato intensive care unit.
And uh we she had a chance at a full life because we don't have a perfect health care system.
We have the finest health care system in the world.
And that is at risk here.
And I I believe the uh the health care reform act was it is designed to lead to a single payer uh government takeover of our health care system, you know, a Canadian style system, and I have no idea why anybody would want to move in that direction.
And that really was the outreach from my standpoint.
That's gonna lead to ration care that's gonna lower the quality of care and and quite honestly, you know, that that medical innovation that we all expect you know that the rest of the world might honestly feeds off of.
America's where medical miracles are created.
We create the life-saving new drugs.
Your concern your Concern was that if your daughter had been born at a time in which there was government control of health care, that this particular procedure would not have been one of the approved procedures, and that the innovation that results in procedures like this is going to be choked off because of the obvious cost containment that's going to occur if we ever have a single payer system.
For you, that's what got you to run for the United States Senate.
You aren't there's nobody in the United States Senate, Ron, that has that kind of an answer.
Most people run for the United States Senate because they want to be a senator.
And I guess the thing that struck me when you've when you answered that question, and it's a story you tell in our state, is that you can't make that stuff up.
It's a different kind of motivation.
I get the I get the sense that that's the same thing that's bringing people to key parties.
It's the same thing that's getting people to volunteer for your campaign that in the past weren't politically active.
There's something about the health care bill that has touched them more deeply than other political issues.
Well, Mark Mark, it's a loss of freedom.
And we were driving around Wisconsin.
I actually heard your little segment of yours show yesterday where you're talking about what's causing this backlash.
And I'm not going to disagree with your answer, but uh I've got a little bit different perspective from the campaign trail here.
And what I find is resonating is when I talk about the love I have for this country.
You know, when people understand how how I realize, you know, in the span of human history, how incredibly precious and exceptional America is.
You know, there's a reason we have five percent of the world's population, and yet we produce twenty to twenty-five percent of the world's goods.
That's because of freedom and the free market and free enterprise system.
And I think the backlash is because people don't think that our current leaders share these same same beliefs.
They don't believe that our current leaders find that America is exceptional.
I think that's the backlash.
I think that's the outrage.
It's certainly the outrage that I that I feel.
Well, they have this sense that America is no better nor nor worse than any other country, that we shouldn't be looking upon ourselves as any kind of superiority, and you don't have that attitude is your point.
No, I I I love this country, and I realize that it is exceptional, and we need to we we need to maintain this.
We I I really think we're losing America.
Our nation is really imperiled.
And you know, this this is not my life's ambition, Mark.
I mean I think that's another thing that kind of resonates with people.
They realize this isn't because Ron Johnson wants to become a U.S. Senator.
This is because there's just a a guy in Oshkosh, you know, a father, a husband, you know.
Uh so hopefully a grandfather someday wants to step up the plate and actually go to Washington and try and address these problems, which are serious, they're significant.
Nobody would ever accuse you of being particularly smooth or slick or all that polished because you've been a business guy running a company, you haven't been out there and doing public speaking for thirty years, you haven't been going to nineteen million fundraisers, you haven't been working with lobbyists and political consultants.
What you're saying is you're running because you think your values right now are needed.
I think there's a reason why you didn't run two years ago or you never ran for anything before.
Something's changed this year.
So I guess that's my question.
You mentioned health care, but why Ron Johnson and why now?
What's making you believe that you have to step in now?
Do you really think that our country is that endangered?
Yeah, yeah, I mean, you know, the the other segment of this is the out of control spending and debt.
I mean, when our when our government when is spending one point five trillion dollars more than they bring in, when our national debt is thirteen trillion, it'll be fourteen trillion next year.
When Congress doesn't even have the guts to pass a budget, they just deem one pass for next year.
There's something terribly wrong.
And let's face it, we we have the example there.
This isn't theory.
We can see Greece.
America is heading toward Greece.
That would be a tragedy in human history.
I mean, it is true.
America is is the the shining city on a hill.
And you know, people look to us to lead the world and and we're squandering it.
There's a column in the Wall Street Journal over the weekend about uh Jim DeMint, the Republican senator from South Carolina, who I think you might set up as some senator that you might want to be like.
The the paragraph reads as follows Demon tells the story of a meeting that uh that Republican senators had with Ron Johnson, the businessman and GOP senatorial candidate in Wisconsin.
He was asked why he's running for Senate, and he stood up and I hadn't met him yet, and he looked straight at me and he said, I just want to quote Demint here.
I'm coming here to join the fight and not the club.
And I laughed and I said, Well, this is the club.
How do we prevent you, if you win, from becoming another one of those guys?
Because there's a co-optive thing about being in power in Washington.
And a lot of people come in bright eyed as reformers.
We certainly saw this in the nineteen nineties with the contract with America crowd.
And in the end, ten years later they're passing earmarks and bringing pork home, and they're just part of the system.
Are you convinced that you can fight off that instinct?
Well, I uh that's my guarantee.
I mean, in my convention speech, and I repeat it all the time on the campaign trail, I will never vote with my re-election in mind.
That's not why I'm doing this.
I'm going to address the problems and I'll vote with the interest of the voters of Wisconsin and America in mind.
And and honestly, if that kicks me back to Oshgosh in six years, I mean, fine.
I mean, I really do love my life in Oshkosh.
So all you can really do is get on the campaign trail, and you literally I've done 350 personal events.
We've visited 54 counties, over 150 cities cities and towns in twelve weeks.
I am busy guy.
And all I can do is go meet people, look them in the eye, let them gauge the contact content of my character, you know, the seriousness of my purpose.
And in the end, Mark, I'm happy to let the voters of Wisconsin decide.
I mean, I really do believe this is what the founders had envisioned.
You know, an individual t take a lifetime of experience and be you know, as raising a family, having a full career, and take that body of experience to the nation's capital and apply that to uh the the nation's problems.
In the process, in order to beat you, because you're an unknown, and I told you this three months ago when you're on my local program, they are going to look for every single problem you've ever had in your life.
If you ever fired an employee and that employee had a grievance, if you ever were too obnoxious at a football game, if you've ever done anything, they're going to go after you on that.
And I noticed in the Milwaukee paper today, there's a story about question about when your company was actually founded, was it 1977 or 1979?
You stated a couple of weeks ago that you don't buy the argument that man is causing climate change, and they're passing you off as some sort of a nut for that reason.
Were you prepared for the amount of ridicule that a non politician is going to get for simply standing up and saying, I want to be part of the process in this country?
Oh, absolutely.
I mean, I'm I'm not naive.
I've obviously read papers and I've been following the news, so I I knew pretty much what was going to be thrown at me, and I I d I think it's only just begun, quite honestly.
Uh some of these issues are pretty minor, it's they're actually pretty silly.
So I I totally understand that.
It's one of the reasons though the guys like me don't step off the sidelines.
I mean it's it's it's you're you are certainly subjecting yourself and your family to a process that let's face it, the vast majority of people do not want to subject themselves to.
So it's kind it's kind of why we get the politics we get.
But again, I because they pass that health care bill, because that is so my heart.
Do you get the stepped up the plate?
Do you get the sense though that this might be the year that those normal attacks don't work?
I do.
I think they can throw some of this stuff at you, and you're gonna come back and say, Look, I'm not a professional politician.
Yeah, I may have said something the wrong way.
I might have done this.
I want to serve my country.
It's my own sense that people are for the first time in a long time open to what a guy like you is saying.
Well, I think the politicians that are that are throwing those those uh uh accusations, they're actually they're they're coming down further in the polls than the people that they're throwing the accusations at.
That's that's certainly what I've been hearing.
So I I don't think it's gonna work.
And Mark, in the end, all I can really do is just keep doing what I'm doing.
Getting out, meeting people, conveying who I am, letting people judge who I am, and and in the end, I'll I'm again I'm I'm happy to let the voters in Wisconsin decide.
They're running a life or death to me.
It's extremely important.
It's why I'm doing it.
But uh I'm I'm happy to let the voters decide.
You're running T V ads saying I've created jobs, businesses create jobs, all government creates is debt.
That's a message that seems to come from your heart.
It sounds like the basis for your campaign.
There is a flip side to this though.
Do you not acknowledge that a lot of Republicans have been as bad on these issues over the last twenty years as Democrats?
Absolutely.
You know, certainly I I was I was no I was certainly not happier when Republicans were spending two, three, four hundred billion dollars that they didn't have, but really now we're talking one point five trillion.
So you know I'm not sure.
I guess what I'm I guess what I'm asking is how do we know that you're not going to go there and be part of the same club, just the one that has the R on the uniform as opposed to the D. I guess just look at my motives.
And again, it's when I talk to people, they can look in my eyes and talk to anybody that I that I have met.
I think they're pretty well convinced.
They they realize it.
Take a look at my background.
It's that's all any voter can ever do.
Uh there's there are no guarantees, but uh, I'm just telling you, I am dedicated to uh stepping up the plate and solving these problems.
Uh, for people who haven't been following your race, the Rasmussen poll now shows you dead even or even a little bit ahead of Russ Feingold, which is amazing for a guy who wasn't even running until April of this year.
I want you to want to thank you for joining me, Ron.
That's Ron Johnson, Republican candidate for the United States Senate from my home state of Wisconsin, covering any particular race on a national program, you run the risk of tuning out people who aren't from Wisconsin or aren't paying attention.
I wanted to put Ron Johnson on, because normally he's the kind of candidate that would get crushed.
You're running against an entrenched, established incumbent who can brag about I brought back this pork, I did that, smooth talking guy.
I just get the sense that this year that a non-traditional candidate with that kind of message has a real chance of that the country is ready for it.
I'm Mark Delling sitting in for Rush.
I'm Mark Delling sitting in for Rush Limbaugh.
Okay, that was one guy he's running in one state, you've got Marco Rubio in Florida, you've got a lot of other people that are running for Senate, for House, for governorships, for state legislatures across the country.
This election is more important than most.
It's certainly as important as the one that gave us Barack Obama.
A lot of people don't like to hear this point because they want to wash their hands of the entire process.
Republicans stink the Democrats stink there's gotta be another answer.
Doesn't matter who we vote for, they're all gonna do the same thing to us.
You can take that stance, but if you do, we're in real trouble.
Here's why.
The president and this Congress have gone farther to the left than any president in Congress, at least since Franklin Roosevelt, and probably more.
They've moved in a direction that's horrified 70% of the country.
His health care plan isn't popular.
The stimulus plan isn't popular.
People don't think it worked.
They don't like his stance on the Arizona immigration law.
They have a sense that he's trying to lecture the country from above.
And they're terrified at the amount of debt and government spending that we have.
If after all of this, they go through an election and they survive unscathed.
What's the message from that?
And how are they going to take it?
If Democrats aren't defeated this fall, when will they be beaten?
If these policies aren't repudiated, and your President Obama and your Nancy Pelosi and your Harry Reid, how do you interpret the message?
If Harry Reid is re-elected by his constituents in Nevada, if they only lose two or three members of the Senate, if the Democrats keep control of the House, how do they take the message?
They take it that we're sitting here in a terrible economy, we push the policy agenda as far as we could, and we're still all in power.
They're going to step on the accelerator pedal.
This election has real meaning and real impact.
It isn't just how many seats are controlled by which party in the House and how many seats you regain in the United States Senate.
It becomes a referendum on the direction that Barack Obama and the Democrats in the Congress have taken this country.
If they don't lose significant power, the message will be that their socialization of the American health care system, their intrusion of government into all areas of our life, their flipping their noses at the private economy and instead spending a fortune in stimulus without producing a single job to show for it is what the American people want.
It's one thing to go to rallies.
It's one thing to go to meetings.
It's one thing to be more active than you were before.
But if you don't translate this into a vote, and you don't convince your fellow Americans that there has to be a different way, and there has to be a rejection of this, it will be a disaster.
It will mean every amount of backlash in the last two years is a total waste.
That's why elections matter.
That's why it's important that guys like Ron Johnson beat Russ Feingold.
That's why it's important that we elect Marco Rubio in Florida.
That's why it's important that you can go out and knock off Barbara Boxer in California, because if you don't, the Liberals are going to take this as an endorsement of what they've done.
I'm not normally a Pollyanna, but I do think that this is going to be a title wave this fall.
I think the message that I offered in the last segment that this election really matters, I I think people are they realize this.
They're onto it.
There are people that I see involved right now that have never been involved before.
Listen to this one from Gallup.
You know what the generic ballot is?
It's when they ask people who do you identify with, Republican or Democrat.
Which party do you prefer for your own congressional seat, Democrat or Republican?
In that generic ballot poll question, the Democrats always do relatively well, and the split is usually close.
In Gallup's latest tracking poll out today, they show the Republicans with a 10-point lead on that generic ballot question, the party affiliation question, that is the largest in the history of Gallup's tracking poll for midterm congressional elections.
It's 5141 Republican.
It's never been this wide before.
Let me quote from Gallup.
Republicans lead by 51 to 41% among registered voters in Gallup weekly tracking of 2010 congressional voting preferences.
The 10 percentage point lead is the GOP's largest so far this year and is its largest in Gallup's history of tracking the midterm generic ballot for Congress.
These results are based on aggregated data from registered voters surveyed August 23rd to 29th as part of Gallup Daily Tracking.
This marks the fifth week in a row in which Republicans have held an advantage over Democrats, one that has ranged between three and ten points.
The Republican leads of six, seven, and now ten points this month are all higher than any previous midterm Republican advantage in Gallup's history of tracking the generic ballot, which dates to nineteen forty two.
Prior to this year, the highest such gap was five points, measured in June of 2002 and July of 1994.
Elections in both of these years resulted in significant Republican gains in House seats.
Here's why I think this is powerful.
Gallup asks the question not of likely voters, but of registered voters.
I think the gap when you get to likely voters is even greater.
We all can see that the average Democratic voter is dispirited and is not looking forward to the election.
Look up two years ago they were on a mission.
It was almost with religious fervor that they were trying to elect Obama.
Not only did they want to throw out Bush, this was considered to be an historic opportunity the whole thing.
You don't get that sense this year.
The passion is all on the Republican side.
I think we're setting up to see a total repudiation.
I think the House is going to fall.
I think it's going to go to the and you're talking there about a swing of 40 seats.
Forty different elections swing 80 seats.
I don't know if the Republicans can regain control of the Senate, but I think Ron Johnson in my own state has at least a 50-50 chance of winning.
And if he can win against a guy like Feingold, a lot of these other close elections are in play as well.
There's way too much going on in terms of people who've never been politically active before, taking these extra steps to think that it isn't translating into the country as a whole.
Add to this the really strong sense that the people in the middle have a strong case of buyer's remorse with regard to the president.
And I think everything is being set up for an enormous landslide for the Republicans.
Now what they do with it and what they do with their power, that's another question.
But I think this election is shaping up as a significant, significant realignment of the Congress.
Let's go to Sydney, Ohio, and Paul.
Paul, it's your turn on the Rush Limbaugh program with Mark Belling.
Hi.
Um I want to make a point that while it's important to change the members of Congress and the Senate, those men need to go with an attitude of also cleaning out the bureaucrats, the mid-level bureaucrats who are responsible for writing some of this egregious legislation.
The people who wrote Obamacare are nameless and faceless and not accountable, but they're those people that need to be responsible too.
And so let's let's send these guys to Congress and the Senate, but with a mandate to also get rid of the Eurocrats who are writing these rules, regulations, and owner.
You mentioned you mentioned the term mandate.
Barack Obama believes the election of 2008 was a mandate for him to take the country in a deliberately liberal direction, even though that's not what he campaigned on.
He acted as though he had a mandate.
If I'm right, and there are significant Republican gains this fall, those Republicans who win better understand that they're getting a mandate.
And their mandate is to try to repeal as much of what's happened the last two years as possible.
Their mandate is to stop this drift toward a leftward nation.
Their mandate is to stop spending money that we don't have.
Their mandate is to stop barreling pork and sending it back to states for no purpose other than a photo opportunity.
They have to understand that they're being sent there with a purpose as well, and that that purpose is to undo what this president has been doing.
If they don't, if they simply win for the purpose of winning and try to neutralize Obama and maybe cut a few deals here or there, they will be missing their opportunity as well.
If there is the landslide that I believe is coming, it's going to be because the people want a check and even a reversal of what President Obama is doing.
They don't have the ability to pass anything because he's got a veto pen.
What they will have is significant power to influence government spending, however.
As I said, I think that this is a watershed election, and it's going to be a way of testing the pulse of the American public as to whether or not they want what Pelosi Reid and Obama have given us, or if they don't want it, is this the kind of country that we do want to have or not.
One point, you know, you're concerned that you asked the guy that candidate from Wisconsin, how is he going to keep from going to Washington and becoming like them?
And I think a lot of it has to do with they they go there and they surround themselves with all those people who have been there for all these years and doing things the same way, the same way, the same way.
So pretty soon they're drinking the Kool-Aid too, and they all get corrupted.
That's exactly what happens.
Until they until they go there with a mandate with an understanding, not only do I have to change the Obama policies, but I've got to help change the culture of Washington by getting rid of these guys who have been there lifelong and who just kind of hang out and just you know keep doing the same thing.
And a lot of them are very liberal.
Everybody within that belt loop is poisoned.
Oh, including the staffs.
It's the Washington Washingtonization of the entire process.
You can come out there with the best of intentions, and you become part of a process in which you've got staffers that work for another congressman, you've got committee staff that's been there forever.
They have one way of doing things.
The ways and means process is merely the way of working ourselves toward a budget in which we then figure out who gets what and how do we get that person's vote?
It's the thing that's been going on forever.
For a person to come in and try to buck up against that is challenging every part of that structure.
You're looked upon as an oddball if you do it.
There's a perfect example of it.
It's Jim DeMint of South Carolina.
He is a true reformer.
He's taken on the Republican leadership.
He's even endorsed candidates running against incumbent Republican senators.
For that reason, he's very unpopular with a lot of the Republican establishment out there.
Demint, however, is a guy with a strong backbone and a strong constitution, And he believes in what he's doing.
If we don't have politicians that are willing to go out there and actually act on this rhetoric, we haven't gained much.
However, without regard to what they do, the meaning of this election is still profound.
This is a chance for the public to say up or down whether or not they approve of the direction that Barack Obama has taken us.
Thank you for the call, Paul.
My name is Mark Belling, and I'm sitting in for Rush Limbois.
I'm Mark Belling sitting in for Rush.
Story in today's uh New York Times why Wall Street is deserting Obama.
Seventy percent of Wall Street money in the two thousand eight election went to the Democrats.
There's this myth that Wall Street's been tied to the Republicans forever.
They're not.
They're all the same Eastern elitist lefties.
In any event, the story goes as follows.
Daniel S. Loeb, the hed hedge fund manager, was one of Barack Obama's biggest backers in the 2008 presidential campaign.
A registered Democrat Loeb has been giv has given and raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for Democrats.
Less than a year ago, he was considered to be among the Wall Street elite still close enough to the White House to be invited to a speech in Lower Manhattan where President Obama outlined the need for a financial regulatory overhaul.
So it came as quite a surprise on Friday when Loeb sent a letter to his investors that sounded as if he were preparing to join the Glenn Beck rally over the weekend.
Quote, as every student of American history knows, this country's core founding principles included non-punitive taxation, constitutionally guaranteed protections against persecution of the minority, and an extra inexorable right of self-determination.
Washington has taken actions over the past months, like the Goldman suit that seemed designed to fracture the populace by putting capital, pulling capital and power from the hands of some and putting it in the hands of others.
The story goes on to say that another number of other prominent Wall Street types who have been supporters of Obama are now very disappointed in his presidency.
Why so personal?
The story says the prevailing view is that bankers, hedge fund managers, and traders supported the Obama candidacy because he appealed to their egos.
Obama was viewed as a member of the the elite, an Ivy League graduate, president of the Harvard Law Review.
He was supposed to be just like them.
President Obama was the intelligent choice, the same way they felt about themselves.
They say that they knew he would seek higher taxes and tighter regulation.
That was okay.
What they say they did not realize was that they were going to be painted as villains.
What they didn't realize is that he's a true believer.
He is a hard core liberal.
I mentioned earlier that he's lost the middle.
He's losing a part of that limousine liberal left.
Those people who live in suburban communities that are socially liberal on a lot of issues, particularly the abortion issue.
Well, now they see the assault that's going on on the free market on the economy on their own bottom lines.
He's losing even them.
He's losing everyone.
To San Antonio, Texas and Chance, Chance, you're on the Rush Limbaugh program with Mark Belling.
Yes, n nice to talk to you, Mark Billin.
Belling.
I I'd like to also sit Excuse me?
Belling.
Oh, oh, I'm sorry.
Jigabyte.
Uh, you know, behind the scenes of the shows like these, you know, whenever I try to get through, uh, I'm you are always treated very, very poorly.
Okay?
The staff treats you very poorly.
You're taking your opportunity to call this program and rip on the staff.
I was fully expecting you to call up and rip on me, but if you want to take on after the staff, uh fire away.
What are all the so they were just terribly abusive to poor you then stop?
Liberal calling the program, and within ten seconds, he's already finding victim status because the call screeners weren't nice enough.
Well, let me make up for that and let me be as charming as possible to you.
What's on your mind, Chance?
Okay, hello, am I on?
Yes.
Okay.
Uh uh, you know, it it's a daily thing with with you guys on these shows daily.
This is a game that you're waging against this administration, and everybody knows it.
We all know it.
Except that people that are actually fooled by it who's denying that.
We don't we don't support what he's doing.
Look, I'm the caller.
I will get my turn.
It is very hard for me to understand why the call screeners had a problem with this caller.
I can't imagine how a nice guy like Chance would have given you any any sort of trouble.
Uh, By the way, you accused us of having a campaign against what the president is trying to accomplish.
No kidding.
We don't support what he's trying to do.
Yeah, okay.
Am I on?
Yes, you're on, Chance.
Okay, uh, but the the way that you guys go about uh uh making your point is always unfair.
You you haven't given this administration a chance from the very get-go.
This thing, this thing, the the the war that you're waging started even before this guy was elected.
Okay, and now that Fox News and people like you are trying to drive up fear in people, fear of his religion, fear of socialism, uh uh in the world.
We are fearful of socialism.
A commander in chief, worthy of the office.
Okay, we see right through your lies and your nonsense.
Really?
And we're gonna stand up on an election.
Who is we?
We're not gonna back down from you guys.
Well, we're not gonna back down.
That's a very good point that you make.
That's a very good point that uh that that uh Chase or Chance or whatever his name is down there makes, and that's the point that I was making earlier.
If this election results in the Democrats keeping control of the House with a decent margin, and they lose at most one or two seats in the Senate, guys like him are going to be claiming vindication.
They're gonna say nah nah to the rest of us.
They're going to say that the American people heard the opposition and they decided to go the direction of the president.
That's what this thing is all about.
He's exactly right.
This is a referendum on President Obama, and if his side wins, they're going to take this as a statement of empowerment that the country is with them.
He couldn't, in his own goofy way, have stated it better.
By the way, be nicer to him next time.
He was such a reasonable guy.
I'm Mark Belling sitting in for Rush.
I'm Mark Belling sitting in for Rush Limbaugh.
The uh last caller, the uh almost car caricature of the classic lefty, made some points that those of us on the right have not given Barack Obama a chance.
Now I could suggest they didn't give President Bush much of a chance, but that isn't the point.
If you believe in things, you fight for them.
You don't give a chance to socialism.
Socialism's been given a chance ever since Karl Marx started pushing it.
You don't give a chance to running federal budget deficits at 1.3 trillion dollars.
You don't give a chance to looting the taxpayers of this country for better than eight hundred billion dollars for stimulus that didn't create any jobs.
Not if you have beliefs, not if you have values.
As for giving a chance, well, it's now eighteen months and counting, and the administration hasn't been able to find one policy success at all.
If he actually thought about his point, however, if we've made a mistake, it's that we don't hold Republicans to the same standards.
The reason there was an opening for Obama at all is because the Republicans in Congress spent too much money.
It was because President Bush, for all of his strengths and certain issues, allowed federal government spending to get out of control.
You know, Ronald Reagan had that famous line of he called it the eleventh commandment, never speak ill of another Republican.
Reagan was wrong.
I'm not a Republican, I'm a conservative.
I have a right to demand that individuals who claim to be conservative when they run go to Washington and don't spend like crazy.
They trust the market.
They trust the American people, and if they don't, they deserve our criticism.
There are a lot of Republican pork barrelers in wash in Washington too, and they need to be repudiated.
If in your own state you've got a Republican sellout running, you don't have to keep your mouth shut.
You can oppose him or her, and you can speak out about that.
This is all about ideas, and those of us who have ideas that are conservative, not only have every right right now, we have a need to express them.
Mark Belling and for Rush.
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