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Sept. 17, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 17, 2010, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Now, give me a minute here.
Let me explain.
I know, I know, I feel your disillusionment.
It's Friday.
These are vital times.
What is going on?
I am, in fact, the fill-in host who told you at the end of the fill-in host week that you weren't going to have any more fill-in hosts until the election.
And of course, that was the plan.
However, Rush's cold was not informed of this plan.
And as you could hear yesterday, bless his heart, the content primo as always.
The passion, always there.
The upper respiratory muck in play.
So Rush is going to take, the plan is a little three-day weekend to recuperate.
And I'm thrilled to be here with you.
Mark Davis from WBAP, Dallas, Fort Worth.
And I've been listening all week.
Hey, I got my own show.
I'm plugged into this stuff.
We're ready to rock.
So let's do it on the Friday Rush Limbaugh Show, which is always Open Line Friday, and that doesn't change at all.
1-800-282-2882.
1-800-282-2882.
And always go to rushlimbaugh.com, even on the days when he's not here.
So what shall we do?
On a Friday show, whether it's the local show I do here in Texas or anytime I'm blessed enough to occupy this chair, and I've always had this feeling this is what Open Line Friday does, it kind of ties a bow around the week that's just gone by.
Obviously, it takes into account any hot-breaking news stories, any things that are happening in today's headlines, but it's a chance to kind of put things in context and head into the weekend, ready for whatever the weekend holds with some kind of concrete notion of what the heck has gone on in the preceding week.
So let me walk you through some of the narratives that I perceive of the week gone by, and we can compare notes on these.
You can tell me what you think, agree, disagree.
1-800-282-2882.
This is the week of Delaware.
This is the week where America's first state and one of its tiniest had a political result that sent an atom bomb of ripples through, pardon the mixed metaphor there, through the through every echelon of Republican land.
Notice I didn't say conservative land.
Conservatives are fine.
There's no conservative crisis underway.
There's no conservative feud.
There's no conservative rancor.
No, no, no.
In conservative land, everything is fine.
Because in conservative land, we are thrilled with Christine O'Donnell's victory over moderate squish Mike Castle.
We are ecstatic about that.
And we are ready with our hearts and our minds and our wallets to help her beat Chris Koons and win Joe Biden's seat.
We are ready.
We are active.
We are stoked.
We are determined.
Conservative land is locked and loaded for this.
Oh no.
Where there's tension is Republican land, a similar but somewhat distinct landscape in which there are plenty of conservatives, to be sure.
Some of us occupy both places.
Some don't.
And the very unpretty phenomenon of this week gone by is we have seen some people who like to be thought of as conservative, not necessarily revealing that they're not.
Because I've heard a lot of people just get all over Karl Rove, and I've been among them.
I've heard a lot of people just hearts break about Charles Krauthammer, and I'm definitely one of those.
This man is a hero to me.
How can he be so dead wrong?
But he is.
And I don't think that necessarily these people have abandoned their conservatism, however much they had or have.
I think that they're just looking through different lenses.
Rush made this point yesterday.
What is Karl Rove?
His is not a career built on punditry or ideology.
It's been a career built on winning races.
And obviously, as the architect, did pretty well for George W. Bush on two occasions and for other people before and since.
So when your brain and your eyesight and your senses are wired toward winning, you tend to take a look at things in a petri dish under a microscope.
What do we have to do strategically to win?
And through that lens, I can see how someone would say, look, hold your nose and go with Mike Castle.
It's a 100% guarantee of somebody in there with an R by their name.
Okay, I get that.
The problem with that is that is so 2007.
That is so, so forgotten in Tea Party America.
In fact, the very sound of that logic, the very sound of that paragraph, hey, I know you disagree with him on a bunch of things.
I mean, I know he's downright liberal on this and this and this, but hey, he's got an R by his name.
He's going to vote for Mitch McConnell to be majority leader.
And, you know, for that, we should forgive all.
Guess what?
Guess what?
It's 2010, no sale.
No sale.
Carl, Charles, whoever else, this is the year of Christine O'Donnell.
This is the year of Miller in Alaska toppling Lisa Murkowski.
This is the year of Marco Rubio beating another moderate squish, Charlie Christ in Florida.
This is the year of Chris Christie, a Republican winning New Jersey.
This is a year of untold specialness.
And here's what gets really tangled up is that in the Charles Krauthammer case, because Carl, I've never expected to be a consistent conservative ideologue.
That's not his DNA.
He wants to win races for Republican clients.
Republicans, he wants to help Republicans win.
Nothing wrong with that goal.
But there's a lot of go-along to get along and positioning, and we can't make the Hispanics mad and blah, blah, blah, you know, whatever.
We're done with that for right now.
We're going to see how something else works.
It's called boldness.
It's called upbeat unapologetic conservatism.
It's called, here's what we believe.
If you like it, vote for us.
If you don't, don't.
And I love that.
It's so liberating.
It's glorious.
That's not Carl's gig.
And so I'm not going to beat on Carl because Carl's just being Carl.
Now, Krauthammer, this magnificent man, I can't remember the last time I read a column that I disagreed.
Oh, has he made a point or two or three where I've got, ooh, I don't know about that.
Sure, that's true of anyone.
But I'll share it with you here and some audio too.
Charles believes, Dr. Krauthammer believes, that those of you in Delaware who voted for Christine O'Donnell are screwy.
That it's selfish, it's capricious, it's self-indulgent.
You're engaged, you're involved in a quixotic tilt at windmills.
And he's a psychiatrist, so if he says you're crazy, there's something behind it.
It's like, Charles, I expect to be insulted by Democrats, but not so much by my own side and certainly not by you.
And I know he doesn't do it to be mean-spirited.
He doesn't have that bone in his body, but he just really does believe that all these votes, that all those votes on Tuesday for Christine O'Donnell and all of the support for her now is to no good purpose, is to no good purpose.
What?
What?
And his reasons why actually sound like my reasons for being for her.
Here's what I mean.
I am for her because this regime must be stopped.
I am for her because we may never have a chance like this again to stop this neo-socialist slide into something that looks like Europe on our continent.
I support Christine O'Donnell because this nonsense has got to come to an end.
Now, if you asked Charles Krauthammer why he sort of wished we'd gone with Mike Castle, he'd have said it's because we've got to stop these people.
He'd have said it's because this nonsense has to stop.
You see what I mean?
He's looking for the same goal I am, but he wants to achieve it with a moderate squish who happens to have an R by his name.
I want to achieve it, silly me, with a real conservative who is right on the issues.
Okay, maybe we get a guaranteed Republican in the face and form and body of Mike Castle.
But at what cost?
When the Obama regime tries to screw up our lives with environmental extremism, will Mike Castle be there to stop them?
No.
When we need clarity on the war, would Mike Castle be there with clarity on the war?
No.
This is a guy who didn't even believe in the surge.
I can't count on Mike Castle to be there on the issues that count.
And how valuable would he be really, really, when the heat is applied from this Chicago-style political machine to a Republican senator who pretty well agrees with this Chicago-style political machine of the White House more often than he should.
Ultimately, the main difference between Dr. Krauthammer and me and maybe Dr. Krauthammer and you, because this is what drives him.
And if he really does believe this, it explains it, doesn't excuse it, but it explains it.
He does not in a million years believe that Christine O'Donnell is electable.
He thinks she has zero chance.
Hmm.
Well, what do I think about that?
More importantly, what do you think about that?
Am I going to sit here and guarantee her win?
I'm not an idiot.
She could get smoked by Chris Koons.
It's Delaware, please.
Or you know what?
Maybe not.
I'll give you two ways she wins next on the Rush Limbaugh show.
Mark Davis, in for Rush, just one sick day.
God bless him.
Is he just going to get all better and be back on Monday?
Fingers crossed toward that.
And now looking toward your calls at 1-800-282-2882.
Again, I absolutely consider Christine O'Donnell.
Remember what the words mean.
Electable means you could win.
It doesn't mean you will.
Unelectable means you simply cannot win.
Charles Krauthammer and Karl Rove and maybe some of you believe that about her.
And I think that's just crazy.
Have you looked at the calendar?
Do you see that it's 2010?
Look, not so long ago, I'd be right there with you.
What?
A really good hardcore conservative in Delaware?
Who you teasing?
But it's 2010.
It's the year of the Tea Party.
Everything has changed.
How much?
We're about to see.
She's about to show us how much has changed.
Your calls and more rambling from me.
Filling in for Rush.
Mark Davis in for Rush on the EIB Network.
Stick around.
It is the Friday Rush Limbaugh Show.
I'm Mark Davis filling in.
Rush back on Monday.
That's the plan.
Going to take a little three-day weekend and get better with a cold that you could pretty well hear forming with each passing hour yesterday.
Bless his heart.
Oh my gosh.
But again, great content as always, even through a congested upper body.
All right.
So, how does Christine O'Donnell win in Delaware?
And then we're going to go to your calls and go wherever you want to go.
I got a bunch of stuff.
It's stuff from the week gone by, things Rush has been talking about, stuff I've been doing about on the show down here in Texas.
And just plenty to do for a free huge Friday Open Line Friday, of course, on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
There are two things that make anyone who says that she's unelectable just dead wrong.
And I sense an interesting backdown, I believe, from Charles Krauthammer, who has referred to her as unelectable.
He now calls her chances one in 10.
So it's like Jim Carrey and dumb and dumber.
So you're telling me I have a chance.
Of course, she has a chance.
Is it a big chance?
I don't know.
Probably not.
But is it a chance?
Is it a chance worth going for?
Of course it is.
Senator Jim DeMint, Republican, South Carolina, listened to all of this finger wagging from people who said, oh, they've screwed it up now.
Those Republicans, they've screwed it up now.
Because if they had a chance of picking up 10 and actually getting the majority in the Senate, oh, not anymore, not anymore.
I think Rove said, I was thinking eight or nine.
Now it's seven or eight.
Quote from Jim DeMint, I don't want the majority if we don't stand for something.
I don't want the majority if we don't stand for something this Tea Party year.
If there's a t-shirt for it, and there are plenty.
Don't tread on me.
Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Some more creative.
If there's a slogan or two that we could craft, it is gone are the days that we go along to get along.
Gone are the days of reaching across the aisle to people who do nothing but slap our hands when we do.
Gone are the days of searches for phony bipartisanship when the definition of bipartisanship is we give up on our core values.
Done with that.
Been there.
Done it.
It didn't work.
It helped us get into the sorry shape that we're in now.
So no matter what her chances might be, if they're one in 10, 3 in 10, if they improve, I mean, who thought Marco Rubio was going to win?
Who thought Scott Brown was going to win?
I remember the first time somebody called me, yeah, Mark over in Texas, but what do you think up in Massachusetts?
Can Scott Brown meet Martha Coakley?
I said, what?
It's Massachusetts.
Martha Coakley's corpse could beat Scott Brown.
He's a Republican.
Now, that was way early, way early.
And in fact, very soon thereafter, I had to do my own backdown.
I said, yeah, remember a couple of days ago when I told you the whole Scott Brown thing wasn't going to work out so well because, hey, it's Massachusetts and we just have to live with that.
He's closing on her in the polls and fast.
So I went and Ron Ziegler on him.
I said, all my previous statements are inoperative.
Little Watergate reference for you older listeners.
And before too long, it was pretty clear that not only was it possible, it was probable.
Now, am I predicting this happens to Christine?
No, I don't know.
But is it worth a try?
Of course it is.
And here are the two reasons I mean.
Number one, maybe there are a lot of independent voters, moderate swing voters, whatever you want to call them in Delaware who voted for hope and change and realize what a complete pig in a poke it is.
I know you can't win based on just the hope of disaffected Obama voters.
I mean, a lot of people still love him for some quaint reason, but there are some people getting a little buyer's remorse.
And quite frankly, in a small state like Delaware, it's all about turnout, and we'll see how that works out.
And that really leads to reason number two.
Because even in Democrat states, how do you think Republicans are going to win, you know, 50 or so seats in November?
It might be a little less, might be a little more.
How's that going to happen?
Because in district after district after district after district after district, where there currently are Democrats, the Democrats aren't real thrilled about voting because they're not real thrilled about what their candidates have been doing.
They're not real thrilled about getting their clocks cleaned.
Meanwhile, Republicans are ready to crawl on broken glass to vote at midnight if that's what we have to do.
They call it the enthusiasm gap.
And so even in Delaware, little Democrat Delaware, a beautiful state.
I grew up in D.C.
And when we got tired of Ocean City, we went to Rehoboth.
We went to Bethany Beach.
I love me some Delaware.
And I'm prepared to love it even more.
Because in that fine state with those fine, hardworking people, the Republican turnout may simply swamp the Democrat turnout.
And if that happens, of course, Christine O'Donnell can win.
Of course she can.
Now, if she doesn't, let's say she doesn't.
Let's say Chris Coons beats her by five.
Let's say Chris Coons beats her by 12.
Do the crowdhammers and roves all get a big I told you so?
Hey, we told you.
We told you you were fools.
No.
If on the morning of November 3rd, I wake up awash with the thrill of many Tea Party victories, but one of them is not in Delaware, I will still have been proud to back Christine O'Donnell.
I will still have been proud to stand on principle.
I will still have been proud to give her a chance to put a real conservative in a seat with an R next to it.
I know I'll have to live with the fact that it'll be a guy with a D and he's going to do nothing but help the Obama agenda.
But here's something.
I mean, I've been all about the William Buckley logic.
The William Buckley logic is find the most electable conservative.
Well, you know what?
Sometimes you don't know who that is.
Sometimes you do.
Can I find people in every race who are real conservative, but I know have zero chance?
Yes, I've made that observation myself.
I have before and I will again.
But I'm sure shooting not going to make it about Christine O'Donnell.
I'm not going to pull the rug out from under her before she even starts fundraising.
Her website shut down.
Of course, a lot of that is the fault of the Rush Limbo show.
Maybe we can do it again today.
Go to christine2010.com.
Do it.
Do it now.
No, I'm not going to say zero to her chances.
Of course not.
Am I guaranteeing her win?
No.
Am I hoping to God for it?
Yes.
And stranger things have happened.
And this is a very strange and wonderful year.
All right.
Got some Krauthammer audio, and we'll work our way through that.
And I love Charles, but we've got to, you know, can we psychoanalyze him?
I mean that flippantly.
He's a psychiatrist, get it.
And I love the guy.
But also love the sound of your voices.
So let's do some calls to it.
1-800-282-2882.
Mark Davis in for Rush.
Thank you, Johnny.
And good health wishes to rush.
Honey, Blackberry, brandy, what?
I don't know.
Is it a throat thing?
Is it a cold thing?
Whatever it is, my brother, good health to you.
And let's get you back here on Monday.
In the meantime, Mark Davis filling in from WBAP Dallas, Fort Worth.
Let's do some phone call action, shall we, on Open Line Friday?
And funny, I just can't think of a place I'd rather start than with Wilmington, Delaware.
Rocky, Mark Davis in for Rush.
Welcome to the show.
How you doing?
Hey, Mark.
It's great to hear from you.
And if Rush was there, I'd say super mega dittos from the home of brain-dead Joe Biden.
Yeah, it's just, it's, I love, so love the idea of a Republican occupying that seat.
That's inherently great, but doggone it, I'm sorry.
I want it to be the right Republican.
What I'm calling about is this: being a die-hard conservative, I've been trying endlessly to call the RNC in Delaware.
I've gotten through to them.
Mark, I have to tell you, I can give you the number off the air and you can call.
You call there, you can feel the seething, the hatred when you ask any information about Christine O'Donnell.
I wanted to get some signs for my yard.
I wanted to get a phone number to her campaign or whatever it is because I can't find it on the internet.
And one, they give me the wrong number.
I call back, they give me the same number, I'm getting the wrong number.
Let's do me a favor.
I'm going to let you do most of the heavy lifting.
I want you to explain to people who are thinking, why would that be?
Your state party chairman, his name is Tom Ross, I believe.
He won't return my call.
I wonder why.
I mean, he savaged her.
What is with these state party chairmen, chairwomen, who cast their lot with a candidate who is safe and familiar?
Without waiting, without waiting to see who the people actually want.
Because, you know, here's Delaware is a small state, or it was.
I lived here all my life.
I lived away for a little while, came back, there was almost 500,000 people.
Now we got almost 900,000.
The influx of all the Maryland, Pennsylvania, and so forth and so on.
It's old school.
If you remember, Castle was a senator, he was a congressman, and they trade places.
It's the establishment.
They would rather go what they think, I perceive, and the same goes with Karl Rove and Krauthammer, who I respect immensely.
I think that they feel that, like what you said earlier, they got an R next to their name.
That's not going to make them vote any different liberally than they have been.
No.
So I think they're afraid of, listen, Christine O'Donnell's getting hammered because she's a Christian and she has Christian beliefs.
If they would hammer.
Okay, careful care.
Careful care.
I don't think it's about Christine's religion.
Christine is not as shapeable, not as malleable, not as predictable, not as willing to go along to get along, not as willing to cut deals as Karl Rove and Tom Ross, your Republican chairman, want the Republican to be.
I think that's because she has what in her heart, what she believes is the people of Delaware's best interest.
See, that's the big difference.
Yep.
It's about the people of Delaware.
Chris Coons, two times he ran, he promised on air on this station, I will not raise property taxes.
Bang.
Two times property taxes go up.
And, you know, it may sound funny because I'm not a guy of well-means, but it's impacting my life monetarily.
Chris Coons also wrote a paper, as all your readers probably know, the bearded Marxist.
Yeah, he was 21.
I try not to blister people of what they did when they were 21 because heaven knows I don't want to be held on that statement.
But still, 21, and I agree with you.
I agree with you.
But he still believes that.
Look at that.
You do have to ask, does he really feel any differently now?
Well, the points I wanted to make up is, one, that, you know, I can't get through to this.
I think when, you know, just like someone said last night, I think it was Hannity, when you lose a football game, you go over and you shake hands with the other team.
Castle doesn't have the dignity.
And I know this person because, again, Delaware's a small state.
I saw him in one of the stores a while back, and I said, hello, so-and-so, Castle.
And he turned around and looked at me like I was just a piece of dirt.
And I, wow, you know.
They are wounded, Rocky.
They are wounded.
Their narcissism has been singed.
These people who absolutely know that they know the landscape and what's in your best interest better than you do, whether it's your state party chairman, Tom Ross, or whether it's Carl Rover, God bless him, Charles Krauthammer, they are having to look hard in the mirror and say, good Lord, is everything I believe wrong?
Is my go-along to get along, my practicality at all costs, my ripple, put as few ripples in the water, ruffle as few feathers.
Is that somehow wrong?
And Tea Party Nation rises up to say, hell yes, you're wrong.
We are ready to make ripples.
We are ready to be upbeat and unapologetic in our conservatism.
And you can lead, you can follow, or as the cliché instructs, get out of the way.
Rocky, God bless you.
I'd love to hear from some more Delawareans.
Is that the term?
Is that the collective noun?
And as we head next to Viva Las Vegas, Joseph, Mark Davis, in for Rush, welcome to the show.
Hi.
Hey, great show, Mark.
And yes, they are absolutely dead wrong.
I've got three really quick comments, and I hope that Rove is listening because I'll match my analysis against his any day.
Number one, what the hell good is it to an elect a Republican if they go and vote like a Democrat?
Correct.
Number two, we don't need the majority.
We've proven we don't need the majority.
If Olympia Snow would have kept her vote in line with the party, we would have blocked the health care bill from debate in the Senate.
It never would have come up.
It never would have been an issue.
And finally, what the heck is Karl Rove called the architect for?
Why the way are we listing this idiot anyway?
George Bush was a good man, and he barely was able to win against two of the biggest morons ever run for president.
Well, well, let's spend a moment on that.
In 2000, George W. Bush came up against the sitting vice president at a time of relative peace and prosperity.
And I consider that a noteworthy win.
Anytime you can beat a sitting vice president in a time of relative peace and prosperity, that's no small thing.
In 2004, John Kerry was absolutely a flawed candidate, no doubt about it.
Of course, his win was somewhat wider in 2004.
But understand that by 2004, America had already gone sour on the war.
Much of America had already gone totally sour on the war.
It was a wartime election, and it forced people to look hard at themselves in the mirror and say, look, okay, we're tired of the war.
This is hard.
We're up against people who'll fight us for 5,000 years.
We get tired of a war in America after about 18 months.
It doesn't bode well.
But in 2004, even a war-weary nation looked hard at itself and said, you know what?
The guy has kept us safe.
The guy has kept us safe.
And Karl Rove helped tailor that message and deserves credit for it.
Listen, you win, you deserve credit.
Is he the be-all and end-all of advisors and gurus?
No, I don't even know who that would be.
But I always give people credit for what they're actually able to do.
It ain't easy winning elections.
All righty.
Tell you what let's do.
Let's pause and come back and see what else is going on in your neck of the woods.
1-800-282-2882.
I'm Mark Davis in for Rush Limbaugh on EIB Network.
It is the Friday Rush Limbaugh show.
Mark Davis filling in.
As we get ready to go to more of your calls, free advice for state party leaders.
Shoot, national party leaders.
As you take a look at the quest to win back a lot of seats in the House and maybe cross your fingers a majority in the Senate, a couple of guys I know well are involved in that.
The head of the NRCC in the House is my very good friend Pete Sessions, 32nd District Congressman from right here in Texas, a fine guy, and he's ready to go to work to get as many Republicans as we can get.
He had a little lesson to learn in New York 23 with that Didi Scozafava meltdown.
And I believe lesson learned there and message received and Pete's a smart guy and proceeds forward from that.
I'm less familiar with, I've been around less, who don't do coffee quite as much, U.S. Senator John Cornyn, also of Texas, who heads the NRSC.
And I'm a big fan and friend of his as well.
He's right on vast majority of issues.
But wow, Senator Cornyn had to smarten up on a couple of things.
Backing Charlie Crist from the get-go.
Not good.
Sending people to help Lisa Murkowski lawyer up in Alaska.
Not good.
And for a minute there, it looked like he wasn't going to help Christine O'Donnell.
Maybe that was just an info gap because they couldn't get to the cameras and microphones fast enough to tell us and thus you that they were sending, I think, the max 42 grand to Delaware to help Christine.
So message received there as well.
So to these fine men who don't need advice from me, except maybe on this, and to all state party leaders, when it's primary time, when it's time for individuals in a given state who are of a given party to make their choices, two words of advice.
But out.
But out.
If a Joe Miller is in the process of beating Lisa Murkowski, but out.
If a real conservative wants to challenge Didi Scozafava in New York 23, but out.
If a real conservative wants to challenge moderate squish Mike Castle in Delaware, butt out, Tom Ross.
And I'm sure you're a good dude and you've done a lot of good things in your life and you've got a conservative bone in your body or two or three or whatever.
But dude, how dumb was that?
How dumb was how did that work out for you to cast your lot with Mike Castle?
How's that working out for you right now?
And that doesn't mean that you necessarily have to, you know, hop in the Christine O'Donnell boat from day one.
But out means sometimes, you know what it means?
It means shut up.
It means don't weigh in.
It means if someone asks you, so you're the Delaware state party chairman, whom do you like in the Republican primary?
A perfect answer is as state party chairman.
I'm going to respect what the Republican voters of my state say.
I am just one other voter in that regard.
I'm not going to say anything to help or hurt, advance, or hold back any candidate.
I don't like it.
Let the marketplace have its way.
Whoever Delaware Republicans want, that's my candidate, and I'm going to help that candidate beat the Democrat.
Where is that spirit from Mike Castle?
What a weasel.
1-800-282-2882.
Let's head down to the Tidewater area of Virginia in Norfolk.
Bill, Mark Davis, you're on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Hello.
Mark Dittos.
You're doing a great job today, and I'd like to dovetail a couple of callers before me that they did great jobs as well.
It doesn't matter if O'Donnell wins or loses.
What matters is that the time is ripe.
The time is now for conservative values to come to the forefront and change the Republican Party from within.
But it also has another effect, the chilling effect on the Democrats on the other side of the aisle who will most likely change their vote on upcoming legislation and will increasingly break ranks with their party apparatus and help the Republicans in whatever number they can come up with to block or pass legislation that favors conservative values.
Totally true, Bill.
We will have stood for something.
We will have stood for something.
If Christine O'Donnell loses and I wind up guest hosting for us a couple of days after that, I don't want one I told you so, Cole.
Not one.
Because I'm not sitting here saying I'm guaranteeing her win.
I'm sitting here saying I'm proud to back her, and I'll be no less proud if she is conceding the night of November 2nd because we will have stood for something.
In Howell, Michigan, Ray, you're on the Rush Limbaugh show.
Mark Davis filling in.
Hello.
Mark, thanks so much for taking my call.
Sure.
You're the first radio host that I've heard speak about the fact that the elites are afraid of bringing in a bunch of newcomers that are not moldable.
Typically, if only a few new people come in, they can certainly be overrun by the veterans.
But when you get too many in the classroom, it's kind of hard to control.
And I think that they're somewhat worried about that.
They are completely worried about that because they don't have the courage that some of the newcomers have.
Some of the newcomers, the Tea Party candidates, whatever you want to call them, are going to put out some ideas that are really, really conservative, maybe a smidge more conservative than the American mainstream is ready for.
Okay.
You know what that's called?
A first step.
A journey of a million miles begins with a few small steps.
And maybe America's not ready for the flat tax or the sales tax just yet.
Maybe we're not ready for, oh, I don't know, cutting the size of government by a third just yet.
But maybe we will be in 2014, 2016, 2018.
And we will still be there offering up candidates, suggesting these things rather than this wussy standoff mentality of, oh, we got to reach across the aisle and go along to get along now.
Uh-uh.
Those days are, at least for the moment, blissfully over.
Looking forward to the paradigm, Schneff, and I'm glad you're talking about it.
Thank you.
Thank you.
You're very kind.
I appreciate it.
Quite literally too kind.
I'm far from the only person who's made that observation.
And do you know what is glorious about that, if it truly is in the midst of changing?
Do you know what is magnificent about this?
Because what is the always familiar story?
What always happens?
You get somebody out on the campaign trail, they're at a Labor Day picnic some election year talking about how conservative they're going to be.
Man, I'm conservative.
I have conservative values, a conservative family.
I'm wearing conservative shoes.
Look at me.
I want you to think conservative.
Did I say I was conservative?
Then they get elected.
Right.
And the first thing you notice is all those things they were saying at the Labor Day picnic are morphing into something else.
Some odd pragmatism they then tell you about.
They talk to you about ideas whose times have not yet come.
They talk about how we can't win unless we reach across the aisle.
They sing that same stupid song of common ground when there is virtually none.
I don't want common ground with the left.
I want to beat them.
And it's okay because they want to beat us.
And that's okay.
Let everybody come to the table with their best ideas.
Let's have some ideas win and some ideas lose.
Let the winners win.
Let the losers lose.
Dust yourself off.
Live to fight another day.
Because you know what bipartisanship is usually meant?
It means we cave in.
Finished.
Done.
So if what's happening, what seems to be happening really is happening, we're getting folks in office who are saying certain things on the campaign trail who are actually willing to do them in office.
Won't that be a kick in the head?
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Mark Davis in for Rush.
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Now, having said that, I don't know how many, we already know the independents are bailing on Obama.
Crossover voters are crossing back over.
But how many folks who have been voting Democrat for a long time are now willing to say enough's enough?
In Noble, Pennsylvania, Donna might have some at least anecdotal testimony.
Donna, Mark Davis in for Rush.
How are you?
Hello, Mark.
One of my favorite marks.
You're so kind.
Thank you.
Lord knows we have plenty on the Rush Limbaugh bench.
You're one of my favorites.
Thanks.
Well, I am a judge of election in a little township here in Melville.
And we have Democrats that have been lifetime Democrat families, generations of Democrats.
And the one lady told me that her husband, the Democrat, was walking around the house ranting and raving like a Republican, she said.
So they are turning and voting Republican.
Wouldn't you love to get with them and say, what was the matter with you?
I mean, what was it that you loved about Carter or Clinton or Kerry or Gore?
Because you probably voted for all of them.
Yeah, it's a tradition.
And this time, the tradition has not held up long enough.
I mean, it's just too much to take.
And history may well, Donna, thank you enormously.
I can only hope that that is a widespread phenomenon.
I don't pretend that it is, but even if it's just, even if it's a small percentage, that might be enough to spell big, big, big time wins in a number of districts in a number of races.
I think, honestly, that Republicans can tell Democrats how bad liberalism is, but it took a real radical socialist president to actually show them how bad it is.
Good Lord, I've been voting for this.
What have I been thinking?
Oh, please let that happen a lot.
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