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Oct. 27, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 27, 2010, Wednesday, Hour #2
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A trio of Bucks County, Pennsylvania residents. Backed by the County Republican Committee, say they have evidence linking Democrat Congressman Patrick Murphy's campaign to a scheme to flood the county voter registration office with fraudulent applications for absentee ballots.
In a petition filed Tuesday, County Republicans say that the name of Murphy's campaign manager appeared on a Bristol post office box where voters were urged in a series of letters paid for by the state Democrat Committee to send absentee ballot applications.
That's story number one in the they cheat stack.
Las Vegas, some voters in Boulder City complained on Monday their ballot had been cast before they went to the polls raising questions about Clark County's electronic voting machines.
Voter Joyce Ferreira said that when they went to vote for Republican Sharon Angle, her opponent Dingy Harry's name was already checked.
This is reportedly happening on lots of ballots.
Joyce Ferreira said that she was not alone in her voting experience.
She said her husband and several others voting at the same time all had the same thing happen.
Something's not right, she said.
One person, that's a fluke.
Two, it's strange, but several within a five-minute period of time, that's wrong.
Clark County Registrar of Voters, Larry Lomax, said there is no voter fraud, although the issues do come up because the touch screens are sensitive.
Of course there's no voter fraud.
Who would think that with the SEIU in charge of the machines?
Who would think that there's no voter fraud?
The Democrats know they don't stand a prayer this election unless they do cheat.
The question is, can they cheat enough to overcome the tidal wave that's happening on Tuesday?
And I don't believe they can.
The Registrar of Voters said, basically what you have here, seasoned citizens are having difficulty casting their ballot, reading the machines.
Of course.
Ladies and gentlemen, stupid people, stupid old people, they're to blame.
You oldsters, you are so hapless.
Probably going to vote Republican anyway.
You idiots.
The very party claiming to be looking out for you.
The very party claiming to have your best interests at heart.
The very party denying you cost of living increases two years in a row in your Social Security.
Looking out for you by shafting your ballot and blaming your stupidity on the fact that you noticed it.
This year marks the first Illinois election that any registered voter can cast their ballot by mail in Illinois.
No excuses necessary, even as the deadline for those ballots to be postmarked nears, problems are brewing.
Well, who would think that?
An Illinois County election official is telling ABC Eyeball News that thousands, potentially hundreds of thousands of voters who are expecting a ballot sent to them by mail may be disenfranchised.
Chicagoan Rosia Carter is one of 404,000 registered Illinois voters who recently received vote-by-mail requests that were sent by the Illinois Democrat coordinated campaign.
By the time I filled it out and sent it in, my vote would not get counted.
The Lake County clerk received a shipment of 500 ballot requests from the IDCC on Tuesday.
By law, her office has two days to process these requests.
The problem is Thursday is the deadline for election officials to get the ballots out.
People are simply being denied the chance to vote in Illinois.
And from the Las Vegas Sun, the attorney for Sharon Angle says openly Harry Reid intends to steal this election if he can't win it outright.
Cleta Mitchell, the same woman who tried to get Scott Aschen, the Tea Party of Nevada candidate, out of the race, making the claim in an astonishing fundraising letter, according to the Las Vegas Sun.
She writes, as Sharon Angles campaign attorney, I'm sorry to report that the Democrats and their cronies are up to their same old tricks of trying to manipulate the election in hopes of skewing the results in their favor.
Two days ago, the Democrat Secretary of State announced that voters can be provided free food.
At voter turnout events, Harry Reid has been offering free food, and according to other reports, some Democrat allies, such as teachers' unions, are offering gift cards in return for a vote for Harry Reid.
Before we were even able to document the reported infractions to report to the authorities, the Democrat Secretary of State slammed the door shut on preventing this behavior and issued a public statement permitting these acorn-style tactics.
These are the kinds of shenanigans that can turn this race.
Harry Reid intends to steal this election if he can't win it outright.
As a result, we need to deploy literally dozens of election law attorneys and poll watchers to combat these tactics at a cost of nearly $80,000.
I don't know they're going to need that much.
Ever since Maude Behar went on the view and called Sharon Angle a B.I. itch, the Angle campaign has received $137,000.
And the amount just keeps being added to.
The rage, the anger, the irrationality of the people on the left is becoming more and more obvious each and every day.
And now free food and gift cards.
If you show up and vote for Harry Reid, here is more.
This is Mark Hemingway in the Washington Examiner.
Clark County, Nevada, is where three-quarters of Nevada's residents live.
It's where Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's son, Rory, is a county commissioner.
That means that Harry Reed's son is the person in charge of overseeing the election machines that are being maintained by the SEIU.
Now, why would Rory Reid be suspected of any shenanigans here?
But he is.
Since early voting started, there have been credible reports that voting machines in Clark County, Nevada are automatically checking Harry Reid's name on the ballot.
Well, it may be just a habit.
But the fact is that it is happening.
Now, there's, I've got to be fair here, there's no independently verified evidence of chicanery with the voting machines yet, but it's worth noting that the voting machine technicians in Clark County are members of the Service Employees International Union.
The SEIU spent $63 million in the elections in 2008, and they say they're planning on spending $44 million this year, nearly all of it, naturally, on Democrats.
The Investors Business Daily with a commentary.
The president's home state gets a pass from the Justice Department on ensuring its soldiers overseas can vote.
Tampering again with the military vote.
An administration obsessed with gays in the military doesn't care about voting rights for GIs.
You can call it a tragedy of errors, a perfect storm of incompetent, uncaring bureaucrats, or you can call it a deliberate attempt to steal what looks to be a close race for both governor and U.S. senator in Illinois by disenfranchising its servicemen overseas.
Votes likely to tilt Republican.
Consider this.
The Illinois primary was in February, and the deadline to print and mail ballots to soldiers fighting for democracy in Iraq and Afghanistan was September 18th.
Long enough, one would think, for even the slowest bureaucracy to do the job mandated under the Military and Overseas Voter Empowerment Act.
A seven-month lead time apparently was not enough time for the incompetent administration of Governor Pat Quinn, successor to Blagojevich, to ensure that all counties get their ducks in a row.
Quinn is coincidentally locked in a tough battle with Illinois State Senator Bill Brady where military votes could be decisive.
Now let's go back to Obama's lofty immaculation speech.
He said, as we consider the road that unfolds before us, we remember with humble gratitude those brave Americans who at this very hour patrol far-off deserts and distant mountains.
They have something to tell us today, just as the fallen heroes who lie in Arlington whisper through the ages.
We honor them not only because they are guardians of our liberty, but because they embody the spirit of service, a willingness to find meaning in something greater than themselves.
And yet, at this moment, a moment that will define a generation, it is precisely this spirit that must inhabit us all.
Lofty rhetoric, to be sure.
But what is the reality of Obama's devotion to America's finest?
Hundreds of thousands, it appears, will be denied the right to vote under his watch because their ballots will not be sent to them in time.
It's not happening just in Illinois.
It's happening in New York and several other states.
There are no excuses.
Where is the commander-in-chief on this?
I'll tell you where the commander-in-chief is.
Obama has driven American civil rights into the ditch.
That's what's in the ditch.
That's what's in the swamp.
American economic opportunity, American economic freedom, American economic prosperity.
American civil rights have been driven in the ditch.
And Obama's up on the street drinking a slurpee.
Laughing at all of us, trying to get our rights back on track, trying to get our economy back on track.
Trying to get economic opportunity back on track.
He sips a slurpee, driving all of that in the ditch.
And he's laughing especially hard at those who would love to vote on Obama's agenda but can't, thanks to his so-called Justice Department.
What should be done about this?
Every election we hear about this.
Every election, I've got a whole stack here of stories about election fraud.
I don't have one in which Republicans are being accused of it.
Not one.
I mean, you would think that the drive-bys could make up one to try to balance it.
I don't have one story of accused Republican vote fraud.
Every story is about how Republicans are manning up a bunch of election lawyers and poll watchers to try to guard against the fraud that's already been uncovered by Democrats.
Now, something has to be done about this.
It's not enough to say in a country this large with this many people and this many elections, there's going to be fraud.
We can't totally wipe it out.
That kind of attitude is not going to get us anywhere.
We may as well stop fighting crime if that's the attitude.
We're not going to stop it.
I mean, that's where we are with condoms for kids.
We can't stop them having sex.
So we've got to let them have abortions and condoms, Mr. Limbaugh.
That's where we are.
That's how we get cultural rot, defining deviancy down, simply saying, we can't stop it.
Something has to happen here.
Now, the Republicans are going to have a lot of power when they are sworn in next January.
The real test is going to be how willing are they to use it in a moral and legal justified way.
Realize all there is for Republicans to investigate?
Starting with the czars.
Who the hell are they?
Why are they?
How much are they being paid?
What kind of power do they have?
Subpoena power, investigation.
This has to stop.
The elections are becoming a joke before they even happen.
Everybody knows that rampant cheating exists.
Everybody knows it's Democrats leading the way.
It's unacceptable to disenfranchise military voters.
It's unacceptable to have SEIU union thugs, the same kind of people that beat up black conservatives in Missouri at rallies for carnahans.
It's absurd to have them servicing the voting machines.
Remember all the complaints from the left about whoever owned the voting machines or made them in Ohio?
Diebold, big Republican donors?
How about the people servicing them?
How about the people writing the software for them?
Acorn is a criminal enterprise funded with taxpayer money.
Just like we're funding NPR, just like we're funding Planned Parenthood.
We are being ripped off.
We're being cheated.
We're being lied to.
We're being steamrolled.
And still, we're going to wipe the slate clean with these people.
The Republicans have a chance to be warriors for liberty.
If they say, in the midst of all of this, one word about compromise, bipartisanship, or accommodation to hell with them.
I got a story here.
This is from the Hills blog briefing room.
Republicans in Congress should look for opportunities to work with Obama in the next two years, said Senator Lindsey Gramnesty last night.
Gramnesty weighed in to the sustained debate within the GOP about how or whether the party, which is poised to make gains in Congress, should work with Democrats on issues like Social Security, energy, and job creation.
Gramnesty said Republicans should seize opportunities to work with the president if for no other reason than to help move Obama toward the political center.
To help move Obama to the center.
He said, my belief is that if we get back power in the House and get close in the Senate, we ought to really clamp down on spending and reform the government, but we ought to not put ourselves in a position of being the party of no to hard problems.
We damn well should be the party of no to socialism, the party of no to Obama-ism.
That's exactly what these elections on Tuesday are all about.
You want to stop 80% of vote fraud?
Do two things.
Require ID, require photo ID at the ballot box like you have to provide it every other place you transact any business whatsoever and then get rid of early voting.
It is my God, what is it?
It's a primordial soup just waiting for fraud.
Early voting, my rear end, used to be ample, isn't anymore.
For crying out like you need a photo ID to buy antihistamine at the drugstore these days.
Antihistamine.
Photo ID to vote, get rid of early voting, and bamo, there's 80% of vote fraud, Phiney, and out the window.
To the phones we go.
Scottsdale, Arizona.
This is Gina.
Thanks for waiting, Gina.
I appreciate it.
You're up first.
Hey, Rush.
It's great to speak to you.
But you're killing me with the reverse Operation Chaos this morning.
How so?
I'm a recovering Democrat, and I was a Hillary supporter, and I'm working my butt off trying to get the GOP elected.
I'm taking part in the Be the Wave 2010.com that FreedomWorks and Ace of Spades headquarters did, where you can adopt your local candidate and try to get people to come out and help.
And I just think with the margin of cheating, we need the recovering Democrats who will vote GOP.
I don't want them to stay home.
I want them to come out.
I think they're going to come out and utterly reject the Obama agenda.
I think we're going to have a tsunami.
I don't want them to stay home.
Please come vote GOP.
Well, if you listen to the entire presentation of Reverse Operation Chaos, it includes both options.
Okay.
All right.
So you're just encouraging people who were supporting Hillary, but you think they might still be voting Democrat just to not vote because or vote Republican.
Well, yeah, well, that's what's going to happen.
The key here, look at, I mean, don't tell anybody that just between us here, but the point here is to get Democrats ticked off that Hillary got shafted.
Okay, to convince them the only way, the only way she has any chance, the Democrats have to go in the tank this election.
Obama has said his agenda is on the ballot.
It's got to lose by landslide proportions everywhere.
Right.
Oh, it's got to be an epic fail so that they never ever try to reverse Operation Chaos.
Either don't vote if you're a Democrat, you know, be a Hillary potato.
Super capable.
Or vote Republican.
But remember, in the 08 primaries in Pennsylvania, Jimmy Hoffa, head of the Teamster, said, oh, we're going to have a big surprise for Hillary.
They could not get the rank and file to vote Obama then.
Well, but that was then and this is now.
Let me illustrate for you just how essential vote fraud is to the Democrat Party.
George Soros sank a lot of money into a project called the Secretary of State Project starting in 2006.
You ever heard of the Secretary of State Project?
That's why you're the screener and why I am the host.
The Secretary of State project had a goal.
And the goal was to put as many Democrats into the offices of Secretary of State in the states because they're the ones who adjudicate all of the vote fraud cases.
They are the ones who count the votes.
The Secretary of State.
The Secretary of State in all of the states is the guy or the woman who decide on claims of voter fraud.
This is how we got Al Franken as a senator from Minnesota.
The Democrat Secretary of State determined the vote count, how it was going to happen, when it was going to stop, what votes were valid and what votes weren't.
Do you know where they got the idea for this?
They got the idea for the Secretary of State project shortly after the 2004 election when a bunch of Democrats thought they lost Ohio, thought that John Kerry lost Ohio because of Ken Blackwell, who was the Republican Secretary of State in Ohio.
Now, the haughty Kerry, who once served in Vietnam, lost Ohio by 55,000 votes.
They're running around saying, man, if he'd had those 55,000 votes, why we'd have won?
We'd have won.
We'd have won the election in 2004.
It reminded me of the Democrat Convention in San Francisco, 1984.
I was sent out there to cover it.
Radio station I was working for wanted to get me out of town and off the air.
My commentaries, they sent me out there to do so-called coverage.
And I went to a cocktail party, Democrat bigwig cocktail party, some hotel.
Dick Gephardt was there from Missouri, went up and said hi.
Accidentally had some food come out of my mouth when I was talking to him.
I apologize for it.
And I ran it.
Did not spit.
You know how when you eat your chicken fingers and you get some crumbs in there and you're speaking and it flies out of there like it's it's totally accidental I did not spit on Dick Gephardt.
I did not spit.
It was an accident.
It's like stage spit.
You know what stage spit is?
It's part of performing.
You know, I was so excited to see Gephardt.
That's what I told him.
I didn't swallow before starting to speak to him.
He smiled.
And after that, I ran into a Democrat Party big wig from Sykeston, Missouri, 30 miles south of my hometown, Cape Girardeau.
And we're talking seriously about the election.
This is the convention where they nominated Mondo.
And this guy from Sykeston, family friend of ours, a nice guy, actually said, you spot me 75, 100 electoral votes, we can win this election.
I said, well, isn't that what it's all about?
Spot you 75 or 100 electoral votes.
So John Kerry, 55,000 vote deficit in Ohio, blaming Ken Blackwell for it.
The Secretary of State.
So that's where the Secretary of State project got started.
And it was the founders of a bunch of Democrats and George Soros sunk a whole lot of money into this.
They raised a total of, I think, $500,000 for the 2006 Secretary of State candidates that they supported.
Now, most Americans don't understand the importance of a Secretary of State.
I mean, what's a Secretary of State?
Most people don't know what Hillary does except get out of town during elections.
Secretary of State, generally, most people think the Secretary of State flies over and mediates disputes between the Israelis and Palestinians and goes to funerals.
It's even less knowledge of what a state Secretary of State does.
They have no clue.
So, you know, people running for that office don't draw very much attention, not very many donations.
Consequently, even a modest injection of cash into those races can elect and be a determining factor who wins.
And so this idea was to get as many Democrats in that position, regardless who the governor was, regardless the state legislature, get a Democrat holding office, Secretary of State, and then charge vote fraud, do all kinds of things, and have that person be the one who determines the outcome.
Now, this is a party.
This indicates, illustrates how essential vote fraud is to the Democrat Party.
And it's exactly how we ended up with Al Franken.
So keep a sharp eye on all that.
And remember now, what spawned it was not cheating.
They just got the idea.
Ken Blackwell refused to have recounts in some place.
I forget what it was, but 55,000 votes in the state.
That is not close.
But the Democrats thought they got the shaft in Ohio.
What they really said was, if the Secretary of State had been a Democrat, we might have been able to swing that state for Kerry and won the presidency.
That's what they realized.
So you keep a sharp eye on Secretary of State elections in your state and practically reflexively, automatically vote Republican, every damn one of them, regardless whatever else is going on in the state.
Here's Patrick in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Great to have you on the program, sir.
Hello.
Right.
Yes, hi.
How are you?
I've been looking at you almost exactly 10 years, started right before the Bush Gore election, and you've been agreeing with me about 99% of the time.
And you, like you said, 99% right.
And just wanted your thoughts on if Democrats retain the House and the Senate, what we are going to look like 10 years from now.
You don't have to wait 10 years to find out what we're going to be like.
You want me to quickly run down what the country would look like if the Democrats maintained this kind of control?
Yes.
Okay, very simple.
And we can do this.
We can do this because Imam Obama said that his agenda is on the ballot.
So all we have to do is look at his agenda.
Well, what did his agenda do?
Obama's agenda has dramatically driven up unemployment.
Unemployment will continue to be high and go higher if the Democrats stay in power.
Obama has driven up the deficit, so we would have to expect the deficit will remain high.
We also know that taxes will go up on the premise that we will lower the deficit by raising taxes.
So Americans will become poorer.
Fewer Americans will be working.
Those who aren't working will be taken care of with transfer payments, redistribution of wealth.
As Obama continues his assault on achievement, the remaining achievers in this country will become targeted even more with higher taxes, punitive regulations, disincentives to start businesses and what have you.
A vote for a Democrat is a vote for the results of Obama's agenda.
Under Obama and without any complaint from Democrats, we have deliberate attempts to spark class warfare and racial divide.
We have more racial division in this country than we've had since 1964, sponsored by and brought to us by Obama.
We have an attorney general who looks the other way at black-on-white election fraud by design.
We have a civil rights division of the Justice Department that says its only reason for existence is to make sure that blacks are not cheated in elections.
It's okay if whites are, because that's just leveling the playing field from years ago.
Class warfare will continue.
Racial division will continue and get even worse by design.
We have czars.
We have people appointed by the president to serve in positions that do work we don't know.
They are paid salaries we don't know.
They are accountable to no one.
They report only to Obama.
They do not have to get confirmed before the Senate.
We have an all-out effort to empower parasitic unions to continue to fund outrageous, unpayable gold plate pensions.
States' bankruptcy will proceed on schedule.
The unions and their pension plans and their health payments and their retirement funds will be paid no matter what consequence occurs to you or me or our country.
All of this destruction, all of this transfer of wealth, all of this redistribution, all of this overseeing of America in decline will be paid for by the American taxpayer.
Vote Democrat if you want this to continue.
Vote Democrat if you want more of all of this.
In line with Obama's agenda, look at what's happened to the healthcare industry and what will happen even further.
Doctors have been called high-priced human butchers.
Doctors have been accused of taking out tonsils unnecessarily for 30 or 40 grand.
Doctors have been accused of amputating feet unnecessarily for 50 or 60 grand.
Black-on-white voter intimidation has been applauded by his Justice Department.
Vote Democrat if you want more of the same.
Under Obama, trade relations with the CHICOMs are spiraling downward.
Vote Democrat if you want more of that.
Under Obama, totalitarian regimes in this hemisphere are springing up left and right and growing more powerful.
Hugo Chavez, just to name one, vote Democrat if you want more of that.
Iran nuking up, no stopping them, if you want more of that, while America disarms its nuclear stockpile, vote Democrat.
Under Obama, oil production and all related jobs in the Gulf of Mexico have been demonized, minimized, workers demoralized for no reason other than to continue a war on prosperity and advance a so-called green energy agenda.
If you want more of that, vote Democrat.
I have a story in the stack here about some brand new spanking electric car that the story admits the American people don't want, won't buy, but they're going to be forced to.
Vote Democrat if you want more of the same.
Under Obama, a criminal trial with full constitutional rights has been pushed for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the grand wizard mastermind of 9-11, at a courthouse near ground zero.
Years and years of an opportunity for this terrorist to unload on his anti-American agenda daily through his lawyer.
Paid for by the taxpayers of the United States.
Under this regime, support for a mosque at ground zero has been given approval.
Vote Democrat if you want more of the same.
Under Obama, the state of Arizona has been sued by the United States and smeared by the United States and the president for taking action to protect its borders, to protect its citizens, and to protect the rule of law.
If you want more of this, vote Democrat.
Because this is what's going to happen if Democrats remain in charge with power that is unchecked.
Obama's agenda is on the ballot.
Vote on it.
Send Democrats a message their leader has been a total failure.
Otherwise, the country will end up a total failure.
If you want to see America 10 years into the future, just look at Venezuela.
Just look at Cuba.
Except Venezuela and Cuba only redistribute their wealth to their own citizens.
We will distribute ours to people all over the world.
If you want to see America in 10 years, take a look at France, where there are riots over raising the retirement age two years, 60 to 62.
Take a look at Greece.
Take a look at Spain.
If you want to see America in 10 years, take a look at any country on this planet with a declining economic output, a rising poverty rate.
Take a look at a variation of the old Soviet Union if you want to see where America is headed.
While at the same time, all these places I've mentioned except Venezuela and Cuba are trying to turn around and go the other way to become what we were.
You want all this to continue?
If you want this destruction, if you want this redefinition of America, if you want this so-called reformation, if you want this country apologized for by its leader all over the world, keep voting Democrat.
Because that's going to all keep happening in droves.
Hey, look, folks, we might not be able to do away with anti-Americanism, but we can vote it out of office this Tuesday.
We might not be able to ever get rid of it, but we can vote anti-Americanism out of office on Tuesday.
I can't believe what I am just now being handed and reading.
Washington Post, a majority of Americans now say they are worried about making their mortgage or rent payments, underscoring the extent of economic anxiety in the country heading into the midterm elections.
A new Washington Post poll shows that concerns about housing payments have spiked since 2008 despite some improvements in the improvements.
Despite all the mortgage assistance, payments assistance from Obama.
People still worried about it.
53% said they're very concerned or somewhat concerned about having the money to making their monthly payment.
And the Washington Post is stunned.
The Washington Post is shocked that most people are not concerned about the outcome of the elections on Obama.
State control media thinks everybody's really focused on what it all means for Obama.
But most people are worried about themselves because they know what Obama is doing to them.
A typical drive-by media take on a story of the day.
Los Angeles Times headline, Republicans offer few health care alternatives.
Conservatives are campaigning on promises to repeal the overhaul of Obamacare, but a few admit their proposals haven't changed much in last few years.
What alternative is there to ending the disaster that is Obamacare?
The alternative to Obamacare is to return to the best healthcare system in the world and improve it, not destroy it.
What the hell is this question?
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