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Nov. 2, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 2, 2010, Tuesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
You know what they're talking about right now on MSNBC?
This is hilarious.
What they're talking about right now on election day on MSNBC is how the GOP does not want Sarah Palin in 2012.
That is what is occupying their time.
Folks, it could be huge today.
It could be big.
Everybody on the Democrat side is in the bunker.
They've got no events planned.
They got no parties planned for tonight.
I mean, it's just shaping up to be something out of sight.
And it's it's it's a lot of people are afraid to make this actual prediction because there's so much data out there, it's hard to know which is true and which isn't.
But I just saw also on the network, uh, one of the network news uh networks, China Cable Networks, that uh Delaware is a close race.
Delaware's a race in play.
The Senate race.
How can that be?
How can Delaware be in play?
Ah.
I know I know I have I have been saying from the get-go that that race was competitive, and it never has been a 15-point race.
We'll see tonight if I'm right.
Uh but uh this Ed Morrissey in Hot Air Today posted the fact that uh uh uh O'Donnell, Christine O'Donnell is out drawing Bite Me 5 to 1 in Delaware rallies in the final days in terms of the crowd.
Biden drew 200 people at his last rally, and half of them were walking out at the uh before the thing was uh before the thing was even over.
I have this email.
I went back and looked at my emails from way back when, and I prompted to do that because of this one.
Dear Rush.
Subject line here is you were right.
Dear Rush, I remember on the day after the 2006 elections, you said the Democrats are setting themselves up for a huge loss.
You said you weren't sure when it would be, but that it was coming.
And I remember I did say that after that 2006 race because the reason I said it was that they are totally misreading why they won.
They think they won in 2006 because all their arguments against Bush carried the day.
They think they won the argument that Bush was lying and the economy was bad and uh we deserve to lose in Iraq, and that's not why they won.
They won because Republicans ticked off their own voters who sat home.
Republicans stopped governing as conservatives, their voters sat home and the Democrats won, and they overreached.
That was another thing we predicted on this program that the Democrats had overreach and that Obama would overreach.
And they have.
So, once again, documented me almost always right, 99.6% of the time.
Remember, if you want higher unemployment, if you want fewer jobs, vote Democrat.
If you want more Americans who are out of work and don't want to work, we already know 76% of us know somebody who's lost a job, vote Democrat.
If you want a smaller paycheck, if you want less take-home pay, vote Democrat today.
If you want higher college tuition, if you want to pay higher tuition for your kids to go to what now seems like a more and more worthless proposition college, vote Democrat.
If you want to lose your home, vote Democrat.
If you want to be less secure in terms of foreign policy, or even domestic policy, vote Democrat today.
If you want illegal aliens to vote, vote Democrat.
By the way, do you know that the governor of Arizona, Jan Brewer, is up for re-election.
You knew that?
How did you know that, Snerdly?
You haven't seen it on television.
Have you seen any network?
Have you seen any network cover Jan Brewer's re-election race?
You haven't.
Why is that?
Because remember now, even people on our side told us that if we didn't adopt an open borders empty position, it was going to be the death knell of the Republic Republican Party and conservatism, right?
Well, they're not covering Jan Brewer's re-election because she is in a landslide victory position right now.
She's going to win going away, and she does not believe in open borders.
And she is not for amnesty.
And you are not hearing one word about Jan Brewer, she's never been behind in any poll since the Arizona law was first proposed and debated and passed, she has never been behind.
She is up for re-election and you don't know it.
If your source for any of this is mainstream media.
So, if you want illegal aliens to vote, vote Democrat.
If you want open borders, if you want lawsuits against states who try to enforce federal law, vote Democrat.
If you want police citing you for eating too much trans fat, vote Democrat.
If you want death panels in your health care legislation, vote Democrat.
If you want higher health care costs, vote Democrat.
If you want to believe that we are not a great country, and Michael Kinsley today, I think, writing in Politico, actually says we're not a great country and never have been, and he's all ticked off about people who say we are.
Wait till you the exceptionalism thing is overdone, and he illustrates how he totally misunderstands what American exceptionalism is.
He ought to listen to me.
American exceptionalism is not that we're better people.
It's not that we're any different DNA-wise, it's not that we're special.
It's not that God has chosen us.
American exceptionalism is this.
The history of the world is oppression, tyranny, authoritarianism, control, dungeons, prison.
The history of the world is people living in squalor.
Check it.
The history of the world is human misery.
The United States is the exception.
And why?
Not because we're better people, but because of our founding documents.
And the notion that our freedom is part of our creation, that we are endowed by our creator with certain unalienable rights, among them life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness.
Our founding fathers codified our very existence.
In our founding documents.
Our founding fathers wrote a constitution that limits the freedom of government.
That limits the reach of government.
That is what is exceptional about America.
Sometimes the whole phrase American exceptionalism is lost.
Try to look at it this way.
There's a standard, whatever it is, and then there's an exception to the rule.
We are the exception to the rule of humanity.
The rule of humanity on this earth has been torture, imprisonment, squalor, totalitarianism.
We're the exception to that rule.
Human freedom.
That's what American exceptionalism is, and it is at risk.
Because the political party that poo-poos the whole concept of American exceptionalism believes in authoritarianism, believes in expanding government, believes in total control, if you want to be penalized, if you want the police citing you for eating too much trans fat, even though you may not even know what it is, vote Democrat.
If you want higher health care costs, vote Democrat.
If you want to believe that we are not a great country, if you want to believe that we are a fallen country, that we deserve to be a fallen country, if you want to believe that we are a nation in decline, if you believe that this nation must pay for its transgression since its founding, you make sure you go out today and you vote Democrat.
If you believe this country is immoral and unjust and unfair, if you believe this country is racist to its core, sexist to its core, bigoted to its core, homophobic to its core, if you believe this country is the most despotic place on this earth, you vote Democrat because they agree with you.
If you hate your country, if you blame your country, if you are angry at your country, you vote Democrat, you judge.
join them.
If you believe America must pay the price for 230 years of indecency and evil, you vote Democrat.
Because that's what they believe.
That's what President Obama believes, and that's what his policies are aimed at achieving, making this country pay.
If you don't believe this is an evil country, if you don't believe that we must pay a price, if you don't believe that we are racist, sexist, homophobic, if you don't believe that we are unjust and immoral as a nation and as a people, don't vote Democrat.
Remember the limbaugh rule.
Any candidate with a D next to his name on a ballot, you vote against.
The Limbaugh rule, when you see an R next to a candidate's name, you vote that candidate.
You do not seek compromise with those who believe this country is immoral and unjust.
You do not seek compromise.
Yes.
Where do you find compromise with people who believe what the Democrats of today believe?
We don't seek that compromise.
We seek to defeat them.
In the political sense, we seek to relegate them to the true minority status that they are for generations.
We're going to go back and listen to four separate sound bites of my CPAC speech.
In February of 2009, just about a month after Obama had been inaugurated.
Nicole Wallace is out there on TV talking about her latest book, 18 Acres, and every time she's on TV, she is talking about what I said at CPAC.
She reminded me what I said at CPAC.
So we've come up with the four, maybe five, working on a fifth now.
Excerpt from that CPAC speech, plus all kinds of fun and juicy things, such as the Hill.
White House knows what's coming, gets ready for losses.
By the way, a lot of people are asking me today about turnout.
Rush, everybody talking about a high turnout, and then the past hasn't a high turnout helped Democrats.
Folks, forget all that.
This is a new era.
And all this conventional wisdom, who's writing it?
The media.
What do they do?
They lie.
Just sit back and wait.
Go vote, of course, but sit back and wait.
Don't get caught up in all these anecdotal stories.
You're going to talk to people who say the vote turnout where they live is light.
And you're going to get scared.
Then ask them, was there any major candidate on the ballot?
Was there something controversial going on in your district?
Pay no attention to the anecdotal stories today.
Just sit back and wait.
We'll be back right after this, don't go away.
On election day, it's Rush Limbaugh from the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
Last night, CNN, Anderson Cooper 45.
Discussion about Sarah Palin, the 2012 election, and White House Communications Director, the former director, Nicole Wallace, was on and again said this.
You just take her and line her up against the rest of the field.
The only other person that has had as great of an impact on these midterms is Rush Limbaugh, who gave a speech in March of 2009 at CPAC.
You all covered it, aired on this network, and everyone focused on the statement, I hope Obama fails.
He meant his agenda.
But what Rush Limbaugh did and what would serve Sarah Palin very well to do was he made an intellectual argument about how Republicans can go at Barack Obama at an ideological and a philosophical level.
He instructed Republicans to have a debate about the role of the federal government in American life.
And Republicans are still very attracted to these intellectual arguments in defense of capitalism, in defense of conservatism.
If she's going to be the nominee for a party, she's going to have to tap into some of that power and some of those ideas and bolster that side of her political persona.
Now, what was Nicole Wallace referring to in the CPAC speech?
Here it is.
From a standpoint of what we have to do, folks, this is not about taking a policy or a process that the Democrats have put forward and fighting over it around the edges.
If we're gonna convince the minds and hearts of the American people that what's about to happen to them is as disastrous as anything in their lives in peacetime, we're gonna have to discuss philosophy with it.
We are going to have to talk about principle, because our principles are not present in what's happening here.
So where the hell do we go to compromise what we believe in when our principles are not there, principles are just the opposite of what is happening?
That's February of 2009, one month after Obama was inaugurated.
If we're going to convince the minds and hearts of the American people that what's about to happen to them is as disastrous as anything in their lives in peacetime, we're going to have to discuss philosophy with them.
We're going to have to discuss ideology and principles, not issues, issue by issue, on the margins, taking, for example, health care and arguing with elements of it.
We oppose the whole concept of government run health care.
And if I if I might say so, I was a lone voice in this time, February 2000.
I was a lone voice.
Now, there are always other people in the conservative media who are doing this.
I don't mean to disparage them, but I'm talking about in electoral politics, in people dealing directly with Democrats and with Obama.
I was a lone voice at the national level predicting what was going to happen.
I hope he fails.
Everything I hoped he failed at, he has succeeded at.
Well, most of it.
And it's distressing, but it must stop.
Election days can be a little dull, waiting to see what happens.
Let's look back at why what's happening today is happening.
Nicole Wallace says in large part it's the CPAC speech.
We have four sound bites.
We'll get started now.
Here is the first.
Let me tell you who we conservatives are.
We love people.
When we look out over the United States of America, when we are anywhere, when we see a group of people, such as this or anywhere, we see Americans, we see human beings.
We don't see groups, we don't see victims, we don't see people we want to exploit.
What we see, what we see is potential.
We do not look out across the country and see the average American, the person that makes this country work, we do not see that person with contempt.
We don't think that person doesn't have what it takes.
We believe that person can be the best he or she wants to be if certain things are just removed from their path, like onerous taxes, regulations, and too much government.
We want every American to be the best he or she chooses to be.
We recognize, we recognize that we are all individuals.
We love and revere our founding documents, the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.
We believe that the preamble of the Constitution contains an inarguable truth.
That we are all endowed by our Creator with certain inalienable rights, among them life, liberty, freedom, and the pursuit of happiness.
Those of you watching at home may wonder why this is being applauded.
We conservatives think all three are under assault.
Thank you.
Thank you.
February 28th, 2009, one month into the Obama regime, my CPAC speech in Washington.
And we have more of it coming up right after this timeout.
Mind over chatter, starting a million conversations and reviving a lot of memories.
Rush Limbaugh on election day 2010.
Back to the CPAC speech again, February 28, 2009.
This was one month, basically, I guess five weeks after the Obama regime was emaculated, was inaugurated.
One month nationally, and folks, I'm not doing this to pat myself on the back because I don't have to.
I'm doing this to remind you, and for those new to the program who were not here two years ago, how we got where we are today.
What happened?
Contrasting how most people felt one month into the Obama regime versus how I felt and what I was saying.
We could really replay the whole speech, but that would be an hour and a half.
They asked me to keep going.
So I'm not going to replay the whole thing.
We have highlights.
Here's another soundbite.
Let's talk about the conservative movement, as it were.
We ladies and gentlemen have challenges that are part and parcel of a movement that feels it has just suffered a humiliating defeat, when it's not humiliating.
This wasn't a landslide victory, 52 to what, 46?
58 million people voted against Obama.
There would have been more if we'd have had a conservative nominee.
But no, no, no, no, no.
I don't mean that.
I mean that in an instructive way, as a lead-in to what I'm talking about here.
There's no humiliating defeat here.
I can't say sometimes I get livid and angry.
We do have an organizational problem.
We have a challenge.
We've got factions now within our own movement seeking power to dominate it.
And worst of all, to redefine it.
Well, Constitution doesn't need to be redefined, conservative intellectuals.
The Declaration of Independence does not need to be redefined, and neither does conservatism.
Conservatism is what it is, and it is forever.
it's not something you can bend and shape and flake and form Thank you.
Thank you.
We have edited the applause.
For the sake of time.
The applause went on and on and on.
When so many people were saying that, hey, Obama won, we have to, we have to let him have his way.
He's a moderate, he's a centrist, he will work with us.
So many people were saying.
We have to realize we lost and work with this man.
He may be special.
He is historic.
I asked, why would we want this Obamaism to succeed?
This notion that I want the president to fail, folks, this shows you a sign of the problem we've got.
That's nothing more than common sense and to not be able to say it.
Why in the world do I want what we just described rampant government growth, indebtedness, wealth that is not even being created yet is being spent.
What is in this?
What possibly is in this that any of us want to succeed?
Did the Democrats want the war in Iraq to fail?
Well, they certainly did.
And they not only wanted the war in Iraq to fail, they proclaimed it a failure.
There's dingy Harry Reed, raving a white flag.
This war is lost.
This war.
They called General Petraeus a liar before he even testified.
Mrs. Clinton.
Says she had to willingly suspend disbelief or whatever to listen to Petraus.
We're in the process of winning the war.
The last thing they wanted was to win.
They hoped George Bush failed.
So what is so strange about being honest and saying I want Barack Obama to fail if his mission is to restructure and reform this country so that capitalism and individual liberty are not its foundation.
Why would I want that decision?
Thank you.
Why would any of us want to work with him so that only a little bit of it succeeds?
So that we can be praised and complimented as working in a bipartisan way.
Why?
What was the value in bipartisanship with any of the Obama agenda?
And then this.
So as you leave here, as as you leave here, optimism, confidence, not guilt.
It's not worth it.
There's nothing to be guilty about.
Don't treat people as children.
Respect their intelligence.
Realize that there's a way to persuade people.
Sometimes the worst way to just get in their face and point of finger.
Set up a set of circumstances where the conclusion's obvious.
Let them think they came up with the idea themselves.
Then they'll think they're smart if they figured it out.
Who cares how you persuade them?
The fact that they can be persuaded is factually correct.
It's possible.
But the main thing to do here, stop thinking that we are a minority.
Stop thinking.
Stop thinking that it is being in the minority that liberates you.
It is your beliefs, it is your core principles, it is your confidence that liberates you.
It is not being in a minority.
We, in fact, those of you watching my first national address, you're still hanging in there.
Um we really not that happy about being a minority, and we're out to change it.
So one month after the Obama inauguration, immaculation, CPAC speech.
Uh, you go back and and uh and listen to this, and that speech foretold exactly where we are today in terms of where this regime was going to take us.
So many things from the conventional wisdom, such as if if we don't get on board with amnesty, if we don't end up supporting this whole open borders proposition, why it's a death knell for the conservative movement Republican Party.
Take a look now.
Who is it that's salvaging?
Who is it that's saving this country?
Who is it that's saving the Republican Party from itself?
It is you and me, those of us who were told that we are the problem.
Those of us who were told that we're living in the dark ages, that the era of Reagan was over.
They told us to get past Reagan, that Reagan was fine in a historical sense, but the era of Reagan was over.
That the people wanted big government.
People on our side, our own conservative intellectuals were disparaging us, saying we had been passed by, we had lost sight, we had failed to recognize where the American people are.
They want a welfare state, they just want it competently run.
They want an active executive.
Oh, I remember that phrase.
They want an active role in life by the federal government.
They just want it done smartly.
They just want a new era of conservatism to be in charge of it.
They told us we had to go along with global warming.
We had if we if we if we tried to fight that, that we would be seen as political dinosaurs and we would take the Republican Party down the tubes.
We have learned since that the whole global warming, man-made global warming movement is nothing more than a political hoax.
As is the majority of liberalism, a deadly hoax, but nevertheless a hoax.
We knew what Obama was going to do because we read his damn book.
We know and knew what Obama was going to do because we listened to Reverend Wright.
We knew what Obama was going to do because we listened to him.
We knew what Obama was going to do because we listened to William Ayers.
We were not engaged in a false hope, wringing our hands, hoping and praying that Obama would indeed moderate and move to the center and meet us halfway after having won the election.
The very same people who mocked us for still believing in Ronald Reagan and Reaganism now mock us for believing in the Tea Party and its candidates.
The same people who mocked us for believing in Reagan now mock Sharon Angle, Joe Miller, Rand Paul, Christine O'Donnell, and Sarah Palin.
Same people.
We refused then and we refused now to believe in magical thinking.
We are too rooted in reality.
We are too rooted in literalville.
We know precisely what is happening.
We know where the left will take this country.
It's happening.
We are living it.
We've seen enough of it.
We knew it was coming.
The smartest on our side didn't.
We did.
They continue to mock us.
The supposed smartest, of course, I think snurdly everybody knows what I mean when I say the smartest in the room.
It's always in quotes.
They told us we had to support Amnesty.
We had to get on the right side of this open borders business.
We had to.
We had to.
We're going to cease to be a majority party.
We can't alienate people like this.
We're going to have to have a policy for Hispanics.
We're going to have to have a policy for blacks, a policy for women, a policy.
No, no.
We are conservatives.
We love everybody.
Our belief, our principles are for the express purpose of benefiting everybody.
Because our beliefs and principles empower individuals to be the best they can be.
Independent of a nanny state ruling class who views them with contempt.
Conservatives love people.
Want and see the best in them.
And that's how we get a great country.
Which starts today.
We have some interesting things here to review in the multiple stacks of stuff today.
First off, from the hill.com, it uh cleared at six o'clock this morning.
White House knows what's coming, comma, gets ready for losses.
President Obama and his aides at the White House have not thrown in the towel, but they are realistic about the chances of a Republican tsunami tonight.
They know what's coming, and the mood at the White House is neither openly anxious nor angry ahead of an election that is seen as a referendum on Obama.
Well, it is because he said his agenda's on the ballot.
Instead, the White House on Monday sought to show that it's quietly going about business as usual.
A day before what most analysts predict will be A GOP wave that'll wash away the Democrat majority in the House and blunt the party's edge dramatically in the Senate.
Obama, who voted absentee last week, we don't know how many times he voted in Illinois, will spend election day calling into radio shows, not this one, and encouraging people to vote.
Most of his day will be spent in meetings as he prepares for a 10-day trip through Asia that's going to cost 200 million dollars a day.
Let's review 507 rooms at Ej Mahal, four of 40 airplanes, 200 million dollars a day.
This nation will spend on Obama's trip to India.
On election night, aides say the president will likely have a TV on in the background, but he will not be singularly focused on what's happening at the polls around the country.
Really?
We uh we believe this.
If if that's the case, why has why has Obama scheduled a 1 p.m. press conference tomorrow?
How long has it been since Obama had a press conference?
It has been multiple months.
You got a press conference at 1 p.m. Eastern time tomorrow.
Wonder why.
Huh.
Not hard to figure this out.
Why is he leaving town and taking three thousand people with him two days after the election?
A trip which has been planned for months.
Democrats all over the country are asking him to redo his whole agenda.
His wife Michelle my butt uh uh uh Michelle my Bell Obama.
She's out there and she's not drawn big crowds.
She's not drawn big crowds, and she's not happy about this.
She thinks that her time has been wasted.
She's out there amongst the little people, and a little people didn't show up except for Harry Reed.
Do you see them walk out together on the stage?
Harry Reed looks like a dwarf.
Walking out the Michelle is not happy.
The big crowds didn't show up, and there are stories in the media today about how she was the best asset they had, and they didn't use her properly.
Democrats are making excuses for poorly attended Obama rally.
Yesterday staged a rally at Cleveland State University.
He spoke to an auditorium that had thousands of empty seats.
New York Post noted that event organizers are making excuses for the poor attendance shortly before his election two years ago.
Obama drew a crowd of 80,000 in Cleveland.
Organizers of yesterday's event tried to explain away the row after row of unoccupied seats by saying the president was competing with football, church, and Halloween parties.
At three o'clock in the afternoon on a Sunday.
Three o'clock in the afternoon on a Sunday.
Church services at three in the afternoon.
Trick or treating.
I know Cleveland's a dangerous place, but is it so bad that kids are sent by their parents out to trick-or-treat at three in the afternoon on Halloween?
Football.
The Cleveland Browns had a buy.
They weren't playing.
They weren't on television.
Now actually, this could have opened up an increased TV viewing the NFL in Cleveland because that means better games were available to Clevelanders since the Browns were not playing well.
Cleveland people know what I'm talking about.
And if you live in a town where your team's horrible and you have to watch that team, you get mad when greater games are on elsewhere that you don't get to see.
But I still don't use this.
I'm not going to accept this as an excuse why Obama had empty seats at Cleveland State University.
It's not because he's off message.
It's not because the PR is wrong.
It's not because the marketing screwed up.
It's because, and never forget this.
People have rejected his policies.
People have rejected Obamaism.
That's why this is happening.
And we will be back.
So he checked the email.
Rush, where do you get this idea that uh Michelle failed to draw any crowds?
I haven't seen that.
That's right.
You haven't seen it.
It's in the UK media.
UK independent First Lady's rock star status fails to draw crowds.
And this is a story about Las Vegas.
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