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Jan. 3, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 3, 2012, Tuesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Happy New Year, everyone from all of us here at the EIB Network.
I probably ought to begin by wishing everybody a happy new year here in the vast EIB audience.
I, of course, El Rushball, the all-knowing, all caring, all loved.
Maha Rushi, most listened to and most talked about.
I cannot believe how much I was talking about even when I wasn't here.
I'm going through the soundbite roster.
It's hilarious.
You know, they're crediting me, snerdly.
I don't even know if you know this or why you probably do know it.
They are crediting me.
The media is crediting me for Santora's rise.
The media is saying that I did it.
And uh, well, I don't know what it's true or not.
Just a second.
Now, I'm not being rude when I sip.
Uh a lot of people, why do you do that?
I'm doing that to avoid dead air.
Dead air causes people to panic.
And so I I had to take a little frog in the throat here, right at the start of the show.
So I had to take a sip of something here.
Uh, and if I did it quietly, you wouldn't know what was going on.
So I know not rude, just making sure that people didn't panic with dead air out there.
So here we are.
Folks, just to put things in perspective.
By the way, the telephone number, 800-282-2882.
You know, we ran it a what was that?
Somebody playing noise so that I don't have to slurp.
Uh we ran, we were somebody did a survey.
What is the average number of phone calls that we take in a week on this program?
It's a surprisingly few.
The number's surprisingly few.
At any rate, this is the Iowa caucus in a hawkeye cawkeye, and it has been fascinating all morning and during the day yesterday.
Watch the media.
My gosh, they're so excited.
They are ten times as excited as anybody else is about this.
Uh it's it's it's funny to watch.
Now to put this in a little more perspective.
And this is not to disparage a hawkeye corkeye, but there's not a single delegate chosen tonight.
Nothing that happens tonight really leads to votes in terms of delegates at a convention.
It's the first, it's it's a glorified straw poll.
And I'm not putting it down.
Don't misunderstand.
Um I just I think it's one of the greatest marketing schemes ever.
Otherwise, who would go to who'll go to Iowa in January?
Who would ever do that?
But because of this, uh, once every four years, the world goes there in January.
That's a great marketing thing.
You have to give them credit.
Since 1979, only three Hawkeye Cockeye winners have gone on to win the Republican nomination.
Since 1979.
Now, you would also, you would never know this from the uh from the breathless coverage out there, uh, ladies and gentlemen.
But the Hawkeye Cockeye don't even start until 8 o'clock tonight, Eastern.
That's 7 o'clock Central Time.
I don't know what most Iowans do.
Most Iowaans go home and have dinner and then head to the caucus location, or do they?
Well, I know most don't participate.
That's true.
I want to but the the the the the actual cawkeye participants, they go home and have dinner and show up all filled up, waddling in there, uh, or they go empty.
Well, this is something I would think about if I were going to go to the caucus.
Do you eat beforehand or you eat afterwards?
But it runs until about 10 o'clock central time.
I don't think probably too many restaurants are open at 10 o'clock, uh 11 o'clock Eastern.
So um, well, you know, uh in in January, Iowa.
Happy hour before the cawkeye.
Sounds like a great day to me.
What a great Tuesday.
Happy hour, cawkeye, go home, see who won.
Uh news media, news.
You know, they're they're having that they hate.
The truth of the matter is.
Oh, and by the way, why don't we want to send a shout out to David Yepsen?
This is the one time every four years that he gets his name on TV.
Uh, he's a former reporter for the Des Moines Register, who once every four years was the go-to gives on every show, every day leading up to the Hawkeye Cawkeye.
Then the other three years and 11 months of the cycle, nobody cared, nobody knew, nobody knew what he was doing.
He's moved on now to the Paul Simon Public Policy Center, which is left-wing think tank.
But he's still the go-to guy in Iowa, David Yepsen.
I just saw him.
First time I've seen him since 2008.
He's expert.
So it's a big deal for him.
But the media, you know they hate this.
The bottom line, the media really hate having to pretend to care what people in Iowa think.
You know, these inside the beltway types, they're out there, they're putting on a good face, but there's a lot of resentment that people in Iowa have anything to so, as far as the media is concerned, the more kooky or extreme the Republican nominee, the better.
Because they think they're in a foreign country today.
They have visas.
They are ready at checkpoints to show that they are legal entrance into the state of Iowa.
Then they got New Hampshire down the pike.
Uh and here they are pretending to care about about all of this.
Uh and that's why they love the fact that Ron Paul's doing well in in Iowa and Santorum, the kookier, not that Santorum's cookie, but Paul clearly in their mind is.
And so the most extreme wacko result in Iowa, the better, as far as the uh media is uh is concerned.
Now, something else about again, this is this is very only three caucus winners have gone on to win the Republican nomination since 1979.
So it is not axiomatic.
It is not automatic that uh whoever wins the Hawkeye Cockeye is going to be the Republican nominee.
Now let's go to the audio sound bites.
Uh, and I the the the media, as I say, I went through the roster here as I got it this morning, looking for what had happened when I was gone.
You know, this I was I was I I guess I shouldn't be surprised anymore.
But I'm shocked.
Once again, the number of sound bites that are about me over the last ten days or so.
Here's here's let's let's start out with that what I said because the media is claiming that I am the reason Santorum has caught fire in Iowa.
This is uh one of many times I said this, by the way, but this is from December 21st.
On the substance and the issues and the policy, there's one thing I know about Santorum.
And I look at the end game of this.
The campaign is one thing and and the troubles that people have, but I know that if Rick Santorum were elected president, I wouldn't have one doubt any day what he would be fighting for.
Not one.
And it would be great if he could get there.
Okay.
So that's December 21st.
And I said it a couple to three other times.
And I also said it about Bachmann, and I said it about a number of other people who were not the top tier.
Trying to point out that we had a lot of potential in this field.
So let's go to CNN's reliable sources as a start.
This is uh Sunday morning.
The host Howard Kurtz is talking to the Washington Post political correspondence Nia Malika Henderson, not to be confused with Mika Bjzinski.
This is Nia Malika Henderson, uh, about the Republican primary and and Santorum, and Howard Kurtz said, look, is there a tendency?
We saw this with Herman Cain and others, for the press to prematurely write off somebody who is in single digits, who's actually doing the old-fashioned shoe leather thing of going out meeting voters.
So many candidates have blown off in Iowa this year, and then to be shocked when they actually get some traction.
It looks like he's obviously surged.
He's in first or second place.
People are predicting that he could win this whole thing.
I will say that Sarah Palin seemed to predict this a while ago, and there was all this chatter among hardcore conservatives, Bresh Lembaugh to be one uh to say that Santorum was a guy that should really be looked at.
Ah.
So here you're the most talked about radio talk show host, including uh as well as the most listened to.
Here's the forehead.
Paul Bagala on CNN last night, Anderson Cooper 360.
Cooper said the Santorum surge.
How surprising is it to you?
It's stunning.
There have been seven frontrunners in Iowa.
Three of them are not even in a race anymore.
And Santorum seemed like the only guy who Never did lead.
Santorum just wasn't in the fire.
He was too far back, so nobody was shooting at him.
And now, God bless him, uh, he's searching.
I actually think he's gonna win.
So there is the forehead thinking Santorum could win this today.
Uh it's it it does not a vote has been cast yet.
The media, Howard Kurtz had it right in his question.
They had this decided.
They had this decided weeks ago, Romney.
It was all over with.
And I've always been uh stunned by that.
Why would you bother counting up votes when there haven't been any going strictly by polling day?
Well, we know the answer, I mean they they have their preferences.
But jumping the gun, trying to predict the outcome before a vote or a uh a corkeye reference is ever even taken place.
Here's uh uh last night in Altoona, Iowa.
This is Santorum himself speaking.
You want to make a difference here in Iowa?
You can do what Iowans do best.
You can ignore what the pundit class, you can ignore what the moderate Republicans who tend to always say, oh, we gotta win, we gotta win, and we need a moderate to win.
And Iowa will stand up and say no, we need to be principled to win.
Yeah, so he's I'll tell you something else.
If you listen to Rick Perry, I wouldn't be surprised if Rick Perry did well.
He's doing well in TV appearances.
I've always on this program said that I wouldn't mind if Perry caught fire.
You know, that this my point is that this is nowhere near over, despite the conventional wisdom and despite what the people in the media would like to have you believe.
It isn't over.
And what happens in Iowa does not signal the end of anything.
This could go on for months.
The Democrats are doing their own version of Operation Chaos with Ron Paul.
Here's Aaron Burnett talking.
Operation Chaos has now entered the lexicon.
I don't even get credit for it anymore.
But this is Aaron Burnett last night on uh on CNN, uh her show, Aaron Burnett out front, as opposed to out back.
And then this is what uh she had to say.
The caucuses in Iowa.
You can go in as a Democrat and you can go to the door and say, I'm gonna become Republican for tonight and I can go in and vote.
Always all kinds of conspiracy theories about how much of that will happen and whether there'll be spoilers and people from the other party trying to influence.
Operation chaos, we call it.
No, you don't.
I do.
What is this Operation Chaos?
We call it.
So it is entered the lexicon.
And now the Democrats are doing their own version of it.
Operation Chaos, we call it.
And they're sending Democrats in there to caucus for Ron Paul.
That is what is happening.
Here's Carville last night on Aaron Burnett out front.
Yeah, out front.
It's a hard enough to get people to come out for your own.
The weather's not that goal, but it's still cold.
There are not very many people, not very Democrats are gonna go out.
So Carvel said, no, no, no, our operation chaos isn't gonna happen.
Yeah.
We're gonna stay home at Hagumbo.
We're not going out.
We're not going anywhere to move on.
No way.
So you can expect a lot of Democrat action for Ron Paul since Carvel's out there denying it.
Uh last night on uh on PMS NBC, the Rachel uh is it Maddow?
Maddow.
Uh anyway, she's talking to uh Republican senior advisor Doug High.
That's spelled H-E-Y-E, but it's pronounced high, as in marijuana.
About the Hawkeye Cock.
She said, uh, isn't there an incredible double standard here on the voting rules?
There's a lot of talk uh about people who are just going to be Republicans for a day.
People who are independents, Democrats, who will register to maybe put in a no preference, a no choice, maybe vote for a different candidate to uh affect the outcome.
This could be a democratic version of what Rush Limbaugh talked about doing in Operation Chaos in the Obama Clinton primary.
If you are worried about a reverse operation chaos, is there anything about showing an ID to register that would stop that?
No, I don't think so.
You know, it's something that we want to make sure, though, as people register that they are from where they say they are.
All right, so that's a Republican, they're worried about Operation Chaos, reverse operation, which we also did.
We even owned that.
We did the original Operation Chaos, and then we did reverse Operation Chaos.
We've done it all.
It's entered the lexicon.
And a brief timeout.
Great to be back, folks.
It really is.
Uh And we're looking forward to the entire big busy broadcast day and a full busy broadcast week.
Sit tight, we'll get to your phone calls.
Lots of fun planned today, right after this.
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The record, like the record for a GOP, Hawkeye Coke, is 119,000.
119,000 people turned down.
That was in 2008.
That was a record.
And the party officials expect that that'll be broken tonight.
The weather's okay in Iowa.
It's chilly.
It was 13 degrees this morning, but no precip is in the forecast.
But still, we are talking about fewer than 120,000 people.
I don't know what the uh what percentage that is of the entire state population, but it is a relatively small turnout.
And you know, there are people, uh, both parties that run around and say, you know, why what why is it that Iowa and New Hampshire always have such influence over the election of a president?
What is it?
Why they would why don't we do this all on the same day?
These things, every four years, these same complaints surface.
Uh and it's it's it's the political system, it's the way it is, it's the way it has been, a lot of tradition that uh that is involved here.
But you'd have to say, I mean, if it's since 1979, and by the way, I don't want anybody in Iowa, this is not I I'm I'm not of the school of thought that says we ought to, you know, Iowa should not be first.
I don't think that.
I'm not.
That's not my point.
I'm not, I'm not, I'm not going, even if I thought so, it's not that big a deal.
For people who say that Iowa and New Hampshire have way too much influence, how can you win when when three Hawkeye Cawkeye winners since 1979 have actually ended up being the Republican nominee, just how much influence is there has there been?
How many, how many you got 79 and 80, uh 84, 88, 92, three.
It's not every year that who wins Hawkeye Corkeye gets the Republican nomination.
I know.
Well, that's true, but that's a large function of money, too.
It all works out.
You know, people will decide to get out after a poor showing in Iowa.
Uh, but that wouldn't matter if it was a poor showing in Wyoming, if Wyoming happened to be first.
Wherever whatever is first, whoever doesn't do well there.
And by the way, you look at Iowa, there's some interesting things issue-wise about Iowa.
For example, the economy is not the number one issue there.
The economy in Iowa is not bad.
Unemployment in Iowa is only 5.7%.
Agriculture is doing well in uh in Iowa.
In fact, CNN money.com has a uh a story about the the fact that uh here, Iowa's economy, issue number one, nope.
If there's one state where the economy might not be issue number one, it's Iowa.
So you could say, well, then why are we doing Iowa first?
Because the economy clearly is the number one issue.
The economy clearly is a number one issue to far more people in this country.
But Iowa has, according to CNN Money.com here, emerged relatively unscathed from the housing bubble and the financial crisis.
Unemployment, relatively low at 5.7%.
Farm land and its edible bounty are in high demand.
Home prices are stable compared to those of other early voting states.
Iowa's economy is in good shape.
It's not issue number one.
And uh it hasn't been.
In fact, only five states have lower unemployment than Iowa's 5.7% rate.
New Hampshire is one of them.
New Hampshire is also a state where the economy and particularly jobs are not number one at the top of the list.
Now, some people might say, well, that's no good.
For crying out loud, that is the issue with everybody around the country.
Jobs, uh there's so many myths.
The income gap getting wider, it isn't.
The rich getting richer, they aren't.
You know, people move in and out of all these financial categories constantly, they're all fluid.
But you've got the first two states here that do not fit the mold of what the presidential campaign's gonna focus on, and that's the economy.
So Obamacare is an issue.
Uh government size, government reach uh have been uh have been issues in Iowa, but the economy isn't.
Well, how relative is that then?
Since it is the rest of the country and so forth.
It all works out over time.
We'll be back.
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Telephone number 800-282-2882.
If you want to be on the program, I mentioned Rick Perry uh earlier, and he's he's out doing the media rounds today, and he's sounding good.
And he had a great exchange with Mike Allen of Politico.
If everybody that that says uh Perry is a nice guy, but he looks slow, Rush.
I can't the number of people.
No matter where I go.
A number of people, you know what the number one complaint about practically every Republican hopeful is, is that somebody thinks they're stupid.
Or that they sound stupid.
Or that they talk stupid, that they talk dumb.
It's really a powerful, influential thing that has uh that has happened here.
And some people tell me, you know, I look Rick Perry, but it's just you know, I just think Bushies hate him, and people sound stupid.
He just so slow rush gosh.
I don't know.
I'm embarrassed to tell people.
They say that about not Perry, they'll say it about somebody else.
These people are not stupid.
They uh they wouldn't be where they are if they were stupid.
There are just different standards now that people are being measured against.
Now, Perry, this is not stupid.
This is actually pretty funny and pretty smart.
Uh Mike Allen, politico, talking to Perry and performed a usual media trick.
Hey, you know, there are members of your staff, and they're talking about how stupid your campaign is.
Governor Perry, and they're talking about how dumb your campaign is.
Uh and these people are your staff, Governor Perry, and they're blaming your campaign, and people run it for where you are right now in the Hawkeye Cockeye.
Mike Allen said, Governor, some of your staffers have told us that you ran this as a gubernatorial campaign for too long.
You didn't look big enough, you didn't get big enough fast enough.
Do you take some responsibility for that?
And Rick Perry said, I don't know who you're talking about.
So I can't respond unless you give me a name.
And Mike Allen said, Well, these are members of your staff.
And Perry says, You got a name?
And Mike Allen, these are members of your staff who say, Perry said, You got a name?
There's a pause now, says you won't listen to Perry, so you got a name?
Allen says, uh, and then Perry says, well, if you if you don't have a name to tell me this individual said this, then um I don't think that's a corroborating source.
You give me a name.
Now, this is not stupid.
That's pretty clever.
Okay, you're gonna tell me that some unnamed member of my staff is ripping my campaign.
Who?
You tell me who it is, and I'll give you an answer.
The implication is I think you're making this up.
You're a journalist, and you can run out and you can say that somebody said, Why should I respond to some nameless person?
Why should I this is something, by the way, this is a one-way street.
The media never does this with Democrats.
And I remember back in the early days of this program, late 80s into the 90s, and so much of it, a learning experience how to deal with the media, and I got this question all too.
your critics say.
And I later learned that that is a device.
It's a journalistic device that's taught in journalism schools.
There doesn't have to be anybody saying anything.
The journalist can simply think something and then put that in the mouth or in the words of some person that doesn't exist and say it's a critic.
Some critics, you know, Mr. Limbaugh, your critics say that you...
Well, why should I respond to what the critics say.
Early on, I did it because I thought, you know, be nice, be fair, and then the media will.
That's not at all what's they don't care.
They don't want to like Republicans or conservatives.
It's all a gotcha game from the moment they get up to the moment they go to bed.
It's all a guts.
And Perry figured this out.
You tell me who it is, and I'll react to it.
Without a name, you're not going to get a response.
And that's not somebody that's that's intimidated by what is happening here.
In fact, it's actually a sign of somebody that is learning and figuring out how to deal with stuff.
And you know me, folks, there's nothing wrong with constantly learning.
I love it.
I'm constantly learning.
I know many of you think that there's not much I have left to learn, but that's not true.
And it's a it's an ex.
Well, um, well, not everything is on the job.
You're gonna they're gonna be on the job.
I don't care if who is elected president next time around, but who whatever Republican wins the white, it's gonna be on the job training, because whoever's gonna do it has never done it before.
It's gonna be on the job training.
There's no question.
That's that's that's why you go for somebody who's principled.
That's why you go for somebody, you know, look at look at Santorum.
Everybody said, What's why is Santorum surging in Iowa?
Well, the answer may be found in the fact that the economy is not the number one issue.
So Santorum is allowed to play to his strengths, and his strengths are values and principles.
Social issues, the things that the Republican establishment despises, the areas of a campaign that they hate.
But that's his strength.
And he's staying focused on his principles.
And that may explain why he's doing well.
Could well be principal will trump inexperience every time it's tried.
But it's people that are trying to play the game that get caught up in the game and oftentimes make mistakes.
It's the calculators, it's the people who are insincere, who are not governed by principle.
A good analogy is public speaking.
If you know what you're going to talk about, you do not have stage fright.
If you're confident in what you're going to talk about, you don't have stage fright.
In fact, you can't wait to get out there and start talking.
But if you have any doubts, self or otherwise, if you're not confident, if you're if you're going to be talking about things you really don't care about, and you're going to be acting, well, then you're going to be nervous.
If you're going to be trying to hide something from a bunch of journalists or other people, you're going to be nervous.
That's why I always say that it's just safer to stick to your principles.
Because that's who you are.
Stick to your core.
But the, you know, the journalist trick, uh, it, you know, the thumb suck in practically every story is some say.
Some people say.
And it's rooted in this notion.
Well, we've got to get both sides of us.
Okay, so this is Rick Perry doing X, Y, and Z. And then the summer, well, some say, Mr. Perry, who says this is what he's saying.
You give me a name and I'll react to it.
But some say it's taught, just like lawyers are taught questions in law school.
Once they get into trial, journalists are taught this.
They're taught how to destroy people.
They're taught how to do the personal profile destruction, the personal profile buildup.
Uh they're taught to suck up the thumb suck.
Uh they're taught it all.
And none of it is about finding the news.
There is no new.
In fact, what news has come out?
The news media is going wall to wall out of Iowa.
What news has been made in Iowa today?
None.
Everything's on the come.
It's all going to happen tonight.
Nobody knows what the news is yet.
So what's the focus?
Well, what the experts think.
But nobody knows.
I'll tell you something else is going on out there.
And I um I didn't see this in time.
I got a note from Jonathan Martin, who is a political reporter.
I got back, I left Hawaii before Obama did.
I got there before.
No, I got what I got there, uh got their uh whatever.
I think I beat Obama to Hawaii, but I left before he did.
Yeah.
And I really, I didn't, I didn't print anything out.
I uh I paid scant attention.
I I read the news, Drudge Report, but I didn't absorb anything.
I didn't dig deep.
I just tried to turn the mind off.
And as such, I didn't read nearly every email until yesterday.
And I put that off until late in the afternoon when the Steelers game got boring.
There was a note from Jonathan Martin of Politico.
He said, I want to get your take on something.
I didn't respond to it because they got it too late from his deadline.
I don't know that I would have responded anyway.
He said, look, there's a movement going on out there.
That by the time the Republicans get to South Carolina, they want to have chosen one conservative to go up against Romney rather than split the conservative vote.
What is your thought on this?
What do you know about it?
Are you involved?
Do you have anybody that you prefer?
This was the email with the questions that Mr. Martin wanted my answers to.
Then after shortly after that, that's when I saw Sarah Palin say, this is not Michelle Bachmann's time.
And Sarah Palin said, it's time that we coalesce behind one conservative.
Have us all agree, candidates and voters agree on one conservative to go up against Romney after New Hampshire, going into South Carolina and be done with this.
And I said, okay, well, I understand that, but who's going to tell Newt to pack it in?
And who's going to tell Ron Paul to pack it in?
And who's going to tell Sam Torm to pack it in?
And who's going to tell Rick Perry to pack it?
How are we going to choose this one conservative?
Is it going to be the winner of the Hawkeye Calcai?
Is it going to be the winner of New Hampshire?
Who is this conservative that we're all going to coalesce behind?
Who's it going to be?
There is this strategery.
There is this thought that's percolating out there.
I don't know if if it's just right now an imagination, an item of imagination in the media's head, or if it's actually happened.
When Sarah Palin said, nah, Michelle Bachman, maybe not be her time.
Well, um you could say that that's a bit of a kiss of death.
Sarah Palin, highly respected.
A lot of people wish that she were running.
So she says it's not Michelle Bachman's time.
That's I'm sure Michelle Bachman would have preferred that Sarah Palin not say that.
So there's all kinds of stuff happening out there.
But what isn't being discussed in all of this is Obama.
And where is he?
Now there's no opponent.
Oh, by the way, you know these robocalls for Hillary?
I mean going on.
Guess who they think's responsible for that?
Me.
They think there's another op.
When I say the media, some people in the media, some of the Democrat Party said they think that I am putting together this operation chaos too, all these robocalls trying to get Hillary as VEP and get Biden as Secretary of State.
Because Obama's in such trouble.
And Obama is in trouble.
And of course, makes sense.
He wouldn't be discussed.
I mean, he's he's not opposed, so he's gonna come out of the Hawkeye Cockeye a big winner, but there is nevertheless a story from real clear politics by a woman named Selena Zito.
And here's a pool quote, and I have more detail when we come back in the braces.
All that he's got right now, meaning uh Obama, all that he has right Now, despite Washington media reports predicting his resurrection in the polls is a political machine that can turn out just enough voters for him to win electorally.
He does not have a groundswell of support.
Obama's approval numbers are tanking.
It doesn't look good.
And of course, nobody's talking to you about this because the focus obviously is the Republican primary.
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Grab uh Grab Audio soundbite 16 and 17.
Um Obama in trouble.
And and and look at the media know it.
Of course, they're not going to spend a lot of time talking about it.
And I actually don't want to go overboard on it because I don't want to get people in a false sense of uh of comfort here.
But here, listen to a couple sound bites.
This is uh Gloria Borger on Chris Matthews' Sunday show.
And a lot of people on his panel.
And he said, is there a mood right now that this president's probably going to lose as events take their course in the direction we're headed right now as there's a sense Obama's headed towards defeat?
There are lots of uh Democrats I talk to who are very worried that with a high unemployment numbers, uh, with the deficit being front and center, that the president is gonna play defense uh the entire time.
Look, as Major was saying, it's very difficult to win an election when you say, you know what?
The other guy, whoever the other guy turns out to be, the other guy would make things worse.
That's not actually a positive, optimistic, hopeful morning in America kind of message.
So I I think Barack Obama has his work cut out.
Gloria Borger.
And that's a good point.
The other guy's worse as a message.
The irony is that the Republican establishment doesn't think he can lose.
I'm not kidding, folks.
I am not making this up, and I'm not trying to be provocative, and I'm not tweaking them.
I'm telling you.
The Republican establishment, they're they're looking at averages, Obama's race.
They're looking at timidity, they're looking at uh they just think Obama's gonna win.
That you don't beat an incumbent.
And he's got all his money to pass out.
They just hear the Democrats, they don't see how he can win.
Um, our guys don't see how he can lose.
What does that tell you?
Here's David Ignatius.
Same panel, Chris Matthews show.
Matthew said, they feel like that.
You have a sense that there's a feel out there right now.
Obama people know that they're gonna face a very uphill battle this year.
I think they're worried.
They have been worried.
It's Obama's way to play defense.
That's just how he's conducting himself as president.
This year is his last chance to define himself for the American people in a clear way as a leader, so that people might join on.
I just would know one thing.
This is Obama's the only candidate in this race who can save the American public.
I killed Osama bin Laden.
I we took down America's biggest enemy.
I made the country safer.
And that could be powerful.
Yeah, to who?
Think the Occupy Wall Street crowd cares about that.
Think the American left cares about that.
That's what have you done for me lately.
That's I I hope they do think that's a big deal.
It's not gonna hurt, but that's what they're focusing on.
How about this?
Yeah, he's got uh one last chance this year to find himself.
What do you mean?
One way he's been president for three years.
He was a media darling for a year and a half before.
What do you mean he's got a year to define himself?
He's already defined.
Everybody knows who and what Obama is.
This is and it's not that hard to contrast with Obama.
That's why we're sitting on a potential gold mine here with the right nominee.
I'm talking about for the future of the country.
There's no reason.
There's no reason to nominate and elect the moderate.
There's no reason to.
There's no reason to, Mr. New Castradi.
That whole moderate philosophy is based on close races trying to pick off 10 to 15% of the undecided.
This could be a slam dunk landslide with the right candidate and the right campaign and the right contrast.
Because Obama is defined.
He's defined by His policies.
And why should we sit around and wait for Obama and the media to define him anyway?
Why don't we go on offense for a change and do it ourselves?
Of course, we have been here.
I'm talking about people that run the stupid party.
Speaking of defining, this is interesting.
An analysis released last week showed that 45%.
45% of all the political ads in Iowa were negative ads directed at Gingrich.
And they worked.
Negative ads worked.
Mitt Romney took Newt out with negative ads while his PAC did in Iowa.
That's why you have to define yourself.
You can't let others, and Obama can't define himself honestly and win.
So we should do it.
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