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Feb. 1, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 1, 2012, Wednesday, Hour #3
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All right, let's see.
Where are we here?
Where are the sound bites?
Oh, yeah.
We're up at number 10.
But we've played more than nine.
Like we've already played 29 through 34, for example.
So I mean we've been.
We've been swamping you with the sound bites today.
We're back in order at number 10.
Plus the other stuff here in the stack.
Great to have you back.
Rush Limbaugh show prep for the rest of the media.
And in case you doubt that, one of the first seven or eight sound bites, at least five, that we played today, are from the cable net people saying, we're not going to know what the conservatives are going to do until Limbaugh finally tells them.
I mean, that's I can play them again to illustrate the point if you missed it.
They're all wondering who I voted for yesterday.
They're all guessing.
They're all taking syllables, not just words, syllables.
They're analyzing syllables, I said yesterday.
Yeah, and then they're in extrapolating from that what I didn't say to try to figure out what I did.
So we're here.
We've got another hour, broadcast excellence, and we'll be talking to you on the phones as well in this hour at 800-282-288-2.
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When I got there, nobody was there.
Well, I walked in and walked down.
It was the it was the shortest time spent in the polling place in my life.
I was not exit polled.
In fact, I wasn't stopped.
There was nobody there.
I I didn't get any more than a couple glances.
Normally, and I'm stopped.
Uh hey, will you take a picture next to my mit sign?
No, sorry.
We take a picture next to whatever.
That didn't happen.
Nobody wanted an autograph.
Uh when I actually got inside, a couple of the people in there, the poll workers, very nice, shook my hand, gave them my photo ID.
I said, why do you need this?
You know this is racist.
And uh they tried not to laugh.
This is racist that you want my photo ID.
You know, one of the one of the poll workers said, You still live at this address?
Why?
Are you going to follow me home or something?
No!
No!
I just live pretty close.
I just want to know if you still live there.
Um, yeah, yeah, I still do.
And then uh I said, is Pat Buchanan's name on this ballot?
And again, they you know, it gotta be very serious in there.
I tried not to laugh.
And but I was in there, uh there were two other people in there, and I asked them, well, how's the turnout?
It we've been swamped all day.
It's one of the biggest turnouts we've ever had here for anything.
But they were all done by the time I got there.
In fact, normally, after you vote, there's a guy in there, his only job is to slap that I vote sticker on.
This guy didn't even bother to slap it on me, just gave it to me.
I didn't even have to walk out of there with the I voted sticker on.
Yep.
Did I feel that the person I voted for?
You know, you keep you keep trying to trick me, and you're not ever going to succeed.
Yes, I had to show a photo ID.
Yes, I did.
And I I did tell them I thought it was racist.
And you know, a couple of them had no idea what I was talking about.
Um couple couple did smile and they were trying not to laugh in there, because then it's a very, very serious thing.
Real citizenship goes on inside the polling place.
What?
You're kidding.
Snerdley is telling me that the uh poll worker at his uh polling place did not speak English.
Had you find your own name on the list.
Well, you realize how many times you could have voted.
The guy didn't speak English.
Where I went, there was one sign in Spanish.
And it was over in the corner, buried by under a plant.
Behind a vote a key.
That That was it.
It was behind the potted plant.
You really had to look hard to see it.
Vote a key.
And I said, I said, who is key?
Is he?
I haven't seen Key on the ballot.
Gallup.
This is in the Washington Examiner.
Gallup released their annual state-by-state presidential approval numbers yesterday.
And the results should have.
I'm just reading to you from the Washington examiner, the results should have Obama very worried if Obama carries only those states where he had a net positive approval rating in 2011, like Michigan, for example, where he's up 4844.
Obama would lose the 2012 election to the Republican nominee 323 to 215 in terms of electoral votes.
Which it's an interesting way to look at this.
State by state presidential approval numbers.
If Obama carries only those states where had a net positive approval rating last year, then he would lose two 323 to 215 electoral votes.
Gallup added this in their story.
Overall, Obama averaged 44% job approval in his third year in Orifice, down from 47% in his second year.
His approval rating declined from 2010 to 2011 in most states, with Wyoming, Connecticut, and Maine showing a marginal increase.
Massachusetts, Wisconsin, Minnesota, New Jersey, Arizona, West Virginia, Michigan, and Georgia showing declines of less than a full percentage point.
The greatest declines in Obama approval numbers were Hawaii, South Dakota, Nebraska, and New Mexico.
So if you look at on a map on a red and blue method, one, two, three, four, five, six, well, the Northeastern states are small, they add up.
But you look at this map, there's hardly any blue on it representing Obama in terms of electoral votes.
That electoral vote map is the county by county at the end of every election.
When you look at where the Democrats win presidential elections, it is Washington, California, everything in the Northeast except for New Hampshire, including Maryland, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, and Minnesota.
The rest of it is Republican.
It is uh it's stunning.
Ari Fleischer was uh was on CNN's special Florida primary coverage last night.
He was on with uh Anderson Cooper.
They were talking about Romney's win in Florida.
Ari Fleischer said fascinating thing about this race is if anybody can get Mitt Romney one-on-one.
He becomes increasingly vulnerable.
But Newt is blocking Santorum, Santorum's blocking Newt.
If it was Santorum on the basis of how he did in that last debate, the exciting way that he went after Romney on health care, he took it to him on the health care issue with specifics more than anybody else.
Eric uh Ari Fleischer is, you know, watch out for Santorum.
If Santorum ever got one-on-one with Romney, that the dynamic of this thing could really change drastically.
These red blue states, not entirely, but boy, it almost always matches the right to work states, the right to vote states, the uh photo ID and all that stuff.
It's just you can see where the fraud's taking place.
It's amazing how few states and counties, the Democrats need to win the uh the White House.
Union versus non-union states.
It just and it it stands to uh stands to reason.
Let's move forward, somebody number 12.
This is uh Sarah Palin.
She was on the Fox election coverage last night with Brett Baer, who said, you said if you were A resident in Florida, you'd vote for Newt Gingrich.
If he lived in Las Vegas, Nevada Cork eye coming up, who would you vote for there?
Whomever it is to allow the process to continue, I still say competition breeds success for the U.S., and that's what we need in this debate.
As it stands, obviously it's Romney and Newt who are closest to being the front-running candidate.
So I would continue to vote for whomever it is to allow the process.
And at this point it looks like it still is Newt.
You gotta uh continue to kind of even the plane filled with your vote, and um even the plane fill allows that additional vetting that additional information about candidates and their ideals and their goals for this nation and how they're gonna reach these goals for our nation, it allows it all to continue.
Sarah Palin, obviously not in favor of Romney.
Anything that propels this and keeps this going is her objective.
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So Jan, and it's great to have you here.
Hi, Rush.
How are you doing?
Good.
Thank you.
Good.
Uh I have a comment and then a question if you'll allow it.
Certainly I love questions.
Not enough people ask me questions.
Everybody calls the show, thinks they know everything.
Okay.
Uh my comment first is that I think if we look back at the uh actually four, maybe even less than four years ago, at the uh Democratic nomination process and then the election that occurred in our country in 08.
I I think that uh we can say that this concept that people have been talking about as far as electability is concerned, it's really a concept that has changed and it's no longer what people have always thought and maybe still think it is.
Yeah, I've I've I've often um been dubious of this whole concept.
You know, somebody in some faraway capital says, Well, you know, the only guy that can beat Obama's Romney.
How do you know?
Nobody knows that.
On what are you basing it?
The guy's won nine out of twenty-five elections.
Well, I mean, to be critical of Romney, but what where does this these things just get pronounced by consultants or powers that be and we everybody that's accepted?
Who knows who's electable and who's not?
Look at it's like everybody said that we had to not nominate Newt.
If we nominated Newt, the whole election be about Newt.
Well, and then Romney goes out there and and commits a faux paw by saying, uh not worried about the poor, I don't care about the poor, they got a safety net.
He's trying to zero in on his conservative middle class, but he gives them something they can take out of context, which they will, and Romney becomes the focus of the campaign, not Obama.
Anyone who thinks is my point here.
Anyone who thinks that we can nominate somebody who is not going to be the focus of a media destruction campaign is asinine.
Whoever we nominate is going to it is who the campaign is going to be about.
The elect is not going to be about Obama.
The media can't let it be about Obama.
It's about Obama.
He's sunk.
It's going to have to be about what a reprobate, racist, sexist, mean spirited, heartless creep the Republican is.
And it don't care who the nominee is, it's going to be about that.
And they're they're setting up Romney as the I mean, Romney's going to be the Mr. Pennybag's money bag on the monopoly game board.
That's who they're setting him up to be.
So I agree with you.
Then come around and say only so-and-so is electable.
I don't, you know, that's that's that's just something that they uh try to intimidate everybody into silence by saying.
What was your question?
Well, my question is, uh you know, if that's the case that electability is not what it's all cracked up to be, and what people say we should really be looking for the electable nominee, then why are people that can't stomach Romney that, you know, say he's not conservative enough for me.
Why are they going to newt?
Why don't they go to Santorum?
Well I can only I mean that that you'd have to ask every particular voter why they're choosing Newt over Santorum, those who do.
I can only hazard a guess.
What why do you think it's well I um my feeling is that they think, okay, Romney's just not quite there.
He's too far left for me.
I can't trust him.
Newt's been a conservative guy, is you know, as far as his stance on uh fiscal matters, he's been known for that for years and years.
Okay, I'm gonna go to Newt.
He's the next big name.
He's the next profile guy who could be elected.
I think you're on to something.
It's name recognition, it's name ID, it's what have you done for me lately.
Newt has clearly been a household name for decades.
Santorum hasn't been.
I I I think you're on to something there.
That's it's not a criticism of Santorum to say it.
It's it's also um when you look at the polling numbers.
I mean, there's Romney with 25 or 30, is Newt with whatever he is and Santorum down at at the in the in the tens and well, why should I support the guy in the 10?
But then people say, well, look at Ron Paul.
Well, they do look at Ron Paul.
He supposedly got all of this support and all these people love he's doesn't even run an ad in Florida.
He's at seven percent.
Um the supposed support that Paul has, he doesn't have.
The illusion doesn't match the actual number.
Rick Santorum really hasn't yet been a national figure.
Newt has been.
But you know, in in a way, we know more about Santorum as far as his public uh behavior, his actions from what he did when he was a congressman and i in the you know in Congress, we know more about what he would do than we do know about what Obama was gonna do when he became the nominee for the Democrats.
Oh because he'd hadn't even been in the Senate for two full years.
Yeah, but that's a whole different set of circumstances.
Oh.
Um had no record, which is an asset.
Obama was a Democrat, which is 95% of it.
He has always been a media darling.
And the fact that he had the historical aspect attached to his candidacy gave him Velcro.
There he was perfectly insulated against any criticism whatsoever that the media would follow up and echo.
He had he had the largest team anybody could have playing defense for him.
I'm glad you called.
I appreciate it very much.
Um, Jan, this is Aaron Salt Lake City.
Aaron, welcome.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
It's great to see you.
Um I just first wanted to say that um this is my first time calling, and I'm new to listening to you full-time, and I it's a pleasure.
Thank you.
Um I think that just allow me one second to just explain who I am.
I think it's important to my point.
Um I am a 37-year-old mother of three who has multiple sclerosis, and I um have, you know, like I said, three three children, and I live with my elderly parents who my father has two terminal cancers and and getting dementia, and I take care of my mother every day, and I'm also a young adult author.
And so I think that I'm a person who has a lot of first education, but also a lot of sympathy and compassion, and I'm a very busy person.
And so I find it offensive in a way when um people in the media say about Mitt Romney that he um that he his followers are not real true followers,
but we're not passionate about him because I am extremely passionate about Mitt Romney and so I know so many other people that are I've been rooting for him since two thousand eight and I'm frankly um just really I don't know what to do.
And I know that you used to be his supporter, and now you're not.
And I really haven't had the time to listen continually to you to know exactly those reasons why.
But I don't really understand what he could do now to, like, for example, for you or for Sarah Palin when she says, he just hasn't convinced me enough that he's a conservative.
We still just need to be convinced.
And I really don't know what he could do or say to convince you guys now.
now because I feel satisfied in the things that he has said like this whole thing for example with um with Obamacare and everyone's like Romney care Obamacare that's a liability I don't see that.
I see that he has explained his position how it's different states rights.
You know he's trying to take care of those eight percent and so forth and I think that blaming him for Obamacare and excuse my you know since I am a young adult author to take it this way but blaming him for Obamacare is like blaming Stephanie Myers, the author of the famous Twilight for all of the vampire werewolf books that are all over the bookshelves now because she wrote this book and everybody wanted to be like her I I need I need to ask you a question.
However I need you to hold on to the break to do it.
Can you do that?
Yes, I can.
Thank you.
And we will be back.
Thank you.
Hey turn on the dinner cam get back into the groove here and go back now to Aaron in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Uh you might be surprised in my question for you what is a young adult author as opposed to an author we write for young adults.
Like when you write you have a certain genre and it's hard to cross over so once you become a young adult author until you have a lot of following you continue to write in the same genre.
What happens when those people grow up do you grow up with them or you're still writing for young adults.
You still write for young adults.
But you you know you can if you're famous enough like Stephanie Myers you can usually cross over to adults women's lit or something.
Um now there's a movie out there the reason I asked there's a movie out there uh starring Charlie's Theoron and it was um was up for an epidemic award called young adult and I thought I thought maybe you were telling me you wrote the screenplay for the movie.
I'm the young adult author and I thought wow we've got a Hollywood play then I figured no when I heard the rest of your call that wasn't the case.
Because this movie doesn't sound like something you would write about no I didn't actually see it either.
Okay here's you know you I you you're you're you asking me about Newt or Mitt and so forth.
I can I just tell you that the 2008 the opponent was McCain.
In 2012 here's different and it we given what we exist in 2008, Romney was the closest thing to a conservative there was.
In a lot of people's view he's not this time around.
He's not the closest thing to a conservative and this is ball game.
There are a lot of people who are just don't want a moderate who don't want the next Republican party's it's his turn candidate.
We don't want somebody from the establishment who's not going to ruffle it up and there are people who question Romney's genuine conservatism because of Romney care because of things that he has said.
He's openly said I'm not a conservative I am a moderate I'm proud moderate I'm one of these right wing conservative guys he said this back in a debate with Ted Kennedy in 94 running for the Senate they agreed with each other for the first 45 minutes.
I mean these these are things that people don't forget and then you think people change um yeah it's a question Of people believe the change.
When a politician tries to change, it's very tough.
People think politicians are routinely sneaky.
They think politicians and admit that that's the business that he's in.
Now, uh Mark Stein, who guests hosts this program, uh came up the other day, and I'm gonna have to do this from memory.
His way of illustrating that Romney doesn't have a core, that he speaks platitudes and talking points rather than from his heart.
He says if he hears one more time, Romney said, I believe in an America where millions of Americans believe in an America, millions of Americans love and believe in I'm that American that millions of Americans believe in, I'm an American.
And people after what did he just say?
What what what that's a parody of some of the milk toast talking points that some people think.
And so when that happens, they question is it really in there or does it have to be written?
And committed committed to memory.
Can I say something and I might just be opening a character?
Are you sure that you are not Sarah Palin?
I am oh my gosh, I promise.
Um, if I could just say something, like I said, I might be opening a can of worms, but really this is what me and many people feel is that the issue of that people just cannot connect to Mitt Romney is because he's a Mormon, and I I'm a Mormon.
Okay, but I'm not here.
You know, Harry Reeds Mormon and he got in Florida, he got he won the evangelical vote.
I know.
But well, can I tell you that as interesting as I was on hold with you earlier today when I was on hold, they were had Ron Paul on Fox, and he was saying how he really felt like he had a good shot in Nevada because of all the Mormons over there, which people say will go to Romney.
And and this is true with what he says.
Um okay, for example, Utah, we are Mitt through and through.
And that's not because he's a Mormon, because so is John Huntsman.
We love him because of the Olympics.
But what um Ron Paul is saying is that because we are constitutionalists, we love the Constitution.
It is very sacred to us.
And and I know that people say, I don't know who Mitt is.
And I personally have never met Mitt, but I can tell you, I know.
Let me just tell you, I know what he's talking about.
I don't think this connection bit even is being discussed in the way you're talking about it.
I don't think it's connection from audience to Mitt.
I think the people talking about it say that he doesn't connect.
And it's because of that parody, I believe in millions of Americans who believe in an America where millions of Americans love America.
That that's not I know all about connecting with people.
And the problem is not that you don't connect with him, not that his supporters don't, is that he doesn't really connect with them.
And that's just it's what the people who say that, Aaron, let me just tell you, I don't want to mean to hurt your feelings.
What they're saying when they say that is that it's not genuine.
That's the people who say that and believe it, nothing to do with Mormon.
Nothing to do, it is that they just don't think he's genuine, that he doesn't believe the stuff he's saying.
He's saying it because he's trying to convince people that he's conservative because he's really not one.
That's the rub, that's what I hear from people.
Pure and simple.
You ask, you ask.
And one thing I will never do is run for the hills from a question.
I love the questions.
Thanks, Aaron, very much for the call.
I I uh I appreciate it.
And what do you mean it's not an intangible?
No, it's very no, it's it's but it's important.
Whether the the whole notion of whether people you're genuine or not matters.
It matters, and it's not something you can teach somebody to do.
You either connect with an audience or you Nixon was never able to until 1968.
I guess I'm Roger Ailes did did put him in a round table, uh circle in the round format on TV with the audience totally the Nixon answering questions, going back and forth, turning circles, standing up.
Uh, and and that's that was Nixon's rebirth.
1968, he did an appearance.
I remember watching it, and it was the first time in his life that people thought he'd ever really connected and and given them some of who he really is.
And that's it is an intangible.
It's it's it's hard to say what that is when you want to define connecting with somebody.
In a mass sense.
You know when you meet surface people in your private life and your personal, you know when you meet somebody that you don't think is telling you who they really are.
Phonies.
You know them right off the bat.
That's all that's being talked about here.
And in in politics, this criticism is um it often gets vicious.
Because this is a lot of people.
This this election is ball game.
You know, it's it's it's not about what the Republican establishment thinks in terms of whose turn it is of this people's lives.
It's people's lives are at stake here, they think.
Their futures, the kids' futures.
They they they're they're not gonna happily vote for somebody who they don't think really gets that.
If they think somebody just telling them that they agree with them and understand it and feel it, when they don't, it's gonna be a tough sell.
It's going to be a real tough sell.
Yeah, Obama connected.
The young people, Grant Park, yeah, he connected, but he connected on superficial stuff.
He connected on Planet 2.
He was able to convince people he meant when he said he was going to lower the sea levels.
The crowd that that mattered to thought he really meant that he was going to do it and could.
That's the connection.
He didn't connect with me, because I know it's a bunch of crap.
It's harder to connect with conservatives.
Because it's not an emotional connection that we look for.
And when you try to connect with people with emotion when when when that's not what the game is, that comes across as even more of an effort to connect, and that's it isn't going to work.
Music By the way, folks, I need to um I need to offer up a correction here.
And uh I I mistakenly said two days ago that uh Mike Huckabee had endorsed Romney.
And he has not.
He sent me a note saying he hasn't endorsed Romney, and he got nowhere near endorsing Romney.
Says every week he doesn't support Romney.
Uh, and he still he doesn't hate Romney from 2008, but there's still a little bitterness there.
But I had I thought I had heard last year that Huckabee had joined the establishment types and uh and gotten behind Romney.
So he says he hasn't.
Um that it was two days ago when he sent me the uh the note.
So wanted to make that clear.
This is Don Phoenix, Arizona.
Welcome to the EIB network, sir.
Hello.
Hey, Rush.
Um let me just say I'm a little bit offended by the fact that you uh equated the uh HRAP to Acorn because you know I was able to take uh advantage of HRAP here just recently, and it turned out pretty good for me.
Uh kind of a personal attack.
You thought I was personally attacking you?
Well, I took it that way, so uh because Well, HRAP, they they my bank kept calling me over and over again to take advantage of it.
Uh and I I was on a uh uh 30-year loan with 28 years left at 5.125%, and they were able to get me in at the current rate of 3.125% at 15 years with no down payment, no closing cost, and the mortgage only cost me a couple extra dollars a month.
Well, hellelujah.
I mean, then all of us should sign up his program is the government pay for all of our mortgages.
Yeah.
Well, what's really interesting about it is that you know my mortgage wasn't behind at all, or my house was kind of a lot more than a lot of people.
But they tracked you down anyway, sort of like soliciting food stamps.
Did they offer to set you up on food stamps too?
Um they don't need to.
I I I do pretty well.
All right.
Well, it doesn't matter.
They'll try to Register anybody for food stamps.
They need to get the numbers up.
Okay.
I've offended the guy.
Um, I know, I know, I know he was just kidding.
But this program, this this harp thing could end up forgiving mortgages.
That's where it's headed.
That's what Obama wants to do in election.
You just forgive them.
Just wipe the debt off.
And then somehow make people think the banks are paying for it.
Uh, gonna really get even with that, and wait till you see what your ATM fees end up being.
But that's what Acorn wants is for all of them to be forgiven.
My friends, there are times when you find yourselves very much alone.
A problem too big to handle yourself.
You can try to solve it yourself, or if you're lucky, something happens when your lowest point of despair, your mind opens to a new solution that you hadn't thought of.
Do do do do do do do.
Okay, University of Missouri.
My brother's alma.
Hell, my whole family practically is almata.
University of Missouri students will face a six and a half percent increase in tuition and fees starting this summer under a plan being considered this week by system officials.
So, out in the real world, people are taking pay cuts and they're losing jobs, they're losing value on their investments, they're doing with less and less.
Government never does with less and less.
Big education never does with less and less.
And nobody ever talks about big education.
I mean, Obama made a pretense of it last week.
Doesn't really mean it.
That's his buddies.
All we're just gonna do is loan more money to the students and put them in more debt to the government.
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