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Feb. 8, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 8, 2012, Wednesday, Hour #2
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And greetings, folks.
Welcome back.
It's Rush Limbaugh, the EIB Network, and we're in the midst of, I'm in the midst of some major audio malfunction problems here.
And we're trying to do something on the fly and fix it at the moment.
If I could try to describe this to you, I have a cochlear implant.
I wear it on my belt as a wire that takes the feed from the control board here.
And there's something, it's on the fritz.
And as such, right now, I have no way of hearing anything but me.
I can't take a phone call right now.
I can't hear any music.
I can't hear the commercials that are played.
What we're trying to do is get a pair of headphones that I can plug in here and maybe have that work.
I can do the program because I'm a professional.
Everything will go fine and dandy.
It's just that as we speak, I have no way of hearing anything else on the broadcast except for me.
Now, I want to, and we're going to play these soundbites.
I got soundbites 17 and 18.
They're going to go back to the top of the order.
Brian, you're going to have to tell me when it's over.
Bear with me on this, folks, until we get this resolved and fixed.
So these next two, we have Trump, and this was this morning on CNN's early start with Ashley Banfield.
And they played a section or a portion of Santorum, I believe, regardless, they were talking about Santorum and his victory sweep last night.
And this is what Trump had to say.
Rick Santorum was a sitting senator who, in re-election, lost by 19 points.
To my knowledge, the most in the history of this country for a sitting senator to lose by 19 points.
It's unheard of.
Then he goes out and says, oh, okay, I just lost by the biggest margin in history.
Now I'm going to run for president.
Tell me, how does that work?
That's like me saying, I just failed a test.
Now I'm going to apply for admission to the Wharton School of Finance.
Okay?
He just failed a test, and now he's going to run for president.
So I don't get Rick Santorum.
I don't get that whole thing.
Okay.
So obviously Trump is another that doesn't understand what is happening on the conservative side of things in the Republican Party.
Now, you got to be very careful in discussing all this because these are periods here where with all of these different instances of misunderstanding, lack of knowledge, at some point all this is going to get put back together again.
And when it gets put back together, we're going to have to have a semblance here of unity, which every party goes through during a primary process.
But I want to take this and analyze it.
Santorum was a sitting senator who in re-election lost by 19 points.
To my knowledge, the most in history of this country for a sitting senator to lose by 19.
It's unheard of.
Then he goes out and says, oh, okay, I just lost by the biggest margin in history.
Now I'm going to go run for president.
Now, keep in mind, it was just last week that, well, it was last week, the big show in Las Vegas where Trump endorsed Romney.
And the school of thought was, because leading up to this point, late last year, well, last three months of last year, Trump was gold.
Trump himself was leading everything.
And so the assumption could be made by Trump and others that Trump's still gold.
And whoever, if Trump's not running, whoever Trump's supporting, is going to be the beneficiary of all the love and support Trump had.
And that doesn't happen.
And so people start scratching their heads.
This thing last week, Trump endorsing Romney, I guarantee you, whoever thought of this, and even if it happened genuinely, and I'm not saying it didn't, but everything's possible here.
I'm sure the people, let's put it this way, I'm sure the people are excited about this, thought this was going to put Romney over the top.
I'm sure they thought this was it.
This is the gold endorsement.
Maybe McCain didn't do the trick, and maybe Dole didn't do the trick, but here's Trump.
This is gold.
And it didn't happen.
And so there's a little, I don't know, upsettedness here, confusion, curiosity.
My gosh, I just endorsed Romney last week and Santorum, this guy who lost by 19 points.
I never heard of this.
I don't understand this.
And he says, that's like me saying, I just failed a test.
Now I'm going to apply for admission to the Wharton School of Finance.
Okay.
He just failed a test and now he's going to run for president.
So I don't get Rick Santorum.
I don't get that whole thing.
I'm sure he speaks for a lot of people who are not oriented toward conservatism ideologically.
And by the same token, who do not understand what is happening and has been happening with the Republican base.
And I should probably point out that these people also fail to understand what the 2010 midterm elections were all about.
They don't get that.
And this is frustrating for us because it's so simple what's going on.
It's not accidental.
It's not a quirk of fate.
It might be a quirk of fate.
It's not coincidence that Santorum had his sweep.
It's not at all to people who vote in Republican primaries.
Now, Santorum responded this morning, same show, CNN starting point.
Solidad O'Brien played a clip of Trump saying Santorum loses re-election for senator by the biggest margin in history and then decides to run for president.
How does that work?
And Solomed O'Brien says, okay, Senator Santorum, how does that work?
Why don't you ask Abraham Lincoln, who lost just about every single race he ran before he ran for president?
A lot of folks lose races.
What I didn't lose, unlike Governor Romney, is my principles.
I stood up and fought for what I believed in in a very tough election year.
And guess what?
Governor Romney was up for re-election that year, too.
His poll numbers were so bad, he decided not to run for re-election.
I stood for what I believed in.
So Santorum says, why don't you ask Abraham Lincoln, who lost just about every race he ran?
A lot of people lose races.
But I didn't lose because of my principles.
I stood up and fought for what I believed in.
That 2006 election, a lot of people got taken out.
I mean, that middle of the Iraq war, the Bush administration not defending itself, the whole Mark Foley thing, media just, it all came together.
It's saying we're in the middle of a recession and trying to create this notion of a recession, if not a depression.
And it finally, there's a bunch frustration the country was feeling over a number of things.
It was all started to come out.
And by the way, Santorum was also responsible.
He endorsed Arlen Spector.
He's a good party guy.
Santorum is a good party man.
I mean, you endorse your fellow senator from your state.
And I happen to be Arlen Specter.
At the time, everybody said, well, you got to be for Pantome.
But he was a loyal party guy.
He supported Bush in a lot of legislation that increased spending.
And people on our side have been fed up with that for a long time, including the spending that went on the Bush administration.
And so there was a message being sent by Republican voters in 2006 to a lot of incumbents that they didn't care the consequences.
They were going to get rid of people who they thought were lying to them in their own party or who they thought were not governing as they had promised to while they were campaigning.
It's really, none of this is this hard to understand.
If you are a conservative who understands it ideologically, nothing about last night, nothing about what happened to Newt when he was doing well, nothing about the lack of total support for Romney.
None of this is confusing to conservatives.
What's confusing to us is how everybody else doesn't see it.
It's right in front of your nose.
All you need is one eye to see this.
Couple it with what Obama is, who he is, and what he's doing, and what's the alternative, and the fact Santorum continues to talk to this elections about freedom, bingo, there's connection A, connection number one.
That is what a majority of people voting in Republican primaries actually fear is happening.
Their freedom being taken away, not just being lost, but it's actively being taken from us.
Every day, this administration has something else, either in mind or something else that they are doing.
That is usurping freedom little by little.
When you get to that point, hey, the fact a guy loses an election by 19 points, it doesn't really matter that much right now.
What matters more is the fact that the supposed wizards of Smart and the Republican Party don't seem to understand what's at stake in the election.
They don't seem to understand what's at stake for the country.
And so Republican primary voters, as much as voting for Newt, voting for Santorum, are sending a message to the Republican establishment at the same time.
So much going on here, but it isn't complicated.
It isn't mysterious.
By the way, Trump's debate back in December, I forget that it might have been December 5th or 7th, whenever it was supposed to happen.
Oh, it was only Santorum and Newt were the only two that agreed to do the Trump debate.
And that was eventually canceled.
Let me take a brief time out here, folks.
Sit tight.
We'll be back and continue with much more here on the EIB Network right after this.
All right, folks, the audio circumstances here are a little bit better, somewhat improved.
I, uh...
I'm now having to wear real radio announcer headphones.
And I've taken great pride over the past 10, 12 years not having to wear real radio announcer headphones.
Because, I mean, you look like an absolute idiot in them.
And you, yes, that's exactly right.
And then you get hair burr.
It puts the headphone, the cans, you know, put an indention in your hair indentation.
And you got to wash your hair after the radio show.
You know, it's just an absolute, so now I got to go play golf this afternoon.
What's wrong with your hair?
I'm going to hear it for four holes.
How do you style your hair that way?
Well, I had to wear real radio announcer headphones today.
And I have to explain, well, why did you have to today and you don't the other day?
That will entail an explanation of what went wrong with a cochlear implant.
And right when you say cochlear implant, you lose people.
They don't know what that is.
So anyway, yeah, I'm complaining about it.
I'm allowed.
I don't complain about anything ever, but I am complaining about it.
But I'm through complaining about it.
And we'll go to the phones.
People have been patiently waiting, and I'm now going to be able to hear them.
We're going to start in Summit, New Jersey.
Jeff, thanks for waiting.
Welcome to the program.
Hello, sir.
It's always a pleasure to wait, Rush.
Mega Dittos.
And let me just correct you on something.
You say you have talent unloaded from God.
I do.
In my opinion, you are, in fact, a gift from God.
Well, thank you very much, sir.
I appreciate that.
You're very welcome.
I wanted to get to this point, actually, two points today.
One is about that story you were reading about Mitt Romney back in 2005, where he sort of reversed himself and said the Catholic Church or any hospitals and medical facilities could not refuse to provide any kind of contraceptive services due to religious beliefs.
Yeah.
Now that, in being fair here, remember we're talking about the Boston Globe reporting on a Republican governor.
It could very well be that he had no choice, that he threatened to veto it.
The legislature or decided to override or what it may well be that he didn't really want to do this, had no choice, and they're writing about it as a flip-flop.
My only point was that it's uncanny how this is happening and how the news of it is resurfacing here.
And how close it is.
You're correct, and only time will tell whether or not there's more to the story.
But my point really is that it shouldn't come as any surprise that these kinds of things will come out about Romney, which I believe is why the Obama administration wants him as a candidate.
I think their opposition research, their ability to do this, is second to none.
They've known this for a long time.
In fact, it wouldn't surprise me if they didn't use Romney's people to help craft Obamacare exactly as a sort of a prophylactic weapon later on in case he ran.
You say that knowing that they used his people, and that's your explanation as to why they did it, that they did it purposely.
Well, I also did new at Romney.
There were probably lots of people they could have chosen, but they did have Romney care in Massachusetts.
They had gotten it implemented.
That was certainly a logical choice to go to, but I don't think that it escaped them that this was something they would be able to use against Romney should he become the nominee.
Yeah, no, you could be right.
Two of Romney's advisors themselves are saying that they went to the White House and advised the White House on aspects of Romney care.
And one of the Romney advisors is saying that Obamacare is Romney care.
So he is going to have to deal with it, regardless.
It has happened.
It could be all pack of lies, but it's out there.
It has happened.
He's going to have to deal with it.
His story about from 2005, in a shocking turnaround, Romney announced yesterday that this could be a total lie.
It could well be that he vetoed it, was overwritten, and they're writing this as though Romney supported it when he didn't.
You never know.
You're dealing with the media.
But the point is it is going to come up.
It certainly is going to come up, and I think that's why they view him as perhaps the most defeatable candidate.
Secondly, the other point I wanted to make was regarding Romney himself as a candidate and the shock, this surprise, the Spain surprise that Rick Santorum has won three states and is now beginning to gain ground in the polls.
I think what the conservative base is saying, has been saying for a very long time, is that we want anybody but Romney, perhaps with the exception of Ron Paul, who I won't discuss right now.
But I think the base has been saying anyone but Romney, which is why Herman Kaine did well for a while when he was talking about conservative values.
It's why Newt Gingrich tends to surge when he stays on message about conservatism.
It's why Michelle Bachman did well for a while when she was staying on message about conservatism.
And I think this is a litmus test.
All right, let me ask you a question then.
Go ahead.
This is not a trick question.
I genuinely want your answer.
Here you have the Republican base.
The Republican establishment.
The Republican establishment knows everything you're saying.
They know that Romney can't get above 25 or 30 percent.
They've got an answer for that.
They say nobody else has either in primaries.
But they know that Kane rose, let's just say they know, because he's not Romney.
And then Newt Rose, because he's not Romney.
Santorum rose because he's not Romney.
At what point when you are the Republican establishment do you realize that the biggest block of voters you have doesn't want, doesn't appear to want, the guy you've chosen to anoint?
Why do you stick with the guy rather than listen to your voters?
Because that is the guy that they want because they will give up the White House, I believe, in an attempt to be able to hold both houses of Congress, gain some ground in the Senate, possibly hold the House of Representatives, and all the inside machinations and maneuverings that they're used to and they're comfortable with will continue to go on forever.
I think that's partly true, but I also think that there is another explanation for it, in addition to that, and that is that they simply abhor conservatism as the dominant aspect or defining aspect of the party.
And I think there's a lot of just in your face.
Many characteristics of this.
But when you look at it this way, you have to your voters are telling you no.
You're saying to the voters, screw you.
We don't care what you want.
This is what you're going to get.
And you have to say, how in the world do you ever win anything with that kind of an attitude in your party?
Now, some would say, Rush, you're really a novice.
That's the way all political parties have always been.
They've all got their grand poobahs, and they all look at the voters as a bunch of plebs and they all force what they want.
I understand that to a certain extent.
But at the end of the day, it's also about winning elections.
And there's a track record.
I mean, there's a blueprint about how to do it.
And they're not following it, not using it.
Appreciate the call very much.
Jeff Sandy, Livermore, California.
Glad you called.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Good morning, Rushy.
It's actually Livermore, Colorado.
Sorry, you're right.
I misread that.
It's okay.
It's kind of a podunk place.
I live in a rural area on 40 acres.
And I just wanted to call and share with you the exuberance and encouragement I felt attending my very first caucus last night.
Well, good for you.
It was awesome.
And I had a little trepidation, a little feeling of what I was getting myself into, but there sure were an awful lot of people that were like-minded.
Conservatives, they ruled last night and reigned, and it was awesome to see.
Well, I'm glad you had a good experience with it.
It just means that you'll feel more inclined to do it again.
This is the first time you've been to one of these.
Were there a lot of people?
You said it's a rural area, but were there a lot of people who showed up?
Yes, we had to set up additional chairs.
Well, cool.
All right.
And the outcome you were happy with?
Absolutely, I was happy with.
I wondered how many like-minded people would be there.
And we live, you know, separated from people, so there's, you know, a lot of our neighbors we don't know.
So it's.
Well, there you met some people you have some sleepovers with now.
Absolutely.
And Santorum took it by great numbers.
And I just found that very encouraging.
You know, I'm so sick and tired of the Obama regime administration beating down on everything I cherish.
And you are my encourager.
I understand.
I am many things, and I fulfill many roles.
But the point is that you got out there and you had a good time, and you experienced validation.
I think this is one of the most pleasing and empowering things that can happen to freshly arrived conservatives is to get out in the process and find out you're not alone.
You're not all by yourself.
There's countless millions just like you.
Very important experience to have.
And we will be back.
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The Los Angeles Times is speaking of the latest Rasmussen polls.
National likability surveys among independent voters who are less driven by ideology, more inclined towards someone they'd want as a fishing buddy, also favor Santorum, especially in swing states such as Ohio.
National likability surveys.
Now, I mentioned this because we had the piece from the babe at the Independent Women's Forum.
There's no way Santorum can win independence.
If you think that can happen, as though, back to the same old canard, can't win without the independence.
Got to go out.
What really bothers me about that is, let's say it's true for a second.
And let's say you are a conservative.
So you are a conservative.
And then you, as a full-fledged conservative, say, but we can't win without independence.
Why be a conservative if you're not going to approach them as a conservative?
What is it?
I mean, right here, ladies and gentlemen, there is a story.
The Democrats are doing it again.
I don't know if we've got this in the soundbite roster or not.
Harry Reid said that Republicans want to put arsenic and mercury in the water.
Now, I don't know.
I think this is brand new.
This is back in the early days of the Bush administration, when there were changes made to arsenic content in water, the Democrats started out with this.
Bush wants poison in the water.
Bush is okay.
And the Democrats started talking about Republicans want dirty water and dirty air.
And it's been part of their approach for as long as I've been doing a program.
Republicans want dirty water and dirty air.
It's part of the global warming argument that the left makes.
They really want people to believe this.
Now, my question is, you get Harry Reid saying Republicans want to put arsenic and mercury in the water.
Why don't the independents object to that?
Even our people, this independent, some precious group.
Got to be very careful how we go get them, Rush.
We can't get them being conservative.
We can't get them criticizing Obama.
We can't.
Okay, well, how do we get them?
Well, if we're too critical, they're going to run back to Obama.
They're going to run back Democrats.
They don't like this confrontation stuff.
No, no, no.
These independents, they want people to get along.
Fine.
So the Independent's going to be running back to people like Harry Reid, who says Republicans want to put arsenic and mercury in the water.
Well, no rush, but the independents might believe it.
Oh, give me a break.
The independents will believe Republicans want arsenic and mercury in the water, but will not believe us when we tell them the truth about Obama's intentions.
But my real point here is you say you're a conservative, and then you say, but we can't win without independence.
And then you abandon your conservatism to go get the independence.
It doesn't make sense to me.
Why not go get the independents as a conservative?
Why not take the time to teach?
Why not take the time to instruct?
If you believe passionately in conservatism, why do you have to subordinate it?
Why do you have to ignore it?
Why do you have to pretend that you're not a conservative in order to win the independence?
Well, no, that's a story we're telling ourselves.
That's another one of these lies that we're believing.
Well, the independents and conservatives are extremists.
Yeah, and Harry Reid's not an extremist.
Harry Reid, Republicans, want arsenic and mercury in the water.
That's not an extremist, but we are.
We believe all these criticisms that the left and the media have advanced, and we are constantly on defense with this.
I mean, it is maddening.
And you lump all this with what happened with Santorum.
And I'm not trying to attach too much weight of importance to this, but there is a reason why it happened.
There's a reason why Santorum swept three states.
I know some of them are very odd caucus states, Colorado particularly, but it does still.
He won.
Romney is now three out of five in the primaries.
He's won three, lost five.
If you want to say one, I always four and four, but that's, you know, Iowa's still a, they finally gave it to Santorum, so he's three and five.
And there's a reason why all of this is happening.
And if we're going to continue to put ourselves on defense by believing that the independents are going to think we're extremists if we're a conservative, then it's time for people who think that to stop being conservative.
You're not really a conservative.
You're going to acknowledge that you're an extremist.
No, Mr. Limbo, we're not acknowledging that we are extremists.
We're acknowledging that they are going to think we are.
Well, are you just going to accept it?
Look, I know, folks, politics isn't my business.
It's easy for me to sit here on the radio and say this stuff.
I understand that getting votes and getting an audience is two completely different things.
I understand that.
And I understand that the defensive nature of the power of the establishment in Washington, and I understand what I don't understand is why the constant acquiescence to inferior status, why that seems to be the constant frame of mind, and that from that inferior status or frame of mind, we then, in order to explain ourselves, must be defensive.
And I just know that nobody ever won anything defending it.
Plain and simple.
Who's next on the phones?
Breck in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Thank you for calling.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
Something I haven't heard anybody address any place is Trump made several comments that if he wasn't happy with who was elected to run for our side, that he'd run again.
Now, if Santorum or Newt wins, is he now going to turn around and run as the spoiler?
Because he's no fool.
He's got to know that would guarantee a second term for Obama.
Well, I don't have any idea, but are we to tiptoe into the future on the premise that if we don't do what Trump wants, he might run as an independent?
And so we better do what Trump wants.
Oh, absolutely not.
I was just, I was more interested in your opinion and whether you think this will take some fluff out of his feathers and he'll stop the grandstanding or whether he's really serious about doing it.
I don't know.
I'm not able to predict that.
I'm not sure that Mr. Trump knows what he's going to do after the apprentice ends.
He can't declare anything until May.
He can't get involved because he's got a television show which violates equal time rules.
So he can't really do anything on this until May.
So if he wants to go third party, he has to wait until then to pull it off.
But beyond that, I don't know what he would do.
And I don't know how upset he is that he endorses Romney big time in Las Vegas and then Santorum sweeps.
He would think that he's being honest.
And I don't understand this.
I don't understand Santorum.
He loses big.
Trump ought to ask Romney why he didn't run for re-election of governor in Massachusetts.
Talking about how badly Santorum lost in 2006, there's a reason that Romney didn't run for re-election as governor.
And it wasn't so much that he planned on running for president.
It's because if you go back and look at the polling data, then it was not favorable for Governor Romney's re-election.
So if it isn't met, you know, Trump said, he said this, I don't know how recently he said it, but he's you're asking because he has said it, that he might run third party.
So you could say that Trump would be holding the party hostage, saying if Romney's not the nominee, I'm going to go independent.
I might, might not what have you.
My only point is that you can't tiptoe around that.
And if you do that, no matter what you think of Trump, by the way, if you allow one person to determine what your whole party is going to be, what your platform's going to be, in order to make sure he's happy, then you deserve it.
I was very set on news, but the more I watch Santorum, it's kind of like he's thrown a snowball off the top of the mountain and it's getting a lot bigger.
And by the time he gets to the bottom of the mountain, I think he's going to have a full avalanche behind him pushing.
I don't want to be, you're right.
I don't want to be, and I told you so, but I remember specifically, it's been in the last month, maybe a month and a half.
There were a couple of days shortly after primaries where the mood was dark.
A conservative movement, the Republican primary voters were despondent.
They were depressed.
And I remember even Snerdley.
And I remember plainly saying, no, I'm not worried at all.
Let the process play out.
Let the process.
I didn't know anything.
I'm just not afraid of the process.
I'm just not, I'm not afraid of this.
I'm not afraid of the primaries playing out.
I never have subscribed to the belief that we had to have our nominee chosen by December and then January and now February.
I've never subscribed to that.
But none of this is deeply concerning to me.
It's playing out exactly as it's going to, and there's not a whole lot anybody can do to stop it anyway.
As long as it's going to happen, what needs to then happen is people stay involved in it and try to prevail rather than stand by and simply watch it.
Thanks for the call.
I appreciate it much.
Back with more after this.
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Welcome back.
Great to have you, Rush Limbaugh, the EIB Network.
And this is from yesterday.
It's a Rasmussen poll.
While a majority of U.S. voters continue to favor repeal of the national health care law, the number who believes it'll be good for the country is at an all-time high.
54% favor repeal.
43% say it'll be bad for the country.
And the important thing about this is, is that independents support the repeal of Obamacare by 19 points?
Independents support the repeal of Obamacare by 19 points.
And from that, you can probably say that independents support the repeal of a bunch of Obama stuff by a sizable majority.
Who's next?
Bruce in Melbourne, Florida.
Glad you called, sir.
Welcome to the program.
Rush, thank you.
I just want to say how fortunate I am that in spite of Obama's interpretation of the Constitution and even Ginsburg's interpretation in the boys at FCC, I'm able to listen to somebody you on the radio.
I appreciate that.
Thank you.
I have a respect of Santorum.
I view myself as a conservative, but I have several concerns.
The first off, if you look at voter turnout in most of the states thus far, it has been lower than at previous elections.
And I hope this isn't going to signal just disenfranchisement and an apathy that may really show a similar pattern in the national election, regardless of who our candidate is.
And then I have two other points, but I'd just like to hear what you think on the first point.
Whether the low turnout in the primaries yesterday means anything as far as the general I don't think so yet.
No, no, no, no.
I think this is going to be reflective of what we're going to see of those people coming out in support of the GOP candidate.
No, no, no.
It's two different things.
What's happening right now in the GOP primary process is the conservative media is hell-bent on getting a message out that Romney's the nominee and Romney's it.
It's over.
And there are some who resent that.
Some say, okay, screw it.
Then I'm not going to bother with it.
And I don't think low turnout, plus, Colorado's a caucus state.
It's a very weird way that things happen there.
But I don't think a low turnout is a signal of what's going to happen in the November elections.
That's going to be its own separate campaign, and it's going to have its own separate things that motivate anger, inspire people, or what have you.
Some of these caucuses and primaries, the results are not even binding.
The delegates are not bound over by virtue of the results.
There's a lot of factors here that could explain the low turnout that don't mean anything as far as the general is concerned.
Okay, and I guess then going into my second point, just your views on such, is that in spite of the conservatives having a two-to-one edge over liberals and how abysmal this country really is under the Obama administration, and third, given that so far our candidates have resident, whatever guys they have of their conservatism or libertarian guys to the public, we do see that in some of the key polling, even what Rasmussen today shows,
is that right now 50% of Americans somewhat approve of the way Obama is leading the nation and 49% disapprove Obama wins now in Virginia.
Is that signaling, in your opinion, that we really have reached a state of American, how can I say, it's perception of Americans to really show that we've reached an impasse and have really lost core values in this country?
Not yet.
Not yet.
I can understand why people would have that fear.
We won't be able to determine that until November.
And even then, it's going to depend on what choice people have.
November is going to be quite telling, I think, in regards to your question about whether or not a significant percentage of the country has lost its core values, even though there are twice as many people who say that they are conservative as they are liberal.
Don't forget this.
And I know one of the reasons why you have the question, you take the 40% who identify as conservative and the 20% who identify as liberals.
You have the rest who may not even know what time it is that day when they get up.
And they're busy watching all these pop culture TV shows.
And when you talk about core values, they may not even have any themselves.
They may not be concerned about it.
They may not know much about American politics.
They may not care.
And as such, they're going to vote on things that have nothing to do with the way you are going to vote issues.
They're going to vote on emotion.
Some of them might even vote on the candidate promises to give them the most and pay off their student loan.
Who knows?
But we face a crossroads.
I mean, the American left has purposefully established, tried to establish as many dependent people on government as possible in this country.
And this hasn't happened overnight.
It's been happening at a steady but slow pace, and it's almost undetectable at times how it happens.
So we'll find out.
I am not yet ready to concede that the country is anywhere near that point, in fact.
I think I look at the 2010 midterms, but you can't just, if you're the opposition party, you just can't rely on the result without trying to be involved in it.
It's going to take some work and some education and the right kind of campaign to prevail.
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