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July 11, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 11, 2012, Wednesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Beltle check test one, two, report, test, test, test, one, two.
Yeah, I started the program just in great, great fear and anticipation today because yesterday the busy broadcast levels were just all over the place.
I can't tell you how distracting it was, even for me.
A highly trained broadcast specialist.
Everything seems great.
Everything seems normal now.
Do we know what was the problem?
Was it again sabotage on our Zephyrs?
Is that what it was?
Somebody sabotaging our Zephyrs is what it is, folks.
If anybody ever sabotages your Zephyrs, you will know what I'm talking about.
Happy to have you along.
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Remind me again.
Romney showed up today at the NAA LCP convention.
And Snerdley came in here.
Oh, yeah, he did great.
It was great.
And Karen Finney, this real local weed commentator over at MSNBC, well, you got to give Romney credit for showing up, for being willing to go.
Is that right?
We've gotten to the point where he gets credit for going.
I mean, say what you want about the NAA LCP.
They're still human beings.
They're Americans.
What's that?
Credit for going?
And then, well, every presidential candidate goes to the NAA LCP.
Well, McCain went, didn't he?
Bush went, didn't he?
They all named for me one that didn't.
Oh, Obama hasn't gone today.
At any rate, here's what Karen Finney said.
It's more about your actions than it is about what you say.
That's a crock.
Not with that group.
It's totally about what you say.
Obama has devastated the black community in this country economically, literally devastated them.
It's totally what you say, not your actions.
But remind me again here, folks.
But before Romney showed up at the NAA LCP, had Fox on.
And Alan Colms was on there.
I was going to say something, but I'm going to dial it back.
And Alan Colbs is saying, well, Romney just, he doesn't care about people.
He doesn't care about the poor.
He doesn't care about black people.
He doesn't care.
He's totally out of touch.
He doesn't care.
He doesn't care about people in poverty.
He doesn't care about people that are suffering.
And they care about people that are hurting.
He doesn't care.
Now, remind me again, why is being successful as a direct result of your own hard work and education a negative?
Why is being successful tantamount to being out of touch?
In this country, in the American media, the American left, being successful is out of touch, and that's a problem.
Being successful is out of touch.
Being successful means you don't know what people are going through.
Being successful means you don't know about suffering.
Being successful means you don't know about the unsuccessful.
Look at FDR and the Kennedys were hereditary millionaires, all at a lucky sperm club.
They just had to grow up.
John Kerry, the haughty John Kerry, who served in Vietnam, married into his fortune.
It's his wife that owns the houses.
It's his wife that owns the air.
His wife even owns his, what is this guy?
Windsurfing board.
He doesn't even have enough money to buy that.
His wife probably owns the spandex that he wears when he's out on the windsurfing board.
The Kennedys, FDR, grew into it.
Lucky Sperm Club.
Romney, however, is out of touch and doesn't care.
Why?
Because he worked in the private sector, because he played by the rules, because he's got some bank accounts in the Cayman Islands.
Well, so does Debbie Blabbermouth Schultz, as it turns out.
In fact, even the U.S. government has foreign investment in all of these places where Romney supposedly has money.
Romney helped grow small businesses.
Romney helped grow companies.
He built them into powerhouses.
They ended up hiring a lot of people.
He risked his own money.
Looks like he raised a pretty wonderful family.
Found time to rescue the Winter Olympics from financial ruin.
And he doesn't care about people.
And he doesn't know about suffering.
And if he ever learned about suffering, he wouldn't care about it.
How convoluted are these people?
How is what Romney has done out of touch?
And John Kerry and the Kennedys and FDR, why, they know everything.
They're right in their biggest hearts.
Big compassion.
Seems to me that Romney has been a hands-on leader.
And I realize we've taken a lot of calls in the past on this program when I talk about Romney in a positive way.
I know a lot of you people get mad.
I can't help it.
I mean, the facts are the facts.
Romney has many and varied successes.
They've been a direct result of being hands-on.
He has worked, and he's worked very hard, and yet he's out of touch.
Now, Romney spoke at the NAA LCP.
Does anybody know if they required a photo ID to get in to Romney's speech?
Because Eric Holder went to the NAA LCP yesterday.
They required a photo ID.
I am not kidding.
No, you didn't know that.
They required a federal photo ID at the NAA LCP yesterday to get in to see Eric Holder while he's making a speech, promising the members of the NAA LCP that there will not be photo IDs to vote in Texas.
Ain't going to happen.
Because it's a poll tax.
It ain't going to happen.
But they required a photo ID to get in to see Eric Holder.
I wonder if Holder brought the new Black Panther Party along with him, put them outside the venue, and checked the photo IDs of the media as they were coming in.
Let's listen to a little bit of Romney at the NAA LCP because Snerdley came in, thought he did great.
I'll play this on bites and you tell me what you think.
He got booed.
But Romney thinks, or Snerdley thinks he deserves a lot of credit because even after he got booed, he kept coming back and he didn't buckle.
So we have four little quick bites here.
Here's number one, Mitt Romney, NAA LCP in Houston.
I believe that if you understood who I truly am in my heart, and if it were possible to fully communicate what I believe is in the real, enduring best interest of American African American families, you would vote for me for president.
Now, of course, you know the opposition charges that I and people in my party are running for office to help the rich.
Nonsense.
The rich will do just fine, whether I'm elected or not.
The president wants to make this campaign about blaming the rich, and I want to make this a campaign about helping the middle class in America.
You can barely hear the applause.
You can barely hear the applause.
I felt, I watched a little bit of this, and I felt like I was in a mortuary.
I felt like I was in a funeral home watching this.
Here's the next Romney's a tip of applause talking about lifting the middle class.
Heck with the rich.
The rich are going to be rich no matter who's elected, and the rich are going to be fine no matter who's here.
Which is true, but that's not.
You'll hear later, Carville is out.
On Fox this morning, huge discussion of whether I was right in terms of the economy being a major factor in the campaign as Romney's using it.
And after that, after that discussion, we've got some soundbites of Carville saying it's no longer the economy.
He's not talking about me.
He said class warfare is the new tactic that'll work for Obama.
That's what he says.
Carville and Greenberg, polling data, class warfare, that's what's going to work.
You know that Carville and Greenberg want Obama to stay away from touting the economy.
They say, look, stop talking about this economic recovery.
You've got to go and do it.
There isn't any.
Nobody's going to buy it.
Instead, they want him now to start talking about class envy.
You snicker.
Here is Romney talking about the rich are going to be cool no matter what.
That's not what these people want to hear.
These people want to hear, I am going to put the rich in jail.
He would have gotten a standing O. I'm going to put the rich in jail.
I'm going to jail myself.
And then I'm going to give everything I take from myself and the rich to the middle class.
That would have gotten a standing O at this group.
Okay, here's the next bite.
As you may have heard from my opponent, I'm also a believer in the free enterprise system.
I believe it can bring change where so many well-meaning government programs have failed.
I've never heard anyone look around an impoverished neighborhood and say, you know, there's just too much free enterprise around here.
Too many shops, too many jobs, too many people putting money in the bank.
What you hear, of course, is how do we bring in jobs?
How do we make good, honest employers want to move in, stay in?
Not anymore.
With the shape the economy is in today, we're asking that question more and more.
No, we're not.
Free enterprise.
Free enterprise is still the greatest force for upward mobility, economic security, and the expansion of the middle class.
Not to this group.
That's not what they want to hear.
This group wants to hear about tax increases and bigger government to take care of people.
They don't want to hear about self-reliance.
They don't want to hear about free enterprise.
Free enterprise means you've got to do it yourself.
Free enterprise means up to you.
Free enterprise means you're on your own.
This group doesn't want to hear that.
I don't think Romney got a single vote in here today.
I will tell you that he didn't get a single vote.
Oh, it.
It doesn't matter.
Doesn't matter.
It doesn't matter if he gets a single vote out of here or not.
Well, look, I'm not playing these soundbites to criticize Romney.
That's not my point here.
The audience is going to do that for me.
The callers will criticize Romney for me.
I am not.
I'm not trying to do that.
But anyway, I never heard anyone look around an impoverished neighborhood and say, you know, there's just too much free enterprise.
They do.
The shop owners, the business owners are guilty to this group.
It's unfair they should own a business that charges a profit.
Well, you can smirk all you want.
It's where we are in our culture today.
They do see too many businesses.
They do too many successful people.
Those people somehow cheated, lied, and stolen from other people to get what they've got, and then they're earning a profit.
Walmart's an enemy for crime.
They ought to be giving it all away.
And these people ought to be in jail after Romney puts the rich in jail.
Who do I think shops at Walmart?
What I'm, the NAA LCP thinks it ought to be free at Walmart or at cost, at least, at Walmart.
Look, Romney's time at Bain Capital, he helped Saver start over 150 companies, the Staples, Burger King.
You think any of those companies ever hired a black person?
Think they did?
I wonder what would have happened if Romney would have told him that.
Booze, accuse him of racism, tokenism.
What would have happened?
How come Romney didn't pick up a black accent when he goes in there and talks to the NAACP?
Well, that's what Obama does.
Obama brings out the self-ma twang when he heads in there to the NAA.
And Hillary, I ain't no ways tired.
And they stand up and they give Hillary a cheer.
And Obama says things like, well, my grandfather came down here with a Pope.
Great on, dude.
And I stand up and stand in.
Romney goes in there and he sounded like Snow White today with testicles.
That's not what this bunch wants to hear.
Here's the next bite.
I'm going to eliminate every non-essential, expensive program I can find.
That includes Obamacare.
And I'm going to work to reform and save.
That was 15 seconds of booze.
That's a short bite.
What did Romney say?
He said, I'm going to eliminate every non-essential, expensive program I can, and that includes Obamacare, and I'm going to work to reform.
Boo.
So what are these people telling us?
They want to pay taxes higher than ever.
They want to pay penalties if they don't have health insurance.
They want the health care system to deteriorate into something that's worse than it could possibly be.
That's what these people are telling us.
That's you.
Look.
Okay, give them the benefit of the doubt.
They don't know what's in it.
They don't care what's in it.
All they know is it's Obama's plan, and here comes Snow White with testicles in there, ripping it to shreds, and so they're booing.
Is that it?
Okay.
Well, somebody needs to tell them after they boo, oh, so you want to pay a penalty for not having health insurance.
Oh, so you want your taxes to be higher than they've ever been just to have health insurance.
that what you want is that what you're here's uh the last uh romney bite n double a lcp today houston My agenda is not to put in place a series of policies that get me a lot of attention and applause.
My policy will be, number one, create jobs for the American people.
I do not have a hidden agenda.
And I submit to you this.
If you want a president who will make things better in the African-American community, you are looking at him.
You take a look.
Hey.
Romney told him what the unemployment rate was in the black community.
It's, what is it, almost 14?
Yeah, it's over 14.
It's either 13.9 or 14.
It's way high.
And he didn't use the number, but he said black unemployment is higher than anybody else.
It's higher than Hispanic unemployment, higher than the general unemployment rate.
Okay, it's 14%.
So he told them, under Barack Obama, black unemployment, skyrocketing, no end in sight, he tells them that he's going to end it and they boo.
And by the way, this Snow White business, that's not me.
I am projecting.
I'm saying that's how he's viewed inside the NAA LCP convention.
Remember the context.
Hillary goes in, I ain't no way tight.
Obama goes in, drops some selma lingo on him.
And Romney goes in there and sounds like white bread.
That's all I would say.
I got a quick timeout.
Back after this.
Don't go away.
Okay, here you go.
Here's a tweet that went out from a Democrat operative, Democrat operative on Twitter after Romney showed up at the NAA LCP convention.
Here's the tweet.
Rich white man booed at NAACP for saying he wants to take away health care from 30 million people and replace it with a $5 million tax cut for himself.
That's to these people, that is what repealing Obamacare is.
Repealing Obamacare to the American left is denying free health care to 30 million people while you give yourself a tax cut and hold on to your own health care.
That's what it is, and that's what the Democrats are spreading.
That's what they say Romney wants to do.
Take health care away from 30 million people.
Now, I would love, I would love to see somebody poll the conventioners at the NAA LCP and find out how many of them realize that they're not getting free health care under Obamacare, that in fact they're going to be fined for not buying health insurance.
I wonder how many of them know.
I had, it's anecdotal, and I have a lot of rich and powerful friends that owned and owned businesses.
And they told me, they have told me that many of their employees, after the Supreme Court decision, came up to us, is my health care free now?
I have no clue.
I have no idea what the majority of Americans think, but I can tell you what the left thinks.
The left thinks Obamacare is free health care for themselves and the 30 million who are uninsured.
And they also believe that repealing it means that people that want to repeal it don't want people to have free health care.
They don't want people to have what they've got.
That's why they don't like the poor.
That's why they don't care about that.
This is whole meme.
It's total BS, but this is what the Democrat Party is spreading.
Now, what I think Romney was really doing here in this speech today, I don't think he was speaking to that audience.
That's why I kind of got a little short with Snurdly.
I think he used the forum.
He knew there's media there.
I think he used the forum to try, take the occasion here to spread his own message about the economy and everything else he's trying to accomplish in his campaign.
I think he used this event as an opportunity rather than to speak to these people directly as his primary purpose.
Say, folks, do you find, I kind of glossed over this in the early portion of program.
Do you find it interesting that of the two presidential candidates, Romney is the one who went to the NAA LCP?
Obama's not going.
It's not that he hasn't been yet.
I don't think Obama's going.
Obama, he doesn't want to go to the NAA LCP precisely because the black unemployment rate's 14%, precisely because, if the truth be known, they feel let down.
If the truth be known, African Americans, especially at leadership levels like the NAA LCP, think Obama has abandoned them.
There hasn't been one fulfillment of any dream they had.
I want you to put yourself in their position with what they think about life in this country since the founding, including slavery, all of that stuff.
Affirmative action, discrimination, left and right, you name it.
First black president is elected.
You know that they had dreams and aspirations.
They thought a whole bunch of getting even with them out there was going to be happening.
They thought a whole bunch of wrongs were going to be fixed.
They thought, well, who knows specifically, but you know they had high expectations for Obama, and not one of them had been met.
The people that wanted a new kitchen don't have it.
The people that wanted a new car don't have it.
The people that wanted jobs don't have it.
And so Obama's not showing up.
Romney did.
Romney knows.
Get 3% of the black vote and you throw this election into a tizzy.
Get 5% of the black vote and Obama loses.
So he shows up today.
Obama doesn't show up anywhere other than before an audience of college kids or union people.
That's it.
You won't send, you won't see Obama at the NAALCP.
He's going to send Biden.
Tell some sex jokes or whatever else Biden's going to end up gaffing.
But Obama's getting nowhere near it.
Now, Romney did and will.
Romney will speak to venues like the NAALCP.
He'll go into enemy territory.
Obama will not.
And who's the president of the United States and who's the candidate?
Obama's the prezi.
As who said Jimmy Fallon, yeah, Obama's the prezy of the United States.
And he doesn't dare show up.
He's confident they'll boo Romney simply because Romney's white.
He's confident of that, but he knows that he's going to have hell to pay in private meetings with these people.
He's not going to get anywhere near it.
So what an insult.
Here's Obama sending Biden, not going himself, on the campaign trail, talking about how great his economy is, how great the recovery is, how much better it's going to be, and how much he's going to be doing for people.
So Romney takes advantage of the occasion.
He goes there and makes a speech that is really, I think, over these people's heads in the sense that his audience was much larger than just inside the conventional.
He's got the media there.
And here's an opportunity for Romney to be himself, tell everybody what he stands for, what he believes, what he wants to do, what his perception of problems is.
It doesn't matter if he gets booed.
By the way, he got a standing O at the end of it.
After all of that, he did get a standing ovation at the end of his speech, the NAALCP.
I don't know how many news media will report that.
But I think it's an insult to send Biden, to send Biden to the NAACP, the first black president, election year, can't show up to your convention.
In the crooks and nannies and behind closed doors, I'm telling you.
And this is Democrat cloakrooms all across the country.
There's panic, there's fear, and they know that they are in trouble.
Now to the audio soundbites, I mentioned Fox today discussing a point that I made earlier in the week.
The guests are Dick Morris and Kirsten Powers.
The affiliate host today was Clayton Morris.
And Clayton Morris said to Dick Morris, there's some interesting questions being raised by Rush Limbaugh the other day as to whether or not Romney can break through and connect with voters because of all the handouts, all the entitlements.
Maybe you're creating a bit of a safety net for people.
They're not really feeling the economy as badly.
There really isn't that much suffering out there, Dick.
Does Rush have a point, Dick?
I think that he's not completely right.
Certainly, it's a factor.
In 1980, 30% of all Americans got a check from the government.
Now it's 49% that do.
Actually, when Obama took office, it was 44, so this isn't entirely his doing.
But come on, they tend to be relatively small checks.
And in our media-driven society, people always want to have decent lives and move on.
And I don't think that people are content with the entitlements, but certainly it makes it politically harder.
Okay, now, see, this is the, to me, the interesting thing about this.
The checks are not insignificantly small.
The checks are sufficient that you can survive with comfort without working.
Because there's all kinds of checks, and then there are food stamps.
You have your unemployment compensation check.
Then you have disability after that.
Maybe at the same time, then you have food stamps.
And who knows whatever else you can latch on to.
So I think it does and has created a different dynamic.
I'm not saying you don't campaign on the economy.
I'm simply saying the traditional assumptions that 8% unemployment equals a guaranteed victory for the challenger is not the case.
It's all I'm saying.
You've heard that stat.
No president's been re-elected with the unemployment rate above 7.9% or something.
I think that's probably out the window, is all I'm saying.
The tradition has been dealt a little bit of a blow.
Sure, it still matters.
I'm just saying there's a different way to go about campaigning on the economy than simply assuming that when you tell people the economy is bad, which they already know, and that you're going to fix it.
They're going to have to go after Obama.
Obama is going to have to be gone after the same way Romney went after Newton, the same way he went after Rick Santorum.
That's what's going to be called for.
That's what is called for here as far as I'm concerned.
But don't misunderstand.
I'm not saying the economy is not a factor.
It's just different.
And by the way, 44% get a government check when Obama sits down in the Oval Office, 49% today and growing.
That is significant too, because we're approaching 50% here.
You combine that with people aren't paying any income taxes.
By the way, you see this, the CBO, a tax foundation says this every year and a couple other tax organizations, but the nonpartisan, precious and beloved Congressional Budget Office yesterday said that the rich are paying more than their fair share in taxes.
And as they define the rich, they said the rich are paying 70% of the tax burden, which is true, by the way.
It's just the CBO has never said it like this.
The rich are paying more than their fair share.
Didn't get a whole lot of coverage.
It's out there in quote-unquote right-wing newspapers.
But it's out there.
So anyway, Clayton Morris then said to Dick Morris, well, look, can't you argue that Russia's right to a certain extent?
Because how else can you explain Obama neck and neck in the polls with Romney with these kinds of unemployment numbers?
Because they're counting a lot of people that don't vote.
We've been through that.
That's a demographic that Obama's clobbering Romney on people that don't vote.
But if you look at people that do vote, who tend to be a majority of people that don't get the entitlements, Romney, I think, has a nice lead now.
Dick thinks it's going to be a landslide.
I've heard him say it.
He's written it, and he's trying to not sound overly confident here, but he thinks that this is going to be like I do.
But yesterday afternoon after the program, I did an interview for the next issue of the Limbo Letter, spoke with Artur Davis, the former Democrat congressman from Alabama, who is as conservative as you and he's African-American.
And I asked him about all this polling stuff, and his theory on the polling, I just throw it out there.
And I'm not going to give away the whole interview.
I'm not going to cannibalize the whole interview, but it was fascinating, by the way.
But he said most polling, I didn't know this because I don't think I've ever been polled.
If I have, I don't remember it.
And if I were, I would have lied.
He said, most polling takes place between 5.30 and 7 o'clock p.m.
Now, he would know he was a member of Congress.
He's not any longer.
He's moved to Virginia.
He said, between 5.30 and 7 o'clock, entrepreneurs aren't home answering the phone.
They're working, particularly in bad economic times like this.
So his theory is somewhat similar to Dick Morris's.
And that is the people who are answering the phone when these pollsters call are not the ones that you really want to talk to if you're a pollster.
Well, depending on what you want with your poll, they could be the ones you want to talk to.
But his point was that entrepreneurs and people who making the country work are not at home to answer a pollster's call on average between 5.30 and 7 p.m.
Now, they next went to Kirsten Powers at the Fox and Friends show today and asked her what she thought.
Kristen or Kirsten, it's not just the economy.
What is Russia right?
No, Rush is exactly right.
You can't just say, oh, because the economy is doing badly, you know, therefore Obama will lose.
And the polls bear that out.
You look at the polls and you think the economy is doing so badly, it hasn't turned around the way that it was expected to turn around or even promised to turn around.
And yet he's neck and neck with Romney.
He does have an advantage being an incumbent, obviously, but Romney's going to have to do something more to break through.
The debates are really, I think, going to show us what's going to happen.
I think we'll see one way or another after the debate.
That's Kirsten Powers.
That was Fox and Friends this morning.
And now it obscene profit timeout here at the EIB network.
Back with more right after this.
I mentioned the precious beloved nonpartisan congressional budget office a moment ago.
Here are the details.
They looked at tax returns 2007, 2008, 2009, and they found that the bottom 20% of American income earners paid just three-tenths of 1% of the total tax burden.
The bottom 20% of earners paid just three-tenths of 1% of the total tax burden.
The richest 20% paid 67.9%.
We'll round that up to 80.
No, we'll round that up to 70 for the fun of it.
The top 20% paying 70%, the bottom 20% paying 1% or 3-tenths of 1%.
That's 2009.
That's before Obama was emaculated into office.
I also mentioned Carville and Greenberg and the Democrat polling unit that they run.
And remember, earlier this year, Carville went out there with a warning.
He told Obama, don't run out there and talk about how great this recovery is.
It ain't going to work because people aren't feeling it.
They're not living it.
Don't talk about it.
Now they've done a 180.
And they're saying what you need to focus on is class warfare.
Here's Greenberg first.
It was on CNN's starting point this morning with the hostette, Soledad O'Brien, who said, Stan, you say social mobility and looking at other nations' social mobility.
That's really the key here, right?
It's a wake-up call because when we did in 92, it's the economy stupid, you know, we didn't realize, and President Clinton didn't realize, that this was going to be a three-decade phenomenon, that America had really had changed.
We thought we'd come back, you know, from that, and we did.
You know, in the 90s, we're good.
But we have three decades of income decline, struggle, struggle, struggle, jobs being exported, the country in debt, people in debt, and people are in pain out there.
But they know it's a long-term problem.
So they want to see long-term solutions.
So Greenberg's saying 30 years ago, we were saying, or 20 years, that the economy's stupid.
And they say, no, no, it's not that anymore.
He's essentially saying what I said.
It's not, you can't win an elections against the economy stupid.
That's up.
That's gone.
So then they turned to Carville.
Soledad O'Brien said, in the book, you say income is now destiny.
What do you mean by that?
You know what?
In America, if you work hard and you do what you're supposed to do and you play by the roof, you're going to have a good life.
You're going to be able to buy a car.
You'll be able to educate your children.
But you got to work.
You still can do it, but it's a lot harder than it used to be.
And we don't have the mobility that we used to have.
And when you don't have that, when you don't have that, and the middle class is shrinking, and incomes are going up only at one level and not at another level, then you're something else other than the country that you want to be.
You're losing something that is central to what it is to be the United States.
What he's advocated, the middle class shrinking, it isn't upwardly mobile.
It isn't happening.
So he's advising the Democrats that class warfare has replaced economic growth as the issue they can win on.
That's what he's saying.
Not saying I agree with him.
I'm just saying that they've done a 180.
It's not the economy.
Now, also, we must factor that they think they own it's the economy stupid, and they don't want that working for anybody else just for the sake of their resumes and reputations.
And I also believe that Carville and Greenberg would love to divert people off into a direction that is not really the direction they ought to go, meaning us.
I think, for example, they would love for us to stop talking about the economy after having tried to convince us it ain't going to win for y'all.
It ain't going to win for y'all anymore.
You need to give it up.
And so I think there's a lot of fakery going on here.
So don't misunderstand.
I'm not suggesting we drop the economy as an issue.
I'm just saying it's not an automatic.
It has to be approached in a different way.
Of course it's real.
Of course it's devastating.
Of course.
And that's the problem.
America is being transformed in ways that nobody wants.
America is being torn apart.
That's what this economy means.
We're in the midst of a transformation that is going to grow government like it's never grown before and we never get that back.
So please don't misunderstand.
I'm not saying abandon it.
These guys want us to abandon it.
They also want Obama and the Democrats to really focus on class warfare.
But they also would love for Republicans.
And they've had, by the way, you have to admit, the Democrats have been very successful in intimidating Republicans.
Example, this whole notion, don't criticize Obama, the independents don't like that.
Look at how many of our consultants believe that garbage.
Look at how many Republican consultants fell for that.
You don't want to be critical of the president.
You really don't want to be critical of Obama.
Or any Democrat.
The Independents don't like that.
They want compromise.
We all get along.
All of that rot cut.
And it's a trick to get us to stop criticizing Obama and our people have fallen for it.
And I think there's another trick going on here.
Because any poll, any poll, I don't care if it's a poll that shows Obama up by six like Reuters does, which is a crock.
Even that poll shows Obama losing big, way down with the public on the economy.
That's what they'd like to paper over.
Speaking of the independents, ABC News Washington Post poll.
Here's the headline right here: Obama has problems with independent voters.
And the Washington Times has Obama down 14 among independent voters.
And I guarantee you, folks, this has them in a state of panic in Obamaville.
All right, lots more straight ahead.
We'll get to your phone calls the next hour.
As always, sit tight.
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