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Oct. 26, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 26, 2012, Friday, Hour #2
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He got the latest Gallup poll out in the one o'clock gallop poll back to five.
Romney 5146.
It's Rush Limbaugh on Friday.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
5146, Mitt Romney over Barack Obama in the Daily Gallup tracking poll.
And Romney has moved ahead in the ABC Washington Post poll by three.
If what I have is correct.
And I have to give caveats here because I've got stuff flowing in here like you can't believe.
And there's only one person that sifts through all of it, and that's me.
I need to actually offer a uh almost like a pre-apology in case something I get in here is wrong.
But I think this one is uh is accurate.
We also have Wisconsin.
This is important now.
Wisconsin 4940ness, Rasmussen.
4949.
And you go back to 2008.
Obama carried Wisconsin 56 to 42.
Now, Scott Walker.
How many recalls did he survive there?
Two?
Three, two or three.
And in every one of them, in every one of those, Scott Walker, Governor Wisconsin recalls, the Democrats were gonna wipe the floor with it.
Remember all that?
The media.
Everybody told us, yeah, he's those polls had Walker losing by a point, losing by two points, maybe up a point, and he ends up winning it by seven.
Uh something big is happening in Wisconsin, and there's stuff happening in Oregon, and there's stuff happening in Iowa, and there's stuff happening in Ohio, and there's stuff happening in North Carolina.
There is stuff happening all over the place, and the Obama regime is looking smaller and smaller and smaller as they react to it.
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Wisconsin.
Madison, Wisconsin is San Francisco, the Midwest.
It's 4949 in 2008.
Obama carried Wisconsin 56 to 42.
Obama won by 14 points four years ago.
And among the 90% who say they have already made up their minds, in Wisconsin, it's Romney 51, Obama 48.
No, I have not forgotten the Leanna Dunhaman.
I've got it here.
It's coming up.
Be patient.
The Washington Post now.
Romney is up by three in the ABC News Washington Post poll.
And Romney has hit 50.
Mitt Romney has seized further advantage on economic issues at the core of the 2012 campaign, taking him to 50% support among likely voters versus 47 for Obama.
This is Romney's highest vote preference result of the contest today.
What an admission.
What a shift this is.
On Monday.
This same tracking poll had Obama 49 and Romney 48.
Last week they had Romney down by three.
ABC News Washington Post.
This is their tracking poll.
This is the largest margin yet for Romney.
50 to 47.
This poll oversampled Democrats by four.
In a Democrat plus four poll.
Romney's up three.
So how does that happen?
The biggest change in this poll has come from likely voters now picking Romney over Obama in handling the economy.
5243 in the ABC Washington Post poll.
So Romney up nine among likely voters on the economy.
That's the first time either candidate has ever had a clear lead on the economy.
Exactly as predicted, by the way.
Just like just like the uh some of these other polls, what was it?
The um uh ABC, CBS, oh, NBC Wall Street Journal.
They've had Obama plus five, Obama plus seven, they've had Democrat samples of plus ten, and then earlier this week, guess what?
Poll comes out in their tide 4949, exactly as I predicted would happen as we get closer to the election.
I'm not patting myself on the back, but if I don't, who will?
But that's not what I'm doing.
Just telling you this stuff is predictable.
The polls are used to move and shape public opinion.
Why have all of these massive plus nine plus ten Democrat samples when the turnout's not going to be anywhere near that?
Independence.
Independence.
Are you ready in the ABC News Washington Post poll?
Independents side with Romney now in record numbers in both the economy 61 to 34.
Independence, Romney over Obama.
And on understanding people's problems, Romney plus 10, 5240.
Do you realize how huge that is?
That's that's Obama's bread and butter.
It's always been his bread and butter.
Obama's like ability.
Obama's he's not of the 1%.
He understands your plight.
Obama understands the hell that you're going through in your daily life because of George Bush.
Obama understands he's likable.
Romney up 10 in independence who believe that Romney better understands people's problems.
And independence 61 to 34 Romney over Obama on the economy in foreign affairs.
Romney has now essentially tied Obama.
That means he has erased the eight-point lead Obama had in early September in this poll on foreign affairs.
There's also a Pew research center poll.
And we learn from the Pew poll.
Republican, remember our program yesterday.
Republican enthusiasm for the presidential race is now the highest it has been all year.
In fact, Pugh's findings represent a huge change from just after the party conventions in September.
The Democrat enthusiasm was stronger after the Democrat convention.
In the latest poll, Pugh found that Republicans' interest is up 23 points since early September, which means there has been a boost in Republican enthusiasm of 23 points in less than one month.
Do you believe that?
I know you'll take it.
And I know some of you probably will believe that there has been a bunch of people in the Republican side depressed and suppressed and despondent, but I don't.
I think Republican enthusiasm has been get me to the polling place yesterday for two years.
See, I still go back and measure everything against 2010.
And then I ask myself, what's happened since then?
No.
Has the economy gotten any better?
No.
Has employment improved?
No.
Number of people in poverty come down?
No.
Has median family income risen?
No.
Number of people on food stamps gone down?
No.
There's no improvement.
There's nothing.
The housing market, zilt zero nada.
Kids coming out of college with degrees, job prospects, not better.
Nothing has improved since 2010.
And what happened in 2010?
Republican landslide all the way down the ballot to dog catcher.
The Democrats lost over 600 seats, legislative seats in Congress and state houses, all the way down to City Council.
600 plus.
And there wasn't a Republican on the ballot.
And there wasn't a Republican agenda.
What there was was the Tea Party and a bunch of conservatives rising up saying we don't want this is not the future of the country.
This is not what we're going to put up with.
We're not going to tolerate this.
This is not who we are.
Now we've got a candidate.
Now we've got an agenda.
We've got even more in our favor than we had in 2010.
So where is it written that the enthusiasm would be down in the gutter?
And even need to be resurrected to twenty by twenty-three point.
I mean, now take it.
Don't misunderstand.
And I understand some people's enthusiasm.
They watch the media, you get all depressed.
Folks, if I ought to share with you.
I just to show you what I get every day.
I sent I sent some people an email last night just summarizing the stuff I am told that I ought to believe and the stuff I ought to be saying every day.
And it is fatalistic, defeated, so forth.
And I, you know, it makes me sometimes angry, sometimes frustrates me that people think this.
They can't see how blatant the good opportunities are out there.
But I'm telling you, I just as I say, I'll take all this polling data which shows Romney ahead and shows Romney's wide uh lead widening in certain places and tying Obama in certain places.
I my only point is I don't think it's just happening in the last week, like the polls are telling us.
That frankly is an insult to my intelligence.
How long have you been intending to vote against Romney?
Uh uh Obama, for example.
Did you just decide last week?
There's so many factors here, people being honest and dishonest with polsters and all kinds of things.
My point is that the Romney momentum has been a conservative momentum, and it's been out there for a long time.
And the momentum is now intensifying because we have a presidential campaign, not just a series of House and Senate races that are on the ballot.
I had some other polling data as well to share with you.
I'm not this that I guess this is why I got the call.
Yes, I'm sounding too optimistic here.
Is that right?
Too positive.
Sorry, too positive, too optimistic.
All I'm doing is telling what the polls say today and reacting to it.
Oh, BS, that's my whole point.
Well, even people aren't going to work as hard.
They're gonna be even more inspired.
What am I s would it be better if I said, you know what, folks, don't trust this ABC poll that shows Romney up three.
They're just doing that to get you to sit back on your laurels and not vote.
Not everything is a brilliantly conceived, flawlessly executed liberal media scheme.
They don't do everything flawlessly.
They don't always win.
They don't always succeed at these things.
But I understand there there are reasons why people are hesitant.
For example, look at the Benghazi thing.
Where the hell are elected Republicans on this expressing outrage?
Why is it just Fox News and talk radio?
For example.
You know, where's the Republican leadership in the House?
I Baehner sent a letter to Obama, I know, I know, but then I leave it up to me to get the letter out of it.
But the point is, I just I understand how some of you can feel the uh the the way you do, but I'm simply reacting to the polling data that's out there today.
And by the way, back to Wisconsin, Biden has now scheduled two campaign appearances there.
I I just I'm just gonna tell you, there is no way that the regime ever planned, ever thought they would be in Wisconsin ten days before the election.
No way.
They are in Wisconsin trying to save it.
If they're in trouble in Wisconsin, and there's this folks, there's Oregon lurking out there too.
I don't want to make too big a deal about that, but Oregon's lurking out there.
There are a number of similar type places.
I they're also sorry, we're starting to see stories about these polls and how they are not accurately reflecting the genuine Romney strength or Republican strength.
Minnesota, a Romney campaign just bought some ads in Minnesota.
When's the last time Republicans won Minnesota?
I guess that would be right.
Uh Reagan's 49 landslide was not Minnesota, right?
Because that was Mondole, and he's uh is this the is the favorite son, Minnesota.
So Nixon was the last time the Republican Richard Nixon, the last Republican to win Minnesota.
And Romney Camp is uh buying time.
So Biden's gonna be in Oshkosh.
Uh and uh Oshkosh Corporation, which is Wisconsin's largest employer, just announced that they're gonna be having layoffs in January because of defense cuts.
That's another reason why Biden said it in there.
Okay, we'll take a timeout.
We'll come back in the Liana Dunham spot.
Talking about losing your virginity with Obama.
And we're back.
El Rushball, the excellence in broadcasting network.
And let's see.
Okay, now I'm getting really confused here.
I've got three different versions of this ABC Washington poll right in front of me here.
I just got an email that says Romney Ekes Out Bragging rights.
This date is September or October 23rd.
And uh uh it's got Romney 4948.
I've got another one here from the 25th that says Romney 4948.
Then I got one that's uh from also yesterday has Romney at 5047.
I got three different Washington Post results here.
And in two of the three, Romney is up, either by one point or by three.
Uh the one that I told you about is the uh Washington Post ABC News tracking poll.
And this is the one from yesterday, late yesterday, has Romney up by 50 to 47, up huge in independence on the economy and uh uh understanding people's problems.
But now I got people saying, No, that's that's wrong.
It's it's not that.
And the date on the one that's claiming I'm wrong is two days ago, three days ago.
At any rate, uh it's it's really hard to keep up with this stuff.
It's uh I think Washington Post ABC may have two different polls.
A tracking poll, and then they're whatever they call the other one.
Also, the uh Rasmussen, Rasmussen himself said, Yeah, two or three days of Romney at fifteen, that's not really anything to write home about.
You guys we we we do this every day, we roll the averages.
You need four days of consistent results to show that something's really settled in.
Well, today Rasmussen's got it.
Romney 50 is Obama 4647.
So you got the fourth day with Rasmussen today at at that that lead.
Then you've got Wisconsin.
Whatever the truth is with the ABC News Washington Post poll, either Romney's up three or up one.
Or there are two separate polls, and I'm I'm sorry, folks.
I just have all this stuff coming in.
You cannot imagine.
And I've I've got three minutes at a time to sift through all of it and try to make sense of it.
In the meantime, as promised, here is the Leanna Dunham ad that is on Obama's website.
Your first time shouldn't be with just anybody.
You want to do it with a great guy.
It should be with a guy with beautiful, someone who really cares about and understands women.
Think about how you want to spend those four years.
In college age time, that's 150 years.
Also super uncool to be out and about and says, Did you vote?
And you're not ready.
My first time voting was amazing.
It was this line in the sand.
Before I was a girl, now I was a woman.
I went to the polling station, I pulled back the curtain.
I voted for Barack Obama.
So trying to make the connection to losing your virginity, gotta be with the right guy, and your first vote has got to be with the right guy.
Now, this is a actually a ripoff of a Vladimir Putin ad earlier this year.
Putin ran an ad like this.
Uh Leanna Dunham is 26 uh years old.
And this really does this not indicate.
Can you imagine an ad like that?
How long ago would you have to to go?
Now far back, to imagine an ad like this that would totally embarrass the candidate for whom it was run.
In this case, this is the Obama campaign running the ad for itself.
No, there's no way Obama will play this ad for his two daughters.
There's no way.
Because they're nowhere near voting.
They're they're they're not nearly old enough to to vote yet.
But also he wouldn't play it for them, because I guarantee you this is this is the kind of fine for your kids to be exposed to, but not his kids.
And you would be the same way.
I just I I I find it fascinating that you wouldn't have to go back at all in American history to find a time where any candidate running this, particularly a presidential candidate, including an incumbent running this ad, it would embarrass them out of the race.
It would...
The humiliation, the catcalls of disgust.
And my thinking on this really is...
For example, the politico has a story.
You know what the story on this ad is?
Headline, I've to paraphrase it, but the reaction is conservative blogs outraged over new Obama vote ad.
And that's that's the illustration of the cultural divide.
That ad is cool.
Leanna Dunham is cool.
What she stands for is cool.
Obama's cool.
Anyone who doesn't see how cool this is is a nerd and is uncool, and that is in the pop culture, that's the political divide.
What's hip and what's not, what's cool and what's not.
And the pleasure that the Libs get from running this ad is to see all of the anger expressed by conservatives.
But the bottom line is this is the kind of thing that you do in desperation when you don't have an agenda, when you don't have anything positive to say about yourself.
This is exploitative, and don't doubt me on this.
This ad is not going to help Barack Obama at all with people he don't already have supporting him.
Okay, here it is.
I'm really sorry about this, folks.
I'm I'm sorry for the confusion.
The latest ABC Washington Post tracking poll is not, as I said, and as I was told, 5047, it is 4948, Romney over Obama.
Yesterday was 5047, Romney over Obama, and yesterday did have all of the internal data that uh that I shared with you.
Today it's a daily tracking poll comes out noon or one o'clock, and today it's Romney 49, Obama 48.
The bottom line is Romney hasn't led in this poll until now.
The Washington Post has always had Obama had, as you know, and they've got two different they've got the daily tracking poll, then they've got their their uh uh uh I don't know how often now, weekly or every other day, but it's a different than a tracking poll.
The bottom line, if we look at all the tracking, the the polling data taking place, it's all trending Romney now.
It's all trending in Romney's direction, and it has been for over a week.
Now to the phones, since it's open line Friday, it's Doug in San Antonio.
Great to have you on the program, sir.
Hello.
Hi, Rush, thanks.
Um I wanted to speak to the uh question of when the president knew and why uh Secretary Panetta refused to uh support the uh CIA Annex request for uh either to move to the consulate or to be reinforced.
Um within a few minutes of the consulate being under attack, I'm uh retired Lieutenant Colonel, special operations planner for 15 years.
Um the personal security detail for the ambassador notified the communications room in Tripoli, who then on the top secret side sent a message to the White House Situation Room that the ambassador was uh in peril.
Okay.
And they did that by code word, and it would have been within minutes of the attack commencing.
The White House Situation Room has a list of what's called essential elements of friendly information.
That's the military's acronym for it, but they would have a similar thing, critical information list.
Certain things go right to the person that's standing next to the president, both military and civilian uh leadership.
So he would have known within minutes or is supposed to be informed within minutes because an ambassador is a four-star equivalent, very high, very important person, you know, represents the president, essentially is the president's uh you know is the surrogate of the president in that country.
So the White House cannot deny that the president knew immediately.
They are.
They are.
Well, well, it's it's a bald faced lie.
You know, I'm giving you some inside baseball information.
Uh look at I believe you.
You're talking about watch desks that tells me you know what you're talking about.
Well, it's it's it's even a little more uh uh frustrating than that.
So when when that message, that code word goes out, flash traffic, that an ambassador is in peril, okay.
They we have heard this.
This is in in our parlance, the way we heard this dug was the uh says the panic button was hit.
That that's how we civilians, this was explained to me the first time somebody who knew what they were talking about re referenced this as a panic button essentially was hit.
And and that once that happens, everybody that receives it knows what's going on.
There's no doubt about it.
So that's pretty much true, right?
Right.
But it's even more detailed than that, Rush.
What it means is when the code word goes out, there's standard operating procedures.
The geographic combatant commander that's responsible for Libya would have been part of that message traffic and his sink in extremist force, you know, which is a special forces unit.
Okay, let me stop you there for another question.
So be because what a lot of people have been told, the excuse that has been offered uh in in fact from uh Condoleezza Rice on Grena Van Suster a couple nights ago.
The impression is well, there's so much traffic coming in.
There's so many emails, so many cables, so many memos.
It's impossible.
It would take somebody hours to sip through it.
What you're telling me is that it there are systems designed to penetrate all that in a real emergency.
Well, there's three networks, Rush.
You the the emails that have been uh of uh been released are unclassified emails.
On the top secret side, a flash traffic message from the embassy tripoli to the White House Situation Room, it's like an IM.
I mean, it's immediately responded to.
It it it you have to acknowledge receipt of it.
Okay.
So it's immediate.
It gets to the person, the watch officer sitting there, boom, flashes on his screen, he has to acknowledge receipt.
And then there's a protocol for who he then sends it to.
And he physically turns to someone, the senior guy in on watch and says, This is a critical element of information.
POTUS needs to hear this.
And that's what would have happened.
So no one in the White House can deny that well, they can deny it, but the fact is is the protocol says someone marched their happy little ass up to the senior guy standing next to POTUS and said, Sir, uh, ambassador Libya is in peril.
And and if he and if he was missing, that is even a higher precedence.
And then uh the the chain would have also gone out automatically to the geographic combatant commander, AFRICOM, you know, and he would have then turned to his special operations uh commander and said, I want you I want the in extremist force, you know, strip ready in five minutes.
And evidently they were strip ready in Signella.
And they would have had the assets to penetrate the airspace, you know, and MC-130 Papa, which is a one uh is a C 130 specially equipped with the electronic countermeasures, they they didn't need permission to enter Libyan airspace.
Okay.
I'm giving you a lot of inside baseball stuff, and maybe putting myself in a little peril by doing it.
But the in extremist force, they would have been chomping a bit to do this.
It was turned down by POTUS at his 5 p.m. Eastern time meeting with the principals.
That's when he put the kibosh on everything.
It was a conscious act.
It essentially has to be, because you know, the in extremist force is is required to be prepared to do in extremist non combatant evacuation operations for its geographic responsibility.
The entire continent of Africa.
So there's always somebody ready to go.
And the aircraft are always prepared to go.
It's it's maddening to say that it was not an intelligent.
An intelligence guy is not a decision maker.
He's just some skinny analyst dude that tells the the decision makers this is what we know.
Well the decision makers who are so risk averse now need perfect intelligence.
They would have had to have you know in the calculus of this to know that you know whatever the attacking force was if I put fifteen or fifty or a hundred operators on the ground, you know, they'll have success.
No one knows that.
In soft planning, you plan to fail half the time.
What about what what about the story we've been told that not only was there so much traffic coming in that it was impossible to find the right stuff which you've now explained.
But they're also telling us that the president wasn't told for a while and even now I mean as of as as late as today, recently as today, they're saying that the three most recent emails it sounds like we're talking about flash traffic's not emails, right?
Flash traffic is is digital from station to state so they're misleading us left and right.
They're trying to say, well, the president, they will not explain.
They will not tell us what happened to the three emails and why he didn't get them or why he wasn't told or when he knew or what.
They're basically portraying the president as removed from all this.
Well, bottom line is a flash traffic saying that the ambassador is in peril or worse, missing.
You know, the protocol is for someone to physically contact with a person in the chain that's supposed to determine what happens next.
next now I can't you know I I I wasn't in the Okay that I couldn't answer and I need to ask you just from what you're s you're saying well let's assume for a second this is unreal but let's say they can't find POTUS.
I mean that's let's assume he's just not engaged.
Who has trigger authority on a response to something like this?
Well an extremist um it it it helps I mean who can who you you say we don't need permission to send a C 130 in there to disrupt who orders it in there in a situation like this who has the authority to order the C 130s wherever they are Italy wherever they are to take action if you can't find the president is is the president the only guy that can give that order?
No sir.
Okay.
Basically in the absence of permissions okay you have standing orders and one of the standing orders to the geographic combatant commander is to preserve life of American citizens area.
And he's a four star you know he's in um Germany AFRICOM you know headquarters is in Germany you know and and their and their situation and their op center would have been monitoring this in real time as it's part of their geographic responsibility.
And they would have been going through the different you know permutations of courses of action of who can get there the quickest.
Now in in their geographic area they have Combined Joint Task Force Horn of Africa which is in Djibouti, you know, and I served there when it was the joint special operations task force crisis response element.
And we had responsibility for all of CENTCOM and AFRICOM and Africa because at the time there was no AFRICOM.
And we had the capacity to get from where we were in Djibouti to Benghazi in about three hours, four hours depending on what we wanted to take.
Now if we wanted to go in there with a lot of operators and at the time we had about a hundred operators it would have taken us probably five hours.
Okay Doug you're you're sitting out here you obviously are intimately familiar with all this so what's going through your mind a in real time when you hear about this and then in subsequent days when you hear the excuses or explanations that have been offered for why no action was taken.
I mean I'm maybe putting you on the spot and you can't share that with us but I gotta ask you.
I it stems from Desert One Rush.
It stems from the failure of Desert One during the Iranian hostage rescue and and and that has become you know what commander wants to repeat that you know now at the lieutenant colonel level at the colonel level of the in extremist force of all these different headquarters at the State Department everybody was Saying, let's go.
Let's get boots on the ground and kick these people's asses and get our people.
You know?
But but who makes those decisions?
Is POTUS, V POTIS State F. And they had a five o'clock Eastern time meeting, and they said no.
You know, we're willing to have the conflict over one and the over those people, you know, which is four would have been killed, you know, dozens.
We're willing to people are gonna want that the the fact that they're afraid of replicating Carter's boondoggle, that's not gonna fly with a lot of people.
Well, sir, I hate to break it to you, but that has the people that are four stars right now, okay, were young officers, and they saw what happened to the leadership.
Okay.
Now I'm not saying on the special ops side.
You know, special ops got the same.
But I mean, there are alternate explanations.
There are like political campaign explanations that people have conjured up to explain why Obama would not want any military activity taking place there in order to uh make sure that an image is created for his campaign.
We're defeating Al Qaeda, they're on the run, we got bin Laden.
Uh we can't all those memes, you know, are probably in play, but mostly it's just it's just incompetence and and and not understanding, you know, the principle of you don't leave anyone behind.
Okay.
Doug, look, I I I know you've stuck your neck out here, and you obviously know your stuff uh intimately well, and I really appreciate uh your call.
It's fabulous to get your uh input and knowledge uh on this.
Somewhere, somebody refused to make a gutsy call.
Well, uh you can say some ambassadors, some Obamas, whoever, but that's what it boils down to.
Somebody refused to make a gutsy call.
Well, Doug in San Antonio, Texas, kind of blows Leon Panetta out of the water.
And Leon Panetta, we had a sound by earlier, he said, Well, we didn't have enough intel, we didn't know enough going on.
My guess is that we knew everything.
We knew it all.
That's what he was basically telling.
We probably had those C 130s, and we talked about these yesterday, these um C 130 Hercules equipped and can go in and disperse crowds, buzz low disperse crowds.
They're an hour away in Italy.
It's a seven-hour operation.
They probably are able to get the video feed in the cockpit knowing what's going on.
We are the United States of America.
We are the world's lone remaining military superpower.
All of these things that we're being told we're not capable of doing, we didn't have the right intel, none of that.
None of that is true.
We're the United States of America.
We we we we have capability beyond that which anybody can conceive, a civilian anyway.
That's why it's kept secret.
And and the the story that has been used to explain this is is one they willingly said that they're incompetent.
They've not used the word, they've willingly said that we're inept.
Well, there were so many emails coming in.
Oh, we find out that there's a special uh code, uh flash traffic, it's got uh top secret code words, uh uh uh you get one of those, it flies to the top, it is a response is required, it has to be walked up to the next person in command.
There, of course there are procedures like this in place.
It isn't like you sitting at your computer being inundated with emails at five in the afternoon or I ams and not knowing what to do with it.
There are systems here, and they worked.
They were in place.
This was somebody who refused to make a gutsy call.
This is why the families are upset.
They find out what's going on because they know the role of the president is to defend and protect the people who are in harm's way in this country, and that did not happen here.
You heard him say that there's a lingering fear that's resulted in a defensive posture over the failed Carter effort in the deserts of Iran in nineteen seventy-nine to get the hostages out then, even though there have been many successful missions since.
But if you doubt that, I Some of you might have been hearing him.
Wait a minute.
They're really.
Remember now, there are two kinds of generals.
There are warrior generals and there are politically correct corporate climb the ladder generals.
And admirals and what have you.
And if you find this hard to believe, well, do Rush, because the military just no military is politicized, just like anything.
Remember the GOP.
What is the primary reason the Republican Party is afraid of a conservative presidential nominee?
Barry Goldwater's landslide defeat.
It's what informs them to this day.
They don't see the Reagan landslides of 80 and 84.
They see Goldwater 64.
There are plenty of Republican establishment types that do.
So what Doug was telling us here is that you got enough people in the chain of command who still have lingering fears over the debacle of Jimmy Carter's rescue attempt in uh in 1979.
That sounds hard to believe, but believe me, this guy knew what he was talking about.
There can be no doubt about that.
This is Joe Biden.
This is this morning in Oshkosh, Wisconsin.
Listen to this.
You can't erase what you've already done.
They voted to extend tax cuts for the very wealthy, giving a $500 trillion tax cut to 120,000 families.
$500 trillion tax cut.
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