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Nov. 7, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 7, 2012, Wednesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 247 podcast.
Hey, any of you guys in there want to come sit in my chair today?
Anybody?
Nobody wants to come sit in my chair here today.
None of you?
I mean, I'm giving you a golden opportunity to speak to what?
50 million people.
I can handle it.
Okay.
All right.
So nobody wants to come sit in my chair today.
Greetings, my friends.
What happened?
That's what we're going to try to find out.
We're not going to be able to explain this away in one day.
We're going to get close.
We are not going to be able to come up with all the uh the answers and solutions in one day, but I want to try to take you through today the uh the night for me last night.
Various thoughts that I had as things happened, beginning with my getting and receiving the the exit polls at five o'clock.
But first thing, let me tell you, small things beat big things yesterday.
Conservatism, in my humble opinion, did not lose last night.
It's just very difficult to beat Santa Claus.
It is practically impossible to beat Santa Claus.
People are not going to vote against Santa Claus, especially if the alternative is being your own Santa Claus.
Now everybody is jumping on Romney's chain today, getting in his chili.
Look at he may have not been the most optimal candidate, but he's a fine man.
He would have been great for this country.
Mitt Romney and his family would have been the essence of exactly what this country needs.
But what was Romney's recipe?
Romney's recipe was the old standby American route to success.
Hard work.
That gets sneered at, I'm sorry.
In a country of children where the option is Santa Claus or work, what wins?
And say what you want.
But Romney did offer a vision of traditional America in his way.
He put forth a great vision of traditional America, and it was rejected.
It was rejected in favor of a guy who thinks that those who are working aren't doing enough to help those who aren't.
And that resonated.
War on women, binders, big bird, this kind of stuff.
The Romney campaign was about big things.
It was about America.
It's mind-boggling to go through these exit polls.
You want to hear a statistic that is somewhat surprising?
Romney received 2.5 million fewer votes than McCain did.
Now who would have called that?
Who in the world would have Obama, I think Obama's vote tally was down 10 million from 2008.
And we still lost.
We lost 50 to 48 nationally.
We were not able to build a turn-out model that looked like 2004.
Very puzzling.
I've got something else.
Um just stream of consciousness here.
The usual suspects are out, and they're saying, well, Russia we got to do.
We gotta we gotta reach out now the Hispanics, and we gotta reach out to the uh minorities, blacks, we've got to reach out.
Okay, let me remind you of something.
Just ask you a question.
And we will be getting to your phone calls, of course, today when you weigh in on this.
800 282-2882 is the number.
Let me take you back to the Republican convention.
We had Suzanne Martinez, female Hispanic governor New Mexico.
We had Condoleezza Rice, African American, former Secretary of State.
Uh both of those people imminently qualified, terrifically achieved.
They have reached the pinnacles of their profession.
We had Marco Rubio.
We had a Parade of minorities who have become successful Americans.
And they all had a common story.
Up from nothing.
Hard work.
Their parents sacrificed for them.
And people are scratching.
Now, why didn't that work, folks?
Because the answer to that is our future.
Why didn't it work?
Some people say, well, Rush, we pandered.
No, we didn't pander.
Everybody says that we need to reach out to minorities.
We have plenty of highly achieved minorities in our party, and they are in prominent positions.
And they all have a common story.
They all came from nothing.
Their parents came from nothing.
They worked hard.
They told those stories with great pride.
Those stories evoked tears.
And didn't work.
And don't tell me that people didn't watch the convention.
People didn't see it.
I mean, there's a reason it doesn't work.
I went to bed last night thinking we're outnumbered.
I went to bed last night thinking all this discussion we'd had about this election being the election that will tell us whether or not we've lost the country.
I went to bed last night thinking we've lost the country.
I don't know how else you look at this.
The first wave of exit polls came in at five o'clock.
I looked at it, I I read the first two pages, and I said to myself, this is utter BS.
And I and I forwarded the exit poll data that I had to three or four people, and my my message to each of them, this is utter B.S. And if it isn't, then we've lost the country.
Let me take you through some of it.
Based on early exit polls, Obama is locked in a tight race with Governor Romney, uh Romney nationally, we believe the race to be as tight as it could be.
And here are the to the extent that Obama is running strong and can win, it is because they see him as someone who cares about people like them.
They feel he did a very good job in the response to Hurricane Sandy.
I when I saw that, I said, don't tell me.
I thought this thing is starting to read like a Democrat campaign speech, this exit poll data.
Hurricane Sandy in the aftermath, and the way Obama handled that.
What did Obama do?
He showed up one day, he bear hugged Chris Christie, and then he left.
Situation on the ground is devastating.
And yet Obama triumphs in the exit polls with that.
He successfully painted Romney's policies as caring primarily about the rich.
He successfully convinced roughly half the country that his policies will favor the middle class.
Now, measure that against reality.
The reality is that the economy of this country is crumbling, the unemployment situation is worsening, the debt situation is worsening.
Everything for the very people who think Obama's gonna help them is getting worse, and yet they told the exit poll people that they thought Obama's the best guy to handle Obamacare.
They are a majority of people like Obamacare in the exit poll.
That goes against everything we've ever heard in any poll.
Voters trust him more than Romney in an international crisis.
What?
How in the world can that be in a rational intelligent world?
How can that be?
He's running very strong with African Americans, Latinos and women.
If he wins, this data will be consistent with stories about the changing nature of U.S. demographics.
And this is one this is the one that made me think this exit poll was B.S. I just I intellectually had trouble with this one.
More than half the people who Voted yesterday said that they still blame Bush for the economy.
More than half the people who after four years.
Well, now what is the answer to this?
How in the world do you deal with this?
There are ways.
And we didn't do them.
There were too many assumptions made about what the American people thought, about what they knew.
Too many assumptions were made.
But look, I don't want to nitpick a campaign today.
That's that's not the point.
I I there are larger things here at work.
Roughly half the voters want the health care law as it is or expanded, and they are voting for Obama.
Really?
I haven't seen a poll like that anywhere.
Every poll, every poll I have seen on Obamacare features a majority and close to 60% who don't like it.
But this is an exit poll of people who voted.
People who say they are looking for a strong leader and someone who has more of a vision for the future, support Romney.
Romney even wins among voters voting for a candidate who shares my values.
Voters believe the economy's weak, and Romney will be better able to manage the economy.
Now this is from people that the exit pollers say this is a reason if Romney wins, this is why.
Well, obviously, those people were vastly outnumbered.
Which is where we are today.
round numbered.
Yeah.
One of the greatest misunderstandings in this country, if you boil all this down, is what creates prosperity.
The Romney campaign was essentially about that.
And the Romney campaign was was devoted to the traditional American view and history, vision as well of what creates prosperity.
The old capitalism, the old arguments of hard work, stick to it, self-reliance, charity, helping out in the community, all of these things that define the traditional institutions that made this country great.
That's what the Romney campaign was about.
It was rejected.
That way or that route to prosperity was sneered at.
That route to prosperity was rejected.
The people who voted for Obama don't believe in it.
They don't think it's possible.
They think the game's rigged.
They think the deck stacked against them.
They think that the only way they're going to have a chance for anything is if somebody comes along and takes from somebody else and gives it to them.
Santa Claus.
And it's hard to beat Santa Claus.
Especially it's hard to beat Santa Claus when the alternative is you be your own Santa Claus.
Oh no, I'm not.
What do you mean I have to be in my own Santa Claus?
No, no, no, no, no.
I want to get up every day and go to the tree, you're the elves.
Meaning us.
You throw Hurricane Sandy in here.
I'm I'm I must admit I am genuinely puzzled that Hurricane Sandy and the aftermath helped Obama and hurt Romney.
But it did.
According to the exit polls.
I mean, what what they say is what they say.
The polls were right on the money, as it turned out.
But until people understand why big government reduces prosperity for all.
They're going to continue to be fooled by little things, by marketing, by smooth talkers, by faux compassion.
So we'll see what happens with the economy as we go forward.
Some people think Rush, the economy is resilient in this country, and it's going to naturally rebound, no matter what.
There are people today scared the economy is going to rebound despite what's happening stock market today, and Obama's policies are going to get credit for it.
Bunch of libs salivating over that.
They think the economy is going to come back no matter what, and that Obama's big government is going to end up being the explanation for the rest of our lives as to how that happened.
Just like in Japan, just like in Greece, just like but look.
You bring up Greece and you bring up Europe.
They are they're where we're headed.
Their problems are acute.
The difference is that none of those European countries are anywhere near the leading economy of the world like we are.
The world depends on what happens here.
The world does not depend on what happens in Spain or Greece or Italy, and not to put them down.
But regardless, wherever you're going to look at Greece.
Whenever necessary austerity measures are proposed, what happens?
No, you don't.
You're not taking it away from me.
There is no rising to responsibility.
There is no accepting response.
There's just a demand that the gravy train continue.
And we have an administration that's promising an endless gravy train.
And all you have to do is stay on that gravy train is vote.
But it doesn't matter.
The thing that's mind-boggling is that there is no new prosperity in America.
There is no improved standard of living.
It's all going down.
But Obama cares.
He really cares, cares much more than Romney.
He really, really cares.
In fact, he cares so much we're going to give him a do-over.
We're going to give him a second term to do what we know he wanted to do in the first term, but wasn't able to for whatever reason.
We'll take a brief time out.
We'll come back, we'll continue.
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None of it makes any sense.
None of it makes any sense.
Mitt Romney and his wife and his family are the essence of decency.
He's the essence of achievement.
Mitt Romney's life is a testament to what's possible in this country.
Mitt Romney is the nicest guy anybody would ever run into.
Mitt Romney is charitable.
He wouldn't hurt a fly.
He doesn't hate.
He's not discriminatory in any way, shape, manner, or form.
And no such charges were ever leveled.
But what did Romney do?
Romney presented a pic.
This is very frightening stuff to me.
He presented a picture of the traditional view.
The traditional roots, the traditional way.
Things work in this country.
And part of his camp, there was an assumption, I think, that that's what most people were looking for, and a return to.
Instead, we've got the Mulligan presidency.
We're going to give Obama a do-over.
They're going to give him a do-over so that he can do in the second term what we all hoped he would do in the first term.
There's nobody singing Obama's praises in terms of achievement.
There's nobody singing his praises in terms of good job, singing his praises.
As it relates to marketing, campaigning, strategizing, getting out of the vote.
All that matters, it clearly does.
I don't.
This is not sour grapes on that.
Campaigns matter.
A lot of things were illustrated and confirmed.
Campaigns do matter.
Strategy matters, all that stuff matters.
But for many of us, the country is at a point where it's never been in our lifetimes economically.
We figured we had one chance to stop this direction to reverse it, take it back to the traditional path of American greatness.
It's rejected.
That America is not desired.
That America is not wanted.
It's difficult to uh it's difficult to accept that.
It's challenge.
We'll have to meet reclaiming it.
All of our lives, ladies and gentlemen, what have we heard when it comes to presidential elections?
It's the economy, it's the economy, it's the economy.
We haven't had in my lifetime, I've not lived in a worse economy than this one.
This should be, should have been a slam dunk.
But it wasn't.
There are reasons why we're gonna have to dig deep to find them, and we're gonna have to be honest with ourselves when we find the answers to this.
I keep, you know, I'm reading a bunch of stuff that uh bloggers and conservative analysts are saying.
One of the uh popular theories is, well, you know, they still can't discount this historical nature as the first African American president, and the American people felt sorry for him.
They just want to give him a second chance.
They just couldn't bring themselves to vote against him.
The next time rush, the Democrats aren't gonna have that kind of hold on anybody.
They're not gonna have that kind of attachment to people and blah blah.
Look, I'm in favor of optimism as much as the next guy, but we are living in the midst of the Democrat Party transforming this country.
I don't deny, and I don't doubt that race is a central factor in what happened, but it is not the sole explanation.
There are more there are additional substantive reasons.
You can't minimize the woman in Cleveland, Obama phone.
He give us a phone, Obama phone.
You realize do not underestimate the importance of what I am saying, a misunderstanding or disagreement or what have you of what creates prosperity in this country.
There are clearly now two schools of thought on that.
There used to not be much of an argument.
Even you go back not that long ago, Democrats used to talk about hard we even last night Obama's talking about hard we doesn't mean it.
In his acceptance campaign speech last night, which more of a campaign speech and acceptance speech.
I believe you're black, brown, gay, no matter who you love, if you're this and that, he went through every surface definition of a human being that he could think of.
And if you work hard, you got a fair shake, you can get that so everybody's cheering it.
The fact of the matter is the people gathered at McCormick Place last night do not believe that.
They do not think they have a fair shake.
They have been educated, maleducated, ill-educated.
They don't believe they've got a fair shake.
They think the deck is stacked against them.
They think the Democrat Party corrects that.
They think the Democrat Party is gonna punish the people who have unfairly gotten stuff that they shouldn't have.
They got more stuff than other people have stuff, and that stuff's got to be redistributed.
That's the sad reality here.
There isn't a work ethic in this country anymore.
That's universal.
Get a college education, and that means magic is supposed to happen for a lot of people.
And yet if it doesn't, if if if you don't get stuff, if you don't get success that they tell you you're gonna get if you do these things, then the game's rigged.
Hard work is sneered at.
Suggesting that somebody go get a job is reacted to in many places.
Oh, easy for you to say.
You've got one.
And I want to go back to the Republican convention again.
I want to ask these questions what you all thinking about this.
Because it's being said once again that the Republicans have an outreach problem.
That we don't we don't have Hispanics, and we don't have blacks, and we don't have women, and we don't have and it's okay, fine, we don't.
What are we supposed to do?
Are we supposed to uh embrace amnesty?
No, no, no.
I'm asking these Snerdley's in there laughing at it, but I'm being serious with this.
We have achieved brilliant, highly accomplished African Americans, blacks, Hispanics, you name it, throughout the Republican Party.
They serve in office.
Many of them are CEOs.
It doesn't count.
It doesn't count in the media, it doesn't count the Democrat Party, it doesn't count with Obama voters.
About whom it is said that stuff matters most.
It doesn't count.
Why not?
Why, putting it somewhat coarsely, why doesn't the Republican Party get credit for Condoleezza Rice?
Why doesn't the Republican Party get credit for Marco Rubio?
Why doesn't the Republican Party get credit for Suzanne Martinez?
How is it that Michelle Bachman, a highly achieved woman, barely, barely ekes out reelection, and Jesse Jackson Jr. at the Mayo Clinic going through everything he's going through wins in a landslide?
I could throw these options, these examples up to you all afternoon.
Why don't those people, why don't the Marco Rubios, the Alan Wests?
What a great man.
What a great American, Alan West, what a great role muck, Clarence Thomas.
Herman Cain, none of it counts.
Don't tell me the Republican Party doesn't have outreach.
We do.
But what are we supposed to do now?
We supposed to, in order to get the Hispanic or Latino vote, does that mean open the borders and embrace the illegals?
Is that what I'm I want you to think about this?
Is that what it means?
Is that what the Republican establishments are we gotta reach out to Hispanics?
Is that what they mean?
If we're not getting the female vote, do we become pro-choice?
Do we start passing out birth control pills?
Is that what we have to do?
Okay, let me ask you, if that's what we have to do, pretend that we're doing it.
Pretend that in the next couple of weeks, couple of months, the Republican Party announces that it is for contraception being paid for by the state, and in fact the Catholic Church must give contraception away and make abortion available.
Are we going to get the votes that Obama got last night?
We're not.
Really?
We're not?
We won't.
But we're not getting the votes that Obama got last night because we had Condoleez Rice, and she is pinnacle of achievement and intelligent.
Well spoken.
I mean, you you can't you can't find a more accomplished, better person, Condoleezza, Marco Rubio.
And really speaking in just street lingual, we're not getting credit For it.
Now, is it that Republicans are looking for credit and it's not perceived as genuine?
Are these people all viewed as tokens?
And the white Republican establishment is just putting these people out front, but they really don't believe that Marco Rubio's that good a deal.
Or Nicondi, are they just window dressing?
If that's so, if that's what the if that's the perception of the Obama voters, then how do we change that?
What do you mean you don't?
What do you well if you look at these exit polls?
If we don't change that, we're not going to win elections.
According to the exit polls, there's one option that still hasn't been tried.
In a long time, it's called conservatism with a capital C. It still hasn't been tried.
This was not a conservative campaign.
It was a good campaign.
It was a and I don't want anybody misunderstanding me here, but I think Mitt Romney is one of the best people, human beings I've ever met.
I have no quarrel with Mitt Romney, and I'm not going to be one to dump on Romney.
We everybody can do Monday morning quarterbacking and so forth.
We all have our like, for example, when I when I heard Romney in the last two weeks talking about reaching cross the air, I cringed, but I'm not going to come here and introduce negative visits because I'm not going to change him.
What I say on the air is not going to change Romney's approach.
They've got their strategists and they got their campaign people figure out what they want to do.
I thought there was a little bit too much assuming going on, too much assumption that people understood what Romney was talking about when he uh starts talking about the economy, but I'm telling you, we're gonna have to go back and redefine how prosperity happens in this country.
And conservatism and the Constitution are the best way to do this.
Are we um are are we uh let's see, let's see, uh youth.
We need the youth vote.
Are we supposed I'll tell you what let's do let's as the Republican Party let's announce, say around Christmas time, so that we can get it close to being Santa Claus ourselves.
Let's announce that we are for the legalization of marijuana, and that as a party we believe in forgiving all student loans.
Let's let's beat Obama to the punch.
You know, Obama runs the student loan program.
Well, let's go get the youth vote.
And let is that is that how we would do it.
Okay, so where is obviously the answer is no.
The answer all these objections or the uh uh these uh uh examples I've given you, Latinos.
We're not gonna get the Latino vote by opening the borders and saying that, you know what?
Let anybody in who wants to come in.
There's some Republicans who think we have to.
Keep a sharp eye.
Women.
Let's let's let's uh let's let's let's start our own abortion industry.
Let's go out and get the women's vote.
The point is, I'm just want you to think, is that would that work?
In this America today, would that work?
It does for the Democrats.
Every Obama voter may not be religious, but they believe in Santa Claus.
And you know what else they believe about Santa Claus?
As Santa Claus doesn't judge anybody, you're gonna get your stuff no matter how you behave.
You're gonna get your stuff, whether you're a good guy, a bad guy, or a non-entity.
Santa Claus isn't judgmental.
In fact, Santa Claus loves you because you have the deck stacked against you.
The Democrat Party has made every one of their voters, other than the elite professors and the Hollywood types ought to know better, think they're members of victims.
Or victim groups.
And that they have no way to achieve prosperity in the traditional way.
That deck is stacked against them by people like us, they think.
So government's got to come in and make it fair.
And that's cool, by the way.
That's hip.
That's cool.
Got to take a break here, folks.
You sit tight.
We'll come back.
I think well, squeeze a phone call or two in when we get back.
So don't go away.
So I got a note today, I got a note from a friend who said, Rush, you know, you're really on the right track here in this prosperity business.
Be patient, because when people see that unemployment isn't getting better, more will question what they believe about Obama's policies working.
Where's the evidence to believe that?
Where is the evidence that people are going to associate a dismal economy with Obama?
Over half of them still blame George W. Bush.
And how, by the way, was that permitted to happen?
That's a whole nother discussion.
How in the world does that stick?
That the economy, after four years of specific Obama policies that have damaged the economy.
How is it that every Obama voter blames Bush?
Including their elites, including their smarter than everybody else professors, including their smarter than everybody else, Hollywood, they believe that.
As well as their rank and file voters.
They believe it.
It doesn't hurt that Obama continues to blame you in in our America.
It is unpresidential to act like a baby and blame your predecessor.
In our America, you man up, you take responsibility.
You face problems head on and you try to fix them.
The sad reality is that there is no attempt to fix what's going wrong in this country.
And by blaming George W. Bush for it, Obama is given Cart Blanc to continue his policies of damage.
Obama is hellbent on remaking this country.
We're in the middle of it.
We're four years into a transformation of this government becoming statist.
Liberty versus tyranny.
We're four years into tyranny winning.
And guess what?
No matter what happens now, it's Bush's fault.
Obama's getting a mulligan.
Obama's getting a do-over.
Over half the people that voted, that's how they're looking at it.
It's not theory anymore.
That's the reality we face.
The reality we face is that what's real isn't.
And what isn't real is.
Well, you are free to disagree with me on this.
I welcome it.
I'd love to be talked out of this.
We have to face facts, folks.
We have to f if if if a hurricane can literally end a presidential campaign or destroy it, or do uh unfixable damage.
A, the hurricane arrives.
B, the president shows up for two hours, then lets a photo out in the situation where it's apparently studying it.
I know you can't throw the Chris Christie thing out there.
That's major.
If we're dealing with an electorate that can be moved by something genuinely as meaningless in substantive terms as that.
Then we're Living in the brave new world.
And we've been trending in this direction.
Symbolism over substance.
Bill Clinton.
Hello, thank you very much.
You know what?
I didn't get that phone call in.
I honestly intended to, folks.
I really did.
I really meant to get a phone call in here.
But when you make as much sense as I do, you just keep going.
The Associated Press said that this nation is more racist today than it was in 2008.
AP, that's been a theme of theirs.
We're more racist today, 2008.
Yet we just gave the first African-American president a mulligan.
We just gave him a do-over.
What a racist nation this is.
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