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Nov. 7, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 7, 2012, Wednesday, Hour #2
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And greetings, my friends, and welcome back.
Great to have you, Rush Limbaugh and the Excellence in Broadcasting Network, still the nation's most listen to radio talk show.
And I've offered my chair today to anybody who wants to sit in it.
And nobody does.
I've offered the opportunity to speak to 50 million people.
Nobody wants to sit in this chair.
I'm happy to do it.
Great to have you, folks, as always.
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We have to face some truths.
We have to face some reality.
We are outnumbered and we are losing ground.
This was not a glitch.
This is the trend that happened last night.
This is the trend.
We are outnumbered.
Whether you want to put it in terms of have we lost the country or not, there's no other explanation.
I don't care if there are more Republicans who didn't vote.
Why didn't they?
I don't want to talk about the people that didn't vote.
That just means we didn't get our vote out.
I don't want to talk about election strategy.
I want to talk about the results.
You have to face them.
We are outnumbered.
We're losing ground.
It's difficult to beat Santa Claus.
I'm just gonna have a brief review here of the first hour.
It's impossible to beat Santa Claus, especially when your alternative is that you have to be your own Santa Claus.
We have totally allowed the understanding of what creates wealth and what creates prosperity in this country be distorted.
We have allowed it to be misdefined, redefined, we have allowed wealth and achievement to become negatives.
We have permitted prosperity, hard work to become things that are sneered at and said to be not for everybody.
We've allowed this.
It's been happening, and we have said all the while it's been going on, the American people are never gonna believe that stuff.
But the left has been relentless for decades pushing this.
I also want to rephrase or not rephrase, restraint my restate my uh a couple of questions from the first hour.
Because there's all kind of Monday morning quarterbacking going on.
I'm not doing that.
I'm telling you what is.
And of course, predictable voices on the Republican side.
Well, we're gonna have to get serious now about Hispanic outreach.
And I have to get serious now about reaching out to women, and we're gonna get serious reaching out to the uh uh uh uh youth voter if it gets serious.
Okay, what does that mean?
Let's go to our convention.
We put forth some of the most accomplished minorities this country has to offer.
We have the Republican Party has more elected Hispanics serving in office than the Democrat Party has.
And yet, what is said about Republicans?
Racist, sexist, bigots, homophobes that discriminate, and so forth.
Why does putting Condoleezza Rice front and center at the convention not work?
Why does putting Marco Rubio front and center convention not work?
Why does putting Suzanne Martinez, the governor of New Mexico front and center convention not work?
Why does putting Mia Love, who sadly lost, one of the most accomplished, achieved, decent people in this country.
She's African American, she's running for the House in Utah.
She's the mayor of Saratoga Springs.
She lost.
Not only...
Are we trying to get credit for it?
Is it seen as disingenuous to people not believe that really we like Conneliza Reisha's throwing her out there, she's a token.
They must.
It doesn't work.
It doesn't help us with the African American vote.
In fact, back when she was Secretary of State, look at what liberal cartoonists got away with with their caricatures of her.
Aunt Jemima Step and Fetchett.
They did cartoons caricaturing every racial physical stereotype.
They treated her like an animal.
And Alan West, a decorated man of the United States Army, a hero, member of Congress from here, down in South Florida.
One of the most achieved, accomplished, decent human beings.
Look at how he's treated.
Look at Clarence Thomas.
Look at how they're all treated by the parties supposedly of tolerance, love and compassion.
Every minority or woman who is a conservative is targeted for destruction.
We have done the reach out.
We have done everything they quote unquote say we should do to show that we're not just the white guy's party.
Why doesn't it work, folks?
Serious question.
Why doesn't it work?
Is it seen as not genuine?
Is it seen as tokenism?
Is it seen as what?
Everything about these people is real.
She was Secretary of State.
She was the provost of Stanford.
She was.
This is key.
Every one of these people that I'm talking about that had a prominent role at our convention had something in common.
A traditional.
The traditional American story up from nothing.
Parents who sacrificed and gave up a lot so that their kids could be something.
Sneered at, laughed at.
Didn't count.
Doesn't work.
Look at what happened to Mitt Romney.
Mitt Romney, one of the most decent.
I I it's it's impossible to exaggerate what a great man Mitt Romney is.
What a great family he has, how great he would have been at this time for this country.
It's impossible to exaggerate it.
And yet, the people that voted for Barack Obama believe he allowed a man's wife to die because he didn't care.
They believe that he is a felon.
They believe he's not paying his taxes.
The left gets away with every lie, every smear.
Why?
We are going to have to come up with answers to this.
And we are going to have to realize at the same time that the antidote to what is happening in this country is happy, confident, full-fledged, unapologetic conservatism.
The Republican Party still has not tried it.
But that is for another day.
But I want to get that out there.
Here's Marco Rudio Rubio's excerpt from his statement following the Obama victory.
In the next Congress, I am committed to working on upward mobility policies that will ensure people who work hard and play by the rules can rise above the circumstances of their birth and leave their children better off.
I'm sorry, the people who voted for Barack Obama aren't interested.
That doesn't reach them.
Why not?
Marco Rubio can write the book on how to achieve prosperity, how to achieve wealth, how to succeed in this country.
Why?
Is he rejected?
I know he won the election for his sentence, but I mean, his story at the Republican convention.
You watch Rubio's name now vaults to the top of 2016 potentials.
You watch and see what the left will start doing to Marco Rubio.
And that genuine traditional American story that is his is going to be impugned, besmirched, criticized, lied about, distorted.
Because the one thing the Democrat Party and the one thing the media in this country will not allow to happen is an ideological contest.
They will lose every time there is one.
They will lose every time there is one.
I don't correct me if I'm wrong.
At any point in this campaign, did somebody come out and say Obama's a liberal?
Did Romney or did they say that?
If they did, it wasn't very often.
Most often he's a nice guy, he just don't know what he's doing.
He said, Really, he's a good guy.
He's a good man.
He just doesn't know.
Sorry, folks, but that's not gonna work.
Well, Rush calling him a mean guy, though, because these people love it.
Um the truth is something that we're losing here.
We had better try it at some point.
Fear of the truth is only causing us to lose.
Fear of the truth is only causing us to be outnumbered.
And no truth on Obama's side of this.
And no truth to Obama's speech last night.
There was no truth in his campaign.
There's no truth to what his people believe.
They believe in a mirage.
They believe in an image.
They're voting for Santa Claus.
They believe in an image.
Not only are they voting for Santa Claus, they think they're entitled to a daily visit from Santa Claus.
They've been told this country's unfair, unjust, and immoral to them, and always has been.
That's Obama's great reach to them.
He's the guy that's gonna fix all this inequality and all this discrimination and all the disadvantages and all the unfairness that this country is visited upon these various people.
He's Santa Claus.
What's our message?
Yeah, we believe in Santa Claus too.
You're it.
Prosperity, you work hard, that's how you achieve it.
Oh gosh, what's what's the choice?
Working hard or get an Obama phone.
You're unemployed for four years in this country.
You have a cell phone, a TV, a car, and you're eating.
What's the problem?
Seriously, what's the problem?
Unless you have an ethic about you, a sense of responsibility to yourself and to your family, a sense of civic duties is you've got to get a job.
Unless you're a person who does not define who you are by virtue of your work or partially by your work.
What's the problem?
There's your flat screen, there's your phone, there's your 120 free minutes on what you're gonna get for it, and there's your unemployment compensation bumped up.
And uh your food stamps, what's the problem?
These are real circumstances, folks.
I and I you you can say, Well, how do you be so unkind and cruel to me?
I'm not, I'm just telling you what is.
And we are trending, we're trending to the do you realize that Obama's message is that the people who are making it possible for him to be Santa Claus aren't working hard enough?
You realize Obama's message is not only am I Santa Claus, but the people who are making all this possible still aren't paying their fair share.
While you're out there doing nothing, they still aren't paying their fair share.
It's not I'm still gonna come out, I'm gonna raise their taxes.
I'm still gonna come in.
It's just not right that they had and you doctors, your next.
When everybody figures out the ultimate damage that Obamacare is going to Do to the health industry, to medical care, to insurance to all this.
It won't be long.
In fact, it may be happening in various places already.
Why should somebody get wealthy for treating the sick?
We have an inherent right to good health.
We have a inherent right to health care.
What does that mean?
Health care equals good health.
We have a right.
Why should somebody get richer?
Why, why, why are it's not right, it's not fair.
Not everybody can be a doctor.
Why should they do so well?
This is the stuff that's coming.
It's all part of resentment.
We're all part of the resentment for achievement for success.
So, Rubio, the conservative movement should have particular appeal to people in minority and immigrant communities who are trying to make it.
And Republicans need to work harder than ever to communicate our beliefs to that's true.
We do need to take a conservative message to them.
At the same time, we need to show them it works.
We need to show them there is a payoff to hard work.
And that oftentimes it's not just financial.
There is satisfaction, the sense of achievement, the maximizing of a person's potential, being the best you can be.
Do you realize not one iota of Obama's message is oriented toward greatness or excellence in the individual?
It's a wide open opportunity for us.
We just have very few people on our side able to articulate it right now.
But hopefully that will change.
Let's take a break, okay, and I promise your phone calls on the other side.
Don't go away.
Say what you want, folks.
Mitt Romney did offer a vision of greatness, a vision of traditional America, a vision of an American recovery and return to prominence.
He did that in his own way.
But he did it in his own way.
That's what he was talking about.
And it was rejected.
It was rejected in favor of a guy who thinks those who are working aren't doing enough to help those who aren't.
Hypothetical question.
Let's say Mitt Romney won last night.
And let's say today that Mitt Romney is out and he does his press conference and ask him about the economy, and he said, Well, you know, we really have a much worse mess here because of George Bush than I even thought.
Would he get away?
Would Mid Romney be allowed to get away with blaming George Bush?
Even though Romney hasn't been in charge of anything for four years, would Mitt Romney be allowed to blame Bush?
Would Mitt Romney be given a pass?
No, he wouldn't have.
Barack Obama, after four years of destructive, specifically destructive economic policies is still, it's in the exit polls.
Over half of Americans blame Bush.
It would never even occur to Mitt Romney to blame a predecessor.
And if he tried it, the press would be all over him and wouldn't let him get away with it.
The AP.
Last week, recurring story.
America more racist in 2012 than it was in 2008.
So much more racist that we're giving the first African American president who is a failure a mulligan.
And according to some in the media, precisely because he's black.
That's what a good nation we are.
We just the voters of America just can't bring themselves to say no to the first black president.
So we're gonna reward mediocrity.
We're gonna reward failure.
We're gonna reward it because that makes us good people.
Okay, Ted in uh in Annapolis, Maryland, your first on the phone, thank you for waiting.
I Appreciate that.
Thanks for taking my call, Rush.
You bet.
I agree with everything you're saying.
But uh there's one thing I'm not hearing, and that's uh also the fear of change or fear of the hard choices we have as a country.
I mean, you know, we got a mess in our economy and the debt we're standing on, and we've got to make choices.
Not exactly like Greece, but it's gonna be a little bit of pain for everybody.
Whether it's, you know, the reform of the tax code or just restructuring Medicare.
You know, everybody's gonna have to put a little bit in.
And I think there's some fear in people.
No.
For the people who voted for Obama, they aren't going to have to put a little in.
There will not be any pain for them.
That's what voting for Obama means.
Voting for Obama means ending the pain for them.
Obama is gonna make others feel the pain.
Those Obama voters aren't afraid of anything.
They're afraid of him losing.
Their fear is rooted in Romney's solution to our problem, which is you know what?
We're gonna have to put people back to work.
American hard work and ingenuity, that's what they don't want to hear.
That's what scares them.
Obama washes away their fear.
Everybody else is gonna have to do it.
Not them.
That's the message.
He's Santa Claus.
It's the rich that aren't paying their fair share.
The rich that are gonna have to pay a little bit more.
It's the rich that didn't build that.
Obama's people.
They built everything necessary for the rich to get rich, and then the rich aren't sharing enough of it.
But now they will.
That's what voting for Obama means.
Let's look at this.
Women and Latinos, Hispanics, and young skulls full of mush all came in big for Obama and his policies are crushing them.
Particularly in terms of unemployment, but it didn't matter.
Obama's female unemployment all-time high in this country.
But they're gonna get their birth control pills.
Who would have ever believed?
You know that uh so Tucker Carlson last night on Fox, it was talking about radio ads.
Obama was running in Pennsylvania.
All on abortion.
Single women in this country were actually moved to vote for Obama because they thought Romney's gonna take abortion away from him.
They actually made to believe that.
Romney couldn't, there's no president who can.
That doesn't matter.
And I gotta take the chance.
The truth and reality and the Constitution doesn't matter.
Stunning.
You have Obama's policies are crushing women, young people.
Look at student loan debt, look at the lack of jobs, look at the cost of college tuition.
Obama's making everything worse.
Why?
Ditto Hispanics and their unemployment.
And he didn't even come through for them on immigration.
And they still showed up.
Why?
Women voted Obama 55 to 43 for Romney.
Massive gender gap.
Unchanged from 2008.
Unmarried women backed Obama 68% to 30%.
They thought Romney's gonna take away their birth control pills.
Obama treats them like vaginas, and they say he's my man.
Go figure.
Obama won the Ute vote, 24-point margin.
Overall turnout of young voters was up over 2008.
Even the Democrats thought it was gonna be down.
71% Latino vote for Obama.
That's the worst any Republican has gotten since modern polling began.
And it's a growing Democrat.
71% of Latino votes.
So what are we to do?
Do we come out for amnesty and illegal immigration?
No.
Is that how we get them?
I'm asking.
I'm not being rhetorical.
Do we start passing out birth control pills?
I'm asking not rhetorically.
I mean, this is, I mean, this is this is what is what it said the Democrats are doing to get their votes.
So what do we do?
People who think this way and vote this way outnumber us now, folks.
And we are losing ground, and we have a political party that's more than happy to capitalize on this however you want to characterize these people.
Their lack of knowledge, their uh their their fear, their susceptibility to being victim, whatever you want to say, that they're more than willing.
The Democrat Party is more than willing to destroy the traditions and institutions that have defined this nation's greatness, doesn't matter what it takes.
Doesn't matter what they end up doing to people's lives.
Because at the end of it, they're all going to have a phone, a TV set, a car, and uh 120 free minutes and food stamps.
No matter how bad it gets, they're gonna be able to watch TV and eat and get around and text their buddies.
It used to be when you were unemployed, that stuff came to a screeching halt.
Including eating.
Isaac, Spring Valley, New York.
Great to have you on the EIB Network.
Yes, hello, Rush.
How are you?
Very well, sir.
Thanks for the call.
Um I can't bel I can't agree with you more, but one thing um just to put into perspective is that last night we were telling people, basically the Democrats to stand up to take responsibility and throw out a guy office.
And I think people won't make that choice when they already have a guy, and we would have had a better chance if it would have been Romney against Obama in 08.
Um it's my hearing.
I'm not sure that I got it.
Um you say we were we were telling people that the democra well what would you say that again?
What were we telling?
I mean we were telling we were telling people to like stand up and take responsibility and take and start cutting back on taxes and deficits, and we were telling people to also to throw out a president.
So those two things we're going against the odds, and I do think we've had a much better opportunity if um we would have been in the first term and let me see if I understand what you're saying is that it's a tough thing to tell people, hey, stand up, take responsibility for yourself.
That's that's that's tough sell.
That's my point.
Santa Claus or that.
And then your point is at the same time we're doing that, we're asking to throw away Santa Claus.
Is that what you're saying?
Correct.
And one more thing, Rush.
Can I make another point?
Yeah.
Um, we just got to thank you last night.
I just can't imagine how much more I gotta thank you because there is a changing tide in the country turning from turning liberal, and the only thing that protected us that we still have 49 people coming out, 49 million people voting for Romney was you and you were exposing conservatism and preaching them.
And I think that's the only hope that why we're still around.
Well, I appreciate your saying that.
I I um look, that I I do appreciate you saying that, but there are certainly additional reasons uh beyond me.
I mean, people are what they are, and I mean, if the w this nation still has tremendous number of patriots, still has a tremendous number of just traditional, good-hearted, decent Americans.
They don't need me to be that way.
They are, but I appreciate your Your kind words.
I really do.
You know, I watched um I was up late last night, like maybe most of you are watched Sarah Palin.
She was on with Greta late.
You know what?
I'd say she was right on the money.
She just she could not believe what had happened.
I mean, we here we we just elected somebody that's destroying the domestic energy sector of this country.
We just it's the things that she thought would magically work.
Energy independence, drill for our own oil, uh, become independent from foreign sources and and therefore tumult and chaos in the Middle East, other parts of the world where we get oil didn't matter.
And there's a reason why it doesn't matter.
Because no matter what, Obama's gonna make sure they've got gas, unless there's a hurricane.
But all he has to do then is go out and get bear hugged by one of the most so-called partisan Republicans in the country, and look, he's bipartisan president.
He really does want to work with the other side.
There's one Republican that's nice and wants to work with him.
And he goes back, he's in two hours max on the ground and gets full credit for caring and fixing it.
What is this gonna do to Chris Christie?
I don't know yet.
I don't know what it's gonna do to um Chris Christie.
And I don't think anybody else at this point knows what the long-term effects are gonna be, because there will be other events that are gonna happen that will give him a chance to fix it or make it worse.
Well, let me just ask you.
Have you seen anybody in the media or and I'm I haven't, but I'm I might have missed it, and I'm I'm asking because I generally wouldn't have you seen anybody blaming Christie for Romney losing?
I'm seeing them blame the hurricane.
I am seeing them blame the hurricane for destroying Romney's momentum.
But are you seeing any Republicans or anybody in the media blame Christie for Rom?
Well yeah.
Well, I conversations everywhere where it's unforgivable what he did.
Yeah, but that's something that we're we don't know.
Time will tell on that.
I appreciate the call.
Thanks again very much, and we'll be right back.
Don't go away.
Okay, folks, so I'm watching Fox here during the break.
You know what I just heard?
Doug Schoen, who is uh a Democrat polster who in recent years has shown a proclivity to side with Republicans.
Be that as it may.
You what I just heard Doug Schoen say the Republican Party has not shown an inclination to be inclusive in order to join with people to solve the nation's problems.
The Republican Party has not shown the inclination to be inclusive.
Now, what in the Sam Hill does that mean?
We are to infer that Obama and the Democrats are inclusive.
What does that mean?
The Democrats are inclusive.
Let's see, Obama has not talked to Boehner or the Republicans since July.
Obama is not inclusive.
He is exclusive when it comes to accepting Republican ideas to solve problems.
He is dismissive.
He impugns the Republicans have an idea.
He says, too bad I won.
That's his right.
He can do that.
My point is, Obama's not inclusive, but it's thought that he is.
The Republicans have more Hispanic elected officials than than the Democrats do.
The Republicans, you saw our convention.
Republicans want success for everybody.
Conservatives want everybody to be the best they can be.
And Doug Schoen hasn't seen any evidence of our inclusiveness.
I'm sorry, folks.
I that that is just blatantly false.
Untrue, but it's out there.
The Republicans have, I don't know how much outreach they've done to try to show that they're inclusive.
Romney's whole campaign.
His whole campaign was built around the fact that he was for everybody.
He wanted to help every family.
But Doug Schoen hasn't seen any evidence of Republicans' inclination to be inclusive.
What does that mean?
We're not for gay marriage.
Does that mean that we don't want to pass out bird control pills?
Does that mean that we're not for taxpayer funded abortions?
Does that mean we're not for amnesty for illegal aliens?
Inclusive.
Robin, Evansville, Indiana.
Hi, great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi, Megadidos Rush.
How are you?
I'm great.
Thanks very much.
As a woman and a Republican woman, as a matter of fact, I just entirely discussed it with women not coming out too well for Mitt Romney.
How could you not want to move our country in the right direction instead of going backwards?
Uh well, you see, that we're getting to the rub of it here.
Apparently, for the women who voted for Obama, he is taking the country in the right direction as far as they're concerned, and the right direction for them is making sure that Republicans don't take away their birth control pills or their right to have an abortion.
And I'm not exaggerating.
It's what the exit polls show.
Well, it's crazy to believe that.
It's crazy to believe that they could do that or would do that.
It's it's cr for you and me, it's crazy to believe that anything Obama does works.
We're living in the midst of it not working.
We're living in the absolute destruction and failure of this economy in this country.
Exactly.
As a woman, how can you not notice when you go to the grocery store that the prices of food's gone up?
No, no, no, no, no.
Price food doesn't matter.
It's that the next time they go to the grocery store, the birth control pills might not be there if Romney is elected.
Oh, too bad.
Figure out a way to pay for your own birth control.
There are free clinics still in this country.
It's not their job to provide their own birth control.
That's the purpose of government.
And that's what Obama is going to ensure that whenever they have it and want it, they're gonna get it.
That's not how it works.
God helps those who help themselves.
Well, I know it's not how it works, but um that's who those we are outnumbered now by people who think that way, Robin.
This is what we've got we can sit here and lament all day why they think what they think.
The fact is they do.
Well, I used to think that way at one time.
Well, what changed you?
I married a very conservative man.
Well, he in the car will be.
Well, see, you're you're letting a man run your life.
You've already let women down.
See, that's right, you don't count.
No, not necessarily.
He started he was with me.
I'm telling you the way they think.
I'm telling you the way Gloria Snydon thinks.
You're an embarrassment to sisterhood.
Oh, Jesus.
What do you mean your husband determines what you think?
How could you say that?
You celebrated.
I'm not ready.
I mean, you think it's funny, I'm telling you this is who they are.
Oh, I know it's who they are, and I'm ashamed of how they are.
I'm scared of how they are.
I am too.
It's fears to be able to do that.
Because I don't know the way they are.
I don't know how to reach these people.
I do not know Rush, I'd be a millionaire.
Uh uh shudder to think what they think of me.
I mean, I'm right behind Romney and taking stuff away from them as far as they're concerned.
Oh, well, you're the antichrist sometimes, Rush, that's what they think of you.
Exactly.
I'm not sure crazy at first, too, until I started really listening to you, and I'm like, well, he's right.
He's right at what he says.
He's not what he says.
Guy on the radio can ruin their life.
And only the president of the United States can save them.
As far as they're concerned.
But anyway, that's that's um that's who voted for the guy, folks.
That's I've got it's right.
It's here in the exit poll data.
I shared it with you at the top of the program.
I mean, we he got a majority of votes from people who think he far and away much better in an international crisis.
Uh Libya, Benghazi, Arab Spring.
I know.
The media didn't tell the story.
That's another thing, too.
That's but that's what it is as well.
You sit here and cry over that all we want, but it's that's what we're dealing with.
And we're outnumbered by these people now.
That's hard cold reality.
Folks, there is another explanation for this.
Uh voting machines, all of them are rigged.
The exit polling is BS.
George Soros planned all of that to support the results.
Uh and he just let a couple Republicans win house races to make it look like he didn't rig everything.
That's a possibility, too.
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