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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 listened-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, and nobody wants to sit in this chair.
I'm happy to do it.
Great to have you, folks.
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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 going to give 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 to 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 going to believe that stuff.
But the left has been relentless for decades pushing this.
I also want to rephrase, or not rephrase, restate a couple of questions from the first hour because there's all kinds 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 going to have to get serious now about Hispanic outreach.
And we have to get serious now about reaching out to women.
And we have to get serious about reaching out to the youth voter.
We have to get 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?
Racists, sexists, 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 at the 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.
lost, not only are we trying to get credit for it, is it seen as disingenuous to people People not believe that really we like Connollies Reichshurst 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 fetch it.
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 party 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.
And every, 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.
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 senator, 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.
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's just, I don't know what he's doing.
He's really, he's a good guy.
He's a good man.
He just doesn't know.
Sorry, folks, but that's not going to work.
Well, we're just calling him a mean guy because his people love him.
Folks, 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.
There's no truth on Obama's side of this.
There's 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.
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 is unfair, unjust, and immoral to them.
It always has been.
That's Obama's great reach to them.
He's the guy that's going to fix all this inequality and all this discrimination and all the disadvantages and all the unfairness that this country has visited upon these various people.
He's Santa Claus.
What's our message?
We believe in Santa Claus too.
You're it.
Prosperity, you work hard.
That's how you achieve it.
Oh, gosh.
What's the choice?
Working hard or getting 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 your family, a sense of civic duties as 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 to get for it, and there's your unemployment compensation bumped up, and there's your food stamps.
What's the problem?
These are real circumstances, folks.
And you could say, oh, how do you be so unkind and cruel?
I'm not.
I'm just telling you what is.
And we are trending.
We are 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 going to come.
I'm going to raise their taxes.
I'm still going to come in.
It's just not right that they.
And you doctors, you're 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 an inherent right to health care.
What does that mean?
Health care equals good health.
We have a right.
Why should somebody get rich?
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.
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.
You may not have thought it was the best way to do it, 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.
Question.
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 asks 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 Mitt 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 going to reward mediocrity.
We're going to reward failure.
We're going to reward it because that makes us good people.
Okay, Ted in Annapolis, Maryland, you're 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 there's one thing I'm not here in, and that's 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 going to be a little bit of pain for everybody, whether it's, you know, the reform of the tax code or restructuring Medicare.
You know, everybody's going to have to put a little bit in.
And I know there's some fear in people.
No.
You know, I know.
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 going to 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 going to 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 going to 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 going to 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 going to get their birth control pills.
Who would have ever believed?
You know, Tucker Carlson last night in Fox.
He 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 is going to take abortion away from him.
They actually made to believe that.
Romney couldn't.
There's no president who can.
It doesn't matter.
I've got to take the chance.
The truth and reality in 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.
These people showed up in droves.
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 is going to take away their birth control pills.
Obama treats them like vaginas, and they say he's my man.
Go figure.
Obama won the UT vote, 24-point margin.
Overall turnout of young voters was up over 2008.
Even the Democrats thought it was going to 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 now?
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 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 fear, their susceptibility to being victim, whatever you want to say.
They're more than willing.
The Democratic 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 120 free minutes and food stamps.
No matter how bad it gets, they're going to 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.
Hello.
Yes, hello, Rush.
How are you?
Very well, sir.
Thanks for the call.
I can't agree with you more, but one thing, just to put it into perspective, is that last night we were telling people, basically the Democrats, to stand up to take responsibility and throw out a guy off.
And I think people will 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.
It's my hearing.
I'm not sure that I got it.
You say we were telling people that the Democrat, what would you say that again?
What were we telling you?
We were telling people to stand up and take responsibility and start cutting back on taxes and deficits.
And we were telling people also to throw out a president.
So those two things, we're going against the odds.
And I do think we would have had a much better opportunity if we would have been in the first term.
Well, 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 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.
We just got to thank you last night.
I just can't imagine how much more I got to thank you because there is a changing tide in the country 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.
Look, I do appreciate you saying that, but there are certainly additional reasons beyond me.
I mean, people are what they are.
I mean, this nation still has a 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 kind words.
I really do.
You know, I watched, I was up late last night, like maybe most of you are.
I watched Sarah Palin.
She was on with Greta late.
You know what?
She was right on the money.
She just, she could not believe what had happened.
I mean, here we just elected somebody that's destroying the domestic energy sector of this country.
We just, it's, and the things that she thought would magically work, energy independence, drill for our own oil, become independent from foreign sources 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 going to make sure they've got gasoline, 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 going to do to Chris Christie?
I don't know yet.
I don't know what it's going to do to Chris Christie.
And I don't think anybody else at this point knows what the long-term effects are going to be because there will be other events that are going to 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 haven't, but I might have missed it.
And I'm asking because I generally want to, 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 conversations everywhere where it's unforgivable what he did?
Yeah, but that's something that we don't know.
Time will tell him that.
I appreciate the call.
Thanks again very much.
And we'll be right back.
Don't go away.
Okay, folks, I'm watching Fox here during the break.
You know what I just heard?
Doug Schoen, who is a Democrat pollster who in recent years has shown a proclivity to side with Republicans.
Be that as it may.
You know 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 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.
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 birth 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, Megan Dido-Rush.
How are you?
I'm great.
Thanks very much.
As a woman and a Republican woman, as a matter of fact, I just am totally disgusted with women not coming out to O-Permit Romney.
How could you not want to move our country in the right direction instead of going backwards?
Well, you see, 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.
It could do that.
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, 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.
No, no, 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 going to get it.
That's not how it works.
God helps those who help themselves.
Well, I know it's not how it works, but that's who those.
We are outnumbered now by people who think that way, Robin.
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, in the car.
See, you're letting a man run your life.
You've already let women down.
See, that's why you don't count.
No, not necessarily.
He started, he was listening to me.
I'm telling you the way they think.
I'm telling you the way Gloria Steinem thinks.
You're an embarrassment to sisterhood.
What do you mean your husband determines what you think?
How could you say that?
I'm not.
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 fair to say that they are.
I don't know how to reach these people.
I do not know.
I'd be a millionaire.
I shudder to think what they think of me.
I mean, I'm right behind Romney and taking stuff away from him as far as they're concerned.
Oh, well, you're the Antichrist sometimes, Rush.
That's what they think of you.
Exactly.
I thought you were 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.
I don't imagine a guy in what he says.
A 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 who voted for the guy, folks.
It's here in the exit poll data.
I shared it with you at the top of the program.
I mean, he got a majority of votes from people who think he far and away much better in an international crisis.
Libya, Benghazi, Arab Spring.
I know the media didn't tell the story.
That's another thing, too.
But that's what it is as well.
We sit here and cry over that all we want, but 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.
Voting machines, all of them are rigged.
The exit polling is BS.
George Soros planned all of that to support the results.
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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