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Nov. 7, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 7, 2012, Wednesday, Hour #3
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Hey, folks, I know you're in shock.
I know you don't believe this.
I know you don't understand it, despite my heroic efforts to explain this.
And I'm with you.
Look, I lived through the last two months with you.
I know exactly what was going on.
Let us review, shall we?
Let's take a look at some things.
First, we had the Redskin rule.
Didn't count this year.
We had the rising unemployment number throughout the Obama regime, even though it got under 8% right before the election.
The unemployment situation in this country is a disaster.
There aren't any jobs being created.
There certainly aren't any good ones, and there's no end in sight to what currently is going on.
Mitt Romney was at 52% a week ago in the Gallup poll.
Mitt Romney was up by five or six points for three or four or five days in a row.
Obama never got 250 until the day before the election, never got to 50.
The crowd turnouts, standing room only, had to change venues for Romney.
Obama can't fill tiny venues.
He had to move his convention speech from outdoors to indoors because they couldn't round up people to fill the stadium.
They had to move indoors in Las Vegas, couldn't find people to fill the outdoor stadium, 20,000 there.
The last day on the trail is in Ohio.
He's got Bruce Springsteen.
He's got Jay-Z, half-filled arena.
There's all the anecdotal evidence, all the energy that was with Romney, all of the dead signs of resigned resignation, sorry, resignation and defeat that accompanied Obama.
And we had the black pastor say, way to hell, we're voting for this guy, this guy.
We don't believe in gay marriage.
We don't like the fact Obama's linking homosexuality to the civil rights movement.
We're not voting for him.
And we're having all of our parishioners not vote for him.
And we had the religious efforts on the Romney side.
Of course, I don't know that that materialized.
I haven't been able to find out what the evangelical vote turned out to be.
But there was nothing that pointed to an Obama win other than the polls, which showed it tied, other than Obama constantly at 48%.
And other than those polls and the media, there were no external fundamental signs that Obama was going to win.
Then you dig deep in the exit polls.
And according to the exit polls, only four in 10 voters thought the economy is getting better and they voted for Obama.
What?
Scratch your head.
According to the exit polls, in addition to that, just 25% of voters thought they're better off financially today than they were four years ago, and they still voted for Obama.
And then Hurricane Sandy.
Obama gets credit for showing up with Chris Christie, and that is said what won the election for him.
It's what killed Romney's momentum.
That's what everybody said.
An hour and a half, two hours, max in New Jersey on the ground, accomplishing nothing with no improvement anywhere in New Jersey or New York for anybody, and Obama is said to get credit for fixing it.
No president has ever been re-elected with an unemployment number over 7.2%.
64% of all voters said that Obama's response to the devastation from Superstorm Sandy was a factor in their vote.
64%, according to the exit polls.
None of this makes sense.
None of this jibes with the feelings.
No, I take it back.
Before the election, my thoughts, when I would think about this, and I told you this on election, there's no way Obama wins this, but my feeling, I felt concerned.
You can ask anybody.
You can ask my brother.
I had people telling me, asking me Monday and Tuesday, please tell me we're going to win this big, please.
And I didn't.
I never privately told anybody I thought we're going to win this big.
But I'm like you.
Last night, watching all this stuff come in, it doesn't jibe with anything we saw.
And yet it happened.
So there has to be a reason for it.
I don't subscribe to massive multiple state voting machine fraud or any of that.
That's just too big an undertaking.
And if that is what happened, I don't know how we're ever going to go there.
I do believe, however, I can intellectually believe that we're outnumbered by the people that voted for Obama.
He turned them out.
I mean, there's no, there is no denying he turned them out.
There's no denying the way they voted.
A lot of it doesn't make sense until, until you accept that we have allowed the understanding of what creates prosperity in this country to be blown up into smithereens.
We have permitted the education system in this country to be blown up to smithereens, kindergarten all the way through graduate school.
It is a disaster.
Now, what's going to happen?
Well, let me go through the list of possibilities here of what can happen in the country.
And in no particular order, by the way.
One thing that could happen is that the economy could continue to get worse as more Obamacare is implemented and Obama gets his tax increases.
The Bush tax cuts will end, and that will lead to tax increases anyway.
That will result in more money being taken out of the private sector.
The government will get bigger.
Obama will continue to borrow.
He will continue to spend.
He'll continue to provide for people.
The people on the receiving end of Obama's Santa Claus behavior will not necessarily feel the negative impact of the economy as those of you who are working or recently lost their jobs or those of you paying the freight will feel.
And it will continue and continue until it collapses.
It could happen in 18 months.
It could happen in three years.
But if nothing changes the track we are on, we are facing a financial collapse.
And as we've seen in Greece and Spain, the people that live there don't care that their countries are collapsing.
Just want their pensions and they want their checks and they want their union contracts to continue to be paid.
They don't care what's happening to their government.
They don't care what's happening to the country.
They don't care who's paying for it.
By God, it better not stop.
Same thing will happen here.
There's another possibility.
The American people are extremely resilient.
The question is, are there enough Americans who will roll up their sleeves?
You know what?
I'm just not putting up with this.
I'm going to go ahead.
I'm going to start a business.
I'm going to work hard.
I'm going to try to find a job.
And will the economy, on its own, because of the resilience of the American people, show some signs of life and begin to recover?
If that happens, can I tell you what else is going to happen?
Obama's policies are going to get the credit for it.
All the spending, all the borrowing, all the stimulus, all the green energy, all that stuff will be proclaimed as the reason why.
And we will continue to lose the understanding of how genuine prosperity is created in this country.
It will be forever distorted.
Investors Business Daily has a piece today, five big stories the media will discover after the election.
And there is a commonality, the second terms, presidential second terms, and that is they never fulfill expectations.
Something happens.
It happened to Reagan, Iran Contrary.
It happened to Clinton, Monica Lewinsky.
It happened to George W. Bush.
Finally, the Iraq war took its toll, and you know the story of the last four Bush years.
Bush started his second term saying he was going to spend his capital to reform and privatize Social Security, and you saw what happened with that.
They demagogued that.
Bush pulled it off the table, and a whole new argument began over the government is the best protector of people.
You can't rely on the private sector at Wall Street, and you can't have people respond to themselves or depend on themselves.
The government has to do it.
Nixon had Watergate in his second term.
It is also said that the media could possibly get tired of protecting and defending Obama and now go after him just because that's who they are.
That they're vampires and they have to feed.
And there's only so many Republicans to feed off of now.
Most of them are gone.
Well, I know they got me, but it's a long shot.
I'm just telling you, these are things that are possible.
Benghazi is going to rear its head.
Benghazi and these blissfully ignorant voters who are totally unaware of it last night are going to finally hear about this.
But then the question, will they care?
Probably not, folks.
Not the Obama voters.
They probably won't care if they don't care about anything else.
But the five stories Investors Business Daily says the media will discover, quote unquote, the economy really does stink.
The press studiously ignored the ongoing economic catastrophe under Obama while parading any green shoot they could find that suggested growth was just around the corner.
Don't be surprised if after the election they start to notice that the three years of subpar growth have left the middle class further behind and more mired in poverty.
That's wishful thinking.
The press has invested in this guy.
The press is so tied to this guy because of race.
There's no way.
I stand to be corrected on this, but I mean, the press made this guy who he is, but normally press likes to take people down that they've built up.
Do you see them taking Obama down?
Do you see F. Chuck Todd ripping into Obama?
You see Chris Matthews ripping into Obama?
You see Scott Pelley ripping into it?
You see Brian Williams ripping into Obama?
No, they're going to be ripping into me.
Make no mistake about that.
By the way, it won't take the end of this week, folks.
I'm going to be, not Chris Christie, I'm going to be the reason all this happened.
Just warning you.
I will be the reason.
And it'll be said: if a Republican Party wants to have a future, they have to shut up people like me and stop listening to people like me, LA extremists.
In fact, it has already started in certain sectors of the Republican consultants' ranks.
It's already started.
Number two on the Investor's Business Daily list of stories they'll discover: massive debt and entitlement crises loom.
Despite four straight years of trillion-plus-dollar deficits and a national debt that now exceeds the GDP, you know, you think anybody voted for Obama even knows what that means.
If you could have gone to the McCormick Place last night, before Obama came out, accepted his speech, his victory speech, you just pick anybody out of that crowd.
Do you people understand here that the national debt exceeds the GDP?
How many of them at McCormick Place would have had the slightest idea what you're talking about?
I'll say conservatively less than 5%.
What's national debt?
And really, what do you mean GDP?
And then after you told them, they'd say, okay, what's the problem?
This is part and we just assume, these things we throw out, but we understand that the national debt exceeds the GDP.
We just assume people are going to understand what that means.
I have to tell you that your average Obama voter not only doesn't know, but can't be made to care.
It's not about any of that.
The only way the average Obama voter is going to care about that is if it's going to personally interrupt the flow of goodies, income, or whatever that he's getting from government.
Number three, the debt ceiling limit is fast approaching.
Another story went largely unremarked on in the campaign is the fact that the country is approaching the new debt ceiling limit.
Treasury Department warned last week expects the government to reach its borrowing limit before the end of the year.
I take you back to McCormick Blaze.
I pick any Obama voter out of that massive crowd last night.
So you know what?
The debt ceiling is coming up.
We're going to have to make special arrangements, keep borrowing.
Okay, well, so do it, they'll say.
What's the problem?
If we've reached the limit, just raise it.
Problem solved.
And then if you say, well, do you know what the debt limit is?
Well, I assume it's, you know, what would debt that we should limit?
That's exactly right.
The next story that IBD says that the media will discover, Obamacare isn't what it's cracked up to be.
After two years of ignoring health reforms, fundamental flaws, the press will likely admit that Obamacare is fundamentally flawed.
Head back to the McCormick place.
Do you realize that Obamacare is going to cost the average American an additional $2,500 in premiums?
I don't care.
I'm not paying for it.
Oh, yes, you will.
You wait.
I'm not going to pay for it.
I'm not paying for my health care.
Now, the union takes care of that or the government.
Yeah, but are you aware that the IRS has 16,000 new agents that are going to be running around making sure that if you don't have health insurance, you're paying a fine?
I don't believe that.
I don't believe that.
Well, that's true.
Your average McCormick place attended.
No, no.
A fine for not having help?
No.
Besides, Obama's going to provide it.
And the other issue, Obama's deficit cutting plan won't work.
Do you think they really care about deficit?
I don't think they could.
Folks, there are quite a few facts, a lot of facts actually that'll emerge after the election yesterday, including just how engaged all of us were.
We knew the stakes were high.
Obama's reelection, it'll be enough for him to claim a mandate.
And you know what his mandate's going to be?
What's Obama's mandate?
No, it's Bush's fault.
That's, well, that's the mandate.
What else could the mandate be?
They can make the mandate.
In fact, I've got stories.
I've got stories.
Here, Ron Fournier, Obama victory comes with no mandate.
There are, in fact, I've got stories here.
Let me just say this.
NPR, ABC News, U.S. News and World Report, Christian Science Monitor, and a bunch of small local papers all have stories and how Obama has no mandate.
He didn't run on any issues.
This is the, some people think it's the first sign to the press.
Now, you know, okay, second term.
Okay, Barack, honeymoon's over, finally.
But Ron Fournier, I mean, it was in the tank for Obama.
No mandate.
He doesn't have a mandate.
Now, as far as Obama's supporters are concerned, his mandates whatever he wants to do.
And the best I can come about, his mandate is to blame Bush and the Republicans for four more years because that's what he did the first four.
And he's going to claim that he's got a mandate to expand government even more beyond anything that we've ever known.
And we've suffered a setback, folks, but we have not given up on our principles.
And that's important.
Nobody is giving up, but we are facing reality here.
We've got two things that happened here.
We are either outnumbered and are losing ground, or one of the most outrageous thefts of an election in the history of elections taking place.
One of those two things, Abby.
You take your pick, but reality is reality.
We are in for some rough times.
Okay, we're going back to phones.
You're going to Los Angeles, and this is Yakoff is with us now.
Hi, Yakoff.
Great to have you on the program.
Hello.
Hey, great to talk to you, Rush Limbaugh.
Thank you, sir.
This is an honor.
You know, in the early 90s, I was going to college.
I was president of the Young Democrats at the time, believe it or not.
And a gentleman said to me something very brilliant that you said yesterday.
So I know where he got it from.
And I called myself a moderate.
And he said to me, he says, a moderate is nothing but a liberal who has no guts.
Yeah, liberal with nothing guts to say is a liberal.
Yep.
Exactly.
So that was quite amazing to hear that you brought me back yesterday.
And, of course, I've changed my stance, and I have the guts to say I'm a conservative today.
And you've helped out a lot with that.
The reason I'm calling in today is because I am highly disappointed in how out of touch the Republicans have become with who they're speaking with, not with what they stand for.
I loved Rob.
There's nobody more qualified for president in my lifetime than Romney.
I really believe that.
But our message to the people should not have been to the people who already know that.
The reason that Obama won is he did not go to the people who have some intelligence and are liberal and they already knew who they were voting for.
He didn't go to the women that already knew who they were voting for or the Hispanics who already knew or the blacks who already knew.
He went to the homeless shelters.
He went to the people who were on welfare, that he was paying their salaries.
He went to the people who are on unemployment, but got their benefits extended.
He went to the people who really don't understand how the economy works.
He didn't have to go to them.
His party has created them via the education system.
He didn't visit a homeless shelter.
The people there already think what they think because Obama's party has gamed it.
Yeah.
And those people have no clue what Republicans can do for them.
Yes, they do.
Republicans mean they've got to work.
That's what they think Republicans mean, that they have to work.
Well, Rush, there's that element, but we've got a lot of people who are hardworking people who are unemployed today.
And those people, they would love to be working, you know, but they're on the unemployment line.
And they're also in the welfare lines.
I mean, what did they say?
$800 and something billion dollars more than the Defense Budget.
Right.
Well, what percentage of this group are you talking about, you think, voted for Obama?
Well, it didn't need to be that many people.
He just had to push them over the edge.
The people who could be pushed, the people that could be swayed, anybody who didn't vote last year?
If you've got, if you're talking about hardworking people, and I agree with you, they're out there, hardware, who really want to work and they really want jobs.
If they're engaged enough to want that, I would submit to you they have to know that their biggest obstacle is Obama and would vote against him.
If they know how government works.
If they know how economy works.
If they know that if you raise the taxes on a corporation, they're going to lay off people.
If they know that if you're going to tax people 35%, that they're going to add jobs.
I mean, they haven't been taught to do that math.
They haven't even been taught the basics.
All they've been taught was back what you used to talk about back in the 90s.
I remember you talking about baby seals.
That's what the Democrats talk about.
You know, they have their baby seal.
Well, baby seals now they're talking about Hurricane Sandy, global warming, and green energy.
But it's, yeah, it's one thing or another.
Well, you're basically saying what I'm saying, that Obama corralled the uninformed vote.
But I'm submitting to you that some of the people that you say are uninformed are really not.
They are informed enough to know that Obama is the guy that's going to make a lifestyle without work possible.
Two years of unemployment can reduce your work ethic.
We know psychological studies, the longer you are out of work, the harder it is to go back.
The longer you're out of work, the harder it is to look for a job because you lose your self-esteem.
You lose confidence.
You don't think anybody would want you and you don't think you can do the job.
It really is a destructive thing psychologically.
And that is capitalized upon, played upon by Democrats, liberals, statists, who want people like that precisely turning to the government for their solution.
And put a cherry on top of that, a little icing on that cake.
Tell those people that they're in that circumstance because Republicans own all these corporations and won't hire anybody because they want to keep the profits for themselves.
It's a never-ending cycle.
Yakoff, I'm glad you called.
It's great to have you out there.
I appreciate it.
This is Julie, Morgantown, West Virginia.
Hi, welcome to the EIB Network.
Hello.
Hi.
Thanks for taking my call.
You bet.
You're the first person I wanted to talk to after yesterday because how logical you are.
I think it's a twofold problem that kind of go hand in hand.
And I'm in agreement with you.
I think it's an info-reaching problem and an image-reaching problem.
Obviously, the info is pretty obvious as far as how the liberal news media covers things.
But I have a brother who's a moderate.
I would consider a moderate.
I would say it's more how the media doesn't cover things with Obama than what they do cover or even how they cover it.
It's what they don't cover that is the big problem.
Yeah, I think people don't know what they're getting.
My brother, I brought up Benghazi to him, and he had heard briefly about the situation, but he had no clue the details.
Well, what was his reaction when you gave him the details?
He was really shocked about it.
And I also had meant he's in pharmaceuticals.
And I told him his company is kind of waiting, kind of they've had cutbacks and they're kind of waiting to see, you know, like January, you know, he wasn't sure what's going to happen with his company.
And I said, well, you know what they're waiting for?
And he said, no, what?
And I said, they're waiting to see if Obama gets in or not.
I said, because if Obama gets in, you could really see some cuts and even exposure of your company.
I don't know.
He had no clue.
I'm sure not.
I'm sure he didn't.
Most people don't.
It's going to be fun to be here on the day in January people get their first paychecks.
Oh, yeah.
When they see the Bush tax cuts ending, and that's going to affect everybody, not just the rich, and the payroll tax and some of the Obamacare taxes because there's a whole bunch of stuff that kicks in in January that I'd be really interested to see.
I really will be interested to see how people react to that.
But I think the Democrats have, Obama has done a good job at not just getting on the news media, but putting himself.
I think there's an image problem that Republicans have and conservatives have in that, and it's not, I don't even think it directly has anything to do with how Romney comes off.
I think that I know people that are liberals that think all conservatives are against alternative energy and against helping people, which is exactly the opposite, but they're not informed.
They're just kept in, you know, if you don't listen to you or other strictly conservative outlets, you're not going to, you don't get the image, the true image of what a conservative is on some of these issues.
Well, clearly there's a branding problem the Republican Party has.
You could say it's marketing, branding, image.
Clearly, it exists.
And the main reason it does is that I don't know, I don't know anybody.
I really don't.
Even I'm 25 years into this program.
And if I were to be asked, how do you fight people lying about, I don't know what.
To this day, I don't know how to deal with that other than being who you are every day.
But look at what they did to Romney in the early parts of the campaign.
And by proud admission, they did this.
They lied.
Romney was responsible for a guy's wife dying from cancer.
The press knew it wasn't true, but they marveled at the audacity and brilliance of the Obama campaign.
Stephanie Cutter was lying through her teeth every day about Romney being a felon, about herself not being involved in the commercial involving a guy's wife who died with cancer.
Then they say that Romney's a felon.
Then they say Romney's got this and Romney did that.
They caricatured Mitt Romney as the most mean-spirited, vicious, lying criminal, near felon, didn't care about somebody's wife day.
180 degrees from the truth.
The media knew it was happening.
Romney didn't respond to it because he's busy raising money at that moment in order to run ads later on in the campaign.
That's why Obama timed the Romney dirt campaign when they did.
So Romney, throughout the campaign, never once, the convention was the only effort that was made to refute any of that.
But they didn't say, by the way, what you're hearing about me isn't true.
They just brought person after person after person up to testify what essentially a great, charitable, nice guy Romney is and hope that it spoke for itself.
But there is no antidote.
And see, we are kind of hamstrung because we don't think we have to lie about the Democrats.
All we have to do is tell the truth about where their policies will lead, about what they intend with their policies.
That truth doesn't carry the day as often as their lies carry the day.
It's a psychological thing.
I'm not equipped to tell anybody how to deal with being lied about.
And I'm somebody who is lied about routinely.
Anyway, I appreciate the call.
I'm way long here.
I wish I had more time to delve into this with you, but I've got to take a break.
We'll be back after this.
Okay, here's how it works.
Chris Van Holland, he's the number two or three guy in the House, Democrats.
He's from Maryland.
And he just said, if the Republicans do not go along with Obama's tax increases on the rich, then we have a financial collapse awaiting.
Was that his word, financial collapse?
They're going over the financial cliff.
If the Republicans don't agree to Obama's tax increases on the rich, we're going over the financial cliff.
Now, you could confiscate every dollar of income of a million dollars or over.
You could take every, not tax, just take everything anybody has over a million dollars, and you wouldn't make a dent in, and you couldn't run the government for more than a month.
So Chris Von Holland is telling us we are going over the financial cliff.
We are going to go over the financial cliff, folk.
Everybody in the Obama camp knows we are going over the financial cliff.
Whether we raise taxes on the rich or not, we're going over the financial raising taxes, confiscating the wealth's money would not save us.
There isn't the money.
But this is how this works now.
This is how they do it.
Pressure's on now, the Republicans.
It's not Obama, you see, whose policy is going to take us over to financial claims.
Oh, no!
It's these Republican creeps that won't go along with tax increases.
Now, get this.
The New York Times just posted a graphic how Obama won re-election.
And you know what their subhead is?
Most of the nation shifted to the right in Tuesday's vote, but not far enough to secure a win for Mitt Romney.
I wish I had time to delve into that.
Maybe tomorrow, my friends.
And remember, hard to vote against Santa Claus.
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