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Nov. 8, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 8, 2012, Thursday, Hour #3
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Welcome back, uh ladies and gentlemen, L Rushbo meeting and surpassing all audience expectations every day.
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I want to I want to raise another point here.
We talked about this a bunch of times during the campaign.
I brought it up yesterday as well, and that is how Romney was successfully defined via negative advertising by the Obamaites in the campaign.
When Romney was busy raising money, Obama had he couldn't run ads or even a campaign on his record.
There's not one positive thing Obama could say about his record.
So the Democrats did what they always do.
They set out to demonize their opponents, which standard operating procedure for them.
They demonize all their critics, try to discredit them and so forth.
Uh clear the playing field of them.
And so during this period of time we had ads running, accusing Romney of heartlessly letting some guy's wife die.
And then we had ads and a campaign strategist, the lovely and beautiful Stephanie Cutter, claiming that Romney was a felony, a felon.
And that he was a corporate criminal, and he had all these uh secret bank accounts, and that he didn't care about people.
None of it was true, but the question I have for you.
And we're talking about the Obama electorate.
We're talking about people to whom the Democrat Party is Santa Claus.
And it's impossible to beat Santa Claus, particularly when the alternative you present is people being their own Santa Claus, i.e., working for themselves.
And for yourself.
The Obama campaign, either indirectly or subtly, is that don't worry, we got your back, we got plenty of benefits for you.
They throw the word around, but it's Santa Claus.
And Santa Claus is free stuff.
And in fact, if you look at people who are unemployed, they've they've got everything they need to live, plus some extras.
They've got their food stamps, they've got whatever you can buy with the food stamps.
They've got televisions, cars, they got cell phones.
They have it all.
And they're eating while being unemployed.
And they've got that deal for minimum 99 weeks.
I've all always wondered negative ads.
You and I know Mitt Romney, and we know that he's nothing that he was described to be.
What I'm getting at here is.
Who are these people that believe this stuff?
You run an ad that claims Mitt Romney let a guy's wife die.
Didn't care.
Heartless.
Forget that the opposite is true.
Forget that there has been no more charitable presidential candidate ever than Mitt Romney.
There's not been I mean, Romney's core values are family and charity.
That is his core.
His core may not be conservatism, but his core is clearly family charity morality.
It's undeniable.
Now, who are these people that believe these ads?
And what do you do about them is the is the bottom line.
You can counter them with ads of people offering testimony to Romney's charity and stuff.
Why aren't those ads believed?
No, this is serious stuff.
Why why again?
I'm sorry to bore you if this does, but why does the Republican parade of achieved, accomplished, great people who happen to be minorities not work in terms of minority outreach?
Why doesn't it work?
I must tell you this idea is not.
I watched this on Fox yesterday with forget who it was, but some guest was really frustrated.
We we were inclusive.
It doesn't work.
And it got me to think, okay, why not?
And I know why it doesn't, because their story was hard work.
We got look, folks, you gotta be honest.
Hard work is not what an Obama voter is interested in.
So the message doesn't resonate.
But still, who are these people that believe this drivel, these lies?
Who are these people that believe all of this rotten stuff about George W. Bush that was put out?
We don't run ads like that about people, do we?
We never attacked Obama's character or his humanity or any of that stuff.
And we could have with his infanticide policy.
I mean, Obama's wide open.
He's very vulnerable on this kind of.
We didn't go anywhere near that.
We are always above board on it.
I just always it it it gets back to what I said that also riled amongst people.
Some weeks ago, I said, folks, look, what are the United States of America?
We can tolerate, we can get by.
We can handle four more years of Obama, but can we deal with four more years of the people who will elect him?
Who would vote for him?
And that's the problem.
That's the way I illustrated the Who are these people believing these abject, out and out, nowhere near reality ads.
Who are these people that believe this stuff?
Are they predisposed to this hatred of Republicans to begin with?
Yes, they are.
How did that happen?
Where is this predisposition?
Well, we owe that to the Democrat Party, too.
This racist, sexist, bigot homophobe stuff.
Our real problem is that there are way too many Americans that believe a bunch of lies.
They believe a bunch.
I can't see the number of people that send me notes.
Rush, can't we do something about truth and advertising in these political?
No, particularly in political speech.
There are no limits.
You can say whatever you want.
First amendment, political speech wide open.
Now the difference is if we say things as a Democrats don't like, they try to shut us down.
We never even think of shutting them down.
We just think of beating them.
Audio sound by time, back to this, as uh saying earlier that yesterday this program provided a bunch of fodder for the left to bounce off of.
Here's another example.
This is Bob Bennett.
Now, Bob Bennett is uh which Bob Bennett is this?
Oh, this is a rhino Bob Bennett.
You know, there are so many Bennets out there.
There's Bill Bennett, and then there's his brother Uncle Bob, and then there is Rita, what's her name, the CBS reporterette?
Rita Rita.
It's the blonde, I can't remember her name now.
I don't even know if she works, but her husband is a Bennett who does book deals.
He's an agent for everybody.
And that's a Bob Bennett.
And in this guy is Robert Bennett, who is the former senator from Utah.
And that's who this soundbite is.
Oh, he hates, he hates Republicans.
Who is it?
What is her name?
Rita something.
I can't remember.
It'll it'll it'll come to me.
It doesn't matter because that's not who I'm talking about.
But this was during a uh National Journal Forum entitled The Day After the 2012 Election Debrief, the panelist here, former Utah Republican Senator Bob Bennett.
The Woodward Book, the one fellow who does not come off well in the Woodward book is the President of the United States.
Not because he is the socialist Sololinsky type that all of the Republicans claim he is.
I got to know him in the Senate, and I never found that out about him until after Rush Limbaugh informed me.
I hope he has learned by virtue of this campaign.
Yeah, you won, and that's great.
But if you're gonna govern, you have got to listen to people who have credentials other than those that you conferred upon them.
And you've got to give those people a place at the table.
Now listen to this looney tune.
This guy's on a forum telling Obama what he's got to do to govern, basically bitching at me.
Mr. Bennett, Senator Bennett, he is an Alinskyite, and that does mean something.
He taught Olinsky as this is these rhinos, they sit out there and they reject because it scares them, they think it's extreme.
I don't know what.
Rita Braver.
That's it.
Rita Braver is married to the Bob Bennett book agent guy.
Anyway.
This this former Republican senator making fun or laughing at the fact that Obama's something he doesn't know he is.
Meanwhile, he's sitting here talking about how Obama's got to learn to compromise Obama.
Why do you think he doesn't?
He's an Olinskiist, he's an Alinskiite.
He's that's amazing to me.
Has is just blind, utterly blind, worthlessly blind.
Well, it is why Bennett was tossed out, but still he's sitting there all he's arrogant, doesn't even know what he's talking about.
And he dares to sit, you know Obama that was in the Woodward book, very good guy.
I settled with him in a Senate.
I didn't know he said Olinski, I whatever the hell that is.
And he goes on to talk about how Obama's uh stubborn and won't work with anybody.
What?
George Stephanopoulos, ABC's World News tonight, excited that there's a civil war in the GOP, Diane Sawyer said.
Recycling.
George, give me your bottom line on the Republicans now.
We talked about the soul searching.
What do they do next?
Soul searching, perhaps civil war.
You gotta look at this party right now.
They have won the popular vote only once since 1988 in the presidential race.
And it was probably best summed up by Al Cardanas, the head of the American conservative union.
He said the party is too old, too white, and too male.
They lost young women, single women by almost 40 points, Hispanics by almost 40 points, blacks by more than 80 points.
This is a party that has to create a much bigger tent.
See, there you go.
And the Republican Party believes this.
So and it's Al Cardinus, the head of the American conservative union, party too old, too white, too male.
Uh three million Republicans didn't vote.
And if they had these numbers on single women and his would not have mattered because Romney would have won.
But the theme is that the Republicans are too exclusive.
Well, I don't want to bore you.
I mentioned this in the first hour and a half of this program.
I'm just telling you this is where, this is what the Republican Party's listening to.
They're listening to people like Stephanopoulos and this conservative guy, Al Cardinus, who um, too old, too white, too male, lost single women.
Hispanics.
Again, I'm just gonna ask the question, the Hispanic vote.
Why do they vote Democrat?
And it isn't immigration policy.
It is not immigration policy.
That's not why Hispanics vote for Democrats.
The Republicans, to get the 75% of Hispanics that vote for Democrats, are gonna have to become members of the welfare state.
And then they're gonna have to compete for the welfare state vote better at it than the Democrats do.
That's or they're gonna have to embark on an outreach program to explain to him why the welfare state's not in anybody's best interest.
And try to talk them out of it.
But that's why 75% of the Hispanic vote vo and this is academic scholarly research produced today, yesterday by Heather McDonald.
I'm not making it up.
It's she's the scholar on this stuff.
Seventy-five percent vote Democrat because they believe in the big expansion of government, social safety net, and progressive taxation.
Nothing to do with immigration policy.
Single Women vote for Democrat Party because they're Democrat Party's their husband.
Don't have to get married, husband provider, whatever.
If the Republican Party wants to take over that role, fine.
In addition, the Democrat Party is not only the husband, which provides the birth control pills, and all the abortions they want.
That's if you want to get that vote, that's what you got to do.
Or you have to reach that constituency and tell them why they're wrong and talk them out of it.
But to get those voters as they exist, I asked the question yesterday.
Okay, what do we have to do?
Do we have to come pro choice?
We have to start passing out birth control pills on the corner.
Do we have to tell a Catholic church, shut the hell up?
Is that what we have to do?
That's what the Democrats do.
That's how they get their votes.
But the Republican Party thinks they got to do something here.
Gotta we got to get those votes.
That's vote, those votes are why we're losing.
They think meanwhile, three million of their own voters stayed home.
Herman Cain was on uh radio yesterday, and he was asked, we had conservatives in the primary, and yet we wound up with a with a Massachusetts moderate as the nominee, Mr. Kane.
How do we keep that mistake from happening again?
We need a third party to save this country.
This country is in trouble, and it is clear that neither party is going to fix the problems we face.
I don't believe the Republican Party has the ability to rebrand itself against the mainstream media machine that blatantly works to support this president and other liberals as well as the Democrats.
Well, I understand what he's saying, but if somebody forms a third party, the media will just go after it the same way.
Charles Crowdhammer on uh special report with Brett Bear last night by the all-star panel uh talking about uh uh Republicans and the Hispanic vote.
Get ready here.
Hispanics, and that is not an intrinsic ethnic affinity problem, it's a policy problem.
The Republicans are Romney ran to the right of Rick Perry in the primaries.
On that issue, he never recovered.
I think uh Republicans can change their position, be a lot more open to actual amnesty with enforcement, amnesty, everything short of citizenship, and to make a a bold change in their policy, enforcement and then immediately after a guarantee of amnesty.
That would change everything.
If you had a Rubio arguing like that, it would completely upend all the ethnic alignment.
There you have it, folks.
We just come out for amnesty, and that's how we get the Hispanic vote.
And if we come out for abortion, and we get the women's vote.
So we get so we get we get Mark Marco Marco Rubio to come out for amnesty and problem solved.
But except the problem is the problem is that the Hispanic vote is not voting.
I'm sorry to folks to have to re be repetitive here.
The Hispanic vote is not voting for the Democrat Party on the basis of immigration policy.
That is not why 75% of the Hispanics vote for the Democrats or voting for it's nothing to do with immigration policy.
This is a trap.
It's a real trap.
Really don't believe what I just heard.
and On Fox News, the soundbite that we played, that we've got to we gotta go for amnesty.
Marco Rubio out there to make the pitch for amnesty.
That is such a misreading.
72% of the people that voted Tuesday were white.
You would not know that.
Listen by the way, by the way, George Stephanopoulos, you're too old, you're too male, and you're too white to be on TV.
You are not what the American viewer wants anymore.
I mean, we're gonna sit here and be told that voters don't want too white, too old and too male to vote for them.
Now, what the hell are you doing on television?
Make way for an Hispanic or get some pregnant woman in there who's gonna have an abortion and have that televised, and then you really get ratings.
What is what is this?
George Stephenopha's too old, too white, too male to be on TV.
Bret Beer, too old, too white, well, he's not too old, but he's gonna be too old someday.
We gotta get rid of all the white people on TV.
They simply are not the way to get an audience.
Jennifer Griffin at the Fox News at Pentagon reporting here that the Pentagon's confirming Iran has fired at a U.S. drone in the Persian Gulf region.
Okay, what'd we do now?
It's gotta be our fault.
What the hell do we do now?
Who did we tick off?
The Iranians are firing drones at us.
It can't be the filmmaker, he's going to jail for a year.
It can't be the filmmaker.
There gotta be another movie out there, folks.
There's gotta be a sequel to the Muhammad movie.
Looks like ratings were down.
TV ratings uh election night over 2008.
And it's obviously because the networks are too white, too old, and too male.
Brian Williams, old white male.
Uh George Stephanopoulos, old white male, CBS.
Who the hell even did CBS?
Scott Pelley, old, gosh, ancient old wrinkles, white male.
Is it any wonder?
Is it any wonder whatsoever?
Meanwhile, Fox kicked butt because there's Megan Kelly on high heels walking all over the place trying to keep Carl Rove happy.
Elizabeth in Palm City, Florida.
Really glad you waited.
Great to have you here.
Thank you, Rod.
I'm a naturalized American citizen who 26 years ago of Hispanic background, who about 26 years ago earned the right to vote.
And I wanted to give you my opinion on the so-called Hispanic vote.
I think it's very important to note that there's two types of Hispanic voters.
The Hispanic voter who earned the right to vote, who is always a conservative, uh, family-oriented um religiously bound person, and then you have the illegals that through amnesty, and after all these years, we're able to become citizens and vote.
In my opinion, the first type of of um of Hispanic is the type that the gentleman from the journal, the um the first article that you said about that we believe in the American way and hard work and everything that America has to offer.
No question.
See, here's the thing.
The Hispanic vote is not monolithic, just like the women voted in monolithic, and the male vote's not monolithic.
They don't all think the same.
And clearly, there are Hispanics who believe in hard work.
They're all over the Republican convention.
They're all over the Republican Party.
But the majority of them vote Democrat, and they vote Democrat because they believe in an expansionist government, they believe Santa Claus, they believe in in progressive taxation.
This has been documented, empirical data and studies.
It's not somebody's opinion.
Heather McDonald's looked into it.
There's no there's no question about it.
The vast majority of Hispanics do not vote Democrat because of immigration policy.
It's it's it's not it it it's it counts.
Fourth or fifth on the list.
The Republicans think that the Hispanic vote votes entirely on immigration policy, and it doesn't, and therefore they think, and we just heard Dr. Crowdhammer say that the Republicans ought to get Marco Rubio up there to sponsor an amnesty program, and that would fix the problem.
It wouldn't.
Now I'm gonna tell you something else, folks.
This Santa Claus business.
I I need to draw a little distinction.
It's really, it's not the government that's Santa Claus, it's the Democrat Party that's Santa Claus.
When you get right down to it, it's the Democrat Party that's promising all this freebie stuff.
It's the Democrat Party that's conveying to people.
You'll be okay, vote for us, we'll take care of you.
Lose your job, fine.
You lose your job, we'll make sure you eat, have a phone, have a car, have gas, and you have free minutes on the phone, big TV set out there, and then we'll also find a way to send you to a work training center to make it look like the Democrat Party is Santa Claus.
That's the appeal.
Now, when they happen to run the government, yes, the government's Santa Claus.
The government's the repository for the money.
But that's the Democrats that choose to spend it the way they spend it, i.e., free stuff.
That's the appeal, the Democrat Party.
The question is, are we outnumbered by people that want that out of a political party?
Conservatives want political parties and governments to get the hell out of the way.
Turn us loose.
Let us use our own ambition, desire, talent, to become the best we can be.
We want to triumph, we want to prosper.
Democrat Party has done its best to distort the whole definition of prosperity and where it comes from.
The Democrat Party has done everything it can to make sure that people do not think hard work equals prosperity.
Hard work means you're gonna get screwed.
Having to work means you're gonna get screwed.
The Democrat Party lives and breathes today on distorting the entire explanation of how prosperity happens and how wealth is created.
And if the people that vote for the Democrat Party were ever truly informed and educated about prosperity, where it comes from and how it happens, uh Democrats would be finished.
But that's a long time off.
People who vote for the Democrat Party have a distorted understanding of how prosperity is created, how wealth is created, the source of it, and all that.
Well, some do think it's evil.
Some prosperity is unfair.
Something that wealth at prosperity is unfair.
They think and Democrat Party feeds off that too.
No uh no question about thanks, Elizabeth, it's Prince William County, Virginia.
Angela, you're next on the EIB network.
Hello.
Thanks for taking my call, Russ.
Um, well, I again I live in Prince William County, and um I was one of the many volunteers on election day, and uh I uh had a lot of people that worked that volunteered for me in eleven precincts,
and we had everybody from black people to to male and female Christians, if Hispanics, people of Indian Indian descent, Native Americans, um young white male and females, and but uh the when we looked at the numbers, um, we realized that a significant uh number of people did not vote, and we still don't know why.
I'm l I listened to uh the gentleman named Ken, and uh I'm beginning to understand there were there was a lot of talk about that people just simply would not vote for Mitt Romney because he wasn't conservative enough.
But I also want to say that I think that you are absolutely that you are just totally wrong about the reason why a lot of black people and Latino people uh don't vote with the Republican Party or how they view the Republican Party, and it's been consistent across the board.
The Republican Party is the party of old white males.
And whenever you combine that with an absolute through and through corrupt media that want to say not only are they old white males, but they're racist old white males.
Okay, see, now that's the point.
Now, and I have never said that's not how they see the Republican Party.
I just I I think it's a bit of a distortion.
Let me ask you this.
Okay.
I'm not arguing.
Don't misinterpret tone in my voice.
I'm not trying to put you on the spot, but...
But you you say that that that I'm wrong that a lot of minorities look at the Republican Party as old white men.
What's wrong with white guys?
What's wrong with old white men?
What is that?
Okay, look, the the whenever you use the word conservative, Republican for a lot of people because of the the media, the corruption and I'm talking across the board, everything from movies to music up to the news.
Uh the word conservative in itself for a lot of people means racist or supporter of racism.
Right.
It means racist, sexist, bigot, homophobe.
Return to values, the people making those type of statements, turn the values that made us great for a lot of people means uh black people, uh, for a lot of black people means uh return to uh uh slave-like uh conditions or Jim Crow.
There are a lot of people.
Now, now hold it just a second.
Wait a how stupid is that?
Syria, how ridiculous is that?
Whenever you, whenever you have again, whenever you have a media that is corrupt as it is, and whenever you have people like uh your uh Michael Eric Dysons and your Tabus Smalleys and all that combined in that uh that people unfortunately do trust as uh I understand that I I know that this is what the Democrats have said about us.
I know it's what the media says and your Michael Eric Dysons and your all these other um uh uh the the Tavis Smileys and uh all these people are going to understand that.
My my my question, I guess, is uh it's untrue.
I don't want to accept the premise of it, because it isn't true.
There is no desire to return to slavery.
There's no desire to return to Jim Crow.
None of it.
It's just the exact opposite.
Why does Clarence Thomas being a Republican not refute that?
I want to know, Angela, why does Condoleezza Rice not refute that?
Why does Marco Rubio not refute that?
Tell me.
Well, simply because in a lot for a lot of black people, whenever they see black people, even like myself supporting the Republican Party that they believe is racist, were seen as Uncle Tom's sellouts, regardless of what you're doing.
Uncle Tom talking.
Well, whose fault is that let me tell you something.
That's not the Republican Party's fault because there's not a grain of truth in it.
Just like I had heard a story, a woman actually showed up and said she wasn't going to vote for Mitt Romney because he's cruel to dogs.
Now, why do they think that?
Because the Democrats ran a commercial about Romney taking his dog on vacation and roofed a car.
Now, I'm sorry.
Uh, but the fact that a bunch of uninformed, ill-informed people, think that Republicans want to go back to slavery.
That is not a Republican problem.
I don't know how the Republicans solve it.
There is no move to go back to slavery.
There is no move for any of these things these people fear.
These are lies that are being spread by the Democrat Party and the media.
It's their problem.
Now that's not the right.
It is a problem for us.
I'm not I'm not but but it isn't true.
And I'm just telling you, we're being outnumbered by people who think this way, and there's not a damn thing policy-wise we can do to change it.
Coming out for amnesty is not going to change the Hispanic guy you're talking about's view of the Republican Party.
It isn't gonna make any difference.
I'm long here.
I gotta take a break.
I wish I had more time, but I I must go.
We'll be back and continue a second.
I wasn't joking.
The California man behind an anti-Muslim film that led to violence in many parts of the Middle East is what that's the AP.
They're still writing this.
The California man behind an anti-Muslim film that led to violence in many parts, it's just unbelievable.
He was sentenced today to a year in federal prison for problems in an unrelated matter.
Unrelated.
By the way, this drone strike, the Iranians knocked out one of our drones that happened on November 1st, folks.
We're just now finding out about it after the election.
And there is an investigation underway to see if this guy, the filmmaker, did something while in jail to anger the Iranians.
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