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Nov. 6, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 6, 2013, Wednesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24 7 podcast.
Yeah, it looks like it's exactly what we predicted it would be in Virginia.
Looks like exactly the GOP simply didn't want a Tea Party candidate winning there.
They just didn't.
Because they could have won that race, folks.
I mean, it is really a shame.
And it's kind of um, well, I was gonna say stunning, but it really isn't stunning.
Anyway, great to have you.
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But let's let's talk about the election yesterday, the uh the two big ones, and the first white mayor in Detroit in 40 years.
Not many people talking about that, but that happened.
Um, the associated press is saying that uh Clinton bagman Terry McCulliff won in Virginia because he followed the Clinton model.
Well, now wait, don't don't poo-poo that.
What why are you pooping?
He did exactly he followed the Clinton model.
The Clinton model of running in a three-way race where there was a ringer candidate to siphon off votes from his opponent.
If you look at the end result in Virginia, more people voted against McCulliffe than voted for him.
It's no different than Ross Perot in the race in 1992, siphoning votes away from Bush 41.
And just like in the in the elections, the Clinton's two elections, more people voted against McCauliff than voted for him because of this fake libertarian candidate who was bought and paid for by an Obama bundler who ended up getting 7% of the vote.
Cuccinelli was supposed to lose this thing in a landslide.
He ended up losing it by one to two percent.
So it fits the Clinton monolithief, bag man candidate, third party candidate that's a bogus uh placeholder to siphon off votes, and it it worked like a charm.
But the the details coming out of Virginia are even more frustrating and maddening than that, even though they were predicted, it's still it's still frustrating to see it happen.
And I must tell you, folks, I've got audio sound bites here.
I'm somewhat surprised.
Because in in um in series of these sound bites, the drive-by media is not all that ecstatic over what happened in Virginia.
And I mean, they're not they're not looking at it as a repudiation of the Tea Party, because they know that's not what happened.
You know who wants you to think it's a repudiation of Tea Party?
The GOP establishment.
There's some there's some fascinating numbers here.
The Republican National Committee in 2009 in the gubernatorial race there for uh Bob McDonald, the Republican National Committee spent three times as much money four years ago on the same race as they did this year.
They spent one million dollars.
That's it.
One million dollars for Ken Cuccinelli, their candidate.
The Chamber of Commerce spent zero helping Cuccinelli.
Cuccinelli begged Chris Christie to come in a campaign form.
Christie said no, he wasn't gonna do it.
The Chamber of Commerce spent a million dollars four years ago in the governor's race of Virginia, as I say, not a dime on Cucinelli.
And here we go again.
Just like Mitt Romney, Tim or uh uh Cucinelli won independence by nine points, 47 to 38 percent.
Now, what have we been told collectively For decades by the media.
Well, hell, by the political establishment.
That is, you need to win the independence.
You can't win without the independence.
That's what they've all told us.
And that has been part of a trick.
That the media and the Democrats launched a great success against the Republicans.
The theory has always been that the Democrats are going to get 80%, Republicans are going to get 80%, and then there's that great unwashed in there, that 20%.
And every political candidate has been approached by every political consultant and said to the consultant that said, I'm the guy to get you that 20% of the of the vote.
I'm the guy that can get you the independence.
And what that did was make the Republicans abandon their base and campaign rather than for everybody.
The Republicans end up with a centrist, moderate, wimpy linguini-spine campaign aimed at so-called independence at 20%.
That's the Republicans at every election.
Now Cuccinelli didn't, by the way.
But in national elections, the Republicans end up making this move.
They get talked into believing that you win the independence and you win.
Well, Romney won the independence going away, and he lost, didn't he?
And Cucinelli won the independence going away.
He won independence by nine points, 47 to 38%.
And you now know what they're saying?
Well, the independents are different than the moderates.
Oh, that's new now.
Now that Republicans are winning the independence, it isn't any big deal anymore.
No, now you don't need the independent.
Now you got to go out and win the moderates.
Well, what is a moderate?
Tell me, Snerdley, how would you, if somebody asked you to explain to him what a moderate is, what would you say?
No, it's a liberal without the guts to say so.
A moderate is one of two things.
A liberal that won't admit it, or somebody that waits to see which way the wind's blowing and joins the crowd.
By definition, a moderate isn't passionate about anything, can't be.
But now the mod that's that's where we got it.
We gotta go after the moderates.
And there's also another lesson that's being said here by the Republican establishment.
They're looking at Christine or looking at Cucinelli.
If Cuccinelli would have just been for amnesty, and if it would just, you know, moderated on the social issues, who knows he could have won.
But we couldn't support him when he did it, which is absolutely obscene what's happened here, if you ask me.
Terry McAuliffe, the Clinton bag man, outraged Cuccinelli by almost 15 million dollars.
And in the last weeks of the campaign, there was two weeks that Cucinelli had no media.
Something like two weeks before the election, the last two weeks of the campaign, Cucinelli had no media because the RNC wasn't there, the Chamber of Commerce wasn't there.
Do you know, folks?
The unions spent as much money in Virginia as the RNC.
I mean, before you even get to what the DNC poured in there, the service employees, International Union, basically just canceled out whatever quote-unquote help Cuccinelli got from the Republican establishment.
And even the political outside, I've got this in the stack here.
The politico is wondering in their story today if Cucinelli was beginning to turn the tide against this war on women narrative because the Democrats were doing that.
They were using this tired war on women narrative, and McCaulay's lead with women was at 24% on election day.
In polling, it was down to 9%.
But true to the Clinton model, you had this third-party spoiler candidate in there.
7% this guy got.
And his campaign was bought and paid for by a Clinton bundler or fundraiser.
And it is.
I'll tell you, it's a shame what happened to Ken Cuccinelli because he was betrayed by his own party.
The man is a great guy.
I don't know him personally.
I've just interviewed him once for the for the Limbaugh letter, and I've told you earlier this week, I came came away from that interview.
This guy was tough, no nonsense.
He was fearless.
I don't know how he ran the campaign every day.
I don't know if he faltered here and there on a couple things.
I don't know.
I was telling you the interview I had, he seemed to be no nonsense guy, but the Republican establishment, they're out there.
Well, he's unelectable.
He's Tea Party.
He's unelectable.
He can't win anything.
And they and they didn't want him to win.
This is the dirty little secret.
I don't think it's even a secret now.
Such is the animus toward the Tea Party in the Republican Party establishment.
That they are, I'm telling you, they are perfectly comfortable with a Christie win and a Cuccinelli loss because to them that's a Tea Party loss.
Now the Republican establishment can run around and claim the Tea Party is an albatross around their neck.
The Tea Party is the death knell, they'll say.
Tea Party is why we're going to keep losing.
Look at we had this, we we could have won Virginia.
Our party had it.
And they nominated this Tea Party guy, this Cuccinelli guy, there's nothing we could do.
They didn't want to help.
The Democrats.
I mean, and this was a squeaker.
They were they were they were worried all night at McAuliffe headquarters, and it was it was supposed to be, according to pre-election polling, it was supposed to be a huge McCall up sweep, especially with this with this placeholder third-party candidate.
And it ought to be a lesson to any of you who are still toying with the idea of third party.
Um it's just a guaranteed way for Democrats to win when they and it the takeaway is that in the Virginia race, more people voted against McCaula than voted for him.
The politico, I was put too much faith in the political.
I mean, they were stunned by the results.
I've got here's a to Chris Silizza and Aaron Blake of the Washington Post, six takeaways from election night 2013.
Now the crux of this whole piece is, and this is the crux.
The rest of the takeaways just support this initial claim.
Exit polls showed Christie winning among women and running even with his Democrat opponent among Latinos.
If Republicans could emulate that in other states, they would win just about all of them.
So you see, according to the Washington Post, the way forward for the Republican Party is clear.
All the Republican Party has to do is embrace amnesty and moderate its tone on abortion.
And they'll never lose another election.
Well, that's the take.
I mean, that's what the Washington Post, six takeaways, but that's the crux of it, and every takeaway after that supports this takeaway.
You note here how the goalposts are constantly moved.
All of a sudden, all of a sudden, now it's not enough to win the independence.
They've been telling us for decades, you win the independence, and you win the election.
Now we're told that the GOP has to win the so-called moderates.
And here's from this article in the Washington Post.
Quote, Republicans don't need independence.
They need moderates.
Despite Cuccinelli's loss, he actually won among self-described independents.
At the same time, he lost by more than 18 points among self-described moderates.
Who are they?
As I say, they're liberals who don't want the label.
Hold.
But all this time, see, I don't know about you, but all this time I thought the independents were the moderates.
Didn't you?
Isn't that what they tried to tell us?
Independents, undecided, moderates, McCain, moderate, maverick, whatever.
Were you under the impression the independents were the moderates?
And that if they were the undecided because they were smarter than everybody, they were not ideologues.
They were not closed-minded bigots of the left or the right.
No, no, no.
These people decided candidates and issues, issue by issue, and candidate by candidate.
They were a cream of the crop.
The moderates, the independents, they're the best among us.
Blah blah blah.
Well, Romney wins a majority of them and loses.
Cuccinelli wins a majority of them and loses, and now they tell us, well, no, no, no, it's not the independence anymore.
You got to go out and get the moderates, which means you got to get women who are pro-choice, and you've got to come out for amnesty.
In reality, these self-described moderates are just liberals ashamed of the brand.
And in reality, the Republican Party is the real party of the center, at least the conservative wing of the Republican Party is the real center, and the Democrats today are the party of the radical left.
But all of this, I mean, this Washington Post piece is just a it's just part of a further drive-by effort to move the country further leftward.
Uh by claiming, I mean, what else are they trying to do?
We say, here's a lesson for you, Republicans.
See, look at what Christie did.
Come out for amnesty, you gotta be, you gotta go to Washington, want to work with Democrats.
Don't beat them.
You can't say you want to go to Washington and beat Democrats.
You have to say, if you Republicans want to win, you gotta go to Washington and say you want to work with Democrats.
And that's what Christie did, and that's what they're citing.
Christie said, I'm the guy that can do it.
I worked with Democrats here.
We got things done.
You watch me do it, and they're saying, that's right.
What you Republicans need is somebody that can go to Washington to work with Democrats, and what you and I know is we need somebody to go to Washington and Trenton or wherever else and beat Democrats.
That's what has to happen.
I gotta take a break.
We'll do that, we'll come back.
I'll show you some of the audio sound bites.
Plus the political piece, the political piece, why Terry McCulliff barely won, much closer than expected outcome blunts the narrative that this was a clean win for the Democrats going into 2014.
And you know, both parties want that narrative.
Both parties want that this was a big Democrat sweep.
Both parties do.
If the takeaway in Virginia was it was a Terry McAuliffe landslide against the Tea Party.
I'm not exaggerating.
We'll be back.
Go away.
A couple of takeaways from the political piece, because it does differ from the rest of the drive-by's.
The political piece does say that Obamacare nearly killed McCaula, and that's right.
Now the establishment, both parties, the establishment is saying Obamacare had no impact in Virginia.
It had a huge impact.
Obama went in there campaigned for uh for the bag man, but he didn't even bring up Obamacare.
Don't do not fall for this notion that Obamacare didn't play a role.
It did.
This is this this election could have been won, folks, with just average effort from the Republican base.
Now you go to New Jersey, the Democrats didn't even mount a real opponent.
Democrats never once attacked Chris Christie in that state.
Do you realize this?
I mean, if there was any opposition to Christie in that campaign, it was perfunctory and it was to make it look like there was some, but there was no real Republic or Democrat effort to unseat Christie.
Now, what does that tell you?
And now you've got so many people in the media celebrating the Christie win as the road to the future for the Republican Party.
What does that tell you?
You know what?
I'm for one, I'm tired of the of the media picking our candidate for us.
And they're trying to do it here.
There were exit polls in New Jersey, ladies and gentlemen, and I'm you you may have heard this.
In New Jersey, in an exit poll, Hillary Clinton beats Chris Christie in a presidential contest, the Virginia vote, the exit polls by four to six points.
Debbie Blabbermouth Schultz is saying, Well, yeah, we we we sent a staffer in to help our candidate there.
They sent one staffer.
Even the Democrat candidate against Christie in New Jersey is complaining that she got no help from the party.
Why is that?
Why do you think that is?
Here's a minor little detail from the political piece buried near the bottom of their story, despite the widespread criticism directed at Republicans for the government shutdown, an equal number of voters pinned the shutdown on Obama as they did congressional Republicans, which is exactly what we predicted.
Nobody else in the media is mentioning this, but the Republicans in exit polls were not blamed for the government shutdown.
But the Republican establishment wants people to think that the Tea Party was responsible for it.
It's just, I've I never thought I would live to see this kind of self-sabotage.
Hi, welcome back.
It's uh great to have you.
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So in the exit polling data, Cucinelli won pretty sizably on the economy.
He won pretty decisively on health care, big time on health care.
But it was McAuliffe who won big on abortion.
McCaula had a 20% advantage.
This is exit polling data on abortion and a nine-point advantage among women, but that gap was closing because at one point he had a 24% margin.
And it's that that abortion side and the women's side has got the Republican established one of the things that's got them scared to death.
And it's one of the reasons that uh they they like the Tea Party being seen as a loser.
Because they think the Tea Party is a bunch of radical, extremist, conservative, kook freak pro-lifers that are gonna be the end of the.
They've they've thought this folks since I've been paying attention.
I mean, I've I've shared with you the story about how I was I was practically accosted at a dinner party in the early 90s to do something about the Christians by a bunch of moneyed elitist Republican establishment times.
That's back when I was naive and thought we were all on the same team.
And I didn't realize then they looked at me as the enemy, too.
I thought I was there as a friend.
I didn't know it, but I was the enemy.
And I had poking me in the chest.
What are you gonna do about the Christians?
I said, What are you talking about?
Abortion, killing us, we're never gonna win another election.
We gotta we've got to get rid of this.
And I'm telling you, that's the root of this.
Uh of course other aspects to it.
Umservatism in general repulses the Republican establishment.
The Tea Party repulses them because they don't control it.
They don't even know who to attack.
The Tea Party doesn't have a singular leader.
So they go after any candidate supported by the Tea Party, and they launch both barrels.
And they, and the way they launched here was just to offer no assistance.
Compared to the assistance they offered back in.
And you know what, folks, I have to tell you something.
I I remember back, I forget the years now they all run together, but you remember the year that Christine O'Donnell ran in Delaware and Sharon Angles Senate races, admittedly, but Sharon Angle in Nevada, remember all those these Tea Party candidates wanted a Republican establishment run around saying, well, well, we can't support these people.
They don't have a prayer.
Um, and we we we'd rather support Mike Castle, who's a really a Delaware Democrat named a Republican.
Remember back then, the what really concerned the Republican establishment was winning the Senate.
They wanted to win the Senate.
They wanted to control the committees.
They wanted the chairmanships on the committees because they wanted to be in charge of the money.
And so when people like Christine O'Donnell won their primary in Sharon Angle because of Tea Party support, the Republican establishment just had a cow and started mobilizing against them.
And the consultants mobilized, and they all started going on TV, and they go, Well, these people don't have a prayer.
I mean, there goes our chance.
There goes our chance.
They started wringing their hands and complaining in public.
There goes our chance to win the Senate.
There goes our chance to get the committee chairmanship.
I don't think they were honest about wanting the committee chairmanship.
That's what I knew they wanted.
They just they claimed they wanted to win control the Senate.
But what it really boils down to, folks, uh you and I think the country's at a crisis crossroads, and nobody else does.
Democrat, Republican establishment types do not think there's any problem at all with this level of debt.
It's just the debt.
It's always been high.
We'll manage it.
Any big deal.
We'll have a carbon tax.
We'll raise taxes here.
We'll deal with it.
Any big deal.
We'll have the Fed print money and give it to the stock market.
Everything's fine.
We'll keep interest rates low.
There's no crisis here.
Obamacare, well, hell, you know, it's just health care.
Okay, the government's going to have a bigger role than it.
Big whoop.
It ain't a big deal.
They don't think that there's anything particularly crisis related about this, and you and I do.
To them, it's just politics as usual.
They just want to win with their people in charge because they don't want to have to reform anything.
They don't want to have to change the way Washington works.
They don't want to have to get rid of the debt.
They don't want to have to reduce the size of government.
They don't want to do anything that'll promote an increase in individual liberty or freedom.
They they want, they want, they love the government being big and they want their chance to run it.
So I find it, I just found it fascinating.
They're having a cow over Christine O'Donnell and Sharon Angle and some of the other Tea Party candidates that came later not supporting them.
Here was their chance to win the Senate.
Well, here was their chance to hold a state house, and they didn't care.
Here was their chance to hold the state of Virginia.
Here was their chance to have a Republican governor in the state of Virginia.
And they didn't care.
They just they cared everything they had about winning the Senate.
They were willing to support every moderate in the world and every every liberal Republican in the world in order to keep or win the Senate and get their precious chairmanships, but they didn't care about keeping a state house in Virginia.
And it's it's it's one thing, you know.
We're sitting here trying to devise ways to beat Democrats for the good of the country, and we've also got to devise ways here to overcome uh opposition to us in our own party as well.
And just it's uh admittedly tough, although I, you know, not phony optimism, think that it can be done.
Power of the people.
I think if if they, you know, Cucinelli, he didn't win, and that it's you know, coulda, would have.
There are no moral victories, don't misunderstand.
You know, no attaboys because he got close.
That's not what I'm doing here.
But it could have been one.
That's the really frustrating thing.
Could have been won.
Now they're just going, they're going ape.
They're so happy they can't see straight that Chris Christie is now the front runner for the Republican nomination.
Democrats are excited about that.
The media is excited about that, the Republicans are excited about that.
You go ahead and connect the dots.
I want to play for you some audio sound bites to illustrate, too, that the not it's not across the board that the media thinks Virginia was a great thing for the Democrats last night.
Let's start the today show today with Chuck Todd and his report about yesterday's election results.
And basically what he says here is that they're mixed results, and the Democrats, in truth, behind closed doors are in a little bit of a panic.
The first test of the political climate is decidedly mixed this morning in this day after with the dust settle.
Republicans are crowing about the big Chris Christie landslide in New Jersey as he prepares to become the national front runner for the 2016 presidential race.
And the Tea Party is feeling no less emboldened today, finger pointing.
Tea Party activists, very upset about what might have been in Virginia and Democrats quietly in a mini panic about how health care almost cost them that governor's race.
See, there is one of my favorite phrases, the dirty little secret.
When the When the Democrats get together, and if any of them are honest with each other, they know that going into next year's elections, they have a huge problem with Obamacare.
Major.
Major problem.
They are looking at Virginia as Obamacare almost doing them in.
Remember, there was a story in the Politico three days ago about Cuccinelli's stench of doom.
Three days ago, the political, which today is writing about how Cucinelli could have won this thing if the Republicans had just been in there to help him.
Three days ago, the political was talking about his campaign being the stench of doom.
Because McCaula was that third-party ringer in there, uh, that libertarian third party guy coupled with McAuliffe and all this Democrat money and the support of the Clintons.
It was supposed to be a landslide.
And Obamacare, without any Republican help whatsoever.
Obamacare almost did the guy in, and they know it.
And F. Chuck had the uh, well, he had the the audacity here to report it.
It's an in and this is an interesting tidbit from uh from F. Chuck.
Matt O'Lauer on the Today Show said that Chris Christie has been very critical of the Republican strategy of shutting down the government last month.
He called it a monumental failure.
So what message does Christie's win in New Jersey send to the right wing of his party, in particular the Tea Party?
I think they're looking down in Virginia, and they sit there and say, hey, guess what?
We stuck to our guns.
We tried to make health care the be all end all issue, and those establishment Republicans walked away from us.
In fact, I had Cuccinelli people last night telling me they spent weeks begging Chris Christie to come to Virginia and campaign with Cuccinelli.
Christie said no.
Yeah, and Christie's running around also trying to play off and benefit from this this allegation that the Republicans caused the shutdown, and something like that'll never happen if he's elected.
Because, as he said, you know, watch how we did it in Trenton.
I worked with him.
And I can do it in Washington.
You walk, you you watch me.
There won't be any shutdowns.
It's a big whoop.
We want to beat Democrats.
Now the Christian people, but well, what more do you want?
We slaughtered a Democrat here.
I don't even know her first name.
You talk about a placeholder.
The Democrats didn't want to defeat Christie.
What does that tell you?
They didn't care to.
Now, you might be saying, Rush, the Democrats knew they had no prayer.
They didn't waste any money.
It's not they didn't want to beat Christie, it's that they knew they couldn't, and they were going to waste a good candidate and waste any good money.
You telling me that the Democrats aren't on a roll don't think they can just wipe the slate.
Do not be too smart by half here.
So Christie refuses to help another Republican, joins in in this fray that the Republican wackos caused the shutdown, and Earn gonna be into that childish behavior if I get there.
We're never gonna shut down the government.
We're gonna work with the Democrats, we're gonna blah, blah, blah.
And everybody's oh, yeah, man, we can't wait for this.
Meanwhile, Christie loses to Hillary and the exit poll question of who would you vote for president in New Jersey in the midst of a landslide re-election.
Charlie Rose, John Dickerson, John Dickerson is the uh political director of CBS on CBS this morning today, and they're talking about the Virginia gubernatorial race.
And that they're even talking here about how the Republican establishment blew it by not backing Cuccinelli.
Is it possible that the Republicans this morning are saying if we had worked hard, if we had done more, if we made health care a bigger issue, we would have won this thing.
That's absolutely right.
The establishment didn't put in money into Virginia if they had, and if they'd really pushed in this state, we might have won.
That's absolutely the message that people can take out of Virginia, and they probably will.
Well, they didn't on purpose is the thing.
Chamber of Commerce didn't spend a dime.
RNC.
One third or not even that much of what they spent four years ago.
There was no they did folks.
I'm telling you, they they they were not going to be unhappy at all.
Cuccinelli loses if they can secure that blame on the Tea Party.
Be right back after this.
Yes, great to have you with us.
L. Rushball, the EIB network and the Limboy Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
I've just got really, really great news about Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims.
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But I I wanted to stick to the issues here first.
And there's also news out of Miami with the with the Dolphins situation and involving uh the guard Richie Incognito and Jonathan Martin and the bullying story down there.
There's another aspect.
I got a note from a friend with a reminder, and this is an excellent point about New Jersey.
And it's just, it doesn't, it it's just something interesting, a little factoid here to throw in the hopper.
And it's it's something that nobody's talking about.
It's Corey Booker.
You remember Christie could have had one big election where he was on the ballot in his governor race, and Booker was on the ballot in the Senate race.
In other words, the election yesterday there could have been the Senate race with Booker as the Democrat candidate.
Instead, Governor Christie intentionally scheduled an extra election two weeks ago, so that he and Booker would not be on the ballot the same day.
And the reason for that is that Booker would have drastically increased the Democrat turnout because he's he's way more popular in New Jersey than the woman that they ran against Christie.
Woman's name is Buono, B uh B-U-O-N-O.
I don't what is her first name?
Did you know her?
Barbara.
The broadcast engineer knows.
The guy who pays the least attention to anything knows.
They didn't mean that.
I just I'm just trying to come with an analogy of all the experts here.
Uh we don't even know her name, and that's that's how much of a non-factor she was.
But what so Christie, using the powers that he has, scheduled a separate election for Booker, so that there was no vast huge Democrat turnout during yesterday's election.
The Booker election took place two weeks ago.
And of course, Governor Christie knew this.
So he scheduled this separate election in the Senate race, and he could do it because it was a special election, because remember um uh Senator Lautenberg uh uh passed away.
So that necessitated a special election, and Christie can schedule that whenever he wanted to.
That way he didn't have to worry about a lot of Cory Booker supporters showing up yesterday.
Um that's true.
Uh Christie could have appointed a Republican to fill the seat and hold it, but he didn't do that either.
No, he had he had to show that he's a he's a team player.
It's a Democrat seat.
We're gonna let the Democrats keep it.
It's fair.
So I'll show that we're not the mean-spirited uh creeps that they claim that we are, but whatever.
And so it just it's just here's Candy Crowley from the Mitt Romney debate team.
I should actually from the Barack Obama debate team, Candy Crowley, CNN Anderson Cooper 360 last night.
Uh Cooper said, What do you make of the results in Virginia Candy?
Fresh off your tour here on the Obama debate team.
What do you make of these results?
I mean, how significant really are they?
This is clearly not some huge rejection of the Tea Party.
Cuccinelli did a lot better.
He was outgunned 10 to 1 in the last few days and the last couple of weeks in advertising.
Uh McAuliffe was out early and just pounded Cuccinelli uh with the anti-woman.
Right, a lot of socialists.
A lot of social issues.
Now, uh, in you have to admit, and Candy Crowley's worldview, the Tea Party remaining prominent is good.
Because in her worldview, that the Tea Party will secure a Democrat victory every time.
So it's in her interests.
Now I don't know that she's being totally, I don't know if this is an objective analysis as so much as a partisan analysis.
Oh, hey, we can't rule a Tea Party out.
They think a Tea Party is the biggest, greatest thing they've got going.
That's how they're misjudging things.
Okay, got to take a break again, but we'll be back.
Fastest uh three hours in media.
I mean, here we go.
First one's already in the can.
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