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March 12, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 12, 2014, Wednesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Okay, okay, everybody knows, well, you may not know, I guess I shouldn't assume that.
The Republicans picked up a seat, a congressional seat in Florida yesterday that was automatic Democrat, supposedly automatic Democrat, and this was an election of rejection of Obamacare.
There wasn't any for on the ballot.
All there was was anti-Obamacare.
Now, I don't mean to be causing problems here, but you know, there's a popular statement out there, we can't just win on what we're against.
We've got to pay for things.
You can, folks.
Obamacare is so bad.
It is so it's, you hear what Obama said the other day?
He said, look, if you can't afford Obamacare, cancel your cable or your cell phone to pay for it.
That's not going to fly with the low information crowd that thinks he's Sandy Claus.
Hi, folks.
How are you?
Great to have you.
El Rushboard here at the EIB Network and the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
Anyway, David Jolly is the Republican's name.
He wasn't supposed to win, but he did big.
And it was the media is concerned everywhere.
They just, because this race was touted as a harbinger of Obamacare, and now it's come in.
And this is not even a big race.
I mean, not even a big name guy.
And the media knew that this was going to be a litmus test, if you will, for the public's voting sentiments on Obamacare.
So the Republican wins the seat that was supposed to go to the Democrats.
And Debbie Blabbermouth Schultz, who amazingly for us is still the chairman of the Democrat National Committee, came out and said that this just proves that Obamacare is popular and the Republicans are weak.
That is her spin.
Florida Republican David Jolly won the special election on Tuesday to fill a 13th District House seat left vacant by the death of Representative Bill Young, who was a Republican, by the way, but everybody assumed because of demographics and all the other things and just these wild assumptions everybody makes in the popularity of Obama that the Democrat was going to win the seat.
With nearly all the votes counted, Jolly had 48.5% and a Democrat, Alex Sink, female, by the way, had 46.7.
The Libertarian in the race did not stop.
Normally, a third party candidate destroys the Republican by taking votes from him.
Didn't happen.
The third party, the Libertarian candidate, did not even hurt Jolly.
The Republican candidate fell a million and a half dollars short of sink in fundraising.
That's big in a congressional race.
And David Jolly was outspent in negative campaign ads from outside sources.
$9 million total spent on negative ads against this guy, and he still won.
And yet Debbie Blabbermouth Schultz, despite all of this, proves how weak the GOP is.
Here is her statement.
Republican special interest groups poured in millions to hold onto a Republican congressional district that they've comfortably held for more than 60 years.
Tonight, Republicans fell short of their normal margin in this district because the agenda they're offering voters has a singular focus that a majority of voters oppose repealing the Affordable Care Act.
So what Wasserman Schultz is saying is that because Republicans didn't win by a greater margin, they actually lost.
That's what she is saying.
That's the thing.
Obama twice.
Obama won this district twice, 2008, 2012.
The estimable Stuart Rothenberg, editor of the nonpartisan Rothenberg Political Report, saw this as a must-win for the Democrats.
And it wasn't.
But folks, that's not the only good news out there.
And there's more on this as the program unfolds.
Rush Revere and the First Patriots has hit Amazon's number one slot.
That's not supposed to happen with sequels.
And certainly not supposed to, let's see, October, November, December, six months.
That's not only not supposed to happen with sequels.
It's not supposed to happen with books released six months apart.
Not done.
You made it happen.
This is not done.
We're going to end up here, other than Harry Potter.
Harry Potter, that series, of course, is the other exception to the rule.
But it looks like in the New York Times bestseller list, children's books, both of them, Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims and Rush Revere and the First Page is going to be on the list at the same time.
But it's not just Amazon.
It's Books a Million and Barnes and Noble.
All three numero uno.
And I am gratified.
I can't tell you.
Imagine getting that kind of response.
I didn't have to go on an internet comedy show to pitch the book.
I didn't need a celebrity endorser.
I didn't have to go on television or radio thousands of times.
I just needed to tell you.
And I can't tell you how it irritates them.
I'm sitting in the library last night and I'm doing show prep.
And I get a text message from Catherine to check Drudge.
They say, oh, maybe they found the airplane.
So I went to Drudge and there's giant graphic of the cover of the book, number one again.
And I said, wow, this is just so, it is just so cool, folks.
And really, nothing but you.
I mean, we're not out there on television pitching it.
Didn't go on between two ferns with Zach Gallifinagus or anywhere else, for that matter.
And I made this point yesterday.
I've gone out of my way not to make these books overtly political.
Now, that is by virtue of terminology.
But political conclusions, lessons, are clear in the Rush Revere book series.
There's no, it's mindful of the audience here.
10 to 13-year-old skulls full of mush.
So the label route is avoided and just the type is taught.
The elements of liberalism, conservatism are taught but never mentioned.
And this was done strategically.
These books are about actual historical facts.
And I just, oh, by the way, the, well, I shouldn't say this.
You know, some things you've got to keep in reserve.
But don't you know how this is irritating them, Mr. Snerdly?
Don't you know it just because they have been, I'm talking about the left.
They have been so sure that they have marginalized not just me, folks, but you as well.
So, Nomaro Uno, Amazon, Barnes and Noble, books, a million, and two books on the New York Times list at the same time.
Well, you know, it is interesting.
There apparently a lot of retail locations in Florida ran out of the book yesterday.
I have no idea what was going on, but apparently a bunch of patriots went out there and just cleaned out a bunch of retail outlets as well.
Started getting reports on that late in the afternoon.
People went, what is going on?
I had no idea.
So it's all good, and it's just the first day.
Just off and running.
Now, one other thing, before I get back to the jolly race, back on, I looked it up last night, back in July of 2013, I wanted to find the earliest I had made reference to something.
So I searched my own archives, and I found the first mention of it was July 30th of 2013.
And it was a program featuring a segment that we highlighted at rushlimbaugh.com with the headline, Don't Buy the Inevitability of Mrs. Clinton.
And the point, I actually uttered the following.
I think the 2016 Democrat primary is going to be between Rom Emmanuel and Andrew Cuomo.
And then I jokingly said Governor Christie may have to defeat one of those two for the nomination.
And wait, what?
What are you saying?
That Christie would have to enter the Democrat.
Yeah, yeah, I was joking around about that last number.
But I, you know, everybody says, Mrs. Clinton, here we go again.
Conventional wisdom is it's Hillary and she's unbeatable.
And I said way back in July that don't be surprised if the contest, if the Democrat primary in 2016 features, not saying Hillary isn't going to run, but the idea that she's the only one in the primary.
My point was, look out for Rom Emmanuel and Andrew Cuomo.
Well, the story yesterday that I held over to today didn't get to it.
It was from theHill.com.
Cuomo quietly prepares for 2016.
Oh, yes.
Your beloved host, El Rushboat.
I'm telling you, I know what these people are going to do oftentimes before they do it.
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, the Hill says, is quietly positioning himself as a social liberal and a fiscal centrist as he awaits Hillary's decision on whether to run for president.
And the other half, my prediction, would be Rahm Emmanuel.
And that may be a little bit of a long shot, but I just have this built-in resistance to the notion of the inevitability of Mrs. Clinton waltzing to the nomination and waltzing into the White House because that was supposed to happen in 2008.
It was supposed to be greased skids all the way.
It was supposed to be everybody out of the way.
It's time for us to thank Hillary.
Time for us to pay Hillary back for all that she's put up with and keeping our party propped up, keeping Clinton in office and looking the other way at all of the bimbos that Clinton messed with.
So now it's time to pay her back.
And how long did that last?
It lasted until the black guy came along and said, I want to be president.
And that was it.
And the skids were no longer greased.
And the path was no longer exclusively hers.
And what happened?
She ended up getting skunked with him having to pay off her campaign debt.
That's why she took the Secretary of State gig.
So now it's history repeating itself.
The skids are greased again.
It's Mrs. Clinton waltzing to the nomination.
The Democrats clearing the decks.
Nobody else is going to get in.
It's finally time to pay Hillary back for all of her sacrifices, including moving and living in Arkansas for all of those years.
My God, who would do that?
When she could have owned the Northeast.
Biden, you know, will he get in?
I just, he might, but I don't think anybody on the Democrat side is going to take him seriously.
I don't think they do now.
I actually, I think everybody looks at Biden the way he is.
You know, he's just a walking reality show and a potential problem.
But I don't think anybody really takes plugs seriously.
But, not to say won't get in, and there probably will be others.
You know, after these midterms and this disaster that everybody thinks is going to happen, if that disaster does happen, it's going to open the floodgates, I think, for a number of people.
You know, the problem for the Democrats is when you anoint Hillary, then anybody else they have.
I can't think any names, by the way.
I mean, I'm sure there are, but when you anoint Hillary, you automatically keep your bench on the bench because they also believe she can't be beat.
So then, so, you know, Martin O'Malley, okay, fine.
O'Malley's chomping a bit.
Well, if he's chomping a bit, he might get in.
But if Hillary, if the Democrats make it look like it's hers in a cakewalk, then a bunch of the people on the bench are going to stay on the bench and not waste a cycle losing if they think Hillary is anointed.
But I've, you know, nobody can convince me that the attack on Christie and Bridgegate and traffic, that was to clear the Democrat decks for Hillary.
I'm just kidding.
But I did tell you, I did tell you way back in July, Andrew Cuomo, Ram Emmanuel, and the, oh, there was another element, by the way, in the campaign, the Jolly Alex Sink campaign, that Sink tried to overcome the automatic loser status she had because of Obamacare.
She tried to tag Jolly as a global warming denier And a guy who wanted to destroy the planet, a typical Democrat rigamarolin, and that didn't work.
So now take a break.
You sit tight.
We'll be back with much more right after this.
I'm going to tell you something about this election down in Pinellas County, this Republican sweep down there, David Johnli.
You know what, oh, there's a lesson to be learned?
And we're going to have to keep a sharp eye on this, folks, because the Democrats, all of these Senate Democrats up for reelection have learned that there is an opportunity in running against Obamacare.
Politics is copycat.
Like much of life, something works.
A lot of people try their own version of it.
So the anti-Obamacare vote triumphs in a district that the Democrats thought they were going to win because Obama won it twice.
He won it handily twice.
Never mind that the Republican held the specific seat.
The conventional wisdom was that Obama carried it.
There's a lot of love for Obama.
There's not because there's a lot of anger over Obamacare.
Well, these Senate Democrats up for re-election can see this too, not just Republicans.
The problem for the Senate Democrats is they all voted for it.
So they would have to really go.
So we made a huge mistake.
And if they're going to run against Obamacare, they're going to have to also disavow their vote.
But I'm just telling you, I'm just warning you, they too are going to take a lesson from this.
A big building explosion in Harlem.
And the congressman there, Charles Wrangel, says that it's an apparent building explosion and collapse.
This is his district.
Said that this is the most horrific thing that has hit his home district in his whole time, in his whole career.
He said, this is Harlem's 9-11.
Now, got to be very careful in how you analyze that, because I don't think Chuck is blaming this on Al-Qaeda.
But you got some other terrorists, maybe.
Who knows?
Now, it was not.
No.
As best we can tell, the plane from Malaysia did not crash into the building in Harlem.
However, I should tell you that the tech world is a buzz because a drone was spotted flying over the building after the explosion.
A drone?
You know what?
A drone that represents secret government agencies spying.
Or maybe the drone launched a bomb or something.
Everybody's buzzing over this.
New York Mayor de Blasio thinks to be fair, they need to start a similar fire in a white neighborhood on the Upper East Side.
You know, this Malaysian airliner mystery, so far off course, this is starting, it's starting to feel like a James Bond movie.
You remember the original Thunderball where the bad guys actually essentially hijacked a high-tech British nuclear bomber with a nuclear bomb attached to it.
And they hit it at the bottom of the ocean under a net.
I'm just wondering if at some point this plane is found under the ocean under a net, and Obama will call a press conference and blame Spectre.
It really is to watch all these experts just wild guess after wild guess and to listen to the tech community just express total amazement and surprise.
Here we are.
We are wired.
We've got satellites, real-time satellites, real-time data going back and forth, GPS data, we got telemetry, we got, and they can't find it.
You know what some people were doing?
Google Maps.
Honestly, folks, some people were going to Google Maps looking for the explosion.
They think Google Maps is live.
They make Google Maps a live satellite feed, and sometimes Google, it's satellite snapshots.
And if you zoom in, sometimes you'll catch an airliner en route somewhere over any over land, over water.
If you zoom in, if you've got a monitor with good enough resolution, if you can zoom in more.
I mean, not very many people actually search Google Maps for vast expanses of ocean because nobody ever goes there.
But now people have started doing that.
If you do that, if you get the right snapshot, it's pure coincidence.
You can catch a satellite snapshot of an airplane flying en route somewhere over the ocean.
And so there have been reports, people say, I found it.
I found the thing.
I found it.
And I don't see any explosion.
And I'm watching all these experts on TV, and every day there's some new piece of information.
It's just, it's total speculation and wild guess.
You're watching media soap opera technique in full color.
It's on display here.
Exactly how all of this happens.
Now back to the Florida congressional race, the House race.
AP even has it in its headline.
Florida House Race could be warning for Democrats.
David Jolly beat Alex Sink, a certified woman, by the way.
Certified woman, Alex Sink.
He was outspent three to one.
He was a first-time candidate.
Bruising primary, by the way.
Got beat up bad at the primary.
There was no way this guy was going to win.
He was damaged, outspent, negative advertising campaign.
Typical Democrat tactic.
Make this guy sound inhuman.
He had to run against a former gubernatorial candidate who had far greater name recognition.
And he had to face a Libertarian candidate who siphoned off 5% of the vote.
Normally, when you got a third-party candidate in there, it's a guaranteed win for the Democrats.
On top of that, and the reason that the Democrats thought this was a slam dunk for them, Obama won this district in 2008 and 2012 handily.
The AP says that this could be a warning for the Democrats, even though the race hinged on Obamacare.
I'll tell you what happened in this race.
It's exactly what happened.
And this is really relevant.
It's important.
This race duplicated strategically the way the Republicans ran House races in 1994.
They nationalized them.
This was not about any local issue in the district.
This was not about who is going to be better at getting the old folks' home expanded.
This was not about who's going to get the schools rebuilt better.
This was not about who is going to fix the potholes.
This was about Obamacare.
That's a big-time national issue, and it was huge in the defeat of the Democrat and the victory for the Republican.
And it was the primary factor in the election, and it was people voting against did everything They could the Democrats did to try to take Obamacare out of the race, but they couldn't because people are living it Cancellations increased premium costs and co-pays and deductibles.
I mean, there's nothing about Obamacare that's positive.
There's nothing about it that wants to make a majority of people vote for anybody who can be tied to it.
The interesting thing, too, about this race, and this is a little piece here from Forbes.
Alex Sink rides global warming alarmism to surprise defeat.
Democrats had this global warming talkathon earlier this week, and they're doing that primarily to raise money, but they actually think they have a winning campaign issue.
They don't yet realize that a majority of people simply when everything is frozen over two and three times and the Democrats continue to talk about global warming and climate change, they just don't get it, but they've got so much invested in this.
It's like Obamacare.
Those two issues give the Democrats total control over everything.
Global warming.
I've got this later in the program.
Global warming has now found its way onto nutritional labels of food.
The Democrats, under the guidance of Michelle Muchell Obama, are going to now incorporate global warming facts, characteristics, what have you, in warning labels and nutritional labels on food.
And the reason for this is it get total control over every aspect of people's lives.
It's just hideous what these people are doing.
The Forbes story on the global warming aspect.
The national media this morning are calling Democrat Alex Sink's surprise defeat in a Bellwether special congressional election yesterday a foreboding referendum on Obamacare.
Maybe.
But only slightly less noteworthy is Alex Sink supporters' failed attempt to turn Republican David Jolly's global warming skepticism into a political albatross.
James Taylor is the writer of this story for Forbes.
He lives in the district.
And he said, having just moved into Florida's District 13, I was shocked these past two weeks to discover how global warming became the central issue dominating television's political commercials.
Now, granted, I haven't been watching much television as moving from one house to another has been nearly a full-time gig.
Nevertheless, it seemed I couldn't go 15 minutes into my limited viewing schedule without seeing the same Sierra Club League of Conservative Voters commercial excoriating Jolly for being a global warming skeptic.
The point here is the Democrats lost on two of their fundamental issues.
The Democrats were rejected big time on two of the most important issues they are pushing, Obamacare and global warming.
And I hope they keep it up.
I'm tempted to shut up about it because global warming is not a winning political issue.
They just, they haven't succeeded.
It's my point yesterday about a guy calling asking me, why are you optimistic?
He said, I don't see any hope, Rush.
The debt alone dooms this country.
I said, if you were sitting where I'm sitting, you'd be optimistic.
In 25 years here, global warming was supposed to be the law of the land, and we are supposed to already have laws that dictate the way we live because of it 15 years ago, folks.
When Al Gore comes out 20 years ago and says, we've only got 10 years or else, and Ted Danson and all these other wackos, global warming was supposed to have secured the Democrat Party majority 15 years ago.
But it's been beaten back.
And it's, it's, I mean, there's a lot of global warming skeptics, but it's like anything else, many in the Republican Party have not made a big deal of it.
There have been very few of us who've really made a big deal of it, but we've pushed it back.
We kept this from happening.
That's a reason for being optimistic.
And now, in this little bellwether election last night, we find, and the drive-bys are not reporting this.
AP, they're strictly relating this election to Obamacare.
But this guy at Forbes, who lives there, has made it known that trying to tag the Republican as a global warming denier and therefore a tool of big oil and a tool of big energy and a tool of planetary destruction bombed out big time.
Sink had a tremendous name recognition advantage over Jolly.
Sink's campaign outspent Jolly.
And Sink decided to counter the anti-Obamacare sentiment by defining Jolly as a scientifically dangerous climate change skeptic.
Now, if there is any congressional district in America where Democrats should theoretically get the most bang for their buck, selling global warming alarmism, this district, Florida 13, should be it.
You know why?
Florida 13 is urban and it is moderate.
The Tea Party, and this is crucial again in analyzing the outcome, the Tea Party barely exists in Florida 13.
Northeastern and Rust Belt snowbirds dominate the demographics, meaning people from New York and Boston, the Northeast, the upper Midwest where it's cold, they have fled and they now live either all or part-time in this district.
They're a bunch of liberals that have moved down.
A bunch of supposedly pro-global warming climate change fanatics.
Now, granted, they're moderates, but this is not a district of native-born Floridians.
There was no way this guy was supposed to win this.
And okay, so there was an anti-Obamacare sentiment.
Okay, we can counter that, the Democrats said, we can portray this guy as a global warming denier because the voters here are from the Northeast and we know that they love global warming as an issue.
And the Tea Party wasn't there.
And I'm just reminding Governor Christie at CPAC, we've got to stop telling people just what we're against and what we're for.
And I, you know, the reason I reject that is because you tell people what you're for when you tell them what you're against.
I, for one, resent this assumption or this presumption that by simply opposing Obamacare, you're against all health care.
No.
We're against specific things.
And by defining yourselves as against something, you are admittedly also informing people about things you're for.
It can't happen in a vacuum.
And the final interesting point here is that Jolly didn't even fight back on the global warming charge.
He didn't even run in the ad saying, I'm not, I'm not, don't listen to her.
She's lying.
He didn't even touch it.
He did not fight back against this constant global warming political onslaught.
It didn't matter.
So there's so many assumptions, so much conventional wisdom about the strengths of the Democrats that's just bogus.
And it's up to people on our side to gut it up here and start being optimistic and confident that we are right about the things that we hold dear.
We are right about the things we believe.
We are confidently right about the issues on which we have opinions.
Despite the media, ignore the media and the conventional wisdom and the daily portrayal.
I got to take a break here.
A little long.
We'll be back.
Don't go away.
We have a caller, Clearwater, Florida.
We're going to start with Chris.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
Hello.
Hey, Rush, how are you?
Fine, sir.
Thank you very much for calling.
I am a, I'm calling because I'm my mid-40s.
I am a lifelong resident of Pinellas County, which the election just took place in for Florida 13.
And I also tend to be not a low-information type person and sat and watched the election very well.
One thing about that, most, well, practically all low-information people don't know that they are.
You'd be wise to I'm just saying.
You probably aren't, but it's, it's, it's just, just, denial is not proof.
Let's put it that way.
Well, I'm probably trying to be more probably a little bit humble more than anything else, sir.
But the one thing I've never heard, and I've never heard their discussion, a couple of points is, is that going on there?
One of the reasons I think the Democrats lost this election was because of their arrogance.
And a couple of reasons.
Number one, Alex Sink, who ran the election, wasn't even from this district.
She was from Sonona Sassa, which is outside of Tampa, and was recruited by the Democratic Party to come in and to run against David Jolly.
Well, now, wait a minute.
That never hurts them.
They're arrogant all the time.
Arrogant to the point of being offensive.
And look at Bob Wexler.
He didn't even live in Florida.
He lived someplace in Maryland.
He came down to campaign.
Didn't hurt him.
Well, ultimately, it might have.
Well, they were actually having, and I was a little nervous.
Like I said, I lived here all my entire life and you watched things were going on.
And when it was before the Democratic money, the PAC money got involved down here, you actually saw people discussing issues.
You saw two candidates discussing issues and having a very, Like I said, a very, what you would consider to be a neighborhood type election.
Very, very involved.
They were discussing issues and impulsive people.
Lake Chafinelles County is a highly, highly retired city, retired county.
And then you started getting this PAC money in, which just started talking about who's attacking her.
All these negative people.
The insurance companies are doing it.
You know, and then they got into Jolly.
Jolly was a lobbyist for the oil company.
He wants to let the officials get to the lobbyist when they go.
But none of that worked.
I'll tell you what.
I hope you're right about something.
I have been hoping that this would be a factor for I don't know how long, but it never has been.
The Democrats are mean-spirited.
They are liars.
They're arrogant.
I mean, bragged, arrogant, offensively so, and it never hurts them.
Never.
And I hope you're right.
It'd be great if it was a factor in this race.
I was not kidding when I said it earlier.
Obama to people who can't afford Obamacare.
Give up your phone or cable to pay for it.
That and lots more straight ahead on the other side.
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