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March 17, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 17, 2014, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Okay, here come all the conspiracy theories now.
The supernatural impact on the missing Malaysian airline flight.
It's the super we even had a we had a caller on it, the uh the Malaysian triangle or whatever it was last week.
It's getting absurd now is the point.
All the conspiracy that you know that thing has been hijacked, you take the seats out of that thing and you can turn it into a giant nuclear bomb.
I guess.
Anyway, greetings, my friends, and welcome back.
Great to have you.
Rush Limbo.
Hope you had a great weekend.
The uh telephone number here, if you want to join us, 800-282-2882, the email address, L Rushbow at EIBNet.com.
I forget who said it, and I'm not even gonna get the saying right, but it was some did it might have been Sir Arthur Conan Doyle writing as Sherlock Holmes, who said something like once you have ruled out everything, and the most improbable, the simplest explanation for any mystery is probably the case.
The problem with trying to figure out what happened with this airliner is that it's impossible to conceive of the simplest explanation because now we're at a ten days, ten days that people have been watching television.
Ten days of nameless, faceless experts all over every network, none of them who know anything.
All advancing theories.
And so the starting point, before you know anything, all you know is they got a missing airplane.
Don't know where it is.
That's all you know, and that's all we know now.
Essentially, we we know some things about changing an altitude, changing a direction, but we don't know really any more than what we knew in the first 24 hours.
But it's impossible to conceive of that because everybody has been treated to all of these possible explanations, some of them outlandish, some of them sensible.
But you watch when this is all said and done, the simplest explanation for what has happened here is what's gonna end up being the explanation.
It isn't gonna be something extravagantly out of this world.
My my guess, and I'm not positing myself as an expert here.
I haven't even been watching Catherine cannot believe that I am because I'm such an aviation bug.
And it's not that I'm not interested in it.
Folks, I can't handle the media on this.
I literally cannot.
I can't handle we've got anchors and anchorettes who don't know beans about even why an airplane flies.
They couldn't explain the concept of air pressure deferential or lift to you if their jobs depended on it.
They go get guests who nobody knows what happened here.
So you got a bunch of people on TV who just want FaceTime who are going on with this supply, and I just I I I'll give you another example.
I started making fun of the coverage last night, and Catherine's really into this, so she kind of looked at me and rolled her eyes and walked out, and I said, Now look what they're doing here.
On the half of the screen, you've got the host and the guests, and then on the other half you got B-roll.
And and here's some videotape.
It's B-roll, a video tape of a helicopter flying over water.
And we're supposed to think this is a live shot of somebody actually peering out of a helicopter looking for wreckage.
Then they show us a gauge.
Just a meter, just any kind of an electronic gauge or meter, while they're talking about pings.
And we're supposed to think, aha!
Keep your eye on the gauge, keep your eye on the gauge, we might see a ping.
And it's all such a show.
My only I I just I can't I can't handle the media coverage of it.
And it's it's like Obama's plunging approval rate.
Yep, I know it.
When it hits 30, call me.
Well, 35.
When it hits 35, call me.
Other than that, I don't care.
I know which way it's going, and I'm just, I'm stupefied that it's as high as it is.
So when it gets down to where it should be, let me know.
In the meantime, I'm gonna entertain myself doing other things.
Uh read my whatever it might happen to be.
Now, some house cleaning things from Friday.
When I walked out of here Friday, I realized, even though there's no better communicator than I am, there's no better person at painting vivid mental pictures than your host.
After spending a number of minutes in detailed explanation of things I do on my iPhone to deal with with fast battery loss and so forth, I figured I'm going to create some screenshots of what I'm talking about here, and I'm going to send those up to Coco, and I'm going to have Coco post them.
Because it's much easier.
I mean, actually, all we're talking about visuals, and I'm trying to describe what people see on their iPhone screen.
So I took some screenshots of what I'm talking about, and Coco posted them.
So if you were listening on Friday and you heard my explanation of how I deal with battery churn that's way too fast.
Got the screenshots up there now at RushLimbaugh.com that demo it for you.
And you can see that I'd fully charge the phone, and you see the battery gauge at 100%.
You see, 12 minutes later it's already down to 97%, and I haven't used the phone.
I dropped 3% in 12 minutes, haven't used it.
That's not right.
So what I do, I shut the phone down and restart it, and that produces a battery gauge back at 100%.
And I let it go 20 minutes, took another screenshot of it staying at 100%.
So you can see what I do.
I don't know if it's going to work for you, but it I do it on every one of my i devices.
The other thing was the notification center, and that's a little bit more esoteric because I don't know that how many people actually care about this stuff.
I do.
I'm fascinated by the direction tech is going in its predictive capabilities.
I'm fascinated by our devices being able to learn where we go and what we do, and then predict based on that accumulated quote unquote data what the phone thinks we're going to do, and then say give us a map for it and traffic conditions and how long it's going to take to get there.
Apple is working on that to combat Google now.
And so the notification center where all that stuff is, I am highly interested.
And when mine isn't working right, I want to find out why.
I found out why, and I put the explanation for that at Rushlimbaugh.com too.
And that essentially, don't know why this is, but when you turn off the auto time zone, you end up restoring everything to the notification center as it should be.
Don't know why.
All I know is that it's a deep hook.
Well, I spent a lot of time explaining this on Friday, and I figured this is going to be really tough to visualize, even for iPhone owners.
So I put the screenshots of all this up there.
So if you want to go see what I do and what I was talking about, that's the only reason I'm mentioning this.
Well, I do.
Something else we did.
I had Coco because I'm I'm I doubt that it'll happen, but I wouldn't be surprised if my screenshots were stolen.
There's nothing to identify them as mine on purpose.
I wouldn't be surprised if they were stolen and used by some other blog as though they have discovered it.
So I had Coco watermark all the screenshots, and you'll see a pretty big EIB logo watermarked.
That is not part, if in case you're asked, gee, how do I get that?
Rush, how do I get that wallpaper?
It isn't wallpaper, it's a watermark.
Speaking of which, you know, we ought to put out an EIB network, EIB logo wallpaper.
What am I thinking?
We ought to do that.
You know, make it available with our app, a limbaugh letter app and the Rush Limbaugh Show app.
We ought to do that.
I don't know.
I changed my wallpaper every now, just for the different look of it.
Also, ladies and gentlemen, your host was discussed prominently on Bill Maher's real time HBO show on Friday night.
And I must say, Bill Maher was eager to have people know that he agreed with me.
Yes.
He was also, he was he had he had to tell his audience, no, don't misunderstand, I still hate limball, but he was right about this, and I said the same thing.
And he had Seth McFarland from Family Guy on.
And Seth McFarland said, well, you know, I don't just I don't agree with much of what Rush said, but this is probably one of the most reasonable things he said.
Now, I know Seth, I know Seth fairly well, and we get along.
But I mean, these people, they go to where they go, and they've got to say the right things.
You want to hear this?
All right, it's about the movie 12 Years a Slave.
Remember all the grief I remember that remembered a grief that I caught about that.
What did I say?
Well, here they talk about it.
This is Friday night, real time.
HBO, Seth McFarlane, along with Andrew Sullivan and the author Salman Rushdie.
Those are the guests.
And to set up the discussion about me and my comments that 12 years a slave won best picture because it had slave in the title.
And that's what I said.
I said this movie, I don't care what else it was, it was never not gonna win best picture.
It was automatic, it was going to win best picture, no matter what, if it didn't win anything else, because it had the magic word in the title, slave.
Well, throughout the drive-by media, how dare he they made the mistake of thinking I was commenting on the movie.
I haven't even seen the movie.
I wasn't commenting on whether the movie's any good or not.
I was commenting on the political correctness, Hollywood, which Marr.
When's the last time you heard one of these people eager?
Hey, hey, you know, hey, Limbaugh said that I said that too.
I said that.
Here we go.
The day after Rush Lumboss said, there's no way that movie, talking about 12 years of slave, which won Best Picture, was not going to win.
It didn't matter if it was good or bad.
It had the magic word in the title, slave.
And then I saw everybody on MSNBC went nuts that he said this.
And I was basically saying the same thing.
I said, you know, if you don't have slaves or aids in the title, you are just not going to win this year.
And I think what the liberals didn't understand is that this is not a comment, and I don't like Rush Limbo either.
Not a comment on the validity of the movie.
It's a comment on the predictability of Hollywood liberals to conflate a cause with performance.
Yeah.
Now, he had to get the obligatory, hey, I don't like Rush Limbaugh either.
Don't he?
I don't want you people storming the stage here.
I don't like Rush Limbaugh either.
But so up next is Seth McFarlane, family guy.
Of all of the things that Rush has said that I don't agree with, that's not the most unreasonable.
I actually did happen to think that was the best movie of the bunch.
Right.
Of all the things Rush has said that I don't agree with.
That's not the most unreasonable.
What are you frowning at?
You're probably thinking, wait a minute.
Seth has had me on his show.
Why is he you're not thinking that?
What are you thinking?
I know.
He is.
Thing is, you know where he tweeted this?
Snerdley's got a good point.
He says Marr is talking about this, left these Hollywood liberals like he's not one of them.
He tweeted this from the Vanity Fair Oscar Party.
He is he tweeted his thing about slaves and aids thing in the time.
He was at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party.
He said, You don't get into one of those things unless you're a Hollywood liberal.
That's a good point.
He's making it sound like he's not one of these Hollywood liberals.
Here's Andrew Sullivan.
We may as well get everybody on this.
The Academy can make a political point if it wants.
They won't cop to it, but that's what they were doing.
And the genius of that movie, it struck me, was that it really revealed fully.
This country was basically a Nazi enterprise.
Slavery was not just something that happened in some part of it.
It was intrinsic.
Now, Before you poo-poo it, I want you to understand that what he said here about slavery was basically a Nazi enterprise.
This is what leftists who can't let go of this think.
It is a huge it is the primary reason they hate the country and will never love it and will never allow the country to they will never admit that we've moved beyond it.
We still are in many ways.
They just whatever issue that they say illegal immigration, our reluctance, our disagreement with amnesty proves we're still a slave state, see.
Still got Nazi tendency.
Up next, and finally, Salman Rushdie and uh you see here.
Salman Rushty and then Mar and Seth McFarlane wraps this bite up.
Taking on a great theme and doing it well, right?
Not a demerit.
Except in the world of Rush Limbaugh, who doesn't need to see the film to judge it.
To rush, it is very much a demerit.
Sorry.
I'm sorry.
I'm a big fan of yours, so making fun of Salman Rushdie there.
Did you catch that?
That was Seth McFarland.
To Russia, very much isn't he-medit.
Salmon Rush, not a demerit, except in a world of Rush Limbaugh.
Who I didn't say it was a demerit.
Marge Mar just Marr just got through.
I haven't seen it.
I don't know if it's a bad movie or not.
Doesn't matter.
My only point was it was not going to lose.
No matter how many demerits it had, or how many merits that it that it had.
But McFarland, to Rush, it is very much demenit.
Sorry, sorry, I'm a big fan of yours, uh, Salman.
I couldn't help imitating you.
Blah, blah, blah.
So, anyway, that's the first set of sound bites about me.
Try to get these out of the way on Monday.
Also, you remember when I predicted a wave election, some back on February 13th was the first.
It's a little over a month ago.
And do you remember how on the five on Fox and a number of other places that I that was just poo-pooed?
Oh, come on, Rush.
What are you talking about?
They're gonna have a wave election.
You know what a wave election really is.
We have a bunch of sound bites now of people predicting it's going to be a wave election.
Yeah, yeah, isn't that funny?
Take a brief time out, my friends.
Uh, you do that.
Relight the 12 o'clock cigar, take a couple of puffs, and we'll be back.
I just want to remind you about the movie 12 Years a Slave, Mr. Rushdie and Mr. Sullivan, the LA Times told us, they reported that at least two Academy members voted for the movie even though they hadn't seen it.
Remember?
And they voted for it precisely for the reasons I knew that it would win.
They couldn't bring themselves to vote against it.
They didn't even see it.
They didn't even want to see it.
They just voted for it.
They knew what they had to do.
Here we go back on February 13th, your host on this show.
I think if the election in November were today, it would be a wave election that would make 2010 look small.
I think that the American people, the polling data is all there.
There isn't any majority of people other than subsets of Democrats who support anything Obama's doing.
In national poll after national poll, a majority of Americans oppose everything Obama's doing.
Fox News poll came out yesterday, and a huge number of people do not like Obama, ignoring the Constitution.
A huge percentage are very opposed to this lawless behavior of his.
There's another factor that is going to lead to a wave election.
I mean, massive Democrat defeats.
Massive Democrat losses in November.
Later the same day on the Fox News channel, on a program titled The Five, we had Dana Perino, Andrea Tarantula, and Bob Beckle commenting.
I don't think it's going to be a wave.
In my opinion, we don't need a wave election.
He doesn't know anything about elections.
A wave election would mean that you're going to knock out somewhere between 15 and 20 percent of the Democrats in the House and about 10% of the Senate.
I don't think that's going to happen.
Let's go to a montage we put together Friday through Sunday drive by media talking about wave elections.
Can Republicans continue to ride the anti-Obomacare wave through November?
Republicans smell a wave.
Big wave always beats big data.
This is a screaming siren that the same problems that afflicted us in 10.
That could face us again.
In 2010, Republicans picked up six seats, which is the necessity, a net of six seats like this time.
It's highly likely that the Republicans pick up a majority.
If you lose the Senate, turn out the lights because the party's over.
Well, it sounds to me like they all think it's going to be a wave election.
But remember, your host, El Rushbow makes the prediction on February 13th, later the same day.
The learned professionals at Fox on the five.
He ain't annoying about elections.
He's crazy.
He's a lunatic.
I don't know what he's talking about.
And then this past weekend, everybody thinks it's going to be a wave.
So big that we're even going to win the Senate, they say.
Hi.
Welcome back.
Rush Limbaugh serving humanity.
I'm meeting and surpassing all audience expectations every day.
Okay, so February 13th, I predict a wave election.
The host on the five at Fox later the same day, poo-poo the idea.
Come on.
It's not a wave election.
We don't even know that we want a wave election.
Limbo don't even know what elections mean.
Now over the weekend, everybody predicting a wave election, including David Plough of the Obama campaign.
And Robert Gibbs, all thinking that the Republicans are going to win the Senate.
Scott Brown, who uh is thinking well, he did.
He announced a run for the Senate again.
I think I think uh if I'm not mistaken, is he did he move to New Hampshire to do this?
I read this very casually.
So uh don't I he announced that the Republican Northeast leadership conference in Nashua, New Hampshire on Friday, and here he is on wave elections and so forth.
It wasn't so long ago.
I remember it like you do that the Democratic establishment in Washington was feeling very, very comfortable.
A big political wave is about to break in America, and the Obamacare Democrats are on the wrong side of that wave.
It really is uh interesting.
I had just to close the loop on a story.
I had uh some people email me over the weekend.
Hey, Rush, you have you sent your your iPhone discoveries to any tech bloggers that you read?
And I said, Yeah.
And they said, well, how come they've written they're not gonna do anything because I'm the one that discovered it.
Just like the ESPN guys didn't like me joining their turf.
These tech guys don't want me in there.
I discovered it.
The very fact that I discovered the stuff means they won't use it.
Well, this is the same thing here.
February 13th, I, El Rushbow, among the most hated, even in certain Republican circles, predicts a wave election and immediate no way.
He don't know what he's talking about.
This absolutely absurd.
Not possible, not even sure that we want a wave.
Now, a month later, no matter where you go, you got a bunch of Republicans predicting it's gonna be a wave election.
Just the way it is.
Here's Matthew Dowd.
Now, Matt Matthew Dowd's a former Bush uh strategist.
One of these guys appeared on TV and it said Bush strategist or some such thing.
And he's now kind of off the reservation.
He's uh no labels crowd or something like that.
And he was on uh this week, yesterday morning on ABC, talking about the David Jolly victory down in Florida last week.
This really wasn't about Jolly, and this really wasn't fundamentally about Obamacare.
What this is about is the mood of the country.
And I think Democrats at their peril ignore the mood of the country.
As the mood changes, and it's changed this year.
The president has a job approval rating in the low 40s.
And when a president has a job approval rating in the low 40s, the Democratic and the incumbent loses seats.
Yeah.
As we reminded you last week, Clinton had uh he was 46 in the last Gallup poll prior to the November elections in ninety four.
And the Republicans won the House.
Then who was it?
Obama in 2010 was at 45, and the Republicans picked up 60 some od seats.
Well, now Obama's at 41 and going lower.
And if that holds up, and if Obama's in the 40s, low 40s or high 30s come November, it's gonna be, according to tradition and history, a shellacking.
But here's this guy, former Republican Australia, it wasn't about Jolly.
No, no, he was just a guy in the ballot.
It wasn't about John.
No, and it wasn't about Obamacare.
No way, why would anybody think that?
It was about the mood of the country.
Well, what is defining or dictating the mood of the country?
And he goes on to talk about Obama being in the 40s.
Why is Obama in the 40s?
One of the big reasons Obamacare.
Now, I'm not trying to be critical of Mr. Dodd, but let's be straight a bit.
This is a guy who has been intimately involved with Republicans advising them how to win.
And if this guy doesn't even know why things are happening, or maybe he does and just doesn't want them getting credit.
But this is absurd to say it wasn't about Jolly and it wasn't about Obamacare.
It was about the mood of the country.
Well, how can you separate Obamacare and Obama being in the 40s from the mood of the country?
John King at CNN recently said that the Florida special election results, the David Jolly win, were the last straw.
That's as a quote from John King, last straw for at least two other House Democrats and maybe more.
He didn't name them, who were facing tough races this year.
So if you've got John King at CNN and other Democrats, you know, that that David Jolly race, that's it.
We're getting out.
And we've already had huge number of announced retirements by famous, well-known lifer Democrats.
Henry Waxman, George Miller, uh John Dingle.
I mean, they're all over the place.
It certainly is setting up.
I'm not trying to inspire any kind of uh overconfidence.
And I'm gonna I'm gonna explain something again.
This wave election, if it happened, it has nothing to do with Republicans.
And just like 2010 didn't, and I don't mean that as a cut, I just mean that the Republicans, what did they the Republicans are not even really trying to draw any distinctions between themselves and Obama.
Not in Washington.
The Republican establishment's doing its best to be Democrat light.
Well, in 2010, the Tea Party showed up.
They were, they were all animated, informed, motivated to vote against Obama, the Democrats because of the debt, the spending and Obamacare.
So now here we come to the next midterms, four years later, 2014, and nothing's changed.
It's gotten worse.
Now midterm turnouts are not the same as presidential turnouts, presidential election year turnouts.
You know why?
I'll tell you why.
In presidential years, you had a big urban turnout in the big cities that are owned and run and operated by the Democrats, you get a big trunk of Santa Clauses on the ballot.
But in off-years, in the midterms, that turnout doesn't happen.
That's why it's that's the there are many other reasons too, but that's the primary reason, the primary difference in the in the presidential year turnout and the off-year turnout.
So 2014 setting up To be just like 2010, and that is there's no single Republican idea out there, despite all these Republicans going up CPAC, it's time for us to stop saying only what we're against.
We have got to say what we're for.
Yeah, well, that's fine and dandy, but if you're going to be for the same things that Democrats are, just is not as stridently, and you're not gonna not gonna make any difference.
There is no number one Republican name that dominates politics right now.
So there's not a Republican who could go on television and start talking about what he's for that's gonna have any impact on the midterms.
This is strictly, again, going to be people, I think showing up in droves this time, opposed to Obamacare.
Now, see, 2010, we just had the theory.
We have the predictions, we had knowledgeable people, the Tea Party, knowledgeable people who knew and know what all this debt means for them and the country.
And we had intelligent Tea Party smart people.
They know what Obamacare in 2010, they knew what it was gonna mean.
Well, now we move to 2014.
We have those same smart people, but now we're gonna add to them.
Now we got people who have been affected by it, not people who are being told what's going to happen with Obamacare.
Now we've got people who have lost their insurance.
Now we've got people who've lost their jobs or been downsized.
Now we've got people who have found out they can't keep their doctor, can't keep their insurance plan.
Now we have people who have graduated from college, have all of this student debt, and there aren't any careers.
There aren't any jobs.
In fact, there was a great piece in the Wall Street Journal that puts the jobless number in even greater perspective.
And I'll get to that in a minute.
But it is shaping up.
If you look at the 2010 turnout, smart Tea Party people who knew by 2010 what Obama and his presidency meant.
You add four years later, now people who have been affected by it.
And it doesn't matter what the Republicans say or what the Republicans are for or against, because this is going to be like 2010 was an election people showing up to protest what is happening.
You don't need any slick marketing.
You don't need any packaging, you don't need marketing, you don't need any kind of guests on TV, you don't need any kind of slogans.
All you need is the reality of how people's lives are being really harmed.
I mean really harmed.
And these people haven't done anything to deserve this, other than some of them might have voted for Obama.
But I just, as I've traveled around the country, I can't help.
I am always moved by people as I as I watch them going through life and doing what they can to make their lives better, themselves and their families.
And I look at the things they do for enjoyment, and I look at the things that they have to do in order to survive.
And they're all kinds of people, and everybody has a different amount of stuff.
Everybody has got different economic circumstances.
It's just gotten harder for everybody because of this president and this administration And yet these people are still out pounding, doing what they can, and they're they're the ones still working, and they're the ones being vilified.
And I just insurance is being canceled.
Their premiums are going up.
They haven't done anything.
I mean, it's a punishment for which there's no behavior.
They're being punished simply because the country elected a socialist.
They're being punished because we've got an administration that thinks This country needs to find out what the rest of the world lives like.
We've got an administration that thinks this country has not ever deserved its superpower status, that it's somehow ill gotten.
So now we've got administration that it's time for everybody here to find out what it's really like for everybody to live.
And so all the while they're being promised the moon.
Lower premiums, keep your doctor, endless job opportunity.
None of it's true.
It's just getting demonstrably worse by the week.
Those people all notice it now, or an increasing number.
We still have the phenomenon, the low information crowd.
If you ever hear somebody interviewing them and talking to them, you just hope and pray they always remain a minority.
The Indianapolis, uh Lillian, great to have you on the program.
Hello.
Hey, thanks, Rush, Megadiddos.
I've been listening since I was a toddler in my child carrier.
Um I just wanted to say um I know you're making the point that we might take a really big um victory in in the House and in the Senate in the midterm elections, which would be great, but if Obama keeps bypassing everyone and basically doing his Emperor Palpatine imitation, what's the point?
You know, this is an excellent question.
And I'm glad you called.
And I saw you up there on the board, and I said to Snerdley, I don't care who you have demarked as number one, I want Lillian.
I'll tell you why it's important.
At least for me, the answer to your question lies in why do I do this program?
I happen to believe ultimately that people get what they want in this country.
Ultimately.
I mean, there's always exceptions.
And that means that we want as large of an informed, participating, voting population as we can get.
And the purpose of this program is to create, in whatever way I can or this program can, part of that population, an informed, engaged, actively participating population.
So if there is this wave election that people are talking about, and if it's a massive landslide, that the Democrats lose the Senate, lose even more ground in the House, what it will mean is that the people of this country, which I think is crucial, will have in some way come around.
And whether Obama continues to violate the Constitution, he will, as you said.
He'll continue to write his executive orders, but in the process, people are going to learn more and more about what happens when they elect Democrats.
For me, it's about finding whatever positive you can in anything.
Because there's always good in things that happen.
They may not reveal themselves instantly, and you may have to dig deep to find them.
But Obama being president the next three years is a reality.
That isn't going to change.
There's nothing in any impeachment proceedings taking place.
Andy McCarthy, a friend of mine says, look, there's plenty of grounds.
If you wanted to proceed on impeachment, you've got the case, but you don't have the political will for it right now.
The American people do not want it, no matter what.
And so until the political will moves for impeachment, you're never going to be able to pull it off.
Well, I tell you, if if if we get this kind of an election, Lillian, we're going to have a president to whom it will be obvious.
The people to whom it'll be obvious he's governing against their will and against their desires.
And for me, that is a great thing to happen for future elections.
I mean, it it the alternative is say we shouldn't even try to win doesn't matter because Obama's going to pretend to be dictator anyway, so why should we even try to win?
But even let me tell you something else, Lillian.
It's not automatic that it's a good thing either, because what kind of Republicans are going to win?
Establishment types or conservatives?
Exactly.
It's a long battle.
We're in it, we're in it, till we die.
That's my answer.
We'll be back, folks.
I wouldn't be surprised if we learn down the road that some Republicans fear a wave election as much as the Democrats do.
For different reasons.
Don't be surprised.
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