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April 22, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 22, 2014, Tuesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 Podcast.
Greetings, conversationalists, welcome to the Rush Limbaugh Show.
I am Eric Erickson.
I do have a face for radio and a voice for Pritt.
You're probably wondering why on earth would they have this guy on.
Well, Russia's back tomorrow, so you'll really appreciate him after listening to me for three hours.
Thank you for tuning in.
The phone number 800-28282.
You can even get me on that Twitter thing if you like at E.W. Erickson and email me, Eric at redstate.com.
So much is going on out there in the world today, and it is Earth Day.
I was somewhat disappointed.
I asked Mr. Sturdley if we were going to play holiday music for Earth Day, and there are no Soviet anthems on file, so we we can't play any of the commie music that should go along with Earth Day.
We'll get into those stories.
The incredible story of a woman who lays eggs as art.
Very appropriate for just after Easter and for Earth Day, but we we need to start in Washington, D.C. A short time ago, the Supreme Court of the United States in a six to two decision.
For those of you in Rio Linda that should be six to three, but Elena Kagan set this one out for a conflict.
Surprisingly, a liberal honoring the law and sitting out for a conflict.
So it was six justices.
It wasn't just the conservatives, Steven Breyer joined in upholding a voter effort in Michigan to end affirmative action in Michigan colleges.
The most interesting thing about this decision, honestly, is the dissent from the from Ginsburg and Sotomayor.
Soda Myor basically says in her dissent that we should not be honoring constitutional referenda by voters.
I mean, honestly, I've looked at this.
I used to be a lawyer in a former lifetime.
I'm I'm on the 11th step, I do believe, of recovery from being a lawyer, but Sotomyor believes that we need to ignore these these voter referenda when they go against what she wants.
The majority, though, decided that if the voters in Michigan wish to end race-based preferences in universities, they are allowed to.
Now, this case goes back some years where the voters in Michigan decided that they would by constitutional referenda after the constitutional officers of Michigan decided that they knew what was best.
The voters took it in their hands and decided to end race-based preferences in colleges.
Now, of course, liberals and lower courts decided that voters could not end discrimination, that we had to keep discriminating.
Well, the Supreme Court said today, surprisingly, shockingly, if voters don't want to discriminate, they don't have to discriminate.
No one should be discriminated, and the voters in Michigan, God bless them, decided to stop that.
This plays into a larger story.
I guarantee it.
I guarantee this is going to play into a bigger story, and it is where we really must begin in light of the Supreme Court decision.
Did you know, appropriate for Earth Day?
Last week or so, I believe Rush talked about it.
Liberals have decided that air pollution is racist.
Now ponder that.
Some cockamami study, the University of Minnesota decided that that uh minorities tend to breathe more air pollution than white folks.
Apparently the air pollution is racist and it migrates to where the minorities are, and they exclude your you're you're thinking, well, Mr. Erickson, the the it it's it's income.
It has to No, no, no, no.
The the Minnesota school ruled, judged, and now it's settled science on the left, even that air pollution is racist.
It doesn't follow people based on income, it follows them based on skin color, and if you're black, you're more likely to have air pollution than if you're white.
They are now deciding that the Republicans are racist for going after Eric Holder and claiming that they didn't go after Kathleen Sibilis.
Really?
Yes, Dana Milbank on Al Sharpton Show, the The Rat on MSNBC, we can call him now.
Turncoat on the mob.
Republicans are racist because despite 30 of them calling for Kathleen Sabilius to resign or be impeached, despite all the hearings after her, Dana Milbank, the Washington post columnist says, oh no, they really went easy on her.
They went after Eric Holder because he's black.
Eric Holder himself went to Al Sharpton's little event and claimed that they were the right was going after him.
The Republicans were going after him because, well, he didn't use the word racist, but it's clearly what he meant that other attorney generals, they never had to deal with what he's dealing with.
All of this is a buildup, and it's what you need to understand, headed into campaign 2014.
More and more polling has come out.
Now there is good news for the Democrats in the polling.
An analysis of Chris Siliza, the Washington Post yesterday discovered the Democrats do have a chance of taking the House of Representatives back.
Now it's a one percent chance, but that's still better news for the Democrats than I expected.
I expected them to have no chance of taking back the House of Representatives.
They've got a one percent chance.
They want to play up that one percent.
See, here's what's going on.
The Democrats know they're doomed in 2014.
Look at the trend lines.
Historically, if you look at the polling, the president in the White House in a sixth year does terrible in sixth year midterm elections.
President Obama is going to do terribly.
Ronald Reagan did, George Bush did, Bill Clinton did, although not as bad as some of the others.
Most presidents in the sixth year, they do terrible.
The president's polling is awful.
The president's polling around Richard Nixon and George W. Bush in their six years.
It doesn't end well for presidents who poll that level.
And now comes polling out of Florida from congressional races down there, out of Georgia, out of Texas, around the country, congressional polling, and gubernatorial polling, even in Florida, Hispanics for Rick Scott down in Florida against the orange man Charlie Christ.
The polling is showing Hispanic voters and single white women.
Two of the key groups for Democrats headed into 2014.
They're just not as inclined to stick up for Barack Obama and the Democrats as they once were.
They're just not as inclined.
They may not go vote Republican, but they may very well sit home.
And the Democrats are worried.
Well, they have one reliable group left, black voters.
And black voters, historically, don't turn out in midterm elections.
They just don't.
The turnout is low.
And when you look around the country, look at Georgia, for example, where I am.
I'm broadcasting.
I've got a show on WSB out of Atlanta, Russia's on noon to three.
Well, now it's me today, noon to three.
I'll be back on live for my own show this evening.
But here in Georgia, we've got a contested Senate race, Michelle Nunn, whose accomplishments are the same as her last name.
She is Sam Nunn's daughter.
Remember Sam Nunn?
This is how bad the Democrats have fallen in Georgia, by the way.
They've had to go back to the 70s to get candidates.
They have Jimmy Carter's grandson running.
Yes.
Yes.
Do you want to vote for history's greatest monstrous grandson for governor in Georgia?
That's your choice.
And Sam Nunn's daughter.
For you liberals out there, that was a line from The Simpsons.
Grow up.
Calm down.
Yeah, the Simpsons referred to Jimmy Carter's history's greatest monster.
Argyll sweaters, things in short supply, oil line, gas lines, and killer rabbits.
History's greatest monster.
Clearly, the apocalypse was upon him.
So you've got Jimmy Carter's grandson and Sam Nunn, former senator who hadn't been in office since the 90s, his daughter running.
And Georgia is trending purple because black voting age population of the state has crossed 30%.
In most states, when black voting age population, that means that the voting age population of black voters, 30% of the voters in the state, in other words, now are black or higher than that.
That tends to trend towards the Democrats.
The Democrats believe demography is destiny.
It's headed that way, but they're not there yet.
And they know they're going to have losses around the country.
A 1% chance.
Think about that, people.
A 1% chance of taking back the House of Representatives.
Good news for us, bad news for Nancy Pelosi, she's turning into Dick Gephardt here, but this is this is terrible news for them.
And it looks like the Senate is falling out of their grasp as well.
More than 50% of the senators on the Democratic side up for reelection in 2014 come from swing states or solidly Republican states.
The guy in Arkansas is he's being hurt by Tom Cotton.
Mary Landrew is flailing about, and you got a bunch of Republicans running down there all over the country.
Democrats are in trouble.
What the Democrats are doing is not about winning.
They've given up.
They say, oh, Republicans they can't run as the party of no.
No, they can't do that.
Well, in 2006, the Democrats took back Congress by running as the party of we're not George Bush.
In 2010, the Republicans took back the House, came close in the Senate, took a lot of governors' matches, a lot of state legislatures, a lot of local races around the country by saying we'll tell Barack Obama and the Democrats no.
Every midterm election the Democrats come out and say the same thing.
Well, no one will vote for the Republicans because they will take their Social Security away, they'll destroy Medicare.
The Democrats have already destroyed them both.
Nobody believes the Democrats on this again, thanks to Obamacare.
So they're just trying to mitigate the damage.
They're just trying to hold off the Republican tide.
And the only way they can do that, if single women are slipping away from them, if Hispanic voters are slipping away from them, the best way for them to mitigate the damage is to whip black voters into a frenzy and scream racism, racism.
They're going after Eric Holder because he's a black man.
They hate the president not because of his socialist liberal policies, but because he's a black man.
They're going to go voter ID.
All of these things are designed to enrage, infuriate, and incite black voters to the polls.
They are perfectly happy, dividing the nation along racial lines if they can mitigate the damage the voters will otherwise do to them in November.
Pay attention.
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My mother texting furiously for me to slow down.
She says I'm talking to I always talk fast.
That's just who I am.
You gotta keep up.
I'll try to slow it down.
The Democrats, if you're just tuning in, you should have been here at the top of the hour.
Nonetheless, I won't hold it against you.
If you're just tuning in, the Democrats are going to go after race as the big issue in 2014.
The affirmative action case in the Supreme Court today, where they ruled citizens do not have to discriminate.
Citizens of the nation can vote and choose not to discriminate in racial preferences.
The Democrats are going to use that to tell black voters, you gotta come with us, you gotta stick with us.
You know that black guy, Clarence Thomas, we got to get rid of him.
They're going to whip people into fear.
You just listen.
They're going to start saying Republicans want to impeach the president.
If you don't turn out to stand by your man, Tammy Wynett's of the world, the Republicans will impeach him.
They probably should for some of the things he's done.
They're not going to.
The Republicans would never do it.
Some Republicans may play into the Democrats' hands and say, yes, that's what we're going to do.
They're not.
You and I both know they're not going to do it, even if they win the Senate, but the Democrats are going to start claiming it.
And now Chris Hayes, he's got a show on that network no one watches.
He's actually got an article up.
I kid you not.
Let me just read you his tweet.
I just retweeted it on my Twitter feed.
My essay for the nation on the parallels between the abolition of slavery and today's climate fight.
Yes, that's right.
That's right.
A liberal comparing the abolition of slavery to the climate fight.
It's just another way to incite people.
You know, pollution is racist.
Now, the Democrats have another secret weapon on their side.
And it's a very important weapon that we should not Underestimate.
The Democrats have the secret weapon that could destroy Republican chances ultimately and improve Democratic chances.
It's a secret weapon that people rarely talk about.
I, as your host, will talk about it.
It's called Republicans.
Yes, never fear my friends.
John Boehner today on Twitter is already asking folks if the Republicans should get rid of the earmark ban, upsetting fiscal conservatives everywhere, the mere suggestion of it.
The earmarks are how Republicans for so many years were able to drive up the cost of government by bribing conservatives to vote for legislation.
The Democrats did it as well.
Are they going to do that?
What about immigration?
You've got Bob Dole out, the voice of the establishment attacking guys like Ted Cruz and Rand Paul, saying they're too extreme for the Republican Party.
You've got the establishment out there beating up conservatives.
The Chamber of Commerce, God bless them, I'm usually on their side, but they're going after solid conservatives.
You have this main street Republican partnership.
They claim to be conservative.
They call themselves, I heard Mark Belling pointed out yesterday, the governing wing of the governing party or some such nonsense.
They're a bunch of liberals.
You got Republican members of Congress glad handing with them, helping George Soros funded groups and unions raise money for them to attack other Republicans.
They're coming for the conservatives.
Never underestimate the power of the party that lacks testicular fortitude.
That would be my party.
I used to be an elected Republican.
Never underestimate us, screwing it up, snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.
The Democrats cannot win in November.
The map is against them.
The polling is against them.
The presidential polling is against them.
The redistricting is against them.
But the Republicans can still lose.
There's a big difference between the two.
And the Republicans seem like they want to be headed that way.
The Republicans, if they raise immigration in the House of Representatives, they very well could.
If they start walking back on Obamacare, they very well could.
And the media's doing their best for the Republicans.
There have been a bunch of intellectual elites on the Republican side out there in the past few weeks, writing stories about Obamacare.
Saying, well, you know, we we we can fix it.
We we don't need to repeal it.
We we can fix it.
We can make it work.
These technocrats on the Republican side, they're the ones we gotta watch out for.
More than the Democrats, it's the technocrats on the Republican side who could mess this up for us.
The American public does not like Obamacare.
They want Obamacare repealed.
The Democrats are gonna run stores.
I've got one out of the AP right here, that well, Swan Lockett had high hopes that President Obama's health overhaul would lead her family to an affordable health insurance plan, but that hasn't happened.
Instead, because lawmakers in her state refuse to expand Medicaid.
Because they're racist.
The 46-year-old mother of four from Texas uses home remedies or pays seventy-five dollars to see a doctor when she had an asthma attack.
If I don't have the money, I just let it go on its own, Lockett said.
Yes, you know, it's it's because of the Republicans that this is happening because they hate poor people, they hate black people, they hate women, they hate Hispanics, they hate them all.
I mean, the media is going to play this angle up.
Jonathan Martin at the New York Times had a story over the weekend about the problem for the Democrats with Obamacare is it's helping people.
It's just the people it's helping don't vote.
So the Democrats want them to vote.
And the Republicans, of course, are going to play into their hands if they're not careful by talking about fixing Obamacare, by talking about leaving it.
The problem is government.
Ronald Reagan was right.
But our problem in this election cycle is there are a lot of Republicans who have decided the problem isn't government.
The problem is Democrats in charge of government.
They think they can tame the Leviathan.
They can fix the Leviathan, they can heal the Leviathan.
They can be, in essence, as Rush points out repeatedly, Democrat light.
And when voters are given a choice between the real thing or the pretend thing, they're gonna go for the real thing.
The Republicans can lose this thing in November.
And they need to be careful playing into the Democrats' hands.
But this this racial rhetoric from the Democrats that's gonna get worse over time.
That's not gonna win it for them.
They're waiting for the Republicans to play into their hands.
They're waiting for the Republicans to trip up.
The Democrats, meanwhile, understand what's ahead of them in 2014, and they're trying to mitigate the damage.
They're trying to hold the losses.
They're trying to stop the inevitable from coming.
James Carville, a friend of mine, I like James.
He's wrong about everything other than LSU and Bourbon.
He's got a new poll coming out, basically saying the Democrats need to whip these people into a frenzy over these things.
When we come back, I'll break down what Stan Greenberg and James Carville are advising the Democrats and what the Democrats are advising the Republicans to do.
Hint.
They need another Bush, according to the Democrats.
We'll be back.
Welcome, the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Glad to be with you, glad to be filling in today.
Thanks, Rush, for the opportunity.
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James Carville and Stan Greenberg.
They run this thing called Democracy Corps.
And they do polling, they do research.
You know, full disclosure.
I I don't want to I don't want to like destroy his career and credibility among the left, but I know James.
We were on CNN together for three years.
I disagree with him on everything other than Mary Matlin, the Saints and LSU and Bourbon, but nonetheless, I like the guy when we aren't talking politics, but they've they've released this memo.
The urgent economic narrative of 2014.
Now, people...
I need to start here by telling you this is not comedy.
You may think it's comedy.
You may want to laugh hysterically, but they're serious.
They're absolutely serious.
This short memo provides guidance on each of these issues.
Democrats can change the equation.
If they show they understand people's financial struggles, get the narrative right, push back against an economy that works only for the one percent and offer an economic agenda that puts working women first.
Democrats, this is oh my lord.
Democrats have to be hard-hitting and focused on the economy.
At a start, Democrats should bury any mention of the recovery.
That message was tested in a bipartisan poll we conducted for NPR.
Do I even need to go on after that?
Yes, NPR.
The Democrats are conducting a quote unquote bipartisan poll for national public radio funded by the Obama administration.
And it lost to the Republican message championed by Carl Rove.
The Democratic message missed how much trouble people are in and doesn't convince them that policy makers really understand or are even focused on the problems they continue to face.
Hey, I've got a message for the Democrats they can run on.
I mean, they're already saying this is what they're gonna run on.
Obamacare.
It sure is great.
We just love Obamacare.
Bohica people, Bohica.
I mean, this is what the Democrats intend to run on.
They're going to claim that the Republicans are the reason the recovery failed.
Well, they're not even gonna say recovery anymore.
Remember, go back to 2009.
The White House that summer was claiming the recession is over.
And how's it working?
Home sales are at a 20-month low now.
Middle-class Americans of middle age are moving back in with their business.
Think about this one.
Middle class, middle-aged Americans are moving back in with their parents.
This recovery of Barack Obama's is going so well, isn't it?
I'm I mean, I I'm really I'm having a hard time fathoming some of these things that are out there in the news.
The Los Angeles Times today has this story.
At a time when the still sluggish economy is sent a flood of jobless young adults back home, older people are quietly moving in with their parents at twice The rate of the young.
For seven years through 2012, the number of Californians aged 50 to 64 who live in their parents' home swelled 67.6%.
According to the UCL center, UCLA Center for Health Policy Research.
And the Insight Center for Community Economic Development.
Okay.
The jump, by the way, some of you are saying, well, they're moving in to help with their aging parents.
No, no, no, no.
According to this survey, they're not.
They're moving in because of their own personal economic problems.
In Barack Obama's America.
That's why they can't talk about the recovery.
They ran in 2009 and 2010 on the recovery and Obamacare, and it didn't work.
They're going to pull the same playbook this time, but now they're going to throw in racism.
Yes, yeah, absolutely.
It Yes.
Liberation.
This is snurdly saying it's liberation.
Yes, but they're being liberated because the government's liberating them of a job.
I mean, they they they're losing their jobs, they're losing their income, so they're moving back in with their parents.
Now, what about these middle class people, middle-aged people who have their own kids?
It looks like they're all moving in together.
Of course, the left will now say, well, see, in Barack Obama's America, we believe in family.
And we're reuniting families under a single roof.
They may be divorced, they may be starving.
They may be without jobs, but at least they're reunited in a household.
We've liberated them from jobs so they are free to pursue other dreams, as Nancy Pelosi said.
I mean, you got James Carville and Stan Greenberg telling Democrats not to run on the recovery they've been championing for five years now.
Because people haven't recovered in their recovery.
And they're going to run on Obamacare.
The New Republic actually had an article out yesterday.
That any well-meaning, well-intentioned person has to admit that Obamacare is doing good for people.
Only those evil, awful partisan Republicans, the racists out there think it's doing something wrong.
This is what they want to do.
This is how they want to run.
I say we let them do it.
I mean, the Democrats are convinced Obamacare is a winner.
They were convinced in 2010 it was going to be winner.
Once people realize what Obamacare was really like, they were gonna fall in love with it.
They were gonna fall in love with big government all over again.
I mean, it was a wet kiss to Franklin Roosevelt and Lyndon Johnson, all rolled into one.
How's that for a sick comparison?
Ooh, I'm gonna have nightmares generated by myself with that.
Nonetheless, that's what they want to do.
And they think you're going to buy it.
This is the Democratic Echo Chamber.
You know, I'm an old I'm old enough to know I'm only 38.
But I'm old enough to remember 2006.
That was the year the Republicans were driven from power in Congress.
And I remember listening to Rush, and he and I were having email exchanges about the Republicans who they wanted us, me at Red State, Rush Rush here.
They want us to play up all good news.
Woo-hoo!
And you know, you you can't lose your credibility.
You can't lose your intellectual honesty.
Things were going badly for Republicans.
We didn't want them to lose, but we knew where it was headed.
The public was tired of Republicans who said they were for small government and were driving us over $10 trillion in national debt.
They were tired of the Harriet Myers thing, the immigration thing, the no child left behind thing, the Medicare Party D thing, all of that.
And the Republicans got a drubbing in 2006.
But there were a lot of people out there on the Republican side saying, oh no, people, they don't want another John Kerry.
They saw 2004, they saw what was gonna happen.
They don't want the Democrats, those Democrats, they will cause us to surrender to Al Qaeda.
They will cause us to die because the terrorists will have won if the Democrats take back Congress and the Republicans, yeah, you're right, the American people are with it.
And they weren't.
They were not with the Republicans.
And now I'm seeing this play out all over again with the Democrats.
The Democrats are out there screaming, the Americans are with us on Obamacare.
They love Obamacare.
The only reason the polls say people don't like it is because Republicans who don't control the media are talking it down.
They're patting themselves on the back.
You're getting their circle of jerks together, coming with their with their talking points on how they're going to broadcast it out to the American public and ad campaigns funded by taxpayers.
They're making Kathleen Sibilia Saint Sibilius, they're now trotting her out saying she may just run for the Senate in Kansas, and she's gonna win because she's awesome, and people love what she did for Obamacare.
They love that website.
The Washington free beacon today, by the way, has a report that they can't get rid of the malware.
They haven't been able to root out the foreign spyware in the Obamacare website.
Yes.
People love Kathleen Sabilia.
Saint Saint Kathy of Kansas.
Yes, she is.
First it was Dorothy over the rainbow, and now it's Kathleen Sabilius over reality.
They're gonna put her in the U.S. Senate because they're just trying to calm themselves.
They know what's coming.
This is the same thing Republicans did in 2006 to themselves.
They were just trying to reassure themselves that it was all okay, that they were still going to be in power.
But it didn't work out well for them then.
It's not working out well for the Democrats now.
But you're going to hear the media start heralding Obamacare.
It will be like Jesus legislation.
It will heal the lame, it will make the blind see, it will do everything for everyone, and all of the heroic stories will come in the press, the front pages of the New York Times, and still it will do nothing for the Democrats.
I'm Eric Erikson.
This is the Rush Limbaugh Show.
We'll be back.
We are educating Mr. Snerdley on the term Bohica people.
If you don't know it, Google is your friend, not me.
How's about we well, being a magnanimous guestos, go to the phones earlier than El Rushbow would.
L. Rushbow, of course, he's the master, and so he can go a little longer.
I feel obligated to go to Gray in Indianapolis, Indiana, up first on the EIB network.
How are you, sir?
Good.
How are you?
Thanks for taking my call, Mr. Erickson.
Absolutely.
And please call me Eric.
Mr. Erickson's my dad.
He's listening right now.
It'll confuse him.
Sure.
I got you.
What's up?
I got a question for you.
Why are we still having the same conversation about the Republicans that I heard last election?
Uh during the Obama versus Romney.
And the same thing again in 2010.
And then the same thing back in 2008 about them snatching us out of the jaws of victory.
Well, they're pretty good at it, you have to admit.
It's the same thing.
You know they're going to do it.
Now, 2010, I will tell you, was an anomaly, and for one reason and one reason only.
It was because, if you reflect back, that was when the Tea Party coalesced and came together.
Oh, yes.
We had the media coverage all over the place.
Well, and now the establishment is out to destroy the Tea Party.
I mean, you you've had Mitch McConnell himself say they're going to take out the Tea Party candidates everywhere.
Exactly.
But it's always the same thing.
You know, I I I out here in Indianapolis, we have a conservative show, Greg Garrison.
I don't know if you're familiar with Greg Garrison.
I have been on his show before, I believe, for Red State.
And we continuously have conversations about the Republican establishment versus its base, its grassroots.
And um he has Senator Coates on several times, and I would be in my car driving to work, listening to Senator Coates talk about standing up is not going to uh get anything done.
And I'm just literally screaming in my car at him because I'm like, how is it working for you now?
I mean, this is what you know, Gray.
Let me put this in some perspective for you.
You know, Bob Dole has come out on behalf of the establishment.
He he's their latest mouthpiece, and he said that Ted Cruz and Rand Paul are too extreme, particularly focusing on Ted Cruz, too much of an extremist to be the presidential candidate for the Republicans.
If the Republicans follow along with Ted Cruz, uh things are going to be bad.
You know, Ted Cruz actually was the author of the legislation that just got passed and signed into law by the president.
How about them, Apples?
Uh, banning the Iranian ambassador to the United Nations because he's a terrorist.
Ted Cruz did that, but you know, those those radical, those radical Republicans like Ted Cruz, they can't get anything done in Congress.
How About that, he got that done.
He he's building an army across the country of conservative activists.
They see they fear him, and it's not Bob Dole.
Bob Dole's a fine old senior citizen who served his country loyally in World War II in the Senate.
He was the guy, though, remember, who brought the government back.
We know from Steffi Stephanopoulos' biography of his term in the Clinton office.
They were willing to cave to Gingrich.
And then the day they were going to cave to Gingrich to the government shutdown, Bob Dole turned around and opened the government, and they didn't have to cave to Gingrich.
And so the conservatives, again, they the Republicans, I should say, snatched defeat from the jaws of victory.
Bob Dole's a very nice, well-meaning senior citizen who who served his time and made his money off Viagra, and now he's out there and joining the retirement home, but they bring him back to be the loyal mouthpiece of the people who should be listened to in the Republican Party, at least as Republicans in Washington think.
And what they will point out to you, or what they won't point out to you, I should say, is that every Republican nominee since Ronald Reagan, with the surprising exception of John McCain, opposed Ronald Reagan in 1980.
Think about it.
George H. W. Bush ran against him in 1980.
George W. Bush supported his dad.
Mitt Romney wasn't a Republican at the time.
Bob Dole was running against Reagan opposed to him.
All the Republican nominees opposed Reagan.
Reagan was the anomaly.
And I got to be honest with you, I see the trajectory of where we're headed in this country right now shaping up to be like 1980, where suddenly the Republican outsiders have some sort of advantage over the establishment.
It's the establishment that's having trouble coalescing around the candidate.
They wanted Chris Christie.
Now they're going to flirt with Jeb Bush.
The Democrats are telling them they need Jeb Bush, which should be a warning sign.
I like Jeb, but I think his time has passed.
The establishment seems to be divided.
My buddy, Ben Dominic, he writes this email newsletter, the Transom that I love.
He's got a big post in it.
This morning, uh he'll probably put up at the Federalist his website where he's talking about Ted Cruz is kind of the man to watch coming into 2016 because of this conservative resurgence that he's been leading, able to get legislation through Congress and signed by the President of the United States on foreign policy, no less.
We are well, you know, we we've we've been on the outside, and the establishment usually wins.
It was the establishment who wanted George W. Bush.
It was the establishment who wanted John McCain after him.
It was the establishment who wanted Mitt Romney after him.
It was the establishment who wanted anyone but Reagan in 1980, the last time Republicans overwhelmingly ran ran the presidency with that conservative outsider, Ronald Reagan, who had established himself as an outsider.
They ran people against him.
I mean, you had the entire establishment lined up against him in eighty.
George H.W. Bush, Howard Baker, Bob Dole, you name it.
John Anderson out there as an independent candidate.
They were all opposed to the conservative Renaissance.
And I see where we're headed into 2016, and it just it seems very similar to me.
Now you could be saying, well, you are only five years old in 1980.
Yes, it's true.
I was a youngster back then.
But I'm also a student of history, unlike many people in the media.
Eric Erickson, filling in for Rush Limbaugh, we'll be right back.
Let's see if I can fit John from Crofton, Maryland in this segment.
John, we don't have a lot of time, but I want to get you in there.
How are you?
Good.
What's going on?
Are you following the same foot steps as Sean Hannity?
Didn't he have a talk show down in Atlanta?
I understand you got one.
He did.
He he absolutely did.
Yeah, it seems like age-wise and uh location-wise, uh, you're following in uh uh some uh he's better looking in that conservative footsteps.
But anyway, and I'm surprised you're conservative at 38.
Uh it takes people sometimes even longer than that, even though thirty.
I I was born, I was born conservative.
Good for you.
You're a rush baby.
Anyway, uh I remember when Sandra Day O'Connor uh wrote for the majority on uh affirmative action, I think it was uh in Michigan.
I think it was the University of Michigan system where they were.
Right.
They upheld their policies.
Uh Sandra Day O'Connor wrote this case.
It was about six years ago now.
Sandra Day O'Connor wrote the opinion saying that the University of Michigan could use race-based preferences if they wanted.
So the voters went to the polls and through a constitutional referendum, as the founders of the country designed it, decided to overrule the Supreme Court.
Well, uh hasn't happened yet, I guess.
They're not.
Well, you know, look at what they're doing, though.
I mean, the the minority in the Supreme Court today basically said that the voters can't undo what the courts let them do.
It it it's just it's mind-numbing when you get these black robed masters in Washington who, in their dissents, show the ultimate disdain they have for the American public and democracy.
That they would much rather make us bow down before them, worship, and listen to what they do.
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