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Nov. 3, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 3, 2014, Monday, Hour #2
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And phone calls are coming up very quickly.
I know a lot of you want to weigh in on this.
I was in a golf course Saturday and a guy frustrated.
One of these got to be very careful because most people who ask me about the election, are we going to win the Senate?
As though that's it.
That's all that matters.
And my answer to them is, maybe, but it may not matter.
And they went, well, what do you mean?
And then I have to decide, do I really want to explain or just let it go and not get into it?
Because, and I always decide to let it go and not get into it on the golf course because just a judgment that I'm making.
But this guy that I was playing with said, after asking me if the Republicans are going to win the Senate, and I just said, yeah, which made him very happy.
He said, why can't the Republicans just say?
Why can't they just go out there and say they don't care who women have sex with and they don't care about women's contraception?
And I said, you think that would matter?
Hell yes.
Why don't they just go out and say it?
I said, do you know who Corey Gardner and Tom Tillis are?
Yeah.
I said, do you know that both of them have, in the course of their campaigns, advocated that contraception pills, whatever, be sold over the counter to anybody who wants to buy them?
No, I didn't.
I said, why don't you know that?
Because the media isn't reporting it, and you don't live in North Carolina or Colorado, so you're not following the campaign other than will you think they win or lose.
And I said, even though Corey Gardner has said, has advocated that contraception be made available over the counter, his opponent, the Democrats, are still running ads claiming that Corey Gardner is opposed to women having sex, is opposed to women having contraception.
Corey Gardner wants women to get pregnant and not enter the job market.
They're still saying it.
I said, my point is the Republicans can say anything, and it isn't going to matter.
Their brand has been so damaged now that no matter what they say, the Democrats and the media can easily counter it by saying they don't mean it.
Here you have two candidates for the Senate, both Republicans, who have both in a way of just getting rid of this silly war on women meme.
Just getting rid of it, just swatting it away.
Nobody cares.
George Stephanopoulos is responsible for this with that question of Mitt Romney in January of 2008 in a Republican primary debate.
Ab contraception, nobody cares.
It certainly isn't a campaign issue, and it never has been.
Democrats turned it into one.
And even though two guys running for the Senate have openly refuted it as best you can, hey, I think birth control should be anybody who wants it anytime they want it, over the counter, and nobody knows.
It was my way of trying to explain that there's a lot more going on here than just winning the Senate, and there's a lot more going on than just Republicans saying something to supposedly get an issue off the table.
I said, do you know how many times the Republicans have kicked the can of budget resolution, continuing resolution?
Have you realized how many times Republicans have kicked an issue down the road to get it off the table so that it doesn't hurt them, and yet it still hurts them?
He said, yeah.
I said, well, that's my point.
This goes, this is a lot.
We're up against people that will openly, willingly lie and a media that will happily expand on the lie.
This is a branding issue.
This is not a policy question.
Republicans are going on announcing whatever you want to hear them say on policy isn't going to matter because the Democrats are going to ignore it and the media is going to ignore it and they're just going to continue to lie about what the Republicans say and do.
And until they come up with a way to refute that, and this leads me into there it is.
If they had just embraced the Tea Party back in 2010, they would have won the presidency in 2012.
I am firmly convinced.
And look, folks, I know the drill.
You don't have to tell me.
I imagine some of you chomping at the bid to get through and I know what happens.
Tea Party candidates, the establishment never ever supports them.
Tea Party candidates, the establishment openly talks about how embarrassing they are, and the establishment openly tries to defeat them and harm them, reputations and so forth.
And yet, that same establishment demands that the Tea Party, which has just been disrespected and impugned, turn around out of party loyalty and support all of the establishment's candidates.
Is it a one-way stream?
I know.
I know full well.
I know this politico piece is over the top.
I know that, and it could well be that the Politicos made the piece up.
But I don't, there haven't been any denials yet.
I'll hold out the possibility of the Politico piece.
And for you just joining us, there's a piece at Politico today which says, in a nutshell, that the Republican leadership is going to be happier about the Tea Party losing tomorrow by being unable to beat the establishment than it's going to be about winning the Senate.
Honestly, let me say that again, in case you didn't quite make sense.
The Politico has a piece quoting unnamed Republican sources saying they're going to have a bigger celebrity over the Tea Party losing tomorrow than they are going to celebrate their own victory in claiming control of the Senate.
Now, I'll acknowledge maybe the Politico is making it up.
Maybe they're trying to forge a wedge between Republican forces and so forth, but it hasn't been denied by anybody yet.
And I know it's a two-way, it's a one-way street.
Tea Party candidates, I can give you names.
Every damn one of them, the establishment comes along and tries to damage in some way so they don't win.
But then at the same time, Tea Party people are supposed to just drop everything and support establishment candidates for the sake of party unity.
I know it's a one-way street.
But this election, as was 2012, As was 2010, is it about the Republican Party?
And that's by, that's not me saying that.
That's what the Republican Party's chosen.
The Republican Party doesn't want it to be about them.
That's why this political story is also interesting.
The Republican Party's active strategy in this election has been total silence.
They haven't said a word using the theory that if your opponent's in the middle of destroying himself, stand aside and let it happen and don't distract anybody's attention.
So if the country's fed up with Democrats, if the country's fed up with Obama, if they don't want any more, if they want to change, shut up and don't give them a reason not to support you.
So the Republicans haven't said a word.
Well, I submit to you that therefore this election isn't about the Republican Party.
As much as they would like to say it, it's not about the Tea Party.
This election has always been about repudiating Barack Obama and the Democrat Party and their policies.
It may even be a protest vote.
And I have said this, you've heard me recently, that one of the sad realities of this election is that the people are going to vote against Obama tomorrow are doing just that.
And the people voting against the Democrats tomorrow are doing just that.
Their vote against Obama does not mean they've embraced the Republican agenda.
And I think that's a missed opportunity.
But it doesn't matter.
It's too late now.
But that leaves the truth on the table.
It isn't about the Republican Party.
There is no agenda they've announced other than we're the other guys.
And so that's it.
So they're not going to have a mandate.
They're going to claim one.
The media is doing everything they can to deny them a mandate.
Remember F. Chuck Todd last week.
We had a soundbite, F. Chuck Todd of NBC, their second choice to host Meet the Press, F. Jon Stewart.
I don't know if Jon Stewart would have said this, but Chuck Todd said he'd been conducting his own personal survey.
He went out there and he talked to a bunch of voters, and they're going to vote against the Democrats, but they don't like it because it means they're going to be voting for the Republicans.
And they don't want to vote for the Republicans, but they just, they're so mad they've got to vote against the Democrats.
He's calling it the hold your nose election.
Well, the purpose for saying that, the purpose of saying that, is that if there is a huge Republican wave, I guarantee you what the media is going to say, it had nothing to do with the Republicans.
They're going to invalidate this election.
They're going to delegitimize it on Wednesday morning by claiming people didn't vote for the Republicans here, gang.
I can see the lineup now.
I can see all the White House correspondents standing there in the early shows.
I can see the view.
I can then see the noon shows.
I can see the afternoon and evening cable shows and all the analysts saying this was not a vote for the Republican Party.
The American people, look at our exit polls.
They didn't even want to vote Republican.
They're just so mad they just think we needed a change, but it wasn't a vote for the Republicans.
They're going to deny any kind of a mandate whatsoever.
They might even throw something in along the lines their exit polls might show that the voters in voting against the Democrats really regretted having to vote for the Tea Party or something.
I expect a full frontal assault on the Tea Party while the Democrats perhaps lose in one of the biggest landslides in American history.
You watch, they're going to portray this as the biggest loss for the Tea Party ever.
I know how this is shaking out.
But it's going to be just as bad for the Republicans as far as the media is concerned.
They're not going to credit the Republicans for winning.
They're going to credit the Republicans for not being Democrats.
And how good is this, that the people that voted really didn't vote the way they did?
They didn't want to vote the way they did.
They really wanted to vote Democrats.
They just couldn't.
But they really hated voting Republicans.
Jeff Chuck Todd tells us this is what he found.
You ever heard of an election?
You ever heard of a landslide loss?
Have you ever heard of a landslide defeat portrayed as a win for the people who lost?
Well, that's what's going to happen.
If we get this wave, if this is a huge Democrat loss, the media is going to spin this as anything but.
And everybody's favorite target is the Tea Party.
They will get the blame no matter what happens.
Never any of the credit.
But I really do think about what could have been if the Republican.
The Tea Party represented, still does, a huge majority of Americans opposed to Barack Obama on Obamacare, on foreign policy, on taxes.
If the Republican Party really wants to be a majority party, they don't have to run around and woo and whatever they're doing with Hispanics and African Americans.
They're not going to get enough of those anyway to create a dominant, winning, governing majority.
They're just, they're engaged in surface feel-good stuff.
But there was a real majority just waiting to be connected with.
The problem was that the Tea Party is against big government.
And that's what killed the deal.
Because the establishment of both parties thrives on big and growing government.
It's where everybody lives.
It's where everybody's futures are.
It's where everybody's earnings, salary, jobs, lifestyle, whatever.
It's where everybody, government is where their livelihood is.
And any talk of making it smaller, silly, isn't going to happen.
And since that's what the Tea Party represents, they can't be embraced.
Let me take a brief time out here, and this will leave us enough time on the other side to get started with the phones.
So sit tight.
Don't go away.
We'll be right back.
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Here is Rich in White Plains, New York, as we get started on the phones.
And I'm glad you waited, sir.
Hello.
Thank you, Rush.
Thanks for taking my call.
Rush, there aren't enough people in the media putting things into context for the low-information voter.
It's disconcerting and intellectually dishonest when any Democrat politician refers to those extreme right-wingers called the Tea Party.
And there isn't a single person in the drive-by media who will point out to them that the entire Democrat Party's been hijacked by the extreme left, that every single Democrat politician is effectively a left-wing extremist.
I guess maybe because the entire Democrat Party is to the left and there's no context within the party that the drive-by media ignores it.
You know what I'm saying?
Maybe because there's in the Republican Party, the Tea Party puts the rhinos in perspective, puts a contrast on it.
But it seems like everybody just overlooks the fact.
Are you trying to say that Obama, Reid, and Pelosi are moderates?
What?
I mean, you want the media to tell the truth about the Democrats?
Well, that's never going to happen.
You know, Rush, my next point, and if you'll let me make it, and what you said before about what difference is this election going to make and something to that effect.
I don't think anything's going to happen.
I don't think anything's going to change until Republican politicians start to stand up and call out liberal media.
As long as they keep running and hiding, saying it's something we've got to live with, that's just the way it is, they're never going to get anywhere.
Well, I know a lot of people agree with you on that.
A lot of people think that we will never win because of the media.
And you are saying that on the eve of what may be a catastrophic Democrat Party loss, despite all the money, despite the equivalent gazillions of free money given to Democrats by the media, we're on the verge of what might be a huge landslide loss for them, like 2010 was.
Now, theoretically, that should not be possible because the media is always supporting them.
You have the media in this case, if this all happens, and I still say if because I don't know what to think on this stuff anymore, I wait for the results.
You can't even trust the exit polls anymore, folks.
And it's getting to the point now, there's so much fraud that's been discovered.
So I'm a little reluctant to fall in line here on this catastrophic loss.
And we got Reed and Pelosi, well, Pelosi running around.
It's going to be catastrophic loss for the Democrats.
Biden says, nah, nah, man, we're going to keep this.
The best argument it's going to be a landslide is Biden to me claiming that they're going to keep the Senate.
Plugs is yet to be right.
In 40 years, Joe Biden has not been right about anything.
And that's not an exaggeration in Washington.
He's wrong every time he opens his mouth.
And he's out there saying, nah, nothing to sweat here.
We're going to keep the Senate.
That's the best sign I've got.
The polls, I mean, yeah, we get this close, and their own credibility is a concern they have.
So you think the results they're showing are going to be as best to close as they can get?
Because they care about that.
But if indeed this media argument is, I don't think I'm ever going to be able to vanquish this.
But I'm just going to say, if you, if any of you are waiting to be happy in politics by virtue of the media stopping their blame, wanton support to Democrats, you're going to be miserable for the rest of your days.
It isn't going to happen.
They are the Democrat Party.
Greenville, South Carolina, this is Alvin, and welcome to the EIB Network.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
Thank you so much.
What an honor.
I've been waiting a quarter of a century to talk to you.
It's truly just a privilege.
I really appreciate it.
Thank you, sir, very much.
I was just telling Mr. Sterley that what I predict is going to happen after the most likely Republicans take the Senate as the way it'll be spun in the media is not that it's a mandate for Republican policies, but it'll be they'll be asking the question tomorrow, you know, Morning Joe and MSNBC, well, you know, how are the Republicans going to proceed to work with Obama rather than the other way around?
That, well, you know, obviously his policies have failed.
He's unpopular.
How is he going to work with them?
You think the media is going to spin that it's the Republicans' job to work with Obama, even though he will have lost and his party will have lost and they will have just controlled the Senate?
Yes, exactly.
I think they'll be, I think they'll be, you know, in mourning.
I remember back when I first started listening to you in the early 90s, you know, back when Newt Gingrich and I remember them, you know, you'd have thought it was the assassination of John F. Kennedy again, you know, just their gloomy faces.
So I think it'll be that tomorrow night, if in fact the Republicans are winning, but then I think they'll immediately pivot and say, well, now it's up to the Republicans to work with President Obama and do his agenda, not the opposite.
Well, if it were Bush in 2006, he was expected to work with the Democrats.
If these were normal times, I think you'd be right.
And there may even be some of what you say, but we're not even going to get there.
This Republican victory isn't going to be acknowledged.
Let me repeat again what's going to happen here.
Chuck Todd gave us the indication.
If the Republicans win in this huge landslide, it's not going to be because people wanted to vote for them.
It's because people didn't want to vote for Democrats.
They wanted to change, but they had to hold their nose.
There was no desire to vote for these Republicans.
So, yeah, they may say, okay, Republicans, your victory is illegitimate.
What are you going to do to work with Obama?
But that's poppycock.
Obama is who this election is about.
Obama being rejected is what this is all about.
The Democrat Party and Obama being rejected by, in many cases, their own voters is what this is going to be about.
But the way this has all been spun up till now and will continue to be spun is the Republicans have no mandate, that nobody voted for them.
This was a protest vote.
The vote had nothing to do with Republicans.
So, yeah, I can see them saying, so Mitch, what are you going to do now to work with Obama?
But that happens each and every Republican win.
I just think it's going to be worse than that.
And I also think that there's going to be another component of this, and that is both parties are going to proclaim one way or the other, the Democrats with their buds in the media, proclaiming that who really lost this election is the Tea Party.
That's going to be spun as the big loser.
You wait and see.
Tea Party is going to be the big loser.
The political story today tells us this.
The political story gives us the heads up on what the spin tomorrow or Wednesday is going to be.
The Tea Party's big loser.
And that message is going to be for Ted Cruz and Mike Lee and anybody thinking they want to run for the presidential nomination, Republican Party 2016, representing the Tea Party and its agenda.
The message is going to be, hey, you guys, you've got to have a chance.
The moderate wing of the party just won big here.
Moderate wing, that's what everybody voted for.
You guys got skunked everywhere.
You have a candidate on the ballot.
Your candidates got beat.
Mainstream won everything.
The Tea Party loss is what everybody can't wait to spin on Wednesday.
Not Obama's loss.
You may even get some stories on how the Republicans and Obama are going to work together to advance their mutual agreed to agenda, now that the Tea Party's been vanquished.
Wouldn't be surprised.
Anything could happen here.
But look, there's a larger point here.
I thought you guys would be chewing my head off by now, but let me look at the roster.
Two, three.
Okay, there's one.
Got two up there that I thought I was going to get right off the bat who think I'm sabotaging the Republican Party with my analysis so far.
In fact, let's grab, let's, Aubrey in San Angelo, Texas, you've got to be going there to get there.
You'll never accidentally run into San Angelo, Texas, which is a good thing about it.
It's a great place to go hide.
Aubrey, welcome to the program.
How are you?
Thanks, Rush.
I'm good.
How are you?
I'm fine and dandied.
Listened to you for 22 years, so it's an honor to talk to you.
But you're not happy today, right?
Right.
I've had some of these quite a few of these days lately because, I mean, you're the guy that takes up for the conservatives and the Republicans.
And lately, it seems like I will turn you off a lot because I get tired of hearing the Republicans run down, even though they may deserve it.
Now, Aubrey, nobody turns me off here.
I'm the only guy on radio you never get tired of listening to.
Nobody turns me off.
Well, I mean, you know, if you're not getting pleased, if you start to get upset, the thing about it, Rush, is like this politico article.
Yep.
Okay.
Now, most of the time when you bring the politico up, you run them down.
I do.
But today, all of a sudden, they know exactly what they're talking about.
And the article, to me, would depress our turnout and encourage these Tea Party people to stay home.
So even if it's correct, it doesn't need to be aired because tomorrow is the most important day we've had.
We've had six years of this Obama guy.
Right.
And it's critical that we win.
Well, let me ask you.
It's a fair point.
You're asking me to be an editor of sorts here and to understand that there's some news today that might actually be counterproductive to our side, and I should maybe downplay it a little bit.
Correct.
But this politico piece, have you read it?
No, I wouldn't have read it.
I wouldn't even have heard it if it hadn't been for you.
Right, okay.
Okay, that's your point.
So I'm amplifying this.
Well, the only reason, you don't hear me talking about politico much because it's a Democrat Party house organ.
But the reason that this stood out to me today is because the sources are all Republicans.
They're unnamed, but these are unnamed Republican sources here that are talking about.
I know, but it's just like from some of those talk shows this morning, Laura Ingham, Glenn Beck, they're all saying things that what the Republicans are going to do, how bad it's going to be, how they're going to double-cross everybody and they get elected.
All that's doing is depressing our turnout.
And then I turn over to you, and it's the first time I've ever called you.
Wait a second.
Let me ask you, I want you to answer this honestly.
Okay.
Do you think it seems to me 4 million people, 4 million Republicans did not vote in 2012.
And it wasn't because of anything I had to say.
It wasn't because of anything I did.
I was out there stumping.
Once Romney became the nominee, he was my guy.
And I was refuting all the lies they were telling about him.
And I was telling all of the positive stories I knew about Romney and his family.
Still, 4 million people made up their own minds, despite what I was saying, 4 million Republicans decided to stay home and not vote.
And they were later found out to be people that wanted to teach the Republican Party a lesson.
Now, I don't think I'm going to have any impact on turnout here.
I think it's not as though Republican voters do not know what the party is or isn't doing and is or isn't.
Are you going to stay home?
I always vote the first day of early voting, but Rush.
Well, then why am I not persuading you to stay home?
But do you think I'm going to persuade all these others to get mad and stay home or get different?
Because I know a lot of these Tea Party people.
I know them, and I know how they think, and I know how they're one issue, and how they get mad.
We have to- Wait a minute.
You know how these Tea Party people think?
I see what they say.
You sound mad at the Tea Party.
Well, I'm not mad at them, but I'm telling you, they're not a bunch of saints and the smartest people in the world.
A big part of them are kind of new to the party, as a matter of fact.
And a lot of them are naive.
And they believe whatever they read on the internet, a bunch of them will believe it.
And you can refute it with facts, and they still will not believe you.
They'll tell you Snopes is a.
Well, that sounds just like the media.
That sounds just like the Democrats.
You give them the truth and the facts, and they won't believe it.
I'm telling you, I'll send them an email when they'll send a fact, just like something like Congressmen don't pay into Social Security.
I mean, just facts that are wrong, and you cannot convince them that if they read it on the Internet, three-fourths of these Internet emails come out are full of incorrect things.
And when you send them out, you ruin your credibility.
When I send them out?
No, when a person does, and I try to tell these people that because they're on our side, don't send this stuff out that's wrong because it hurts our credibility, the conservative portion of people's credibility when you send things that are just factually wrong out.
Well, this is fascinating.
Tea Party people are kooks.
Well, not, he didn't say kooks.
I don't want to put word in Aubrey's mouth, but you can't tell them anything.
They're a single issue.
They refute facts.
They're not very informed and naive.
They're not the brightest people.
Exactly right.
And, of course, they're all sitting out there waiting with bated breath for me to tell them what to do, which and they send out bad emails.
You can't talk to them.
I can't talk to them.
Anyway, folks, I'm sorry, I'm up against another time.
I have to take a break.
Aubrey, thank you much.
We'll be back and continue after this.
But let me just remind everybody of something.
I, knowing full well the very narrow line I've been walking here.
And it's really not all that narrow because the thing is, I am fully aware you people are right.
You make up your own minds.
You're not my robots waiting for me to tell you what to do.
You're going to vote or not based on your own inclinations.
The point that I made earlier was do not not vote to send anybody a message or teach them a lesson because it's not going to happen.
This election is about stopping Obama.
It has to happen.
And there is, it can't happen if the Democrats don't lose.
It may not happen.
The Republicans may end up, I don't know, not wanting to continue to oppose him.
But that's something we can't know.
The only thing we can do, we have to stop the Democrats.
They have to be defeated.
And the only way to do that is to vote against them.
And you don't do that by staying at home.
Anyway, I've got to take a quick timeout.
Sit tight.
We'll be back.
Much more right after this.
So you see, you see how this is shaping up, folks.
Our good old pal Aubrey from San Angelo, Texas, just essentially blamed me if the Republicans lose.
Because I, in not full-throatedly supporting the Republican Party, will cause you to get mad because I'm telling you what the political story says, and that's going to make you so mad you will stay home.
Therefore, it is my fault, in his view, that we will lose.
Now, I am very wary of getting much deeper into this because I don't want to lose sight of the objective.
The objective here is stopping the Democrats.
I don't care if the Republican Party isn't ideal and perfect.
If we don't stop the Democrats, everything else is academic.
There is no upside for the Democrats winning.
There is no upside.
There's no way to teach the GOP establishment, if you think this is necessary, a lesson by not voting.
I've heard this theory ever since I've been alive.
We need to not vote.
We need to let the Democrats win.
We need to let people find out how bad it is under them.
And that's when I'll never vote for them again.
Well, we'd have never gotten Obama if that theory had any validity to it.
Because we had people that voted for Clinton instead of Bush 41 because they were mad at Bush 41.
Now, there are members of the Republican Party who have said in the heat of battle they want to crush the Tea Party.
I have not said that.
They have.
I'm not a bad guy for telling you that.
Am I supposed to suppress the bad news coming out of our party?
That's what Aubrey wants me to do, is to suppress the bad news because so many of you are mind them robots that you'll get so mad you won't vote.
And so the way this manifests itself, so Mitch McConnell or whoever in the establishment, you know it as well as I do.
They have trashed the Tea Party.
They have blamed the Tea Party now.
They have, not me.
They have.
Then, if the Republicans don't do well, it's going to be my fault.
This is the exact reasoning of the left.
This is what the media says, that it's my fault.
A guy on the radio.
I don't know.
I just, it's very dangerous ground we're all on here.
And the objective is not to teach the Republicans a lesson.
You can't anyway, any more than the Democrats can be taught a lesson.
Not this way.
The important thing is, and if anybody is confused about where I stand on this, please hear me.
The only thing to me that matters here is stopping Obama and the Democrats, getting them out of office in positions of power.
The only way to do that is to vote against them.
You cannot vote against them staying at home.
Can I be any clearer than that?
I got to take a break.
I'm sorry for that, folks, but that's what happens when the time flies, because I'm the guy you never get tired of listening to.
That's what.
Hey, look, and I'll tell you that the Tea Party is not all sweetness and light.
The Tea Party's, it has been infiltrated by some libertarian Ron Paul people, folks, nothing as clean and pure as the wind-driven snow.
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