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Nov. 3, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 3, 2014, Monday, Hour #3
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And we're back.
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Let me be as blunt as I can.
I am not, even though, even though if this political piece is true, even though it's it it saddens me, it disappoints me.
I think the failure to embrace the Tea Party back in 2010 by the Republican Party may go down on history as one of the all-time gaffes.
They could have been invincible by now.
I know why they didn't.
Tea Party stands for limited government.
The Washington establishment does not want to limit government.
I get that.
I understand it.
And there's now acrimony that has developed and evolved.
However, to me, this election is not about the Republican Party.
And it's not about the Tea Party.
This election is about stopping Barack Obama.
And even at that, let me remind you of something that I posited late last week.
The Republicans have literally taken off the table the only thing that could theoretically stop Obama, and that's impeachment.
They're not going to do it.
We all know why.
But they took it off the table.
They announced publicly in trying to gain favor with minority voters that they weren't going to ever consider impeachment.
Well, fine and dandy, do what you want to do, but there's a message that gets sent with that.
And that message gets sent to Obama, and the message is they're not going to stop me.
Given who Obama is, given what we already know about him, given his policies to date, given his background, given who he is.
it may not matter to him a wit who runs the Senate or the House.
He's going to do what he wants to do as much as he can do in the last two years.
I think people don't have any idea.
That's what scares me.
That literally I don't think people have any idea.
He's got two years left to make good on this transformation of America that he thinks needs to happen.
The Republican Party has promised him they won't stop him with impeachment.
Well, if they're not going to do he's he's contemplating executive action on immigration, I mean he's planning executive action on a number of things.
And I guarantee you what he's gonna say when if this is a massive defeat for the Democrats, if it is this wave landslide defeat, you know what he's gonna say?
He's gonna say that he's got to save the country from the Republicans.
He's just gonna assume for the sake of getting his words out there.
He's just he's just gonna adopt the attitude that the nation is now scared to death, that the Republicans, the people are conducting the war on women, the racists, the sexists, the bigots, and the homophobes, have somehow wrested control of the U.S. Senate.
It's his job to make sure they don't matter.
He's going to portray these election results as a national crisis that only he can now save the country from.
The media will be right in there with him.
Media will help however they can to spin this away from whatever.
Doesn't matter.
I know the country is who voted.
It doesn't matter.
The arrogance, the supremacy, the superiority, the confidence that he has, knowing the media is going to back him up, means he will say whatever his base believes, his base is going to believe, whatever he says.
His base is going to think that the election was stolen from him, that there was massive cheating, that it was illegitimate to win, and the country is now facing a grave crisis because these hate mongers and these racists and these sexists and so forth are now in control of the Senate.
Look, folks, don't be frightened by this.
I'm not, I'm just, and I hope I'm wrong.
But I know these people, I know what they're gonna do.
I know how Obama's gonna justify what his plans are the next two years.
Give you an ultimate possibility, and that is he wants the Republicans to win everything, precisely so he can use the excuse that they won to do his executive orders.
Okay, so these guys that don't like me, these guys who want me to fail just won.
And I can't let down this country by failing.
I can't allow myself to fail.
And these are the guys who want me to fail, and they want I have to save this country from these guys.
Some variation of that.
But let's look at the other side here.
There will be, if the Republicans win, and hear me and hear me loud on this.
There will be a Republican mandate.
The Republican Party is going to have one hell of a mandate, by the way, if it wins.
The Republican Party is going to have one of the most important biggest mandates I can recall a party ever having.
It is going to have one for one reason.
To stop Obama.
That is their mandate.
That is why they're going to win.
That is why people are voting against Obama to stop him.
Democrats, Reagan Democrats, moderates, Northerners, Southerners, Catholics, Irish, you name it, everybody who makes up the coalition voting against Obama tomorrow is doing so to stop Obama.
They're doing so hoping they're stopping Obamacare.
They do so hoping they're putting people back to work.
They do so, they're voting against Obama, hoping to reignite the U.S. economy.
They're voting against Obama to stop open borders.
They are voting against Obama to stop everything that's going on.
That is a huge mandate.
The Republicans may not, as we sit here today, realize this.
But that's why they're going to win.
They have no other thing to fall back on.
They have not offered an agenda.
Strategically and by design.
They have offered nothing.
They have not said vote for us because we will do X. They haven't even said vote for us, other than individually in their campaigns, but in terms of nationally and having an agenda and a message that is identified with the Republican Party, something that builds the Republican brand, there isn't one.
Or am I missing something?
Speak now if I'm if I'm forgetting something.
But I think by design the Republican Party has gone silent.
Correct.
They have gone silent, they remain silent.
They are now individual candidates are saying whatever they're saying.
Don't miss something.
But I'm talking about the overall message.
Ask somebody who just got here from Mars, what's the Republican stand for?
They don't know.
Ask somebody in Oregon, what's the Republican Party stand?
I don't know.
They're not Obama.
That's it.
This is not a criticism.
It's just the way it's happened.
And as such, whether they know it or not, they are going to have one of the biggest and most important mandates a political party has ever had.
One of the most specific mandates, and they're going to acquire this mandate without ever having even articulated it.
That mandate is to stop Obama.
What else can their mandate be?
If we have a record turnout for midterms, if we have this wave defeat for the Democrat Party, which is what it's going to be if it's a wave anything, though it would be wave Republican victory.
But if there are these massive defeats, if it is a Democrat Party catastrophe, there's only going to be one reason for it, and that is people want what's happening now to stop.
This is why, ladies and gentlemen, Chuck Todd and all the Democrats and All the media are out saying that they hear people saying they really don't want to, but they just so upset they got to vote against Obama Democrats, but they really hate voting for Republicans.
They really are holding their nose.
They really it's I've never heard this tried before.
They're trying it.
They're trying to convince as many people as possible that a land slide defeat for a particular party is actually a defeat for the party that wins.
That's what they're trying to create.
So whether the Republican leadership knows it or not, whether they have stopped to consider it or not, whether they will stop to consider it or not, and whether they will act on it or not, the fact remains, even with their strategic silence during this campaign, they will have a mandate with their victory.
And that mandate is to stop Barack Obama.
Stop the policies of Barack Obama and the policies of the Democrat Party to stop what Harry Reid has been doing, both policy-wise, the way he's talking, the way he is polluting the entire institution of American politics, ditto Pelosi, ditto Debbie Blabbermouth Schultz.
I'm sorry if you Democrat underground types haven't stopped to consider this.
But it's going to be a huge mandate.
You're out there trying to devise this scheme where the Republicans win without a mandate.
Ha ha ha.
The voters provide the mandate.
The voters are going to be voting for a reason.
And it's not just because they're tired and want a change.
They are voting to stop what is happening.
They are voting to stop the policies of the Democrat Party in Barack Obama.
Therefore, it is going to be up to the Republican Party to rise up to accept this mandate and use it.
That means no amnesty.
That means secure the borders.
That means stop all of this unnecessary federal spending, stop the welfare state, reduce the growth of government.
This will be the mandate.
There can be no other.
An election with this much passion, an election with this many millions of people showing up and standing athwart history and yelling stop cannot be portrayed as simply a bunch of people who are tired and want to vote for the other guys for a change.
This is an election with a singular purpose.
A primary main energizing impetus and reason for showing up and voting.
It is to stop the expansion of the policies of the Democrat Party and Barack Obama.
And the Republican Party is being voted for to do just that.
Whether they want to admit that they've got this mandate or not, that is what is on the ballot tomorrow.
And that is why everybody needs to show up and vote to stop what is happening to our country.
And one more thing.
I don't think the Democrats and the media are going to waste time asking what Republicans plan on doing to work with Obama.
No.
I think we're so far beyond that.
Remember now we're dealing with a bunch of statist authoritarians.
They're not interested in working with Obama.
they're not interested in Obama even working with anybody.
And that would include Republicans working with Obama.
I think what they will do is ask and analyze how Obama plans to ignore Congress.
That will be that'll be the template.
That'll be the narrative.
Not our previous caller was right.
In the old days, after Republicans win big, they would always ask, okay, what are they going to do?
What are they going to do now to cooperate and work with the Democrat president?
But that's long gone.
Now the question's going to be how will Obama ignore them?
How will he get around them?
How will Obama do what he has to do to spite them?
That will be the new spin.
Here's uh here's Scott in Waterloo, Iowa.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hello.
Thank you, Mr. Limbo.
I am really honored to be on your uh your show.
Thank you very much, sir.
Appreciate it.
I'm honored to have you.
Love your books.
They're they're fabulous.
Um what I wanted to uh comment on was the uh fear that's coming out of the Democratic Party here in Iowa.
They are terrified apparently because on uh the radio channel that I listen to, Radio Station I listened to all day long.
There are four uh four conservative talk hosts all day long, and during these shows, they have been bad mouthing Joni Ernst all the way through.
Um, not the host, the uh the Democrats have been having their little say so in their commercials, saying how terrible she is and she's gonna take away the uh the Social Security from everybody, and I mean they've they scared my parents into not wanting to vote for until I sat them down to talk with them a little bit.
You know, discussed that she can't do that on her own.
And you know, it would take an ask the Congress.
Well, wait a minute.
It's it's it's not true either.
Not only can she not do it, it's not true.
Look, you need to tell your grandparents, uh as parents, you need to sit your parents now and say, hey, dad, do you remember 30 years ago when the Democrats tried this about your mom and dad?
Do you remember 50 years ago, Mama, the Democrats said that the Republicans are going to take away your Social Security?
Mom and Dad, has anybody ever lost their Social Security?
Mom and Dad, have the Republicans ever taken anybody Social Security away?
In fact, isn't the Republicans the guys who came up with the latest social secure Medicare Part B entitlement?
To me, this is a sign of utter crisis failure, disaster impending.
If the Democrats are reduced to claiming a woman who is not even in the Senate yet is going to take away their social security.
The reason why it's it used to work is because if that's all you had as a seasoned citizen, you couldn't take the risk.
If somebody came along that you trusted your friendly neighborhood Democrat Charlatan and told you that the other guys wanted to take away your social security, you didn't have time to analyze it.
Oh no, they won't.
You vote against those guys.
But it stopped working.
You know where it really stopped working?
In Florida.
It doesn't work.
God's waiting room, and it doesn't work.
And you know why does it work?
Because nobody has ever lost their social security.
To me, this is a last ditch panic effort.
Uh and and Scott, you can't stop them from running the ads.
You can't stop them from doing this, is all they've got.
Uh I know it scares you that it scared your parents into not voting for her.
That's the intended result.
And you did the right thing by telling them that she couldn't do it by herself anywhere, anyway, but you you need to go back to them and ask them to think.
If they know anybody or have heard of anybody who ever had their social security taken away from them.
Now, there have sometimes when there's a death in the family and their SSI benefits that are disputed and so forth, but outside of that, it doesn't happen.
It never has.
Ask them, have you ever heard?
Do you ever remember a single piece of legislation where the Republicans advanced a bill that said resolved we will eliminate Social Security on everybody over 55?
Have you ever heard it's never happened?
It's never even been contemplated.
Except by the Democrats.
It's called death panels in Obamacare.
If you want to tell your parents the truth about who's planning to take things away from the elderly, you point them to Obamacare, Scott, and you point, you know, call these local hosts or whatever, anybody you need to call, and you tell them if the if if your parents or any other seasoned citizen wants to really, if they're really worried about government taking away things, tell them Obamacare.
Tell them a Democrat Party, tell them death panels, tell them it's the Democrat Party and Obamacare that's going to make a decision based on somebody's age and their future productivity versus a young person, whether it makes any sense to cure whatever else ailed them.
It's right there in Obamacare.
There will be health rationing.
It's a Democrat Party idea.
Joni Ernst hasn't even gotten anywhere near that.
Joni Ernst opposes Obamacare and everything in it.
As is most often the case when the Democrats level a charge like this.
Scott, they're actually describing themselves and trying to lay it off on their opponents called projection.
It's the Democrat Party that has already cut people's health benefits, already raised their premiums, already eliminated the relationship with their doctors and nurses and health insurance company.
Democrat Party's already started destroying their relationship with health care.
Hey, folks, there's some other things out there that I want to touch on here before the program comes to a screeching halt.
For example, there's a um it's from the ChristianPost.com, but it's actually a uh uh research from the American Enterprise Institute.
And the sum total of the research is this families with a married mother and father are key to economic success.
It's very simple and time-tested way to be successful in America.
Get married and stay married and raise your kids.
Facts are right here.
It's exhaustive research.
They won't allow there to be a conversation about it because this is one of the reasons why they want to get in this whole message of changing the definition of marriage, by the way.
But the research is what it is.
Families with married mother and father are key to economic success.
It's not race, it's not rich versus sports, not the rich hoarding all the money.
It is who ends up getting larger shares of the economic pie.
They just happen to be uh people that come from mom and dad families.
There's no discrimination in it and no judgmentalism.
It's just this is what is.
Intact families or when children are raised by their married biological mother and father are key factor in producing economic success and personal well-being, according to a new report presented at the American Enterprise Institute.
Those who grow up in intact homes are better educated, they're more likely to be employed, they have higher levels of income than people raised in broken homes, even after controlling for other factors.
This is one of the key findings in the report authored by Robert I. Lerman, professor of economics at American University, and W. Bradford Wilcox, professor of sociology and director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia.
And we will link to this at rushlinbaugh.com so you can read the whole thing from Gallup gun support laws.
Well, support for stricter gun laws is dropping.
There's some legal insurrection.
Gallup's latest gun rights themed poll shows that by and large, Americans have not been swayed by high profile shootings into giving up their Second Amendment rights.
Across the board, support for stricter regulations has dropped in every demographic except for independence.
Support ticked up one percentage point between 2012 and 2014 in independence.
Even Democrats, liberals, and moderates have slowly lost their enthusiasm for stricter gun control laws.
Their support dropping eight points across the board.
Despite the media and despite all the shootings.
That's right, Mayor Doomberg wasted all of that money.
A list of the celebrities who appeared in the midterm Rock the Vote PSA.
You've heard of Rock the Vote.
Used to be tied to MTV.
That's where it got started, but it was uh it was uh an effort by Hollywood liberals to get the youths to turn out to vote.
Turns out that over half of the celebrities who appeared in the PSA for Rock the Vote didn't actually vote themselves in the last midterm.
That's right.
Rock the Vote released a PSA last month with a parody of Lil John's Turned Down for What that featured public figures who explained why they planned to vote in the midterm elections.
But according to public records, a number of them did not vote in the last midterm.
At least five who appeared in the PSA.
Girls actress Lena Dunham, Whoopi Goldberg, the Orange is the new black actress Natasha Leone, Rich Kids of Beverly Hill star E.J. Johnson Magic's Kid, and actor Darren Chris did not vote in the last midterm.
Records from LA County and New York City show.
Story is in the Washington Post.
What I make of that?
Uh that's easy what to make of that.
Just a bunch of fraud, just a bunch of celebrities trying to get credit for caring about doing the right thing, civic responsibility, go up here at a PSA, but don't hold me to what I'm telling you to do.
What do you mean?
What do I make of it?
They're just frauds to begin with.
There's nothing to make of it.
First case of voter fraud confirmed in a Rio Ariba County in Albuquerque, New Meiko.
And uh in Wisconsin, a mail carrier has been investigated over allegations of throwing away Republican mailers.
The vote frauds at James O'Keefe with another video that showed people instructing illegals how to vote.
Campaign manager ended up getting canned over the James O'Keefe video.
Let's see.
Did I mention that Bill Clinton plugs Kay Hagen in North Carolina?
Did I mention I did mention that?
Yes, I did at the top of the story.
Headline, Bill Clinton plugs Kay Hagen in uh in North Carolina.
Subhead Monica Lewinsky jealous.
No, it doesn't say that.
It's just that this would.
Just my own little creativity here, ladies and gentlemen.
Okay, back to the phones.
This is Frank in Des Moines, Iowa.
Glad you uh waited, sir.
Hello.
Yeah, thanks, Rush.
Uh, as a lifelong Iowan, uh, this sexist slam by Harkin against Joni Ernst was just a way to to uh belittle her looks, to marginalize her looks and saying that there's there's nothing behind the looks.
It's just fluff.
Right.
And Hillary Clinton slammed our state when she left the last go around, saying that we weren't diverse enough, and that uh we've never put a woman uh a woman in office from our state.
And then you got Bill Clinton out there saying, uh, we need to get rid of identity identity politics, and then Hillary's over in Cedar Rapids embracing identity politics.
So uh these guys need to get their story together.
No, they don't.
Uh it obviously worked.
That's you're concerned about it.
You're calling concerned they're getting away with all this lying and misstatements.
You're worried about people falling for it, right?
Where's the press gonna call them on it?
Never N-E V E R it is never going to happen.
If Chuck Grassley would have made the same statement against a Democrat woman running for Senate of this state, he would have been uh hauled out of uh D.C. on a rail.
No kidding.
Absolutely right.
If Bill Clinton would have talked about Joni Ernst's looks, somebody would have tried to set him up on a date.
It's a double standard that has always existed, and it will continue to exist.
You know, Bill Clinton once said, Yeah, I gotta look at that mummy that 500 years old.
And that mummy, I'll tell you if I'd have been alive back when she ought to ask that mummy out.
And people thought he's the coolest.
He's married.
His wife's in the White House somewhere, and here comes some six-foot tall basketball, college basketball female star.
And Clintons look up at her, and you can actually see him drooling.
You know, I saw a mummy last week looks almost as good as you do, babe.
I love these tall women.
He said that.
He actually had press going, you know, you imagine these tall women.
I mean, ha ha, there's nothing just.
And he's just romanticized, and ah, he's such a cool dude, man, and all that.
And here comes Dung Heap.
Pay no attention to Joni Erst.
All she is is pretty.
And you that's as sex as you can get.
It used to be.
That is exactly the kind of behavior the feminazis claimed that they wanted to wipe out.
Only noticing a woman's appearance.
And the better it was, the little the less anything else about her mattered.
And here comes old Dungheap.
I mean, these guys spit in the face of their own supporters.
They spit in the face of their own policies.
And but when is the media gonna hold him accountable?
Never.
Doesn't Hillary have doesn't isn't Hillary still fuming a little bit over what happened to her in Iowa in 2008 with Obama coming in and mastering the caucus process.
You know, so for Hillary to go insulting Iowa, I would think there'd be a different way of handling this than asking the press to do it.
I say, Mrs. Clinton, are you still upset that Iowa rejected you in 2008?
For the young attractive black guy nobody knew.
That was the start of it all.
He mastered the the caucus process by busting in a bunch of people from out of state, doing whatever he had to do, and Mrs. Clinton's playing by the rules and so forth, and she got smacked out of there.
So it makes perfect sense she'd go back to Iowa and insult people again.
Or whatever it was that she did.
But she is the preferred Democrat nominee in 2016.
So Frank, you're not gonna have anybody in the media or in the Democrat Party in Iowa call the Clintons on any mistakes that they make.
Uh let's see.
You gotta hold.
I'm not gonna have time for this guy on line one, but you've got to get his number, see if he'll let me uh he's he he's upset about the guy from San Angelo.
Good.
I was hoping that I was gonna get somebody.
We don't have enough time to deal.
We've got to call her upset with the guy from San Angelo, Texas, who I held him long enough, he finally betrayed his animus toward the Tea Party.
And we got a Tea Party guy calling, can't believe what he heard.
Not enough time.
We'll do it tomorrow if the guy grants us the opportunity to permission calling back.
Okay, folks, that's it.
Sadly, we are out of busy broadcast moments for the day.
Doesn't matter, though, because it's always tomorrow.
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