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Nov. 10, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 10, 2014, Monday, Hour #2
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You are tuned to the most listened to radio talk show in America, the Rush Limbaugh program on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
Great to have you with us, my friends, kicking off a brand new week of broadcast excellence from the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
Television numbers 800-282-2882 and the email address lrushmaugheibnet.com.
As usual, I check the email.
Top of the hour break.
I always do.
I give the email address out.
It would only be a nice thing, good manners, to check these, so I always do.
And a couple got their, I got my interest.
Why are you spending all this time talking about the Democrats?
Rush, they lost.
They lost.
And I don't want to hear.
Another great question, and I'll tell you exactly why.
If it's one thing, no, I can't say there's one because there's many.
One of the many things I would love to be able to nuke in the minds and attitudes of conservatives is this idea that the Democrat Party is omnipotent and infallible and never loses and is brilliant and is outsmarting us at every turn.
If I could dissuade people from believing that, because that attitude leads to fatalism or defeatism, and that's not what we need.
It's going to take a lot of elections like we just had.
And then after that, it's going to take the implementation of the right agenda to not just stop what's going on, but then to turn the ship and get it going in the right direction.
And I think it's crucial to very important to have an honest understanding of who your opponents are, what their strengths and weaknesses are, and what they're capable of.
But the idea they can't be beat has been disproven here, big time, and in 2010 as well.
Now, presidential years are a different animal, and there are demographic and electoral reasons for that, but they can be overcome too, just like this was.
The great thing about these two elections is the American people, when they found out what was going on, steadfastly said stop it.
Now, we would have stopped it in 2012 if some Republicans had shown up and voted.
That 2012 election is not the Republicans getting beat, it's the Republicans not showing up.
And that illustrates its own set of problems on the Republican side.
I'll deal with that on another day.
This new Democrat Party, there was a piece on this last week, as it turns out.
And this guy kind of dovetails with the way I think about it.
His name is Daniel Greenfield, and it was at, what's the website?
You know, Apple has this great feature in Safari called Reader.
And it just takes out every graphic, it takes out every picture.
All it does is print the text, but it doesn't print the link.
And if the story does not have a source, it doesn't print.
I think this is maybe it's commentary.
It's front page.
It's David Horowitz.
That's it.
It's front page magazine.
Right here it is.
And there are two Democrat parties.
One is the old corrupt party of thieves and crooks.
Politicians, black and white, are the products of political machines.
They believe in absolutely nothing.
They can go from being Dixiecrats to crying racism for running on family values to pushing gay marriage and the war on women in an instant.
They will say and do anything to get elected.
They will lie.
They will cheat.
It doesn't matter.
They're able campaigners.
People underestimate them because they are determined to win at all costs.
Now the other Democrat Party, this is the new one, relatively new.
And this, the progressive, the real extreme leftists, they are radical and they are buried within the system.
And they're disguised as bureaucrats.
They're disguised as college professors.
They are disguised as community organizers.
They're disguised as news directors.
They're disguised as journalists.
They are disguised as Hollywood professors.
They are technocrats and their agenda is filled with big projects.
And they radicalize and transform.
They will not say something they don't believe just to get elected in all cases.
They will push what they really believe, but they'll do it in an unseen way.
Winning is a subset of their real agenda.
Their agenda is to transform the country, which is rooted in an active dislike for the way the country was founded.
They have no desire to game the system, to work within it to win.
They want to wipe out the way the country was founded, and they want to transform it into a giant community organizer paradise and utopia.
And if they can do it by winning elections, they will.
But if they don't win elections, they don't cry about it, and they don't change anything.
They continue to work and undermine and subvert beneath the surface, disguised as average ordinary bureaucrats or community organizers or civil rights coalition members or what have you.
But they are some of the most partisan, angry, hate-filled people in this country.
And those two different groups actually now comprise the Democrat Party.
Some people say that there's a civil war in the Democrat Party, and I don't believe that.
I think for there to be a civil war in a party, the politicians of a party must be at war with its base voters.
That's what I consider to be a civil war within a party.
The normal disagreement of factions within a party, one Democrat over here disagrees with another Democrat about strategy, procedure, objectives.
That's not a civil war.
A civil war, and the Democrat Party's not in one.
If a Democrat Party were in a civil war, the old dog corrupt union-led dinosaur group would be attempting to undermine and sabotage the progressive voters because they would see them as a threat to their power.
Now, under that, you could say that there is a civil war going on in the Republican Party.
And that civil war would be the establishment wing versus the Tea Party.
But the Tea Party can't be wiped out.
The Tea Party is organic.
The Tea Party cannot be beaten.
The Tea Party is made up of average ordinary Americans who get involved in politics and they vote and they raise money when the IRS isn't targeting them.
And there isn't a singular leader and there's not a platform per se.
It's just, in many cases, unprofessional political people versus the professional political.
And you know what else?
In terms of the Republican House makeup, there are going to be many more Tea Party members in that Republican caucus than the Republicans might want to admit.
The Tea Party was not wiped out.
That is what the Republicans would like you to think they have been, but you can't because you can't get rid of grandma.
You can't get rid of grandma and her grandkids.
There's no way you can't because you're not going to get rid of the American people.
So the Tea Party isn't going to go away, much to the chagrin of some in the establishment of the Republican Party.
Now, let's go back to Dan Balls' piece, where he accurately explains what has happened to the Democrat Party.
And of course, this is all important for future elections.
It's important for the Republicans in strategizing an agenda, but it's fact, it's really more important in not.
So I think one of the things that has held the Republicans back is their belief that the Democrat Party is loved and adored by the vast majority of American people.
I think they've got it all wrong, and I think it's post-traumatic stress disorder.
I think it's decades and decades of media hits.
And I think they have the Democrat Party is the New York Yankees of old.
They never lose, and that's not true.
And neither is Hillary.
She puts her pants on one leg at a time like everybody else does.
It's a mistake to hold these people up and say they're unbeatable and infallible.
People do because the media supports them constantly.
But here's the truth.
In the post-Obama era, which is fast approaching us, the Democrats' best-known leaders in Washington are almost entirely from an older generation, from the vice presidency to most of the major leadership offices in the House and Senate.
The generation in waiting is going to have to wait a little longer.
Presidential campaigns and open nomination contests help bring new leaders to national prominence.
That appears unlikely until 2016.
And for all of her positive attributes, her attributes, former Secretary of State Clinton is a suffocating presence when it comes to intra-party presidential competition.
That's exactly right.
She is a suffocating presence.
Her command of the Democrat Party machinery, from fundraising to grassroots organizing, is so extensive that almost everyone else is understandably intimidated about even testing her.
In other words, the presumption that Mrs. Clinton is the next nominee is destroying the Democrat Party and keeping it old and dinosaurish and preventing young players at AAA from moving up to the big leagues.
I think this is a fear that they have, in addition to being somewhat of a reality.
And Balls writes it this way.
Think of it this way.
If Clinton were to win the presidency and serve two terms, the next opportunity for a new generation of Democrats would not come until 2024.
The Democrats could go 16 years between competitive presidential nomination contests, wiping out opportunities for today's younger generation of Democrats to define or redefine the party apart from either the Obama or Clinton eras.
The party's national bench is so thin that Democrats count themselves lucky to have Hillary available in 2016.
If she were to decide not to run, the Democrats would have trouble identifying a field of candidates as extensive as the Republicans are likely to put up in the coming presidential race.
And then Balls goes on to mention some names.
But among them are Jerry Brown, just re-elected Governor of California, 76.
He's going to be 80 years old when this term expires.
And this is happening to the Democrat Party all over the country.
These aging dinosaurs stay in power.
Now, this assumes that Mrs. Clinton's going to get nomination and assumes that she's going to win, and then assumes if she wins in 2016, she wins again in 2020.
And I don't think any of that's in the bag at all.
But the point still is relevant.
The Democrat Party has been hollowed out by these two losses.
They are beatable now, imminently, as has just been demonstrated.
And this attitude is necessary going forward.
The days of being afraid, look, I don't want to hear any more calls about how the Democrats are infallible and everything they do as a giant, brilliant, strategic trick designed to get us distracted or whatever while they secretly move the agenda.
That is happening with Obama.
But Obama is a different kind of Democrat than these guys were talking about, the Hillarys and the Harry Reids, and you name it.
But they're not anything to be afraid of, is my point.
They're nothing to be intimidated by.
The Democrats are the ones who ought to be quaking in their boots.
Look at what they had.
They had for Kay Hagan in North Carolina, how much $26 million spent on her.
All of the free media time the Democrats always get, whatever that ends up being.
They had 99% of the media with them.
They have Hollywood with them.
They have the pop culture with them.
And look what happened to them.
They lost 70 seats in Congress.
And you add it up over the two years of it, well, 2010 and 2014.
And it is dramatic what they've lost.
They've lost governorships.
They've lost state legislatures.
23 states now have Republican governors and Republican legislatures.
The Democrats have five.
The rest are divided or mixed.
But I mean, this shellacking goes all the way down to dog catcher, and it was a repudiation.
It was a rejection, an in-your-face rejection of everything they stand for.
They are the ones who ought to be quaking in their boots.
They are the ones who ought to be scared to death.
They are the ones who ought to be writing stories about maybe it's time to give up on Bill Clinton instead of our guys writing about how it's time to give up on Reagan.
They're the ones who had better start figuring out that Clinton is not the future of the Democrat Party, Bill or Hillary.
And they're the ones that better be figuring out Obama's not the future of the Democrat Party.
And Charlie Wrangell isn't the future.
And Harry Reid's not the future.
And going after the Koch brothers is not the future.
Socialism is not the future.
Socialist utopia is not the future.
Everything they stand for has just been soundly repudiated and rejected.
And the American people rose up and said, stop it.
And at the same time, expressed a desire for something different.
And we all know what that is, whether they would verbalize it or not.
They want the opposite of this.
They want economic growth.
They want lower taxes.
They want the free enterprise economy growing again.
They want government out of their lives.
They want consideration.
Sorry, conservatism.
Hit the wrong button there.
They want conservatism, whether they know it or not.
And it's time to give it to them.
They'll love it.
We'll be back after this.
Another reason why you cannot wipe out the Tea Party.
And that is you can't wipe out ideas.
Just that simple.
All right, back to the phones we go.
This is Tom in Queens.
It's great to have you on the program, Tom.
Hello.
Hey, thank you, Rush.
I got to tell you, being on hold listening to you, I'm getting a thrill running up my leg.
I'll take that under proper advisement.
The main thing I'm calling about is I feel that the thumping that the Dems received would have been even worse had the polls not for weeks, if not months, predicted that it was going to be a runaway for the Republicans.
Because I know I spoke to a lot of my friends and I was trying to persuade everybody to vote, to get out and vote.
And some of them were saying it's a done deal already.
The Republicans have it.
It's such a terrible attitude to hear.
But that's the feeling that they got.
And this might have inspired Dems to go out even.
Wait, wait, wait.
Did you say that the polling was reporting a Republican route?
Yes.
Yes.
Where did you see that?
I never once saw that.
Every poll I saw, the races were nip and tucked, too close to call, margin of error.
It wasn't until a couple days before that some polls began to talk about it being a wave, but that was just in the final week.
The media never even got close to accurately portraying what was going to happen.
Well, maybe it's just the talk radio shows that I listened to were making it sound like it was definitely going to be a landslide for the Republicans.
Well, that's because we knew, but we're not considered the media.
So when you say the media, I think you're saying ABC, CBS, NBC, all of them.
Oh, no.
I don't listen to that.
But had there been, that's why I was confused.
So you think if the media had reported it was going to be a landslide, it would have been even bigger or not as big?
No, I think if it wasn't getting out that it was a done deal or Republicans were going to run away with this, I think it would have been even more of a landslide for them.
Oh, I see.
Okay, well, I'm still a little confused because I don't remember anybody saying it was going to be this big.
Well, the final take on the polls, I have to say I was wrong again.
I gave them the benefit of the doubt this time, and I don't think they earned it.
I thought you get a week or two weeks out in the polls because their own desire for credibility would be closer to the truth and honestly projecting what they really thought would happen.
And it wasn't even close.
No poll called what happened.
That's why everybody's so shocked.
Half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
Rush Limbaugh, the EIB network.
This is Dawn in Jacksonville, Florida.
I'm glad you waited.
Great to have you on the program.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
It's wonderful to talk to you.
Thank you for all you do.
Thank you.
I'm so glad that you talked about strategy a little bit ago because that's one thing that I struggle with with the Republican Party is they just don't seem to be able to get the strategy and act upon that.
Like this morning when I was listening, I mean, yesterday morning when I was listening to Face the Nation, They're all talking about how Obama is trying to might be stubborn or defiant.
And I don't think that what people get is that that strategy, because he can put forth his executive order on immigration, then the Republicans won't have anything yet.
And then he'll say, oh, I'm being bullied.
They don't have anything together.
I'm trying to do this for the benefit of the people.
And I just don't think that the Republicans get that what they need to do is this week, they need to put something on the desk for Obama to try to veto or do something like that.
Well, they can't do it this week because they don't run the Senate.
Well, yeah, I guess they're not going to run the Senate till January.
Up first is going to be a lame duck.
That's fraught with its own potential disasters.
If there is a, for example, if there is a surviving, let's let me try it this way.
If this got to be very careful here, folks.
I'm not trying to be confrontational here.
I'm really not.
If the number one takeaway from the election at the Republican establishment level is the voters want us to work together.
It could portend disaster in this lame duck.
Harry Reid and the outgoing Democrats are going to try to ram everything they can into the new budget bill, continuing resolution, whatever that they're going to get done here before the end of the year.
They're going to throw everything in.
It's their swan song.
And if the Republicans think that the meaning of the election was that the voters want to see Republicans and Democrats work together and meet them halfway and give Dingy Harry and the Democrats some or all of what they want going out to show, as Senator McCain says, that we can cross the aisle.
Well, I don't even want to think about that.
This is why, in case you wonder, why do I keep pounding my interpretation of the meaning of the election?
Stop Obama.
Because there was nothing in this result.
There is no way that you can analyze this result and come away with the belief that the reason the Republicans won was to work with Harry Reid and Pelosi and Obama on their agenda.
No way.
There's no way you can interpret this big a landslide defeat as the voters saying, come on, Republicans, work with these guys.
That's insane, in fact.
That's patently ridiculous.
But see, her point, folks, is exactly what I'm talking about.
She's already scared to death.
The Democrats are going to skunk the Republicans.
It's already scared to death.
Obama's got this brilliant strategy, and he's going to get this amnesty done.
And by the time he gets it done, he's going to see to it that the Republicans get blamed for it.
Ladies, that may happen in the media, folks.
That may well be what you hear in the media.
I don't know what's going to happen here, but let's say Obama does his amnesty, and he does it toward the end of the year, and he does it, rather than call it amnesty, he'll say he's going to just eliminate deportation for 5 million people.
It's the same thing as amnesty.
You tell them you're not going to deport them.
That means they're staying.
They're here.
Next thing you know, they're on the Democrat voter registration rolls, which is all this is about for them anyway.
Okay, so let's say he does that.
And then after he does it, he says, and the other reason, you know, I don't want to do it this way, but the Republicans simply will not work with me.
I've told them that if they want to have a way to work with me on immigration, give me a bill.
Now, what he means by that is, give me a bill that I write that you just put your name on, and we'll call it my bill, and then you can say you worked with me and we'll do an immigration bill.
And so the media probably will portray Obama as a courageous, valiant victim of the election, just working against the odds.
It's so unfortunate what happened in the election.
But he's not caving.
Obama's staying true.
Obama's doing exactly what he knows the American people want done when he's going to be doing the exact opposite.
I don't deny the media is going to keep lying to you.
What I'm trying to tell you, do not, the Democrats just got skunked.
They were just totally rejected.
Even in the governorships of Maryland and Illinois, they were told to go away.
Massachusetts, they were sent packing.
Sure, they won some places, they won two House seats.
They won back to Pennsylvania.
That's the one thing they want, a Pennsylvania governor.
And that had nothing to do with politics.
The Pennsylvania governor got he was held accountable for apparently not doing the right thing with the Sandusky pedophile case or whatever, Penn State.
It had nothing to do with his policies.
Tom Corbett's policies were not rejected in the more than likely.
But this is my point, folks.
Yeah, Obama's going to do something.
He's going to do a lot these next two years.
Be on alert.
I think it's going to be more dangerous than anybody's thinking, in fact, on that score.
Because we've told him we're not going to stop him.
And the media is going to support him, and he does.
And it's going to look, in the media, it's not going to look at all like the Republicans won.
By design, you're never going to get that satisfaction.
The media is never going to portray you or the Republicans as winners, as courageous or as great citizens or any of that.
You're always going to be, we are always going to be mocked, attacked, ridiculed, made fun of, what have you.
I'm asking you to pay attention to what really happened and don't succumb to asking the Republicans to do things to simply get favorable media treatment because it isn't going to happen.
And if it did, it wouldn't be anything you'd be proud of the Republicans for doing.
In the media, Obama's always going to be God.
In the media, the Republicans are always going to be a bunch of bumbling boobs, racist, sexist, big, whatever.
That's not going to change.
But the American people didn't fall for it.
The American people didn't buy it.
That was summarily rejected because the policies that had been put in place by the Democrat Party are destroying things that people in this country don't want destroyed.
It's not hard to understand what happened here, but it is hard to change an attitude from loser to winner.
Let me give you an analogy.
Those of you who have never been really overweight and have lost a lot of weight either once or a bunch of times may not know this.
But let me tell you something.
I have.
I've lost, I've lost track how much weight I've lost over how many different diets.
You know the one thing that never happens?
You never think of yourself as thin.
If you've used, let's say, 50 pounds or more, I don't care what you do, you still it takes a lot of effort to think of yourself as looking good all of a sudden.
You still have that lifetime memory of being overweight, so you stop and look at every reflection of yourself when the diet is so-and-so, so-called over to see if you've gained a half inch somewhere.
It becomes obsessive.
And it's the same thing with winners and losers.
Perpetual losers, when they win, sometimes just can't accept it.
It's so strange.
It's so weird.
And they have a tough time adapting to a winning attitude.
I think that was part of what happened to the Republicans in 1995.
If you want to know the truth, I mean, here they were out of power for 40 years, and then one day they won.
That's why in my orientation speech, I try to tell them, you're not winners here.
The media is not going to like you.
They're not going to respect you.
They're not going to think you're the new power base here.
They're not going to kowtow and suck up to you like they do the Democrats.
You're the enemy.
What business did you have winning?
They're going to try to do everything they can to make sure their buddies and Democrats get back in power as soon as possible.
Don't fall for any ideas that the media has newfound love and respect for you.
And I think the Republicans didn't know how to transform from a loser permanent minority attitude to an attitude that is commensurate with a governing majority.
And it is hard if you've had an attitude or a self-image for a long time to change it overnight and on a dime.
And it's the same thing with voters.
If you have believed for a long time that Obama, the Democrat Party, and the media are invincible, even in the face of a schlacking, two of them, defeats, sometimes it's hard to change your attitude about the Democrats and Republicans in terms of winners and losers.
That's why I'm spending a little time on this because it's crucial that you do so.
Attitude is everything.
Attitude leads to confidence.
Confidence begets attitude and vice versa.
And confidence is what everybody needs right now.
And in some cases, you're not going to have it provided for you by the media.
You're not going to get any validation.
You're going to have to provide that yourself.
And your friends are going to have to provide it for you.
And maybe Fox News or talk radio or wherever you, I mean, you're going to find some somewhere.
But you're not going to find it on college campus.
You're not going to find validation in the media.
You're going to find the same old disgust and hatred and lies and distortions.
And more than ever now, because they're going to be hell-bent to get their power back.
And the media is going to be hell-bent to put their buddies and Democrats back in power somehow, some way, someday.
And no, I'm not trying to be negative, just realistic here.
Because attitude is crucial going forward.
Attitude's crucial in devising an agenda.
Attitude's crucial in taking on a professor in a classroom.
Attitude and confidence are crucial in persuading others and eventually being able to walk around with an attitude that you're on the majority side of things.
You're on the side of right.
And we all are, as evidenced, we haven't lost the country.
And we're not even close yet.
Now, you might, well, two-thirds didn't vote.
That's okay with me.
Let Obama represent the two-thirds that didn't vote.
Let him go out and pretend he knows what they're thinking.
That's not who he has to deal with.
Anyway, better take a break.
That would keep things in a semblance of order.
We'll be back, folks.
Don't go.
You remember the old William F. Buckley joke, and he ran for mayor, New York City one time.
And they asked him, well, what are you going to do if you win?
He's going to demand a recount.
Anyway, Ben in Wyandotte, Michigan, you're next.
Great to have you on the Rush Limbaugh program.
Hello.
Rush, it's an honor to speak with you.
Thank you very much, sir.
You know, to your two-thirds that you were talking about when Mr. Obama jumped up last Wednesday.
I think that that's a total misconception of what's actually happening out there.
You know, if you really take a look at the map after the election, I think that maybe the Democrats in the heartland are starting to regret putting Mr. Obama in place because they're afraid of this Chicago Communist.
Are you talking about that giant red and blue map?
That is correct, sir.
That went county by county.
Yes, sir.
You know, I don't want to throw cold water on that map, but I've got to be honest with you about that map.
There aren't any Democrats in the heartland to speak of.
When you look at the blue areas of that map, where are they?
They are New York.
They are Boston.
They are Chicago.
Minneapolis.
Well, the whole West Coast, not just LA, but the whole West Coast, except for San Diego, the whole West Coast, all the way up to Humboldt County, into Oregon, into the state of Washington.
And it's so blue in San Francisco and Seattle that it may as well be Navy blue and almost black.
That's how blue it is.
The fact of the matter is that over half the population is in that blue area.
That's what's not told you people looking at that map.
Now, look at, I don't, I've had so many people send me that map.
I used to misunderstand the map too.
That map is actually that characterization of the map.
I first saw it, I don't know, 10 years ago or 15, and it was, look at this, Rush.
I mean, look at where this country really is, and it is huge.
I mean, in terms of land mass and the Continental 48, easily 80, 85% of it is red.
But then when you find out that over half the population is in the blue area, that's where the unions are.
It's where the Democrats are.
It's where Hollywood is.
It's where progressive liberalism is, these little blue states.
And it happens to be urban populated areas.
St. Louis, Kansas City, but Missouri is as bright red as, you know, well, no, LR Apple, I was going to say.
Michelle Streep, what is her name?
Streep, Meryl Streep Apple.
And I'm not trying to throw water on it.
I think it's indicative, by the way.
I think it is that map, in addition to taking away from it the strong points you do, Ben, that map portrays big trouble for the Democrat Party because those blue areas are so high tax and so dense.
Those are the areas people are leaving and relocating in other states.
Now, in some cases, they're liberals taking their liberalism with them, which is what's happened to North Carolina, for example.
And it's what's happened to Palm Beach County.
It's a bunch of Northeastern liberals who've retired or whatever and moved and Dade County to a certain extent.
But they're a dwindling number and they're aging.
You know, a lot of them take mass transit, don't even drive cars.
It's a strange distinction and difference.
But again, I'm not trying to throw cold water on it.
Do not misunderstand.
There's just something that's not told to you in that map.
And that's the population of the red and blue areas.
And I wanted you to know that.
Fastest three hours in media.
I swear I don't know where it's going.
I really don't.
But two of them are already done in the can.
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