Now in this Washington Post story about the sweeping Republican victory, there is a warning paragraph to all of us.
Oh, there's Ron Fournier.
Ron Fournier, because Matt Bevan was elected, Ron Fournier is sheer panic today.
Well, because Hillary's not doing well.
Her trust issues are weighed down.
People don't like her.
People don't trust her.
And he thinks the Democrats are making the mistake that Hillary can beat anybody just because she's Hillary, just because she's a Clinton, just because he's got a Democrat D next to her name on the ballot.
And he's worried that there's active dislike for her and that it's not a slam-ducking automatic.
And he's been leading the crusade against her in terms of honesty and trust.
But this outcome yesterday has shell-shocked a lot of these people on the left, media and otherwise, for a number of reasons.
A, that it happened, but you can't leave out the fact that their own polling predicted none of it was going to happen.
So they are discombobulated and bamboozled on at least two different levels.
Which takes me to the warning paragraph here in the Washington Post story.
And it may have some merit.
Turnout was very low across the country.
Republicans could overinterpret the results at their own peril.
So you see, whenever the Republicans win, it's really not legit.
These off-term elections, they don't mean anything.
That's why you never hear about how badly the Democrats do in them, folks.
Because as far as the drive-bys are concerned, off-year midterm elections, what are we talking about?
Dog catcher here?
It doesn't matter.
All that matters is that we're in the White House doing executive orders and screw you.
Everything else we can manage.
We got the judges.
We got everything else to fix.
What else goes wrong?
So screw you.
That's their attitude.
As long as they've got the White House, if they could get the Senate back, I mean, they would be in fat city.
Well, the enthusiasm, yeah, but see, the enthusiasm gap, I think the Republicans are misunderstanding.
They better be careful because the enthusiasm is not for them.
And talking about Republicans as defined by Washington Republicans, the enthusiasm is not for them.
Now, there's enthusiasm for Matt Bevin.
No, no, no, don't misunderstand.
But this is also starting in 2010 and again in 2014.
Now, this is anti-Obama on parade.
This is a full-fledged rejection of the Democrat Party, of its ideology, and of its president.
That's what's going on.
I don't care about turnout.
They had an election and people showed up and voted.
And among those who voted, the Democrats got skunked.
Now, the Democrats can rewrite that any way they want to make themselves feel better.
But the results are real.
They have lost seats galore.
Republicans, two-thirds of state legislatures in bicameral legislatures, two-thirds of the governorships or more.
Statehouses equals grassroots.
This is big.
This is why it's all the more amazing to note that the Washington Republicans continue to do business with Obama.
The Washington Republicans are continuing to prop him up.
And yet Republican voters all over the country are saying, stop it.
Stop him.
Stop the Democrats.
And stop what you're doing.
Now, this warning paragraph in the Washington Post, Republicans could overinterpret the results at their own peril.
So don't feel all that hot about this win because it really doesn't mean anything because the turnout wasn't very big.
The presidential election, exactly one year away, that'll have dramatically larger and much more diverse turnout.
That's when we get our illegals voting, and that's when we pay our union people to go pick people up off the street and get them to the polls, and that's when you don't have a chance.
And all of that works against the GOP.
Serious structural problems persist.
The Republican Party is still too white.
It's still too male.
And it's still too old.
Hillary Clinton's political director, Amanda Renteria, tweeted a photo of a vote here sign overnight and wrote, wish more people did this today.
Meaning, the turnout was low, not enough people voted, and the Republicans, but you're not in Fat City.
You people are still too white, you're too male, and you're too old.
Do they ever write of the Democrat Party deficiencies and problems after they win?
It's amazing.
And then they say there was a couple of bright spots.
There were a couple of bright spots for the left in an otherwise dark night.
In a stinging rebuke of Chris Christie undercutting one of his rationales for seeking the presidency, New Jersey voters ousted three Republicans from the state assembly.
New York Times writes, Republicans had hoped to build on Mr. Christie's political successes and cut into the Democrat majority in the chamber, where Democrats currently hold 48 of the 80 seats.
Instead, the election became a sharp reality check for allies of the governor who only two years ago won reelection by a towering margin.
So the Democrats are being told by the Washington Poster, hey, it's not all bad.
We really skunked Christie in New Jersey.
And they think that's a bright spot for the left.
It's also an eye-opener for Republicans.
Is it not?
And if you don't understand, think about it.
Can't be expected to spell everything out here.
Otherwise, you'd become intellectually dependent, and I don't want that.
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Back to the audio soundbites here.
We're going to start melding your phone calls in here after the break.
Carol Costello this morning on CNN's newsroom had a guest here, WDRB eyeball news TV media columnist John David Dyke.
John David Dyke at DYCHE, if you're wondering.
And they're discussing an op-ed that Dyke wrote comparing Matt Bevan to Donald Trump.
Now that really worries them, because you can find various pieces in the media today.
Oh my God, this Bevin guy.
Do you realize what else he did?
He tied himself to Trump.
Do you know what that means?
That means that Trump was a factor in his win.
Oh my God.
Because they still don't think Trump is real.
They still don't think Trump's real.
They don't think Ben Carson's real.
They don't think either of those two people are serious or even going to be around.
So Carol Costello and Dyke have this little discussion about the Trumpsters' impact, if any.
You wrote this op-ed calling Mr. Bevin Kentucky's Donald Trump.
Do you really believe Kentucky voters elected Bevin on bluster?
Not just on bluster.
Bevin does have some good ideas, but the fact remains that he contradicted himself frequently on the campaign trail, and he did resemble Donald Trump in a lot of ways during the campaign.
Bevin never closely embraced the establishment.
He didn't operate off a usual political script.
He was saying things that would have been considered outrageous from more conventional candidates, and he used a lot of his own money.
See, so for liberals who live in a bubble and everything outside that bubble may as well be another planet to them, this is all terrifying.
They think Trump is just bluster.
And the only reason people like Trump is because he's braggadocious and he's a character.
He's a personality.
Yeah, he did big hair, does all this stuff.
He's not a real guy.
He's a caricature.
He's a cartoon figure, and people like cartoons.
And then they see this guy winning the governorship, and it causes a reality check because they just can't believe they will never accept that any Republican wins on issues.
When you boil it all down, ladies and gentlemen, no matter where you go in the media, Democrat Party, anywhere on the left, when we're talking about Republican wins, it is never about issues.
It can't be because their issues are the only issues there are.
Our issues are kookism, quackery.
So it has to be other things.
It has to be blustery, personality.
It has to be mind-numb robot voters, brainless and brain-dead, influenced by the likes of talk radio and who name it.
But it's never issues.
This little conversation continued here.
Bevan and his complaints and campaigning against Obamacare came up.
He also talked a lot against Obamacare.
Did that also put him over the top in Kentucky?
Well, there's no doubt President Obama has alienated Kentuckians of both parties with Obamacare, with coal issues, and on social issues.
A lot of people are experiencing premium increases under Obamacare.
I think perhaps more importantly was the gay marriage issue, which was focused on Kentucky nationally when Kim Davis, the clerk in Rowan County, refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples.
Bevan was quickly on the scene there to take her side.
That's another thing.
They can't believe that.
They can't.
Somebody supported Kim Davis, one?
Kim Davis is racist.
She's a bigot.
She's a blustery fool.
She's dangerous.
Can't believe anybody sidle up to her and then win.
It really does not compute with them.
They are that detached, folks.
I don't know how else to say it.
They are that distant from reality.
They live in their own virtual world where Charlie Rose is shocked to learn that Hillary Clinton has lied about the video being the reason Benghazi happened.
He has never heard any other explanation.
He has never heard that Hillary Clinton's told two or three different versions of the story, depending on who she's talking to.
So Marco Rubio comes along and calls Hillary a liar, who's exposed as a liar, and Charlie thinks that Rubio's practically committed a crime.
That's a very serious charge, Senator, accusing Hillary Clinton of lying.
Rubio is incredulous.
He's talking to a guy who has no clue.
Now, how can it be that one of America's most acclaimed journalists has no idea?
And it's not just Charlie, it's all of them.
They have no idea other than what they report and the things that they discuss with their friends and so forth.
They have no idea.
Matt Bevan, I guarantee you, to them, may as well be an alien.
And he's never going to be treated as the winner.
He's never going to be treated as serious.
He's always going to be treated as an asterisk, as a freak.
The election was an upset.
It was not real.
There's something in it that they don't yet understand, but they'll get to the bottom of it to explain this.
But it certainly isn't real.
That's the way they rationalize these things.
They never lose on issues.
They always get cheated or fooled their voters on some other thing that happens.
By the way, the other day, it might have been yesterday.
This is what, Wednesday?
So it might have been Monday or Tuesday.
Somebody called here and suggested, was talking about the idea Ted Cruz put forth that I'd nominate or moderate a debate.
And I said, no, no, no.
If I moderate any debate, it ought to be a Democrat debate.
And that subject came up last night on special report with Brett Bayer.
I think the idea of having conservative moderators, say, Russian, two people he chooses, would be a splendid idea if that panel were to be the moderators for the Democratic debate and the GOP will take any liberal because obviously when they took on the CNBC liberals, they won.
Dr. Kabouthammer is exactly right.
You know, the drive-by narrative after the, well, because Obama's out there, these guys are running for my office here.
Saying that I'm gutless.
I don't have the ability to stand up to Putin.
And these are the guys that are afraid of a bunch of CNBC moderators.
And they weren't afraid of any CNBC moderators.
They made mincemeat of them.
They didn't run and hide from the CNBC moderators.
They overwhelmed them and destroyed them.
And Dr. Krauthammer here is acknowledging that as well.
But there you go, folks.
I have been endorsed as a moderator for an upcoming Democrat debate, which is never going to happen.
The Democrats will not even do a debate on Fox News.
You let somebody suppose or propose me as a moderator for a Democrat debate.
You want to watch people hightailing it the other direction?
That's another reason why the Democrats wouldn't go for it.
They don't want great ratings in a debate of theirs moderated by me.
That would equal bad news.
It's not going to happen.
I just wanted you to notice the idea that I had me moderating a Democrat debate, that has been endorsed.
And Jake Tapper, Jake Tapper of CNN came along and made the point yesterday that I'm at.
Well, after Obama's running around and trying to rip on these Republicans for cowardly behavior toward the CNBC moderators, Jake Tamper on CNN on his show last night talking about all that said this.
Democrats boycotted the Fox News channel/slash congressional black caucus debate back in 2007.
So a lot of Republicans are out there saying, you know, this isn't just about Republicans not liking moderators.
Democrats didn't like the idea of Fox News channel doing a debate back in 2007.
Yeah, but the difference is the Democrats didn't do theirs.
We show up.
We show up at every debate moderated by Democrat Party hacks.
The Democrats won't even do one debate where they don't control every aspect of it.
Be right back.
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No, no, no.
Ron Fournier of the National Journal, his panic is that since Bevin won, he thinks that any lunatic can win now.
That's the best way I can express this to you.
This Bevan, they all think he's nothing more than a.
It's no different to Christine O'Donnell winning.
Take your pick of any of these teams.
It's like Sarah Palin's one.
Oh, my God.
If this guy can win, Trump can win, is what they're saying.
Oh, my God, if Bevin can win, holy smokes, any lunatic can win.
And when any lunatic can win, the media has lost control of things, is what that means.
The dirty little secret is they have lost control anyway, and they just don't want to admit it.
Here's John in Lexington, Kentucky, as we get started on the phones, as promised.
John, thank you for calling.
It's great to have you with us.
Hi.
Wow, Rush Limbaugh, my beacon of hope.
Thank you for taking my call.
You bet, sir.
You're speaking to an extremely happy Kentucky conservative.
I can imagine you are, yes.
We have been reaffirmed.
The conservatives, the Christian conservatives in this state have let it be known that the career politicians are toast.
Well, what do you think about the Washington Post saying don't start getting all huffy and puffy here because the turnout was so low that had it been anywhere near normal, you guys would still be sucking air.
Well, the turnout in the cities of Lexington and Louisville was not low.
And they did choose Jack Conway, for example.
It was the rural areas, the areas outside of the big cities, that they said enough is enough.
And they finally went out and voted their conscience.
Well, this has been building for a while, I think.
I don't think this is something that happened overnight.
No, no.
And the thing was, you're talking about the polling.
I believe they're acting surprised about the polling because the media was attempting to form election results by constantly feeding us.
Oh, I know.
I know.
The purpose of the polling is to make and shape public opinion not reflect it.
I know, but the pre-polling there was portraying Bevin as a lunatic.
You know, that's what Democrats, they really do think if this guy won, any lunatic can, which means Trump can, which means we're toast.
Back to the phones we go staying there.
This is Ed Mount Blanchard, Ohio.
Great to have you.
I'm glad you waited, sir.
Thank you very much.
Hi.
How are you doing, Rush?
Very well, sir.
Thanks much.
We're a year out from the election, and I'm not sure how much the polls count that much far away from the election.
What do you think the odds are that Trump and Carson will still be in then?
And what do you think either one of their chances are of getting elected?
Well, it's an interesting thing to me.
I mentioned yesterday I heard this variation of your question put to Newt Gingrich recently.
I think it might have been on one of the Sunday shows.
It might have been Greta Van Sustre show on Monday night.
I'm not sure where, but he responded to it this way.
He said, you know, I'm really curious about this.
We've got these two guys, and they're at the top, and they, in case of Trump, he's been at the top since the beginning, since the day he got in.
Ben Carson has been close to it or trending up and is now in the lead.
Why is it that, and they've been in the lead more days than there are left until the Hawkeye cauckey and New Hampshire?
Why is it that all the talk is about the two frontrunners leaving, getting out, losing, and all the people at the bottom who are barely showing up being the real contenders?
He said he didn't understand it.
He's never been in a race before where the people at the top are automatically just figured to be not real.
So I actually think that either one of them has a better chance at winning than a lot of people think they do simply because of the electorates, and it's a silent majority.
I don't know how silent it is, but the genuine anger that exists over what happens in Washington inside the belt with the establishment and all that.
Yeah, I don't think it's out of the realm of possibility at all to answer your question.
We can only hope.
Well, do you think they can't?
Boy.
You know.
Let me ask you this.
If neither one of them can, if you are, you're probably not alone.
You want one of the two of them to win, or do you want neither one?
Oh, yeah.
You want one of them.
Right.
You want Carson to win.
Okay, so you want Carson to win.
I can understand.
You're thinking, my God, this is so abnormal.
This is so unlike anything we've seen before.
It can't be real.
And something's going to come along and slap everybody upside the face.
And normalcy is going to triumph again, and Carson and Trump are going to be either out of it or down at the bottom where in a normal year people think that's where they would be.
So you're kind of afraid your team losing here.
If that were to, no, no, no, no.
That's a natural characteristic of human nature, I think.
I just can't see the establishment allowing either of those outsiders to win.
Well, that's the thing.
If they have any say, what do you think they haven't been trying so far to get rid of either one of these two?
Oh, yeah.
But they got a year to go yet.
Yeah, but there's not much they can do.
Bush is out, but they're probably going to go for Rubio or Christy.
They're going to get an establishment, my thought.
But I can hope for the best.
Well, if, let me just take it a step further.
Let's play a little hypothetical game here.
Let's say that Carson slips.
Somehow, someway, something happens.
Do you have an alternative?
Do you have a second choice?
You need to get that?
No, no.
You have a second choice if Carson somehow doesn't make it all the way?
Boy, Trump would be interesting, but my second choice would probably be Cruz.
Cruz, okay.
Well, then the way I look at it, you can't lose.
If you've got Carson at number one, and then you want Trump, and if neither of those end up doing it, then you got Cruz.
I mean, I think you just named the three most likely here at the top.
But it is, it's hard for a lot of people to get their arms around because politics is a business, and people have been paying attention to it for their lives, and certain people always end up winning, and they are professional politicians who come from party organizations, and Trump and Carson are as outside that as anybody can be.
And here they are triumphing over all of it.
And to a lot of people who love it, it doesn't still compute.
And so there's some insecurity about it.
Look at what you just said.
I can't see the establishment, the all-knowing, the all-powerful, whoever they are, establishment at some point is going to come along and blow both those guys up.
You just know it.
You're just convinced of it because they're your team.
And be it the Super Bowl, the World Series, the Stanley Cup, everybody thinks their team's going to blow it.
It's a great fear people have, even when sports is concerned, when it supposedly doesn't matter.
But it is, I think, Newt's right.
It's a fascinating thing to listen to people talk about people who've done nothing but be at the top from the get-go, to talk about them as illegitimate and They're going to fade at some point?
Why?
What's going to change?
Is the electorate just making a statement now that they don't really mean?
See, people don't think the electorate is in any way that coordinated, organized, or sophisticated.
But you're not the only one discombobulated by this.
The entire professional political business is upside down because of this.
On the Democrat side, let me tell you a little secret.
On the Democrat side, they are worried like you can't believe about Hillary Clinton and her vulnerability.
And added to that, they know they don't have a bench.
They know it isn't going to be old Bernie, the communist.
And they know it isn't going to be Martin O'Malley and his abs.
And they know, and they can't get Putin to run because there's not enough time to make him a resident and have him register.
And they can't get Castro to run because he's too old.
And the Chinese communist leaders don't have enough name recognition, so they can't go there.
And they don't dare come up with, you know, go get Jorge Ramos and try to tell him to run.
That wouldn't work because there's too much anti-attitude about that.
So they're stuck.
They're stuck with Hillary.
And when they're stuck with somebody, you talk about a long time.
The election's a year away, and there's any number of things that could happen, could be blown up about Hillary.
And if that does happen, where do they go?
Their best option is for Obama to just refuse to leave.
Have you ever had a hotel reservation and you show up for it and the person in your room refuses to leave?
And the hotel is sorry, we can't kick them out.
Has that ever happened to you?
It has or hasn't.
It happens to me all the time.
I am not kidding.
It happens frequently.
I'll make a hotel reservation for an example.
I'm not going to name the hotel.
I make a hotel reservation a year in advance.
And a week out, I'll get a phone call.
Sorry, the guy is not leaving.
He's been there three months and told us he's going to be leaving two days for you to check him, but he's not leaving.
And we can't, by law, kick them out.
I've had that happen in a number of great hotels.
I mean, my favorite places, the places that, no, there's no politics to it.
It's just, that's never happened to you.
Never happened to you?
Well, now, here's the, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Now, if you don't know this, like, if you want to stay and your reservation is over, and if they come and say, you got to get out of here, you'll probably leave because you don't know that you can camp and stay and they can't kick you out.
So you'll get up and leave because it's the hotel telling you you have to leave.
Your reservation is up.
This is when you said you were going to go.
Obama, what if he decides not to leave?
What if he says, I just can't, in good conscience, leave this party, leave this country to the Republican Party?
I just can't.
Did you see who they elected governor?
I mean, they put lunatics in all.
I can't, in good conscience, leave this country.
And do you think the media would oppose that?
The media would find a way to support it.
I'm not predicting it.
Don't get, you know, don't start firing off emails to people here.
Just having a little fun think process here.
But I'm just trying to illustrate the Democrats don't have anybody but Hillary.
And if something blows up for her, and I'm just telling you, they're worried to death about it.
Contrary to what you might think, the Democrat Party is not unified behind Hillary, and they're not all excited about it.
There's more fear of Bill Clinton than anything and what he would do.
They think he's got the power to blow up the Democrat Party if somebody screws around with Hillary's candidacy and all that.
So I think they're in a defensive posture.
Now, other people in the Democrat Party love her and think it's the best thing in the world and she's a goddess and all that.
I mean, it runs the gamut, but I'm just telling you, it's not monolithic that she is the best thing they've got.
There are people really worried about her vulnerabilities because they're real.
The woman is flawed in many, many ways.
And remember, despite appearances, the drive-by media monopoly doesn't exist anymore.
There are now ways that they can be penetrated.
They can't shield and protect their flawed candidates and hide them the way they used to be able to.
And let me tell you something else they tried in Kentucky.
The Democrats and the drive-by media.
They said he's going to take away your free Obamacare health insurance.
They ran around the Democrat candidate.
They ran ads.
The media doing interviews, asking people on the street, so are you worried that Mr. Bevin is going to take away your Obamacare policy?
Are you worried that your health care costs are going to skyrocket because Bevin wants to take away your health care?
And even that didn't work.
Now, imagine you are the Democrats.
By the way, this is the drive-bys.
You can go through and have some soundbite support for this, maybe.
The drive-bys, they are shocked to learn in many cases, and that's not universal, but they are shocked to learn there are people that don't like Obamacare.
Now, I'm sure you're going to go, Rush, that's crazy.
They have to know that.
No, no, folks.
They live in a bubble.
It's a small universe of people that they interact with.
And they interact with the architects of Obamacare.
They interact with elected Democrats.
They interact with other media people who think all this stuff is wonderful.
And of course, the people that don't like it are Republicans who are immediately written off.
But to them, the Republicans are a minority non-existent party.
And the people that vote for them are very tiny, non-existent, really bunch of kooks.
And so substantive opposition or dislike of Obamacare is not real.
And so they run ads against Bevin, accusing him of taking away health care.
That's just going to kill a guy because everybody loves Obamacare.
They love health insurance.
And Obamacare brought health insurance to everyone.
They have no clue that a majority – well, that's not – they can read the polls.
But I tell you, they selectively believe what they want to believe.
They have to read these polls, majority polls of people don't like Obamacare.
But it doesn't register because another factor in liberalism is what people want is irrelevant.
They're too stupid to know what's best for them.
And I'm not exaggerating this at all.
So a public opinion poll on Obamacare that shows a majority oppose it to them just confirms how dense people are.
Or unappreciative, in fact.
All the hard work Obama, the Democrats did, and all the things they had to do to overcome these mean-spirited Republicans who want to deny people everything, and they finally got them Obamacare, healthcare, national health care.
People don't like it.
They're just stupid idiots.
They don't have the brains to appreciate what we're doing for them.
And that's the way they, and I'm not exaggerating.
They are that out of touch.
Here is Richard and Cleveland.
Richard, thank you for waiting.
You're next, your big showbiz break here on the EIB Network High.
Good afternoon, Rush.
Longtime fanniers.
Keep up the great fight.
Thank you, sir.
A few things I'd like to say real quick.
I work in construction, and I am 100% behind Donald Trump.
Nothing is going to shake me from Donald Trump.
Carson is a good man, but I don't think he's an aggressive enough fighter.
Romney was weak.
McCain was weak.
Goal was weak.
And, you know, Bush and Kayship are weak.
And they should take one for the team, do the right thing, and get out.
I'd never vote for Jeff Bush.
And, you know, we have to fight the Democrats aggressively as possible.
And like I said, I'm 100% behind Trump.
Like I said, working in construction, me and my peers know that once the illegals flood in, that that's going to destroy the wage scales.
And we need a fighter to fight these Democrats as aggressively as possible.
So just to pick up on a thing that you said, and I'm not taunting you.
I'm genuinely trying to pick your brain.
Is there nothing that could happen?
And I know you've thought about it.
You're committed to Trump.
Is there nothing that could happen to make you question your support for the guy?
Well, I'm sure that the biased mainstream media is trying to overturn every rock they can find to try and dig up any little dirt on Trump.
And the so-called self-anointed Republican experts like Roebe and Crownhammer, and I'll throw Brick Hume in there, they're just absolutely best and heartbroken that we haven't fallen head over heels for Bush, who is a weak, losing candidate.
Hillary would mount the floor with him.
I think it should have a good chance.
And I certainly hope that Mother Hillary don't get in there.
I mean, right there, it all is.
I'm all in for Trump not to.
For those of you trying to feel what's going on here, Richard just pretty much bottled it for you.
I mean, that's...
So, Richard, here's what I pick up what Richard said.
He has professed his unwavering support for Donald Trump.
So I asked him, is there anything that could cause that support to wane, vanish, or whatever?
And you know what he basically said?
No, because I'm not going to believe any of it.
If something comes along bad about Trump, I know it's going to be made up by these guys in Washington.
So even if there is some magic revelation about Trump, his supporters aren't going to buy it.
And I'm telling you, these people waiting for Trump, Carson, whoever, to fade away are not understanding this kind.
He's in construction.
He's soldered.
He is soldered to Trump here, folks.
It's why I say Trump is media proof.
The media, well, they made him in some ways, but not politically.
And therefore, politically, the media is not going to be able to destroy Trump.