Do Your Show Prep: Everything Rush reads to prepare for the show.
Some of the topics we're loaded with today:
Dems Spin Gov's Call to Suspend Elections || Solar Scandal || Perry Backs off "Heartless" Insult || EU Eyes Frau Merkel for Bailout
RUSH: "New claims for U.S. jobless benefits fell sharply last week to their lowest level since April although..." There's always an "although" or a "but."
On September 16, I played a sound bite from a great ad for Ford. Good thing. It has now been broomed after White House pressure. The commercial featured a real-life F-150 owner, Chris McDaniel.
RUSH: On the MSNBC monitor, there was F. Chuck Todd. In the upper left-hand corner of the screen was a small picture of Chris Christie; and right next to it, a small picture next to it -- a small picture of me...
RUSH: There's a very telling passage in Hayward's book, and it is this, and it is applicable to today: "Reagan understood that with a Democratic voting edge of three-to-two in California, a Republican could only win by appealing to crossover voters. This required a united Republican Party more than a centrist campaign."
RUSH: Rubio would win in a walkover. He's conservative. He's articulate. He's great-looking. He's Hispanic and sounds very smart. How can he possibly lose? If this were the Democrat Party, the party father would probably tell Obama to step aside and let Rubio run, if Rubio were a Democrat. There are more Hispanic voters now than there are blacks, and Rubio's got more experience than Obama had when he decided to run.
I don't know how many times Rubio has voted "present" versus Obama.
RUSH: I don't have a message for women voters, and I don't have a message for male voters, and I don't have a message for Hispanic voters, and I don't have a message for black voters. I just have a message for voters. Maybe I make the mistake assuming they're all Americans, and I would speak to them that way. But, look, that's why I do this and not that. I listen to political people talk about what they've got to do to win elections, and I just scratch my head.
BEGALA: The iron law of incumbents is the only way to run is to run scared but this president has to run really scared. The data is very bad.
RUSH: With Obama on any ballot, this whole notion of "lesser of two evils," I don't think exists. Nobody's in that camp on our side. There is no "almost an Obama" on our side, even Romney. I think this "lesser of two evils" business gets thrown out, too.
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