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| March 24, 2008 |
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Story #1: Sick Drive-Bys Celebrate 4,000 Iraq Troop Deaths
RUSH: Boy, you know, I haven't seen the Drive-Bys this happy in I-don't-know-how-long. It's sick. The Drive-Bys, they're happy at the number of deaths in Iraq at 4,000. I mean, they're literally having media orgasms out there. It ticks me off!
Story #2: Detroit Mayor Indicted: Wife Absent, Party Unknown
 RUSH: Rising political star Kwame Kilpatrick, the mayor of Detroit, faces 15 years in the hoosegow -- sex charges, perjury charges, ruining people's lives. I've got a couple stories about this, and I'll be damned if I can find out what party he belongs to. I mean, I happen to know he's a Democrat, but the Drive-Bys don't think it's necessary to point that out in all these stories. By the way, the Wayne County prosecutor in Detroit bringing the charges is a black woman, so we can't pull a Reverend Jeremiah Wright and say that all this is based on white racism.
So, question: Will Kwame Kilpatrick resign and run for governor in New York? This is the pressing question we have here at the EIB Network. This guy, Paterson, this new governor in New York, he's all mad now at some advisor who told him to get it all out there about the affairs. But look, can I get serious about this for just a second? In all candor, you notice when all these Democrats go down, there's no media effort to paint the whole Democrat Party generally as unethical or corrupt or what have you? We've got Eliot Spitzer gone; we've got Paterson admitting to serial infidelity, but only after he is sworn in as governor; we have Kwame Kilpatrick, the mayor of Detroit indicted. Where are the stories about the demise of the Democrat Party? You know darn well that if this were a Republican series of resignations or indictments, they'd be running front-page stories for weeks on end about the demise of the Republican Party, how unethical and corrupt that it has become. Remember Macaca? Remember Mark Foley? But no such stories here about the Democrats.
And just to remind you, folks, Kwame Kilpatrick's wife was not there. She was not standing by his side at the press conference in Detroit. She is mad about this! It's all about text messaging and having an affair and the lying about it, and perjury and a number of other things. She's mad. She's not doing a Silda Spitzer, and she's not doing a Hillary Clinton.
Story #3: Rasmussen Tracking: McCain Up, Democrats Down
RUSH: Back to Operation Chaos, at this moment in time, a snapshot today, March 24th, '08, the Democrats are screwed. "The latest news from the Rasmussen Tracking Poll is very encouraging for McCain. Obama's favorable-unfavorable is 46 to 51, its all-time low, demonstrating no ability yet to stanch the bleeding," from the race speech. Now, in the Democrat Party it's a different picture. He's pulled back ahead of Mrs. Clinton in the Democrat Party primary polling, but I'm talking about national polls now, the national tracking poll, his unfavorable-favorable, his 46 favorable, 51 unfavorable. This rivals Mrs. Clinton now. I think it's one of the reasons they trotted out Bill Richardson with the Fu Manchu beard.
But here's evidence of what's happened with white voters. This is from Richard Baehr at AmericanThinker.com. In Arkansas, McCain leads Clinton 50 to 43. McCain leads Obama 59 to 30. In Kentucky, McCain leads Clinton 53-43, destroys Obama in Kentucky 64 to 28. Lower, middle-income whites have deserted Obama. In one Pennsylvania poll, Clinton now leads Obama by 26 points. She has now taken the lead from him in North Carolina and he owned that state. Rasmussen, national numbers now are Clinton 46, Obama 44. And head-to-head in the general election, the Rasmussen tracking poll, it's McCain 49, Obama 41; McCain 49, Clinton 43. Now, according to all of this, there is "No question that Hillary is the stronger general election candidate. She is more competitive in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Florida. Obama does better than Hillary in states Dems will lose anyway: Georgia, Wyoming, Kansas, Nebraska."
Mr. Baehr also points out some other good news. "Only Arkansas among Southern states was really in play. Now McCain leads even Clinton there. McCain is very well-positioned in Florida: Sen. Lieberman will get Jewish votes for him, veterans, Cubans. Northern Panhandle whites don't like Obama or Clinton. Virginia is surprisingly strong for McCain, who holds solid leads over both Dems."
Story #4: Public Reacts Negatively to Obama's Race Speech
RUSH: This is polling done after Obama's speech last Thursday on race and the Reverend Jeremiah Wright: 82% knew about Obama's relationship with Wright and Obama's speech about race in America, and of those who knew about the controversy in the speech, 52% said it made them less likely to vote Obama. Fifty-six percent of blacks -- get this, now -- said Obama's speech made them less likely to vote for him.
This is an Insider Advantage poll, by the way, from Gary Reese. "Barack Obama's speech about race on Tuesday impressed many who witnessed it or read it. But most of America did neither, and many of them -- white and black -- were less persuaded of the speech's capacity to heal racial wounds, or to put the issue of race behind Obama as he continues his quest for the White House." Look, the poll numbers in this story are really bad. "The disturbing numbers for Obama are the independent voters. By 56% to 13%, they said they're less likely to vote for him because of the speech." Now, that's now, that's a snapshot of now. I think this is what the Obama internals were showing them, and that's why they went out and reached out to Richardson. I don't think there's any question about it. The way that thing looked on Friday with Barry and Richardson, it looked like you could have been looking at the potential Democrat ticket.
Story #5: Gallup Shows Obama Comeback Against Hillary
RUSH: Now, the Gallup daily poll, which is just the Democrat Party: Barack Obama has quickly made up the deficit he faced with Hillary Clinton earlier this week, with the latest Gallup poll daily tracking update on the Democrat nomination preferences showing 48% of Democrats favoring Obama and 45% favoring Clinton. She was leading in this after the speech and going up to it. Obama has come back on the Democrat side.
They say here that "Obama's campaign clearly suffered in recent days from negative press, mostly centering around his association with Jeremiah Wright. Perhaps as a result Clinton moved into the lead in Gallup's Wednesday release, covering March 16th to 18th polling. But Obama has now edged back ahead of Clinton due to a strong showing for him in Friday night's polling which is obviously a result of the press conference and the appearance with Bill Richardson on the endorsement. Both Democrats have inched closer to McCain in the latest update on registered voters' general election preferences. McCain holds just a two-point edge over both, 46 to 44 over Obama, 47 to 45 over Hillary," this, again, is according to Gallup. So it remains, as we all know it will, highly fluid, in a great state of flux -- and, remember, polling this far out on the general election is just what it is, a snapshot of things today and doesn't really mean much because we still haven't gotten to the end of Operation Chaos here.
Story #6: Chaos: Donner Party Democrats Eat Their Own
RUSH: The New York Times on Saturday, Operation Chaos: "Donner Party Democrats," by Timothy Egan. You know who the Donner Party was? Maybe you don't. It depends. Donner Pass? What about you, Brian? Be honest. Unbelievable. Snerdley? The Donner Party was a pioneer family and group in covered wagons that was trying to get over the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Nevada and Northern California, and they got stuck in wintertime. They could not move, and they made history for one reason: They ate their dead. Cannibalism. It was all they could do to stay alive. I have read about the Donner Party. Now, this was a winter, and talk about the toughness of people in our past, the toughness of pioneers. These are people who had to resort to eating their dead to stay alive because the weather was so bad that they were paralyzed. They could not move for an entire winter, and there was one passage in diaries that they found that it was an unusually cold winter. There wasn't any whining. There wasn't any moaning or any of that. They did what they had to do. So the Donner party Democrats, this is a story by Timothy Egan in the New York Times about Democrats eating their own after they kill each other. That's what the Donner party was. I mean, Operation Chaos is having untold benefits, now even bleeding over to the New York Times.
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