| The Utter Futility of Kerry Campaign |
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May 12, 2004 |
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RUSH: Ladies and gentlemen, just so you know, the world is monitoring this program. The BBC is monitoring this program for their Nightline show, their version of Nightline tonight. We've got phone calls from German media today to let us know that they're monitoring. NBC Nightly News is monitoring the program today. They're working on a story (laughing) about the split, or supposed split, among conservatives on the war, and frankly, I don't... [talking to Dittocam] Let me look into the camera here in case they're taking a feed at this point. There's no split on the war in the conservative movement or among conservatives. There's a split on how to win it; there's a split on how to proceed, maybe, but there's no split on should we be there and doing it -- and it's much ado about nothing anyway.
 The split among conservatives is news to somebody today? It's only news if somebody's got an agenda that they're trying to put forth, because you've got a column by George Will now and then that says this and says that. Any time there is a break between the conservatives and the president, man, it's like a beeline! It's like they've just got to focus in on that in the mainstream press because it's, "Happy days are here again!" It's the only way they can hope to win. Their own candidate, John Kerry, just can't... You ought to see the stories in the news today. The last item of the program yesterday was one of the funniest things to come down the pike, and this hasn't even been accurately reported. It's on the wires, but television is not making any sort of a deal about it at all. |
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"The Senate yesterday, by a single vote, rejected an election year effort to extend federal unemployment benefits." Now, we're in the midst of a huge economic recovery and boom and the Democrats as an election year political issue tried to extend unemployment benefits another 13 weeks. They had to get cloture, had to get 60 votes to move on to the vote, but this vote would have equated a vote to extend. The vote was 59-40 in the Senate. They fell just one vote shy of the 60 votes needed to overcome objections and to move on with the vote on extending the benefits. The one senator who didn't vote because he wasn't there, was the Democratic presidential "presumptive-assumed nominee" John Kerry -- the only senator who missed the vote!
He was campaigning in the Bush stronghold of Kentucky. Now, is this not -- well it's not a metaphor -- but if this just is not a little peek into the whole study of the Kerry campaign. Here he's got a commercial running saying that he "cast the deciding vote that created 20 million new jobs." Here a seminal, huge issue to the left as part of its campaign to get rid of George Bush, extending unemployment benefits, so as to portray the country as a continual soup line with nothing but soup kitchens available. Gas prices are up; people are having to buy gas and go starving at the same time because they can't afford both. Remember that? Now all of a sudden the one guy who seeks the votes of the American people to turn George Bush out, not even there to vote on this issue! His own campaign is beginning now to whisper, "Psst? Psst psst, psst psst?" that something is awry here in this campaign. This to me is just utterly hilarious.
 Kerry spokesman David Wade said, "John Kerry's fought again and again to extend unemployment benefits for workers left behind in the Bush economy, but he wasn't there when it was time to vote on it. The reason we haven't succeeded is because George Bush opposes extending unemployment insurance, and so do his allies in the Republican House of Representatives and 39 Republican senators." That's the statement after Kerry misses the vote: blame it on Bush who didn't have a vote! (Laughing.) I'm sorry, folks, I just can't help but laugh at this, the utter futility -- as of today. I know things could change, but the utter futility of this campaign, and we've got -- I mean, I didn't even bother. Normally every day what I do, I'll get in here and I go through all of the show prep that I have been feverishly working on since the night before, and lately I've assembled a Kerry stack, and then a prison photo stack, and then a war in Iraq stack, a war on terror stack, and then a lighthearted stack. |
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As you know, we haven't gotten to any stack but the prison photo stack in the last week. Today, I didn't even bother assembling all the Kerry stuff in one stack. It's just scattered throughout all the other stacks, so that I'll be sure to get to all of it not in one combined effort but over the course of the program as it just pops up, because it's just (laughing). I'm sorry. I'm the most optimistic and the happiest figure in American media today, folks, and there's nothing that's happened here that has changed this. Get this. Where's this from? The Louisville Courier-Journal. By the way, (transcriber) Dawn how to pronounce the capital of Kentucky, it is Louie-ville or Louis-ville? What? Oh, she got it! It's Frankfurt! Have you heard me tell that joke before? (Laughing.) Oh, did I try it on you once before? Oh, I've forgotten I tried it on her once before. Anyway, this is a story by Al Cross:
 "'The prison abuse scandal in Iraq stems from an arrogant attitude that President Bush displayed in going to war there,' said John Kerry in Louisville yesterday. 'What has happened is not just something that a few, you know, privates and corporals or sergeants engaged in,' said Kerry. 'This is something that comes out of an attitude about the rights of prisoners of war. It's an attitude that comes out of how we went there in the first place, an attitude that comes out of America's overall arrogance as policy.'" [italics added] America's overall arrogance as policy? Now, do you know how the Louisville Courier-Journal headlined this piece? "Bush's Arrogance Costly, Kerry Said." Oooh, no, Mr. Cross. That's not what Kerry said. He didn't say, "Bush's arrogance." He said, "America's overall arrogance."
He said all of this is "an attitude that comes out of America's overall arrogance," and so John Kerry is attempting to transfer the values and attitudes of those prison guards to all of us. They are just extensions of us. They did what they did because we are who we are, and we are all the same, and we are all Americans, and we are all arrogant, and yet this is the guy, listen to any question that he answers: "Senator Kerry, what about that vote on the unemployment?"
[Kerry sing-song voice responding]: "Weeeell, you don't know how the Senate woooorks. You've never beeeeen there. Don't talk to me about that until you've been elected senator like I haaaave. You haven't been in Vietnaaaam, either! You don't know about unemployment insuuuurance. I've been to both places. I've never needed unemployment insurance and I hope I never doooo, because it's not very much because George Bush doesn't care." Something along those lines. But yet the moment of truth, he's not there.
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