{"id":13413,"date":"2013-01-24T19:46:02","date_gmt":"2013-01-24T19:46:02","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2021-07-16T14:48:04","modified_gmt":"2021-07-16T18:48:04","slug":"cnn_s_king_women_in_combat_will_help_obama_transform_america_like_reagan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2013\/01\/24\/cnn_s_king_women_in_combat_will_help_obama_transform_america_like_reagan\/","title":{"rendered":"CNN\u2019S King: Women in Combat Will Help Obama Transform America Like Reagan"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: I have to admit to being somewhat puzzled by this. Obama has put forth this women in combat business. And my memory on this, this has come up before. Women in combat, we\u2019ve been there, done that, we\u2019ve had this debate way back in the \u201990s. But it\u2019s come back. It\u2019s resurfaced. John King was on Anderson Cooper 390 last night, CNN, talking about this. Anderson Cooper said, “Do you think there\u2019s no doubt that women in combat is part of the equation?”<\/p>\n

KING: Without a doubt. You will find a lot of Democrats who say if you can turn the Obama coalition into a Democratic coalition, then the Democrats will have built in on the national stage, pretty much what Ronald Reagan had for 20 years and the Republican Party had after Ronald Reagan on the national stage. This coalition, if he can transfer it over, spells a lot of trouble for the Republicans.<\/p>\n

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\nRUSH: What they\u2019re doing here, they\u2019re all in on this Reagan thing. These people are obsessed with Ronald Reagan. It really offends me because there\u2019s no comparison to Barack Obama and Ronald Reagan. Maybe I\u2019ve contributed to some of this unintentionally, because Obama does want to be like Reagan in the sense that he thinks Reagan changed the trajectory of the country. Obama believes this was a left-leaning progressive liberal country until Reagan came along, and then Reagan screwed everything up. And Reagan got people thinking about conservativism. Reagan was simply devoted to the Constitution. Reagan was devoted to the concept of a Representative Republic. He was devoted to the founding principles. That\u2019s what Obama doesn\u2019t like.<\/p>\n

So now what they\u2019re trying to tell us here is that Obama — they\u2019re admitting Reagan\u2019s greatness, by the way. What they\u2019re doing now is trying to say that Obama is trying to accomplish what Reagan did. Not policy-wise, but in terms of massively influencing the people that we\u2019re going to have a socialist, almost a totalitarian existence, and that\u2019s where this comparison to Reagan starts to anger me a little bit. Reagan was not about any of this. There were no similarities whatsoever. Reagan was trying to de-emphasize government in people\u2019s lives. He was trying to lower taxes. He wanted a booming private sector. He wanted individuals rewarded for their labor, not punished for their success. He wanted to wipe the enemies of free people off the earth, the Soviet Union and communism everywhere. He was a big believer in liberty and freedom, for everybody. As in our founding.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s not Obama. So these guys in the media, they\u2019re caught up here now in Obama becoming Reagan. And women in combat, Obama now reestablishing women in combat is to cement the Democrat coalition. This sound bite really amazes me. “Without a doubt. You will find a lot of Democrats who say if you can turn the Obama coalition into a Democratic coalition.” What the hell is it if it\u2019s already not a Democratic coalition? And they mean Democrat Party. They don\u2019t mean small d Democrat here. What has he got for the Democrat Party coalition? “They can turn the Obama coalition into a Democratic coalition, then the Democrats will have built in on the national stage, pretty much what Ronald Reagan –” These people to this day don\u2019t know who Ronald Reagan was and they clearly don\u2019t know what he was about. To equate what Obama\u2019s doing here with anything that Reagan did is absurd. And it\u2019s offensive.<\/p>\n

But I don\u2019t even understand this. What is the Obama coalition if it\u2019s not a bunch of Democrats? The Gallup poll today: 86% Democratic approval of Obama, 10% Republican approval. We are more partisan than ever. The partisan divide is as great as it\u2019s ever been in history. Well, for as long as Gallup has been tallying it. Women in combat? What, women are being denied this? The Republican War on Women was such that women were denied their opportunities and Obama sees fit to make it happen. Anyway, the next question that Cooper said was, “John, is part of this payback for those comments that McConnell made about this top job being to make sure the president wasn\u2019t reelected?”<\/p>\n

KING: You can look at it that way. I\u2019m sure if you asked the president about this, he would say that he believes these things. But they do believe in the White House, Anderson. Pick up a census report. Look at the demographics of this country and how they\u2019re changing. Look at the Obama coalition from the last two elections. They believe if they can cement the loyalty of those voters in, and part of cementing the voters is acting on the issues they most care about, young voters care about climate change, a lot of voters do, but these are issues that fit the Obama coalition. If they can cement that in on a national scale, the Republicans are in trouble.<\/p>\n

RUSH: The Republicans are already in trouble. You notice how excited this guy is over all this, though? He can barely contain himself. So climate change and gay marriage, those are the top two issues for people 28 and under. And primarily 18-24 college, gay marriage, gay rights and climate change are it. But he\u2019s salivating here over Obama turning this into some national trajectory that\u2019s going to serve to wipe the Republicans out. And somehow they\u2019re throwing women in combat in this. We already have women in combat. It\u2019s the All-American First Calvary Amazon Battalion. I\u2019ve already explained this.<\/a> It\u2019s my idea. It\u2019s a great idea. And it would work. But it\u2019s all part of this supposed Democrat coalition Obama doesn\u2019t quite yet have but he\u2019s trying to cement. They\u2019re all in a tizzy, excited over the fact that the Republicans might be wiped out. Make no mistake about that.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: I\u2019ll tell you something. This obsession that these people on the Democrat side have with Ronaldus Magnus is so devoid of any reality. I think all they\u2019re trying to do — well, not all they\u2019re trying to do — what they want is a Republican comparison so that they can compare. They know that people think Reagan\u2019s a great president. Obama is Hoover. He\u2019s not Reagan. And what they\u2019re trying to do is anoint Obama with greatness by comparing him to Reagan. And that\u2019s what offends me. But just so you know, by his fourth year in office, if you want a comparison, by his fourth year in office, after Reagan\u2019s policies of cutting taxes, reducing regulations, we were in the midst of massive economic growth. It resulted in over 20 million new jobs.<\/p>\n

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\nThere is absolutely no comparison between Obama and Reagan. None. Other than this changing the overall ideological mind of the American people. There\u2019s no doubt that Obama\u2019s jealous of Reagan being able to do that. Obama would love if everybody in this country became as Alinsky-like as he is. But this Reagan comparison is a flat out admission to what a failure Obama is. They\u2019re not comparing him to FDR. They\u2019re not comparing him to Woodrow Wilson. They\u2019re comparing him to Reagan. And what\u2019s doubly frustrating is that our own party won\u2019t even talk positively about Reagan. Oh, no, the era of Reagan is over. Those are long ago days. We can\u2019t keep Reagan alive today. It\u2019s a different era.<\/p>\n

Not for these guys. It was a formative point in their lives. Reagan scared the devil out of them and that\u2019s why they gotta change it. This little idea here — and John King is right. Climate change, gay marriage. That\u2019s what they all think Obama needs to do to solidify this new coalition of his. Climate change, gay marriage, those other two big issues in young people today. But I wonder how important they\u2019re going to be when the financial system collapses from Obama\u2019s debt. I wonder how important all that\u2019s going to end up being when people are literally out of unemployment benefits and out of Medicare and don\u2019t have jobs and can\u2019t afford health care.<\/p>\n

I wonder how important gay marriage and climate change are going to be to them then. I predict to you that it won\u2019t be very important. Climate change, gay marriage, it\u2019s not going to matter a hill of beans once the real impact of the Obama presidency kicks in. You wait. You mark my words. They are miscalculating here. They\u2019re feeling arrogant and cocky. Lots of hubris and it\u2019s gonna come back and bite them. But don\u2019t misunderstand. Obama, what he\u2019s doing, is devastating. That\u2019s my point. These social issues are not going to matter much to these people once this happens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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