{"id":14664,"date":"2012-09-06T16:21:51","date_gmt":"2012-09-06T16:21:51","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-09-06T16:21:51","modified_gmt":"2012-09-06T16:21:51","slug":"on_the_night_their_convention_booed_god_out_of_touch_democrats_think_they_won_the_election_because_of_clinton_s_speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2012\/09\/06\/on_the_night_their_convention_booed_god_out_of_touch_democrats_think_they_won_the_election_because_of_clinton_s_speech\/","title":{"rendered":"On the Night Their Convention Booed God, Out-of-Touch Democrats Think They Won the Election Because of Clinton\u2019s Speech!"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: All right, here\u2019s the truth. Yesterday, including most of last night, was perhaps one of the worst, flattest, most embarrassing days for a political party at its convention in the history of conventions. And yet, the media <\/a>and a lot of Democrats think the election\u2019s over because of last night. They think last night\u2019s convention was a home run, a grand-slam home run. I\u2019m telling you, the truth is that in terms of average Americans watching what\u2019s going on, yesterday and last night was an absolute disaster for the Democrats. <\/p>\n

There must be a lot of fear on our side. ‘Cause I got people left and right that have been e-mailing me Clinton fact-check articles. “Rush, you gotta set the record straight on Clinton.” I didn\u2019t even watch Clinton. I saw two or three segments and I got bored. I got bored. I don\u2019t think he helped Obama at all last night. You know, Obama\u2019s waiting backstage to come out and accept accolades and stand in the great light of Bill Clinton, and what did Clinton do? Make him wait \u2019til 11:30, when the football game is at its most exciting. Everybody\u2019s watching the wrap-up of the Giants and the Cowboys. That convention last night on the broadcast networks, the early numbers didn\u2019t even get a full rating point. It got a .9. The TV numbers are in. <\/p>\n

Now, they\u2019re quick and they\u2019re subject to revision, but it\u2019s fascinating for me to look at my e-mail of what people send me, because I can determine who\u2019s frightened or who\u2019s worried about what mighta happened last night. I want to dissect this and share with you my opinions of it, as always. We\u2019ll have some audio sound bites of some of the things that happened. I want you to try to understand. I don\u2019t know how many of you are panicked because you think Clinton did well last night, but you have to keep in mind, the Democrat Party and the media all wish they were sleeping with Clinton. There is a slavish, irrational love-like attachment to this guy that is irrational, and it\u2019s not rooted in reality. And, of course, they think last night fixed whatever problems happened earlier in the day, or whatever mighta gone wrong earlier in the evening or whatever mighta gone wrong the last four years. <\/line><\/p>\n

I\u2019m telling you, they see Bill Clinton in a way that the vast majority of Americans do not. Tell me, do the candidates that Clinton endorses win? No! A sizeable percentage of the American people looked at this convention last night, and they hear contraception, abortion, women, victims, women this, women that, War on Women, and then who do they see? Bill Clinton. Any party that would bring Bill Clinton out and highlight him and Ted Kennedy, while at the same time claiming to have love and devotion, respect for women, is insane. In the real world, the connection doesn\u2019t work. (laughing) For me, it is fascinating to watch what idolatry does to people\u2019s ability to be reasonable and rational. I\u2019ll show you what I mean when we get to the audio sound bites. There\u2019s a couple other observations.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t think Clinton intended to help Obama that much. I think Clinton\u2019s out there for Clinton, he\u2019s being loyal to the party first, loyal to himself second. I don\u2019t know if it\u2019s got a name for it, a device, but what he wanted to do was tell the audience that his four years smoked Obama\u2019s. He couldn\u2019t just come out and say it that way, but he wanted them to conclude that. So what he did, and I\u2019m paraphrasing it, (imitating Clinton) “I just went through my record and all the job creation, bipartisan, I mean, I worked with the Republicans.” There were so many slams of Obama in that Clinton speech, I can\u2019t begin to catalog \u2019em all. “I was bipartisan. I worked with the Republicans. I was able to do that. I was able to get it done. This guy can\u2019t.” He didn\u2019t say that, but that\u2019s the implication. <\/line><\/p>\n

And then he recounts his record. (imitating Clinton) “I took office in the worst economy in the last 50 years, and look what happened. I raised taxes, job creation, economic<\/a> recovery. Now, I don\u2019t want y\u2019all thinking here that the last four years have been… I mean, my four years clearly outdid the last four, everybody knows that. But I don\u2019t want you thinking that. That would be very unfair. I don\u2019t want you making that kind of comparison.” But he wanted everybody to make the comparison. So he told the audience, (imitating Clinton) “I know what you\u2019re thinking. I know what you\u2019re thinking. You\u2019re thinking I know more about what I\u2019m doing than this clown does. I don\u2019t want you thinking that way. It would be wholly unfair. It would be very unfair for you to think I\u2019m so much better at what I do than Obama is.” That\u2019s exactly what he was doing. <\/p>\n

I know this guy, folks. I can channel this guy. I know liberals. I know how they do stuff, and there\u2019s Obama sitting back there waiting to come out. He doesn\u2019t even want to have to bask in Clinton\u2019s limelight, but that\u2019s all he\u2019s got. Obama is standing back there waiting to come out and bask in the glow, and Clinton goes on and on. I was going back and forth from Clinton to the football game, and I\u2019m not kidding you, every time I went back to Clinton, that room looked flat. Now, I know there were periods of time where it wasn\u2019t. I\u2019m not lost in my own illusion. But I\u2019m telling you, he mighta owned that room the first five or ten minutes, but after that, he got lost in “I, me, my,” and his time and his ego, and that convention hall last night was a microcosm, a small microcosm of the small percentage of thinking in this country that is categorized by liberal. They are nowhere near the majority of the population, majority of the thinking or what have you, and the media is in the same body.<\/p>\n

So there\u2019s a vast misunderstanding in that hall. For crying out loud, this is the bunch that got mad when they tried to put God back in their platform<\/a>. They got mad! They booed God! They booed the process of putting God back, and they think they had a winning convention night last night. They think they won the election last night. We come to find out, the news came from on high. It was reported that when Obama found out that God had been taken out of the convention, he called somebody, “You put it back in.” Well, guess who was in charge of taking it out in the first place? Obama. Presidents are the platform. He knew that it wasn\u2019t in there, and he knew this business about Israel and Jerusalem wasn\u2019t in there. He wanted it that way. Then all hell broke loose and he had to put it back in.<\/p>\n

I had to feel sorry for poor Villaraigosa going out there, \u2019cause look what this guy\u2019s up against? And what does it say for the democrat process when the vote was ignored, the real vote was ignored, and the convention leaders just did what they wanted to do anyway. That convention doesn\u2019t want God in their platform. That bunch of Democrats wants God nowhere near \u2019em. And there\u2019s no other way of analyzing it. So Villaraigosa goes out there, calls for the vote, and you can see on his face, “Oh, my God. What do I do?” The teleprompter told him what to say, but the “no\u2019s” clearly outnumbered the “yay\u2019s”, in terms of putting God back in. He had to sit there and pretend that the “yay\u2019s” won. He couldn\u2019t do it the first time. Here, let\u2019s just listen to it. I have to play this myself. I have to get it on the record on this program. The Democrat Party, as you will hear with sound bites, as we get into the rest of the program, they think they won the election last night. That may be one of the best results last night. They think it\u2019s in the bag now, strictly because of Bill Clinton. They think it\u2019s in the bag. <\/p>\n

Oh, folks. You know, CNN has a stalker, Carol Costello<\/a>. She\u2019s the correspondent that follows me, and she was interviewing Alex Castellanos. And Kit, be on the lookout. Every time I mention Castellanos, he calls and filibusters and demands to come on the program to “correct” what I say about him. Or he sends you an e-mail. Whatever. He\u2019s a Republican consultant, Alex Castellanos. He\u2019s on CNN last night, and Carol Costello\u2019s desperately worried that Obama\u2019s not going to be able to outshine Bill Clinton.<\/p>\n

Castellanos says (summarized), “Yeah, I\u2019m gonna tell you: This election\u2019s over. I got an e-mail from a woman who said she watched Clinton last night and she wanted to do two things: ‘I want to sleep with him; I want to vote for him.\u2019 This is over, Carol.” Costello says, “Well, you know, Obama just does so much better outdoors than indoors. Is there any way, Alex, that Obama can…?” I have the sound bites. You will hear this. The Republican consultant on CNN last night said, “It\u2019s over.”<\/line><\/p>\n

Cokie Roberts thinks it\u2019s over. Gloria Borger thinks it\u2019s over. But Joe Trippi on Fox was so embarrassed. Joe Trippi, right before Warren.<\/a> Right before they went to Warren there was a little time for a panel up there. And Joe Trippi (who ran Howard Dean\u2019s campaign in \u201904), when it was his turn to comment, he didn\u2019t want to say anything. He was so depressed. (paraphared) “Yeah. Look, yeah. It\u2019s a little flat tonight. Yeah it\u2019s not what it was the night before. Yeah, it\u2019s a little flat,” and then he started with the excuse making.<\/p>\n

And Joe Trippi had it right.<\/p>\n

Dick Morris was tweeting all throughout Clinton\u2019s speech just thrashing Clinton on what a horrible speech Clinton was giving. The contrast is amazing. The people who think it\u2019s over because Clinton gave a great speech are a testament to how in the tank the media and Democrats are for Clinton. They have no ability to relate to reality, particularly as it affects real people. Now, here\u2019s Villaraigosa as they\u2019re desperately trying to put God back in their convention. It\u2019s one word: “God-given.” That\u2019s the phrase: “God-given.” One little mention, and it\u2019s torn the convention apart.<\/p>\n

One mention of God, and it sent this place into a tizzy.<\/p>\n

We have two of these. Here\u2019s the first of two sound bites, the LA mayor Antonio Villaraigosa.<\/p>\n

VILLARAIGOSA: (convention noise) All those delegates in favor, say, “Aye.”<\/p>\n

DELEGATES: Aye!<\/p>\n

VILLARAIGOSA: All those delegates opposed, say, “No.”<\/p>\n

DELEGATES: Nooooo!<\/p>\n

VILLARAIGOSA: In the opinion of the… (pause) Let me do that again.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, do it again.<\/p>\n