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<\/p>\nRUSH: Manitowoc, Wisconsin, and Jeannie. Jeannie, I\u2019m glad you waited. Welcome to the EIB Network.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Oh, thanks, Rush. It\u2019s a real pleasure and an honor. I\u2019m so excited to talk to you.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Thanks for calling. I appreciate it.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Well, I just wanted to let you know that this pick is a home run. I couldn\u2019t believe it. When I heard it, that\u2019s the first thing I said, “It\u2019s a home run.” Paul Ryan is a man of integrity. He is honest. He says he\u2019s gonna do something, and he does it, and the best thing about him is he\u2019s a very humble man. So when the lamestream media tries to attack him, he\u2019s not full of himself, so he\u2019s just gonna come back and say, “Nope, this is what\u2019s going on, and this is how you fix it, and this is how we get America back on the right track.”<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, but some might say that you\u2019re a little biased. I mean, you\u2019re from Wisconsin.<\/p>\n
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CALLER: Well, I would just have to tell them that, look at Wisconsin. After Scott Walker got elected, for two years our media kept telling us, “He\u2019s going to ruin this state. He\u2019s going to ruin our schools.” And he did his reforms, it was two years before they recalled him, and guess what? Even my Democratic family goes, “Oh, my gosh, this is working,” and they voted for him. So I agree with you. I think that the media is not an excuse. What they have to do — and Paul Ryan can do it — is they have to continue to say, “Nope, we are running off the rails here, and this is how we get back on, and this is how we\u2019re gonna do it, and America\u2019s gonna be great again.” And that man can do it.<\/p>\n
RUSH: It is gonna be funny to listen to them. In that sound bite we played from Obama when he was in Iowa, Council Bluffs, I think it was, when he called him a decent guy<\/a> and a family man, I mean that\u2019s an endorsement. So Obama has called Ryan a decent guy, a family man, his audience started booing, no, no, no, no, no, no. So when Obama\u2019s PACs now set out after Ryan, and they will, you know they will, because that\u2019s all they know how to do, they\u2019re already doing it. I mean, I\u2019ve got sound bites here from Candy Crowley and Axelrod, that\u2019s all they have. And it\u2019s a point that Ryan is making ever since Saturday. They don\u2019t have anything. He made it last night with Bob Schieffer on CBS. They don\u2019t have anything they could say about their record, so they have to distract. They have to use the Bain Capital stuff. They have to use “Romney killed my wife.” They have to come up with all of these personal smears and insults, and I\u2019ll be real surprised if they\u2019re able to make any of them stick against Paul Ryan. <\/p>\n You know, his wife is 40; Ryan is 42. His wife is college educated. They have a lot in common. His wife\u2019s every bit the political thinker that he is. She chose motherhood, in her own words, she wanted to be a mother, and she is. They\u2019ve got three kids. Well, that\u2019s the kind of thing the Democrats have to demagogue. Oh, yeah, they\u2019re so old fashioned, she chose motherhood? That\u2019s not modern feminism. I mean look at the position that they\u2019re in. I mean, you couldn\u2019t have, as far as you folks and I are concerned, as I said, he\u2019s the last Boy Scout. He is a traditional American man, and somehow they\u2019re gonna try to paint that as out of touch or extreme. “Well, of course she can be a mother because Ryan is a rich Republican who\u2019s benefited from the top knowledge of bankers.” This is the kind of stuff that they\u2019re gonna try to hit him with, and they will. No, the media\u2019s never going to tell the truth about Ryan\u2019s Medicare plan<\/a>, but that\u2019s something that we know going in. <\/p>\n This is Mark in Fort Worth, Texas. Hey, Mark, I\u2019m glad you called. Welcome to the program.<\/p>\n CALLER: Thank you, Rush. Dittos from this great state.<\/p>\n RUSH: Thank you.<\/p>\n CALLER: I just wanted to call and confirm what you said about Romney\u2019s choice of Ryan in terms of this is a choice for governance. The history of nominees is they pick VP\u2019s for a lot of different reasons, whether it\u2019s to balance the ticket geographically, or ideologically, or try to charge up their base or whatever. This guy is a policy guy. He knows exactly what he\u2019s doing. He\u2019s done battle in the trenches with the liberal Democrats, and this is a governance choice, and I\u2019ll tell you, he\u2019s gonna be a great spokesman on this Medicare stuff, because the age that he is, he\u2019s a little bit younger than I am, and for all of our adult lives we have heard Democrats say that, if you elect Republicans, they\u2019re gonna kill Medicare and they\u2019re gonna kill Social Security. <\/p>\n They\u2019ve been saying that for 30 years. And it hasn\u2019t happened, and the people who are targeted by that kind of line, you know, folks who are in their sixties and seventies, they\u2019ve been hearing that since they were 30 and 40 and 50 years old. And that line doesn\u2019t work anymore. It worked on my grandmother when she heard it. In 1980 when she heard it, she was 75 years old, first time she had ever had her Social Security and Medicare threatened. And it worked on her. But the people that that message is targeted at now have been hearing it for 30 years, and they see from experience, it doesn\u2019t work.<\/p>\n RUSH: This is an excellent point. It is one that I have made. You know, we had Reagan for eight years; we had Bush for four, then Bush for eight. We\u2019ve had the Republicans running the House. There\u2019s been ample opportunity for Republicans to kick seniors out of their houses. It hasn\u2019t happened. I mean ample opportunity for the Republicans to cut and eliminate Social Security. It hasn\u2019t happened. Plenty of opportunity for Republicans to wipe out Medicare. It hasn\u2019t happened. So people who are paying attention know full well that none of these allegations ever come true.<\/p>\n Now, in the case of certain seasoned citizens, the way it works is, if that\u2019s all they\u2019ve got, if that Social Security check is all they\u2019ve got, or if their Medicare is all they\u2019ve got, and some Democrat comes along and says somebody\u2019s gonna take it away from \u2019em, in an understandable way, they can\u2019t risk it, especially if they\u2019re not day-to-day involved, informed. If that\u2019s all they\u2019ve got, they can\u2019t risk not voting for the guy who says he\u2019s gonna save it for \u2019em. The Democrat. That\u2019s how it\u2019s always worked. <\/p>\n But what you say is true. Now we got 30 years of actual life experience where none of this ever happens. In fact, what we now face is the hard, cold reality that nobody\u2019s gonna have to cut them. They will not survive on their own if we don\u2019t reverse the direction Obama\u2019s taking this country. It\u2019s not a question of cutting them. It\u2019s a question of the whole country imploding. It\u2019s a question of the whole country defaulting. It\u2019s a question of the whole country not having the money for anything. If we don\u2019t stop the direction we\u2019re going, by attrition, these things are going to run out of money. <\/p>\n Now, the current national debt is $16 trillion. Obama\u2019s budget, which has not secured one vote, projects that it will be $26 trillion in ten years. And his budget assumes tax increases on the rich. Sorry, folks. We can\u2019t sustain that. That\u2019s not doable. We can\u2019t survive that. But the Democrats have nothing else, Mark, as you know. So they\u2019re gonna keep launching these threats and making these allegations. And that\u2019s why I think the Ryan choice is good, because there\u2019s somebody on the ticket now who can refute this.<\/p>\n He can do it ideologically, factually, policy-wize, any way it needs to be refuted. I\u2019ll tell you something else about this pick. You made me think about something. Vice presidential choices, for the most part, are made because of some assistance they bring to the election of the nominee, such as a state. Maybe the vice president can help the nominee win a state and secure that state\u2019s electoral votes. Well, the conventional wisdom is the Republicans don\u2019t have a prayer of winning Wisconsin.<\/p>\n So if you look and expose yourself to the pessimists on our side about the pick of Ryan, you will read that Ryan brings nothing. “He doesn\u2019t bring a state. He didn\u2019t bring any electoral votes. He doesn\u2019t help with women. He doesn\u2019t help with this group, doesn\u2019t help with that group. It\u2019s a wasted pick.” This is from people who look at all of this through the traditional lens of political conventional wisdom. Romney has gone outside that in making this pick, and I think it\u2019s commendable.<\/p>\n And, as you said, he\u2019s made, in addition to everything else, a governance pick. Now, I happen to think that Wisconsin is in play. I happen to think we can win Wisconsin. Paul Ryan and Scott Walker are best buddies. Scott Walker, the governor, was said not to have a chance. There were two recalls — one for the Senate, one for Walker — and they both lost. I think the Republicans can win Wisconsin. And if they do, guess what else happens?<\/p>\n Romney wins the White House if they win Wisconsin.<\/p>\n “That\u2019s so out of the realm of possibility, there\u2019s no way. Wisconsin is the California of the Upper Midwest. There\u2019s no way the Republicans can win Wisconsin!” I don\u2019t believe that. But, again, I have to stress, folks: I don\u2019t hang around political people, and I don\u2019t think the way they do. I know that the presidential election is 50 state elections, and I know that in the polling, you get swing states, and you get states where the electoral votes are already committed.<\/p>\n We already know California and New York, for example, automatically, gotta give them to Obama. I know that. I concede that. But I don\u2019t only look at all of this that way. I think the entire dynamic involved here involves much more. I could be a Pollyanna. I could be whistling Dixie. I could be so naive about all this that you\u2019d be better advised not to listen to me on it. Who knows? But I happen to pay very little attention to polls right now. I don\u2019t let them get me down or up.<\/p>\n I don\u2019t think it matters right now.<\/p>\n The election is not today.<\/p>\n I don\u2019t believe, like conventional wisdom says, that if the election were today, Romney would lose. I don\u2019t believe that. I\u2019m not a pessimist. I\u2019m not prepared right now to concede anything, \u2019cause it really hasn\u2019t even begun. There are all kinds of fireworks left to happen here. There are some odds-makers out there, for example. They\u2019re saying the odds of Romney winning Wisconsin are three to one. The political conventional wisdom is he doesn\u2019t have a prayer of winning Wisconsin, even with Ryan.<\/p>\n BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/ObamacareAgentPelosiMonopoly.jpg\"\/)
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<\/a>RUSH: How come we never hear that the Ryan budget is a “bipartisan” budget? It\u2019s the Ryan-Wyden Budget. Ron Wyden, far-left liberal guy from Oregon, co-sponsored it. Ron Wyden, Democrat senator. The Ryan budget was approved with over 200 votes in the House of Representatives. It\u2019s Obama\u2019s budget that\u2019s never gotten even a single vote! The Ryan budget is bipartisan. I thought “bipartisanship” was what everybody wanted, and yet they never mentioned that Ryan\u2019s plan is bipartisan.<\/p>\n