{"id":16153,"date":"2012-03-27T17:34:05","date_gmt":"2012-03-27T17:34:05","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-03-27T17:34:05","modified_gmt":"2012-03-27T17:34:05","slug":"liberal_wishful_thinking_no_matter_what_happens_with_obamacare_obama_wins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2012\/03\/27\/liberal_wishful_thinking_no_matter_what_happens_with_obamacare_obama_wins\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberal Wishful Thinking: No Matter What Happens with Obamacare, Obama Wins"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Now, there\u2019s a piece by Peter Boyer here in The Daily Beast. Peter Boyer once profiled me in Vanity Fair. I know Peter Boyer, and he\u2019s a fair guy. I actually really like Peter Boyer. Every time I\u2019ve seen him… This is way, way back in the early nineties. I haven\u2019t stayed in touch with him on a regular basis, but whenever I do… He\u2019s still got my e-mail address, and I\u2019ll probably hear from him now. He has a piece in the Daily Beast. He works with Tina Brown. Tina Brown ran Vanity Fair back when he wrote there and she runs The Daily Beast now. And he\u2019s got a piece here entitled, “The Case for Losing Obamacare<\/a>,” and we talked about the this in the previous hour. The left has come up — a lot of people have come up — with political analysis of this that says, “No matter what happens, it\u2019s bad news for Obama.”<\/p>\n

<\/a>To varying and differing degrees, but it\u2019s still bad for Obama. And the way it\u2019s bad for him if he wins, if this is found constitutional, is that it makes his reelection effort so much harder because there\u2019s so much public opposition to this. And having the court find this constitutional will take us back to the energized Tea Party days that led to the 2010 midterms. And, folks, remember the name Scott Brown, the senator from Massachusetts who won the seat previously held by Senator Kennedy? He won that seat for one reason: He promised to vote against Obamacare.<\/a> In Massachusetts, he won that seat for that reason. Now, people like to forget that and they like to chalk up different reasons for his victory, but that was the primary reason. <\/p>\n

Now, he\u2019s running against an avowed Marxist by the name of Elizabeth Warren, a genuine Kennedy liberal this time around. We\u2019ll see how that goes. But he won that seat, and the 2010 midterms were all about the Tea Party and the rest of the American people going to the polls to say they didn\u2019t want this Obamacare. They want it repealed, and to get rid of it party who gave it to us. And that\u2019s what it was about. So the theory is that if Obama wins this by having it found constitutional, that whole mind-set in the American people is gonna be reignited, and the Republican enthusiasm will turn out and vote against Democrats (no matter who the Republican nominee is).<\/p>\n

They\u2019re gonna be just as intense as they were in 2010 and Obama\u2019s gonna lose, and that\u2019s the fear that they have. My reaction is, “So what?” If they get this passed, this is something you retire on. This is such an achievement that, “Okay, go ahead and head to the golf course for the rest of your life, or go run the United Nations or the World Trade Organization. Go run a global body or what have you.” No Democrat president ever will be said to do more if this thing passes. Then the other side of it is: If it\u2019s declared unconstitutional, then Obama is saved by the same theory. There will not be all this opposition to Obama to vote against him, and therefore he has a better chance to win.<\/p>\n

The political analysis runs all over the political backyard. <\/p>\n

So that\u2019s why I look at this piece by Peter Boyer, “The Case for Losing Obamacare — While a Supreme Court rejection of Obamacare this summer would be an embarrassment for the president, and an obvious blow to his legacy, a case can be made that a health-care defeat in the high court might actually benefit Obama in his reelection campaign,” and, after all, isn\u2019t that what really matters? If you go to the White House and ask them, “What\u2019s really the most important thing you\u2019re doing today? Is it trying to get this thing declared constitutional or winning reelection?” I think hands-down (chuckling) and believe me, it\u2019s a close call. But hands-down it\u2019s winning reelection. <\/p>\n

That\u2019s what really matters. Even the grand and glorious victory for social justice like Obamacare pales in comparison to the overriding need to get Obama reelected so he can finish the job on America. Back to Mr. Boyer: “Apart from the fact that Republicans would lose their most animating issue in the presidential race, the overturning of the health-care reform law would free Obama of the burden of having to mount a broad defense of his health-care plan as a centerpiece of his campaign.” Wait a minute. I thought everybody loved it, Peter! I thought everybody loved Obamacare! I thought the Democrats loved it. I thought this the greatest thing ever!<\/p>\n

Remember there was an Obama pollster who told us shortly after it was passed (paraphrased): “Don\u2019t worry what the polls say now. In a couple years, people are going to love this.” I\u2019ve got the story in the stack. The Obama pollster, two years ago, said, “People are gonna love this once it gets implemented.” People don\u2019t love it. It has been implemented in part — and there are waivers and there are exemptions galore, it\u2019s so wonderful. So this “would free Obama of the burden of having to mount a broad defense of his health-care plan as a centerpiece of his campaign.” I thought people were gonna love it so much that that would be a ticket to reelection, to run around and say (impression), “That health care plan, remember? That was mine! And I know you love it, and I know everybody else loves it, and that alone is why I should be reelected.”<\/p>\n

<\/a>They don\u2019t want to say that? I wonder why. In fact, ladies and gentlemen, can anybody think of a single Barack Obama accomplishment that will not be a burden to defend in his campaign? There\u2019s not one thing in Obama\u2019s record he wants to run on. Not one. That\u2019s why this phony, contrived, so-called Republican war on women. That\u2019s why this diversion of trying to make women think Republicans want to take their birth control pills away from \u2019em. Because Obama can\u2019t run on his record. And, Peter (I know you know this but probably can\u2019t write it), there\u2019s not a single Obama accomplishment that is not a burden to defend in his campaign. There\u2019s not a single accomplishment that he can point to. In fact, every one of them he\u2019s going to have to ignore. <\/p>\n

But that\u2019s what comes of governing against the will of the people. <\/p>\n

That\u2019s what you end up with.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: It\u2019s fascinating here to watch the media say: No matter how this Supreme Court rules it\u2019s a win-win for Obama (which is really what\u2019s going on). It\u2019s a win-win no matter what happens! Remember the two-year anniversary for Obamacare was recently? There was no party for it, and Obama didn\u2019t show up anywhere to signify it, and Peter Boyer at the end of his piece writes: “If that or any other legal argument against Obamacare persuades a majority of the justices, it would certainly place a cloud over Obama\u00c2\u2019s first-term record. But Obama might well see a silver lining in November.” In other words, the Daily Beast thinks that Obamacare, if you read the whole piece, would be better off dead so that Obama can run on the rest of his splendid record of achievement. He\u2019d be better off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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