{"id":17033,"date":"2011-12-20T17:48:30","date_gmt":"2011-12-20T17:48:30","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-12-20T17:48:30","modified_gmt":"2011-12-20T17:48:30","slug":"keep_your_spirits_up_despite_what_s_heading_our_way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2011\/12\/20\/keep_your_spirits_up_despite_what_s_heading_our_way\/","title":{"rendered":"Keep Your Spirits Up Despite What\u2019s Heading Our Way"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: So again, the regime cannot win with white working class voters<\/a>. A Gallup poll, a majority of Americans, a bigger majority than ever, almost, I mean it\u2019s within many, many years, consider big government the big problem<\/a>, not big business. Despite three years of Obama leading the charge, leading attacks against big business, big government is still seen as the problem by the vast majority of people. Building up the Occupy Wall Street people, tearing down the Tea Party, the constant trashing of big business, CEOs, millionaires, billionaires, they still cannot succeed in having most Americans see business as the big threat. Rather, most Americans see big government. <\/p>\n

“Over the last forty-five years, Gallup has periodically asked this question: ‘In your opinion, which of the following will be the biggest threat to the country in the future — big business, big labor, or big government?\u2019 When Gallup asked the question in a survey conducted Dec. 4-7, 2008, a month after President Obama was elected but before he was inaugurated, 53 percent said big government was the biggest threat, 31 percent said big business was the biggest threat, and 11 percent said big labor.<\/line><\/p>\n

“Three months later, in a survey conducted March 27-29, 2009, 55 percent said big government was the biggest threat. … When Gallup asked the question again two weeks ago–in a survey conducted from Nov. 28-Dec. 1 — the percentage saying big government would be the biggest threat to the country in the future had grown to 64 percent — an increase of 11 percentage points from December 2008. At the same time, the percentage saying that big business would be the biggest threat had dropped to 26 percent — a decline of 5 percentage points. … The belief that big government is a bigger threat to the country than big business or big labor hit an all-time high of 65 percent in Gallup polling in 1999 and 2000,” in the aftermath of the Clinton years. Well, not the aftermath, actually the last two years of the Clinton regime. <\/p>\n

After three years of the Obama regime, we\u2019re at 64%, one point shy of the record high, and that is the truth. And Gallup puts this out in a press release. It\u2019s not been reported in the Drive-By Media. Gotta read Gallup. It\u2019s the same thing, if you didn\u2019t see the New York Times piece on Thomas B. Edsall and Obama abandoning working white voters then you didn\u2019t know about it unless you listen here. It\u2019s not widely out there. What\u2019s widely out there is Obama\u2019s approval numbers are up, the Tea Party\u2019s defunct, the conservatives are a minority and nobody cares what they want and they\u2019re the extremist wackos and so forth. <\/p>\n

I\u2019m being told I need to repeat this. Look, I\u2019m repeating this, I did it last week, I\u2019m repeating this because two people just saw it for the first time today and told me about it. And I said, “No, no, I did this last week,” but I\u2019m reminding you again, doing these two pieces again because we\u2019re in the onslaught of all of this negative assault on you and what you think and the Republican Party while unemployment\u2019s going down and Obama\u2019s going up, and I\u2019m just warning you, this is what you\u2019re gonna be hit with times ten from now \u2019til Election Day in November, and I\u2019m trying to make sure you don\u2019t get dispirited here by giving you a foundation of stuff that is true that\u2019s not being reported, that will be huge factors. <\/p>\n

The Republicans, I don\u2019t care, Romney, Gingrich, I don\u2019t care who they are, ought to pick these two points of interest up and make them part of the campaign. They haven\u2019t so far. But this is all because, folks, I\u2019m concerned. I know how you\u2019re gonna get hit, and I know how difficult it is to not be affected by a media onslaught. Even I, El Rushbo, as aware and knowledgeable of who these people are and what they do and how they do it and how they try to do it, even I if I let my guard down for a split second can get sucked in. And I just know that over the course of the next 12 months I\u2019m gonna be getting phone calls, “Rush, it\u2019s over, you see this?” This is why I\u2019m trying to make you see. It\u2019s not over. It\u2019s nowhere near over. If it\u2019s over for anybody right now it\u2019s over for Obama, and the efforts that the media is going to be making from now to November is evidence that if the election were today, it\u2019s over. <\/p>\n

They\u2019re the ones that have an indefensible track record. They\u2019re the ones have an indefensible agenda. They\u2019re the ones that have to lie about what they hope to do. They\u2019re the ones who have to lie about what they have done. Can you imagine, we have a president of the United States who cannot okay a pipeline project to give us more oil and more jobs because it\u2019ll hurt his reelection. That\u2019s all you need to know. Would you want to be in that position? Would you want to be president running for reelection and have to turn down an oil pipeline project that will create upwards of 200,000 jobs in the long run and deliver us more oil from an ally, from Canada, decreasing our dependence on other nations\u2019 oil, would you want to have to veto that? The president of the United States has to veto anything that has American progress attached to it because it\u2019s gonna alienate one of the many constituencies that make up his coalition. <\/line><\/p>\n

Let me read to you from the New York Times, March 25th, 2008. This is eight months before Obama was elected. The New York Times headline is: “Obama\u00c2\u2019s Test: Can a Liberal Be a Unifier?” Dateline Washington. “At the core of Senator Barack Obama\u00c2\u2019s presidential campaign is a promise that he can transcend the starkly red-and-blue politics of the last 15 years, end the partisan and ideological wars and build a new governing majority. To achieve the change the country wants, he says, ‘we need a leader who can finally move beyond the divisive politics of Washington and bring Democrats, independents and Republicans together to get things done.'” <\/p>\n

That\u2019s candidate Obama. Any of that happened? In fact, he\u2019s done such a horrible job of unifying, we\u2019re not red states and blue states anymore. By Thomas B. Edsall\u2019s own reporting and admission, it\u2019s white states and black states. We\u2019re not red states and blue states anymore, it\u2019s white states and black states, translated as middle class states and lower class states. No more red and blue. Don\u2019t nail this to me. I\u2019m the one simply reporting what Obama\u2019s acolytes are saying. Obama does not want, cannot get, cannot win with the votes of white working class families. So where are they in the red and blue configuration? It\u2019s not red states versus blue states anymore. And what about this magical unity the New York Times fantasized about in March of 2008? <\/p>\n

Obama says, to effect this change “we need a leader who can finally move beyond the divisive politics of Washington and bring Democrats, independents and Republicans together to get things done.” Did he try to do that? He still won\u2019t have a meeting with the Republicans, alone. The media\u2019s job from now \u2019til November is to wear you down. They never sleep. They\u2019re going to wear you down, dispirit you, get you depressed, think that Obama\u2019s rebounding, loved, and as popular as ever before, along with his policies. They\u2019re gonna claim to have evidence the unemployment number is gonna improve. They\u2019ll be able to stage some events with newly hired workers who will thank Obama and his policies, get ready for all of this. And you\u2019re also gonna get dispirited, I\u2019m gonna throw this in, too, because whoever the Republican nominee is probably will not be satisfying on the campaign trail. <\/p>\n

I mean Romney, you know, a lot of people, and I say this and people think I\u2019m kidding. I don\u2019t actually verbally talk to a lot of people. I don\u2019t like talking to people. It means I have to listen to \u2019em. I send e-mail and stuff but I have communication with a lot of people. And this campaign that Romney\u2019s running has got a lot of people ticked off, this negative, scorched-earth campaign against a conservative. Got some people saying to me, “You know, if Romney will do this in a primary, take out, you know, whatever is dirty, what will he do to conservatives after he\u2019s elected or nominated when he thinks they have nowhere else to go, how loyal to conservatism will he be?” Obama opposed the AT&T T-Mobile merger. That would have brought 5,000 jobs back to the country. Do you know why Obama opposed that? <\/p>\n

There is an Obama donor who\u2019s working on a high speed data network, LightSquared, and is trying to give this company preference. This company network somehow wreaks havoc on existing cell networks out there and it\u2019s got some national security implications as well, their GPS system is used, Obama bought shares in LightSquared as did George Soros so they\u2019re being protected in this AT&T, T-Mobile — AT&T, by the way, and T-Mobile have ended it, the merger is dead, the Justice Department sued. The FCC came out against it, and so now AT&T owes T-Mobile four billion as a breakup fee. So AT&T is gonna find out what their customers feel like when the contract\u2019s broken. Just kidding. But if AT&T has to fork over four billion, what\u2019s gonna happen to subscriber rates? <\/p>\n

So lots of stuff going on underneath the surface and behind the scenes. But again, I mention these two stories today, because, frankly, a person said, “Rush, Rush, why didn\u2019t you tell us about this?” And that person obviously can\u2019t listen every day. I did tell you, and led on both of them. But it told me maybe some people don\u2019t know because it\u2019s not been anywhere but this show. So the Gallup news on most people, 64%, think big government\u2019s the problem, Obama can\u2019t win with white working class votes, I think that is so huge. It\u2019s amazing and this Edsall guy admits it. So just trying to keep your spirits up because I know what\u2019s headed our way. Shortly after the turn of the year, I know what\u2019s coming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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