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RUSH: Riverdale in New York. Adam, I\u2019m glad you waited. It\u2019s great to have you on the program, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, Rush. I need your help today. I was thinking about 1980. I remember Jimmy Carter very well, and I remember that the whole country could hardly wait \u2019til he was voted out, and I knew he was gonna lose by a landslide, and he did. Now, I was hoping that the same thing applied to Obama. I\u2019m hoping that the whole country wants him out, that it is a Jimmy Carter-like situation. Lately I\u2019ve been feeling a little more hesitant about that because even conservatives that I know in New York, they\u2019re saying, “Well, Obama has all the money for the commercials, and Gingrich is not very exciting; and Romney, he\u2019s like a nervous car salesman.” I think they\u2019re good statesmen and I think they can make their points very well, but somehow I just have the feeling that there\u2019s a slight chance that Obama could slide by and win.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, of course there is. Anything can happen. Anybody can win the election coming up.<\/line><\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah.<\/p>\n

RUSH: It would be foolish to sit here and tell you that Obama is finished.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Mmm-hmm.<\/p>\n

RUSH: However, you make an interesting point and you\u2019re actual expanding on something that I was talking about in the first hour. Let\u2019s go back to 1980.<\/line><\/p>\n

CALLER: Mmm-hmm.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You say that you remember back then that you had a sense that Carter was gonna lose by a landslide.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes. I was 14 years old.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You were among a precious few who thought so. Back in 1980, the biggest shock I can ever remember the media experiencing up until 1994 was the size of Jimmy Carter\u2019s defeat. The polling data did not reflect a Reagan landslide. It was so massive that Carter conceded before California had closed its polls.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Really?<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s how bad it was. No poll indicated it, and even going into the 1980 election — I\u2019m glad you brought this up — Ronald Reagan, when we look back now and we see as close to perfection as we can ever imagine, and we remember all of this enthusiasm, but it wasn\u2019t there. Reagan was not a sure bet. The Republican establishment was not enamored of Reagan. They didn\u2019t like Reagan winning. They wanted George Bush back in 1980.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Humph.<\/p>\n

RUSH: In \u201976, you know, Reagan owned that convention at the Kemper Arena in Kansas City. I was there. I was working in Kansas City at the time. Reagan owned it, but the Republican establishment won that nomination process, and Gerald Ford got it. But Reagan owned it. Reagan was the sentimental favorite. He came back in 1980, but even going into 1980… I hear people talk about, “Well, I\u2019m not excited about any of these candidates.” There wasn\u2019t a commensurate amount of excitement about Reagan, not that matches how we look back at him. If you go back to that election. When we get into the 1980 election, that Election Day was fraught with as much anticipation and fear as any election is, and yet it ended up being this massive landslide. Now, my point to you is —<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes?<\/p>\n

RUSH: — the same thing\u2019s happening here. We\u2019re told, “With the wrong candidate, Obama can sweep to victory. There are 47% of people who don\u2019t pay taxes and all these people on school lunch program. Obama can\u2019t be beat. He\u2019s got a billion dollars,” and this is my point about how every day you get up and I don\u2019t care where you go, you see the imperfections of our candidates highlighted.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: We got Newt\u2019s problem here. You got a Romney problem over there. You got a Bachmann problem. Could we focus on Obama? Could the people ostensibly on our side of things start focusing on Obama rather than trying to find the perfect Republican conservative, \u2019cause that person doesn\u2019t exist. I\u2019m telling you: With his numbers eight points below Carter\u2019s, with half the country afraid to spend money on Christmas presents, with people out of their homes, no jobs and no outlook, would somebody please explain to me where it is automatic that the incumbent wins? This is why you have to constantly fight the images and the news presented in the mainstream media each and every day because they are designed to dispirit you.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: This is a great caller. It\u2019s very instructive. Back in 1980, running up to the election, just a couple of weeks prior to the election — throughout that campaign, by the way, Ronald Reagan in 1980, Jimmy Carter — and the country, in comparative terms, was exactly where it is now. It\u2019s worse today than it was then, but back then people didn\u2019t know that today was gonna — it was horrible. The misery index had been created to quantify how horrible it was. And Jimmy Carter was giving speeches like Obama does, the malaise of the country. Obama\u2019s out telling the rest of the world that American workers are lazy and so forth, and Jimmy Carter was basically saying we were in a long national nightmare of malaise and so forth. It was utter despair. It was disaster. <\/line><\/p>\n

Reagan\u2019s negatives? He was a bumbling buffoon; he was dangerous; he was a cowboy; he was a bad actor; he was unproven; he was unstable. He was everything that they\u2019re saying about every one of our candidates except Romney. Whatever they said about Reagan, they\u2019re saying about Rick Perry, they\u2019re saying about Bachmann, they\u2019re saying about Newt. Reagan was outspent by Jimmy Carter. Carter had the media on his side just like Obama does. And up until the last couple of days in the 1980 campaign, pollsters had it close, a toss-up with Carter perhaps leading in a couple of \u2019em. And then, miraculously, the pollsters stopped reporting. A couple, three days before the election they started dwindling the reports of the polling numbers because the pollsters realized that they were gonna have to adjust here to avoid being mocked and made fun of. <\/p>\n

Now, back then, you didn\u2019t have 47% of households not paying income tax, and back then you didn\u2019t have 44.2 million people on food stamps, and back then you didn\u2019t have the foreclosures that you have today. It was bad for the times. It\u2019s worse now than it was then in any comparative way that you want to look at. Much worse. And yet the cycle is repeating. Even though we get numbers here, like Obama\u2019s approval numbers are below Carter\u2019s. You tell me if I\u2019m wrong. The assumption wherever you go — ABC, CBS, NBC, New York Times, Washington Post, LA Times, USA Today, wherever you go, the assumption is Obama\u2019s gonna be reelected and the assumption is that the Republican nominee, whoever it is, is an idiot, is a flawed character, something terribly wrong about every one of them. They\u2019re intellectually deficient or they\u2019re flip-floppers, or they are liars, or sexual harassers, or you name it. <\/p>\n

In a Gallop poll on October 26th in 1980, two weeks before the election, Gallup had it Jimmy Carter 47, Ronald Reagan 39. That election two weeks later ended up in a landslide that was so big that Carter conceded before California closed. The same thing\u2019s happening now. However, if you look and if you are open, you will see the truth. Doug Schoen and Pat Caddell, I\u2019m gonna remind you again, have written a column begging Obama to get out for the sake of the country and for the sake of the Democrat Party. Now, part of it is that they both want Hillary. But these two guys are pollsters, and Caddell was a pollster for Carter. Schoen was a pollster for President Clinton. <\/p>\n

They did the same thing going into the 2010 midterm elections. They wrote column after column. You Democrats don\u2019t know what\u2019s going to happen to you in these elections. You are lying to yourselves if you do not understand the problems that you\u2019ve got, and they got shellacked all the way down the ballot to dogcatcher in 2010. And today they\u2019re trying to tell us that that doesn\u2019t mean anything because the Tea Party no longer exists, and Occupy Wall Street is real America now, that it\u2019s the 99% versus the 1%. Now, these two guys — and they\u2019re not through, they go on television, and they say this over and over again, and they\u2019re not Republicans. They\u2019re not Republicans in disguise. Now, my point, folks, is not to tell you that it\u2019s over. I tried to hammer this last night. My point is that it is harder for all of us every day to remain positive because we are inundated with negative story after negative attitude after negative this, negative that. It is flooding us. <\/p>\n

And even if you try to avoid it by avoiding ABC, CBS, NBC, New York Times, Washington Post, LA Times, if you avoid all that, you\u2019re still gonna find it if you go to certain so-called conservative websites and publications. Because they, too, are getting in on the act of, “Well, this candidate can\u2019t win, this candidate\u2019s flawed, this candidate is a flip flopper, this guy\u2019s got big, big problems. Why, the only reason Herman Cain\u2019s staying in the race is matching funds. He\u2019s cooked. He\u2019s done. He\u2019s over with. He\u2019s gonna get out in January if he gets his matching funds. And Newt, he lobbied for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.” These are our so-called team members saying this stuff. Why are they saying this stuff? Because they have a different audience. They\u2019re trying to gain respect and approval of their peers on the left who are in media. <\/p>\n

You, on the other hand, are going to these sites \u2019cause you think they\u2019re conservative. You think they\u2019re on the conservative team speaking. Now, my only point in all of this, I\u2019ll say it again, is that it takes a considerable effort to not succumb to defeatism. Now, that\u2019s precisely what it is hoped happens to all of us. They hope as many of you as possible get so fed up with this whole Republican field, you just throw your hands up in frustration, “To hell with it. I don\u2019t want any part of it. None of these guys can win. I\u2019m not excited about any of them, to hell with it.” That\u2019s what they want you to do. They\u2019ve got no choice. They are trying to get the biggest loser in the history of presidents reelected. And this loser has a record so bad they can\u2019t even mention it. So all they can do is scorched earth destroy the country. <\/p>\n

<\/a>This is Schoen\u2019s point and Caddell\u2019s point<\/a>, that even if Obama wins, this country is gonna pay a price like it\u2019s never paid because the campaign is gonna be so negative, so destructive, it\u2019s gonna be so divisive that even after he wins, he\u2019s not gonna have any support. But that doesn\u2019t matter \u2019cause he doesn\u2019t care. He doesn\u2019t care. He\u2019s the guy who sent his own campaign guy out to tell everybody on Monday in the New York Times, “Nope, we don\u2019t care about the votes of working white families.” The great unifier, the great Barack Obama is gonna bring everybody together in a unified sense like we\u2019ve never seen before, love everywhere. Yeah, right. <\/p>\n

So all they can do on the Obama side is scorch the earth. All they can do, you talk about politics of personal destruction, you haven\u2019t seen anything until these people get going once we do have a nominee, because the last thing they can afford to happen is for this nation to be told point blank that Barack Obama is why they don\u2019t have a job; that Barack Obama is why their kids might not have a job; that Barack Obama is why their kids are not moving out of the house; that Barack Obama is why they\u2019re afraid to have a good Christmas. They can\u2019t afford for that to be told so they\u2019re not going to tell it. They\u2019re gonna leave it to people like me and others. And, of course, what are we gonna be called? Extremists, fanatics, what have you. <\/p>\n

Who are we? All we are, you and I, are people who love this country<\/a>. We understand what makes it special, and we want it special for everybody. We want everybody to do well, and we want everybody to be happy. We want everybody to be content, as many as possible. We don\u2019t care about anything else. We don\u2019t look at people and subdivide them into groups. We don\u2019t feel sorry for groups of people. We don\u2019t get caught up in all of that. All we want is people trying to be the best they can be, knowing full well that nobody\u2019s perfect, knowing full well that not everybody is going to be as good as they can be.<\/p>\n

But what we don\u2019t want is a leader telling people that they live in a country that has betrayed them, that offers them no opportunity whatsoever because 1% of their fellow citizens have stolen everything from \u2019em and refused to give any of it back. We\u2019ve always had divisive leftists. We\u2019ve never had a president do it. We have never had a president who actively, purposely sought division and class warfare resentment. We have never had a president who wanted groups of Americans hating each other, blaming each other. We\u2019ve got a guy in the White House and his whole team now who are promoting that, fostering that, nurturing that.<\/p>\n

And whether some of us are able to actually put it in that terminology or understand it that way, we know something\u2019s not right, and it\u2019s infuriating, and it\u2019s frightening \u2019cause we know that the way this country is being managed right now is not the way this is supposed to be done. It\u2019s not the way things happen. We have never been led by somebody opposed to progress. We\u2019ve always had crony capitalists. We\u2019ve always had corruption in government. We\u2019ve always had people taking care of their big donors and so forth, but we\u2019ve never had a series of appointees and czars unaccountable whose sole objective is to transform this country into a socialist state that has as its number one enemy the people who work and produce and achieve.<\/p>\n

We have that now. Whether you realize it in that direct graphic a way or whether you just sense it, you know it. It\u2019s sometimes hard to admit we actually elected somebody like this. We don\u2019t want to think this kind of stuff about presidents. Chris Christie the other day… It was yesterday. I\u2019m flying up to New York, I\u2019m watching the television, and Chris Christie is going on a rant here about Obama not showing up at the deficit super committee hearings. “What are we paying him for?” Well, that\u2019s a good question, but you talk about na\u00c3\u00afve?<\/line><\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Chris Christie. “What are we paying him for? What is he doing? Where is his leadership?” I know that Christie has endorsed Romney and for Governor Christie, that\u2019s a campaign thing. He\u2019s actually furthering the Romney campaign. Which is fine, that\u2019s not my point here. I\u2019m not ripping Governor Christie for who he\u2019s supporting. My only point is here is that the real answer to the question, “What are we paying him for?” is (sigh), “What do you expect? There was no way that that super committee was ever gonna come up with anything!” This campaign\u2019s invested a billion dollars in a do-nothing Congress. The last thing in the world… I told the crowd last night, “If the super committee had agreed to shelve the Bush tax cuts and raise tax rates on the rich, the Democrats would not-a gone for it.” They wouldn\u2019t have! “Mr. Limbaugh, that\u2019s exactly what…” Nope, nope, nope. They\u2019re gonna do that after the election. Right now they need a do-nothing Congress. Hell, Republicans gave \u2019em $300 billion in tax increases. They turned it down. “What are we paying him for?”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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