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RUSH: Brit Hume, I think it was yesterday on Fox, joined me — so now there are two voices that I know of who are using common sense and intelligence guided by experience who say if the election were held today, Obama would lose in a landslide. He would lose and he would lose bad, and yet our old buddy Walter Williams has got this piece floating around the Internet how Obama\u2019s reelection\u2019s automatic, it\u2019s already done. (interruption) Are you kidding me? Walter Williams did not write that? I cannot tell you how relieved I am to know that. Somebody stole Walter Williams\u2019 identity? They ran a syndicated column under his name and it wasn\u2019t he who wrote it? Well, hallelujah. <\/p>\n

Well, anyway, we had a story last week from Larry Sabato, political scientist, University of Virginia at the Sabato Center, and he had analyzed as a political scientist all this data, and he concluded, “Yeah, if the election is held today, there\u2019s not much the Republicans can do.” Of course he left many caveats available, but how can the November elections turn out the way they did and Obama win reelection if it were held today six months later? Would somebody explain to me how that works? “Well, Rush, the way it goes is you gotta look at electoral votes. You gotta look at the Electoral College. You gotta look at states and leaning and all this.” No, no. Elections are about things that matter. Elections have consequences and they are about issues. This notion that Obama is a shoe-in or that his reelection is easy, folks, that is one of the biggest scams that they\u2019re trying to perpetrate on us yet. <\/p>\n

We\u2019re approaching five-dollar-a-gallon gasoline. We\u2019ve got a lot of people\u2019s homes worthless or at least underwater. We\u2019ve got no relief on the job front. There\u2019s not one positive thing happening. We got a guy in the White House who\u2019s urging people and telling people how to downsize their lives and their expectations, and we\u2019re told that this is the recipe for reelection victory. I\u2019m sorry. But I just don\u2019t buy this. I think Obama is a landslide loser if the election\u2019s today, big time landslide loser. You know, I don\u2019t understand. Well, I take that back. I do understand. Fear can cause a lot of common sense to get clouded. Fear can overcome common sense and basic understanding. But there\u2019s nothing in the history of American politics that suggests that what\u2019s happening here are resume enhancers. You know, a traditional question, are you better off now than you were two and a half years ago when Obama took office? No matter what question you ask, we are worse off. The country\u2019s worse off, a majority of our people are worse off. <\/p>\n

We got stories like I led with today, IMF, the American era, over. Sorry, that ain\u2019t gonna happen on my watch and a president worth his salt would not let that happen on his watch. We got a president engineering it. And don\u2019t for a moment believe the American people don\u2019t see that. They do. Otherwise November would not have happened. Otherwise Wisconsin would not have happened in November. I don\u2019t care, recount reshmount, the fact is that Supreme Court election, the Democrats lost it by 7,000 votes in a huge commie lib state.<\/p>\n

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: All right, the Walter Williams\u2019s e-mail proclaiming Barack Obama\u2019s reelection as essentially a done deal and impossible to stop was a New Year\u2019s Day hoax. Some are claiming that it was orchestrated by MoveOn.org. Nobody knows for sure, but it definitely was a hoax, presumably an April Fool\u2019s article. A lot of people were affected by it. You know, Walter Williams is an occasional guest host here, and I was overrun by e-mails from people who wrote, “Oh, Rush, say it isn\u2019t so! Walter Williams says Obama can\u2019t be stopped!” They\u2019re hoaxing this. <\/p>\n

Folks, everything they do is a hoax. That\u2019s not an exaggeration. <\/p>\n

Global warming? It\u2019s a hoax. Man destroying the climate and the environment? It\u2019s a hoax — or a fraud, one of the two. So now they\u2019ve gotta rely on a hoax to try to dispirit you into thinking Obama can\u2019t be beat? Folks, he is politically dead meat if the election is today, and they know it in the White House. If he\u2019s such a shoo-in, why in the hell do they run around trying to raise a billion dollars to spend on his reelection? Well, one reason is (I think) to keep Democrat challengers out of the race — and don\u2019t doubt me on this. <\/p>\n

I\u2019ll bet you that in the deep, dark crevices of the secret hiding places of liberalism, there are a bunch of people toying with the idea of running against Obama. He\u2019s destroying the Democrat Party along with the country! It\u2019s right front of our faces. We don\u2019t want to say it because, “Nah, nothing could destroy the Democrat Party. Nothing could destroy liberalism.” They are destroying themselves! Take a look around the world. Show for me a liberal triumph in a real sense where it gets sustained by virtue of happiness, love, joy, and contentment. The only way liberalism, socialism, communism is sustained is at the point of a gun. <\/p>\n

I find it interesting: We are in one of the worst economic periods in this nation\u2019s history, and there are people who think the president\u2019s an automatic shoo-in for reelection! Gas prices are shooting up. Look, the left is paranoid about this. Audio sound bite number four, Jacob Tapper, Good Morning America today. He\u2019s talking to George Stephanopoulos, and this is Jake Tapper in crisis because gas prices are a crisis — and why are gas prices a crisis? ‘Cause they are hurting President Obama. Stephanopoulos says, “These gas prices, they\u2019re also knocking down Obama\u2019s poll numbers, which is why he\u2019s out there really every day addressing the problem.” <\/p>\n

TAPPER: Right now gas prices are weighing heavily on people. They could be a roadblock to his reelection. When President Obama was sworn in, gas averaged $1.84 a gallon. Today, it\u2019s $3.86 — 71% of Americans say the rising price of gasoline is causing them financial hardship. President Obama says there\u2019s no quick fix. After all, what CAN a president do? Four-in-ten Americans say gas prices are causing them a serious economic hardship, and those Americans are much more apt to say they won\u2019t even consider voting for President Obama\u2019s reelection. <\/p>\n

RUSH: Let me tell you something, folks: Gasoline prices are now affecting people\u2019s behavior. When you start having to make decisions regarding, “Should I stay or should I go?” and then the decision more often than not is, “I should stay” (snorts), that\u2019s not going to redound well to the president. And, hey, Jake, it\u2019s nice to know that presidents can\u2019t do anything about it now. That was not the fact back in 2005 and 2006, was it? No! Remember John Kerry during the campaign of 2004? Do you remember what Lurch said he\u2019d do? What did he say he would do? <\/p>\n

He said he\u2019d go over there to Saudi Arabia and he\u2019s “jawbone” those guys. He\u2019d go over there and he\u2019d give \u2019em what-for! John Kerry (who served in Vietnam and threw his fake medals over the White House fence) would go over there and he\u2019d give \u2019em holy hell! Yeah, in fact, he almost accused Bush of having a sweetheart deal with the Saudis to keep the price up — or down, or whatever it was — to benefit Bush. Oh yeah! But now, now you say, “Eh, there\u2019s nothing a president can do, damn it! Oh, gosh, this is gonna hurt his reelection! Damn it, George, what can do?” <\/p>\n

(sigh) “I don\u2019t know. We\u2019ve gotta find a way to blame it on Palin, maybe Bush,” which is what they\u2019re doing. Look at the record number of people running out of gasoline. They are afraid to pull in and fill up! They\u2019re coaxing mileage that they don\u2019t have. The price they pay for a tank of gas has more than doubled since Obama was immaculated. You heard Jacob Tapper here: $1.84 to $3.86. That\u2019s more than doubled. The prices that gasoline stations display on their signs are free ads for Republicans. It\u2019s free advertising for Republicans! I want to know where $4.09 a gallon says, “Reelect Obama.” <\/p>\n

Where does it say that? Where does $4.10 say, “Obama\u2019s a shoe-in!” It doesn\u2019t. It says, “Vote Republican!” That\u2019s what our buddy Jacob Tapper knows; that\u2019s what they all know at the regime. When you\u2019re used to paying 30 bucks for a fill-up and now it\u2019s $65, that\u2019s “hope and change” thrown right back in Obama\u2019s face. When you\u2019re used to paying $50 and now it\u2019s over $100 to fill up, that\u2019s having “the judgment to lead” thrown back in your face. Folks, I\u2019m telling you: Forget the media spin and the burying of hardship stories about Americans who can\u2019t afford to get to work or school. Don\u2019t worry that the media\u2019s not covering this. <\/p>\n

They\u2019re starting to now. They can\u2019t ignore it. Every minute of every day, along American roads and highways, are signs reminding them that elections have consequences — and those signs right now are the gas price per gallon that you see as you head down the highway on the roads. Obama\u2019s election will be reevaluated several times a day by drivers who don\u2019t normally think about such things so far before an election. Those signs — $3.86 a gallon, $4.09 a gallon — $5 a gallon nation\u2019s capital — equal the cost of living in Obamaville, and now they are at the top of everybody\u2019s mind. Every time an American decides not to drive somewhere due to the price of gasoline, that\u2019s Obamaville. Oh, they can try to blame it on Bush all they want, but it isn\u2019t gonna fly. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Don\u2019t forget, folks, the gasoline price is the one data point that the government cannot fudge. The Commerce Department can\u2019t fudge it. The Labor Department can\u2019t do anything about it. They can\u2019t tweak it. They can\u2019t tell you it isn\u2019t what it is. They can\u2019t say there is no inflation. I mean they can do that, but they can\u2019t tell you the gas price isn\u2019t what it is when that\u2019s what you\u2019re paying for it. <\/p>\n

Reality bites sometimes.<\/p>\n

CNN Money: “Drill Baby Drill Won\u2019t Lower Gas Prices.” That\u2019s the theme of the story, “Every time gas prices reach record highs the call goes out for more oil drilling. This year it\u2019s no different. ‘The Gulf is ready to get back to work to help create jobs and lower gasoline prices,\u2019 Washington Republican Doc Hastings… said last week,” but the drilling, nah, it won\u2019t work! It just won\u2019t work. Yeah, of course, drilling now is not gonna have any effect on tomorrow\u2019s oil supply, but let\u2019s go back: How many years have we been suggesting, “Hey, let\u2019s start drilling; let\u2019s expand our drilling”? It\u2019s easily 15 or 20 years. <\/p>\n

If we had started drilling 15 or 20 years ago “drill, baby, drill” would have been an impact, would have made an impact by now. It is intellectual dishonesty for the left to continue to say, “Drill, baby, drill” won\u2019t work. It would be no different than saying, “Let\u2019s go to the moon! Oh, we can\u2019t get there tomorrow? Okay, we\u2019re not going. Oh, okay, fine! JFK called for a plan to get to the moon, but we can\u2019t get there tomorrow. Go to the moon? That\u2019s silly!” Of course it\u2019s gonna take some time to get the supply, but what\u2019s the point? How many decades have we had to listen to elected leaders tell us we need to end our dependence on foreign oil. Do you think we mighta made a dent on it in the last 15 years of we woulda started drilling, baby, drilling? <\/p>\n

I\u2019ll tell you what else would happen. There are a lot of ancillaries to drilling, and one of them is jobs. Okay, so let\u2019s say we start a policy of opening up drilling in the Gulf and in Alaska, and we do it tomorrow. Now, admittedly it\u2019s gonna be a while before any oil is produced that will have an impact on world supplies, but think of the impact that it will make on attitude. Think of the impact it\u2019ll make on positive attitude, plus the jobs that will be created. It\u2019s a win-win! But no, we can\u2019t do it. It\u2019s gonna lead to pollution and it\u2019s gonna delay our arrival at the clean energy objective that the president has. <\/p>\n

And there is no clean energy alternative that replaces any energy supply or use that we have now. I don\u2019t know about you, but when I hear the left say, “More oil will not lower prices” (and I hear this constantly), I have the same reaction I do when I hear Obama\u2019s a shoo-in for reelection. Really? He\u2019s a shoo-in right now? It\u2019s just the exact opposite. Obama would lose in a landslide if the election were today, and everybody on the left knows it, which is why they\u2019re concocting this image — this ruse, this perception — that his election is a lock; his reelection\u2019s a foregone conclusion. If drilling for oil will not lower oil prices, if more oil will not lower oil prices, would somebody explain to me how “green energy” that is decades away will lower our energy costs? <\/p>\n

I need this explained to me. More oil will not reduce the price of gas, more oil will not expand our domestic supply, but investing in “green energy” that has no payoff for 30 years will somehow lower our energy costs. It is absurd. Five years ago, folks — five years ago, I think it was — the Democrats fought the expansion of offshore drilling because “it would take five to ten years to see results.” Now they\u2019re fighting it saying we need to invest in solar and wind which will take decades to even put a dent in our energy needs, if it ever will. And we\u2019re told, “The price of oil has nothing to do with supply and demand, Mr. Limbaugh!”<\/p>\n

Oh, really, Mr. New Castrati?<\/p>\n

“That\u2019s right! The price of oil has nothing to do with supply and demand. The price of oil is totally dependent on the attitudes of those greedy, selfish speculators.” <\/p>\n<\/p>\n Ohhhh. Well if that\u2019s true, Mr. New Castrati, how is it that our drilling for oil wouldn\u2019t put the fear of the Lord into the speculators? How long did it take for Reagan\u2019s announcement that we were going to start drilling to drive down prices back in the early 1980s? How long did it take for Reagan\u2019s talk of lower taxes to start spurring a rebounding attitude in this country of greatness, exceptionalism, positive thinking? When Reagan announced that we were gonna start drilling for oil to drive down prices back in the early eighties, the Carter oil crisis was over overnight. Yeah, we had a couple of contrived shortages during the eighties, but they were contrived. They were not actual shortages of supply. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n Here\u2019s Brit Hume, by the way. This is yesterday on Fox News Sunday. It\u2019s an overused cliche but this really was a breath of fresh air because I\u2019m sitting here literally pulling out what little hair I\u2019ve got left, as I listen to the conventional wisdom say, “Obama\u2019s a lock. His reelection is a lock. He\u2019s a shoo-in, and here are the reasons why: Big business is in total support. If you look at the Electoral College here, if you look at leaning versus committed in these states — red versus blue, yellow versus brown — he\u2019s a lock.” I said, “If Obama\u2019s a lock for reelection, how the hell did November happen, and what has happened since November to make things so much better to cancel the elections in November?” <\/p>\n<\/p>\n Nothing. It\u2019s gotten worse! So here\u2019s Brit Hume. This is during the roundtable discussion when Chris Wallace was talking to him about the economy. Wallace said, “When Obama was sworn in a gallon of gas was a buck eighty-four; now it\u2019s $3.85. That\u2019s over a 108% increase. A New York Times poll this week showed how much this is hurting [Pharaoh] Obama: 70% now think the country\u2019s on the wrong track. Fifty-seven percent now disapprove of Obama\u2019s handling of the economy. Brit, those are the most negative numbers since a couple of months since Obama took office during the very depth, the low point of the recession. What does all this mean?”<\/p>\n<\/p>\n HUME: People\u2019s feelings about the economy — despite declining unemployment, despite the fact that there is now steady growth — have not improved, and when the conventional wisdom in Washington settled as it seemed to recently on the idea the President is a sure bet for reelection, I think it\u2019s upside down. If the election were held today, in my view, Barack Obama would lose. <\/p>\n<\/p>\nRUSH: Right!<\/p>\n<\/p>\n HUME: He might lose big. Obviously, he\u2019s got some time. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n HUME: Events change. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n JUAN WILLIAMS: Who\u2019s he gonna lose to?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n HUME: He would lose to any reasonable nominee from the Republican Party. The Republican Party might be able to lose this election if they nominated some extremely colorful, freakish candidate.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n RUSH: “Might be able to lose if they nominate some extremely colorful, freaky candidate.” I think he\u2019s talking about Trump there. That would just be my guess. But you heard Juan Williams. See, even while this is going on, I\u2019m watching Fox earlier today, and the guru of polling and projections and election results Charlie Cook was not talking about how poorly Obama\u2019s doing. He was not talking about the New York Times poll showing 70% think the country is headed in the wrong direction. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n No, no, no! They were talking about how disappointing, empty, vacant and all the that the Republican field is. While in a vacuum, in a static sense that\u2019s true (there isn\u2019t a whole lot out there to excite us) the fact of the matter is that there was a single Republican figurehead leader in the November elections, either. Those elections were, we all know, votes cast against Obama and the Democrats — purely based on the fact that it was largely independents who didn\u2019t like what they were seeing. Anything would be better, and that\u2019s largely going to survive all the way through 2012. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n It\u2019s a year and a half. There\u2019s not much that could be done to turn this around. They can lie about inflation, they can make things up about unemployment numbers and so forth, but they can\u2019t lie about the gas price, and they can\u2019t lie about food prices, and they can\u2019t change the reality of people\u2019s costs of living. They can tell people that it isn\u2019t that expensive but people aren\u2019t gonna believe it. So, now you have two people going against the conventional wisdom that Obama\u2019s a shoo-in: Me and Brit Hume. By the way, it was Juan Williams there who wanted to know who Obama was gonna lose to in the Brit Hume sound bite.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: In support of the notion Obama is not a guaranteed lock to win, Daniel Henninger in the Wall Street Journal last Thursday: “Obama\u2019s Likability Gap.” The fact of the matter is we don\u2019t really need to get all that many votes to win. The percentages here are very narrow. Henninger says, “That historic 2008 victory came with 52.9% of the total vote and 52% of independent voters. David Axelrod recently noted “how small the margin for error is,” on the Obama side. Now, Henninger points out that presidential personality is important, and it\u2019s “well inside the margin of error for 2012, but the one on display recently has not been attractive. And it\u2019s happening a lot,” meaning there is a huge likability gap. The Obama running around the country now is not the same Messiah who was running around in 2007-2008, and he can\u2019t be ever again. The bloom\u2019s off that rose. Can\u2019t go back and re-create 2008, cannot erase from people\u2019s memories the last two and a half years. He\u2019s got a record and it\u2019s a dismal one, and it\u2019s gonna get even more dismal by the time the official reelection campaign and election comes up. We\u2019ll just keep a sharp eye.<\/p>\n

Saratoga Springs in New York. Brian, I\u2019m glad you waited, sir. Welcome to the EIB Network. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, Rush. Hopefully this call will pump you up. First of all, you\u2019re absolutely right. I agree, Obama is gonna lose in a landslide.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, he would lose in a landslide if the election were today.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Correct.<\/p>\n

RUSH: We don\u2019t know what\u2019s gonna happen, but it\u2019s simply delusional to say that he\u2019s got it locked up today.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Absolutely. No, he will lose and getting back to what you said, we have a great educational moment coming up in the presidential election, because I\u2019m pumped, and my family\u2019s pumped, and friends, because it\u2019s an educational moment because we\u2019ve got a few particular candidates, Rush, who are gonna educate the American worker and the American people about how great we are, and also I think they\u2019re gonna educate the Republican establishment.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, you know, the Republican establishment is going to be every bit the obstacle here, depending on who the nominee is, as will be the Democrat establishment pretty much. If we have a genuinely conservative nominee, which we need, the Republican establishment is gonna fight that person throughout the nomination process. <\/p>\n

CALLER: You are absolutely correct.<\/p>\n

RUSH: But I think the real education\u2019s already taken place. Every time you go buy gas, five bucks a gallon, $4.80. Nobody needs to explain a thing. You don\u2019t have to go to class. You don\u2019t have to listen to a lecture. All you have to do is see four bucks a gallon, $4.25, whatever it is, and then turn on the TV and listen to Obama tell you you should be thankful for that \u2019cause we\u2019re gonna make it worse. There\u2019s nothing we can do. Oh, yeah? Well, the American people still, I firmly believe a majority, do not respond favorably to, “Hey, this is the best we can do.” The best education system is reality and it\u2019s happening right before people\u2019s very eyes. And it\u2019s going to continue to happen because a sour economy is the objective to this administration, this regime. This is precisely what they want. <\/p>\n

Don\u2019t forget how we opened the program today, folks. The very first thing that we started with today: “The International Monetary Fund has just dropped a bombshell. For the first time, the international organization has set a date for the moment when the ‘Age of America\u2019 will end and the US economy will be overtaken by that of China.” This is the era of America\u2019s decline, and it is being shepherded as a decline purposefully by Pharaoh Obama. It\u2019s time we learned what it\u2019s like. It\u2019s time we got paid back for all this wealth we\u2019ve stolen from the poor all over the world since our founding. He\u2019s happy to see this.<\/p>\n

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