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RUSH: Michele Bachmann was on Meet the Press yesterday and it was interesting. She decided she had some things to say regardless what the questions were. In fact, it was a lesson in how Republicans ought to behave on these programs rather than accept the premise, and in this case the host David Gregory puts forward, you go on the show, you have something to say, say it regardless what the questions are. In this case she was trying to sound a warning. This is the second time and she\u2019s the second member of Congress to do this. About two to three weeks ago Steve King from Iowa pointed out that hidden in Obamacare Pelosi and Reid had snuck in a provision that spends $105 billion every year implementing the bill. ‘What do you mean, $105 billion to implement the bill?\u2019 Exactly. It\u2019s just $105 billion of slush fund spending. And it was one of those things, nobody knew what was in the bill, was 2,200 pages, one of those things nobody knew was in it until it was passed, like Pelosi said, ‘We gotta pass this thing to find out what\u2019s in it.\u2019 <\/p>\n

So you\u2019ll recall when Steve King first brought this up and it was part of the original effort to repeal the bill, he ran into some obstacles at the Republican leadership not wanting to deal with this and target this provision. Remember the argument here was, is the House leadership gonna go after the meat here, or they gonna be true to the rules of the House that they had set up? Remember the leadership of the House thinks that you, the voters, want them to abide by the rules because you the voters are very much aware how the Democrats did not abide by the rules that they themselves wrote when they ran the House from 2006 to the present, until last November. And so the House leadership said, ‘We\u2019re gonna obey the rules, and what King wants to do is take that $105 billion, is not part of the rules, we can\u2019t do it.\u2019 So they shot him down. Michele Bachmann is trying to bring it back up, trying to alert everybody that it exists. And, by the way, it all revolves around a potential government shutdown and this advance appropriation of $105 billion in the health care bill. <\/p>\n

Let\u2019s go to the audio sound bites. This is an example, Gregory is grilling her, but she\u2019s not backing down about Obama. He says, ‘You referred to the Obama administration\u2019s a gangster government. You\u2019ve said that this president has anti-American views. Do you believe that still?\u2019<\/p>\n

BACHMANN: I believe that the actions of this government have been emblematic of ones that have not been based on true American values. Just consider Obamacare. Over 900 waivers have been given out to unions and protected special interests — (crosstalk)<\/p>\n

GREGORY: Is it appropriate to refer to —<\/p>\n

BACHMANN: — that are linked to the President. That\u2019s not correct.<\/p>\n

GREGORY: — the government as a gangster government and to question whether this president loves America?<\/p>\n

BACHMANN: Well, I said I do believe that actions that have been taken by this White House, I don\u2019t take back my statement on gangster government. I think that there have been actions that have been taken by this government that I think are corrupt, totally corrupt.<\/p>\n

GREGORY: And you think the president has anti-American views?<\/p>\n

BACHMANN: I said I have very serious concerns about the president\u2019s views, and I think the president\u2019s actions in the last two years speak for themselves.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, folks, this sets up something that, to me, is very interesting, something I would like, frankly, to hear your thoughts on. Because I guarantee you that this split here, here\u2019s Gregory, and he represents the media, and he represents the Democrats, and he represents a lot of Republicans, saying, ‘Whatever you think, don\u2019t run around saying he\u2019s anti-American. Whatever you say or think, don\u2019t run around and say he\u2019s a gangster government. You don\u2019t want to say that.\u2019 She\u2019s not backing down, ‘I think he is. I don\u2019t back off from my gangster government statement and I don\u2019t think that this guy\u2019s got traditional American values and views in his agenda.\u2019 <\/p>\n

Okay, so let\u2019s take this and move forward a little bit into the presidential election year and let\u2019s just, for the sake of our hypothetical here, let\u2019s say we\u2019ve got a nominee. I don\u2019t care who it is, doesn\u2019t matter. We\u2019ve got a Republican nominee. We\u2019ve got four-dollar-a-gallon gasoline, four fifty. We\u2019ve got unemployment. Let\u2019s say they\u2019ve been able to bring it down to eight and a half percent. That\u2019s their number. We\u2019ve got a supposed economic recovery taking place, but it\u2019s not something everybody senses. It\u2019s something we\u2019re told is taking place, but it\u2019s not something everybody can get their arms around. So we have a basic economic circumstance not much different than now. We have gasoline prices up. We\u2019ve got the Middle East in turmoil. We\u2019ve got a situation in Afghanistan where nobody now knows what\u2019s going on. In fact, Gates is now saying we\u2019re gonna be there a lot longer than 2012. <\/p>\n

So the presidential campaign, here\u2019s the question. You got an incumbent, Barack Hussein Obama. Does the Republican nominee focus on what we all believe to be true, the guy\u2019s got a different view of the American tradition than all the rest of us? Do we say, does our nominee, does our campaign focus on portraying Obama as anti-traditional American values, do we say this guy is a socialist, this guy\u2019s models consist of Marx and Alinsky, do we go that way, do we point that out? Or do we say to ourselves, you know what, most people don\u2019t want to think that about their president. There\u2019s such reverence for the office that people don\u2019t want to think that even if they admit that they made a mistake in voting for the guy, they don\u2019t want to think that they\u2019ve elected somebody who is essentially an enemy of traditional American founding values. <\/p>\n

So the alternative is, rather than point all that stuff out, we just focus on policy. We say things like the president\u2019s economic policy is such and it\u2019s led to $4.50 gasoline, the president\u2019s policies, which show no signs of changing, he seems wedded to these policies, has led to us an endless unemployment rate of between 8 and 10%. In other words, do we depersonalize this and strictly focus the reelection campaign in the opposition to Obama on policy or do we go full bore and warn the American people why his policies are what they are? Well, I mention this because I dare say that if you are from the camp — (interruption) what are you laughing at in there? What in the world have I said that\u2019s so funny? I dare say that if you are of the camp that wants to hear the Republican presidential nominee talk about the guy\u2019s a socialist, the guy doesn\u2019t believe in traditional American founding values, that you\u2019re gonna be sad and disappointed. You\u2019re not gonna have a candidate say that. The candidate is gonna accept that Obama\u2019s a legitimate American politician, a legitimate president, just got totally cockeyed policies. We\u2019re gonna hear policy this, policy that, that\u2019s why we\u2019re in the dumper.<\/p>\n

Now, all the while the dirty little secret is that every Republican nominee is running for one of two reasons, A, they\u2019ve just got their traditional campaign ego ‘country can\u2019t get along without me,\u2019 or B, four more years of the guy and this country\u2019s changed forever. Four more years of this guy and we\u2019re looking at generations to get our country back. Now, they\u2019re all gonna think that, everybody knows this is a bad guy in terms of America\u2019s traditions, values, and so forth, everybody knows this guy\u2019s got some chip on his shoulder, every one of our candidates knows this. I would venture to say, folks, that zilch, zero, nada are gonna say it. That they\u2019re all gonna focus on policy, for lack of a better word. I mean they\u2019re gonna focus on his policies led this, policies led that, but they\u2019re not gonna get into his intentions, they\u2019re not gonna get into his motivations. And they are, therefore, going to leave — (interruption) well, Snerdley said it\u2019s a losing recipe. It\u2019s what I\u2019m asking you all. If you hear the Republican nominee, I don\u2019t care who it is, I don\u2019t care who it is for the purposes of this discussion, if you hear whoever the nominee is say the president\u2019s policies are gonna lead us to blah, blah, are you going to ask, ‘Well, why do you think that?\u2019 <\/p>\n

Beyond policy are you gonna be interested in our nominee\u2019s opinion of Obama\u2019s motivation? For example, I\u2019m comfortable saying this myself, I\u2019m not running for orifice, nobody in their right mind who\u2019s trying to revive a private sector enemy and create jobs would do anything Obama\u2019s doing, and if they were seriously well-intentioned but mistaken, they\u2019d dropped this and go for something else. He\u2019s not dropping it. He\u2019s doubling down on all this. He\u2019s doubling down on the unions. He\u2019s doubling down on crimping the private sector, doubling town on growing government, doubling down on deficits, doubling down on spending. At some point do you have to say, ‘Why?\u2019 Does that become part of the campaign question, ‘Why is he doing this?\u2019 Well, he must just be naive. He must be well-intentioned but just, you know, incompetent. Or now he\u2019s got a design on this country we don\u2019t have. I mention this because Bachmann is out there not holding back. Gangster government, anti-American values, she\u2019s saying it. <\/p>\n

Does it make you uncomfortable, or are you going, ‘You go, girl.\u2019 And do you want your presidential nominee to be taking the same tack or do you think it\u2019s a loser? ‘Cause I\u2019ll guarantee you this, there isn\u2019t a whole lot that\u2019s changed despite a lot of things that have changed, and I can pretty much guarantee you that our nominee is gonna be scared to death of losing independents. And our nominee, whoever the hell he or she is, is gonna think that the best way to lose the independents is to go after Obama personally. I guarantee it. Whether it\u2019s true or not, that\u2019s what they\u2019re gonna be afraid of doing, losing the independents. They\u2019re gonna want to hold onto the independents, and they think going after Obama personally as Bachmann does here is gonna just cause the independents to flee the scene, fly the coop. <\/p>\n

Now, would you tell me, Snerdley, what are you laughing about? Has Premiere Radio hired you to be an actor and start laughing at me during my program? Hmm, oh. See, Snerdley thinks I have an ulterior motive to what I\u2019m doing here. And I don\u2019t. He thinks I\u2019m flushing people out. I\u2019m not flushing anybody out. I\u2019m telling you what I know is gonna happen. I\u2019m telling you I know what\u2019s coming down the pike, and Bachmann has thrown her hat in the presidential ring, but it\u2019s not why I\u2019m bringing this up. You\u2019re voters, you\u2019re the base. I guarantee you the nominee, whoever he or she is, is gonna think there\u2019s nowhere else you can go but him or her. So they may not think they have to service you in the campaign. They may think we have to offer the red meat of this guy\u2019s socialist, Marxist, Saul Alinsky, \u2019cause they\u2019re afraid doing that might lose precious independents and so forth and so on. So they just focus on policy. I\u2019m just asking the question here: What do you expect? What do you want? What would your reaction be? <\/p>\n

I\u2019ll play a little bit more of Bachmann to illustrate what I\u2019m talking about here. Snerdley, there\u2019s no grand design here, and I\u2019m not making the case for Michele Bachmann. You know darn well I\u2019m not gonna pick a candidate right now. That\u2019s not at all what I\u2019m doing. The way she\u2019s handling Gregory here simply turned on a couple lightbulbs that had been dimmed in my fertile cranial cavity here to ask a question about how\u2019s this campaign gonna shape up \u2019cause I\u2019m telling you, look at it. Gas prices are five bucks and you\u2019re still not gonna get the same kind of media coverage of it that we got when it was inching up to four bucks when Bush was president. You are not gonna get the sob stories of people walking to work with holes in their shoes. You\u2019re not gonna get that. You\u2019re not gonna get the personification or the portrayal of the country as in any kind of economic quagmire here. You\u2019re not gonna get that kind of assistance like they gave the Democrats going after Bush when gasoline was going up to four bucks. Now, here\u2019s a guy that\u2019s responsible for the price going up. Middle East this, Middle East that. We\u2019re not drilling for oil! We\u2019ve cut back our own domestic drilling. The guy doesn\u2019t want oil, he doesn\u2019t want coal. He\u2019s going after the stupid little shining green city on the hill that doesn\u2019t exist. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: Now, back to more Michele Bachmann on Meet the Depressed yesterday. She\u2019s one of the few Republicans who remembers what the last election was actually about, and it wasn\u2019t that long ago. It was about the fraud that is Obamacare and the spending and the indebtedness. So the host, David Gregory — who is just so disturbed that someone might say Obama\u2019s ‘gangster government; Mr. Gregory so disturbed someone might question whether Obama\u2019s views are traditional, American founding-type views — says to Michele Bachmann, ‘You heard the president this week offer an accommodation to the states to opt out of the individual mandate where necessary to tailor to their own states. Why isn\u2019t that the sort of give the Republicans wanted?\u2019<\/p>\n

BACHMANN: David, that\u2019s not a give at all. In effect all that is is a pretext for implementing a single-payer plan. If you recall the president\u2019s entire statement, he said, ‘The states can opt out as long as they stay within the requirements of all of Obamacare unless they want to go with single-payer plan.\u2019 Obamacare is a crime against democracy. It has been a deception from the beginning. Remember, the president told us it was a mandate, not a tax. Now in the federal court he\u2019s arguing it\u2019s a tax, not a mandate.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Let me add something to this — and it\u2019s something that I have stated on previous broadcast occasions. They want this to fail! They want all of this to fail. That\u2019s why all these waivers. That\u2019s to get everybody on board before the election, but they want all this to fail. She\u2019s exactly right here. This is a pretext for implementing the single-payer plan. All of the states and their plans and the local and the private sector health care companies, it\u2019s all about them failing. It\u2019s all about this not working. So then the last resort\u2019s what? Obama! The federal government! So there you have it. <\/p>\n

Michele Bachmann said, ‘Obamacare is a crime against democracy.\u2019 It\u2019s a fraud. It is a pretext to implementing a single-payer plan. Mr. Gregory, this is not an opt-out. This is not any give on the part of the regime. This is simple acknowledging he\u2019s got a legal problem right now and he wants to skate around it for a while. So it takes us back to my hypothetical setup. Because the presidential campaign is gonna begin in earnest soon. In fact you got, what, five or six Republicans in Iowa today, or this week. So it\u2019s now starting to intensify. At some point we\u2019re gonna get the polling data with front-runners and all this sort of stuff and it\u2019s gonna matter, to you, what kind of campaign you want. Remember, it was McCain that ran around saying (screaming McCain impression), ‘Obama\u2019s a fine American, a fine man, and I don\u2019t want hear any thing otherwise, you got it? Limbaugh, you shut up! Nothing! I\u2019ll have nothing dishonorable! You mention his name is ‘Hussein,\u2019 you say that one of my rallies, and you\u2019re toast, pal! You\u2019re fired!\u2019<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Obamacare waivers are now over 1,000, by the way. One thousand waivers mostly, not entirely, but mostly to union and union-related groups.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Matt, Charleston, South Carolina, as we start on the phones. Great to have you here, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, Rush. In regards to your question in the first hour.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: We gotta just kind of caution you here a little bit, all right? We don\u2019t need a civil war on our side, number one. That\u2019s what Obama wants more than anything. This is not the campaign of \u201908. He\u2019s got a record now, and in two years from now is gonna have four years to pick apart. And we have you and Hannity and Beck to, you know, go Bachmann every day, so I just, you know, what do you think?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, about the last thing you said, that\u2019s all well and good to have all these media people, but, frankly, these candidates are gonna have to have the message. At some point the candidate, whatever the message is, they\u2019re gonna have to have it, and if they want to have a hard hitting message, they\u2019re gonna have to be the ones to articulate it.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, you know, I may be a little biased here, but coming from South Carolina, nobody does it better than Jim DeMint.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah. Exactly, although I don\u2019t know that he\u2019s running.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I hope he does, but it doesn\u2019t look like it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: But for those just joining, let me rephrase the question. You\u2019ve gotten close but you haven\u2019t really answered it. I know what you\u2019re saying, Obama\u2019s got a record, but that\u2019s the exact thing I\u2019m talking about. Do you want a Republican nominee who simply points out the differences between himself and Obama as policy differences?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, nobody\u2019s who\u2019s out there right now — Romney, Gingrich — nobody impresses me, but Jim DeMint has got such a strong — every time you see him on TV, he doesn\u2019t need a teleprompter, he doesn\u2019t need notes, he just bam, bam, bam. Bachmann\u2019s pretty good, but she rubs people the wrong way, kind of like Palin, to an extent.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Why does she rub people the wrong way?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Just the so-called, you know, the Saturday Night Live types are just —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Screw them!<\/p>\n

CALLER: I know, but — <\/p>\n

RUSH: Whoever we nominate other than somebody that\u2019s a wuss is gonna rub them the wrong way. That\u2019s the point. They need to be rubbed the wrong way. If we\u2019re gonna go out trying to make sure that they\u2019re not offended by what we do, hell, we may as well mail it in and just say Republicans are not gonna run anybody, we\u2019re gonna save our money for 2016, Obama, it\u2019s yours. Here\u2019s the question, folks. It\u2019s really not that complicated and I\u2019m asking it within the context of winning the election. You got Obama here. I guarantee you that everybody running, if you talk to \u2019em privately, they\u2019ll tell you he\u2019s a bad guy. I mean, four more years of this guy and we\u2019re looking at generations to fix what gets broken, what\u2019s already broken, generations. But we can\u2019t say that, can\u2019t say that. People don\u2019t want to think of their president as purposely breaking the country. They\u2019re not gonna put their arms around that. They\u2019re gonna reject anybody who says that, so we gotta focus on policy, we gotta focus strictly on policy. <\/p>\n

For example, we\u2019re gonna say the president\u2019s policies have led to $4.50 gasoline, or whatever the prices. The president\u2019s policy has led to a Middle East on fire, here\u2019s why. The president\u2019s policies are leading to us never-ending unemployment. And then go A, B, C, and D what the president\u2019s policies are and why, and then what our policy differences are going to be. In other words, don\u2019t get personal, don\u2019t say socialist, don\u2019t say he\u2019s a Marxist, any of this stuff, don\u2019t question his motives. Don\u2019t even go there. Can\u2019t win that way. That\u2019s gonna be one argument. The other argument is, ‘Hey, reality is reality, he is who he is, and we don\u2019t have time to pussyfoot around anymore. Here\u2019s what we\u2019re doing.\u2019<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Who\u2019s next? Mike in Covington, Kentucky. Hello, sir. Great to have you on the EIB Network.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Mega dittos, Rush. Longtime listener.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you, sir, very much.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I think that whoever the Republican nominee is does not need to go out and attack the president himself. He needs to attack the president\u2019s policies and the president\u2019s issues.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019m a professional truck driver, and if fuel goes up to four dollars a gallon, it will cost me roughly $1400 every time I fill up. So that has a big impact on me directly.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, but let me tell you something. I\u2019ve had two stories on that so far today, and guess who\u2019s blamed? Khadafy. It\u2019s Moammar Khadafy\u2019s fault. Our brave president — our brave president, Mike — is doing everything he can to get rid of Khadafy except get rid of him. He\u2019s doing everything he can. The gasoline prices are going up despite the best president has and it\u2019s Khadafy\u2019s fault. It\u2019s not Obama\u2019s fault.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, Rush, can I make a quick comment?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, sure. You\u2019re a paid actor. Go for it.<\/p>\n

CALLER: To a certain extent there are… You talked about Bill O\u2019Reilly earlier. To an extent, yeah, the oil speculators have something to do with it. I mean, every time there\u2019s a crisis in the Middle East, the price per barrel always spikes up, but I don\u2019t think that\u2019s 100% of the issue. You\u2019ve got a — a — the president now is not allowing any drilling, he\u2019s banned it, he\u2019s against it. he\u2019s pushing this electric car from Obama Motors, and right now we need to drill everywhere we can drill, and we need to find every barrel of oil we can find right here on our shores.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right. Right. I — I —<\/p>\n

CALLER: We need to.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yes, which people have been saying for a long time.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes. And on the stick-to-the-issues deal, whoever the nominee is also needs to push home that we\u2019ve got a health care plan out there that nobody wanted that everybody is against, that 34 — I could be wrong on the number of states — have voted on try to repeal it, a judge in Florida that has ruled it totally unconstitutional, yet they\u2019re putting it down our throats anyway, and they\u2019re disobeying the judge. The nominee also needs to bring that home.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay. This is interesting. By the way, it\u2019s 26 states, but who\u2019s quibbling? Sarah Palin was destroyed, mocked for saying, ‘Drill, baby, drill!\u2019 A lot of people have been destroyed for suggesting that the way out of this is to drill for domestic oil, because the template is, ‘Oil is the enemy; we gotta ‘go green\u2019 now. This is a perfect time to go alternative.\u2019 I don\u2019t want to get sidetracked here. You\u2019re clearly of the frame of mind: simply remind people of the policy realities, just because of Obama we\u2019ve got X, Y, Z. We\u2019ve got a health plan nobody wants. See, where I coming from, I find it fascinating… How do I say this? <\/p>\n

Obamacare is why the Democrats lost the election. It\u2019s why they got shellacked in November. I\u2019m not gonna have to be reminded by a candidate anything about the negatives of Obamacare during a presidential race. I already know. It already animates me. I\u2019m not gonna have to be reminded of any of these things. I\u2019m not gonna have to be reminded the president shut down drilling in the Gulf. Now, understandably some people are gonna have to be informed in the campaign; some don\u2019t pay attention to stuff until that happens. I am not choosing a side here yet. I\u2019m merely presenting the options to you. Let me put it another way. Obviously I\u2019ve gone about this the wrong way. <\/p>\n

I fashion myself as the premiere communicator, and obviously I\u2019ve failed here based on the calls that Snerdley has found. What I\u2019m asking you here is: During the presidential campaign of 2012 — (sigh) How best to put this? — should the Republican nominee…? I\u2019m gonna have to think about this. I thought I had put this out pretty clearly. I\u2019m still struggling here for another way to frame this. (drumming fingers) Okay, let\u2019s make myself the nominee. What would I do? If I were the nominee, I wouldn\u2019t hold back. If I were the nominee, I\u2019d go way beyond policy. I\u2019d tell you why this guy\u2019s policies are what they are. <\/p>\n

I realize the risk inherent here. You\u2019re gonna have the press (snidely), ‘Oh, you think he\u2019s a gangster? You think he\u2019s anti-American?\u2019 No, that\u2019s not what I\u2019m saying. I think he\u2019s got a different view of Americanism than we do. He\u2019s got a whole lot totally different idea and understanding. This guy\u2019s got a chip on his shoulder about the country. He doesn\u2019t believe in exceptionalism about America, doesn\u2019t believe in America\u2019s greatness. One of the reasons he\u2019s not doing anything in Libya with Khadafy — has anybody got a clue? — is he doesn\u2019t believe we have the moral authority to do anything other than mouth a bunch of words in the first place. ‘Who are we to tell \u2019em what to do?\u2019 That\u2019s the way he looks at it. ‘Who are we?\u2019 <\/p>\n

Obama\u2019s whole worldview is, ‘Who are we to tell anybody in the world what to do? Whatever gave us that right, whatever gave us that authority? Whatever gave us that moral authority? Whatever gave us that power? Who the hell are we? I mean, as president I can clearly express my disagreement, and I can ‘denounce in the strongest terms what Khadafy is doing,\u2019 but I don\u2019t have the right to throw him out of office. What the hell! Who are we? United States of America?\u2019 He doesn\u2019t hold that kind of moral view of this country\u2019s superiority and these kinds of things<\/p>\n

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RUSH: I think maybe I am assuming way too much of my brain will be utilized by others. For example, I\u2019m assuming that most people are gonna be as curious as I would be. I know that\u2019s not true. I know that the vast majority of people are nowhere near as curious as I am. This is a characteristic trait. So I\u2019m a voter and I\u2019m sitting here and I\u2019m listening to the presidential campaign, and let\u2019s say that we got 9 to 10% unemployment during the presidential campaign, gasoline is at four dollars to five bucks a gallon, right? Let\u2019s say that it is. And we know that nowhere in the media is Obama going to be held accountable or responsible for this. It will be Libya, Khadafy\u2019s responsible for gasoline and business sitting on all that cash, evil, big business refusing to hire, wanting to make our young president look bad is why we\u2019ve got unemployment. So that\u2019s gonna be the media spin. In the midst of all this we\u2019re gonna have a Republican nominee who is going to say, ‘We need a change, and I\u2019m the man to be the change, president\u2019s policies have led us to 10% unemployment, the president\u2019s policies have led us to five-dollar-a-gallon gasoline.\u2019 <\/p>\n

Now, if I\u2019m a voter, my natural reaction to hearing that is, ‘Why? Why would anybody want 10% unemployment?\u2019 I\u2019m gonna assume that no president would want 10% unemployment. I\u2019m gonna assume that no president, no American, no American, period, wants gasoline prices at five bucks a gallon. I know leftists do. I\u2019m talking about an American president. So I\u2019ve got the Republican nominee saying the president\u2019s policies have led to 10% unemployment, five-dollar-a-gallon gasoline, it\u2019s time for a change. I\u2019m sitting here saying, ‘Why? How? What are these policies? What are the policies that have led to 10% unemployment?\u2019 Okay, well, that\u2019s gonna require an explanation of what was wrong with the stimulus. Doesn\u2019t it demand an ideological explanation? If you\u2019re gonna sit there and be critical of a president\u2019s policies which have led to this kind of stagnant deteriorating economy, doesn\u2019t it seem to you that people are gonna say, ‘Well, why? Is he just mistaken? Is he incompetent? Is that your case? Are you saying that President Obama is just not up to the job, that he\u2019s incompetent, his policies are wrong?\u2019 My natural reaction is, ‘Why are his policies wrong?\u2019 I guess what it gets down to is motivation. (interruption) Well, that\u2019s what I\u2019m saying, Snerdley. I know it\u2019s not the typical voter. <\/p>\n

I sit here and, heck, I don\u2019t care about the presidential campaign. I\u2019m looking at it now: 8.9, 9, 9.4% whatever it is, unemployment, rising gasoline prices, and then you measure this against all that we were promised by this president and his party prior to the 2008 election. It hasn\u2019t worked out that way. So that\u2019s what I\u2019m saying. Most people do not have anywhere near the curiosity I have. Most people may not actually want to hear the president\u2019s motivation for his policies. I do. I want to know, why does somebody who claims to want to lower unemployment, why is somebody who\u2019s claiming to focus like a laser on jobs, how does that guy end up with so many jobs lost? How does that guy end up presiding over an energy policy that\u2019s led to us five dollar-dollar-a-gallon gasoline? How does that happen? But I guess that\u2019s just me. <\/p>\n

I\u2019ll just tell you this. The prevailing view is that to delve into this in the context of a presidential campaign any further than simply delineating policy differences is a loser, because people do not want to hear that their president\u2019s a bad guy, that it\u2019s a losing proposition to try to make that case. And by bad guy, I mean somebody who has reform ideas for this country that are really nothing like the country was founded. I\u2019m not talking about criminal bad guy, that kind of thing. Just a policy bad guy. There\u2019s just a lot of fear, I\u2019m telling you, there\u2019s a lot of fear going there, they think, is a guaranteed loser. The Democrats are saying, Jim McDermott, the Republicans are trying to destroy the economy so they can get back into power. See, my problem is they\u2019ve got a free ride. The Democrats can say that about us all they want, they can run around and say the most personally destructive, damages, untrue things they want, and nobody ever says they\u2019re gonna go too far, nobody ever says they are going to step in it. <\/p>\n

Nobody ever says the Democrats are gonna send people running away to the independents and Republicans. They can be as mean, vicious, they can lie through their teeth all they want. We, on the other hand, tie both of our arms behind our backs. ‘We can\u2019t go there, Rush, we\u2019re gonna lose all our voters. They\u2019re gonna transfer over to the Democrats, independents are gonna run away.\u2019 Meanwhile, the foundation of all this is we\u2019ve got a guy who\u2019s purposely trying to transform this country, who is destroying the private sector health care industry. He\u2019s destroying it. He\u2019s destroying private sector job creation, destroying it. We can\u2019t say that. Can\u2019t say it, scare the voters. Voters don\u2019t want to believe that, so we\u2019ve got a strict focus on policy differences. <\/p>\n

Helen in Scotts Valley, California. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, Rush. Mega unwilling user of a smart meter in California.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: This election has got to be black and white. It has to be showed so much what — I gotta keep the words down —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Let\u2019s say red and blue versus black and white, can we?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Red and blue is good.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Very, very good. <\/p>\n

RUSH: Right, yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Red and blue. Yeah. I agree with you totally on that, by the way.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah. Anyway, we can\u2019t pussyfoot around about policies. It\u2019s time to get into what kind of a person Obama is.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, that\u2019s it. That\u2019s it. I\u2019m just gonna tell you, I don\u2019t know a single Republican nominee that wants to go there, potential nominee. I don\u2019t know a single one of them that wants to go there.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Now, on this question of mine, I realize folks that I am a media figure, and I know there\u2019s a huge difference in acquiring an audience and getting votes. It\u2019s a huge, huge difference. For example, in just one area, just one example: A politician will not get the votes of people that don\u2019t like him. I will have no problem getting people to listen to me who don\u2019t like me. In fact, I have to keep giving them reasons. There are some people who listen precisely because they hate, precisely because they don\u2019t like. You gotta keep fueling that. I don\u2019t have to work at it. That\u2019s just who they are. <\/p>\n

But a politician can\u2019t survive like that. I live in Literalville, and I know the population of Literalville is not much. There aren\u2019t a whole lot of people who live there, but I do. So my view on things is, ‘Call it as I see it.\u2019 What this really boils down to is: Do we call Obama a socialist or not? In a presidential campaign, do we tell the American people, ‘We are up against an avowed socialist. We have somebody who is doing his level best to make this country no different from any of the Western European social democracies. Sweden, the UK, France, that\u2019s what we\u2019re headed for here. <\/p>\n

We got somebody who wants to preside over America\u2019s decline.\u2019 There\u2019s no question that that\u2019s happening, but I don\u2019t think there are gonna be too many, if any, Republican presidential candidates are gonna want to get anywhere near saying that. They\u2019re gonna want to keep it focused strictly on policy. My problem is this: If we can\u2019t straightforwardly address who Obama is and what he wants, it\u2019s sort of like a doctor trying to treat the symptoms of a disease without diagnosing the disease itself. Not comparing Obama to a disease. It\u2019s just a metaphor here. <\/p>\n

You go to the doctor and you got something really wrong and the doctor says, ‘Well, the best we can figure out here, life as you know it you\u2019ve got about a year.\u2019 <\/p>\n

‘Well, what\u2019s wrong with me?\u2019 <\/p>\n

‘Well, that doesn\u2019t matter. I don\u2019t want to go there. I don\u2019t want to describe what this disease is, and don\u2019t want to tell you how it operates and I don\u2019t want to tell you what its purpose is. I just want to say you\u2019ve got it.\u2019 <\/p>\n

‘Oh. Okay.\u2019<\/p>\n

If Obama\u2019s opponents don\u2019t try to explain what Obama really thinks about America, what he really wants for our country, then (what I was trying to say earlier with my curiosity) we\u2019d have to assume, ‘Well, he\u2019s just overcome by bad luck or coincidences,\u2019 or, ‘He\u2019s just incompetent,\u2019 or just wrong. The problem is, as the caller said earlier, by the time this campaign runs around we\u2019re gonna have a three-year record here — a three-year record on doubling down on what\u2019s wrong! ‘Okay, the first stimulus didn\u2019t create private sector jobs? Okay, we\u2019ll do another one!\u2019 We\u2019ve had all this spending. We now have monthly deficits larger than annual deficits used to be as recently as 2007. Obviously the policy isn\u2019t working but he\u2019s keeping right on with it. <\/p>\n

Why? <\/p>\n

Anyway, it\u2019s sort of a moot question because I\u2019ve answered it myself by saying that you can pretty much guarantee that we\u2019re not gonna have a campaign where the president\u2019s ideology is referenced to as a socialist. It just isn\u2019t gonna happen. Mark my words.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Chattanooga, Tennessee, hello, Ray. Great to have you on the program.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, Rush. It\u2019s good to talk to you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You bet.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Listen, I had a thought about what you\u2019re asking about, and you pretty much answered it I think in your last monologue about this whole Obama, what he believes and stuff and how we should approach it. But I think a real basic question is, you know, should the next nominee ask what Obama\u2019s core values are. Because you know we certainly didn\u2019t ask it in the last election. And it seems to me that, you know, what a person believes in their heart, in their soul is what they do.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wait. You just hit on something. Wait a minute. You\u2019ve just helped me here. We know all of this stuff.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah.<\/p>\n

RUSH: See, this is the key. The question is not what. We know. We know that he has said to his buddies he wants a single payer national health care. We know he wants to put traditional energy sources out of business. We know that he views the American private sector as a culprit. We know all this. The question is, how much of it do we actually say?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Here\u2019s my thought on that, Rush, if you will. I would say that if a nominee — and they don\u2019t have to be yelling and screaming about it, but if they asked a question, if they say, ‘We know this guy believes these things –‘<\/p>\n

RUSH: They are going to be asked the question. Michele Bachmann on Meet the Press yesterday was asked, ‘You gonna back off of this gangster business?\u2019 ‘No, I\u2019m not gonna back off of it.\u2019 There are enough Republicans who have said X, Y, Z. Whoever the nominee is, it\u2019s gonna be, ‘Do you agree with what X said that Obama is Y.\u2019 They\u2019re gonna be asked this.<\/p>\n

CALLER: No. What I mean is if the Republican nominees don\u2019t ask the public or they don\u2019t bring up that this guy\u2019s core values are such because, you know, we know people by what they do, then to me that says that that nominee doesn\u2019t deserve the presidency.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh. <\/p>\n

CALLER: If they\u2019re going to be sheepish about this —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wait, wait, wait, wait. We\u2019re talking here about what\u2019s the best strategy for winning. What is the best way to go about winning this thing? That\u2019s the umbrella under which I\u2019m asking all of these questions. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: Look, Snerdley, if you were running for the Republican nomination this year, wouldn\u2019t you think you had a chance? I mean everybody acknowledges this is one of the weakest fields. It is kind of strange. Here we\u2019ve got the single greatest opportunity we\u2019ve ever had to contrast ourselves with that which we oppose and we got one of the weakest fields. Everybody knows this. Everybody knows this. Everybody you talk to. I can\u2019t mention any names. I\u2019ve talked to a bunch of people last week. They all tell me, the weakest field. I had one guy — (laughing) — ranking Republican, tell me it\u2019s the weakest field ever. But it doesn\u2019t matter \u2019cause the election\u2019s gonna be about Obama. And all we gotta do is get his negatives on Obamacare back up to 60, 70%, and it doesn\u2019t matter who our nominee is. Well, that\u2019s what one of the ranking Republicans told me. It doesn\u2019t matter who the nominee is because it\u2019s gonna be a referendum on Obama, it\u2019s that simple. We get his negatives up, he doesn\u2019t have a prayer. Okay, well, still takes me back to my question, ‘How do you get the negatives up?\u2019 If that is the acting or animating philosophy or policy, theory, whatever, okay, how do we get his negatives up, how do we do it? He already had a shellacking in November because of Obamacare. How do we keep getting them up, the negatives? <\/p>\n

Audio sound bite time. I mentioned Jim McDermott here. The Democrats never handcuff themselves in describing us. The Democrats never handcuff themselves in talking about our motivations as they see it. I mean they\u2019re dead wrong, too. They engage in the politics of personal destruction, and we\u2019re told it never hurts them. Let me go through this one more time. For those of you new to the program, one of the things I have always had a big problem with, all my life, all my adult life, all of the life I\u2019ve had during this program I\u2019ve heard people say, ‘Look, we can\u2019t be personal criticizing Clinton, can\u2019t be personal criticizing Obama, \u2019cause, Rush, if we do that it\u2019s gonna send these independents away. They just want us to get along. The independents want people to get along, they want to cross the aisle, want us to work together. If we start getting critical the independents are just gonna run right back to the Democrats.\u2019 Yeah, right. The most negative, mean-spirited, combative political party in my lifetime, these precious independents are gonna retreat into the mouth of the most mean-spirited bunch of people ever because we might be critical of Obama or Clinton. I\u2019ve never understood that. <\/line><\/p>\n

And all it was, all it\u2019s ever been is a trick put forth by the Democrats and the media to get us to shut up. The Democrats are never personal when it comes to criticizing Sarah Palin, are they? Why, they never get mean when they\u2019re talking about Sarah Palin, do they? Oh, no, that\u2019s how we\u2019re supposed to behave, right? ‘Rush, we\u2019re never gonna win, never gonna win.\u2019 Can you imagine two Democrats sitting around saying, ‘We\u2019re never gonna win if we keep talking about Palin the way we\u2019re talking about her?\u2019 Of course not! <\/p>\n

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RUSH: Speaking of Obama\u2019s core values and all that, this sound bite remains one of my all-time favorite sound bites in the history of the program. It is Charlie Rose and Tom Brokaw. It\u2019s right around election time. I mean it\u2019s within days of the 2008 election, and it\u2019s on Charlie Rose\u2019s PBS show.<\/p>\n

ROSE: I don\u2019t know what Barack Obama\u2019s worldview is.<\/line> <\/line>BROKAW: No, I don\u2019t either.<\/line> <\/line>ROSE: I don\u2019t know how he really sees where China is.<\/line> <\/line>BROKAW: We don\u2019t know a lot about Barack Obama and the universe of his thinking about foreign policy.<\/line> <\/line>ROSE: I don\u2019t really know. And do we know anything about the people who are advising him?<\/line> <\/line>BROKAW: You know, it\u2019s an interesting question.<\/line> <\/line>ROSE: He\u2019s principally known through his autobiography and through very aspirational speeches.<\/line> <\/line>BROKAW: Two of them. I don\u2019t know what books he\u2019s read.<\/line> <\/line>ROSE: What do we know about the heroes of Barack Obama?<\/line> <\/line>BROKAW: There\u2019s a lot about him we don\u2019t know.<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, there you have it, two of the most well-informed people in the world, in their own minds, and they don\u2019t know a thing about Obama. Well, that\u2019s the question: Do they know now? That\u2019s from before the election. It\u2019s a fine time to tell us now, Lucille. Now he\u2019s moving to the center, but center of what, because they don\u2019t know where he started from. I wonder if they today know what he\u2019s all about, if they know what the universe of his thinking is. Okay, so they\u2019re admitting I don\u2019t know. So, okay, let\u2019s tell them. ‘Oh, no, Rush, I mean we can\u2019t do that. Why, that\u2019s just gonna make \u2019em not like us.\u2019 Oh, as though they do already like us. It was the Friday before the election, I think. Yeah. It was October 31st. It was the Friday before the election when they made that little sound bite that happened there.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: This is John in Chicago. Great to have you on the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Unpaid-caller dittos from Chicago, Rush.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you, sir, very much.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I believe the next conservative presidential candidate has to do with something that is going to be very difficult to pull off, and that is he\u2019s gonna have to separate the person, Barack Obama — who a lot of people identify in this country — from the leftist ideology that is ruining this country, and it\u2019s gonna be difficult to pull off, but in essence I think he says, ‘Barack Obama loves a version of America, but that version is a big government version of America; and what made America great was free economics, freedom of expression, and freedom of religion; and we must have a dismantling of Washington, DC, so that the rest of the country can thrive; and the only way to do that is to reemphasize those basic core freedoms that Barack Obama believes are subservient to a big, overarching, all-intrusive government that will destroy what made America great.\u2019<\/p>\n

RUSH: All right, so you\u2019re basic coming down on the side, ‘Just keep it focused on policy\u2019?<\/p>\n

CALLER: No. Keep it on philosophic… Here\u2019s my problem, Rush. The next Republican or conservative is not just running against Barack. He\u2019s running against David Gregory, CBS, NBC, and any criticism can be viewed as personal. What I\u2019m saying is: Attack his hard left ideology and philosophy, and give examples from policies that show what that is. But it has to be done so that it is not viewed as mean. Ronald Reagan was perfect at this. He wasn\u2019t mean toward Jimmy Carter personally but he was deft at pointing out the destructive path that he led America down in the 1970s. That\u2019s why I think it\u2019s gonna take a master politician to pull this off.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Weeell, you know, there\u2019s a lot of stuff people think about Reagan. If you go back and you listen to Reagan talk about leftists and Democrats, you will hear a guy who was brutal in his honesty about who they are and what their objectives are.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Absolutely, but he –<\/p>\n

RUSH: He didn\u2019t categorize these people as just a bunch of misguided naive idealists.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I agree with you, but he wasn\u2019t viewed as being a personally mean person. That\u2019s why I said it\u2019s gonna take a very deft person —<\/p>\n

RUSH: A-ha!<\/p>\n

CALLER: — to pull this off.<\/p>\n

RUSH: All right, now, interesting. ‘He wasn\u2019t viewed as mean.\u2019 So is it ‘mean\u2019 to say Obama\u2019s a socialist? Just asking. No trick question here. You\u2019re not a paid actor. Is getting too personal to say socialist?<\/p>\n

CALLER: No. I think what you do is you publish his own thoughts, his own words, you put it up on the big screen and you say, ‘I don\u2019t just call the man a socialist. Here\u2019s why I believe he is a socialist.\u2019<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah?<\/p>\n

CALLER: And then you say, ‘Dreams of Our Fathers\u2019 (sic) or whatever the book was, you pull out the quotes, and then you say he\u2019s being quoted in 2004 being a single-payer advocate, and this is just a transition to get us there. I think that\u2019s how you do it. Rather than say he\u2019s a mean guy, he loves his family, blah, blah, blah, but the point is he has said some very Marxist or neo-Marxist things in his life. I personally think he was brought up as a Marxist. I wouldn\u2019t believe he was just a soft-core socialist. He may have mitigated his views somewhat, but he\u2019s pretty hard-core left. I think you and I would agree with that. But I think there are words, there are speeches, there are policies that point out that his vision of America — his version of America — is a hardcore left version that will lead to the destruction of what this country is.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh. Oh, oh, oh, oh! Wait just a second. Once you do that — once you say that Obama\u2019s policies are leading to the destruction of America — then here comes your aforementioned David Gregory and Bob Schieffer saying, ‘Are YOU saying that the president is trying to destroy America?\u2019 What\u2019s your — ?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Here\u2019s my answer to that. ‘He\u2019s trying to destroy what made America great, and he wants to reestablish his version –‘<\/p>\n

RUSH: Waaait a second. Then why would President Obama want to destroy American greatness, sir?<\/line>CALLER: Because, to him, a free country is not what made America great. He believes that an all-intrusive federal government will right every wrong, will make everything good, will make America great again — and that is precisely the wrong thing. So the next presidential candidate needs to be like Michele Bachmann or Sarah Palin and address, head-on, David Gregory who is nothing more than a mouthpiece for the Obama administration and challenge him right back.<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: Well… (sigh) Mouthpiece, stenographer, true.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah.<\/p>\n

RUSH: But these guys are all going to be trying to get the aforementioned nominee to get into this. You know, I addressed this at CPAC, and it might be wise for tomorrow to get these excerpts from my CPAC speech a couple years ago. Because I actually with that speech at CPAC started a debate: Principle versus policy. And I remember making the big case for principle, and I remember that audience standing up and cheering. And, you know, a lot of our conservative intelligentsia was appalled. They were horrified \u2019cause we have people, you know, everybody\u2019s out there getting all tied up and they\u2019re policy wonks. They are asked if they wanted Obama to fail like I wanted to fail. I was out there pushing principle, principle. All we had to do was stand on principle, and every question that anybody could ask us has an answer that\u2019s about us and what we believe. Anyway, I\u2019ll have Cookie tear that apart and I\u2019ll show you what I\u2019m talking about with those excerpts from the CPAC speech tomorrow.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Folks, don\u2019t forget: Ronaldus Magnus called the enemy the ‘evil empire.\u2019 He did not pussyfoot around. And don\u2019t forget, as amiable, friendly, good-natured as Reagan was, they made him out to be a meeean hater. They did everything they could. So no matter what the truth is, they\u2019re going to accuse us of being things we\u2019re not anyway. So go for it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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