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RUSH: Yesterday morning on WLS in Chicago, the Don Wade &amp; Roma Morning Show, our 50,000-watt blowtorch affiliate in Chicagoland, they talked to the chairman of the Republican National Committee Mike Duncan. And Don Wade said, ‘So, here we have the Rush Limbaugh problem. How are you going to get Rush Limbaugh on the Republican team?\u2019<\/p>\n

DUNCAN: Well, obviously we hope that everyone joins the team, and what I\u2019m seeing right now is that nine out of ten Republican voters are rallying around John McCain. On the other side we\u2019re seeing, depending on the state, but in some states as many as a third of the Democrats say they won\u2019t vote for Barack Obama this fall. Overall, it\u2019s about 19% nationally. So we\u2019re doing a good job of bringing independents and Democrats over to the Republican side, and they\u2019re not doing a very good job of bringing Republicans to Barack Obama, because there\u2019s such a stark contrast. Do we want to go back to the 1960s failed ideas of higher taxes and bigger government and judges who legislate from the bench and not having a strong defense? I think the answer is no.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Mike, Mike — (laughing) — would you calm down, Snerdley! Snerdley is blowing a gasket in there. He says here that nine out of ten Republicans are rallying around John McCain. That means, ladies and gentlemen, that I, because I was in the question, that means that I am one out of ten Republicans not joining John McCain so far. And that\u2019s okay. Don\u2019t need me and don\u2019t need those of you who also comprise the one out of ten who may not be enamored of Senator McCain. Then he goes on to talk about how proud they are they\u2019re getting Democrats, how excited the Republican National Committee is to be getting Democrat and independent votes, and Senator McCain is out there actively cultivating them, the Republican National Committee is telling us all here, thanks to Don Wade\u2019s question on WLS in Chicago, that they\u2019re happy to have these Republicans. And then he says at the end, ‘Do we want to go back to the 1960s failed ideas of higher taxes and bigger government and judges who legislate –‘ Mike, you\u2019re bringing in people that vote that way. (laughing) You\u2019re seeking the votes of Democrats who indeed want to go back to the sixties failed ideas of higher taxes. <\/p>\n

These people that are joining McCain are not enamored of McCain. They are angry women fed up with the Democrat Party. They\u2019re not looking at McCain as their ideal candidate in terms of issues and ideas. They\u2019re joining McCain as a slap at the Democrat Party. This is what I feared. This is what I feared way, way back many, many moons ago — a little Indian lingo there. I told you that the problem the Republican Party faces, if they\u2019re going to go out and recruit Democrats, they better recruit them as converted-to-Republican conservatives, as Reagan did. No, we\u2019re happy, we\u2019re ecstatic, we\u2019re going out there recruiting Democrats because the American people do not want higher taxes, bigger government, judges who legislate from the bench. Well, that\u2019s exactly whose votes the Republican National Committee seems to be honored to have. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: You know, I wish somebody would explain to the Republican National Committee and to Senator McCain that you don\u2019t win an election with the most independents. This is not how elections are won! Both parties try to secure their bases, which is fascinating about this election because it appears that both party bases are upset with who the parties have nominated. You\u2019ve got a lot of Democrat women who are fed up. You got a lot of Republicans, more than one out of ten — in fact far more than one out of ten Republicans — who are dissatisfied with their party\u2019s nominee, John McCain. But in the old math, what you would do, you\u2019d go out and solidify your base first. The typical math (it changes every election, but theoretically) you\u2019ve got 40% of the country Republican, 40% is going to vote Democrat, leaving 20% in the middle. And what you do is you firm up your base first. You shore up your base and then you go out for your share of the independents.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s happening here is that they\u2019re going out for all of the independents first and saying, ‘To hell with the base.\u2019 This is…convoluted. I\u2019ve never seen it done this way before. We\u2019ll just have to… (interruption) Okay, Snerdley, what is it? What is it got you so agitated? (interruption) Mmm-hmm. Mmm-hmm. Mmm-hmm. Mmm-hmm. All right, all right, all right. You\u2019ve gotta stop taking this stuff personally. He said to me, ‘Do you understand how angry we all were when they were trying to marginalize Bush?\u2019 Snerdley says, ‘You don\u2019t understand how angry we are in here and how angry your audience is. The Republican National Committee just tried to marginalize you and you don\u2019t seem…\u2019 That\u2019s what he\u2019s saying here in the IFB. ‘They\u2019re marginalizing you! They say you don\u2019t matter; you\u2019re just one out of ten.\u2019 I don\u2019t take this stuff personally, Snerdley. You gotta stop taking this stuff personally. It\u2019s the name of the game in politics. Here… Oh, by the way, this charity that\u2019s going to pay for the lone big bash for the Democrat National Convention, Friends of New Orleans?<\/p>\n

I went to their website. I looked at their website and read their mission statement, and they say they\u2019re a ‘nonpartisan\u2019 organization. So? What does that matter? Okay, so the Republicans can ask Friends of New Orleans to pay for their parties, too. That\u2019s not the point. What is a charity devoted to rebuilding and helping the people of New Orleans doing paying for parties at anybody\u2019s convention? I don\u2019t care whether they\u2019re nonpartisan, partisan or not. These are the kinds of things that just don\u2019t make sense. Hell, if Hillary had been the nominee, rather than Obama, none of this would have happened because all the parties could have been paid for by the ChiComs. I mean, there\u2019s a big debt to pay there. The Red Chinese military could have been tapped to help foot the bill, the Lippo Group. The Republican National Committee is running an ad targeting Democrats. They released this ad. It\u2019s an Internet video of Democrats questioning Obama\u2019s readiness. So the RNC is out there targeting Democrats who theoretically respect the people in this ad. Here\u2019s the first half of the ad.<\/p>\n

HILLARY: In this election, we need a nominee who can pass the commander-in-chief test, someone ready on day one to defend our country and keep our families safe. And we need a president who passes that test.<\/p>\n

JOHN EDWARDS: Rhetoric\u2019s not enough. Highfalutin language is not enough.<\/p>\n

HILLARY: There\u2019s no time for speeches and on-the-job training. Senator McCain will bring a lifetime of experience, uh, to the campaign, I will bring a lifetime of experience — and Senator Obama will bring a speech that he gave in 2002.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay, so the first half of the ad is Hillary and John Edwards talking about Obama and his lack of qualifications. So far so good? It\u2019s a Republican National Committee ad. Here is part two of the ad: Senator Biden, Senator Clinton, George Stephanopoulos, and former President Bill Clinton talking about Obama.<\/p>\n

STEPHANOPOULOS: You were asked, ‘Is he ready?\u2019 You said, ‘I think he can be ready but right now I don\u2019t believe he is. The presidency is not something that lends itself to on-the-job training.\u2019<\/p>\n

BIDEN: I think I — I stand by the statement.<\/p>\n

CLINTON: When is the last time we elected a president based on one year of service in the Senate before he started running? He will have been a Senator longer by the time he\u2019s inaugurated, but essentially once you run for president full time you don\u2019t have time to do much else.<\/p>\n

HILLARY: I think it\u2019s imperative that each of us be able to demonstrate we can cross the commander-in-chief threshold, and I believe that I\u2019ve done that; certainly Senator McCain has done that and you\u2019ll have to ask Senator Obama with respect to his candidacy.<\/p>\n

RUSH: All right, so here\u2019s an ad. It\u2019s a Web ad. It runs about 70 seconds. It\u2019s run by the Republican National Committee, featuring all these Democrats talking about Obama\u2019s unfitness, lack of experience. It\u2019s reaching out to Democrats. Now, I haven\u2019t seen the videos. I don\u2019t know what kind of graphics are there, but just in the audio here, I find it fascinating that here is an ad ostensibly to convince people to vote for Senator McCain that does not ask them to do that. Here\u2019s an ad that simply takes these Democrats and talks about how Obama is unqualified, and somehow this is a come-on to Democrats: ‘Hey, join us. Join us on the Republican side.\u2019 What is apparent to me is that the RNC understands that there is some — Uh, uh, how should I say? — lack of enthusiasm among some Republicans for Senator McCain, and so they\u2019re going to have to go out and get these Democrats if they have a chance. And of course since the idea of parties is to win elections, in that sense you really can\u2019t blame \u2019em. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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