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RUSH: This is Deborah in Topeka. Nice to have you. You\u2019re second today on the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hello. How are you?<\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019m fine.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, at this point, I wish I was running for office. I listened to that debate last night and there was nothing from either candidate. I was so mad at McCain on points. When Obama says we\u2019re going to raise taxes, 95% of you, we\u2019re going to do the wealthy and we\u2019re going to do Big Business. People, without Big Business in this country, we have nothing. We have got to support Big Business. What are we all going to do? Are we all going to go to McDonald\u2019s and get jobs flipping burgers? The wealthy and Big Business are who create jobs in this country. They have the money to go and do it. What happens when they get taxed higher? They\u2019re going to leave. That\u2019s what\u2019s been happening the last 20 years. It has been cheaper to do business in other countries. The last ten years, we lost —<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s right. We already have the second highest corporate tax rate in the world, 35%.<\/p>\n

CALLER: In the world, and everybody go look to the Internet, just type in corporate tax rates, you will see that America, it\u2019s exactly what Rush said, our corporate tax rate is ridiculous. I had a business for 12 years. Out of that 12 years, I paid 30% taxes, one year I didn\u2019t because I had a client that owed me $70,000, I didn\u2019t pay any taxes, one year. Wal-Mart, they pay 37.4% in tax in 2007. Go look this stuff up. I\u2019m not making this stuff up. These are facts. Go look it up. This is America. We have to encourage businesses to come back to America. If we tax them, they\u2019re just going to send more jobs overseas. China is offering to companies, and they have offered to some companies no tax, come over here, you don\u2019t pay any taxes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You\u2019re absolutely right about this. Why do you think Obama doesn\u2019t get this, or does he get it? Why does he want to make his enemies list include American business, large and small, and wealthy people? Why are they his enemies?<\/p>\n

CALLER: They\u2019re not his enemies. What he\u2019s saying, and Americans are smart, hopefully they\u2019ll get this. He is trying to appeal to a mass quantity of people. The majority of people are middle-class people, and what he\u2019s saying is what\u2019s going to get the vote. He\u2019s telling you, ‘Go against the wealthy people,\u2019 because it\u2019s appealing on your emotions.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Exactly right. It\u2019s the class envy card. The thing I always try to tell people about this, Deborah — you\u2019re very smart, by the way, you\u2019re very brilliant. Great caller. I always tell people, okay, you\u2019re middle class or whatever, you don\u2019t make as much money as you think you should be making, a lot of people make more, and you hear that those people that make more than you are getting a tax increase. You go, ‘Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, soak \u2019em.\u2019 Okay, they get their taxes increase. Has your life changed any? Do you have any more money in your back pocket? You gonna go buy a new car because they got a tax increase? It doesn\u2019t change your life a bit other than if you\u2019re happy in a schadenfreude sort of way that your neighbor is getting stuck with a bigger tax bill. I think you raise some excellent points. I\u2019m outta time here, Deborah. I gotta run, but thank you so much for the call. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Boynton Beach, Florida, this is Edward. Nice to have you on the program, sir. Hello.<\/p>\n

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

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

CALLER: The reason I called is because I feel McCain has really been blowing the debates, both of them. In both debates, Obama started trying to track all the current-day problems back to eight years of Bush administration. And I thought when he did that, McCain should have gotten up there and said, ‘This isn\u2019t tracked back to eight years of Bush administration. This is tracked back to President Carter and President Clinton and Democratic Congresses that forced the banks to make risky loans to people that couldn\u2019t pay for them.\u2019<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah. You and I and the rest of the Republican Party, the conservative movement, agree a hundred percent, and watch this stuff and say, ‘Okay, it\u2019s up to us. We\u2019re going to have to be the ones to secure victory for him. We\u2019re going to drag him across the finish line and then take on the other challenges that that presents.\u2019 You know, one step at a time here. We can do it. That\u2019s the way it\u2019s going to have to be done. I\u2019m going to splay to you so you can no longer be frustrated, why McCain does not do that. I mean, Obama handed him a slow pitch, softball, hanging curve.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah.<\/p>\n

RUSH: All he has to say, ‘I\u2019m sorry, Senator Obama, but the roots of this particular crisis are in fraudulent mortgage lending started and suggesting by Jimmy Carter, expanded by Bill Clinton, implemented by Jamie Gorelick. You have two advisors who implemented these loans at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.\u2019 He could have just knocked it out of the ballpark. He won\u2019t do it, and I\u2019m going to tell you why very simply.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So that you don\u2019t get frustrated anymore, because it\u2019s going to keep happening for the rest of the campaign. McCain is going to get hanging curveball after hang curveball and he\u2019s going to strike out. John McCain believes that the key for him to win the election is in the undecided moderates — the independents, moderates, all these people — who have not declared who they\u2019re for, the great undecideds, and the theory goes that they\u2019re all moderates. Now, by moderate, I mean people who do not make up their minds because they think it\u2019s offensive to have an opinion about anything. This is the theory, and I think it\u2019s all wet and wrong. But McCain believes it. The theory is that moderates get offended by ‘partisanship.\u2019 So McCain does not want to be partisan and offend them, \u2019cause that\u2019s who he\u2019s seeking the votes of. Now, here\u2019s where this theory is so flawed, it\u2019s embarrassing anybody accepts it. It is a myth, and it\u2019s one of these theories that\u2019s been alive in American politics put forth by Democrats and put forth by the media to get conservatives to shut up. It is designed to scare people like McCain into not saying what he knows is the truth because he believes he will offend these precious moderates, and what will they then do? What will they do? You tell me, Edward. What will the moderates do if McCain offends them by being partisan? What will they do?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, Obama\u2019s partisan, too. I mean —<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s the point! We\u2019re told that they will run to the Democrat Party. They will run to the Democrat Party if McCain offends them. Now, tell me, is the Democrat Party, is Barack Obama, are they partisan?<\/p>\n

CALLER: That\u2019s what causes the whole problem in the first place. He tries to blame everything on the eight years of Bush, and that\u2019s not true.<\/p>\n

RUSH: It\u2019s worse than that. They wanted to lose in Iraq. They are responsible for the financial crisis. They called General Petraeus a liar! To say that the Democrat Party and, the American left is all sweetness and light? See, folks, do you understand how illogical it is for us to believe the notion that we\u2019ve got this great group of moderates out there? I\u2019ll tell you who they really are. They\u2019re a bunch of stuck-on-themselves, conceited, arrogant elites who think they\u2019re smarter than everybody else because the pollsters and all both campaigns always focus on the undecideds. These elites sit out there, and they think they have the election results in their hands. And, of course, they play it up. I don\u2019t know how many of these people Frank Luntz gets that claims they\u2019re moderates, but I know damn well that you\u2019re not going to get on the Frank Luntz Show if you\u2019re decided. <\/p>\n

Frank Luntz only gets focus groups of undecided people. Well, how do you…? Everybody wants to be on TV, right, including these dummkopf moderates, they love to get on TV and tell everybody (\u2019cause they\u2019re smarter than anybody else) what happened in the debate. I watch these people and I get embarrassed. I say, ‘Please, tell me you\u2019re not registered.\u2019 Some of the stupidest people I\u2019ve ever seen are these undecideds who show up at these focus groups. They\u2019ve got their little dials and they\u2019re doing all this tweaking with these graphs. Have you seen the way CNN does this? On the high definition screen? Did you watch that? (scoffs) They\u2019ve got all of their analysts grading the debate as it\u2019s going? And then they\u2019ve got some meter down there underneath going up and down — Democrat, Republican –, as each candidate\u2019s speaking. You guys, you get nauseous watching the graph. <\/p>\n

‘God, I\u2019m going to throw up if it keeps going up and down like this. Where\u2019s the Pepto-Bismol?\u2019 So anyway, we\u2019re told that this select group of, what, 20%, 18%, whatever it is every election — the great undecideds, the great moderates — they\u2019re the ones who are open-minded and don\u2019t make up their minds until they\u2019ve heard everything. Let me ask you if you\u2019re undecided, what you are waiting for? What the hell do you not know that you think you\u2019re going to learn in the next three weeks? Some of you may not know yet the full extent of Bill Ayers and Jeremiah Wright. What do you want to know? What do you not know, clods? ‘Rush, do you really think you ought to be insulting your audience?\u2019 I\u2019m not insulting the audience. I\u2019m trying to spur these people to get some gonads. Grow a pair! <\/p>\n

Don\u2019t be afraid to tell people what you really think, and don\u2019t tell us that if the Republican candidate happens to get partisan, that that\u2019s it; you can\u2019t handle partisanship and mean-spiritedness, and you\u2019re going to run to the Democrats, who own the definition of mean-spirited and extremism? So this whole notion of going out and getting the moderate independents is a fraud. McCain has gotten totally caught up in this myth. So the long way around this, Edward, my man, the reason McCain is not even going to take a swing at these hanging curveballs is because he believes that if he does, these moderates are going to go running right to the Democrats and Obama. I know it\u2019s silly, but that\u2019s what he believes, and that\u2019s how it\u2019s going to be. That\u2019s why (ahem), as I say, it\u2019s going to be up to us if…<\/line> <\/line>Well, it is, folks. I\u2019m not being braggadocios here. I\u2019m not even being egotistical. I said yesterday, I did a little monologue: Senator McCain, you owe the country you love to tell the truth about the people who seek to change the country you love. You owe it to us! You\u2019re the nominee. You owe it to us to defend this great country as it currently exists to prevent it from being redesigned. But I don\u2019t think that even enters the thought process, and I don\u2019t know about the people — you know, his campaign aides — running his campaign. I\u2019d have no idea who gets close to him and who has any influence over him or not, but I\u2019m just telling you: Don\u2019t expect him to take swings at these things. Now, also know this. I will issue a caveat. I know that Senator McCain believes that the last 72 hours determine the election. Now, that apparently, I was told this to prepare myself for fireworks in the last 72 hours. Frankly, I\u2019m worn out with all these expectations being built up. Like I said earlier — and, Edward, Boynton Beach, this goes for you. If you would be a happier American and more motivated and inspired to vote by not watching next week\u2019s debate, then don\u2019t watch it. If all it\u2019s going to do is depress you and make you mad, throw your hands in the air and say, ‘Hell, I should I should be running.\u2019 Don\u2019t watch it. I will. I will tell you what, if anything, out of the ordinary you missed. Here\u2019s Amber in Canton, Michigan. Amber, you\u2019re on the EIB Network. Hello.<\/line><\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, Rush. How are you?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Fine, dandy, thank you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I just want to say thank you to you. I\u2019m not giving up, and every day I get a call from my sister saying, ‘We\u2019re doomed. We\u2019re doomed,\u2019 but I know, I know in my heart that the Americans aren\u2019t stupid people, and they\u2019re not going to elect somebody so far left that will destroy our country.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I want you to be prepared. There are plenty of stupid people, and they are going to vote for Obama.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, but I have two points to make. I believe, too, that even though the Democrats out there are saying, ‘I\u2019m going to vote for Obama,\u2019 I believe once they get to that booth, they\u2019re going to change their mind. Because they aren\u2019t as far left as he is. <\/p>\n

RUSH: Hmph.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Secondly, I feel that, you know, McCain always talks about his strategy with war and da-da-da, you never show your hand. I feel in the next couple weeks he is going to come on and he\u2019s going to come with fire, and I\u2019m telling you, he\u2019s going to come on strong, and he\u2019s just not showing us his hand yet, and I just gotta believe that he\u2019s going to.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I don\u2019t want to tell you, Amber, that you are experiencing a triumph of emotion over common sense in expecting these fireworks from Senator McCain — and I hope you\u2019re right — but I don\u2019t want you to be disappointed if they don\u2019t happen.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I know. But we do have Sarah Palin, too, and remember, she is that firestorm.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, now, see, that\u2019s a good point. I forgot to throw that into my analysis in answer to the guy from Boynton Beach. One of the reasons Palin is there is so that she can go be the firebrand and do what she\u2019s doing, which allows McCain to go out there and stroke the independents and the moderates.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Eldon in Alliance, Nebraska, great to have you, Eldon.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thanks, Rush. Dittos from the Nebraska panhandle.<\/p>\n

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

CALLER: What I want to say, I can\u2019t understand this — you\u2019ve been talking about how they think the moderates will go left if we get partisan. Ronald Reagan took both elections and he was never not partisan. And the reason he wasn\u2019t is because he fundamentally disagreed with everything that liberals stand for. And that\u2019s why we elect these people to office, is to represent our beliefs. Why should someone give up 75% of their strong moral convictions to be bipartisan?<\/p>\n

RUSH: I don\u2019t know. Look, you people are going to start making me mad here. I\u2019ve dealt with this. I\u2019ve come to grips with what the reality is. Now you\u2019re making me relive it again \u2019cause all these questions make perfect sense. There is no way I can explain this. Like I said last week, it was a day I was frustrated last week, someone said, ‘Can you explain the McCain camp?\u2019 I said, ‘No, I cannot explain the McCain campaign.\u2019 If I had to write my doctoral thesis on it I\u2019d have to promise the prof to flunk me because I couldn\u2019t — there\u2019s nobody that can explain this, other than the way I just tried to.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Ronald Reagan called them on the carpet every time he addressed the American public.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I know this, Eldon, I know this. Now you\u2019re really starting to get me agitated here like a Chicago street organizer, because the Republican Party throughout our last primary system was trying to wrest control of this party away from the people that loved Ronald Reagan and voted for him. They want country club blue-blood moderates in charge of the party, and if they get that, then it\u2019s going to be sewer city for the Republican Party for quite a while. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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