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RUSH: This is from today\u2019s website, Politico.com: ‘Barack Obama promised he would lower taxes for 95 percent of Americans and presumably raise them for the 5 percent who benefited most under President Bush\u2019s tax policies. But, remarkably, the most affluent 5 percent supported Obama and that was perhaps the key to his victory last week. This group — and the rise of a new elite class of voters — is at the heart of the fast-paced changes in demographics affecting the political, sociological and economic landscape of the country. While there has been some inflation over the past 12 years, the exit poll demographics show that the fastest growing group of voters in America has been those making over $100,000 a year in income.\u2019 Well, now, hell\u2019s bells, folks! What does that tell you about all this rigmarole we\u2019ve been hearing for six years about how rotten the economy is? We\u2019ve been living in soup line America, they\u2019ve been telling us. People are losing their jobs, having to choose between dog food, cat food, and real food; and medicine. <\/p>\n

They\u2019ve been talking recession, recession, recession for six years. They have been talking gas price up, people being laid off, people can\u2019t afford to drive as much. You remember all these stories. It was relentless for six years, and yet, now, in the exit polling data, the fastest growing group of voters in America has been those making over a hundred thousand dollars a year. That is superb news, and it\u2019s happened in the Bush economy. ‘We gotta change these policies,\u2019 Obama says. ‘We gotta get rid of these policies.\u2019 ‘The failed policies of the past eight years,\u2019 they say. Yet look at all of this increase in income. Get this: ‘In 1996, only 9 percent of the electorate said their family income was that high. Last week it had grown to 26 percent — more than one in four voters. And those making over $75,000 are up to 15 percent from 9 percent. Put another way, more than 40 percent of those voting earned over $75,000, making this the highest-income electorate in history.\u2019<\/p>\n

Now, speaking for myself, this is fabulous. I love hearing this. This is great news, and I\u2019m not surprised. The Bush economy, like the Reagan economy: lowering people\u2019s taxes was superb for people, and the economy was roaring for this to be the case. We kept hearing about the failed Bush policies of the last eight years and how we gotta go in there and change all of this, ‘And by God, we\u2019re going to change it and these numbers of people growing their income…\u2019 It ain\u2019t going to happen. Those people now are going to face Obama\u2019s new tax increases, folks. This is going to be choked off; this is going to be shut down. ‘The poorest segment of the electorate, those making under $15,000, has shrunk from 11 percent to 6 percent over the past dozen years. And those making $15,000 to $30,000 annually — the working poor — also shrunk from 23 percent to 12 percent of the electorate.\u2019 Do you realize the magnitude of these numbers? The poor got richer, everybody got richer, but they were ‘the failed policies of the last eight years.\u2019 The failed policies of the last eight years, and the media jumping right along, trying to convince you while you were doing great — while you were doing well, while you were upwardly mobile — that somehow it wasn\u2019t real. It wasn\u2019t happening because not everybody was and you had to be feeling guilty about it. <\/p>\n

Journalistic malpractice mouthing the talking points of the Democrat Party, smearing the president, smearing the economy, smearing the military, smearing the United States of America for six years. But I have one more observation about this, and then we\u2019ll take a break and get to your phone calls. This group, the rise of the new elite class of voters, all these people now making more than 75, all these people now making more than a hundred, this would seem, ladies and gentlemen — I say this happily so — to undermine the pseudo-intellectual conservatives on our side who are arguing that all conservative appeals must be to the middle class. Rebuilding the conservative movement, the Republican Party is going to be a challenge. It\u2019s going to be an epic battle and we\u2019ve got people on our side who think we have missed the boat because we\u2019re not targeting Hispanics; we\u2019re not targeting Wal-Mart voters. We\u2019re not targeting the middle class, and we\u2019re not targeting them the right way. We actually have people calling themselves conservatives who say what we need to do is just be like Democrats but not as bad. We need to go to these voters and tell them what we, running government, are going to do for them, middle class voters — Wal-Mart voters, whatever the categorizations these intellectuals on our side are talking about. When in fact, everybody is more upwardly mobile than anybody knew! <\/p>\n

This whole business of class politics, it gets confusing. You know, it makes me want to just abandon all this class politics. I hate identity politics and I hate class politics, because we are all Americans. I don\u2019t like, ‘We gotta go out and get the Hispanics, though, Rush.\u2019 There\u2019s a way to get Hispanics. We can get African-Americans. We can get women. We can get everybody with a set of core principles that we do not abandon that benefit everybody regardless the damned color of their skin or their gender! We\u2019re all Americans, for crying out loud. And now we got people on our side who want to get into class politics and identity politics and come up with a portion of our agenda that targets this group (say it\u2019s Hispanics) or this group (say it\u2019s the working poor) or gotta go get this group: one-armed amputees on West 14th Street in The Village. I mean, however they want to get this down pat, we gotta go do it. Wrong. Wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong. Broad principles that apply across the board: conservatism, liberty, capitalism, free markets, property rights, national security. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s not tough. But I\u2019ll tell you, until a leader emerges in the arena of electoral politics, we\u2019re going to have all these pseudo-intellectuals on our side wandering all over the countryside telling us they\u2019ve got the brilliant answer to what went wrong — and let me tell you something. Their <\/emphasize>candidate is who lost! Their ideas, these pseudo-intellectuals on our side. McCain made every move possible for Hispanics, right? Did he get them? He did not. They don\u2019t even have the guts — these people on our side, do not even have the guts — to stand up and say, ‘Okay, my candidate didn\u2019t work and my ideas didn\u2019t work.\u2019 Because these pseudo-intellectuals who want to get into class politics and look at Americans like liberals do and see a group there and a group there and a group there; and come up with a government plan for that group, a government plan for that group. <\/p>\n

They got that campaign, and we saw what happened to it — and the tragic thing is we could have beaten Obama. Obama could have been beat. You look at the percentage of Republicans who stayed home. Have you seen that in the exit polls? There\u2019s so much to mine from these exit polls. Twenty percent of conservatives voted Obama. The same percentage of Republicans, but a lot of Republicans just stayed home. This was not a record-turnout election. We had people calling here throughout the campaign, ‘I don\u2019t care what you say, Rush, I\u2019m staying home. I\u2019m so mad; I\u2019m not voting for any of them. I can\u2019t vote for Obama. I\u2019m not voting for the Republicans,\u2019 and they stayed home. Which is tragic. Obama could have been beaten. None of this need have happened. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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