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RUSH: We have a 15-year-old on the phone from Hayward, Wisconsin. James, I\u2019m glad you called, great to have you on the program.<\/p>\n

<\/a>CALLER: Hi, Rush. I\u2019ve been listening to your show as long as I can remember. I\u2019m 15 years old, so I guess that would make me an official Rush Baby.<\/p>\n

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

CALLER: Yeah. Now, I live in Northern Wisconsin in a very low populated area, so it\u2019s hard for me to go out in public and actually do something. But now that liberal Democrats are on the run after Republican victories in Virginia, New Jersey, and Massachusetts, I\u2019m wondering what I can do as a 15-year-old boy in Wisconsin to help keep the pressure up and to help protect the future and also my country\u2019s future.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah. Your question about how to protect your future is a brilliant and great question. I have an answer for you, but first while you were on hold here, did you just hear this last sound bite I played from President Obama?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I can\u2019t remember.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You\u2019re probably nervous out there —<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah.<\/p>\n

RUSH: — knowing you\u2019re next. Let me play the sound bite for you again because this will preface what I\u2019m going to say to you. This is President Obama and a reporter says, ‘But Mr. President, small business say the uncertainty of their future because of your health care plan and cap and trade –‘ meaning the cost of doing business, ‘– they don\u2019t know what it is. And that\u2019s why they\u2019re not hiring and expanding.\u2019 And here the president tells them they\u2019re dead wrong, they don\u2019t know what they\u2019re talking about. <\/p>\n

OBAMA: The small businesses I\u2019ve talked to and I\u2019ve been talking to a lot of them as I have been traveling around the country, their biggest problem is right now they can\u2019t get credit out of their banks, so they\u2019re uncertain about that, and they\u2019re still uncertain about orders. You know, do they just have enough customers to justify them doing more? It\u2019s looking better at this point, but that\u2019s not the rationale for people saying I\u2019m not hiring. Let me put it this way. Most small businesses right now, if they\u2019ve got enough customers to make a profit and they can get the bank loans required to boost their payroll, boost their inventory and sell to those customers, they will do so.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, James, the sheer ignorance of that is breathtaking. So I\u2019m going to give you an answer that\u2019s simple and you\u2019re going to think, ‘Well, Rush is not taking me seriously, especially since I can\u2019t vote.\u2019 But I\u2019m going to tell you what, your future and everybody else\u2019s future in this country is dependent on liberals and Democrats being voted out of power. If that doesn\u2019t happen, then you face even larger obstacles. If you want to work towards something — I know you can\u2019t vote yet, but you can work for people who want to reassert themselves in power positions over Democrats, win office or what have you. Believe me, the biggest threat that you face as a 15-year-old is the debt, the taxes that you haven\u2019t even begun to pay yet because you haven\u2019t started working, but President Obama has spent, and the Democrats. You are starting so deep in the hole as is everybody your age. You don\u2019t know it yet — well, maybe you do. You\u2019re a Rush Baby. You probably do. But the first and foremost thing, as evidenced by this last sound bite, we have got to get people who are trying to destroy the very place that your success resides, and that\u2019s the American private sector, they are trying to destroy it, they are in the process of taking as much opportunity away from people as possible. The thing that will secure your future is having these people thrown out of power at the ballot box by the American people every election in the future for the foreseeable future. Their time is done and they have to go.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: I want to expand on the 15-year-old James from upper Wisconsin: What can he do to secure his future? As a Rush Baby, he\u2019s way ahead of the game. He knows a lot of stuff that people his age don\u2019t. So, James, your job is to talk to other people your age. You gotta become the one in your circle of friends that has all the answers. You gotta become the go-to guy whenever there\u2019s confusion or curiosity about something, and you\u2019re perfectly situated to be that guy. People need to learn the history of this country. The Constitution is what made this country great, the greatest country ever. It\u2019s not that hard. Once you learn that you\u2019ll understand what\u2019s being done to tear it down. But there\u2019s a great piece today in the American Thinker. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s by Carol Peracchio. She is a registered nurse, not a professional writer. She\u2019s just a registered nurse. She wrote this piece for the AmericanThinker.com: ‘My husband\u2019s cousin Paulette called me the morning of January 20 from Massachusetts. Breathless with excitement, her words tumbling out so fast I could barely keep up, she recounted the joy of Scott Brown\u2019s win in the special election to the US Senate. Paulette is 66 years old. She and her husband are retired. She has an active social life, which includes lots of friends and competitive amateur tennis. She babysits her granddaughter and checks on her 92-year-old father in Florida every day. She told me she\u2019d never been politically active, ‘except for voting, of course.\u2019 But all that changed after Barack Obama\u2019s election. Paulette started watching FOX News and listening to Rush Limbaugh. Health care reform, with its 500-billion-dollar Medicare cuts, scared her out of her wits. <\/p>\n

‘When she learned I write articles for AT, mostly about health care, she started calling me periodically last summer. We\u2019d commiserate on how discouraging it was that no one in Washington is listening, or even seems to care. Paulette, like so many of us, felt frustrated and helpless. Then Senator Kennedy passed away, and a political activist was born. Paulette described her first meeting with Scott Brown. A friend called one morning in late November to tell her that State Senator Brown was coming to town that day to open a campaign office. ‘I barely had time to throw on clothes. I didn\u2019t care how I looked,\u2019 she told me. She rushed over to the office and signed up that day to work. ‘I told Scott Brown that we are going to win this.\u2019 I asked her how she could be so certain back in November, when absolutely no one out here believed Brown had a chance. <\/p>\n

”I knew we would win because I lived there. I talk to lots of people. I knew how we all felt about what Obama and the Democrats were doing.\u2019 Then she added, ‘I just couldn\u2019t take any more.\u2019 So Paulette went to work. She staffed the office several days per week, answering phones and handing out signs and literature. She knocked on doors all over her neighborhood. She visited shut-ins and helped them request absentee ballots. She helped organize volunteers to drive voters to the polls. Just before Christmas, she called to give me another update. She was off to follow up on some of those absentee ballots. ‘There\u2019s a family down the street that has four. I need to make sure they got mailed.\u2019 Every day when Paulette would drive to the elementary school to pick up her granddaughter, she would stand next to her car and wave her ‘Scott Brown for US Senate\u2019 sign at the passing traffic. <\/p>\n

”I get a few thumbs down,\u2019 she reported, ‘but most people honk their horns and smile.\u2019 When Paulette called me the Friday before the election, she hadn\u2019t a scintilla of doubt that Brown would win. ‘We\u2019re going to do it, Carol!\u2019 she exclaimed. ‘We\u2019re going to stop Obama!\u2019 The polls reflected her optimism. But on the political shows over the weekend, conservatives appeared afraid to be hopeful. More than once I heard it expressed that a Brown win was a long shot. They consoled themselves by saying that even if he lost by a narrow margin, that would be a victory in blue, blue Massachusetts. A loss for Brown wouldn\u2019t be a victory for Paulette, however. To Paulette, victory meant Scott Brown would be senator. Conservative internet forums were just as pessimistic as the TV pundits. Over and over I read comments gloomily describing how Brown would have to win by double digits to overcome the inevitable ACORN and union fraud. <\/p>\n

‘I asked Paulette about it. She laughed it off. ‘We\u2019re going to win,\u2019 she repeated.\u2019 I live here! ‘So on Tuesday night, as Martha Coakley conceded hours, if not days, earlier than the conventional wisdom predicted, I had the feeling that Paulette was the only person who wasn\u2019t surprised. The next morning, I could do nothing but offer my deep gratitude to Paulette and the others in Massachusetts who ‘just couldn\u2019t take any more.\u2019 Scott Brown deserves credit, of course, for fighting an amazing campaign. But I think it\u2019s the Paulettes in Massachusetts who have the most to teach us. Such as: 1. There are a lot of voters out there who agree with us. Poll after poll shows that conservatives make up the largest voting bloc in America. It\u2019s high time we conservatives actually believed it. <\/p>\n

‘2. There is no substitute, absolutely none, for personal, grassroots involvement in campaigns,\u2019 and James, up there in the northern climes of Wisconsin, this is for you: ‘Too many of us want to just ‘mail in\u2019 our support.\u2019 A lot of people think grassroots doesn\u2019t matter. It\u2019s so far removed from Washington, how can it possibly matter? You mean I\u2019m going to stuff envelopes? This advice is absolutely right on the money: There is no substitute, absolutely none, for personal, grassroots involvement in campaigns. … ‘3. Democrat and ACORN fraud cannot overcome a tidal wave of conservative and like-minded independent voters, even in liberal Massachusetts and New Jersey. For far too long we have accepted the inevitability of losing because of Democrat voter fraud. … 4. We have to get involved early. … The time for conservative involvement is yesterday. <\/p>\n

‘Brown\u2019s win taught us that no seat is 100% safe. (My dream is to see that proved again in Barney Frank\u2019s district.) My own congressman is a blue dog Democrat who voted for cap and trade. I wonder if he has any idea what\u2019s in store for him this election year.\u2019 He ought to because I have been telling him! ‘So here\u2019s to you, Paulette, and all your fellow patriots in Massachusetts. I can almost hear our Founders saying, ‘Ya done good!” That\u2019s Carol Peracchio, a registered nurse and contributor to AmericanThinker.com. It\u2019s an anecdotal story involving one voter, but it\u2019s dead on. There is nothing that ACORN and the unions can do to stop a tidal wave, and a tidal wave is what\u2019s brewing. The Democrats, folks, will always tell us what they\u2019re afraid of — Sarah Palin, the tea parties — by telling us that we can\u2019t win with whatever candidate or organization. ‘You gotta get rid of Palin! You gotta get rid of the tea party!\u2019 They\u2019re scared to death. Make no mistake about it. Especially after Virginia, New Jersey, and Massachusetts, they\u2019re back on their heels. The press is not reporting how discombobulated they are. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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