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RUSH: We\u2019ve had a number of people say, ‘You know, Rush, we gotta be very careful. We gotta stick to opposing Obama on the grounds of policy. He\u2019s a popular guy. I mean, everybody likes him. He\u2019s a warm guy.\u2019<\/p>\n

He is not! Everybody doesn\u2019t like him. We\u2019re tying our hands behind our backs, all kinds of self-imposed limitations when we tell ourselves this. Byron York has a great piece today in the DC Examiner. It\u2019s about the Republican presidential field and how ‘weak\u2019 it is, and not only how weak the Republican presidential field is but how timid those in the field are, as though they just don\u2019t really think it\u2019s even right to campaign against Obama. We gotta tiptoe here, for whatever various reasons. He\u2019s really unbeatable, he\u2019s really great. At this stage Obama\u2019s really unbeatable. The economy is gonna come back.<\/p>\n

Byron York says, well, let\u2019s go back to 1991, shall we? In 1991, George H. W. Bush had a 90% approval number coming out of the Gulf War — and what happened? It\u2019s almost identical. Back in 1991, leading into the \u201992 presidential year, I could go back and I could probably get sound bites of me from my own program back then saying, looking at the Democrat field, ‘Man, the lightweights here. None of the Democrat heavyweights want to even take a run at this. The Democrat heavyweights want no part of this. I mean, it\u2019s a guaranteed losing proposition.\u2019 We all thought that. Ninety percent approval coming out of the Gulf War? <\/p>\n

It was almost identical to what\u2019s happening today. The Democrat field back then was looked at as a bunch of pansies. But there was one guy in that field that was the Energizer Bunny who didn\u2019t get the memo. He kept plugging away and plugging away and plugging away, and even after he got shellacked in debates and he got shellacked here and there, and losing here and there — he\u2019s getting all kinds of embarrassing stories about Whitewater in the New York Times — they just kept plugging away, Bill Clinton and Hillary out there. Then Perot surfaces and all bets are off and we all know what happened.<\/p>\n

So the analogy is: We got a guy with a 48% approval rating who is not all that likable. He\u2019s not all that warm and cuddly. He\u2019s not coming off of any singular policy success anywhere, and our side says he\u2019s unbeatable? ‘And furthermore, he\u2019s so unbeatable that we don\u2019t dare talk about him. He\u2019s so loved and popular, we don\u2019t dare talk about him. No, no! We gotta stay focused on policy. That\u2019s right! We gotta make sure that we don\u2019t offend anybody, being too critical of the beloved Obama! The independents will run away from us.\u2019 So we\u2019re tying our hands behind our backs. We got ourselves tagged as losers before the thing even starts, ignoring histoire as it\u2019s plainly viewable. So we\u2019ll get into that in detail. <\/p>\n

Yes, I\u2019ve got the sound bites. (Thanks, Joe babe.) I\u2019ve got the sound bites of the meeting with NPR<\/a>. Judging by my e-mail, everybody has heard those. We\u2019ll get to it in due course. Your phone calls as well. Snerdley, you didn\u2019t hear me because you were busy screening. There\u2019s another reason I knew they wouldn\u2019t close Gitmo. They need some sizable prison to put all of us in someday, and what better place than out of the country? Do you remember…? Speaking of Obama\u2019s belovedness, (gushing) ‘The be-lov-eeeeeed! Oh, he\u2019s so warm and cuddly and so unique, so special!\u2019 Do you remember, for example, all of these things happening? <\/p>\n

(playing of spoof) <\/p>\n

RUSH: All right, that\u2019s enough. That\u2019s enough. That was one of many examples that we were treated to almost regularly the first year of the regime. In high schools, junior high schools all in the country, kids were singing to Obama, wearing uniforms for Obama. ‘Barack Hussein Obama! Mmmm! Mmmm! Mmmm!\u2019 Well, guess what, folks? ‘An internal White House memo that the White House is facing a shortage of applications less than a week before the deadline.\u2019 ‘Applications for what?\u2019 you might be asking. Applications that equal requests for commencement speech by the president. There is a shortage of requests from high schools all over the country asking Obama to be the commencement speaker. <\/p>\n

There is a shortage! ‘The internal White House memo indicates the White House is facing this shortage of applications less than a week before the deadline that the schools face. The competition was extended from the February 25th deadline until March 11th, after few schools met the original application deadline. CBS News has learned that a White House communications office internal memo dated February 22 noted a major issue with the commencement challenge,\u2019 which is a problem. They let people enter a contest. (interruption) Rio Linda has a chance to get Obama to be their commencement speaker. Absolutely right.<\/p>\n

‘A follow-up memo on February 28th reported the receipt of 68 applications, noting the competition among more than 1,000 schools last year,\u2019 down to 68 this year. ‘The memo said, ‘Something isn\u2019t working,\u2019 and called on staffers to ask friendly congressional gubernatorial or mayoral offices to encourage the schools to apply. ‘We should also make sure the cabinet is pushing the competition out to their lists,\u2019 the memo said.\u2019 So last year more than a thousand schools requested Obama to come in and speak; 68 this year. But, ‘Folks, he\u2019s unbeatable! He\u2019s lovable. He\u2019s well liked, a smooth guy. You know, it\u2019s a mistake here to get personal with Obama. We gotta keep it focused on policy.\u2019 <\/p>\n

Yeah, Barack Obama, folks, ‘winning the future\u2019 with higher gas prices. Winning the future! That\u2019s been the slogan: Winning the future with what? Higher gas prices! Winning the future with higher health insurance premiums. Winning the future with higher budget deficits. Winning the future with more public sector unions. Winning the future with fewer private sector jobs. Winning the future by ignoring federal court rulings. And, of course, nonstop smears against anybody who objects to this agenda! So here we have the ‘audacity\u2019 of Barack Obama saying he\u2019s ‘winning the future.\u2019 Is mind-boggling. I\u2019ll tell you, Barack Obama and Charlie Sheen are giving ‘winning\u2019 a bad name. Well, Sheen\u2019s out there saying he\u2019s winning, too. Sheen says he\u2019s winning the future. So does Obama. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: The last caller that we had yesterday, nice guy, as all of our callers are. ‘What would you expect from paid actors?\u2019 You know, I gotta be careful with this or they\u2019re gonna purposely take me outta context. But, anyway, it does no good, folks. It does no good to tell us to be nice about Obama personally \u2019cause that\u2019s how Reagan did it. You know, people are confusing the way Reagan is remembered now with the way Reagan was treated at the time. Folks, Ronald Reagan was despised. He was hated every bit as much as George W. Bush, every bit as much as me, anybody today that\u2019s vilified by the left. They accused Reagan of actually creating AIDS \u2019cause he didn\u2019t talk about it. They caused Reagan of creating homelessness. They said Reagan\u2019s elections were a triumph of selfishness and greed. They accused Reagan of sneaking out of the White House at night, going across the street to Lafayette Park and stealing the pork and beans cans from homeless people, going back to the White House, eating \u2019em up and being happy about it. They portrayed Reagan as a venomous hatemonger. <\/p>\n

So now that Reagan is dead and can\u2019t undermine \u2019em anymore they think it\u2019s to their advantage to paint him as some nice guy so they can use the comparison to make Bush and Palin and me and so forth look bad. Reagan was the model conservative they\u2019re saying now. Some of them will say it about Mr. Buckley. Some of them say it about Reagan. ‘Reagan\u2019s a nice guy. We need to go back and look at Reagan.\u2019 I\u2019m sure you\u2019ve heard \u2019em say this, ‘Reagan, at the end of the day went over and had a beer with Tip O\u2019Neill, they put it all aside, not like Palin today and not like Limbaugh and not like Bush and Rove.\u2019 It\u2019s all fake. It\u2019s all historical. If Reagan were around today, Reagan would be harsh about Obama. Reagan wouldn\u2019t put up for a moment with what Obama\u2019s doing. You go back and look at Reagan\u2019s words, look at Reagan\u2019s speeches, the \u201964 Barry Goldwater speech, he would not put up with this. Ronald Reagan wouldn\u2019t be passing jelly beans around here to Obama like they would have you believe. He\u2019d be a gentleman about it, don\u2019t misunderstand, he was a decent guy, but he would not mince words. <\/p>\n

What I\u2019m saying is we can\u2019t be afraid of who they say Obama is. You know, even the geniuses on our side, they want to keep this as a policy-only disagreement because they think that Obama\u2019s personally popular in the sense that he polls higher than his policies do. But even so, he\u2019s at 48% approval, but he is personally popular. You know, it\u2019s like what came first, the chicken or the egg? Obama is personally popular precisely because he\u2019s personally off-limits. There\u2019s not a person in the world that\u2019s got the guts to tell the truth about Obama, from the media to our side, for whatever reason, either the first black president or we think we\u2019re gonna get creamed by being critical. So there isn\u2019t any real examination of who Obama is as a guy. Well, there is for me. <\/p>\n

You know, this notion he\u2019s some warm, nice guy we just happen to disagree with. Wrong. This is a cold man. This is not even cool. This guy is cold. He\u2019s arrogant. He\u2019s uber-calculating. He\u2019s the kind of person most people don\u2019t like when they meet him. Rove described him. He\u2019s the guy at the country club at the cocktail party standing in the corner with the good-looking girl, the drink, and the cigarette, passing judgment on everybody going by, not deigning to talk to \u2019em. Good family man, they say. Why would his personal approval ratings go down much when there\u2019s nobody going after him like they did Bush, like they did Reagan? Nobody\u2019s driving down his negatives like they did Bush. Nobody\u2019s driving down his negatives like they do me, like they do Palin. So we sit here, ‘Oh, he\u2019s immensely popular.\u2019 We don\u2019t know that. You all believed him when he said he was gonna close Gitmo. No way. Sometimes I grow weary of saying don\u2019t doubt me. If I had a weaker backbone I\u2019d be so depressed, I don\u2019t know what I would do. Nobody believes me. It\u2019s right out there in the open for one and all to see. If I had a weaker constitution, I\u2019d say, ‘What is it about me that people –‘ and then I remember it\u2019s nothing about me. It\u2019s all about what some people want or don\u2019t want to see, no matter what kind of truth they are told. <\/p>\n

Barack Obama went a couple of years without having a single meeting with Republican leadership. His only early meeting with the Republican caucus, right after he was immaculated, he said, ‘Don\u2019t listen to Limbaugh. That\u2019s not how things get done here.\u2019 And then when one of them said, ‘Why don\u2019t you think about tax cuts?\u2019 ‘Well, fine, but I won, you lost, deal with it.\u2019 This is not a nice guy. Reagan, O\u2019Neill, after work go have a beer? Does anybody want to go have a beer with Obama after work? They had to drag that cop from Cambridge down to the beer summit with good old Skipper Gates. But Obama\u2019s not a nice guy. The media painted Reagan as this nut job while he was president. Obama\u2019s portrayed as personally popular. It\u2019s remarkable. And it\u2019s worked. It\u2019s worked. Our guys, ‘Rush, we gotta keep it on policy. Obama\u2019s a likable guy, very much loved.\u2019 I said no. No, no, no. <\/p>\n

They attacked Gingrich\u2019s past. They attacked Palin. They attacked her kids. That\u2019s why it\u2019s so grates on me when I hear Republicans echo what these people say about Palin. I can\u2019t tell you how angry that makes me. People on my team echo this nonsense that they say about Sarah Palin. She\u2019s got more courage and more bravery in her little finger than our presidential field has. And yet they talk about her as an idiot. The same thing with poor Michele Bachmann. The gonads on our team happen to be wearing skirts. Anyway, Obama\u2019s immune from all this. Don\u2019t ask about his past; don\u2019t ask about his grades; don\u2019t ask about his medical history; don\u2019t ask about his drug use. Don\u2019t ask about anything. All of that\u2019s irrelevant. Gingrich, the others, Palin, I don\u2019t care, dig, dig, dig, dig. The sad thing is the geniuses on our side fall right in line with all that.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Look what they did to Clarence Thomas. Look what they\u2019re doing even now to Clarence Thomas. Look, it never ends. Whoever the left perceives to be at the top rank on our side it\u2019s full speed ahead in the politics of personal destruction. Fine and dandy, we know they do that. It just infuriates me when people on our side sign onto it when it suits \u2019em. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: So Obama\u2019s personal life is none of our business. Obama\u2019s past is none of our business. Obama\u2019s promises don\u2019t matter; Obama\u2019s policies don\u2019t matter (unless they could be spun in his favor). All the focus, all the attacks must be on whomever his opponent is. It\u2019s not just the terms of the debate and the premise that the left and a lot of the fools on our side accept — Obama personally off-limits, Republicans personally fair game — but it\u2019s the same thing when it comes to the issues. Liberal media do the same thing. <\/p>\n

We got a rotten economy? Blame it on Bush! <\/p>\n

Rising gas prices? Blame it on Khadafy! <\/p>\n

Poor old Obama can\u2019t close Gitmo? Blame it on the Republican Congress! <\/p>\n

Et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. I\u2019ve been sick of it for I don\u2019t know how long. How do I know he\u2019s lying when he say he\u2019s gonna includes Club Gimo? It\u2019s \u2019cause he\u2019s a liberal, socialist, Marxist, whatever the hell. They all lie. Their foundation is a series of lies. I mean we all know these are the people who can\u2019t dare be honest about their true intentions. They wouldn\u2019t win one election in this country, outside of San Francisco, maybe Boston and New York.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yes, siree Bob, Obama\u2019s so popular we have this story from Roll Call: ”Fears Grow as Obama Hits Trail\u2019 — On the same day that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) was taking steps to jump-start bipartisan talks to avert a government shutdown, President Barack Obama was in Florida trying to jump-start something else: his 2012 re-election campaign. While there may be 609 days to go until the presidential election, Obama has already begun reverting to campaign mode — and some Democrats are starting to worry that their most important ally won\u2019t be there when they need him the most on Capitol Hill.\u2019 Hey, he\u2019s never been there. It\u2019s always been about him. <\/p>\n

‘The president has made noticeable overtures in the past week to remind people that he is as much the commander in chief as he is a candidate up for re-election: Tonight, Obama is heading a Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee dinner with House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) in Boston; on Friday, he headlined separate fundraisers in Miami for Sen. Bill Nelson (D-Fla.) and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. During those events, he ticked off his accomplishments from the past two years and said his supporters were the reason he has seen success.\u2019 Some people, though, people on our side think he might be unbeatable, personally popular. <\/p>\n

And yet: ‘West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin is planning to rip President Barack Obama on his budget proposals in a Senate floor speech Tuesday, a rare rebuke from a freshman Democrat who clearly is worried about the politics of deficit spending … Manchin says the president has failed to lead the way in reducing spending, but he\u2019s also criticizing Republicans for ‘partisan\u2019 and ‘unrealistic\u2019 budget proposals as well,\u2019 yada yada yada. But still ripping into Obama. So loved and so popular, so unbeatable. Forty-eight percent approval rating. If he\u2019s so popular, how come five Democrats are quitting? Might be more, five Democrat senators are splitting the scene, flying the coop. And they got a lot of seats they have to defend in 2012 to boot. So again, it\u2019s just more conventional wisdom that isn\u2019t true. Universally popular, universally loved, unbeatable. Our side seems to be believing this. Their side doesn\u2019t. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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