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RUSH: Now, in this Washington Post story about the sweeping Republican victory<\/a>, there is a warning paragraph to all of us. There\u2019s Ron Fournier. Ron Fournier… Because Matt Bevin was elected governor, Ron Fournier is in sheer panic today. Well, because Hillary\u2019s not doing well. Her trust issues are way down. People don\u2019t like her, people don\u2019t trust her, and he thinks the Democrats are making the mistake that Hillary can beat anybody just \u2019cause she\u2019s Hillary, just \u2019cause she\u2019s a Clinton, just \u2019cause she\u2019s got a Democrat with a (D) next to her name on the ballot.<\/p>\n

And he\u2019s worried that there\u2019s active dislike for her and that it\u2019s not a slam dunk and automatic, and he\u2019s been leading the crusade against her in terms of honesty and trust. But I\u2019m telling you, this outcome yesterday has shell-shocked a lot of these people on the left, media and otherwise, for a number of reasons. A, that it happened. But you can\u2019t leave out the fact that their own polling predicted none of it was gonna happen. So they are discombobulated and bamboozled on at least two different levels.<\/p>\n

Which takes me to the warning paragraph here in the Washington Post story, and it may have some merit. “Turnout was VERY low across the country. Republicans could over interpret the results at their own peril.” So, you see, whenever the Republicans win, it\u2019s really not legit. These off-year elections, they don\u2019t mean anything! That\u2019s why you never hear about how badly the Democrats do in them, folks, \u2019cause as far as the Drive-Bys are concerned, “Off-year, midterm elections, what are we talking about? Dogcatcher here? It doesn\u2019t matter. <\/line><\/p>\n

“All that matters is that we\u2019re in the White House doing executive orders and screw you! Everything else, we can manage. We got the judges. We got everything else to fix whatever else goes wrong. So screw you!” That\u2019s their attitude. As long as they have got the White House. If they could get the Senate back, they would be in Fat City. (interruption) Well… (interruption) Well, the enthusiasm… (interruption) Yeah, but, see, the enthusiasm gap, I think the Republicans misunderstand. They better be careful because the enthusiasm is not for them! <\/p>\n

I\u2019m talking about Republicans as defined by Washington Republicans. The enthusiasm is not for them. The enthusiasm is for Matt Bevin. No, no, no. Don\u2019t misunderstand. But this is also, starting in 2010 and again in 2014, anti-Obama on parade. This is a full-fledged rejection of the Democrat Party, of its ideology and of its president. That\u2019s what\u2019s going on. I don\u2019t care about turnout. They had an election, and people showed up and voted, and among those who voted, the Democrats got skunked. <\/p>\n

Now, the Democrats can rewrite that any way they want to make themselves feel better. But the results are real. They have lost seats galore. Republicans hold two-thirds of state legislatures in bicameral legislatures, two-thirds of the governorships or more. Statehouses = Grassroots. This is big. This is why it\u2019s all the more amazing to note that the Washington Republicans continue to do business with Obama. The Washington Republicans are continuing to prop him up, and yet Republican voters all over the country are saying, “Stop it!<\/p>\n

“Stop him! Stop the Democrats and stop what you\u2019re doing.” Now, this warning paragraph in the Washington Post: “Republicans could over interpret the results at their own peril.” So don\u2019t feel all that hot about this win, \u2019cause it really doesn\u2019t mean anything, \u2019cause the turnout wasn\u2019t very big. The presidential election\u2019s exactly one year away. That\u2019ll have dramatically larger and much more diverse turnout. That\u2019s when we get our illegals voting and that\u2019s we pay our union people to go pick people up off the street and get them to the polls, and that\u2019s when you don\u2019t have a chance. <\/p>\n

And all of that “works against the GOP. Serious structural problems persist: the Grand Old Party is still too white, too male and too old. Hillary Clinton\u2019s political director, Amanda Renteria, tweeted a photo of a ‘Vote Here\u2019 sign overnight and wrote: ‘Wish more people did this today.'”<\/p>\n

Meaning: The turnout was low, not enough people voted, and the Republicans won. But you\u2019re not in Fat City! You people are still too white, you\u2019re too male, and you\u2019re too old. Do they ever write of the Democrat Party deficiencies and problems after they win?<\/p>\n

It\u2019s amazing. And then they say, “There were also some bright spots for the left on an otherwise dark night: In a stinging rebuke of Chris Christie, undercutting one of his rationales for seeking the presidency, New Jersey voters ousted at least three Republicans from the state Assembly. Alexander Burns in the New York Times<\/a>: ‘Republicans had hoped to build on Mr. Christie\u2019s political successes and cut into the Democratic majority in the chamber, where Democrats currently hold 48 of the 80 seats. Instead, the election became a sharp reality check for allies of the governor, who only two years ago won re-election by a towering margin.” <\/line><\/p>\n

So the Democrats are being told by the Washington Post, “Hey, it\u2019s not all bad. We really skunked Christie in New Jersey,” and they think that\u2019s a bright spot for the left. It\u2019s also an eye-opener for Republicans, is it not? And if you don\u2019t understand, think about it. I can\u2019t be expected to spell everything out here. Otherwise you\u2019d be come intellectually dependent and I don\u2019t want that. Back to the audio sound bites here. Carol Costello, this morning on CNN\u2019s Newsroom, had a guest here.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s WDRB Eyewitness News TV media columnist John David Dyche, and they\u2019re discussing an op-ed that Dyche wrote comparing Matt Bevin to Donald Trump. That really worries them, because you can find various pieces in the media today saying, “Oh, my God! This Bevin guy, do you realize what else he did? He tied himself to Trump! Do you know what that means? That means that Trump was a factor in his win! Oh, my God.” ‘Cause they still don\u2019t think Trump is real. They still don\u2019t think Trump\u2019s real. They don\u2019t think Ben Carson\u2019s real. They don\u2019t think either of those two people are serious or even gonna be around. So Carol Costello and Dyche have this little discussion about the Trumpster\u2019s impact, if any.<\/p>\n

COSTELLO: You wrote this op-ed calling Mr. Bevin Kentucky\u2019s Donald Trump. Do you really believe Kentucky voters elected Bevin on bluster?<\/p>\n

DYCHE: Not just on bluster. Bevin does have some good ideas. But the fact remains that he contradicted himself frequently on the campaign trail and he did resemble Donald Trump in a lot of ways during the campaign. Bevin never closely embraced the establishment. He didn\u2019t operate off the usual political script. He was saying things that would have been considered outrageous from more conventional candidates, and he used a lot of his own money.<\/p>\n