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RUSH: Kate, Carson City, Nevada. Welcome to the EIB Network. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, hello, Rush, dear. How are you doing?<\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019m just dandy. Thank you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019m so glad. You\u2019re so awesome, what you do with that Leukemia Lymphoma drive. You\u2019re such an awesome guy. I just want to say real quickly that that chick that was on Neil Cavuto<\/a>? She\u2019s never fed baseball players. I\u2019ve been doing that for 30 years. They eat more junk and they are so skinny and it drives me nuts. So, anyway, that\u2019s all.<\/p>\n

RUSH: It\u2019s clear she doesn\u2019t know what she\u2019s talking about.<\/p>\n

CALLER: She doesn\u2019t know what she\u2019s talking about. I can\u2019t keep food in those boys. But anyway, the reason I called is because you talked about conservatism and how the conservative mind-set is to challenge people to do their best, be their best, do more than they think they can do. You talked about coaches and teachers and those kind of folks — and they do, absolutely — but I think fundamentally it\u2019s parents, and especially dads, that really push kids to do more and be better than they thought they could be. That\u2019s one of the reasons, not the only reason, that the liberals are hell-bent — and I mean that literally — on destroying the family. It\u2019s because if they can get dad out of the picture, then the government becomes their provider.<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, now, the latter part of what you say there, there\u2019s no question. Liberalism… You know what first put me onto this, too, folks? It wasn\u2019t something I came up with myself. This is years and years ago now. We had a black woman that called, and she was just livid, and she lit into the federal government for destroying the black family, and she laid out how it has happened over the years. She gave a chronological history of it.<\/p>\n

You go back the average black family in Harlem in the sixties and you had kids doing well on test scores, competing with kids from other schools, and it was a whole different family… (interruption) Thomas Sowell does talk about this. It was a whole different family dynamic. Now you\u2019ve got single-parent families, largely single-mother families with the father nowhere to be found, nowhere to be seen. And the government\u2019s come in and taken over, which happens to be just fine with the Democrat Party.<\/p>\n

The Democrat Party, in fact, is trying to… They\u2019ve got a turnout model, folks, for this upcoming election in November targeting single women. They hope to beat back what they think is this Republican juggernaut. They\u2019re gonna be doing all kinds of gonna infuriate you. The process is gonna involve two things. They\u2019re going to try to dissuade Republicans from turning out, depressing you, making you think it\u2019s hopeless or a lost cause.<\/p>\n

“Don\u2019t worry about it. What you think is finished. What you want is over. Your America is gone; yu\u2019ve been defeated.” That\u2019s the kind of marketing campaign they\u2019re gonna have. On the other side of it, they\u2019re gonna be promoting and ballyhooing single mothers as the backbone of America. They clearly benefit from it. So on that score, you\u2019re right — and then the absentee of a father in the home as a motivational and inspirational figure.<\/line><\/p>\n

There\u2019s no question that is a relevant thing. <\/p>\n

I\u2019m glad you called.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, I\u2019m really going back and forth on something, \u2019cause I heard something profound not long ago that I didn\u2019t expect to hear. It could cause problems. ‘Cause every time I\u2019m with people, I assure them whenever we\u2019re talking, if it\u2019s on the golf course, if it\u2019s at dinner, everything\u2019s off the record, don\u2019t worry. I\u2019m never gonna tell people what you said by name. I don\u2019t do it unless you specifically say it\u2019s okay, and even then I won\u2019t probably do it \u2019cause you don\u2019t want the attention that would result from it. <\/p>\n

And just like we had a caller yesterday who said she thought that Hillary\u2019s shoe throwing incident there was staged, that ends up in the news as I said it, not the caller. All over the news today, Politico, USA Today: “Limbaugh says Hillary staged shoe incident.” I didn\u2019t even see it. Anyway, it goes back to what our caller in the last half hour said about busted up families and the absence of fathers. And she was bouncing off, you know, my little riff on the great things about conservatism: self-reliance, rugged individualism, wanting everybody to succeed, teaching people how to do it and the observation that we\u2019ve all met somebody in our lives that somehow showed us that we are capable of more than we thought we were, that we\u2019re better than we think we are. <\/p>\n

Most people have limitations that are self-imposed and “can\u2019t” is an easy word for everybody, and a lot of people think greatness is something they\u2019ll never really aspire to. But more people are capable of it than they know, and a lot of people who are fortunate will run into somebody who will accidentally or purposely demonstrate to you that you are capable of much more than you think you are, that you are better than you think you are. And I happen to think it\u2019s true of most people, frankly. And for some people it\u2019s a coach that gets more out of physically. For some people it\u2019s a teacher. And the woman called to say, “A lot of times, Rush, it\u2019s fathers that do it.” And that\u2019s true. It can\u2019t be denied. <\/p>\n

It reminded me of something I heard some time ago. It\u2019s not recently. I was on the golf course and was with a person of color. And I was just listening to the conversation. And this person of color who is in a prominent position in one of our professional sports was asked, “What do you think the biggest challenge and problem in your sport is?” And this person of color said, “There\u2019s no question, single-mother families. That fact has led to more cultural problems that we have to deal with than anything I could think of.” And I was floored. I was literally floored. And I\u2019m not gonna tell you what sport because I don\u2019t want the Drive-Bys trying to find out who said it, \u2019cause there\u2019s no good that can come of that. But you would know, and you would be pleasantly surprised and appreciative. <\/p>\n

But the point is, when I heard it, it really caught me. It\u2019s the last thing I expected to hear. And I got to thinking about it. You know, gang culture was part of the discussion leading up to it, and a whole discussion of where the country was going. And then since this person happened to be a prominent sports figure, the questions eventually turned in that direction, as a business. And that answer just came out of left field at me, and I\u2019ve been thinking about it more and more, and with the last caller that we had. I read a couple things today — in fact, let me find it. I think I\u2019ve got it here. Yes, it\u2019s a Huffing and Puffington Post and it\u2019s by somebody named Margie Omero: “What You Think You Know About The Midterms Is Wrong.”<\/p>\n

This is a liberal pollster, and a liberal pollster and strategists are debunking the idea that Democrats are counting on single women to win, demographic sense. The purpose of this piece is saying, yeah, the demographics matter, but what everybody forgets is that the message has to be there, otherwise the demographics won\u2019t matter. Now, listen to a couple of pull quotes here. <\/p>\n

“We only need to look at Republicans\u2019 systematic vote suppression efforts to know they agree. And make no mistake, my record on urging Democrats to make their messaging more women-centric is long.” The woman\u2019s claiming credit for this. What vote suppression effort in the world is she talking about? Probably voter ID. So this convoluted left winger thinks that voter ID is about voter suppression. And if we\u2019re trying to suppress the votes of illegal immigrants, then, yeah, may have a point. There isn\u2019t any voter suppression. The dirty little secret is that Republicans don\u2019t know how to turn out their own vote, much less suppress the Democrats. Four million Republicans didn\u2019t vote in 2012 in the presidential election, and this woman\u2019s running around, vote suppression efforts of the Republicans. <\/p>\n

“But there is more to our past success — and failures — than simply getting more women, minorities and young people to the polls. Turnout doesn\u2019t exist in a vacuum, and demographics aren\u2019t destiny. As in the past two midterms, the party with the overall message advantage–not merely a turnout advantage — won decisively. Right now Democrats are far less unpopular than Republicans.” Meaning the Republicans are more unpopular than Democrats. We\u2019re not even talking about popularity. Just the Democrats\u2019 advantage is that the Republicans are despised more, in her view. And so the Democrats hold the advantage in that, they “hold the advantage in party identification, and hold a slight advantage in the generic ballot” No, they don\u2019t. The Republicans hold the advantage in the generic ballot right now. <\/p>\n

<\/a>Anyway, “If Democrats are to stave off tough challenges in November, it\u2019ll need to be because of messaging, not just a secret turnout sauce.” Which means that the message to single women is going to have to be, you just can\u2019t say, “Hey, we\u2019re Democrats, you\u2019re single women, we\u2019re made for each other.” Isn\u2019t gonna work. Her point is, the Democrats are gonna have to have a message. Well, what do you think it\u2019s gonna be? Is it safe to assume that the message is gonna be one of admiration and promotion and you\u2019re the backbone of America. There\u2019s no question that it is. <\/p>\n

When they do that, I just want you to keep in mind that Washingtonian story on the Carneys<\/a>, the modern equivalents of Ozzie and Harriet, Democrats say that\u2019s not possible for you and me. Oh, no, no. The new America is single mothers abandoned by irresponsible predatory men. You wait. That\u2019s how they\u2019re gonna try to do it. This voter suppression thing. Nobody\u2019s ever kept from voting. The biggest problem we have with voting is illegal voting, not too few people voting. People voting once, twice, the dead voting. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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