RUSH: I’m gonna break this down in even more detail as the program unfolds. Lugar has issued a very lengthy and quite telling statement. Lugar is comparing his defeat to the end of reason, the end of the Republican Party, the end of compromise, the end of people working together. Lugar is saying that his defeat is a bad thing. It is gonna lead to partisanship and rancor.
It’s gonna lead to the end. The Senate is gonna descend now. It’s not gonna be nearly the august body it has been. Not because he’s not there. He’s not that kind of an ego guy. It’s clear he’s a moderate, establishment guy who doesn’t want to argue with anybody about anything. He’s not a conservative, and he’s part of Republican establishment that thinks conservatives are the problem, not Democrats.
There’s a headline from the Associated Press, dateline Washington. Kasie Hunt is the authoress. The headline says it all: “Primaries Reflect Conservative Enthusiasm for 2012.” This was not what they were expecting to write today. I guarantee you. I think maybe down deep (in parts of their bodies and their minds that they seldom really tap into), they know. They know the country doesn’t want any more of them. They know the country doesn’t want any more of Obama.
But they’ve got the media on their side. They read the media every day; they watch television every day. They live in a world where an entirely fraudulent picture of this country is presented every day, and they end up believing it. So in part they are shocked and surprised. Richard Lugar has lived in the Washington suburbs since 1977, since he was elected to the Senate. He doesn’t have a residence in Indiana.
That’s what I call REAL inside the Beltway.
But even so — even so, ladies and gentlemen — we probably have to admit that Dick Lugar is more of an Indianan than Elizabeth Warren is an Indian, even though he’s not got a residence there.
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RUSH: So the big news yesterday was two things. The evidence that the Tea Party is alive and kicking and ready to make 2012 look just like 2010. Because that’s what yesterday was. Yesterday was the continuation of the 2010 midterm elections. The Democrats in some places, Democrat voters, launched a war on Obama. The Democrats did not turn out in Wisconsin, despite millions of dollars spent by unions.
Republicans turned out in greater numbers to vote for Scott Walker when they didn’t need to. He wasn’t challenged. There was no reason for Republicans to show up whatsoever. Why did they, then? Why did more people vote for Scott Walker yesterday in Wisconsin than the two Democrats (who are in a very heated contest) combined? The answer is simple: Republicans are waiting to be unleashed! Conservatives, more specifically, are fed up. Conservatives are fit to be tied.
They’re angry as how they’re being portrayed in the media. They’re angry at how Obama’s being propped up. They’re angry at the lack of truth being reported about their country. They can’t wait to show up and show the rest of the country what’s really going on. They can’t wait to prove who they are and who this country is. That’s why Republican turnout’s through it roof. That’s why conservative turnout is through the roof.
People love their country, and this is how they show it. This is how they answer all the lies, the misrepresentations, all of the faux journalism that’s taking place. “Okay, you want some reality? Here’s an election. Take this!”