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RUSH: Quick. How many of you have heard the name Bob McDonnell? Quick. If you haven\u2019t heard of him, he was the governor of Virginia for a few years. I have to tell you, I had no idea he was a threat to Hillary Clinton. I didn\u2019t even know that McDonnell was planning on running for president. But he must be doing something because the Democrats, after he\u2019s left office, have indicted him out there. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: I\u2019m gonna tell you what\u2019s really going on with this. And I don\u2019t mean to make light of charges. I mean, here\u2019s what\u2019s alleged. Bob McDonnell, the recent governor of Virginia and his wife, it is alleged, were given lavish gifts over the years, like a Rolex watch and designer clothes and $140,000 in cash. They also allegedly got free rides on jet airplanes and a joyride in a Ferrari. So these are very serious charges, unless you\u2019re a Democrat, and then this is standard operating procedure. The only thing that didn\u2019t happen here is McDonnell did not go to the Dominican Republic and fall asleep on the beach like Charlie Rangel <\/a>did. I don\u2019t think McDonnell had two offices, one of which was his home, both paid for by the government.<\/p>\n

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I\u2019ll tell you what this is. I was joking. McDonnell\u2019s not seeking the office of president. You know what this is? You gotta keep everything in perspective. You gotta look at this through the prism of the effect or the impact of a story like this on low-information voters. The reason that they went after DeLay, and the reason they\u2019re going after Bob McDonnell is kind of like Saxby Chambliss. If it weren\u2019t for his varicose veins, this would be a totally colorless guy, and yet they\u2019re going after this guy, and the reason is very simple. <\/p>\n

They are charging this guy — noted Republican — by the way, you don\u2019t have any problem seeing the word “Republican” in every story about Bob McDonnell. If he were a Democrat that wouldn\u2019t be in the story. But he\u2019s a Republican and it\u2019s plastered everywhere. The purpose here is to create the image or to further the image that\u2019s already been created that Republicans are corrupt. They\u2019re in powwow situations with the rich. They hang around with rich criminal CEOs, and the rich criminal CEOs give them things in exchange for favorable policy decisions from McDonnell. And that\u2019s what this is. <\/p>\n

<\/a>So he gets indicted, there are the charges, and out there in low-information-ville, the reaction is, “See, these Republicans are just corrupt, just cheats. They\u2019re frauds. They hang around with the rich. They screw us and they don\u2019t care.” That\u2019s why they do it. If he\u2019s convicted or not, irrelevant. The mission, essentially, here is already accomplished. If you\u2019re a Democrat, on the other hand, all this would be chalked up to run-of-the-mill crony capitalism. I mean, did anybody go to jail over Whitewater? I mean, any politician? How about Cattlegate? Hillary gave 10 grand to Robert “Red” Bone, and it turned into a hundred grand in the cattle futures market, the pig futures, whatever, and she said (paraphrasing), “Well, I read the Wall Street Journal, that\u2019s how I learned to do that.” Oh, okay. That explains it. <\/p>\n

How about all the various Clinton foundations? How about any of Obama\u2019s kickback schemes? You want to talk about kickback schemes, how about every green energy deal that Obama has been involved in? Which is nothing more than Democrat Party money laundering. How about Michelle\u2019s no-show job at the Chicago hospital, $357,000 a year just to show — well, she did show up now and then to come up with plans to encourage the poor not to use that hospital. I\u2019m not making it up. Not making it up. So the purpose here is to simply further the image, the brand of the Republicans as cheats, associates of the rich, corrupt, stealing from the poor, in bed with the corrupt rich, that kind of thing. And the indictment coming after he leaves office. <\/p>\n

Let\u2019s keep in mind, by the way, too — this is very important to point out — that while in office, the conservative, McDonnell, did his best to be bipartisan and to reach across the aisle<\/a>, and we see all the good that it did him. Now, if this stuff is true, this is literally stupid. Accepting a Rolex watch and $140,000 in cash? How dumb do you have to be to do that? I mean, all he would have had to do was wait \u2019til after he served, is out of office. <\/p>\n

If he wanted to start raking in the big bucks, he could have started a foundation, started giving speeches for whatever, $30,000 (I don\u2019t know what the going rate is), and really started selling his influence the old fashioned way, the Clinton way: After you\u2019re out of office. Sell access afterwards, the lobbyist-type stuff. But this is chump change. What is the potential jail time here? It\u2019s big if he gets convicted. <\/p>\n

A joyride in a Ferrari is a political crime. What about Bob Menendez<\/a>, the senator from New Jersey? How many free trips on private jets did he take down to essentially whorehouses in the Dominican or whatever was going on down there? Illicit women on the premises, wherever he was. We\u2019re just told, “Well, nothing to see here! I mean, Menendez is a nice guy. He\u2019s pro-choice and cares about the poor so there\u2019s nothing to see.” <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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