{"id":14021,"date":"2012-11-07T17:57:40","date_gmt":"2012-11-07T17:57:40","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-11-07T17:57:40","modified_gmt":"2012-11-07T17:57:40","slug":"the_reality_we_face","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2012\/11\/07\/the_reality_we_face\/","title":{"rendered":"The Reality We Face"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: So I got a note today. I got a note from a friend who said, “Rush, yeah, you know, you\u2019re really on the right track here on this prosperity business. Just be patient because when people see that unemployment isn\u2019t getting better, more will question what they believe about Obama\u2019s policies working<\/a>.” Where\u2019s the evidence to believe that? Where is the evidence that people are going to associate a dismal economy with Obama?<\/p>\n

Over half of them still blame George W. Bush! And how, by the way, was that permitted to happen? That\u2019s a whole ‘nother discussion. How in the world does that stick, that the economy is Bush\u2019s fault? After four years of specific Obama policies that have damaged the economy, how is it that every Obama voter blames Bush — including their elites, including their smarter than everybody else professors, including their smarter than everything else Hollywood.<\/p>\n

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They believe that, as well as their rank-and-file voters. They believe it. It doesn\u2019t hurt that Obama continues to blame Bush. In our America, it is unpresidential to act like a baby and blame your predecessor. In our America, you man up! You take responsibility. You face problems head on and you try to fix \u2019em. The sad reality here is that there is no attempt to fix what\u2019s going wrong in this country.<\/p>\n

And by blaming George W. Bush for it, Obama is given carte blanche to continue his policies of damage. Obama is hell-bent on remaking this country. We\u2019re in the middle of it. We\u2019re four years into a transformation of this government becoming statist. It really is. Liberty versus tyranny. We\u2019re four years into tyranny winning. And guess what? No matter what happens now, it\u2019s Bush\u2019s fault. Obama\u2019s getting a Mulligan.<\/p>\n

Obama\u2019s getting a do-over. Over half the people that voted, that\u2019s how they\u2019re looking at it. It\u2019s not theory anymore. That\u2019s the reality we face. The reality we face is that what\u2019s real isn\u2019t, and what isn\u2019t real is. Well, you are free to disagree with me on this. I welcome it. I\u2019d love to be talked out of this. We have to face facts, folks. We have to. If a hurricane can literally end a presidential campaign, or destroy it, or do unfixable damage…<\/line><\/p>\n

A, the hurricane arrives. B, the president shows up for two hours.<\/a> He then lets a photo out of him in The Situation Room, apparently studying it. I know. You can\u2019t throw the Chris Christie <\/a>thing out. That\u2019s major. If we\u2019re dealing with an electorate that can be moved by something as genuinely meaningless in substantive terms as that, then we\u2019re living in the Brave New World, and we\u2019ve been trending in this direction. “Symbolism over substance.” Bill Clinton. Hello, thank you very much.<\/p>\n

You know what? I didn\u2019t get that phone call in. I honestly intended to, folks. I really did. I really meant to get a phone call in here. But when you make as much sense as I do you just keep going. So I apologize.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: The truth is something that we\u2019re losing here. We had better try it at some point. Fear of the truth is only causing us to lose. Fear of the truth is only causing us to be outnumbered<\/a>. There is no truth on Obama\u2019s side of this. There is no truth to Obama\u2019s speech last night. There was no truth in his campaign. There\u2019s no truth to what these people believe. They believe in a mirage. They believe in an image. They\u2019re voting for Santa Claus. <\/a> Not only are they voting for Santa Claus, they think they\u2019re entitled to a daily visit from Santa Claus. They\u2019ve been told this country\u2019s unfair, unjust, and immoral to them. It always has been. That\u2019s Obama\u2019s great reach to \u2019em. He\u2019s the guy that\u2019s gonna fix all this inequality and all this discrimination and all the disadvantages and all the unfairness that this country has visited upon these various people. He\u2019s Santa Claus. <\/p>\n

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What\u2019s our message? Yeah, we believe in Santa Claus, too. You\u2019re it. Prosperity? You work hard; that\u2019s how you achieve it. “Oh, gosh! What\u2019s the choice, working hard or getting an Obama phone<\/a>?” If you\u2019re unemployed for four years in this country, you have a cell phone, a TV, a car, and you\u2019re eating. What\u2019s the problem? Seriously! What\u2019s the problem?<\/p>\n

Unless you have an ethic about you, a sense of responsibility to yourself and your family — a sense of civic duty that says, “You\u2019ve got to get a job” — unless you\u2019re a person who does not define who you are by virtue of your work or partially by your work, what\u2019s the problem? There\u2019s your flat screen. There\u2019s your phone. There\u2019s your 120 free minutes or however many you get for it.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s your unemployment compensation bump up, and here\u2019s your food stamps. So what\u2019s the problem? These are real circumstances, folks. You can say, “How can you be so unkind and cruel?” I\u2019m not. I\u2019m just telling you what is, and we are trending to the… Do you realize that Obama\u2019s message is that the people who are making it possible for him to be Santa Claus aren\u2019t working hard enough?<\/p>\n

Do you realize Obama\u2019s message is: “Not only am I Santa Claus, but the people who are making all this possible still aren\u2019t paying their fair share! While you\u2019re out there doing nothing, they still aren\u2019t paying their fair share. It\u2019s not enough! I\u2019m still gonna come in and I\u2019m gonna raise their taxes! I\u2019m still gonna come in. It\u2019s just not right that they have so much,” and you doctors, you\u2019re next.<\/p>\n

When everybody figures out the ultimate damage that Obamacare is gonna do to the health industry, to medical care, to insurance, to all this, it won\u2019t be long. In fact, it may be happening in various places already. “Why should somebody get wealthy for treating the sick? We have an inherent right to good health! We have an inherent right to health care. What does that mean? Health care equals good health. We have a right!<\/p>\n

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“Why should somebody get rich? It\u2019s not right. It\u2019s not fair. Not everybody can be a doctor. Why should they do so well?” This is the stuff that\u2019s coming. It\u2019s all part of resentment. We\u2019re all part of the resentment for achievement, for success. So Rubio. “The conservative movement should have particular appeal to people in minority and immigrant communities who are trying to make it, and Republicans need to work harder than ever to communicate our beliefs to them.”<\/p>\n

That\u2019s true.<\/p>\n

We do need to take a conservative message to \u2019em. At the same time we need to show \u2019em it works! We need to show there is a payoff to hard work, and that oftentimes it\u2019s not just financial. There is satisfaction, the sense of achievement, the maximizing of a person\u2019s potential, being the best you can be. Do you realize not one iota of Obama\u2019s message is oriented toward greatness or excellence in the individual?<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a wide-open opportunity for us.<\/p>\n

We just have very few people on our side able to articulate it right now.<\/p>\n

But hopefully that will change.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Say what you want, folks: Mitt Romney did offer a vision of greatness, a vision of traditional America<\/a>, a vision of an American recovery and return to prominence. He did that in his own way. You may not-a thought it was the best way, but he did it in his own way. That\u2019s what he was talking about, and it was rejected. It was rejected in favor of a guy who thinks those who are working aren\u2019t doing enough to help those who aren\u2019t.<\/p>\n

A question. A hypothetical question. Let\u2019s say Mitt Romney won last night. Let\u2019s say today that Mitt Romney is out, he does his press conference, and they ask him about the economy. And he said, “Well, you know, we really have a much worse mess here because of George Bush than I even thought.” Would he get away with that? Would Mitt Romney be allowed to get away with blaming George Bush?<\/p>\n

Even though Romney hasn\u2019t been in charge of anything for four years, would Mitt Romney be allowed to blame Bush? Would Mitt Romney be given a pass? No, he wouldn\u2019t have. Barack Obama, after four years of destructive — specifically destructive — economic policies, is still given a pass. It\u2019s in the exit polls. Over half of Americans blame Bush. It would never even occur to Mitt Romney to blame a predecessor. And if he tried it, the press would be all over him and wouldn\u2019t let him get away with it.<\/p>\n

AP last week, recurring story: “America more racist in 2012 than it was in 2008!” It\u2019s so much more racist that we\u2019re giving the first African-American president, who is a failure, a Mulligan. And, according to some in the media, precisely because he\u2019s black. That\u2019s what a good nation we are. The voters of America just can\u2019t bring themselves to say no to the first black president. So we\u2019re gonna reward mediocrity. We\u2019re gonna reward failure. We\u2019re gonna reward it because that makes us good people. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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