{"id":14024,"date":"2012-11-07T17:08:48","date_gmt":"2012-11-07T17:08:48","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2018-02-05T10:45:52","modified_gmt":"2018-02-05T15:45:52","slug":"in_a_nation_of_children_santa_claus_wins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2012\/11\/07\/in_a_nation_of_children_santa_claus_wins\/","title":{"rendered":"In a Nation of Children, Santa Claus Wins"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Hey, any of you guys in there want to come sit in my chair today? Anybody? Nobody wants to come sit in my chair here? None of you? I mean, I\u2019m giving you a golden opportunity to speak to, what, 50 million people. <\/p>\n

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I can handle it. Okay, all right. So nobody wants to come sit in my chair today. Greetings, my friends. What happened? That\u2019s what we\u2019re going to try to find out. We\u2019re not gotta be able to explain this away in one day. We\u2019re gonna get close. We are not gonna be able to come up with all the answers and solutions in one day, but I want to try to take you through the night for me last night, various thoughts that I had as things happened, beginning with my getting and receiving the exit polls at five o\u2019clock. <\/p>\n

But first, let me tell you, small things beat big things yesterday. Conservatism, in my humble opinion, did not lose last night. It\u2019s just very difficult to beat Santa Claus. It is practically impossible to beat Santa Claus. People are not going to vote against Santa Claus, especially if the alternative is being your own Santa Claus. <\/p>\n

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Now, everybody is jumping on Romney\u2019s chain today, getting in his chili. Look, he may have not been the most optimal candidate, but he\u2019s a fine man. He would have been great for this country. Mitt Romney and his family <\/a>would have been the essence of exactly what this country needs. But what was Romney\u2019s recipe? Romney\u2019s recipe was the old standby: American route to success, hard work. That gets sneered at. I\u2019m sorry. In a country of children where the option is Santa Claus or work, what wins? And say what you want, but Romney did offer a vision of traditional America. In his way, he put forth a great vision of traditional America, and it was rejected. It was rejected in favor of a guy who thinks that those who are working aren\u2019t doing enough to help those who aren\u2019t. And that resonated. <\/p>\n

The Obama campaign was about small stuff. War on Women<\/a>, binders<\/a>, Big Bird<\/a>, this kind of stuff. The Romney campaign was about big things, was about America. It\u2019s mind-boggling to go through these exit polls. You want to hear a statistic that is somewhat surprising? Romney received two and a half million fewer votes than McCain did. Now, who would have called that? Who in the world would have? I think Obama\u2019s vote tally was down ten million from 2008, and we still lost. We lost 50 to 48 nationally. We were not able to build a turnout model that looked like 2004. Very puzzling. <\/p>\n

Something else. Just stream of consciousness here. The usual suspects are out, and they\u2019re saying, “Rush, we gotta reach out now to the Hispanics and reach out to the minorities, blacks.” Okay, let me remind you of something. Just ask you a question. And we will be getting your phone calls of course today, you weigh in on this, 800-282-2882 is the number. Let me take you back to the Republican convention. We had Suzanne Martinez<\/a>, female Hispanic governor, New Mexico. We had Condoleezza Rice<\/a>, African-American, former secretary of state. Both of those people imminently qualified, terrifically achieved. They have reached the pinnacles of their profession. <\/p>\n

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We had Marco Rubio<\/a>. We had a parade of minorities who have become successful Americans. <\/a> And they all had a common story: up from nothing, hard work, their parents sacrificed for them. Now, why didn\u2019t that work, folks? The answer to that is our future. Why didn\u2019t it work? Some people say, “Well, Rush, we pandered.” No, we didn\u2019t pander. Everybody says that we need to reach out to minorities. We have plenty of highly achieved minorities in our party, and they are in prominent positions, and they all have a common story. They all came from nothing. Their parents came from nothing. They worked hard. They told those stories with great pride. Those stories evoked tears. It didn\u2019t work. And don\u2019t tell me that people didn\u2019t watch the convention or people didn\u2019t see it. I mean, there\u2019s a reason it doesn\u2019t work. <\/p>\n

I went to bed last night thinking we\u2019re outnumbered. <\/a> I went to bed last night thinking all this discussion we\u2019d had about this election being the election that will tell us whether or not we\u2019ve lost the country. I went to bed last night thinking we\u2019ve lost the country. I don\u2019t know how else you look at this. The first wave of exit polls came in at 5 p.m. I looked at it, I read the first two pages, and I said to myself, “This is utter BS.” And I forwarded the exit poll data that I had to three or four people, and my message to each of them, “This is utter BS, and if it isn\u2019t, then we\u2019ve lost the country.” Let me take you through some of it. <\/p>\n

Based on early exit polls, Obama is locked in a tight race with Governor Romney. Nationally we believe the race to be as tight as it could be, and to the extent that Obama is running strong and can win, it is because they see him as someone who cares about people like them. They feel he did a very good job in the response to Hurricane Sandy. When I saw that, I thought this thing is starting to read like a Democrat campaign speech, this exit poll data. Hurricane Sandy and the aftermath and the way Obama handled that, what did Obama do?<\/a> He showed up one day, he bear hugged Chris Christie<\/a>, and then he left. The situation on the ground is devastating, and yet Obama triumphs in the exit polls with that. <\/p>\n

He successfully painted Romney\u2019s policies as caring primarily about the rich. He successfully convinced roughly half the country that his policies will favor the middle class. Now, measure that against reality. The reality<\/a> is that the economy of this country is crumbling. The unemployment situation is worsening. The debt situation is worsening. Everything for the very people who think Obama\u2019s gonna help them is getting worse, and yet they told the exit poll people that they thought Obama\u2019s the best guy to handle <\/line>Obamacare. <\/a><\/line><\/p>\n

A majority of people like Obamacare in the exit poll. That goes against everything we\u2019ve ever heard in any poll. Voters trust him more than Romney in an international crisis. What? How in the world can that be? In a rational, intelligent world, how can that be? “He\u2019s running very strong with African-Americans, Latinos, and women. If he wins, this data will be consistent with stories about the changing nature of US demographics.”<\/p>\n

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And I saw this next one. This is the one that made me think this exit poll was BS. I just, intellectually, had trouble with this one. “More than half the people who voted yesterday said that they still blame Bush for the economy.” More than half the people who…? After four years! Well, now, what is the answer to this? How in the world do you deal with this? There are ways, and we didn\u2019t do them. There were too many assumptions made about what the American people thought, about what they knew.<\/p>\n

Too many assumptions were made. But look, I don\u2019t want to nitpick the campaign today. That\u2019s not the point. There are larger things here at work. “Roughly half voters want the health care law as it is or expanded, and they are voting for Obama.” Really? I haven\u2019t seen a poll like that anywhere. Every poll — every poll! — I have seen on Obamacare features a majority and close to 60% who don\u2019t like it, but this is an exit poll of people who voted.<\/p>\n

“People who say they are looking for a strong leader and someone who has more of a vision for the future support Romney. Romney even wins among voters voting for ‘a candidate who shares my values.\u2019 Voters believe the economy\u2019s weak and Romney will be better able to manage the economy.” Now, this is for people the exit pollers say, this is the reason if Romney wins. This is why. Well, obviously, those people were vastly outnumbered, which is where we are today.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re outnumbered.<\/p>\n