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<\/p>\nRUSH: Mike, Long Island, great to have you. Open Line Friday. Hello.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Hey, Rush. Thanks for taking the call. This is an incredibly important call for me. First things first. I\u2019m a Democrat, and I never really was a big fan. I must say that up front. I was elected to my town council, a small town on Long Island. But I\u2019m just astonished at how you won me over and how critical the truths that you are telling are to the American people right now because —<\/p>\n
RUSH: Wait. I want to make sure I\u2019m hearing this correctly. You are an elected Democrat, town council, somewhere in Long Island?<\/p>\n
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CALLER: Yes. I\u2019m actually astonished that, quite frankly, you\u2019re the only person that I hear out there that\u2019s actually telling the American people the truth. It\u2019s a critical moment, and it\u2019s something that I\u2019m indebted to you as an American taxpayer, because the Obama playbook has trickled down so importantly to local government that I\u2019m seeing it firsthand. My town has been downgrade by Moody\u2019s to almost junk bond status, yet there is the same mentality, you know, the town went for a 15% tax increase. They tried to borrow from the state to wipe out their deficit. They raised their borrowing for the town by 40% in just a ten-month period. The responsibility and the stark contrast in the business mentality between the Obama people and the Romney people is critical right now. It\u2019s incredible. I mean, the price —<\/p>\n
RUSH: Mike, I need you to hang on. I got ten seconds here before a commercial break I have to take. And when I come back we\u2019ll continue, \u2019cause I\u2019m not sure I heard what I heard. An elected Democrat won over by this program. I got to confirm that.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: We\u2019re back with Mike in Long Island. Mike, I really appreciate what you\u2019re saying. When did this conversion happen? Elected Democrat —<\/p>\n
CALLER: (laughing)<\/p>\n
RUSH: This doesn\u2019t happen. Not an elected Democrat. A lot of Democrats have called here and reported that they see things a different way, but never an elected Democrat like you.<\/p>\n
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CALLER: Well, you know, let\u2019s be frank about a number of things. You know, there are some social issues that you and I may not see eye-to-eye on, but at the core, I\u2019m a fiscal conservative. I come from the private sector, you know, the elected spot is just a part-time gig. But you\u2019re responsible for the finances of the city. You vote on these matters. And these are times where the average American knows it because they\u2019re doing it in their homes. Municipalities have to understand the same thing in the same way that the president just doesn\u2019t get. We don\u2019t have the money any longer. You have to do with less. We can\u2019t borrow your way out of these things. At some point you have to say “no.” On a municipal level it\u2019s easier to say “no” but it just isn\u2019t happening, and it\u2019s incredible how it\u2019s almost the same playbook. And when you speak out, you know, I guess I\u2019m the outspoken one, they come after and they kill you. The assassination. They put my business basically out of business.<\/p>\n
RUSH: I\u2019ve been trying to tell people for the last four years. Let\u2019s just confine this to the last four years of Obama, that he is who he is, that being Obama means something, being liberal Democrat as Obama, he\u2019s radical. It means something. You can predict it, it\u2019s ideologically based, you can predict what he\u2019s gonna do, what his opinion on something is going to be. You can predict, running up all the debt, that he\u2019s not concerned about it, for whatever reason. He wants to add to it. He doesn\u2019t want to reduce it. He\u2019ll say he does, but he doesn\u2019t. It\u2019s scary to get into his reasons for it, but it\u2019s clear that he\u2019s not concerned about it.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Well, that\u2019s the part where you won me over, and I\u2019m grateful to you, and I mean that, because somebody has to tell the truth. You have a short amount of time during the debates, and Romney coming from the private sector tries to articulate it, you know, when he\u2019s not being interrupted by the moderator, but he tries to articulate the shift. It\u2019s a philosophical shift that has to happen now, because the bigger view, you know, these guys will be gone in three or four years. We\u2019re gonna be left holding the bag.<\/p>\n
RUSH: That\u2019s exactly right.<\/p>\n
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