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RUSH: “Dear Rush…” This is an e-mail I just got. E-mails are running the gamut, folks. Today I don\u2019t have the slightest idea what I\u2019m doing, according to the e-mails. No matter what I say, I don\u2019t know what I\u2019m doing. Here\u2019s a sample: “You have spent the past two days making fun of, diminishing, belittling, trashing all the things at the convention. I hate the RINOs only a little less than the Democrats, but last night was a delightful show of all the things you\u2019ve been talking about for 22 years.<\/p>\n

“It was all about conservatism, individualism, free markets, marriage, equal opportunity for everyone. Even immigrants<\/a>. Especially immigrants! Is it perfect? No. But they made a great effort last night. It\u2019s painful to listen to you trash it. They were giving a summation of your 24 years on the radio last night. I thought that the whole thing, every time I heard someone speak, ‘This person listens to Rush. That person listens to Rush.\u2019 And I\u2019m shocked and stunned to hear you making fun of it.”<\/p>\n

Plus, there are e-mails on the other side. “You keep going, buddy! This is exactly right. Somebody\u2019s gotta speak truth to power.” It\u2019s all over, the reaction. There\u2019s no one take. It\u2019s a good thing I have a steel spine or I would be one of these schizo swing voters<\/a>. Anyway, what I was gonna say before the top-of-the-hour break about Governor Christie is people, I think, judge some of these speeches on expectations. And the expectations of Chris Christie were no-holds-barred.<\/p>\n

“This guy\u2019s gonna drop the hammer; it\u2019s gonna be great.” Then word leaked out: <\/line>“No, it\u2019s not. He\u2019s gonna spend a lot of time talking about himself as a Republican governor of New Jersey and how he straightened things out there. It\u2019s gonna be an autobiographical speech.” I heard that preview and I thought, “Oh, that\u2019s interesting.” You know, it\u2019s fascinating. This 31%, this statistic. Thirty-one percent of people who watch TV don\u2019t watch TV. They don\u2019t get their TV from a TV set.<\/line><\/p>\n

They get it from Hulu, from YouTube, from video, Facebook, Twitter. What they get, what they watch, are highlights. So in the case of Governor Christie, a lot of people who were really looking forward to Christie last night have seen what? They\u2019ve gotten to know the Chris Christie at town hall meetings or the Chris Christie responding to media people. You know, hammering these guys, which everybody loves.<\/p>\n

So the expectations that a lot of people had for Christie\u2019s speech last night obviously were unrealized or unmet. I got up today and Byron York has a piece: “Why Ann Romney\u2019s Speech Worked and Why Chris Christie\u2019s Didn\u2019t.” So the analysis of this is all over the ballpark. They have questions about how to respond. Okay, you do have Obama out calling Romney a murderer<\/a>, essentially. His campaign\u2019s calling Romney a felon. Romney hates dogs. You know, that commercial with Romney\u2019s dog on the roof of the car and so forth.<\/p>\n

Now, there are those who believe — and I want to ask you about this. There are those who believe that the way you respond to that, the way you respond to people who are accusing you of being inhumane or being cold-hearted… “You hate the poor!” The way to respond to this is simply show up and have your family around you, and speak without profanity, and it will expose the accusers as the liars they are. That is an ongoing theory. I just heard that theory proposed by a learned wise man on Fox, and it does sound good.<\/p>\n

It does sound good. In a fair world, that\u2019s exactly the way it would work. Let\u2019s take Romney and Obama. On the one hand, we have Obama essentially calling Romney a murderer. We have the allegation that he might be a felon and the business about the dog. These just scratch the surface. The attempts here to make people hate Romney based on ads that the Obama people have run — over a hundred million dollars in ads.<\/p>\n

The way to respond to it is show up at your convention and have your wife go out and make a speech and be lovable and normal, and have the kids there looking normal, and have as many normal people as you can. Speak about love, devotion, flag, and family, and you win because you\u2019re obviously not a murderer. You\u2019re obviously not. You don\u2019t have to do anything to respond to it other than show up. (sigh) If only that worked. I\u2019ve had trust and faith that that would work for me. I\u2019ve had it said…<\/p>\n

And I hate to make this personal, I really do, but it may help illustrate here. Without specifying instances, many of you have been around here for years. You know of the various attempts that have been made to portray me in various inhumane, mean-spirited, racist<\/a>, sexist, thuggish ways. I come in here every day, and I do what I do, and I\u2019m none of that. Has it changed any of those people\u2019s minds? No. In fact, they don\u2019t care to have their minds changed.<\/p>\n

They\u2019re gonna make the allegation regardless the truth, particularly the Obama people when they got nothing else to rely on. They can\u2019t talk about themselves positively. They can\u2019t. What they\u2019ve done is so bad, they can\u2019t lie about it. They can\u2019t portray this economy as roaring. They can\u2019t portray the recovery as happening. They can\u2019t portray the country as on the right track. They can\u2019t lie about anything. So all they can do is level these accusations.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

George W. Bush. For, let\u2019s just say, six years the media and the Democrat Party set out to destroy George Bush. After six years, George Bush\u2019s approval numbers were in the thirties. George W. Bush was not even close to anything he was accused of being or doing. George W. Bush was on television every day. The theory is that just being human, just being who he is — just going on television, being president, being well spoken, all these things — that alone is all you have to do, and you beat \u2019em.<\/p>\n

Did it work?<\/p>\n

Did they keep Bush\u2019s numbers out of the thirties?<\/p>\n

Were the Democrats unsuccessful? It took \u2019em six years. But they convinced, in six years, the people of this country that we were in a recession when we weren\u2019t, that we were losing the Iraq war when we weren\u2019t. They lied about Petraeus, the surge, Afghanistan, all of this. You name it. They were lying about the economy; they were lying about unemployment. They were lying about inflation.<\/p>\n

They were trying to make everybody in the world think Bush didn\u2019t care about them. Hurricane Katrina<\/a>? Bush didn\u2019t care! They had the picture of him in Air Force One flying over New Orleans. You tell me it didn\u2019t work. Somebody try to tell me that Bush\u2019s crafted strategy of not replying, a crafted strategy of not responding, triumphed. Tell me it worked. How can it be said to have worked when they succeeded in getting his approval numbers down to the thirties?<\/p>\n

They were so happy, Wolf Blitzer spent two hours reporting it! We have played for you the montage. Now, in what we would all like to believe is a fair and just and sane world, accusing somebody of killing another man\u2019s wife wouldn\u2019t last five seconds. And yet it remains something the Romney people think they\u2019ve gotta deal with! The same thing about Romney doesn\u2019t care about the poor. The same thing with the War on Women.<\/a><\/p>\n

They believe they have to counter that, which was a large portion of the purpose of last night\u2019s convention. Woman after woman after woman after woman came up to podium. And I loved it. And I thought it was great. Nikki Haley was awesome last night. She gave a fabulous speech. (Nobody saw it because it was prior to primetime and was nowhere near the networks.) Artur Davis<\/a> was over-the-top fabulous, and he did ream Obama. I don\u2019t mean to be leaving anybody out.<\/line><\/p>\n

We\u2019ve got sound bites. Mia Love <\/a>was just fabulous! It was superb. I\u2019m only discussing this notion of how you deal with this because for 24 years, you know people call here, “Rush, why don\u2019t the Republicans, or why do the Republicans, or why aren\u2019t the Republicans?” I don\u2019t know. I never have known. But I did hear just 20 minutes ago that the way to deal with this stuff is show up and have your family there and the dog and speak about the flag and be normal, wonderful Americans, and you win. And maybe in this case they did. I hope so. Don\u2019t misunderstand. I just know that in real life, in the case of George W. Bush, for example, it didn\u2019t work. And arguably, it still hasn\u2019t. How else can Obama get away with blaming Bush? <\/p>\n

We\u2019ve seen the polling data. It\u2019s in the forties. Maybe close to 50% still think that Bush is the architect of this problem. Poor old Obama just inherited a big mess. It\u2019s unusually high, the number of people that believe that, even after three years. The decision has been made not to try to counter any of that. You boil this down, it seems like at every turn, whoever the Republicans of prominence of the day happen to be, because of all this they have to go out of their way to prove themselves normal, when they already are. They already are normal. They\u2019re average. They\u2019re harmless. They\u2019re none of what they are alleged to be. And the party of abnormal and the party of genuine mean-spirited extremism gets away with making these allegations, and they are never on the defensive about any of it.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Hey, folks, a quick question. If you are for the rich, does it mean you are against the poor? No, seriously, does it? And when the Democrats make this allegation, Romney, he only cares for the rich. Oh, it means he actively is against the poor? That\u2019s what they want you to believe. Let me ask you a very simple question. The poor are helped by what? Money. The poor, by definition, don\u2019t have their own, right? So, when the poor are assisted, where do they get the money? Obama\u2019s stash is right. But where does Obama get the money? Our stash. The point is, that the poor would have nothing if it weren\u2019t for the rich charity, and the rich are charitable out the wazoo, particularly in this country, middle class, too. This is so cockeyed and convoluted. <\/p>\n

Why is it a crime to defend the rich? I mean, after all, they\u2019re citizens, too. They\u2019ve worked hard. Why is it that everybody thinks they have a claim on everything the rich have? This is the perversion that the Democrat Party, the American left, liberalism, has visited upon our culture and our country, and it\u2019s sickening, and it is pathetic. The rich are Americans, too. “Rush, you really stepped in it now, defending the rich. That\u2019s really gonna help the Republicans. That\u2019s right, Rush, you may as well just sign up as a Democrat.” You can\u2019t win. <\/p>\n

By the way, according to the latest ABC News poll, ABC News\/Washington Post poll, released two days ago. Ready for this? Now, it did oversample Democrats by 7%, but according to the latest ABC News poll, people still blame George Bush for the economy by 52 to 34%. Two days ago. ABC News\/Washington Post. Yeah, Democrats oversampled by 7%. Okay, so take all seven out, you still have 45 to 34 blame Bush for the economy. There hasn\u2019t been any pushback on that by Bush or his team. <\/p>\n

This is Amanda in Orlando. Hi, Amanda, I\u2019m glad you called. Great to have you on the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, Rush. It\u2019s an honor.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you very much.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I have to say, normally I agree with you probably 99.9% of the time, but I think I disagree with you when discussing the speeches. I think what they did, for me, anyway —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wait, wait, what did I say you\u2019re disagreeing with?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, when you were saying that everyone was expecting Chris Christie to go in there and really just lay down the hammer and just sort of stand up for themselves and point out things that are wrong with the administration and, you know, specific examples instead of being, you know, love and compassion —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Maybe I wasn\u2019t clear. The people who were excited to hear Chris Christie I think had those expectations, and I prefaced it by saying a lot of people only know Christie by these little YouTube clips where he\u2019s battling little jerks from the media or jerks from the Democrats in the New Jersey legislature, where he hammers \u2019em and slams \u2019em and takes no prisoners.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I do think there was a segment of the crowd that thought that\u2019s what they were gonna get.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I was one of those that was very excited to see Chris Christie speak. And I do love when he takes down Joe Heckler in the town hall. I think what they did last night, though, very effectively was, I feel that they somewhat, which I think hasn\u2019t been done in quite a long time, was I think they were able to frame the campaign a little bit. And normally I feel like we\u2019re always on the defensive and I feel like the Democrats always throw it out there, they lay the gauntlet down, and then we\u2019re always scrambling to defend, defend, defend. And I think, by what they spoke of last night, it was very classy, it was kind of at the top of the game, and they were able to frame it such that, when the DNC goes into convention next week, instead of being able to just sort of answer tit-for-tat, like, you know, yesterday, last week at the Republican convention they said X, Y, and Z, but we know blah, blah, blah. I think that now the DNC doesn\u2019t have anything to stand on for the last four years they\u2019ve been in office, they\u2019ve done nothing. And I think that we didn\u2019t give them anything where they can just stand around and answer back to our accusations. They\u2019re gonna have a hard time talking about some things next week.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Amanda, you know I love you, right?<\/p>\n

CALLER: (laughing) Back at you, Rush.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I do want to react to that. I\u2019ve got a mere 15 busy broadcast seconds remaining, not enough time for me. Normally I could do it, but I want to spend a little bit more time than that, so can you hang on through the break, because you\u2019ve mentioned an interesting premise here, and I\u2019d like to react to it. Can you hang on through the break? ‘Cause it\u2019s three and a half minutes or so.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I will. And if I get disconnected, I will call you back.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Good luck with that.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: We return now to Amanda in Orlando, Florida. What you said is fascinating to me. <\/p>\n

CALLER: (laughing)<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, no, no. Please. I\u2019m not being critical. I\u2019m as open to suggestions, interpretations of last night as anybody.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Sure.<\/p>\n

RUSH: We\u2019re in uncharted ground here as far as I\u2019m concerned. This convention\u2019s unlike any other to me, going into it, and after one day of it, this is new territory for me.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Can\u2019t explain why. Don\u2019t know. I mean, I haven\u2019t gotten deep enough into myself to get in touch, but it just feels different. Now, you said that what you liked last night about not being specific about Christie not dropping the hammer as he\u2019s known to be able to do —<\/p>\n

CALLER: Correct.<\/p>\n

RUSH: — is that, as a result of that, Democrats don\u2019t have anything to aim at their convention next week?<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, of course not. Let me rephrase. Not that they don\u2019t have anything because they\u2019ll do what they do best, which is —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, but my point about that is that you\u2019re making that assessment within the realm of what you and I consider to be the truth. They don\u2019t live there. Listen to this. This is from a New York Times editorial today. “The genius of Mrs. Romney\u00c2\u2019s diva performance was the way she smiled so warmly as she delicately slipped the knife into President Obama.” Now, you saw Ann Romney. She didn\u2019t have a knife last night. She didn\u2019t stick a knife into anybody. She didn\u2019t twist a knife into anybody. I\u2019ll tell you what I think she did do. <\/p>\n

I think she stared Barack Obama right in the eyes and said, “You\u2019re toast, buddy.” I think that\u2019s what she did. And I think they\u2019re scared to death. But that doesn\u2019t mean that when they get to their convention next week, they\u2019re not gonna just tell the same old lies about Romney and Mrs. Romney and Christie. In other words, I have learned, Amanda, there is nothing we can do to stop them from characterizing us the way they do or saying what they\u2019re going to say. We can\u2019t. And so it\u2019s pointless to be defensive about it, to me.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I agree with you, but I also think what they did, I think what Ann Romney did very fantastically last night was she\u2019s almost as rich as God, yet you really felt like you could identify with her and you connected with her. I felt like I could sit down and have a cup of coffee with her or a tuna fish sandwich and she would be like, you know, my Mrs. Smith neighbor next door, and I don\u2019t think the Democrats are counting on that. They try to paint them as out of touch and you can\u2019t connect with them and, you know, how could she possibly connect or reverberate within the single mom community. And I thought, you know what, I thought in that sense she knocked it out of the park last night.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I thought she did, too. I agree with all that. Now, what about Juan Williams\u2019 reaction? “Ah, she just came off as a ‘corporate wife.'” Did you hear about that?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Consider the source?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, yeah, I think he is trying to get hired by PBS again, NPR, whatever. But do you know what that means? For Juan Williams to, “Ah, she came off as a corporate wife,” do you know what that means? That means kept woman. It means a woman who doesn\u2019t do diddly-squat. She\u2019s a trophy wife and her husband\u2019s off being corporate CEO taking care of her. She\u2019s going to Tiffany. She\u2019s doing all this other stuff during the day. She\u2019s got a cushy life. That\u2019s what Juan Williams said. <\/p>\n

CALLER: — sitting next to Keith Olbermann very soon.<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, that\u2019s not my point. You said they didn\u2019t get any ammo, and I\u2019m telling you they don\u2019t need it. They make it up.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I think — yes, they will get ammo from —<\/p>\n

RUSH: So I\u2019m saying, could we fire both barrels? That\u2019s all I\u2019m saying. We don\u2019t gain anything pussy-footing around.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I think what the GOP did last night was made it a little bit harder for them to make it so easy to use that ammo. I think there are gonna be a few more people scratching their heads when they try to bring that ammo out that will say, you know what, I\u2019m not so sure that that\u2019s really right. I\u2019m not so sure that I buy that.<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, I don\u2019t think they\u2019re universally believed. I don\u2019t think they always get away with it.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Don\u2019t misunderstand. We got tons of ammo ourselves. <\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes, we do. And we have all the way to November to start using it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And the added benefit of our ammo is that it is the truth.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: But see, nobody\u2019s gonna question them if we don\u2019t. The DNC is not. The media\u2019s not gonna question \u2019em. Nobody\u2019s gonna hold them accountable to anything they say. If we don\u2019t, who will?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I\u2019m hopeful that the more time we have between now and November, the more we will start doing that and —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, here\u2019s another thing. Just to offer you some comforting resolve. I think that this convention is taking place in a bubble. I think when it\u2019s over, I think you\u2019re gonna see Romney — don\u2019t forget now, now the convention\u2019s here, Romney now can start spending the money —<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: — that he has raised, and I think you\u2019re gonna see all kinds of fur flying in the Romney super PAC ads, in the Romney ads. Romney\u2019s already running a lot of effective reply ads, if you will, or even attack ads against Obama. I think they\u2019re working. And I think you\u2019re gonna see more of that. The convention itself probably is a little bit of a bubble in that regard. But don\u2019t forget, now, Amanda, in 2008 we weren\u2019t allowed to say Obama\u2019s middle name. We couldn\u2019t say Barack Hussein Obama. This time we\u2019re not supposed to say his first name or his last name, either, is one way of interpreting this. And this is considered to be a positive. This is helpful. Our consultants are telling us, yep, this is the way to go about this. They\u2019re the professionals. They\u2019re the ones who earn their living doing this, so who am I, El Rushbo, to question it? Ahem. Anyway, Amanda, I appreciate the call, I really do. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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