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<\/a>A focus group is a little bit different than a poll. You actually assemble the people and you chat with \u2019em for hours sometimes. And you videotape it. And you run all kinds of ideas by \u2019em. This is the stuff Frank Luntz does sometimes on Fox that you see. Those are miniature focus groups. And Carville and his gang have been out there doing a bunch of them. And they say that the data from the focus groups shows that Barack Kardashian “is taking the wrong approach to the campaign by focusing on economic issues.”<\/p>\nIn fact, Carville says that Obama, quote “will fail,” unquote if he talks about economic growth. They “claim that the Obama campaign must ‘move to a new narrative\u2019 in order to be successful in November. … The current campaign is focused on success in the economic recovery, but Carville\u00c2\u2019s group says the strategy is ‘wrong\u2019 and ‘will fail.\u2019 The only reason Obama is keeping up in the campaign is because voters perceive Romney as ‘out of touch with ordinary people.'”<\/p>\n
That\u2019s the only thing, they say, that\u2019s keeping Obama alive. If Romney\u2019s able to bridge that gap and become more like a regular guy to people, it\u2019s over for Obama. And I don\u2019t care what… Dana Milbank has a column in the Washington Post today, “Pileup at the White House,” and it\u2019s devastating. It\u2019s just more of the same. People in the media and on the Democrat side of the aisle are coming right up against the reality here that this guy can lose.<\/p>\n
They have been under the impression that his reelection was a slam dunk. It didn\u2019t matter what any economic details were. It didn\u2019t matter what polling data said. It was automatic. Obama was gonna be reelected, for all the various reasons and obvious ones. First black president. History continues! Smartest guy in the room. History continues! Just a fait accompli. And you and I, living in Realville, have known since the stimulus and then health care, that if this country is the same country we grew up in, he\u2019s toast.<\/p>\n
We\u2019ve known this. Everything being equal (no cheating, no fraud, no implosions on our side or this kind of thing), we\u2019ve known this. There was still some concern about the Republican primary race. We needed the best candidate we can get. But there was still this realization… Well, maybe I shouldn\u2019t speak for you. I\u2019ll just speak for me. I have always been confident that Obama could lose this reelection because of facts, because of reality.<\/p>\n
The economy is horrible.<\/p>\n
People are losing everything they\u2019ve ever had! They\u2019re in debt like they\u2019ve never been before. The country\u2019s in debt like it\u2019s never been before. This is not the way this country has always operated, and this is not the way things have gotten done. This is not what the people of this country thought that they were electing. The health care? Nobody wants that. The numbers opposing it continue to rise. The economic destruction taking place is real.<\/p>\n
But the Democrats and the media, they\u2019re just now realizing it!<\/p>\n
“Could it get any worse?”<\/p>\n Well, depends on your point of view. If the Supreme Court strikes down Obamacare, I\u2019d say things are much better. But for Obama, they would be much worse. For Obama, it can get a lot worse. For Obama, you could argue that last week was not really that bad, as I attempted to illustrate yesterday. Back to Milbank. “Early Monday morning, Obama learned that it could. His aides delivered the news to him that his commerce secretary had been cited for a felony hit-and-run after allegedly crashing his car three times over the weekend.<\/p>\n “In one incident, the previously obscure Cabinet officer apparently rear-ended a Buick, spoke to the car\u2019s occupants, then hit the vehicle again as he” drove away. Now, it\u2019s interesting Milbank would include the commerce secretary\u2019s misadventures in his car as somehow a blow to the president. How\u2019s that? The most noteworthy thing about this story is: “We got a commerce secretary? Who knew!” I never heard of this guy. We got a commerce secretary. The guy gets drunk, drives his car around, and bashes into people. (interruption) Epilepsy? It may have been epilepsy? Okay. So he wasn\u2019t drunk. We don\u2019t know yet. They\u2019ll come up with something.<\/p>\n Anyway, the Milbank column goes on. It\u2019s not pretty.<\/p>\n BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n RUSH: Folks, I am kidding you not about this newly discovered commerce secretary. Whatever the reason, the guy runs into a car, and runs into it again when driving away from the accident. On the Today Show just today, they had correspondent Kristen Welker. She said the commerce secretary\u2019s accidents over the weekend were “a sign of how contentious the campaign season has gotten.” No, I kid you not. We don\u2019t yet know, but there was no alcohol in the commerce secretary\u2019s blood. We don\u2019t know what caused the accident. Don\u2019t know. It might have been mini-stroke. Nobody knows. But an NBC infobabe actually said that it was “a sign of how contentious the campaign season has gotten.”<\/p>\n Now, continuing here with Dana Milbank\u2019s column in the Washington Post. Again, it\u2019s representative of the media and the left. They\u2019re shell-shocked. This last week… You have to understand. They think (they\u2019ve always thought) that Barack Obama is a 200-IQ genius. They just believe it. They don\u2019t question it. They have assigned that super-genius intelligence level to him, and that\u2019s it. They don\u2019t consider any other possibility. Despite all the gaffes and all the evidence to the contrary, they just don\u2019t even consider it.<\/p>\n Then this last week happens before the bottom falls out and they are stunned. They do not know how to explain it. They\u2019re talking amongst themselves. They\u2019re on television talking about it. They\u2019re writing columns about it. And here\u2019s Milbank in his column today: “Pileup at the White House.” He focuses a lot on the commerce secretary accident, but later in the piece, says, “The AP asked about the president\u2019s unfortunate private-sector-is-fine remark<\/a>. The Reuters correspondent asked about the economic ‘head winds\u2019 from Europe.<\/p>\n “Ed Henry of Fox News Channel asked about the looming contempt-of-Congress vote against Attorney General Eric Holder. Margaret Talev of Bloomberg News asked about the Supreme Court striking down Obamacare. Norah O\u2019Donnell of CBS News asked about calls for a special prosecutor to probe leaks. Victoria Jones of Talk Radio News asked about the stalled talks with Pakistan. Carney sought relief by calling on TV correspondents from swing states, but the one from Wisconsin asked about the failed attempt to recall Republican Gov. Scott Walker and the one from Nevada asked about her state\u2019s unemployment rate, the nation\u2019s highest.”<\/p>\n The spokeskid got beat up yesterday!<\/p>\n The press corps actually did some journalism yesterday!<\/p>\n They had no choice. Their own credibility\u2019s on the line. There was no way they could prop up what happened last week. There was no way they could recast it and there was no way they could excuse it. So everybody\u2019s shocked: They\u2019re asking these questions about the smartest president ever? “AP Radio\u2019s Mark Smith asked whether [Commerce Secretary] Bryson ‘is now on medical leave,” and Carney just kept saying, “Can I refer you to the Commerce Department?” <\/p>\n BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/ObamaKardashiansCarney.jpg\"\/)
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<\/a>RUSH: Here is Mark in Shreveport, Louisiana. Welcome, sir. Great to have you here.<\/p>\n