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<\/p>\nRUSH: New York Magazine, John Heilemann. This is the coauthor of the book Game Change, that made the movie, Sarah Palin, the absolute worst thing that happened to America. Sarah Palin, the absolute worst thing that ever happened to John McCain. Sarah Palin, the absolute worst thing that ever happened to the Republican Party. Those guys. It\u2019s a long piece. And his point is that for Obama and company this time around, it\u2019s all about fear. There\u2019s no hope and change. There\u2019s no bringing people together. There\u2019s no unity. There\u2019s no postracial, no postmodernism, no post anything. We\u2019re not unified. The world is not in love with us. All of the stuff that was promised or alluded to in 2008, down the tubes now. <\/p>\n
But this guy, the author, John Heilemann, gets it right this time around. It\u2019s all about fear. Obama\u2019s got nothing to run on. So he\u2019s gonna try to scare the public with clever ads and half-truths, 100% lies, anything that he can use. Here, let me read one sentence. This is a long piece. I\u2019m not gonna bore you with the whole thing, but I think I can get to the nub of this with the sentence here that\u2019s near the end of this long story. “For all their brio, Obama\u00c2\u2019s people know their campaign could be derailed by myriad events outside their control.” That\u2019s the key. For all of their brio, for all their confidence, it\u2019s their time.<\/p>\n
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“Obama\u00c2\u2019s people know their campaign could be derailed by myriad events outside their control: dismal job numbers, a spike in fuel prices, hostilities in Iran, an economic shock from Europe, the overturning by the Supreme Court of health-care reform.”<\/p>\n
I would like to make what I think is a profound correction to this. Every one of those things that this writer claims is out of Obama\u2019s control has in fact been caused by him. Everything that is listed here as a potential pitfall that\u2019s out of his control is something Obama has made happen. Well, maybe he hasn\u2019t caused the Europeans\u2019 problems, but he\u2019s out there urging them to do the wrong thing to fix it. He\u2019s urging them to spend. He\u2019s telling Merkel and the rest of these people, don\u2019t go austerity on us. Spend, spend, spend. That\u2019s what he\u2019s urging them to do. <\/p>\n
In fact, let me give you a number. I got a shocking number for you. CNBC story: “Greece to Leave Euro Zone on June 18,” according to some wealth manager. “Greece will leave the euro zone on June 18 if the populist government wins the country\u00c2\u2019s elections on the 17th as the rest of the euro zone rounds on ‘cheaters,\u2019 Nick Dewhirst, director at wealth management firm Integral Asset Management, told CNBC.com Monday.” He told CNBC.com this yesterday. Now, here\u2019s the great line. This is the stat. Germans have to work until they are 67. Germany is bailing out Greece, right? What are they bailing out? They\u2019re bailing out the status quo. <\/p>\n
Germans have to work until they\u2019re 67 to pay for Greeks who retire at age 50. That\u2019s the dirty little secret here. There is no austerity. Obama is urging all of this status quo be built upon. But you go look here, outside their control, dismal job numbers. Who\u2019s killed the job market? Obama, by controlling it, by trying to fix it. With specific policies, Obama has killed the job market. A spike in fuel prices. Who the hell is responsible for that? We have drilling moratoriums in the Gulf of Mexico. We have no Keystone pipeline. We have no drilling in Alaska, no drilling anywhere, no new drilling. We\u2019ve got all kinds of oil. One man stands in the way and his party, Barack Obama and the Democrats. Hostilities in Iran. Well, we\u2019ll take that off the list. I think Obama didn\u2019t cause that. I don\u2019t think he cares, really. <\/p>\n
“An economic shock from Europe, the overturning by the Supreme Court.” He\u2019s the one who wrote an unconstitutional health care law. He and the Democrats are the ones who\u2019ve made this possible. They guaranteed that an unconstitutional law would be reviewed by the Supreme Court. So they\u2019re gonna run on this campaign of fear now. But let me tell you what this campaign\u2019s gonna be. This campaign is gonna be a referendum on Obama. Meaning this campaign will revolve largely around things he has had a large measure of control over: jobs, fuel prices. These are things that a president can positively or negatively effect. He may not have the direct control of the price of oil, but I\u2019ll guarantee you, if we had a president — this is another good example. The American people may not be able, all of us, to get our arms around this, but not approving the Keystone pipeline. On the one hand, they hear this president and his party for years complain about dependence on foreign oil. Here is non foreign oil. This is oil from Canada, an ally that would come to the United States, and he\u2019s standing in the way of it, contradicting himself. <\/p>\n
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This is Romney\u2019s big problem. He\u2019s not conservative enough for many on the Republican side of the aisle. So if Obama tries to tag this guy as Goldwater or Reagan, bring it on, that would be the best possible endorsement Romney could get. People don\u2019t fear Barry Goldwater anymore. People are not afraid of Barry Goldwater. They fear Obama. People don\u2019t fear Romney. They don\u2019t fear Ronald Reagan. They don\u2019t fear George Bush. They fear Obama. They don\u2019t fear Goldwater. This is what I mean about Obama being 50 years in the past, along with some in the Republican establishment, by the way. Obama has bought into this notion that a conservative nominee equals a landslide defeat, i.e., Goldwater. Whoever is running Obama\u2019s campaign, and Obama himself, do not know what they\u2019re doing. All this talk about they\u2019re the most brilliant strategists and consultants and so forth, they\u2019re throwing things up against the wall hoping it\u2019ll stick. <\/p>\n
BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n
RUSH: So John Heilemann says that Obama\u2019s gonna campaign on fear, and he\u2019s going to run ads and make speeches comparing Romney to Barry Goldwater. He\u2019s gonna say, “Romney is the most conservative Republican nominee since Goldwater!” That Heilemann piece also quotes some of Obama\u2019s handlers as saying that they “plan to freeze Romney like a bug in amber at the end of the dinosaur era.” Well, that\u2019s Alinsky. That\u2019s right out of Rules for Radicals: You pick the target and the freeze it; you isolate it, and then you destroy it.<\/p>\n
They\u2019re gonna “freeze Romney like a bug in amber at the end of the dinosaur era.” All the while Obama is what? Running on the same platform that FDR ran on 80 years ago. That\u2019s what we\u2019re faced with here. That\u2019s what “forward” is? It\u2019s doing an 80-year retro? And then from TheHill.com: “Obama Team Struggles Find 2012 Campaign Theme.” Oh, yeah! At TheHill.com they\u2019re fretting. They\u2019re wringing their hands over Obama\u2019s campaign theme.<\/p>\n
Yes, “President Obama\u00c2\u2019s campaign has yet to find a clear 2012 reelection slogan that carries the heft of 2008\u00c2\u2019s ‘Change You Can Believe In.'” Well, that\u2019s what happens when you can\u2019t run on what you\u2019ve done. That\u2019s what happens when you have a dismal record. That\u2019s what happens when you haven\u2019t done one thing people want more of. So you need a theme. You need some sort of a device to fool people. So you come up with a theme of fear moving forward and Romney is this or that. It\u2019s pathetic.<\/p>\n
And all of this is creating this notion that things just aren\u2019t right. This is just not the way things have happened in this country. I don\u2019t mean the campaign. I mean actual life, living circumstances, this just… This is not America. Having no big dreams for the future, having no grandiose ideas; no big things to reach for, to aspire to. This doesn\u2019t sit well. It\u2019s distinctly not American, and people don\u2019t want to sign on to that. People don\u2019t want to sign on to the notion that our best days have happened. Nobody who is an American who has kids wants to sign on to that, that our best days are behind us.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s not America.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s not the America people have known, telling people there is no hope. There may be change, but there\u2019s no hope. All these new norms. Eight percent, 9% unemployment. The new norms of having a house meaning nothing. The new norm of gasoline and fuel prices through the roof. The new norm of graduating from college and being in debt to the point that no matter what job you get you\u2019ll never pay it off. It just doesn\u2019t sit well. It\u2019s not what people bargain for. And this is the main thing Obama\u2019s got going against him.<\/p>\n
He doesn\u2019t even realize it.<\/p>\n
He thinks it\u2019s a plus.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Nah, the beauty is the American people are not gonna tolerate this. They don\u2019t want this country to be over. They don\u2019t want the best days to be behind us. People in this country are going to triumph over this, over this administration, over Obama. They\u2019re gonna triumph over the Democrat Party. They\u2019re gonna triumph over this decline and reverse it, and that\u2019s what I think is already underway as we speak. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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