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RUSH: Victor in Atlanta, Georgia. Victor, thank you for waiting. It\u2019s great to have you here with us.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, Rush, thanks for taking my call.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You bet, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Rush, I wanted to just talk about, you know, I hear on the radio sometimes about the enthusiasm in this election. And one of the things that I wanted to share: I\u2019m an African-American living in Dekalb County in the surrounding Atlanta area.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay.<\/line><\/p>\n

CALLER: And, you know, my reality is that I\u2019m working but my wife hasn\u2019t worked for a couple of years. I have a 24-year-old son that was in school last semester working part-time jobs. He\u2019s really discouraged. I\u2019m like, “You know, things are tough out here.” I don\u2019t know about getting together and rallying, but I know that this November when I go to the polls, I can\u2019t endure another couple of years like I\u2019ve just come through. On one hand, you know, we talk about looking for a candidate that\u2019s “exciting.” Rush, I\u2019m having such a tough time dealing what\u2019s going on in my household that I\u2019ve been zapped out of enthusiasm, but I just can\u2019t suffer through another four years of Barack Obama.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Nobody else can, either. Let me tell you a story here, Victor, because you\u2019re not alone. I\u2019m gonna illustrate this whole enthusiasm thing for you a certain way. I think people are worried about it. You\u2019re believing media <\/a>polls about it. You\u2019re believing it. The media is telling us that Republican excitement\u2019s been tamped down \u2019cause nobody likes Republican field. Let me tell you. I was playing golf almost exactly three, four years ago. A guy from South Carolina who was a Democrat, I was meeting him for the second time, I couldn\u2019t understand him. This guy made no sense to me intellectually. He\u2019s a Democrat. And he kept ragging on George W. Bush, kept making fun of Bush, trying to provoke me.<\/p>\n

And I finally said, “What is it with you and Bush? Can we get serious for a minute? What is your problem?”<\/p>\n

He looked at me and said, “It can\u2019t get any worse, Rush.”<\/p>\n

And I looked at him, and I just shook my head, and I said, “It most certainly can, and it\u2019s going to.”<\/p>\n

Now, it is much worse. It\u2019s ten times as worse, Victor, as it was four or five years ago when this guy told me it can\u2019t get any worse. And, by the way, when this guy told me, the economy had not really started it\u2019s outward plunge, he was just reacting to Iraq and the fact everybody thought we had a stupid president. Everybody was embarrassed of Bush\u2019s lack of intelligence, and the media was trying to tell everybody the economy was in the tank, but it wasn\u2019t yet. I was just struck. This is not a dumb guy by any means, and he says, “It can\u2019t get any worse.” His partisanship was overpowering. My point to you, Victor, is 75% of the American people of Super Tuesday exit polls said the number one, two, and three things that matter to them are the economy. You are not only not alone. You are in a majority of 75%, and those same people say and feel the same thing. They don\u2019t want four more years of this, and it won\u2019t matter who the Republican nominee is to \u2019em. Because they\u2019re going to be voting against Obama first and foremost.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: I want to try something here. It\u2019s very delicate, but I\u2019m going to give it a shot, and it\u2019s aimed at those of you who are lacking confidence over the possibility of beating Obama. We just heard from Victor in Atlanta, and despite what is real, Victor is convinced… Well, he\u2019s not convinced, but he\u2019s very frightened that the enthusiasm to dump Obama is fading on our side. Now, there\u2019s been an event that happen last weekend, and it\u2019s had legs, and it\u2019s gone on throughout this entire week. It was an event which ended up being directed out of the White House when it was all said and done. And it\u2019s safe to say that this event has backfired on them.<\/p>\n

Everything they hoped to accomplish this week, they\u2019ve not accomplished. They might have 25 years ago, but they haven\u2019t. They, on the left, are now being forced by an army of people on the right to comport themselves to the same standards that they are demanding of others, and that\u2019s going to put a real crimp in their style. Remember, when I apologized I said one aspect of what I had done wrong was I descended to their level. And I meant to emphasize that. I descended to their level. That\u2019s what was, among other things, wrong about it. But it was a one-time thing for me. They live there. Now they\u2019ve been called on it.<\/p>\n

Kirsten Powers at Fox News, with the couple of columns that she has written on the double standard, she deserves a Medal of Valor. She deserves a huge medal. I don\u2019t want to spend too much time. She\u2019s already in enough trouble with people on her side. But it\u2019s obvious it isn\u2019t bothering her. No, I\u2019m not trying to speak in code. I\u2019m just trying to let things remain where they are. But the fact of the matter is you talk about enthusiasm? I\u2019ve seen it. The enthusiasm that\u2019s out there on the right, on our team, I\u2019m telling you: It\u2019s at an all-time high. IF… I say “IF” with a capital I-F.<\/p>\n

IF that enthusiasm had started to wane, the media and the Democrats have ginned it back up to higher levels than it ever has been since the Tea Party days of 2010. It\u2019s back, folks. Trust me. Don\u2019t doubt me. I am fully aware. The enthusiasm is there. The energy is there on the part of people on our side, all over this country. There is shellshock on the left. They thought this was the time. This was the gonna be that moment when they finally succeeded. Right now they\u2019re sitting out there in stunned confusion trying to figure out why it hasn\u2019t happened, why am I still here. Again, I don\u2019t mean to be cryptic, but your level of understanding on this is already quite high. I\u2019m just telling you:<\/p>\n

<\/a>Don\u2019t doubt the enthusiasm that exists on our side to triumph over these people, at the ballot box, where and how it should be done. This event turned out to be… It wasn\u2019t a fluke. It was purposeful. All they ended up doing was calling attention to their own constant misogyny. All they ended up doing was focusing the attention on all of their people on the left who are constantly and every day in the gutter. They\u2019re not there by accident or by mistake, like I was for five minutes. They live there, and that\u2019s what\u2019s been made plain this week. That has been what has been made clear. I also had — I didn\u2019t get to it yesterday, but you may have seen this by now — a video. Jan Schakowsky of Illinois and Sheila Jackson Lee were caught by somebody.<\/p>\n

It might have been Breitbart people, I forget who it was, with camera and microphone — and they would not condemn any of the language from any of their favorite people on the left. No, no, totally different! Oh, you mean so it\u2019s okay for Sarah Palin to be called the C-word as long as the guy calling her the C-word is pro-choice, essentially? Their hypocrisy has been illustrated triumphantly and in great klieg lights and is on display every week. I apologized for behaving like a Democrat. They can\u2019t apologize for that, because they are. They\u2019re there every day. I apologized for behaving like a liberal. They live there.<\/p>\n

They always overreach. They always throw gasoline on our fire (which is crazy, given the price of gasoline). But if you think the enthusiasm level\u2019s down, these people essentially set our hair on fire this week. So don\u2019t doubt the enthusiasm. And you see the exit polling data: 75% coming out of Super Tuesday polling places said their number one issue is the economy. Number two issue, economy. Number three issue, economy. You couldn\u2019t find contraception anywhere on the left. You couldn\u2019t find a war on women. It wasn\u2019t there.<\/p>\n

Even the women coming out… It\u2019s a Republican primary, obviously, but Republican women are women. They care about the economy, and they know the economy is not roaring back.And they know everything they\u2019ve been hearing from the media and from Obama from the White House about a roaring economy is not true. And, Victor, they\u2019re just like you. Their husbands, they themselves have spent two years without a job. No prospects. They don\u2019t want two more years of this, don\u2019t want four more years of this. Seventy-five percent of this country does not want four more years of this or another day of it!<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t doubt me. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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