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RUSH: Folks, I didn\u2019t tell you this when the show started, but the e-mail, subscriber e-mail, people who listen to this program — e-mail is really down in the dumps today. I don\u2019t think it\u2019s coincidental; it has to do with the results out of Michigan. I don\u2019t know what the expectations were and I don\u2019t know what specifically in Michigan it\u2019s tied to. But there\u2019s a noted gloom out there. Maybe it\u2019s just the media. Wherever you look in the media, we\u2019ve got \u2019em in the Stack here: “Economy Coming Back.” “Obama Stars Aligning Perfectly for Obama to Recapture White House.” There\u2019s even a story about the Democrats winning the House of Representatives back. And I\u2019ve done my best to tell people, “Get ready, \u2019cause this is only the beginning of it.” <\/p>\n

You\u2019ve got ten, maybe eleven, more months of this, news media stories about how robust the economy is, how great and hunky-dory the recovery is, all the great news ostensibly, going on in the housing market, the unemployment scene, the electoral prospects for Obama and the Democrats and the House. This Olympia Snowe story<\/a>, why, the Democrats might get the Senate back. And you couple that with stories like McCain here thinking, “Well, Romney\u2019s too damaged, this campaign, this primary\u2019s gotten too vicious. I don\u2019t know that Romney<\/a> can survive this even if he wins the nomination.” And we had the story yesterday in TheHill.com from Ford O\u2019Connell, a Republican strategerist, who says that the Republican establishment is really worried that Romney, in order to win this thing, is having to sound too conservative. <\/line><\/p>\n

Now, forget the details. The point is that the news is almost entirely negative, even the news about Republicans or conservatives is entirely negative. The news about Obama, the Democrats, winning the House and the Senate, Obama\u2019s economic recovery, Obama\u2019s parties at the White House, I don\u2019t care what they are, the news is robustly positive. But I just sense in the e-mail today a deepening gloom out there. And here\u2019s another great example, CNBC: “Markets Start to Anticipate Obama Victory in November — While President Obama may not be Wall Street\u2019s ideal candidate, stock prices are rising on growing expectations he will be re-elected this November.” We\u2019re supposed to believe this. <\/p>\n

There is nobody on earth who can tell you with ontological certitude that the market\u2019s growth is related to Obama and his reelection. Not this early. This is pure puffery. “Part of that, market pros say, is simply that investors feel more certain about who will be in the White House for the next four years and which policies they will have to deal with.” So, you see, investors don\u2019t care what the policies are. They just want to know whose they\u2019re gonna be, and those investors, they can tell right now on February 29th, Leap Day, that it\u2019s gonna be Obama. And what his policies are, it doesn\u2019t matter. Right. So investors can\u2019t wait for all of the new taxes that we\u2019re gonna have in January 2013. The Bush tax cuts expire. Obamacare taxes begin to kick in. All these investors can\u2019t wait for the continued economic transformation that Obama has begun and will continue. No. They don\u2019t care. They just want to know which policies. <\/p>\n

This story has been written, this story is timed to the calendar. It\u2019s not timed to any events. It\u2019s pure BS. This is an NBC network in the tank for Obama. What this probably is is talking points, maybe even a fully written story for the Democrat National Committee sent out to the so-called business channels. But when you stop and analyze this, this is hilarious. We\u2019re supposed to believe stock prices are rising on growing expectations Obama will be elected this November. What an absolute crock. No, no, it can\u2019t have anything to do with the turmoil in the financial markets in Europe. It can\u2019t have anything to do with the fact that that\u2019s a black hole to invest in. Investors are losing half of their holdings thanks to the various bailout deals. No. Can\u2019t have anything to do with that. <\/p>\n

We\u2019re told that investors feel more certain about who will be in the White House for the next four years than which policies they\u2019ll have to do deal with. So these investors can\u2019t wait for Taxageddon. They can\u2019t wait for all these massive new tax increases to happen. They\u2019re just so excited, they\u2019re doubling down on Obama even now. But in this story if you read far enough, as I, your host, always do, the DNC kinda blew their cover when they had their stooge here report this. Quote. “… a string of better-than-expected domestic economic data this year, including an all-important drop in the unemployment rate.”<\/line><\/p>\n

Now, never mind that unemployment hasn\u2019t even gone down a full percent since December of 2010. It was 9.4%. We haven\u2019t even had a full percentage point drop, and yet this story and its origins are given away with that sentence. “… a string of better-than-expected domestic economic data this year, including an all-important drop in the unemployment rate.” And then this CNBC DNC article goes on to claim: “The latest reading of US consumer confidence on Tuesday blew away economists\u00c2\u2019 expectations. That contrasts with the Republican debates, many of which have centered on social issues.” This is clearly a political hack piece written by an ostensible business writer at CNBC. Anyway, this is what\u2019s out there. This just one example. And people find it difficult to make themselves immune. <\/p>\n

Meanwhile, “The US economic recovery is ‘frustratingly slow\u2019 and it could take four to five years to ratchet the unemployment rate down to about 6 percent, from more than 8 percent now, a top Federal Reserve official said on Tuesday. The recovery is held back by the housing market and Europe\u2019s debt crisis among other headwinds, but monetary policy is now appropriately positioned to eventually achieve this ‘maximum employment\u2019 level, said Cleveland Fed President Sandra Pianalto.” So the headwinds again. Yes, the headwinds. So the Federal Reserve, by the way — Drudge has it — preparing a new round of printing money. What is it called, more pumping, more stimulus, more priming, more quantitative easing may be needed. <\/p>\n

But CNBC tells us the markets are happy, they\u2019re satisfied, they know where we\u2019re headed, they know who\u2019s taking us where we\u2019re headed. And that\u2019s enough for them to start investing like crazy with no concerns whatsoever. And yet Reuters: it could take five, six years to get unemployment down to 6%. Recovery is frustratingly slow, held back by the housing market. This economy is in horrible shape, and people live it, and I just remind you, in the real world, not the world of perception of reality, Stan Greenberg\u2019s memo of last week<\/a>, warning Obama, if you think that you can score big on all of these news stories based on a great, roaring recovery, you better think again because the American people aren\u2019t buying it. You can\u2019t sell it because they\u2019re living it, and they don\u2019t live what you\u2019re selling. They don\u2019t live, they don\u2019t see, they don\u2019t feel, they don\u2019t touch what you\u2019re telling them is going on, Mr. President. <\/p>\n

I know the Democrats work closely with the media to get these propaganda stories out, there\u2019s no denying this. At some point, though, they want to live in this world of total perception, not reality. And they\u2019ve pulled it off in the area of social issues. So it is said. I still do not believe that that\u2019s the slam dunk. In fact, I know it isn\u2019t. The social issues are not the slam-dunk defeat for the Republican Party that so many cowards on our side believe that they are.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Robert in Chicago. Great you called, sir. Thank you for waiting and great to have you on the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thank you very much, Rush, and thanks for putting the liberal up first. You know what? Actually she was very, very eloquent lady, but I have to disagree with just about everything she said. I\u2019ll get right to the chase here. Why are we letting the media dictate what our debates should be? We\u2019re falling into this trap. I mean, we have so many other more important items to discuss. Every debate I\u2019ve watched, I have been sickened by, because we\u2019re letting some media hack define the narrative. Case in point: Santorum and Romney, they both bit! You know, instead of talking about the real issues like unemployment, taxes, energy policy, what do they do? They start talking about abortion, contraception, and Cadillacs! Are we supposed to believe what the media\u2019s telling us? Why aren\u2019t we putting Obama on the defensive? That infuriates me, it really does.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, I think that all happens. I don\u2019t think the economy is not being discussed. I don\u2019t think unemployment\u2019s not being discussed. I don\u2019t think energy policy isn\u2019t being discussed. I think in the course of a three-hour debate it all comes up.<\/line><\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, but not to the degree it should be, really.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, but what you don\u2019t want is for abortion, the social stuff, to come up at all. It took an hour for it to come up in the last debate.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh, I didn\u2019t say that it shouldn\u2019t come up at all. But what I\u2019m saying is that we shouldn\u2019t make this the focal point of a candidate\u2019s worth or maybe his disdain. We shouldn\u2019t make this the focal point of it, and the media is successful doing that.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019m not arguing with you, but there\u2019s a guy named Jeff Bell. He was in the Reagan administration. He\u2019s a political scientist\/sociologist. He\u2019s got a book out. He\u2019s looked at past elections where social issues have been predominant and have been one of the key elements the Republican candidate for president has talked about. And each of the last two elections where the Republican candidate won the popular vote (which does not include 2000, by the way) social issues were paramount. They were paramount with Reagan. They\u2019ve been paramount with I think H. W. Bush at some point, George H. W. Bush. But I think it\u2019s one of these things that just scares the heck out of people, and you believe it\u2019s a recipe for instant defeat when it really isn\u2019t. But it still makes you uncomfortable. I\u2019m here to tell you: It has not been the focal point of these debates. In fact, it didn\u2019t enter this campaign until January 7th.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I\u2019m not going to say it\u2019s been the focal point, sir, but what I am saying is that it\u2019s taken way too much attention as of late, particularly with this last vote. You know, this last election.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You mean in Michigan?<\/p>\n

CALLER: In Michigan yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah. Well, okay. You know how it was injected into the scene. It was done by the Democrats; it was done by Obama.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh, absolutely!<\/p>\n

RUSH: So what you think, then, is obviously people on the Republican side should just ignore it, not take the bait. So when Obama comes out with this mandate that the Catholic Church and its schools give away contraceptives and abortifacients that the Republicans can\u2019t bring this up because this scares off voters.<\/p>\n

CALLER: No, I\u2019m not saying that, sir. What I am saying is that what our candidates should be saying is, “No, we disagree with you, but we have so many other topics you don\u2019t seem to want to discuss.” Maybe you can ask the media. Throw the questions back at the media! We have a target-rich environment. If we throw these questions right back at the media, “Okay, what about Obamacare? Doesn\u2019t anybody want to address the stealth taxes that are in there? I mean, it\u2019s horrendous, if you read that bill,” and I know you have, and I know your staff has.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You\u2019re singing my song. I lament all the time that we have got these Democrat hacks moderating debates disguised as journalists and that these things happen on MSNBC and CNN and all these places, but the Republicans make that decision.<\/line><\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, sadly, they\u2019re falling into the trap. What scares me is that we\u2019re going to end up with another Democrat Lite.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You mean…? Who would that be?<\/p>\n

CALLER: (chuckles) That would be Mr. Romney.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Democrat Lite. Well —<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019m sorry, I regard him as Democrat Lite, and I regard Ron Paul as another Ross Perot.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right. So you\u2019re a Santorum guy?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Not necessarily. I\u2019m a Newt guy.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Ah!<\/p>\n

CALLER: Newt or Santorum.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, okay. All right. Well, Newt\u2019s hoping for a big Super Tuesday to come back.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes, he is.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Anyway, look, I understand what you\u2019re saying. I don\u2019t mean to be argumentative with you. I\u2019m struck between two things. See, I leave in Realville. I\u2019m sorry, I just do. I do not live in fantasyland anywhere, and the way that manifests itself here is I hate having to succumb to this notion of “perception.” As somebody lives in Realville, having to live in a world where “what is perceived to be true” that isn\u2019t is what everybody lives by? That\u2019s like showing Dracula the cross. So telling me (as the mayor, no less, of Realville) that I\u2019ve gotta just understand that women hate Santorum and Gingrich and we gotta stop talking about social issues, all that does is fire me up to teach people and tell \u2019em how wrong they are and the damage they are wreaking on the country by voting Democrat because they\u2019re being stupid, idiotic, and fooled.<\/p>\n

But that\u2019s just me.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t want to succumb to the lies and try to win in that universe! <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Let me explain. This is why, folks, I don\u2019t think I could survive or triumph in politics. Because there is an axiom that “perception is reality,” and whatever the voters\u2019 perception is, is what you have to deal with. And that\u2019s how you have to campaign. So if, as an illustration: If the perception (if your polling shows you or your focus-grouping shows you) is that a majority of, say, female voters believes that Republicans want to take their abortion pills away from \u2019em, then you have to accept that. That\u2019s the “reality,” and you either come up with a strategy designed to persuade them they\u2019re wrong, or you just hope the issue doesn\u2019t come up.<\/p>\n

You don\u2019t bring it up yourself, and when it does come up, you try to slap it away and so forth. Now, I couldn\u2019t live in that world. Now, some of you might say that I do, but I actually don\u2019t. For example, in the attempt to acquire an audience on this program, I never once ask. I don\u2019t do any audience research, and I don\u2019t go out and say, “Well, what does my audience want to hear me say?” In politics that\u2019s all they do! They focus group and they have consultants and they\u2019re advised to go say this and say that. Why do you think Romney will say something like, “Yeah, Ann drives a couple Cadillacs”? That\u2019s to meet whatever his advisers told him the perception of him is: That he\u2019s a rich, removed, distant guy.<\/p>\n

So he drives a pickup. It happens to be made by General Motors. His wife drives a couple Cadillacs. “Boy, they\u2019re connected to America.” I get it, but for most people it comes off phony. Most people are not good actors. You can\u2019t fake a connection with people, and I\u2019m not harping on Romney. <\/a>I could say this about any of these Republican candidates. And I\u2019ve just explained to you, by the way, the way Democrats win every election they do win. They create a phony, false, virtual reality. They convince people that it\u2019s true. Their false, phony reality is based on the sole value that they are the ones that have big hearts, compassion, and care for people — and, therefore, anything that descends from that is all done (or planned to be done) in furthering that fact.<\/p>\n

They care about people, have compassion, and they\u2019re interested in “fairness” and all this other nebulous stuff. Frankly, I think it\u2019s what gives a lot of people challenge and frustrates a lot of people in trying to deal with it because, I don\u2019t know about you, I\u2019m not an expert in dealing with people who lie. I call \u2019em on it — and, if they\u2019re pathological, then you\u2019ve got a problem. You become a threat, and they\u2019ve got to do something about you. But I live in Realville, and when I\u2019m confronted with people who believe something that\u2019s total BS, I want to try to persuade them that they\u2019re wrong. Or better yet, set up circumstances where they will end up persuading themselves.<\/p>\n

Because you never will persuade people by getting in their face and shouting at them or pointing a finger at them or making fun of \u2019em, impugning, laughing at them, what have you. It has to be done in an entirely different way, but still it\u2019s something I think needs to be done. I believe that an informed voting electorate is the absolute best way to affect long-term, positive, deep-rooted change in the country. So if I had to say there\u2019s a mission statement to this program, it would be: to create that very large, informed, educated, engaged voting public that also lives in Realville. But if somebody came to me and said, “Look, you got a problem with women. Your numbers on women are down. You\u2019ve gotta change your attitude on abortion or at least you gotta stop talking about it.”<\/line><\/p>\n

I said, “The hell with you! That isn\u2019t gonna happen.” In politics, it\u2019s, “Oh, okay, what do I have to say?” And in politics they start modifying their statement or their beliefs or they don\u2019t bring it up at all, and otherwise accept a phony premise or a lie, and then try to survive whatever they\u2019re dealing with by getting those people to eventually vote for them. One of the examples right now is this silly notion that — take any Republican, Santorum, Romney, Gingrich. There\u2019s not a\u2019one of them that poses a threat to women in the real world. Not a\u2019one of them. Not a\u2019one of those guys wants to leave their house and go to the home of any woman and tell \u2019em how they have to live.<\/p>\n

They don\u2019t want to pass laws that tell \u2019em how to live. They don\u2019t want a government program to tell \u2019em how to live. That\u2019s being done by Obama and the Democrats! And over half the people voting for Obama and the Democrats don\u2019t even realize it\u2019s happening, and to the extent that it is happening and they know about it, they think it\u2019s being done for their own good like that Danica Patrick: “I leave it up to the government to make good decisions for Americans.” Contraception. Danica Patrick, NASCAR driver, swimsuit model for Sports Illustrated, says: I think the government is better positioned to take care of us. (That\u2019s a paraphrase of what she said.)<\/p>\n

Well, that\u2019s like fingernails on a chalkboard to me. In order to get Danica Patrick as a member of this audience, I\u2019m not gonna change what I believe to have her think that I\u2019m on the same page with her. I\u2019m just not gonna do it. And that\u2019s why I would fail in politics. That\u2019s why I get so frustrated with this stuff. I\u2019m gonna tell you: When I get an e-mail like I read to you earlier in the program: “Well, I live in the world of liberal women and independent women, and I\u2019m just gonna tell you: Not a one of them is gonna vote for Santorum or Gingrich!” Okay, so we\u2019re supposed to modify and we\u2019re supposed to compromise and we\u2019re supposed to change who we are for the lowest common denominator of uninformed, illegitimate idiots.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s what we\u2019re supposed to do?<\/p>\n

We\u2019re supposed to just cast aside what we know is right?<\/p>\n

We\u2019re supposed to cast aside what we know are the lies, and let the absolute idiocy or ignorance or misinformed status of a whole bunch of people determine how we live our lives and go about governing our affairs?<\/p>\n

Sorry, I can\u2019t do it!<\/p>\n

Which is why I\u2019m doing this and I\u2019m not (per se) in politics. But it ticks me off to have to sit here basically compromise principles in order to accommodate people who I think are blithering idiots based on the fact that they\u2019re just ignorant or uninformed and they happen to be glaringly arrogant about it at the same time. They happen to think they\u2019re the most informed. They happen to think they speak for everybody. They happen to think everybody\u2019s just like them! They\u2019re the ones, when a limit on somebody\u2019s freedom comes along, don\u2019t care — and they won\u2019t care \u2019til it happens to them. They\u2019ll sit around and let legislation be passed to say homeowners can\u2019t smoke OUTSIDE their homes. Until somebody comes along and says, “By the way,” whatever matters to them, “you can\u2019t do that anymore.” Then they\u2019ll raise hell, but by then it will be too late.<\/p>\n

Where we going next to the phones? Who is it?<\/p>\n

Brett in Michigan. Great to have you on the program. Hello.<\/p>\n

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

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

CALLER: I voted for Santorum yesterday. I had intended originally on voting for Newt, actually, until a couple of weeks ago he said he\u2019s just gonna cede Michigan, not waste any time campaigning here. To me that just kind of seemed like he just didn\u2019t need our votes, so it kind of turned me off.<\/p>\n

RUSH: No. I\u2019ll tell you what he was doing.<\/p>\n

CALLER: What\u2019s that?<\/p>\n

RUSH: He was doing two things. It\u2019s his fault that you didn\u2019t get the right idea. He was doing two things. He was positioning himself for later on. He knew he wasn\u2019t going to win. He did not want a slam-dunk loss on the record heading into Super Tuesday. That\u2019s number one. Number two, he was trying to see to it that his voters went to Santorum so as to beat Romney, which is his objective right now.<\/p>\n

CALLER: And that\u2019s what I did, I went Santorum. But my question actually was, you always tell us if conservatism is on the ballot, it wins, and it was on the ballot yesterday, and Romney won. So I guess I\u2019d just like to know, you always say don\u2019t doubt me, and I\u2019m not doubting, Rush, but I\u2019m starting to get a little bit nervous so I need some reassurance, I guess.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I would suggest that you that if you look at — I\u2019m gonna print it out — I would suggest to you that conservatism did win. If you look at what Romney had to do, Romney had to move right, he had to be nudged to the right. If you look at the percentage, this whole “chaos” effort didn\u2019t work. The whole number of Democrats that turned up was less than 10%. It was like eight or nine percent. The vast majority of the people, according to exit polls, who voted in Michigan were either somewhat conservative or very conservative, something like 70%. I\u2019ll get the number here in a minute. Conservatives did determine the outcome in Michigan yesterday. What did you think besides that happened, or what were you afraid happened instead of that? <\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I mean, just the fact that Romney won. He\u2019s won several primaries now, and, if he becomes the nominee, we\u2019ve gotta get Obama out of there. I mean I\u2019m a pre-med student. And if he were to win, I would probably have to change my major. I mean I can\u2019t — under a health care system —<\/p>\n

RUSH: You think Romney is not conservative. That\u2019s what I\u2019m hearing.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Correct. Correct. I think that if he wins the nomination and he goes against Obama, Obama\u2019s gonna beat him, is what I think.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, okay. Why?<\/p>\n

CALLER: It\u2019s just another McCain, another 2008.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh. Give me, in your words, why you think Obama would beat Romney.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, Romney, you know, after having governed in a state like Massachusetts, the bluest of blue states, and making statements that he has in the past about just about anything —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Look, I know it\u2019s nerve wracking. I know where you are.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I just want to tell you one thing. The voters in Michigan thought they were voting for a conservative. That\u2019s all you need to know. They thought they were voting for a conservative. Whether they were or not, you can argue, but they thought they were voting for a conservative. This is not a put-down. I\u2019m telling you what the voters of Michigan — they were not voting for a moderate, they were not voting for a liberal. The Republican voters were not squishy. They may have been mistaken or whatever depending on your choice, but they thought they were voting conservative. That\u2019s not meant to be a provocative statement. It\u2019s meant to be a reassuring statement. Now, the second thing I want to say to you is, if Obama wins, he will change your major. You won\u2019t have anything to say about it. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: All right, here\u2019s a report from the Michigan primary from one of our guys at our blowtorch 50,000-watt affiliate in Detroit, WJR. Turnout in Michigan yesterday, second highest ever for a Republican primary. Now, about that, I remember, I got home late yesterday afternoon, I fired up the computer and the first thing I see is that turnout is so light that people are falling asleep working at the polls. About five or six p.m. last night the turnout was light. That\u2019s what was being reported. But, no, turnout in Michigan yesterday, second highest ever for a GOP primary, just under one million votes, about 62,000 votes less than when Gerald Ford faced off against Ronaldus Magnus in the Michigan primary in 1976. But there were all-day stories about low turnout. <\/p>\n

<\/a>The Dem crossover did not happen. The most I saw, the Democrats\u2019 Operation Chaos was 9%, if that high. Now, those who voted yesterday in the Michigan primary, those who opposed the auto bailout split evenly 39-39, Romney versus Santorum. Despite bashing from Obama, Jennifer Granholm, et cetera, Romney was 43-38 over Santorum among those who approve the auto bailouts. Now, this provides me an excellent opportunity to give you another illustration of what I\u2019m talking about — living in Realville. If I were a Republican candidate for president and I had to go campaign in Michigan, I would not tell anybody I was for the bailout, just because there are people that work at the car companies there. But I read in the roundup, lead-up, the run-up, I should say, to this election, that Santorum and Romney were both going in there trying to make the case that they understood the bailout. It\u2019s working men and women that benefited from the bailout and, as candidates, they had to stand with working men and women, whatever the hell that means. <\/p>\n

The bailout was a mistake, it was wrong, it shouldn\u2019t have happened, and that\u2019s what I\u2019d-a gone in there and said. I woulda probably lost in a landslide. But that illustrates one of the problems we\u2019ve got. The auto bailout was wrong. The government should not own, direct, in any way, shape, manner, or form, run automobile companies beyond whatever regulations necessary. And even that is a stretch for me. And yet we had two Republicans in there vying for the Republican autoworker vote, saying they supported the bailout. Sorry. They both lost me on that. It shouldn\u2019t have happened. It\u2019s a weakness nationally for Obama. “But, Rush, but, Rush, in Michigan you would have had to moderate.” Yeah, fine. So in every other state I\u2019ve opposed the bailout. When I go to the Michigan, I\u2019m for it? What the hell does that say about me? I couldn\u2019t do it. I woulda spent my time telling all those people, “You may have a job, but that bailout was wrong. You ought not be working for the government this way.” Or better yet, “You shouldn\u2019t be working for the union.” I would have fired both barrels, but that\u2019s just me.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019ll make you a bet that, as we get closer to November, Obama, on occasion, is gonna sound like my younger brother. Even Obama\u2019s gonna sound conservative. He\u2019s gonna say enough outrageous liberal stuff to keep his base, but we all know what wins elections. We all know how the Democrats do it. And we\u2019ll just see if that\u2019s borne out. They will react to the reality at some point, if only briefly, in order to win. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Folks, I didn\u2019t tell you this when the show started, but the e-mail, subscriber e-mail, people who listen to this program — e-mail is really down in the dumps today. I don\u2019t think it\u2019s coincidental; it has to do with the results out of Michigan. 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