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RUSH: We have Michigan Democrats. This is last night, Erin Burnett\u2019s show on CNN. She\u2019s talking to Michigan Democrat strategerist Joe DiSano about Michigan\u2019s Operation Chaos<\/a>. She said, “How many people do you think you\u2019re gonna get –” meaning Democrats “– to come in and vote for Santorum <\/a>here? I know you said you had 12,000 of them ready. Some people say that\u2019s an inflated and inaccurate number. What\u2019s your response?”<\/p>\n

DISANO: We\u2019ve had a program over the past seven days to identify as earlier today 12,000, I think it might be a couple thousand higher once I start going through the data tonight, but we\u2019re gonna do everything we can to turn those folks out. This is a razor-thin election. Mitt Romney is incredibly weak as a candidate. This is his home state. Rick Santorum\u2019s<\/a> a religious fanatic who has absolutely zero reason being in this race other than the fact that Mitt can\u2019t close the deal.<\/p>\n

BURNETT: It does sound like you think Mitt is stronger than Rick. That\u2019s why you are doing this, but, however, you and Rush Limbaugh, I get it. It works on both sides.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay, this is a Michigan Democrat. Santorum\u2019s a religious fanatic, how in the hell is he still here? My gosh, he\u2019s probably saying what a lot of you are. He\u2019s probably saying what a lot of the Republican establishment is. He\u2019s a religious fanatic, how in the heck did this happen? But I\u2019m gonna tell you, remember when Mrs. Clinton said — when Operation Chaos was going on — “Rush, be careful what you wish for”? I\u2019m gonna tell you, you Democrats, be careful what you wish for here, because I can cite you, I\u2019ve got it in the Stack, poll after poll, data after data, the social issues are not hurting Santorum. The social issues are helping Santorum. One of the reasons Santorum is alive and viable is precisely because of them. <\/line><\/p>\n

Look, he has something about him which is unique, and that is his fearlessness in standing up for moral values and social issues. Why shouldn\u2019t he use it? It\u2019s a way he can stand out from the pack. It\u2019s a way he can show people he\u2019s not the typical Republican that puts his head in the sand and acts afraid of everything that comes up. Why shouldn\u2019t he use this stuff? Don\u2019t forget Stanley Greenberg\u2019s memo<\/a>, we told you last week, the big Democrat pollster, said Obama — this is Carville\u2019s polling company — if you think that you can create this image of a roaring back-to-life economy it isn\u2019t gonna work, because people aren\u2019t living it. Greenberg, right here, I had the story printed out earlier today because I remembered it from last week. <\/p>\n

“Dem Pollster: Voters Don\u2019t Think America\u2019s Back.” Voters don\u2019t want the federal government mandating where they get contraceptives from. And, by the way, if the government\u2019s gonna mandate contraceptives why don\u2019t they start mandating something that really matters? Why just contraceptives? People are sophisticated now. They understand the political ploy that\u2019s involved in this. But the social issues are not hurting Santorum. And remember Jeff Bell, we\u2019ve talked about his book. He\u2019s gone back and he\u2019s looked at Republican elections in the past, and the last two elections where Republicans won the popular vote, the last two presidential elections, social issues were prominent in that Republican\u2019s campaign. <\/p>\n

Now, folks, if the social issues were gonna kill somebody, how is Santorum still alive? Remember, we were told the social issues, half the Republican Party doesn\u2019t want \u2019em discussed either, so Santorum ought to be nowhere near viable. But all the polling data suggests just the opposite. It\u2019s like I always say, don\u2019t buy into and believe all the conventional wisdom in politics. <\/p>\n

So here\u2019s Carville himself. Carville was on Erin Burnett Out Front last night and she asked him, “Well, what do you think? Do you actually think these people, Democrats can cross over and vote for Santorum? Or is this just you guys trying to play mischief and spoil this?”<\/p>\n

CARVILLE: Well, first of all, it\u2019s hard enough to get Democrats to vote in a Democratic primary. (chuckling) I doubt he\u2019s gonna have very much luck getting to vote in a Republican primary. This kind of thing has been done before. I think Rush Limbaugh had an Operation Chaos —<\/p>\n

BURNETT: Yeah, he did! (giggling)<\/p>\n

CARVILLE: — in Pennsylvania in \u201908. You know, so my experience is this is always (unintelligible) not very successful. Uh, he\u2019s trying to scrap every — every vote here in. You know, uh, some of the Democratic organizations in Michigan had sorta talked about the this but my guess is it\u2019s a factor gonna be very negligible. I hope maybe I\u2019ll be proven wrong, but we\u2019ll see.<\/p>\n

RUSH: He doesn\u2019t sound enthusiastic about this. I don\u2019t think he does. (impression) Rush Limbaugh had Operation Chaos. I think Rush Limbaugh…” He knows damn well I had Operation Chaos. They all know about Operation Chaos, and we\u2019re now just really finding out how effective it was. Now they\u2019re emulating it! Now they\u2019re emulating it, at the same time trying to put it down. (interruption) Yeah, I know. Ides of March. Ides of March! I told you: Ides of March, the first 38 minutes of that movie is about Operation Chaos, and how ticked off the Democrats were over it. The ides of March, a nominated movie. The first 38 minutes is about how the Democrat (it\u2019s a gubernatorial candidate I think in Ohio) is gonna use his own Operation Chaos.<\/p>\n

<\/a>They\u2019re ticked off about it. They\u2019re happily using it in Michigan. But Carville doesn\u2019t sound all that thrilled. He doesn\u2019t sound all that into it. I\u2019m not sure what he thinks is going on. I think everybody is confused now over Santorum doing well and why. Folks, do you understand? This goes against every syllable of conventional wisdom in American big time politics. None of this should be happening. None of it! Here\u2019s David Frum. He was also on Erin Burnett Out Front last night. So she to your mind to Frum and she said, “By Democrats saying, ‘Hey, Democrats come over here vote for Santorum,\u2019 is this insanity?”<\/p>\n

FRUM: No, I think it\u2019s, uh, nostalgia; that Rick Santorum remembers a time when there were a lot of, um, socially conservative Democrats, uh, who were not averse to the Republican economic message. The famous Reagan Democrats of 30 years ago. Um, I think this is a case where you see a kind of, um, the weakness of the Santorum campaign staffing operation. ‘Cause those people are not there in the strength that they used to be. And the place where the independents today are, they are disaffiliated Republicans. They are on the… The independents tend to be more on the far right than they are on this Reagan Democrat middle. And the action of course, is to, umm — among the best educated and the most affluent are those people will be pulled to Mitt Romney, not to Rick Santorum.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So the conventional wisdom here, Frum expressed, is: There aren\u2019t that many Reagan Democrats anymore. So it\u2019s not a smart play. There aren\u2019t that many of \u2019em.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not sure that\u2019s true, but regardless, it doesn\u2019t matter. Santorum is taking everything he\u2019s got that is unique about himself and he\u2019s trumpeting it, fearlessly so. Here\u2019s a fun thought, if you want to play it out. If the Democrats actually do help Santorum get the nomination — as unlikely as that seems, and as impossible as it seems that Santorum gets the nomination. If the Democrats help Santorum get the nomination, and then he beats Obama \u2019cause I think he would… I think any of these guys is gonna beat Obama, folks. Any of them is going to beat Obama. If they help Santorum get the nomination, he beats Obama, what will Carville and the other Democrats say then as they\u2019re jumping off the nearest bridge?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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