New York Times has a big story<\/a> about the Republican establishment trying to marginalize the Tea Party. So the Washington establishment is convinced the Tea Party\u2019s gone. My question is, “What has changed since November of 2010 with the Tea Party?” Now, I understand the power of the media to paint a picture, to create an image. And they\u2019re doing it, and this is what this is all about. In fact, the Tea Party never really was real. That\u2019s where this is headed, the Tea Party was an aberration. It was one of those odd things that happens in politics now and then. You listen to Tea Party people, they\u2019re not even as energetic as they were. There\u2019s a school board election (I can tell you this) in Wake County, North Carolina, where every Tea Party candidate got shellacked; and the Democrat strategy in the campaign was to paint them all as racists.<\/line><\/p>\nSo the theory is that the way you beat Tea Party candidates is to call \u2019em racists, this from Public Policy Polling. They analyze these elections, which are the essence of local election, school board. But nevertheless, the theory is that you can beat a Tea Party candidate by calling \u2019em racists; that it\u2019s been done in North Carolina and that\u2019s the end of it.<\/p>\n
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So that would be one thing that you might say has changed but aside from that, somebody tell me: What really has changed from November 2010? If the 2010 November elections were today, would the results be any different than they were then? That\u2019s what they\u2019re trying to tell us. Chuck Schumer and the Republican establishment are trying to tell us that if the November 2010 elections were held today, that there wouldn\u2019t have been that landslide Republican win. It wouldn\u2019ta happened. So the Tea Party is waning when Michele Bachmann has won the only actual vote taken so far, the Iowa straw poll. Well, Herman Cain won the Florida straw poll, and Herman Cain is leading in most opinion polls — and Herman Cain\u2019s Tea Party.<\/line><\/p>\n
Seventy percent of Republican voters say they don\u2019t like Romney, one aspect or another of Romney. There\u2019s the establishment. The Tea Party\u2019s faded away, but somehow their candidates are in serious contention in the polls. These racist Tea Partiers who have put Herman Cain at the top in the most recent poll. Herman Cain (you may not know this) is African-American, and he\u2019s at the top of the polling data. And the Tea Party put him there. But the Tea Party doesn\u2019t exist, they\u2019re racists and they\u2019re fading away.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Brian in Atlanta, great to have you on the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Hey, Rush, how you doing?<\/p>\n
RUSH: I\u2019m okay, sir. Thank you.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Well, you said that the Tea Party is shrinking, and I\u2019m a Tea Party leader here in Atlanta, and I can tell you that is absolutely false.<\/p>\n
RUSH: No, I didn\u2019t say it. What I am saying is that the Republican establishment and the Democrat Party are joined together with the media in trying to create the impression that the Tea Party\u2019s dead.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yeah, wishful thinking.<\/p>\n
RUSH: It\u2019s still a bunch of racists, but it\u2019s dead. That\u2019s what they\u2019re trying to do. And that\u2019s been replaced, by the way, in popular culture energy with the Occupy Wall Street crowd. “Tea Party\u2019s gone, this is the real protest movement now, the Wall Street crowd.” That\u2019s the impression they\u2019re trying to create each and every day in the media, and it\u2019s all being done to dispirit people like you.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Well, it\u2019s not working.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, good.<\/p>\n
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CALLER: You know, people are very jazzed. I mean we just showed the movie Agenda and we almost had to turn people away, and people were fired up. We were just at an air show, and our booth was constantly busy, people were just telling us keep going, they wanted to know when the next meeting was, we have people signing up left and right. It\u2019s starting to swell again for the 2012 elections.<\/line><\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, you and I know this. I think it\u2019s only growing and the passion is only swelling and that\u2019s why the ongoing effort here to diminish it. If the Tea Party had really faded away, they\u2019d be ignoring it, they wouldn\u2019t be reporting it, and they wouldn\u2019t have started this Occupy Wall Street. The whole reason for the creation of the Occupy Wall Street protests is to counter the impact of the Tea Party. It\u2019s all part of a grand design. Stakes are high. The establishment in Washington, both parties, ruling class, the elites, whatever you want to call \u2019em, they realize that they face a real threat. That\u2019s why on our side they\u2019re trying to secure the nomination for Romney early, get these primaries moved up on the calendar. They all feel threatened by this. <\/p>\n
And what\u2019s really odd about it, the Republican establishment, if it were worth anything, would be looking at the glaring weaknesses of Obama and trying to capitalize on \u2019em. And that\u2019s not what they\u2019re doing. Stop and think about that. The Republican establishment, I can\u2019t find any evidence they\u2019re trying to capitalize on this weakness. The Republican establishment seems to be focused primarily on marginalizing the Tea Party and Tea Party freshmen in Congress. Now, the Occupy Wall Street crowd, they\u2019re down there, they\u2019re demanding more taxes, they\u2019re demanding more freebies, they\u2019re demanding more successful people be thrown in jail. The Tea Party wants less taxes and smaller government, who do you think represents real America? The establishment types know it. Nothing is changed since November 2010. <\/p>\n
Since November 2010 the majority of Americans had not all of a sudden said, “You know what, we kind of like what Obama is doing. We like houses being bulldozed in Michigan and now Ohio. We like unemployment 9.2% and getting worse. We like the fact that we can\u2019t get jobs and nobody is getting raises and we like the fact our tax rates are gonna go up and we like the fact that this health care bill that nobody wanted is gonna be implemented.” Yep, yep, everybody, we can see that change. It\u2019s all over the country, right? That\u2019s what they want us to believe. <\/p>\n
That\u2019s what they want, and if they can\u2019t make you believe that, they want you to believe that the effort to stop this is pointless, that you\u2019re not big enough or strong enough nor large enough to stop it, and that you don\u2019t have a candidate that can stop it anyway. They just want you to give up. They want you to pack it in. They want you to surrender. They want you to think of yourselves as totally ineffective, meaningless, and worthless, that you can\u2019t stop \u2019em anyway so you may as well stop even caring. That\u2019s what they\u2019re after. <\/p>\n
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RUSH: You know, I just asked a question, the Occupy Wall Street protestors demanding more taxes and bigger government; the Tea Party wants less — who do you think represents real America? Well, continuing with the theme of the day, I am holding here in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers (shuffling paper) a TIME Magazine poll: “Occupy Wall Street Is More Popular Than The Tea Party — A TIME poll taken on October 9 and 10, with a base of 1,001 people, has turned up some interesting results about how Americans view the Tea Party, Occupy Wall Street, and dysfunction in Washington.” Now, get this: “81% of respondents think the country is on the wrong track, but they\u2019re reluctant to place the blame fully on President Obama for the problems; 50% of the respondents disapprove of the way he\u2019s handling the job, but 59% believe that he cares about them…”<\/p>\n
What the hell does that have to do with anything? But they ask it so they can report it. “[H]alf of the respondents say he has the toughness necessary to see this through. On an exceedingly grim note, only 4% of the 1,001 polled feel positive about the state of the country today. The poll asked people to identify which faction of government best represents their views. 30% identified with Democrats, while 17% said Republicans and 12% went with the Tea Party.” So you end up with 29%. So they admit that their sample is skewed. So if you\u2019re looking for a left-right bias it leans slightly to the left assuming that designations of Democrats to the left and Tea Party is to the right.<\/p>\n
But if you dig even deeper into the numbers, the Tea Party was more hated than Organize Wall Street. Tea Party had 24% very unfavorable, Organize Wall Street only 13% very unfavorable, while Organize Wall Street was more readily embraced, 25% very favorable against the Tea Party\u2019s 8% very favorable. There you have it. So, according to TIME Magazine, the Tea Party is hated, disliked; 80% think the country\u2019s going in the wrong direction, 59% think Obama is about \u2019em. And the Tea Party is hated much more than Organize Wall Street. So it\u2019s an-all-out effort now, it is an all-out push.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Mark in Houston. I\u2019m glad you called, sir, you\u2019re up next the EIB Network.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yes. Thank you, Rush. “Commandeer” is the appropriate term, and the Tea Party can commandeer the GOP, especially if you could pronounce the last name of the chairman “Palin,” but that\u2019s not why I called. I believe the Tea Party is very silent because we\u2019re just listening. We\u2019re listening. We got a little bit bamboozled by some of these RINOs in the last election, but what we don\u2019t want to get hit by is some TINOs in this election.<\/p>\n
RUSH: So what are you gonna do?<\/p>\n
CALLER: We\u2019re gonna listen. We\u2019re gonna listen and see who the guys up there that are talking Tea Party, and the guys that are up there who are acting Tea Party. So far, the best guy acting Tea Party is Herman Cain.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, he\u2019s leading in the polls right now. Newt Gingrich has moved into third place, by the way, in the poll that has Herman Cain at the top of the heap. By the way, Herman Cain is going to appear on Meet the Press Sunday, it was just announced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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