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RUSH: WhiteHouseDossier.com, a blog, Keith Koffler. “Obama Fundraising Suffers Huge Drop-Off.” Here is the final paragraph of the story. “This helps explain the vitriol Obama has been dumping out on the campaign trail. He needs to get people motivated to send him their money, and if he can get the hating thing going — hate Republicans, hate the rich, hate EVERYONE — maybe they\u00c2\u2019ll part with some cash,” because here are the details. “President Obama will raise substantially less in the second quarter of his campaign than the first, according to the New York Times. The paper writes that Obama campaign manager Jim Messina has told Democratic officials that the president will raise about $55 million in the quarter that ends Sept. 30, about $30 million less than he raised the first quarter of his campaign — which was the second quarter of the year, ending June 30.”<\/p>\n
Folks, I\u2019m gonna tell you something, and I\u2019ve mentioned this to you before. I think, given what the State-Run Media is reporting about Obama, I think it is that much worse. I think his approval numbers are far worse than what the average opinion poll is showing. What are they showing him, 42, 43%? Yesterday we had a poll from The Economist magazine, which is approved and accredited with the establishment. The Economist is a great British magazine, and they\u2019ve got a poll with some voting group, I forget the name of the group. Obama\u2019s approval number in that poll is 36%. His fundraising is down, and I\u2019ve said for the longest time, I remember telling you for the longest time that the internal polls in the White House — by internal, I mean the ones they do for themselves, not polls bought and paid for by networks. These are polls, the internals, another way to describe internals are the right ones. The campaign has to know exactly where it stands. <\/p>\n
The campaign can\u2019t lie to itself about where it is in a poll. The New York Times or the Wall Street Journal or NBC, these people can ask questions in any way they want, they can fudge results any way they want to produce a result that is what they want. But the regime can\u2019t afford to do that. They\u2019ve gotta know exactly where they stand. I just think it\u2019s far worse. And when the fundraising is down like this, and when he\u2019s embarking on fundraising so consistently and I think this blog has it right. I think there\u2019s a sense of panic within the regime over Obama\u2019s position, and I think a lot of people don\u2019t realize it or don\u2019t think of it because of conditioning. People on our side, I mean. We have a lot of people who find it hard to process notion that people who have rigged the game can be in such trouble. I mean, look at the advantages they have. They own the media, the Democrat Party, the left, the president, whatever, they own the, quote, unquote, legacy media. That\u2019s big. <\/p>\n
They have, because of that power, they have the ability to define language any way they want, and whoever defines the language often wins the debate. You couple that with the fact that the Republican leadership in Washington is still afraid of itself and people just find it hard to process the fact that the Democrat candidate, particularly this one, first black president, all of this phony baloney, plastic banana, good-time rock ‘n\u2019 roll image crap that they created about the guy, they find it hard to believe that it\u2019s all just evaporated. Here was a guy we were told was universally loved, adored, and appreciated unlike anybody else back in 2008. <\/p>\n
Now, the election returns didn\u2019t show that. It was 53-47. That\u2019s not a landslide. But nevertheless people who are soaked in pessimism — and you have to admit, people on our side are drowning in it. People on our side have been drowning in pessimism for I don\u2019t know how long. And by that I mean you think, a lot of people think that the Democrats are totally in charge of everything and everything they\u2019re doing is a big trick and that we can\u2019t keep up with them. In fact, all of this is probably just a trick to get us to get overconfident or what have you. But I don\u2019t think it can be denied that most of the people on our side, particularly the elected Republican leadership, just can\u2019t process the fact that Obama and the Democrats are in this much trouble, even though the evidence is all over the place and even though it has been the case many times in recent years. <\/p>\n
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You know, life circumstances in this country are real. People want to work and cannot find a job. Their home values have been destroyed. This stuff, Obamaism, it\u2019s real. It has had a disastrous effect on people\u2019s lives. They are living it and yet we still have people who think that even those people can be fooled into believing it\u2019s the Republicans\u2019 fault. At the end of the day that that\u2019s who\u2019s going to ultimately get blamed, the Republicans, “Yeah, watch, Rush, you\u2019re gonna see \u2019em succeed in blaming the Republicans for all this.” A lifetime of pessimism is tough to overcome. Now, I do not share this pessimism. <\/p>\n
How many months have I been telling you if the election were today or tomorrow, he\u2019d lose in a landslide? So you put it all together, and the regime is in trouble. Plus, folks, these speeches just don\u2019t accomplish anything anymore. The magic that was the concoction of Obama is gone. He doesn\u2019t hold sway. The more he speaks, the worse it gets for him. He doesn\u2019t have the ability any longer to give a speech and turn people into mush. You look at November of 2010, look at that election. That by any definition was a landslide election, the midterms in 2010. And not just in Washington, all the way down the ballot, state and local ballots. It was horrible for the Democrats. <\/p>\n
Now, why should Obama be in any less trouble today than he was in 2010? The economy hasn\u2019t improved. There\u2019s no upswing in jobs. Health care is more expensive and less available. None of what Obama has promised has come true. He promised all these jobs. He promised cheaper health care. He promised unity. He promised the world would love us. Nothing he has said has come true. Why is it odd to think he\u2019s in trouble? Why is it weird, why is it foolish to think Obama is in big trouble? Why is the smart play to think, “Oh, this guy\u2019s got us right where he wants. The American people, you know, Rush, they\u2019re stupid, the American people stupid, and 47% of them don\u2019t pay taxes, all Obama\u2019s gotta do is tell \u2019em he\u2019s gonna give \u2019em this, we can\u2019t win, Rush, we\u2019ve lost the country.” Sorry, I don\u2019t subscribe to that. November 2010 wouldn\u2019t-a happened. They\u2019re trying to tell us the Tea Party, I\u2019ve seen this in a couple places, Tea Party is not nearly as powerful as it was. <\/p>\n
When did that happen, the Tea Party not nearly as relevant as it used to be. When did that happen? The Tea Party not nearly as large as it used to — when did that happen? When did the Tea Party start slinking off the face of the earth? I haven\u2019t seen that. As far as I\u2019m concerned, the Tea Party\u2019s growing. Herman Cain won the straw poll in Florida. Why do you think he won the straw poll in Florida? You want to know why Herman Cain won the straw poll in Florida? ‘Cause you can\u2019t find one example of Herman Cain, at any point in this campaign, not being a conservative. Herman Cain\u2019s not hedging his bets. Herman Cain is not trying to be all things to all people. Herman Cain is not out there trying to make sure he doesn\u2019t offend this group or that group.<\/p>\n
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Herman Cain and Santorum. Have you ever heard Santorum say anything other than a conservative position? And what else does Herman Cain do? He takes it right to Obama. He doesn\u2019t take it to Romney; he doesn\u2019t take it to Perry. He takes it to Obama. Because Republican voters know at the end of the day Perry\u2019s not the enemy and Romney\u2019s not the enemy. There may be better choices, but Obama is the enemy. Obama is who has to be defeated. Obama is who the people of this country have got to be constantly told is their problem. So why is it a surprise that Herman Cain would win the straw poll in Florida? All he\u2019s done is being consistently conservative — and I\u2019ll tell you something else Herman Cain has. He\u2019s got a specific economic plan, this 9-9-9 thing, and it\u2019s easy to understand — and it makes total sense.<\/p>\n
And it\u2019s not dressed up in a bunch of what-ifs and maybes and so forth. It\u2019s just what it is, and it\u2019s offered by somebody with confidence, a little bravado, sense of humor, optimism. It\u2019s not surprising to me he wins the Florida straw poll. My point here is it is Obama who\u2019s trouble, not Romney. It\u2019s Obama who\u2019s in trouble, not Perry. They may be in trouble within their own little universes or whatever they\u2019re trying to accomplish here in the Republican primary — and Romney may not be in trouble. I was in Indianapolis over the weekend and, of course, wherever I go people want to talk politics. To so many people (left, right, center, it didn\u2019t matter what their affiliation was), it\u2019s over. Romney\u2019s the nominee. That\u2019s just it.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s not that they care or disagree or approve of it, just it\u2019s over. And it\u2019s not over. And they think Romney\u2019s the nominee because nobody else has the money and nobody else has the time and Perry got in too late, he\u2019s too nervous in the debates, doesn\u2019t come through, and these other people don\u2019t have a chance. “Ah, Cain is great but doesn\u2019t have a chance, Rush. Santorum doesn\u2019t have a chance. Bachmann doesn\u2019t have a chance.” Who says? Why? Did not Herman Cain win the Florida straw poll (that was flooded with a bunch of Ron Paul people, by the way)? So, my only point to you in all of this is: I see a story that his fundraising is down, his poll numbers are down, on the campaign trail he\u2019s acting like a petulant little narcissist who for the first time in his life is not getting his way.<\/p>\n
Handpicked questioners are standing up and saying the stupidest stuff. “Mr. President, raise our taxes.” Hey, Walter Mondale, how did that work for you in 1984? Do you think anybody is gonna win the presidency on a campaign of, “Raise my taxes, Mr. President”? Do you think it is a winning campaign strategy to run around and say,”I\u2019m gonna raise your taxes, I\u2019m gonna raise your taxes, I\u2019m gonna raise your taxes, because…” Why, Mr. President? “Well, because we haven\u2019t made enough investment in education.” People have lost the value of their homes! They don\u2019t have jobs and you\u2019re trying to tell me they\u2019re under-taxed? You\u2019re trying to tell me we haven\u2019t invested?<\/p>\n
We have invested so much and it doesn\u2019t work is why we\u2019re broke! People want some responsibility and sensibility returned to all this, and Obama has blown it sky-high in terms of irrationality. We have the least qualified guy in any room he walks into running the country and people are starting to realize it. So his fundraising is down, his poll numbers are down; on the campaign trail he\u2019s becoming mean, angry, bitter, and focusing on people he wants us to consider the enemies of all the rest of us — and that\u2019s the successful. This isn\u2019t 20 or 30 years ago. It isn\u2019t 40 years ago. It\u2019s not working, and the fact that it isn\u2019t working — he\u2019s doubling down on it, getting even angrier — is evidence to me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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