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RUSH: Well, I think there are two major, huge differences that, I mean, when you ask me, just glare at me in the face. First is, we do not have an incumbent Democrat\u2019s vice president seeking the White House. Number 2, we have this profound issue that faces every American called the war on terror, and it continues, and one of the parties literally has nothing to offer the American people on it. That\u2019s what these hearings are all about. You know, if you strip all this away, there\u2019s nothing really new here, the Democrats still to this day cannot say, “vote for us, because we\u2019re going to do X, Y, Z.” They still only can seek votes by criticizing and denigrating their opponent, by getting people scared, frightened, angry at Bush, get people to vote against their opponent, is what they\u2019re having to do; and if you couple that with the fact that they\u2019ve nominated a man whom few Democrats have any genuine support and affection for personally, I just don\u2019t see anywhere near identical ingredients that worked as they did in the year 2000. I don\u2019t even see a close election.<\/line> <\/line>CALLER: I appreciate that, Rush, and that makes me feel a lot better. Because I see that, and I know listening to you and listening to other conservative commentators and, you know, talk show hosts, I get that feeling. I just wonder, you know, is that going to penetrate through to the American people when it comes time to make that decision in November?<\/line> <\/line>RUSH: Well, I think it already has. I mean, you can look at the polls. You know, polls are polls and polls now actually are not really relevant to what\u2019s going to happen six months from now or nine months from now, but they?re pretty reliable in terms of representing and illustrating where the public mind-set is today, if you know how to separate it from the news of the day because that\u2019s really what polling companies are polling.<\/line> <\/line>But if you ask me, after 9\/11 and they continue for three years, the Democrats have done nothing but try to destroy George Bush, they have tried to talk the economy down and make it worse than it is, they have been nothing but negative, negative, negative, negative, and they keep piling on with this sort of thing and yet Bush still leads Kerry. I mean, if this stuff were really having that great an impact, Bush would be at 20 or 30% in the polls. I\u2019m telling you, Debbie, it is now March the 25th and I have yet — and even in tempting these people, even stoking them, even goosing them — I still have yet to receive one Democrat phone call from somebody who\u2019s personally enthusiastic and supportive of John Kerry. The only Democrat calls we get, the only liberal calls we get are, “I hate Bush, Bush has got to go, Bush is horrible, what about Halliburton, what about war for oil,” all these clich?s. And I think there was some support for Gore. I think there was a lot of residual Clinton support and affection for Gore in a lot of states in this country last year. Because Gore was an unknown quantity, really. Had that came gone on three or four more months Gore would have gotten skunked, but I think the ingredients this year are just entirely, entirely different.<\/line><\/p>\n

Plus, you know, the Democrats are lying about a lot of things. The economy is not nearly as bad as they say it is. Their base is eroding. I mean they keep talking about unions here and unions there, look at the Teamsters. The Teamsters union sided up with Kerry not because they like him, but because Gephardt told Jimmy Hoffa to do so and now Hoffa is out there having to make excuses for Kerry who\u2019s voted for things that the Teamsters actively oppose. I mean, there has not been a coalition or a coalescing of Democrat support behind their nominee. The turnout in these Democrat primaries, for all this talk of how angry they are, and how enraged, and how much they hate Bush, the turnout was 8 or 10% even when John Edwards was still in the race. Democrats are not beating down doors to go vote, they are not nearly as angry and enraged, that\u2019s just all media hype to try to convince people to get on board in the same manner. But if you simply look at the Democrats, give you another example, Richard Clarke, do you think Osama bin Laden or the terrorists really give a rat\u2019s rear end about Richard Clarke and what he\u2019s saying here? Who are they going to be most concerned with? Whoever is in the White House. They don\u2019t care about any of this. This isn\u2019t going to deter them. That\u2019s what I said before the commercial break at the bottom of the hour. They can do all these committee hearings they want, they can have all this hindsight they want, they go back and look all they want, this that\u2019s taking place this week in Washington is not contributing an iota to the problem being solved, the terrorist problem being solved. <\/line> <\/line>It\u2019s typical liberalism. They don\u2019t solve problems, they want them to get worse so they can capitalize on them by getting the people they want to blame for them in trouble, and that\u2019s all this is. They\u2019re not actively involved in even trying to solve this. They\u2019re trying to explain why it happened so they maybe can do something about stopping it in the future, but who can be sure of that? You\u2019ve got to couple that with a candidate who\u2019s going to make people feel confident and inspired and has got what it takes to take these people on. And he doesn\u2019t. John Kerry inspires us he\u2019s got what it takes to take what we\u2019ve got, but not take on Osama bin Laden and get rid of him. The ingredients just aren\u2019t there.<\/line> <\/line>So what it boils down to is, you\u2019ve got Democrats who are going to vote for Kerry regardless and anyway, but he\u2019s not the kind of candidate that\u2019s going to get any more Democrats than any other nominee could have gotten. In fact there may have been other nominees that could have been able to get more Democrats than Kerry can. Plus, I\u2019ve shared with you, they\u2019re under the radar, but we\u2019ve had four or five stories, New Republic, columnist Marjorie Williams in the Washington Post, a number of other places, they don\u2019t like the fact that Kerry is the nominee, they don\u2019t understand it, don\u2019t think he can hold up, he\u2019s not been battle tested. There\u2019s a lot of unsettledness.<\/line><\/p>\n

The Democrats are trying to say they\u2019re totally unified and all that. Yet they\u2019ve got a unity dinner tonight. And they\u2019ve people getting together that don\u2019t like each other. You know, Clinton doesn\u2019t like Carter. Gore doesn\u2019t like Clinton. Clinton doesn\u2019t like Gore. Dean doesn\u2019t like any of them. And yet they\u2019re going to get there and act tonight like they\u2019re all one big love fest. All Clinton wants is the after the dinner suite. That\u2019s all he\u2019s going for, to see who he can find there. And then throw into this mix Hillary has all of a sudden — this is in one of the stacks here, Debbie, that\u2019s been accumulating — and I haven\u2019t gotten to it. Hillary actively seeking veep. Hillary actively seeking the vice presidency now. She\u2019s letting it be known that that\u2019s what she wants. <\/line>Now, that to me, that to me, I hate to tell you this, folks, because I don\u2019t want to inspire overconfidence but if Hillary wants to be on the ticket as the vice presidential nominee it means the ticket is going to lose. There\u2019s no way she\u2019s going to want to be vice president for eight years. It just isn\u2019t going to happen. I think all this stuff in the news, Clintons are coalescing and trying to help Kerry out, that\u2019s like Colonel Sanders letting the fox into the hen house. I mean it just really is. The closer Clinton gets the closer he can get to sabotaging this. You have to understand they got to hide this fact and they\u2019re doing a doing job of it. The last thing in the world they want is for a Democrat to win this election and be there for eight years. They want back in the White House so badly they can taste it. Now that they\u2019ve got some money, couple that with the power of Hillary back in there and Bill back in there doing what he\u2019s doing or whatever he would do. I just think if you add this all up, I think people vote issues. I don\u2019t think Democrats have issues to offer. I think they\u2019ve got fear, they\u2019ve got panic.<\/line> <\/line>Remember in 2000, don\u2019t forget this, too, Debbie, the perception in 2000 was the economy was just growing and it was just happy as we can be. They had falsified commerce department numbers on the success at that point and profitability of U.S. businesses, they were reported to be 30% higher than they were. There were a lot of ingredients there that Gore just stepped into. It\u2019s different this time around, Bush is battle tested, Bush is not just a governor from Texas, not just an unknown, and Bush, for all the Democrats want to make him out to be as some dunce or so forth, he\u2019s an eminently likable man who inspires confidence and decency, and he says what he means, and he does what he says he\u2019s going to do. The Democrats don\u2019t, can\u2019t. I mean, they continually come up with ways they can fool everybody into voting against Bush or for them. I\u2019m not saying it\u2019s going to be a landslide, but I don\u2019t think it\u2019s going to be one of these we\u2019ll be up four days in a row after the election counting votes, either. I don\u2019t think it\u2019s going to be that close.<\/line><\/p>\n

Now, all that having been said, there is a caveat, and that is the election is way the hell down the road and I have no idea what\u2019s going to happen between now and then. But by virtue of that I can also say do not think that what happened this week is going to be the single issue on which people\u2019s votes turn. This is going to end in some near time frame, this week, next, 15 days, minutes, fame whatever of Clarke, they\u2019re going to subside, and we\u2019ll move on to other things; and the Bush campaign will continue to define Kerry, and Kerry will continue to do whatever it is he does; and I think the truth will be told when that process gets going again, but, you know, that\u2019s why I don\u2019t think it\u2019s sensible to get down in the dumps over just like it doesn\u2019t matter. It doesn\u2019t make sense to get euphoric over a good week, either, this far out.<\/line>But you can take some lessons from both. And while the press is out there saying that this has really hurt Bush, da-da-da-da-da-da-da, I don\u2019t see that it\u2019s really hurt Bush. And the reason I don\u2019t see that it\u2019s really hurt Bush is because nothing that\u2019s happening in this committee, and nothing that they\u2019re talking about, has one thing to do with capturing terrorists, with stopping future terrorist activity. There\u2019s only one guy doing that. There\u2019s only one guy worried about that, and he\u2019s not bothering to show up and testify, yet. Anyway, I\u2019m glad you called. I appreciate the opportunity to explain this in depth.<\/line>COMMERCIAL BREAK<\/line>RUSH: Here\u2019s another way of looking at the big Democrat unity dinner tonight in Washington, D.C. It\u2019s sort of like a Wizard of Oz meeting. You got the cowardly liar, Bill Clinton showing up. You\u2019ve got Al Gore as the tin man who can\u2019t bend at the waist, you\u2019ve got the scarecrow showing up, John Kerry, and Howard Dean showing up as the head midget of the Lollipop Guild. All that\u2019s missing is Toto. No, we won\u2019t go into the witch. The witch will be there, though. The witch will be there as well, although they\u2019re keeping that quiet. I mean, in all the stories about this big unity, the fact that the witch will not be joining the cowardly liar, the tin man, the scarecrow, and the head midget of the Lollipop Guild I think is interesting. No mention of that degree of unity.<\/line>END TRANSCRIPT<\/line><\/p>\n

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