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DAUM: You have said, “Stay the course.” George Bush calls the people there “thugs;” you call them “extremists.” But they — they hated Saddam Hussein, and they now hate us. They wanted Saddam Hussein out. Now they want the United States out. And you say, “Stay the course.” What the United States is doing is bombing hospitals, bombing mosques, sniping at civilians, killing hundreds of civilians, wounding thousands of civilians. And you say, “Stay the course.” Is that the criminal course that you want to stay? This is an imperialist country that\u2019s fighting an imperialist war. You say stay the course of this imperialist war, and you say you are a stark difference from George Bush. People hate George Bush. By the end of your presidency people will hate you for the same thing. You may fool some of the Americans that you are different from George Bush on this war, but you\u2019re not fooling most of the world, and you\u2019re going to fool Iraqis.<\/line>RUSH: And here\u2019s Kerry\u2019s brilliant comeback.<\/line>KERRY: I have consistently been critical of how we got where we are, but we are where we are, sir. And it would be unwise beyond belief for the United States of America to leave a failed Iraq in its wake. And I want the Americans out, and so do Americans want —<\/line>DAUM: No, you don\u2019t. You say, “Stay the course,” senator.<\/line>KERRY: Let me just finish. Stay the course of leaving a stable Iraq.<\/line>RUSH: Kerry continued.<\/line>KERRY: If you don\u2019t leave a stable Iraq with a legitimacy to whatever entity is going to transform the government, you have the potential for a civil war. You have the potential for Shi\u2019a vs. Sunni vs. Kurd. There are all kinds of potentials. Let me just finish.<\/line>DAUM: They are united against the occupation.<\/line><\/p>\n

KERRY: Yes, and — but the point is this, sir. You\u2019re not listening to me. <\/line>DAUM: Oh, yes, I am.<\/line>KERRY: Well, then you haven\u2019t…frankly…listened, because…in fact the course that I have proposed is to turn over to the United Nations the full responsibility for the transformation of the government and for the reconstruction.<\/line>RUSH: All right. You say Daum will still vote for Kerry. Fine! He probably still will. But I\u2019m going to tell you that none of this — I\u2019m going to be honest with you, too — none of this has gotten wide play. The sound bite that has been played most frequently is just Daum saying, “People hate George Bush and at the end of your presidency people hate you for the same thing.” There\u2019s nothing in here that makes Kerry look stellar. There\u2019s nothing about this that makes me think that it\u2019s set up and fake so Kerry can make himself look good. But more importantly than that, forget whether Daum votes for Kerry or not. The fact of the matter is that this is not going to inspire anybody else who is already not planning to vote for Kerry to vote for him — and that\u2019s the key. <\/line>He\u2019s not going to get any other Democratic votes than any other nominee would get, and in fact I think he may actually get less. Because if an answer or a question like this comes… See, I think — just to repeat myself very briefly, to be redundant, — I don\u2019t think the Democrats know who they nominated. I think Howard Dean was the guy they really, really wanted and this is the kind of stuff that Walter Daum would not get up and have to say to Howard Dean because Howard Dean would be saying this, and the Democrats of this country would all be rallying around him and there would be a lot of excitement. <\/line>John Kerry, on the other hand, cannot generate that, and guys like Walter Daum are upset. They expect their nominee to hate Bush. They expect their nominee to hate Iraq. They expect their nominee to join \u2019em and say, “We\u2019re killing children! We\u2019re killing babies! We\u2019re bombing mosques! We\u2019re bombing hospitals! We\u2019re bombing schools!” and Kerry isn\u2019t saying it. And I\u2019m telling you, this is going to be a disappointment <\/emphasize>to a whole slew of Democrats who are going to end up with buyer\u2019s remorse. They\u2019re going to be scratching their heads saying, “Wait a minute. I thought we nominated a guy that hates Bush, and Kerry sounds like it\u2019s the same policy.” <\/line><\/p>\n

This is not helpful to him. I don\u2019t care how you slice this. There\u2019s nothing about this that was helpful to him, and right now it\u2019s too soon for him to even start thinking about swing voters. He doesn\u2019t have his base locked up here, folks. They did not get their base locked up in this primary. I don\u2019t care what you hear about unity and excitement. Their turnout in all these primaries is 8%, 10%. The media did this guy a great disservice by talking about how wildly popular he was and how incredibly historic his vote totals and victories were and how much excitement there was. There was none, zip, zero, nada, and it\u2019s all coming home to roost now. We\u2019ll be back.<\/line>I mean, you\u2019ve got a guy, a former dean in the audience who stands up, is more articulate, is more passionate and is more to the point about what Democrats think than the nominee is! That\u2019s what\u2019s going to be heard here. There are going to be people, “Why don\u2019t we nominate him?” speaking of Walter Daum. “This guy knows more about what we think than Kerry does.” That\u2019s what\u2019s going to be the reaction if this little bite gets wide (play) as we are doing — and don\u2019t think liberals don\u2019t listen to this. In some of these password controlled chat rooms where you and I can\u2019t get to, there\u2019s going to be a lot of bloodletting tonight once this sound bite let\u2019s around. Democrats going to be keeping the sharp objects away from themselves because this is not going to make \u2019em happy.<\/line>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/line>RUSH: Grab audio sound bite #8 for you. We have a montage here. This is at the John Kerry fund-raiser in New York. We have a little montage of, I guess, this is the Reverend Jackson and Andrew Cuomo, and they are trying to explain why they are for John Kerry at his fund-raiser and I just want you to hear this and listen for what you do not<\/emphasize> hear.<\/line> JACKSON: There\u2019s a sense that Americans feel that the fight for — for the integrity of our nation, and so the rising hope is expressed here tonight.<\/line>CUOMO: I think there\u2019s a sense that we really have to beat Bush, and that is #1, and in many ways that has overcome the traditional differences within the Democratic Party.<\/line>JACKSON: Contributions are up; hope is up, and there\u2019s nothing like, in the campaign, nothing like the feeling when hope is on the rise.<\/line>RUSH: Yeah, well, you\u2019ve been saying, “Hope\u2019s on the rise” for as long as I\u2019ve been alive, Reverend Jackson. He has. “Hope is on the rise?” Whatever. The point is you don\u2019t hear Kerry\u2019s name. You don\u2019t hear these guys saying, “John Kerry is the guy to do this, and John Kerry is at a rally!” That\u2019s a hatred for Bush that supposedly setting aside or overcoming these traditional differences in the Democratic Party, and I\u2019m just telling you that that is not happening. I\u2019m not saying there\u2019s not hatred for Bush, but, folks, this party is falling apart! <\/line>There\u2019s an AFL-CIO where is it? There\u2019s a United Auto Workers story<\/a>. They just lost 13,000 more workers. The normal constituencies of this party are fractured. They\u2019re falling apart. They\u2019re more and more, this party is defined by fealty to such things like gay marriage, taking God out of the Pledge of Allegiance, partial-birth abortion and all these things — and that\u2019s why you don\u2019t hear them talking about issues here. All they can do is try to make hay out of Iraq now. I don\u2019t know how the election is going to turn out, it\u2019s too soon, but I\u2019m just telling you this party is not unified and happy-go-lucky and hunky-dory as they would love for you to believe.<\/line>END TRANSCRIPT<\/line><\/p>\n

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