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You know what the morality issues really center around? You know, gay marriage is a part of it, but it was only on the ballot in 11 states. It wasn\u2019t on the ballot in all 50 states. Gay marriage is a factor, there\u2019s no question, but it\u2019s the not the thing about which this election was won, and by saying this they\u2019re trying to deny that the war on terror had anything to do with this or the war on Iraq had anything to do with this. The president doesn\u2019t have a mandate on these things, the president just scared people that the gays are taking over America — be on the guard for that, folks, because that\u2019s what\u2019s happening. But they\u2019re misreading this on purpose. The real moral question, I think, centered around mostly things like the trash that the people see on TV every afternoon, not just at night.<\/line> <\/line>I think, when you get outside of the media capitals, New York and Los Angeles, San Francisco, the east coast liberal establishments, and you get out there into the red states, you\u2019ll find a total objection to the kind of garbage that\u2019s on Oprah some days, you\u2019ll find a total objection to the garbage that\u2019s in soap operas. Some people say it\u2019s soft porn. You\u2019ll find an objection to the fact that now various words of profanity are commonly used in prime-time television before kids go to bed. It\u2019s this kind of stuff that is important to a lot of red state families as any other single issue. You know, morality has a lot of different elements to it. So just beware of the press trying to zero in on this and say this election was all about gay marriage.<\/line> <\/line>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/line>RUSH: Centerburg, Ohio<\/a>, Stewart, welcome to the EIB Network.<\/line> <\/line>CALLER: Good morning, Rush. Mega dittos from the great state of Ohio.<\/line> <\/line>RUSH: Thank you, sir.<\/line> <\/line>CALLER: I\u2019m absolutely honored to talk to you.<\/line> <\/line>RUSH: Appreciate that.<\/line> <\/line>CALLER: I just want to make a quick point about what you were talking about a minute ago about the anti-gay bigoted Republicans turned out only for gay marriage because we were anti-gay marriage.<\/line> <\/line>RUSH: Yeah.<\/line> <\/line>CALLER: All of the gay marriage ballots failed, I believe, in roughly about 62-38%.<\/line> <\/line>RUSH: Yeah.<\/line><\/p>\n

CALLER: Yet Bush only one 51 or 52 to 48.<\/line> <\/line>RUSH: Right.<\/line> <\/line>CALLER: So where did all that 12 percent or so go? We must have a bunch of anti-bigoted gay Democrats —<\/line> <\/line> RUSH: Wait a minute. I realize there\u2019s some knee-jerk words in what I said. I didn\u2019t — please don\u2019t misunderstand me about this, because I don\u2019t want people to start portraying this incorrectly when we start talking about it to each other. In the first place, what I said is the press is attempting to say that the majority of Bush\u2019s victory, the main reason they\u2019re not talking about number of votes, or the main reason. You understand there\u2019s no truth in this. So don\u2019t go where you can find evidence for it, there is no evidence, they\u2019re just saying it because they refuse to accept the fact they lost. They\u2019re still trying to portray the Republicans and the president as a bunch of bigots, and homophobes, and racists, sexists, the same old playbook stuff. They haven\u2019t learned a thing, folks, not yet. They\u2019re still the same old people. They refuse to admit that they\u2019re Humpty-Dumpty in a million pieces, and they\u2019ve got to put themselves back together. They are not there. They lost because you\u2019re a bigot, they lost because of this gay marriage thing. They\u2019re trying to say this is an election about homosexuality, homophobia, gays and marriages and so forth. And by the way, it\u2019s one tactic to defend one of their constituency groups and make sure the donations keep coming in. All politics is about money. Money the mother\u2019s milk of politics, and there\u2019s a huge donor group out there, particularly the militant, left-leaning gays.<\/line> <\/line>But here\u2019s an even better stat for you. I was reading the, I think it\u2019s a Washington, D.C., gay publication, The Blade. I went to their website today. Bush got the same percentage — this is all you need to know — Bush got the same percentage of votes from the gay community in 2004 as he got in 2000, 20%. Kerry got 27%. I mean it\u2019s not 20-80, it\u2019s 20-27. Yeah, Kerry got 27% of the gay vote, Bush got 20%. That\u2019s what this column said at The Blade. But forget what Kerry got. Forget what Kerry got. The fact of the matter is that Bush did not lose gay community votes in this race. <\/line>So the idea here that this is a single-issue campaign, there are any number of ways to refute it, but you can refute it with facts if you want, but this is one of those things when people start telling you, folks, the way to refute this is don\u2019t accept the premise. They\u2019re trying to establish a false premise based on this supposed exit poll data on morality being the number 1 issue, even more than Iraq. <\/line>Let me tell you this. ABC, the ABC\/Washington Post poll in one of their pre-election polls, I forget which one, maybe it was an exit poll. I\u2019ll have to find this in the story. Maybe it was the exit poll, these are forms, pieces of paper, the exit pollsters fill out or the voters, they\u2019re not interviewed personally. They\u2019re given a two-sided single page form to fill out, and in one instance the question of Iraq and the war on terror was not an option. These are multiple-choice questions, in essence, on this form, wasn\u2019t even an option. If you were a voter and you were being exit polled, one of the reasons for your vote could not be in this poll, and it might have been a pre-election poll, I\u2019m not sure which, but things are being done here to deemphasize the president\u2019s strength on the war on terror and Iraq, despite this overwhelming victory.<\/line> <\/line>So when this whole business comes up, don\u2019t accept the premise, just tell \u2019em the premise is being concocted by people who are trying to diminish the real meaning of the president\u2019s victory here. If you want to cite a stat you can go ahead and say, hey, gay marriage was defeated in all these 11 states with a 60-40 margin, 58-42 margin. Bush was 51-48. Doesn\u2019t add up. Then say he didn\u2019t lose any gay votes this time and the election of 2000, if you want to do that. But don\u2019t accept the premise. That\u2019s one of the greatest ways of defeating the left in an argument, just don\u2019t accept their premises, it just puts you on defensive. If you accept a phony premise, you\u2019re trying to defend something phony. It\u2019s crazy. Don\u2019t waste time with it. <\/line>END TRANSCRIPT<\/line><\/p>\n

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