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RUSH: Any time you want to join us, you are more than welcome.<\/p>\nRUSH: Richard in Tampa, glad you called, sir. It\u2019s great to have you with us. How are you doing?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Hey, I\u2019m doing great, Rush, and thank you so much for taking my call.<\/p>\n
RUSH: You bet, sir.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Listen. I hope you got room for a new Republican in the party. Do you think you do?<\/p>\n
RUSH: Any time you want to join us, you are more than welcome.<\/p>\n
CALLER: (laughing)<\/p>\n
RUSH: I\u2019ll even waive the initiation fee for you.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Well, thank you much. I got a message for the Democrats: “I hope you\u2019re happy, because you\u2019ve finally — finally, after a year, you\u2019ve lost me.” You know, Rush, I\u2019ve been a Democrat my whole adult life. I\u2019m 70 years old. But I\u2019ll tell you what, buddy, I just cannot —<\/p>\n
RUSH: Wait, wait, wait, wait. You\u2019ve been a Democrat for 50 years, and you\u2019re switching? Is that what you\u2019re saying?<\/p>\n
CALLER: I\u2019m switching, yes, sir, for two main reasons — and I gotta be honest with you: You\u2019re one of the culprits.<\/p>\n
RUSH: That would be me and this show. Those are the two reasons.<\/p>\n
CALLER: (laughing) Yeah, you\u2019re one of the culprits. But in all honesty —<\/p>\n
RUSH: Hang on a minute. Hang on. Hang on. I thought I had one more minute than I do, so we\u2019ll finish this after the break. Do not hang up, Richard. Do not hang up. (He\u2019s a Democrat. Gotta tell \u2019em twice.)<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Back to Richard in Tampa, happier than he has been in 50 years. He\u2019s become one of us after being a Democrat for 50 years. He\u2019s gonna tell us why the switch.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Well, in all honesty, Rush, it\u2019s two main reasons. You know, I understand the dirty politics while you\u2019re, you know, campaigning to get your party and candidate in office. But, you know, buddy, once it\u2019s over with and you\u2019ve lost and you move on and, you know, these people just will not under any circumstances let the country move on. It\u2019s just constant, constant lies and attacks and dirty politics. And after a year, they\u2019ve lost me. They\u2019ve just flat-out lost me. I\u2019m ashamed to be a Democrat. I really am.<\/p>\n
RUSH: I\u2019ll tell you, you\u2019re right on the money. They\u2019re still trying to overturn the election, Richard, is what they\u2019re doing.<\/p>\n
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CALLER: Yeah, I know they are. But the other reason for me is, you know, and, you know, I don\u2019t know. I just… Most people, I think, like me, maybe my age that don\u2019t understand politics that much. But I promise you after three hours a day, five days a week, of getting a good, honest, truthful education into Washington politics from you. After a year, buddy, you\u2019ve convinced me, and I am so happy that I\u2019ve changed parties because I\u2019m convinced that Trump is making headway. And, my God, if they give the man half a chance, I think he\u2019s gonna mature into a good president. Maybe not a great president, but give him a chance, and I think he\u2019s gonna, you know, acquire the maturity that he needs to be able to do a lot for this country.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, welcome home. It\u2019s great that… I appreciate that more than you know. I\u2019m a little worried it took me a year, but I\u2019ll take it. I mean, I don\u2019t look gift horses in the mouth. If it took a year, it took a year. I\u2019m glad that you gave us the year. And I can understand, you know, trying to rewrite mental beliefs, philosophies that you\u2019ve held for 50 years. Actually, erasing that and replacing it in one year is actually not bad. But you made my day, in all candor. I appreciate it, because I\u2019m not here — as my dad used to say — just talking to hear my head rattle.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m not just saying this to say it. I put every ounce of my being and belief into this. And to hear examples of people acknowledging that, understanding that, and being moved by it, you made my day. I can\u2019t thank you enough, Richard. (interruption) The program observer, Official Program Observer, has a question. What\u2019s the question? (interruption) Yes. (interruption) Yes. (interruption) Mmm-hmm. (interruption) Mmm-hmm. (interruption) Okay.<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s the question that I\u2019m being asked. I observed in the first hour in the program that even the Democrats can see the growing economy, the expanding investment portfolios of average Americans primarily through their 401(k)s. They can see 200 companies extending wage increases and bonuses and expanded benefits. They can see this, and they know that they didn\u2019t vote for it, and your question is how can they possibly, what, profit? How can they run a campaign against it?<\/p>\n
Well, remember, I made an observation. He\u2019s asking how can they possibly expect to run a campaign against this good economy? Remember, I made an observation during the Obama years that for the first time in my life, a bad economy didn\u2019t seem to affect the president. Up until Obama, if the economy was great, the president got the credit. If it was bad, the president got the blame. And you remember Carville\u2019s main economic message was in 1992 was, “It\u2019s the economy, stupid,” meaning: “Everything else is extraneous.<\/p>\n
“We\u2019re gonna win or lose this based on people\u2019s perception of the economy.” But it didn\u2019t hurt Obama. I still think, though, to explain it, you cannot erase the racial component that stymied and stifled so much. You couldn\u2019t criticize the president of the United States. You couldn\u2019t criticize him, and he\u2019s the president. You couldn\u2019t criticize his policies (especially if you were a Washington Republican) without being shouted down as some racist bigot.<\/p>\n
So people didn\u2019t, and it created a bunch of fear and it just silenced people and shut \u2019em up. But this is gonna be a big challenge for them. They\u2019re gonna run on the idea that over half the country hates Trump like they do. That\u2019s their message. You know, I went through the story yesterday: What is the Democrat strategy? What are they building on? And they don\u2019t have anything. Right now, their message is they care more about 800,000 illegal immigrants than they do the federal government operating and running.<\/p>\n
They care more about 800,000 illegal immigrants they do about your kids. They care more about 800,000 illegal immigrants than the U.S. military. They are convinced that they are… Because if you had a media… If we were Democrats had the media on our side, would we not feel invincible? Would we not feel like we could lie about anything and have it amplified and reported? I think they do, and I think media compliance or media sophistry or media bias or whatever, I think it convinces them that they can get away with any misrepresentation, any agenda, any lie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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