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RUSH: I saw a poll today. I\u2019m not sure about this, but Obama may have pulled away, ahead of Hillary in Iowa. Wes Pruden today in the Washington Times has an interesting theory. He says the candidate of inevitability cannot lose even once. A candidate that has it wrapped up — Hillary, the candidate of inevitability — if she loses Iowa, she\u2019s no longer inevitable, and that\u2019s a big, big blow. I will share with you the details of Wes Pruden\u2019s thought process in due course, as the program unfolds before your very eyes and ears. Also, I was talking to some people this morning about the upcoming election. A friend of mine — I cannot identify by name, but I\u2019ve known him since I grew up, and he\u2019s been involved in Republican Party politics for many, many moons — he\u2019s in Washington quite a bit, and he just got back, he says, ‘I can\u2019t tell you how depressed Republicans in Washington are in the House and the Senate. There\u2019s no leadership. There\u2019s no leadership in either House. They just know Hillary\u2019s going to win it, and that\u2019s why you\u2019ve got so many of them leaving for whatever reason.\u2019<\/p>\n

I said, ‘Well, there is no excuse for that. That is just dumb.\u2019<\/p>\n

He said, ‘Rush, you know it as well as I do — you say it all the time — it\u2019s the absence of leadership. People are craving it. Even leaders need leaders, and we look at elected officials as our leaders.\u2019<\/p>\n

I said, ‘Well, let me tell you. You talk to these guys a lot. I don\u2019t. You go back and tell \u2019em something. You tell \u2019em that we have a 20-year history from the eighties forward over how to win in landslides, how to govern the country.\u2019<\/p>\n

He said, ‘Yeah, but we have a different context.\u2019<\/p>\n

I said, ‘We may have a different context, but the principles stay the same. The guidelines stay the same. The passions stay the same. We\u2019ve got a great opportunity ahead of us. Everything is falling down on the Democrats\u2019 head! The war position that they\u2019ve had; their credibility on things.\u2019<\/p>\n

This is a problem. These guys get to Washington, DC, and they get totally caught up in that conventional wisdom and culture there, both the media and socially, and they\u2019re feeling all lost and wandering aimlessly in the desert with no direction to go, and there\u2019s no excuse for this! There\u2019s a golden opportunity, next November, to score big. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019m going to try to explain this. ‘What do you mean, we\u2019ve got a golden opportunity?\u2019 Folks, let me admit something up front here. Let me suggest something up front that might be accurate. I realize that some of you — and this is anecdotal, but I realize it from reading the e-mail that some of you think that I\u2019m a little detached from reality, because I don\u2019t feel a sense of angst about current circumstances, be it the subprime problem, or the price of gasoline or what have you, and so you believe that the optimism that I have is a little bit… It\u2019s wonderful; it\u2019s nice, but it\u2019s not really reality; you might think it\u2019s somewhat artificial. So when you hear me say, as I said just before the break, when I\u2019m told this morning by a friend who came by to see me here at the EIB complex, he said that there\u2019s just abject depression and fear among elected Republicans in the House and Senate. He said, ‘Yeah, they\u2019ve been pretty good at stopping things, but what are they advancing?\u2019 <\/p>\n

I told my friend, ‘We\u2019ve got a big problem. Their president\u2019s in the same party, and the president\u2019s the leader here, and if he\u2019s going to advance things they get behind, they do. If he\u2019s going to advance things they don\u2019t believe in they\u2019ve gotta trudge along behind and act like they\u2019re interested, but that\u2019s all off the table now. We\u2019re talking about \u201908 and we\u2019ve got Mrs. Clinton.\u2019 I said, ‘This election is shaping up to be, if you listen to the way Mrs. Clinton is running things and portraying herself — and you don\u2019t even have to read between the lines on this — she\u2019s running a competence election.\u2019 The whole point — the Democrat focus with the Drive-Bys — for the past how many months and years has been that Bush is incompetent. Katrina, the fires out in California, whatever it is, Bush is incompetent. Mrs. Clinton is running around saying, ‘I\u2019m competent. I\u2019m experienced. I\u2019m this.\u2019 Obama is trying to do the same thing. Okay, so the Democrats are doing what? They\u2019re running a competence election. Do we want to play on that field? Do we want to let them set the premise? Do we want to run a competence election? No! We want to run an election based on the future of the country: what it\u2019s going to look like if they win; what it will look like if we win. <\/p>\n

We want to run on the vision of the greatness of America and American exceptionalism. We want to run on an inspiring message, not a message of fear! Now, the idea that elected Republicans who — all they have to do is look at a 20-year history of success to see how this is done, and they don\u2019t see it or they don\u2019t want to replicate it, kind of boggles my mind. The idea that Mrs. Clinton is unbeatable has always frustrated me. My optimism is not based on being out of touch with anything. My optimism is not based solely on the circumstances of my life. The public view of the things in my life that are public, you might have an idea about it. But as my staff told me the other day, they were being serious, they wouldn\u2019t want it, for a whole host of reasons. A, no privacy; B, everybody trying to find out everything I do every time I do it and put a negative spin on it. But that\u2019s what it is. For me, that\u2019s fine. I chose this. It is what it is. You deal with it accordingly. I\u2019m optimistic because I\u2019m an American. I\u2019m optimistic because I live in the United States of America, and I have history on my side. I see that today is better than yesterday. By the way, Mrs. Obama — they must be listening to me out there. Mrs. Obama is out there saying life today is worse than when she grew up. It\u2019s not. I refuse to believe it. <\/p>\n

I refuse to believe that Michelle Obama is in worse circumstances today than she was when she grew up, however you want to define them. Her husband is in the US Senate! She had a big job in a hospital. She has a lot of money. I don\u2019t believe any of this. You know, the gap between the rich and the poor? We talk about it all the time: It\u2019s a great gap. It means you can get there. If there\u2019s a gap between the rich and the poor and it\u2019s shrinking, by the way, it\u2019s not growing, but so what? It means there\u2019s something to shoot for, and most of the middle class do want to shoot for it. And you have a political party running around trying to tell you it\u2019s not possible. Used to have a conservative Republican movement that said, ‘Not only is it possible, it\u2019s likely, and here\u2019s how you do it,\u2019 but that inspiration, that motivation isn\u2019t forthcoming, and it should be, and it is frustrating to me. I don\u2019t care about all these Republican resignations, Trent Lott, this sort of thing. They happen. I also don\u2019t believe this notion: ‘Go ahead and let Hillary win, Rush, and show people how rotten it will be and then we\u2019ll really rebound.\u2019 That was the same thing that happened in 1992, and you look what that got us. <\/p>\n

You know, this election is a serious thing. All elections are. But I just want to assure you that my optimism here is not artificial or phony, nor is it based on a narrow, limited look and perspective of what life in this country is all about. Quite the contrary! You know, I\u2019m 56 years old, and I don\u2019t mean to be playing the violin here, but I\u2019ve been broke a couple of times, and I\u2019ve earned so little money that my house payment and my MasterCard bill came in the same two-week period in the month, and I couldn\u2019t make \u2019em both. So I had to buy potato chips at the little Kwik Shop back when grocery stores didn\u2019t accept credit cards because I never had any cash. I\u2019ve been fired seven or eight times. Don\u2019t tell me… I think I\u2019m perhaps one of the greater living examples of what this country is capable of and what people who live here are capable of, contrary to people telling me I\u2019m out of touch and so forth, and the optimism is artificial. I know optimism is hard and looking forward down the line seeing good things, it\u2019s hard because it\u2019s not the natural human disposition or proclivity. <\/p>\n

But what is to be afraid of with the Democrats? They are imploding in a lot of ways! Now the Drive-Bys may not be saying so, but it\u2019s still there happening. The attitude, the hatred, the general disgust and anger and misery that they run around with, it\u2019s ripe to be mined in a positive sense, but if our elected officials are themselves mired in depression and angst over this, well, yeah, then I am going to be worried, because they\u2019re the guys out there that are running for office. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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