{"id":279007,"date":"2018-07-10T16:05:43","date_gmt":"2018-07-10T20:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=279007"},"modified":"2018-07-11T15:55:19","modified_gmt":"2018-07-11T19:55:19","slug":"here-we-go-again-gop-wants-contraception-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2018\/07\/10\/here-we-go-again-gop-wants-contraception-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"Here We Go Again: GOP Wants Contraception Ban!"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: By the way, I just got a tweet here from a — well, I didn\u2019t get the tweet, but somebody sent me a tweet from the national editor of The Daily Beast, a guy named Justin Miller<\/a>, and he says forget about abortion, forget about same-sex marriage. That\u2019s not where we\u2019re headed with Kavanaugh. Contraception could be banned under Justice Kavanaugh.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>They\u2019re recycling the Stephanopoulos-Romney thing! You remember the Republican debate where Stephanopoulos out of the blue asked Romney if he thought states should have the right to ban contraception! Nobody was talking about it! And Romney said, “What, George, what are you talking about?”<\/p>\n

And Stephanopoulos kept boring in. “Would you? Do you think states have the right to ban contraception?”<\/p>\n

And Romney\u2019s looking, “What the hell is this? George, nobody\u2019s even thinking about this.”<\/p>\n

“Do you think states –” And so Romney eventually answered it. And that is all it took. Once Romney answered the question, “Romney thinks states should be able to ban contraception.” So they\u2019re recycling here. The Daily Beast guy, forget about abortion, forget about same-sex marriage, contraception could be banned.<\/p>\n

This is how they went after Bork! They went after Bork on the fact that Bork didn\u2019t believe in a right to privacy, which meant that you don\u2019t have the right to use contraception. They\u2019re going at abortion in a circuitous route without actually mentioning abortion or Roe v. Wade. They\u2019re gonna attack Kavanaugh on health care, Obamacare, and now contraception. All of this is how they\u2019re gonna get to abortion without mentioning it.<\/p>\n

(interruption) Well, that\u2019s the question. Mr. Snerdley says, “Does this guy at The Daily Beast, for example, really believe this? Or are they just saying it knowing that their brain-dead supporters will believe it?” And it\u2019s not an easy answer. I think some of these people actually do believe this stuff.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re not talking about rational people. We are trying to analyze irrational people, people that have gone over the bend emotionally and psychologically over Trump\u2019s victory. We\u2019re trying to imagine and analyze them within the confines of our own rationality. And we can\u2019t. Rationality and irrationality do not overlap. And so you\u2019re asking me does this guy really believe it. The odds are he does! The odds are the people that say this stuff believe it.<\/p>\n

When Pelosi says, “Civilization is at stake in the midterm election,” we sit here and say, “What a dolt. She can\u2019t possibly believe it!” Except she actually might, folks. They\u2019re not normal. My point has been for the last two, three years to anybody who would listen, we hear them say these things, like the reaction I just got when I shared the tweet from this guy at the Daily Beast. They started laughing their asses off in there, and then they started getting mad at the same time.<\/p>\n

But the belief was, “That\u2019s impossible.” They believe it. I have been trying to get people to understand they believe this stuff. We laugh at it, think how ridiculous, how absurd, nobody\u2019s gonna think this is true. But I\u2019m convinced that Stephanopoulos did damage Romney a bit with something totally made up! “Do you think states should have the right to ban contraception?” So clearly they have polled and focus grouped contraception.<\/p>\n

And they\u2019ve got people believing that Republicans want to deny it, want take it away from \u2019em because they think Republicans want women to be barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen and then dressed up like The Handmaid\u2019s Tale, milking cows and doing whatever they think women do when they\u2019re oppressed.<\/p>\n

\"\"That\u2019s the world they\u2019re trying to create for liberal women to believe. And you look at the ads they ran, Julia\u2019s garden, that ad Obama ran with Julia, this imaginary character that lives in government housing and they give her a flower garden. It\u2019s not so easy say, “Nah, they can\u2019t possibly believe it.” I think they do.<\/p>\n

Let me grab another call here quickly. Back to the phones. This is St. Louis, and it looks like Lissa. Great to have you on the program with us. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi. Hi, Rush. Did you catch that protest last night in front of the Supreme Court?<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, but I heard about it. I heard everything about it. I didn\u2019t see it.<\/p>\n

CALLER: It sounded like the Wellstone memorial. I mean, it was the screechiest, most grating, raspiest bunch of nonsense. It was a scream fest. I mean, you\u2019d have to get a thesaurus out to come up with enough words to define how unpleasantly —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay, let me ask you a couple questions about this. Is this the rally that Shannon Bream of Fox News<\/a> said, “I can\u2019t do my show here with this. I gotta go back to the safety of the studio,” because I remember she tweeted they had to abandon the steps of the Supreme Court because she felt too threatened. Is this the same thing you\u2019re talking about here?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes, it is.<\/p>\n

\"\"RUSH: No. 2. Do you think — I want you to put yourself, I want you to pretend that you\u2019re hosting a talk show today. You saw that last night. You just had your reaction. As you were watching it, do you have any fear that Americans watching it were buying into it and believing it?<\/p>\n

CALLER: No. I have no fear. It was so over the top. There wasn\u2019t a single person who actually spoke.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Do you think it was counterproductive?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes. I do. I think it was counterproductive. And I know you were just saying these liberal Democrats believe that, you know, the Supreme Court\u2019s gonna take away their contraception. But I think it\u2019s the boy who cried wolf too many times.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah. I have to make the point that since Bork, there hasn\u2019t been a single change. It\u2019s every nominee. It\u2019s the same reaction to every nominee. And I\u2019m like you; I think we\u2019re in the beginning stages of it backfiring on them.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: All right. Grab sound bite number 28 and 29. We\u2019re gonna go back. Here are the audio sound bites on this contraception crap that Stephanopoulos brought up. It was January 7, 2012, Manchester, New Hampshire, Saint Anselm College, live on ABC, Republican candidates primary debate. And they had a section on — I\u2019m not sure it was on contraception \u2019cause this question came out of nowhere.<\/p>\n

Stephanopoulos says, “Governor Romney, do you believe that states have the right to ban contraception, or is that trumped up by a constitutional right to privacy?” Now, let me remind you of something. Some of you may not know it. This was the first trap that was set for Robert Bork<\/a>. I wish I could remember the name of the case, but it was a Connecticut case that involved a couple in Connecticut.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>And Bork was arguing in his hearings quite properly that the Constitution does not specify a right to privacy. You know, we all run around thinking we have a right to privacy, but constitutionally it\u2019s only implied in the Fourth and Fifth amendments. The Fourth Amendment, you\u2019re protected against unlawful searches and seizures, but the right to privacy, the words are not there.<\/p>\n

So Bork was arguing this. And the Democrats on the Judiciary Committee were able to twist that into Bork obviously believing that a couple in Connecticut did not have the right to use contraception. That\u2019s what it was, Griswold v. Connecticut. That\u2019s the case, the first case that they used to trip up Bork by claiming that Bork didn\u2019t believe that we had a right to privacy, and therefore we could be told that we\u2019re not entitled to contraception.<\/p>\n

The left has used this, ever since they succeeded in derailing Bork with this, they\u2019ve always found a way to circle back to it because privacy and contraception, I mean, go hand in hand, and they also dovetail with abortion. And I think many of the Democrats today know — how many Republican judicial nominees have there been that the Democrats have said over the last 30 years are gonna destroy Roe v. Wade and they\u2019re gonna take away abortion and it hasn\u2019t happened?<\/p>\n

Pelosi, “This is the end of civilization as we know it, millions of people will be losing their lives,” they\u2019ve been saying this crap for 30 years. It\u2019s kind of like the way started losing senior citizens back in the sixties, the seventies and eighties. The Democrats, every budget battle, accused the Republicans of wanting to take away Social Security from senior citizens. That was a constant. In every campaign, the Democrats would say the Republicans want to take away your Social Security.<\/p>\n

Now, seasoned citizens scared to death that it might happen couldn\u2019t take the chance, so they voted Democrat almost in lockstep. And then the Democrats said not only do Republicans want to take away your Social Security, they want to kick you out of your house. And of course the Republicans never reacted to any of this stuff other than saying, “This is silly. We\u2019re not talking about taking anybody\u2019s Social Security away.”<\/p>\n

But seasoned citizens couldn\u2019t take the risk. So they constantly voted Democrat. Then they kept hearing that the Republicans want to kick them out of their house. Well, after a number of years of this, with Republicans winning elections, they found out that nothing happened to Social Security. And then they found out that they weren\u2019t being kicked out of their homes.<\/p>\n

And so these constant Democrat allegations began to fade because they were not effective. They didn\u2019t come true. I think the same thing is starting to happen now with abortion, contraception, and all this other stuff that the Democrats try to create panic over. Gorsuch hasn\u2019t tried to take your right to an abortion aware of you, Scalia didn\u2019t, nobody has. It hasn\u2019t happened. The case hasn\u2019t presented itself. Yet the Democrats keep claiming that every Republican judge is somehow gonna end life as we know it. And yet life has gone on, and it\u2019s getting better.<\/p>\n

So they\u2019re circling back now to contraception because with contraception, with the fear that Republicans want to make sure women don\u2019t get it. And look, I hate to mention this, but it\u2019s a relevant fact. You would be amazed at how many young high school and college women have watched that stupid ass dumb show, The Handmaid\u2019s Tale, and believe it.<\/p>\n

Did you watch it, Dawn? Did you watch it with your daughters? (interruption) Okay. That\u2019s right. But have they watched it? (interruption) She loved it but she knows it\u2019s not true. Well, a lot of young women don\u2019t know that it\u2019s not true and a lot of young believe that that\u2019s what Republicans have planned for \u2019em. They\u2019re gonna be running around milking cows all day, assigned pregnancies, can\u2019t get abortions, basically gonna be slaves!<\/p>\n

It\u2019s written by some lunatic. I\u2019m not even gonna mention her name. But she\u2019s got all kinds of books like this out there, and it\u2019s being taught in feminist classes and women\u2019s studies classes. So when these Democrats come out and start accusing Republicans of wanting to take away your contraception, there\u2019s a significant number of young women panicking and believing it \u2019cause they saw a TV show about it. “There was a movie about there, there was a miniseries. I saw it on TV!” And of course nothing could be further from the truth.<\/p>\n

So here\u2019s how they did Romney in. And I\u2019m convinced this as much as anything contributed to Romney losing the presidential election in 2012. Again, Stephanopoulos: “Governor Romney, do you believe that states have the right to ban contraception, or is that right trumped by a constitutional right to privacy?”<\/p>\n

ROMNEY: George, this is an unusual topic that you\u2019re raising. States have right to ban contraception? I can\u2019t imagine a state banning contraception. I can\u2019t imagine the circumstances where a state would want to do so and if I were a governor of a state \u2014<\/p>\n

\"\"STEPHANOPOULOS: The Supreme Court had to rule on this back in 1965 because a state did.<\/p>\n

ROMNEY: \u2014 or a legislature of a state, I would totally and completely oppose any effort to ban contraception. So you\u2019re asking \u2014 given the fact that there\u2019s no state that wants to do so, and I don\u2019t know of any candidate that wants to do so, you\u2019re asking could it constitutionally be done? We can ask our constitutionalist here. (laughter)<\/p>\n

RUSH: Stephanopoulos tried to say the Supreme Court had to rule on this back in \u201965 because a state did. That\u2019s Griswold-Connecticut. That tripped up Bork. So Stephanopoulos says, “I\u2019m asking you, do you believe states have that right or not?”<\/p>\n

ROMNEY: George, I don\u2019t know whether a state has the right to ban contraception. No state wants to. The idea of you putting forward things that states might want to do that no state wants to do and asking me whether they could do it or not is kind of a silly thing, I think.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So the news Romney says states should have the right. Not Romney didn\u2019t care, just get Romney on the record dealing with the possibility that contraception would be banned, and that\u2019s all it took. And that was the only purpose of it. So now this clown at The Daily Beast, the national editor, Justin Miller, with a tweet, “Forget abortion, same-sex marriage. Contraception could be banned under Justice Kavanaugh.”<\/p>\n

It\u2019s absurd. There is nobody anywhere even talking about this. There\u2019s nobody anywhere even thinking about this. But that doesn\u2019t matter. I\u2019m just prepping you for this.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Here\u2019s the story about Democrat strategy on the Trump pick: unify around health care. This is TheHill.com<\/a>: “The liberal base is fired up about abortion rights, but Senate Democratic Leader Charles Schumer (N.Y.) will seek to emphasize access to affordable health care as much as Roe v. Wade,” in this confirmation fight.<\/p>\n

“In sharp contrast to the Obama era, Schumer thinks health care is the Democrats\u2019 best weapon. By putting the charged issue of women\u2019s reproductive rights within the broader framework of access to health care,” i.e., contraception, “the matter is likely to be less polarizing in red states.”<\/p>\n

Now, in truth, this shows you how dumb the Democrats think voters are. It is the height of chutzpah to call the right to kill unborn babies “access to health care.” And yet they think they\u2019re gonna get away with it, because pregnancy is a disease. Yes, that unviable tissue mass is an illness, and women need access to whatever health care they want in order to treat this illness. So that\u2019s how they\u2019re gonna go about it. (interruption) Yeah, I saw that. I saw that. I wasn\u2019t gonna mention that \u2019til you just did.<\/p>\n

Michelle Wolf, you know what I don\u2019t understand? Well, never mind. I can remember the days, Mr. Snerdley, half the people in media today wouldn\u2019t have gotten hired just \u2019cause their voices stink. Folks, I am not kidding about this. It used to be — and I\u2019m not a dinosaur, I\u2019m not Jurassic Park myself. I\u2019m not an old guy saying get off my lawn with this.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m just telling you that back in the what some would call the golden era of broadcasting where there weren\u2019t 55,000 channels, there were certain qualifications you had to have, and one of them was a pleasing and distinctive voice, pleasing and distinctive.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s out the window now. I mean, that\u2019s obviously not even thought of as a deterrent, qualification, asset, problem, or what have you. That\u2019s why you can always recognize when you are listening to a young broadcaster just starting out. They were all what we were called “Ron Radios.” They practically vomited their words trying to sound like professional broadcasters. (imitation) “They\u2019d talk just like this and do the weather forecast and the temperature is. And they just basically puke all over you with the constant perpetual smile,” and what they thought was a professional sounding voice.<\/p>\n

You could recognize it, spot \u2019em a mile away. They\u2019d eventually grow out of it or get fired. But now nobody even bothers to do Ron Radio anymore. If they got horrible voice they just got a horrible voice and they\u2019re hired, it doesn\u2019t matter. Can\u2019t understand \u2019em, doesn\u2019t matter, they get hired. (interruption) No, no, no. This is not sour grapes. I don\u2019t care. I\u2019m just pointing out changes and differences.<\/p>\n

And what made me think of it was Michelle Wolf. For crying out loud, if there is a voice that makes you want to turn something off, it\u2019s hers. But, yeah, she did a bit on her Netflix show, she\u2019s a comedian where she\u2019s dressed up in a one piece American flag swimsuit and high heels, and she\u2019s got an Uncle Sam top hat, and she\u2019s got a dancing bunch of guys behind her, and she\u2019s singing about the virtues of abortion. “If you want one, get one,” throws some things out of the top hat or whatever.<\/p>\n