RUSH: We go to Philadelphia. Tim. Great to have you, sir. How are you doing today?<\/p>\n
CALLER: I\u2019m doing great. How are you, Rush?<\/p>\n
RUSH: Fine. Thank you. Great to have you with us.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Thank you. So I just wanted to call in and say that your description of the Democrat Party platform was a little distorted. While I agree that they do or they\u2019re mostly anti-Trump, the whole fascism, Stalinism, taking away the First Amendment, I don\u2019t think anybody holds that other than these Antifa and college kid idiots.<\/p>\n
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I think what the Democrat Party stands and commonsense liberals, they stand for environmental protection, consumer protection, Medicare for all, Wall Street regulation, insuring asylum seekers, children don\u2019t get put in cages, scaling back the wars, and I don\u2019t think that\u2019s even not compatible with how a lot of conservatives feel in the country.<\/p>\n
RUSH: That may be the Democrat Party platform, but that is not what Democrat candidates are running on, with the possible exception of this big lie that Trump is putting kids at the border in cages. You\u2019re referring to the separation of families at the border, which has been happening for I don\u2019t know how many decades. Trump didn\u2019t start it; Trump actually tried to end it, wasn\u2019t permitted to do so.<\/p>\n
We all know the Democrat Party\u2019s issues. My point is, they\u2019re not running on them. They\u2019re not advocating them. They\u2019re not trying to win elections on them. They\u2019re trying to win elections purely and simply on Trump hatred. And it doesn\u2019t make sense to me.<\/p>\n
CALLER: So would you agree that the thing that I just put forth, though, would be a common sense thing for them to be running on and would actually make them a lot more competitive rather than being influenced by what we\u2019re seeing on college campuses and these radicals that have no idea what they\u2019re talking about?<\/p>\n
RUSH: You know, it\u2019s not just college campuses though, Tim. Democrat senators are beginning to talk this way. Elected Democrats are starting to echo the stuff that we\u2019re hearing from Antifa and Black Lives Matter and some of these other radical groups. There\u2019s a reason the Democrats are not running on this stuff. It either isn\u2019t working in their focus groups or what have you. I mean, they\u2019re running on tax increases? That is the one policy issue that they do talk about: We\u2019re gonna go back and raise taxes. Pelosi talks about it, and Chris Van Hollen, now a senator from Maryland.<\/p>\n
Your standard, ordinary Democrat Party platform, as you mentioned it there — environmental protections, Medicare for all — those are things that I don\u2019t think play well right now with the general public, given the overall status of the American economy because those things never have created prosperity and people are figuring it out now. Those things are based on America whose best days are behind us, based on an America where there\u2019s no opportunity left, and only the government can provide for people. And a year and a half of Trump has proven that that\u2019s not the case.<\/p>\n
BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n
RUSH: I need to commend the first caller we had today. He was a polite liberal who lasted longer than 30 seconds and did not ever reduced to name-calling, and it was a pleasure to speak to him.<\/p>\n
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There was only one trait that… It\u2019s not really common to liberals. It\u2019s a debating technique. “I\u2019m sure, Mr. Limbaugh, you\u2019d agree with me that,” blah, blah, blah. I didn\u2019t react to it. He was listing things on the Democrat Party platform, which they\u2019re not running on. They\u2019re not campaigning on their party platform. That\u2019s my whole point. But he mentioned Medicare for all. There\u2019s nothing responsible about that. That\u2019d cost $32.6 trillion over 10 years. But that\u2019s what jogged my memory. I want to go back to the Democrat candidate in Ohio 12 today, \u2019cause this really intrigues me.<\/p>\n
This guy\u2019s 31 years old. He\u2019s considered up-and-coming, a rising star in the Democrat Party. He\u2019s 31 years old, hot to trot. I want you to listen to the two things that he mentions that he says are on the minds of Democrat voters in Ohio 12. Keep in mind now, this is a Republican-heavy district forever. The Republicans have held this seat for like 33, 35 years. So there are not a majority of Democrats in the district. But the question he got… He was on the Today show today, and the question he got was, “How much is President Trump on the ballot in your election tomorrow?” meaning today. Listen to this answer…<\/p>\n
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O\u2019CONNOR: He\u2019s not, and when I talk to folks, one thing I love to ask families is I say, “What are you worried about? What keeps you up at night?” And it\u2019s, “Is my Social Security gonna be cut? Is Medicare gonna be there for me?”<\/p>\n
RUSH: Okay, this guy is 31 years old. “Is my Social Security gonna be cut?” When was the last time that anybody remembers a Democrat literally campaigning on the notion that Republicans are gonna cut Social Security? Do you realize how old and outmoded and antiquated that is? Look, if you\u2019re a Democrat in Ohio 12, I\u2019m not at all being critical of you. I\u2019m talking about the strategy here. That is… It\u2019s become a cliche. It is so old and it\u2019s so ineffective, it\u2019s not even used anymore.<\/p>\n
The reason it\u2019s not used is because the Democrats used it for so many years, and they made a lot of hay with it. You go back to the fifties and sixties and even through the eighties. It was a staple of every Democrat campaign — local, state, national — “Republicans are gonna cut your Social Security,” and it worked for a while. Senior citizens don\u2019t have much. They can\u2019t take a chance on that. So they\u2019re always gonna vote for the people that promise not to take it away from \u2019em.<\/p>\n
But after decades and decades and decades, the only thing that ever happened to Social Security was the payments increased. It was never taken away. There was never even a move to take it away! Nobody has ever made a move to take Social Security away. There may be change in means testing it, changing the retirement age, but nobody has ever talked about taking it away. Yet here is the 31-year-old Democrat reviving this claiming this is what\u2019s on the minds of voters in his district.<\/p>\n
Wouldn\u2019t you think it\u2019d make more sense when you get the question, “Is Donald Trump on the ballot in your election?” that the answer should have been, “Hell, yes, he is. These people hate him. Trump is making a mess of things. Trump is ruining America. Trump\u2019s making people angry.” That would have been the answer here if the Democrats are to be consistent, if they\u2019re trying to win these elections on the basis of everybody hates Trump and everybody\u2019s embarrassed of Trump and the people that voted for him regret it. But what is this guy doing bringing up cutting Social Security?<\/p>\n
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Is Trump talking about cutting Social Security? Is Troy Balderson talking about cutting Social Security? And then Medicare! “Is my Medicare gonna be there for me?” The only thing about Medicare that\u2019s been in the news is Medicare for all and $32 trillion. Who cares? So my point is that those are very old pages from a very old and antiquated Democrat playbook. And this guy is young. He\u2019s 31 years old. And for those to be the two things that he says are on the minds of his voters when everything we\u2019ve been led to believe is that the Democrats only care about one thing:<\/p>\n
They hate Donald Trump. They got to get rid of Donald Trump, and they know that to get rid of Donald Trump they\u2019ve got to win the House back from Republicans. I mean… (interruption) No. No, no, no. It just struck me as strange. I haven\u2019t heard a Democrat… Maybe you have where you live in a local election. I haven\u2019t heard Democrats running on the fear that Social Security is gonna be taken away. If that\u2019s what your voters are telling you, somebody has to be saying something to make them think that it\u2019s gonna be taken away.<\/p>\n
Who in the world has been campaigning the last 20 years on ending Social Security? Somebody give me a name. Bzzt! Bzzt! No names. Nobody has a name because nobody has. Very, very strange. You\u2019re on the Today show. You have a chance to hit a grand-slam home run. “Yes Trump is on the ballot in my district. People hate him! A lot of people in my district regret voting for Trump.” I can hear that answer like I could make it up myself. But that\u2019s not what the guy said.<\/p>\n
Maybe I\u2019m reading too much into it. But that\u2019s just me.<\/p>\n
BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n
RUSH: Let me try again. I\u2019m asking, “Why didn\u2019t the Democrat candidate in Ohio 12 talk about banning ICE?” It\u2019s a big tenet in the Democrat Party agenda. They want to get rid of ICE. They don\u2019t want there to be any policing at the borders. They don\u2019t want any wall. Come in, come in. If you want to come to America, come on in. We\u2019ll find a way to accommodate you. Get rid of border law enforcement, where was all that?<\/p>\n
Now, some people have said, “Rush, have you looked at the demographics of Ohio 12?” No, I haven\u2019t. “Well, I did, Rush. And it could well be the demographics suggest that quite a few seasoned citizens live there. And it\u2019s a heavy Trump district; so maybe the only thing they can do is go back and scare seasoned citizens in a way that\u2019s always worked.” It hasn\u2019t worked. That\u2019s the point. It hasn\u2019t.<\/p>\n
Nobody associates cutting Social Security and cutting or ending Medicare with Trump or certainly with Troy Balderson. Where does this stuff come from? It comes from an antique page of the playbook. Now, in the days when there was no opposition like me, that stuff worked like a charm, folks. It\u2019s not coincidental that that stuff stopped working when this program and alternative media began to pop up, which is why, among many reasons, they\u2019re trying to get rid of alternative media so these age-old shibboleths go back to being effective.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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