{"id":285189,"date":"2018-09-20T15:40:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-20T19:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=285189"},"modified":"2018-09-24T16:23:21","modified_gmt":"2018-09-24T20:23:21","slug":"luntz-warns-dems-of-kavanaugh-backlash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2018\/09\/20\/luntz-warns-dems-of-kavanaugh-backlash\/","title":{"rendered":"Luntz Warns Dems of Kavanaugh Backlash"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Now, I said something on the program yesterday<\/a> (we\u2019re up to sound bite No. 3, here) and I want to repeat this because this might fall under the category of show prep for the rest\u00a0of the media.<\/p>\n

BEGIN ARCHIVE CLIP<\/p>\n

RUSH: This can\u2019t be said enough: They really believe they\u2019re gonna win the Senate, folks. They believe their polls. They don\u2019t have the slightest idea what a potential backlash they are creating with their behavior here and what they\u2019re doing to Kavanaugh. They haven\u2019t the slightest idea. They have no idea of the rage! They think the Democrats have all the motivation and inspiration, eagerness to vote?<\/p>\n

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They have no idea what this is doing to Republican turnout. No idea at all. We saw a harbinger of it in a Texas special election last night where a Republican won a Democrat seat that the Democrats have held for 139 years, and the polls did not say this was gonna happen. Democrats think they\u2019re in the process turning Texas blue, and yet this one seat that they\u2019ve held in a district that went heavily for Hillary elected a Republican.<\/p>\n

They\u2019re sitting there blind as a bat. They have no concept, they have no sense, because they\u2019re not connected to the American people. They have no idea how their behavior here is revving up Republicans to vote in November like nothing else could! You wait. We\u2019ll see.<\/p>\n

END ARCHIVE CLIP<\/p>\n

RUSH: Last night on the Fox News Channel The Ingraham Angle, the host, Laura Ingraham had pollster Frank Luntz on there asking him about the allegations against Kavanaugh and how is it gonna play in the midterms. Her question to Luntz, “From the people you\u2019re talking to out there, Frank, how will it this Kavanaugh circus play out in midterms?”<\/p>\n

LUNTZ: It does appear she isn\u2019t gonna testify. The American people believe in fairness and they believe that everyone deserves their day in court. They want to hear what she had to say. She leveled some very, uh, strong allegations. But I\u2019ll tell you that one of the big questions among the men I talked to is how far back are you going to hold someone accountable for the behavior that they did? Is what someone did when you\u2019re 17…? Is that applicable to what someone\u2019s life will be when they\u2019re in their fifties.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Yeah, it\u2019s a great, great question. Remember Clarence Thomas and Anita Hill she was alleging activity that occurred 10 years prior. This is 36 priors when both are in high school, for crying out loud. The first thing that should have disqualified it, the first thing that should have. Anyway, Luntz says that he senses the American people out there really think all this is unfair and could bode poorly for the Democrats. Next thing, Ingram of The Ingraham Angle said, “You know, I think that word ‘fairness\u2019 that you use, that cuts right to it. You can\u2019t lob these allegations and expect that you won\u2019t get any questions about yourself because people are being mean to you online!”<\/p>\n

LUNTZ: That\u2019s why the Democrats have used Anita Hill, because they realized within 24 hours that this story was turning, that people were starting to wonder why is she backing off? Why? When you make a claim as significant of this, that you\u2019re not willing to back it up at that hearing. What you could have is what happened to Donald Trump in 2016. You know he won a majority of white women — and everyone thought that because of what had happened during the campaign, he would crater. In this situation, you may see women angry that they\u2019re being used, that they\u2019re being scapegoated, that they\u2019re being pulled into a political process that they want no part of. Make no mistake: Authenticity matters more than anything in 2016 [sic], and this doesn\u2019t seem authentic right now.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And the reason for that is that she won\u2019t show up and testify, and people don\u2019t understand that. They can offer all excuses that they want. But she wrote… You know, she needs more time because she\u2019s been trying to forget this? She wrote this in quite a detailed fashion in the Washington Post. See, this is where… I\u2019m sorry. There\u2019s a lot of this that I question. I question this idea that she\u2019s been trying to forget it all of her life and is now being forced into remembering it.<\/p>\n

If anybody\u2019s doing that, that process was started by Democrats — which is gonna be lost on everybody. But she\u2019s been working on remembering this since the beginning of June! And if she didn\u2019t to want remember it, if she didn\u2019t want this, why send Feinstein the letter in the first place? There\u2019s so much of this that doesn\u2019t pass a smell test just in terms of common sense and believability.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, my friends, there\u2019s one other thing that about this that flies in the face of my prediction of the Democrats creating a major backlash here and that is a Reuters\/Ipsos poll<\/a>. The Reuters\/Ipsos poll says that the public support for Kavanaugh is at its all-time low, that the American people\u2019s support for Kavanaugh is dwindling. Opposition to Kavanaugh is growing; his support is at an historic low.<\/p>\n

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“A growing number of Americans said they opposed President Donald Trump\u2019s Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh, as the candidate\u2019s confirmation hearings took place and as he fended off a sexual assault claim… The September 11-17 poll found that 36% of adults surveyed did not want Kavanaugh in the Supreme Court, up 6 points from a similar poll conducted a month earlier. Only 31% of U.S. adults polled said they were in favor of Kavanaugh\u2019s appointment.”<\/p>\n

Now, I want you to think about something. We\u2019re talking here about one of the foremost legal scholars in the country, acknowledged by people from across the political spectrum. We\u2019re talking about somebody with impeccable integrity and honor as testified to by everybody that knows him. We\u2019re talking about an appellate court judge whose opinions are cited often by Supreme Court justices in their opinions. We\u2019re talking about an appellate court judge whose clerks with hired by Supreme Court justices more than any other judge\u2019s clerks.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re talking about perhaps one of the judicial minds of a lifetime, a man who has led an unquestioned life of decency until this smear campaign started. Yet Reuters has a poll that says two-thirds of the country does not think he\u2019s fit to be on the Supreme Court. Now, what does that mean? If we believe this poll, if this poll is accurate, all that is really shows… It doesn\u2019t show what people know about Kavanaugh. What it shows is the power of the media over reality or it shows the power of the media and their ability to use polls to create news, to shape public opinion rather than reflect it. Only 31% of adults in the Reuters poll think Kavanaugh\u2019s worth being on the court, 36% don\u2019t, and in terms of the just textbook qualifications, there isn\u2019t anybody better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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