RUSH: Here is Sean in Philadelphia. Great to have you, sir. Hi.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Hey, Rush. I\u2019m a big fan of yours.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Thank you. I appreciate that.<\/p>\n
CALLER: I\u2019ll get right to the point. I have one comment and one question, and the comment is… It\u2019s going around this talking point that, you know, since this Kavanaugh victory, that the president is teaching the Republicans how to fight. I actually think he\u2019s teaching the Democrats what it\u2019s like to lose, and I don\u2019t think anybody\u2019s picking up on that, \u2019cause they\u2019re not used to losing like this. They\u2019re used to the Republicans just giving in.<\/p>\n
The question I had was, “What do you think would happen…?” \u2019cause I don\u2019t know what\u2019s gonna happen. I actually think this blue wave talk is not true from what I\u2019m seeing out here. “What do you think would happen to the Democrats and the media if instead of a blue wave, if there was a red wave?” I mean, what do you think actually would happen? Do you think they\u2019d self-destruct? I mean, what would the day after look like?<\/p>\n
RUSH: I have been… I think it\u2019s a good question, because I myself have been thinking about that in terms of survival and safety, because I think if the Democrats do not win the House… If you listen to the scuttlebutt, it sounds like everybody\u2019s preparing for the Republicans to hold the Senate, maybe even expand their hold there. But the conventional wisdom is that the Democrats are gonna retake the House in numbers we haven\u2019t seen in who knows how long, since 1994.<\/p>\n
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I\u2019ve been wondering, “What if all of this is just a bunch of caca, media and polling unit manufactured, just like it was in 2016?” There were not very many polls in 2016 that got even close to being right. Rasmussen was one — and by the way, Rasmussen has Trump at 51% approval. The CNN approval number for Trump is 41%. The polling data the Drive-Bys just — shows them even now, after the Kavanaugh hearing — expanding the blue wave.<\/p>\n
I mean, do you know that the Republican candidate…? Just as an aside here. Do you know the Republican candidate for governor of California is only six or seven points back? The Republican. I got a note from Newt Gingrich about this overnight, that the Republican… I\u2019ll have to find it. But the Republican candidate for governor of California running against Gavin Newsom is closer than anybody would ever have believed possible.<\/p>\n
If the Democrats do not retake the House, I think Washington may be uninhabitable for a while. I think we haven\u2019t seen the meltdown that is going to happen among many elected Democrats, the charges of a rigged election, of Russian interference, that Trump did it again, anything they can come up with. They are so, so certain they\u2019re gonna win this. They\u2019ve already banked on the win. They\u2019re already planning to impeach Kavanaugh and Trump, and if that doesn\u2019t happen, I really think they may lose it all and very quickly.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: So our last caller, Sean from Philadelphia, asked, “What\u2019s gonna happen, Rush? They\u2019re all expecting a blue wave. What happens if they lose it?” Well, let me share with you a headline from Politico, just today. Politico story. Ready for this? “Politico Race Ratings: The GOP House Is Crumbling.” Here is the subheadline, Mr. Snerdley:<\/p>\n
“There are now 209 seats either firmly or leaning in the Democratic column \u2014 only nine shy of the 218 needed to win control.” That\u2019s what you were telling me; right? You\u2019ve got Republicans telling you that they think this is true? Some. I\u2019m not asking for names, but you\u2019ve got some elected Republicans where people in their offices are telling you they believe this? (interruption) Okay. So Politico says, “The GOP House Is Crumbling.” It\u2019s falling apart.<\/p>\n
There are 209 firmly or leaning Democrat. I guess this is according to polling data, and 218 is the number of seats you need for the majority in the House. There are 435 total numbers there; 218 is the majority. So 209 seats are firmly or leaning Democrat. I mean, if the Democrats win 209 seats? This is a wipeout. The Republican Party would have to be, for this to happen, a party of Adolf Hitlers — and yet they believe it. Now, folks, I don\u2019t have any inside information on this. I don\u2019t know anybody with internal polling data.<\/p>\n
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I don\u2019t know beans. I don\u2019t really pay attention to that; I never have. But the people in Washington live and die by this stuff. I\u2019m telling you, it is their blood and water and food, polling data. It\u2019s how they get through the day, every day, polling anything. And if the Democrats are publishing stories to each other that 209 seats are leaning their way and if there is no blue wave, I don\u2019t think there\u2019s gonna be an ounce of sanity anywhere to be found on the Democrat side of the aisle or in the media.<\/p>\n
So 209 seats firmly or leaning in the Democrat column. Let me ask you a question. What could be causing this? Let\u2019s assume for a moment… Just as a hypothetical exercise, let\u2019s assume this is true. Can you tell me what it is — anything, one thing, a series of things — that has American voters so, so ticked off at Republicans that they cannot wait to go out and vote Democrat so that the Democrats run the House? What is it? What have the Republicans done or not done that would warrant this kind of nationwide disgust with the party?<\/p>\n
Now, the left will tell you the answer to that question is Trump, that the people of this country despise Donald Trump, that the people in this country have been poised to send Trump packing ever since election night 2016. They can\u2019t wait to get out there and show their disgust for Trump. And the only way they can do it is to vote against Republicans. All right. Well, as I say, we\u2019re hypothetically pretending this is true. What has Trump done to generate that kind of disgust? Other than be alive and be president, what has he done? (interruption)<\/p>\n
No, no. I\u2019m being serious. You want to take…? (interruption) Oh, Snerdley said, “He separated families at the border.” I\u2019m glad you reminded me of that. It\u2019s getting harder and harder to watch television shows. What was I watching this last week was premier week for all of the new network prime-time shows. I think it was Law & Order (yeah, Law & Order in Your SUV or something) and the show started out focusing on a bad guy who had little kids in his basement in a cage.<\/p>\n
The SVU cops are running around trying to prove this guy is a reprobate of the first order. “Oh, no, no, officer! No. Our government is separating these children from their parents at our border, and I am saving them!” and the cops rethought everything. “Oh, wow. We don\u2019t have a pervert here. We have a hero! This guy…” I watched and said, “Well, that\u2019s it for this show.” The level of idiocy and stupidity and ignorance that just permeates places in this country where it ought not be. There are people ought to be more educated, more informed, and smarter.<\/p>\n
But that\u2019s gone. We have replaced informed people, educated people, learned people with absolute blockhead idiots. We\u2019re not separating — and Trump never did separate — families at the border. That is actually Democrat Party policy. It\u2019s related to families crossing the border illegally seeking asylum. Trump, in fact, wrote an executive order to end it, which was beaten back on the basis that it was unconstitutional, that the statute in America today says families will be separated — and it\u2019s to protect the kids.<\/p>\n
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The reason for it, the reason for the separation is the parents are shuffled off into holding cells while their cases are adjudicated. So I\u2019m watching this stupid show, and I see a guy who in any other normal season would be a pervert with a bunch of kids in cages in his basement converted to seem to be quasi-hero because he is rounding up kids that Trump is separating from their parents and saving them. So I went to the DVR and I canceled Law & Order in Your SUV.<\/p>\n
Got rid of that. It\u2019s been out there long enough, 20-some-odd years. They\u2019re all dropping like flies. They all feature stuff like this in it. So you really think that 209 Republican House seats could be up for grabs because people all over this country are fed up with Trump and the Republicans separating families? (interruption) Well, yeah, it wouldn\u2019t explain 209. Snerdley says, “It\u2019s a lot of Republican retirements.”<\/p>\n
Well, yeah, committee chairmen are retiring \u2019cause they\u2019re term limited! Forty-three members are retiring — some are committee chairmen — and the reason they\u2019re quitting is because they don\u2019t want to go back to being average, ordinary members. When you\u2019re a committee chairman, you get perks, you get attention, you get TV time. You know, you matter. But when you\u2019re term limited out of your chairmanship, then you quit and you parlay your time there into big bucks in the private sector.<\/p>\n
You know, there are some Republican retirements, but there aren\u2019t 209 of \u2019em. But my only point is for there to be this kind of blue wave, 44, 47 retirements does not explain it. Not when the Democrats think they\u2019ve got 209 seats leaning in their favor. (interruption) Oh, you don\u2019t think it\u2019s policy? There would…? If this is all true, there has to be something or a series of things that the American public is just fit to be tied over and want to take it all out on Republicans.<\/p>\n
Again, the media, the Democrats will tell you, “It\u2019s Trump! The people of this country hate Trump. They\u2019re embarrassed of Trump.” But that\u2019s what they think. The evidence that the country hates Trump? It isn\u2019t there in any poll. Even if you look at the leftist opinion polls, he\u2019s at 41% approval. That\u2019s not in the twenties where George W. Bush was. They drove him down in the sixth year.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: No, no, no! I don\u2019t mean the Democrats are on line to pick up 209 seats, but that\u2019s how the story\u2019s written. That\u2019s how that headline of the story\u2019s written. No. There are 209 seats leaning Democrat already out of 435. That\u2019s just nine short of the majority. But it\u2019s written to make it look like they\u2019re gonna pick up that many. It\u2019s not what it says, though.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Let me just clarify again here. I got a panicked email. “Mr. Limbaugh, I am very confused. You don\u2019t mean the Democrats are projected to pick up 209 seats? Just 15 seats are projected to be picked up by the polls.” No, no. Fifteen seats is not enough. They need to pick up… For there to be a blue wave, they gotta pick up 26 to 30. They need 26 to gain control or 27. I mean, it depends on how you do the math on control. Now this piece in Politico, the headline is written in such a way… 209 seats leaning Democrat, leaning or locked Democrat.<\/p>\n
An average, ordinary person is supposed to conclude from that that the Democrats are gonna pick up 209 seats. The magic number for the House in control is 218, and so they go on to say that, (imitation) \u201cThis means the Democrats are only nine seats short of the majority!\u201d So they want you to believe the Democrats have zero seats but they\u2019re gonna pick up 209. That\u2019s how much hatred for Republicans there is. The blue wave polls out there say that Republicans are gonna lose anywhere from 26 to 50, maybe up to 60 seats.<\/p>\n
I mean, those are the hard numbers that the Drive-Bys are throwing around. But this Politico headline and the subhead that went with it are specifically designed to make it appear that the Democrats are leaning toward picking up 209 seats, and the reason that\u2019s written that way is to convey hopelessness. Politico knows that this story is gonna be regurgitated all over things like the AP and the Yahoo News, Apple News, any other number of aggregator places that recycle news by way of link.<\/p>\n
So you get that headline is the link: “209 seats leaning Democrat, according to latest blue wave poll.” But, no, not picking up 209 seats. They need 26 for control, and they need 30 to 35 to 50 for their blue wave.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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