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RUSH: Here is Doug in Columbia, South Carolina. You\u2019re next on the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Dittos, Rush. Thank you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You bet.<\/p>\n

CALLER: During the last election when the Republicans lost a lot of ground, it didn\u2019t seem that you or anybody else got the sense that that was coming. And I\u2019m wondering, during this McCain presidential election that\u2019s coming up, what makes you think this is so different?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, wait. Are you talking about the \u201906 midterm congressional elections?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, I thought we were in trouble there. Republicans in Congress had abandoned conservative principles, spending out the wazoo. <\/p>\n

CALLER: Sure, you alluded to it, but you didn\u2019t play it up, which is good, I wouldn\u2019t expect you to.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Then we had Mark Foley. That was it. We had Mark Foley, we lost the House. We had Macaca and we lost the Senate. But what I\u2019m talking about here in this coming presidential election is the opportunity. What I have come to realize is that there\u2019s no lock here for the Democrats. It\u2019s not a juggernaut. It\u2019s not just a matter of letting the time go by and then inaugurate Obama. That Obama campaign right now is in disarray, it\u2019s falling apart. That party is not unified. Everything that we have been told about Obama has been proven false because he can\u2019t even unify his own friends, he can\u2019t unify his own party. He can\u2019t even organize his own convention. He doesn\u2019t even have control of this convention, and yet he\u2019s going to make Ahmadinejad and all these world leaders become our best friends just with the power of his personality? And plus their stand with Pelosi now on abortion, and Obama\u2019s foot in his mouth on that, and their unwillingness to help take steps to create a greater supply of energy produced in the United States. They\u2019re sitting ducks if it is campaigned against in the right way.<\/p>\n

CALLER: When I see the Drive-Bys do what they do and when I hear a lot of Democrats talk locally here, I wonder — I agree with everything you said — but to a lot of people, what relevance does it have? They\u2019re going to do what they want to do anyway.<\/p>\n

RUSH: What relevance does what have?<\/p>\n

CALLER: The disarray that the Obama campaign is in and everything and the holes that we see in it. Others don\u2019t seem to see or don\u2019t have any regard for it if they do see it. A lot of people.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, remember, 50% of the people don\u2019t vote.<\/p>\n

CALLER: That\u2019s a good thing.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So it depends if you\u2019re talking to voters or not. And then depends whether you\u2019re talking to likely voters versus registered voters. There\u2019s a whole bunch of different people you could talk to for anecdotal evidence. See, you\u2019re kind of making my point, in a way, and I mentioned this yesterday. Conservatives and Republicans for some time are just oriented toward pessimism. We just are. We\u2019re oriented toward pessimism, defeatism, not because we don\u2019t have confidence in ourselves; it\u2019s that the people that we invest in always abandon us or fail to practice in office what they promise when they campaign. We\u2019re in the minority in the House of Representatives for 40 years. So all of a sudden we won it. But it\u2019s sort of like a person that\u2019s been vastly overweight all his life, loses the weight, still feels fat for six months psychologically. We still were losers in our mind. We\u2019re in the minority even when we were in the majority. We didn\u2019t know how to do it. And of course the Drive-Bys treated us like the minority even when we were the majority \u2019cause they resented us being there. <\/p>\n

So I think we have to work very hard to defeat this pessimism and to think that we\u2019re up against a juggernaut that can\u2019t lose, that does not ever make mistakes. And so I would encourage you not to be pessimistic about this. This is a golden opportunity here. And the McCain campaign, I have to give \u2019em this, they are coming back fast and furious with some great ads, with humor. It\u2019s almost like I was putting the ads together myself, using the Democrats\u2019 own words to laugh at Obama and to make points. The idea that Obama is not who he says he is, you say you can\u2019t run into any people that seem to follow this. Well, he\u2019s losing ground in presidential tracking polls, two different tracking polls since his convention started. He didn\u2019t get a bump out of Biden. He\u2019s not getting a bump out of the convention. He\u2019s not even in control of his own convention. You trust me on this. People are starting to pay attention now. I\u2019m not saying that it\u2019s in the bag. I\u2019m saying we have a golden opportunity, and I also am saying that the conventional wisdom is that this is a Democrat romp here, this is the Democrats\u2019 year of the twentieth century, twenty-first century combined, and I don\u2019t see it. Just don\u2019t see it. I always oppose conventional wisdom on principle, because conventional wisdom is nothing more than a bunch of people conforming. Who needs that? <\/p>\n

Blake in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, you, sir, are next. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hello, Rush. I have another reason for us to be optimistic about this election season.<\/p>\n

RUSH: What\u2019s that?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I was watching the convention last night and one thing I heard them say a couple of times, ‘You show me a good loser and I\u2019ll show you someone that\u2019s always a loser.\u2019 I\u2019m listening to this and I\u2019m saying, ‘That doesn\u2019t sound very unified.\u2019 And I\u2019ll tell you the reason. What it is is identity politics has backfired against the Democrats.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s right. Their policies, if they last long enough, will always come back and bite them.<\/p>\n

CALLER: That\u2019s right. Because right now they have two candidates that are pretty much, on the issues, carbon copies of each other. So you have two identities, the white woman and the black man, and that boils down to pretty much almost a religion, where you choose your faith and then you\u2019re just stuck on that because you have no substantive reason to change what you believe.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yep, that sums them up. Identity politics is a good way to describe the Democrats, identity victim politics. The reason they do this is it\u2019s intrinsically who they are, but never forget, folks, they can\u2019t be honest about their message, they just cannot be honest about it so everything has to be masked, camouflaged, and packaged as something that it isn\u2019t. The latest example is Michelle Obama. That\u2019s not who the woman is. She is not June Cleaver raising those two little girls, staying at home every day. She works. She\u2019s on leave from a hospital job, University of Chicago Hospitals, $310,000 a year. She\u2019s from Harvard and Princeton. But she had to throw all that away in that speech because Democrats think Michelle, you can\u2019t go out and be who you are because the American people won\u2019t like you. And Obama, it\u2019s much the same thing. <\/p>\n

So you keep that in mind and you\u2019ll make a lot of ground. You\u2019ll go a long way to understanding what it is the Democrats are trying to do. This is why it\u2019s important, folks, to keep hammering the point that this Democrat ticket, you put Biden on it, you\u2019ve got Obama, these are two extreme leftists, and one of them is a radical, and that\u2019s Obama. His associations are with radicals, hate-America radicals. They were his mentors. They still are close friends. This is a radical, radical leftist. Biden\u2019s voting record is just as leftist as Obama is. There is nothing new. There is nothing novel. There is nothing unique. Biden is a northeastern liberal. Northeastern liberals do not get elected president or vice president. And even if they try to convince people that he\u2019s really from Scranton, Pennsylvania, he\u2019s still a Northeast liberal. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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