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RUSH: I always try to delay sound bites mentioning me \u2019til later in the program so as to not to be distracted, but let\u2019s go to the audio sound bites, MessNBC Hardball\u2019s Chris Matthews talking with White House chief correspondent there F. Chuck Todd.<\/p>\n

MATTHEWS: Let\u2019s look at Rush Limbaugh now, because I think Rush Limbaugh cuts to the heart of that argument. And this is among conservatives in the country. If you\u2019re a liberal, watch this, because right now the action ideologically in this country is in the right. It\u2019s the way the Democratic Party was back in the sixties. This is where the action is ideologically. It\u2019s been yanked to the far right. Here\u2019s Rush Limbaugh doing some of the yanking today on radio.<\/p>\n

RUSH ARCHIVE: ‘… I have no brief for Christine O\u2019Donnell. But I\u2019m just going to tell you a Senate full of Mike Castles is not gonna get us anywhere. It\u2019s gonna get a bunch of Republicans their chairmanships on the committee but it\u2019s not going to do anything to reverse Obamaism. Not one thing. If that\u2019s our majority with a bunch of Mike Castles there, we\u2019re in trouble.\u2019<\/p>\n

MATTHEWS: Well, there you have it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: ‘There you have it.\u2019 I mean it\u2019s indisputable. And like I further pointed out, if you get 51 seats and four of them are Mike Castle types — Snowe, Collins, Voinovich, and Castle — you don\u2019t have 51 seats. You need 60 seats in there anyway for a legislative majority. Look at the Democrats. They got 59 seats, they can\u2019t get anything done in the Senate, and who do they blame? They blame the Republicans! You watch. We get 51 seats, and a bunch of Republicans go along with the Obama agenda and get it passed, and we get blamed for it because we\u2019re the majority. There\u2019s a downside to this. Last night Philadelphia, WTXF-TV Eyeball 29 News correspondent Steve Keeley live in Delaware reported this about Christine O\u2019Donnell.<\/p>\n

KEELEY: I worked in, uh, southern Delaware when I started in TV news. And southern Delaware… There\u2019s only three counties here, but Kent and Sussex, Delaware, is a whole different world, uh, than the northern New Castle County part of Delaware. And there\u2019s real people down there, and they saw this coming. She had the endorsements of things like the National Rifle Association, Rush Limbaugh, who people listen to on the radio down there. So this is not a surprise to two-thirds of this state for sure because she trounced him in middle and southern Delaware where those people all live.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So there you have a local TV Eyeball 29 News correspondent saying I own middle and southern Delaware, and everybody who lives there knows it. We move over to CNN and The Situation Room of Wolf Blitzer during the ‘Strategy Session\u2019 segment. Wolf Blitzer was speaking with Mary Matalin about the 2010 midterm election. Donna Brazile is in this next bite. Blitzer says, ‘I\u2019m curious to get your reaction here, Mary. Charles Krauthammer, a lot of our viewers will know his name…\u2019 Not that many, Wolf. Not that many of your viewers will know Charles Krauthammer\u2019s name, but that\u2019s a minor point. ‘Charles Krauthammer says as far as what\u2019s going on in Delaware, the Palin endorsement is disruptive and capricious. In Delaware, O\u2019Donnell and the Tea Party are favored to lose. That could be the difference between the Republicans and the Democrats controlling things. Mary, what do you think\u2019s going on over there in Delaware?\u2019<\/p>\n

MATALIN: There\u2019s only one man in the country as far as Charles, and that\u2019s Rush Limbaugh, and I think he\u2019s got his finger on the pulse. This is not about Sarah Palin versus the establishment Republicans. The argument against O\u2019Donnell is, ‘She can\u2019t win.\u2019 On what evidence? She\u2019s 11 points down in a blue state, which means she has to make up 5-1\/2, not 11 points, she only has to make up half that distance. If you want to talk about college, her opponent, the Democrats, wrote a paper in college, ‘The Making of a Bearded Marxist.\u2019 Hardly what you want to run on if you want to look backwards so she has under two months and she has two monster messages. She can potentially be the 51st Senate vote, and she would be a reliable fiscal conservative Senate vote. The argument against her that some conservatives are making that she can\u2019t win is unknown.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah. And of course, as I said: I\u2019m in charge of who can and can\u2019t win, not the GOP establishment. I haven\u2019t said yet that she can\u2019t win. Until I say it, it\u2019s not a factor. So Donna Brazile was in there, too, and Wolf Blitzer said, ‘Donna, you\u2019d rather face her, though, than face Mike Castle as the Democrat. Is that right?\u2019<\/p>\n

BRAZILE: No question. We like some of these Tea Party candidates. It\u2019s very easy to go up and tell the electorate, ‘You know, this is [the]Rush Limbaugh-Sarah Palin handpicked candidate. Do you want this person to go to Washington, DC? No! Democrats had to go out there and say, ‘These candidates are handpicked by Rush Limbaugh, Sarah Palin. You want this person in Washington, DC?\u2019 I guarantee the answer will be ‘Hell, no.\u2019<\/p>\n

RUSH: (laughing) (interruption) What campaign did she win? Let\u2019s see, she ran Gore\u2019s campaign. Uhhhhh…. Ummmm…. Really, I don\u2019t want to be rude. I don\u2019t know, Snerdley. She has ‘never done never\u2019? ‘She done never won a campaign\u2019? Hmm. (interruption) Well, I know that Bob Shrum hasn\u2019t won anything. I didn\u2019t know Donna Brazile. I know she ran Algore\u2019s campaign. You know, her big problem, though, was Naomi Wolf. Naomi Wolf, she put herself in charge of Gore\u2019s wardrobe. You know, the earth tones? Hey, Clinton Portis, you want to talk about packages? Did you see what Naomi Wolf did to Gore on the cover of that magazine? Oh! That didn\u2019t help.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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