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RUSH: Rasmussen Reports polling data. Delaware, Senate, 2010. ‘Democrat Chris Coons\u2019 lead over Republican Christine O\u2019Donnell shrinks when Delaware voters are given the option of voting for Mike Castle as a write-in in the state\u2019s U.S. Senate race.\u2019 So if Castle shows up as a write-in he takes votes away from Coons, not away from Christine O\u2019Donnell. The same thing as in Alaska. Lisa Murkowski is taking votes away from the Democrat out there, not the Republican. Karl Rove was on Fox today talking about the fact that polling data shows that the Republican Party becoming more and more ideologically conservative, which is not going to please the ruling class Republicans who are not going to be excited about that. But there is something happening out there, and it continues to effervesce.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: From the LA Times today. Listen to this headline: ‘Politicians\u2019 Money Woes Strike a Chord with Voters.\u2019 This is a story actually out of Marietta, Georgia. ‘Georgia voter Bobbie Huff has heard about the failed business venture and the big loan that has Nathan Deal, this state\u2019s gubernatorial front-runner, on the hook for more than $2 million. She\u2019s also heard that Deal, an 18-year veteran of Congress, will likely have to sell his house and liquidate other assets to cover the debt. But Huff can\u2019t bring herself to render a stern judgment on the man just because he\u2019s suffered in the recession. After all, she said, who hasn\u2019t? … In some cases, adversaries point to these problems as examples of poor judgment and highlight perceived ethical lapses. But experts say they would be wise to tread carefully in a time of widespread pain, because voter sympathy may weigh into election day [sic] decisions.\u2019<\/p>\n

Now, this takes us to Christine O\u2019Donnell. Christine O\u2019Donnell went into debt. She couldn\u2019t pay off a mortgage because she decided to do some pro bono legal work that she thought was important and she didn\u2019t get paid, obviously. It was pro bono. And d she had some leans from the IRS placed on her, and when this all came up I said, ‘Isn\u2019t this, in this day and age, a qualification?\u2019 I mean, a lot of people have had the IRS after \u2019em and it\u2019s not pleasant. It\u2019s one way to relate, but it\u2019s also a two-way street here. Now, in this case, Nathan Deal, if he tries to start a business and has to sell his house to cover debt, this story says it\u2019s not necessarily a negative anymore. ‘Residents understand that they are in the same situation.\u2019 Let\u2019s take a look the other side of this. How about the cronyism — the corporate cronyism, crony capitalism — that exists between members of the ruling class and the political elite and the business community? <\/p>\n

For example, look at Castle. I mean, let\u2019s cut to the chase here on Mike Castle. Mike Castle votes for cap and trade. Why is Mike Castle voting for cap and trade? Why did he? I\u2019ll tell you why. It\u2019s because a lot of his money, a lot of his contributors are Wall Street people who are gonna get rich if cap and trade ever passes. Look, it\u2019s called cap and trade. Trade. Somewhere on Wall Street — companies, Goldman Sachs, whoever, I don\u2019t know — will be in charge of trading carbon credits. And as you know, the traders make out regardless how the trade goes. As the intermediary, they\u2019re the broker. So here you have Mike Castle, ‘The hell with ideology, the hell with principle, the hell with what the future of the country is.\u2019 Follow the money trail. He votes for cap and trade. He may not even know what it is. He may not even care what the impact of cap and trade is on his constituents. <\/p>\n

All he\u2019s concerned about is the money he gets in donations from people who are gonna get rich off of it. John Kerry. No, forget Kerry. Kerry married it, but Chris Dodd. Chris Dodd gets all these sweetheart deals from Angelo Mozilo, whatever his name was at Countrywide on these mortgages? That\u2019s something you and I can\u2019t get. That\u2019s something Christine O\u2019Donnell can\u2019t get. That\u2019s the kind of stuff that\u2019s acting people. This is what the ruling class doesn\u2019t get. The fact that some guy named Nathan Deal had a failed business venture and might have to sell his house and liquidate other assets to cover the debt, that\u2019s something people with relate to. He\u2019s not stealing from anybody. He\u2019s not being shown any favoritism. He took a risk, he\u2019s paying the price, and he\u2019s running for governor. He can relate to a lot of people. <\/p>\n

Ditto Christine O\u2019Donnell. Ditto Rand Paul. Ditto Sharron Angle. You know, these are people who have lived lives. These are people who have not… Carl Paladino in New York. These are people who have lived lives. This is the ascension here. This is what\u2019s happening. People from the non-ruling class, the so-called nonelites, are getting into the political system — and of course they\u2019re real people. They\u2019ve lived lives. Nobody\u2019s clean and pure as the wind-driven snow. Everybody\u2019s got something in their background. You do an anal exam on everybody, you\u2019re going to find something — a media anal exam. But these people did not benefit from having ties to fellow elitists in the money world, in the banking community or whatever. <\/p>\n

So when we hear the ruling class Republicans say, ‘Mike Castle has gotta be elected! We need 51 votes.\u2019 They\u2019re not even talking about 51 votes to save the country; they\u2019re not talking 51 votes to oppose Obama. They\u2019re not talking 51 votes to defeat Obama\u2019s agenda. They\u2019re talking to 51 votes to keep the Money Line open. Well, I think people are becoming more and more sophisticated and more aware of this. Just look at Chicago politics. Obama and all these people. The financial dealings that heard people or anger people are are going to harm them are those that result from having access to people who you give you a deal that average, ordinary so-called normal people can\u2019t get. <\/p>\n

Normal people go into debt, normal people have to pay it off, normal people either get foreclosed on or what have you. They live lives. They have life experiences. They, thus, know how to reality to the vast majority of people in the country. The vast majority of people in the country do not know the CEO of Countrywide, they don\u2019t get sweetheart deals on their mortgages, and they\u2019re not members of the US Senate at the same time. They know they can\u2019t have that kind of access, and they know that people in the Senate and the House who have access to that kind of money are voting in the interests of their own benefit to keep that relationship alive, and that\u2019s why we\u2019re getting stories here in the LA Times: <\/p>\n

‘Politicians\u2019 Money Woes Strike a Chord with Voters — Candidates who\u2019ve faced bankruptcy or foreclosure are finding that many people sympathize with their problems. And their opponents refrain from attacking on the financial front,\u2019 except Obama and the Democrats are doing just that. They\u2019re going to try and go out and do everything they can to smear people on the basis of some sort of skeleton in the closet, be it financial, ethical, moral, or what have you. So, folks, there\u2019s something going on out there. Real people, real lives are ascending. This is the Tea Party. The sophistication among these people is for understanding exactly just what all insider deals are in politics, and they don\u2019t want any part of it. <\/p>\n

The people have elected representatives and senators to go to Congress as Republicans and Democrats, and they find out that the interests of the country — the issues, defeating Obama\u2019s agenda — doesn\u2019t matter. Certainly it\u2019s not primary. There are other reasons. And Castle\u2019s vote for cap and trade is the greatest, clearest example that I could give you. The so-called moderates like Castle, they condemn us, and they\u2019re actually out there cutting deals all the time. Despite their populist rhetoric at times, they\u2019re whores! They\u2019re whoring themselves out to the highest bidder. Castle was great to the banks and other financial institutions, all headquartered in Delaware. Take a look. A lot of LLCs, a lot of companies charter in Delaware. It\u2019s very favorable there. Somebody in the American Spectator wrote, ‘His support for cap and trade is support for companies in his state who open to make a fortune trading carbon credits.\u2019 He\u2019s not even voting for it because he thinks it would save the planet. He didn\u2019t even vote for cap and trade because he thinks it\u2019s good policy. He voted for cap and trade because that\u2019s what the people donating to him want, and that\u2019s how he\u2019s gonna get taken care of on the other end of the deal. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: Folks, the choice in the election in November and the election in 2012 — the choice in the upcoming elections — boils down to this: It\u2019s either Obama and the Democrats or America. You can\u2019t have both. That\u2019s the only way — and this what the Tea Party knows. That\u2019s the only way to look at it. It\u2019s either Obama and the Democrats or America. You cannot have both of them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Rasmussen Reports polling data. 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