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RUSH: Ladies and gentlemen, the Democrat Party is a mess. In addition to everything else that I have postulated today, you must also realize this — and don\u2019t doubt me on this. There are many Democrats who think they lost because they weren\u2019t left wing enough. There are many Democrats who think they lost because Obama failed to get the public option. Now, they\u2019re crazy, they are silly and stupid, but that is what they believe. They think that the independents… Get this, now. The people who believe that the Democrats botched it because Obama didn\u2019t get the public option, didn\u2019t get single-payer health care, believe that independents abandoned Obama and went and supported Republicans because the Democrats didn\u2019t get the public option. <\/p>\n

Now, this is as illogical as anything I have ever heard. Here you have a bunch of hard leftists who want the public option — independent, hard leftists who want single payer — but Obama didn\u2019t come through, and so in a snit they vote for Tea Party people. (laughs) Right. Sorry, folks, it doesn\u2019t work that way. Just as I\u2019ve always told you about this notion the Democrats have always told Republicans, ‘Don\u2019t be critical, don\u2019t raise your voice, you\u2019re just gonna send the moderates running to the Democrats.\u2019 Well, what sense does that make? The Democrats are the most vicious, the angriest, most over-the-top, deranged people in the world. To claim that being critical is gonna send independents who want harmony and peace to a bunch of lunatics is lunatic itself. <\/p>\n

But there are Democrats who believe that independents abandoned Obama because he didn\u2019t get the public option. They\u2019re out there. I don\u2019t know how many of them there are but a lot of them were elected in Congress in a safe seat, safe district. There are a lot of them who believe the reason this happened is because they weren\u2019t left wing enough. So the Democrats are gonna be pulled in a whole bunch of, lotta different directions. The bottom line is that Obama can\u2019t ‘move to the center.\u2019 There is no ‘center\u2019 among Democrats on Capitol Hill. There might be a few who add up to nothing. The rest were just defeated. The so-called centrists, the Blue Dogs? Bye-bye. (kissing sound) Nice knowing ya. Obama\u2019s election in 2008 occurred because the Republicans nominated a weak candidate. <\/p>\n

The same people who claim that Christine O\u2019Donnell was so terrible backed John McCain. Also, Obama benefited from the economy tanking last September and last October. Millions of Obama voters voted for that reason, not because they rejected their open country the way Obama has most of his life. And the first chance that people had to correct the course, they did, and big, because they didn\u2019t vote against their country. They did not think they were voting to send the nation into decline in 2008. They didn\u2019t think any of this would happened. They thought they were being magnanimous: First black president, end racism! They thought they were doing a wonderful, God-given thing — and now they realize the mistake. The lesson to the Democrats is, ‘If you allow the radical left to run your party, you will not have a party.\u2019 <\/p>\n

This is what the adults in that party know, if there are any left — and some of them, whoever they are, leaking to the Politico, know this. The lesson to the Democrats is, ‘If you allow the radical left to run your party, you don\u2019t have a party.\u2019 The lesson to the GOP is: ‘If you hand your party to ‘mavericks\u2019 and ‘moderates\u2019 and all the rest, you\u2019re gonna lose, too.\u2019 The election was between the radical left (that\u2019s Obama) and the mushy center, which was McCain, and the result was a disaster. Radicals, mushy Republicans were elected last week. That\u2019s what this all means. The lesson for the Republicans is Tea Party. The lesson for the Republicans is unabashed conservative constitutional values. That\u2019s what won. Radicals and mushy Republicans were tossed away last week. Radical leftists. That\u2019s the lesson. If anybody wants to take the lesson, that\u2019s it. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/line> <\/line>RUSH: Jack in Worcester, Massachusetts, nice to have you on the EIB Network.<\/line><\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, Rush. You know, in an important sense, I think Christine O\u2019Donnell, in that respect Sarah Palin, won in Delaware, even with O\u2019Donnell losing to Coons in the general election. Because effectively O\u2019Donnell, by campaigning against tax increases and promoting free enterprise with reduced government regulation, et cetera, you know, as the main issues, you know, the Tea Party line, with national attention drawn to Delaware, she really forced Coons to come out against tax increases and essentially embrace the Tea Party\u2019s positions. Everyone\u2019s gonna be watching, and that\u2019s something Castle would never have done on his own. So I guess what I\u2019m saying is in Delaware, O\u2019Donnell and Palin win by losing. And the same thing in West Virginia. Manchin is outed now and forced to the Tea Party side.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: So the bottom line is even the two or three Senate races where the Tea Party didn\u2019t win, they really won just by the campaign, and a lot of credit goes to Palin.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, I can\u2019t say that you\u2019re wrong because you and I are on the same page. Remember it was last week when Republicans were saying the lesson of Delaware is that you can\u2019t nominate candidates flaws and so forth. No, the lesson is that we can move the Delaware electorate to the right. The lesson is there is a conservative ascendancy. The lesson is what if the Republicans had gotten behind her? They got out the turnout. Angle, Palin, O\u2019Donnell, so I agree with the guy in a sense, win by losing. You rather win when you win rather than lose when you win, but I understand what he\u2019s saying. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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