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RUSH: My theory as to why Scott Walker is running away with all of the Republican preferential polls right now is precisely because he fought back. This same bunch of people tried to destroy Scott Walker. Not just his career. They tried to destroy his life. They tried and targeted his family for the same purpose. They used illegal tactics.<\/p>\n

They incorporated the Democrat legislature in Wisconsin and the judiciary and they attempted to rig the game against him. Three elections in four years, Scott Walker won! They tried to recall him twice under bogus premises. He beat \u2019em back, and he beat \u2019em back with substance, issues, conservatism, you name it. He beat them back, and he has reformed that state. He has reformed the education system. He has diminished the power of a minority bunch of union people. He\u2019s grown that state.<\/p>\n

They have a budget surplus, tax cuts. They have unemployment, which is going down. Literally Scott Walker, in my mind, is showing the blueprint for the rest of the Republican Party how to do this. Okay. So, The Politico<\/a> today has picked up on this. We\u2019re gonna move to sound bite eight, Mike, instead of 20 and 21. We\u2019ll come back to those. In The Politico: “Rush Limbaugh Rallied Behind Scott Walker — Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh says Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is what\u2019s been missing from the Republican Party: a fighter.<\/p>\n

“‘Scott Walker\u2019s doing it, and he is running away, and these clowns on our side don\u2019t even understand it yet,\u2019 Limbaugh said Monday on his radio program. Limbaugh said that Walker, who is preparing for a possible 2016 White House run, might not be right on all of the issues, but the base is ‘gonna support him because he is fighting back. That\u2019s what has been missing.'” I do believe that the initial wave of support is simply applause and recognition for Scott Walker being gutsy and standing up to these people.<\/line><\/p>\n

Which our base voters have not seen anywhere near enough of. When the Republican Party doesn\u2019t stand up to these people, the Republican Party is not even defending its own voters, who are also attacked and assaulted and lumped into all these defamatory allegations of racism, sexism, bigotry, War on Women, and all this rotgut drivel. There\u2019s one guy who has stood up to it. Ted Cruz stands up to it, and note that he\u2019s pretty popular, too. Marco Rubio\u2019s had his moments standing up to it. Note he\u2019s pretty popular.<\/p>\n

You take a look at the bottom of the Republican poll and find out who\u2019s not as popular now, and you\u2019ll also find they\u2019re the ones that talk about working with these people. They\u2019re the ones that talk about compromising with them. The people on the tail end of these polls with the least support right now are the ones talking about, “Well, you know, we were not sent to be confrontational. We gotta work with \u2019em. We gotta make Washington work.”<\/p>\n

Washington “working,” as defined by being run by Democrats, is the problem in this country, and that\u2019s what our voters want stopped, and they have expressed it in two straight midterm elections. It can\u2019t be any clearer! So, to me, it makes perfect sense that Scott Walker right now is being supported — vastly supported — over any of the other candidates right now simply because he\u2019s fighting back. Like I told you, one Romney fundraiser\/bulk donor and so forth that I ran into on the golf course not long ago.<\/p>\n

I was convinced if Romney ran again, he would be right in there raising money and bundling and all that, and I figured this guy would know whether indeed Romney would run. Now, this is six weeks ago. I figure this guy would know if Romney\u2019s really gonna run or not, so I walked up and said, “Look, I know you\u2019re being peppered here with this question, but tell me: Do you think Romney\u2019s gonna go?” He said, “I don\u2019t know, but I hope not,” and I was taken aback. This guy\u2019s only raised millions for the guy!<\/p>\n

He said, “I\u2019m tired of this. We need a fighter, Rush. We need a fighter. You know who I like?” And he named Rick Perry. Now, the point of this is that here\u2019s somebody who\u2019d gone all-in with Mitt Romney, loved him, great guy and so forth. But even he recognized that we need somebody that\u2019s fighter, and that\u2019s Scott Walker. He has written the blueprint on that — and not just written the blueprint, he\u2019s built the house from the blueprint. Okay. <\/p>\n

So we have The Politico story. They picked up on this on Fox News last night, and O\u2019Reilly says to Karl Rove, “Governor Scott Walker of Wisconsin leads the poll, 15%. I don\u2019t think that tells us very much. Jeb Bush is not gonna run in Iowa. I don\u2019t even know if he\u2019s gonna compete there. He\u2019s a moderate, and that\u2019s a Conservative Caucus. Am I wrong?”<\/p>\n

ROVE: The interesting thing in this poll is not exactly where everybody is, but that there was so much movement between October and today for Scott Walker, and you have to chart it to one fact: He went and made a fantastic speech at the Iowa Freedom Forum, which got played on radio. That\u2019s why there was a lot of movement on behalf of Walker, because he made a good speech and it got the buzz. But there\u2019s gonna a lot of campaigning between now and next February, 12 months away.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, as everybody knows, I like Karl Rove. Karl Rove is a friend of mine. Karl Rove\u2019s not an enemy to me. He is to a lot of people, but he\u2019s not to me. I have a good relationship with him and so forth. But I think he dead wrong here. Scott Walker is not where he is because we played sound bites of his speech in Iowa on the radio. That\u2019s what Karl meant there. Well, he went and made a fantastic speech at the Iowa freedom thing and it got played on the radio and that\u2019s why there\u2019s lot of support.<\/p>\n

There was movement and buzz for Scott Walker long before he got to Iowa<\/a>. The reason Iowa shocked \u2019em because they didn\u2019t know him. This is what amazes me. I would think and everybody in the Republican establishment would at least know what Walker\u2019s done. They have to. I would think that they would be able to understand how big it is what he\u2019s accomplished in that state, a blue state. He showed up in Iowa already vigorously supported. But they\u2019re trying to say that he showed up a nobody and he made a great speech, which just shocked everybody.<\/p>\n

Because they all thought he was dryball and dull. <\/p>\n

That\u2019s why all the talk about, “Where\u2019d he go to get his charisma transplant?” That\u2019s what they think of it. He gives great speech that supposedly shocked them, and then it got played on the radio, and that explains the 15%. I just think that\u2019s dead wrong, and I think they\u2019re fooling themselves if that\u2019s what they think explains Scott Walker\u2019s standing in these early polls. Anyway, so the Hemmer bite now. That was last night. This morning, Bill Hemmer cites all this and got Rove in there, and this is how that conversation went.<\/line><\/p>\n

HEMMER: Rush Limbaugh was making the case that Walker, people like him because he fights back. How do you see that?<\/p>\n

ROVE: We need to take this news with a little bit of caution. We shouldn\u2019t get a case of premature surveyitis. At this same point in 2007, the front-runner in the polls was John McCain with 21%. He came in fourth. At this point in 2012, Huckabee led. He didn\u2019t even run. We\u2019ll see a lot of movement. And the leader now is not likely — rarely is the leader later.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, I understand this, because clearly Walker is not Karl\u2019s choice. Obviously Karl is a Jeb Bush man. That\u2019s common sense, and understandable. So no beef there. But I don\u2019t think if Bush had come out on top of this poll, Karl would be rejecting the poll as handily as he is rejecting this one. They\u2019d be attaching meaning to it. I am not attaching a long-term meaning to this. I\u2019m not endorsing Walker. I have no idea what\u2019s gonna happen in this campaign down the road. <\/p>\n

I\u2019m just telling you that I think I know why he is scoring around 50% or higher in all these polls right now. I know the Republican base. You do, too, folks. We are it. You know how frustrated people are. Here\u2019s a guy who\u2019s… I\u2019m about being repetitive. Everything we think we\u2019re up against he has beaten, and we don\u2019t see anybody else even trying. We don\u2019t see anybody! You know, Ted Cruz is. But he\u2019s in the Senate. But Walker, in terms of actual governors\/elected officeholders?<\/p>\n

He\u2019s the only guy that\u2019s tried to beat them back, and he\u2019s done it three times in four years. Here\u2019s Albert Hunt, noted liberal, married to Judy Woodruff. Last night he was on Bloomberg TV\u2019s With All Due Respect. That\u2019s the John Heilemann, Mark Halperin show. Let\u2019s see. “The big headline in the poll, Scott Walker at 16%, ahead of everybody else, whether Romney\u2019s in the field or not, he\u2019s in the lead. What explains this, Albert? He\u2019s come from nowhere to the front of the pack. Albert, what does this mean?”<\/p>\n

HUNT: I was in a lunch on Saturday with a bunch of really, I mean, huge heavy hitters — uh, and money in politics and some pretty sharp political minds. They were talking the Republican field; no one mentioned Scott Walker. This poll was a shock, I think, to a lot of people. He made a terrific impression at that conservative forum. Look, this guy has proven that he\u2019s a player. This is not a flash in the pan. I think Scott Walker is really in that top tier now for real.<\/p>\n

RUSH: See, that? He\u2019s talking big money, that\u2019s what this means, and they never even heard of the guy. He comes out of the blue? It has to be because he made a speech and it got broadcast on the radio, right? Can\u2019t be anything else.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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