{"id":8102,"date":"2014-10-15T16:14:31","date_gmt":"2014-10-15T16:14:31","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2014-10-15T16:14:31","modified_gmt":"2014-10-15T16:14:31","slug":"on_the_cusp_of_a_great_american_awakening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2014\/10\/15\/on_the_cusp_of_a_great_american_awakening\/","title":{"rendered":"On the Cusp of a Great American Awakening?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: I got a note from a friend of mine last night. I\u2019m going to spend time on this, not right now, but I don\u2019t want you to miss this. I got a note from a friend last night who was really happy, really ecstatic, because he believes, or he did until he talked to me, he believes that we are on the threshold here of a major American reawakening. He thinks that we\u2019re on the cusp. He can\u2019t put his finger on it. He\u2019s a well-known writer and he thinks that all of these things happening here are going to open the American people\u2019s eyes to just how devastatingly damaging, destructive and corrupt liberalism is. <\/p>\n

I\u2019ve been thinking about this for 25 years. I\u2019ve been thinking how is it that we go through eight years of prosperity. Eight years of great individual liberty and freedom and entrepreneurism and economic growth and lower taxes and higher productivity and wages going up and raises being handed out. How do we go through eight years of that and people end up believing it never happened? How do we go through eight years of that and liberals ever win again? I\u2019ve been thinking about this my whole life, and I have stumbled onto the answer thanks to the note that I got from my friend last night. <\/line><\/p>\n

But I\u2019m not going to lead with that here. I\u2019m going to be very careful about that, too, because if you hear it the wrong way, you\u2019re going to think it\u2019s shrouded in pessimism and it\u2019s not. It\u2019s actually a teachable moment. The same thing happened in 1994 when the Republicans, for the first time, won the House of Representatives. And remember what it felt like back then. Everybody made the mistake of thinking, “Hey, the country\u2019s gone conservative. Hey, 40 years of Democrats thrown out. Hey, Contract with America, people bought into it. Hey.” <\/p>\n

Then two years later the country loves Clinton again. So what happened? Well, I El Rushbo, have the answer.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Let\u2019s get into what I mentioned at the top of the program, which I assured you then (and I repeat now) was not a tease. I just decided Ebola was the most or the more pressing matter of the two. I have been trying to understand the American people and the electorate for most of my aware adult life. Best explained by — and I\u2019ve asked this of many people, by the way. <\/p>\n

I\u2019ve never gotten an answer to it, not one that satisfied me. And I\u2019ve never, until last night, been able to answer it myself. I keep asking myself, “Why, after years and years of demonstrable conservative triumph and success…?” Such as the eight years of Reagan, when we reduced deficits, we reduced unemployment, we grew this economy like it hasn\u2019t grown since. We were producing jobs. We were producing careers.<\/p>\n

We took down the Soviet Union. We were advancing technologically. We were just rolling. Reagan won in two landslides, and I\u2019ve asked myself: How does it happen that after eight years — and Reagan was demonstrably conservative, and Reagan made no bones about being conservative. And Reagan, better than anybody else, articulated conservatism as he was executing it. <\/p>\n

So why, after eight years, are people able to so easily forget it and return to voting for liberal Democrats? It\u2019s something that\u2019s amazed me and made me curious for years, many years. It happened again. It\u2019s happened a lot of times. It happened again in 1994. The Republicans win the House of Representatives for the first time in 40 years. They did it with a substantive agenda, the Contract with America. <\/line><\/p>\n

It was made up of ten agenda points that they intended to do, and they were substantive – balance the budget, reduce the deficit, reduce spending, all those things — and they set out to do them. But it wasn\u2019t many years later that voters went right back to voting Democrat. They embraced Bill Clinton all over again and I was left scratching my head. I was asking how is it that these voters forget? <\/p>\n

Now, don\u2019t think I\u2019m ignoring something here. I know what the media\u2019s role in this is. I\u2019m not downplaying that. The media, even during those eight years, was telling people it wasn\u2019t real. And during the first term of George W. Bush they were telling people it wasn\u2019t real. The media is out there trying to create as much negativism as they can and they\u2019re beating up these conservative Republicans. I know all that. <\/p>\n

But nevertheless, people lived it, and yet it didn\u2019t seem to have much impact, not lasting. The words of the media — the smears, the lies, the distortions — carried more weight than actual real life. At least when it came to voting, results at the ballot box. Here\u2019s some headlines today. Politico.com: “Poll: Obama Hits Lowest Approval Ever.” ABC News\/Washington Post poll: “Obama Hits Lowest Approval.” <\/p>\n

He\u2019s down around 40 in this poll and that\u2019s lower than he has ever been. From TheHill.com<\/a>, as well: “Where Did It Go Wrong for Obama?” They just can\u2019t figure out where Obama went wrong. He\u2019s such a great guy; he\u2019s so smart; he\u2019s so articulate. He\u2019s the first black president! How did it go so wrong? What happened? Of course, it can\u2019t be the state of the country.<\/p>\n

It can\u2019t be the economy. It can\u2019t be Obama. It can\u2019t be anything substantive. What is it? “Where Did Obama Go Wrong?” They can\u2019t figure it out! Next, we have this from the Washington Post<\/a>: “The Democrat Party Hits a 30-Year Low.” Now, the Republicans are even lower in this poll but that doesn\u2019t obviate my point. Democrat Party, 30-year low. Obama, lowest approval ever. “Where Did Obama Go Wrong?” <\/p>\n

Democrats are pulling out of the Kentucky Senate race. The Democrat Senatorial Campaign Committee is no longer going to be spending any money to help Alison Lundergan Grimes. They\u2019re acceding to McConnell. The Democrat Senatorial Campaign Committee have said they have only enough resources to fund incumbents; they\u2019re not going to help challengers.<\/line><\/p>\n

So they\u2019re making the calculation decision that Mitch McConnell is going to win re-election and they\u2019re bowing out. So she is on her own. Then we\u2019ve got a sound bite from John Harwood on CNBC in which he claims that Obamacare — despite how bad it is, despite the absolute mess, despite premiums rising, despite coverage being cancelled, despite policies being cancelled, despite co-pays going up, despite the mess that\u2019s HealthCare.gov — has fizzled as a campaign issue for the Republicans. <\/p>\n

Now, when Snerdley heard that today, he said, “No it hasn\u2019t! No it hasn\u2019t!” Yes, it has. It may end up being something people vote against Democrats for but they\u2019re not voting for Republicans on it. Now, in the midst of all this I got a note last night from a famous, nationally known and acclaimed writer. It says, “Rush, just positing here. I\u2019m at least a column or more away from verbalizing it. <\/p>\n