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RUSH: I predicted to you a long time ago. Leon Panetta\u2019s book came out that it was the beginning of the transition from the Democrat establishment moving from Obama to Hillary. And now Panetta and his book are really unloading on Obama so much so that Dana Milbank and the Washington Post is very concerned about the disloyalty. The thing about the Dana Milbank piece is that while he berates Panetta, he repeats everything Panetta says. So it\u2019s a double hatchet job, Panetta and Milbank, with Milbank defending Obama ostensibly while attacking Panetta. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: Now, I mentioned, ladies and gentlemen, earlier in the program that Leon Panetta — I want to get to this \u2019cause I mentioned it, I teased at the top, and I want to not have the program end without mentioning this. It didn\u2019t take long, Panetta\u2019s got a book out and in the book he\u2019s savaging Obama, savaging him, and it\u2019s all part of building up the Hillary Clinton in 2016 meme, if you will. And Bill Clinton\u2019s on the campaign trail now. He\u2019s down in Arkansas and he\u2019s campaigning.<\/p>\n

A lot of people are quoting what Panetta said, Dana Milbank in the Washington Post today has a piece. What it purports to do is criticize Panetta for daring to be so disloyal to Obama, but yet it repeats every Panetta criticism. I mean, it\u2019s a pile-on piece. I don\u2019t know whether Milbank intended this or not. But it\u2019s dump on Obama time now. <\/line><\/p>\n

Let\u2019s start with audio sound bite number two. This is Bill Clinton. Now, to set this up, way back in August, back on the 27th, is when I first intensely and with a focused message started talking about the Republicans\u2019 absence of a message in this campaign, about how they\u2019re keeping quiet. They see that there\u2019s a potential wave election for them, and a lot of people are down on Obama, down on the Democrats, and their strategy\u2019s shut up and not interrupt that and let that happen. <\/p>\n

In the process what happens is that the Democrats once again are given a free rein to define the Republicans. I mean, in politics it\u2019s a truism, if you\u2019re not going to define yourself, your enemy will, and that\u2019s how you end up with a War on Women. That\u2019s how you end up with Republicans are racist, sexist, bigot, homophobes. If you refuse to define yourself — and there\u2019s any number of ways to do it: your policy message or your agenda portfolio, whatever, if you refuse to do it, you leave yourself wide open. <\/p>\n

And it was back in August that I first began to get nervous about this Republican silence about what they stand for and about how things will be different and better if they win. There hasn\u2019t been any of that. I chronicled the differences between today and 1994. When the Republicans took the House in 1994 it came out of the blue and surprised everybody. They did it. They had a Contract with America. They had a specific agenda. They told the American people what they were gonna do. “Here\u2019s what we\u2019re gonna do when we get elected. Here\u2019s what changes we\u2019re gonna make. This is how things are gonna get better.”<\/p>\n

It was effective and it won. It was a factor in their winning. The mistake they made then was, after that election they assumed the country had transformed itself to majority conservative, and they stopped teaching, they stopped explaining what they were doing. They just started implementing things left and right, and people got scared, said, “What is this?” They had just voted against Democrats, and the contract was the contract, but as it was implemented there wasn\u2019t sufficient explanation, quote, teaching. <\/p>\n

Well, because there\u2019s no national message now from the Republicans, it allows people like Bill Clinton to go down to Arkansas and tell people what the Republican message is.<\/p>\n

CLINTON: They\u2019re really running against the president, aren\u2019t they? They see these polls. The president\u2019s unpopular in Arkansas, and, yeah, the economy\u2019s coming back, but nobody believes it yet \u2019cause you don\u2019t feel it. (banging podium) You cannot afford to do what their opponents want. They want you to make this a protest vote. “You know what you gotta do? You gotta vote against the president! After all, it\u2019s your last shot.” It\u2019s a pretty good scam, isn\u2019t it? “Give me a six-year job for a two-year protest.” That\u2019s Mark Pryor\u2019s opponent\u2019s message.<\/p>\n

RUSH: All right, that\u2019s Clinton now attempting to save Pryor and his campaign by defining what the Republicans stand for and what they really want, and he even got in a shot there on Obama about the economy. He\u2019s mocking Obama. Obama\u2019s said the economy\u2019s going great guns, it\u2019s just nobody knows it. You don\u2019t feel it yet. Clinton got even a little shot in on that. Now, Clinton being back has excited the Drive-Bys. CNN today. This is John King speaking with the political columnist Ron Fournier.<\/p>\n

KING: There nobody like him.<\/p>\n

WOMAN: (chortling)<\/p>\n

KING: The raspy voice hasn\u2019t changed.<\/p>\n

FOURNIER: Covering him for as long as I have, it\u2019s like I got paid for an advanced degree in politics. He\u2019s the best. You see what he did yesterday. He did a typical Clinton. He took the best argument, the best argument that the Republicans have against voting for Democrats, and he slowly took it apart. He\u2019s the master!<\/line><\/p>\n

KING: Let\u2019s show some of the pictures as we go through this. Here\u2019s Bill Clinton on the rope line. He\u2019s taking selfies with people as he goes through. Uh, he came to age, remember, in the pre-Internet days. I don\u2019t know what it would have been like to have Twitter and Facebook and all this when Bill Clinton was governor and then president. I shudder to think about it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, you shudder in excitement. “Oh, my God, can you imagine what the brilliant genius Clinton would have done with Twitter and Facebook? Oh, wow! Can you imagine how many Lewinskys there would have been with Twitter and Facebook? Oh, my God, it would have been nirvana.” They can\u2019t contain themselves. Now, what did Clinton actually say that was so brilliant? Well, let me read it to you again. (impression)<\/p>\n

“They\u2019re really running against the president, aren\u2019t they? They see these polls. The president\u2019s unpopular in Arkansas, and, yeah, the economy\u2019s coming back, but nobody believes it yet \u2019cause you don\u2019t feel it.” Obama said that, not the Republicans. “You cannot afford to do what their opponents want. They want you to make this a protest vote. ‘You know what you gotta do? You gotta vote against the president!<\/p>\n

“After all, it\u2019s your last shot.\u2019 It\u2019s pretty good scam, isn\u2019t it? ‘Give me a six-year job for a two-year protest.\u2019 That\u2019s Mark Pryor\u2019s opponent\u2019s message.” It sounds like gobbledygook to me. I mean, I don\u2019t see the brilliance in it, but it doesn\u2019t have to be. Clinton\u2019s on the campaign trail, and this is a sign — this media orgasming over Clinton back down in Arkansas. This is a sign of just how bad it is for Obama in the Drive-Bys. <\/p>\n

Clinton doesn\u2019t even have to make any sense. <\/p>\n

All he\u2019s gotta do is go out there and speak with his raspy voice and smile and assume to be speaking against Republicans, and they love him.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

\"large\"RUSH: Now, let\u2019s not forget what a genius Bill Clinton is. A guy who had never run for anything but the Senate one time, came along and wiped the floor with Bill and Hillary Clinton. His name was Barack Hussein Obama, Mmm! Mmm! Mmm! A newbie, a rookie! A rookie wiped the floor with the brilliant geniuses Bill and Hillary Clinton in 2008, and even got away with throwing the race card down on Clinton.<\/line><\/p>\n

For the first time in his career, Clinton\u2019s running around on the defensive on being a racist, and he should have \u2019cause he said to Ted Kennedy one day, “Hey, you know, Ted, it wasn\u2019t all that long ago this clown would have been getting us our coffee.” He said that. Obama heard about it, threw down the race card, and Clinton got offended. But Clinton and Hillary got snookered. <\/p>\n

Hillary would have been out even sooner if it hadn\u2019t been for us here in Operation Chaos. Yeah, big genius Bill Clinton. Now, another question I got. “How does Panetta ripping Obama help Hillary?” Well, if you put it that way, the two don\u2019t naturally go together, but Panetta\u2019s book lays the blame for foreign policy on Obama, and he was in the Regime. Panetta was there. He\u2019s not an outsider. <\/p>\n

Panetta was CIA. Whatever else he was, he was in the Obama administration. He\u2019s got a book dumping on Obama in terms of foreign policy. That is an attempt to inoculate Hillary for any charge of incompetence in the 2016 campaign about Benghazi and other things. I\u2019m not saying it\u2019s gonna work, but that\u2019s what they\u2019re trying. (interruption) Well, Mr. Newt and the Republicans and the Contract beat Bill Clinton in 1994. <\/p>\n

The genius Bill Clinton. (interruption) Yeah, but… (chuckles) “It\u2019s so great to have the guy back! Oh, my God, you know, I\u2019m …” Ron Fournier. I\u2019m sorry. “I\u2019m just… I\u2019m having the greatest time, here! I got Clinton back! Oh, this so wonderful! It\u2019s like a college degree to watch Bill Clinton,” and I still don\u2019t know what he said. I read that transcript again. <\/p>\n

I know what he\u2019s trying to say. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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