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RUSH: Here we go back on February 13th<\/a>, your host on this show…<\/p>\n

RUSH ARCHIVE: I think if the election in November were today, it would be a wave election that would make 2010 look small. I think the American people are engaged. The polling data is all there. There isn\u2019t any majority of people, other than subsets of Democrats, who support anything Obama\u2019s doing. In national poll after national poll, a majority of Americans oppose everything Obama\u2019s doing. A Fox News poll came out yesterday, and a huge number of people do not like Obama ignoring the Constitution. A huge percentage is very opposed to this lawless behavior of his. There\u2019s another factor that is gonna lead to a wave election — I mean, massive Democrat defeats, massive Democrat losses in November.<\/p>\n

<\/a>RUSH: Later the same day on the Fox News Channel, on a program titled The Five, we had Dana Perino, Andrea Tarantula, and Bob Beckel commenting.<\/p>\n

TARANTULA: I don\u2019t even think it\u2019s gonna be a wave.<\/p>\n

PERINO: In my opinion, we don\u2019t need a wave election.<\/p>\n

BECKEL: He doesn\u2019t know anything about elections. A wave election would mean you\u2019re gonna knock out somewhere between 15 and 20% of the Democrats in the House and about 10% of the Senate. I don\u2019t think that\u2019s gonna happen.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Let\u2019s go to a montage we put together Friday through Sunday, of the Drive-By Media talking about wave elections…<\/p>\n

CHRIS WALLACE: (music) Can Republicans continue to ride the anti-Obamacare wave through November?<\/p>\n

JEFF ZELENY: (b-roll noise) Republicans smell a wave!<\/p>\n

MATTHEW DOWD: Big wave always beats big data.<\/p>\n

DAVID PLOUFFE: This is a screaming siren. That the same problems that afflicted us in \u201910 could face us again.<\/p>\n

KARL ROVE: In 2010, Republicans picked up six seats — which is the necessity, a net of six seats this time. It\u2019s highly likely that Republicans pick up a majority.<\/p>\n

ROBERT GIBBS: If you lose the Senate, turn out the lights because the party is over.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, it sounds to me like they all think it\u2019s gonna be a wave election. Well, remember your host, El Rushbo, makes the prediction on February 13th and later the same day, the learned professionals at Fox on The Five, say, “He doesn\u2019t know anything about elections! Wave election means… Hell, he\u2019s crazy. He\u2019s lunatic! He doesn\u2019t know what he\u2019s talking about.” And then this past week, everybody thinks it\u2019s gonna be a wave.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s so bad that we\u2019re even going to win the Senate, they say.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: So, February 13th I predicted a wave election. The host on The Five at Fox later the same day pooh-poohed the idea, “Come on, wave election, we don\u2019t even know we won a wave election. Limbaugh doesn\u2019t even know what elections mean.” Now over the weekend, everybody predicting a wave election, including David Plouffe of the Obama campaign, and Robert Gibbs, all thinking that the Republicans are gonna win the Senate. Scott Brown, who announced a run for the Senate again. I think, if I\u2019m not mistaken, did he move to New Hampshire to do this? I read this very casually. He announced at the Republican Northeast leadership conference in Nashua, New Hampshire, on Friday. And here he is on wave elections and so forth.<\/p>\n

BROWN: It wasn\u2019t so long ago, I remember it like you do, that the Democratic establishment in Washington was feeling very, very comfortable. A big political wave is about to break in America. And the Obamacare Democrats are on the wrong side of that wave.<\/p>\n

RUSH: It really is interesting. I had — just to close the loop on a story — I had some people e-mail me over the weekend, “Hey, Rush, have you sent your iPhone discoveries to any tech bloggers that you read?” And I said, “Yeah.” And they said, “Well, how come we haven\u2019t heard this?” They\u2019re not gonna do anything because I\u2019m the one that discovered it. Just like the ESPN guys didn\u2019t like me joining their turf, these tech guys don\u2019t want me in there. The very fact that I discovered the stuff means they won\u2019t use it. Well, it\u2019s the same thing here. February 13th I, El Rushbo, among the most hated, even in certain Republican circles, predicts a wave election, and the media, “No way. He doesn\u2019t know what he\u2019s talking about. This is absolutely absurd, not possible. Not even sure that we want a wave.” <\/p>\n

Now a month later, no matter where you go you\u2019ve got a bunch of Republicans predicting it\u2019s gonna be a wave election. Just the way it is. Here\u2019s Matthew Dowd. Now, Matthew Dowd\u2019s a former Bush strategist. He\u2019s one of these guys that appeared on TV and it said “Bush strategist” or some such thing, and he\u2019s now kind of off the reservation, No Labels crowd or something like that. And he was on This Week yesterday morning on ABC talking about the David Jolly victory down in Florida last week.<\/a><\/p>\n

<\/a>DOWD: This really wasn\u2019t about Jolly, and this really wasn\u2019t fundamentally about Obamacare. What this is about is the mood of the country. And I think Democrats, at their peril, ignore the mood of the country. As the mood changes — and it\u2019s changed this year — the president has a job approval rating in the low forties. And when a president has a job approval rating in the low 40s, the Democratic, the incumbent loses seats.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah. As we reminded you last week, Clinton was 46 in the last Gallup poll prior to the November elections in \u201994, and the Republicans won the House. Obama in 2010 was at 45, and the Republicans picked up 60 some odd seats. Well, now Obama\u2019s at 41 and going lower, and if that holds up, and if Obama\u2019s in the forties, low forties or high thirties come November, it\u2019s gonna be, according to tradition and history, a shellacking. But here\u2019s this guy, former Republican strategist, “It wasn\u2019t about Jolly.” No, no. He was just the guy on the ballot. “It wasn\u2019t about Jolly. No. And it wasn\u2019t about Obamacare.” No way. Why would anybody think that? It was about the mood of the country. Well, what is defining or dictating the mood of the country? And he goes on to talk about Obama being in the 40s. Why is Obama in the 40s? One of the big reasons is Obamacare. <\/p>\n

I\u2019m not trying to be critical of Mr. Dowd, but let\u2019s be straight a minute. This is a guy who\u2019s been intimately involved with Republicans, advising them how to win. And if this guy doesn\u2019t even know why things are happening, or maybe he does and just doesn\u2019t want them getting credit, but this is absurd to say it wasn\u2019t about Jolly and it wasn\u2019t about Obamacare. It was about the mood of the country. Well, how can you separate Obamacare and Obama being in the 40s from the mood of the country? <\/p>\n

John King at CNN recently said that the Florida special election results, the David Jolly win, were “the last straw.” This is a quote from John King. Last straw for at least two other House Democrats and maybe more. He didn\u2019t name them, who were facing tough races this year. So if you\u2019ve got John King at CNN and other Democrats saying, “That David Jolly race, that\u2019s it, we\u2019re getting out.” And we\u2019ve already had a huge number of announced retirements by famous, well-known lifer Democrats, Henry Waxman, George Miller, John Dingell. I mean, they\u2019re all over the place. It certainly is setting up. <\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

I\u2019m not trying to inspire any kind of overconfidence, and I\u2019m gonna explain something again. This wave election, if it happens, it has nothing to do with the Republicans, just like 2010 didn\u2019t. And I don\u2019t mean that as a cut. I just mean that the Republicans are not even really trying to draw any distinctions between themselves and Obama. Not in Washington. The Republican establishment\u2019s doing its best to be Democrat lite. Well, in 2010 the Tea Party showed up and they were all animated, informed, motivated to vote against Obama and the Democrats because of the debt, the spending, and Obamacare. So now here we come to the next midterms, four years later, 2014, and nothing\u2019s changed; it\u2019s gotten worse. <\/p>\n

Now, midterm turnouts are not the same as presidential turnouts, presidential election year turnouts. You know why? I\u2019ll tell you why. In presidential years, you had a big urban turnout. In the big cities that are owned and run and operated by the Democrats you get a big turnout, \u2019cause Santa Claus is on the ballot. But in off years, in the midterms, that turnout doesn\u2019t happen. There are many other reasons, too, but that\u2019s the primary reason, the primary difference in the presidential year turnout and the off-year turnout. So 2014 is setting up to be just like 2010, and that is, there\u2019s no single Republican idea out there, despite all these Republicans going up to CPAC, “It\u2019s time for us to stop saying only what we\u2019re against. We have got to say what we\u2019re for.” Yeah, well, that\u2019s fine and dandy, but if you\u2019re gonna be for the same things that Democrats are, just not as stridently, you\u2019re not gonna make any difference. <\/p>\n

There is no number one Republican name that dominates politics right now. So there\u2019s not a Republican who could go on television and start talking about what he\u2019s for that\u2019s gonna have any impact on the midterms. This is strictly, again, going to be people I think showing up in droves this time, opposed to Obamacare. See, in 2010 we just had the theory, we had the predictions, we had knowledgeable people, the Tea Party, knowledgeable people who knew and know what all this debt means for them and the country. We had intelligent people, the Tea Party, smart people. Obamacare in 2010, they knew what it was gonna mean. <\/p>\n

Well, now we move to 2014, and have those same smart people. But now we\u2019re gonna add to \u2019em. Now we got people who have been affected by it, not people who are being told what\u2019s going to happen with Obamacare. Now we\u2019ve got people who have lost their insurance. Now we\u2019ve got people who\u2019ve lost their jobs or been downsized. Now we\u2019ve got people who have found out they can\u2019t keep their doctor, can\u2019t keep their insurance plan. <\/line><\/p>\n

Now we have people who have graduated from college, have all of this student debt, and there aren\u2019t any careers. There aren\u2019t any jobs. In fact, there was a great piece in the Wall Street Journal that puts the jobless number in even greater perspective. I\u2019ll get to that in a minute. But it is shaping up to be a wave. If you look at the 2010 turnout, smart Tea Party people who knew by 2010 what Obama and his presidency meant.<\/p>\n

You add four years, and now people who have been affected by it — and it doesn\u2019t matter what the Republicans say or what the Republicans are for or against, because this is going to be like 2010 was, an election of people showing up to protest what is happening. You don\u2019t need any slick marketing. You don\u2019t need any packaging. You don\u2019t need any marketing. You don\u2019t need any kind of guests on TV. You don\u2019t need any kind of slogans. <\/p>\n

All you need is the reality of how people\u2019s lives are being really harmed — I mean, really harmed — and these people haven\u2019t done anything to deserve this. Other than some of them might have voted for Obama. But as I\u2019ve traveled around the country, I can\u2019t help it. I am always moved by people as I watch them going through life doing what they can to make their lives better for themselves and their families.<\/p>\n

I look at the things they do for enjoyment, and I look at the things that they have to do in order to survive. And there are all kinds of people, and everybody has a different amount of stuff. Everybody\u2019s in different economic circumstances. It\u2019s just gotten harder for everybody because of this president and this administration, and yet these people are still out pounding, doing what they can. And they\u2019re the ones still working, and they\u2019re the ones being vilified. <\/p>\n

Their insurance is being canceled. Their premiums are going up. They haven\u2019t done anything. I mean, it\u2019s a punishment for which there\u2019s no behavior. They\u2019re being punished simply because the country elected a socialist. They\u2019re being punished because we\u2019ve got an administration that thinks this country needs to find out what the rest of the world lives like. We\u2019ve got an administration that thinks this country has not ever deserved its superpower status, that it\u2019s somehow ill-gotten. <\/p>\n

So now we\u2019ve got an administration that thinks it\u2019s time for everybody here to find out what it\u2019s really like for everybody to live. And all the while, they\u2019re being promised the moon — lower premiums, keep your doctor, endless job opportunity — and none of it\u2019s true. It\u2019s just getting demonstrably worse by the week. Those people all notice it now, or an increasing number do. You still have the phenomena, the low-information crowd. If you ever hear somebody interviewing them and talking to them, you just hope and pray they always remain a minority.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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