November 1, 2021 • 25 mins
RUSH: Yeah, it looks like it’s exactly what we predicted it would be. In Virginia the GOP simply didn’t want a Tea Party candidate winning there. They just didn’t. ‘Cause they coulda won that race, folks. I mean, it’s really a shame. I was gonna say stunning, but it really isn’t stunning.
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Yeah, it looks like it's exactly well we predicted it
would be in Virginia. Looks like exactly the GOP simply
didn't want to tea party candidate winning there. They just
didn't because they could have won that race. Folks. I mean,
it is it's really a shame and it's it's kind
(00:23):
of um well, I was gonna say stunning, but it
really isn't stunning anyway. Great to have your Rush Limbaugh
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and I can't wait to share one of those with you.
But let's let's talk about the election yesterday, the two
big ones and the first white mayor in Detroit, and
forty years. Not many people talking about that, but that happened. Um,
you know, the Associated Press is saying that Clinton bagman
Terry mccauloff one in Virginia because he followed the Clinton model.
(01:31):
Well now wait, don't don't poopoo that what why are
you pooping? He did exactly. He followed the Clinton model,
the Clinton model of running in a three way race
where there was a ringer candidate to siphon off votes
from his opponent. If you look at the end result
in Virginia, more people voted against mccauloff than voted for him.
(01:54):
It's not no different than Ross Piero in the race
siphoning votes away from Bush forty one. And just like
in the in the in the elections that Clinton's two elections,
more people voted against mccauloff than voted for him. Because
it is fake libertarian candidate who was bought and paid
for by an Obama bundler, who ended up getting seven
(02:15):
per cent of the vote. Ku Chinelli was supposed to
lose this thing in a landslide. He ended up losing
it by one to two. So it fits to Clinton
monteluti bagman candidate, third party candidate that's a bogus placeholder
to siphon off votes, and it worked like a charm.
(02:36):
But the details coming out of Virginia are even more
frustrating and maddening than that. Even though they were predicted,
it's still it's still frustrating to see what happened. And
I must tell you, folks, I've got audio soundbites here.
I'm somewhat surprised because in in um, in series of
these sound bites, that drive by media is not all
(02:59):
that ecstatic over what happened in Virginia. And I mean
they're not. They're not looking at it as a repudiation
of the Tea Party because they know that's not what happened.
You know who wants you to think it's a repudiation
a tea Party? The GOP establishment. There's some there's some
fascinating numbers here. The Republican National Committee in two thousand nine,
(03:24):
in the gubernatorial race there for Bod McDonald, the Republican
National Committee spent three times as much money four years
ago on the same race as they did this year.
They spent one million dollars, that's it, one million dollars
for Can Cucinelli, their candidate. The Chamber of Commerce spent
(03:49):
zero helping Cucinelli. Cucinelli begged Chris Christie to come into
campaign for him. Christie said no, he wasn't gonna do it.
The Chamber of Commerce spent a million dollars four years
ago in the governor's race of Virginia, as I say,
not a dime on Cucinelli. And here we go again,
(04:12):
just like Mitt Romney, Tim Cucinelli one independence by nine
points forty seven percent. Now what have we been told
collectively for decades by the media, Well, hell, by the
political establishment. That is you you need to win the independence.
(04:33):
You can't win without the independence. That's what they've all
told us. And that has been part of a trick
that the media and the Democrats launched a great success
against the Republicans. The theory has always been that the
Democrats are gonna get eighty percent, Republicans are gonna get
eighty percent, and then there's that great unwashedton there. And
(04:55):
every political candidate has been approached by every political consultant
and said to the consultant is that I'm the guy
can get you that of the vote. I'm the guy
that can get you the independence. And what that did
was make the Republicans abandoned their base and campaign rather
(05:19):
than for everybody. The Republicans end up with a centrist
moderate wimpy Linguini spine campaign aimed at so called independence.
That's the Republicans that every election they and Kuchinilly didn't
by the way, but in national elections the Republicans end
up making this move. They get talked into believing that
(05:42):
you win the independence and you win. Or Romney won
the independence going away and he lost, didn't he and
Cucinelli won the independence going away. He won independence by
nine points forty seven thirty eight percent. And you now
know what they're saying, Well, the independence different than the moderates.
(06:02):
Oh that's new now, now that Republicans are winning the
independence is isn't any big deal anymore? No, now you
don't need the independent. Now you've got to go out
and win the moderates. Well, what is a moderate? Tell me,
snerd ye. How would you if somebody asks you to
explain to them what a moderate is? What would you say? No,
(06:28):
it's a liberal without the guts to to say so.
A A moderate is one or two things. A liberal
it won't admit it. Or somebody that waits to see
which way the winds blowing and joins the crowd. By definition,
a moderate isn't passionate about anything, can't be But now
the moderate, that's that's where we gotta we gotta go
(06:49):
after the moderates. And there's also another lesson. It's being
said here by the Republican establishment. They're looking at Christine,
are looking at couching. At least if coochin Elli would
have just been for amnestying, if he had just you know,
moderated on the social issues, who knows, he could have won,
but we couldn't support him when he did. It was
just absolutely obscene what's happened here? If you ask me,
(07:11):
Terry mccauloff, the Clinton bagman, out raised Coachinelli by almost
fifteen million dollars, And in the last weeks of the campaign,
there was two weeks that Coachinelli had no media, something
like two weeks before the election. Of the last two
weeks of the campaign, Couchinelli had no media because the
(07:32):
RNC wasn't there, the Chamber of Commerce wasn't there. Do
you know, folks, right here, the the unions spent as
much money in Virginia as the RNC I mean, before
you even get to what the d n C poured
in there, the Service Employees International Union basically just canceled
(07:58):
out whatever quote unquote help Coucinelli gut from the Republican
establishment and even the politico out there. I've got this
in the stack here. The politico is wondering in their
story today, if Cucinelli was beginning to turn the tide
against this war on women narrative because the Democrats were
(08:21):
doing that. They were using this tired war on women narrative.
And mccaulliff's lead with women was on election day in
pulling it was down to nine. But true to the
Clinton model, you had this third party spoiler candidate in
(08:44):
there seven percent. This guy got and his campaign was
bought and paid for by a Clinton bundler or fundraiser,
and it is I'll tell you it's a shame what
happened to Ken Kucinelli because he was betrayed by his
(09:06):
own party. The man is a great guy. I don't
know him personally. I'm just interviewed him once for the
for the Limball letter, and I've I've told you earlier
this week. I came came away from that interview This
guy was tough, no nonsense, he was fearless. I don't
know how he ran the campaign every day. I don't
know if he faltered here and there on a couple
(09:28):
of things. I don't know. I was telling you the
interview I had, he seemed to be no nonsense guy.
But the Republican establishment they're out there, well, he's unelectable,
he's Tea Party. He's unelectable. He can't win anything, and
they they didn't want him to win. This is the
dirty little secret. It's not gets even a secret now.
(09:50):
Such is the animus towards the Tea Party in the
Republican Party establishment that they are. I'm telling you they
are perfectly comfortable with a Christie win and a Kuchinelli lost,
because to them, that's a Tea Party losses. And now
the Republican establishment can run around and claim the Tea
(10:10):
Party is an albatross around their neck. The Tea Party
is the death knell. They'll say, Tea Party is why
we're gonna keep losing. Look at what it is. We
could have won Virginia were our party had it, and
they nominated this Tea Party guy, that Cochinell again and
not that we could do. They didn't want to help
the Democrats. I mean, this was a squeaker. They were,
(10:34):
they were they were worried all night at mccaulloff headquarters.
And it was it was supposed to be according to
pre election polling, it was supposed to be a huge
mccaulloff sweep, especially with this, with this this placeholder third
party candidate. And it ought to be a lesson to
any of you are still toying with the idea third party. Um,
(10:57):
it's just a guaranteed way for Democrats to in when
the The takeaway is that in the Virginia race, more
people voted against McCaul off than voted for him. Now,
the political I put too much faith in the political they,
I mean, they were stunned by the results. I've got.
Here's it to Chris Solizza and Aaron Blake of the
(11:19):
Washington Post. Six takeaways from election Night. The crux of
of this whole piece, and this is the crux. The
rest of the takeaway is just support this initial claim.
Exit polls showed Christie winning among women and running even
(11:43):
with his Democrat opponent among Latinos. If Republicans could emulate
that in other states, they would win just about all
of them. So you see, according to the Washington Post,
the way forward for the Republican Party is clear. All
the Republican Party has to do is embrace amnesty and
(12:05):
moderate its tone on abortion, and they'll never lose another election.
Well that's the take I mean, that's what the Washington
Post six takeaways. But that's the crux of it, and
every takeaway after that supports this takeaway. You note here
how the goal posts are constantly moved, all of a sudden,
(12:26):
All of a sudden. Now it's not enough to win
the independence. They've been telling us for decades. You win
the independence and you win the election. Now we're told
if the GOP has to win the so called moderates.
And here's from from this article in the Washington Post quote,
Republicans don't need independence, they need moderates. Despite Kutchen of
(12:50):
his loss, he actually won among self described independence at
the same time, he lost by more than eighteen points
among the self described moderates. Well, who are as I say,
they're liberals who don't want the label. But all this time,
see I don't know about you, but all this time
(13:11):
I thought the independence were the moderates, didn't you. Isn't
that what they tried to tell us independence undecided, moderates, McCain, moderate, Maverick,
whatever were you want to the impression the Independence were
the moderates, and that if and they were the undecided
(13:33):
because they were smarter than ever. They were not ivy logs.
They were not close minded bigots of the left or
the right. No, no, no, these people decided candidates and issues,
issued by issue, and candidate by candidate. They would agreement
the crop the moderates of the Independence that the best
among us blah blah blah, ll Romney wins a majority
(13:55):
of them and loses. Colli wins a majority of them
and loses. And now they tell us, well, no, no, no,
it's not the independency more. You gotta go out and
get the moderates, which means you gotta get women who
are pro choice, and mean you've got to come out
for amnesty. In reality, these self described moderates are just
(14:15):
liberals ashamed of the brand. And in reality, the Republican
Party is the real party of the center, at least
that the conservative wing of the Republican Party is the
real center. And the Democrats today are the party of
the radical Left. But all of this, I mean, this,
this Washington Post piece, it's just it's just part of
the further drive by effort to to move the country
(14:38):
further leftward by claiming, I mean, what else they trying
to do, is it. Here's a lesson for your Republican
See look at what Christie did. You come out for amnesty.
You gotta be you gotta go to Washington, want to
work with Democrats. Don't beat them. You can't say you
want to go to Washington beat democrats. You have to say,
if your Republicans want to win, you got to go
(15:00):
to Washington and say you want to work with Democrats.
And that's what Christie did, and that's what they're citing.
Christie said, I'm the guy that can do it. I
work with Democrats here, we got things done. You watch
me do it. And they're saying, that's right. What you
Republicans need to somebody that can go to Washington work
with Democrats. And what you and I know is we
need somebody go to Washington and Trenton or whatever else
(15:20):
and beat Democrats. That's what has to happen. I have
to take a break. We'll do that we'll come back.
I'll show you some of the audio soundbites plus the
political piece. The political piece why Terry mccauliffe barely won
much closer than expected outcome blunts the narrative that this
(15:41):
was a clean win for the Democrats going into and
you know, both parties want that narrative. Both parties want
that this was a big Democrats sweep. Both parties do.
The Republican Party would not mind at all if the
takeaway in Virginia as it was a Terry mccaulliff landslide
(16:03):
against a tea party. I'm not exaggerating a couple of
takeaway from the political piece because because it does differ
from the rest of the drive by. The political piece
does say that Obamacare nearly killed mccauloff. And that's right now.
The establishment both parties the establishment of saying Obamacare had
(16:23):
no impact in Virginia. It had a huge impact. Obama
went in their campaign for for the bag Man, but
he even bring up Obamacare. Don't do not fall for
this notion that Obamacare didn't play a role. It did.
This is this, this, this this election could have been one, folks,
(16:44):
with just average effort from the Republican base. Now you
go to New Jersey, the Democrats didn't even mount a
real opponent. Democrats never once attacked Chris Christie in that state.
Do you realize is this? I mean, if there was
any opposition to Christie in that campaign, it was perfunctory
and it was to make it look like there was some.
(17:06):
But there was no real republic or Democrat effort to
unseat Christie. Now what does that tell you? And now
you've got so many people in the media celebrating the
Christie win as the road to the future for the
Republican Party. What does that tell you? You know what,
(17:27):
I'm for one, I'm tired of the of the media
picking our candidate for us, and they're trying to do
it here. There were exit polls in New Jersey, ladies
and gentlemen, and I'm you you may have heard this
In New Jersey. In an exit poll, Hillary Clinton beats
Chris Christie in a presidential contest that Virginia vote the
(17:48):
exit polls by four to six points. Debbie Blabbermouth Schultz
is that, well, yeah, we we we set a staffer
in to help our Canada there they sent one stafford.
Even the Democrat candidate against Christie in New Jersey's complaining
that she got no help from the party. Why is that?
(18:11):
Why do you think that is? Here's a minor little
detail from the political piece buried near the bottom of
their story. Despite the widespread criticism directed at Republicans for
the government shutdown, an equal number of voters pinned the
shutdown on Obama as they did Congressional Republicans. Was exactly
(18:36):
what we predicted. Nobody else in the media is mentioning this.
But the Republicans and exit polls were not blamed for
the government shutdown. But the Republican establishment wants people to
think that the Tea Party was responsible for it. It's
just I never thought I would live to see this
(18:59):
kind of self apatage. In the exit polling, David Cochinelli
won pretty sizeably on the economy. He won pretty decisively
on healthcare, big time on healthcare. But it was mccauliff
who won big on abortion. Call off had a twenty
percent advantage. This is exit polling David on abortion and
(19:20):
a nine point advantage among women. But that gap was
closing because at one point he had a twenty pcent margin.
And it's that that abortion side and the women's side
has got the Republican established. One of the things that's
got him scared to death. And it's one of the
reasons that they they liked the Tea Party being seen
(19:40):
as a loser, as they think the Tea Party is
a bunch of radical, extremist conservative kuk freak pro lifers
that they're going to be the end of They've they've
thought this folk since I've been paying attention, I mean
I've I've shared read of the story about how I was.
I was practically accosted the Dinner Party in the early
nineties to do something about the Christians by a bunch
(20:02):
of moneyed elitist Republican establishment times. That's back when I
was naive and thought we were all on the same team,
and I didn't realize that they looked at me as
the enemy too. I thought I was there as a friend.
I didn't know it, but I was the enemy and
they had poken me in the chest. What are you
gonna do about the Christians? What are you talking about?
(20:23):
Abortions killing us? We're never gonna win another election. We
gotta we gotta get rid of this. And I'm telling
you that's the root of this. Of course other aspects
to it. Um Conservatism in general repulses the Republican establishment.
The Tea Party repulses because they don't control it. They
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don't even know who to attack. The Tea Party doesn't
have a singular leader, so they go after any candidates
supported by the Tea Party. And they launched both barrels
and they and the way they launched here was just
to offer no assistance compared the assistance they offered back in.
And you know what, folks, I have to tell something.
(21:05):
I remember back I forget the years now they all
run together, but you remember the year that Christine O'Donnell
ran in Delaware and Sharon Angle Senate races admittedly, but
Sharon Angle and Nevada. Remember all those these Tea Party
candidates wanted a Republican establis running around and saying, well, well,
we can't support these people. I don't have a prayer
um and we we We'd rather support Mike Castle, who's
(21:27):
a really a Delaware Democrat named a Republican. Remember back then,
the what really concerned the Republican establishment was winning the Senate.
They wanted to win the Senate. They wanted to control
the committees. They wanted the chairmanships on the committees because
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they wanted to be in charge of the money. And
so when people like Christine O'Donnell won their primary and
Sharon Angle because the Tea Party support, the Republican establishment
just had a cow and started mobilizing against them, and
the consultants mobilized, and they all started going on TV
(22:08):
and at these people don't have a prayer. I mean,
there goes our chance, there goes our chance. They started
ringing their hands and complaining in public, there goes our
chance to win the Senate. There goes our chance to
get the committee chairmanship. I don't think they were honest
about wanting the committee chairmanships. That's what I knew they wanted.
They just they claimed they wanted to win control the Senate.
But what it really boils down to, folks, You and
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I think the countries at the crisis crossroads and nobody
else does. Democrat Republican establishment types do not think there's
any problem at all with this level of debt. It's
just the debt. It's always been high. We'll manage it.
Any big deal. We'll have a carbon tax, will raise
taxes here, we'll deal with it. Any big deal. We'll
have the Fed print money and give it to the
(22:51):
stock market. Everything's fine, We'll keep interest rates low. There's
no crisis here. Obamacare, hell, you know it's it's it's
this healthcare. Government's gonna have a bigger role than it.
Big whoop, any big deal. They don't think that there's
anything particularly crisis related about this, and you and I do.
To them, it's just politics as usual. They just want
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to They want to win with their people in charge
because they don't want to have to reform anything. They
don't want to have to change the way Washington works.
They don't want to have to get rid of the debt.
They don't want to have to reduce the size the government.
They don't want to do anything that will promote a
increase in individual liberty or freedom. They want, they want.
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They love the government being big, and they want their
chance to run it. So I find it. I just
found it fast that they're they're having a cow over
Christine O'Donnell and Sharon Angle and some of the other
Tea Party candidates that came later not supporting them. There
was their chance to win and sent well Here was
their chance to hold a state House, and they didn't care.
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Here was their chance to hold the state of Virginia,
Here was their chance to have a Republican governor in
the state of Virginia, and they didn't care. They just
they cared everything they had about winning the Senate. They
were willing to support every moderate in the world and
every every liberal Republican in the world in order to
(24:21):
keep or win the Senate and get their precious chairmanships.
But they didn't care about keeping a state House in Virginia.
And it's it's it's one thing, you know, we're sitting
here trying to devise ways to to beat Democrats for
the good of the country. And we've also got a
devise ways here to overcome opposition to us in our
(24:46):
own party as well. And just it's uh admittedly tough,
although I you know, not phony optimism, think that it
can be done. Power to people. I think if they
you know, Coachinelli. He didn't win, and it's could have
would have. There there are no moral victories, don't misunderstand,
(25:07):
you know, no add of boys because he got close.
That's not what I'm doing here. But it could have
been one that's they're really frustrating. Thing could have been one.
Now they're just going, they're going ape. They're so happy
they can't see straight that Chris Christie is now the
(25:28):
front runner for the Republican nomination. Democrats are excited about that,
the media is excited about that, the Republicans are excited
about that. You go ahead and connect the dots.
Yeah, it looks like it's exactly well we predicted it
would be in Virginia. Looks like exactly the GOP simply
didn't want to tea party candidate winning there. They just
didn't because they could have won that race. Folks. I mean,
it is it's really a shame and it's it's kind
(00:23):
of um well, I was gonna say stunning, but it
really isn't stunning anyway. Great to have your Rush Limbaugh
the E I B Network here, we are on hump day,
already middle of the week. Great to have you with
us in The telephone number if you want to be
on the program is eight hundred to eight to eight
to the email address l Rush Bow at E I
(00:44):
B net dot com. Phenomenal news to share with you
later about Rush Revere and the brave Pilgrims. I mean,
just phenomenal news. The mission is well under way. Can't
I can't, I can't wait. I got another great family.
This horse Liberty is getting familyl like you cannot believe,
(01:05):
and I can't wait to share one of those with you.
But let's let's talk about the election yesterday, the two
big ones and the first white mayor in Detroit, and
forty years. Not many people talking about that, but that happened. Um,
you know, the Associated Press is saying that Clinton bagman
Terry mccauloff one in Virginia because he followed the Clinton model.
(01:31):
Well now wait, don't don't poopoo that what why are
you pooping? He did exactly. He followed the Clinton model,
the Clinton model of running in a three way race
where there was a ringer candidate to siphon off votes
from his opponent. If you look at the end result
in Virginia, more people voted against mccauloff than voted for him.
(01:54):
It's not no different than Ross Piero in the race
siphoning votes away from Bush forty one. And just like
in the in the in the elections that Clinton's two elections,
more people voted against mccauloff than voted for him. Because
it is fake libertarian candidate who was bought and paid
for by an Obama bundler, who ended up getting seven
(02:15):
per cent of the vote. Ku Chinelli was supposed to
lose this thing in a landslide. He ended up losing
it by one to two. So it fits to Clinton
monteluti bagman candidate, third party candidate that's a bogus placeholder
to siphon off votes, and it worked like a charm.
(02:36):
But the details coming out of Virginia are even more
frustrating and maddening than that. Even though they were predicted,
it's still it's still frustrating to see what happened. And
I must tell you, folks, I've got audio soundbites here.
I'm somewhat surprised because in in um, in series of
these sound bites, that drive by media is not all
(02:59):
that ecstatic over what happened in Virginia. And I mean
they're not. They're not looking at it as a repudiation
of the Tea Party because they know that's not what happened.
You know who wants you to think it's a repudiation
a tea Party? The GOP establishment. There's some there's some
fascinating numbers here. The Republican National Committee in two thousand nine,
(03:24):
in the gubernatorial race there for Bod McDonald, the Republican
National Committee spent three times as much money four years
ago on the same race as they did this year.
They spent one million dollars, that's it, one million dollars
for Can Cucinelli, their candidate. The Chamber of Commerce spent
(03:49):
zero helping Cucinelli. Cucinelli begged Chris Christie to come into
campaign for him. Christie said no, he wasn't gonna do it.
The Chamber of Commerce spent a million dollars four years
ago in the governor's race of Virginia, as I say,
not a dime on Cucinelli. And here we go again,
(04:12):
just like Mitt Romney, Tim Cucinelli one independence by nine
points forty seven percent. Now what have we been told
collectively for decades by the media, Well, hell, by the
political establishment. That is you you need to win the independence.
(04:33):
You can't win without the independence. That's what they've all
told us. And that has been part of a trick
that the media and the Democrats launched a great success
against the Republicans. The theory has always been that the
Democrats are gonna get eighty percent, Republicans are gonna get
eighty percent, and then there's that great unwashedton there. And
(04:55):
every political candidate has been approached by every political consultant
and said to the consultant is that I'm the guy
can get you that of the vote. I'm the guy
that can get you the independence. And what that did
was make the Republicans abandoned their base and campaign rather
(05:19):
than for everybody. The Republicans end up with a centrist
moderate wimpy Linguini spine campaign aimed at so called independence.
That's the Republicans that every election they and Kuchinilly didn't
by the way, but in national elections the Republicans end
up making this move. They get talked into believing that
(05:42):
you win the independence and you win. Or Romney won
the independence going away and he lost, didn't he and
Cucinelli won the independence going away. He won independence by
nine points forty seven thirty eight percent. And you now
know what they're saying, Well, the independence different than the moderates.
(06:02):
Oh that's new now, now that Republicans are winning the
independence is isn't any big deal anymore? No, now you
don't need the independent. Now you've got to go out
and win the moderates. Well, what is a moderate? Tell me,
snerd ye. How would you if somebody asks you to
explain to them what a moderate is? What would you say? No,
(06:28):
it's a liberal without the guts to to say so.
A A moderate is one or two things. A liberal
it won't admit it. Or somebody that waits to see
which way the winds blowing and joins the crowd. By definition,
a moderate isn't passionate about anything, can't be But now
the moderate, that's that's where we gotta we gotta go
(06:49):
after the moderates. And there's also another lesson. It's being
said here by the Republican establishment. They're looking at Christine,
are looking at couching. At least if coochin Elli would
have just been for amnestying, if he had just you know,
moderated on the social issues, who knows, he could have won,
but we couldn't support him when he did. It was
just absolutely obscene what's happened here? If you ask me,
(07:11):
Terry mccauloff, the Clinton bagman, out raised Coachinelli by almost
fifteen million dollars, And in the last weeks of the campaign,
there was two weeks that Coachinelli had no media, something
like two weeks before the election. Of the last two
weeks of the campaign, Couchinelli had no media because the
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RNC wasn't there, the Chamber of Commerce wasn't there. Do
you know, folks, right here, the the unions spent as
much money in Virginia as the RNC I mean, before
you even get to what the d n C poured
in there, the Service Employees International Union basically just canceled
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out whatever quote unquote help Coucinelli gut from the Republican
establishment and even the politico out there. I've got this
in the stack here. The politico is wondering in their
story today, if Cucinelli was beginning to turn the tide
against this war on women narrative because the Democrats were
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doing that. They were using this tired war on women narrative.
And mccaulliff's lead with women was on election day in
pulling it was down to nine. But true to the
Clinton model, you had this third party spoiler candidate in
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there seven percent. This guy got and his campaign was
bought and paid for by a Clinton bundler or fundraiser,
and it is I'll tell you it's a shame what
happened to Ken Kucinelli because he was betrayed by his
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own party. The man is a great guy. I don't
know him personally. I'm just interviewed him once for the
for the Limball letter, and I've I've told you earlier
this week. I came came away from that interview This
guy was tough, no nonsense, he was fearless. I don't
know how he ran the campaign every day. I don't
know if he faltered here and there on a couple
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of things. I don't know. I was telling you the
interview I had, he seemed to be no nonsense guy.
But the Republican establishment they're out there, well, he's unelectable,
he's Tea Party. He's unelectable. He can't win anything, and
they they didn't want him to win. This is the
dirty little secret. It's not gets even a secret now.
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Such is the animus towards the Tea Party in the
Republican Party establishment that they are. I'm telling you they
are perfectly comfortable with a Christie win and a Kuchinelli lost,
because to them, that's a Tea Party losses. And now
the Republican establishment can run around and claim the Tea
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Party is an albatross around their neck. The Tea Party
is the death knell. They'll say, Tea Party is why
we're gonna keep losing. Look at what it is. We
could have won Virginia were our party had it, and
they nominated this Tea Party guy, that Cochinell again and
not that we could do. They didn't want to help
the Democrats. I mean, this was a squeaker. They were,
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they were they were worried all night at mccaulloff headquarters.
And it was it was supposed to be according to
pre election polling, it was supposed to be a huge
mccaulloff sweep, especially with this, with this this placeholder third
party candidate. And it ought to be a lesson to
any of you are still toying with the idea third party. Um,
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it's just a guaranteed way for Democrats to in when
the The takeaway is that in the Virginia race, more
people voted against McCaul off than voted for him. Now,
the political I put too much faith in the political they,
I mean, they were stunned by the results. I've got.
Here's it to Chris Solizza and Aaron Blake of the
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Washington Post. Six takeaways from election Night. The crux of
of this whole piece, and this is the crux. The
rest of the takeaway is just support this initial claim.
Exit polls showed Christie winning among women and running even
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with his Democrat opponent among Latinos. If Republicans could emulate
that in other states, they would win just about all
of them. So you see, according to the Washington Post,
the way forward for the Republican Party is clear. All
the Republican Party has to do is embrace amnesty and
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moderate its tone on abortion, and they'll never lose another election.
Well that's the take I mean, that's what the Washington
Post six takeaways. But that's the crux of it, and
every takeaway after that supports this takeaway. You note here
how the goal posts are constantly moved, all of a sudden,
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All of a sudden. Now it's not enough to win
the independence. They've been telling us for decades. You win
the independence and you win the election. Now we're told
if the GOP has to win the so called moderates.
And here's from from this article in the Washington Post quote,
Republicans don't need independence, they need moderates. Despite Kutchen of
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his loss, he actually won among self described independence at
the same time, he lost by more than eighteen points
among the self described moderates. Well, who are as I say,
they're liberals who don't want the label. But all this time,
see I don't know about you, but all this time
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I thought the independence were the moderates, didn't you. Isn't
that what they tried to tell us independence undecided, moderates, McCain, moderate, Maverick,
whatever were you want to the impression the Independence were
the moderates, and that if and they were the undecided
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because they were smarter than ever. They were not ivy logs.
They were not close minded bigots of the left or
the right. No, no, no, these people decided candidates and issues,
issued by issue, and candidate by candidate. They would agreement
the crop the moderates of the Independence that the best
among us blah blah blah, ll Romney wins a majority
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of them and loses. Colli wins a majority of them
and loses. And now they tell us, well, no, no, no,
it's not the independency more. You gotta go out and
get the moderates, which means you gotta get women who
are pro choice, and mean you've got to come out
for amnesty. In reality, these self described moderates are just
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liberals ashamed of the brand. And in reality, the Republican
Party is the real party of the center, at least
that the conservative wing of the Republican Party is the
real center. And the Democrats today are the party of
the radical Left. But all of this, I mean, this,
this Washington Post piece, it's just it's just part of
the further drive by effort to to move the country
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further leftward by claiming, I mean, what else they trying
to do, is it. Here's a lesson for your Republican
See look at what Christie did. You come out for amnesty.
You gotta be you gotta go to Washington, want to
work with Democrats. Don't beat them. You can't say you
want to go to Washington beat democrats. You have to say,
if your Republicans want to win, you got to go
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to Washington and say you want to work with Democrats.
And that's what Christie did, and that's what they're citing.
Christie said, I'm the guy that can do it. I
work with Democrats here, we got things done. You watch
me do it. And they're saying, that's right. What you
Republicans need to somebody that can go to Washington work
with Democrats. And what you and I know is we
need somebody go to Washington and Trenton or whatever else
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and beat Democrats. That's what has to happen. I have
to take a break. We'll do that we'll come back.
I'll show you some of the audio soundbites plus the
political piece. The political piece why Terry mccauliffe barely won
much closer than expected outcome blunts the narrative that this
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was a clean win for the Democrats going into and
you know, both parties want that narrative. Both parties want
that this was a big Democrats sweep. Both parties do.
The Republican Party would not mind at all if the
takeaway in Virginia as it was a Terry mccaulliff landslide
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against a tea party. I'm not exaggerating a couple of
takeaway from the political piece because because it does differ
from the rest of the drive by. The political piece
does say that Obamacare nearly killed mccauloff. And that's right now.
The establishment both parties the establishment of saying Obamacare had
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no impact in Virginia. It had a huge impact. Obama
went in their campaign for for the bag Man, but
he even bring up Obamacare. Don't do not fall for
this notion that Obamacare didn't play a role. It did.
This is this, this, this this election could have been one, folks,
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with just average effort from the Republican base. Now you
go to New Jersey, the Democrats didn't even mount a
real opponent. Democrats never once attacked Chris Christie in that state.
Do you realize is this? I mean, if there was
any opposition to Christie in that campaign, it was perfunctory
and it was to make it look like there was some.
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But there was no real republic or Democrat effort to
unseat Christie. Now what does that tell you? And now
you've got so many people in the media celebrating the
Christie win as the road to the future for the
Republican Party. What does that tell you? You know what,
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I'm for one, I'm tired of the of the media
picking our candidate for us, and they're trying to do
it here. There were exit polls in New Jersey, ladies
and gentlemen, and I'm you you may have heard this
In New Jersey. In an exit poll, Hillary Clinton beats
Chris Christie in a presidential contest that Virginia vote the
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exit polls by four to six points. Debbie Blabbermouth Schultz
is that, well, yeah, we we we set a staffer
in to help our Canada there they sent one stafford.
Even the Democrat candidate against Christie in New Jersey's complaining
that she got no help from the party. Why is that?
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Why do you think that is? Here's a minor little
detail from the political piece buried near the bottom of
their story. Despite the widespread criticism directed at Republicans for
the government shutdown, an equal number of voters pinned the
shutdown on Obama as they did Congressional Republicans. Was exactly
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what we predicted. Nobody else in the media is mentioning this.
But the Republicans and exit polls were not blamed for
the government shutdown. But the Republican establishment wants people to
think that the Tea Party was responsible for it. It's
just I never thought I would live to see this
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kind of self apatage. In the exit polling, David Cochinelli
won pretty sizeably on the economy. He won pretty decisively
on healthcare, big time on healthcare. But it was mccauliff
who won big on abortion. Call off had a twenty
percent advantage. This is exit polling David on abortion and
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a nine point advantage among women. But that gap was
closing because at one point he had a twenty pcent margin.
And it's that that abortion side and the women's side
has got the Republican established. One of the things that's
got him scared to death. And it's one of the
reasons that they they liked the Tea Party being seen
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as a loser, as they think the Tea Party is
a bunch of radical, extremist conservative kuk freak pro lifers
that they're going to be the end of They've they've
thought this folk since I've been paying attention, I mean
I've I've shared read of the story about how I was.
I was practically accosted the Dinner Party in the early
nineties to do something about the Christians by a bunch
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of moneyed elitist Republican establishment times. That's back when I
was naive and thought we were all on the same team,
and I didn't realize that they looked at me as
the enemy too. I thought I was there as a friend.
I didn't know it, but I was the enemy and
they had poken me in the chest. What are you
gonna do about the Christians? What are you talking about?
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Abortions killing us? We're never gonna win another election. We
gotta we gotta get rid of this. And I'm telling
you that's the root of this. Of course other aspects
to it. Um Conservatism in general repulses the Republican establishment.
The Tea Party repulses because they don't control it. They
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don't even know who to attack. The Tea Party doesn't
have a singular leader, so they go after any candidates
supported by the Tea Party. And they launched both barrels
and they and the way they launched here was just
to offer no assistance compared the assistance they offered back in.
And you know what, folks, I have to tell something.
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I remember back I forget the years now they all
run together, but you remember the year that Christine O'Donnell
ran in Delaware and Sharon Angle Senate races admittedly, but
Sharon Angle and Nevada. Remember all those these Tea Party
candidates wanted a Republican establis running around and saying, well, well,
we can't support these people. I don't have a prayer
um and we we We'd rather support Mike Castle, who's
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a really a Delaware Democrat named a Republican. Remember back then,
the what really concerned the Republican establishment was winning the Senate.
They wanted to win the Senate. They wanted to control
the committees. They wanted the chairmanships on the committees because
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they wanted to be in charge of the money. And
so when people like Christine O'Donnell won their primary and
Sharon Angle because the Tea Party support, the Republican establishment
just had a cow and started mobilizing against them, and
the consultants mobilized, and they all started going on TV
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and at these people don't have a prayer. I mean,
there goes our chance, there goes our chance. They started
ringing their hands and complaining in public, there goes our
chance to win the Senate. There goes our chance to
get the committee chairmanship. I don't think they were honest
about wanting the committee chairmanships. That's what I knew they wanted.
They just they claimed they wanted to win control the Senate.
But what it really boils down to, folks, You and
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I think the countries at the crisis crossroads and nobody
else does. Democrat Republican establishment types do not think there's
any problem at all with this level of debt. It's
just the debt. It's always been high. We'll manage it.
Any big deal. We'll have a carbon tax, will raise
taxes here, we'll deal with it. Any big deal. We'll
have the Fed print money and give it to the
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stock market. Everything's fine, We'll keep interest rates low. There's
no crisis here. Obamacare, hell, you know it's it's it's
this healthcare. Government's gonna have a bigger role than it.
Big whoop, any big deal. They don't think that there's
anything particularly crisis related about this, and you and I do.
To them, it's just politics as usual. They just want
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to They want to win with their people in charge
because they don't want to have to reform anything. They
don't want to have to change the way Washington works.
They don't want to have to get rid of the debt.
They don't want to have to reduce the size the government.
They don't want to do anything that will promote a
increase in individual liberty or freedom. They want, they want.
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They love the government being big, and they want their
chance to run it. So I find it. I just
found it fast that they're they're having a cow over
Christine O'Donnell and Sharon Angle and some of the other
Tea Party candidates that came later not supporting them. There
was their chance to win and sent well Here was
their chance to hold a state House, and they didn't care.
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Here was their chance to hold the state of Virginia,
Here was their chance to have a Republican governor in
the state of Virginia, and they didn't care. They just
they cared everything they had about winning the Senate. They
were willing to support every moderate in the world and
every every liberal Republican in the world in order to
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keep or win the Senate and get their precious chairmanships.
But they didn't care about keeping a state House in Virginia.
And it's it's it's one thing, you know, we're sitting
here trying to devise ways to to beat Democrats for
the good of the country. And we've also got a
devise ways here to overcome opposition to us in our
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own party as well. And just it's uh admittedly tough,
although I you know, not phony optimism, think that it
can be done. Power to people. I think if they
you know, Coachinelli. He didn't win, and it's could have
would have. There there are no moral victories, don't misunderstand,
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you know, no add of boys because he got close.
That's not what I'm doing here. But it could have
been one that's they're really frustrating. Thing could have been one.
Now they're just going, they're going ape. They're so happy
they can't see straight that Chris Christie is now the
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front runner for the Republican nomination. Democrats are excited about that,
the media is excited about that, the Republicans are excited
about that. You go ahead and connect the dots.
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