Well, it’s not a quote, it’s more of a monologue. And it’s a great one. Here’s Rush today responding to the media spin on the Democrat’s win in Pennsylvania-12 yesterday:
[Rush from yesterday] Let me tell you something: Do not play a drinking game today or tonight if you have to take a drink every time the media says, “These primaries are not a referendum on Obama.” ‘Cause you are going to get smashed and you may die of alcohol poisoning. They may have to run you to the hospital tonight. Do not get into that. Play the drinking game all you want but do not sign up to take a swig, unless you want to kill yourself, every time the media says “not a referendum on Obama.”
RUSH: And some people are still drinking today because the media hasn’t let up. We have a sample montage, it’s a referendum on everything but Obama:
ANDREA MITCHELL:…a referendum on Arlen Specter. CARL CAMERON: a referendum on the 80-year-old Specter. JONATHAN HOENIG: …a referendum on government. MICHAEL SMERCONISH:…a referendum of sorts on organizational politics. CYNTHIA McFADDEN: …widely viewed as a referendum on Washington’s incumbent. PAUL BEGALA: …a referendum on Mitch McConnell. DYLAN RATIGAN: …referendum on the status quo. STUART VARNEY: This is a referendum on debt and spending. STEVE BROWN: …a referendum on Rand Paul and his views. GRETCHEN CARLSON: …a referendum on the national debt. IAN BREMMER: The referendum is on 17.2% real unemployment.
ANDREA MITCHELL: I don’t see all of those races as a referendum, at all, on Barack Obama.… If Obama was the big winner last night, or if you want to say that this was not a referendum on Obama, then all Democrats in the House and Senate who are up for reelection should run on Obama’s agenda, they should run on Pelosi’s agenda, they should run on Harry Reid’s agenda.
In other words, all of you Democrats, because this is a big victory for Obama last night, all you Democrats running for reelection, go ahead and run on more spending.
Go ahead and run on more tax increases!
Go ahead and run as an advocate for bigger government!
Go ahead and run on the fact that 10% unemployment is something worth celebrating!
Go ahead and run on record high foreclosures!
Go ahead and run on your support for Porkulus stimulus bills and 20% budget increases!
You Democrats up for reelection, you run on attacking Israel.
Run on your support for amnesty for illegal immigrants. …
You want 10% unemployment, you want an ever growing government, you want more bailouts for everybody in the world paid for by us, you want to attack Israel, you have no problem with Iran getting a nuclear weapon. Go ahead and run on it. Go ahead and run on your support for amnesty.
Go ahead and run on the fact that Arizona is troublesome.
Go ahead, you Democrats, you run on it, and you people in the media that support the Democrats, go ahead and give them this advice! …
Obama’s the big winner? The Democrat Party is gonna sweep to victory now because of what happened in Pennsylvania 12? Fine, then have them proudly run on this agenda. Have them proudly run on who Barack Obama is.
Run on this laser-like focus that you have on job creation. Run on all of the new homes that are not being bought. …
You want to run on the Obama agenda? You Democrats and you members of the media go out there in unison and start attacking the people of Arizona. Attack the Arizona law. Stand up for amnesty. Be honest about what you believe in and what you’re doing. If the Obama agenda is it, if it’s the big winner last night, then by all means bring Obama in to campaign for you. Bring Obama in to fund-raise for you. Like he did Arlen Specter, like he did Coakley in Massachusetts, like he went in for Creigh Deeds in Virginia. Wherever he’s gone, he’s 0-for-4, maybe now 0-for-5 [and like he did for Jon Corzine in NJ - ETR].
All of what I have said is what the Democrat Party stands for. There’s a huge disconnect in this country: Liberalism versus Americanism.
By the way, did Mr. Obama tell Felipe Calderon to stop drilling for oil in the Gulf of Mexico? Did I miss that? He didn’t do that? Interesting. So the Mexicans do not have to stop drilling for oil; we do. Okay, run on that, too, Democrats, run on that, shut down every rig, no more drilling offshore. No more drilling for oil anywhere. Run on it.
Bring in Hugo Chavez to speak up for your agenda and your campaign.
Bring in Daniel Ortega from Nicaragua. …
Ten percent unemployment is the new norm? That’s great; you run on it.
You see, those of you in the media, you’re not fooling anybody. You’re not fooling us and you’re not fooling the wise and intelligent people of this audience. We know what you’re going to say and do before you do it. You have telegraphed your moves. We know who liberals are. We know how liberalism as opposed to Americanism functions. We know how you’re gonna report on a specific story. We know what you’re gonna ignore.
So you look at Pennsylvania 12 and now you’ve got a job to do. You’ve gotta somehow convince everybody that Pennsylvania 12 means that everybody’s been wrong about this coming November sweep for the Republicans. Yep, that one election … That’s a 2-1 Democrat district. Critz would not have won if Democrat voters actually believed what he was saying, and if I’m wrong, and if they did believe what he was saying because they want to believe it, then it’s really over for the Democrats.
So I don’t know how you win either way you analyze this. But you keep at it. And as you analyze it, we’re going to make sure you eat your words come November.
What he said.
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