http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2016/11/10/i_m_not_mad_i_m_giddy_and_excited_but_i_don_t_want_to_squander_victoryI'm Not Mad -- I'm Giddy and Excited (But I Don’t Want to Squander Victory)
November 10, 2016
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RUSH: Here's the bottom line. Now that Donald Trump is around to do the heavy lifting and now that Donald Trump's around to do the heavy lifting and had coattails, let's see how courageous Republicans in the House and Senate will be. Only time will tell, ladies and gentlemen. I think these calls for unity, they sound wonderful, but the way they've always ended up happening in the past is that we basically give away our victory for whatever peace that we believe can be had by doing so.
Here is Ted in Muskegon, Michigan, who thought I sounded mad. Hey, Ted, great to have you on the program. Hi.
CALLER: Well, I don't have a Dittocam, Rush, so I can't see you, but I'll tell you, I tuned in yesterday hoping and expecting this, and I tuned in today, and I'm not getting it. You are angry. You're mad. You're using words like "sick," "tired," "protest," "anger," "rage," "lawyers," "no desire for unity." I get it. I know the midterm Republican landslide, the last two didn't produce any results, and most Republicans in DC are as fake and establishment as the Democrats, but can we not, after ten years, hear your laughter, hear some kind of finally we're at least on the right track with Trump. Something happy, laughter, positive, can you give us one solid day of that?
RUSH: (laughing) That's what this show is each and every day.
CALLER: Well, I'm a loyal friend and true, Rush. I listen every day, but don't think that words like "sick" and "tired" and "protest" and "anger" and "rage" and "lawyers" --
RUSH: I'm telling you what the left is doing, and I'm sick and tired of it.
CALLER: Fine. I get it.
RUSH: I'm not describing me.
CALLER: I want one day of happiness. One day of something just really fun. I'm happy, Rush, and I tuned in to you -- I mean, I've been listening forever --
RUSH: Right.
CALLER: -- since the LA riots. I just want that. Can we not get that?
RUSH: Since the LA riots? (laughing) You're making me laugh. No wonder you want that.
CALLER: Finally you're final laughing. I'm glad I've served a purpose for you today and maybe your other listeners who say, "Why isn't he happy?" Keep laughing. That's what we love, Rush.
RUSH: I'm one of the happiest guys out there.
CALLER: Can I keep you laughing?
RUSH: What's that?
CALLER: I'll continue to talk about the LA riots just to hear you laugh again.
RUSH: The juxtaposition of you wanting happiness, you've been calling here since the LA riots. (laughing) I'll tell you, I was giddy yesterday. The program was giddy. In fact, I got frustrated when the program ended. I ran out of time sharing all of the good news. We blew this in 1994, Ted. We have blown this a couple of times, and as I say, I'm sounding warning bells. When there's reason to be happy, I will tell you.
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RUSH: We have the best chance that we've had in our lifetimes, folks, because of this election to beat back the forces of liberalism. They're trying to steal liberty, trying to steal freedom, and trying to transform America. We've got the best chance we have ever had to keep them at bay for a generation, and I'm worried, I don't want to squander it. It's that simple.
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RUSH: Ladies and gentlemen, I am feeling wonderful and great, but I will never stop being ticked off at the left -- and I don't think anybody should stop being wary, suspicious, and constantly vigilant of these people.
How many times...? Let's look back at the last time when there was a major, major Republican victory. It was the House of Representatives sweep the 1994 midterm elections, the first time we'd won the House in 40 years. And in about two years that victory'd been squandered in the sense of producing victories. I mean, we maintained control of the House but producing victories, balancing budgets, whatever was on the Contract with America agenda. And I developed a theory. I think that a mistake was made back in 1994.
The Republicans who won -- Newt Gingrich and the Contract with America -- I think they misread what their victory meant. I think they mistakenly concluded that their victory meant the country had gone conservative and, as such, they stopped explaining what they were doing and why. Essentially, they stopped teaching, and it was easy for the left to lie about who they were and what they were doing -- and it wasn't long before the Republicans were starving kids in the school lunch program.
Shortly after winning the House in 1994, by 1995 in that budget we were starving kids. And the left was having kids write letters to members of the Republican House saying, "You're starving me! I can't learn when I'm hungry." There weren't any budget cuts in the school lunch program. We stopped teaching. Folks, we have a... This victory is the greatest opportunity of my life. The Democrat Party is the weakest it has been, and they know it. They know full well what has happened to them since Barack Obama became president in terms of how their party has just been shellacked.
And I'm telling you, that makes me happy. You don't know how ecstatic I am. They have lost all of these seats; they're lost their power. Six million fewer Democrats showed up to vote for Hillary than voted for Obama in 2012. We have the opportunity of a lifetime to put the brakes on the forces of the left that want to transform this country and destroy its health care system, destroy the education system, to chip away at individual liberty and freedom of every citizen by growing government. We've got a chance to close the borders!
We have a chance to end rampant immigration into this country by people who we don't know. We don't know whether they love the country or not. We have no idea. They're not educated, they don't speak the language, we make no attempt to assimilate them. Issue after issue after issue that resulted in Donald Trump winning! We have an opportunity to really win. One of the problems I have, folks -- and one of the things guiding me here -- is I have seen victory after victory squandered. We have people on our side who don't think victory's possible, who really don't think it's possible to beat back the left.
They think it's possible to stop them periodically, temporarily, but they don't think it's possible to beat them. I know them. I don't want to have to name names, but you would recognize them all. This program, as I said yesterday -- aside from whatever else it must be to succeed within the broadcast business. The reason I do what I do outside of those requirements, is beat the left. That's what we've been trying to do. What I've been trying to do for 29 years here -- well, 28 and counting -- is beat the left by informing people who they are, by helping to create election results like we had on Tuesday.
And don't succeed all the time. Plenty of failures in there to whatever extent I want to take the blame or credit for whoever wins or loses elections. I try to distance myself from that sense because I'm not on the ballot, and I'm not in charge of anybody's campaign so it's difficult for me to claim credit or blame. But I do devote practically all the energy I have here into educating people about those I think are the enemies of what we want our country to be.
They have a different view of what they want this country to be, and it's rooted in the fact that they don't like this country as founded, and I do. I love it. And I think it's a miracle, a God-blessed miracle that deserves every effort to preserve it. We have the greatest chance that we've ever had. And I'm just telling you, trying to share with you... You don't have to work at remembering these things, but I do, if I'm to be considered good at what I do here. And I can't tell you the red flags when I see all this talk of unity, and then I see everything I predicted.
These protests that we know are bought and paid for. They're not organic. They're not legitimate. When I say they're not legitimate, I mean, there are people protesting, yeah, and they're burning flags, yeah. But they're being paid to do it, and it's made to look like this country is fed up with Donald Trump already. It's made to look like this country is livid and outraged over the election result, when it isn't. The country is happy! We are ecstatic over the outcome of the election. It's the left that it isn't happy. It's the left that's never happy. It's the left that's trying to intimidate you and manipulate you, and I'm trying to help you spot it so you can resist it.
I'm trying to alert you to their tactics, to tell you how they go about doing what they do, from lying about polling data, to misrepresenting over 80% of the people in this country and how they think and what's important to them. Establishment versus ruling class. The whole business is meant to get everybody -- or as many people as I can reach -- to understand what we are up against. I think our previous caller is ticked off that I'm ticked off at the left, if you want to know the truth. I think he's... That's who I...
If I'm angry and if I sound angry, it's because I'm angry at the left because I'm ticked off at this call for unity, and I get a little ticked off when I hear some Republicans start talking about, "Yeah, we need to come together now." We don't need to come together! WE BEAT THEM! Did that sound mad? Did that sound mad when I said that? (hysterical laughing "We don't need to come together right now because we beat their ass! (hysterical laughing) Isn't it great? We beat their asses! Folks... (laughing) Folks, we don't need unify! We need to blast them to smithereens! Ha! Ha! Ha! Yeah, isn't it great?"
How's that? How's that? (hysterical laughing) "Ho-ho, man! I can't... I'm just... (laughing) It'd be a wonderful thing just to finally hammer the final nails in the coffin of liberalism. Oh, yeah, man! Bring it on! Unity? Ha! Ha! Ha! Eat this! Swallow this! Screw your unity. You lost! Ha! Ha! Ha!" How's that?
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RUSH: I'm beginning to think, Mr. Snerdley, that our first caller was a seminar caller. I'm beginning now to think that it's all part of the sham that they are running here to try to disaffect the actual energy that is there because of this victory and to misportray it and so forth. I have no doubt now that this guy was a seminar caller. Anyway, we have the audio sound bites of Axelrod, 'cause I'm not mad, I'm mad at the left, I should be, that's what made him mad.
The reason he's a seminar caller is I was effectively exposing the left and that's what he had to call and shut down, or try. (interruption) I do. And I'll tell you why I do, it's because I've had emails from others who say the same thing's happening to them today, on Twitter, on Facebook, other radio shows, same type of thing. You sound angry. Can't you be happy? Can't we be happy? There's a theme. Nothing they do is real. And all I'm doing here is exposing the left, I deconstruct them better than anybody else does, and that's why this guy called to try to discredit my effectiveness in exposing who the left is.
Obama just now, the White House press secretary's out there, the arrogance of these people -- (laughing) -- the arrogance, you know what Earnest said, he said that Obama was reassured by Trump's tone in his election. Yeah, like Obama's God and is worried how the children are behaving and Trump was a little bit like an angry little bully in a sandbox until election night, Obama was reassured. Well, you're not the arbiter, as far as we're concerned, of what's assured and what's not reassuring.
This presumptive arrogance, this conceit, it's just one of the -- (laughing) -- it's one of the many characteristics of the people on the left. They rub me the wrong way. And in fact they make me itch, as I'm scratching myself, I laugh.
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