Rush Limbaugh Club of Orange County

From El Rushbo's Archives - Feb 28, 2008:

Alaskan: Governor Babe for VP!

RUSH: The babe is the icing on the cake aspect, something the Democrats can't claim on their side.

CALLER: Well, I can tell you that Governor Palin doesn't have to lift her chin up to 12 o'clock to get a good photo of her.

"Sarah Palin is the one we have been waiting for, and that's real."

"John McCain is who he is. It's Sarah Palin's party now."

Rush 24/7 Quote - September 4th & 5th, 2008

Batman and Rush: Why McCain Will Win

By Jeffrey Lord
Published 8/19/2008 12:08:37 AM

OK. I'll walk out on a limb.

This election has already been decided. It's over. The winner is John McCain.

How, you are asking, could anybody be so utterly stupid to say such a thing in August? What about the polls showing Obama ahead? Haven't I heard about Obama-mania? The conventions haven't even been held!

Well, since you asked, I'll tell you.

Yes, I know how to read the polls. I've seen the television coverage of the adoring Obama crowds. Followed the "triumph" of the Obama European tour. Know that in some eyes McCain is "old." I've heard all the usual buzz about potential VPs and which possible number two brings what to which ticket. Listened to the usual back-and-forth between the rival campaigns. "Did so!" "Did not!" Yada-yada-yada, as Seinfeld might say.

To which I say: So what?

If you really want to know the outcome of this election, the answers are out there to be found right now. Look around. Take a good hard look at what is going on around us all. It requires only that we understand what we are seeing, beginning with two much reported events of the summer.

First, The Dark Knight broke movie records with first day earnings of over $66 million. The film has broken one record after another, just as films like Star Wars or a Star Wars sequel or Spiderman or a Spiderman sequel did in their time. All by himself, Bloomberg tells us, Batman is poised to boost Hollywood towards a record year of $10 billion in box office sales.

Second. Simultaneous to the huge success of The Dark Knight, Rush Limbaugh has celebrated his 20th year as the host of his nationally syndicated number one radio show, signing an 8-year contract for a reported $400 million. His show is heard on approximately 600 stations around the country, with the president of Premiere Radio Networks saying the show enjoys an "unprecedented platform of radio affiliates." In recent weeks Rush has received one big happy fist pump from everyone including but not limited to the President of the United States and the "Dittoheads" who listen to him regularly as part of an audience of 20 million a week.

So, as might be phrased by another character out of the world of Batman, riddle me this.

Why is Batman so popular? Why is Rush so popular? And what in the world does the popularity of either have to do with asserting as fact that Senator McCain has already won the presidential election over Senator Obama?

The answer is: you. "You" defined as a cultural American.

NO ONE OUT THERE -- with the exception of novelist Andrew Klavan's recent perceptive piece on Batman and President Bush in the Wall Street Journal -- seems to understand just why The Dark Knight is such a hit. With all due respect to the filmmakers, actors Christian Bale and the late Heath Ledger, the real star of this film is indisputably Batman. But just who is Batman? And why does he make those connected with him so rich every time he shows his cowl?

Batman is the cinematic (and comic book) personification of the way Americans like to see themselves. He is a rebel against the Establishment (and likewise with the Star Wars crew and Spiderman.) He is unafraid to act. He is willing to take risks. He could not possibly care less about what "feels good" or whether anything he says or does "makes sense" to a single other person. He runs on instinct. He is here to do the right thing. Nothing more, nothing less. He has a vision of Gotham City, a dream, that is not unlike the favorite phrase associated with his friend Superman (another movie sensation): Truth, Justice and the American Way.

Rush Limbaugh is the Batman of the airwaves. The reason Rush is celebrating 20 years on the air and is being rewarded with that great contract is precisely because he has the same qualities as Batman. Rush Limbaugh is a conservative rebel, instinctively so. He believes in the power of the American dream. Most importantly, he lives it, right down there in his own Bat Cave, his "Southern Command." He is completely unafraid to say exactly what's on his conservative mind, and couldn't care less what his liberal establishment critics say about him. Like Batman, he runs on his instincts, hopping into his broadcasting Batmobile daily and saying forthrightly that he knows what's wrong and how it should be fixed.

But what, you ask, does all of this have to do with predicting a McCain victory over Obama? For this I turn to my own guide to American culture, my friend Dr. Clotaire Rapaille. The man who, as mentioned awhile back, is famous for designing the Chrysler PT Cruiser, getting Americans to drink vast quantities of Folger's coffee and serving as a cultural consultant to companies like GE, AT&T and Boeing, among many others. Before the 2008 campaign got under way, Rapaille had similarly applied his culture theories to presidents and presidential campaigns, his conclusions as startling as they were accurate.

What is it that makes Americans choose anything the way they do? And specifically what does this mean when it comes to choosing presidents?

First, he explained to me, we should understand that every human has a brain divided into three parts. The cortex is the seat of logic, while the limbic deals with emotions. It is what he calls the "third brain" -- the "reptilian brain" -- that unmistakably dominates the other two. It houses a person's fundamental instinct for two and only two things: survival and reproduction. While every human walking the planet has these two instincts, some people are more "reptilian" than others. Those others could be depending more on their "cortex" -- the part of the brain that is home to logic, that controls intelligence. Or they can seem to run mostly on emotion. Yet without question, the research shows again and again that whether the subject is picking cars, coffee or presidents, people respond with their instincts. When this fact of life is overlaid with culture -- in the case of voters for president of the United States, American culture -- the result is easy to see.

While other cultures put a premium on thinking (the French) or order (the Germans), Americans want our presidents to respond just
as we do in our culture -- with their gut. An American presidential candidate, Rapaille says, "doesn't need to be extremely reptilian,
only more reptilian than his opponent is." In particular, and he says this in terms of a cultural observation as opposed to a subjective condemnation, Americans are not culturally disposed to thinking. We prefer, as the Nike commercial has long said, to "just do it." We are a culture of action, of rebellion, of instinct. When Europeans or American liberals deride a George W. Bush or a Reagan as a "cowboy," they think they are hurling an insult. Yet most Americans see cowboys as heroes, so the insult effectively backfires. When it comes to choosing between two candidates for president, we gravitate instinctively to the one perceived as more "reptilian." Rapaille puts it this way: "We don't want our presidents to think too much."

Now.

Rush Limbaugh has made the observation that when Obama is away from his teleprompter the candidate's soaring rhetoric stumbles into a non-stop succession of hems and haws. Lots of "ahhhhs" and "uhhhhs" and "uhhhh...ahhhh...uhhhhs." To illustrate in entertaining fashion Limbaugh has even assembled a tape of Obama's hemmings and hawings from a solitary press conference, stringing them together to hilarious effect.

Rush is on to something here, a big something. What, after all, is Obama doing while he stutters around in verbal no man's land?
The next time you see Obama in an unscripted TV appearance watch his face as he does this and you will see it in a flash. Obama is...yes...thinking. Telegraphing in utterly unconscious fashion to voters precisely what Rapaille says they do not want: a potential president who "thinks too much." Thinking translated here as indecisiveness, weakness, dawdling, timidity.

Remember Reagan on his philosophy about ending the Cold War? "We win, they lose," he said. The Soviets, he said, were "an evil empire." Nothing complicated. No Carter-esque agony of thought. Just a simple and direct use of the reptilian brain. If the striking air traffic controllers didn't stop breaking the law and get back to work pronto, Reagan said he would fire them. Pure and simple. They didn't - so he did. His poll numbers shot up. Remember all those "thinkers" over at the State Department who kept eliminating a specific phrase from Reagan's now famous speech in front of the Berlin Wall? Reagan kept putting it back. On the interesting grounds that it was he who had been elected president, not some State Department bureaucrat. The phrase: "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall." The moment is now enshrined in American historical memory. Recall FDR on the Depression: "The American people want action and action now." Or Teddy Roosevelt demanding the return of a hostage by sending a telegram stating his expectation of the hostage-taker in the following fashion: "This government wants Pedicaris alive or Raisuli dead."

In each case, this was the bottom line of the survival instinct, the reptilian brain at work in a president. It is no coincidence that Reagan, FDR and TR were three of America's most popular presidents.

ONCE I UNDERSTOOD Rapaille's point, I went back in American presidential history to look for myself at the outcome of every presidential election. Without question, unless there was some extraordinary circumstance (like a secret back room deal in the 1824 Adams-Jackson election) like clockwork the American people had elected the more "reptilian" candidate of those available as they perceived him to be. Issues came and issues went with the centuries, but the American tendency to go instinctively for the guy who seemed the most instinctively action oriented appeared time and time again. A roll call of winners perceived by the voters of their day (in direct comparison to their opponents) as action oriented, candidates who fearlessly went with their gut, include Andrew Jackson, Lincoln, the two Roosevelts, Wilson, Truman, Ike, JFK, Reagan, Clinton and George W. Bush. The sharper the image of a candidate as a serious thinker, a man who hesitates or who is perceived more as a talker than a doer, the more certain his defeat -- as with a John Quincy Adams, a Thomas E. Dewey, an Adlai Stevenson, a McGovern, Dole, Dukakis, Gore, or Kerry.

And, my bet is, Obama.

What, after all, are among McCain's supposed liabilities? His temper -- an action indicator if ever there was one. His support for the Iraq War -- war being the ultimate call to action. In the acknowledged asset column is McCain's own war record, the epitome of the reptilian American brain at work. This candidate flew directly over the heart of the enemy capital to drop his bombs, then gets captured and tortured, with the great good luck of having his enemies film his literal fight for survival for full display in a later presidential campaign. For that matter, what, after all, was McCain in his youth? A fighter pilot. Or, as they say, a "flyboy." A modern equivalent of the American cowboy. And what is the cowboy to Americans? A hero. Batman in a hat.

Take note of the difference in the McCain and Obama reactions to the crisis between Russia and Georgia. McCain instantly refers to
"the invasion of Georgia." Obama says he wants to "condemn the outbreak of violence." The difference between the two is vivid. McCain, listening to his gut, is sharply blaming the Russians. He wants them the hell out of there ASAP. Obama is once again the "thinker." Careful not to offend, he refers not to an "invasion," which would imply fault, but an "outbreak of violence," as if both the Georgians and the Russians are equally to blame. And what does Obama's foreign policy adviser Susan Rice say of McCain? She criticizes McCain for "shooting from the hip."

Who in American culture shoots from the hip? Cowboys, of course. Heroes. John Wayne. Gary Cooper. Wyatt Earp. Matt Dillon. One has to ask of Ms. Rice: Is she a secret plant being paid by the McCain campaign to say these things? One can only laugh at the utterly unconscious inability of Obama and his fellow eggheads to understand their own fellow countrymen, let alone human beings around
the rest of the world. All things being equal, who do you think most Americans would prefer to see dealing with the big bad Russians in Georgia? Barack Obama -- or Batman?

THESE COMPETING IMAGES of McCain as the man of action and Obama as the egghead thinker are slowly sinking in with the American electorate of 2008. The same electorate that has rewarded Batman and Rush with millions of viewers, listeners and dollars.
The same electorate that gets up every single day in this country and looks in the mirror to see their own personal hero or heroine, their own version of Batman or Rush, someone who is fighting with everything they have in their reptilian brain to survive and thrive.

These Americans aren't looking to be led by someone who has to think the whole thing through -- hemming and hawing as they go.

One last irony. It is much commented that the mainstream media is in the tank for Obama. And so they are. What seems not to be understood is that the mainstream media's idea of promotion for Obama is exactly what it was for Kerry or Gore and Dukakis and in the long ago was used as a reason to support a Thomas E. Dewey or Adlai Stevenson. They see the "thinking man as candidate" as a cause for celebration. It escapes them completely that the American people see the same thing as a cause for concern. A gut reason to vote against.

A classic example is the massive coverage given to Obama's European trip. The media -- and certainly Obama -- saw this as a reaching out to others. Displaying Obama's willingness to listen to what others (European others at that) are thinking -- that word again -- and therefore try to please them. Big mistake.

Does Batman really care what others think of him? Does Rush? Did Reagan or Teddy Roosevelt? Are you kidding? In other words, every time the media thinks they are promoting Obama they are in fact doing him damage. Subtle, yet irreversible damage that will eventually begin to show itself in the polling numbers if
it hasn't already.

What will Americans be voting for in 2008? The same thing they have been voting for routinely in every election since the beginning of American presidential elections. They want action. A willingness to risk. They want someone who doesn't give a damn what others think.

They want Batman. They want Rush.

So they will elect McCain.

Jeffrey Lord is the creator, co-founder and CEO of QubeTV, a conservative online video site.
A Reagan White House political director and author, he writes from Pennsylvania.

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Every night for four years, Rush's TV show made history and broke news, doing the job the mainstream press used to do before it sold its soul to liberalism. Though he was born for radio, Rush literally transformed the way television was done - which is why many of his techniques were later picked up by the cable news warriors. Every night on every news channel, you can watch them all imitate what Rush pioneered.

"This would explain why Obama is so frightened of the use of
his middle name, and it might explain Jeremiah Wright's cozying
up to Calypso Louie Farrakhan and traveling overseas to meet
Moammar Khadafy in Libya. "

Let Me See If I Have This Straight

His father was a Kenyan, Muslim, black. We have seen pictures of his African family.

His mother is from Kansas, atheist, white. Where are the pictures of his Kansan white mother and his white grandparents who raised him?

His father deserted his mother and returned to his family in Kenya when he was very young.

His mother married an Indonesian Muslim and took him to live in Jakarta where he attended Muslim schools.

His mother returned to Hawaii and he was raised by his white Kansan grandparents who he has accused of racism.

He later attended the best high dollar American schools, how?

He lives in a $1.4 million dollar house that he acquired through a deal with a very wealthy fund raiser, how?

He "worked" as a civil rights activist in Chicago, has never held a productive job. The presidency is not a civil rights post nor is it subject to affirmative action set asides.

He entered politics at the state level and then the national level with minimal experience and still has only minimal experience.

He is proud of his "African Heritage" but it seems that his only African connection was that his African father made a white girl pregnant and deserted her. I didn't know sperm carried a cultural gene. Where is his pride in his white culture?

He attends an "Afrocentric church that hates whites and Jews and blames America for all the world's perceived faults and problems and repeatedly covers up for the pastor of the racist church.

He claims that he could not confront his pastor but he wants us to believe that he can confront North Korea and Iran. Right!!!

Yeah, I think I can see how he could be a uniter and bring us together. I think his "Hope" is that he hopes no one will put the pieces together.

Barack Hussein Obama, Jr. was eight years old and lived in Jakarta, Indonesia when Red Skelton (RIP) delivered this prophetic PLEDGE!

Red Skelton's Pledge of Allegiance
Red Skelton's "Pledge of Allegiance" was first introduced on the Red Skelton Show on January 14, 1969. It has since been twice read into the congressional record of The United States and has received numerous awards. 4 min 19 sec

If Bush resigned today, this is what his speech could, should, would be ...

Normally, I start these things out by saying "My Fellow Americans." happened, and that you're really not fellow Americans any longer.

Not doing it this time. If the polls are any indication, I don't know who

more than half of you are anymore. I do know something terrible has

I'll cut right to the chase here: I quit. Now before anyone gets all in a

lather about me quitting to avoid impeachment, or to avoid prosecution
or something, let me assure you: There's been no breaking of laws or

impeachable offenses in this office.

The reason I'm quitting is simple. I'm fed up with you people.

I'm fed up because you have no understanding of what's really

going on in the world. Or of what's going on in this once-great

nation of ours. And the majority of you are too damned lazy to

do your homework and figure it out.

Let's start local. You've been sold a bill of goods by politicians

and the news media. Polls show that the majority of you think

the economy is in the tank. And that's despite record numbers

of homeowners, including record numbers of MINORITY home-

owners. And while we're mentioning minorities, I'll point out that

minority business ownership is at an all-time high.

Our unemployment rate is as low as it ever was during the Clinton
administration. I've mentioned all those things before, but it doesn't
seem to have sunk in.

Despite the shock to our economy of 9/11, the stock market has
rebounded to record levels and more Americans than ever are participating in these markets.

Meanwhile, all you can do is whine about gas prices, and most of you are too damn stupid to realize that gas prices are high because there's increased demand in other parts of the world, and because a small handful of noisy idiots are more worried about polar bears and beachfront property than your economic security.

Let me remind you that the rest of the world thought Saddam had the goods, same as me. Let me also remind you that regime change in Iraq was official US policy before I came into office.

That's not the case this time. The soldiers of our new enemy don't
care if they survive. In fact, they want to die. That'd be fine, as long
as they weren't also committed to taking as many of you with them
as they can. But they are. They want to kill you, and the bastards
are all over the globe.

You should be grateful that they haven't gotten any more of us here
in the United States since September 11. But you're not. That's
because you've got no idea how hard a small number of intelligence,
military, law enforcement, and homeland security people have
worked to make sure of that. When this whole mess started, I
warned you that this would be a long and difficult fight. I'm
disappointed how many of you people think a long and difficult fight

Some guy named 'Clinton' established that policy. Bet you didn't know that, did you?

You idiots need to understand that we face a unique enemy. Back during the cold war, there were two major competing political and economic models squaring off.

We won that war, but we did so because fundamentally, the able to out spend and out-tech them.

Communists wanted to survive, just as we do. We were simply

amounts to a single season of 'Survivor.'

Instead, you've grown impatient. You're incapable of seeing things

through the long lens of history, the way our enemies do. You think

that wars should last a few months, a few years, tops.

Making matters worse, you actively support those who help the

enemy. Every time you buy the New York Times, every time you

send a donation to a cut-and-run Democrat's political campaign,

well, dang it, you might just as well FedEx a grenade launcher to a

Jihadist. It amounts to the same thing.

In this day and age, it's easy enough to find the truth. It's all over the

Internet. It just isn't on the pages of the New York Times or on NBC

News. But even if it were, I doubt you'd be any smarter. Most of you
would rather watch American Idol.

I could say more about your expectations that the government will
always be there to bail you out, even if you're too stupid to leave a
city that's below sea level and has a hurricane approaching.

Oh, and by the way, Cheney's quitting too. That means Pelosi is

your new President. You asked for it. Watch what she does

carefully, because I still have a glimmer of hope that there are just

enough of you remaining who are smart enough to turn this thing
around in 2008.

So that's it. God bless what's left of America. Some of you know
what I mean. The rest of you, kiss off.

>> Be careful what you wish for!

.
_________________
Once A Marine - Always A Marine

Semper Fidelis, Death Angel '61-64
Ugly Angel '65-66

Sunday morning, February 10th - I received the following from my 1st cousin (2 years my senior)
... now a minority in my home state ... a Republican in The Land of Lincoln. Rush would also
"approve of this message".

My name is Lanny Collins Herlan and I approve of this message.

--Springfield, Illinois

I was proud to have received this from my 22 year old granddaughter, Whitney.
Makes me feel better knowing someone in our next generation has heart, faith
and a brain.

It is time to change from REDNECK humor to TRUE AMERICAN Humor!

Only it isn't seen as HUMOR, but the correct way to LIVE YOUR LIFE!
If you feel the same, pass this on to your True American friends. Y'all
know who they are...

You might be a TRUE AMERICAN if: It never occurred to you to be
offended by the phrase, "One Nation, Under God."

You might be a TRUE AMERICAN if: You've never protested about
seeing the 10 Commandments posted in public places.

You might be a TRUE AMERICAN if: You still say "Christmas" instead
of "Winter Festival."

You might be a TRUE AMERICAN if: You bow your head when someone
prays.

You might be a TRUE AMERICAN if: You stand and place your hand over
your heart when they play the National Anthem.

You might be a TRUE AMERICAN if: You treat Vietnam vets with great
respect, and always have.

You might be a TRUE AMERICAN if: You've never burned an American flag.

You might be a TRUE AMERICAN if: You know what you believe and you
aren't afraid to say so, no matter who is listening.

You might be a TRUE AMERICAN if: You respect your elders and expect
your kids to do the same.

You might be a TRUE AMERICAN if: You'd give your last dollar to a friend.

If you got this email from me, it is because I believe that you, like me,
have just enough TRUE AMERICAN in you to have the same beliefs as
those talked about in this email.

God Bless the U S A ! Amen

I posted the following at a military website this morning. I strongly suggest you view the video
and if you haven't already cast your primary vote ... be sure you do so after weighing Rush's
comments. After this coming (Super) Tuesday it is very possible the GOP Presidential Candidate
will be a DONE DEAL. Choose carefully and regardless of who our nominee will be ... we must
defeat the Hussein/Rodham ticket come November. LMC

Rush Does Not Concede, Vows to Fight On

_________________
Once A Marine - Always A Marine

Semper Fidelis,
Death Angel '61-64
Ugly Angels '65-66

"talk radio" like "soap operas" is just entertainment. Intelligent, educated people don't ssek out talk show hosts to guide their politics, religion or economics, instead they seek out credible sources to make informed decisions on important issues. the fairness doctrine
is another useless piece of legislation that will demand tax dollars to support the fairness doctrine agency to monitor radio talk shows.
In essence it will be just a costly, self-serving government appendage .

Welcome Dittoheads
and our conservative friends.

Many pro-Republican talkers helped push more votes to Obama

Red Skelton's Pledge of Allegiance

Welcome Dittoheads and our conservative friends.

Many pro-Republican talkers helped push more votes to Obama

Red Skelton's Pledge of Allegiance

Welcome Dittoheads
and our conservative friends.