Ohio Voters: Republicans Fired Up
RUSH: Kimberly in Dayton, Ohio. Nice you have to back. I remember you, I think. Last time you called you were a little put out with me, were you not?
CALLER: Oh, yeah, I was a little put out. I called you in 2006 because I had been trying to get in touch with you and tell you that I was on the ground and things were not looking good and I needed you to know that. And I was pretty frustrated. But I want to tell you now that you're right. I'm still on the ground, and I see what's going on, I'm talking to these people, I'm one of the hundreds of nameless faces that you talked about in 2004, we're the people on the ground working and I can tell you if it weren't for Sarah Palin we won't even be doing that, so McCain gets kudos for that one, but I go to the office --
RUSH: Wait just a second here, Kimberly. You gotta refresh people's memory --
CALLER: Okay.
RUSH: -- who may not have heard your call 2006. You called in the last election, the midterms in '06 and you told me I was wrong about what?
CALLER: I told you that you were wrong, that it was not going to go well, that people are going to the polls and their specific purpose to go to the polls was to vote one party out and the reason why was to teach that party a lesson. Republicans were going to the polls voting Democrat to teach the Republican Party a lesson. It was happening, and on voter Election Day, I cannot tell you, we go to the polls every year and we pass out these voter (dropout) and they're nonpartisan voter guides and we pass them ought because in places where, you know, Democrats are strong, they'll look at these voter guides, they'll take them from us because they don't have Republican on them, didn't have Bush on them or something like that, and they would take them from us and they would leave voting a candidate that --
RUSH: Wait a minute. Hold it a minute. I'm still a little confused. What was I saying in '06 that you thought I was wrong about?
CALLER: You were saying that you didn't think that people were going to go to the election and just vote a party out. You didn't think they were going to teach them a lesson, you didn't think --
RUSH: Okay.
CALLER: -- people were really going to do that.
RUSH: Okay. So you think I was wrong then, but I'm right about what now?
CALLER: You're right now that this election is not by any means in the bag, and I don't know where they're getting these polls from and who they're talking to, but I can tell you that I see an energy on the ground like I have never seen, and I said that in 2004. This is beyond comprehension. They have a victory center that they opened in Huber Heights, Ohio, which is just north of Dayton, and it's run almost completely by homeschoolers. People go there and volunteer all day long, and people have been driving up there from Kentucky to get signs, McCain-Palin signs because they can't find them, they have a waiting list that's constantly 20, 30 people long. As soon as they get the signs in, they're gone. People are buying signs. The other day I went in to pick up some signs they were supposed to hold for me and have given them away, and there was a guy who came in, his wife had designed a sign, it said, "I like her," with big red lipstick, he was selling them for five dollars. And he came into the office, and the guy said, "Well, I'll buy ten of them and see how they go." And I said, "I'll buy four right now". And he looks back at the guy, and he says, "You know what? We may need more."
RUSH:
Okay, okay, why are people so jazzed? CALLER: They are jazzed because there is -- and it's not because she's a woman, okay, let's make it very clear, this isn't about race and this isn't about gender. This is about someone who finally has the backbone to stand up and say what we all feel.
RUSH: Okay, so what you're saying is the difference between '06 and '08 is that the Republicans who voted Democrat in '06 because they were mad at Republicans want to teach them a lesson --
CALLER: Right.
RUSH: -- now have
CALLER: Yes.
RUSH:
All right. And how much sentiment against Obama is also responsible for motivating these people and their attitude?CALLER: Well, I would have to say that about two weeks ago I would say not much. But within the last two weeks, especially, I'll tell you, since Joe the Plumber, things have changed dramatically, and there have been people who have had their eyes opened to exactly what he's doing. There are two issues that are really driving people right now, especially women and moms, you know, moms who are out there worried about their families --
RUSH: You know, there is something I think to what she's saying here about the enthusiasm for the Republican ticket this time around, based on the size of the Palin rallies, which is not being reported all that much. In fact, what's being said about the Palin rallies is all the radicals that are found there and shouting all these insulting things when in fact it's a reporter making it up or maybe shouting it himself. I wouldn't be a bit surprised if a stupid reporter is the one that made it up and shouted it himself, and that's how he says truthfully, "I heard somebody say it. I said it!" Democrats are worried about a lot more than they want to let on, as are the Drive-By Media.
It's interesting, this is from Dayton, Ohio, by the way. This is a swing state, Ohio, and if you're just tuning in, as you know the secretary of state there, Jan Brunner found that there were 200,000 fraudulent registrations and the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals said you've got 'til today to verify those for the counties where they're registered. She said, "I don't have time to do that, this is too big a job," and she went to the Supreme Court and they upheld for her. She basically went to the US Supreme Court, said, "Let me cheat," US Supreme Court said, "You go right ahead, you go right ahead and cheat."
So we got 200,000 registrations that are questionable in Ohio, and I'm sure that's firing people up, too, is going to fire a lot of people up. http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_101708/content/01125112.guest.html
