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Democrat Party Owns
DefeatRegarding the Democrats,
the war on terror, the war in
Iraq. I keep saying they are
invested in defeat. The new
phrase that I think is really
good: They own defeat. They
will have ownership of
defeat.Dick Cheney is my hero,
ladies and gentlemen. It is
about time somebod
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http://www.rushlimbaugh.comThe
Democrat Party Owns
DefeatRegarding the Democrats,
the war on terror, the war in
Iraq. I keep saying they are
invested in defeat. The new
phrase that I think is really
good: They own defeat. They
will have ownership of
defeat.Dick Cheney is my hero,
ladies and gentlemen. It is
about time somebody in the
administration responded to
the Democrat Party, who own
defeat. Dick Cheney, I played
this sound bite for you
yesterday, I want to play it
again today. This is aboard
the USS Kitty Hawk. He's being
interviewed by Jonathan Karl
with ABC, and Karl says,
'Because Congressman Murtha
and Pelosi have made it clear
that what they would like to
do is they would like to stop
the surge, can they do it? Do
they have the power to stop
the surge?'CHENEY: I think
he's dead wrong. I think in
fact if we were to do what
Speaker Pelosi and Congressman
Murtha are suggesting, all
we'll do is validate the
Al-Qaeda strategy. The
Al-Qaeda strategy is to break
the will of the American
people. In fact, knowing they
can't win in a stand-up fight,
try to persuade us to throw in
the towel and come home, and
then they win because we
quit.That's the Al-Qaeda
strategy, and Vice President
Cheney, my hero, accusing the
Democrats of basically
endorsing it. This infuriated
the speaker of the House
yesterday, Nancy Pelosi, who,
in a childish and petulant,
embarrassing moment, called
the White House, tried to
reach George Bush. She failed
to get hold of Bush. She got
hold of Josh Bolten, the chief
of staff. She demanded that
Bush repudiate and distance
himself from the vice
president's remarks. She said,
'You cannot say as the
president of the United States
I welcome disagreement in a
time of war and then have the
vice president go out of the
country and mischaracterize a
position of the speaker of the
House and in a manner that
says that person in that
position of authority is
acting against the national
security of our country.' Yes,
he can, but he didn't say. You
haven't been charged with
anything, Ms. Pelosi, but you
are certainly acting as though
you have. You're defending
yourself against a charge that
hasn't been made by the vice
president.He just said that
your policy endorses the
Al-Qaeda strategy, or
validates it. They've been
called on it, folks, and I'm
so happy that somebody from
the top, the administration,
has finally responded to this.
I'm going to tell you, folks,
the Democrat Party is now
laying the foundation for
their eventual landslide
defeat. May not happen in '08,
but it will happen soon
thereafter. The American
people do not like to lose
wars. They do not like to quit
in the middle of wars,
contrary to popular media
belief. There are two recent
polls illustrating this very
point. Both have been cited on
this program, one from
Investor's Business Daily, and
the other from Opinion
Research that we cited for you
a couple of days ago. The
American people do not like
terrorists. The American
people love their military as
much as the left and the
Democrats hate the military.
The consequences of a
withdrawal from Iraq or
anywhere else in the war on
terror will be a
disaster.Remember Senator
Schumer gleefully talking
about how the Democrats are
going to recreate Vietnam?
They're going to flood the
administration with resolution
after resolution after
resolution. What was Vietnam?
It was a loss for America.
Schumer gleeful, Democrats
happy, they want to recreate
Vietnam where we lost and
millions of innocent people
died. You want to know what
will happen in Iraq if we pull
out of there as we did in
Vietnam? Check Cambodia, check
South Vietnam. The Democrats,
in addition, were shellacked
in elections for years,
despite Watergate. Jimmy
Carter was it for them after
Vietnam until Bill Clinton
came along in 1993, when he
was inaugurated. Yet they look
at this as a moment of
greatness in their past. How
convoluted can this be? The
only thing I can think is that
their desire to recreate a
Vietnam out of Iraq is that
they think that Vietnam and
the way they prosecuted that
forced Nixon eventually out of
office, which they would love
to do to George W. Bush.But
here's the thing. As much as
the left and the Democrat
Party will try to pin this on
Bush or the Republicans, it
won't work. Schumer and these
Democrat candidates have
staked out positions that they
will rue. Mark my word and
take comfort in what I'm
telling you. Their words
today, just as their words
back in Vietnam, will be their
undoing tomorrow. The American
people do not like genocide.
The American people don't like
the nut job who runs Iran,
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The
American people don't like
Hezbollah. The American people
don't like Palestinian
terrorists. They resent
Americans who do end up
supporting these terrorist
groups. These groups, groups
like Hezbollah and the
Palestinian terrorists will be
empowered if we leave Iraq.
And, of course, the enemy will
have gained territory, the
enemy will have gained
resources and momentum, the
likes of which they could
never have dreamed, and it
will all have been handed to
them by the Democrats, if the
Democrats succeed in getting
us to defeat ourselves in
Iraq.What will happen after
that is that attacks against
Israel will be launched.
Europe will have attacks
against it launched,
especially Britain, and they
will do so here, of course, if
they can, the terrorists I'm
talking about. They will be
emboldened, as the Democrats
who own defeat secure our
pullout from Iraq, if they are
able to do this. All of this
will be laid at their feet,
the Democratic Party's feet,
despite the best efforts of
the Democrats and their media
mouthpieces to pin it on
somebody else. Here's the
thing, folks. The Democrat
Party and the left in this
country have deluded
themselves into believing that
the November election, which
they won by a thin margin,
frankly, was a mandate for
defeat. They are interpreting
the election results last
November as a mandate for
defeat, a mandate for
humiliation of the United
States, and a mandate for
genocide. But that's not what
they ran on, if you'll
recall.They ran as moderates.
They ran against corruption.
They ran against Mark Foley.
They did not advocate
surrender. They did not
advocate defeat and its
consequences. Jack Murtha was
told to keep quiet until after
the election. Nancy Pelosi
pretended to be something that
she wasn't. But now they're
out there in full liberal mode
for all of us to see. They are
racing further and further to
the left. I'm here to tell you
today that the country will
suffer while Democrats control
Congress and if they win the
presidency in '08. But make no
mistake: they are sowing the
seeds of their own political
undoing down the road. If the
Middle East explodes, and if
even more nut cases like
Ahmadinejad are unleashed, the
Democrats are the ones who
will be directly responsible,
period. No one else. They own
defeat. They are the only
people talking in the manner
in which they are talking.
Besides that, I will not let
them forget their
responsibility and their
role.I'm going to make another
prediction to you, folks. I'm
going to predict to you that
the people of Nevada will
remove Harry Reid from the
Senate, just as the people of
South Dakota removed Tom
Daschle from the Senate. Dingy
Harry is now the leader of the
far left in the Senate, and
he's decided to represent
Massachusetts rather than his
own state. Ditto, identical
thing that happened to Tom
Daschle. Dingy Harry will pay
a price for it. It will
happen. All of this will
happen down the road, maybe
not in '08, but it will
happen.You heard me correctly,
ladies and gentlemen. The
Democrat Party now laying the
foundation for its eventual
landslide defeat à la
Vietnam. They want another
Vietnam in Iraq. If they
succeed, they're going to get
it in every way, including an
eventual landslide defeat,
maybe not in '08. Soon
thereafter it will happen.
Because it's very simple. We,
the American people, do not
like to lose wars, contrary to
the popular media belief,
contrary to the media spin
that's out there every day
that the American people are
sick and tired and want to get
out -- we don't want to lose.
I'll tell you this, folks. If
we launched attacks on Iran
and Syria today and went heavy
pedal to the metal, this
country would be cheering. The
Democrats and the media would
be in a panic, but the people
in this country would be
cheering, because they're fed
up with having to deal with
all of this each and every
day. They want the enemies of
this country wiped out.I also
firmly predict to you, and I
repeat this, the people of
Nevada will remove Harry Reid,
much as the people from South
Dakota removed Tom Daschle.
Harry Reid has become Daschle.
He's the leader of the far
left in the Senate. He has
decided to represent
Massachusetts and the
left-wing blogs rather than
the people in his own state,
and he will pay a price for
it. This will eventually
cause, down the road, moderate
Democrats to turn away from
the left just like liberal
Republicans jump the
conservative ship. It will
happen. People like Mark
Pryor, Mary Landrieu, and
other phony moderate Democrats
will be vulnerable as they,
too, have thrown in with the
left. Ken Salazar, Colorado,
great example, ran for
election as a moderate. He has
demonstrated he's a leftist,
too.These Democrats and many
more are also sowing seeds of
their own electoral defeat.
This is practically something
happening party-wide, and they
haven't the slightest clue.
They think they're on top of
the world. They have ascended
the highest peak. They are so
happy and ecstatic they're on
the verge of securing a US
defeat. They think they own
it, folks, if it happens. They
think the American people want
to lose wars; they think the
American people want US
soldiers dying in sufficient
numbers to cause us to lose
wars. The Democrats have been
so adamant, so purposeful in
our country's defeat, there's
not going to be a way for them
to spin themselves out of
this. The American people do
not want their soldiers on the
battlefield without
reinforcements if they need
them, Congressman Murtha!The
American people want soldiers
to have the equipment they
need, which Murtha and Pelosi
and Reid and Durbin seek to
deny them because they are the
owners of defeat. The
Democrats have misread the
public's dissatisfaction with
the way the war is being
waged, with the public's
demand for surrender. The
public is not demanding
surrender. The public does not
want to get out of Iraq in the
midst of defeat. The fact is
if the president unleashed our
military might against enemy
strongholds, border areas in
Iran and Syria, his poll
numbers would go through the
roof. Why am I saying this to
you today? Because I've gotten
fed up with the way the
country is being misled, just
like you've been misled about
the fact you have to exercise
to lose weight. You don't,
just like you're being misled
about global warming and a
number of other leftist
issues, you are being misled
about the opinion of your
fellow citizens where it comes
to the war in Iraq, the war on
terror, and the United States
military. You are sadly
misled.You are misled by media
propaganda that seeks to
convince you that the country
agrees with the defeatists.
You are misled by the Democrat
Party leadership that seeks to
convince you that the public
wants a repeat of the
equivalent of the Vietnamese
boat people. How many of you
want another Vietnam in this
nation's history, while Chuck
Schumer gleefully says that's
what the Democrats want to
present you. What have they
been smoking? Do they actually
believe it? Maybe they do.
Maybe they believe the polling
that their buds in the
Drive-By Media secure for
them, but I know this country.
I know the people of this
country don't want to lose,
and I know the people of this
country do not want another
Vietnam. They don't want a
repeat of the equivalent of
the Vietnamese boat people.
The American people do not
like defeatists in their
midst.We are an optimistic,
upbeat, cheerful people, and
we certainly want to be, and
people in this country who
find themselves mired in
depression or whatever, if you
are one of those, I want to
tell you the reason why is
because you're naturally
optimistic, and you're being
pummeled with pessimism day in
and day out. It's hard not to
believe it when you've been
subjected to it for four or
more years. You need to have
faith in the American people,
as I have and always have had.
Now, we conservatives can't
win every election, of course.
But the idea that this past
election was about and for
America's defeat is a
delusion. It's a dangerous
delusion. Yet that's what the
Drive-By Media want you to
believe. In fact, they want
you to believe that's what
you're saying to them in their
polls.That's what the
Democrats want you to believe.
That's why they say they're
acting on it. They say they're
doing this because you want
defeat; you want the troops
out; you want us pulled back;
you want the troops not to get
reinforcement; you want the
troops not to get new
equipment like Congressman
Murtha is saying. They're
saying this is what you want.
They're saying that's what
last November's election was
about. You need to have
confidence the American people
will fix this as they did
after four years of Jimmy
Carter.We may pay a price in
the meantime, folks. As I told
you the day after the
election, it's going to get
worse before it gets better.
But part of it getting worse
is having the country find out
who Democrats today are and
find out who liberals today
are. But once the public
reacts and once the public
once again finds out who the
Democrats of today are and who
the American left of today is,
they will suffer grievous
political losses, and we will
be here to triumph over those
losses. Here's how I see it,
folks. Every future attack on
this country would have been
less likely had the Democrats
not weakened the Patriot Act,
the NSA intercept program, or
the interrogation of the
enemy. But they've done all of
that. They celebrated and
applauded, with Dingy Harry
leading the cheers when they
killed, they thought, the
Patriot Act. They have sought
to undermine the ability to
intercept phone calls from
terrorists overseas, talking
to compatriots in this country
who might be planning
attacks.They've done
everything they can to
restrict interrogation of the
enemy at Club Gitmo and Abu
Ghraib. Worse than that, in
the process they have blamed
their own country, the left
has and the Democrats have,
for these abuses that are
committed by the enemy. It's
our fault. And, frankly, I'm
sick of hearing it. I'm sick
of the Drive-By Media gloating
about it every night. I'm sick
and tired of the Drive-By
Media echoing what these
dangerous Democrats -- Murtha
and Pelosi, who are nothing
more than spoiled brat
children when you get right
down to it, who have power now
-- are saying all the time.
Every future attack on this
country would have been less
likely had the Democrats not
demoralized and distracted our
armed forces, our intelligence
agencies and law enforcement
with witch hunts, show trials
camouflaged as hearings.
Everything they are doing is
designed to secure defeat.
They own defeat.They are doing
everything to demoralize the
armed forces, demoralize
intelligence agencies,
demoralize law enforcement.
They are doing everything they
can to point fingers of blame
at as many people and agencies
and institutions in this
country for the problems that
we face. As I see it, every
future attack would have been
less likely had the ACLU and
the activist judges not
undermined our detention and
interrogation methods. Here's
the point, folks. If we are
attacked again, the Democrats
and their allies will have
succeeded and weakened our
country to the point of making
it vulnerable. We have not
been attacked since 9/11. If
we are attacked again, as I
see it, it will be because
Democrats and their allies
will have succeeded in
weakening our country to the
point of making it vulnerable.
This could well happen if they
win the White House in '08.
It's why I say they are sowing
the seeds of their eventual
landslide defeat and an
eventual return to virtual
minority status. How? They
will have pulled the military
off the battlefield if they
succeed in doing that. That's
where the enemy is bogged down
and engaged overseas.The enemy
is bogged down and engaged
there, and the Democrats want
to do what? Take the military
off the battlefield. They will
have disarmed our intelligence
and law enforcement agencies
at home -- by weakening
traditional presidential
powers -- who won't be able to
track terrorist movement. If
these people get in charge,
I'm telling you this is all
going to happen. It's what
they're seeking now. They've
tried to bring this all about
as members of the minority
before the November elections.
Now they're in the majority
and they're trying to do it
through the force of hassle,
resolution, and political
isolation of the president.
The logical outcome and
consequence of the Democrat
agenda, folks, is to weaken
the United States in the face
of an enemy who tells us time
and again their intentions,
which are to attack us and
destroy us. The Democrats for
some reason don't believe
this. Or if they do believe it
they think they can deal with
it in their own way, which, as
history shows us, they cannot
do successfully.Meanwhile, we
haven't had any attacks
domestically in this country
-- well, organized, big
attacks. We have some militant
Islamists running around malls
and cab drivers going nuts and
this sort of thing. Even that
is not dealt with honestly.
They won't be able to say they
didn't know. The Democrats
will not be able to say they
were misled. They won't be
able to say, if they gain
power and all of this happens
that I'm predicting, they will
not be able to say somebody
lied, and they will not
investigate themselves. But it
will be at their feet. The
Democrats have taken ownership
of defeat. They own it.
They're not just invested in
it. They are not just merely
securing it. They own it.If
there is defeat in the United
States future, it is solely
owned by the Democrat Party
and the American left. Look,
when they were in the minority
and shooting spitballs at
those who are trying to defend
and protect us, it was bad
enough. Now they're in the
majority. As the majority,
their behavior has
consequences. So I want these
Democrats -- you know who you
are -- America's leftists to
know, we hear you. We are
taking down everything you are
saying. We are keeping an
audio archive of every comment
you are making. We are
highlighting your actions. And
we intend to hold each and
every one of them to account,
should that day of reckoning
occur.All right, did you see
this? 'Insurgents exploded a
truck carrying chlorine gas
canisters Wednesday. The
second such dirty chemical
attack in two days, while a US
official said that ground fire
apparently forced the downing
of a Black Hawk helicopter.
All nine aboard the aircraft
were rescued.' Chemical
weapons, dirty chemical
attack, chlorine gas
canisters? How long before
this technique hits our
shores, ladies and gentlemen?
Well, the sooner the Democrats
secure the defeat that they
own, the sooner it will begin
happening here in the United
States. I had to laugh. I was
reading -- and I don't
normally do this. I don't
know, some things just happen,
sometimes I think God is
pointing me to things. As you
people know, the last place I
go is the New York Times.
People send me stuff in the
New York Times, 'Rush, you
gotta see this,' but I've got
better things to do.For some
reason last night I zeroed in
on the op-ed page of the New
York Times, and there's a
piece by Bob Herbert. Bob
Herbert used to write for the
New York Daily News. Get this.
He's a member of the Drive-By
Media and he's all upset over
the media coverage of this
Anna Nicole Smith circus and
the K-Fed stuff and the
Britney stuff and Paris
Hilton; because nobody is
paying attention to the
serious news out there like
Iraq; because nobody is paying
attention to serious news out
there like Bush. Let me just
read the last two paragraphs
to you. 'More than 20 years
later, the masses have nearly
succeeded in drawing the
curtains on anything that's
not entertaining. No one can
figure out what to do about
Iraq or Al-Qaeda.' What do you
mean nobody can figure it out,
Bob? Your party, your buds
want us to lose to them! What
do you mean nobody can figure
it out?I return to his column.
'A great American cultural
center like New Orleans was
all but washed away, and no
one knows how to put it back
together. The ice caps are
melting, and Al Gore is
traveling the land like the
town crier raising the alarm
about global warming, but none
of that has really gotten the
public's attention. None of it
is amusing enough. As a nation
of spectators, we seem content
to sit with a pizza and a
brewski in front of the high
def flat TV, obsessing over
Anna Nicole, et al, and giving
no thought to the possibility
that the calamitous events
unfolding in the world may
someday reach our doorsteps.'
Good God! This is one of the
many in the Drive-By Media
telling us we face no threat
other than Bush and global
warming, and all of a sudden
nobody is concerned enough
about Al-Qaeda, nobody is
concerned enough about Algore
and global warming? He has a
Nobel Peace Prize nomination,
Bob, you doofus! He's being
treated like a rock star in
Canada, and he has an Oscar
nomination. Everybody is
paying attention to Algore,
and that's part of the
problem. He's no different
than Anna Nicole Smith.Algore
is no different than K-Fed and
Britney. It's the same kind of
pop culture tripe and BS. You
called us a nation of
spectators, Mr. Herbert. We
conservatives know exactly
what's going on with our
culture, with our religion,
with the rule of law, and the
enemy. Mr. Herbert believes if
we don't adopt his socialist
appeasement agenda, that we're
not serious about things.
That's why we're just
spectating. We're just not
adopting his socialism with a
big government rescue for
every problem out there. Bob,
it's your buddies in the
Drive-By Media televising all
this. It's your buddies in the
Drive-By Media trying to tell
the people of this country
that George W. Bush is the
enemy. It's your buddies and
your newspaper which has done
everything it can to undermine
victory. It's your newspaper,
Mr. Herbert, that's done
everything it can to secure
defeat because, Mr. Herbert,
you and your people own
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