AWESOME – Rush: Heavily skewed CNN poll proves that Obama inevitability talk is manufactured

The Right Scoop ^ | 9/11/2012 | Rush Limbaugh

[hawaiianninja]

I bet you felt pretty darn good up to election day when your messiah figure told you this:

ROTFL!! Rush--A messiah? LOL! Dude, if I were to take your bet, you'd lose big time. Admittedly, for an "entertainer", Maha Rushie's opinions tend to reflect mine than most of those in Hollywood. So, frankly, I don't have the problem with his opinions, as you do. Plus, I don't hold ill-will towards him for being a capitalist.

But consider this: For someone who uses the moniker "sickoflibs", you seem to prefer to voice a doom and gloom opinion which only helps the liberal cause. I don't fault you for it. Even Rush, Coulter and Hannity say bonehead comments that only help liberals now and then, IMO. Perhaps your values are conservative like theirs, but, on the off occasion, when emotions are high or low, you tend to point negativity towards the wrong direction. That's an answer only you would know.

And since you seem to like to focus on an article from 2008, let's fast-forward and take your worst case scenario for November 2012:

Say, if after this election is over, and, in your words, BOOM!! Through all the Chicago-style tactics, trickery, thuggery, biased-media, fake polls, and voter fraud that the 0 will use: The 0 wins. Will I Blame It On Bush? Will I blame Rush, Romney, or you? Will I moan, groan and wallow in doom, gloom and sorrow? Hell NO! Life's much too short for that. I'll just calmly pick myself up, quietly dust myself off, and simply go with plan B. ;)

I won't bother asking what you would do. I'm only participating in this discussion to give my 2 cents and provide a food for thought. I would like to say, however, this has been an exhilarating discussion and exercise. I've actually learned a lot from all of this.

My best regards to you. ;)

[sickoflibs]

RE :”But consider this: For someone who uses the moniker “sickoflibs”, you seem to prefer to voice a doom and gloom opinion which only helps the liberal cause. I don't fault you for it. Even Rush, Coulter and Hannity say bonehead comments that only help liberals now and then, IMO. Perhaps your values are conservative like theirs, but, on the off occasion, when emotions are high or low, you tend to point negativity towards the wrong direction. That's an answer only you would know.”

??? Telling your listeners they are winning when they are losing is not helping them, or hurting Dems. It's like disabling all the indicators on your car because you dont like the readings. Or finding a blood pressure meter, scale, bood sugar test, or thermometer which tells you what you want the measurements to be so you can keep eating fatty saltly sugary food.

If you are losing (and big like 2006 and 2008) you should figure out why so you can make corrections. Not try to find someone like Rush to tell you everythings going great.

I was a huge Rush fan in the early 90s, Loved both his books and his TV show. But things have changed greatly since then and so has he.

[sickoflibs]

RE :”Say, if after this election is over, and, in your words, BOOM!! Through all the Chicago-style tactics, trickery, thuggery, biased-media, fake polls, and voter fraud that the 0 will use: The 0 wins. Will I Blame It On Bush? Will I blame Rush, Romney, or you? “

The Republican party has many problems right now, but one of them is that they really haven't changed leadership since the disastrous 2007 and 2008 years :Boehner and McConnell and now Romney who is not that much different than Bush or McCain (he is probably more loyal to the party than McCain.) This is a big problem.

The other problem is that the R party is fractured and doesn't have a leader it trusts, where-as the liberals base of the Dem party trust and love Obama. They were starting to turn on him in 2009 and 2010 but Boehner taking over the House fixed that. So Democats unite and Republicans argue with one another. A strong winning trusted leader would unite Republicans (or even conservatives) as a team, and Rush is certainly not that person

We dont know how this election will turn out (unlike 2008 and 2010 which were easy to forcast) but Republicans are not doing very well considering the current climate.

[rbmillerjr]

Carter up Big on Reagan ...

Dukakis up 17 after his Convention.

The convention bounce will fade and then watch the LV polls...Romney will be looking good in the swing states and this recent Carteresque Mideast debacle may swing independents and Reagan Dems back hard to Romney.

[hawaiianninja]

Telling your listeners they are winning when they are losing is not helping them, or hurting Dems.

I'd refer to football or sports related anecdotes in disagreement, but then we'd only be talking in circles. I would like to note that the election, close as it is, is still weeks away, and your already talking about losing.

It's like disabling all the indicators on your car because you dont like the readings. Or finding a blood pressure meter, scale, bood sugar test, or thermometer which tells you what you want the measurements to be so you can keep eating fatty saltly sugary food.

Ah! Then the problem isn't Rush, it's the "indicators" that individual people are willing to believe and go by. You're going by the indicators you trust in, which seems to work for you; I go by mine; Rush goes by his. And we all voice our opinions based on those indicators. Still, whatever any of our indicators say, that still doesn't sway the fact that we have a politician in the White House who is prone to lying and cheating at all cost, and is not above to using Chicago-style, dirty tactics and thuggery. In which case, all indicators can be deemed moot.

The real problem isn't Rush's optimistic(?) view. The real problem is how do you deal with an opponent who cheats and has the Media biased in his favor.

As individuals, it's up to each of us to figure out our own way in handling this dilemma. Rush handles it the only way he knows how; and if times, it comes off as false optimism, then perhaps, in dire times, he believes false optimism is still better than NO optimism. Who knows. At least, from what I can hear, he makes an effort to point negativity in the right direction......most of the times. ;)

Again, I would like to say this has been a thoroughly enjoyable and informative discussion. I'll leave you with the last word.

[skinkinthegrass]

thxs, for the post..
he's much more right (correct :)
than wrong...what's your score?

[sickoflibs]

RE :’ I'll leave you with the last word.”

HA, That is like that ‘last’ potato chip we promise ourselves it will be.

I am not convinced that Rush's recent argument that Obama looking better in the polls rallies Dems to vote and Republicans to stay home is true. I think this may be another of his arguments of convenience.

If a Rush listener thinks that the R candidate is going to win in a landslide why does that make him more likely to vote? seems that if the R candidate is down that is more reason to get out the vote for him.

Or does Rush think his listeners are like horses ? they just follow the pack where-ever they go and wont bother to vote for the candidate they think will lose?

[sickoflibs]

RE :”he's much more right (correct :)
than wrong.”

He did exactly the same thing in 2006. He Kept on saying up until the day after elect day that Dems would get creamed by Rs.

You are confusing Rush being ‘right’ and Rush claiming he ‘is always right’. They are not the same thing. Rush is not a wizard whose words completely transform and redefine reality flipping it upside down, he is just an entertainer, and maybe a cult leader.

[sickoflibs]

RE :” he's (Rush) much more right (correct :) than wrong.”

Given he was completely wrong in 2006 and 2008 he has come up with a clever but silly scam to use this time. He now says: ‘The MSM is creating bogus polls showing Obama winning to suppress the Romney vote”

I dont see how showing Obama ahead suppresses the Romney vote, I was more inclined to vote for McCain when I saw he was losing rather than winning. But this way Rush can be ‘right’ no matter how the election turns out.

If Romney wins Rush says “See I was right, those polls were bogus”

But if Romney loses Rush says :”See I was right, those bogus polls suppressed the Romney vote”

That way he is right, ‘Always right” as he says. He predicts heads and tails at the same time so he ends up 'right'.

If you are gullible enough to swallow his nonsense.

[timestax]