RUSH: The latest on Kavanaugh nomination. The thing you need to understand about that, among all other things, the left is not opposed to Justice Kavanaugh. They are opposed to the Constitution. It’s the Constitution that scares them. It is the Constitution that threatens them. That’s the nature of their opposition.

So Kavanaugh is somebody who believes in the enforcement of it and the construction of the Constitution as a means of judging statutes and law, then he’s a threat. But it’s not him per se; it’s anybody who reveres the Constitution that they have a problem with or object to. We’ll get to all the latest examples of the insanity and the liberal crackup on that aspect as the program unfolds.

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RUSH: So we still have the Kavanaugh Stack here today. The left continues to implode over the Supreme Court nomination, and there are a couple of plans that they have developed. I think it’s dawning on them they cannot stop the confirmation, but they think they can delay it, and somehow they think delaying it through the midterms is going to help them. And some of them think they can stop it. Chuck You Schumer is out there saying, “I’m gonna do everything I can to stop this.” Well, if they stop it, there’s just gonna be another name that Trump will it forward.

But that isn’t going to happen. But one of the tactics that they’re going to use is there’s this kid named Brian Fallon. He was the PR director or the campaign manager for Hillary 2016, and he’s got an idea. He said (summarized), “You know, this Kavanaugh guy was instrumental in writing the Starr report — and this Kavanaugh guy, there’s obviously a lot of stuff he’s written. This guy has written a lot of stuff this guy has said has part of the Ken Starr team.”

You know, they turned Ken Starr into a sex pervert from Mars, the Clintons did, during the Clinton impeachment period. So they’re gonna start demanding all of his outtakes. The Starr report was the final report, but there are things that didn’t make it. So this guy claims, “I’m gonna demand — we should demand — everything that the Starr report collected and find out what Kavanaugh had to say there,” and then the other part of the plan… It’s a two-pronged plan. The other part of the plan involves one of the judges on the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.

His name is Alex Kozinski, and he has been accused by people on his staff of harassing them, sexual harassment and abuse. This guy is one of Kavanaugh’s friends. So they’re going to suggest that the relationship between Brett Kavanaugh and Alex Kozinski be investigated and turned upside down to see if Kavanaugh knew that his buddy Kozinski was abusing women and didn’t say anything about it. So these are the two areas that the Hillary campaign manager has suggested that they look into as part of a plan.

Hopefully, they think, they can, derail, but, if nothing else, delay what happens here. So they have to do this to placate their base. But I think some of them would do it whether their base was demanding it or not. The crackup continues because, again, folks, what really scares them is not Brett Kavanaugh. What scares them is the Constitution. That’s what they’re opposed to. The Constitution is the obstacle in their way, and they are deathly, literally scared of any judge who will use the Constitution in deciding cases. The left doesn’t want to do that. They want judges to impose their political beliefs as judicial decisions in cases — and in that way, they get around the Constitution. We’ve got some details and some interesting little funny bits that the left has engaged in when we get to that Stack.

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RUSH: Remember on the day Anthony Kennedy announced his resignation from the Supreme Court? I was doing the program from Los Angeles, and 30 minutes after the resignation I made a prediction to you. I predicted that before the end of the day somebody somewhere on the left would claim Trump should not be permitted to select a justice to the Supreme Court because he’s being investigated for collusion with Russia and maybe having stolen the presidential election in 2016. My prediction came true, and in about that time frame.

Before the end of the day, you could find any number of places where prominent leftists in both media and academe were making that observation. None of them, of course, credited me. I have yet to find myself credited for being the first to make the prediction. But the prediction continues. Grab audio sound bite No. 12. This is Maude Behar on The View yesterday. Meghan McCain says to Behar (summarized), “You know, elections have consequences, and Republicans have three branches of power now.

“They have the House — they have Congress — we have the White House, and of course the Supreme Court is largely arguably a 5-4 conservative structure.” And she to Behar “it’s why voting is so important. The idea that we’re living in some totalitarian, fascist country where this was just appointed by a dictator?” Meghan McCain says, “It’s just a lie. You people are just making all of this stuff up.” And this is what Maude Behar said.

MAUDE: Why would a president who’s under investigation by the FBI for obstruction of justice and collusion be allowed to pick a Supreme Court justice who will be there… I’ll be dead. There are many people in this room who will still be alive and need abortions and what have you, need health care? How dare he (thumps desk) be allowed to do this when he is under investigation?

DINGBATS: (applause)

RUSH: Yes, and of course the dingbats in that studio audience began applauding left and right. I mention this only to remind you, do I know these people or do I know these people? And of course did you note in her comment here? “There are many people in this room who will still be alive and need abortions and what have you.” Let me take the occasion of that for two things — and if you’re watching on the Dittocam, I want you to be particularly ready for something coming your way from Planned Parenthood in mere moments.

If you’re watching with your children, you might want to go have them play with the Lego or the Romper Room set for a while. Just a little warning here. We keep hearing that the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh at the Supreme Court’s gonna result in people dying. Terry McAuliffe yesterday, governor of Virginia, said “millions will die.” Nancy Pelosi said it is “the end of civilization as we know it.” I asked Vice President Pence yesterday… He was on in the second segment, the first hour.

I said, “What is your timeline for ending civilization, and just how many millions of deaths are you calculating and what’s your timeline for that?” He, of course, chuckled, knowing the absolute stupidity and deranged, delusional nature of such comments — and yet the left keeps making these comments. “People are gonna die! Millions of people are gonna die! We’re gonna have massive civilizational collapse because…” They’ve been doing this for 30 years, and I’ll tell you what’s happening. It’s starting to fall on deaf ears.

You can’t tell people for 30 years that conservatives rising to power is going to end life on earth and be believed if life continues on earth. They have been shouting these dire warnings for 30 years, and they never happen, and I think people have become immune. But let me address this directly. Leftists say that people are gonna die because of Kavanaugh. How many have died because of Neil Gorsuch being confirmed to be on the Supreme Court and now having decided some cases? Has anybody seen any reports of death attributable to Neil Gorsuch being on the Supreme Court?

How many people have died since tax reform was signed into law? How many people have perished and on the death certificate it says, “Killed Due to Trump Tax Reform Act”? How many people have died since we repealed the Obamacare personal mandate? They told us people were gonna die if we did away with the mandate, the mandate requiring people to have health insurance. How many people have died because of that? None. How many people have died since net neutrality was erased?

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RUSH: How many people have died since net neutrality was ended? Answer: zero. How many people have died since Donald Trump called out North Korea? How many people have died since Donald Trump had the summit with Kim Jong-un in North Korea? Zip, zero, nada. How many people have died from Trump being tough on the G7 or any other globalist organization and meeting? How many deaths, how many people have died since Kavanaugh was nominated a couple days ago? How many injuries? How many deaths?

This is what they’re claiming is gonna happen. Meanwhile, while there are no deaths associated with conservative policies such as nominating and confirming Gorsuch, passing tax reform, getting rid of the Obamacare mandate, wiping out net neutrality, having an arrangement with North Korea… There aren’t any deaths associated with any of those policies. However, how many deaths are associated every year with abortion? (Gasp!) Sorry. How many deaths are associated every year with women’s reproductive freedom?

The answer: 1.3 million.

It’s 1.3 million.

People die, literally die when liberal policies are implemented and maintained. Illegal immigration. How many innocent people have died at the hands of criminal illegal immigrants wandering free in our country? The best number we have is 4,380 Americans murdered annually by illegal aliens. Roughly 22,000 Americans have been murdered by illegal aliens since September 11th, 2011. How many people have died from leftist immigration policies, open borders? In 2016, more than 63,000 drug overdose deaths in the United States. How many of those deaths due to Democrat open-border policies — and, I should say, Republican.

There are many mainstream Republicans who favor open borders as well. So the point is, liberalism kills. Socialism kills. How many people are dying in Venezuela? How many people are dying in Cuba? How many people are dying in North Vietnam? How many people are dying in ChiCom China? Wherever you find liberalism, socialism, communism, death is a common occurrence. It’s not a common occurrence with conservatism or Republican policy, and yet look at the campaign to defeat Kavanaugh.

“Millions of people will die!”

“Civilization will end as we know it!”

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RUSH: We go to Hurley, South Dakota. Greg, great to have you, sir. Thank you for waiting. How are you?

CALLER: Thank you, Mr. Limbaugh. My comments are about Judge Kavanaugh. When he was doing his acceptance speech Monday night, he made a statement there that I believe the left in time will show their real true colors. He praised his mother and father, his judge mother. I believe down the road — and they probably already looked. But they will attack his mother for rulings that she made from the bench in some of her writings and findings that she made.

RUSH: Oh, I wouldn’t put it past ’em to look into them. I wouldn’t put it past them to research them. Look, as far as they’re concerned, there’s nothing to lose here.

CALLER: Yes. I agree. Yeah. They will do whatever they think to get him — and I hope he’s strong enough. Because the one thing that man, I can see will work on him is when they attack family. And, you know, it just tear the left up when he talked about his mother and father. “Why, how dare he say something like that? A real family is like Barack Obama. He had a mother. He didn’t have a father involved. He’s the only one that gets the right to talk about family life!”

RUSH: Well, of course, there are a bunch of reasons why all that stuff with Obama was off-limits with the Drive-By Media. But your point about… Do you actually…? Did I hear you right that you think Kavanaugh might cave if they go after his parents?

CALLER: No. I believe it’s the one area that could make him. I hope and pray that he doesn’t. But it’s the one area being a family guy that he may not tolerate. Let’s face it —

RUSH: Let me tell you something. No, no. Wait a minute you now — and I addressed this with Vice President Pence yesterday. I will guarantee… Even though I don’t know this per se, I’m not privy to it happening. But I can guarantee you that Kavanaugh knew well in advance he was the pick. But even before he had been chosen, even before he had gotten the call from Trump he was the guy, I guarantee you he sat down with his wife and his parents. They’re not idiots. They know what happens in these hearings.

They saw what happened to Mrs. Alito during the confirmation hearings of her husband. She was sent crying in tears from the hearing room over what was being done to her husband. They know full well. He wouldn’t have done this — he wouldn’t have accepted it — without the family assuring him and him assuring them they know what’s coming and that they’re prepared for it and will stick together. Believe me on that. His parents, to me, sound like a couple of tough characters, the way they’ve lived their lives. They’re not gonna be intimidated out of this. Don’t doubt me.

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RUSH: Oh, look. Let me tell you something. While the Kavanaugh reactions were going on, I thought that I — and it makes sense that I would have the best question. I had the best question, the best observation of the entire day. Because we had all these people saying, “Well, Kavanaugh? God, Rush, he’s not conservative enough! Trump could have blown the doors down! He could have gone for Amy! He could have gone for Amy Barrett! He could have thrown pro-life right in their face, but he chickened out! Trump went establishment! H e went Kavanaugh!”

I’ve heard a couple of the complaints like that. Not a lot, but I’ve heard some that they thought Trump would behave as the outsider they know and that that meant Amy Barrett and that meant somebody who is advocate-ly, avidly, without-doubt-about-it, pro-life. and these people thought Trump would make that pick. So these arguments are being bandied about. Of course my reaction to it was, “Any of the top four names that were on that list, all of them are fine with me.” The important thing to me is just get ’em confirmed.

By the way, I have been studying some of the reaction late-night comics to Kavanaugh, and based what I’ve seen, they’ve got nothing, folks. It is time to get this whole process started so that it can end and get this guy voted on and confirmed. I don’t think the Democrats should be given weeks and months here to conduct these hearings, these investigations. We know what’s gonna happen. They’ll make up some phantom thing that Kavanaugh said once or did, like Clarence Thomas and his so-called sexual harassment of Anita Hill.

Just get this goin’, Grassley.

Grassley runs the Judiciary Committee. Just get this process started and get it over with. But here’s the observation. You can worry that it wasn’t Amy Barrett. You can worry that Kavanaugh is too establishment, not guaranteed to be pro-life, not guaranteed to overturn Roe. The only thing… No, not the only. But the big thing was that it was not Hillary Clinton making the choice. There’s no better way to put in perspective what’s happened and what’s important and how fortunate things have turned out that it was not Hillary Clinton making that choice.

Do you realize…? I want you to try to just imagine. You’re on the losing side on election night in 2016. It’s been bad enough watching these leftists and media try to destroy Trump and takes him out and all of that. But imagine they had won, and imagine Ruth “Buzzi” Ginsburg retires, and then Kennedy retires — and then imagine Hillary Clinton getting two choices. Imagine how you’d be feeling if it was just one choice.

But there would be three, ’cause Ginsburg, if Hillary had won, she’d be gone pretty sure. As it is, she’s gonna hang around as long as she can. But just imagine if Hillary Clinton were choosing this justice. Imagine the futility that you’d be feeling, or worse. That’s how big this is. So whether it was Kavanaugh or Kethledge or Amy Barrett, it was Trump making the choice — and he came through.

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RUSH: Here is Bob in Nashville. Bob, great to have you. Glad you waited. What’s happening?

CALLER: Rush, mega dittos. It’s a privilege to speak with you. I know I’m up against it on time so I’ll get right to the point. At what point do you think the Democrats and the Drive-By Media start to scream at Robert Mueller to charge Trump with something so that we can slow down, stop, do something to derail the Kavanaugh appointment?

RUSH: There is a story you have in the Stack here today of the unrelated to NATO and Kavanaugh that I didn’t get to, and it’s a Byron York story, and it is about what Mueller has in his case against Manafort that encompasses Trump. I mean, it’s something, but it’s insignificant, and Byron New York asks at the end of the story, “We needed a special counsel for this?”

Now, this is not a comment on the fact that Mueller’s court filings say that Manafort’s charges here have nothing to do with collusion. Your question is: When are the Democrats and the media gonna force Mueller to come up with something, leak something that might make it look like Trump’s guilty of something so as to disqualify his choice. I think if that existed, it would leaked long ago. But this is one of the unknowns percolating out there, and the Democrats will try anything to derail this. So that’s a good thing to keep a sharp eye on.

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RUSH: Funny, the Nord Stream pipeline. This is the special pipeline direct to Germany from Russia, a deal made between Putin and Angela Merkel. Trump called ’em out on it today. This pipeline strikes at the heart of NATO unity. We didn’t have anything to do with it. This is Angela Merkel sabotaging other NATO nations by making a straight deal with Putin while every other pipeline goes through all the other European nations. This pipeline gets… For now, ’cause Putin controls the price, it gets cheap Russian gas to Germany and bypasses all of the smaller eastern European nations, and this gives Russia incredible leverage over Merkel! It allows Russia to pressure them while Germany is held harmless. It’s bad policy for NATO countries, and Trump has the guts to call ’em out on this! Here is another bite from Trump on essentially the point I just made. Here it is…

THE PRESIDENT: Germany is totally controlled by Russia because they were getting from 60 to 70% of their energy from Russia and their new pipeline, and you tell me if that’s appropriate, because I think it’s not. And I think it’s a very bad thing for NATO, and I don’t think it should have happened, and I think we have to talk to Germany about it.

RUSH: Well, all hell got broke loose at that point. You just don’t call out other nations like this. You wink and nod. You look the other way. You talk to ’em about it behind closed doors, and then you go out and tell everybody, “We’ve had substantive discussions with Chancellor Merkel over the pipeline, and we’re working behind the scenes to alleviate concerns,” when none of that ever happens! It’s just a bunch of diplospeak everybody engages in.

Here is Trump confronting her and the rest of NATO about it. So the media’s gonna fact-check this. “Is Trump really right? Is Germany gonna the bet 70% of its gas from Russia?” He’s right-on-the-button right. U.K. Daily Mail: “Donald Trump Is RIGHT — Germany imports 70% of its gas from Russia in a controversial deal that has enriched [Merkel] and it will soon receive even MORE, but the U.S. could step in.” See, Trump wants to sell natural gas to NATO. We have become one of the largest energy exporters in the world.

Trump thinks it would make much more sense for Germany to get natural gas from an ally than a potential enemy, but Merkel goes around everybody’s back and made her own sweet deal that she’s personally profiting from. Other people have looked into this, and it “[t]urns out Trump’s not wrong about the level of Russian imports expected by Germany from its new Nord Stream 2 pipeline. The BBC confirms that Trump’s estimation is pretty much in line with analyst expectations:

“‘The latest official E.U. figure for imports of Russian gas to Germany is between 50% and 75%…’ So it’s right there. Now, you might think, “What’s the big deal about this?” This isn’t done! NATO nations calling each other out, other NATO nations being told how they’re being screwed by…? Germany’s not paying much yet toward the requirement for spending certain percentage GDP on defense, in addition to everything else Germany’s done by opening its borders. It’s a mess, and Trump is simply calling ’em out.

Let me grab a call before we have to break up at the hour. Ricky in Redwood City, California. Great to have you, sir. What’s up first?

CALLER: Well, my question is more of a comment. I don’t see a problem with Germany, you know, receiving gas from Russia. You know, all this goes back to previous U.S. administration when they went into Ukraine and jeopardized the gas supplies of Germany. You know, later that winter, you know, Germany was expecting supplies. Ukraine was siphoning gas and jeopardizing their supplies, and so all this is a bypass to — and Germany’s national security interests to have a steady and affordable gas supply.

RUSH: Well, all that’s true. All that’s true. But Germany is a NATO member, and they have a pledge whenever that deals are made with nonmembers. Russia is not a member. This is a side deal that’s not gonna benefit other NATO countries, which means it’s not gonna promote unity. She’s gonna profit from this personally somehow, it says here, and it’s generally considered to be a side deal that she didn’t tell anybody she was making. Putin went ahead and did it, and it makes Germany now much more vulnerable because so much of their gas is gonna be coming from Putin.

What if Putin wakes up one day says, “You know what? I don’t like Germans today. I think Germans ought to freeze to death. So I’m gonna be raise the price.” This is the problem that people have. But look, what really happened here is that these kind of things used to happen frequently and nobody did anything about it because diplomats never really solve anything. If they did, there wouldn’t be any need for diplomats. Trump is looking at all of these things and saying, “This doesn’t make any sense, and we end up getting blamed for whatever goes wrong here? No more.” That’s it.

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RUSH: Here’s Trump’s latest tweet on this. “What good is NATO if Germany is paying Russia billions of dollars for gas and energy? Why are there only 5 out of 29 countries that have met their commitment? The U.S. is paying for Europe’s protection, then loses billions on Trade. Must pay 2% of GDP IMMEDIATELY, not by 2025,” or we’re out. Well, he didn’t say “we’re out,” but he means it.

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RUSH: By the way, folks, where are the environmentalist wackos. Here’s Germany moving away from clean energy and back to fossil fuels. Natural gas is a fossil fuel energy that the environmentalist wackos hate, plus it’s coming from Putin! They hate Putin! Putin stole the election from Hillary, don’t you know? It’s really bugging them that Trump is now criticizing Germany for working with Putin when they think that Trump ought to be praising Putin and Germany for doing the deal because of the absolute convoluted worldview they now have on the left.

Just for the fun of it, I want to share with you some audio sound bites of the left losing it over Trump and his supposed insult of Angela Merkel and Germany and confronting NATO directly with what he considers to be this outrage. This is NATO not behaving in the best interests of NATO. He’s asking what good is NATO if Germany is paying Russia billions of dollars in a sweetheart deal for gas and energy and is not paying its fair share toward defending NATO nations from Russia? Do I need to put this in perspective?

NATO exists because of Vladimir Putin, NATO exists because of the Soviet Union, and Putin wants to rebuild Russia back into the Soviet Union. He’s made no bones about it. That’s what his objective is. So here is a member nation from NATO striking an exclusive natural gas pipeline deal. None of the other NATO member nations are participating in it, and therefore not getting any of the so-called benefits from it.

The Drive-Bys are also upset because while Trump is criticizing Merkel and Trump is openly confronting our friends at NATO, Trump will not criticize Putin. CNN’s beside itself over that today, that Trump’s gonna go meet with Putin — it’s gonna be a couple good old boys having a yuk-yuk good time — and, meanwhile, he dares to confront Merkel! This is so delicious to watch, folks.

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RUSH: Mitch in Charlotte, North Carolina. Glad you waited, sir. How’s it going with you?

CALLER: Maha Rushie, mega dittos from a 45-year-old Rush Baby.

RUSH: Thank you, sir.

CALLER: So good to talk to you. Hey, you dropped that name earlier that no one talked about in probably 15 years, a real SOB, Gerhard Schroder. This is back during the Bush years. He was best buddies with Dominique de Villepin and Jacques Chirac, virulently anti-American. He caused a lot of headaches for us. He served probably two terms as chancellor and lost to Angela Merkel. And not more than five or 10 minutes after he left office he had a multimillion-dollar lobbying or board position with Gazprom, which essentially is a gigantic Russian oil and gas monopoly. I thought it was so shameful and shocking that a head of state could leave office and go work for a foreign government, essentially.

RUSH: Well, but he did. You’re absolutely right about that. I even referenced it briefly here in a little comment. Gerhard Schroder was deeply involved with Gazprom and did make a sweetheart deal for himself. But you say you’re surprised that a leader could leave office and within a week have a tight deal made with the leader of a foreign country?

CALLER: I was surprised that it didn’t make more waves, you know, here in the U.S. The people from Congress when they eventually lose their seat for not doing their job to represent their constituents, they end up going to K Street or Wall Street to get a million-dollar nothing job to basically peddle influence. But that’s all, you know, inside the U.S. and domestic. Just imagine if anyone in Congress or let’s say President Trump left office after two terms and signed on with a Russian conglomerate. You could hear the howls.

RUSH: Well, now, wait a minute. Wait a second. We’ve pretty much already had that. Not with Trump, but how much money did the Clintons make from the Russians? I mean, the Clinton Foundation, Clinton was getting a half million dollars for a speech here, $250,000 for a speech there. I don’t think the Clintons were on any boards of any Russian companies, but they were clearly accepting money from Russia. Are you doubting me? I mean, the Clintons are all over the world taking money from foreign governments and foreign leaders as a way of padding Hillary’s eventual and upcoming presidency.

The Clinton Foundation was accepting money. They were — everybody believed that they were essentially selling her presidency and influence to other world leaders while accepting donations to the so-called Clinton Global Initiative and the Clinton Foundation, while she was campaigning and while she was secretary of state. So it’s not completely unheard of. Now, this is not the same as Gerhard Schroder becoming a paid member of Gazprom with Putin and with Russia after leaving leadership of Germany. But accepting money, accepting payment from foreign governments? Why, that’s not unknown here in the United States. Anyway, Mitch, I appreciate the call.

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RUSH: Okay, back to this Axios poll. It’s a poll they took with SurveyMonkey, which is a credible bunch. They have a bar, Monkey Bar in New York, SurveyMonkey, same people. You knew that, right? “Brutal poll.” No, I’m making it up. People may not know when I’m kidding. I have to admit when I’m kidding more than ever today.

“Democrats’ Senate Dream Slips Away.” They never had a realistic opportunity of taking the Senate. You know, this is another illustration. Ever since election night 2016 when Trump won, the whole mantra has been illegitimate, people don’t really mean this, they voted for Trump, they were mad, but they don’t really like Trump and they’re regretting it. As time went on, they regret Trump won, people regret it, they wish they could vote against him. Next chance they get they’re gonna vote against him.

And that became Democrats are gonna win back the House, big, gigantic blue wave, Democrats gonna win the Senate. None of that was ever true. There was never any evidence of a blue wave. There was never any evidence the Democrats were gonna take the Senate. It’s always been practically an impossible hill to climb in the Senate. They have too many seats to defend.

Right now the Democrats need to hold on to 10 seats in red states that Trump won by double digits. And then, in addition to holding that many, they have to win two pickups. They have to win two seats currently held by Republicans. The odds that they’re gonna win 12 — and the Republicans don’t have to defend nearly as many, this has never been a slam dunk.

But because they created the lying illusion in all of these news reports for many months, now we’re getting down to reality time, so they have to correct this. And they’re using a poll to do it by claiming, “Oh, no, there is a brutal new poll out that shows the dream of the Democrats taking over the Senate is slipping away.” It was never anything but a dream. But, you know, they’re being hoisted on their own petard now, because now they’ve been telling everybody Democrats are gonna win everything, everybody hates Trump, everybody regrets voting for Trump.

And now they have to make it look like the dream is slipping away, like it was a chance, it was a realistic possibility, it was gonna happen, but something’s gone wrong. It was never gonna happen.

“To win the Senate, Democrats need to keep all 10 seats they’re defending in states that President Trump won in 2016 — plus pick up two more seats. That’s not happening. A new Axios/SurveyMonkey poll of key states shows Dems would lose three of those red-state seats while picking up two GOP seats — still short of the majority.”

“It’s looking nearly impossible,” says Axios, “for Democrats to take back the Senate. So the stakes are even higher for them to win the House if they’re going to have any kind of congressional check on President Trump. The polls shows three Democratic senators are poised to lose their seats to Republicans — Heidi Heitkamp in North Dakota, Bill Nelson in Florida and Joe Donnelly in Indiana.”

By the way, about Nelson, you know, Rick Scott, the governor now running for Nelson’s Senate seat, this race came up over the weekend and a guy said to me, “I haven’t seen any ads. I haven’t seen any ads.”

I said, “You haven’t? I’ve seen them all over the place.”

“What? What ads have you seen?”

They are the most effective “it’s time to get rid of Bill Nelson” ads I have ever seen. Rick Scott’s not even in ’em. I mean, at the end: I’m Rick Scott, and I look like a turtle, and I paid for this message, but that’s it. (laughing) The ads basically talk about what an antique Bill Nelson is, and they talk about how worse things have gotten as Nelson has been in office. And they show as Nelson has been in office, taxes have gone up. I mean, they’re really, really effective, and they are Rick Scott ads.

But here’s the dirty little secret. Rick Scott has set a fundraising record for governors races in Florida, and nobody knows about it. Ten million bucks in the last reporting. Now, you may think, “Well, that’s not a big deal.” It is. It is. Because Rick Scott’s not on the radar as a top tier candidate running for Senate. But Nelson is in trouble, and this would be a huge flip. It would be huge, ’cause it really is time. Nelson’s just a check-the-box radical leftist himself.

He’s a former astronaut, because he’s been caught up in the Democrat wave here, and he’s been taken far, far left with everybody. I don’t think he really ever was as far left as he’s voting now. So you’ve got him; you’ve got Heidi Heitkamp, who knows it and may end up voting for Kavanaugh to save her seat. Joe Manchin, he’s not up, but here’s what this story says.

“Sens. Joe Manchin in West Virginia and Jon Tester in Montana were losing by double digits to a generic GOP candidate last time we polled these states in February. They’re now leading by double digits. Our data includes an expected range under six different scenarios that measure potential turnout, giving a more complete picture of each race.”

In other words, it’s all about turnout. Tester and Manchin look pretty good, but it all depends on turnout, ’cause they were losing, now they’re winning, but it’s all guessing. And then the bottom line here of the Axios story, “Democrats face long odds to take back the Senate.” And they’re not gonna take back the House. And if they don’t take back the House, bye-bye impeachment, and even if they do take back the House it’s bye-bye impeachment because they’re not gonna take back the Senate.

And this is all dawning on them. They have been living the lie that you regret voting for Trump. They’ve been living the lie that Trump is gonna cause the Republicans to lose the House and the Senate. They’ve been living the lie while reality has been outpacing and outrunning them. I think we’re to the point now, folks, I don’t think average, ordinary American voters, the nonideological — people like you and me, we’re said to be wonks and we pay attention to this stuff every day, you by the fact that you’re here.

But a lot of Americans don’t pay attention to any of this stuff we’re talking about until it’s time to vote. But they’re out there and they’re consuming news. And I really believe, I really believe we have crossed the tipping point. I believe the left, with this never-ending 30-year cacophony of panic-filled BS reaction that is identical.

We’ve been losing civilization for 30 years. People are gonna die in the millions in 30 years, for whatever causes, whatever reasons, Republicans are behind all of it. None of it’s happening, and I think that more and more average, ordinary people are rejecting the radical left as exemplified by their protesters. And I think more and more Americans, when they see people harassed in restaurants and then thrown out or have to leave, when they see this debacle that happened on the steps of the Supreme Court, that’s not mainstream stuff.

This is not stuff that is attracting support. It’s being applauded by the really small base of radical leftist Democrats, but it’s not persuading. They’re not creating a movement here. I think they’re causing a backlash. But that will never be reported. You just have to trust me. Because the media is always going to invest in the idea that these radical protests are representative of mainstream America. That’s part of the game.

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RUSH: As is always the case, there is other news going on out there besides the reaction to Kavanaugh being named to the Supreme Court. We will get to it when we get back from the break here at the top of the hour. I’m still thinking this Axios poll, this monkey business what they might be actually trying to do with this poll.

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RUSH: So why would Axios publicize a poll showing how desolate it is for the Democrats out there? Why would they do that? Why would they publish a poll to depress the troops? I mean, the Axios/SurveyMonkey Bar poll is, “Forget it. No chance. The dream of the Democrats taking back control of the Senate is lost.” Why do this? Why do this now?

Well, it’s gotta be for a reason. Nothing happens on the left in a vacuum. There has to be a reason, beyond the fact that it’s just what the poll says. I think the poll, Axios, that’s part of the Politico — it’s Vox, it’s all part of this Millennial uptick mainstream media apparatus now. It’s not fringe, so I think that it’s meant to be a warning to the Democrats to not sacrifice Senate seats to beat Kavanaugh.

Remember, we had this idiot, this blithering idiot — it’s about time we characterized the man for what he is, Dick Durbin, this blithering idiot. Do you remember this yesterday? Durbin said this Supreme Court is so important that some red state Democrats ought to lose their seats, risk losing their seats. In other words, vote against the guy, even if it means losing the seat, because rejecting this pick is more important than some of these senators’ seats, according to Durbin.

Now, he wasn’t talking about his own seat, no. He was talking about these 10 Democrats in red states. And he was basically saying, “You know, we don’t need you people. We don’t need you people right now. It’s more important to stop this pick if you have to sacrifice your seat to do it.” Well, here comes this Axios poll showing it’s looking like it’s a bad prospect, no way of winning the Senate. So Axios could be backing up Durbin here.

“Hey, we’re gonna lose anyway. You may as well lose with a purpose defeating this idiot,” in their world, Kavanaugh and so forth. It’s something. I think that poll is a warning to Democrats maybe to not do what Durbin is saying, or maybe they’re trying to tell Democrats it’s okay to sacrifice some Senate seats to try to defeat Kavanaugh since they’re not gonna get control of the Senate anyway. But it’s calculated to accomplish something. I’m not quite sure what it is. But all of these polls are not done, they’re not reported in vacuums.

The mainstream media and their polls have studiously avoided talking about the tough chances of taking over the Senate for the Democrats. This is the first. It’s why I made a big deal of it. They’ve made it up to now like the Democrats could very well win the Senate after the blue wave captures the House. And now all of a sudden — and here we are in July, the election is not even until November, and they’re already telling Democrats it’s over, the dream of capturing — there’s a reason for this. And if we’re just patient, the reason will reveal itself.

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Posted by rsp777 on 7/15/2018 6:00:00 PM (view original):
What a way to waste away a BEAUTIFUL Sunday afternoon in most of our country. Get a life Doug.