When They're Conservative Women...

Just as an aside, Angle, Whitman and Brewer look pretty old to me, but you don't hear Limbaugh commenting that no one wants to watch them grow old[er] in office.

Anyway, Limbaugh had some pretty cogent things to say about Harry Reid yesterday.

RUSH: At a debate last night, Dingy Harry against Sharron Angle. Folks, I gotta tell you something here. The Washington Post, somebody, is calling this a tie. If it was a tie, then the floor was mopped with Harry Reid. She really did mop the floor with Harry Reid. I'm gonna tell you something, the Senate majority leader, number two, maybe number three most powerful Democrat in Washington, Harry Reid has presided and helped to preside over the worst economy since the Great Depression. He's presided over a runaway deficit, the beginning of the end of the private health insurance, the beginning of the end of private health care. We just had the new deficit numbers come out. It's going to be busting the north side of a trillion dollars again, which we all knew. Dingy Harry said the surge in Iraq was a failure, and "this war is lost." If Harry Reid, a lifer in government, a lifer at the top of the Democrat Party, if Harry Reid, practically from Jurassic Park in politics, if he cannot verbally trounce Sharron Angle in a debate, if he cannot make a convincing case as to how his and Pelosi's and Obama's agenda has made us better off than we were two, four, six years ago, there's absolutely no reason to reelect him.

In five years they can't run on one single thing they've done. Not just in the 18, 20 months of Obama, but since 2007 they have been in charge of the purse strings. They've been running the show, them and their media buddies. If they can't tell us, if they can't brag about their achievements, if they have to run from their achievements, if they gotta hide from 'em, there's absolutely no reason to reelect Reid or any of them, none, zilch, zero, nada. This debate last night should have been a mismatch. Nothing against Sharron Angle, but she is not a professional, by design. Harry Reid's got all the aid, he's got all the money, he's got all the marketing assistance, he's got all the political packages, he's got all the help. Compared to the professional politician that is Dingy Harry, on paper, undisputed heavyweight champion of the world, Angle was a featherweight climbing into the political ring for the first time, and the reality is that she knocked Harry Reid out cold in the arena of ideas.

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RUSH: Even in the New Republic, a liberal journal of opinion propaganda, there's a story by T.A. Frank, who works for Washington Monthly. "Reid My Lips," the headline, "Last Night Was a Disaster." Now, the point of this piece is that Dingy Harry allowed Sharron Angle to look reasonable enough to the author, to this Democrat, and gave incoherent answers on his own behalf. Imagine that. Imagine that! A writer for Washington Monthly, the New Republic, said Reid screwed up because he allowed Sharron Angle to look reasonable enough. The Democrats cannot win diddly-squat this election. The only thing that they're having any success at (and this is with the aid and assistance of the State-Controlled Media) is to make some Republicans look like kooks, nutcases. It is how they're attempting to portray everybody in the Tea Party movement.

Carl Paladino, Christine O'Donnell, Sharron Angle.

She's us. The kook is Harry Reid. The oddball is Harry Reid. The extremist is Harry Reid. The guy destroying the country and the private sector along with Obama is Harry Reid. Sharron Angle never did anything to anybody. Harry Reid is not reasonable. Anyone who would support policies and vote for them as Harry Reid has is unreasonable, is profoundly extremist. Spending money the country doesn't have; printing money the country doesn't have, placing future generations in debt they'll never be able to get out of. Destroying, essentially, the generation of wealth and the way it happens in this country. Confiscating it, redistributing it. Harry Reid.

I mean, let's be honest. Who's extreme here? Who's odd? I've always thought Harry Reid was a bit of an oddball. And he screwed up last night because he "allowed" Sharron Angle to "look reasonable"? Of course the presumption going is she's not reasonable. Why is she not reasonable? Because she's not a member of the ruling class, because she's not a member of the professional political ranks. Can you imagine somebody on our side writing a story, "You know, I didn't like what Sharron Angle did. She let Harry Reid seem reasonable." Let's go to the audio sound bites. Last night in Las Vegas Dingy Harry and Sharron Angle. Dingy Harry said this about insurance companies and health care reform...

REID: Insurance companies don't do things out of the goodness of their hearts. They do it out of a profit motive and they have almost destroyed our economy. We need them to be forced to do mammograms. That's why you see Breast Cancer Awareness Month, you see the baseball players wearing pink shoes and you see the football players having pink, uhhh, helmets. You detected it if you do mammograms. Colonoscopies! If you do colonoscopies, colon cancer does not come 'cause you snip off the things they find when they go up, and no more. And we need to have --

RUSH: What in the world is this?

REID: -- have insurance companies do this. It will save money in the long run to do this.

RUSH: Profound incoherence! You hear him describe a colonoscopy here. "Colonoscopies! If you do colonoscopies, colon cancer does not come 'cause you snip off the things they find when they go up, and no more." This is the reasonable intelligence of Harry Reid. "Insurance companies have destroyed our economy" and they say Sharron Angle is the kook? "Insurance companies don't do things out of the goodness of their hearts. They do it out of a profit motive and they have almost destroyed our economy"? Right. Who is it that's targeting insurance companies, in fact the entire industry? You just heard it. It's Harry Reid, the Democrat Party, anything in the private sector. The US health care system, insurance system is among the best in the world, and these people have set out to destroy it.

In fact, they have. And, by the way, Dingy Harry, I don't know what the hell you're looking at, but so far there has not been one "pink helmet" during the month of October in the National Football League; and I don't think anybody in the NCAA is wearing pink helmets. Now, this is Harry Reid. It's just unbelievable. He's an absolute idiot. And women, I'll tell you. In general, there's something going on. There's something in the air. Women in general, regardless of politics, are sick and tired of all this wimpy old men that have been running the show of late, running it everywhere but in a good direction. A positive action is not being seen. They're running the country into the ground, and women are fed up with it. And Harry Reid has been the forefront. Here is Sharron Angle during a back-and-forth on Social Security.

ANGLE: Man up, Harry Reid! You need to understand that we have a problem with Social Security. That problem was created because of government taking that money out of the Social Security trust fund. What we need to do is keep our promises to our senior citizens by putting the money back in the trust fund and, going forward, allowing our workers to have the option of a personalized Social Security retirement plan that becomes an asset to them, just like your Thrift Savings Plan is an asset to you. If it's good enough for you, it should be good enough for the rest of us.

RUSH: And Dingy Harry had seen response standing by...

REID: Mitch, these ideas of my opponent are really extreme. I said CBO. The actuarial said there's plenty of money in that trust fund account. During the Clinton years we did not use the trust fund monies to offset the deficit. We were strengthening Social Security by not using it to offset the deficit. Her facts are absolutely wrong.

RUSH: "Mitch, these ideas of my opponent are really extreme." The extreme ideas are coming from the White House and the Democrat Party, and they are clearly not pro-American ideas, not in the general sense as they're understood. And for anybody to try to tell us that Social Security is in good shape? There's nothing in good shape. There's nothing that's showing a positive on the balance sheet! There's nothing in the black. There is no "trust fund." The Social Security, whatever it is, budget, has been used to offset budget deficits for decades. It is Harry Reid who is extreme and was a stranger to the truth throughout that debate last night.