Democrat Governor Bev Perdue of NC Wasn't Joking: She Wants to Cancel the 2012 Congressional Elections

I'm a bit late posting today, so I'll only make one post. The very interesting comment made by Bev Perdue of North Carolina.

RUSH: So the governor of North Carolina is just joking about canceling the 2012 congressional elections. She was just joking, she was just having some fun out there. That's the spin of the local media in Raleigh, North Carolina. It's also the spin of the Drive-Bys, State-Controlled Media, but it's not true. We have the audio of Bev Perdue suggesting the elections be canceled and she's not joking, as you will hear, and it's quite interesting. The Democrats, the more they get in trouble, and the more that things unravel, the more they show us who they really are. She's not the first one suggesting we cancel the elections. Peter Orszag, the former budget director of the White House, suggested pretty much the same thing in the New Republic last week. We just got too much democracy going on right now. We need to dial back the democracy so that correct decisions can be made.

What it all adds up to is that the left and the Democrats demonstrate their authoritarian instincts, their statist ideals when times grow very tough, and they are growing very tough.




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RUSH: Let's start with Beverly Perdue, the governor of North Carolina. This is The Daily Caller website: "As a way to solve the national debt crisis, North Carolina Democratic Gov. Beverly Perdue recommends suspending congressional elections for the next couple of years. 'I think we ought to suspend, perhaps, elections for Congress for two years and just tell them we won’t hold it against them, whatever decisions they make, to just let them help this country recover,' Perdue said at a rotary club event in Cary, NC. 'I really hope that somebody can agree with me on that.' She said she thinks that temporarily halting elections would allow members of Congress to focus on the economy." Now, my friends, they're trying to say now in the aftermath here that she was just joking. We have an excerpt of the actual audio from Governor Perdue at a Rotary Club event in Cary, North Carolina.

PERDUE: I think we ought to suspend, perhaps, elections for Congress for two years and just tell them we won’t hold it against them, whatever decisions they make, to just let them help this country recover. I really hope that someone can agree with me on that.

RUSH: No laughter. No applause, either, but there was no laughter; there's no jocularity there. This effort to say that she was just kidding is gonna fall flat because she wasn't. She was dead serious. Folks, do you remember, I spent a lot of time on a monologue yesterday telling you my opinion just how bad it is for the Democrats and for Obama right now. We had a poll result from The Economist magazine that shows Obama 36% approval, all the other domestic polls show him at 42, 43. I think it's worse than that. I think the White House internal polls show it to be much worse than that.

Stanley Greenberg, and he's a Democrat Clinton pollster, works with Carville, and he's got polling data out, it is not pretty. It's in the National Journal. "One of the Democratic party’s leading pollsters released a survey of 60 Republican-held battleground districts today." Battleground district is one that's up for grabs. A battleground district means that Republicans hold the seat but they could lose it, it's in contention. "A survey of 60 Republican-held battleground districts today painting an ominous picture for Congressional Democrats in 2012. The poll shows Democratic House candidates faring worse than they did in the 2010 midterms, being dragged down by an unpopular president who would lose to both Texas Gov. Rick Perry and Mitt Romney."

And the story goes on to say, "Instead of an overall anti-incumbent sentiment impacting members of both parties, voters are taking out more of their anger on Democrats. When voters were asked whether they’re supporting the Republican incumbent or a Democratic candidate, 50 percent preferred the Republican and just 41 percent backed the Democrat." Pete Wehner wrote about this, and he said, "[H]ere's the really ominous news for Democrats: Voters in these districts said they were more supportive of Republicans than they were during the 2010 midterms," two years ago, "when 48 percent said they backed the Republican candidate and 42 percent said they backed the Democrat. (Republicans won 55 percent of the overall vote in these 60 battleground districts, while Democrats took 43 percent.)

"In 2010, Republicans netted 63 House seats -- their best showing since 1948," even better than it was in 1994. So it's looking bad. The Democrat pollsters are admitting it's looking bad, and everybody on the Democrat side knows how bad it's looking. They're doing their best to cover it up; they're doing their best to soft sell it. Obama has lost everybody that voted for him. He's lost the independents. He's lost the base! That's why all this class envy, class warfare rhetoric is going on. He's trying to get his base back. So Bev Perdue comes along in the midst of all this and says, "Why don't we just cancel these elections?" Now, I don't know much about Beverly Perdue, but I'll tell you this: She can't be too bright.