Transcript: Palin and Limbaugh on Obama and ACORN
posted at 3:03 pm on October 14, 2008 by Allahpundit
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RUSH: Well, now, as I listen to your campaign appearances and Senator McCain’s, it seems that you are the more forceful in speaking out against Obama and his campaign ideas. Are they giving you pretty much free rein to attack this campaign as you wish?
GOVERNOR PALIN: Well, you know, there just aren’t enough hours in the day I think to get out there and (cell garbled). Rush, I’ve got nothing to lose in this, and I think America has everything to gain by understanding the differences, the contrasts here between Obama and McCain. So, you know, I’m going out there and I’m just simply speaking. So be it that I’m a simple talker, but I’m just going out there and letting people know the differences and how absolutely paramount it is that voters are paying attention and that voters are understanding candidates’ records, their associations, their plans for the future; instead of being kind of wrapped up into all this rhetoric of Obama’s and buying into it and not holding him accountable for the things that he’s done, the things that he’s said, his associates, and where he wants to take America.
He drops a little bait about her political future, which she refuses to take, but he’s clearly enough of a fan that she’ll have a huge megaphone for years to come. As for what she says about ACORN and reaching out to Obama, here’s the PDF of Team Maverick’s letter last month inviting The One to cooperate in an anti-fraud initiative. No reply yet, although his campaign manager was thoughtful enough to sneer about Fox News becoming a “24-hour ACORN channel” earlier today. Exit question: With all the bad press they’re getting, from corruption lawsuits to banner treatment at Drudge to, well, all of this, why doesn’t Obama just throw them under the bus? If it was good enough for Wright and Pfleger and Rezko and Kwame Kilpatrick, surely a perfunctory “This is not the ACORN I thought I knew” statement shouldn’t be too difficult.
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If you’re right, I’ll send you kisses, even if you write back “Keep your goddamned saliva, I’m just a HA pundit”.
Entelechy on October 14, 2008 at 3:58 PM
very tempted to try to say something smart…. but I will refrain.
neuquenguy on October 14, 2008 at 3:59 PM
Exit answer: because he doesn’t have to
omriceren on October 14, 2008 at 4:02 PM
O/T
Allah or Ed can we have 2 threads for tomorrow’s debate because the live stream kills my laptop speed like crazy and it makes me want to throw things..most notably said laptop. ‘Thank you now back to the previous subject. Carry on
tee866 on October 14, 2008 at 4:02 PM
Don’t worry, the people here in the Long Island, NYC, New Jersey area generally drive like people that just escaped an insane asylum.
blatantblue on October 14, 2008 at 4:02 PM
Lim, sober or not, you’re just adorable.
RushBaby, you might have to get a bigger abode. I’ll contribute. Is the party or therapy still on, after the election?
I suggest that Alaska and Texas be chosen for HA retreats.
Entelechy on October 14, 2008 at 4:03 PM
DITTO.
blatantblue on October 14, 2008 at 4:03 PM
How ACORN tilts the polls
Most people recognize that ACORN’s apparent success in registering large numbers of imaginary Democratic voters distorts the electoral process by putting additional presure on electoral officials during the run up to the election, by easing the way for many forms of traditional vote cheating on election day, and by opening up many avenues for legal appeals after election day should the Republicans win.
What most people don’t know, however, is that the most valuable contribution imaginary voters make to the Democratic party’s electoral effort is to give Democrats false leads in public opinion polls.
How that works is that polling companies try to correct for non response bias by adjusting their results according to known population demographics. If, for example, a polling company expects that a truly representative sample would contain 31% registered Republicans and 39% registered Democrats but finds the split among actual respondents to be 33:36 it will react by adjusting the Republican numbers down and the Democrat numbers up to match the expected population distribution. On a survey with 400 actual respondents, the percentages mentioned above cause them to decrease the actual Republican “vote” by eight while increasing the Democrat “vote” by 12 – a 5% net change for the Democrats in the reported result.
What’s particularly subtle about this is the survey companies expect to find that actual respondents over-represent Republicans because they’re reachable by phone more often (that’s on net, they also hang up more), and correspondingly under-represent Democrats. The bias introduced by falsely inflated Democrat registeration numbers plays, in other words, directly to polling company expectations and thus doesn’t generally arouse suspicion despite the inconsistency with previous results and the “likely voter” numbers.
The predictable result is exactly what we see today: the polls report an overwhelming Obama victory in the making, many Republicans are ready to give up in wake of perceived public response – and those to whom this is all good news are motivated to trumpet “Obamalange” at the top of their lungs.
Paul Murphy on October 14, 2008 at 4:03 PM
they probably just did, or are they still inside?
neuquenguy on October 14, 2008 at 4:04 PM
Amen to that.
AubieJon on October 14, 2008 at 4:04 PM
Yeah, Amen. Takes something like 50 seconds to a minute to reload the page.
wise_man on October 14, 2008 at 4:05 PM
Sen. Cornyn Seeks Nationwide Criminal Probe of ACORN
Radford, groups clash over voter registration [ACLU illegally Pressuring Registrars in Virginia]
4,000 SHADY SIGN-UPS BOGUS VOTER BOOTED AMID PROBE OF ACORN
TheBigOldDog on October 14, 2008 at 4:06 PM
Wish I knew, but if I had a dollar for every time some metropolitan dillweed ran me off the road on my way to school, I’d be buying the new MacBook right now.
blatantblue on October 14, 2008 at 4:07 PM
Should we all send McCain a clip of obambi asking him to “tell it to his face” before the debate? I hope he takes the ONE’s challenge.
neuquenguy on October 14, 2008 at 4:07 PM
WHomever thinks that Ayers does not matter and Acorn does not matter, take a look at this. It will be coming out next year.
This is exactly the stuff that Ayers and Obama wanted taught thru their CAC grants.
JAM on October 14, 2008 at 4:08 PM
BOD awesome!!!
upinak on October 14, 2008 at 4:09 PM
She forgot to name a Supreme Court decision she disagrees with. Pathetic.
/s
Mr_Magoo on October 14, 2008 at 4:10 PM
We’ve got enough land for a small tent city :)
Party…I hope so but not quite sure. Haven’t been keeping you up to date with industry-related changes going on here that might pin us down.
Hear, hear!
RushBaby on October 14, 2008 at 4:10 PM
There’s a lot out there that advances the ball. It’s the 4th quarter. Time to get serious and do what we can.
ACORN voter fraud allegation surfaces in Minnesota
Poll workers clash at Falls nursing home (Obama’s Thugocracy in Action)
Palin: Obama must ‘rein in’ ACORN
TheBigOldDog on October 14, 2008 at 4:11 PM
I’m not having a problem with link to the audio of the interview. Here it is again.
Link to audio of the Rush/Palin interview.
Nelsa on October 14, 2008 at 4:11 PM
ACORN bit off more than they can chew when they attracted Big John’s attention
lodge on October 14, 2008 at 4:11 PM
Because one doesn’t simply throw The Mob under the bus.
- The Cat
MirCat on October 14, 2008 at 4:13 PM
McCain is the one who has to link ACORN and all the fraud to Obama tomorrow. Nobody else will have the audience to do it before the election, the MSM will make absolutely sure of that, they’ll find (or fabricate) something involving one republican and declare it a bi-partisan problem.
neuquenguy on October 14, 2008 at 4:16 PM
“Acorn” the word in tomorrow’s drinking game?
If McCain goes after the One…we will all be drinking.
HornetSting on October 14, 2008 at 4:17 PM
Maybe that’s what many of us should do. Of course, tell Liberals your intentions.
(I’ve been living in TX for over ten years already. We sure as heck are never again returning to live in the Northeast. It’s a lost case, all of it!)
newton on October 14, 2008 at 4:17 PM
None of them could engineer voter fraud at the volume needed to elect an Epically Unqualified Empty Suit to the highest office in the land.
Kinda simple arithmetic, no?
SuperCool on October 14, 2008 at 4:18 PM
I feel vidicated. Michelle and Investors Business daily and me and others fought to make ACORN an issue. Nice to see the hard work pay off.
Sadly its probably too late to make a difference this election cycle
William Amos on October 14, 2008 at 4:19 PM
Obama is quietly removing ACORN off his radar. But this time ahead in the polls he doesnt have to throw anyone under the bus. He can afford to bounce into the White House with whatever baggage he has
William Amos on October 14, 2008 at 4:21 PM
Sen. Cornyn Seeks Nationwide Criminal Probe of ACORN
ACORN bit off more than they can chew when they attracted Big John’s attention
lodge on October 14, 2008 at 4:11 PM
Maybe, but where is the justice department when all of this voter fraud is obviously going on?
duff65 on October 14, 2008 at 4:22 PM
AGAIN GOP THE PROBLEM WITH YOU LOSING ELECTIONS ISNT VOTER FRAUD ITS CONSERVATIVE APATHY !
You took the right for granted (and still do) and until you build a political system that allows Conservatives to participate you wont have the ability to win.
I have tried for 6 months to get on a GOP campaign and got bupkis. So dont expect to get anything other than bupkis back
William Amos on October 14, 2008 at 4:23 PM
I don’t know if someone responded to this above, but…
How about this: Obama doesn’t have any intention of (publicly) having “Wright and Pfleger and Rezko and Kwame Kilpatrick” form public policy with him.
I see two possibilities: either
1) Obama simply doesn’t see the “danger” yet, in the same manner as he first defended Rev. Wright…OR
2) Obama seems to perceive ACORN as his personal “safe haven,” where only within the ACORN cocoon/framework does he feel his “reason for existence”* exists.
* (in French, I think it’s raison d’etre)
Lockstein13 on October 14, 2008 at 4:33 PM
but that would leave you without work, my friend.
james23 on October 14, 2008 at 4:58 PM
Not at all, as he would be providing them with your home address and a prescription for antibiotics.
ManlyRash on October 14, 2008 at 5:05 PM
I agree, Ed. That live stream stuff is silly. Like standing on a highway median and trying to converse with passing traffic.
ManlyRash on October 14, 2008 at 5:08 PM
Paul Murphy-you are so right & I hammer upon this point in my high school science classrooms when we discuss the ’science’ behind all these polls. It’s bogus stuff.
I can’t believe anyone with half a brain can believe anything the polls say, one way or another.
Badger40 on October 14, 2008 at 5:18 PM
Michelle is doing a great job hammering corrupt Acorn with her full court press. Give Obama a few more days, he’ll toss them.
Zorro on October 14, 2008 at 6:56 PM
I’m a Yankee, originally from NJ, who lived in Houston for four years. Driving in Texas is actually safer, except when it snows, then only the Yankees stay on the road.
Steve Z on October 14, 2008 at 7:13 PM
Maybe a little off-topic, but where’s McCain today? Haven’t seen a peep out of him online today! Maybe he’s saving it up for the debate tomorrow!
Steve Z on October 14, 2008 at 7:16 PM
Trimen to that. Freezes up every time for me when I click on the live link.
Sapwolf on October 14, 2008 at 9:07 PM
Palin will be the big winner in all of this. If McC loses, she goes back to Alaska, serves another 6 years, does the rubber chicken circuit the whole time and becomes expert on foreign policy and yada yada. She’s a winner and we’ll see more of her. She won’t go all Dan Quale on us.
Mojave Mark on October 14, 2008 at 9:43 PM
45th POTUS.
Could I love Sarah more? I submit that I could not.
Mr. Wednesday Night on October 15, 2008 at 1:52 AM
The audio is right here (members only, though).
rightwingprof on October 15, 2008 at 11:40 AM
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