Why Do Republicans
Support Something That Will Eliminate Their Party?
June 14, 2013
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2013/06/14/why_do_republicans_support_something_that_will_eliminate_their_party
I've heard them say they get embarrassed going to Republican
conventions with the pro-life crowd that's also there. My first
experience of that was in Houston in 1992. The pro-life contingent there
was huge, and I remember the way I was treated by that group, making other Republicans
nervous. The bottom line is that the Republican Party is embarrassed by
its own base. The Republican Party is ashamed of its base. They accept the Democrat caricature of
the Republican base. Southern, hayseed hicks, pro-lifers, pickup-truck-driving,
gun-rack-in-the-back-window people, chewing tobacco and going to church and
talking about God all the time.
RUSH: I suspect, ladies and gentlemen, the answer to
my question, aside from the brilliant expose I just provided, the answer to my
question is all about money. And so the answer to why would these people
sit by and allow this party to become a permanent minority status and be
insignificant and ineffective, to answer that question, find out how in that arrangement
a bunch of people get rich, and you will get the answer to your question. And if you want, we'll explore that next week. I'll be
more than happy to take a tour down that theory, see where it takes us.
And may I add more power & control over people. (Ron Johnson)
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2013/06/14/why_do_republicans_support_something_that_will_eliminate_their_party
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RUSH: Kansas City. Betty, hi. Welcome to
the EIB Network. Great to have you here. Hello.
CALLER: Hi, Rush. I was reading the website, and
I think that someone said this yesterday, but I was driving down the road, and
you were saying we're just missing something on the amnesty bill, why in the
world would Republicans support something that will cause their party to lose
in the future. And I was just thinking, well, they'll just become the Democrats
-- now, I'm probably being reactionary, but I'm thinking, they'll probably just
become the Democrats that they are already are. I am so disappointed in
my party. I expect to disagree with the Democrat Party. But I
disagree with my party. I'm a Republican, or at least I thought I was.
RUSH: Hold it just a second. I'm serious.
I don't understand. There's gotta be something I'm missing. The
question is real: Why do all of these Republicans -- you know the names
-- why are they supporting something that's gonna eliminate their party?
Why are they supporting something that's going to render them an ineffective
minority for as far as the eye can see? If they want to be Democrats,
quit the Republican Party and join the Democrat Party. Why do they want
-- it's almost as though -- well, I can't answer it. It doesn't make any
sense to me.
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RUSH: So why are
the Republicans so eager to render themselves a permanent minority status by
agreeing to amnesty, immigration reform, which is gonna result in millions more
instant new Democrats, against which the Republicans will be hopelessly
uncompetitive. Why would they do it? You want to take a
stab? Snerdley says they see that they're gonna be permanently defeated
anyway by a rising Hispanic population if they don't do this. It's what
they fear. Maybe.
There's a theory, there's an answer to the question that you
know and I know, and it revolves around their hatred -- too strong a word -- the Republican Party is embarrassed of
its base. How many times have I sat here and reminded you of
this? The Republican Party, I've told you stories. I'll repeat
one. Hamptons, 1992, 1993. My first ever trip to the Hamptons, a
dinner party at the home of a famous American, Republican. After dinner,
out on the deck, a guy comes up to me -- a name you'd know. Not gonna
tell you who -- punches me with his finger in the chest, "What are you
gonna do about the Christians?"
Remember, now, this was my first trip there. I'm with
these people for the first time in my life, and I'm really sizing it all up and
wondering why I'm really there. I mean, these are very wealthy, powerful
Republicans. This guy's pounding me in the chest, "What are you
gonna do about the Christians?" I said, "What are you talking
about?" "Abortion! They're killing us! Pro-lifers
are killing us, and they listen to you." Some of the same people
have done the same thing to me on gun control. "You have got to tell
these people to back off on guns. You've got to tell these pro-lifers to
just quiet down."
I've heard them say they get embarrassed going to Republican
conventions with the pro-life crowd that's also there. My first
experience of that was in Houston in 1992. The pro-life contingent there
was huge, and I remember the way I was treated by that group, making other Republicans
nervous. The bottom line is that the Republican Party is embarrassed by
its own base. The Republican Party is ashamed of its base. They accept the Democrat caricature of
the Republican base. Southern, hayseed hicks, pro-lifers, pickup-truck-driving,
gun-rack-in-the-back-window people, chewing tobacco and going to church and
talking about God all the time.
But they really see 'em as a bunch of zealots when it comes
to abortion. And all these guys I'm talking about have wives who nag 'em
about it, don't want any part of the pro-life crowd, embarrassed to be with
them at the conventions. So the theory goes that this is a way to get rid
of the Republican base. Supporting amnesty and having the Democrats win
big-time elections after this is a way for the party to finally get rid of its
base. Now, you say, "Well, replace it with what?"
Don't ask me, but I'm guessing, I assume that some
Republicans think that there's a new group of people that would become their
base. If they just got rid of these pro-lifers, if they just got rid of this
religious crowd, if they just got rid of the Christians, if they just got rid
of these gun nuts, the bitter clingers, as Obama calls 'em. If the
Republicans just got rid of those people, a lot more people would like
Republicans, and maybe some of the people voting Democrat would then vote
Republican, 'cause some of the people voting Democrat would love to vote
Republican since they also don't like the hicks and they also don't like the
hayseeds and the religious people.
There you have a possible theory. But even when you
drill that down, when you drill deep down into that one, you still ask how in
the world -- the Republican base is 24 million votes. The Republicans
aren't gonna win anything without them. That was demonstrated in
2008. It was demonstrated in 2012. It was demonstrated in 1992, and
it was demonstrated in 1996. You don't win without them. So if they
drive their current base away, what is the current base gonna do? Just
sit there and not participate anymore?
How is voting for amnesty going to cause the base to leave
the party? Isn't it gonna maybe inspire the base to want to finally take
it over? There will be some third-party advocates, but if that happens
the Republicans are dead, double dead politically, if a third party
forms. But it is believable and understandable that the Republican
establishment and their consultants and all that really don't like a lot of the
base. They don't like
conservatives, be they Christians, be they pro-lifers, be they so-called gun
nuts. They didn't like Reagan, as you know.
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RUSH: I suspect, ladies and gentlemen, the answer to
my question, aside from the brilliant expose I just provided, the answer to my
question is all about money. And so the answer to why would these people
sit by and allow this party to become a permanent minority status and be
insignificant and ineffective, to answer that question, find out how in that arrangement
a bunch of people get rich, and you will get the answer to your question. And if you want, we'll explore that next week. I'll be
more than happy to take a tour down that theory, see where it takes us.And may I add more power & control over people. (Ron Johnson)
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