Rush Blasts the RNC

Rush flays GOP: They still don't get it 'Republicans clearly have a desire to work with Obama', by Douglas Ernst, 2/10/16, WND

Radio host Rush Limbaugh says the GOP establishment’s reaction to Donald Trump’s victory in New Hampshire Tuesday night is an indicator its leaders are in denial or poorly hiding “abject panic.”

Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus brushed off frustration displayed in exit polls Tuesday night as a symptom of politicians not getting enough work done in the nation’s capital. Roughly 50 percent of Republican voters said they felt betrayed by the Republican Party.

“I think there are a lot of people in both parties who are mad at the parties, mad at the system, mad at Washington that it’s a factional-type government,” Priebus told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer. “It’s very difficult when you have a split government and people don’t have time for things not getting done. I think it’s pretty normal and I think it’s pretty common and expect that sort of vein is going to play itself out for the next few months and you know we’ll have a unified party when it’s done.”  Priebus’ comments left Limbaugh laughing, but flabbergasted.

“It appears that the chairman of the Republican National Committee does not know, or if he does know, does not want to explain in truth why he knows what he knows. But on the surface here it appears he doesn’t know that most Republican voters are sick and tired of what has gone on in Washington. Everybody harps on the fact that there’s gridlock and nothing’s getting done. That couldn’t be further from the truth. Too much is getting done!” said Limbaugh.

“Witness the most recent budget deal. The Republicans clearly have a desire to work with Obama. They clearly have a desire to work with the Democrats. Mitch McConnell has made it abundantly clear that’s what their intentions and hopes are.”

Limbaugh said so-called Republican thought leaders need to come to terms with the reasons behind Trump’s and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz’s popularity. The conservative icon said Priebus and his peers should look in the mirror to see who is responsible for the party’s fractured state of affairs.

“Donald Trump has the exact coalition the Republican Party, to a man, has told me they need to win, that they need to thrive,” said Limbaugh. “And now they’re reduced to bashing it by virtue of bashing Trump. And now they’re reduced to bashing it by virtue of bashing Cruz. The two people who are showing the Republican Party all they had to do all these past seven years, but they didn’t. They purposely, strategically, tactically refused to push back, refused to make a spectacle of stopping Obama, and they have themselves to blame for this predicament.”

Trump captured 35.2 percent of Tuesday’s vote. Ohio Gov. John Kasich came in second place with 15.8 percent, followed by Cruz at 11.7 percent.

Exit polls showed 42 percent of Republican primary voters preferred to call themselves independents. New Hampshire Republicans were angrier than their Democrat counterparts, but less conservative than Iowa Republicans, NBC News reported Tuesday.

“If Mr. Priebus actually believes … that you are ticked off at all of the disagreements in Washington preventing things from getting done – meaning you like government, you want more of it … if he really believes that, that’s a shocker,” said Limbaugh.

The radio host then said the Republican Party lost opportunities to win the allegiance of Trump supporters years ago by not pushing back hard against Obama’s agenda or proving itself a legitimate opposition party.

“I mean, you have to emphasize they haven’t even hardly made a pretense of trying to stop any of this,” said Limbaugh. “Clearly the Republican Party’s being rejected. … The Republican establishment I think was still living in fantasy, up until last night. They were still hoping something would happen – that Trump was not going to win this. It was all theoretical. Now hard, cold reality has settled in, and there’s abject panic. They don’t know who to go to!”

Limbaugh went on to say media outlets like the New York Daily News, which featured a front page calling voters “mindless zombies” for supporting Trump, were equally frustrated with the billionaire. He said pieces that lash out at Trump are journalistic tantrums by those who are “unable to control” narratives as they did years ago.

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