Radio host Rush Limbaugh is scorching the
Republican Party leadership for being on a “suicide mission,” and says the GOP
will never win the White House by nominating moderate or liberal candidates
such as Jeb Bush, Mitt Romney or Chris Christie for president over conservative
candidates in the likeness of Ronald Reagan.
“I know they want to win. I know they
desperately want to win with a candidate who’s not a conservative, but they
aren’t going to,” Limbaugh said forcefully on his national broadcast Monday.
“It just isn’t going to happen. How many elections is it going to take for them
to realize this?”
He continued: “I look at the Republican
leadership and [I wonder]: What do they not get? Every time they nominate one
of these guys, one of the people they really like, they end up losing. And they
lose big! They lost big with Romney. They lost big with McCain. They lost with
Bob Dole. And now Jeb wants to get in and he’s part of that crowd. He’s not
northeastern liberal but he certainly is not tea-party conservative.”
In December, as WND reported, Limbaugh said GOP leadership was actually looking to kill the tea party:
“They’re gonna pull out all the stops to make
sure that a tea-party-type conservative doesn’t get the nomination,” he said at
the time.
On Monday, Limbaugh explained: “You can’t win
the White House by ignoring your base. You can’t win the White House by
publicly or even privately claiming you don’t need your base. You can’t win the
White House by taking your base for granted and assume they’re going to vote
for you ’cause they hate the other guys, the Democrats. Because as the base has
shown, they’ll sit home. They’ll stay home and they won’t vote to teach a
lesson, to make a demonstration of some kind.”
Limbaugh’s analysis was sparked by word that
Romney told Republican donors in New York on Friday that he is seriously
considering a third presidential bid.
The radio host flayed those in charge of the GOP, saying, “They keep nominating people who are going to lose. The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again expecting a different result. It’s clear that the Republican Party nationwide is not seen and doesn’t want to be seen by most of its members as a northeastern moderate or liberal party, but the powers-that-be in that party seem to want it to be seen that way. And they seem to want the party to win with that identity. And it just isn’t going to happen.”
Limbaugh noted “establishment donors” may have a
dilemma now that it appears two of their favorites, Romney and Bush, could be dividing
up the donor-class money.
But he stressed he was mystified how the GOP
leadership thinks it can be victorious by alienating conservative voters who
propelled Ronald Reagan into office twice.
“I don’t know how you win the primary by dissing
your base anyway, but they claim that they’ve got a plan,” Limbaugh said. “They
claim that they’ve figured out a way to do it. They’ve figured a way to win the
nomination without lowering themselves to sound like they’re conservatives.
That’s really what they don’t want to have to do.
“They don’t want to talk about immigration the
way conservatives do. They don’t want to talk about Obamacare the way
conservatives do. They don’t want to have to talk about tax cuts, they don’t
want to talk about limited government. They don’t have to talk about any of
that. They want to get the nomination for the Republican Party without
mentioning any of that, much less supporting any of that. And the way they
intended to do it, I am certain, is by splitting up donors … by watering down
the money conservative candidates in the primary would get.”
Source:http://www.wnd.com/2015/01/rush-limbaugh-republicans-on-suicide-mission/
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