Rush: Republicans Are Afraid to Capitalize on Obama’s Historic
Failures, 8/22/15
(Rush Limbaugh) – BEGIN TRANSCRIPT
RUSH: I think it’s a
good time here to dovetail into this Jeff Greenfield piece that I previously referenced.
It’s entitled, “Democratic Blues — Barack Obama will leave his party in its
worst shape since the Great Depression — even if Hillary wins.” It’s in
Politico, by the way. Another Drive-By upper echelon establishment.
“As historians begin
to assess Barack Obama’s record as president, there’s at least one legacy he’ll
leave that will indeed be historic — but not in the way he would have hoped.
Even as Democrats look favorably ahead to the presidential landscape of 2016,
the strength in the Electoral College belies huge losses across much of the
country. In fact, no president in modern times has presided over so disastrous
a stretch for his party, at almost every level of politics.”
Now, you have heard
all of this, because you listen to me regularly. You’ve heard me probably
reference this so much that you’ve gotten frustrated hearing it so often.
The 2010, the 2014 midterms, the Democrats got shellacked in both. I mean,
major landslide defeats and losses. Over a thousand seats lost in these
two midterm elections.
Greenfield says:
“Legacies are often tough to measure. If you want to see just how tricky they
can be, consider the campaign to get Andrew Jackson off the $20 bill 178 years
after he left the White House. Working class hero? How about slave owner and
champion of Native American genocide?” (laughing) “Or watch how JFK went from
beloved martyr to the man whose imperial overreach entrapped us in Vietnam, and
then back to the president whose prudence kept the Cuban Missile Crisis from
turning into World War III.”
“Yet when you move
from policy to politics, the task is a lot simpler — just measure the clout of
the president’s party when he took office and when he left it. By that measure,
Obama’s six years have been terrible. Under Obama, the party started strong.
‘When Obama was elected in 2008, Democrats were at a high water mark.’”
Anyway, the piece goes
on to tell you what you already have heard here. We’ve outlined this for
years. Obama has been a terrible thing for his party and for America.
We get, you know, relatively clean off-year elections, the midterms, and you
see what the national attitude is about Barack Obama. When all of the
demographics are being bused to the polls by the Democrat Party, when you have
these midterm elections, you find out just how opposed to the Obama agenda this
country is.
Now, we haven’t come
close to stopping it. But that’s not ’cause of us. We have done
everything in our power to elect the people we thought were gonna stop
this. We sent them to office. We gave them the House. Then we gave them
the Senate, and it was clear, the message in both those elections: stop Obama,
stop this, stop the implementation of this agenda, and each and every turn
we’re told, “Well, we need the Senate. The House alone isn’t good
enough.” We get the Senate. “Well, there’s a separation of
powers. You know, Obama’s still president. There’s really nothing
we can do.”
I’m sure if we hold
the House and Senate and we elect a Republican president from the establishment
and we don’t advance an anti-leftist agenda, we’ll be told, “Well, you know,
it’s harder than you think. I mean, we got the media out there destroying
us every day. And we don’t have the Supreme Court.” It’s become
patently obvious the Republican establishment has not been interested in
stopping this. But that’s their route to the White House.
You know, I’ve got two
stories here. I’m gonna offer some assistance here. I have two
stories on the Republican Party befuddled with Trump and not knowing what to
do. The first story, as I first mentioned last hour, is in the Washington
Post by Robert Costa and Philip Rucker: “Inside the GOP Field’s New Strategies
to Ride Out the Trump Tornado.”
The second story is at
CNN. “Does the RNC Have a Secret Anti-Trump War Room?” The focus of
both stories is on how the Republican Party seems powerless to do anything
about Trump. That they’re befuddled at every turn. That they’ve had various
things they thought would work and they’ve all bombed out.
The donors are uneasy
and feeling powerless. The donors have issued fatwa’s. The donors
told Fox News, “Take Trump out.” The donors told some of the other
candidates, “Get Trump out of there. We’re giving you money, isn’t gonna matter
a hill of beans, you’ve gotta get rid of Trump.” They’ve tried.
They haven’t been able to. Trump’s even stepped in it two or three times
on his own, at least according to popular conventional wisdom. It turns
out every time Trump steps in it his popularity grows.
So here we have —
let’s take a look at this — Jeff Greenfield acknowledging what a mess of this
country Barack Obama has made of it and what a mess he’s made of his
party. Over here you got the Republicans desperately trying to figure out
what to do. What is so hard about this? Focusing on Trump, trying
to come up with anti-Trump strategies. You know, why don’t you people in
the Republican Party assess the national mood, learn the fact that nobody is
happy with what’s happening. Well, very few people are. And make your target
liberalism and the Democrat Party instead of zeroing in on one particular
candidate.
It’s not gonna look
good trying to take out one of your own. Even Trump may not really be a
Republican — some people think he’s not — he’s still running as one. If
you guys start coordinating all your fire to take out another Republican,
that’s not the problem. Donald Trump is not why this country’s in the
mess it’s in. Neither is Scott Walker. Neither is Ted Cruz.
Neither is Rand Paul. Neither is Jeb Bush.
None of the Republicans
running, any of them, are responsible for the mess that we are in. None
of them have done one thing to endanger the future for your kids and
grandkids. That’s all on the Democrat Party. That is all on Barack
Obama. This country has moved so far left, it’s moved farther left that
anybody ever dreamed it would in ways it was never founded to go. You’ve
got a built-in enemy, Barack Obama, Democrat Party failure. If you don’t
want to look at it as an enemy, look at it as an opportunity. You have a golden
opportunity, you’ve had it ever since Obamacare, Republicans. You’ve had
an opportunity to draw a distinction between yourselves and the mess that this
country has become.
Your fingerprints are
not on it, yet. And you have a golden opportunity here to identify with
and form a bond with a majority of the American voters, who desperately want
this stuff stopped. They want Obamacare repealed. They want the
southern border shut down. They want this economy to become the world
dominant leading economy once again. They want this country to be what it
was. We’ve already been there. We’ve already done the “what it can
be.” We’re going in the wrong direction. This country needs to be
restored. The Republican Party’s the natural alternative to turn to.
You have a built-in
opportunity. You have a built-in set of circumstances. You can run
against the status quo, which nobody wants. The reason they can’t, they
may not really be opposed to it. I mean, if you can’t run against this stuff —
and by this stuff, I mean, we’re being governed here by a very ruthless
minority. The American people are being governed against the will of the
majority of people in this country. All the Republican Party has to do
identify with it.
There are countless
majorities. Majorities on Obamacare, repealing it, there’s a majority
there to be had. There’s a majority to win, a voting majority to propel
you to victory. But fake repeal votes or, “Sorry, can’t do it, separation
of powers, still don’t have the White House,” not gonna cut it. Nobody’s
gonna feel sorry for you. Nobody’s gonna feel sorry for a member of the
US Senate. Nobody’s gonna feel sorry for a member of the House.
Nobody’s gonna have the slightest sympathy for how hard your job is. You
asked for it, you ran for it, you were elected, you promised, you committed to
do things, people are just waiting for you to follow through.
But nobody’s gonna
feel sorry for you. Nobody is gonna look at you as victims of a
separation of powers. Nobody is gonna cut you any slack by looking at you
as victims of, “Well, you know, Obama, the media loves him and they hate
us.” Mr. Trump happens to be illustrating how this can be done.
Trump is showing it can be done. Trump is showing that there is a pretty
big pathway to a majority of people in this country who want no part of what
has happened the last eights years. And by all rights, the Republican
Party ought to be naturally presumed to be that party that would straighten
this out and fix this. They are perceived to be the opposition
party. It ought not be that hard.
This is the easiest
time in the last 25 years to explain to people what conservatism is. You
just say, “It ain’t what we have now. You like working? We’re the
guys. You like getting raises? We’re the guys. You like an
economy growing? We’re the guys. You want your kids to have a
future? We’re the guys. You like liberty and freedom? We’re
your guys.” That’s all you have to do. But you have to believe in
it. All these strategy sessions, what to do about Trump. I
understand that. I mean, I understand the competitive nature of political
campaigns and Trump’s the leader, you want to take him out. I understand
all that.
But shoot higher than
that. I mean, you’ve got such a golden opportunity here, because so many
Americans are fed up and unhappy and scared. We’ve got Democrats writing
what a mess this country’s in. When you have liberal media types writing what a
mess Obama has made of the country, what a mess Obama has made of the Democrat
Party, how hard could it be to take advantage of that? Don’t get bogged
down in these silly little debates over who’s a conservative and who isn’t and
what is anchor baby and is it fair. Forget this political correctness
stuff and just go for it. Let fly. What do you got to lose?
By definition, you’re
telling us you’re powerless now anyway because you don’t have the White House,
separation of powers. What do you got to lose? We can’t stop ‘em
now, what is there to lose? How can it possibly — oh, I’m sorry, you
could lose the committee chairmanships, yeah, yeah, if you lose the
election. But it isn’t gonna happen if you do this right. A
majority of the American people do not want any more of this. I don’t
care if it’s Hillary Clinton with a big, fat D next to her name. I know
you say you look at the demographics and you look at the way the Electoral
College falls out. Punt. Campaign on issues. You could
convert some people. It’s not hard. You have to want to, though.
We don’t think it’s hard, as we look at it from our vantage point.
RUSH: I mean,
just to show you, folks, let me share with you yet another passage from the
Jeff Greenfield piece. “Obama’s real legacy is how he has fundamentally
transformed America, a transformation the vast majority of Americans did not
want or even vote for.” So his legacy should hurt the Democrats big
time. Nobody voted for this. And the Republican establishment, I
think, is living in such fear. Look, I’m assuming they’re still not
Democrats. I’m assuming they still haven’t gone over to become, for the
most part, functional leftists. I could be wrong about that, but I’m
assuming that they’re still one of us, and if that’s the case, I just think
they’ve been totally cowed.
I think they don’t
understand that a majority of Americans oppose Obama. I think they’re
actually operating under the premise that Obama’s loved. They’re
operating under the premise they don’t dare oppose Obama because of race.
They don’t dare criticize Obama or speak out against him because they’re gonna
be called racist. I really think this kind of stuff imprisons them.
So it’s either a combination of fear that any criticism Obama’s gonna come back
on ‘em and harm them, or else they are buying in and believing the myths that
they read and watch in Drive-By Media.
They may in fact
actually think they are in a minority. They may actually think that most
people think that they’re kooks, weirdos, and oddballs, in a popularity sense,
I mean. They may not have, since it’s outside the Beltway where these
truths are — I find all this hard to believe, but anything’s possible.
Something has to explain why there is no Republican Party real opposition or
push-back.
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