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Things are pretty bad when GOP leadership falls for the media's intentionally false representation of what the typical American thinks. There is a STARK difference between what the media would have us believe Americans think, versus simply sampling Americans at random and asking them what they think.

For example, the media is relentless in attempting to make us all feel guilty for NOT approving of illegal invaders hopping our border fences, having their anchor babies in our hospitals at our expense, stealing our jobs, raping our women and molesting our children and destroying entire families on our highways then escaping back to their safe refuge in Mexico.. WOULD JUST ONE REPUBLICAN COME OUT AND SAY ENOUGH IS ENOUGH, G-DAMNIT? Ohhhhh noooooo THAT would be racist..

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Things are pretty bad when GOP leadership falls for the media's intentionally false representation of what the typical American thinks.

They've been doing it for at least a decade.

Rush Goes On the Record with Fox News Channel's Greta Van Susteren (Dec 2011)

The Republican Party is trying to do something in this primary that is unprecedented. They're trying to split the conservative vote and win the primary with a moderate, with Romney. It's the other way around. You consolidate your base and then you move to the center in the general. The Republican establishment has decided they don't want any part of conservatism. And this is really not new. People are surprised to hear this, but the Republican Party formative event with conservatism is Goldwater's landslide defeat. That's what they think of when they think conservative. They don't think Reagan. They think Goldwater.

They believe what the inside-the-Beltway philosophy is about conservatives. They're racist, sexist, bigot, homophobe, Southern hayseed hicks. They're pro-lifers. They're embarrassing to have to go to the convention with them. And they're just embarrassed to have those kind of people in the party. They're dumb. They're not erudite. They're not educated in Ivy League schools. We'll take their votes on election day, but we really don't want to hang around with them. We don't want anybody in Washington thinking that we're really that close to them and aligned with them. So in the process -- you know, it's a very sophisticated electorate. The Republican primary voter can sense that the Republican Party really doesn't like them, really doesn't want them, thinks that they are the route to defeat. That's the problem in a nutshell. The Republican establishment thinks that a conservative nominee is the route to defeat because they think Goldwater landslides are going to happen because they believe what the popular misconception the left has created of conservatives -- they think everybody thinks that.