Posted on 12/13/2014 6:04:51 AM PST by cotton1706
The Republican Party and its leaders have undergone a transformation over the last several years, according to conservative radio talk host Rush Limbaugh, and the GOP now eschews Limbaugh and others like him because "I no longer espouse what they believe," he said Tuesday on his show.
Limbaugh’s remarks were in response to a caller, John in Winter Haven, Florida, who wanted to know Limbaugh’s opinion on a theory John had, namely that the GOP establishment sits back and waits for Limbaugh and others in the conservative media to communicate their message.
"Our GOP establishment just sits mute as issue after issue is handed them on a silver platter," John said. "You never hear them take it up and run with it or articulate a point.
"Do you suppose that they sit back knowing full well that you are going to articulate the point they should be making to your audience?"
Limbaugh acknowledged that there once was a time when Republican leaders would rely on him and others "to take the arrows for them. We would be the ones to explaining. We would be the ones to inspire. We would be the ones to fire up. We would be the ones to basically take the hit when there was reaction to it.
"In other words, they relied on us to inform their voters who they were. They relied on us to tell their voters what they were gonna do."
But no more, he said. Not every Republican voter is a conservative.
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Liberals, Rush. Liberals.
The Democrat party is fully socialist/leftist now. A lot of one time Dems are not comfortable with the new Democrat Party. It is driving these moderate socialists to the Republican party. It is the same with liberal trans plants moving to red states. Same phenomenon.
And this is why the Democrats lost the South.
If democrats who claim to be liberals are actually raging Marxists. Then republicans who tend toward traditional ‘liberal’ terminology can be called, by comparison, moderate.
Though I agree with you that they are in fact liberals
People seem to forget the hundreds of Democrats that jumped to the Republican Party...I suspect many of these are today’s ‘moderates’ and RINO’s...they changed parties to get elected, but their ideology remained the same.
The problem isn’t just GOPe, its also the gop voters. About 40-50% of gop voters are big government types
So the question for y’all is “Whaddaya gonna do about it?”
Well tell the idiot voters to stop sending them there then.
These places have primaries. If the people don’t want them then they can get off their duffs and take care of business.
Indeed. And it seems their numbers are growing.
Some here will answer, “Vote GOP anyway. They’re our best bet.”
As long as the system remains the same, this is the correct answer, as a third party will result in democrats getting elected. We need an Article V convention or something more extreme.
...and the definition of “moderate” keeps shifting left.
Rush, you are being way too kind.
Enough said.
This is the main reason why they've invaded the GOP.
No. Rush is the true “moderate”. The GOP is now filled with closet homosexual leftists who only “act” Republican just so the “rubes” can elect them.
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