Posted on 07/29/2015 2:27:23 PM PDT by Kaslin
RUSH: No, no, no. I've not forgotten where I was in the Trump story about the Trump campaign. And a mistake that the Republican Party is making is thinking they need to improve their standing with Latinos and Hispanic voters to win. Now, there's nothing wrong if they do that, but that's not the road to victory. That's not what they have to do. Romney's already proven it. And when you hear me run the numbers, report the numbers that already had been run on what it would have taken...
I'll cut to the chase. For Romney to have won, given everything else that happened in 2012, he would have needed 70% of the Latino vote. Not gonna happen, right? However, given everything else that happened, if Romney had just secured an additional 4% of the white vote, he would have won in 2012. Now, which of those two is more attainable, more doable? Romney nor any Republican is going to get 70% of the Latino vote. Now, I say that, and I can actually see where I'm wrong about that, given certain circumstances.
But Romney wasn't gonna do it, and the Republican establishment is not gonna do it the way they're going about it. They're not gonna get a significant increase in the Latino vote by being Democrat Party Light. They're not gonna get it by being for amnesty. They're not gonna get it by not criticizing Obama. They're not gonna get it by reaching out to Hispanics on the basis of liberal-type issues.
Even if they did -- if they knew exactly how to do it -- they're still not gonna get 70% of the Latino vote, which is what Romney would have needed if everything else was the same. But achieving 40% additional white vote? Well, that's much more doable than getting enough of the Hispanic vote to win. What does it also tell you? It tells you why Romney lost. Now, we all know the reasons why Romney lost. There was a lot of the Republican base that stayed home, and many of them happened to be white.
Now, see, here's the thing. You're hearing all this talk that whites are a minority, or soon to be a minority, "People of color are becoming the majority, and the days of white-dominated America are history and forget about 'em 'cause it's never gonna happen again. It's about time you came to peace with that, because your people's day has come and gone, and your day of running this country is over." Well, it's wishful thinking on the part of the leftist identity politics experts.
The fact of the matter is if Romney had just achieved 4% more support of white voters, he would have won. And 71% of the country to this day are still white, 73% still Christian. So these people on the left, they're relying on getting away with intimidation and lies and dispiriting attacks on things that people hold dear. They're succeeding. The Republican Party's helping, by the way. They're succeeding in getting voters to stay home. But I'll give you the details of all this -- how you get there -- in mere moments.
And, yeah, we're gonna get to the Patriots thing and the Brady suspension being upheld. We're all gonna get to it, folks. That's why we're three hours here every day. Takes that much. I mean, I could do all this in the first 20 minutes and go home. But all I would be able to do is tell you what happened. You would not benefit from my own analysis of it, which is why you're here. And that analysis along with the reportage consumes vast majority of the three hours the program.
And I also have to get some phones in. We'll start that now with Alan in Grand Junction, Colorado. Glad you called, and I appreciate your patience. And hello.
CALLER: Hello, Rush. It's good to talk to you. I'd just like to talk for a moment about Jericho Trump. This is a guy... Oh, wait a minute. I got that mixed up with your past story.
Gosh, maybe all those media consultants in DC the GOP-e has been heeding were totally wrong? Could it be? /s
I thought from the headline that Rush was going to say that Trump was attracting the support of blacks with his anti-immigration stance. They have been voting against their interests for a long time.
But can Trump get Christian vote?
Maybe its the fact he wants to help and appeal to real Americans more thanhe does the fake ones....
But while Trump is not man to garner more white and Latino votes - I know who will.
Hint. His initials ate TC.
But can Trump get Christian vote?
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Oh God No. That’s all going solidly to Huckabee.
/Huge Sarc
There was an article posted today that said Trump was getting black votes and it has the Democrats in a panic.
——There was a lot of the Republican base that stayed home, and many of them happened to be white.-—
they value their own self esteem more than Ametica
Not in terms of immigration, both parties have been stabbing them in the back for decades. Us too come to think of it.
I want to think Trump is for real. It's apparent he has sacrificed some lucrative deals.. And he's attacking Hillary which means he's not a Perot imposter on behalf of Hillary.. Hmmm.. Okay, I'm IN!
curious, who are you referring to?
Absolutely wrong! The evil GOPe used dirty tactics to rig the system against any Conservative. The evil GOPe is in the pocket of the utterly evil CoC.
The evil GOPe is against the United States Constitution and limited government.
So come 2016 if it's Yeb vs Hillary do you honestly think Yeb would be better? One has to be utterly delustional to think so -- Yeb would gleefully put the final nail in the coffin of our Republic by inviting every third world anti-English, very anti-American Mexican and any other 3rd parasite to rush across our Southern border.
2012 was the very last time an evil RINO will get my vote. Tell your pal Karl Rove the GOPe are a joke.
Not only was Trump fair to blacks on his ‘The Apprentice’ program, he bent over backwards to see to it they had a fair shot at winning the top spot. His current popularity among minorities stems from his TV show, in part.
blah blah yada yada yada rationalize delusional rationalization yada yada
Trump has virtually no gender gap, so 4% more? Done!
I don’t think the media has put much umpf into their attacks on Trump. Barely even trying.
I dont believe they are all Republican white voters.
Some of them are Democrats, hipsters and other demographics.
I dont think the Rodman thing hurts Trump. Trump needs to get a % of the low information crowd.
blah blah blah, Karl Rove sucks, blah blah blah, GOPe is evil, blah blah blah.. lol
If Yeb somehow steals the nomination, I will be smiling as he loses in a massive landslide.
Millions of Conservatives stayed home in 2012.
If it's Yeb, it will be triple the number that stays home (including me and most Conservatives I know). I will have great joy watching the evil GOPe Karl Rove mumble about....
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